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Peter Downsbrough
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Hatje Cantz, 2015
300 ex.

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Este é o 100º livro de artista da carreira do artista conceitual americano Peter Downsbrough (1940, New Jersey, vive em Bruxelas) e foi criado para uma exposição realizada em Barcelona (22.02 a 19.05.2013) com todas as suas publicações feitas desde 1968. Link é o resultado de uma colaboração entre o artista e o curador da exposição, Moritz Küng, em que a Hatje Cantz se envolveu como co-editora. A grande particularidade deste livro, que possui apenas algumas páginas e foi impresso em apenas 300 exemplares é que ele não pode ser comprado. Uma sobrecapa especialmente concebida por Downsbrough informa: “Este livro não está à venda e só pode ser adquirido trocando-o por outro livro.“

Veja entrevista com o curador da mostra: http://huskmagazine.com/peter-downsbroughs-link/

Aqui está um livro de valor inestimável, que não pode ser comprado. Como indicado no site da Hatje Cantz, Peter Downsbrough “criou um volume minimalista, delicado, em uma edição limitada de 300, que liga o leitor ao autor: LINK não pode ser comprado, e só pode ser trocado por outro livro, de qualquer tipo. Envie um livro de sua escolha e deixe-se surpreender”. A troca não vai ser possível para sempre, uma vez que existem apenas 300 cópias disponíveis.
Em uma referência circular à arte conceitual, enviei um livro de artista do Lawrence Weiner. Poucos dias depois, veio LINK do Peter Downsbrough, um volume fino, e um gesto simpático.
(via artpluspaper)

Here is a priceless book, that can’t be bought.

As stated on Hatje Cantz website, Peter Downsbrough “ has created a minimalist, delicate volume in a limited edition of 300, which connects the reader with the author: LINK cannot be bought, and can only be exchanged for another book, of any sort. Send a book of your choice and let yourself be surprised.” The swap won’t be possible forever, as there are only 300 copies available.

In a circular reference to conceptual art, I sent an artist book by Lawrence Weiner. A few days later came Peter Downsbrough’s LINK, a thin volume, and a nice gesture.

Artists’ Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook

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Joan Lyons (org). Artists’ Books: A Critical Anthology and Sourcebook
Layton / Rochester, UT / NY : Gibbs M. Smith, Inc. Peregrine Smith Books / Visual Studies Workshop Press, 1985
22,8 x 15,3 cm.
270 p.
ISBN 0879052074

“This book is a signpost, a marker of the critical recognition, seriousness, and sheer volume of output of artists’ books… If the strength of the medium is judged by the contents of this book, artists’ books are not likely to go away anytime soon. Artists’ Books is a singular unpedantic and valuable look at the medium still in a sort of prehistory” — Art Papers. Not as physically gorgeous as “Artist / Author,” this critical gem of a book contains a great anthology of essays that otherwise have been lost in the ether. Edited by Joan Lyons. Text by Dick Higgins, Richard Kostelanetz, Ulises Carrión, Lucy R. Lippard, Shelley Rice, Barbara Moore, Jon Hendricks, Clive Phillpot, Susi R. Bloch, Betsy Davids, Jim Petrillo, Felipe Ehrenberg, Magali Lara, Javier Cadena, Alex Sweetman, and Robert C. Morgan.

Sumário:
Plates : a visual preface —
Book art / by Richard Kostelanetz —
The new art of making books / by Ulises Carrión —
The artist’s book goes public ; Conspicuous consumption : new artists’ books / by Lucy R. Lippard —
Words and images : artists’ books as visual literature / by Shelley Rice —
The page as alternative space : 1950 to 1969 / by Barbara Moore and Jon Hendricks —
Some contemporary artists and their books / by Clive Phillpot —
The book stripped bare / by Susi R. Bloch —
The artist as book printer : four short courses / by Betsy Davids and Jim Petrillo —
Independent publishing in Mexico / by Felipe Ehrenberg, Magali Lara, and Javier Cadena —
Photobookworks : the critical realist tradition / by Alex Sweetman —

Libros de artista

hellionINSTITUTO DE ARTES GRAFICAS DE OAXACA; HELLION, Martha CONSEJO NACIONAL PARA LA CULTURA Y LAS ARTES (MÉXICO); MUSEO DE ARTE CARRILLO GIL. Libros de artista; Ulises Carrión: mundos personales o estrategias culturales = Artist’s books ; Ulises Carrión: personal worlds or cultural strategies. [Madrid]: New York: Turner; Distributed in the USA and Canada by D.A.P., [2003]. 2 v. ISBN 8475065813 (v.1).

