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Art, No-Art & Anti-Art
Isbn 9789081902410
Publisher Galerie A
Idea code 19178
€ 29.50
Dutch gallerist, collector, and author Harry Ruhé presents a treasure trove of “relicts” alongside some “normal” art collected over the last 50 years. From an early age, Ruhé had been captivated by the revolutionary art movements of the 1960s, and by kinetic art and Fluxus in particular. He became acquainted with names like Armin Hundertmark, Henry Flynt, Yayoi Kusama, Stanley Brouwn, Anthon Beeke, and others, and started collecting artworks. From 1976, Ruhé opened Galerie A in Amsterdam, which would host a number of notable exhibitions, installations, and performances. Featuring numerous artists, works, and correspondence, the book is his tribute to this legacy.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Henry Van De Velde - The Artist As A Designer, From Art Nouveau To Modernism
Isbn 9780995473058
Publisher Occasional Papers
Idea code 19044
€ 24.95
Henry van de Velde (1863–1957) is a towering figure in the history of modern design. Of prodigious range – he was equally at ease designing furniture and objects as entire buildings – he paved the way for the transition from Art Nouveau to Modernism, and proposed a model for design education that inspired the Bauhaus. This biography by graphic designer and historian Richard Hollis traces Van de Velde’s career from his beginnings as a painter in Antwerp to his trend-setter stature in European architecture and design at the turn of the twentieth century. Van de Velde emerges from Hollis’ biography as a strikingly contemporary figure, believing in the social power of art in an era of growing nationalism.
264 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Rembrandt X Rijksmuseum
Isbn 9789462085091
Publisher nai010 Publishers
Idea code 19184
€ 40.00
The Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam is home to the world’s largest collection of paintings by Rembrandt, plus a vast assembly of his drawings and etchings. For the first time, all 22 paintings and 60 drawings, as well as a selection of 300 etchings from the collection are presented together in the exhibition ‘Rembrandt x Rijksmuseum’. It offers an unparalleled perspective on Rembrandt the artist, the person, and the storyteller, elucidating his innovation in painting technique and subject in the 17th-century art world. In this book, the reproductions of drawings and etchings are in many cases larger than their original size, allowing his work to be studied more closely and in detail.
824 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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From The Depths Of The Soul. Life And Work From Leon Spilliaert
Isbn 9789491819902
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 19148
€ 59.90
Rooted in the Symbolist tradition of the fin-de-siècle and drawn to the avant-garde, Léon Spilliaert (1881–1946), was a loner who never occupied a clear place in the art of his time. He shared not only his home port of Ostend with James Ensor, but also his sense of mockery and irony, non-conformity, and an urge to view the world differently. Spilliaert, however, created a spiritual visual language of his own, experimenting with pastels and gouache, playing with purified expanses of colour and elegant lines. The moonlit sea, solitary, vacantly gazing figures, beaches stripped of all human presence, empty rooms and stylized, backlit silhouettes – he invariably evoked an atmosphere of mystery, magic, and alienation.
336 p, ills colour, 25 x 29 cm, hb, English
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Leonardo In Detail (English)
Isbn 9789491819995
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 19146
€ 24.90
Leonardo da Vinci is the archetypal universal man, a multi-talented genius who left an indelible mark on all the realms of art and knowledge he ventured into – painting, drawing and architecture, natural science, anatomy, mathematics, engineering and astronomy. His genius as a painter was reinforced by an analytical understanding of not only the human body but also nature and the physical laws of light. On the five-hundredth anniversary of Leonardo’s death in 1519, this book celebrates the artist by highlighting thirty masterpieces, including the Annunciation, the Baptism of Christ, the Mona Lisa, and the Last Supper, as well as a selection of his drawings.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 32 cm, hb, English
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Leonardo In Detail (Portable Edition)
Isbn 9789493039070
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 19147
€ 14.90
Leonardo da Vinci is the archetypal universal man, a multi-talented genius who left an indelible mark on all the realms of art and knowledge he ventured into – painting, drawing and architecture, natural science, anatomy, mathematics, engineering and astronomy. His genius as a painter was reinforced by an analytical understanding of not only the human body but also nature and the physical laws of light. On the five-hundredth anniversary of Leonardo’s death in 1519, this book celebrates the artist by highlighting thirty masterpieces, including the Annunciation, the Baptism of Christ, the Mona Lisa, and the Last Supper, as well as a selection of his drawings.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 19 cm, hb, English
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Helen Verhoeven - Schamerkat
Isbn 9789080267701
Publisher Abn Amro
Idea code 19167
€ 27.50
Helen Verhoeven’s work connects restrained emotion and contemporary social dilemmas with classical, historical, and art historical iconography. With her seemingly naïve yet meticulous painterly style, she presents reassuringly familiar compositions which on further consideration prove to be full of conflicting messages. In her most recent work, Verhoeven’s versatility merges techniques like stained glass, mosaic, and sculpture with humanistic ideas about feminine beauty, love and tensions in relationships, and the interrelation of violence and intimacy. Designed by Irma Boom, this publication recognises Verhoeven as winner of the eighth ABN AMRO Art Award in the Netherlands.
