The small press model

Abstract

"This collection of writings attempts to group together approaches to the physicality of the book, learned from its beginnings as small press activity. A reductive instinct formed from those earlier editorial principles of small press work can be applied to all products of the imagination, especially the plastic arts. A synthesis of attitudes, developed from the aesthetics and economics of invention and problem solving, informs the formal making of all things."--Publishers website 2023

Contents

Synthesis -- The small press model : The collective work in the critical mode -- Ian Hamilton Finlay's Wild Hawthorn Press -- The South Bank show -- The metaphor books -- Threads in relationship to Kettle's yard -- Notes on the unpainted landscape -- Allotment -- The presence of landscape -- The vinyl project -- Certain trees -- The Norfolk years -- Construction storage despatch -- Made in English -- At last -- Living and publishing in Tipperary -- Locations -- Equivalent spaces : On the flapability of the pamphlet -- A concertina of concertinas -- Typewriter art -- To climb through a hole in a postcard -- The format of the small shop -- Liable to be anywhere -- The poem itself -- The small publishers fair -- A case for books -- Particular dislocations : Brancusi's sewing box -- The rain paintings of Stephen Skidmore -- The two Stephens -- Some lacunae in relationship to Brian Lane -- Anglophone digressions -- Ian Gardener -- In the shadow of Bill Culbert -- Working with Roger Ackling -- A history of the airfields of Lincolnshire -- Some notes on 'affinity' -- The clustered hang -- Martin-pêcheur -- The pencils of Matsutani -- Pangaea -- Starting from home -- Notes on the work of Sol LeWitt -- The material language of Carl Andre -- Drinking sculpture -- Drinking sculpture -- The vertical earth kilometer -- Unique forms of continuity in space -- Wartesaal -- Coracle bibliography 1975-2022.