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Stephen J. Bury
Art historian
  • librarian

    • Stephen John Bury (born 12 May 1954) is an English art historian and the

    artists' books, although his research interests also include the literature of art, the impact of the digital on the future of humanities, and the use of the past in the project of modernism.[1]

    Education

    Bury received his BA in modern history from the

    librarianship at University College London and Victorian studies at Birkbeck, University of London, where he wrote a PhD on John Ruskin titled John Ruskin and History (defended 1990).[2]

    Career

    Bury began his career in 1979 as the assistant librarian of

    National Preservation Office from 2003 to 2009 and the UK Web Archiving Program from 2008 to 2010. Bury also chaired the boards of Bookworks and Matt's Gallery, London. In 2010, he assumed his present position at the Frick Art Reference Library.[3] Currently, he is a board member of the Exhibitions Committee of the Grolier Club, New York and the Center for Book Arts in New York, and is an active member of the planning committee for the Contemporary Artists' Books Conference, which is held annually in collaboration with the NY Art Book Fair.[4] Bury also served as advisory editor to Oxford Art Online from 2011 to 2014. In 2019, he was awarded the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award.[5]

    Publications

    Bury's publications focus on

    artists' books, which he has defined as "books or book-like objects over the final appearance of which an artist has had a high degree of control; where the book is intended as a work of art in itself."[6] He is the author of Artist's Books: The Book As a Work of Art, 1963–1995 of 1995 (to be re-issued in May 2015), which combines a series of incisive essays on historical aspects of the medium with an extensive bibliography.[7] In 2001, he published Artists' Multiples and Multiplication, and in 2007, Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant-Garde, 1990–1937 appeared. He has had an artists' book column in Art Monthly since 1997. He also regularly contributes to Cassone. In 2019, he contributed a chapter to the book Museums and Digital Culture.[8]

    Curating

    Bury curated the exhibition "Breaking the Rules" at the British Library in 2007–2008.[9] In 2011, he curated "Aphasic Disturbance" at CHELSEAspace, London,[10] which according to critic Pamela Kember brought together "a small but carefully selected number of artists' books, multiple editions and objects to articulate new meanings or associations."[11]

    References

    1. ^ The Re:Enlightenment Project (2015). Retrieved 12 January 2015.
    2. ^ Birkbeck University of London, Birkbeck Library Catalogue (2015). Retrieved 12 January 2015.
    3. ^ artdaily.com (2010). "Dr. Stephen J. Bury Appointed Chief Librarian at the Frick Art Reference Library". Retrieved 12 January 2015.
    4. ^ NY Art Book Fair Conference (2014). Retrieved 12 January 2015.
    5. ^ "Stephen J. Bury, Ph.D., Presented with the Albert Nelson Marquis Lifetime Achievement Award by Marquis Who's Who" (2019). Retrieved 12 March 2019.
    6. ^ Bury, Stephen (1995) Artist's Books: The Book As a Work of Art, 1963–1995 (Scolar Press), p. 1.
    7. ^ Markovich, Kristine (1996). "Artist's Books: The Book As a Work of Art, 1963-1995 by Stephen Bury (Review)." Art Documentation: Journal of the Art Libraries Society of North America 15, no. 1 (Spring 1996): 65.
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    9. ^ British Library (2007). "Breaking the Rules: The Printed Face of the European Avant Garde 1900-1937" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
    10. ^ CHELSEAspace (2011)."Exhibition Archive #36: Aphasic Disturbance, curated by Stephen Bury" Archived 2016-03-04 at the Wayback Machine. Retrieved 12 January 2015.
    11. ^ Kember, Pamela (2011). "Artists' Books (Reviews)." Art Monthly 344 (March 11): 33.
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