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Every Item in the Artist's Book Collection
The Paul D. Fleck Library & Archives at The Banff Centre has over 5,500 artists' books and multiples. We will display every item in the collection, rotating through 15-20 items monthly.
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ARTIST BOOK DISPLAY APRIL 2024
Chinthe Child. Sai Yang-Smith. [Banff] : Banff Centre, 2021.
Undergrowth. Sunny Nestler. [Vancouver, BC] : Sunny Nestler, 2018.
How the Goose Learned to Fly. Mikel Horl. [London] : M. Horl, 1984.
Four Portraits. Illustrations by Laura Ritland and Ruth Daniell. [Saskatoon, SK] : Jack Pine Press, 2016.
Symbol Magazine Vol. 3. Anna Kustera, Robert Longo. [New York, NY] : 2 Positiv-e-Force, 1987.
MOLAF Variations. Andrew Taggart, Chloe Lewis. [Montreal] : Museum of Longing and Failure, 2015.
Petite Enveloppe Urbaine No. 21. Francois Ares, Douglas Scholes. [Montreal] : Centre de Recherche Urbaine de Montréal, 1998.
13. Ashok Mathur. [Banff] : Banff Centre, 2022.
Dappled Things. Poems by Robin Chapman ; Photogravures by Peter Miller. [Alfortville, France] : Revue K, 2013.
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MARCH ARTIST BOOK DISPLAY
Tales From the Farm. Jeff Lemire. [Ontario] : Ashtray Press, 2006.
Knock On Any Door (A Revised History): Art and Social Engagement in Calgary, 1912-2012. Eric Moschopedis, Mis Rushton. [Calgary] : Department of Forgotten Histories, 2013.
Sheffield International Artist's Book Prize: 2015 catalogue. [Sheffield, UK] : Bank Street Arts Editions, 2015.
Drawings of David Smith's Sculpture. Wesley Mulvin. [Vancouver] : Perro Verlag, 2006.
Hyena Subpoena: 7 Poems with Soundscapes. Catherine Kidd, Jacky Murda. [Montréal] : Popolo Press, 2014.
Irma Boom: The Architecture of the Book: Books in reverse chronological order, 2013-1986, with comments here and there. Irma Boom. [Eindhoven, Netherlands] : Lecturis, 2013.
Stan Lee is Richard Petty. Secret Headquarters. [Los Angeles, CA] : SHQ, 2016.
Kai Althoff: Vancouver Art Gallery, November 8, 2008 to February 15, 2009. Kathleen S. Bartels, Jennifer M. Volland, curators. [Vancouver] : Vancouver Art Gallery, 2008.
The Apocryphal Codex of Resolutions Transmitted from Planet Coelan to Frances Zorn, August, 1947. Frances Zorn. [Mayne Island, British Columbia] : Perro Verlag, 2008
Róża Selawiska. Maria Jolanta Rozwora, ed. [New York] : Whitchappel Press, 2011.
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❤️FEBRUARY ARTIST BOOK DISPLAY❤️
Love poem. Kathy Slade, Michael Joseph Phillips. Vancouver, BC : Publication Studio Vancouver, 2015.
Love Letter to Anatolia. Tanya Evanson. Vancouver, BC : Mother Tongue Media, 2012.
Johnny Jungleguts : Life, Sex Fandom: Collected Writings. Jonny Jungleguts, Leslie Dick. Closing, 2017.
Loveland. Charles Stankievech. Berlin : K. Verlag, 2011.
The P*rnographic Connect-the-dots Book. Michael Riley. Paranoid Productions, 1974.
This is Still a Love Story: (The Twos). Emilee Nimetz. Canada : Emilee Nimetz, 2014.
On Every Station, Someone Else's Heartache. Bren Simmers. Victoria, BC : Rubber Boot Rodeo, 2002.
Tatti Wattles : A Love Story. Rachel Rosenthal. Santa Monica, CA : Smart Art Press, 1996.
The Procedures of Love. Michael Hardt. Ostfildern : Hatje Cantz, 2012.
Relationship Stories from Tunnel Mountain. Andrea deBrujin. Banff, AB: The Banff Centre, 2015.
Everybody Deserves Love, Even You. Lynne Heller. Toronto : Lynne Heller, 2004.
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ARTIST BOOK DISPLAY JANUARY 2023
Copperplate cookbook again : a portfolio by Year 2000 undergraduate printmakers. Nicole Brabant. [Regina, SK] : University of Regina, Faculty of Fine Arts, Dept. of Visual Arts, 2000.
