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A. C. I. – Art Catalogue Index - Catalogues Raisonnés of Artists 1780-2008
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
A comprehensive list of catalogues raisonnés and information on artists born from 1780 to the present.
Cyrille Martinez - Bibliographies - 5e République – Premiers ministres et Présidents
2008
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A bibliography of the Prime ministers and Presidents of the French Fifth Republic.
Minotaure – Chants exploratoires - La revue d\'Albert Skira, 1933-1939
2008
French edition
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
38.00 25.00 €
The magazine of Albert Skira, 1933–1939.
William Kentridge - Everyone / Their Own / Projector - Minutes of a Slow Hour (Deluxe Edition)
2008
no text
Captures - Deluxe editions
Limited edition of the artist's book by William Kentridge (ink and brush drawings and collages on books pages), with an original lithograph.
Josef Dabernig - Handwritten Copies
2008
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Artist's book.
Euan Macdonald - Selected Standards
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
An artist book that combines title pages from sheet music found in a second hand store in Los Angeles with drawings and aerial photographs of L.A.
Helen Mirra - Cloud, the, 3
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Artists' book: the materialization of John dewey's conceptual system.
Markus Soo - Modern Optical Experiments in Typography - Univers Ultra Light Oblique (1968)
2006
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
25.00 15.00 €
This collaborative project by Mark Soo and Tim Lee formally pushes the boundaries of what a book is. The book is blank except for four printed pages containing words set in Univers.
Herman de Vries - Les livres et les publications - Catalogue raisonné (+ CD-ROM)
2005
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
CDLA (Centre des livres d'artistes)
Catalogue raisonné, with 170 publications described, a biography, a bibliography 1995-2004, and 14 texts by Herman de Vries read by the author on an audio CD-ROM included.
Frédéric Roux - Copié/Collé - Magazine
2005
French edition
MAMCO - Artists' books
25.00 10.00 €
A "copy and paste" fiction.
Marc Décimo - La Bibliothèque de Marcel Duchamp, peut-être
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
An essay on Duchamp's readings, and a systematic chart of his personnal library.
Stories of Paper
2022
English edition
Kaph Books
sold out
"Stories of Paper" traces the history of paper as a thousand-year-old material used from antiquity to the present day, and provides an original perspective on the history of graphic arts.
Gotico-Antiqua, Proto-Roman, Hybrid - 15th Century Types between Gothic and Roman
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
ENSAD Nancy (Nancy National School of Art and Design)
sold out
The first comprehensive and thorough scientific study of typographic typefaces created in Germany, Italy and France between 1459 and 1482, which are neither fully gothic nor roman.
Rob van Leijsen - Copy, Tweak, Paste - Methods of appropriation in re-enacted artists\' books
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Clinamen
sold out
An essay on the modes of re-enactments, appropriation or reinterpretations of artists' books.
Bernard Joubert - Elvifrance - L\'infernal éditeur
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
United Dead Artists
sold out
This graphic anthology is dedicated to Elvifrance, the scandalous French publisher of erotic comic books whose catalogue was under the fierce scrutiny of French censorship authorities from the 1970s to the 1990s. The publication takes a look back at this infamous history through many unpublished archives and a wide selection of covers. It also features an ensemble of covers revisited by some forty contemporary graphic artists.
Color Library - Research into Color Reproduction and Printing
2018
English edition
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
sold out
A bible for graphic designers: first publication dedicated to “Color Library,” the database of color profiles for artists, designers and printers created at ECAL – University of Art and Design Lausanne. It features documentation on the various tools offered by the platform, a visual essay by Shirana Shahbazi, and texts by specialists.
Samuel Etienne - Bricolage Radical - Génie et  banalité des fanzines do-it-yourself
2018
French edition
Strandflat
sold out
A panorama of the world of do-it-yourself fanzines.
Faire – To look at things - Volume 01 (#1, 2, 3, 4)
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire magazine – To look at things
sold out
The first four issues of the critical review dedicated to the analysis of Graphic design, published by Empire books (studio Syndicat). Each publication documents a specific object, addressed by a renowned author: the Rouge-gorge series at Éditions Cent pages by S.P. Millot; the database colorlibrary.ch by studio Maximage; the monograph Recollected Work by Mevis & Van Deursen; and the invitation cards by the artist Stanley Brouwn.
Ce que l\'édition fait à l\'art - Extraits d\'une collection
2017
French edition
Tombolo Presses
sold out
This exhibition catalogue offers a thorough examination of the artist's book as both an artistic and editorial medium. Focusing on the collection by Jean-Paul Guy, the publication presents 68 artists' books by the likes of Ed Ruscha, Dieter Roth, Michael Snow, and Robert Barry.
