Online Resources


01. Artists` Books

Sites featuring information specifically on artists` books. < R > means a reciprocal link can be found on the site.
Andrew Eason`s artists` books
www.andreweason.com
Look especially at `Book of the Month`
Angela Lorenz
angelonium.com/
Access to her views, writings and artist`s book production
Artist Book News
www.artistbooknews.com/
Showcasing professional book artists
Artist Books 3.0
www.facebook.com/artistbooks3.0/
A forum for artists, curators, librarians, students and researchers
Artist`s Book Creators Community - Lithuania
artistsbook.lt/abc-news/
International Artist`s Book Triennials held in Vilnius, Lithuania
Artists` Books Online
www.artistsbooksonline.org/
An online artists` books repository of facsimiles, metadata and criticism
Artspace Mackay
collection.artspacemackay.com.au/objects?query=object_type%3A%22Artist+book%22&s [. . .]
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
briandettmer.com/
The artist`s personal website with clickable images for all of his books
Clifton Meador
clifton-meador.com/
Access to his artist`s book production
Galerie DRUCK & BUCH
dub.ifjs.de/
The website of the exhibition space and dealership run by Susanne Padberg, Vienna, Austria
Guy Begbie
guybegbie.com/
Workshops & Interdisciplinary Works Archive
Joan Flasch Artists` Book Collection
www.saic.edu/libraries-special-collections/john-m-flaxman-library/special-collec [. . .]
The collection is one of The School of the Art Institute of Chicago`s (SAIC) most popular Special Collections, exceeding 6,000 works & complemented by extensive reference materials
Julie Chen
flyingfishpress.com/
The website of the artist and her Flying Fish Press
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
rdc.reed.edu/c/artbooks/home/
Note their `Contemporary Book Artists` section with references and links
Robbin Ami Silverberg
www.robbinamisilverberg.com/
The website of the artist and Dobbin Mill and Books
Sam Winston
www.samwinston.com/information/about
The artist`s personal website
Sarah Bodman`s Artists` Books Series
www.a-n.co.uk/tag/artists-books-series
A monthly series on artists’ books by Sarah Bodman who looks at the work of various book-artists
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 ground-breaking exhibition
State Library of Queensland
www.slq.qld.gov.au/resources/art-design/artists-books
Artists` books collections
Susan Mills Artist Books
www.susanmillsartistbooks.com/
Visual artist Susan Mills works entirely in book form. Her artist books are very small editions - often an edition of one.
The Arago 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
www.vabookcenter.org/book-arts/
A community of artists exploring books, paper, and printmaking through a hands-on studio of the Virginia Foundation for the Humanities
University of Wisconsin-Madison
www.library.wisc.edu/art/collections/artists-book-collection/
Access to their artists` books collection
Veronika Schaepers
www.veronikaschaepers.net/en/
Access to her artist`s book production
Victoria and Albert Museum
www.vam.ac.uk/collections/artists-and-the-book
Access to their artists` books collection

