York University Libraries is pleased to announce the acquisition of
"a
broadly representative
collection of approximately 600 artists' publications spanning the
years 1960-2010 assembled with an eye to an eclectic range of
engagement with ideas and form" from Granary Books. The collection
includes key examples of the the multiple "zones of activity" within
which artists explore and interact with the book described by
Johanna
Drucker in "The Century of Artists' Books." These include:
The Artist's Book as a Democratic Multiple
The Codex and its Variations
The Book As Visual Form
The Book As Verbal Exploration
The Book as Sequence: Narrative and Non-narrative
The Artist's Book as an Agent of Social Change
The Book as Conceptual Space
The Book as Document
Key examples of each of these paradigms are included "enhancing and
defining the collection's value as an important site for scholarly
and
artistic research, teaching and exhibition."
Among the dozens of artists included in the collection are:
Ida Applebroog, Eleanor Antin, Arakawa, Alice Aycock, John
Baldessari,
Banco de Ideas, AA Bronson, Marcel Broodthaers, Bill Burke, Coracle
Press (including more than 100 publications from this important
British
artists' press operated by Simon Cutts and Erica Van Horn),
Tennessee
Rice Dixon, Henrik Drescher, Johanna Drucker, Ian Hamilton Finlay,
Hamish Fulton, Philip Gallo, Ralph Gibson, Walter Hamady, David
Horton,
Shelley Hoyt, Susan Johanknecht, Robin Kahn, Shelagh Keeley, Ruth
Laxson, Jean le Gac, Warren Lehrer, Sol Lewitt, Paul Etienne
Lincoln,
Richard Long, Little Cockroach Press, Ochiishi, Dieter Roth, Ed
Ruscha,
Purgatory Pie Press, Robert Smithson, Buzz Spector, Telfer Stokes,
Michelle Stuart, Barbara Tetenbaum, Hans Waanders and Janet Zwieg.
Mary
Mary Kandiuk MA MLS
Visual Arts, Design & Theatre Librarian/Senior Librarian
York University Libraries
http://www.yorku.ca/mkandiuk/
416.736.2100 ext. 88890
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