Category: LITERATURE

Quotes, bibliography, book suggestions…

“There are not limits to what artists’ books can be and no rules for their construction and fortunately there is no end of their production in sight.”

– Johanna Drucker, The century of Artists’ Books, Granary Books, New York City, 1995, p 364

” L’un des buts de mon livre a trait à la fabrication d’un objet fait en série. Le produit fini a un aspect très commercial, très professionnel. Je n’ai pas de sympathie pour tout le domaine des publications imprimées à la main. […] Une fois que j’ai décidé tous les détails ó photos, maquette, etc. ó ce que je veux vraiment c’est un vernis professionnel, un fini nettement mécanique. […] Je n’essaie pas de créer un livre précieux en édition limitée, mais un livre à grand tirage qui soit de premier ordre (1). ”

– Edward Ruscha

Bibliography

– Johanna Drucker, The century of Artists’ Books, Granary Books, New York City, 1995

– Lewis Blackwell, The End of Print: The Grafik Design of David Carson, Laurence King, 2000

– Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, Esthétique du livre d’artiste, Jean-Michel Place, 1997

– Anna Sigridur Arnar, The Book as Instrument: Stéphane Mallarmé, The Artist’s Book, and the Transformation of Print Culture, The University of Chicago Press, 2011

– Sabine Kost, To Destroy is to Create, To Create is to Order: Zerstörung als kreative Gestaltungsmethode, Merz Akademie, 2009

– Elena Carotti Palazzo Bonaguro, Vanished paths : crisis of representation and destruction in the arts from the 1950s to the end of the century, Charta, Milano, 2000.

– Gianni Jetzer Manuela Kraft Barbara Casavecchia Boris Groys, Under destruction, Distanz, Berlin, 2010.

– Bernard Lafarhue, L’art de l’éphémère, PUP, France, 2006

– Lewis Blackwell, The End of Print: The Grafik Design of David Carson, Laurence King, 2000

– Stephen Bury, Artists’ books:the book as a work of art, Scolar Press, England, 1963-1995

– Riva Castleman, A century of artists books, MoMa, New York, 1994

– Steven Clay, When will the book be done?, Granary Books, New York, 2001

– Pie Books, Cover to cover book & editorial design, Books Nipan, 1991

– Robert Flynn, Donna Stein, Artists’ books in the modern era 1870-2000 the Reva and David Logan collection of illustrated books, Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, 2001

– Joan Lyons, Artists’ books a critical anthology and sourcebook, Visual Studies Workshop Press, New York, 1995

 

– Monika Faber, Infinite Ice, The Arctic and the Alps from 1860 to the Present, Hatje Cantz Verlag, Germany, 2008

 

” In the creative act, as conceived by the moderns, destruction and creation are part and parcel of one and the same movement. There is no creation without destruction, nor, contrary to what people might have thought by regulary announcing the death of art, is there destruction without creation. The artist destroys in order to create, but concersely, we can also say that he creates in order to destroy. ”

– Catherine Grenier, Big Bang. Destruction et création dans l’art du xxe siècle, Centre Pompidou, Musée national d’art moderne-Centre de création industrielle, 2005.