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Marc Nagtzaam - Regular Features
Isbn 9789492811448
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 19222
€ 43.80
As a continuation of the very first publication by Amsterdam-based Roma Publications from 1998, Marc Nagtzaam’s ‘(SOME)’, this book marks more than 20 years of output from Roma. It is an artist’s book that consists of text drawings made by Nagtzaam between 1992 and 2019. Yet complementary to the rhythmic writings are 24 artists’ contributions, which have been printed on loose pages and randomly inserted throughout the book. Among the featured artists and designers are Mark Manders, Louis Lüthi, Stephan Keppel, Sophie Nys, Batia Suter, Experimental Jetset, Na Kim, Lily van der Stokker, Karel Martens, Jochen Lempert, gerlach en koop, and Henri Jacobs.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Walid Raad - Better Be Watching The Clouds / I Want To Be Able To Welcome My Father To My House
Isbn 9789492811554
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 19236
€ 26.75
Walid Raad investigates how violence affects bodies, minds, art, and tradition. This artist’s book highlights two of his thoughtful and witty artworks. Here, as elsewhere in his artworks, Raad departs from historical events linked to the protracted Lebanese wars of the past 40 years to create somewhat absurd, outlandish but plausible documents. The first part concentrates on the local, regional, and international political figures whose faces and names became fixtures in the Lebanese landscape; the second relies upon diaries that Raad’s father kept during the wars.
28 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Mark Dion: The Bureau Of The Centre For The Study Of Surrealism And Its Legacy
Isbn 9781906012915
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 19259
€ 18.00
Recalling the short-lived 'Bureau de Recherches Surréalistes of 1924−1925' − part information centre and ‘public relations’ office, and part surrealist archive − Mark Dion trawled through the Manchester Museum’s own collections and found the raw material for this book and a new installation for the museum. Renowned for his work exploring taxonomy, archaeology, and ecology, Mark Dion documents his opportunistic encounters with the Museum of Manchester’s neglected drawers and overlooked recesses that are home to redundant labels, orphaned mounts, defunct teaching models, botanical freaks, Egyptian fakes, and the minutiae that have fallen through the cracks of museum practice and lain abandoned.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Shy Radicals: The Antisystemic Politics Of The Militant Introvert
Isbn 9781906012571
Publisher Book Works
Idea code
€ 14.90
Shy Radicals are the Black Panther Party of the introvert class, and this anti-systemic manifesto is a quiet and thoughtful polemic, a satire that uses anti-colonial theory to build a critique of dominant culture and the rising tide of Islamophobia. Drawing together communiqués, covert interviews, oral and underground history of introvert struggles (Introfada), here for the first time is a detailed documentation of the political demands of shy people.
164 p, ills bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Rirkrit Tiravanija & Antto Melasniemi - The Bastard Cookbook
Isbn 9789527222102
Publisher Garret Publications
Idea code 19266
€ 32.25
Rirkrit Tiravanija and Antto Melasniemi have a shared appreciation for breaking the rules, so this book is less of a “coffee table cookbook” and more like its twisted sister. It comprises a collection of texts, exhortations, culinary scenarios, and ingredients and preparations, and is intended to liberate the modern gourmand from essentialism. The authors offer what one could refer to as an “adulterated” fare to its purist counterpart, with over 50 preposterous recipes. Through a collaborative exploration into the realms of food and cosmopolitanism, the cookbook proposes that the key to appreciating the idiosyncrasies of an unfamiliar culture is perhaps through a hybridised form.
200 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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David Shrigley Err
Isbn 9781870699228
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 19261
€ 13.65
Shrigley’s work has been described as having the ability to make one laugh and cry at the same time. Working across different media – drawing, sculpture, photography and painting – Shrigley’s output defies categorisation and, indeed, resists analysis. 'Err' illustrates the moral and artistic conundrums at the heart of contemporary commentary, using drawings full of bleak humour, that confound the brain and unsettle the soul. Originally published in 1995 – this eighth edition has a new cover designed by the artist himself.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Bouchra Khalili: The Tempest Society
Isbn 9781906012786
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 19260
€ 31.20
Gathering together interviews, essays, rare archival material, and translations, 'The Tempest Society' revisits and resuscitates the forgotten heritage of a politicised theatre group ‘Al Assifa’ that was born out of the struggles of the 'Mouvement des travailleurs arabes' (MTA), Palestine, anti-colonialism, and workers’ and immigrant labour rights. Contributors explore the legacy of the group – placing this history in the context of the European economic crisis and its effect on Greece, contemporary migration, and the conditions of immigrant workers and refugees. With contributions from Abdellali Hajjat, Hendrik Folkerts, Pothiti Hantzaroula, and interviews with Philippe Tancelin, Bouchra Khalili, Omar Berrada, and Alexandre Kauffmann.
