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A beautifully printed archive of her photographs documenting spaces, architecture, landscape, and collections.

Archiv der Räume. Archive of Spaces. Margherita Spiluttini. 

http://wp1145204.server-he.de/spiluttini/?p=538

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Making time for Artists' Novels!

Check out this beautiful bibliography with books by Fiona Banner, Rodney Graham, Dan Starling,... and the list goes on.

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I can't keep my eyes off of this stunning publication I picked up at the AGO last month...archival clouds of cataclysmic events and patterned lace sourced from digitized slides and photograms. A bound book with unbound poster inserts. 

Lisa Oppenheim, Billowing, published by the artists' book publisher, Argo Books in Berlin : http://www.argobooks.de/en/index.html

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Artists’ Book Not Artists’ Book / Available at www.draw-down.com / Catalogue for exhibition of nearly one hundred books (some classified as artists’ books, some not) including publications by Chris Burden, Ira Cohen, Richard Meltzer, John Baldessari, Seth Price, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Richard Hell, Tina Lhotsky, Sue Williams, Tom Sachs, Richard Prince, William Gibson, David Wojnarowicz, Dara Birnbaum, Jim Shaw, Ed Ruscha, Sean Landers, and many others (including popular authors Various, Anonymous, and Unknown). Formatted in the style of an “Ace double” pulp novel, with texts bound tête-bêche and alternate covers, the form of the catalogue indicates alternate viewpoints on artists’ books. Catalogue includes bibliographic information and descriptive text about every book in the exhibition; the volume is wrapped in a large fold-out poster with a full-color image of each book. #graphicdesign #typography #book #artistbook #artbook #design #EdRuscha #RichardPrince #JohnBaldessari

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Finally working my way through Drawing Room Confessions: Charles Avery #1, Miriam Cahn #3, Benoit Maire #5, Luis Camnitzer (my personal favourite) #7, Sarah Lucas #8

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Learn To Read Art

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This intervention at KW was really funny! I like the little pocket size book too...

Nedko Solakov with Ellen Blumenstein, MARKIERUNG

KW Institute for Contemporary Art, Berlin

Spector Books, Leipzig, 2014

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book searching

Here are some of the amazing publishers I was checking out at the London Art Book Fair - new editions from most of these publishers will make it into the Artists' Books Collection at Emily Carr! 

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My visit earlier this fall to the National Art Library to look at artists' books was very inspiring. This is the kind of library that really does awaken your senses. This is the kind of library that illuminates the ability books have to communicate through their materiality alone! 

http://www.vam.ac.uk/page/n/national-art-library/

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On my reading pile this week, some old, some new...

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"This publication is the outcome of the seminar There's more to life that books, but not much more, curated by Benjamin Thorel (castillo / corrales, Paris)."

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some of the best book looking at the amazing do you read me?!

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Book looking at Publication Studio | Vancouver! London Art Book Fair, September 2014

http://bookmachine.ca

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art and publications

"Roma Publications 1998 – 2014" installation view at Fondazione Giuliani, Rome, 2014 Photo: Giorgio Benni

“Roma Publications 1998 – 2014” is an exhibition that includes over 230 books and editions published by Roger Willems and Mark Manders in collaboration with a large number of artists, writers and designers. 

A publication is typically the end point of a project or exhibition; this exhibition, however, takes the printed format as its point of departure. Books, newspapers, posters and other printed matter are combined with artworks and installations relating to the publisher’s identity inside an exhibition dimension. The informal way of bringing art and publications together in a carefully composed exhibition gives clear insight into the working process of Roma Publications, which is based on a collaborative relationship to the artists. Another interesting element of this hybrid approach is that it questions the sometimes thin line between an original and a reproduction, and thus between the exclusiveness of an artwork and the democratic nature of a publication.

until 13 December 2014 Roma Publications 1998 – 2014 curated by: Lorenzo Benedetti e Roger Willems with the support of: Ambasciata Olandese a Roma Fondazione Giuliani per l’arte contemporanea via Gustavo Bianchi, 1 Roma

Roma Publications

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Photos from my studio visit with Arnaud Desjardin this September. 

I was so happy to catch Arnaud just as I was leaving London and he was returning from the NY Art Book Fair earlier this Fall. He kindly sent me home with another pile of The Everyday Press publications, including copies of "A Vancouver Bibliography," which he published after taking up residence with the Artists' Books at Emily Carr University Library last year. I also have in hand a few rare exhibition catalogues that will also eventually make it into the Library collection at ECU. Arnaud, in the midst of his own living library, lives and breaths the book. 

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book working

(Fabbrica Rosa, part of the working space of Harald Szeemann, 2010)

As a librarian, I realize that one of my greatest weaknesses has been a deepening belief in osmosis. In my case it is simple, I just pile printed matter beside my workspace in neat but organic stacks– constantly shifting their order according to my train of thought at any given moment throughout the day. This ever-shifting pile has become my mind in motion, my friend, a voice that slowly works it’s way out of the pages into my daily experience. I pile printed matter - postcards, exhibition announcements, essays, artists’ books, new magazines, old theory texts, handwritten envelopes still unopened. I have always approached my work with the naïve goal that some day I might actually “know” something. In reality, I collect these piles for you – the critic, the artist, the curator, in the hopes to connect you with a loose thread, a neglected text, a poetic preamble or a little know artists’ publication. It is an act of giving.

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