Art-Rite, No. 14, artists' books

Item is number fourteen of the magazine Art-Rite. The magazine was edited, written, and produced by artists Edit DeAk and Walter Robinson, and ran twenty one issues between 1973 and 1978. The magazine contained reviews of artists' work, poetry, and articles discussing modern art and art critics. Item includes the following articles: Statements on artists' books by fifty artists and art professionals connected with the medium; British pastoral; Not photography (photography); Letters/Signs/Symbols; Luscious Color; Fundamental Gallery Group; Art and Social Theory; Visions of Industry; In Manuscript; The Hot Wire; John Howell: Exegesis of the phenomenon of written art by women; David Salle: Tough thoughts on artists' books as a new fad; Al Moore: Two chapters of personal poetics apropo two favorite works; Rosalee Goldberg: On a couple of mini-catalog raisonees by performance artists; Lawrence Alloway: A book review; Peggy Gale: Sampling Italian publications at their most varied; AA Bronson: Via the book of Mr. Peanut, a discussion of the larger ouvre of this Canadian persona; Naomi Spector: A tour among seventeen titles with almost as many definitions of artists' book; Eve Sonneman: Street-talk on artists' books; Irena von Zahn: Jaap Rietman, the reigning art book dealer in SoHo; Peter Frank: Documenta's book policy. Cover art is by Carl Andre.