Collections
The Blue Notebook, Volume 8, Number 1, October 2013 / Edited by Sarah Bodman
Serials (publications)
Letterpress on the Underground. From the perspective of a screenprinter and letterpress printer, Danny Flynn looks at some of the work that has been produced by these mediums; and the particular letterpress prints that cross over from book-art and print-art to that of guerrilla street art.
Some undisclosed points of remove. Vicky Falconer reflects on her experiences working on the site-responsive artists’ books project at Chelsea College of Art & Design Library, UK, showing publications and mixed-media artworks by Melanie Counsell, Sara MacKillop, Anne Tallentire, Sabine Tholen and Joëlle Tuerlinckx
I Appropriate, Therefore I Am. Dr Nola Farman looks at the artist’s book and its quixotic relationship to the established order and major genres. Its role is to détourne ideas, configurations and postures with persistent resonance. When considered as a form of renewal, appropriation draws art practice into a non-linear logic that resonates in its circularity across a number of planes of activity.
S.M.S. Shit Must Stop: A compendium, A presentation, A poem, An insertion of postcards. James A. Holliday’s essay is a textual response to some of the artworks viewed in S.M.S. William Copley’s artists’ portfolio series from the late 60s.
My Life Unfolds. Natalie d’Arbeloff describes the making of her monoprinted accordion book, included in the exhibition Open Books: Sixteen artists and the Chinese folding-book which opened at the National Library of Wales in Aberystwyth last year and is currently on tour.
Artists’ pages by: Rodrigo Arteaga (Chile), Sophie Artemis Pitt (UK), Helena de la Guardia (Spain), Claudia de la Torre (Germany) and Laura Russell (USA)
All four-letter words cover, badge and sticker design by Guy Bigland (UK).