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Zine’s Mate presents The Tokyo Art Book Fair 2011, that will be held from July 16^th to 18^th 2011 in Tokyo…

“The Tokyo Art Book Fair is the largest annu­al arts pub­lish­ing fair in Asia. Now in it’s third year, the fair gath­ers togeth­er arts pub­lish­ers, gal­lery presses and self pub­lish­ing artists from Japan and abroad.

Open to the pub­lic, vis­it­ors are able to buy books dir­ectly from pub­lish­ers, enjoy spe­cial exhib­i­tions, talks and events.

Vis­it­ors can expect a com­plete range of arts pub­lish­ers, from self-pub­lish­ing artists to inde­pend­ent-pub­lish­ers and estab­lished arts pub­lish­ing houses.
The 2010 fair included a hun­dred par­ti­cipants and attrac­ted more than six-thou­sand vis­it­ors.

Thought of as the pub­lish­ing industry’s nemes­is, the Net may have in fact brought about the most cre­at­ive peri­od pub­lish­ing has ever seen. Art pub­lish­ing is cur­rently enjoy­ing a renais­sance, that’s for sure. And while books might not be as neces­sary as they once were, art books cer­tainly have a new gen­er­a­tion of enthu­si­asts.

Have books become more fet­ish­able, since the arrival of a single-dimen­sion­al digit­al rival? Has the com­par­is­on reminded us of our love of the tan­gible? Does this explain the increas­ingly pro­lif­ic pro­duc­tion of publishing’s most vis­cer­al and fleshy cre­ation, the art book? Will this pas­sion of the flesh last? Will the advance of tech­no­logy win us over in the end? Do we value books dif­fer­ently now? Do they serve a dif­fer­ent pur­pose? What lies in store for the art book?

Dif­fi­cult ques­tions to answer. Thank­fully, we’re doing the ask­ing, not the answer­ing. How­ever, vis­it­ors to the The Tokyo Art Book Fair 2011 will be pressed to form an opin­ion. We’ll be doing our best to inspire vis­it­ors to ima­gine the future of art pub­lish­ing while filling them with know­ledge of the past, that’s in addi­tion to sur­round­ing them with the very best and most vital work art pub­lish­ing has to offer, right now.

The theme, TIME-LINE will inform exhib­its, talks and events, includ­ing a dec­ade by dec­ade look at art publishing’s his­tory and inter­act­ive exper­i­ments that incor­por­ate recent devel­op­ments in pub­lish­ing tech­no­logy; ebooks included.“
 — Zine’s Mate

The Tokyo Art Book Fair 2011
3331 ARTS CHIY­ODA 6−11−4
Sotokanda Chiy­oda-ku, Tokyo

July 16^th to 18^th 2011