60 p, ills colour, 23 x 32 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Anne Geene - Arboreta
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Publisher Anne Geene
Idea code 19205
€ 35.00
Photographer Anne Geene presents a series of proposals for absurd and experimental arboreta, or places where trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants are cultivated for scientific and educational purposes. Her starting point is the nine most popular types of tree according to a tree nursery catalogue from 1977. Popularity depends on several factors, such as seasonal leaf shedding, size, density, soil requirements, and sensitivity to wind, salt, or disease and insect attacks. The nine types offer broad insight into the appearance, cultural status, geography, and behaviour of trees. Geene also planted seedlings of nine trees that can grow to be more than 500 years old, like the giant sequoia.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, pb, Dutch
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Michiel De Cleene - Reference Guide
Isbn 9789492811400
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 19151
€ 34.05
‘Reference Guide’ is a collection of entries connected and fuelled by cross-references. Not only do these determine the characteristics of the collection and its use, but they are also the mechanism behind its expansion. The entries are transcripts of moments when objects and technologies challenge the strict boundaries that apply to them and emphasise their transitory nature. The book therefore invites readers to construct their own path through the various entries, a movement similar to that of navigating from one topic of interest to another in an encyclopaedia or on Wikipedia – following a thread of curiosity from which a host of disparate yet associated things can emerge.
176 p, ills colour, 25 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Shapes Of Knowledge
Isbn 9780987637123
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 19188
€ 38.20
‘Shapes of Knowledge’ revolves around notions of research, the laboratory, and learning and teaching in relation to art practice. The exhibition at Monash University Museum of Art is the most extensive survey of its kind in Australia, and brings together projects driven by process and investigation. It is part of a broader “educational turn” in contemporary art, where artists and curators are increasingly undertaking in-depth academic research and adopting pedagogical methodologies. The eight projects are presented along with a series of newly commissioned and historical texts that challenge the conventions of knowledge and reveal how art can be transformed by learning.
304 p, ills colour, 19 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Joris Geurts - Zonder Titel / Untitled 2015-2019
Isbn 9789080621909
Publisher Slewe Gallery
Idea code 19185
€ 30.00
Joris Geurts has described his paintings as a mix of light, space, and weight. His style is abstract and purely painterly, from shimmering blends of watery colour to, more recently, a palette of varying intensities of acrylic paint that vibrates with crackling contrast. His works consist of one or more single, wide strokes on paper, thereby seeking the bounds of possibility of body, brush, paint, and paper, and revelling in controlled coincidence. This catalogue of recent work by Geurts, published on the occasion of his solo exhibition at Slewe Gallery in Amsterdam, is designed by Irma Boom and Eva van Bemmelen, and includes texts by Taco Dibbits and Frits de Coninck.
