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25th of July 2010
New opportunities (ART BOOK AND EXHIBITIONS) for visual artists
Actually A.D.A.P.I. INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS ASSOCIATION BUENOS AIRES, Argentiia is selecting artists for participation in the art fairs in Austria, Bélgiun, Miami, New York, Basrcelona and Buenos Aires.
If you are an artist producing innovative art of high quality, please email A.D.A.P.I. some images + curriculum (or web or blog) and they will be pleased to consider your work. More opportunities at asociacionadapi @ yahoo.com.ar
24th of July 2010
The Rijswijk Museum has published a beautiful catalogue to accompany the Holland Paper Biennial 2010
The catalogue contains full colour photographs of the artworks of the participating artists. Author is art historian Frank van der Ploeg. He establishes links within the framework of the enormous variety of artworks on show at the 2010 biennial, and places the work within the context of modern Western art. Ordering the catalogue by e-mail will give you a discount. Please send an e-mail to the Rijswijk Museum musryszh@xs4all.nl
Anne Kloosterboer
25th of June 2010
The Book Arts Newsletter from UWE, Bristol, Centre for Fine Print Research
The Book Arts Newsletter is now available online for the latest and archive issues.
20th of June 2010
9th Lessedra World Art Print Annual 2010
The 9th Lessedra World Art Print Annual 2010 has startet. When clicking you will find this year`s Prize Winners and when clicking on Jury you will find the names of jury members as well images from our working dinners and judging. Enjoy when viewing them and let Lessedra know if you may send your works for participation in 2011.
4th of June 2010
Book Arts Newsletter ISSN 1754-9086
Every four-six weeks, The Book Arts Newsletter is published at the CFPR, edited by Sarah Bodman.
It is available as a free colour PDF download at
You can go onto the list to receive an email alert each time a new issue is available for download, just email Sarah: Sarah.Bodman@uwe.ac.uk
1st of June 2010
The book artist Mohamed Youssef just wrote us:
Hello dear friends, this is a temporary link to see some examples of my art works. My old website is blocked for now. i hope you will like it. Please see
27 April 2010
Impact 7 conference 2011
The Print Council of Australia is interested in hearing from galleries, museums, studios, presses, tertiary institutions and other printmaking organisations around Australia that may be interested in organising exhibitions, hosting visiting international artist residencies, running courses and workshops in association with the Impact 7 conference being held in September 2011 in Melbourne. http://www.impact7.org.au
For further information contact: Damian Kelly, General Manager, Print Council of Australia
adminpca@netspace.net.au
Please see
25 March 2010
A Manifesto for the Book
Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden
Sarah Bodman and Tom Sowden at the Centre for Fine Print Research Bristol, UK have now completed a two-year project: In an arena that now includes both digital and traditionally produced artists’ books, what will constitute the concepts of artists’ publishing in the future?
www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/canon.htm
This project was funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council from March 2008 – February 2010 www.ahrc.ac.uk
The project investigated and discussed issues concerning the context and future of the artist’s book, in an attempt to extend and sustain critical debate of what constitutes an artist’s book in the 21st Century. One of the key points of this project was to try and include all the book related activity that artists engage with. To include work that was being produced on, and exclusively for, digital technologies within the book arts field, and not leave it floundering uncomfortably on the edge, or subjected to a different terminology altogether, if the artist considered what they were producing to be a book, then we felt it should be included.
They also looked at the continued practice of traditional production processes for artists’ books such as letterpress, etching, lithography, screenprint and woodcut, and have interviewed a range of artists and publishers who work with these, as well as those producing livres d’artistes, fine press books, design bindings, multiples, installation and audio books.
All of the outcomes from this project are available on our website as free downloads. They run chronologically from the first interviews onwards. You can download all the interviews, 35 case studies, essays, edited transcripts, directory and bibliography as free PDF files.
25 March 2010
Hungary + Denmark (in the long run: n+1)
The independent, alternative, virtual, non-stop Budapest Spring Festival of the 30 years old Artpool can be visited from March 25, 2010 for an indefinite time.
Artpool Art Research Center
Liszt Ferenc ter 10
H-1061 Budapest
18 February 2010
Call for Participation
ILDE in Barcelona is going on with a next Festival “Human book”. Ask for the participation form at epellacani@yahoo.it as soon you can and not later than 10 of March 2010, to permite the curator Elisa Pellacani a catalogation of all books and the edition of the book she’ll publish for.
