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Eloquent Silences - Writings On Art And Architecture
Isbn 9782491039028
Publisher Cosa Mentale
Idea code 20347
€ 23.65
Jorge Luis Borges, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Yasushiro Ozu, Mark Rothko, Jorge Oteiza - a writer, an architect, a filmmaker, a painter, a sculptor. Five personalities of the 20th century separated by their mediums, their subjects of investigation and their disciplines. They are brought together in this book by the need to save art from its current alteration, and to bring it back to a more contemplative and introspective dimension. The key words of this consideration, which has the appearance of a manifesto, are: silence, contemplation, renunciation, transparency, anonymity, and atemporality. Twenty years later, the lesson of Carlos Martí Arí is contemporary and of fundamental importance for our discipline today.
172 p, ills bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Real Feelings - Emotion and Technology
Isbn 9783856169312
Publisher Christoph Merian
Idea code 20336
€ 26.90
Digital technology predominates in every realm of our daily lives: humanoid robots are deployed in healthcare, sex robots compensate for deficits in human relations, intelligent appliances listen to our conversations and look after our needs… the list goes on. It seems we communicate more with technology than with other human beings. ‘Real Feelings’ explores the swiftly changing relationship between technology and emotions, presenting works by 20 artists from around the globe that explore how technology represents and manipulates our feelings, even to the point of being able to change them. With works by Justine Emard, Lucy McRae, Liam Young, Maija Tammi, and more.
192 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Errant Journal 1: When Are We?
Isbn 9789083079301
Publisher Errant Journal
Idea code 20307
€ 15.00
'Errant Journal' is an international publication for cultural practice and theory aimed at bringing together diverse local perspectives on a global scale. Working from the premise of our situated knowledge, the first issue starts with acknowledging the importance of locating oneself in time, and subsequently question time´s claim to universality. With contributions by, among others, Narda Alvarado, Season Butler, Irene de Craen, Shona Mei Findlay, Sophie Hoyle, Remy Jungerman, Rajkamal Kahlon, Yazan Khalili, Vera Mey, Rasheedah Phillips, and Mark Smith.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Material Matters Painting And Its Materialities
Isbn 9789198606522
Publisher Art and Theory Publishing
Idea code 20331
€ 27.50
Material can be symbolic and coded. Our experience of a medium’s temporality becomes apparent only through our knowledge of its material behaviour. As the world becomes ever more digital and physically removed, we rely on countless materials to facilitate the remote accessibility of images. And yet, our fascination with “real” stuff increases. The texts in this volume reflect a great diversity of practices and materials, but also the diversity of meanings suggested by its title. Supported by the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Verbeelding - Over Waarneming En Kunst
Isbn 9789491444630
Publisher Artez Press
Idea code 20329
€ 34.95
Een vloeiende lijn, een cirkel, een paar rechte lijnen en daarna een kromme. Om dit voor ons te kunnen zien hebben wij het vermogen van verbeelding nodig. Verbeelding is heel belangrijk voor de mens en is er altijd. In dit boek ligt het accent op de relatie tussen verbeelding en kunst, op verbeelding die visuele beelden schept, geschreven door de filosoof Onno Zijlstra. Een belangrijke rol is in het boek weggelegd voor de achttiende-eeuwse filosoof Immanuel Kant en zijn denken over verbeelding. Met dit boek wil Onno Zijlstra ons verleiden tot kijken, opnieuw kijken en nog eens kijken.