200 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Nomenus 1: Dream Yourself Awake
Isbn 26324202
Publisher Nomenus
Idea code 19284
€ 1.00
The first edition of the biannual magazine published by ‘Nomenus Quarterly’ features contributions from John Baldessari, Fendi, Fleur de Roeck, Alec Soth, Christopher Anderson, Paolo Ventura, Erik Madigan Heck, James Welling, Marcel Dzama, Mercedes Helnwein, and François Halard. In addition, it presents Gerhard Richter’s ‘The Annunciation (After Titian)’, Milton Glaser’s ‘Purgatorio’, and ‘The Dance of Death’ by Hans Holbein. Five unique, limited edition artist covers by Lawrence Weiner, Marcel Dzama, Paolo Ventura, Fleur de Roeck, and Milton Glaser are available. Each cover is printed on uncoated paper and hand tipped onto the semi-gloss cover.
200 p, ills colour, 23 x 31 cm, pb, English
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Katinka Bock - Tomorrow's Sculpture
Isbn 9789492811523
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 19237
€ 41.35
‘Tomorrow’s Sculpture’ results from three consecutive exhibitions which took place in 2018: ‘Sonar’ at Kunst Museum Winterthur, ‘Smog’ at MUDAM Luxembourg, and ‘Radio’ at IAC, Villeurbanne/Rhône-Alpes. Around 50 works circulated between the three institutions. In dialogue with the spaces, Katinka Bock displayed the works in different configurations and added site-specific interventions. The photographs by Johannes Schwartz, which were exclusively commissioned for this book, offer a multi-perspectival view on Bock’s sculptures and installations from the past fifteen years. With texts by Simone Menegoi, Christina Végh, François Piron, and Christophe Gallois.
400 p, ills colour, 22 x 29 cm, pb, German/French/English
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Cosmo-Eggs (Japan Pavilion 58th Biennale)
Isbn 9784908526275
Publisher Case Publishing
Idea code 19258
€ 34.05
This eclectic spiral-bound catalogue is published on the occasion of ‘Cosmo-Eggs’, presented at the Japan Pavilion as part of the 2019 Venice Biennale. Cooperation is a vital element of the exhibition, which forms a collective effort to explore new meanings and possible forms of co-existence between diverse beings. Further, it examines the potential of unknown ideas and experiments that are created through artists’ mutual inspirations. Designed by Yoshihisa Tanaka, the book collects the writings and visual notes by the four participants (artist Motoyuki Shitamichi, composer Taro Yasuno, anthropologist Toshiaki Ishikura, and architect Fuminori Nousaku) as well as curator Hiroyuki Hattori.
158 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 28 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Momentum 10: The Emotional Exhibition Reader
Isbn 9789188031754
Publisher Art And Theory Publishing
Idea code 19226
€ 16.50
Momentum, the Nordic Biennial of Contemporary Art, strives to present compelling works of art and artistic ventures in a Nordic context, and takes curatorial approaches that define the present moment in the Nordic countries. Now celebrating its tenth edition, Momentum offers a programme presenting 29 international artists. ‘The Emotional Exhibition’ embraces the complexity of human emotions and encourages the desire to feel. In the pages of this reader, the emotional emerges in its various guises through the past, present, and future narratives by rediscovering iconic works from previous editions alongside relevant new positions. Includes interviews with previous curators.
342 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Eva Dijkstra - Perfect Faces
Isbn 9780648106111
Publisher Twodot Publishing
Idea code 19255
€ 29.15
Eva Dijkstra’s bold and colourful work straddles the junction between painting, sculpture, art, and design. Following in the tradition of minimalist paintings, shaped canvases, and hard-edge design, her creations are minimal or even non-objective, and invite closer investigation. In ‘Perfect Faces’, Dijkstra applies her exceptional design savvy to a masquerade of 31 compositions within the proportions of the human face. With impactful geometric forms and solid colours, each face is at once an imaginative composition and open to interpretation – a portrait collection populated by knights, harlequins, apes, thieves, and so much more.
64 p, ills colour, 20 x 26 cm, hb, English
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Hokusai Sparrow Dance 360 Book - Yusuke Oono
Isbn 9784861527234
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 19271
€ 27.65
'Sparrow Dance' is one of traditional footman dances performed by dancers literally imitating sparrows' movements. It is considered to have originated from an improvised dance performed by stonemasons from Sakai in the Senshu region at a banquet celebrating the relocation of Sendai Castle. Hokusai Katsushika featured this 'Sparrow Dance' in the third volume of 'Hokusai Manga', one of his etehon (art manual) series. Hokusai's lively brush strokes vividly capture dance movements of people wearing footman's kimonos and hats, looking as if they are going to start moving at any moment.
