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New Titles in Art & Performance

14 November 2019

Rembrandt - Velazquez: Netherlandish And Spanish Masters

Isbn 9789462085275
Publisher nai010 Publishers
Idea code 19536
€ 24.35

'Rembrandt-Velázquez: Dutch and Spanish Masters' presents the best work of two seventeenth-century master painters from the Netherlands and Spain. Works by Rembrandt and Velázquez are presented in a context of contemporaries and compatriots, including spectacular works by Zurbarán, Vermeer, Murillo, Hals, Valdés Leal, Torrentius, Ribera and others.

192 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 29 cm, pb, English

Artists' Invitations 1965-1985

Isbn 9788885449459
Publisher Danilo Montanari
Idea code 19597
€ 53.75

A lesser-known aspect of art from the 1960s, ’70s, and ’80s is the material printed for the specific purpose of documenting an exhibition. Be it a card or a piece of paper, the criterion employed to choose this material was that of privileging the participation of the artists themselves in the creative process that led to the object’s production. Through a wealth of archival material, this book covers a wide range of artistic contexts, including Fluxus, minimalism, conceptualism, land art, and pop art, in its investigation of the historical and political significance these movements had in their respective locations, and also encompasses new critical attention for Spanish and South American art.

512 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English

Sense Sound Sound Sense - Fluxus Music, Scores & Records

Isbn 9788885449398
Publisher Danilo Montanari
Idea code 19598
€ 30.10

Reprinted on the occasion of an exhibition at the Whitechapel Gallery in London, this book presents the international Fluxus legacy through sound. With works by John Cage, Philip Corner, Dick Higgins, Alison Knowles, George Maciunas, Claes Oldenburg, Yoko Ono, and others, it explores the interest of Fluxus artists in music and sound through performance, scores, records, and objects from the Luigi Bonotto Collection. Their public events challenged conventional form and content in music, and the approach to music scores was equally radical. Instead of traditional sheet music, they devised notational systems based on graphics, poetry, and the visual arts.

224 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English

Bernd Lohaus: Im Sein Bei

Isbn 9780995473065
Publisher Occasional Papers
Idea code 19535
€ 62.40

Bernd Lohaus: IM SEIN BEI is the most comprehensive and thoroughly illustrated monograph devoted to the artist to date. Across a wide variety of mediums – sculpture, installation, painting, drawing and writing – Lohaus distilled materials to their unadorned essence, while infusing them with poetry through the stark selection of words and colours. Edited by Thomas Desmet, designer and editor who has worked with artists and writers for more than ten years, and Stella Lohaus, the director of LLS LLS Paleis (formerly known as LLS 387), an independent and non-profit art space in Antwerp, and daughter of Bernd Lohaus. The book includes essays by Lorenzo Benedetti, Marie- Pascale Gildemyn, Ulrike Lindmayr and Dieter Schwarz. Published with the support of the Flemish Government.

476 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, English

The Entanglement Of Theory In The Arts

Isbn 9789491444586
Publisher Artez Press
Idea code 19594
€ 17.00

What do we mean by theory in the arts, and what role does it play in that sense? Theory appears as an active, transformative, fluid, and communicative element of art practices, and research in the arts in particular. Theory is the fluid that perfuses and connects the territory of fine art and design, as well as other art forms such as music, architecture, writing, moving images, dance, and theatre. At the heart of this publication is the new field of research in theory and the way the ArtEZ Theory in the Arts research group investigates its possibilities and extends its boundaries. Editor Peter Sonderen currently chairs the professorship Theory in the Arts at ArtEZ University of the Arts.

