Publishing Manifestos: An International Anthology from Artists and Writers
Michalis Pichler
MIT Press and Miss Read: The Berlin Art Book Fair
English
Softcover
520 pages
170 x 240 mm
2019
ISBN 9780262544924
Manifestos by artists, authors, editors, publishers, designers, zinesters explore publishing as artistic practice.
Independent publishing, art publishing, publishing as artistic practice, publishing counterculture, and the zine, DIY, and POD scenes have proliferated over the last two decades. So too have art book fairs, an increasingly important venue—or even medium—for art. Art publishing experienced a similar boom in the 1960s and 1970s, in response to the culture’s “linguistic turn.” Today, art publishing confronts the internet and the avalanche of language and images that it enables. The printed book offers artists both visibility and tangibility. Publishing Manifestos gathers texts by artists, authors, editors, publishers, designers, zinesters, and activists to explore this rapidly expanding terrain for art practice.
The book begins in the last century, with texts by Gertrude Stein, El Lissitsky, Oswald de Andrade, and Jorge-Luis Borges. But the bulk of the contributions are from the twenty-first century, with an emphasis on diversity, including contributions from Tauba Auerbach, Mariana Castillo Deball, Ntone Edjabe, Girls Like Us, Karl Holmqvist, Temporary Services, and zubaan. Some contributors take on new forms of production and distribution; others examine the political potential of publishing and the power of collectivity inherent in bookmaking. They explore among other topics, artists’ books, appropriation, conceptual writing, non-Western communities, queer identities, and post-digital publishing. Many texts are reproduced in facsimile—including a handwritten “speculative, future-forward newspaper” from South Africa. Some are proclamatory mission statements, others are polemical self-positioning; some are playful, others explicitly push the boundaries. All help lay the conceptual foundations of a growing field of practice and theory.
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About the Editor
Michalis Pichler, an artist-author, has published conceptual bookworks with Printed Matter, Revolver/Archiv für aktuelle Kunst, cneai (Chatou), and Kunstverein Milano and edited the critical anthology Books and Ideas after Seth Siegelaub. He cofounded Miss Read: The Berlin Art Book Festival, an artist-run public meeting place for discourse around artists’ books, conceptual publications, publishing as practice, which has evolved into Europe’s largest book fair.
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(source: https://mitpress.mit.edu/author/michalis-pichler-32153/)
About the Publisher
Established in 1962, the MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Press is one of the largest and most distinguished university presses in the world and a leading publisher of books and journals at the intersection of science, technology, art, social science, and design. It is based in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
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Miss Read: The Berlin Art Book Fair brings together a wide selection of the most interesting artists/authors, artist periodicals and art publishers and is accompanied by a series of lectures, discussions, book launches and workshops exploring the boundaries of contemporary publishing and the possibilities of the book. Miss Read is Europe’s Art Book Festival, dedicated to community-building and creating a public meeting place for discourse around artists’ books, conceptual publications and publishing as practice. In 2019 Miss Read was gathering 304 exhibitors.
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