Artist’s Book Yearbook 2003-2005 Artist’s Book Yearbook 2003-2005 Back issues of the Artist’s Book Yearbook are still available. For the 2001-2 issue please contact: Published by Impact Press at Impact Press at our address. The Centre for Fine Print Research University of the West of England, Bristol For the years: 1994-1995, 1996-1997 and September 2003 1998-1999 please contact: Tanya Peixoto ISBN 0 9536076 9 0 Bookartbookshop 17 Pitfield Street © 2003 publication, Impact Press London © 2003 images, individual artists N1 6HB © 2003 texts, individual authors Tel: 020 7608 1333 www.bookartbookshop.com Editor: Sarah Bodman [email protected] Associates: Tanya Peixoto and John Bently Design: Sarah Bodman Design Advisor: Keith Jones Cover Design: Tom Sowden The views expressed within the Artist’s Book Yearbook 2003-2005 are not necessarily those of the editor or publisher. CENTRE FOR FINE PRINT RESEARCH Impact Press Centre for Fine Print Research UWE, Bristol Faculty of Art, Media and Design Kennel Lodge Road Bristol BS3 2JT Tel: 0117 32 84747 Fax: 0117 32 84824 www.uwe.ac.uk/amd/cfpr [email protected] Contents Artist’s Book Publishers 103 Artist’s page Genevieve Waller facing page 1 Bookshops and Galleries in the UK 105 Introduction Sarah Bodman 1 International Bookshops and Galleries 107 Cooking the Books: Ron King and Circle Press Artist’s Book Centres 110 at the Yale Center for British Art, USA Elisabeth Fairman 3 Book Arts Collections/Archives UK & Eire 113 Ten Books on my New Bookshelf; a review International Archives and Collections 117 John Bently 11 Visual Studies Workshop Press and Archive, Artist’s page Otto 15 USA Sarah Bodman 121 Memo: This is not an Artist’s Book: a New Book Arts Organisations 125 Zealand Collection Elizabeth Eastmond 17 Artist’s page Alec Finlay 127 The Battle of The Books / TNWK Sarah Bodman 27 Book Arts Websites 128 Some Reformations Susan Johanknecht 33 Artist’s Book Website Review Guy Begbie 130 Artist’s page Lucy May Schofield 38 Artist’s page Paul Laidler 132 Booklyn: describing an artist defined aesthetic Artist’s Book Fairs 133 of artists’ books Marshall Weber 39 Book Arts Courses 134 Size Matters Dr Stephen Bury 47 Short Courses, Workshops and Summer Yes it’s True; Artists Make Books Schools in Book Arts 137 Andi McGarry 51 Artist’s page Steve McPherson 140 13+: Contemporary Book Art From Germany Ulrike Stoltz 53 Print Studios and Print Facilities 141 One year of bookartbookshop 2002 - 2003 Materials Suppliers 144 Tanya Peixoto 66 Bookbinders 145 An Essay About Reading An Artist’s Book About Reading Sarah Jacobs 67 Magazines and Journals 146 Our art goes in multiple artists’ (chaps) books Reference and related publications on the Artgoes 71 book arts 149 Cut out and keep Chap Book Artgoes 75 Reference and Contemporary Exhibition Catalogues 150 The Special Books Collection of The Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art Artist’s page Kristen Merola 152 Ann Simpson 77 Artist’s Book Review Andrew Eason 153 Artist’s page Alec Finlay 81 Artist’s page Andrew Lanyon 165 Gli Italiani - The Italians Carrie Galbraith 83 Artist’s page contributors 166 Artist’s page Kate Farley 89 Listings of Artist’s Books 2002 - 2005 167 ARCHIVE: a race against the instant? Chris Taylor 91 Artist’s page Alec Finlay 215 Making Books Emma Hill 95 End page Tom Sowden 216 Introduction All of the information sections have been updated and include organisations and centres Welcome to the 2003 – 2005 issue of the Artist’s listings. Some of the organisations listed will Book Yearbook, which has quietly grown by about appear more than once as they come under 100 pages since the last issue. This is due not more than one category (i.e. places to study / only to an extended number of contributing collections / print studios) and it seemed artists and writers, but also to the ever- sensible to list them in each so that they would increasing number of artists out there not be missed by a casual flick through the making books (the listings entries never book. There are more listings for the USA as I seemed to stop coming!), all of which is very had the opportunity to visit the Visual Studies encouraging. There also seems to be a good Workshop in Rochester last year and gathered number of artist’s book fairs going on this year some new addresses whilst I was there. All the (see page 133), more evidence, if any was ever contact telephone numbers have been listed needed that artists’ books are here to stay. with UK dialling codes. Talking about the growth of artists’ books would not be complete without also offering The book arts listings sections are compiled congratulations to Tanya Peixoto for a hugely from the information we discover or receive, successful year of artists’ books promotion, if you know of more organisations, collections, exhibitions