02. Book Arts

Sites featuring information on the broarder book arts
Alexander Korzer-Robinson
www.alexanderkorzerrobinson.co.uk/
Featuring his book sculptures / cut books
Artists Publishing < R >
monoskop.org/Artists_publishing
An online library of artists` publishing
Blood on Paper Exhibition
www.ivorypress.com/en/curational/la-exposicion-blood-on-paper-fue-inaugurada-el- [. . .]
Ivory Press`s books at the V&A, London 15 Apr 2008 to 29 Jun 2008
Book Art @ Alabama!
slis.ua.edu/mfa-in-book-arts/book-web/
The University of Alabama`s Bookweb - Book Arts Web Resources
Book Arts Web
www.philobiblon.com
Peter D. Verheyen`s Philobiblon, the Bonefolder etc.
Book Arts: Department of Creative Arts, UWE (University of the West of England) ◄R►
www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk
Look especially at their research resources, publications & book arts website links
Booklyn Artists Alliance. Marshall Weber`s site featuring his book publications
booklyn.org/
Bookmarking Book Art - An Online Annotation of `The Book Made Art` (1986)
books-on-books.com/2020/05/08/
Posted and updated by Robert Bolick
Books on Books < R >
books-on-books.com/
Curated by Robert Bolick. Bookmarking the evolution of the book from orality into literacy to the development of the codex
British Library: Fine Presses, Artists` Books and Book Arts
www.bl.uk/collection-guides/artists-books
Canadian Bookbinders and Book Artists Guild
www.cbbag.ca
Circle Press` site for artist`s editions and books
www.circlepress.com
Clemens Tobias Lange`s calendar of international book arts events
www.kuenstlerbuecher.com/mostre.php
Codex Foundation
www.codexfoundation.org/
Colophon: Useful links to a number of book arts related websites and information
www.colophon.com
Elisabeth Long`s book arts site & blog `Sign of the Owl` ◄R►
www.signoftheowl.com/blog/
Fuck Yeah, Book Arts
fuckyeahbookarts.tumblr.com/
A blog for creative types interested in the (un)conventional world of Book Arts!
Getty Research Library`s `The Artist Turns to the Book` exhibition
www.getty.edu/art/exhibitions/artist_book/
Gino Gini`s & Fernanda Fedi`s website which includes their book production
www.ginogini.it/libri-dartista/
Granary Book`s titles, essays and related book activities
www.granarybooks.com
Steven Clay`s book arts site
Inspiration Green`s Reuse of Books = Art
inspirationgreen.com/art-from-old-books.html
Ivory Press`s artist`s book publications
www.ivorypress.com/artists-book
Jaffe Center for Book Arts
www.library.fau.edu/depts/spc/JaffeCenter/index.php
Julie Chen`s Flying Fish Press
www.flyingfishpress.com/
Karen Bleitz
www.karenbleitz.com/
Personal website of the artist`s bookworks
Keith Smith Books
www.keithsmithbooks.com/
London Centre for Book Arts (LCBA)
londonbookarts.tumblr.com/
The UK`s only open-access resource and education centre dedicated to book arts.
Minnesota Center for Book Arts
www.mnbookarts.org
New York Center for Book Arts
www.centerforbookarts.org
Rare Autumn. The book as a physical object, art or vessel for communication and ideas
rareautumn.blogspot.com/
Robbin Ami Silverberg (Dobbin Mill and Dobbin Books): includes her personal book production
www.robbinamisilverberg.com/
Seager / Gray Gallery`s `The Art of the Book`
seagergray.com/Exhibit_Detail.cfm?ShowsID=102
Look out for her `An Artist Book a Day` on: BOOK_ARTS-L@LISTSERV.SYR.EDU
Smithsonian Libraries` site for paper engineering
blog.library.si.edu/blog/2010/09/13/page-turners-in-paper-engineering-fold-pull- [. . .]
The Art of the Book
www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/a/Art-of-the-Book/
Dr Rowan Watson - Senior Curator, National Art Library, V&A, London`s text accompanying the exhibition `Blood on Paper`
The San Francisco Center for the Book`s `Exploding the Codex`
www.explodingthecodex.blogspot.com/
Western New York Book Arts Center
wnybookarts.org/about/

03. Electronic Artists` Books

Online, interactive artists` books NOT merely e-books!
An augmented artist`s ebook?
www.frespech.com/
Nicolas Frespech`s project
Sarah Jacobs
www.songofthedatastream.net/song.html
An interactive artwork: `Song of the Data Stream: Cycle`
Typewriter - an artist`s book for writing
noemata.net/sandbooks/typewriter/
J. M. Bjorn`s project gives some attention to the building blocks of writing
Veronika Schaepers
www.veronikaschaepers.net/
Her interactive piece "I have been fine."

