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The Bibliography of the Jack Ginsberg Collection on Artists' Books

David Paton
SOUTH AFRICAN ARTISTS’ BOOKS AND BOOK-OBJECTS SINCE 1960

Extracts from a dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Arts, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts in Fine Art.
Johannesburg 2000

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• A BRIEF HISTORY OF SIGNIFICANT PRECURSORS OF INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS’ BOOKS
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• TOWARDS A HISTORY OF SOUTH AFRICAN ARTISTS’ BOOKS
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• WILLEM BOSHOFF AND THE BOOK
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• TOWARDS AN ANALYTICAL DESCRIPTION OF SOUTH AFRICAN ARTISTS' BOOKS
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• BIBLIOGRAPHY
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David Paton
THE SOUND OF A BOOK: SOUND AS GENERATOR OF NARRATIVE IN THE RECEPTION OF SELECTED NEW MEDIA OBJECTS AS BOOKS

An article published in Image & Text, 2007 Number 13. Pp. 66-79. ISSN 1020 1497.

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• THE SOUND OF A BOOK
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Robyn Sassen
UNDER COVERS: SOUTH AFRICA’S APARTHEID ARMY – AN INCUBATOR FOR ARTISTS’ BOOKS

An article published in The Blue Note Book: Journal for Artists' Books, CFPR, University of the West of England, Bristol, UK, Volume 3, Number 1, October 2008. Pp. 6-16. ISSN 1751-1712.

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• UNDER COVERS
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David Paton
BODY, LIGHT, INTERACTION, SOUND: A CRITICAL READING OF A RECENT INSTALLATION OF WILLEM BOSHOFF'S KYKAFRIKAANS

An article published in Image & Text, 2008 Number 14. Pp. 114-131. ISSN 1020 1497.

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• BODY, LIGHT, INTERACTION, SOUND
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David Paton
IDEOLOGIES AND IDENTITIES IN DIGITAL ARTISTS’ BOOKS: PARALLELS BETWEEN CHARLES SANDISON’S CARMINA FIGURATA AND WILLEM BOSHOFF’S KYKAFRIKAANS

An article published in Imaging Ourselves: Visual Identities in Representation. Pp. 72-89. ISBN 978-0-620-45946-4
A compilation of extended papers delivered at the one-day national conference Imaging Ourselves: Visual Identities in Representation Fri 15 June 2009, convened by the Research Centre, Visual Identities in Art and Design, University of Johannesburg.

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• IDEOLOGIES AND IDENTITIES IN DIGITAL ARTISTS’ BOOKS
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David Paton
THE IMAGISTIC TEXT IN JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER: TRACING UNCONVENTIONAL TEXTS FROM KEROUAC TO THE ARTIST’S BOOK

An article developed from a paper read at the SAVAH conference The Politics of Change: Looking backwards and forwards, University of Pretoria, Department of Visual Arts, 10 – 11 July 2009, published in De Arte, vol 81, 2010. Pp. 4-22. ISSN 0004-3389

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• THE IMAGISTIC TEXT IN JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER
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David Paton
THE BOOK ARTS AS A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE: SOME THOUGHTS ON THE RESEARCH PROJECT A MANIFESTO FOR THE BOOK, WHAT WILL BE THE CANON FOR THE ARTIST'S BOOK IN THE 21ST CENTURY?

An article published in On Making: Integrating Approaches to Practice-led Research in Art and Design. Pp. 209-221. ISBN 978-0-620-49738-1, a compilation of extended papers delivered at a two-day international conference, held on 15 - 16th October 2009, and convened by the Research Centre, Visual Identities in Art and Design, University of Johannesburg.

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• THE BOOK ARTS AS A COMMUNITY OF PRACTICE
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Pippa Skotnes
A COLUMBARIUM OF WORDS AND A MODE OF LOCUTION

An article published in On Making: Integrating Approaches to Practice-led Research in Art and Design. Pp. 247-262. ISBN 978-0-620-49738-1, a compilation of extended papers delivered at a two-day international conference, held on 15 - 16th October 2009, and convened by the Research Centre, Visual Identities in Art and Design, University of Johannesburg.

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• A COLUMBARIUM OF WORDS AND A MODE OF LOCUTION
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Estelle Liebenberg-Barkhuizen
ARTISTS' BOOKS:A POSTMODERN PERSPECTIVE

An article published in South African Journal of Art History, 2009 Volume 24, Issue 2. Pp. 65-73. ISSN 02583542.

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• ARTISTS' BOOKS:A POSTMODERN PERSPECTIVE
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Keith Dietrich
INTERSECTIONS, BOUNDERIES AND PASSAGES: TRANGRESSING THE CODEX

Prof Keith Dietrich's inaugural address, Stellenbosh University, October 2011.

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• INTERSECTIONS, BOUNDERIES AND PASSAGES: TRANGRESSING THE CODEX
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David Paton
TOWARDS A THEORETICAL UNDERPINNING OF THE BOOK ARTS: APPLYING BAKHTIN'S DIALOGISM AND HETEROGLOSSIA TO SELECTED EXAMPLES OF THE ARTIST'S BOOK

An article published in Literator, November 2012 33(1). Pp. 1-11. http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v33i1.353

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• TOWARDS A THEORETICAL UNDERPINNING OF THE BOOK ARTS
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  • Artists’ books and an aversion to theory: Applying Bakhtin’s dialogism and heteroglossia to selected examples of the artist’s book. Paper read at the July 2012 SAVAH Conference, UNISA (format: PDF, size: 330kb)

  • Artists’ books and an aversion to theory: Applying Bakhtin’s dialogism and heteroglossia to selected examples of the artist’s book. Accompanying illustrations for the paper read at the July 2012 SAVAH Conference, UNISA (format: PDF, size: 3.40mb)

Leti Kleyn
ONS KYK VANSELF – KREATIVE SKRYFKUNS, KONKRETE POËSIE EN 'N VERSET TEEN SKRYWERSNORME

An article published in Literator, November 2012 33(1). http://dx.doi.org/10.4102/lit.v33i1.25

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• ONS KYK VANSELF
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