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Quotes about Books from Books about Books

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created May 16, 2025,last changed Apr 21, 2026

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«Quotes about Books from Books about Books» is an artist's book, an exhibition, and a library of books about books, including periodicals, journals, exhibition catalogues, zines, monographs, and artists’ books spanning 1974–2025. Edited and compiled by Sveinn Fannar Jóhannsson, the project presents 148 quotes, drawn from his archive of printed matter, that reflect on the book as medium, material, and metaphor. The accompanying exhibition makes each source publication physical…

Quotes about Books from Books about Books

Revised, Reversed, Revisited Edition

23.50 EUR

Books on Books

NO-ISBN

on self-publishing

Publishing as Method

No Longer Innocent: Book Art in America 1960–1980

Steven Leiber Catalogs

Copy Machine Manifestos

Artists Who Make Zines

Thirteen Years: The materialization of ideas

Trece años: la materialización de ideas

The Detroit Printing Co-op

The Politics of the Joy of Printing

Buch | Medium | Fotografie

Ausstellen in Publikationen

Zum Wandel des Öffentlichwerdens von Kunst in den 1960er Jahren

38.00 EUR

A journal about artists’ books

Une revue dédiée aux livres d’artistes

The Xeroxed Book

Dieter Roth in Print

Artists' Books/Künstlerbücher

Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology and Source Book

Die Bücher der Künstler—Publikationen und Editionen seit den sechziger Jahren in Deutschland

Eine Ausstellung in zehn Kapiteln

Material Noise

Reading Theory as Artist’s Book

Artists’ Books From a Swedish Point of View

With Special Attention Paid to the Contributions of Denmark and GDR

The Mock-up Edition

Costruzione dell’universo

Artists’ Magazines and Publications after Marcel Duchamp

Sol LeWitt

Artist’s Books

Idea Poll

Time has fallen asleep in the afternoon sunshine

A book on reading, writing, memory and forgetting in a library of living books

Cover to Cover

The Artist's Book in Perspective

The Territories of Artists' Periodicals

Crumpled, rumpled, crappy, tacky, raunchy, unconscious, whatever.

Artist/Author

Contemporary Artists' Books

Quant aux livres / On Books

Blank. Raw. Illegible...

Artists' Books as Statements (1960-2022)

Publishing Manifestos (Beta Version)

10.00 EUR

Danske Kunstnerbøger

Danish Artists’ Books

Künstlerbücher, Artists' Books, Book as Art

Ausstellungen Dokumentationen Kataloge Kritiken - Eine Analyse

The Book

Adjusted Margin

Xerography, Art, and Activism in the Late Twentieth Century

The Book

Artists' Magazines

An Alternative Space for Art

The Next Page

ED/MN—Editions and Multiples 1967/2016

Always Endeavor To Find Some Interesting Variation

Christian Boltanski Livres d’artiste 1969–2007

Christian Boltanski Artist’s Books 1969–2007

Kunstgebunden – Metamorphosen des Künstlerbuches

The Book: 101 Definitions

Decolonizing Art Book Fairs

Publishing Practices from the South(s)

Artists’ Publications

Ein Genre und seine Erschließung

ILUO

Exposition de Claude Closky au CDLA

Creating and Collecting: Artists' Books in Australia

Unter dem Radar

Underground- und Selbstpublikationen 1965–1975

les livres et les publications. catalogue raisonné

Artist’s Book Yearbook 2022–2023

The Form of the Book Book

On Kawara

Latin American Book Arts

How to maneuver: Shapeshifting texts and other publishing tactics

The Natural Enemies of Books

A Messy History of Women in Printing and Typography

Umbrella

Artists Books – A Critical Survey of the Literature

Zeitschrift für neue Arbeiten und Vorstellungen

Paper for New Visual and Verbal Works — Revue des Travaux Théorieques et Pratiques

The Thing The Book

A Monument to the Book as Object

Words, Books, and the Spaces They Inhabit

The Cutting Edge of Reading: Artists' Books

Hidden Parts of Publishing

Booktrek

Selected Essays on Artists’ Books (1972–2010)

publish! Publizieren als künstlerische Praxis

Urgent Publishing After the Artist’s Book

Making Public in Movements Towards Liberation

Tropical Reading

Photobook & Self-Publishing

Verzamelde werken

Een hommage aan Ulises Carrión

Dear Reader. Don't Read

10 Years in Art Publishing

An A–Z Memoir

Publishing as Artistic Practice

Books As Art

We have won! Haven't we?