04. ISSUU interactive texts

Book Arts related material on ISSUU
2014 Book As Art: Expanding the Limits
issuu.com/decaturartsfestival/docs/2014_book_as_art_statements-
Artists statements for the 2014 Book As Art exhibit. Decatur, GA
Art Made From Books - An assortment of art made from books
issuu.com/abramsandchroniclebooks/docs/at_art_made_from_books_final
Catalogue on ISSUU
Binding Desire
issuu.com/otiscollegeofartdesign/docs/binding-desire
A group exhibition featuring approximately 120 works from Otis Millard Sheets Library`s Special Collection of 2,100 artists books dating from the 1960s to the present.
Boundless Objects
issuu.com/thetoffeegallery/docs/catalogue__boundlessobjects
An exhibition catalogue of artists` books, curated by Helene van Aswegen at The Toffee Gallery, Darling from 4 August - 31 October 2018
I Ching for the `African Renaissance`
issuu.com/nomadicexploration/docs/i_ching_for_the_a_r
Artists` Book - reply to Thabo Mbeki`s African Renaissance vision.
Navigating the Bookscape: Artists` Books and the Digital Interface
issuu.com/davidpaton00/docs/final_cat_reduced_size
Catalogue on ISSUU
Prescriptions: Artists` Books on Wellbeing and Medicine
issuu.com/prescriptions/docs/prescriptions_catalogue_sm
Catalogue of the exhibition with featured artist Martha A. Hall. The Drawing Room, The Beaney House of Art & Knowledge, Canterbury, UK. 21 April - 14 Aug 2016
Sixties Artists Books
issuu.com/giuliaciliberto/docs/sixties_artists_books
A short anthology of texts and images about artists` books, and bookworks in general, produced mostly in the United States during the `60s.
Symposium: Artists` Books Anonymous: On the margins, 2012
issuu.com/doveroddebookarts/docs/symposium_appendix_a5_issuu
Appendix to the catalogue 2012: `On the margins`
Ten Years of Artists` Books
issuu.com/seagergray/docs/______tenyearsofartistsbooks_brookl/1
Donna Seager of the Seager Gray Gallery curated this exhibition for the Brooklyn Public Library celebrating ten years of "The Art of the Book" exhibition at the gallery. The exhibition is at the Brooklyn Public Library from October 1 2015 through January 24, 2016.
TEXTures: An exhibition of Texts, Textures and Structure in Artists` Books
issuu.com/maaikebakker00/docs/text_ures__without_crop_marks
Catalogue on ISSUU
The Art of the Book at Seager Gray Gallery, Mill Valley
issuu.com/seagergray/docs/art_of_the_book_2014_catalog_issuu
Ninth annual exhibition of handmade artist books, altered books and book-related materials
The Art of the Book, Seager Gray Gallery, 2013
issuu.com/seagergray/docs/__seagergray_aotb2013_issuu
Full color catalog the Seager Gray Gallery`s 8th annual exhibition featuring artists` books, altered books and book-related works.
The Bonefolder
issuu.com/susurface/docs/bonefoldervol6no1
An e-journal for the bookbinder and book artist, vol 6, no 1, 2009 (from here you can find the others)
Visual Poetry A collection of visual poetry from the Ohio State University`s library collection
issuu.com/dylan_k/docs/visual-poetry
Catalogue on ISSUU

05. Journals

A list of Journals, both printed and online, dedicated to, or including, the book arts
Afterimage online
online.ucpress.edu/afterimage
The Journal of Media Arts and Cultural Criticism. University of California Press
Ampersand: The Quarterly Journal of the Book Arts (last: Winter 2010, vol. 27 no. 1)
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
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
doaj.org/
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
First Monday
firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/about
One of the first openly accessible, peer–reviewed journals on the Internet, solely devoted to the Internet
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
doaj.org/search?source={%22query%22:{%22match_all%22:{}}}#.VHyD_TFPyHw
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
Parenthesis
fpba.com/parenthesis/selected-articles/
Selected articles from editions of the journal Parenthesis, presented by the Fine Press Book Association
The Blue Notebook: Journal for artists` books
www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/blue-notebook/
A CFPR Book Arts Publication. A peer-reviewed journal, published twice a year
The Bonefolder (last: Volume 8, 2012)
www.philobiblon.com/bonefolder/
An e-journal for the bookbinder and book artist
The New Bookbinder
www.designerbookbinders.org.uk/pub/tnb.html
Published annually by Designer Bookbinder, UK
Umbrella Online (last: Vol. 31, No. 3, Dec 2008)
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