40 , ills colour, 12 x 12 cm, box, Japanese
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Cecilia Vicuna Seehearing The Enlightened Failure
Isbn 9789491435591
Publisher Witte De With
Idea code 19301
€ 35.00
This book appears in conjunction with Cecilia Vicuña’s retrospective exhibition at Witte de With in Rotterdam. The comprehensive show highlights the wide-ranging oeuvre of this self-taught Chilean artist, poet, and filmmaker whose work in the 1970s seemed incomprehensible in an environment dominated by performances and urban interventions that drew from a Western perspective of the avant-garde. The perception that her painting is amateur, intuitive, or non-professional is closely aligned with the kind of creative act that interests her. Vicuña’s cyclical understanding of this very act is conveyed through the return of ideas that do not exist as “final objects” but rather as rehearsals.
360 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 26 cm, pb, English
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The Konrad Fischer Years / 1964-1978
Isbn 9789082083958
Publisher Herbert Foundation
Idea code 19273
€ 19.00
Konrad Fischer opened his exhibition space in 1967 with the first European solo presentation of Carl Andre. Located in a converted alley in Düsseldorf, the gallery offered a platform for emerging international artists. Through his exhibition programme, Fischer enabled contact between European and American artists, transforming Düsseldorf into an international hot spot. With this book, the Herbert Foundation pays homage to the atypical art dealer who left an undeniable mark on its collection. The subjective reflection on Fischer’s activities and role within the international art world of the time includes a reprint of Fischer’s first interview in 1971 and a critical essay by Lynda Morris.
48 p, ills bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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To Mind Is To Care
Isbn 9789082893519
Publisher V2
Idea code 19297
€ 19.50
Care provides a foundation for modernity that is not characterised by new beginnings and an opposition to nature, but by a humble and curious curation of what already or still exists. It is as much a matter of design and economics as of politics and administration. This book proposes ethico-aesthetical models of care in which science does not search for deterministic outcomes, technology does not lead to abandonment, politics does not induce indifference, and art is not marginalised. Included are contributions by Michael Marder, Driessens & Verstappen, Frank Pasquale, Jeannette Pols, Bernard Stiegler, Maria Puig de la Bellacasa, Frederiek Bennema, and others.
212 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Sad Sack: Sophia Al-Maria Collected Writing
Isbn 9781906012823
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 19262
€ 24.90
'Sad Sack' is a book of collected writing by Sophia Al-Maria, taking feminist inspiration from Ursula K. Le Guin’s 1986 essay ‘The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction’; opposing ‘the linear, progressive, Time’s-(killing)-arrow mode of the Techno-Heroic. Encompassing more than a decade of work, 'Sad Sack' tracks Al-Maria’s speculative journey as a writer, from the first seed of her "premature" memoir, through the coining and subsequent critique of ‘Gulf Futurism’, towards experiments in gathering, containing, welling up, and sucking dry. Sophia Al-Maria is an artist and writer living in London.
192 p, ills bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Trading Between Architecture and Art: Strategies and Practices of Exchange
Isbn 9789492095671
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 19245
€ 25.00
Since the 1960s, art and architecture have experienced a series of radical and reciprocal trades. Just as artists have simulated “architectural” means like plans and models, built structures and pavilions, or intervened in urban and public spaces, architects have employed “artistic” strategies in art institutions, exhibitions, and more. Likewise, art galleries and museums have combined both activities, playing with the conditional differences between inside and outside the institutions. This book focuses on specific case studies of these two-way, interdisciplinary transactions. Included are texts and visual essays by Mark Dorrian, Rosemary Willink, Sarah Oppenheimer, and many others.
272 p, ills bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Silke Otto-Knapp - Buhnebilder
Isbn 9780996524131
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 19238
€ 29.15
‘Bühnenbilder’, the title of Silke Otto-Knapp’s recent exhibition in Minneapolis, are the fabricated views resulting from dressing sets. Neutral until they are costumed, they are like blank volumes awaiting a set designer’s meticulous treatment. The only colours in these works are black, grey, silver, and white. The artist’s palette and methodology, in which she applies a dark watercolour wash and then subtracts from it using absorptive implements, raising images from the dark, reflects the photograph’s urge to resurface something whose very location – in history, memory, desire – eludes the grasp of any image.
