Online Resources
Artists` Books (◄R► = a reciprocal link on the site)
Sites featuring information specifically on artists` books
- AAEL`s artists` books
- sitemaker.umich.edu/artistsbooks/home
- Elizabeth Pickard`s site featuring non-handlable work from `The Art, Architecture & Engineering Library (AAEL) Special Collections`, University of Michigan
- Andrew Eason`s artists` books
- www.andreweason.com
- Look especially at ‘Book of the Month’
- Angela Lorenz
- www.angelalorenzartistsbooks.com/
- Access to her views, writings and artist`s book production
- Artist Book 3.0 ◄R►
- artistbooks.ning.com
- A forum for artists, curators, librarians, students and researchers
- Artist Book News
- www.artistbooknews.com/
- Showcasing professional book artists
- Artists` Books Online
- www.artistsbooksonline.org/
- An online artists` books repository of facsimiles, metadata and criticism
- Arts Lithuania
- vasiliunas.arts.lt/projects1/
- Arts Lithuania`s International Artist`s Book Triennials held in Vilnius
- Artspace Mackay
- www.artspacemackay.com.au/artists_book_forum
- An Australian artists` book forum & their `Focus on artists` books`
- Betty Bright
- www.bettybrightbookart.com/
- Her updated, redesigned and re-birthed website
- Bibliotheca Librorum apud Artificem ◄R►
- www.bibliotheca.org.au/bibliotheca/index.cfm
- Library for the artist`s book in Sydney, Australia
- Brian Dettmer
- centripetalnotion.com/2007/09/13/13:26:26
- `Book Autopsies`
- Brian Dettmer
- briandettmer.com/
- The artist`s personal website with clickable images for all of his books
- Carnegie Mellon
- www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/md2z/art/artistsbooks.html
- Access to their artists` books collection
- Charles Brownson
- ocotilloarts.com/
- Ocotillo Arts handmade books in digital editions
- Clifton Meador
- www.cliftonmeador.com/
- Access to his artist`s book production
- Ginger Burrel
- www.gingerburrell.com/Artists%20Books.html
- Website of Midnight Moon Press featuring her artists` books page
- Ivory Press`s artist`s book publications
- www.ivorypress.com/artists-book
- Featuring their publications by artists
- Ken Campbell
- www.brokenrules.co.uk
- Access to his artist`s book production
- Michael Pogarskij
- pogarsky.ru/cgi-bin/foremanel.pl?mod=books&a=books&id=5
- Access to: Moscow Artists` Books and International Fare of Artists` Books
- Peter Verheyen`s List discussion on the definition of the artist`s book
- www.philobiblon.com/whatisabook.shtml
- `Definition of the Artist`s Book; What is a Book; BSO`s (Book Shaped Objects); Art vs. Craft`
- Pinterest
- pinterest.com/homagetotheseed/artist-books/
- Large range of images, links and postings
- Radoslaw Nowakowski
- www.liberatorium.com/
- The Book Laboratory
- Reed College`s Special Collections: Artists` Books
- cdm.reed.edu/cdm4/artbooks/
- Note their `Contemporary Book Artists` section with references and links
- Science and the Artist`s Book
- www.sil.si.edu/Exhibitions/Science-and-the-Artists-Book/
- The Smithsonian Institution Libraries and the Washington Project for the Arts groundbreaking exhibition
- State Library of Queensland
- www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/art-design/artists-books
- Artists` books collections
- The Aragó Press
- www.aragopress.arago.co.uk/
- This site contains background material about books made by artists where the idea of the book is interpreted very broadly
- The Directory of Artists` Books Collections
- www.andrew.cmu.edu/user/md2z/ArtistsBooksDirectory/ArtistsBookIndex.html
- A compilation to increase awareness of artists` books collections primarily in the United States and Canada
- The Virginia Arts of the Book Center
- virginiabookarts.org/
- A community of artists exploring books, paper, and printmaking through a hands-on studio of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
- University of Wisconsin
- digicoll.library.wisc.edu/ArtistsBks/
- Access to their artists` books collection
- Veronika Schaepers
- www.veronikaschaepers.net/panel-books-e.html
- Access to her artist`s book production
- Victoria and Albert Museum ◄R►
- www.vam.ac.uk/collections/prints_books/features/artists_books/index.html
- Access to their artists` books collection
- Zyarts
- www.zyarts.com/zybooks
- Artists` books online showcasing a selection of artists` books from around the world
Book Arts (◄R► = a reciprocal link on the site)
Sites featuring information on the broarder book arts
Electronic Artists` Books
Online, interactive artists` books NOT merely e-books!