06. South African Book Arts

Sites featuring diverse South African-based material
Art Map South Africa VANSA
artmap.co.za/south+african+artists+books
Home of `South African Artists` Books`
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.com/
Official site of the artist featuring her altered books
Boundless Objects
thetoffeegallery.co.za/boundless-objects/#
An exhibition of artists` books, curated by Helene van Aswegen at The Toffee Gallery, Darling from 4 August - 31 October 2018
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
Cheryl Penn
www.cherylpenn.com/site/?p=201
With particular focus on her internationally participatory work `An Encyclopedia of Everything`
Chris Diedericks
chrisdiedericks.co.za/exhibitions/new-artist-s-books/
Official site of the artist featuring his artists` books
Colophon
colophon.co.za/
A collection of underground, counterculture, and independent art and design print media, geared towards the establishment of an alternative South African publication archive.
Eugene Hon
eugenehon.blogspot.com/2014/10/come-read-peep-and-reap-hons-artists.html
Blog for his artist`s book: Read Peep Reap
Fourthwall Books
www.fourthwallbooks.com/
Fourthwall Books was formed by editor and writer Bronwyn Law-Viljoen and writer and designer Oliver Barstow to publish beautifully designed and written books on art and architecture
Helene van Aswegen
thebookworkshop.co.za/about/
The Book Workshop website
Jack Ginsberg wins the 2014 Inyathelo Award for Philanthropy in the Arts
www.youtube.com/watch?v=bBHdRxiNCe4
Passionate supporter of South African contemporary art and Founding Patron of The Ampersand Foundation, Jack Ginsberg, is the recipient of the 2014 Award
Kathleen Sawyer
katsaw.com/tagged/my-book-arts
The bookarts section of her personal website
Keith Dietrich
www.keithdietrich.co.za/outputs_new.html
`Book art opens viewers` eyes`, an article on Keith Dietrich`s inaugural lecture, SU
Making art into books. The Centre for Book Arts at the Wits Art Museum is one of the top five in the world
www.businesslive.co.za/bd/life/arts-and-entertainment/2019-11-08-alexia-walker-m [. . .]
Article by Alexia Walker for Business Day online
Navigating the Bookscape: Artists` Books and the Digital Interface
issuu.com/davidpaton00/docs/final_cat_reduced_size
Catalogue on ISSUU
Paul Emmanuel
www.paulemmanuel.net/
Official site of the artist
Phillipa Haskins
ndabaonline.ukzn.ac.za/UkzndabaStory/NdabaOnline-Vol2-Issue22-College-of-CLM/Gra [. . .]
Masters graduate creates Book Art
Piglet Press
letterpress.co.za/printers/piglet-press/
Details of Mark J. Sandham`s letterpress print activity
Skaapkapper en seun blik boek
storiewerf.co.za/2006/11/12/skaapkapper-en-seun-blik-boek/
Louisemarie Combrink se `n Besondere boek: `No chopping sheep` is tydens die Aardklopfees 2006 in die Boeke-oase bekend gestel.
Stephan Erasmus
www.art.co.za/stephanerasmus/
Official site of the artist including his artists` books
TEXTures: An exhibition of Texts, Textures and Structure in Artists` Books
issuu.com/maaikebakker00/docs/text_ures__without_crop_marks
Catalogue on ISSUU
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/cca/people/pippa-skotnes
Featuring Pippa Skotnes`s publications
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
thetrinitysession.com/
A contemporary art production team that investigates relationships between art, business, collaborative practice & network development
Warren Editions
www.warreneditions.com
Professional Printmaking Studio in the Western Cape that prints and publishes 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