192 p, no ills, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English

Noel Mckenna - End Street

Isbn 9780648680116
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 19571
€ 30.95

Noel McKenna’s ‘End Street’ is published on the occasion of an eponymous exhibition at Niagara Galleries in Melbourne. The artist works in a variety of media, including oil, enamel and watercolour, lithography and etching, ceramic and metal. He is known for offbeat depictions of everyday scenes, often including displaced objects, people, and animals. The book features paintings, prints, drawings, ceramics, and wooden tables inset with ceramic tiles – all of which explore the domestic space we inhabit. Especially dogs and cats feature prominently in many of McKenna’s works, and act as poignant symbols of companionship and the bond between humans and animals.

80 p, ills colour, 20 x 25 cm, hb, English

Laith Mcgregor - Archipelago

Isbn 9780987637116
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 19572
€ 37.85

Laith McGregor’s latest publication forges a somewhat unlikely dialogue between the artist’s often divergent processes and aesthetic outcomes. Drawing on two very different but interlinked bodies of work – McGregor’s long-running Island Drawings and more recent Island Collages – the book juxtaposes the Australian artist’s meticulously rendered, monochromatic drawings with his spontaneous, colour-rich and playfully formal collages. 'Archipelago' skirts a line between artist book and monograph, wrangling McGregor’s works in a loose, intuitive fashion, all the while affording them the critical attention they demand.

72 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, hb, English

Diego Tonus And Anonymous - Fragments Of A Conver-Sation With A Counterfeiter

Isbn 9789492811660
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 19519
€ 27.25

Diego Tonus translated informal encounters he had with an alleged counterfeiter into separate artworks. Each holds a secret within. It is a work so simple in its conception, but complex in what it does. The series of works meticulously follows a trajectory or narrative of suspicion that gradually unfolds, yet at the same time continues to carry an air of mystery. This publication serves as legal document and body of proof that Tonus has registered the practices and strategies of Anonymous as his ideas in the register of the Benelux Office for Intellectual Property, in order to make them available to an international audience.

160 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English

Marc Nagtzaam - Borrowed Space

Isbn
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 19563
€ 13.60

Textless newspaper with drawn compositions, borrowed from existing book covers, posters, and paintings.

24 , ills bw, 35 x 48 cm, folder, no text

Zineb Sedira - A Brief Moment

Isbn 9782915704907
Publisher Jeu De Paume
Idea code 19579
€ 41.95

This catalogue accompanies Zineb Sedira's exhibition at the Jeu de Paume, covering a period from 1998 to the present, and mediums as diverse as video, film, installation, and photography. Zineb Sedira's work focuses on social and political evolutions in modern societies and issues of displacement and memory in contemporary history. Highlighting her specific interest in archives and in the collecting, recording, and transmission of histories, her work has frequently been identified with post-colonial issues and in particular with her family history. 'A Brief Moment' brings together works dating from 1998 to the present day.

160 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 31 cm, pb, French/English

Ide Andre - Rattle! Rattle!

Isbn 9789492852151
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 19552
€ 20.00

‘Rattle! Rattle!’ is the first solo exhibition by Dutch artist Ide André, who was awarded the Sieger White Award in 2018. The biannual prize is given to young talented artists who push painting in new directions. André’s works are often described as “direct”, but that term does not do them justice. The world is shown only indirectly in his paintings, as impressions, shadows, reflections, or negatives; afterimages of something that has disappeared or ended, something that is definitively in the past. His latest series is characterised by ropes and cables snaking mysteriously across the canvas. This publication celebrates André’s achievement and includes a conversation with the artist.

100 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, Dutch/English

Sema Bekirovic - Reading By Osmosis : Nature Interprets Man

Isbn 9789462085169
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 19577
€ 22.30

'Reading by Osmosis' shows works of art that were not made by human hands: an overgrown fence, an underwater video, a battered disco ball. The makers? Ivy, an octopus and time. If we acknowledge that animals and plants, too, can 'read', interpret and (artistically) transform the world around them, is the traditional opposition between culture and nature still tenable? Semâ Bekirovic does not identify with the image of the artist as lonely genius. Rather, she minimizes her own contribution to her work, and shares her authorship with coots, heat, or light. This book is the provisional high point of this process.

