case studies matrix. notes

case studies matrix.

notes towards case studies. artists and criteria/ranges generated from personal propositions about book art.

	roles	narrative/discursive	Enabling
Jon Bently	as poet/printer/writer /musician/publishing	poetic narrative, songs, text	zine, magazine, broadside, poetry. Repro, utilitarian press
Tracey Bush	as paper artist/ artist/printer/small editions/ survey	of events, of thames, of paper traces	paper structures, page is line of events. Container as world
Les Coleman	printer drawing artist	minimal. narrative of books discovery and of artistic investigation	presents investigations into form as experiments
Tacita Dean	publishing as part of project. recording, documentarist. artist	as document, record, contains differing histories. journal of discovery	as part of project. Used as adjunct to filmmmaking. Record of written aspects and stills. Not key to practice, but similar to documentary investigation.
Helen Douglas/Telfer Stokes	as book artsts, primarily. Printers, photographers, artists.	integrated with page spaces. interrogating page space implicitly. generally without text, often rebus of narrattive	see discourse: space is an implicit subject. not a series of images but a concretion of book form.
Douglas Gordon	see Tacita Dean. Not documentarist, but commentatin on the films of Hitchcock. artist	as Dean	Legitimates investigation differently. Produces catalogue. Not key to practice
Susan Johanknecht	as writer poet artist printer historian interpreter	yes, visual and textual. often pays attention to materials and physical construction of the book	yes. book form is key to construction of narrative. is main outlet. ideas interrogate book form in various subjects
Paul Etienne Lincoln	as published material.artist. as sculptural object, as game maker, as narrative	implied. many works are part of a constellation of characters. ongoing and presented as a potential array.Cards. As in Tarot	Not particularly. Enables a publication of work with particular connotation- ie, a publication.
Andi McGarry	as artist painter, poet, writer, publisher	yes, poetic and visual.	yes.projects clearly actuated in book form
Andrew Mockett	primarily as artist, printer, cataloguer,	not usually. Presence of stylistic continuity. books tend to be compendia- scrap book like.	not really. Books highly finished and very lovely prints, but not really whole pieces. Prints could easily exist externally. Interested to know more.
Old Stile Press	publisher, printer, designer. occasionally as artist. Collaborator, publisher.	as part of design. Illustrative. Balanced book design all part of narrative. strong discursive/ textual element. definite consideration of image/text narrative relation. Roles as collaborator in producing book as holistic narrative.	yes. clearly book projects. Although consistent style, each book is considered separately. Evolution of book as balanced form incorporates all aspects of development.
Ti Parks	as performance artist, sculptor, assemblages. book sculptor	very 'sideways'. Implications of conceptual associations. Narrative structures of bookworks are very much to do with conceptualising book narratives and 'bookness'	inasmuch as books are the subject.
Mark Pawson	as publisher, collector, artist, writer. mail artist	as narrative of collections, as record, sometimes as informative publication.	yes, as adjunct to collections. expression of collections. create a different aspect to the collections quite deliberately. But the collections seem to be there first.
Christine Tacq	as printer, artist, illustrator	yes, often incorporating book structure and visual metaphor. sometimes text, though seldom incorporated in images.	yes.conception is of presentation as book construction.