The Book as Object

Six Years, a book with possibly the longest subtitle in the bibliography of art: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972: a cross-reference book of information on some esthetic boundaries: consisting of a bibliography into which are inserted a fragmented text, art works, documents, interviews, and symposia, arranged chronologically and focused on so-called conceptual or information or idea art with mentions of such vaguely designated areas as minimal, anti-form, systems, earth, or process art, occurring now in the Americas, Europe, England, Australia, and Asia (with occasional political overtones) edited and annotated by Lucy R. Lippard. 

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Six Years: The dematerialization of the art object from 1966 to 1972: a cross-reference book of information on some esthetic boundaries: consisting of a bibliography into which are inserted a fragmented text, art works, documents, interviews, and symposia, arranged chronologically and focused on so-called conceptual or information or idea art with mentions of such vaguely designated areas as minimal, anti-form, systems, earth, or process art, occurring now in the Americas, Europe, England, Australia, and Asia (with occasional political overtones) edited and annotated by Lucy R. Lippard. 

 

Materializing "Six Years"Lucy R. Lippard and the Emergence of Conceptual ArtEdited by Catherine Morris and  Vincent BoninPreface by Lucy R. Lippard

http://www.ocopy.net/2017/09/18/lucy-lippard-ed-six-years-the-dematerialization-of-the-art-object-from-1966-to-1972-1973/

 

 

 

Alec Wilkinson, "Something Borrowed: Kenneth Goldsmith’s poetry elevates copying to an art, but did he go too far?" September 28, 2015

Notes on Conceptualisms by Vanessa Place and Robert Fitterman [2009] 

Vanessa Place, “Notes on Conceptualism”

PROJECTTransforming Artist Books

Edward Ruscha, 'Twenty-six Gasoline Stations' 1963

February 2012 – August 2012 A research network exploring digital transformations in the creation and reception of artist books

As part of the ‘Transforming Artist Books’ Research Network, Tate piloted the writing of five descriptive texts that combined bibliographic details with descriptive and interpretative commentary similar in tone and format to the summaries written about artworks in Tate’s collection. Some of the texts contain artist-generated information and all have suggestions for further reading. New photographs of the books help show their physical complexity.Digital books
Two artists developed digital works in the context of the Transforming Artist Books research network
. The resulting drawings in Hogan’s sketchbook, the final portraits, Anya Sainsbury’s recorded words and a short film of one session were brought together in A Narrated Portrait 2008–2011. Hogan soon realised that rather than being a new version of existing work, A Narrated Portrait was a new multi-media work in its own right which allowed viewers to listen to sound recordings and watch the film while virtually turning the pages of the sketchbook. Using turning the page technology, the project was developed with Armadillo Systems and published in 2013 at http://eileenhogan.onlineculture.co.uk/ttp/.The Pond at Deuchar, an electronic version of the paper scroll she had made in 2011. Working with the developer Michael Stocking of Armadillo Systems, she further refined the scroll and published it in 2013 at http://helendouglas.onlineculture.co.uk/ttp/ttp.html. Clive Phillpot, one of the workshop participants, has written about the genesis and significance of this work in Postscript: The Pond at Deuchar E-scroll.