Catálogo de exposição publicado em dois volumes, o primeiro deles reproduz mais de 400 obras, a maioria de artistas latino-americanos. O vol. II é dedicado ao artista mexicano Ulises Carrión e inclui um retrato biográfico feito por Martha Hellion e um relato do artista brasileiro Claudio Goulart, amigo de Carrión, a respeito da obra El Robo del Año. A edição é bilìngue, espanhol/inglês.

Umbrella: The Anthology, 1978 – 1998

Umbrella : The Anthology, 1978 - 1998

Judith Hoffberg (ed). Umbrella: The Anthology, 1978 – 1998
Santa Monica, CA: Umbrella Editions, 1999.
23 x 18 cm.
164 p.
ISBN 0963504223

Essential anthology of writings from 1978 – 1998 published in the periodical ‘Umbrella.’ Edited by Judith A. Hoffberg. Contributions by Clive Phillpot, Ken Friedman, Ita Aber, Walter Askin, Anna Banana, Mariona Barkus, Guy Bleus, Sas Colby, Patricia Collins, Jules Engel, J.C. Gagnon, William Harroff, Dick Higgins, E.F. Higgins III, Ruggero Maggi, Janet Pyle, Marilyn Rosenberg and Miriam Schaer. Articles about and interviews with Ulises Carrión, Warja Lavater, Paul Zelevansky, Phil Dadson, Rod Summers, Maurizio Nannucci, Klaus Groh, Bern Porter, Wolf Vostell, Kevin Osborn, Juliao Sarmento, Paula Claire, Angela Pahler, Peter Kusterman, Leavenworth Jackson, Richard Kostelanetz, Elaine Langerman, Lawrence Weiner, George Maciunas, Jean Brown, and Hoffberg.

“It is hard to believe that more than twenty years have passed since the first issue of ‘Umbrella’ was issued as a fledgling newsletter catering to the ever-changing vicissitudes of contemporary visual art, especially that of artist books, mail art, video art, rubber-stamps, audio art, and everything else that was considered not very important in the realm of the nearly new ‘market’ which came with the eighties and the boom in contemporary and modern art. … Many of these articles respond to a conference, symposium, a book art exhibition, all referring to date-sensitive events. But in a strange way, it also marks a trace of a historic moment, one in which there was a vitality and an energy, in which book publishers, resource collectors, multi-faceted artists, and curators did whatever seemed right at the moment. Many of our colleagues are gone, the publishers have quit their businesses, and alternative spaces and foundations which nourished their work are no longer extant. So read these chapters as if you were reading ‘you are there’ historic moments, traces of memory, and the markers in the history of alternative in the contemporary art world of the past twenty years.” — Judith A. Hoffberg (1934 – 2009) from book’s foreword.

Texto do pesquisador Paulo Silveira a respeito do periódico Umbrella: http://www.anpap.org.br/anais/2009/pdf/chtca/paulo_antonio_de_menezes_pereira_da_silveira.pdf

Listados

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Ignasi Aballí (Espanha, 1958)
Listados
Bilbao, Belleza Infinita, 2011
[176] p.
Offset, p/b
22 x 30 cm
ISBN: 978-84-937603-0-4

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Este libro reúne todos los listados que Ignasi Aballí comenzó en 1997, recolectando y clasificando recortes de la prensa diaria. Agrupa animales, colores, nacionalidades, dinero, tiempo, ideologías, porcentajes, ismos, profesiones… Un puzzle imposible, otra representación del mundo. Este libro reúne todos los listados realizados entre 1997 y 2001 utilizando los periódicos “El País” (1977-2011) y “La Vanguardia” (2009-2011)

 

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http://www.bellezainfinita.org/listados_ignasi_aballi/

Prima Facie

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John Baldessari (National City, EUA, 1931)
Prima Facie: Marilyn’s Dress. A Poem (in Four Parts).
Cologne: Walther König, 2006.
13 x 17 cm.
44 p.
ISBN : 3865600883

Mais do que qualquer outro artista de sua geração, John Baldessari explora a relação entre a ler e o ver, entre a linguagem e a imagem, culminando em sua série mais recente, Prima Facie. Em seu livro de artista, ele justapõe 16 cores e nomes dados por empresas americanas a suas cores corporativas: “calma”, “céu” ou “deslizamento de lama”. A percepção afetiva dos respectivos valores sonoros e conteúdos linguísticos cria uma rede quase lírica de correspondências, continuando poeticamente a arte conceitual da década de 1970.

“A special edition with a print, signed and numbered, with the book in a box the is being published: 45 copies +5 a.p.” —

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More than any other artist of his generation, John Baldessari explores the relationship between reading and seeing, between language and image, culminating in his most recent work series Prima Facie. In his new artist’s book he juxtaposes 16 colour plates which American companies attribute to their corporate colors: “calm”, “heaven” or “mudslide”. The affective perception of the respective sound values and linguistic contents creates an almost lyrical web of correspondences, poetically continuing the strict concept art of the 1970s.

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