(photo by Pheobe riley Law)

the leaf explorers is a blog about books, their design, pages from my own shelves etc. 


during the CV19 situation I have turned the blog over to posts about free pdf resources on a range of subjects. So far this has included;



100 Notes

Aenne Biermann

Agnes Martin

Agnès Varda

Alice Coltrane

Alison Knowles

Alison Lloyd

Ana Mendieta

Anaïs Nin

Andra McCartney

Anne Teresa De Keersmaeker

Annea Lockwood

Anni Albers

Art, BioArt and the Anthropocene 

Art Platform Japan

Atsuko Tanaka

A Pause (Black Lives Matter)

Babette Mangolte

Baya Mahieddine

Bauhaus # 1

Bernd and Hilla Becher

Betty Parsons

Bluestocking and Japanese feminism

British Library / ICA talks archive (audio)

Butoh

Cabinet Magazine

Carolee Schneemann

Catherine Christer Hennix

Ceal Floyer

Cecilia Vicuña

Chantal Akerman

Charles and Ray Eames

Charlotte Moorman

Charlotte Perriand

Charlotte Posenenska

Chris Kraus

Christine Kozlov

Christine Sun Kim

Ch’aekkŏri (Korean 'bookcase' painting)

Clarice Lispector

Commune Editions

Connie Beckley

Copenhagen Free University publications

Corita Kent

CTM festival magazines

Delia Derbyshire

Delphine Reist

Daphne Oram

Donna Haraway

Duration Press

Eileen Gray

Elfiede Stegemeyer

Éliane Radigue

Ellen Fullman 

Elsa Von Freytag-Loringhoven

Emma Hedditch

Ennio Morricone

Eva Hesse

Ewa Partum

Expanded / Expansive Cinema

Feminism and film

Fluxus

Fluxus # 2

Francesca Woodman

Franz Erhard Walther

FRUiTS (Japanese magazine)

FRUiTS # 2

FRUiTS # 3

FRUiTS # 4

FRUiTS # 5

Fujiko Nakaya

Gamelan

Gertrude Stein

Guerrilla Girls

Guggenheim / MET / NGA

Hannah Höch

Hanne Darboven

Harry Callahan

Hanne Lippard

Helena Almeida

Heresies magazine

Hildegard Westerkamp

Hilma Klint

Ito Tari

Jacques Tati

Japanese Architecture

Japanese Photography # 1

Japanese Photography # 2

Jean Painlevé

Jenny Hval

Jikken Kobo

Jo Baer

Joan Jonas

Jonas Mekas

Josef Sudek

Kimiyo Mishima

Kodomo No Kuni magazine

Lee Lozano

Leonora Carrington

Leonore Tawney

Liliana Porter

Liz Phillips

London Film-Makers Collective (now Lux)

Lubaina Himid

Lygia Clark

Maki Idemitsu

Malmo Art Academy Yearbooks

Marie Poland Fish

Mary Lou Williams

Mary Lucier

Mary Miss

Maryanne Amacher

Mavo and the Japanese avant garde

Maya Deren

Meredith Monk

Midori Yoshimoto

Mieko Shiomi

Mierle Laderman Ukeles 

mixtpdf # 1

mixtpdf # 2

mixtpdf # 3

Monika Sosnowska

Mono-ha

Moyra Davey

n.paradoxa international feminist art journal 

Nancy Stark Smith

Naomi Kawase

Ozu Yasujiro

Pipilotti Rist

Ree Morton

Rinko Kawauchi

Roman Signer

Rosa Vertov / Making Waves / Gunilla / TV Dinner 

Rose Wylie

Ruth Asawa

Sami culture and politics

Sanja Iveković

Sawako Kato

The Seen Journal

Seiichi Furuya

Shigeko Kubota

Shocking Pink zine

Simone Forti

Sol Lewitt

Sonia Boyce

Sonic Urbanism / Radio Art

Sophie Calle

Superflat

Susan Sontag

Tadashi Kawamata 

Tara Rodgers

Tōru Takemitsu

Tove Jansson

Trisha Brown

Ukichiro Nakaya

Ursula Le Guin

Věra Chytilová

Verdensteatret

vinyl record / turntable as art object

women in sound / feminism and sound

Yayoi Kusama

Yoko Ono

Yuko Tsushima

Yvonne Rainer

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