Book Club

bibliothèques 03/12 (list of contents)

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POETRY -- FONCTIONS & FORMS

Josef Albers. Poems and Drawings, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2006

Geoffrey Chaucer. The Canterbury Tales, Penguin Books, collection Popular Classics, London, 1996

Mark Z. Danielewski. House of Leaves, Doubleday, Great Britain, 2001

Mark Z. Danielewski. Only Revolutions, Pantheon Books, New York, 2006

Mark Z. Danielewski. O Révolutions, Éditions Denoël, collection Et d'ailleurs, Paris, 2007

T.S. Eliot. Collected Poems 1909-1962, Faber and Faber, London, 2002

Robin Kinross (ed.). Anthony Froshaug: Typography & Texts / Documents of a life, Hyphen Press, London, 2000

Vladimir Nabokov. Pale Fire, Alfred A. Knopf, Everyman's Library, New York, 1992

William S. Peterson. The Kelmscott Press: A history of William Morris's typographical adventure, University of Califonia Press, 1991

Francis Ponge. Le grand recueil, Tome 2: Méthodes, Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 1961

Francis Ponge. Le parti pris des choses, Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 1942

Gertrude Stein. Tender Buttons, Dover Publications, Mineola (NY), 1997

Frances Stark. Collected Writing: 1993-2003, Book Works, London, 2003

Henry David Thoreau. Walden, Konemann, Köln, 1996

Walt Whitman. Leaves of Grass, J. M. Dent & Sons, collection Everyman's Library, London, 1964

(miscellaneous)

[multiple authors]. Carsten Höller, one day one day / une exposition à Marseille, Verlag der Buchhandlung Walter König, Köln, 2006

[multiple authors] Philip Ursprung (ed.). Herzog et de Meuron, Natural History, Lars Müller Publishers, Baden, 2005

[multiple authors]. Walking on Splinters: A Summer Reader, Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem, 2004

Hugo Ball. Dada à Zurich -- Le mot et l'image (1916-1917), Les presses du réel, collection L'écart absolu, Dijon, 2006

Fedor Dostoievski. Crimes et châtiment, Le livre de poche, Paris, 1972

Peter Downsbrough. And, Anatol AV & Filmproduktion, Hamburg, 1977

Peter Downsbrough. Around, [self-published?] New York, 1978

Dan Graham. Rock my Religion, Les presses du réel, collection Positions, Dijon, 1993

Raoul Hausmann. Sensorialité excentrique, Les presses du réel, collection L'écart absolu, Dijon, 2002

Richard Huelsenbeck. en avant dada: l'histoire du dadaïsme, Les presses du réel, collection L'écart absolu, Dijon, 2000

Eugène Ionesco. La cantatrice chauve, Éditions Gallimard, Paris, 1964

André Lagarde & Laurent Michard. XIXe siècle, Bordas, Paris, 1966

Steven Manford. Behind the photo: 42 Man Ray Stamps, Librairie Serge Plantureux, Carnets de Rhinocéros, Paris, 2008

Pierre Menard. The ingenious hidalgo Don Quixote of la Mancha, MUSAC, Castilla y Léon, 2007

Franck Pavloff. Oubliez-moi, Éditions de la mauvaise graine, Lyon, 2009

Amoreena Winkler. Purulence, Éditions Égo comme x, 2009

Next Book Club reading from Mael Fournier-Compte

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Hello Sara,

I attach two short texts by Walter Benjamin. The one I told you about, Experience & Poverty, and another one, Doctrine of the Similar. Could you put these texts on the book club blog? I can't do it myself, it says I am not allowed to post anymore.

