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Beginning With The Seventies
Isbn 9781988860084
Publisher Information Office/ Vancouver
Idea code 21177
€ 54.55
Looking at the relationship between art, archives, and activism, this book captures one infamous decade, when social issues – feminism, environmentalism, LGBTQ2SIA+ rights, Indigenous rights, access to health services, and housing – began to coalesce into models of self-organisation and activism. Such movements overlapped with the production of art and culture, as displayed during a four-part exhibition at the Belkin Art Gallery. Both the 2019 exhibition and this accompanying book bring contemporary art practices into active dialogue with the past, interweaving archives with artwork, poetry, rather groovy prose, and critical investigation.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 25 x 30 cm, hb, English
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The Absence Of Mark Manders
Isbn 9784908062360
Publisher Hehe
Idea code 21255
€ 40.70
Dutch artist Mark Manders’ first solo exhibition in Japan is marked by this catalogue. His acclaimed works are based on the concept of "self-portrait as a building", in which his sculptures and objects are placed in multiple rooms of an entire building. His large installations are a construction of the unique world of "Mark Manders", a fictional artist of the same name, in a self-portrait consisting of numerous works that invoke complex emotions, distort the sense of time, and encourage introspection. With texts by Douglas Fogle (curator), Midori Matsui (art critic), and Yoshimi Zhensai (curator of the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo).
216 p, ills colour, 18 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Slow Spatial Reader - Chronicles of Radical Affection
Isbn 9789492095978
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 21371
€ 25.00
A collection of essays about “slow” approaches to spatial practice and pedagogy from around the world featuring contributors from 22 countries. Each brings distinct philosophical and disciplinary approaches, from “spatial” fields like architecture, sculpture, and installation, to performative, somatic, and dramaturgical practices. The book explores how we think about and engage with space at a range of scales, tempos, and durations, with projects and processes that amplify the tangible and intangible qualities of spatial experience. The term “radical affection” unites these diverse approaches in hopes that new forms of caring, connection, and resilience might emerge.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Conversations Across Place Vol. 1 - Reckoning With An Entangled World
Isbn 9783962160074
Publisher The Green Box
Idea code 21373
€ 24.05
‘Conversations Across Place’ provides a publishing platform for international artists and writers engaging with landscape in the broader sense of geography, ecology, space, place, and built and “natural” environments. Contemporary discourse focused on decolonial, feminist, and queer methodologies is underscored through a variety of subjects and themes in order to reveal historical and present-day entanglements. This gathering of artists, writers, and architects converses across the borders that divide places and disciplines.
100 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Dane Lovett - Flowers
Isbn 9780648680147
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 21411
€ 38.85
Dane Lovett’s flower paintings both embrace and eschew their historical, thematic, and allegorical roots. Dark and subtly tonal in palette, the works in his debut book reflect as equally on minimalism and seriality as they do on the still life. This intriguing dynamic expands and further articulates the Australian artist’s culturally savvy and highly referential painting practice. Besides other works portraying waterlilies and foxgloves, Lovett recasts French artist Henri Fantin-Latour’s still life ‘Flowers: Tulips, Camellias, Hyacinths’ (1864) in numerous murky, monochromatic iterations – a single vase of flowers as a site for sustained painterly exploration, variation, and rhythm.
104 p, ills colour, 22 x 29 cm, pb, English
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Shelley Lasica - The Design Plot
Isbn 9780648680178
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 21407
€ 39.70
Over a career spanning more than three decades, Shelley Lasica’s practice has placed the creative and processional machinations of dance and choreography at centre stage. Skirting histories of visual, spatial and performance art as closely as she has embraced dance and choreography, the Melbourne artist’s propositions test the limits of the mediums in which they operate, forever expanding contexts and posing questions of just what dance is and what it can be as art. Lasica’s debut book is at once organised and amorphous, with image sequences fracturing and folding in on themselves amidst a measured, cumulative flow of gestures, people, movements, and architectures.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Nigel Peake Yesterday
Isbn 9781838414306
Publisher Nigel Peake
Idea code 21387
€ 23.60
Nigel Peake’s ‘Yesterday’ comprises a series of fragments from various days spanning from 2014 to 2018. They were probably drawn in Paris or Marseille or Milan or New York or the Isles of Scilly or London or Nice or Oxford or Bologna or maybe even at home. The monochromatic arrangements are accompanied by imaginative, perhaps metaphorical texts by the artist.
48 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Nigel Peake - Birds Of Japan
Isbn 9781838414313
Publisher Nigel Peake
Idea code 21385
€ 23.60
True to its title, this is a collection of drawings by Nigel Peake in which a different avian species appears on each page. The sketches executed in dark pencil are true to nature but minimalist, consisting only of simple lines, cross-hatching, and shading. They were drawn in 2020, but inspired by a visit the artist made to a second-hand bookstore in Kamakura, nearby Tokyo, in early summer 2019. Translations of the birds’ names are purposefully not included, because “some things are more than their names”.
