It’s a book, it’s fragmentary, together it’s a library ist eine vielschichtige Publikation, die das Denken, Arbeiten und Zusammenkommen unabhängiger Verlags- und Publikationsprojekte in den Mittelpunkt stellt.

This landmark survey explores the flourishing art of book illumination in Italy during the Renaissance—a time of deep cultural transformation.

This project explores the fluid strategies involved in contemporary publishing practices, focusing on texts that refuse to remain static.

Books Do Furnish a Painting is a beautifully illustrated exploration of how books have been depicted in Western art over the past five centuries.

Workbooks present an extensive book that gathers together a creative lifetime of collecting, imagining, sketching and recording by British artist Nigel Shafran from 1984-2024. Below, writer David Chandler reflects on Shafran's Workbooks:

Art Book Fairs have become a way of life for thousands of artist publishers all over the world, replacing exhibitions as a dominant method of sharing creative work for many. It's a welcome thing that the form of these fairs is getting a critical

No Martyr: San Francisco Punk Posters 1976–1981 is a comprehensive visual anthology capturing the raw energy and DIY spirit of the Bay Area punk scene during its formative years.

Johanna Drucker’s Diagrammatic Writing is a poetic demonstration of the capacity of format to produce meaning. The articulation of the codex as a site for meaning-makinghas rarely (if ever) been subject to such highly focused and detailed study as in this volume,

Books are a meeting place. A sum of their many parts and artistic approaches. Form, concept, material and craft are bound together to create something rooted in its functionality, a process that often crosses over into the messier realm of art.

For their inaugural Venice edition, Index Art Book Fair will bring sixteen art book fairs from around the world presenting their personal selection of art and artists publications, accompanied by an exciting public program.

Can we decolonize art book fairs? Can we decentralize knowledge and deconstruct privilege in our contexts?
Decolonizing Art Book Fairs aims to rethink through the existing and speculative frameworks of organizational practice in the art book fairs.

The 208 pages of ERB Issue Two are bursting with essays, reviews, reportage, interview, photography and experiment by writers from all over Europe — and beyond. It is a reading experience unto itself, designed like nothing else. The ERB’s print designer, Patrick Doan, gave the magazine a distinctive, layered form. TURN the pages to read, but CUT the pages — easily done with a finger — to open a second layer, where you’ll find shorter essays, asides, and the occasional language game. Issue Two features resurrected darlings, psychic detectives, lyrical slang, Chinese palindromes and to every reader their own Dichter und Denker. Discover Europe’s new république des lettres.

The Dutch photobook is internationally acclaimed for its close collaboration between photographer, printer, and designer. The current photobook boom in the Netherlands stems from a tradition of excellence that predates World War II.

This book is a dynamic and generously illustrated survey of independent publications that are breathing new life into old media. While magazines such as Spin and The Face have disappeared from newsstands and mailboxes, non-traditional periodicals with names like Boneshaker, Lucky Peach, Anorak, WRAP, and Kinfolk are taking their places on shelves and coffee tables everywhere. Print is Dead. Long Live Print is an eye-opening look

Illustrated with images from Jan Tschichold's little-known private collection of design ephemera, this important book explores a legendary figure in the history of modern graphic design through the artists, ideas, and texts from the Bauhaus that most influenced him. Tschichold (1902-1974), a prolific designer, writer, and theorist,

Whether you have already tried your hand at bookbinding or are a complete beginner, Rachel's knowledge and passion will inspire you to explore the many possibilities of bookart.

How to Book in Berlin serves as a comprehensive guide to bookmaking and publishing, offering insights we wished we had when we were starting out. It includes information on research methods, funding strategies, production techniques and distribution approaches, all underpinned by the perspectives and advice of experienced publishers. Our ultimate ambition is to alleviate the challenges often associated with the journey of creating artists’ books and to foster meaningful connections within the diverse and vibrant artists’ book communities.

Books not only describe their own contents but also the eras in which they were created. Conceived as a color inventory, this publication gathers a selection of titles that I have dealt with, exhibited, and produced since the early 2000s.

Buch Handlung Welt – in drei Worten − wurde von der Künstlerin Hilka Nordhausen 1976 im Hamburger Karolinenviertel eröffnet.