07. Texts (Articles, papers and essays)

A range of texts on artists` books and the book arts
Angela Lorenz` `Artist`s Books - For Lack of a Better Name`
www.angelalorenzartistsbooks.com/whatis.htm#
Books and Artists. Dr. Rowan Watson Senior Curator National Art Library Word & Image Department
www.vam.ac.uk/__data/assets/pdf_file/0010/179317/45746_file.pdf
A paper on the V & A`s 2008 exhibition Blood on Paper: the Art of the Book
CFPR Book Arts Publications Index
www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/publications/
A comprehensive list of publications from the Center`s `Impact Press`
Clive Phillpot`s `Strong shadow, much light` at Arnaud Desjardin: COMMA 38
artnews.org/bloombergspace/?exi=28519&Bloomberg_Space&COMMA_38_Arnaud_Desjardin
Corcoran Book History
corcoranbookhistory.blogspot.com/
An online project of Casey Smith`s MA seminar program
Definitions of the Artist`s Book
www.philobiblon.com/whatisabook.shtml
Duncan Chappell`s `Typologising the Artist`s Book`
monoskop.org/images/3/39/Chappell_Duncan_2003_Typologising_the_Artists_Book.pdf
Francisco Jose Guillen Martinez (Universidad de murcia) Self-portraits of the artists` book: editorial criteria in the work of Roman Gil
doaj.org/article/52a0f10c0099407385883391da23b708
in Spanish
Garrett Stewart`s `Bookwork as Demediation`
lcm.english.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/234/GStewart-bookwork.pdf
Critical Inquiry 36 (Spring 2010). The University of Chicago
Gianfranco Crupi (La Sapienza Universita di Roma) Mirabili visioni - from movable books to movable texts
doaj.org/article/35203b8a23ed478e86ed40976dec6d89
in Italian
Gloria Picazo (Ayuntamiento de Lleida. Centro de Arte La Panera) - Artists` publications: expanded editions and the challenges of exhibiting them
doaj.org/article/98b06599a2134d168409bd2cffd80b1f
in Spanish
Introduction to The New Text Art and Making a Difference by Freee
researchonline.rca.ac.uk/3564/2/Freee%20The%20new%20text%20art.pdf
Presented as an impromptu spoken choir 27th May 2017, Loughborough.
Jae Jennifer Rossman`s Publications
web.library.yale.edu/sd/staff/45
Janis Ekdahl`s article: `Artists` Books & Beyond: The Library of the Museum of Modern Art as a Curatorial & Research Resource`
archive.ifla.org/VII/d2/inspel/99-4ekja.pdf
Johanna Drucker`s `The Artist`s Book as Idea and Form`
www.granarybooks.com/books/drucker2/drucker2.html
Johanna Drucker`s `The Virtual Codex from Page Space to E-space`
www.philobiblon.com/drucker/
Laura Pinillos Villanueva`s The use of a subversive media by institutions: Artist`s books and Seth Siegelaub
doaj.org/article/5dbadaf3e2ee4368b786ecfe6edc13cd
in Spanish
Marjorie Perloff`s article: `Cubist Collaboration/ Abstract Assemblage: The Avant-Garde Artists` Book`
marjorieperloff.blog/essays/artist-book/
Michael Carosone`s article: `Queering Artists` Books: A Queer Critical Analysis of Artists` Books`
www.academia.edu/621785/Queering_Artists_Books_A_Queer_Critical_Analysis_of_Arti [. . .]
Nola Farman`s `The Case for Failure in Artists` Bookworks`
researchdirect.westernsydney.edu.au/islandora/object/uws:5115
Paula Kay Streeter`s dissertation: `Turned pages/the artist book in the age of technology`
lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1433&context=etd
Practice 2 Four Monologues: Studio Research
studylib.net/doc/14370838/practice-2-four-monologues--studio-researchf
Four Monologues, the collaborative process between poet Aram Saroyan and students to create both an artists` book of his work
Richard Minsky: Material Meets Metaphor. A Half Century of Book
www.library.yale.edu/arts/specialcollections/Material_Meets_Metaphor-Minsky.pdf
An exhibition at the Robert B. Haas Family Arts Library William H. Wright Special Collections Exhibit Area Yale University August 2 – November 29, 2010
Richard Minsky`s `25 Years: The Book Art Movement 1974-1999`
minsky.com/sharpaper.htm
Sarah Bodman`s `The quiet democracy of the contemporary artist`s book (or why do artists make books?)`
www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/news-archive/flybooks08/sbtalkb.pdf
A talk from the `Books That Fly Conference` (University of Brighton, July 2008)
Sarah Mottalini`s `ARTISTS` BOOKS: Where to put the apostrophe?`
muse.union.edu/mandeville/project/mot-juste/
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina
www.bibalex.org/attachments_ar/Publications/Files/2010051712072892547_ArtistsBie [. . .]
Online catalogue of the Fourth International Biennale for the Artist`s Book 2010
The Journal of the Rutgers University Libraries
jrul.libraries.rutgers.edu/index.php/jrul/issue/view/89/showToc
Special issue: The artists` books of Suellen Glashausser. Vol 64 (2008). ISSN: 0036-0473
The latest from digital humanist Johanna Drucker
newsroom.ucla.edu/stories/the-latest-from-digital-humanist-johanna-drucker
Nico Viele - From the UCLA Newsroom - April 04, 2016
The Silent Scream: Political and Social Comment in Books by Artists
www.oppen.net.au/bibliotheca/publications.cfm
Transgressions and Boundaries of the Page: Academic articles for NWU`s book arts project
literator.org.za/index.php/literator/issue/view/36
Literator Vol 33, no 1
Ulises Carrion`s 1975 essay `The New Art of Making Books`
www.reflexionesmarginales.com/biblioteca/15/Documentos/Ulises_Carrion:The_New_Ar [. . .]
Visual-verbal encounters in Cendrars and Delaunay`s La Prose du Transsiberien
www.reading.ac.uk/web/FILES/modern-languages-and-european-studies/Katherine_Shin [. . .]
Katherine Shingler University of Nottingham

