Then there would be links and an extensive set of notes on the day's speakers and discussions at last Saturday's Tate Symposium Put About: Contemporary Independent Arts Publishing, an excellent event to mark Bookworks' 20th anniversary.
The one thing to know about independent art book publishing (and here we're mainly talking artists' books) that all the speakers repeated is that a) you'll never get rich and b) you'll probably start out reasonably well off and end up very poor.
'Bring it on' say me and Yol. As long as we're together we'll always be rich. Ahhhhhhhhhhh.
More useful than my wife-directed sycophancy (I think she's buying my Christmas present this week. Well, she keeps talking about taking a trip up to Primark soon anyway) here's a list of some of the speakers and their websites.
Sina Najafi, editor in chief of Cabinet. Cool guy, smart and intelligent despite using PowerPoint for his talk.
Ingrid Swenson. She's a director of Peer.
Jeremy Deller. Go and see his stuff at Tate Turner prize. 'Nuff said (whatever that implies).
Christoph Keller, manic depressive German arts publisher. Currently leaving his company, Revolver, who publish the excellent sounding collection of Adolph Hitler's writings on art 1933-39.
Mathew Higgs set up a music 'zine as a young teenager. He chaired and is now high powered in New York.
Michael Bracewell rambled and was top entertainment. Has a book on Roxy music coming out next year. My friend Alex fancies him. I told him too.
Dr Cornelia Lauf, very very smart. Co-founded Two Star Books.
Lionel Bovier, publisher, curator, critic, Renaissance man. Founded JRP/Ringier Kunstverlag. He also wore a scarf indoors, a practise the English regard as a sign of continental homosexuality.
Stephanie Moisdon. French, founder of Bureau des Videos. Largely incomprehensible to panel and audience alike. Truly lovely and very very French. Wanted to be a Lacanian psychoanalyst originally but was considered 'too lucid'. (OK, I made that last bit up.)
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