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，向基于语言的艺术实践的转变，以及对编辑策略和出版格式的特殊询问，跨越印刷和越来越多的数字平台，一直是现代艺术批评和历史话语的中心关注。这也为当今一些最有趣的国际当代实践提供了一个重要的背景。就其本质而言，这些做法跨越了艺术和编辑设计的学科分工，并能够利用出版和发行活动来忽视传统的地理和文化分离。面对这种现象，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。这些都体现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。泰特图书馆认识到，新的研究是准确修订该领域现有分类和方法的关键。它与阅读大学的排版和图形传播系建立了具体的伙伴关系，正是为了满足这一确定的需要。该部门在艺术家出版物领域拥有世界领先的收藏研究和国际公认的专业知识。通过跨机构的监督和对泰特图书馆馆藏的独特访问，这种伙伴关系将促进对这些作品的更全面的描述，而不是目前出版的学术文献，这将有可能直接进入泰特图书馆的收藏和档案的组织和增长。目的和目标通过仔细检查泰特图书馆的艺术家书籍收藏和其他重要的例子，藏品，拟议的论文将解决研究问题，旨在提供一个更知情的讨论的特定设计和编辑功能的重要出版的作品，可追溯到艺术历史时期的fluxus，流行和概念艺术（c.1960-1975）。论文将旨在产生一个严格的方式，这些作品可以告知当代出版实践的阅读，通过发展印刷和数字出版作品之间的交叉衔接框架，论文将提供一种手段，通过这种手段，准确和严格地将新的收购纳入图书馆的收藏，以及加强和扩大现有艺术家书籍收藏的当前阅读量。潜在的应用和好处这项研究将响应泰特图书馆的重要战略目标，修订分类，围绕其艺术家书籍收藏的结构和方法。学生的工作将是至关重要的和变革性的帮助泰特满足这一目标的具体识别和阐明的重要作品的集合和其criticalexamination的转变这些作品有必要在新的模式策展和方法的显示，存档，编目，编辑和分发。这项研究将有助于泰特图书馆的目标，利用收藏相关的研究，以提高收藏知识和解释，为广大观众。特别是，作为图书馆的第一个学生奖学金，这个机会将提供必要的学术框架，以告知泰特图书馆在这一领域的持续收购，以及支持其目标，提供更多的物理，智力和虚拟访问集合。

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.