The Crossing of Innumerable Paths: Essays on Art, published by Ridinghouse, 2019
Celebrated art critic and curator Guy Brett brings together a unique gathering of artists, tracing their diversity and singularity through 14 essays. In Liliane Lijn, Wavering Line of Light, Brett discusses, Lijn's Light Columns, 1964-1971, as an example of her "wonderful re-invention of industrial materials, taking them from practical usages to create a new, poetic object."
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DRAF Study #18 Cosmic Flares III, published by David Robert’s Art Foundation, 2019
An extensive exploration of the David Roberts Collection led curator and writer Amy Budd to discover Cosmic Flares III by Liliane Lijn and, this 1966 work became the focus of her study.
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Great Women Artists, published by Phaidon, 2019
The most extensive fully illustrated book of women artists ever published, introduced by Rebecca Morrill and featuring Liliane Lijn and her work, Time is Change, 1968.
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Library of Light, published by Lund Humphries, 2019
Library of Light: encounters with artists and designers by Jo Joelson is structured around twenty-five interviews and four thematic essays. The interview with Liliane Lijn reveals an early fascination with light from her childhood in New York and her subsequent focus on the poetry of light, light as a language and the science of light.
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The WORD is Art, published by Thames & Hudson, 2018
Michael Petry's global overview of how contemporary artists incorporate text and language into work, including a broad range of artists; Bruce Nauman, Julien Breton, Jeremy Deller, Tracey Emin, Jenny Holzer, Liliane Lijn, Shirin Neshat and many more. Liliane Lijn's text based works are featured, including moonmeme, 1992 and ABC Cone, 1965.
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Early Events: Five Narrative Sculptures, 1996 – 2000, Summerhall, 2017
A catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition curated by Gabriella Daris, organised by Summerhall, Edinburgh.
An essay by Daris discusses the five narrative sculptures, part of a larger series, A Dialogue with the Self, in which Lijn examines the strata of her psyche.
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Liliane Lijn: Early Work, 1961-69, published by RCM Galerie, Paris, 2015
A catalogue published on the occasion of the 2015 exhibition Liliane Lijn: Early Work, 1961 - 69 at RCM Galerie, Paris.
The catalogue includes two texts; Wavering Line of Light by Guy Brett and La lumière retourne à sa source by Bronać Ferran.
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Earth Body Art, published by Comune of Umbertide – Museo Civico di Santa Croce, 2013
A catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition: Liliane Lijn Earth Body Art, curated by Marinella Caputo
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Cosmic Dramas, published by Middlesbrough Institute of Modern Art, 2012
A catalogue published on the occasion of the exhibition Liliane Lijn, Cosmic Dramas at MIMA, November 2012 - February 2013.
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ATOMNOTES by Liliane Lijn, published by Piece of Paper Press, 14th September 2010
In 1967, inspired by analogies formulated from her scientific readings, Lijn began writing in her notebook under the heading Atom-Man Notes. ATOMANOTES is an illustrated book containing both the questions originally asked by Lijn in 1968 and the answers of four scientists today: John Vallerga, Laura Peticolas, John Bonnell and Ilan Roth.
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Liliane Lijn ‘Stardust’ published by Riflemaker, London, 2008
A book published to coincide with the exhibition at Riflemaker, London April 14th– 5th November 2008, curated by Tot Taylor and Virginia Damtsa.
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Liliane Lijn, Selected Works 1959 – 1980, published by England & Co, 2006
This monograph was published alongside an exhibition at England & Co Gallery, curated by Dr David Alan Mellor which featured Lijn's works from 1959 to the early 1980s, selected to present a microcosm of the scope of her on-going explorations and experiments with light, movement, words, film, liquids and industrial materials.
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Selected Works 1959 – 2005, published by Austin Desmond, 2006
A catalogue with introductory text by Sarah Wilson published to accompany the exhibition at Austin Desmond Gallery, Liliane Lijn: Selected Works 1959-2005, 28th April 2006 - 26th May 2006.
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Liliane Lijn Works 1959 – 80, published by the Mead Gallery, 2005
A catalogue written by David Mellor, edited by Sarah Shalgosky and published to accompany the exhibition at the Mead Gallery, University of Warwick, 28 April - 22 June 2005
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Light and Memory, published by Thames & Hudson, London, 2022
A catalogue published for the exhibition Liliane Lijn: Light and Memory, organised by Enrico Mascelloni and Gabriele Violini at Rocca di Umbertide, Centro per l’Arte Contemporanea, Perugia, Italy 29 June – 12 September 2002.
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First Words, 2000, published by Lightline Press & Gefn Press, London 2000
19 laminated full-colour cards held in a plastic slipcase with flower hairband. Liliane Lijn contributed First Words to the Volumes (of vulnerability) project, published by the Gefn Press in 2000. Curated by Susan Johanknecht and Katharine Meynell, the project is a portable "gallery" housed in an aluminium tin containing 23 artists' books. Lijn’s plan is to collect 2000 first words: a word for each year since the birth of Christ.
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