304 p, ills colour, 13 x 20 cm, pb, Dutch
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Matthieu Ronsse - A Procession Of Lobsters
Isbn 9789493039254
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 20326
€ 39.90
Matthieu Ronsse creates paintings that often seem unfinished, comprised of references to old masters, fragments from his private life, or clippings from books on photography and architecture. He challenges the traditional painting method, questioning its qualities of materials, techniques, subject, and history. ‘A Procession of Lobsters’ offers an overview of work that Ronsse creates ‘in situ’: at a petrol station, in the house of a collector, for a catering company, within watchtowers, and elsewhere. Author Maarten Inghels visited all of these locations and spoke extensively with their occupants, as well as with the artist himself, seeking answers as to the changing perception of the work.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, hb, Dutch/English
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Nearness - Art And Education After Covid-19
Isbn 9789492095862
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 20309
€ 5.00
The coronavirus crisis has taught us how priceless nearness is for human beings. Art and education cannot do without it, either. Like works of art, people lose their aura when kept at a digital arm’s length. When it is unable to resonate with bodies, art simply becomes lifeless. With this publication, philosopher Marlies De Munck and cultural sociology professor Pascal Gielen seek to diagnose our new reality. In their view, culture stands as the only marker of the difference between living and simply surviving. With graphic design and drawings by Lotte Schröder.
64 p, ills bw, 12 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Wicked Arts Assignments - Practising Creativity in Contemporary Arts Education
Isbn 9789492095756
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 20308
€ 21.90
Everyone who teaches the arts knows the concept: an assignment that is seemingly simple but which maximally challenges participants and students. These assignments are bold, unusual, contrary, funny, poetical, socially committed, or otherwise engaging. The almost 100 arts assignments collected in this book connect to the visual arts, performance, theatre, music, and design, but more importantly they encourage cross-disciplinarity. They reflect themes and ways of working in contemporary arts – opportunities to learn about ourselves, the arts, and the world. The assignments are intended for any context, from primary school and higher education, to at home or online.
304 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Valentin Carron - Un Ami Simple
Isbn 9789492811776
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 20305
€ 27.25
This publication appears in conjunction with an exhibition of work by Swiss painter Valentin Carron at Mauvoisin Dam in Valais, Switzerland. For the eponymous exhibition, Carron focuses on the image of the mule. The animal is an emblematic figure of effort, endurance, and composure in many places around the world, but has a special significance for Valais, which had a herd of over 2,000 mules as recently as the 1940s. While mules play a largely traditional role today, they were once relied upon to transport cargo from valley to valley in this rugged Alpine region. Carron pays tribute to this legacy by depicting the animal as a simple silhouette with bold colours.
56 p, ills colour, 23 x 30 cm, hb, English
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Paolo Ventura Quarantine Diary
Isbn 9788885449558
Publisher Danilo Montanari
Idea code 20299
€ 37.65
Usually a photographer, Paolo Ventura turned to the acrylic paints he had previously stored away in his studio in the Italian town of Anghiari when the coronavirus crisis hit. Stranded in lockdown without his camera, he started painting. The paints and large sheets of paper “became like bread and cheese in the cellar for a mouse”, he says. “They saved me, gave meaning and strength to days that were all the same, all different”. Ventura painted away his boredom by portraying things he found around the house (shoes, combs, hairs in the drain, pencils, spent matches, a cactus plant) and making portraits of his female partner, himself, and even a small sparrow outside the window.
44 p, ills colour & bw, 26 x 36 cm, folder, English
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Participatieve Kunst - Gewoon Kunst In Moeilijke Omstandigheden
Isbn 9789082893526
Publisher V2
Idea code 20288
€ 12.50
Hoe komen we tot een genuanceerder begrip van participatieve kunst en daarmee ook tot een effectievere kritiek op en betere ontwikkelingskansen voor deze kunstvorm? Deze publicatie doet op verschillende manieren een handreiking. Allereerst door het verbreden van onze blik op de geschiedenis van artistiek onderzoek naar de relatie tussen kunst en het dagelijkse leven aan de ene kant, en tussen kunstenaar en publiek aan de andere kant. Vervolgens door de nadelige gevolgen van de Nederlandse kunstdiscours voor de positie van participatieve kunst in kaart te brengen.
