case studies matrix.
notes towards case studies. artists and criteria/ranges generated from personal propositions about book art.
| roles | narrative/discursive | Enabling | |
| Jon Bently | as poet/printer/writer /musician/publishing |
poetic narrative, songs, text | zine, magazine, broadside, poetry. Repro, utilitarian press |
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Tracey Bush |
as paper artist/ artist/printer/small editions/ survey | of events, of thames, of paper traces | paper structures, page is line of events. Container as world |
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Les Coleman |
printer drawing artist | minimal. narrative of books discovery and of artistic investigation |
presents investigations into form as experiments |
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Tacita Dean |
publishing as part of project. recording, documentarist. artist | as document, record, contains differing histories. journal of discovery | as part of project. Used as adjunct to filmmmaking. Record of written aspects and stills. Not key to practice, but similar to documentary investigation. |
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Helen Douglas/Telfer Stokes |
as book artsts, primarily. Printers, photographers, artists. | integrated with page spaces. interrogating page space implicitly. generally without text, often rebus of narrattive | see discourse: space is an implicit subject. not a series of images but a concretion of book form. |
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Douglas Gordon |
see Tacita Dean. Not documentarist, but commentatin on the films of Hitchcock. artist | as Dean | Legitimates investigation differently. Produces catalogue. Not key to practice |
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Susan Johanknecht |
as writer poet artist printer historian interpreter | yes, visual and textual. often pays attention to materials and physical construction of the book | yes. book form is key to construction of narrative. is main outlet. ideas interrogate book form in various subjects |
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Paul Etienne Lincoln |
as published material.artist. as sculptural object, as game maker, as narrative | implied. many works are part of a constellation of characters. ongoing and presented as a potential array.Cards. As in Tarot |
Not particularly. Enables a publication of work with particular connotation- ie, a publication. |
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Andi McGarry |
as artist painter, poet, writer, publisher | yes, poetic and visual. | yes.projects clearly actuated in book form |
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Andrew Mockett |
primarily as artist, printer, cataloguer, | not usually. Presence of stylistic continuity. books tend to be compendia- scrap book like. | not really. Books highly finished and very lovely prints, but not really whole pieces. Prints could easily exist externally. Interested to know more. |
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Old Stile Press |
publisher, printer, designer. occasionally as artist. Collaborator, publisher. | as part of design. Illustrative. Balanced book design all part of narrative. strong discursive/ textual el ement. definite consideration of image/text narrative relation. Roles as collaborator in producing book as holistic narrative. |
yes. clearly book projects. Although consistent style, each book is considered separately. Evolution of book as balanced form incorporates all aspects of development. |
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Ti Parks |
as performance artist, sculptor, assemblages. book sculptor | very ‘sideways’. Implications of conceptual associations. Narrative structures of bookworks are very much to do with conceptualising book narratives and ‘bookness’ | inasmuch as books are the subject. |
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Mark Pawson |
as publisher, collector, artist, writer. mail artist | as narrative of collections, as record, sometimes as informative publication. | yes, as adjunct to collections. expression of collections. create a different aspect to the collections quite deliberately. But the collections seem to be there first. |
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Christine Tacq |
as printer, artist, illustrator | yes, often incorporating book structure and visual metaphor. sometimes text, though seldom incorporated in images. | yes.conception is of presentation as book construction. |