Notes 115 Notes Des Cowley, Robert Heather and Anna public – books, serials, pamphlets, music Welch: Editors’ introduction scores – but also works published in 1 Johanna Drucker, The Century of Artists’ other formats such as CD and DVD. The Books, New York: Granary Books, 1995, p. 1 Northern Territory, Tasmania and Western Australia include web-based publications. Helen Cole: Public collections of artists’ books 10 trove.nla.gov.au in Australia 11 Noreen Grahame was the first gallerist in Australia to actively promote artists’ 1 Any discussion of artists’ books is dogged books. Her first major exhibition of by the question of definition. This article artists’ books was in 1991 and, at this adopts a broad definition that includes time, she encouraged artists represented unique works, limited and commercial by the gallery to create their first artists’ editions, codexes, altered books, book books for the show. She organised five objects and everything in-between. It does Artists’ Books and Multiples fairs in not include zines, however, as institutions generally treat these separately. Brisbane, in 1994, 1996, 1998, 2001 and 2 Noreen Grahame, ‘The gallerist’s 2007, and presented Australian artists’ perspective’, paper presented at ‘The books at the Sydney Works on Paper Trouble with Artists’ Books’, Siganto Fair and the London Artists’ Books Foundation seminar, State Library of Fair. In 1994 Grahame extended into Queensland, 4 May 2013. A podcast of the publishing catalogues and artists’ books. seminar is available at: www.slq.qld.gov. Her catalogues for exhibitions and artists’ au/_slqmedia/video_and_audio_content/ books fairs constitute the most important art-and-design/siganto-seminar, accessed 21 sources of documentation of artists’ books November 2014 in Australia of this time. Her private 3 Grahame, ‘The gallerist’s perspective’, 2013 collection – the Centre for the Artist Book 4 George Paton Gallery, Artist’s Books – comprises more than 550 artists’ books (Reprised), 26 August – 5 September 2014 by Australian and international artists. See 5 ‘On display in vitrines in the gallery will www.grahamegalleries.com.au/index.php/ be archival material remaining from centre-for-the-artist-book two earlier exhibitions held at the GPG; 12 For example Baillieu Library, University of Artists Books / Bookworks from 1978 and Melbourne, Art Bound: A Selection of Artists’ Artist’s Books and Not(e) Books from 1982, Books (2006); State Library of Queensland, curated by Tim Guest’, umsu.unimelb. Freestyle Books: Artists’ Books from the edu.au/artists-books-reprised, accessed 21 Collection (2008); Deakin University, Books November 2014 Crossing: From the Deakin University Artists’ 6 Gary Catalano, The Bandaged Image: A Study Books Collection (2009); Monash University of Australian Artists’ Books, Sydney: Hale & (Clayton), Artists’ Books (2011); State Library Iremonger, 1983 of Victoria, Fine Impressions: Printmaking 7 Ken Bolton, ‘Like calling cards to the and Artists’ Books in Melbourne 1999–2010 future – the artists’ book collection at the (2011–12) EAF’, in 4th Artists’ Books + Multiples Fair, 13 Alex Selenitsch, Australian Artists Books, Brisbane: grahame galleries + editions, Parkes, Australian Capital Territory: 2001, p. 89 National Gallery of Australia, 2008 8 In a further twist, zines, the new 14 Acknowledgements: Dr Claire Baddeley, democratic multiple, have caused the same Australian War Memorial; Ken Bolton, problems for libraries. Australian Experimental Art Foundation; 9 Copyright Act (Australia) 1968; NSW Alisa Bunbury, National Gallery of Victoria; Copyright Act 1879–1952; Publications Roger Butler, National Gallery of Australia; (Legal Deposit) Act 2004 (NT); Queensland Des Cowley, State Library of Victoria; Libraries Act 1988; South Australian Libraries Claire Eggleston, Art Gallery of New South Act 1982 and Libraries Act Amendment Act Wales Research Library; Wendy Ford, 1989; Tasmanian Libraries Act 1984; Victorian Manly Library; Noreen Grahame; Stephen Libraries Act 1988; Legal Deposit Act 2012 Herrin, Matheson Library, Monash (WA). These Acts generally include all University; Philip Jackson, National Library forms of printed works available to the of Australia; Dr Jane Kinsman, National 116 The La Trobe Journal No. 95 March 2015 Gallery of Australia; Anne Kirker; Laurie Art Presses of the ACT, Canberra: Drill Hall McNiece, Fryer Library; Libby Pownall, Gallery, 1994 Southern Cross University Library; Susan 5 For the history of the Graphic Millard, Baillieu Library, University of Investigation Workshop see Melbourne; Judith Nolan, Monash Art, https://anulib.anu.edu.au/using-the-library/ Design, Architecture Library, Monash collections/rare-books-special-collections­ University; Maggie Patton, State Library and-manuscripts/petr-herel-collection/ of New South Wales; Erica Ryan, National workshop/history.html, accessed Library of Australia; Leanne Willis, Deakin 2 November 2013 University. 