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      • Vox Populi, London
      • Cover Version
      • We are behind
      • Faker Drinker Soldier Heiress
      • Vox Populi, Switzerland
      • Auras and Levitations (Second Edition)
      • The Happy Hypocrite – A Rather Large Weapon, issue 4
      • Kidnapping Mountains
      • Teignmouth Electron
      • Strategic Questions #2: Has Man a Function in Universe?
      • ERR (Eighth Edition, 2008)
      • Feature: Reconstruction
      • Proximity Machine
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      • Vox Populi, Tokyo
      • Letters 2004–2006: Confirmation That You still Exist; I Respect Your Authority; When Will It End; One London
      • Alien Invaders: A Guide to Non-Native Species of the Britisher Isles (Volume 1)
      • Ice Blink: An Antartic Essay
      • Vox Populi, Norway
      • Vox Populi, Sydney
      • Folk Archive: Contemporary Popular Art from the UK
      • Lost in Space
      • Head in the Railings
      • Remixed Water
      • Urban / Wild
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      • Why and Why Not
      • I Know Where I'm Going: A Guide to Morecambe & Heysham
      • Magazine
      • Frances Stark: Collected Writing 1993−2003
      • Auto Roto Font
      • Trying to get in between
      • Active Genital
      • Ott's Sneeze
      • Spring Snow − A Translation
      • Progressive Disorder
      • Of Lives Between Lines
      • Mobile Vulgus
      • Material: Public Works − The Bridge 2000
      • Meeting #13
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      • After the Freud Museum (Paperback Edition)
      • First I was afraid, I was petrified
      • The Contemporary Picturesque
      • The Uses of Literacy
      • A Case of Hysteria
      • Seven Wonders of the World
      • Smash This Puny Existence
      • The Palaver
      • Marx Angels
      • Library Relocations
      • Diary of a Steak
      • small Gold Medal
      • Book Works: A Partial History and Sourcebook
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      • The Blindings
      • Rex Reason
      • Two Oxford Reading Rooms (Special Edition)
      • The Price of Words, Places to Remember 1−26
      • Notable Days
      • A Public Intimacy (A Life Through Scrapbooks)
      • What's My Name?
      • A Stellar Key to The Summerland

      Jane Rolo & Ian Hunt

      Book Works: A Partial History and Sourcebook

      160 pages | Full colour | 210 x 150 mm, Soft cover with die-cut | 1996 | Edition of 2,000 copies
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Since 1984 Book Works has aimed to make and question contexts for books in a variety of ways; Book Works: A Partial History and Sourcebook is a record of all its activities up to 1996. It is also an introduction to artists’ books and their points of contact with the larger cultures of contemporary visual arts and of the written word. The book includes illuminating essays from a variety of perspectives − practical, theoretical and irreverent.

Many of Book Works’ projects and publications are illustrated and described with detailed critical commentary. In addition, the book contains valuable information about self-publishing and details of libraries that hold collections of artists’ books.


1984年から、イギリスの出版社[Book Works]は様々な方法で本に関する文脈を作り、また疑問をなげかけてきた。本書はそのBook Worksの1996年までの歴史をまとめた本。アーティストブックの紹介、そしてアーティストブックとビジュアルアート/文章との接点の機能も担っている。1996年までの様々なプロジェクトや出版物が図版で掲載され、詳細なコメントを収録。自費出版に関する有益な情報がまとめられ、さらにこれらのアーティストブックをコレクションしている図書館の情報も記載されている。
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