08. Texts (Dissertations and theses)

Academic research on artists` books
Amanda Catherine Roth Clark
acumen.lib.ua.edu/content/u0015/0000001/0001186/u0015_0000001_0001186.pdf
PhD Dissertation: The Handmade Artists` Book: Space, Materiality, and the Dynamics of Communication in Book Arts
Chris M. Reeves
etd.ohiolink.edu/ap/10?113047972318734::NO:10:P10_ETD_SUBID:84586#abstract-files
Dissertation: `United Front and Action vs. Beautiful Coffee Cups: Fluxus Through the Publications of George Maciunas and Dick Higgins`
Helene van Aswegen
scholar.sun.ac.za/handle/10019.1/19990
Dissertation: `Artists` books in the age of digital reproduction: An enquiry into the problematic nature and (in)accessibility of book production as contemporary art`
Laura Allison Partridge
etd.ohiolink.edu/ap/10?113047972318734::NO:10:P10_ETD_SUBID:81593
Dissertation: `Far From Silenced: The Altered Books of Ann Hamilton, 1991–1994`
Paula Kay Streeter
lib.dr.iastate.edu/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1433&context=etd
Dissertation: `Turned pages/the artist book in the age of technology`
Shirley Louise Atkinson Greer
repository.wit.ie/1450/1/Artists_Books_Conveying_Meaning_in_a_nontraditional_for [. . .]
Dissertation: `Artists` Books: Conveying Meaning in a Non-traditional Format`

09. 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
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
eclipsearchive.org/Editor/
Craig Dworkin`s archive of books and edited editions
First Monday
firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/issue/view/662
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
Institute for the Future of the Book
www.futureofthebook.org/
A think-and-do tank investigating the evolution of intellectual discourse as it shifts from printed pages to networked screens
John M. Vincler
www.dichtung-digital.org/2010/vincler/vincler.htm
The Monstrous Book and the Manufactured Body in the Late Age of Print
Marjorie Perloff`s article: `Textuality and the Visual: A Response`
marjorieperloff.blog/essays/textuality-visual/
Musings on the relationship between images and texts in artists` books
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
eclipsearchive.org/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
What do Pictures Want?
www.imageandnarrative.be/inarchive/iconoclasm/gronstad_vagnes.htm
Asbjorn Gronstad and Oyvind Vagnes interview W. J. T. Mitchell at the Center for Visual Studies

10. Audio Features on the Book Arts

Audio-based interviews and recordings on artists` books and the book arts
Bookbinding Now
www.bookbindingnow.com/
A New York-based community podcast, hosted by Susan Mills & posted every other Wednesday
CODEX Symposium (2007-2013)
www.codexfoundation.org/archive/codex-2011/2011-symposium
The four biennials offer audio sessions here
CODEX Symposium 2017
www.codexfoundation.org/uploads/File/4_%20Gaylord%20Schanilec.mp3
Gaylord Schanilec - Book artist and founder of Midnight Paper Sales; Minneapolis, Minnesota, lecture: My Mighty Journey
CODEX Symposium 2017
www.codexfoundation.org/uploads/File/3_%20Johannes%20Strugalla.mp3
Johannes Strugalla - Visual and book artist, France and Germany, lecture: Between Drawing and Printing
CODEX Symposium 2017
www.codexfoundation.org/uploads/File/2_%20Gwen%20Harrison.mp3
Gwen Harrison - Sydney, Australia, lecture: Netting the Small Fry
CODEX Symposium 2017
www.codexfoundation.org/uploads/File/5_%20Betty%20Bright.mp3
Dr. Betty Bright lecture: Lines of Force: the Hand, the Book, & the Body Electric
CODEX Symposium 2019
www.codexfoundation.org/archive/codex-2019/2019-symposium
All the papers and keynotes presented at CODEX VII
Codex Symposium 2019
www.codexfoundation.org/uploads/File/Paton.MP3
David Paton`s address: The Jack Ginsberg Collection of Artists` Books: Highlights from 25 years of working with the collection in South Africa (MP3)
The Center for Book Arts, 40th Anniversary Colloquium `The Collecting of Artist Books`. Panel Discussion #1: `Disseminating Ideas Through Artist Books`
hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/9/3/8/938a8422de3862a5/cba-colloquium_panel1.mp3?c_id=7901451 [. . .]
David Platzker as moderator. MOMA, New York
The Center for Book Arts, 40th Anniversary Colloquium `The Collecting of Artist Books`. Panel Discussion #2: `Artists Books: Meaning through Materials and Structure`
hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/2/6/3/263e6f836e5ce0b3/cba_colloquium_panel2.mp3?c_id=7978222 [. . .]
Molly Schwartzburg as moderator. MOMA, New York
The Center for Book Arts, 40th Anniversary Colloquium `The Collecting of Artist Books`. Panel Discussion #3: `The Artist Book as a Vehicle for Social Commentary`
hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/e/2/9/e297bc4dfe5ebe5f/cba_colloquium_panel3.mp3?d13a76d516d9 [. . .]
Tony Whites as moderator. MOMA, New York
The Center for Book Arts, 40th Anniversary Colloquium `The Collecting of Artist Books`. Panel Discussion #4: `Letterpress Today and Its Relevancy for Artmaking`
hwcdn.libsyn.com/p/d/5/6/d56490d3abb82672/cba_colloquium_panel4.mp3?c_id=8043836 [. . .]
Katherine Ruffin as moderator. MOMA, New York
Yale Library: Interviews with book artist Richard Minsky
web.library.yale.edu/arts/special-collections/interviews-with-richard-minsky
Short interviews with book artist Richard Minsky about specific items in the library archive