112 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, pb, English

Damien Hirst - Mandalas

Isbn 9781910844380
Publisher White Cube
Idea code 19543
€ 73.75

Returning to one of his most well-known motifs - the butterfly - Hirst's new paintings take their inspiration from the mandala: highly patterned religious images that represent the cosmos or universe in Hindu, Buddhist, Jain or Shinto traditions. Predominantly circular, they feature exquisitely colourful butterfly wings placed into intricate concentric patterns on household gloss paint. Complex and restless, their compositions resolve at the centre with a single butterfly, a point of visual and mental focus; a spiritual or energy nexus.

186 p, ills colour, 25 x 33 cm, hb, English

Frank Eerhart - Postures And Gestures In African Iron Figurines

Isbn 9789081385886
Publisher Frank Eerhart
Idea code 19517
€ 36.00

After seven years of studying and writing, collector and specialist in African art Frank Eerhart has completed his second book about metal objects originating from various West African communities. Following on ‘The Power of Iron in Africa’ (2012), this volume discusses and analyses the use, meaning, and function of these iron figurines, and presents 150 recent specimens in its exploration of the symbolism behind them. Eerhart’s fascination with their purely conceptual forms also serves to question the ways in which these traditional objects can be related to the iconography of statues from ancient cultures, in addition to whether they should be considered ethnographic items.

196 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, hb, English

Bosch In Detail - The Portable Edition

Isbn 9789491819810
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 19586
€ 14.90

Jheronimus Bosch (circa 1450-1516) is one of the most famous painters from the art history of the Netherlands. This book shows his best known paintings and drawings through numerous, especially for this edition made, details of his work, thus giving the reader a total new look into the world of the painter. In eight chapters the author covers a number of characteristic topics in Bosch's oeuvre; faces, heaven and hell, the four elements, landscapes, phantasy animals, and monsters.

320 p, ills colour, 16 x 20 cm, hb, English

Dali & Magritte (English Edition)

Isbn 9789493039209
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 19588
€ 34.90

Salvador Dalí and René Magritte first met in the spring of 1929, in Paris, where these two emblematic Surrealists moved among the leaders of the artistic avant-garde. In August that year, Magritte joined Dalí in Cadaqués. Their Surrealist summer would prove decisive. Both Dalí and Magritte seek to challenge reality, questioning our ways of seeing and shaking up our certainties. In this they show fascinating similarities, despite the great differences in personality and artistic approach that would eventually see them drift apart. Ninety years after that first meeting, an exhibition at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium for the first time explores the personal, philosophical, and aesthetic connections between the two artists.

240 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 28 cm, hb, English

Dali & Magritte (French Edition)

Isbn 9789493039216
Publisher Ludion
Idea code
€ 34.90

Salvador Dalí and René Magritte first met in the spring of 1929, in Paris, where these two emblematic Surrealists moved among the leaders of the artistic avant-garde. In August that year, Magritte joined Dalí in Cadaqués. Their Surrealist summer would prove decisive. Both Dalí and Magritte seek to challenge reality, questioning our ways of seeing and shaking up our certainties. In this they show fascinating similarities, despite the great differences in personality and artistic approach that would eventually see them drift apart. Ninety years after that first meeting, an exhibition at the Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium for the first time explores the personal, philosophical, and aesthetic connections between the two artists.

240 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 28 cm, hb, French

Henri De Braekeleer

Isbn 9789493039261
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 19587
€ 49.90

In 1872 bezocht Vincent van Gogh – toen nog een jonge medewerker van de kunsthandel Goupil & Cie – de grote driejaarlijkse zomertentoonstelling in Brussel. Hij werd er getroffen door drie “prachtige” schilderijen van de hand van Henri De Braekeleer. Van Gogh noemde zijn werk “curieus mooi”, en de kunstenaar “een fameus kolorist” die “niet bang is voor een franke techniek” en die “rigoureus analyseert – Manet-achtig, althans even oorspronkelijk als Manet”. Hij herkende in De Braekeleer een voorloper die zich van de klassieke artistieke conventies wist te bevrijden. Het Musée Rops in Namen brengt deze herfst de eerste retrospectieve over De Braekeleer sinds 1988.

