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Auteur Publishers relocates authorial intention from the lone writer's vision to the publishers' arts and artisanal craft. Using the notion of auteurism, initially developed by Francois Truffaut to reframe authorship away from a script writer to a director's creative vision, this book looks at auteur-publishers working from the 1890s through to the present. These small independent book publishers acquired, designed and sometimes printed the books they published. Presses including William Morris with Way & Williams, Nancy Cunard's Hours Press, Kathleen Tankersley Young's The Modern Editions Press and Dick Higgin's Something Else Press played crucial roles in modern art and literary movements. Motivated by their idiosyncratic literary and aesthetic values, they cultivated publishing practices and, in retrospect, provide a lineage for publishers today: presses like Information As Material; Punctum Books; Siglio; Sublunary and Roving Eye Press are a few examples of the hundreds of small presses continuing the small press tradition.
Contents
List of Figures
1. Opening a Small Press
2. Craft: Letterpress Rubric (Kelmscott in Chicago)
3. Concept: Mock-Up and Editions (Information As Material)
4. Experiment: Point and Type (Hours Press)
5. Object: Bound and Boxed (The Modern Editions Press)
6. Event: Intermedia and Dingbats (Something Else Press)
7. Process: Open Access and Means of Production (Punctum Books)
8. Endpapers
Appendix: A (Very) Few Examples of Small Press Publishers
Notes
Index