128 p, ills colour, 22 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Richard Goodwin - God In Reverse
Isbn 9780994396662
Publisher Uro Publications
Idea code 19256
€ 66.80
A native of New South Wales, Richard Goodwin is an artist, architect, and urban activist whose aversion to following the rules has made him somewhat of a maverick critic of architecture and urbanism, particularly within Sydney. Authored and illustrated by Goodwin, this monograph features over 40 years of his work, wherein he fuses biography, fiction, criticism, observation, and imagination in a totally unorthodox fashion. It reveals a broad range of philosophies and cultural influences that underpin Goodwin’s practice, and elaborates on his unique and experimental world view as it applies to his architecture, public artworks, sculpture, drawings, and performance art.
264 p, ills colour & bw, 27 x 33 cm, hb, English
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Irina Birger - The Book Of Happiness And Sadness
Isbn 9789462263239
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 19257
€ 34.05
Irina Birger’s first monograph, ‘The Book of Happiness and Sadness’ contains numerous vivid, text-based drawings from the artist’s diary of words, forms, and colours, as well as photographs of her exhibitions and performances. The publication, created by graphic designer Franziska Morlok of studio Rimini Berlin, presents the act of drawing as a self-contemplative study, whereby the artist hopes to provoke a similar contemplation in the reader. Moreover, an essay written by independent curator Katia Krupennikova examines Birger’s work in connection with significant dilemmas in today’s society, such as the concept of the group versus individualism and interdependency.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 33 cm, pb, English
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Tom Polo - Paris Drawings: The Most Elaborate Disguise
Isbn 9780987637130
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 19248
€ 33.70
Australian artist Tom Polo uses painting and painted environments to explore how conversation, doubt, gesture, and ways of looking are embodied within abstracted acts of portraiture. His works often come from acute observations, absurdist encounters, and personal histories. Drawing on a body of work made during his 2016 residency at the Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, Polo’s first book says much about his distinctive, mildly idiosyncratic approach to drawing, painting, and the portrait. The 48 imaginary portraits it presents reveal a language that proves both playful and pointed, naive yet with an astute painterly syntax and sensibility. With an essay by curator Justin Paton.
80 p, ills colour, 22 x 30 cm, pb, English
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David Horvitz - How To Shoplift Books
Isbn 9783945900208
Publisher Edition Taube
Idea code 19277
€ 10.20
The artists’ book 'How To Shoplift Books' by David Horvitz is a guide on how to steal books. It details 80 ways in which one can steal a book, from the very practical, to the witty, imaginative, and romantic ways. Originally published in 2013, this paperback re-issue is making this sought after title available again and is published in an English, Spanish and French version. 17 more languages will be released successively.
84 p, ills colour, 11 x 16 cm, pb, English
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David Horvitz - Como Robar Libros
Isbn 9783945900222
Publisher Edition Taube
Idea code
€ 10.20
The artists’ book 'How To Shoplift Books' by David Horvitz is a guide on how to steal books. It details 80 ways in which one can steal a book, from the very practical, to the witty, imaginative, and romantic ways. Originally published in 2013, this paperback re-issue is making this sought after title available again and is published in an English, Spanish and French version. 17 more languages will be released successively.
84 p, ills bw, 11 x 16 cm, pb, Spanish
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David Horvitz - Comment Voler Des Livres
Isbn 9783945900215
Publisher Edition Taube
Idea code
€ 10.20
The artists’ book 'How To Shoplift Books' by David Horvitz is a guide on how to steal books. It details 80 ways in which one can steal a book, from the very practical, to the witty, imaginative, and romantic ways. Originally published in 2013, this paperback re-issue is making this sought after title available again and is published in an English, Spanish and French version. 17 more languages will be released successively.
84 p, ills colour, 11 x 16 cm, pb, French
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Drawing In Drag By Marie Duval
Isbn 9781906012984
Publisher Book Works
Idea code
€ 18.65
Published in 1877, The Story of a Honeymoon was written and illustrated by Charles H. Ross and Ambrose Clarke. Thousands of novels like it were produced in the period, as part of the first boom in popular mass entertainments – fashion, organised sport, smoking, tourism, day tripping, romance, musical theatre, comics and magazines. This period saw the birth of modern urban cultures of working-class leisure exemplified by the industrial city of Manchester.But Ambrose Clarke never existed. The artist drawing as this fictional man was a woman, Marie Duval. As one of only a handful of women cartoonists in a male publishing environment, her work was habitually disguised, emasculated, overwritten and stolen. In 2017, Simon Grennan identified Duval’s work in The Story of a Honeymoon for the first time. In Drawing in Drag Grennan focuses on the manners and habits of twenty-first century mass leisure culture, plus its roots in the great cities of the nineteenth century.
48 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 29 cm, hb, English
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