Publishing manifestos

Publishing Manifestos spans a historical arc of attention of about 100 years and starts with Gertrude Stein and El Lissitsky who have to stand in exemplary for the early modernist avantgarde and Russian constructivism. The largest part of material compiled in Publishing Manifestos stems from the 21st century. Because that is our context, as artists, and just as people – but also, because in the recent one or two decades independent publishing, art publishing, publishing as artistic practice, publishing counterculture, zine-, DIY- and POD-scene have seen an unprecedented boost. Publishing Manifestos features key texts of critical engagement with publishing from protagonists of the field, including Tauba Auerbach, Michael Baers, Derek Beaulieu, Riccardo Boglione/ Kate Briggs/ Craig Dworkin/ Annette Gilbert et. al., Jorge Luis Borges, Ulises Carrión, Paul Chan, Anita Di Bianco, Constant Dullaart, Zenon Fajfer, Karl Holmqvist, John Holten & Ida Bencke, Gloria Glitzer, Lisa Holzer & David Jourdan, Ray Johnson, Sharon Kivland, Tan Lin, El Lissitzky, Alessandro Ludovico, Sara MacKillop, Steve McCaffery & bp Nichol, Jonathan Monk, Aurélie Noury, Michalis Pichler, Vanessa Place & Robert Fitterman, Seth Price, Joachim Schmid, Paul Soulellis, Matthew Stadler, Gertrude Stein, Paul Stephens, Mladen Stilinovic, Temporary Services, TIQQUN, Elisabeth Tonnard, Erik van der Weijde, Lawrence Weiner, Eric Watier, Eva Weinmayr, Jan Wenzel, Stephen Willats. Publishing Manifestos also features a comprehensive WHO IS WHO of publishers, as they showed up in 10 years Miss Read, with 600 separate entries, as well as information about activities of Miss Read: The Berlin Art Book Festival since its inception in 2009.