Jake Tilson

Breakfast Special 1986-87 
b&w xerox, 2-colour xerox, Canon Laser copy, offset litho, instantprint, crayon, rubber stamps
Five softback books.
18 x 15 cm
 
http://www.jaketilson.com/publishing/books/breakfast/index.htm

Hans Waanders

The Lomond Guide to Birds, 1998
Artist's book. Edition unique. Size 11.9 x 18.1 cm. Soft cover, bound, signed.

Quotation Field Guide to the books of Hans Waanders, 1999 :
Field characters: White and red cover, bird images on white paper inside, blue stamps. Distribution: Solitary or in pairs, sometimes flocking. One species, but can be confused with nr. wa1-107 or even nr. wa1-108. General notes: A stamped buird guide. A good-sized book rather similar to several closely related species (same images), though the most common and widely spread of them. Description: 11,9 x 18,1 cm. 104 pages. 

http://www.johandeumens.com/artists/28-hans-waanders-1951--2001/artworks/500-the-lomond-guide-to-birds.html

Ed Ruscha

Amsterdam kids folding buildings / Every Buildng on Sunset Strip

Mette-Sofie D. Ambeck

Ambeck's Typographic Bestiary – A-Z, Volume I

This Bestiary is an alphabetic account of 26 letterpress creatures, who came to life in the Central Saint Martins basement in 1998-99. They leapt off the proofing press and into the street around Southampton Row never to be seeing again until now 
Mais em http://www.ambeckdesign.blogspot.com.br/search/label/Artists%27%20Books%202006

John & Yoko

John Lennon & Yoko Ono,

cartaz em exposição no Moma/NY

Marina Chaccur

Arno Fabre

La chambre d'Etienne ou Du discours de la servitude volontaire, 2010

installation - fresque, vidéo et sondage

Aux murs d'une des pièces de la Maison La Boétie (arbitrairement décrétée être la chambre d’adolescent d’Etienne de La Boétie), j'ai recopié l'intégralité du Discours de la servitude volontaire (manuscrit de Mesme, en moyen français) : 58 351 caractères, 48 m2, 67 lignes, 1167 mètres, 12 marqueurs noirs, 16 jours d'écriture. Nous plaçant ainsi physiquement au cœur du texte et l’embrassant dans sa totalité, nous pouvons en faire une expérience singulière et troublante, dans un calme introspectif. 

http://arnofabre.free.fr/lachambredetienne/index.html

Mike Joyce

swissted is an ongoing project by graphic designer mike joyce, owner of stereotype design in new york city. drawing from his love of punk rock and swiss modernism, two movements that have absolutely nothing to do with one another, mike has redesigned vintage punk, hardcore, and indie rock show flyers into international typographic style posters. each poster is sized to the standard swiss kiosk dimensions of 35.5 inches wide by 50 inches high and set in berthold akzidenz grotesk medium, all lowercase. every single one of these shows actually happened.

http://www.swissted.com/

Moyra Davey

Copperheads

by Moyra Davey

104 pages, softcover
Numbered edition of 200

Copperheads is an artist's book which documents the most ubiquitous, although possibly least noticed, portrait in the United States: Abraham Lincoln's visage adorning the American penny which was introduced by the US Mint in 1909 on the occasion of Lincoln's centennial.

http://www.bywaterbros.com/Books/BBooks_DaveyM.htm

Bern Porter

Michael Snow

Trecho de uma entrevista:

DD: Cover to Cover (1975) is not only considered your best artist’s book, but is widely thought of as the best artists’ book, ever.

MS: Well, I certainly go along with that. (Laughs) The Nova Scotia College of Art and Design began a press with Kasper Konig as the director, and they put out some really wonderful things, which were mostly artists’ statements about their work. I was asked to do something, which was very nice but I thought, I don’t want to do that. I want to do a work. I didn’t want something about my work, but something that was an example of it. So, I proposed it to them and began looking at books for their, well, bookishness. One thing is that the pages are two-sided. There’s always an ‘other’ side. That led me to the idea of having two cameras take a subject, placing one image on one side, and the other camera’s view on the opposing side, exactly the same size. Then, you get a true physical contact with the two-dimensionality of photographs, and you experience the compression that’s involved in photography, which mostly vanishes in the face of the realism of it. Just that basic formal principal led to a variety of things – the recto-verso, for example. The whole story is of me leaving my house and driving someplace, which was the Isaacs Gallery, to pick up a copy of the book. So, the book is presented as a fait accompli by showing the book to the reader.

Para ler a entrevista completa: http://www.magentamagazine.com/10/features/michael-snow

Vídeo mostrando o livro: http://youtu.be/cdvjlJx1E1w 

Augusto de Campos

Linguaviagem, 1967

Poemcube by Augusto de Campos

250 x 255 mm folded. 

