Entretiens – Perspectives contemporaines sur les publications d’artistes – Featuring Dr Sharon Kivland
| Title: | Entretiens – Perspectives contemporaines sur les publications d’artistes |
| Publisher: | les presses du réel |
| Editor(s): | Jérôme Dupeyrat |
| Author(s): | Interviews with Laurence Aëgerter, Pierre-Olivier Arnaud, Ludovic Burel, Claude Closky, Daniel Gustav Cramer, documentation duval duel, Ben Kinmont, Sharon Kivland, Stéphane Le Mercier, antoine lefebvre editions, Sara MacKillop, Mazaccio & Drowilal (Élise Mazac & Robert Drowilal ), Jonathan Monk, Julien Nédélec & Éric Watier, Camila Oliveira Fairclough, Michalis Pichler, Hubert Renard, Joachim Schmid, Yann Sérandour, David Shrigley, Derek Sullivan, Batia Suter and Nick Thurston. |
| Publication date: | Fourth quarter, 2017 |
| Print ISBN: | 978-2-914291-78-1 |
| Format: | 185mm x 225mm, softcover, black-and-white illustrations |
| Number of pages: | 320 pages |
This book brings together twenty-three interviews with twenty-five artists who make publishing an artistic practice. In a context where artists’ publications arouse the interest of many actors in the field of art, it is a question of offering contemporary perspectives on this phenomenon, marked by a tension between the alternative positions and the research of institutional recognition.
The words of the solicited artists were thus collected with a triple aim.
First, draw a panorama of artists’ publications today. Then, to determine, among the tools which allowed thinking about the practice of the book of artists of these last decades, which remain operative to understand current manifestations. Finally, to identify the questions that seem specific to these recent events and questioning the nature of the evolutions they show in connection with a broader context of art and publishing.
Although current practices do not undermine the assumptions and arguments made to date about artists’ publications, these interviews suggest issues that are formulated differently and that lead to new attitudes.
Find out more about Sharon Kivland’s work here.
Dr Sharon Kivland is a Reader in Fine Art at Sheffield Hallam University.