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A Book of the Book: Some Works & Projections about the Book & Writing / edited by Jerome Rothenberg and Steven Clay
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REF.BC.2790
xiii, 537 pages (2 folded) : illustrations ; 26 cm
2000
Artists' books
This is a collection of readings on the book as a mythic and material object. It includes commentaries and essays on 'the book', and discussions of specific artists' books.
Designed by Philip Gallo, with cover by Sara Seagull. Illustrated with over 200 black and white halftones, plus a full-color fold-out reproduction of Sonia Delauney’s and Blaise Cendrar’s La Prose du Transsibérien translated by Ron Padgett. Printed offset.
A Book of the Book is broken down into four sections:
Prefaces:
—Jerome Rothenberg / The Poetics & Ethnopoetics Of The Book & Writing
— Steve Mccaffery And Bpnichol / From "The Book As Machine”
— Karl Young / Notation And The Art Of Reading
— William Everson / From "The Poem As Icon-Reflections On Printing As A Fine Art'
— Keith A. Smith / The Book As Physical Object
— Michael Davidson / The Material Page
— Anne Waldman / My Life A Book
— Jacques Derrida / Edmond Jabes And The Question Of The Book
— Edmond Jabes / From “Desire For A Beginning Dread Of One Single End”
The Opening Of The Field:
— Gertrude Stein / Book
— William Blake / From “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”
— David V. Erdman / From "Introduction To The Illuminated Blake”
— Walt Whitman / From “So Long"
— Susan Howe / These Flames And Generosities Of The Heart, Emily Dicksinson And The Illogic Of Sumptuary Values
— Richard Sieburth / From Mallarme'S Le Livre
— Maurice Blanchot / The Book To Come
— Marjorie Perloff / From “The Futurist Moment
— Blaise Cendrars And Sonia Delaunay / La Prose Du Transsiberien (Facsimile And Foldout)
— F.T. Marinetti / From Destruction Of Syntax: Imagination Without Strings-Words-In-Freedom 1913
— Gerald Janecek / From ‘Kruchonykh And The Manuscript Book”
— Velimir Khlebnikov / The One, The Only Book
— John Maizels / The Phenomenon Of Adolf Wolfli
— Andre Breton / Foreword To The Hundred Headless Woman By Max Ernst
— Max Ernst / From “The Hundred Headless Woman”
— Marcel Duchamp / Boite-En-Valise
— Agnes De La Beaumelle / Spells And Gris-Gris
— Antonin Artaud / Spell For Leon Fouks
— Jerome Mcgann / From “Composition As Explanation (Of Modern And Postmodern Poetries)"
The Book Is As Old As Fire & Water:
—Nezahualcoyotl / The Painted Book
— Henry Munn / Writing In The Imagination Of An Oral Poet
— Dennis Tedlock / Toward A Poetics Of Polyphony And Translatability
— Nancy Munn / Guruwari Designs
— Cecilia Vicuna / Libro Desierto / Desert Book
— Jean Francois Billeter / From “The Chinese Art Of Writing”
— Roland Barthes / The Written Face
— Toshi Ishihara And Linda Reinfeld / Hyakunin Isshu: Between Power And Play, An Anthology In Translation
— Martha L . Carothers / Novelty Books: Accent Of Images And Words
— William J . Samarin / From “Tongues Of Men And Angels”
— David Meltzer / Books Within Books! Some Notes On T H E Kabbalah & The Sefer Yetsirah
— Anonymous / From “Sefer Yetsirah”
— Jacques Gaffarel / Celestial Alphabet Event
— Marcel Griaule / From “Conversations With Ogotemmêli”
— Jorge Luis Borges / On The Cult Of Books
— Walter D. Mignolo / From “Signs And Their Transmission: The Question Of The Book In The New World”
The Book To Come:
— Tom Phillips / From “The Heart Of A Humument”
— Johanna Drucker / The Artist’S Book As Idea And Form
— Dieter Roth / Introduction To Books And Graphics
— Richard Hamilton / The Books Of Di[E]Ter Rot[H]
— Alison Knowles / On The Book Of Bean /
— Jess / O!
— Tom Phillips / Notes On A Humument
— Lawrence Upton / Writers Forum-Life By 1000 Books
— Simon Cutts / From “A Smell Of Printing”
— Ian Tyson / Souvenir De Voyage
— Allan Kaprow / Words: An Environment
— Thomas A. Vogler / When A Book Is Not A Book
— Alec Finlay / Afterword To Little Sparta
— Ian Hamilton Finlay & Robin Gillanders / From”Little Sparta”
— Carolee Schneemann / Up To And Including Her Limits
— Barbara Fahrner & Harriett Watts / Interpreting The 'Kunstkammer'
— Dan Cameron / From “Living History: Faith Ringgold'S Rendezvous With The Twentieth Century"
— Faith Ringgold / From “The French Collection” Part 1 , #3: The Picnic At Giverny
— John Cayley / Writing (Under-)Sky: On Xu Bing'S Tianshu
— Charles Bernstein / The Art Of Immemorability
Designed by Philip Gallo, with cover by Sara Seagull. Illustrated with over 200 black and white halftones, plus a full-color fold-out reproduction of Sonia Delauney’s and Blaise Cendrar’s La Prose du Transsibérien translated by Ron Padgett. Printed offset.