11. You Tube, Vimeo & Other Video Features on the Book Arts

Exhibitions, discussions and demonstrations of artists` books, the book arts and films-as-books (mostly) on You Tube
#areyoubookenough
www.youtube.com/hashtag/areyoubookenough
Videos of entries from the #areyoubookenough challenge
A Look at Artists` Books: Developing Collections at The Met - Session 1 (AM) Posted by Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 7 Nov 2018
www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https://www.facebook.com/metmuseum/video [. . .]
3:15:45 duration - Session begins at 14:00
A Look at Artists` Books: Developing Collections at The Met - Session 2 (PM) Posted by Watson Library, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, 7 Nov 2018
www.facebook.com/plugins/video.php?href=https://www.facebook.com/metmuseum/video [. . .]
2:58:53 duration - Session begins at 7:00
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 of the Women`s Studio Workshop
vimeo.com/19932114
Panel Discussion: Clarissa Sligh, Susan Mills & Emily Speedwill speak about artists` books, in connection with the Grolier Club exhibition - 1:37:40 duration
Artists` Books and Africa
www.youtube.com/watch?t=28&v=bvIBPKtuw6Y
Meet some of the artists who made these books for the Smithsonian exhibition, 2015-2016 - Mark Attwood (South Africa), Toufik Berramdane (Morocco), Atta Kwami (Ghana), Bessie Smith Moulton (USA), Bruce Onobrakpeya (Nigeria), and Robbin Ami Silverberg (USA).
Artists` Books and Portfolios with Jack Ginsberg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=13TB-Eqg3xI&feature=youtu.be
Join Strauss Art Specialist Wilhelm van Rensburg in conversation with special guest Jack Ginsberg, as they discuss collecting artists` books and portfolios whilst looking at some of the upcoming highlights from their June online auction. Duration 01:07:09
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
Artists` books in the 21st century: cult objects? | Panel discussion at Ivory Press
www.youtube.com/watch?v=CwDYrRwNKzo
1:14:31 duration
Barbara Wildenboer
barbarawildenboer.com/videos/
Various videos using paper and books
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
Booknesses Project - An interview with David Paton & Jack Ginsberg
www.youtube.com/watch?v=5jVBaG8ewZU
This video is a overview of the Booknesses Colloquium. Book arts exhibitions and colloquium at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa 24 - 26 March 2017
Books of Survival: The Art of John Eric Broaddus: Part 1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MB3N6iMEJY&feature=youtu.be&t=1536
Documentary of the Artist, John Eric Broadus, posted by Jaffe Center for Book Arts 26:16 duration
Books of Survival: The Art of John Eric Broaddus: Part 2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6A1nd97d7bw
Documentary of the Artist, John Eric Broadus, posted by Jaffe Center for Book Arts 15:20 duration
Brian Dettmer talks about his book interventions
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Jk9pHPPJbA&feature=player_embedded#at=262
4:44 duration
Doug Beube: Rebreaking the Codex
vimeo.com/67159248
This video was created to accompany the exhibition - 3:52 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
Futures of the Book: Artists Redefine Print Media, Part 1 | Symposium on the Artist`s Book - Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
www.youtube.com/watch?v=E9STl8P1XNs&list=PL5eMm5mgGrVCo_bJcDOaavWqi1_e9tZe6&inde [. . .]
Part 1 Program Introduction Stephen Woodall Collections Specialist, Achenbach Foundation for Graphic Arts, Legion of Honor Keynote Lecture: The Persistence of the Book (8:54) Stephen Bury, Andrew W. Mellon Chief Librarian, Frick Art Reference Library, New York Category Non-profits & Activism
Futures of the Book: Artists Redefine Print Media, Part 2 | Symposium on the Artist`s Book - Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2L9cZyn0Yus
Part 2 Tango with Translation (3:20) Daniel Mellis Artist and print historian, University of Illinois, Chicago Book Art: The Secret History (23:40) Alastair Johnston Author, independent scholar The Book Mutates: Artists` Books in the Digital Age (47:50) Amaranth Borsuk Artist, Assistant Professor, School of Interdisciplinary Arts and Sciences, University of Washington, Bothell