Best,

Mael

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Download the files from www.saradebondt.com/ftp/benjamin.zip

bibliothèques 19/11 (list of contents)

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FORMS OF THE PARATEXT

Mikhaïl Bakhtine. La poétique de Dostoïevski, Éditions du Seuil, collection Pierres vives, Paris, 1970

Mikhaïl Bakhtine. L'œuvre de François Rabelais et la culture populaire au Moyen Age et sous la Renaissance, Gallimard, collection Tel, Paris, 1982

Derek Birdsall. Notes on book design, Yale University Press, New Haven, 2004

Blaise Cendrars. L’homme foudroyé, Le club français du livre, collection Romans, Paris, 1949

Gérard Genette. Palimpsestes, Éditions du Seuil, collection Poétique, Paris, 1982

Gérard Genette. Seuils, Éditions du Seuil, collection Poétique, Paris, 1987

Jost Hochuli. Designing books, Hyphen Press, London, 2003

Julia Kristeva. Sèméiôtikè, Éditions du Seuil, collection Tel Quel, Paris, 1969

Herman Melville.Trois contes doubles, Éditions cent pages, Paris, 2005

Jacques Rigaut. Le jour se lève ça vous apprendra, Éditions cent pages, collection Cosaques, Paris, 2003

Marcel Schwob. Vies imaginaires, Club des libraires de France, collection Livres de toujours, Paris, 1957

Tzvetan Todorov. Mikhaïl Bakhtine: le principe dialogique, Éditions du Seuil, collection Poétique, Paris, 1981

DANCE NOTATION

Danses tracées, Dessins et notation des chorégraphies, Collectif, Dis Voir, décembre 2005

Nouvelles de Danse, n° 42-43, Danse et Architecture, Collectif, Contredanse, novembre 2003

Être ensemble, Figures de la communauté en danse depuis le XIXe siècle, Collectif, Centre National De La Danse, novembre 2003

Paul Valéry. Degas danse dessin, Gallimard, Folio Essais, numéro 323, janvier 2001

bibliothèques 05/11 (list of contents)

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THE THREE SCHWOB

Blaise Cendrars. L’homme foudroyé, Le club français du livre, Paris, 1949

Gustave Flaubert. Madame Bovary, Club des libraires de France, Paris, 1955

Daniel De Foë. Moll Flanders, Éditions G. Crès, Paris, 1918

Rémy de Gourmont. Esthétique de la langue française, Mercure de France, Paris, 1938

Lautréamont. Œuvres complètes, Le club français du livre, Paris, 1950

Mercure de France, Tome C, Paris, Novembre-Décembre, 1912

Marcel Schwob. La lampe de Psyché, Mercure de France, Paris, 1925

Marcel Schwob. Vies imaginaires, Club des libraires de France, Paris, 1957

Marcel Schwob. Le roi au masque d’or, Éditions G. Crès, Paris, 1920

TYPOGRAPHY & UNIVERSALITY

Herbert Bayer. Towards a Universal Type, 1935, in PM 4 n°2, 1939–40

Herbert Bayer, Universal, in Offset n°7, Bauhaus, 1926

Christopher Burke. Active literature: Jan Tschichold and New Typography, Hyphen Press, London, 2007

Christopher Burke. Paul Renner: the art of typography, Hyphen Press, London, 1998

Le Corbusier. Vers une architecture, Éditions G. Crès, Paris, 1923

Le Corbusier. L’esprit Nouveau, n°21, 1924

Stefan George. Der Stern des Bundes, Georg Bondi, Berlin, 1914

Jakob Grimm. Deutsche Grammatik, Première édition, Göttingen, 1819

Jakob Grimm. Deutsche Grammatik, Deuxième édition, Göttingen, 1822

Robin Kinross. Unjustified texts: perspectives on typography, Hyphen Press, London, 2002

Walter Porstmann. Sprache und Schrift, Verlag des Vereins Deutscher Ingenieure, Berlin, 1920

Walter Porstmann. Dinbuch 1 Normformate, Beuth Verlag, Berlin, 1930

Franz Roh. insert in Foto-Auge, 1929

Frederick Winslow Taylor. The Principles of Scientific Management, Harper, New York, 1911

(complements)

Arthur A. Cohen. Herbert Bayer: The Complete Work, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1988

Mildred S. Friedman (ed.). De Stijl, 1917-1931: Visions of Utopia, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, 1982

Jan Tschichold. The new typography, University of California Press, 2006

Hans Wingler. Bauhaus: Weimar, Dessau, Berlin, Chicago, MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 1969

Collection Architype chez The Foundry (http://www.foundrytypes.co.uk/) -- David Quay & Freda Sack

bibliothèques 22/10 (list of contents)

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VISUAL ESSAY

John Baldessari, some books: http://www.florenceloewy.com/artistes/b/baldessasri/baldessari.html