440 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 33 cm, hb, Dutch/French

Teppei Takeda - Paintings Of Painting

Isbn 9784908600050
Publisher United Vagabonds
Idea code 19485
€ 48.45

Teppei Takeda’s abstract approach to painting has attracted a great deal of attention, but until recently the artist had remained unknown. Takeda first worked at Makoto Saito Design Office, but in 2005 set up his own atelier in Yamagata to focus on painting. This book features ‘Paintings of Painting’, the abstract series of portraits he has produced in the more than ten years since then. Working with bright colours and thick smears of paint, Takeda renders his subjects’ faces unrecognisable, yet still immediately human. The book is designed by renowned creative director Fabien Baron, and its cover features a special design that is wrapped in a full-size poster of one of the paintings.

80 p, ills colour, 25 x 30 cm, hb, Japanese/English

Archi-Feministes! Contemporary Art, Feminist Theories

Isbn 9782922085150
Publisher Optica
Idea code 19500
€ 26.90

Bringing together a body of work produced between 1970 and the present, this book analyses historical and current issues of feminism by proposing intersecting perspectives in the field of art history and its often interrogated construction. Feminist manifestations are examined in light of practices that persist in their resistance and compel us to re-examine social norms through activism, mobilisation of citizens, and sharing communities. Striving to bring new insights to our attention, these contributions take up theoretical feminist models, but also reference cultural, decolonisation, and queer studies.

160 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, French/English

Claudia Comte - The Curves, The Corners, And The Machines

Isbn 9782956551416
Publisher Printemps De Septembre
Idea code 19501
€ 12.90

The accompanying publication to Swiss artist Claudia Comte’s project at the Bazacle cultural centre in Toulouse, this book examines her work against the background of a genealogy of exhibitions of objects, beginning with curator Philip Johnson’s seminal ‘Machine Art’ (1934) at the Museum of Modern Art. The graphic framework of Comte’s sculptures tends to relate to a form of photogenic obviousness, within which multiple references to the history of art and popular culture exist. Her exhibiting strategies rely on a culture of display once reserved for trade fairs and industry shows, but since the advent of modernism has developed into a particular sort of museological practice.

164 p, ills bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, French/English

Manjakop: Wild - Exotic - Different - Brigit Edelmann, Stefan Rohner, Andy Storchenegger

Isbn 9783905297911
Publisher Edition Clandestin
Idea code 19578
€ 51.60

Three artists deal in their works with the dialectics of art and ethnology in various cultures: questions of home and identity, the exploring of boundaries, relationships between culture and nature, or the search for the wild in various societies.

300 p, ills colour, 17 x 23 cm, hb, German/English

Nigel Peake Kawarigoma

Isbn 9782902565009
Publisher Fotokino
Idea code 19545
€ 16.20

This book of drawings by Nigel Peake features a series of pictures of plants, accompanied by a poem that progresses with each turn of the page. The title of the collection, “Kawarigoma”, is a Japanese word that refers to the visual phenomenon that causes colours to turn white while rotating at high speed. Peake prefers to work in series, because he feels the true meaning of the project reveals itself in the process of creating his drawings.

42 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 20 cm, pb, English

Nigel Peake: Fieldwork

Isbn 9781527239166
Publisher J Hill Standard
Idea code 19541
€ 21.60

A collection of unpublished drawings, photos, references and collages to accompany the 'Hand drawn glass' collection design for J.Hill's Standard.

