Clive phillpot biography

Clive Phillpot (1938, Thornton Heath, Surrey, England) is a specialist in artists' books, as well as a writer, curator, and librarian.

After getting his start as a librarian at the Charing Cross Public Library, London, and the Chelsea School of Art, London, Phillpot served as the director of Museum of Modern Art Library from 1977 to 1994.

Clive phillpot biography

Phillpot founded MoMA Library's collection of artists' books, regularly sourcing materials from Printed Matter, the New York-based distributor of artists' publications founded by Lucy R. Lippard and Sol LeWitt. He also facilitated the acquisition of the Franklin Furnace Artists' Book Collection by MoMA Library in 1993, then the largest in the country.

He also served as the president of the Art Libraries Society of North America in 1989.

Through his writing and criticism in the 1970s and beyond, Phillpot was instrumental in defining and bringing attention to the medium of