144 p, ills colour, 22 x 27 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Michael Biberstein X
Isbn 9789727691173
Publisher Culturgest
Idea code 19179
€ 4.00
Following a large retrospective of work by Michael Biberstein at Culturgest, Lisbon, this impressive catalogue offers an intimate examination of the Swiss painter’s life and work. The exhibition was organised around the two themes that always motivated his work: the analytic comprehension of space and the marking of place; and the specifically pictorial relationship with landscape via the act of painting. It shows how his oeuvre developed through distinct stages, yet its internal connectedness and particularly philosophical trajectory reveal links between modernist thinking on language, the potential of landscape to offer a political vision of the world, and the legacy of Romanticism.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, hb, Portuguese/English
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Raquel Van Haver - Spirits Of The Soil
Isbn 9789050062046
Publisher Stedelijk Museum
Idea code 19138
€ 32.50
This publication appears on the occasion of ‘Spirits of the Soil’, Raquel van Haver’s first solo exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. As Azu Nwagbogu writes in his essay, “The best way to approach [her] monumental paintings… is to submit without trepidation to what is an overwhelming sensory experience.” On Van Haver’s jute sack canvases, the inhabitants of Amsterdam’s infamous Bijlmer neighbourhood blend with the denizens of the favelas, barrios, and slums of any number of marginalised urban districts the world over to form an ugly and grim portrait, and yet she also imbues her work with a sense of the community formed by these ordinary, unheroic figures.
40 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Jytte Hoy - Hair Net Geometry
Isbn 9783941644069
Publisher The Green Box
Idea code 19162
€ 29.10
In her art work Hair Net Geometry Jytte Hoy uses the ordinary, almost invisible object of the hairnet. Following a rectangular grid on the wall, the fine mesh hairnets are being stretched to maximum capacity. They result in a great variety of geometric shapes reminiscent of delicate drawings. Like many other works by Jytte Hoy they combine sensitivity and humour in the use of everyday objects and play with ideas of the Concrete Art movement. Hair Net Geometry is the first publication dedicated to these filigree and unusual small sculptures, that have been exhibited as large wall installation in institutions such as ISCP New York. The book is accompanied by a real hairnet and an instruction to create a Hair Net Geometry. With an essay by art critic and curator Maria Kjaer Themsen.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 27 cm, pb, Danish/English
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Peter Liversidge: Notes On Protesting
Isbn 9789188031747
Publisher Art And Theory Publishing
Idea code 19145
€ 17.60
British artist Peter Liversidge writes numerous proposals for various projects and exhibitions, which range from simple to impossible. ‘Notes on Protesting’ is one of 45 proposals Liversidge gave Bonniers Konsthall in advance of his exhibition there. It was first realised with pupils from a school in East London between 2013 and 2014, and reperformed with students from a school outside Stockholm. What the British children thought about at the time was probably quite different from what the Swedish children did in 2018, also an election year in Sweden. This book documents both realisations and the factors that impacted the possible interpretation and meaning production of the work.
124 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, pb, Swedish/English
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Hokusai's Brush
Isbn 9784861527098
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 19059
€ 23.95
This book presents a wildly diverse compendium of paintings, drawings, and sketches by the prolific Japanese artist and ukiyo-e printmaker Katsushika Hokusai, all of which can be found in the collection of the Freer Gallery of Art at the Smithsonian Institution. The artworks cover a wide range of subject matter and forms, and are reproduced both in full and detail, highlighting the skill, creativity, and attentiveness of this undisputed master of his craft.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese
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Shirin Sabahi - Pocket Folklore
Isbn 9789492811455
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 19127
€ 24.35
This book revolves around ‘Matter and Mind’ by Japanese artist Noriyuki Haraguchi, permanently installed at the Tehran Museum of Contemporary Art since the museum's inauguration in 1977. The sculpture consists of a steel basin filled with used engine oil. Visitors gradually started throwing coins and other things into the pool over time, turning it into an unwilling wishing well. Forty years on, Shirin Sabahi invited Haraguchi to restore his pool. The book includes a previously unpublished booklet by the museum’s first chief curator, which follows the logic of the project, where Sabahi’s films, Haraguchi’s sculpture, and the sunken objects it holds sequentially encase one another.
