| Summary: | Artists' books have transformed the traditional condition of bookness since the sixties and seventies. As Johanna Drucker says, they changed their status from secondary to primary, from instrumental to originative, from common to rare, without renouncing other identities. In Mexico, there was a pioneer in this conceptual dimension of the book: Yani Pecanins began to create books for looking, for touching and also for reading. She started out with a little manual printing workshop in her house's kitchen, that's why she named it Cocina Ediciones (Kitchen Editions). Then, she began forming relationships with artists from other countries who were interested in the visual presence of books, in their objectness. This way, she began to compile an archive of the most important artists' books and opened a gallery named El Archivero (The Archivist), which remained open for some years. This work is a research on this archive and on the Mexican concept of The Artist Book and the differences between this book and the traditional book, the alternative book and the object book.
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