2008 Seoul International Book Arts Fair. Seoul International Book Arts Fair, Sŏng-jae Song. [Seoul, Korea] : Artistbookseoul, 2008.
Language of Color. Olaf Nicolai, Annelie, Pohlen, Bonner Kunstverein. [Bonn] : Bonner Kunstverein, 2000.
Printed Matter Special : 2010 NY Art Book Fair edition. Misaki Kawai, Printed Matter Inc., NY Art Book Fair. [New York, N.Y.] : Printed Matter, Inc, 2010.
Artforumx : summary. Parasitic Ventures Press. [Toronto] : Parasitic Ventures Press. 2010.
Persistent Huts. Derek Sullivan. [New York, N.Y.] : Printed Matter, Inc, 2008.
15 Lombard St. Janice Kerbel, Stefan. Kalmár, Book Works. [London] : Book Works, 2000.
Christian Marclay: The Clock. Christian Marclay, Honey Luard, Darian Leader, White Cube. [London] : White Cube, 2010.
The Day Mubarak was Tried. Nawāl Saʻdāwī, Documenta. [Ostfildern] : Hatje Cantz, 2011.
Two Novels and Two Women. Ṣunʻ Allāh Ibrāhīm, Documenta. [Ostfildern] : Hatje Cantz, 2011.
Deadstar : A Ghost Town. Janice Kerbel, Mark Godfrey, Lyall Watson, Susan Morgan. [Newcastle upon Tyne] : Locus+ Publishing, 2006.
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ARTIST BOOK SHOWCASE DECEMBER 2023.
Seasons greetings. Benito Huerta. Houston : Contemporary Arts Museum. 1991.
Some recent snowflakes (and other things). Dick Higgins. New York : Printed Editions. 1979.
Dead fuel Fuel 6 Autumn-Winter 1993. Peter Miles, Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. England : Fuel. 1993.
Ways to commune with nature: When city burdens triumph over the cold shoulder of a waterfall, smog begot and efforts of peace within chaos seems futile. Rashanna Rashied-Walker. Brooklyn, NY: Self-published. 2014.
Christmas Carols. Womens Action Coalition. New York, N.Y. : WAC Inc. 1992.
The Crystal Ship. George Bowering. Toronto, ON: Bywater Bros. Editions. 2008.
Snow Cookie. James Whitman, Courtney Burke. Mayne Island, BC: Perro Verlag / Institue for the Science of Identity. 2015.
Emperors of Ice Cream. Arvo Leo, Jacquelyn Ross, Wallace Stevens. Canada : Blank Cheque Press. 2017.
Short story Advent calendar, 2017. Michael Hingston, Natalie Olsen. Edmonton, Alberta : Hingston & Olsen Publishing. 2017.
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Artist Book Display for November 2023.
Toiletpaper Volume II: Platinum Collection. Maurizio Cattelan & Pierpaolo Ferrari. Bologna, ITA: Damiani Editore. 2015.
Sculls' Angles : A Novel. Michael Miranda. Toronto, ON: Parasitic Ventures Press. 2015.
WYSIWYG: 2004 fall Poetry Colloquium. Regina, SK: Sage Hill Chapbooks. 2004.
Survival: A Strobic Guide. Michael Turner. Vancouver, BC: Canlit Classics in Transition. 1997.
Safety Gear for Small Animals. Bill Burns. New York, NY: 303 Gallery. 1994.
Qaani Lore. J.W. Curry. Toronto, ON: Unfinished Monument Press. 1985.
The Page-Turner's Sister. Jean McKay. Stratford, ON: Trout Lily Press. 1999.
White Shadows. Christian Boltanski. Houston, TX: Bayou Books. 1992.
Pornography in the Urban World. Jean Gagnon; translated by James Boake & Jeanluc Svoboda. Toronto, ON: Art Metropole. 1986.
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ARTIST BOOK DISPLAY OCTOBER 2023
Fine & Coarse Aggregate #1 : Concrete Poems. Derek Beaulieu. San Diego, CA: Poems-for-all. 2018.
The Curtain Sweeps Down. Erdem Taşdelen, Nihal Yeğinobalı. Montreal, QC: Self-published. 2018
9x10 Artists' Book & Zine box set. Trevor Powers. Florence, MA: Self-published. 2018.
Proverbs of a She-dandy. Lisa Robertson, Charles Baudelaire. Vancouver, BC: Morris and Helen Belkin Art Gallery; Paris, FR: Libraires-éditeurs. 2018.