15 February 2010
An International Open Call for Artist’s Books
For the month of April climate/gallery in NYC presents: The Artful Scriptorium – An Artist’s Book Exhibition. Deadline for submission is March 22, 2010. The exhibition is not juried. All work submitted to the exhibition will be exhibited. However, 10 Featured Artist Awards will be chosen from this exhibition by Maddy Rosenberg, Curator and Executive Director of CENTRAL BOOKING, a gallery and cultural nexus devoted to the Art of the Book in NYC. The gallery will publish an exhibition catalogue that will include examples of pages of the books from the show of the 10 artists. The 10 artists will be featured on the
gallery’s website. Every artist in the exhibition will have a listing in the catalogue with one thumbnail image of a page from their book. All of the artist’ names in the show will be archived in the Exhibitions pages on the gallery¹s website.
Each artist may submit 2 artist’s books per submission for the exhibition. Generally, no book should be larger than can be displayed on a 12 inch (30cm) wide podium style display, or that cannot lay conveniently on a table. Any type or style of artist book including foldouts, accordion style (concertinas), scrolls, or loose pages contained in a box, and in any medium utilizing any sort of ground, or page materials, may be submitted. All sorts of binding are welcome. Books that are purely creative text are welcome. However, books that are meant to be read, as say a novel, or where the story text alone is the key to the creative content of the book, and having no extra-creative aspect about them, are not welcome for this exhibition. Participants in this exhibition must realize that their work will be handled by the visiting public. Care will be exercised by the gallery to ensure that the books are handled with care.
Please indicate on the contract next to your entries if the public may handle your work. We recognize that some works are delicate and structurally not meant to be handled. Care will be exercised regarding those works that can be handled.
Email through the gallery’s website if there are questions. Complete guidelines may be found online
25 January 2010
Hello all, I am writing to you because a friend has told me that he needs to sell his letterpress relief press in the next week or so, and you might be interested, or know someone who would be interested. It’s an Asbern flatbed relief press: semi-automated (electrical inking, manual rolling over the press bed), about the size of a single bed, in very good condition. It would be suitable for letterpress, linocuts, woodcuts and wood engraving methods. Flatbed presses are very accurate and slower than platen presses, which makes them great for artistic work rather than speedy jobbing work. My friend will have to partially dismantle it to get it out of its present (indoor) position, and if he can’t find a new owner, he is thinking about selling it for scrap. I don’t need another press like this, and I would hate to see such a beautiful press go to waste.
The press is currently in Braidwood, NSW. If you’re interested, please ring Phil on 02 4842 1339. He is in the mood to negotiate about a price! If you know of ANYONE who would be interested, please let them know.
Best wishes Caren
Caren Florance A m p e r s a n d D u c k: works with paper Canberra, Australia
January 25th, 2010
The Bibliotheca Alexandrina Fourth International Biennale for the Artist’s book opens on 22 April until 14 May 2010
This year the theme is »The Nomadic Cultures: artists encounter the North, South, East and West.
Fernanda FEDI and Gino GINI are the Commissioners for International Participation, while Commissioner for Arab and Egyptian participation is The President of the Biennale Mostafa El-Razzaz.
Artists from all around the world will take part to this event including object-books, monotype books or in limited edition.
For further information please contact fernanda-fedi@tiscali.it or Ahmed Okasha Ahmend.Okasha@bibalex.org
BIBLIOTHECA ALEXANDRINA
January 25th 2010
Call for participation
European International Book Art Biennale August- September 2010
„We live in the 21st century, the century of technology, of computers and mass media, all of which are separating us and our children from the written word. > In a few years, if this direction of our civilized world continues, books will disappear.” Dorothea Fleiss
The European International Book Art Biennale has been promoting and encouraging any unconventional attitudes about books. It deals with book-objects, book-installations, one-offs, author’s books, artist’s books, writer’s books, experimental and limited editions, fine press books, etc.
