‘The Andrem W Nellon Foundation. spat of larger grant the Seling and Francine Clark tte funding several “serie foe dsp” colo aula one the nest couple af ya. ew of the Ca netasonal cll, see of small, semiprvae gatherings iat bring cogeter lated paricpans toc «pec topic, te devo 0 binging ogee tho who workin ‘ial “serie” areas talk with one another aoa sated an arshare gos sic and calenges The eales “Ant History ar ts Jura" (2005) gathered the edn fading artiste jour, ving them a forum for fam xchange about common problems and poss ble scltons. The second cll Mi dk ses, "Ar sry and ts Pbishers Michael Ann Holly Mark Ledbury, Douglas Armato, (2°08), ited pubisher and ators f mor Sisas Bist nudes bioke, tec oes “American ané Bropean presto alk. though the Constantinopoulos, Stephanie Fay Merman Pabbriwe, "ty sheng an shleagss sng pubiingin eee ena ine crdteen renee Be eal the role of pbshing wii the fl today and Ue aay ifn commercial and pols Art History and Its Pub! calterin on which tes place‘The third cll ers uiam. “The Porals of An History.” will take place tn My 2007 and wil tempt wo estas where art Ihistory stands within the viral world, from the impliations of online publch- Ing the vast numberof disparate archival and mterpretive projec that are not ‘et well Hnked, a5 well at related asics ch as future access and right issues fon the web —icizel Ann Holly and Mark Ledbury Toecalloyuam “Ant Hisoy’ant ks Publishes tok pac the Stlig onl Fans Cla At nti in Wastin, Nasachseis.o Mach x x Ae 1, 2006 Te faoing ens ete ceed fun br-nngig juli caer th the dts nd poise that ek pero Api ‘Toetrnsrip sid by Catering, Sons. Michael Ann Holly:To get the conversation ‘samted, plezse sy something about an idea ora ‘controveny or» possibilty that we have talked about inthe pasttwo days of discusion and that panulay sotersted you. Ken Wissokers‘Ths has been an opportunity to anes atthe 2096 sega “Ar. boring together diferent kinds of publishers and 0 fiad tha: we had alot more Meer acts MAM Meccan as Sb reitaly shoegin Arc bony tan dillon chy ‘cen asmachnetsFrom eh rahe” ng realy complee ways and in very diflerestdections ala the ame une Wert taory Anion Borner gy work eds 0 be sore on the inertia vital-wuies ke." bee Sco vatatind watclacetky thinking ence aout what the center of at hiory ial night be Me, and he Iphotogreph by Arthur Evans,provdedby was a very productixe place to think that through. freien! (Catherine M.Souselof In cur discussions there emerged + whole serie of incertocking topics and aspects having to do withthe history of art, the history of the bock, che history of editing, the ides of images and shes digitization —a“The pants inated, rom left eh, IXndrew Broun Vian Eaneartnoptog Bonar Arma, Soran Bilecin a Herman fabbrae(hoesgraph by Arter van previded by ove Clr ‘whole bunch of cu that al fis cogether mn & complex picture that think we're ut heginning to work ont 363 eystem of sone sre. Me Bind hat pablishing art ‘mud ar hiory ane visual wudies isa collboranve enterpise that depends on allkinds of eiferent people-—authors, artists, scholars, publishers, and editors ‘working together to make a really great hook happen. That collaboration s essential and more so than ever fore, Roger Conover: think of publishing as 3 fundamental curserial practice, thats to says abou eae stlecton and placement of cexs and ideas mn rlaion ‘other texts nd ideas Someone once sid thatthe best elton at the authors of their awhors—framing, shaping. conceiving, commissioning. and creating lines and encounters betveea books rather than merely processing munuscrps The curateral, asthorial rele ofthe editor as eltural producer is inderaculst edn our society. have also been trying to stres that authors an editors have & ‘ery serious business ia common called veriting, Good writing stil eas, but t Ades not necessarily lonk te same way it once dd The position of language, the problem of editing, and the meaning of ransaion mn 2 global culture aren the proces of being transformed. These questions slo tend to be left out of dlscus slons about publishing bur dhey are &r