Unsettling Settlers: Intervention. Golboo Amani. Ontario. 2017.
Unbroken Record: Electronic Communication, Forever Undigitized. Steven McCarthy. Falcon Heights, MN: Self-published. 2014.
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ARTIST BOOK DISPLAY OCTOBER 2023.
Good against the nightmare: an antephialtic alphabet. Tara Bryan, Duncan Major. St. John's, NL: Walking Bird Press. 2008.
The Log's Log. Carolle ltter, with the assistance of Canada National Magazine. Vancouver, BC: Intermedia Press. 1972.
A Room Without Experiences. Jo Cook. Mayne Island, BC: Perro Verlag. 2005.
The Bearded Island (The Artist's Lament): [aka: an essay commissioned for the exhibition:"Regarding Henry's Show"] . Text by Urs Fischer and Darren Bader. Greenwich, CT: Brant Foundation Art Study Center. 2009.
Songs of birds wearing safety gear. Bill Burns. Winnipeg, MB: Plug In. 1999.
The lost journals of Mocha Chien. Volume 8: Constantinople, 1912. Peggy Thompson. Mayne Island, BC: Perro Verlag. 2011.
Ruthless lantern Vol. 1. Hera Chan, David Xu Borgonjon (editors), Miss. Ruthless. 2017.
Shadows. George Swede. North Vancouver, BC: Silver Birch Press, David UU. 1990.
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ARTISTS' BOOK DISPLAY FOR AUGUST, 2023
We’re open to Banff Centre participants, artists, and staff from 930AM to 1PM Monday, Wednesday, and Friday! If you have any questions about our holdings, please email us at [email protected].
#artists' books#banff centre#the banff centre#artists books#books and libraries#library displays#libraries#artists book#book art#zines
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ARTISTS' BOOK DISPLAY, AUGUST 2023
A Travel Narrative. The Berkeley Horse #53. Christine Stewart. North Vancouver, BC: Mindware, David UU, 1994.
The Bears Come to Tea. Tara Bryan, with illustrations by Duncan Major. [Place of publication not identified]: Walking Bird Press, 2017.
Czech Birds, Šileni Lovcí, Wild Hunters. Jo Cook, Wesley Mulvin, and Petra Poldlahová. Mayne Island, BC: Perro Verlag, 2006.
The Last Four Cows of North America. Jo Cook. Mayne Island, BC: Perro Verlag, 2008.
Two metaphysical threes: earth::air::water::animal::vegetable::mineral. Tara Bryan, text by Thomas Traherne. Flatrock, NL, 1988.
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ARTISTS’ BOOK DISPLAY, AUGUST 2023
Autopark. Laura St. Pierre. Grand Prairie, AB: The Grand Prairie Art Gallery, 2012.
A Diagram An Introduction. P.C. Fencott. ?, UK: cris cheek; printed at C'O'L'P, 1976.
open & shut: a binding experiment. Calgary, AB: DisOrientation Chapbooks, 199-?.
Peggy Lefler. Peggy Lefler. The Berkeley Horse #21. North Vancouver, BC: Silver Birch Press (David UU), 1989.
Psychobuildings. Martin Kippenberger. Cologne, DE: Walther König, 1988.
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ARTISTS' BOOK DISPLAY, AUGUST 2023
The Insistence of Green Blue Transport. Judith Krause and Shelley Sopher. Saskatoon, SK: JackPine Press, 2007.
Postcards. Jo Cook, Wesley Mulvin, and Emily Goodden. Vancouver, BC: Perro Verlag Books, 2005.
Portscapes. Max Andrews and Mariana Cánepa Luna. Rotterdam, NLD: Port of Rotterdam Authority; Amsterdam, NLD: SKOR (Foundation Art and Public Space), 2009.
#artists' books#banff centre#the banff centre#artists books#books and libraries#library displays#libraries#artists book#book art#zines
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Understanding Artists' Books
The Paul D. Fleck Library & Archives holds over 5,000 artists' books - and the collection continues to grow through a combination of donations and purchases every year.
But what is an artists' book?
