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Booknesses
Artists' Books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection

Item date(s): 2017

Jack M. Ginsberg - (title)
David Murray Paton - (curated by)
Robyn Sassen - (edited with an introduction by)
Federico Freschi - (foreword by)

Pages: 265pp
Size: 280mm
Inscription: Signed by the collector

Sub-type: Exhibition catalogue

Place publication: Johannesburg
Publisher: The University of Johannesburg
ISBN: 978-0-86970-796-8
Exhibition 2019-1

Additional notes:
Published on the occasion of the exhibition Booknesses: Artists' Books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection, organised and curated by David Paton, Department of Visual Art, University of Johannesburg, South Africa, 25 March - 5 May 2017.

The catalogue aslo houses the 21st anniversary special edition of the exhibition catalogue: Artists' Books in the Ginsberg Collection, Johannesburg Art Gallery, 25 August - 27 October 1996.

See also Art item: #2071 for an asemic letter by Alice Edy referring to Booknesses.

Exhibition notes:
Samplings: International Artists' Books and Archive on the Book Arts

JGCBA, WAM

26 March to 6 July 2019

Ref: 2966

Articles

Simultaneous Journeys: Thematics in the Curating of Booknesses: Artists' Books from the Jack Ginsberg Collection
David Murray Paton (essay by)
p18

Between the Folds: The Struggle Between Images and Texts with Reference to Selected Artists' Books
Keith Dietrich (essay by)
p62

Axeage Private Press and the Book in a Cave
Pippa Skotnes (essay by)
p76

New Yorker's Parallax View
Robbin Ami Silverberg (essay by)
p88

Conversation with Jack Ginsberg
Rosalind Cleaver (essay by)
Kim Berman (essay by)
David Murray Paton (essay by)
Jack M. Ginsberg (title)
p102