The JAB Anthology

Selections from the Journal of Artists' Books, 1994-2020

Johanna Drucker,Brad Freeman

• Publisher: University Of Iowa Press
• Year: 2023
• ISBN:
  9781609389161
• Topic: Art
• Subtopic: Art General

This anthology of articles selected from The Journal of Artists' Books contains some of the best critical writing on artists' books produced in the last quarter of a century. Driven by the editorial vision of artist Brad Freeman, JAB began as a provocative pamphlet and expanded to become a significant journal documenting artists' books from multiple perspectives. With its range of participants and approaches, JAB provided a unique venue for sustained critical writing in the field and developed a broad subscriber base among institutional and private collectors and readers. More than two hundred writers and artists from nearly two dozen countries around the globe were published in its pages. The JAB Anthology contains contributions by many renowned figures in the field including: Anne Moeglin-Delcroix, Janet Zweig, Monica Carroll, Adam Dickerson, Alisa Scudamore, Mary Jo Pauly, April Sheridan, Doro Boehme, Gerrit Jan de Rook, Océane Delleaux, Brandon Graham, Jérôme Dupeyrat, Ward Tietz, Paulo Silveira, Philip Cabau, Leszek Brogowski, Lyn Ashby, Tim Mosely, Debra Parr, Pedro Moura, Levi Sherman, Catarina Figueiredo Cardoso, Isabel Baraona, and the editors.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Dedication
• Contents
• Preface
• Artists’ Books / Book-Like Objects
• Critical Necessities
• A Mass-Produced Product of High Order
• Ars Combinatoria and the Book
• The Knowing of Artists’ Books
• Interview with Joan Lyons
• Feminism and the Book Arts at the Woman’s Building, Los Angeles
• A Centering, of Sorts: The Evolving Idea of Minnesota Center for Book Arts
• Call and Response: Teaching with Artists’ Books at the Joan Flasch Artists’ Book Collection at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago
• Ulises Carrión and Other Books and So
• The Artist’s Book and Its Relationship to Contemporary Practices
• Shifting Artist’s Book Distribution Models
• Publishing Art
• Artists’ Books: Between Viewing and Reading
• Criticism and the Artist’s Book
• Wire Dancers
• The Gift, the Network, and Reciprocity in Artists’ Books
• Coming to Our Senses with a Modern Mythic Form
• The Haptic and the Emerging Critical Discourse on Artists’ Books
• The Smell of Books: Freud’s Gardenia and Other Ephemeral Scents
• Portuguese Comics Artists’ Books
• Books and Conflict: Witnessing Reality and Representation
• Artists’ Books in Portugal: Authors’ Editions, Small Press, Independent Publishers, and Other Book Artists
• Farewell
• On Reflection and In Retrospect: The Journal of Artists’ Books, 1994–2020
• Acknowledgments
• Contributors
• Index
• Series List