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This catalogue defines, describes and illustrates, in an experiment graphic designed layout, mass produced editions of artists' books from the 1970's to the 1990's. This book is complementary to Johanna Drucker's book, "The Century of Artists' Books that dealt with unique and small editioned books. In an in-depth essay, Clive Phillpot analyzes the entire spectrum, including magazines, assemblings, manifestos, visual poetry, scores, documentation, sketchbooks, albums, graphic works, comic books, illustrated books, page art, mail art and bookworks. Martha Wilson is interviewed by Thomas Padon about the Franklin Furnace Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Clive Phillpot contributed an essay, "Reading Artists' Books," in which he wrote that "Visual artists have explored and exploited the nature and structure of the book. both in former times and with renewed vigor more recently, with the result that the book has come to be appreciated widely as an extremely fruitful and subtle multidimensional means for the transmission of human experience. In addition, artists have come to demand of their readers that they develop their ability to utilize various forms of reading, whether retinal or tactile, whether linear, peripheral, oscillatory, or random, in order to be able to engage fully with the content embedded in each book." Books by Carothers, Ligorano, and Mabe were lent to this exhibition by the Sackner Archive. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

Scope and Contents Phillpot mentions that he was initially dismissive of unique artist books because he was an advocate of mass produced books when he took a position as chief librarian at MOMA in NYC. But after living in the United States, he accepted them since he realizized that they were still books done by artists.In the Acknowledgement section at the end of this book, Phillpot lists Marvin Sackner among the people "who have invited me, assisted me, and encouraged me into print, with regard to artists' books." artbook.com: "Clive Phillpot has been a tireless advocate for the artist's book for more than 40 years"‰--"‰both as a critic, curator and editor, and in his tenure as director at the library of The Museum of Modern Art in the late 1970s, where he built the library's collection of artist's books and mapped out the field with influential essays that traced its ancestry and distinguished it from seemingly similar genres such as the livre d'artiste. As he has delineated the genre: "Artists'...

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This exhibition was curated by Clive Phillpot and Jon Hendricks. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Live in Your Head re-examines the artistic legacy of the 1960s and 70s and attempts to clarify the points of origin of a formative generation in British art. It focuses on conceptual and experimental art in Britain. Each artist/poet is given a double-page spread, This catalogue also includes artists' statements and portraits, reproductions of numerous works, biographic and bibliographical information. In addition, Live in Your Head includes a lively and illustrated chronology of social and cultural events between 1965-1975, and essays by Michael Archer, Rosetta Brooks and co-curators, Andrea Tarsia and Clive Philpot. This catalogue has a yhellow cover whereas the other copy in the Sackner Archive has a blue cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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Live in Your Head re-examines the artistic legacy of the 1960s and 70s and attempts to clarify the points of origin of a formative generation in British art. It focuses on conceptual and experimental art in Britain. Each artist/poet is given a double-page spread, This catalogue also includes artists' statements and portraits, reproductions of numerous works, biographic and bibliographical information. In addition, Live in Your Head includes a lively and illustrated chronology of social and cultural events between 1965-1975, and essays by Michael Archer, Rosetta Brooks and co-curators, Andrea Tarsia and Clive Philpot. This catalogue has a blue cover whereas the other copy in the Sackner Archive has a yellow cover. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This book consists of essays published on the occasion of the International Conference on Art Periodicals and exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum. It includes an excellent listing of 19th and 20th century art periodicals. The book is also designated Art Documents Number One. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.

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This catalog is concerned with the various forms book of the future. The constantly changing exhibition will travel until 2000, including an opening at the Miami Book Fair in 1995. Kim MacQueen contributes an essay which examines the format of the book from manuscript to CD-ROM in the exhibition. -- Source of annotation: Marvin or Ruth Sackner.