Georges Bataille. Documents, année 1929 et 1930 (2 vol.), Éditions Jean-Michel Place, 1991

Walter Benjamin. Charles Baudelaire, Petite Bibliothèque Payot, 2002

Walter Benjamin. Paris, capitale du XIXe siècle: le livre des passages, Éditions du Cerf, 1997

André Breton. Nadja, Gallimard (Folio), 1973

Lewis Carroll. Through the looking glass, Penguin Classics, 2007

Maurizio Cattelan. Permanent food, L'association des temps libérés (fondé en 1995)

Ernst Cassirer. Écrits sur l'art: forme et technique, Éditions du Cerf, 1995

Le Corbusier. Vers une architecture, Flammarion, 1995

Hans-Peter Feldmann. 272 pages, Museum Ludwig Cologne, 2001

Hans-Peter Feldmann. Album, Walther Koenig, 2008

Hans-Peter Feldmann. Bilder, Kuntstraum Munchen, 1975

Hans-Peter Feldmann. Die Toten, Feldmann Verlag, 1998

Hans-Peter Feldmann. Voyeur, Walther Koenig, 2006

Michel Foucault. L'archéologie du savoir, Éditions Gallimard, 1969

Maria Fusco & Ian Hunt. Put about: a critical anthology on independent publishing, Book Works, 2004

EH Gombrich. Aby Warburg: an intellectual biography, Phaidon, 1986

Philippe-Alain Michaud. Aby Warburg et l'image en mouvement, Macula, 2000

Erwin Panofsky. Essais d'iconologie, Gallimard, 1967

Peter Piller. Archiv Peter Piller: Deko+Munition, Nieves, 2008

Peter Piller. Archiv Peter Piller: Zeitung, JRP Ringier (Christoph Keller éditions), 2007

Ed Ruscha, self-published books: http://www.florenceloewy.com/artistes/r/ruscha/ruscha.html

Ed Ruscha. Leave any Information at the signal, MIT Press, 2004

Lynne Sharon Schwartz. L'archéologue de la mémoire: conversations avec WG Sebald, Actes Sud, 2009

WG Sebald. Les anneaux de Saturne, Gallimard (Folio), 2003

WG Sebald. De la destruction, Actes Sud, 2004

WG Sebald. Les émigrants, Actes Sud (Babel), 2001

Susan Sontag. L'écriture même: à propos de Roland Barthes, Christian Bourgois Éditeur, 2003

Lawrence Sterne. The life and opinions of Tristram Shandy, Oxford University Press, 1998

Martin Warnke. Gesammelte Schriften, Der Bilderatlas Mnemosyne, Akademie Verlag, 2000

bibliothèques

2009-11-24T00:01:00.000-08:00

hello everybody,
my name is alex and i teach at the school of fine arts in lyon.
bibliothèques (libraries) is a book talk-show that takes place
every other thursday (!) in the graphic design department
at our school. books are presented and discussed as we create
relationships between them, somewhat like a living bibliography,
with both a critical and sensorial approach to the book!
sara has kindly invited us to participate in this space and,
therefore, we are delighted to join you in sharing contents,
forms and ideas, so as to set up a lively community
of active readers.
bonne lecture!

Alan Kitching - Letterpress Exhibition

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The Typography Workshop

Anniversary Exhibition

Celebrating 20 years of New Letterpress Prints
Alan Kitching & Celia Stothard
19 November - 19 December 2009

ADVANCED GRAPHICS LONDON
32 Long Lane, Borough, London, SE1 4AY

Nearest tube station is Borough, on the Northern Line or London Bridge on the Jubilee Line
We are open from Tuesday to Saturday 10am - 6pm

Ways of Reading

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From Far Vedere l’aria, es visuelles Lesebuch zu Bruno Munari

Verlag Lars Muller

Tip of the week

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Small Publishers Fair 2009

Conway Hall

Red Lion Square

London WC1R 4RL

Friday 13 and Saturday 14 Nov

11am to 7pm

www.rgap.co.uk

Thank you Richard Doust for the tip.

Ian Gabb does it again

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Daniel van der Velden refers to Leonard Zelig in his text which we read last week. Thank you Ian for finding out who he is.

