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Production Narrative
by B. Freeman
The Journal of Artists' Books (ISSN 1085-1461) is published twice a year, once in Spring & once in Fall. Published, designed and printed by Brad Freeman. Printed at the Center for Editions, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY. The text paper is Mohawk Superfine, the cover is Mohawk Vellum. Edition size is approximately 500. JAB was founded in 1994 in order to encourage lively and serious debate about artists' books. Our mission is to develop the field of artists' books by means of critical discourse and creative exploration of the intersections of book arts, artists' books, poetry, photography, experimental literature, and other book related creative endeavors. As a forum for the study of artists' books, JAB publishes articles, reviews of artists' books and exhibitions, and commentary on conferences as well as other book arts-related activities. JAB also documents current activity through interviews with artists, showcases creative work in the form of artists' statements and artist-designed pages, inserts, and covers.
Critical Analysis
by B. Freeman
Design Features
typographic: Overall, the text is presented in a two-column format with traditional use of font size and weight to call attention to particular passages within the articles; however, there is a large, overprinted, independent verse spanning the even pages.
imagery: Contains drawn and collaged artists’ pages. There are photographs of three installation pieces discussed in Brad Freeman’s article.
graphical: Traditional two column format with illustrations and illustrative photos. There are also artists’ collage pages.
JAB11: The Journal of Artists' Books
Agents
Brad Freeman
type: initiating
role:
artist
author
binder
designer
photographer
printer
publisher
nationality:
born: United States
location:
dates:
birth: 1951-01-23
Brad Freeman
type: initiating
role:
artist interior front and back covers and Artists' Page on p. 24
author "Interview with Betsy Davids" (with Johanna Drucker)
author Review of "Artist/Author: Contemporary Artists' Books catalog and exhibition
Johanna Drucker
type: other
role:
author "Interview with Betsy Davids" (with Brad Freeman)
author Reviews of Dave Hornor's Teach Your Children to Tell Time, Joan Lyons' Twenty-Five Years Ago, Keith Smith's Book 184 and Scott McCarney's Far Horizons
Richard-Gabriel Rummonds
type: other
role:
photographer picture of Betsy Davids, interior front cover
Catrina Marchetti
type: other
role:
photographer images of Betsy Davids' and James Petrillo's Books & Changes (1978-81), pp. 4-5 and Betsy Davids' Dreaming Aloud Book Two (1989), pp. 7, 9.
Tara Hyland
type: other
role:
author “Creative Meaning-making: Reading the Bookworks of Lise Melhorn-Boe.”
Christian Bök
type: other
role:
author “(Book)^2” (artist's statement)
JAB
type: other
role:
author “Anton Würth”
Marianita Amondio
type: other
role:
photographer - Emerson Gallery installation view “Artist/Author: Contemporary Artists' Books.”
Buck Downs
type: other
role:
artist your welcom (1999), featured on interior back cover
Publication Information
edition type: editioned
publisher: JAB, 324 Yale Avenue, New Haven, CT, 06515
place: Printed at SUNY Purchase Center for Editions
dates:
publication: 1999-00-00 Spring, 1999
edition size: approximately 500
Measurements
horizontal: 8.5 inches closed
vertical: 11 inches closed
Production Information
production means:
offset (local)
binding: saddle stitching (AAT)
substrate:
bookBlock: paper
media:
ink (local)
Appearance
general description: Pamphlet with offset printed text (Mohawk Superfine) and cover (Mohawk Vellum) pages.
format: pamphlet (AAT)
cover: The exterior front cover features two hands, entering from the right, holding up eleven fingers - five on the top hand and six on the bottom. JAB11 is printed at the top of the page over a red, green, yellow, and black colored area evocative of spray-painted strips. The back exterior cover continues the spray-paint motif with the number eleven placed in the center of the page. The interior front cover contains a table of contents and a photograph of Betsy Davids. An e-mailed poem by Buck Downs is centered on the back interior cover.
color: yes The exterior front and back covers are in color.
Content
pagination: paginated 32 pages
numbered?: unnumbered
signed?: unsigned
Colophon
JAB was founded in order to provide a forum for lively debate about artists' books and their contents. We have published more than forty articles, reviews, and interviews by thirty different authors since 1994. The wide range of opinion and depth of writing has made JAB ana indispensable resource for practitioners and scholars interested in the growing field of artists' books. Interviews and reviews of work of the following book artists, organizations, and people in the field have been published: (this is a partial list) Janet Zweig, Helen Douglas, Telfer Stokes, Steve McCaffery, Joan Lyons, Cathy Courtney, Nexus Press, Erica Van Horn, Simon Cutts, Guillermo Gomez-Pena, Enrique Chagoya, d.a. levy, Gilles Peres, Bill Burke, Shawna Dempsey, Thomas Gunter, Anne Moeglin-Delcoix, Phil Zimmermann, Johanna Drucker, Clifton Meador, John Eric Broadus, Laurel Beckman, Paul Zelevansky, etc. The Journal of Artists' Books (ISSN 1085-1461) is published twice a year, once in Spring & once in Fall. Published, designed and printed by Brad Freeman. Printed at the Center for Editions, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY. The text paper is Mohawk Superfine, the cover is Mohawk Vellum. Edition size is approximately 500.