Journals
A list of Journals, both printed and online, dedicated to, or including, the book arts
- Ampersand: The Quarterly Journal of the Book Arts
- www.greenchairpress.com/amp.cgi
- The quarterly journal of the Pacific Center for the Book Arts (PCBA), has articles about all aspects of the book arts, from historical commentary to profiles of working artists to practical how-to tutorials. The informative articles are generously illustrated with photographs
- Australian Book Arts Journal
- www.australianbookartsjournal.com/
- An Australian journal dedicated to book artist(s), book binders, printmaking and writing
- Book 2.0
- www.intellectbooks.co.uk/journals/view-Journal,id=198/
- Book 2.0 is a new, interdisciplinary peer-reviewed journal which aims to publish articles and reviews on developments in book creation, design, technology and software affecting illustration, design & book production
- DOAJ Directory of Open Access Journals
- www.doaj.org/doaj?func=home&uiLanguage=en
- The aim of the Directory of Open Access Journals is to increase the visibility and ease of use of open access scientific and scholarly journals thereby promoting their increased usage and impact
- Journal of Artists` Books (JAB)
- www.journalofartistsbooks.org/
- Our mission is to engage with the field of artists books by means of critical discourse and creative exploration of the intersections of book arts, artists books, poetry, photography, experimental literature, printmaking, graphic design and other book-related creative endeavors
- JURN Directory
- www.jurn.org/directory/
- Links to selected arts & humanities ejournals including those which accommodate or feature artists` books and the book arts
- Openings: Studies in Book Art
- journals.sfu.ca/cbaa/index.php/jcbaa
- Openings: Studies in Book Art is the new online journal of the College Book Art Association (CBAA). Openings is a peer-reviewed journal that publishes critical, historical, and theoretical articles, reviews, and interviews about book art and its pedagogy
- The Blue Notebook: Journal for artists` books
- www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/bnotebk.htm
- A CFPR Book Arts Publication. A peer-reviewed journal, published twice a year
- The Bonefolder
- www.philobiblon.com/bonefolder/
- An e-journal for the bookbinder and book artist (last edition: Volume 8, 2012)
- Umbrella Online
- www.umbrellaeditions.com/index.php
- Umbrella is an online quarterly covering the arena of artists’ books, art books and other multiple editions, including audio and new media (last edition: Vol. 31, No. 3, Dec 2008)
South African Book Arts (◄R► = a reciprocal link on the site)
Sites featuring diverse South African-based material
- Art Map South Africa ◄R►
- artmap.co.za/501/moad+museum+of+african+design/#/loc/415/
- Starting with the entry for `South African Artists` Books`, move across Johannesburg and then further afield
- Artist Proof Studio
- www.artistproofstudio.co.za/
- A community and professional print studio in Newtown, Johannesburg
- Artists speak in volumes
- mg.co.za/article/1996-09-06-artists-speak-in-volumes
- Hazel Friedman reviews `Artists` Books in the Ginsberg Collection` at the Johannesburg Art Gallery. 6 Sep 1996
- ArtPrintSa
- www.artprintsa.com/artists-books.html
- Artists` Books from the Artists Press
- Barbara Wildenboer
- barbarawildenboer.yolasite.com/picture-gallery.php
- Official site of the artist featuring her altered books
- Belinda Blignaut
- www.belinda.co.za/?page_id=206
- Official site of the artist including her artists` books
- CCIBA
- www.cciba.sun.ac.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=8&Itemid=12
- University of Stellenbosch`s Center for Comic, Illustrative and Book Arts
- Cheryl Gage
- artbycherylgage.com/books.html
- Official site of the artist including her artists` books
- Cheryl Penn
- cherylpennartistsbooks.com/
- Official site of the artist featuring her artists` books
- Chris Diedericks
- chrisdiedericks.co.za/exhibitions/new-artist-s-books/
- Official site of the artist featuring his artists` books
- Keith Dietrich
- blogs.sun.ac.za/news/2011/10/06/book-art-opens-viewers%E2%80%99-eyes/
- `Book art opens viewers’ eyes`, an article on Keith Dietrich`s inaugural lecture, SU
- Lesley Magwood Fraser◄R►
- www.lesley-magwood-fraser.co.za/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3&I [. . .]
