The ABYB will be posted out this month. We had over 600 artist’s book
listings from 207 national and international artists. Reference listings
of: collections, libraries, archives, bookshops, galleries, centres,
design print & bind, publishers, dealers, presses, studios, competitions,
fairs, festivals and exhibitions, journals, reference books,
organisations, societies, websites, academic projects, touring programmes
and courses.
Essays include: John Bently on books and community; Earle D. Swope’s
extraordinary account of how he came to be a book artist; an update on the
work of the collaborative artists’ group AMBruno; a study by Eileen
O’Keefe of Sarah Jacobs’ thoroughly absorbing - Drawn from the Inventory:
the Notebooks of Elisabeth Faulhaber; Jackie Batey celebrates the 10th
issue of Future Fantasteek!; Lawrence Upton has written on his extensive
art collaboration with Guy Begbie; Davy & Kristin McGuire explain their
beautiful performance piece The Icebook; Nicola Dale looks at the artistic
potential of book destruction, and Radoslaw Nowakowski asks: Is a
hypertext (artist’s) book possible? Linda Newington explores the book
works of SALT + SHAW; Paulo Silveira reflects on the start of his recent
academic project: The University and the Artist’s Book, and Reinhard
Grüner shows us some of the very special presentation copies of artists’
books in his collection.
Artists’ pages by: Amir Brito Cadôr, Eric Doeringer, Lara Durback, the
Idaho Book Artist’s Guild, Susan Johanknecht, Paul Laidler, SALT + SHAW,
Clare Thornton and Maria White. Cover design by Tom Sowden.
254pp, 21 x 29.7 cm, paperback. £15 including UK postage, £16 worldwide,
http://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/bookpub.htm
edited by Sarah Bodman
Impact Press
Centre for Fine Print Research
University of the West of England
Kennel Lodge Road
Bristol BS3 2JT
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UNFRAMED GRAPHICS by Lawrence Upton
42 pages; A5 paperback; colour cover
Writers Forum 978 1 84254 277 4
wfuk.org.uk/blog
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Lawrence Upton
Dept of Music
Goldsmiths, University of London
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