US $30 The Global Journal of Prints and Ideas July – August 2019 Volume 9, Number 2 The Summer Reading Issue: Recommended Reading for the Print-Curious, from History to Fiction Léon Spilliaert in the Margins • Turning the Pages with Ed Ruscha • Jan Svenungsson • Prix de Print • News THE LARGEST INTERNATIONAL ART FAIR CELEBRATING 500 YEARS OF PRINTMAKING OCTOBER 23–27 2019 JAVITS CENTER I NEW YORK CITY EXHIBITORS Alan Cristea Gallery Goya Contemporary/ Paulson Fontaine Press Alice Adam Ltd. Goya-Girl Press Paupers Press August Laube Buch Graphicstudio/USF Polígrafa Obra Gráfica & Kunstantiquariat Harris Schrank Fine Prints R. S. Johnson Fine Art Bernard Jacobson Graphics Hauser & Wirth Redfern Gallery Ltd. Brooke Alexander, Inc. Hill-Stone, Inc. Ruiz-Healy Art C. G. Boerner Isselbacher Gallery Scholten Japanese Art Carolina Nitsch Jim Kempner Fine Art Shark's Ink. 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Wildwood Press LLC Paul Stolper Gallery at Joni Moisant Weyl Worthington Gallery WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 23 IFPDA.ORG OPENING NIGHT RECEPTION BENEFITS THE IFPDA FOUNDATION @IFPDA July – August 2019 In This Issue Volume 9, Number 2 Editor-in-Chief Susan Tallman 2 Susan Tallman On Summer Reading Associate Publisher The Book List 3 Design Director Recommended Reading for Julie Bernatz the Print-Curious — PART I Production Editor Anne Adriaens-Pannier 40 Kevin Weil Léon Spilliaert in the Margins Advertising Manager Miguel de Baca 46 Lydia Mullin On Ed Ruscha’s Books, Los Angeles, and Peripatetic Flow Administrative & Book Review Editorial Assistant Percy Stogdon Susan Tallman 51 Art Intelligence: Jan Svenungsson Manuscript Editor on Making and Thinking Prudence Crowther Prix de Print, No. 36 54 Editor-at-Large Juried by Kit Smyth Basquin Catherine Bindman E Cigarettes (2019) by Mary-Ann Monforton News of the Print World 56 On the Cover: Lisa Bulawsky, Recommended Reading (2019), annotated photograph. This Page: Photograph this page by Christina Weyl, 2019. Art in Print 3500 N. Lake Shore Drive Suite 10A Chicago, IL 60657-1927 www.artinprint.org [email protected] 1.844.ARTINPR (1.844.278.4677) No part of this periodical may be published without the written consent of the publisher. On Summer Reading By Susan Tallman rints and books have been wed chits, each bearing a different picto- Psince the beginning. The oldest sur- graphic symbol, which might be arrayed Art in Print viving printed book, the Chinese Dia- to form myriad pathways through the mond Sutra created in 868 and now in the collected wisdom of the world. Art in Print is a not-for-profit British Library, is a scripture that opens We have grouped the books here by 501(c)(3) corporation, founded with a printed picture. Centuries later, neither pictograph nor Dewey decimal, in 2010. when papermaking and printing first but through affinities suggested by nomi- hooked up in Europe, they found they nator responses. Mark MacDonald’s Board Members still had special feelings for each other, remarkable recreation of Columbus’s and their early offspring included the collection of 3,204 prints appears under Julie Bernatz blockbook, in which text and image were “Collectors and Collecting,” but might as Catherine Bindman carved together. This issue—our first easily have found a home under “Renais- Renée Bott “Summer Reading” issue—is concerned sance” or “Instruments in the World.” Nicolas Collins not just with books and prints, but also Like history, the list is clumpy—the Thomas Cvikota with books about prints. 15th century looms large, as does the David Dean Assuming that our readers are, well, 20th, with a catenary dip between them; Bel Needles readers, we solicited several dozen con- intaglio manuals occupy a populous cor- Robert Ross tributors—artists, scholars, collectors, ner, while Guido Lengwiler’s book on Antoine Rouillé-d’Orfeuil dealers—to recommend books about screenprint sits alone. There are holes. So Marc Schwartz looking at, or thinking about, or mak- in addition to the delights of the new and Susan Tallman ing, or buying, prints. We imposed no unknown, we anticipate that the list will limitations and offered no instructions produce a spate of slapped foreheads and Editorial Board beyond a request for “favorite books on dismay at the loved works we have col- Richard Axsom prints.” The response was overwhelm- lectively missed. This is inevitable, and Jay A. Clarke ing and diverse: among the more than also an invitation—take it as the starting Paul Coldwell 200 titles suggested lie catalogues rai- point of something better. Stephen Coppel sonnés and children’s books, autobiogra- Beyond this