Publishing as Practice

Salon für Kunstbuch

Embodied DIY: Feminist and Queer Zines in a Transglobal World (part II)

Umbrella

El Djarida

Shelf Documents

Art Library as Practice

Artists' Books

Mladen Stilinović

Artist’s Books 1972–2006

Spines & Spirals

The Norfolk Books 1990-1996

Artists' Books

Printed in Norfolk

Coracle Publications 1989–2012

Gerhard Richter

Künstlerbücher

Unpacking My Library

Artists and Their Books

Copy, Tweak, Paste

Methods of Appropriation in Re-enacted Artists’ Books

Artists’ Books in the Modern Era 1870–2000

The Reva and David Logan Collection of Illustrated Books

Can you feel it?

Effectuating tactility and print in the contemporary

JAB

The Flue

2nd ArtistBook International New York

Bibliothèque d’un amateur

Richard Prince’s Publications 1981–2014

Off-Register

Publishing Experiments by Women Artists in Latin America, 1960-1990

Special Issue: Artists posters

MULTIPLES, et cetera

A Book About What’s More To Life Than Books

Giselle’s Books & Inventory

Artists’ Book Yearbook 2001–2002

What Problems Can Artist Publishers Solve?

Bogrov

9.99 EUR

Post-Digital Print

The Mutation of Publishing since 1894

Multiple World

An International Survey of Artists’ Books

Ten Artist’s Book Publishers in Their Own Words (1960–1980)

Volume II

Mail Art Manifest Catalogue

Artist Publishers Reflect on Book Waste

Konstnärsböcker

Artists' Books

1st ArtistBook International Paris 1994

1er Salon International du Livre d’Artiste Paris 1994

FLUE

All or Nothing

An Anthology of blank books

Do or DIY

Zur Geschichte und Praxis des Selbstverlags

THIS IS NOT A BOOK

The Spreading of Book Art

Sol LeWitt

Systeme in Buchform

Embodied DIY: Feminist and Queer Zines in a Transglobal World (part I)

Thanks for Sharing!

Artzine Ausstellung & Symposium 8. – 30.05.2010

Various Small Books

Referencing Various Small Books by Ed Ruscha

Books—Bücher

Roberta Allen

Kunst Buch Werke

Künstlerbücher der 70er und 80er Jahre aus dem Archive Artist Publications, München

Beau Geste Press

Book as Artwork 1960/1972

Sand in der Vaseline

Künstlerbücher II · 1980 - 2002

Manifesto, Profit for Survival

Discourses on Anti-Capitalist Publishing Practices

Facing the Page: British Artists’ Books: A Survey 1983-1993

KÜNSTLERBÜCHER

The Book as Art

Artists’ Books from the National Museum of Women in the Arts

Books and Ideas after Seth Siegelaub

Unshelfmarked

Reconceiving the Artists’ Book

What Shall We Want To Have Called A "Book"?

JAB

Journal of Artists’ Books

This Is Not My Book

Tendências do Livro de Artista no Brasil: 30 Anos depois

Het boek en de kunstenaar

Making Books

Book

Olle Essvik—a bibliography

Fantasies of the Library

British Artists’ Books 1970-1983

Åse Eg Jørgensen

en bibliografi

Artwords & Bookworks

An international exhibition of recent artists’ books and ephemera

Turning the Page

Why Artists’ Books

The Book on Books on Artists Books

Artists’ Books Revisited

In Context

Contemporary Artists’ Books and their Antecedents

Little Books & Other Little Publications

Das Buch als Kunstobjekt

The Century of Artists’ Books

Behind the Glass

Quotes about Books from Books about Books

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