196 p, ills colour, 15 x 22 cm, pb, German/English
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Sonic Acts 2019 - Hereafter
Isbn 9789082321654
Publisher Sonic Acts
Idea code 19125
€ 19.50
Celebrating 25 years of the Sonic Acts festival, this publication is dedicated to the theme of “Hereafter”. Both a reality check and an urgent call to rethink and act on the significant problems we are facing today, more than 120 artists and theorists addressed the theme, invited to share their visions and thoughts on the possibilities for survival beyond our current neo-liberal catastrophe in the epoch of the Anthropocene. The festival “reader” collects a selection of these contributions from conference speakers, performers, filmmakers, and various participants. Rather than “looking back” on a quarter century of the festival, it is devoted to confronting the concerns raised by its numerous participants.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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The Ghosts Of Sunday Morning - 50 Years Of European Ceramic Work Centre
Isbn 9789462084940
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 19124
€ 24.95
In 2019, the European Ceramic Work Centre (EKWC) will celebrate its fiftieth anniversary. Sculptors, architects, designers, and others have realized their (sometimes crazy) dreams at EKWC, relying on the expert technicians and world-class facility there. Today, rebranded as Sundaymorning@ekwc, it remains one of the most exciting places in the world for the encounter between workmanship, art, engineering, and the imagination. The exhibition at Design Museum Den Bosch will take a measure of this history, and capture its spirit, through a highly unconventional method.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Mop Projects: 2003-2016
Isbn 9780987526892
Publisher Formist
Idea code 19120
€ 53.40
For more than thirteen years, Sydney-based MOP Projects was an essential and active player in Australia’s lively network of artist-run initiatives. Presenting the work of over 800 artists, curators, and writers, this volume portrays the dynamism of a time and place on the brink of great change. A launchpad for the careers of many of Australia’s leading artists, MOP championed experimentation, risk, and play, and its legacy is as relevant now as it was then. The publication offers a curated selection of work, illustrated by over 1,000 images and accompanied by texts written by some of Australia’s foremost arts writers, including Alex Bowen, Ann Finegan, and Naomi Riddle.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Julian Charriere - As We Used To Float (Box)
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Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 19172
€ 20.45
Straddling the genres of travelogue and critical essay, ‘As We Used to Float’ explores Bikini Atoll as a space of fantasy and trauma. Between 1946 and 1958 the US military’s nuclear testing programme detonated 23 of the most powerful explosions in history at this remote corner of the Pacific Ocean. Since then, the fate of the islands has been largely ignored. Together with Nadim Samman, conceptual artist Julian Charrière offers a personal account of a sea journey, above and below water, blended with a critical investigation of postcolonial geography. In a series of images and narrative immersions, the publication develops broader reflections on place and subjectivity.
216 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, German/English
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Carla Rak - Eyes As Oars, A Visual Journey To Mars
Isbn 9788885449268
Publisher Danilo Montanari Editore
Idea code 19087
€ 21.50
Visual artist Carla Rak works mainly with photography, collage, textiles, and writing. Her work is often connected with collecting, wherein already existing images are the raw material she uses to question the photographic image, and the starting point to play with their ambiguity and with the transformation of their meanings through time and contexts, enacting different processes to liberate pictures from their solidified histories. With ‘Eyes as Oars’ she seeks to reaffirm our sight as a tool for exploration. Its visual journey appears as a kaleidoscope of images, photos, charts, and illustrations, disorienting at first glance. Extensive captions and credits of the images are gathered at the end.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Illustrators Annual 2019
Isbn 9788875707552
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 19196
€ 47.05
The Illustrators’ Exhibition at the Bologna Children’s Book Fair is one of the most important international events in the world of illustration. For more than 50 years, the Exhibition has featured works by the greatest names in children’s publishing over the past half century. The Illustrators Annual 2019 unites projects by the 76 artists selected from the 16,000 boards created by 3,200 illustrators from around the globe. With a cover illustration by Igor Oleynikov, winner of the Hans Christian Andersen Award 2018, in addition to the selected works the volume also features contributions by the five jury members: Diego Bianchi, Alessandro Sanna, Harriët van Reek, Maciej Byliniak, and Béatrice Vincent. This edition is completed by an interview with Seymour Chwast.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 28 cm, pb, Italian/English
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