Artist's book

Artists' books are works of art in which have generally made ​​the book for the subject of an artistic concept; in contemporary art exceeded these concepts, the limits of the book as an object. Artists' books created as original work by an artist or appear after the idea of ​​multiples in authorized editions.

Advent of artists' books

In the 1920s, the artists of various art movements began to experiment with the medium of the book. The artist's book was Anticipated example, by manifestos, pamphlets and publications of the Dada ( " Dada magazines " ), by Kurt Schwitters, Raoul Hausmann or by the Bauhaus books. It was developed a sense that books are a communicative medium, and this can allow a breakout from the vertebrate stem places the art to a broad public and communicative networking among the artists.

In the 1960s, with the advent of conceptual art and Fluxus, came for the first time - in addition to small boxes, limited edition objects and drawings - the shape of the internationally printed in smaller numbered edition artist's books on. They reported actions, friendships and situations " which had the advantage of being able to be delivered in order to maintain the friendly communication system. " 's Approach Fluxus to be an art for anyone with the utopia that showed how printing products for the rapid dissemination can be used ideas and strategies.

Both occur in small numbers as well as a serial product still concept books, object books, collages, Leporello, scrolls, books, loose-leaf collections, inter-media boxes or multiples from a variety of materials; the traditional form of the book consisting of printed pages between covers of a book, is varied by the artists there or not rarely questioned.

Theory

The Mexican artist and writer Ulises Carrión in 1975 first defined in an essay " the new art of books machens ". In several chapters, he argues, " what a book is ," where it is closer to the role of " prose and seal ", " space ", " language ", " structures " and " Read " is received. Originally he wrote the essay in Spanish (published in plural no. 41 in Mexico City). In a slightly abbreviated form he is in 1975 appeared in context No. 6/7 in Amsterdam in English. A German translation ( by Hubert Kretschmer ) was first published in the Frankfurter art magazine skyscraper in October 1982 ( Issue 3/ 82).

Artists' books (selection)

Modern

• Salvador Dalí: Comte de Lautréamont: Les Chants de Maldoror ( The Songs of Maldoror ). Albert Skira, Paris, 1934. More works here
• Marcel Duchamp / Mary Reynolds: Alfred Jarry: Ubu Roi, 1935
• Max Ernst: Une semaine de bonté, Paris 1934
• Paul Klee: Voltaire: Candide, or the best of the world. A story. Kurt Wolff, Munich 1920 ( 26 drawings)
• Henri Matisse: Jazz. Tériade, Paris 1947
• Joan Miró: Paul Éluard: A toute épreuve, Gerald Kramer, Geneva 1958
• Pablo Picasso: Honoré de Balzac: Le Chef d' oeuvre inconnu ( The Unknown Masterpiece ), Ambroise Vollard, Paris, 1931

The 60s: Fluxus, conceptual, pop

• Joseph Beuys: 1a fried fish bone. Edition Hundertmark, Berlin 1972
• George Brecht: Water Yam. Fluxus Editions, Wiesbaden, New York 1963
• Stanley Brouwn: Steps. Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam 1971
• This Way Brown: 25-2-61: 26-2-61. Publisher brothers king, Cologne 1971
• Axel Heibel: If everything is shown, there is nothing more to see. Book objects. Suermondt Ludwig Museum, Aachen 1998
• Ray Johnson: The Paper Snake. Something Else Press, New York 1965
• Correspondences. Flammarion, Paris 1999
• Alison Knowles: House of Dust. Publisher brothers king, Cologne 1968
• Journal of the Identical Lunch. Nova Broadcast Press, San Francisco 1971
• Sol LeWitt: Four Basic Colors: Yellow, Black, Red, Blue and Their Combinations. Lisson Gallery, London 1971
• Brick Wall. Tanglewood Press, 1977
• Tom Phillips: A Humument (from 1971)
• Bern Porter: Found Poems. Something Else Press, Millerton, N. Y., 1972.
• FROM: Bern Porter TO: The World! Roger Jackson Publishers, Ann Arbor, MI, 1999
• Dieter Roth: 2 picture books Forlag ed, Reykjavik 1957.
• Ed Ruscha: Twenty-six Gasoline Stations ( 1963)
• Various Small Fires (1964 )
• Some Los Angeles Apartments (1965 )
• Every Building on the Sunset Strip (1966 )
• Thirtyfour Parking Lots (1967 )
• Royal Road Test ( 1967)
• Records ( 1971)
• Michael Snow: Cover to Cover. Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, Halifax, 1975
• Wolf Vostell: Dé-coll/age. Something Else Press, New York 1966
• Andy Warhol: Andy Warhol 's Index ( Book). Random House, New York 1967
• Joyce Wieland: True Patriot Love. National Gallery of Canada, Ottawa 1971

Representative

Pop Art: The English: Allen Jones, Eduardo Paolozzi, Tom Phillips. The Americans: Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, Ed Ruscha, Andy Warhol

Conceptual artist John Baldessari, Marcel Broodthaers, Mel Bochner, Daniel Buren, Jochen Gerz, Gilbert & George, Joseph Kosuth, Sol LeWitt, Richard Long, Allen Ruppersberg, Edward Ruscha, Michael Snow, Timm Ulrichs, Lawrence Weiner and Joyce Wieland.

New Realism: Christo, Niki de Saint -Phalle and Daniel Spoerri

Fluxus artists: Joseph Beuys, George Brecht, Robert Filliou, Ken Friedman, Al Hansen, Dick Higgins, Allan Kaprow, Milan Knížák, Alison Knowles, Ben Vautier, Wolf Vostell or Emmett Williams

Visual poetry or concrete poetry: Hartmut Andryczuk, Claus Bremer, Henri Chopin, Klaus Peter Dencker, Reinhard Döhl, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Pierre Garnier, Klaus Groh, Eugen Gomringer, Jiri Kolar, Richard Kostelanetz, Jackson MacLow, Karl Riha, Dieter Roth

Mail Art: Ulises Carrión, Kurt Corinth, Reinhard Döhl, Ray Johnson, Guy Bleus, Partenheimer, Bern Porter

Book objects: Anselm Kiefer, László Lakner, Wolfgang Nieblich, Karl -Ludwig Sauer

Demarcation for Painters books and book objects

The field of artists' books can be divided roughly into

Collections

Because artists' books often do not fit the normal pattern of academic libraries, So usually lock against a proper registration, a number of museums and libraries have specialized in collecting artistic books.

Across Europe, the best known being the Archive for Small Press & Communication, which has passed into the possession of the New Museum Weserburg 1999. Furthermore, artists' books collections found in the library of the Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg, in the University Library of the University of Applied Arts Vienna, Stuttgart State Gallery, here especially the Sohm Archive, in the Brandenburg Art Collections Cottbus in Cottbus Art Museum, the Bavarian State Library in Munich, the State and University library Dresden and the Museum of Arts and Crafts in Hamburg. The Lyrik Kabinett München with the most extensive collection of poetry in the German language and the German Literature Archive in Marbach also have become rich collections of artists' books. A larger collection of artist books has the Herzog August Library in Wolfenbüttel and the Kunstmuseum Pablo Picasso Münster, which specializes in French painter books.