Inspiration

Here is a list of artists, publications, and other objects or ideas that (I think) are pretty inspiring. Please let me know if you have links to any others that you would like to see added.

I mentioned The Ecstasy of Influence by Jonathan Lethem a couple of times in class. It is a fascinating article on copyright and plagiarism, but grab it soon – I’m not sure how reliable this link will be in the future.

Paul Chan is an artist that experiments with a variety of media. His publishing company, Badlands Unlimited, issues cutting edge eBooks.

Christian Marclay is another artist that uses print, video, music, and any other media he can to produce fascinating. experimental work.

We looked at the beautiful 75th anniversary edition of American Photographs by Walker Evans. Buy the book or download hi res files of his works in the public domain from the Library of Congress.

Or if you really love American Photographs, order the Books-on-Books from Errata Editions.

Here is an interesting article on Shepard Fairey’s court case.

Conveyor Arts is a publisher specializing in short run fine arts publications.

This is a website showing some of the work by Walid Raad that we talked about in class. And here are some images of more current work.

Specific Object is a great resource for looking at some of the best fine art publications ever produced.

Dexter Sinister is a design collective with unique, cutting edge publications.