A Book of the Book is broken down into four sections:
Prefaces:
—Jerome Rothenberg / The Poetics & Ethnopoetics Of The Book & Writing
— Steve Mccaffery And Bpnichol / From "The Book As Machine”
— Karl Young / Notation And The Art Of Reading
— William Everson / From "The Poem As Icon-Reflections On Printing As A Fine Art'
— Keith A. Smith / The Book As Physical Object
— Michael Davidson / The Material Page
— Anne Waldman / My Life A Book
— Jacques Derrida / Edmond Jabes And The Question Of The Book
— Edmond Jabes / From “Desire For A Beginning Dread Of One Single End”
The Opening Of The Field:
— Gertrude Stein / Book
— William Blake / From “The Marriage Of Heaven And Hell”
— David V. Erdman / From "Introduction To The Illuminated Blake”
— Walt Whitman / From “So Long"
— Susan Howe / These Flames And Generosities Of The Heart, Emily Dicksinson And The Illogic Of Sumptuary Values
— Richard Sieburth / From Mallarme'S Le Livre
— Maurice Blanchot / The Book To Come
— Marjorie Perloff / From “The Futurist Moment
— Blaise Cendrars And Sonia Delaunay / La Prose Du Transsiberien (Facsimile And Foldout)
— F.T. Marinetti / From Destruction Of Syntax: Imagination Without Strings-Words-In-Freedom 1913
— Gerald Janecek / From ‘Kruchonykh And The Manuscript Book”
— Velimir Khlebnikov / The One, The Only Book
— John Maizels / The Phenomenon Of Adolf Wolfli
— Andre Breton / Foreword To The Hundred Headless Woman By Max Ernst
— Max Ernst / From “The Hundred Headless Woman”
— Marcel Duchamp / Boite-En-Valise
— Agnes De La Beaumelle / Spells And Gris-Gris
— Antonin Artaud / Spell For Leon Fouks
— Jerome Mcgann / From “Composition As Explanation (Of Modern And Postmodern Poetries)"
The Book Is As Old As Fire & Water:
—Nezahualcoyotl / The Painted Book
— Henry Munn / Writing In The Imagination Of An Oral Poet
— Dennis Tedlock / Toward A Poetics Of Polyphony And Translatability
— Nancy Munn / Guruwari Designs
— Cecilia Vicuna / Libro Desierto / Desert Book
— Jean Francois Billeter / From “The Chinese Art Of Writing”
— Roland Barthes / The Written Face
— Toshi Ishihara And Linda Reinfeld / Hyakunin Isshu: Between Power And Play, An Anthology In Translation
— Martha L . Carothers / Novelty Books: Accent Of Images And Words
— William J . Samarin / From “Tongues Of Men And Angels”
— David Meltzer / Books Within Books! Some Notes On T H E Kabbalah & The Sefer Yetsirah
— Anonymous / From “Sefer Yetsirah”
— Jacques Gaffarel / Celestial Alphabet Event
— Marcel Griaule / From “Conversations With Ogotemmêli”
— Jorge Luis Borges / On The Cult Of Books
— Walter D. Mignolo / From “Signs And Their Transmission: The Question Of The Book In The New World”
The Book To Come:
— Tom Phillips / From “The Heart Of A Humument”
— Johanna Drucker / The Artist’S Book As Idea And Form
— Dieter Roth / Introduction To Books And Graphics
— Richard Hamilton / The Books Of Di[E]Ter Rot[H]
— Alison Knowles / On The Book Of Bean /
— Jess / O!
— Tom Phillips / Notes On A Humument
— Lawrence Upton / Writers Forum-Life By 1000 Books
— Simon Cutts / From “A Smell Of Printing”
— Ian Tyson / Souvenir De Voyage
— Allan Kaprow / Words: An Environment
— Thomas A. Vogler / When A Book Is Not A Book
— Alec Finlay / Afterword To Little Sparta
— Ian Hamilton Finlay & Robin Gillanders / From”Little Sparta”
— Carolee Schneemann / Up To And Including Her Limits
— Barbara Fahrner & Harriett Watts / Interpreting The 'Kunstkammer'
— Dan Cameron / From “Living History: Faith Ringgold'S Rendezvous With The Twentieth Century"
— Faith Ringgold / From “The French Collection” Part 1 , #3: The Picnic At Giverny
— John Cayley / Writing (Under-)Sky: On Xu Bing'S Tianshu
— Charles Bernstein / The Art Of Immemorability