- Official site of the artist including her artists` books
- Open Books Exhibition
- www.brundyngonsalves.com/exhibitions/2011/open-books/
- BRUNDYN + GONSALVES (formerly iArt) 06 July - 31 August 2011
- Paul Emmanuel
- www.paulemmanuel.net/
- Official site of the artist
- Piglet Press
- letterpress.co.za/printers/piglet-press/
- Details of Mark J. Sandham`s letterpress print activity
- Skaapkapper en seun blik boek
- www.storiewerf.co.za/artikels-dinkskrum/ianmarley_skaapkapper.htm
- Louisemarié Combrink se `n Besondere boek: `No chopping sheep` is tydens die Aardklopfees 2006 in die Boeke-oase bekend gestel.
- Stephan Erasmus ◄R►
- www.stephanerasmus.com/
- Official site of the artist including his artists` books
- The Artists` Press
- www.artists-press.net/
- Mark Attwood`s press in Mpumalanga, South Africa
- The Center for Curating the Archive
- www.cca.uct.ac.za/reading_room/?id=332
- Featuring Pippa Skotnes`s `Book of Iterations`
- The Centre for Curating the Archive
- www.cca.uct.ac.za/curations/?lid=146
- Featuring Pippa Skotnes`s `Sound From the Thinking Strings`
- The Centre for Curating the Archive
- www.cca.uct.ac.za/curations/?id=152
- Featuring Pippa Skotnes`s `Heaven`s Things: A Story of the |xam`
- The Independent Publishing Project◄R►
- independentpublishingproject.blogspot.com/
- The project is aimed at gathering people and objects around the idea of self or small scale publishing within South Africa
- The Trinity Session
- www.onair.co.za/thetrinitysession/index_temp.html
- A contemporary art production team that investigates relationships between art, business, collaborative practice & network development
- Warren Editions
- www.warreneditions.com/
- Professional Printmaking Studio in Cape Town, publishes and prints fine art prints. The studio specialises in etching, monotype, polymer gravure and silkscreen
- When a book is not a book
- www.iol.co.za/business/personal-finance/when-a-book-is-not-a-book-1.1016121
- Press article on the exhibition `Transgressions and Boundaries of the Page` in Personal Finance. 24 January 2011
- Willem Boshoff
- www.willemboshoff.com/
- Official site of the artist
Texts (Articles, papers and essays)
A range of texts on artists` books and the book arts
Texts (Dissertations and theses)
Academic research on artists` books
Visual Texts / Visual Culture
Sites offering interesting content on visual texts, image/text relationships, digital, video, sound & related media
- ACI Academic Conferences International
- academic-conferences.org/talk/general-philosopy.htm
- Academic Talk videos – General Philosophy page including Chomsky, Derrida & Foucault
- Ana Maria Uribe
- www.vispo.com/uribe/
- In the late 1960s Argentine artist Ana Maria Uribe began creating typoemas, static black-on-white visual compositions rendered using a standard office typewriter
- Ars Electronica
- www.aec.at/about/en/
- Since 1979, Ars Electronica has been investigating the consequences of the Digital Revolution
- Between Image and Text: Tensions in the art of Hans Haacke & Jenny Holzer
- sitem.herts.ac.uk/artdes_research/papers/wpdesign/wpdvol2/odonohoe.pdf
- An academic article by Eilish O’Donohoe: Working Papers on Design, University of Hertfordshire
- Charles Sandison
- waatp.com/gate/index.html?to=http%253A%252F%252Fwww.sandison.fi%252Fcontent%252F [. . .]