and events at the Bookartbookshop book fairs, centres, bookshops etc. that you in Hoxton, London (see page 66 for details). think should be included then please get in touch so we can add them to the next issue in In this issue we have tried to show more 2005. If this is the first time you have come examples of international book arts, with essays across the Artist’s Book Yearbook and would like on artists’ books and their makers from to list your books in the next issue, then please Germany, Italy, New Zealand and the USA as contact us to be added to our book arts mailing well as the UK and Eire. I would like to thank list so we can keep you up to date. all of the writers who have given their time so generously to write essays and reviews for this Thanks are also due to; Neil Crawford for his issue; Elisabeth Fairman (Yale Center for type suggestions, Paul Laidler for help with British Art), John Bently, Elizabeth Eastmond slide scanning and opening rogue image files, (University of Auckland), Susan Johanknecht Tom Sowden for scanning countless slides and (Gefn Press / Camberwell College of Arts), (with his family) for the cover and end page Marshall Weber (Booklyn), Dr Stephen Bury designs, and thank you to my mum for proof (The British Library), Andi McGarry, reading the entire issue. Ulrike Stoltz (Hochschule fur Bildende Kunste, Braunschweig, Germany) Sarah Jacobs, I would also like to thank the Centre for Fine Artgoes, Ann Simpson (The Scottish National Print Research and the Faculty of Art, Media Gallery of Modern Art), Carrie Galbraith and Design here at UWE, Bristol for allowing (Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, me the pleasure of working on the Artist’s Book Italy), Chris Taylor (University of Leeds), Yearbook as part of my job. Without this Emma Hill (EMH Arts / Eagle Gallery) and essential support it would not be possible to Guy Begbie (Herefordshire College of Art and produce each issue. Design). Many thanks are also due to Andrew Eason for all his thoughtfully written, in depth I hope you enjoy reading this issue of the pieces for the new section of artists’ books Yearbook as much as I have enjoyed putting it submitted for review. all together. Thanks are also due to the artists who have kindly contributed a page of artwork, in order of appearance; Genevieve Waller, Otto, Lucy May Schofield, Kate Farley, Alec Finlay, Paul Laidler, Steve McPherson, Kristen Merola and Andrew Lanyon. Sarah Bodman 1 Ron King, photograph: F. A. Parisod Banners advertising the Circle Press exhibition at the Yale Center for British Art, hung from lamp posts all over New Haven during the summer of 2002. The banner includes a detail from The Left-Handed Punch (1986) photograph: Richard Caspole Cooking the Books: Ron King and Circle Press at spacious with worktables, racks full of paper, the Yale Center for British Art printing machines. A place full of possibilities that de-mystified so many technical processes. Elisabeth Fairman Ron King showed me how to set type, print letterpress, and silk-screen - I learned many Housing an astonishingly diverse collection of skills and was introduced to a great many other approximately 30,000 volumes, the Department artists. It was a very open and generous of Rare Books and Manuscripts at the Yale situation.’ Center for British Art focuses on material relating to the visual arts and cultural life in the Happily, Ron’s generosity even extends to United Kingdom and former British Empire. institutions such as ours. I first met him in the The collection depicts all aspects of British life, fall of 1996 in London at the opening of an customs, scenery, and travel, from the 16th cen- exhibition of Circle Press at the National tury to the present. It includes artists’ manuals, Theatre, curated by writer, critic, and oral sporting books and historian Cathy Courtney. Through the Looking manuscripts, works on costume, the military, Book was a perfect introduction to Circle Press entertainments and theatrical events, (as was her catalogue of the exhibition). transportation, natural history and popular The sheer number and variety of the works was science, and illustrated children’s books and striking. games. Private press books - such as those produced by William Morris at his Kelmscott It was a year later, during one of his periodic Press - complement a growing collection of trips to the United States, that I was able to talk contemporary artists' books acquired over the at length with Ron about Circle Press. He past twenty years or so. showed me some marvelous books. (I remember particularly the delight he took in One of the most significant of the book artists presenting both the intricate pop-ups of represented in the Center’s holdings is Ron Bluebeard’s Castle and the gorgeous blind- King.