The core of the project is an exhibition composed of works selected in a competition and made by the artists invited by the organisers. After the premiere (which usually took place in Satu- Mare Art Museum) the exhibition is shown in many prestigious venues (art galleries and libraries) throughout Romania and abroad. Carefully and unconventionally designed catalogues containing colour pictures of exhibited items, artists’ short biographies and opinions about their work, various essays and reviews, a lot of pieces of useful information valuable both for ordinary book lovers and those ones professionally dealing with books, are very important for promoting the idea of book art.
More details can be found at http://www.dfewa.eu/ and http://www.eibab.blogspot.com/
January 21st, 2010
It’s LIQUID News
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International galleries, museums, institutions, private and public groups, artists, architects, designers, are invited to join It’s LIQUID News service. Each advertisement takes the form of an e-mail announcement, and features a press release, an image, and a link to the announcer’s website. Announcements are distributed directly to over 60,000 international collectors, consultants, advisers, critics, writers, curators, dealers and other visual arts professionals. Database demographics: 40% in North America, 45% in Europe, 15% in other locations (South America, Australia, Japan, etc.).
Additionally all announcements are permanently archived on It’s LIQUID web site, creating a valuable research resource of some of the most important events world wide. It’s LIQUID News offers an unprecedented opportunity for participating clients to reach the most dynamic members of the community of professionals worldwide.
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15 January, 2010
Pickering & Chatto Publishers and »The history of the book«:
Just landed on my desk – Pickering & Chatto’s first catalogue specifically dedicated to works on the history of the book: /Book history, 2009-2010./ From the introduction: “The study of the book in all its social, literary and economic contexts has always been a core part of our publishing”. They continue: “Is the monograph dead? We feel that reports on the demise of the monograph are greatly exaggerated. The peer-reviewed specialist monograph and collected essay volume is alive and well at Pickering & Chatto with new titles being published at the rate of more than forty per year”.
he catalogue describes all the titles available on the subject of book history (sadly printing history or anything to do with less “literary” subjects are everywhere mostly notable by their absence!).
There is also a listing of all titles available and in preparation in their recent series /The history of the book/ edited by Ann R Hawkins from Texas Tech University.
The scope of this series according to their request for proposals and manuscripts is: “Authorship; Canon Formation; Censorship; Copyright and Piracy; Coterie production; Cultural, Economic and Social History of Books, Authorship, etc.; Book Arts; Bookbinding and Binders; Book Collectors and their Libraries; Book Design and Designers; Book Trade; Calligraphy; Education; History of Printing and Printing Materials; Illustration; Illustrated Books; Illustration Methods; Illustrators; Paper Trade; Paper Makers; Papermaking; Periodical Press; Legal Aspects of Publishing Libraries; Literary Agents; Literary Criticism; Literacy and Reading Practices; Manuscript Culture and Manuscript Publication; Print Culture; Publishing; Publishing History; Reading; Reader Responses; Relations between Authors, Agents and Publishers; Relations between Authors and their Readers; Technologies of Book Production; Textual
Criticism and Editing; Typography and Typographers; Type Design and Typefounding. We are also interested in seeing studies that expand on these categories to include non-book texts as well as studies of manuscripts or manuscript materials”.
So plenty of scope here and! Their existing list is pretty much of general material on books – perhaps it’s just a case of the scholars out there not researching and writing in these areas? – but there is one more interesting title in preparation: /On paper : the description and analysis of handmade paper/ by R. Carter Hailey (due 2011).
“The study of handmade laid paper is – or should be – an invaluable resource for the bibliographic scholar. During the twentieth century a number of important finds were made using such analysis, including W. W. Greg’s 1908 discovery that the Pavier quartos of Shakespeare’s plays had been falsely dated. Yet despite such revelatory powers, bibliographic scholars have been unable to agree on a set of standards and procedures for collecting and displaying watermark evidence, or even which features of handmade laid paper are most usefully described. Hailey’s study is designed to fill a distinct gap in the literature by providing a practical guide for the bibliographic scholar”.
See: http://www.pickeringchatto.com/series/history_of_the_book_the for details of titles in the series which includes sample pages from the published works. And for those interested in printed ephemera…
This “slight” catalogue has a bonus – its cover illustration is a wonderful portrait of “A lithographer checks a proof just off the machine (1904)”. This is a colour reproduction of an original watercolour by W. Hoogenbos of Rotterdam with an old litho press taking up most of the picture. Something for the ephemera collection!