156 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, Dutch
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Prefaces To A Book For A Syrian Museum
Isbn 9791093781174
Publisher Zaman Books
Idea code 20283
€ 25.80
This volume consists of republished prefaces that were originally printed in the various editions of the catalogue of the Damascus National Museum, from 1919 until the end of the 20th century. Taking the form of a palimpsest, this collection of prefaces is not only annotated but also accompanied by rare archival material and historical chronicles. Acting as a guide through the lives of the museum and its catalogue, it simultaneously offers a structuralist analysis, variations on myth, and an investigation of the multiplicity of the museum body. Micro-histories and iconographic survivals emerge in a broader and at times tragic overview of its collections and representations.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, French/Arabic/English
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Cosmo-Eggs - Reflections On Cosmo-Eggs At The Japan Pavilion At La Biennale Di Venezia 2019
Isbn 9784907562205
Publisher Torch Press
Idea code 20246
€ 26.75
This book is positioned in the time between the opening of the Japan Pavilion exhibition at the Venice Biennale (May 2019) and its later homecoming at the Artizon Museum in Tokyo (April 2020). It thus reflects upon the presentation in Venice and related events. One of the most discerning features of ‘Cosmo-Eggs’ is that it emerged from diverse backgrounds, a collective of members who collaborated with each other as a single team. Just how the intentions and interests of the collective’s individual members have been reflected and integrated in the exhibition is therefore examined from a slight distance, accompanied by texts which contemplate contemporary art in a wider sense.
248 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Cao Guimaraes (Eye Amsterdam)
Isbn 9789462084162
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 20250
€ 19.95
Cao Guimarães navigates between feature film production and the assembly of spatial film installations in museums. He makes films that are specifically about his native soil – Brazil – and that actually take place there. In his films Guimaraes creates his own universe filled with stories, people, folklore, views, and landscapes from his own surroundings. The themes he address are nevertheless global and link subjects such as trust, religion, connection to the landscape, magic, friendship, poverty, and beauty with existential questions about, for example, ‘reality’ or ‘death’. This publication shows works that sing the praises of the individuality and specificity of particular places.
96 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Eva Nielsen
Isbn 9782490505067
Publisher Manuella Editions
Idea code 20263
€ 3.00
The first monograph on Eva Nielsen, whose works range from monolithic forms of concrete architecture that fill the space, to kaleidoscopic scenes of genres, folded and marked in a break with reality’s linearity. Representations, pieced together from elements of that reality, that are incomplete – viewed from perspectives interrupted by inert obstacles or structures that partition the elements on the canvas. A work by Nielsen is constantly on the border of something, on the edge of the territory, between centre and periphery, at once screen-printed image and painting, abstraction and figurative art. With essays by Clément Dirié and Marianne Derrien and an interview by Joël Riff.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 25 cm, hb, French/English
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No School Manifesto - A Movement of Creative Education
Isbn 9789492095855
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 20349
€ 19.90
The No School movement wants to open up the meaning of learning and fundamentally questions traditional education. Curiosity, experimentation, unrestricted thinking, making, and developing are basic elements of all forms of learning and living together. In the current system these values are often overshadowed by rules, legislation, bureaucracy, a unitary approach, and little attention for intrinsic inquisitiveness. No School aims to provide space for flexibility, “wild” thinking, cooperation, and more. This book explores the movement’s key concepts, accompanied by examples of students’ work. An essential reference and inspiration for anyone working in (creative) education.
204 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Unpacking My Library, Or, The Autobiography Of Teddy
Isbn 9783947858156
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 20306
€ 16.15
The creation of this book fulfilled a lifelong dream of the author’s: to write his own version of Walter Benjamin’s “Unpacking My Library” while reorganising his 10,000 volumes. A recent move to Manhattan occasioned taking stock of his possessions in a deeply personal way. This is a tale of uprooting, a series of meditations on place, time, and loss. In this course of this displacement, he explores memory and nostalgia as he encounters things from his past. Among them, the strangest and most intimate of interlocutors, with whom the book is co-authored: his first teddy bear. Allen S. Weiss teaches in the Departments of Performance Studies and Cinema Studies at New York University.
160 p, no ills, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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