more importa: 10 he production of value then verre, Andrew Brown: I'm probably going to leve the colloquium with tro end Ing menvortes. Fas, just how sulle al of these very diferent publishers actually are Thames & Hudson ia commercial teade publisher and as 2 result bast sell certain ‘quunsty and certain typeof book, hich is ‘ery Aillerent fom sehst neon press pul lsh. Yet my memory ofthis weekend is that we share the same ambitions the sare backgrounds ln many cases, the same motivations, and we'e al on the samme page, so to speak. The second ‘Bing that Eile sway i how optimistic ‘everyone is Last year there were a rumber of articles end conferences about the “crisis in at publishing The past wn days hive shooen me {hat the criss either nonexistent or hs pase, because Ithink everyone s very exited about the possibilities and the cpportunities tha: Hie before us Vivian Constantinopoulos: What Ive foune especially interesting in tlking to colleagues hete Was the discussion around the meaning ofthe erm "an history sand what relvance ie hast cultura story and visual culsare today The chang sng dsciphne of ar story obviously relates to the wide scope of approach in ‘what is slaimately publshed and to what people aaually want w rad Douglas Armato:This is. field that remains exceedingly committed « is Dols and ois publications, hot as readers and as authors. We've all moved, sea) fom the word “ers” in our diesussions to "challenge" —I think quite righily —but there are other pars of academia where crisis probably i the Deter‘eakton Books pushed Gani Anor's Pateoman are n 006. whee ther'sa song sence tht ie scholars andthe publishers are at logger heads, or tha: they don't agree or don't know how to get irom one place 10 another That one reson wh celitors gon feeling lke this is «Bld whexe they ‘an operate siocessilly and with a lot of support ina way that we den’ eel in ‘every area that we pubis, Bielstein: [think to0 that the criss was quite apparent several years sg0 whem 1c seemed publsters were collapsing thetr programs, Some of those programs have been renstaced. We're talking sbout supply and demand here, so be crass about i Scholars an editors have become beter at communicating and estab lishing expectations when it comes to length, quay, what kind of fe you can really expec: fora project. Other presse and founé opportunites. This is what heppeas when you Inve fell that's aly viable: one press closes down, and it hasa good program, healthy people and author. then other presses are going to tale those up and develop newt ways of locking at and handling that group Wissoker: life than they were ten oF owenny years ago i heres no question that things are very terms of what you might hope to gain fm the ‘ssemlaation of an acaderate book in visual studies or set fields. Now, atleast for the great majriyy ofthe bcs, you would say there's going robe 2 mestty academic audience, We've been kind of capeared by the figure of MoMA shutting down che bookstone— formerly you coud just walkin off che street and buy ‘thousands and thousands of architecture, design, and photography boots, just mans, many hooks—and replacing it widh 4 very stall boutique sere That kind of gure is {his presents an opportunity for thinking differeny and ‘inking well? Thee are sill other ways of cirelating the change. So then you atk, whit part of theve books; there ae other possbilies of geting them ‘out How, essence, do we see thatas the "challenge version rather thaa the “eves version of the story of ar pushing? Pabbruwe: may sd from the commercial sd shat you need t be very good in art history pulishing to make a hving withou: ab- ‘cies and wxbout reaky going belly up. i's éangerous stuf Ari hiserians lowe photography; they love the book sean objec We're all sed to colocil big. ft books, moseum catalogoes a ew prices. [e emains to be seen if more paris can step in and do allthis work—the preparation ofan att history book ‘an easily take thre ro four yeare—and then still come ont whole, Soi is 3 cnllenging etd, much more challenging tha tex-based humanites publishing in general