You ever read the back of a book and blah blah blah words and more words, and function. Poets depend on the emotional character of words. Manuals depend on the instructiveness of words. Yet words can be pronounced backwards or cut up and given new meaning, they can be looked at for their mathematical value, pondered over how they change in translation or seen as hiding messages within them.

The publication is developed as a reflection on books as archives of touch. Visiting our local public library, the Philipp Schaeffer Bibliothek in Berlin, we checked out a selection of books that caught our attention. Bringing them home, we took photographs of handling and reading the books, which we then printed out and inserted back into the books. Following this, we returned books to the library with these hidden pages added.

Handmade is an ecstatic archive of synthetic handmade Artist’s books. Sequenced in no particular order, the project searches for meaning in the future tense through time, text, and touch.

The Atlas of Anomalous AI is a compelling and surprising map of our complex relationship to intelligence, from ancient to emerging systems of knowledge. A wildly associative constellation of ideas, stories, artworks and historical materials, the Atlas draws on art historian Aby Warburg’s Mnemosyne Atlas — an image map of the “afterlife of antiquity” — to approach the defining concepts of AI from an imaginative, artistic and revitalising perspective.

In the book the mind is the body Lisa Gutscher journies into the body and presents a fantastic tapestry of stories and visuals. Like a children's science book, the artist reveals before us readers the magic of the body without confining it to machinic partitioning, binary oppositions or theory as such. It is stories, both visual and textual, that are the fuel and destination of this journey:

『NO-ISBN, 독립출판에 대하여』는 오스트리아 빈을 기반으로 활동 중인 아티스트 버나드 셀라를 주축으로 레오 핀다이센, 아그네스 블라하 세 사람이 ISBN(국제표준도서번호)을 부여받지 않고, 일반적인 국제 거래 시스템에 속하지 않은 총 1,800여 권의 독립출판물을 살펴보고 연구한 결과를 담은 책이다. 500여 쪽에 이르는 이 책의 내용은 크게 ‘개념미술’ 매체로 활용되는 출판물, 출판물의 매혹적인 물성, 포스트디지털 시대의 출판, 정치적 매체로서 ‘NO-ISBN’,

The Library of Mr. & Mrs. Neutra uses the built environment of Richard and Dione Neutra’s VDL House (1932/1965) as a space for site-specific research into the content and material structure of the modernist architect’s library.

As an independent art publisher, Lugemik has mapped a large part of the Estonian contemporary art and design landscape through numerous collaborations with artists, designers, theorists and cultural institutions, resulting in a variety of printed matter. The exhibition strives to talk about the aspect of translation in Lugemik’s practice, and will also reflect on topics related to book-making, such as graphic design, contemporary methods for art reproduction, and various forms of collaboration.

The Memory of The Archive: Christoforos Savva in the 1954–1968 Cypriot Press & Literary Periodicals is published on the occasion of the survey exhibition project Untimely on Time: Christoforos Savva (1924–1968), co-organised by the Cyprus Ministry of Education and Culture, Cultural Services and Point Centre for Contemporary Art,

Alexey Brodovitch's Ballet published in 1945 is one of the most legendary of photobook masterpieces. While already established as a leading influential art director and graphic designer, Brodovitch turned his photographic talents towards rehearsals and performances of ballet companies visiting New York stages.

The potential and the versatility of publishing open it to a diversity of practices and approaches in the arts, but as an eminently social form of art, a collective or micro-collective work with shared responsibilities, it is also a never-ending process of “crafting a variegated approach to how you create, publish, distribute, and build a social ecosystem around your efforts”, of trying to “build up and strengthen the community around these printed forms” (Temporary Services).

Alexey Brodovitch's Ballet published in 1945 is one of the most legendary of photobook masterpieces. While already established as a leading influential art director and graphic designer, Brodovitch turned his photographic talents towards rehearsals and performances of ballet companies visiting New York stages.

This book gathers together the presentations made at the International Symposium 'The Territories of Artists' Periodicals'. The symposium was held from 2-4 June 2014, in the Lawton Gallery at the University of Wisconsin-Green Bay (organised by Marie Boivent, Université Rennes 2 and Stephen Perkins, University of Wisconsin-Green Bay).

The fruit of a lengthy research, this book shows for the first time a significant selection of René Heyvaert's mail art. The latter is linked to the Belgian artist’s multiform oeuvre—which retains, given that René Heyvaert (1928–1984) was originally an architect, an overt material and spatial relation to its environment—as well as to his personal life: his gradually deteriorating health, and the loneliness that fed his epistolary vocation.

