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Page as alternative space redux: artists’ magazines in the 21 st century

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  06 June 2016

David Senior
David Senior*
Affiliation:
Museum of Modern Art Library, 11 W. 53rd Street, New York, NY 10019, USA
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Abstract

In the past few years, several new publications and exhibitions have presented surveys of the genre of artists’ magazines. This recent research has explored the publication histories of individual titles and articulated the significance of this genre within contemporary art history. Millennium magazines was a 2012 exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art that traced the artists’ magazine into the 21st century. The organizers, Rachael Morrison and David Senior of MoMA Library, assembled a selection of 115 international tides published since 2000 for visitors to browse during the run of the exhibition and created a website as a continuing resource for information about the selected tides. The exhibition served as an introduction to the medium for new audiences and a summary of the active community of international artists, designers and publishers that still utilize the format in innovative ways. As these projects experiment with both print and digital media in their production and distribution of content, art libraries are faced with new challenges in digital preservation in order to continue to document experimental publishing practices in contemporary art and design.

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Research Article
Information
Art Libraries Journal , Volume 38 , Special Issue 3: Special Issue: Artists’ Publications , 2013 , pp. 10 - 17
Copyright
Copyright © The Art Libraries Society 2013

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References

1. Three recent publications that take a close look at this ‘alternative space’ phenomenon are: Detterer, Gabriele and Nannucci, Maurizio, eds., Artist-run spaces: nonprofit colleđive organizations in the 1960s and 1970s (Zurich: JRP/Ringier, 2012),Google Scholar
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7. Senior, David in conversation with Roysdon, Emily, http://www.moma.org/explore/multimedia/videos/195/1071 Google Scholar