Unfolds to cube shape (250 mm square, 255mm high) with three letters screenprinted on each side - the outer sides in blue, the inner sides in green. The three letter groupings are LIN / GUA/ VIA / GEM. Therefore the letter groups combine (as is printed on one page) to make Lingua : Tongue / Via: Via/ Linguagem: Language and viagem : voyage. One of de Campos' most successful and famous poems and a beautiful poetry object/sculpture. Printed in an edition of 100 for the Brighton Concrete Poetry Festival,1967.

Cris de Paris

Os registros de pequenos ofícios da rua, os vendedores ambulantes, reunidos em álbuns de estampas, são precursores dos livros ilustrados e dos quadrinhos. O título é uma referência ao pregão, repetido pelo camelô, e que era gravado em madeira, em letras góticas, na mesma matriz da imagem. Acima, livros populares vendidos no tabuleiro, da mais antiga série de "Cris de Paris", gravura sobre madeira, colorida à mão, cerca de 1500.

Michel Melot,  L´Illustration, Histoire d'un Art. Skira, 1984,  p. 104

Jirí Kolár

NANNUCCI, Maurizio/BIANCOENERO. Florence (Mela) 1979. “MELA POST CARD BOOK”: curated selection of 48 postcards in slip case. (clockwise from upper left): Ed Ruscha, John Cage, Ray Johnson, Jirí Kolár

Os postais acima foram enviados ao Ulises Carrión, quando ele tinha a Other Books em Amsterdã.
More: http://rectoversoblog.com/2011/04/22/postcards/#more-844

Pol Bury

 

Décalcomanies
Limited Numbered Edition: 350/500
about 66 pages, 26,8 × 21,7 cm, Paperback
Le Daily Bul, La Louvière, 1970

 

http://www.copyrightbookshop.be/en/books/details/4511/0

Vivianne Sassen

Vivianne Sassen's Sketches: Polaroids Made in Africa

Sketches: Polaroids Made in Africa is a graphically striking small press publication of photographs taken by the Dutch artist in Africa between 2002 and 2010. Dealing in the currency of the staged and the spontaneous, these street photographs represent a kind of speculative personal history for Sassen, who spent her early years growing up in Africa. They are filled with sadness, wonderment, playfulness and hope.  

Um dos livros que encontrei em uma livraria da Austrália, que tem um site bem bacana: http://perimeterbooks.com/

Christo

A double-sided accordion of Christo's painted photographs that served as studies for this project between the USA and Japan in which 1340 yellow umbrellas were installed on the West Coast, and 1760 blue umbrellas in Ibaraki, Japan. The project opened on October 9th, 1991, but sadly on Oct. 26th one of the umbrellas in the USA was uprooted by a strong wind and killed a visitor. Christo ordered the entire project taken down, but disaster struck again when one of the workers taking down an umbrella in Japan touched a power line and died. The following link to Christo's website includes more preparatory drawings, as well as photographs of the work installed (Christo), 16 pages, individual page: 9" x 11", fully extended 14" x 7' 4" 

This book also includes an interview with Christo by Masahiko Yanagi that was  recorded in January, 1991. The section below provides some interesting insights into how the publication came about and Christo's response to the accordion format. 

Masahiko Yanagi: There are more than 40 books and many catalogues about your work. But, this book is unusual not only because of the accordion-fold format, but also because it consists of reproductions of only one type of your works on paper: painted photographs. Can you explain how this book project came about?

Christo: The basic idea and the format of this book were proposed by Stephen Vincent, the director of Bedford Arts. They have done several accordions books before. But I decided to use only my 14-by-11-inch vertical painted photographs, the smallest works on paper I usually make, because I wanted the works to be reproduced on a one-to-one scale. I have always thought that reproductions of my works on paper in their true scale would have great quality. To do this, I asked the publisher to use a book format larger than the one originally proposed. Further, this is not simply a book about my works on paper; it is also about a proposal that I am about to realize. I think the black and white prints that I use in my painted photographs will enhance the real-life dimension. I enjoy having a book that is specifically about one work of art which will exist only for a short time. (via http://www.accordionpublications.blogspot.ca/)

Katarina Kallaste

http://www.flux.ee/katariina/index.html

exercício de legibilidade, a sobreposição das palavras não impede a leitura

Claude Closky

Franz Erhard Walther

1962-1963

Franz Erhard Walther: Werkmonographie, Herausgegeben von Götz Adriani, DuMont Kunst/Praxis, Cologne, 1972

via http://stoppingoffplace.blogspot.com.br/2012/06/franz-erhard-walther.html