- Images, videos, biography & media information of the artist
- Eclipse Archive
- english.utah.edu/eclipse/Editor/
- Craig Dworkin`s archive of books and edited editions
- First Monday
- firstmonday.org/htbin/cgiwrap/bin/ojs/index.php/fm/index
- One of the first openly accessible, peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet
- information as material
- www.informationasmaterial.org/portfolio/87/
- Publications, editions and projects
- John M. Vincler
- dichtung-digital.mewi.unibas.ch/2010/vincler/vincler.htm
- The Monstrous Book and the Manufactured Body in the Late Age of Print
- Pascal Lefvre`s Intertwining verbal and visual elements in printed narratives for adults
- www.ingentaconnect.com/content/intellect/stic/2010/00000001/00000001/art00003
- Free download from Studies in Comics, Volume 1, Number 1, 1 April 2010 , pp. 35-52(18)
- Rhizome
- rhizome.org/
- Dedicated to the creation, presentation, preservation, and critique of emerging artistic practices that engage technology
- Ruth and Marvin Sackner Archive of Concrete and Visual Poetry
- ww2.rediscov.com/sacknerarchives/Welcome.aspx
- The searchable archive
- Showing seeing: a critique of visual culture
- www.nyu.edu/classes/bkg/methods/mitchell.pdf
- W. J. T. Mitchell in Journal of Visual Culture
- Textual Prostheses
- english.utah.edu/eclipse/Editor/DworkinProstheses.pdf
- An academic article by Craig Dworkin: Comparative Literature, Winter 2005, Volume 57, Number 1
- Textuality and the Visual: A Response
- marjorieperloff.com/articles/textuality-visual/
- Marjorie Perloff on verbal / visual texts produced directly for the reproducible printed page or for electronic dissemination
- Ubu Editions: Publishing The Unpublishable
- www.ubu.com/ubu/unpub.html
- A range of experimental image/text works which test the limits of unpublishability
- UbuWeb: Media and the arts
- www.ubu.com
- A remarkable and comprehensive resource across a wide range of media
- Unbound: Speculations on the Future of the Book
- futurebook.mit.edu/
- MIT`s May 2012 conference
- Wendy Steiner`s “The Temporal Versus the Spatial Arts” In "The Colors of Rhetoric: Problems in the Relation between Modern Literature and Painting"
- csmt.uchicago.edu/annotations/steiner.htm
- Stephen Park discusses the content of Steiner`s chapter
- What do Pictures Want?
