Upcoming Issues
JAB publishes both commissioned and submitted articles and occasionally invite guest editors to produce theme-based issues. In addition to feature articles, JAB also includes artist pages or inserts, and has regular columns such as the Received and Noted section which lists and reviews new books, announcements of upcoming book art events, and exhibit reviews. See the Submissions page if you are interested in submitting something for an upcoming issue.
And check below for what to expect for 2012…
JAB31 (Coming in Spring 2012)
ANECDOTOLOGY, ANNOTATIONISM AND ARBORESCENCE by Alastair Brotchie
Brotchie traces the history of publication of Daniel Spoerri’s An Anecdoted Topography of Chance, considered by many to be the greatest and most popular artists’ book in the world.
“ANECDOTES, unless malicious, are generally considered to be somewhat inconsequential. At most they may reveal something of the character of the person they concern, and perhaps something of the raconteur. But, like all neglected rhetorical and artistic forms, the ANECDOTE can be raised to greatness, and I think there’s little doubt that this was achieved in the collaborative work called An Anecdoted Topography of Chance, which celebrates its 50th anniversary in October, 2011.” —from the introduction
ARTISTS’ BOOKS IN AUSTRALIA, by Sarah Bodman
Bodman explores the many faceted and vibrant artist book scene in Australia.
“My trip to Australia was made as part of the Impact 7 Multi-disciplinary Printmaking Conference: Intersections & Counterpoints, organised and hosted by Monash University in Melbourne, Australia.” —from the essay
THE MAILBOX IS IN THE LIBRARY: Reading Under Judith Hoffberg’s Umbrella by Anthony Leslie
“Ulises Carrión writes that ‘one of the decisive factors for the world-wide proliferation of artists’ books (and of artists’ books shows) was their ability to be distributed by means of the mail’ (p.27). Judith Hoffberg’s collection of artists’ books at UCLA displays an interesting intersection of book art and mail art, and her collection of artists’ books can be seen, in certain ways, to be shaped by her mail art network, as the majority of the materials in the collection were mailed to her as review copies for her Umbrella newsletter, which came to specialize in just this kind of intersection.” — from the essay
CRITICAL ESSAY, by Karol Shewmaker
Shewmaker’s essay is based on four books:
Every Ruscha book Found by Joachim Scmid
Profoundly Unoriginal by Christopher George
The Map by Kikuji Kawada
Wunderbar by Some German Guy
And our ever-popular BOOKS RECEIVED column!
For added excitement, there wiil be TWO artists’ books inserted with JAB31: one by Kevin Riordan, and another by Aaron Cohick.
JAB32 (Coming in Fall 2012)
The focus in JAB32 will be Portuguese artists’ books and experimental poetry.
Table of Contents
ARTISTS’ BOOKS NOT FOUND: An Absence in Portuguese Art Theory, But Not in Portuguese Artistic Practice, by Catarina Figueiredo Cardoso and Isabel Baraona
VISUALITY AND MATERIAL EXPRESSIVENESS IN PORTUGUESE EXPERIMENTAL POETRY, by Rui Torres
WORDS AND PAINTING EXHANGE ROLES: Concretism, Experimentalism, and Fine Arts in Portugal, by Eduardo Paz Barroso
“ALTERNATIVA ZERO”: The Memory of Being Contemporary in Portugal, by Eduardo Paz Barroso
A BIBLIOGRAPHY OF PORTUGUESE EXPERIMENTAL POETRY, by Rui Torres and Manuel Portela
FRENESI: Publication Arts, by Catarina Figueiredo Cardoso
THE ARTISTS’ BOOK COLLECTION OF THE CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION ART LIBRARY, by Ana Barata
THE LIBRARY OF THE SERRALVES FOUNDATION, by Sonia Oliveira
INC. —Livros e Edições de Autor
STET, by Filipa Valladares and Paulo Catrica
OFICINA DO CEGO, by Isabel Baraona