In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955

ROTH, Andrew, Phil Aarons, Collier Schorr, and Gil Blank

ISBN 10: 3037640855 / ISBN 13: 9783037640852

Published by JRP/Ringier and PPP Editions, New York and Zurich, Switzerland, 2010

About this Item

First edition and first printing. Hardcover. 440 pages. An invaluable reference that examines a wide range of artist publications from Wallace Berman's Semina, to the works of Raymond Pettibon, Joe Brainard, Roni Horn, Robert Heinecken, Provoke, and numerous others. Includes numerous illustrations of the various works along with an interview of of Collier Schorr by Gil Blank. A fine copy in a fine glassine dust jacket and fine cardboard slipcase.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955
• Publisher: JRP/Ringier and PPP Editions, New York and Zurich, Switzerland
• Publication Date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3037640855
• ISBN 13: 9783037640852
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: First Edition.
• Dust Jacket Condition: dj
• Weight: 6.5 pounds
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

In Numbers is the first volume to address an overlooked art form that is neither artist's book nor ephemera, but is entirely its own unique entity: the artist's serial publication. Across such groundswell moments as the small press boom of the 1960s, the correspondence art movement of the early 1970s and the DIY zine culture of the 1980s and early 1990s, artists have seized on magazine and postcard formats as forms in themselves. These are not publications that print criticism, manifestos or reproductions of artworks; rather, they are themselves artworks, in large part factured by younger artists operating at the peripheries of mainstream art cultures, or by established artists looking for an alternative to the marketplace. Dating from 1955 to the present, In Numbers begins with Wallace Berman's Semina and continues through Joe Brainard's C Comics, Situationist Times, Eleanor Antin's 100 Boots, File, Robert Heinecken's modified periodicals, the Japanese group Provoke's magazine, Ian Hamilton Finlay's Poor.Old.Tired.Horse, Fluxus, Art-Language, Raymond Pettibon's Tripping Corpse, Maurizio Cattelan's Permanent Food and contemporary examples such as North Drive Press, LTTR and Continuous Project. (Approximately 60 publications in total are surveyed.) Documenting the history of each publication―its inception, production, distribution and impact―together with a fully illustrated bibliography for each title, In Numbers is embellished with essays by Clive Phillpot, Nancy Princenthal, William S. Wilson and Neville Wakefield. An illustrated conversation between Collier Schorr and Gil Blank provides an overview.