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thethirdmind: Sol Lewitt, Cock Fight Dance, Rizzoli, 1980. A series of photographs of chickens fighting. “LeWitt has never forsaken the fundamental approach that he developed in the 1960s, emphasizing ideas over psychological expression… Over the years, however, his work has grown more complex in its effect and more complicated in its execution. The work from…
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Like the creator of an artist’s book who manipulates an Exacto knife to make delicate cutouts in heavy white Italia paper and painstakingly sews the pages together, the writer of an electronic text is intensely aware of the entwining of intellectual, physical, and technological labor that creates the text as a material object. “Print Is…
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p-dpa: Text in the Book Format, Keith Smith (2004) This book is not about binding, computers, design, typography or the history of books, but the possibilities of conceiving text which utilizes the format not to distract, but assist the written word. Text in the Book Format examines the possibilities of conceiving text which utilizes the format to…
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Within the specific context of 1960s and 1970s counterculture, the artist’s book was arguably able to fill a certain political void, providing a means of democratising and subverting existing institutions by distributing an increasingly cheap and accessible medium (the book), and in the process using this medium in order to re-imagine what art is and…
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hi, just a curious query for your ‘Making Comics Master Link List’. do you have any advice/have read anywhere on how to promote your work if you live in a country that has little to no industry and is very hard to get into? Im Australian, and we dont have a lot of cons or anything in my part of the country. so just interested to see if you knew anything, if not, all good 🙂
faitherinhicks: You’re in luck: you may be physically far from the major comic book industries (Japan, France, the US), but you have the power of the internet at your disposal. The internet, email, etc, has made it possible for people who live far from the North American comic book industry to promote their work or…