Arpad Szenes

Vieira da Silva lendo

Paulo Bruscky

 poema pautado

Thomas Hirschhorn

Thomas Hirschhorn (Swiss, b. 1957)
Qu'est-ce que la Philosophie?
Mixed Media Sculpture
Edition 100
Colored xerox and tape on cardboard
78.49 x 48.26 x 6.6 cm.
Signed Printed
2003

Anne Berning

 

 artbooks (D) . 2006.  15 parts . 240 x 177 cm . oil on canvas

 

 

artbooks (G,H) . 2006 . 17 parts . 250 x 272 cm . oil on canvas

 

 

artbooks (I,J,K) . 2006 . 20 parts . 250 x 250 cm . oil on canvas

 

 

artbooks (V,W,X,Y,Z) . 2007 . 13 parts . 250 x 185 cm . oil on canvas

 

http://anneberning.de/index.php?en_artbooks

Sol LeWitt

"Artists’ books are, like any other medium, a means of conveying art ideas from the artist to the viewer/reader. Unlike most other media they are available to all at a low cost.  They do not need a special place to be seen. They are not valuable except for the ideas they contain.  They contain the material in a sequence which is determined by the artist. (The reader/viewer can read the material in any order but the artist presents it as s/he thinks it should be).  Art shows come and go but books stay around for years.  They are works themselves, not reproductions of works.  Books are the best medium for many artists working today.  The material seen on the walls of galleries in many cases cannot be easily read/seen on walls but can be more easily read at home under less intimidating conditions.  It is the desire of artists that their ideas be understood by as many people as possible.  Books make it easier to accomplish this."

- Sol LeWitt, Art-Rite Magazine #14, January 1976
(via http://artistsbooksandmultiples.blogspot.com.br)

Henri Matisse

 Interior with a young girl (Girl reading), 1905

 

uma história da leitura

Julien Nédélec

Feuilleté est un livre blanc dont les pages conservent la trace indélébile des empreintes digitales de Julien Nédélec, puisque chaque exemplaire du livre aura été feuilleté par l'artiste et ses doigts salis par de l’encre. Tiré à 700 exemplaires, chaque exemplaire de ce livre est de fait unique.

Cette nouvelle édition de Feuilleté fait suite à une première édition publiée en 2008, aujourd’hui épuisée. Conçue comme la précédente, elle présente un nombre de pages augmenté et une nouvelle reliure.

« S’il fallait résumer le travail de Julien Nédélec en quelques mots, on pourrait affirmer qu’il se situe quelque part entre Raymond Hains, l’OuLiPo et Claude Closky. Raymond Hains, tout d’abord, pour cette propension à manipuler le langage, transformer le sens en non-sens – ou tout au moins en un sens différent –, s’amuser des renversements sémantiques et continuellement brouiller les pistes. L’OuLiPo, ensuite, constitué dans les années soixante par Raymond Queneau et le mathématicien François Le Lionnais, en raison de son goût pour les séries, les ensembles, les suites complexes et plus généralement les mathématiques. Claude Closky, enfin, pour le jeu permanent, la recherche constante du décalage. » Antoine Marchand (Revue 02)


Caractéristiques techniques
9 euros
48 pages
11,5 x 18,5 cm
Broché
ISBN 978-2-915859-43-0
2013
http://www.editions-zedele.net/feuillete-ne.html

Waltercio Caldas

 

Objeto
Técnica: acrílico moldado e gravado
Dimensões: (A x L x P) 32 x 23 x 5 cm
Data: 2012
Edição: 40

Waltercio Caldas tem desenvolvido livros de artista ao longo de sua trajetória artística e Como imprimir sombras é o mais recente deles. A obra, feita em acrílico moldado e gravado com o título, foi elaborada com exclusividade para a Carbono Galeria.

Frans Hals

Saint Mathieu

Kokoschka

Retrato do escritor Karl Kraus, 1925

Richard Wentworth

Suspended “Bookshelf” Installation

Francisco Pino

Es tal y tan variada la obra del vallisoletano Francisco Pino que conocerla de manera exhaustiva se torna tarea complicada, por no decir, prácticamente imposible. Poeturas, collages, libros objeto, masas líricas o utensilios poéticos son algunos de los géneros en los que se adentró el que Jorge Guillén bautizó como «el poeta más vanguardista de la poesía española.

Con el fin de dar a conocer la trayectoria de «uno de los creadores más importantes del siglo XX», el Ayuntamiento de Valladolid y la Fundación Jorge Guillén —en colaboración con el Ministerio de Cultura, la Sociedad Estatal de Conmemoraciones, la Junta de Castilla y León, la Diputación y la Universidad de Valladolid, la Fundación Joaquín Díaz y Simancas Ediciones— han organizado la exposición «Propio infinito. Francisco Pino 1910-2010.

[...]

Destaca también en la muestra dos instalaciones arquitectónicas que reproducen sendas obras del escritor, «Hombre, canción» y «Ventana oda», de cuyo diseño se ha encargado el arquitecto Jorge Tamaro y que permiten, en palabras del primer edil, «poder entrar en las páginas de los libros del propio “Paco”», algo «muy importante» cuando uno lee, recordó De la Riva, quien ha descubierto en el autor vallisoletano «que la poesía no son sólo palabras, sino mucho más que todo eso.

http://www.abc.es/20100905/comunidad-castillaleon/viaje-interior-paginas-pino-20100905.html

Ex-Libris

 Ex-Libris de John Muller, desenhado por Aubrey Beardsley

  Ex-Libris Eroticis

Owen Jones

The Influence of Medieval Illumination

Owen Jones, 'Illumination for The Psalms of David (The Victoria Psalter)', 1861. National Art Library Pressmark L.168-1886

http://www.vam.ac.uk/

O cordel e a leitura

 José Cavalcanti Ferreira (Dila)

Seleção de capas e ilustrações de cordel, do acervo do CEDAE/Unicamp

Blank Books

Em memória de Michael Gibbs, que publicou "All or Nothing: an anthology of Blank Books", fizeram uma exposição só com livros em branco, Blank Book Makers. Eu incluiria o livro do Nuno Ramos, "Balada", mostrado na foto abaixo.

Blank Book Makers In Memoriam Michael Gibbs
2nd to 17th June 2012
13h-19h Tuesday-Sunday

 
This exhibition is meant to address the latest developments in artists’ book history. An amazing corpus of new works makes up a most dynamic overview. There are many books dealing with topics such as emptiness, space, or the very substance of pages, and we deemed it necessary to look at the influence of books that have been published in neighbouring fields to that of the artist’s book or bookworks publications, in order for us to better define our investigation. Showing all facets and aspects through the most significant images was an option made difficult by the abundance of publications. We attempted to identify and showcase the current ideas and needs of the artist’s book medium (see below the list of books exhibited).

The exhibition Blank Book Makers is initiated by Izet Sheshivari and Ramaya Tegegne and curated and set up by Izet Sheshivari at Fonderie Kugler, Geneva.

Listing of the exhibited books 
http://www.saloondulivre.ch/blank-book-makers/exhibition/

Erica Baum

Sigurdur Gudmundsson

Extension, 1974

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