Black Dog Publishing
Black Dog Publishing is a British publishing company specialising in illustrated non-fiction books on contemporary culture. Topics covered by Black Dog include architecture, art, craft, design, environment, fashion, film, music and photography.
Black Dog Publishing
- Name
- Black Dog Publishing
- Founded
- 1993
- Headquarters
- London
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Black Dog Publishing is a British publishing company specialising in illustrated non-fiction books on contemporary culture. Topics covered by Black Dog include architecture, art, craft, design, environment, fashion, film, music and photography.
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• Name — Black Dog Publishing • Parent — St James’s House Media Group • Founded — 1993 • Founder — Duncan McCorquodale • Country — United Kingdom • Headquarters — London • Distribution — Marston Book Services (UK) Van Ditmar Boekenimport (Netherlands) Asia Publishers Services (China) APD Singapore (Southeast Asia) Peribo (Australia) Two Rivers Distribution (US and South America) UTP Distribution (Canada) • Publications — Books • Topics — Culture • Website — www.blackdogonline.com Black Dog Publishing is a British publishing company specialising in illustrated non-fiction books on contemporary culture. Topics covered by Black Dog include architecture, art, craft, design, environment, fashion, film, music and photography.
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The company was founded by Duncan McCorquodale in 1993. Its website claims it aspires to "take a daring, innovative approach to our titles". It has an emphasis on high production values. Black Dog has published the Labels Unlimited and Edge Futures series, a series of books by Art on the Underground, the official London Eye book, and a book about the Riot Grrrl movement titled Riot Grrrl: Revolution Girl Style Now!, biographies of such figures as Charlemagne Palestine, Alvar Aalto, Colin St John Wilson, Tod Browning and Jean-Luc Godard. In 2007 Black Dog released Making Stuff for Kids, an instructional craft book for children, in collaboration with The Guardian newspaper. Authors of Black Dog titles include Rob Young, Lydia Lunch, Bob and Roberta Smith, Carolee Schneemann, Phyllida Barlow, Beth Ditto, Peter Wollen, Suzanne Treister and Karen Knorr. This company went into liquidation in January 2018 owing more than £700,000. The assets of Black Dog were acquired by St James’s House Media Group who now runs the company.
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- <i>Collected Essays in Architectural Criticism</i> By Alan Colquhoun London, Black Dog Publishing July 21st, 2009 pp. 1-336 $38.76 Collected Essays in Architectural Criticism By AlanColquhounLondon, Black Dog Publishing July 21st, 2009 pp. 1–336 $38.76, Architectural Research Quarterly, 2017
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2017
- NASH (Mark), ed, Red Africa : Affective Communities and the Cold War. London : Black Dog Publishing, 2016, 192 p. – ISBN 1910433942, Études littéraires africaines, 2018
Scholarly · Crossref registry · 2018
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- “Black Dog Publishing”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q4920673: Black Dog Publishing
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- Gemeinsame Normdatei 1064291333, Black Dog Publishing.
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- 1.Catalogues
- 2.Whyte, Murray. Seeing the bright side: When London's Black Dog Publishing went bankrupt earlier this year, it left Canadian art organizations in the lurch. Does our art publishing scene have to die along with it?. Toronto Star. –1. 2018-03-31. 03190781.
- 3.Canadian art-book publishers reach out to galleries and authors after U.K.’s Black Dog Publishing declares bankruptcy. Quill & Quire.
- 4.Collapse of Artifice and Black Dog Publishing "terrible blow" to architecture. Dezeen. 2018-02-28.
- 5.Black Dog Official Site.
- 6."London's small book publishers", Time Out. Accessed 20 August 2017.
- 7.Review of 'Central Line Series' by Mark Liebenrood
- 8."Love at first sight" The Guardian, 31 August 2007. Accessed 10 November 2016
- 9."Horsing around" The Guardian, 6 January 2007
- 10."Black Dog Publishing goes into liquidation". The Bookseller, 31 January 2018. Accessed 9 February 2018.
- 11."Art book publisher Black Dog Publishing files for bankruptcy". A-N, 25 January 2018. Accessed 9 February 2018.
- 12.Black Dog Publishing assets bought by St James’ House The Bookseller.
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