Working Press, books by and about working class artists, 1986-1996: collaborative cataloguing
Taylor, Rebekah (2013) Working Press, books by and about working class artists, 1986-1996: collaborative cataloguing. In: Cataloguing Creativity Symposium: GLAM Group for Literary Archives & Manuscripts, 15 November 2013, British Library, London. (Unpublished)
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'WORKING PRESS: books by and about working class artists' 1986 - 1996' was an unfunded self-publication imprint that was started in 1985 by Doctor Stefan Szczelkun, an artist and academic at Westminster University, and Graham Harwood, graphic designer.
The publications produced explore perceptions of the working class, women artists, disabled artists and black artists, and gives an insight into self-funded publishing activity of the time.
Material has been donated to the University for Creative Arts through Doctor Stefan Szczelkun, after approaching UCA's research cluster bookRoom, who suggested that it should be hosted within the library. bookRoom, formed in 2004, focuses on critical and practice based research into the photographic book and the printed page, and has an interest in the Working Press self-publication imprint.
The collection includes correspondence and financial material related to the Working Press (and written to and by, Stefan Szczelkun), the imprint itself, and Artist Books and pamphlets collected by Stefan Szczelkun. The collection does not include books collected by, or correspondence administrated by Graham Harwood.
The paper would look at issues and ways of cataloguing this collection, Stefan's involvement in the cataloguing of these papers, and bookRoom's requirements as researchers.
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