Jürgen Wegner, Sydney
November 11th, 2009
Support the programs at the San Francisco Center for the Book and meet the 2009 Five Treasures and their presenters at an intimate cocktail party and creative recognition event on November 21, 2009.
Preface tickets include a cocktail party (6-7 pm) with award winners and presenters, featuring hors d’oeuvres in The Family’s historic bar with music by jazz guitarist Bruno Pelletier-Bacquaert. Cocktail party attendees get reserved seating for the award ceremony and a special keepsake of the event. Book arts and publications by our winners will be on view.
At 7 pm, you will be invited to take your reserved seat in The Family’s elegant upstairs ballroom where music, poetry and other program surprises will delight and entertain, as we honor the Five Treasures and our Lifetime Achievement Award winners.
The 2009 Five Treasures and their presenters include:
Book Design: Bob Aufuldish (Assoc.Prof, Graphic Design, California College for the Arts (CCA); principal, Aufuldish & Warinner) introduced by Tom Ingalls (Sr. Adjunct Professor, Industrial and Graphic Design, CCA)
Bookbinding: Eleanore Edwards Ramsey (hand bookbinder/teacher/recipient, DeGolyer Award for American Bookbinding 2006) introduced by Julie Chen (book artist/founder, Flying Fish Press)
Creative Writing: Brenda Hillman (poet and political activist) introduced by
Janet Weil (CODEPINK staff)
Fine Printing: Mary Risala Laird (book artist, printer, teacher and founder, Quelquefois Press) introduced by Asa Peavy (San Francisco Public Library, Special Collections Librarian)
Publishing: Dave Eggers (Author/Publisher, McSweeney’s; co-founder, 826 Valencia; co-screenwriter, “Where The Wild Things Are”) introduced by
Michael Bartalos (artist/illustrator/environmental activist; SFCB Board Member)
The 2009 Lifetime Achievement Award Winners and their presenters are:
Betsy Davids (renowned book artist/writer/Professor Emeritus, CCA) presented by
Charles Hobson (SFAI Professor/Publisher, Pacific Editions)
Jack Stauffacher (renowned printer, typeface designer, and fine book publisher, Greenwood Press) presented by Peter Rutledge Koch (Peter Koch Printers/Board of Directors, CODEX Foundation)
Tickets available online, or by phone (415-565-0545 ×16)
November 9th, 2009
If you happen to want to follow the activities BOEKIE WOEKIE ...
BOEKIE WOEKIE is involved in on Friday the 13th and Saturday the 14th and Sunday the 15th of November you’ll have to begin with visiting our table at Conway Hall in London at the SMALL PUBLISHERS FAIR 2009 as early as possible on that Friday at 11 am when the fair opens and have Les and Jo show you what’s new. But don’t spend too much time with them, hurry to Amsterdam and say hi and good bye to Hettie who’ll take care those days of Boekie Woekie from were you’ll speed without delay to Bremen to cast a glance into the ART SALON at Museum Weserburg. The Art Salon is the book market of the Research Centre for Artists’ Publications where Marc and Claudia will be present in the name of your favourite bookshop that day, but don’t loose yourself in what you see, just hurry on to Stuttgart, no, to Ostfildern, and be at 7 at OTTERBECK ARCHITEKTEN where you’ll meet me and others of the Dieter Roth Academy who on the occasion of the 10th DRA conference will then be opening an exhibition of their (partly Roth related) works. See that you find a bed because you’ll have to come the next day, on Saturday the 14th, at 2, to the Staatsgalerie Stuttgart where the “Dieter Roth Souvenirs”-exhibition will be opened which the DRA has instigated. Besides the exhibition that day: speeches (of which one by me) and films. And if you care to pause a little longer, the Kunstmuseum Stuttgart will hold public talks in regard to various aspects of Dieter Roth on Sunday the 15th, parallel to their part of the “Dieter Roth Souvenirs” exhibition. After that you are free to return home.
Boekie Woekie, books by artists
September, 22nd, 2009
September 11th, 2009
The National Library of Canada has just released a bilingual website about their Collection of artists’ Books and Livres d’artiste that you may be interested to visit at this address:
www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/livres-d-artistes/index-f.html
August, 27, 2009
August, 27, 2009
April, 2nd, 2009
