New Foundation to Focus on Publishing Art Books
THE NEW YORK TIMES
By Patricia Cohen
PUBLISHING---Art books, monographs and catalogs are essential for historians, collectors and artists, but they rarely make money. Often oversized and lavishly illustrated on high-quality glossy paper, they are expensive to produce for the relatively tiny number of institutions and individuals who buy them. Enter the Artist Book Foundation, a new nonprofit organization dedicated to publishing fine-art references that would otherwise would not be seen. “Think of the Artist Book Foundation as a museum in print,” said the New York artist and printmaker Tom Slaughter. The foundation plans to document and distribute a visual record of work that would otherwise hardly be seen. Ten percent of each print run will be donated to public, art and university libraries, said Gibb Taylor, who founded the foundation with Leslie Pell van Breen. [link]
By Patricia Cohen
PUBLISHING---Art books, monographs and catalogs are essential for historians, collectors and artists, but they rarely make money. Often oversized and lavishly illustrated on high-quality glossy paper, they are expensive to produce for the relatively tiny number of institutions and individuals who buy them. Enter the Artist Book Foundation, a new nonprofit organization dedicated to publishing fine-art references that would otherwise would not be seen. “Think of the Artist Book Foundation as a museum in print,” said the New York artist and printmaker Tom Slaughter. The foundation plans to document and distribute a visual record of work that would otherwise hardly be seen. Ten percent of each print run will be donated to public, art and university libraries, said Gibb Taylor, who founded the foundation with Leslie Pell van Breen. [link]