The Blue Notebook journal for artists’ books Vol 19 No 2, Spring – Summer 2025

Written contributions to this issue include Alastair Noble of Dunoon MOCA reflects upon the publishing practices of Ian Tyson (1933 – 2021) ‘Pamphlets, poets and painters in the 1970s’; Viola Hildebrand-Schat reviews – ‘Ad Reinhardt. Peinture moderne et responsabilité esthétique’ by Leszek Brogowski, Les Éditions de la Transparence; In ‘MANIZESTO TO GO’, Paul Thompson introduces his concept of zook – a hybrid of a book and a zine: Content euchres craft. Meaning supersedes materials. These two short sentences, a total of only six words, describe a zook; In ‘Multiple Discovery of Artists’ Books’, Rosemarie Tonk looks at the development of artists’ books as artistic expression in regions beyond the movement’s current primary centres of practice of North America, parts of Europe, and Australia; In ‘ONE BOOK AFTER ANOTHER: NOTES ON SELF-PUBLISHING’, Fernanda Fedrizzi analyses the solutions adopted to make her poetic work viable as a book and elaborates on how the publishing artist’s location influences the conception and realisation of such work, drawing on her experience as a Brazilian publishing artist.

Thanks to Mirosław Ryszard Makowski who introduced us to and allowed the use of a selection of pages from his father Zbigniew Makowski’s book ’13th September 1960, this is music to suit all’ as the featured artist for this issue. And to artist Ben Jenner who accepted our invitation to respond to the work of Zbigniew Makowski (1930-2019).

Image: Detail from 13th September 1960, this is music to suit all by Zbigniew Makowski (1930-2019).