- www.visual-studies.com/interviews/mitchell.html
- Asbjørn Grønstad and Øyvind Vågnes interview W. J. T. Mitchell at the Center for Visual Studies
You Tube and Video Features on the Book Arts
Exhibitions, discussions and demonstrations of artists` books, the book arts and films-as-books (mostly) on You Tube
- ABC3D: Roaringbrookpress` remarkable pop-up book
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=wnZr0wiG1Hg&NR=1
- 1:21 duration
- Amanda Barrow discusses two of her artists` books at Blackburn 20/20 Gallery, NYC
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjleah64EQM
- 2:04 duration
- Andrea Wollensack, professor of Art, Connecticut College`s Lear Center for Special Collections and Archives
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=_6AQExETrsc
- 2:58 duration
- Artists` Books from the Herron Art Library part 1
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=GInzCtLb418
- 9:16 duration
- Artists` Books from the Herron Art Library part 2
- www.youtube.com/watch?gl=ZA&v=1Sj24BWP-9A
- 8:06 duration
- Basically Books: The Artwork of Susan Joy Share
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=n1OrR_0W4p4
- 1:14:43 duration
- Book is a revolutionary `Bio Optical Organised Knowledge Device`! (English subtitles)
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=YhcPX1wVp38
- 3:20 duration
- Brian Dettmer talks about his book interventions
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jk9pHPPJbA&feature=player_embedded#at=262
- 4:44 duration
- ESOPUS 14: PROJECTS: a flip-through of this award-winning, nonprofit, arts publication based in NYC
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=BytJf-ihrQM
- 2:19 duration
- Explore artist books at the Suffolk Museum
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=CaFdHE9nu0c
- 2:50 duration
- Guy Begbie`s Books in Transit
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=5BtcgioDH2w
- 1:49 duration
- Johanna Drucker talks about artist`s books and how they differ from livres d`artistes. University of Oregon: `Year of the Book`
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=XJiUTZtp1NU
- 28:22 duration
- Johanna Drucker`s `Alterations and Transformations in Book Space`: Jaffe Center for Book Arts, 2010
- vimeo.com/20030395
- Video duration 01:06:05
- Magic Moving Images - Animated Optical Illusions book
- www.youtube.com/watch?annotation_id=annotation_133793&feature=iv&src_vid=S5W5JJX [. . .]
- 2:20 duration
- Martin Antonetti - Artists Books: A Definition for the 21st Century
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=sYEDJpYr1e4
- 52:11 duration
- Milos Sejn - Down The Maple Brook / Giant Mountains
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=BSU5eqJlco8
- 9:59 duration
- Minnesota Historical Society Library`s Fine Press and Artists` Books
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=e4MyRrkW4wE&feature=related
- 4:23 duration
- Not Vital`s performative installation for the exhibition Blood on Paper, V&A Museum
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=9OoARVqpP8M
- 3:13 duration
- Pamela Zwehl-Burke discusses the art and meaning of artist`s books
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=0KIj4R0G1Ck
- 6:55 duration
- Pictorial Webster`s
- www.quercuspress.com/webster_vimeo_video.htm
- 8:00 duration
- Prospero`s Books
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=-pdoUjdaIVM
- The opening 11 minutes of Peter Greenaway`s 1991 movie
- Prospero`s Books: 24 Books
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=I0umHDZXlGM&feature=related
- Italian commentary from a section of Greenaway`s film introducing the 24 books. 3:32 duration
- Prospero`s Books: Book of Mythologies
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=zA_ofR8MFak
- A section from Greenaway`s film featuring Marie Angel, Ute Lemper & Deborah Conway. 9:52 duration
- Prospero`s Books: Book of Utopias
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=PDgO5E05SdI&feature=related
- John Gielgud`s soliloquy from Peter Greenaway`s film. 1:18 duration
- Rachael Romero`s books
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6kN6PVfEmM
- 2:50 duration
- Richard Minsky`s Book Art. An interview with Bob Andelman
- www.mrmedia.com/?p=3836
- Video duration 34:30
- Richard Ovenden (Bodleian Library Oxford): The relevance of the physical book & the book arts in the digital age (Part One)
- www.slv.vic.gov.au/node/3557
- Video duration 19:25
- Richard Ovenden (Bodleian Library Oxford): The relevance of the physical book & the book arts in the digital age (Part Two)
- www.slv.vic.gov.au/node/3620
- Video duration 35:56
- Siganto seminar: the trouble with artists books. Artist book maker Jan Davis, gallerist Noreen Grahame and librarian Helen Cole look at the artists’ book phenomenon in Australia.
- www.slq.qld.gov.au/audio-video/webcasts/recent-webcasts/siganto-seminar
- 1:36:14 duration
- Sol LeWitt artist`s books
- www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-k4Rsa1aSQ
- 1:29 duration
- The Journal of Artists` Books, a short video by Luan Barros on Vimeo.
- vimeo.com/luanbarros/jab
- 8:45 duration
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