'Excellent.' - The New Yorker The first publication dedicated to artists' zines in North
America a revelatory exploration of an unexamined but thriving aesthetic practice Copy Machine
Manifestos captures the rich history of artists' zines as never before placing them in the
lineage of the visual arts and exploring their vibrant growth over the past five decades. Fully
illustrated with hundreds of zine covers and interiors alongside work in other media such as
painting photography film video and performance the book also features brief biographies
for more than 100 zine-makers including Beverly Buchanan Mark Gonzales G.B. Jones Miranda
July Bruce LaBruce Terence Koh LTTR Ari Marcopoulos Mark Morrisroe Raymond Pettibon
Brontez Purnell Paul Mpagi Sepuya and Kandis Williams. Accompanying a major exhibition at the
Brooklyn Museum this expansive book bound as a paperback with a separate jacket focuses on
zines from North America celebrating how artists have harnessed the medium's essential role in
community building and transforming material and conceptual approaches to making art across all
media since 1970.
