This text, published here in the University of Salamanca’s Umática online journal, analyzes Marie Orensanz’s artist publications.
After beginning her career as a painter in the 1960s, Argentine artist Marie Orensanz (La Plata, Argentina, 1936) created a significant number of artist publications in the 1970s and 1980s, alongside her sculptural and pictorial practice. These publications, almost always produced in small print runs, were created at a time when the conceptual regime that had begun to transform artistic practices in the United States and Europe in the 1960s was expanding and broadening, with numerous artists incorporating printed formats into the various media they used for their work. This text analyzes Orensanz’s artist publications, which have remained relatively unknown until now: editions of postcards, posters, and books that, in addition to being closely related to the artist’s drawings, paintings, and sculptures, can and should be framed within the general genealogy of the artist’s book and experimental publishing.