The artist's book has become an icon and a cult object within the history of art and libraries. The publication tackles the Swiss artists' book from an international perspective, working from the most extensive collection of artists' books in Switzerland, housed at the Swiss National Library. It covers roughly 1,500 titles spanning a considerable time period. From ephemera to current fanzines, 112 interviews capture the development and significance of the phenomenon of the artist's book in Switzerland since the early, illuminated codices of the Middle Ages, or indeed since the origins of cave paintings 30,000 years ago. As a result, Swiss Artists' Books - Schweizer Künstlerbücher - Livres d'artistes suisses - Libri d'artista svizzeri emerges as the first unique, encyclopaedic collection of artists' books. --Cornerhouse website.
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Hartmut Abendschein -- art&fiction Christian Pellet, Stéphane Fretz, Marie-Claire Grossen, Marie Walpen, Rodolphe Petit -- Véronique Bacchetta -- Stefan Banz -- Daniel Baumann -- Simon Baur -- Cristina Bechtler -- Jacques Berchtold -- Susanne Bieri -- Lionel Bovier -- Antonio Brizioli : Edicola 518 -- Leszek Brogowski -- Nicoletta Ossanna Cavadini -- Christophe Chérix -- Albert Coers -- Silvio Corsini -- Daniele Cuffaro -- Bice Curiger -- Thierry Davila -- Caterina and Gianfranco De Pietri -- Catherine De Smet -- Arnaud Desjardin -- Cornel Dora -- Damian Elsig -- Aaron Fabian -- Luciano Fasciati -- Anna Ferraro -- Fanni Fetzer -- Elena Filipovic -- Julien Fischer -- Mirjam Fischer -- Tatyana Franck -- Marlene Frei -- Patrick Frey -- Roland Früh -- Yukio Fujimoto, Chikako Tatsuuma -- Martin Gasser -- Annette Gilbert -- Michael Glasmeier -- Ines Goldbach -- Véronique Goncerut -- Gustavo Grandal Montero -- Stefanie Grünangerl -- Huguet Carole Haensler -- Anita Haldemann -- Haus am Gern : Barbara Meyer Cesta, Rudolf Steiner -- Winfried Heininger -- Nathalie Herschdorfer -- Jochen Hesse -- Viola Hildebrand-Schat -- Michael Hiltbrunner -- Elisabeth Jobin -- Philippe Karrer -- Jean Khalfa -- Valérie Knoll -- Lucie Kolb -- Walther König -- Eberhard W. Kornfeld -- Hubert Kretschmer -- Stephan Kunz -- Roman Kurzmeyer -- Lilian Landes -- Christine Cottier -- Antoine Lefebvre -- Librairie La Dispersion : Géraldine Beck, Jonas Hauert, Manon Saada Russo, Ramaya Tegegne -- Eva Linhart -- Luca Lo Pinto -- Mario Lüscher -- Judith Luks -- Agathe Mareuge and Simona Martinoli -- Didier Mathieu -- Hansjörg Mayer -- Memory/Cage Editions : Daniel Kurjakovic, Vittorio Santoro -- Marie Minssieux-Chamonard -- Josef Felix Müller -- Lars Müller -- Marlene Obermayer -- Hans Ulrich Obrist -- Flurina and Gianni Paravicini -- Peter Pfrunder -- Clive Phillpot -- Katrin Pokorny-Nagel -- Dominique Radrizzani -- François Rappo -- Ripopée : Jessica Vaucher, Stéphanie Pfister -- Simon Roth -- Christian Rümelin -- Georg Rutishauser -- Linda Schädler -- Sabine Schaschl -- Christoph Schifferli -- Max Schumann -- Dieter Schwarz -- David Senior -- Izet Sheshivari -- Dino Simonett -- Kenneth Soehner -- Benjamin Sommerhalder -- Gilli and Diego Stampa -- Jan Steinbach -- Juri Steiner -- Anne Thurmann-Jajes -- Bruno Tonini -- Michaela Unterdörfer -- Paola Varello and Giulio Maffei -- Volumes : Anne-Laure Franchette, Gloria Wismer, Patrizia Mazzei -- Boekie Woekie : Jan Voss -- Ulrich Weber -- Max Wechsler -- Barbara Wien -- Etienne Wismer -- Eveline Wüthrich -- Mara Züst.