George Brecht - This is the Cover of the Book
2017
English edition
IF Publications
sold out
In his “Book” George Brecht describes the specific nature of each single page, in a gesture that renders the printed matter a tautological object.
Seth Siegelaub - Books and Ideas after Seth Siegelaub
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Books and Ideas after Seth Siegelaub spans an arc of tension between the works of Seth Siegelaub and contemporary cultural production. This highly documented publication features an interview with Seth Siegelaub, two essays by Regine Ehleiter and Michalis Pichler, and an extensively illustrated catalogue with bibliographic details.
Publishing as Artistic Practice
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
An examination by artists, publishers, and scholars of recent publishing concepts emerging from the experimental literature and art scene.
Giovanna Silva - Syria - A Travel Guide to Disappearance
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Taken at the height of the Assad days, the images of the photographer Giovanna Silva overlap in this publication with Syrian tourist guides' images and texts, creating a net of intended and unintended relationships and time interconnections.
Ben Kinmont - Open by Chance & Appointment
2016
English edition
Incertain Sens
sold out
An historical account of Ben Kinmont's bookstore, from the structure's origin, the events and publications it has generated. Kinmont also demonstrates how this activity has contributed to his independence as an artist vis-à-vis the commercial art circuit.
The Territories of Artists\' Periodicals
2015
English edition
various
sold out
This book gathers the papers presented at an international symposium on artists' periodicals, organized by academical Marie Boivent and curator Stephen Perkins. It serves as a smart introduction to a broad range of publishing strategies adopted by artists and others who were experimenting across the field of periodical publishing in new and expanded ways from the 1960s onwards.
Artist Novels - The Book Lovers Publication
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
This publication is devoted to the phenomenon of the artist novel, and whether it can be considered to be a medium in its own right within the visual arts. Thanks to the contributions of a selected group of artists, writers, curators, and scholars this publication strives to demonstrate that literature, when treated by visual artists, can take place well beyond the space of the book.
Fluxbooks
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
The first detailed study of the artist's book within the Fluxus movement.
A Book About - What\'s More To Life Than Books
2014
English edition
Paraguay Press
sold out
A subjective lexicon, proposing keywords for contemporary publishers and book freaks.
Clive Phillpot - Booktrek - Selected essays on artist\'s books
2013
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
sold out
Artists' book history.
Fernand Baudin Prize 2012 / Dossier Fernand Baudin
2013
trilingual edition (English / Dutch / French)
various
sold out
The catalogue of the Prize for the Most Beautiful Books in Brussels and Wallonia, accompanied by a reference book on the Belgian typographer which name has been associated with the Prize.
Mariana Castillo Deball - Never Odd or Even - Volume II
2012
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
sold out
An anthology of 30 dust jackets of non-existing books (contributions by Tim Etchells, Dario Gamboni, Dora García, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Jesse Lerner, Antoni Muntadas, Manuel Raeder, Eran Schaerf and Eva Meyer...).
Luca Trevisani - The Art of Folding for Young and Old
2012
Cura. - Cura.books
sold out
Artist's book based on a Chinese book of origami and paper folding.
Marcel Broodthaers - Album - Un coup de dés
2012
French edition
WDPress / Éditions Moon Rainbow
sold out
Facsimile edition of an unpublished artist's book by Marcel Broodthaers from 1968 referring to Stéphane Mallarmé's poem “Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard.”
Benjamin Sommerhalder - Ghost Knigi
2011
English edition
Nieves
sold out
A children's book by Nieves editor-in-chief.
Iaspis Forum on Design and Critical Practice - The Reader
2010
bilingual edition (English / Swedish)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
What happens when you look at design as some thing more than a service-based relationship between client and designer? What new strategies and models help to question and challenge the limits of design? What outer circumstances influence this kind of practice?
In Numbers - Serial Publications By Artists Since 1955
2010
English edition
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
sold out
A sourcebook on serial publications.
ECAL - Typeface as Program
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
sold out
Applied Research and Development in Typography.
Kiosk - Modes of Multiplication
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
A Sourcebook on independent art publishing.
Yann Sérandour - Inside the White Cube - Overprinted edition
2009
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
Artist's book.
Yann Sérandour - Inside the White Cube - Edition palimpseste
2009
French edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
Artist's book (also available in English edition).
 Dexter Sinister - Portable Document Format
2009
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
An exploration of contemporary publishing in its broadest, most exploded sense (pieces of writings written since the conception of Dexter Sinister's New York basement workshop and bookstore in the summer of 2006 / reproductions of a series of lithographic proof prints).
William Kentridge - Everyone / Their Own / Projector
2008
Captures - Artist's books
sold out
Artist's book (ink and brush drawings and collages on books pages).
Robert Filliou - Catalogue raisonné des éditions et multiples
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
sold out
Filliou's catalogue raisonné.
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