Sol wrote:
> What I do like about Something Else Press and Hansjorg Mayer is that both
> use a trade book format to convey artistic contents which I infinitely
> prefer as an artist's book strategy....I have never really got into, say
> accordion books for example..they're very nice but the outside structure
of
> the book tells me what to expect....with Something Else Press titles the
> contents are an esoteric mystery.
Sure, but Fluxus editions frequently used "strange" editions format, like
the rolls, not to speak of the boxes and the year boxes of course. Allison
Knowles used a lot the rolls, and she actually did some very weird "books"
(in particuliarly the gigantics ones). About the quality of its books, Dick
Higgins often said that if you are an artist and an editor, then your books
shall be done as well -and even better-as the ones done by professional
editors. The question of the quality of the books of art was one of the
determinant starting point of the S.E.P. (with the fact that Maciunas was
alwys delayiong the publication of Jefferson's Birthday...)
Bertrand
