Openings: Studies in Book Art (E-Journal)
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Review: Cut/Copy/Paste
No full textIn Cut/Copy/Paste, Whitney Trettien journeys to the fringes of the London print trade to uncover makerspaces and collaboratories where paper media were cut up and reassembled into radical, bespoke publications
Book Arts Subscriptions
Get PDFThere’s nothing quite like opening your mailbox to find a hand-addressed envelope with some art enclosed. Over the almost thirty years I have been making books, I’ve noticed a number of artists who work in the book arts and who offer serial subscriptions of some kind. Even before crowdfunding and online sales sites, some artists made books or prints, usually smaller, more modest pieces, that sold in the manner of traditional mailed magazine subscriptions. Pay your money and receive a regular mailing of a piece of art—prints, ephemera, zines, or pamphlets.
What does it take to create a successful subscription series? What advantages are there for an artist to produce one? And why should a subscriber sign up? I’ve been curious about this for some time, so I reached out to a handful of artists with current or past subscription series to find out.
 
Reading Roots
Get PDFA culture is preserved by marking paper. Those images and words represent beliefs, triumphs, sorrows, and rules of governance. This is how a people sees itself and how it wants others to see it. Paper, heavy with the marks of history, is assembled and sewn into books. The earliest books contain words originally spoken and speak of actions previously performed. The physical book is a vessel of information—a place to preserve a story, an idea, a belief. However, printed words are not the only forms of presevation or the only things to be read.I recognize other actions as “reading.” One can read the stars, such as in astronomy and astrology—skills developed by peoples on every continent and relied upon for navigation, weather prediction, crop planting, and spiritual observances. Faces and body postures can be read, skills that aid in diplomacy and help maintain safety and assess well-being. There are written, visual, spoken, and performed signs. Modes of dress can be coded. Numbers may be signifiers. A hairstyle can denote social or political affiliation. This paper seeks to present and address some of these other locations of reading
Student Perspectives: An Interview with Daniella Napolitano
Get PDFFrom books, workshops, internships, traditional degrees, and certificates to internet searches on YouTube, there are many ways that students are learning about book arts. One of the great things about the field is its versatility in connecting to different media, ideas, and purposes. We wanted to learn more about current and recently graduated students of book arts, where they’re coming from, what they’re thinking about, and how they’re incorporating bookmaking into their art, work, and careers. In the first of a series of interviews with book arts students, we talked to MFA graduate student Daniella Napolitano (she/her/hers)
Reviews: Artists and Their Books / Books and Their Artists and Bookishness: Loving Books in a Digital Age
No full textFantasies of the Library
Get PDFAnne Royston, Assistant Professor, Rochester Institute of Technology, reviews:Anna-Sophie Springer and Etienne Turpin, eds. FANTASIES OF THE LIBRARY (2016)andCraig Dworkin, DEF (2018).
