Forms, Strategies and Contexts of Publishing in Modern and Contemporary Art Practice (1960s to the present day)

自20世纪60年代以来，向以语言为基础的艺术实践的转变，以及它对编辑策略和出版格式的特殊质疑，跨越了sprint和日益数字化的平台，一直是现代艺术批评和历史话语的核心关注点。这也为当今一些最有趣的国际当代实践提供了一个基本的背景。就其本质而言，这些实践跨越了艺术和编辑设计的学科划分，并且可以使用出版和发行活动来忽略传统的地理和文化分离。为了应对这种现象，艺术机构不得不吸收新的概念，并修改其传统的分类、结构和方法。这些在当代策展的新模式和展示、存档、编目、编辑和分发的新方法中得到了证明。泰特图书馆认识到，新的研究是准确修订其现有分类和方法的关键。它与雷丁大学印刷与图形传播系建立了特定的合作伙伴关系，正是为了回应这一明确的需求。该系在以收藏为基础的研究和国际公认的艺术家出版物领域的专业知识方面享有世界领先的声誉。通过跨机构的监督和对泰特图书馆收藏的独特访问，这种合作关系将促进对这些作品的更全面的描述的发展，而不是目前出版的学术文献，这将有可能直接促进泰特图书馆收藏和档案的组织和发展。目的和目标通过对泰特图书馆艺术家书籍收藏和其他馆藏中的关键例子的仔细检查，提出的论文将解决研究问题，旨在提供更明智的讨论，讨论从艺术史时期的流动，流行和观念艺术（c.1960-1975）的重要出版作品的特定设计和编辑特征。这篇论文的目的是产生一个严谨的方式，这些作品可以告知当代出版实践的阅读，今天继续被挪用（和作为）艺术作品。通过开发印刷和数字出版作品之间的交叉衔接框架，本论文将提供一种方法，通过该方法，准确而严格地将新收购纳入图书馆的收藏，以及增强和扩大现有艺术家书籍收藏的当前阅读。本研究将回应泰特图书馆的重要战略目标，即修改其艺术家书籍收藏的分类、结构和方法。学生的工作将是至关重要和变革性的，帮助泰特美术馆实现这一目标，具体识别和表达馆藏中的重要作品，并对这些作品在新的策展模式和展示、存档、编目、编辑和分发方法中所需要的转变进行批判性的审查。这项研究将有助于泰特图书馆的目标，即利用与收藏相关的研究来提高收藏知识，并为广大读者提供解释。特别是，作为图书馆的第一个学生奖，这个机会将提供必要的学术框架，为泰特图书馆在这一领域的持续收购提供信息，并巩固其目标，为馆藏提供更多的物理、智力和虚拟访问。

The shift to language-based art practice and its particular interrogation of editorial strategies and publishing formats, acrossprint and increasingly digital platforms, has been a central preoccupation within modern art critical and historical discoursesince the 1960s. This has also provided an essential context for some of the most interesting international contemporarypractices of today. By their very nature, these practices straddle the disciplinary divisions of art and editorial design and areable to use the activities of publishing and distribution to ignore traditional geographical and cultural separations. Inresponse to this phenomenon, art institutions have had to assimilate new concepts and revise their conventionalclassifications, structures and methodologies. These are evidenced in new modes of contemporary curation and newmethods of display, archiving, cataloguing, editing and distribution.Tate Library recognizes that new research is key to the development of accurate revisions to its own current classificationsand methodologies in the area. Its initiation of a specific partnership with the Department of Typography & GraphicCommunication at the University of Reading is in response to this identified need. This Department has a world-leadingreputation for collections-based research and internationally recognized expertise in the area of artist publications. Throughcross-institutional supervision and unique access to Tate Library's collection, this partnership will facilitate the developmentof a much more comprehensive account of these works than currently exists in published academic literature, which willhave the potential to feed directly into the organization and growth of Tate Library's collection and archive.Aims and objectivesThrough close examination of key examples in Tate Library's Artist Book Collection and other holdings, the proposed thesiswill address research questions that aim to provide a more informed discussion of the particular design and editorialfeatures of important published works dating from the art historical periods of fluxus, pop and conceptual art (c.1960-1975).The thesis will aim to produce a rigorous account of the ways in which these works can inform readings of contemporarypublishing practices, which continue to be appropriated today in (and as) works of art. Through the development of aframework for cross-articulation between print and digitally published works, the thesis will provide a means through whichto incorporate accurately and rigorously new acquisitions into the Library's collection, as well as enhancing and expandingcurrent readings of the existing collection of artist books.Potential applications and benefitsThis research will respond to Tate Library's important strategic objective to revise the classifications, structures andmethodologies surrounding its Artist Book collection. The student's work will be both crucial and transformative in helpingTate to meet this objective by its specific identification and articulation of important works within the collection and its criticalexamination of the shifts these works have necessitated in new modes of curation and methods of display, archiving,cataloguing, editing and distribution. The research will contribute to Tate Library's aim to use collections-related research toenhance collection knowledge and interpretation for a broad audience. In particular, as the Library's first studentship award,this opportunity will provide the essential academic framework needed to inform Tate Library's on going acquisitions in thisarea as well as underpinning its objectives for the provision of greater physical, intellectual and virtual access to the collection.