Futures of the Book: Artists Redefine Print Media, Part 3 | Symposium on the Artist`s Book - Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco
www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIrPNElc8Tk
Part 3 In Conversation: How I Work as a Book Artist Emily McVarish Artist, Associate Professor, Graphic Design and Writing, California College of the Arts Clifton Meador Artist, Professor and Chair, Department of Art, Appalachian State University
iBookBinding - Bookish Talk Series
www.youtube.com/c/iBookBinding/featured
Bookbinding tutorials and resources - iBookBinding (http://www.ibookbinding.com) Netherlands
Irma Boom - Manifesto for the book. TEDxDelft
www.youtube.com/watch?v=RVstIKKiYqo
18:03 duration
Is there a Moment When a Book Isn`t a Book Anymore?
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7j46HRG3A_o&ab_channel=iBookBinding
iBB Podcast #18 - Kaija Rantakari - 13 Apr 2021 - 1:09:32 duration
Japanese Flip Books
www.youtube.com/watch?v=1e1GKG-Gmjk
Japanese animated flipbooks at a convention (Hyper Japan, London) - 0:24 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 `Theatrical Turns: Events and Transformations in the Pages of Books by John Eric Broaddus`
vimeo.com/20030395
Jaffe Center for Book Arts at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida on January 15, 2010. 01:06:05 duration
Karen Bleitz
www.youtube.com/watch?v=48oY_051ZZs
View her lecture at Codex 2009 - 24:07 duration
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=DaGH_bZBC7Y
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
Opening Iliazd: Publishing as an Art Form \\ Day Two
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ia01JhugPVQ&mc_cid=500778036e&mc_eid=8d72f1a2a0& [. . .]
The Reva and David Logan Symposium on the Artist`s Book. Andrei Ustinov, Thomas J. Kitson and David Sume
Opening Illiazd: Publishing as an Art Form \\ Day One
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1kGoUuoHhtA&mc_cid=500778036e&mc_eid=8d72f1a2a0& [. . .]
The Reva and David Logan Symposium on the Artist`s Book. Introduction: Stephen Woodall, Keynote Address: Johanna Drucker, Timothy Young, and Kitty Maryatt.
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.youtube.com/watch?v=vj4zL4UN0Gc
8:00 duration
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
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
34:30 duration
Richard Ovenden (Bodleian Library Oxford): The relevance of the physical book & the book arts in the digital age (Part Two)
www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=96&v=-YIFpSHNLRo&feature=emb_logo
55:27 duration
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.youtube.com/watch?v=1r_PHOoYaKs&feature=emb_logo
1:36:14 duration
Sol LeWitt artist`s books
www.youtube.com/watch?v=H-k4Rsa1aSQ
1:29 duration
Speaking in Tongues
thetoffeegallery.co.za/david-paton-speaking-in-tongues-speaking-digitally-digita [. . .]
A video accompanying the artist`s book Speaking in Tongues: Speaking Digitally / Digitally Speaking by David Paton
The Book`s Undoing: Dieter Roth`s Artist`s Books
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XVe5hd81IU
16:29 duration
The CODEX Effect - CODEX/Grolier Symposium 2019 - Day 1
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TbaFSCfNd-k&feature=emb_logo
3:58:59 duration
The CODEX Effect - CODEX/Grolier Symposium 2019 - Day 2
www.youtube.com/watch?v=tbvWRgp5g-4
8:20:02 duration
The Journal of Artists` Books, a short video by Luan Barros on Vimeo.
vimeo.com/luanbarros/jab
8:45 duration
Thomas Sauvin - Xian
vimeo.com/208328680
00:49 duration
Three Artist`s Books by Charles Hobson
vimeo.com/170311449
Artist, Charles Hobson shows us what distinguishes an artist`s book, using three of his own creations as examples from an exhibition at the Bainbridge Island Museum of Art - 10:59 duration

12. Instructional

Videos that are particularly geared to classroom or workshop instruction of bookmaking, binding or construction
Otis College Book Arts: Bookbinding: Create a "Flutter Book"
www.youtube.com/watch?v=6xeBbp8TcJA
11:33 duration
Sewn Signature Sketchbook Binding Demonstration - Itai Shemer
www.youtube.com/channel/UCQqAjae8FIGkILDrcoPj7Zg
15:50 duration
Simple Book Binding Demonstration - Itai Shemer
www.youtube.com/watch?v=zIEtTDXUa3E
0:51 duration







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