Well, part of the (usually exciting) challenge of artists' books is that they're difficult to define. For the Emily Carr University Art and Design library, the artists' book collection "encompasses books conceived, crafted, published, produced or altered by an artist, designer or collective with the intention of creating an independent art work ." But for the Smithsonian Library, "[a]n artist’s book is a medium of artistic expression that uses the structure or function of 'book' as inspiration—a work of art in book form." Our collection sits somewhere in between, encapsulating works in both of these definitions - and some works that are beyond either. In our library, you'll find do-it-yourself zines and handmade chapbooks from small presses, sculptural pieces, weavings, objects, comic art, flipbooks, and dozens of other specific forms.
Our collection began in 1985, when the director of the Walter Phillips Gallery, Lorne Falk, handed Bob Foley (Banff Centre's first full-time librarian) a suitcase's worth of artists' books and said, "These are yours, you should do something with them." Through a meeting with AA Bronson, an artist who founded Art Metropole and the New York Art Book Fair, Foley expanded the collection by developing relationships with publishers and distributors. Since then, the collection came to include artists such as Dieter Roth, Ed Ruscha (whose artists' book Every Building on the Sunset Strip inspired the creation of this tumblr page!), Barbara Kruger, Joseph Beuys, Mieko Shiomi, Yoko Ono, Gertrude Stein, and John Cage.
Please take your time to explore our tumblr and our library catalogue - and if you ever get the chance, please come and explore our artists' books in person. The library staff are always excited to answer questions or help you find what you're looking for.
If you'd like to read more about artists' books, consider these books:
Aarons, Philip E. and Andrew Roth, editors. In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1055. Zurich: PPP Editions, 2009.
Arnar, Anna Sigrídur. The Book as Instrument: Stéphane Mallarmé, the Artist's Book, and the Transformation of Print Culture. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2011.
Castleman, Riva. A Century of Artists Books. New York: Museum of Modern Art; distributed by Henry N. Abrams, 1994.
Drucker, Johanna. A Century of Artists' Books. New York: Granary Books, 1995.
Phillpot, Clive. Booktrek: Selected Essays on Artists' Books since 1972. Zurich: JRP Ringier, 2013.
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ARTISTS’ BOOK DISPLAY FOR JULY, 2023
We’re open to Banff Centre participants, artists, and staff from 930AM to 1PM Monday, Wednesday, and Friday! If you have any questions about our holdings, please email us at [email protected]
#artists' books#banff centre#the banff centre#artists books#books and libraries#library displays#libraries#artists book#book art#little magazines#zines
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ARTISTS' BOOK DISPLAY, JULY 2023
Exposicao livro de artista no Palacio Galveias, Lisboa, 18 de Agosto a 20 de Setembro. Exhibition catalogue.
Palimpsest. J.J. Kegan McFadden. Winnipeg, MB: Platform Gallery, 2012.
Bitch Planet: Extraordinary Machine. Kelly Sue DeConnick, writer and co-creator; Valentine De Landro, art and covers, co-creator; Robert Wilson IV, art; Cris Peters, colours; Clayton Cowles, letters. Berkeley, CA: Image Comics, 2015.
#artists' books#banff centre#the banff centre#artists books#books and libraries#library displays#libraries#artists book#book art#comics#comic books#zines#little magazines
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ARTISTS' BOOK DISPLAY, JULY 2023
Dakwäkâda Warriors II. Cole Pauls. Self-published [zine], printed by Moniker Press, 2017.
Calling the Vegetable Collected. jw curry. Ottawa, ON: 1cent (#391), 2008.
Soundings with Blue. Herbert Burke. London, UK: Alphabet Box, 1976.
Boy Bell's Book of Envelope Interiors. Erica van Horn. Norfolk, GBR: Coracle Press, 1994.
Nascar: Stories. Steffanie Ling, ed. Jacquelyn Ross. Vancouver, BC: Blank Cheque Press, 2017.
#artists' books#banff centre#the banff centre#artists books#books and libraries#library displays#libraries#artists book#book art#Cole Pauls#jw curry#Herbert Burke#Erica van Horn#Steffanie Ling
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ARTISTS' BOOK DISPLAY, JULY 2023
Connectomics. Alison Calder. Saskatoon, SK: JackPine Press, 2016.
3 Women, 12 Portraits. Jo Cook. Mayne Island, BC: Perro Verlag, 2007.
Medallions of Belief. Fred Wah. Toronto, ON: Bookt*ug, 2012.
Dogs and Boats and Airplanes told in the form of Ivan the Terrible. Bill Burns. Copenhagen, DNK: Space Poetry, 2011.
#artists' books#banff centre#the banff centre#artists books#books and libraries#library displays#libraries#artists book#book art#Alison Calder#Fred Wah#jo cook#Bill Burns
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