This guide lists information and key resources about artists' publications/publishing, arranged by format. It is in development: we hope that you'll find it useful, let us know if you have any comments or questions.
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Selection of artists' books on display at Tate Britain. Photo © Tate (Sonal Bakrania)
Artists’ publishing
Brown, E. (2014) X-Operative: production, performance, exchange, reading and writing, distribution. London: X Marks the Bokship.
Cotton, M. and Yip, N. (2013) Xerography. Colchester: FirstSite.
Dockx, N. and Pas, J. (2023) A kind of a ‘huh?’ Artists’ publications, (not) a user’s guide. Antwerp: Track Report/Royal Academy of Fine Arts.
Everall, G. and Rolo, J. (2012) Again a time machine: from distribution to archive. London: Book Works.
Fusco, M. (2004) Put about: a critical anthology on independent publishing. London: Book Works.
Gilbert, A. (2016) Publishing as artistic practice. Berlin: Sternberg Press.
Keller, C. (2009) Kiosk: modes of multiplication; a sourcebook on independent art publishing, 1999-2009. Zürich: JRP/Ringier.
Lippard, L. (1973) Six years: the dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972. London: Studio Vista.
Artists’ books
Bury, S. (2015) Artists' books: the book as a work of art, 1963-2000. 2nd ed. London: Quaritch.
Celant, G. (1972) Book as artwork, 1960-72. London: Nigel Greenwood.
Celant, G. and Guest, T. (1981) Books by artists. Toronto: Art Metropole.
Desjardins, A. (2013) The book on books on artists books. 2nd ed. London: Everyday Press.
Drucker, J. (2004) The century of artists' books. 2nd ed. New York: Granary Books.
Hampton, M. (2015) Unshelfmarked: reconceiving the artists' book. London: Uniform Books.
Klima, S. (1998) Artists books: a critical survey of the literature. New York: Granary Books.
Kung, M. (2023) Blank. Raw. Illegible... Artists' books as statements (1960-2022). Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König.
Lauf, C. and Phillpot, C. (1998) Artist/Author: contemporary artists' books. New York: DAP; AFA.
Lyons, J. (1985) Artists' books: a critical anthology and sourcebook. Rochester: Visual Studios Workshop.
Moeglin-Delcroix, A. (2012) Esthétique du livre d’artiste, 1960-1980: une introduction à l'art contemporain. 2nd ed. Paris: Biliothèque nationale de France.
Phillpot, C. (2013) Booktrek: selected essays on artists' books since 1972. Zurich: JRP Ringier.
Reed, M. and Phillips, G. (2018) Artists and their books/books and their artists. Los Angeles: Getty Research Institute.
Roth, A., Aarons, P., Lehmann, C. (2017) Artists who make books. London: Phaidon.
Schraenen, G. (2012) From page to space: published paper sculptures. Oporto: Serralves.
Photobooks
Parr, M. and Badger, G. (2006) The photobook: a history volume I. London: Phaidon.
Parr, M. and Badger, G. (2006) The photobook: a history volume II. London: Phaidon.
Parr, M. and Badger, G. (2014) The photobook: a history volume III. London: Phaidon.
Artists’ magazines
Aarons, P. and Roth, A. (2009) In numbers: serial publications by artists since 1955. New York: PPP.
Allen, G. (2011) Artists’ magazines: an alternative space for art. Cambridge: MIT.
Allen, G. (2016) The magazine. London: Whitechapel.
Boivent, M. (2015) La revue d'artiste: enjeux et spécifités d'une pratique artistique. Rennes: Editions incertain sens.
Colomina, B. and Buckley, C. (2010) Clip, stamp, fold: the radical architecture of little magazines, 196X to 197X. Barcelona: Actar.
Perneczky, G. (2007) Assembling magazines 1969-2000. Budapest: Arnyekkotok Foundation.
Zines
Art Libraries Journal, Zines and Libraries in the UK - Special Issue (vol. 43. no. 2, April 2018)
Joseph, B. and Sawyer, D. (2023) Copy machine manifestos: artists who make zines. London: Phaidon.
Triggs, T. (2010) Fanzines. London: Thames & Hudson.
Artists’ ephemera
Art Libraries Journal, Ephemera - Special Issue (vol. 41. no. 2, April 2016)
Cooper, J. (2019) The world exists to be put on a postcard: artists' postcards from 1960 to now. London: Thames & Hudson.
Leiber, S. (2001) Extra art: a survey of artists' ephemera, 1960-1999. Santa Monica: Smart Art Press.
Senior, D. (2014) Please come to the show. London: Occasional Papers.
Tonini, B. (2019) Artists' invitations 1965-1985. Ravenna: Danilo Montanari Editore.
Audiovisual
Schraenen, G. (2005) Vinyl: records and covers by artists, a survey. Bremen: Neues Museum Weserburg.
Esthétique du livre d'artiste, 1960-1980: une introduction à l'art contemporain by 
Open access, free online collections of digitised artists' books and databases of information and images about artists' publications.
Book Arts Newsletter
https://www.bookarts.uwe.ac.uk/newsletters/
Other sources of information for events and exhibitions include:
New Exhibitions of Contemporary Art
Art Monthly Listings
Artforum Artguide
