Softcover publication. 120 pages, 17 × 22 cm. Published 1999.
Condition: Good vintage condition. Light handling wear and minor shelf rubbing. The marks remain part of the record: evidence of circulation, storage, handling, and transfer.
Published in conjunction with Bibliomania, a project that asked artists, writers, curators, and theorists to reveal the books that informed their practices. Contributions include reading lists, bibliographies, archival material, and exhibition-related documentation by figures including Mark Dion, Joseph Kosuth, Victor Burgin, Lucy Lippard, and others working around Conceptual Art, institutional critique, publishing, and information systems.
The publication operates somewhere between catalogue, library, exhibition document, and artist's book. Books become portraits. Reading becomes a form of self-description. Bibliography becomes exhibition material.
Particularly notable are the reproduced reading lists of Mark Dion and Joseph Kosuth, alongside Michael Farion's unrealised exhibition furniture drawings, which extend the project beyond documentation into the design of how knowledge itself might be stored, displayed, and circulated.
A publication about books, but also about the systems that organise them. The artist appears indirectly: through references, influences, annotations, and selection. Identity arrives as a shelf.
An uncommon publication, more visible in institutional holdings than in regular commercial circulation.
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