64 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 18 cm, pb, English

The Happy Hypocrite: Silver Bandage (Issue 11)

Isbn 9781912570034
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 19531
€ 12.00

In the latest edition of our journal of artists’ writings, 'The Happy Hypocrite', Guest Editor Erica Scourti has figures like Paul B. Preciado’s auto-guinea pig, the parasite, and the pidgin in mind and will be editing towards an ecology of reparative relations, assembling image and text in the spirit of friendship and love. The issue will include new work from CAConrad, Patrick Staff, Naomi Pearce and Daniella Valz Gen among others.

96 p, ills colour, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English

Wangechi Mutu - A Promise To Communicate

Isbn 9788494509681
Publisher Ivorypress
Idea code 19518
€ 30.90

Based on the eponymous installation by Wangechi Mutu exhibited at Boston’s Institute of Contemporary Art in 2018, this book brings together a selection of words written by visitors on the walls of the museum. Printed on translucent paper, the messages are a response to the invitation offered by the artist’s work, which comprises a reconfigured map of the world made out of rescue blankets, along with hanging rocks, sticks, and pencils. Mutu’s work explores concepts relating to violence, displacement, marginality, and representations of women in the contemporary world. A conversation between the artist and curator Ruth Erickson reflects on communicative acts in the museum space.

148 p, ills colour, 11 x 15 cm, pb, Spanish/English

Cooking With Scorsese Vol. 1

Isbn 9781910239087
Publisher Hato Press
Idea code 19525
€ 16.50

Cookbooks come in all shapes and sizes, but none have embraced a movie theme quite like this series. Across three volumes, ‘Cooking with Scorsese and Others’ offers an homage to food in film by showing memorable scenes in sequences of screenshots. From films where food is the central theme, such as ‘Julie & Julia’ (2009), ‘Tortilla Soup’, ‘Babette’s Feast’ (1987), and ‘Tampopo’ (1985), to ones in which it plays a supporting role, like ‘The Scent of Green Papaya’ (1993), ‘Eat Drink Man Woman’ (1994), and ‘Goodfellas’ (1990), dozens of classic, cult, and perhaps underappreciated or forgotten films can be experienced again in this gastronomic celebration of cinema.

158 p, ills bw, 11 x 21 cm, pb, English

Cooking With Scorsese Vol. 2

Isbn 9781910239261
Publisher Hato Press
Idea code 19526
€ 16.50

Cookbooks come in all shapes and sizes, but none have embraced a movie theme quite like this series. Across three volumes, ‘Cooking with Scorsese and Others’ offers an homage to food in film by showing memorable scenes in sequences of screenshots. From films where food is the central theme, such as ‘Julie & Julia’ (2009), ‘Tortilla Soup’, ‘Babette’s Feast’ (1987), and ‘Tampopo’ (1985), to ones in which it plays a supporting role, like ‘The Scent of Green Papaya’ (1993), ‘Eat Drink Man Woman’ (1994), and ‘Goodfellas’ (1990), dozens of classic, cult, and perhaps underappreciated or forgotten films can be experienced again in this gastronomic celebration of cinema.

156 p, ills bw, 11 x 21 cm, pb, English

Cooking With Scorsese Vol. 3

Isbn 9781910239360
Publisher Hato Press
Idea code 19527
€ 16.50

Cookbooks come in all shapes and sizes, but none have embraced a movie theme quite like this series. Across three volumes, ‘Cooking with Scorsese and Others’ offers an homage to food in film by showing memorable scenes in sequences of screenshots. From films where food is the central theme, such as ‘Julie & Julia’ (2009), ‘Tortilla Soup’, ‘Babette’s Feast’ (1987), and ‘Tampopo’ (1985), to ones in which it plays a supporting role, like ‘The Scent of Green Papaya’ (1993), ‘Eat Drink Man Woman’ (1994), and ‘Goodfellas’ (1990), dozens of classic, cult, and perhaps underappreciated or forgotten films can be experienced again in this gastronomic celebration of cinema.

158 p, ills bw, 11 x 21 cm, pb, English


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