list, the current issue Faye Hirsch phies and novels, scholarly treatises and includes the new iteration of Prix de Jane Kent popular paperbacks. (The list of makers’ Print, for which juror Kit Basquin selected David Kiehl manuals, artists’ books and books-about- Mary-Ann Monforton’s lithograph E Evelyn Lincoln artists-books grew so long we decided Cigarettes (2019), and three longer-form Andrew Raftery to remove them to a subsequent issue.) examinations of books. Anne Adriaens- Christian Rümelin Some contributors wrote lengthy pas- Pannier shines a light on the curious Gillian Saunders sages about a single volume, others sent addenda that Léon Spilliaert drew on long lists. While some books are founda- the pages of previously published books For further information visit tional texts, others sent the editors of this of Belgian Symbolist writings. I review artinprint.org/about-art-in-print/. journal scurrying to bookshops, libraries a new volume by the Swedish artist Jan and websites on research runs. There Svenungsson, Making Prints and Thinking is, we suspect, something new here for About It. And Miguel de Baca examines everyone. Ed Ruscha’s early books in terms of roads, When Ferdinand (or Hernando) directionality and frontiers. Columbus, the explorer’s son, died in As a child Ferdinand Columbus ac- 1539 he left behind the first encyclopedic companied his father on his second library of printed books, ephemera, music thwarted voyage to find a passage to the and images—an undertaking so vast it Indies. Squinting, one might see Ruscha’s necessitated, among other things, the Twentysix Gasoline Stations as a 20th- development of a new form of furniture: century nod to the younger Columbus, the bookshelf. Working four centuries who, having recorded his travels, set before Melvil Dewey and his decimals, about articulating the hopeful and Columbus had to invent new modes of stealthy complexity of the universe arranging knowledge, or at least the con- through books. tainers it came in. His categories were leaky, and his organizational system was Susan Tallman is Editor-in-Chief to our eyes quixotic—thousands of paper of Art in Print. 2 Art in Print July – August 2019 Recommended Reading for the Print-Curious PART I Contributors Groupings Lynne Allen Evelyn Lincoln Susan Tallman The Whole (Western, Second Richard Axsom Elenor Ling Sergei Tsvetkov Millennium) Shebang Mark Baron Alexander Massouras Jason Urban Looking and Recognizing Kit Basquin Kate McCrickard Madeleine Viljoen The 15th Century Catherine Bindman John P. Murphy Julie Warchol A Field Guide to Early Prints Peter Briggs Leslie Mutchler Christina Weyl The Renaissance Lisa Bulawsky Nadine Orenstein Stephen Woodall The 17th–18th Centuries Brian D. Cohen David Paisey The 19th Century Paul Coldwell Peter Parshall The 20th Century Prudence Crowther Mark Pascale The 20th Century: Artists Thomas Cvikota Robert Ross Coming Britain Robert Dance Allison Rudnick In September America David Dean Christian Rümelin Indignant Eyes Richard S. Field Britany Salsbury PART II Fiction Diana Gaston Jacob Samuel Instruments in the World Stephen Goddard Suzanne Karr Schmidt Artists Books Collecting and Collections Roslyn Bakst Goldman Erika Schneider Printers and Publishers Sarah Kirk Hanley Harris Schrank Books About References Felix Harlan Marc Schwartz Artists Books Julia V. Hendrickson Rachel Stella Making Faye Hirsch Nicholas Stogdon David Kiehl David Storey Photo detail: Kate McCrickard The Whole (Western, Second Millennium) Shebang The Print Before Photography Prints and People, a Social History Prints and Visual Communication By Antony Griffiths of Printed Pictures By William Ivins British Museum Press, 2016 By A. Hyatt Mayor Da Capo Press, 1953. Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1971. Second edition: MIT Press, 1969 The product of the author’s decades in Princeton University Press, 1981. the print room of the British Museum, For its importance to print historiography and of a habitually curious mind, A. Hyatt Mayor was head of the Metropoli- I will always vote for William Ivins’s Prints Griffiths’ impeccable, erudite book treats tan Museum’s Department of Prints and and Visual Communication (1953), a study prints in their double identity as art- Photographs between 1946 and 1966. His very much of its time and yet one of the works and as vectors of social activity— book is composed of chatty and informative most historically perceptive and also most economic, technological and political. short pieces on topics that cover the history aggravating writings in the field. Percep- Apollo magazine named it Book of the and uses of prints.