Eine Künstlerpublikation, eine Künstlerzeitschrift mit offenem Konzept.

Hipster Porn nimmt Butts stilbildende Originalität in den Blick. Über die Perspektiven von Queer Theory, Masculinity Studies, Medienwissenschaften und Affekt Theorie wird die Welt des Fanzines lesbar, wie umgekehrt auch deren theoretische Positionen durch Butt herausgefordert werden.

The exhibition “The Promise of Total Automation” investigated our relationship to a world of machines, technological objects, and electronic devices.

Der erste Teil dieses polemischen Essays bietet eine anekdotische Einführung in die bislang eher unbekannte Geschichte des Selbstverlegens – einer Praxis, die auch von höchst angesehenen Autoren des westlichen Literaturkanons betrieben wurde…

This catalogue is published to accompany the process-based installation "Salon für Kunstbuch" by Bernhard Cella on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the 21er Haus.

What role will self-publishing play in the 21st century? Will the new kind of book printing develop to become an alternative to electronic communication? How is it possible to distinguish subversive gestures and New Biedermeier?
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End of Collecting! Mit dieser Situation ist irgendwann jeder Sammler, jeder Künstler konfrontiert. Es reift die Erkenntnis, dass jetzt langsam »Schluss« ist, dass die Anzahl der erworbenen resp. erschaffenen Kunstgüter nicht mehr weiter anwachsen sollen.

What does it mean to publish today?

Diese Publikation versammelt künstlerische Positionen, die das Buch nicht nur als Medium der Dokumentation, sondern als eigenständige Form der Kunst begreifen.

Die Publikation zur Ausstellung PUBLIC LIBRARY zeigt 20 Werke von 22 bildenden Künstlern und Künstlerinnen, die eigens für die Amerika-Gedenkbibliothek in Berlin realisiert wurden.

Das romantisch-emphatische Bild des Künstlers und das Klischee vom verrückten Künstler, der bis zum Letzten geht, hat einen tragisch-absurden Höhepunkt im Tode von Bas Jan Ader gefunden.

Was heißt es, ein Buch zu gestalten? In fiktiven Dialogen und in Gesprächsprotokollen, in denen Buchgestalterinnen detailliert über den Entstehungsprozess eines ihrer Bücher sprechen, geht »Liner Notes« dieser Frage nach.

This room is being constructed by its contributions, it is being modeled by the filling of its parameters. The hinges of this construction might be functions within it that become as yet unknown parameters by the very act of reading them. IT IS A STOPOVER. ...The room it offers is circumscribed and structured by the book’s parameters: format, binding, jacket, title page, layout, preface, postface, table of contents, captions, cross headings, intertitles, annotations, editorial notes, appendix, blurb, names and accessories. THIS BOOK IS A CLASSROOM. We invite you to

Queer Zines, the catalogue, collects the variegated practices of zine makers past and present, from North America and Europe, and lists them alphabetically, starting with Toronto's 88 Chins and ending with the Dean Sameshima zine Young Men at Play.

The Berlin Art Book Fair is celebrating the 10th year of its existence by bringing together 263 exhibitors and with the publishing of an anthology called »Publishing Manifestos«.

“Queer Zines”, the catalogue, collects the variegated practices of zine makers past and present, from North America and Europe,

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Die Anthologie stellt eine Sammlung von kurzen Texten, Konzepten Zeichnungen, Collagen und Fotografien von bildenden Künstlern_innen vor.

Ein reich illustriertes Buch über Bücher, die aus der Reihe fallen und sich dem internationalen System des Warenaustauschs entziehen.Welche Rolle wird das Selbstverlegen im 21. Jahrhundert spielen? Kann der Druck auf Papier eine Alternative zum elektronischen Austausch darstellen? Wie lässt sich zwischen Subversionsgestus und Neuem Biedermeier unterscheiden?
10 letzte Exemplare

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This book features the first curated selection of Austrian art books and artists' books produced over the last two years. Who publishes art books and artists' books today and what content do they articulate? This publication contains a synopsis of statements by the actors, their descriptions of themselves, and a brief introduction to each of the curated books.
Participants: Museums, firms, private foundations, small publishers, and individual artists. A snapshot of the art system using the book as a medium.