Publishing / books on books

The reissue of issue 34 of the critical graphic design journal: a questioning of the criterion of "beauty" applied to typography and the challenges of the "Most Beautiful Swiss Books" award.

Edited, designed and printed by Matrijaršija, this riso-printed book is the first in the Tehnika series and is based on research into the left-wing union of typographers and printers active in Yugoslavia in the 1920s and 30s.

A critical reflection on memory and images through a collection of rare photography books produced as part of liberation movements in the former Portuguese colonies in Africa between the 1960s and 1980s, reflecting on the importance of visual culture in anti-colonial struggles and the early years of independence, between activism and formal experimentation closely linked to armed struggles.

The reproduction / reconstruction of Lautréamont's extremely rare text by artists Vincent Labaume and Jean-Luc Moulène, who, with the help of photocopying, photography and digitization, continue a century-old tradition.

The first in-depth research on fanzines in Quebec.

A visual corpus that brings together one hundred and thirty-two artists' books collected and reproduced as part of an artistic residency conducted at the Centre des livres d'artistes (Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche).

The outcome of in-depth research into the work of Bruno Richard and Pascal Doury, this anthology of the legendary magazine Elles sont de sortie (ESDS) retraces five decades of a corpus of nearly three hundred publications.

Gérard Berréby looks back at the first publishing experience of the man who was to become the director of Allia publishing house: the decision, in the early 1980s, to produce a pirate edition of Aragon's book—at the time opposed to any reprinting—, an unprecedented gesture that provoked numerous reactions in the literary world, and raised a number of questions linked to appropriation and self-publishing.

An adventure book, written and drawn, by Luca Merlini that takes us closer to the creative process of the architect and the parallel that can be drawn with literature, highlighting the question of the book and its intimate relationship to architecture.

A spectacular insight into the work of art director Willy Fleckhaus for the German magazine twen, which in the 1960s was arguably the world's most influential magazine in terms of visual daring and graphic innovation, and remains an essential reference for many contemporary practitioners.

The most comprehensive case study ever written on the crucial subject of text typography, by one of the major representatives of this discipline.

Three-volume catalogue raisonné of the work of Alain de la Bourdonnaye.

A visceral questioning of what a book can or cannot be, and of the positions of author and reader.

Publishing as a discursive process and the book as a device of (re)formulation and enunciation: the culmination of a research program aimed at extending the notion of writing to all dimensions of editorial practice.

A journey through the history of the pioneering Italian science fiction magazine Urania since the early 1950s.

An artist's guide to copyright, written for makers.

A glorious design herbarium of marijuana ads from the great underground magazines of the 1960s and '70s.

An international essay (France, USA, Brazil, etc.) on digital poetry, from the first attempts to generate text on the computer to the most contemporary developments and the problems posed by artificial intelligence.

A survey of forty years of publications, highlighting the importance of the French publishing house P.O.L. and its authors in the emergence and definition of what can be called the contemporary in literature.

A manifesto for the decolonization of art book fairs and publishing.

Costumes, the second book of images produced from the plates in isdaT's old books collection, focuses on the representation of clothing and ornaments. With a 21st century perspective, the edition explores an exceptional public heritage.

Interviews with a group of pioneering artists' book publishers: Simon Cutts, Hansjörg Mayer, and Leif Eriksson.

Interviews with ten pioneering artists' book publishers: Simon Cutts, herman de vries, Michel Durand-Dessert, Leif Eriksson, Guy Jungblut, Yvon Lambert, Irmeline Lebeer-Hossmann, Hansjörg Mayer, Maurizio Nannucci, Maurizio Spatola.

Interviews with a group of pioneering artists' book publishers: herman de vries, Michel Durand-Dessert, Guy Jungblut, Yvon Lambert, Irmeline Lebeer-Hossmann, Maurizio Nannucci, Maurizio Spatola.

138 records of artist’s books, catalogues, posters, invitation cards and ephemera (with an essay by Jan Meissner).

Maurizio Nannucci's "auto(biblio)biography" (artist's book).

Issues 39 to 41 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.

An inventory: Bibliothèque d'un Amateur. Richard Prince's Publications takes a look at Richard Prince's library and production of artist's books published between 1980 and 2020. (new expanded edition).

"Stories of Paper" traces the history of paper as a thousand-year-old material used from antiquity to the present day, and provides an original perspective on the history of graphic arts.

4th issue of the international journal on amateur and DIY media, bringing together contributions on fanzine readers, Tolkien-zines, the place of a female author in the scene of cinema fanzines in Greece, the artistic project Copie Machine, the fanzine as a societal springboard.

This picture book features decorative patterns with unusual shapes and colors, taken from the decorative arts collections of the Institut supérieur des arts et du design de Toulouse (isdaT).

Issues 35 to 37 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.

A set of photographs of the back covers of Jonathan Monk's books presented turned over. A play of transparency reveals the captions written on the back of each page.

Issues 31 to 34 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.

A search for the founding narratives of graphic design and typography (as there were such narratives in antiquity about art, painting, and sculpture) among Atlantist type designers of the 1930s, starting with the American typographer Beatrice Warde.

A counter-plunge into the thousands of annotated books in the personal library of the painter Jean-Luc Poivret.

The history of Arabic calligraphy.

This second issue of the research journal ZINES, the first of two special issues devoted to the study of feminist and queer fanzines from a global perspective, brings together international studies or testimonies on the question of gender, queer identities and their alternative realities as they appear in amateur media such as zines. The corpora presented here add, in their own way, something new to the history and stories of LGBTQI + women and people in contemporary societies.

This third issue of the research journal ZINES, the second of two special issues devoted to the study of feminist and queer fanzines from a global perspective, brings together international studies or testimonies on the question of gender, queer identities and their alternative realities as they appear in amateur media such as zines. Contributions in this volume feature themes such as the body, heteronormativity, while showing us the flip side of the conceptualization of queer.

Can we recognize a book by its silhouette? (an artist's book about artists' books).

Monograph dedicated to Jim Shaw's “Paperback Covers” key series.

Issues 27 to 30 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.

A book about art, publishing and collaboration.

Issues 23 to 26 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.

The “catalogue dé-raisonné” of all the printed matter produced by tThe independent publishing house Beau Geste Press, that federated visual poets, neo-Dadaists and international artists affiliated with the Fluxus movement from 1971 to 1976.

First issue of the international journal on amateur and DIY media.

The sixth issue of the annual magazine mixing graphic design, publishing and architecture is devoted to the double theme of “Minimal & Maximal”.

Issues 19 to 21 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.