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0086637/

Next Book Club reading material

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Empire by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri

suggested by Bianca

Teaching and Learning as Performance Art by Robert Filliou

suggested by Maël

Next meeting:

Thursday 19 November

12 noon – 2pm

RCA Library Meeting Room

Books we want to read

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This is what our first brainstorm brought up:
– something by Deleuze
– What is a Designer by Norman Potter
– Empire by Negri
– something by Agamben
– something by Benjamin
– RACS reader
– Dematerialisation of the Art Object by Lucy Lippard
– History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russell
– Middlesex by Jeffrey Eugenides
– The Emancipated Spectator by Rancière
– something by Jacques Aumont
– Europe by Peter Sloterdijk
– something by Filliou
– something on e-books by Daniel Charney

Next Book Club (date change!)

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Wednesday 4 November

12noon–2pm, Committee Room

Please note the new date -- exceptionally on a Wednesday and different to previously announced! We’ll discuss:

‘Shadow Practice’ by Daniel van de Velden, an essay from David Churchward, ed. David Bennewith, published by Clouds, New Zealand and Jan van Eyck academie. ISBN 978-0-9582981-1-7

‘Practice from Everyday Life’ by James Goggin, an essay from The Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2008: The Present Issue, published by Bundesamt für Kultur, 2009. ISBN 978-3-95227-006-6

Don’t forget to bring texts you’d like to read.

Ed Ruscha

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‘If there is any facet of my work that I feel was kissed by angels’ says Ruscha, ‘I’d say it was my books. My other work is definitely tied to a tradition, but I’ve never followed tradition in my books. The books are neuter gender, and that’s what I like about them. That’s why I feel so free when I do them. They’re the easiest thing to do, and sometimes the best. I like the idea of spending $2,000 on something that’s just totally frivolous and spontaneous. When I start on one of these books, I get to be the impresario of the thing, I get to be the majordomo, I get to be creator and total proprietor of the whole works, and I like that. It’s nice. And I’m not biting my nails over whether the book is going to hit the charts or not.’

– Leave Any Information at the Signal, ed. A. Schwartz, October Books, MIT Press, 2002, p.40–41

Nice book photos by James Goggin

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Thank you James for sending them to us!

Choose What You Read

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Choose What You Read is our reaction to the tonnes of free newspapers dished out and thrown away every day. We’d like to give you the opportunity to read a book instead, donated by the public, to go back out into the public once finished. On the first Monday of every month you will find us dishing out second hand books at selected London Underground stations. We’d like to give you the opportunity to choose a novel over a free paper. We love reading, we’re pretty sure you do too. Thank you for reading.

First book club coming up!

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First meeting this Thursday 22 October in the library meeting room from 12am to 2pm. We’re planning to discuss how to organise ourselves and what we want to read this year.

Please post comments and suggestions on this blog!

Quote of the day

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‘I admire Klee very much. But what I learned from him I learned from looking at his pictures. Because as a teacher he was not very effective.’
Anni Albers

‘I think this is a very pertinent quote, personally speaking.
All that I have learned, I have learned by looking very closely at books.
Not reading them – looking at them.’
Ian Gabb

More on http://www.aaa.si.edu/collections/oralhistories/transcripts/albersa68.htm

Swiss Books

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THE MOST BEAUTIFUL SWISS BOOKS 2008 IN LONDON
25–29.10. 2009

Helvetic Centre and the Swiss Federal Office of Culture cordially invite
you to:

Opening party
Sunday, 25 October, 7 pm
Guest speaker Laurenz Brunner

'Superlatives in book design'
Thursday, 29 October, 7.30 pm
Round table discussion with experts from the field of book design

The catalogue 'The most beautiful Swiss books 2009 – The present issue'
will be for sale during the exhibition

with kind support by
Swiss Federal Office of Culture, Bern
Swiss Cultural Fund in Britain, London

Café Oto
18–22 Ashwin Street, Dalston, London E8 3DL
www.cafeoto.co.uk

[Nearest station is Dalston Kingsland, part of the London Overground
network, or take bus 30, 38, 67, 76, 149, 56, 277 & 242.]

For further information and programme details, please visit: www.helveticcentre.ch

Letterpressmonster did it again

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