6 Sasha Grishin, Artists Books and Limited Editions, Canberra School of Art, 1992; Pat Andrew Schuller: A history of the Croft Press Gilmour, Graphic Investigation Workshop 1 Robert Hughes, The Art of Australia, 1978–1988, Canberra Institute of the Arts, Melbourne: Penguin, 1970 1988; Petr Herel, Postscript in Artists’ Books 2 John R Biggs, Basic Typography, London: and Limited Editions, 3, Canberra School Faber, 1968 of Art, 2001; and John Thompson, Fragile 3 John Ryder, Printing for Pleasure, London: Objects, Artists Books and Limited Editions, Phoenix House, 1955 4 Jim Walker to Eileen Chanin, 20 October Canberra School of Art, 1992 1977, Croft Press Archive Box 1, State 7 Meg Buchanan, quoted in Dianne Fogwell Library of Victoria et al., The Print, the Press, the Artist and 5 W Hardy Wilson, ‘Building “Purulia”’, in Printer, 1994, p. 27 Domestic Art in Australia: Special Number 8 ‘Eco rats’ is a common term used amongst of Art in Australia, Sydney: Angus & the Australian literary intelligentsia to Robertson, 1919, pp. 9–18 describe ‘economic rationalists’. 6 Richard Burton, The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night, London, 1885 Steven Tonkin: Australian artists’ books 7 CJ Dennis, Songs of a Sentimental Bloke, in the 1970s Sydney: Angus & Robertson, 1915 1 Gary Catalano, The Bandaged Image: A Study 8 Jim Walker, personal communication to of Australian Artists’ Books, Sydney: Hale & the author, 21 January 2014 Iremonger, 1983 9 Announcement in Outline: Journal of the 2 Two recent publications that have Calligraphy and Book Arts Studies, vol. 1 expanded the literature on Australian (January 1985), Croft Press Archive Box 1, artists’ books are: Alex Selenitsch, State Library of Victoria Australian Artists Books, Canberra: National 10 Jim Walker, personal communication to Gallery of Australia, 2008; Monica Oppen the author, 29 January 2014 & Peter Lyssiotis, The Silent Scream: Political 11 Walker, personal communication to the and Social Comment in Books by Artists, author, 29 January 2014 Sydney: Bibliotheca Librorum apud Artificem / Ant Press, 2011 Sasha Grishin: Books in the Canberra region 3 Catalano, The Bandaged Image, 1983, p. 17 1 See Michael Richards, A Licence to Print: 4 Philip Leider, ‘Books: Twenty-Six Gasoline Alec Bolton and the Brindabella Press, Stations by Edward Ruscha’, Artforum, vol. 2 Canberra: Friends of the National Library no. 3, Sept. 1963, p. 57 of Australia, 1993; Patricia Rolfe, ‘Caxton 5 For over four decades Ed Ruscha has been a Lives in Canberra’, Bulletin, vol. 108, key protagonist in the literature on artists’ no. 5499, 24–31 Dec. 1985, p. 76 2 For a history of the Canberra School of books with Twentysix Gasoline Stations most Art see Michael Agostino, The Australian often cited in reference to the beginnings National University School of Art: A History of the field; see, for example, Clive Phillpot, of the First 65 Years, Canberra: Australian ‘Some contemporary artists and their National University, 2010 books’, in Joan Lyons, ed., Artists’ Books: 3 The Australian National Gallery changed A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook, its name to the National Gallery of Rochester: Visual Studies Workshop Press, Australia in 1992. 1985, pp. 96–132; Clive Phillpot, ‘Twentysix 4 For a discussion of the Canberra gasoline stations that shook the world: the printmaking scene see Dianne Fogwell et rise and fall of cheap booklets as art’, al., The Print, the Press, the Artist and Printer Art Libraries Journal, vol. 18, no. 1, 1993, … Limited Editions and Artists’ Books from pp. 4–13 Notes 117 6 Betty Bright, No Longer Innocent: Book Art in 18 For relevant histories of these America, 1960–1980, New York: organisations, see Helen Vivian, ed., Granary Books, 2005, p. 185 When You Think About Art: The Ewing 7 Lucy R Lippard, Six Years: The & George Paton Galleries, 1971–2008, Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966 Melbourne: Macmillan Art Publishing, to 1972, New York and London: Praeger and 2008; Stephanie Britton, ed., A Decade Studio Vista, 1973 at the EAF: A History of the Experimental 8 Artists Books, Moore College of Art, Art Foundation 1974–1984, Adelaide: Philadelphia, 23 March – 20 April 1973; the Experimental Art Foundation, 1984; Bob term ‘artists books’ entered circulation with Lingard & Sue Cramer, Institute of Modern this exhibition, see Stefan Klima, Artists Art: A Documentary History, 1975–1989, Books: A Critical Survey of the Literature, Brisbane: Institute of Modern Art, 1989 19 Artists Books / Bookworks, Ewing and George New York: Granary Books, 1998, pp. 12–18 Paton Galleries, exhibition dates,