46 p, ills bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Nigel Peake Boundary
Isbn 9781838414320
Publisher Nigel Peake
Idea code 21386
€ 17.70
In a brief text accompanying this fold-out sheet by illustrator Nigel Peake, he writes, “Opposite to where I draw there is an empty field / It is bound by hedge sea and sky / Each day it is different while remaining the same / This is a drawing about that empty field”. On a background of rich green sit rectangles of white and black, joined together in a single form and demarcating the field and its emptiness, inherently bound by other emptiness.
1 , ills colour, 15 x 21 cm, sheet, English
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Sabine Finkenauer - La Funambule Sur Le Fil D'une Tendre Geometrie
Isbn 9782902565122
Publisher Fotokino
Idea code 21358
€ 19.50
Born in Germany, Sabine Finkenauer has lived and worked in Barcelona since the early 1990s. Her work explores the abstract potential of essential forms and gestures, which have been incorporated into her poetic imagery. ‘The funambulist on the edge of a gentle geometry’ presents a collection of recent pastel drawings on paper which celebrate the notion that straight lines do not exist in nature. Her dancing shapes – squares, triangles, rhombuses, rectangles, ovals, and more – appear in bright colours against wavering, seemingly hastily sketched grids of imperfect lines. Playful, fundamental geometry that walks a tightrope between mathematical rules and frivolous fun.
ills colour & bw, 16 x 21 cm, pb, no text
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Lucy Lippard And Jerry Kearns - Tense
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Publisher Kunstverein Publishing
Idea code 21183
€ 10.00
‘Tense’ is a never-realised publication, written and composed by Lucy Lippard and Jerry Kearns in 1984, that has only now has been released in a very limited run. The book accompanies their exhibition ‘Top Stories’, which takes a closer look at the 29 issues of the prose periodical with the same title, founded in the late 1970s by Anne Turyn. It was dedicated to fiction by emerging women artists and writers at the time. ‘Tense’ was originally intended to become part of the series as well. It was only recently – during the making of the exhibition at Amsterdam’s Kunstverein – that the original mock-up was retrieved from the editor’s archives and finally sent off to the printer.
40 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Animalcules Colouring Book
Isbn 9783947858217
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 21330
€ 20.45
Antonie van Leeuwenhoek (1632–1723) first observed microorganisms and defined them as “animalcules”, a portmanteau of “animal” and “molecules”. Based on this term, this book conceived and designed by Nina Canell and Robin Watkins considers a world where the smallest is suddenly in control of the largest. Its illustrations function as an exploration into morphological occurrences, rejecting the goal-oriented, the figurative, and the categorical. It opens a creative bypass by following the traditional format of a colouring book. To draw is to embrace mutational forms, and to colour in these pages is to understand that many possible forms may emerge. We are what we draw.
124 p, ills bw, 23 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Nathanaelle Herbelin - Perhaps It Was Never So
Isbn 9789657725108
Publisher Yundler Brondino Verlag
Idea code 21354
€ 21.00
Nathanaëlle Herbelin was raised in a small village in Israel, the child of a French father and an Israeli mother. She learned painting in Tel Aviv, alongside Russian and Ukrainian artists who arrived there in the 1990s. Her work as a whole is marked by a contrast between tension and sweetness. Although often melancholic, it does not exclude hints of humour and a certain lightness. Herbelin lives and works in Paris, but ‘Perhaps It Was Never So’ is published on the occasion of her first solo exhibition in Israel. It comprises a collection of intriguing portraits and paintings of interior spaces and objects that together give an intimation of her attraction to the odd and the other.
74 p, ills colour, 18 x 24 cm, pb, Hebrew/Arabic/English
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Sophie Nys - Alas
Isbn 9789492574145
Publisher Grafische Cel
Idea code 21353
€ 19.35
First published in 1759, Laurence Sterne’s ‘The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy’ is widely considered a revolutionary novel, and its style is marked by digression, double entendre, and graphic devices. In ‘Alas, artist Sophie Nys obsesses about one of these devices, the so-called black page, famously paired with the line, “Alas, poor Yorick!” She compiles a remarkable collection of black pages, all gathered from more than 100 different editions of Sterne’s book. Included is a text by Peter de Voogd, the collector and owner of the library from which all the images in this publication originate, on the technical challenges that printing a black page presented for these early editions.
240 p, ills bw, 19 x 16 cm, pb, English
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Wordless - The Performance Art Of Rebecca Belmore
Isbn 9781988860060
Publisher Information Office/ Vancouver
Idea code 21176
€ 30.95
A member of the Lac Seul First Nation (Anishinaabe), Rebecca Belmore is an internationally-recognized multidisciplinary artist from Canada. Rooted in the political and social realities of Indigenous communities, Belmore’s works make evocative connections between bodies, land, and language. Featuring photographs and stills documenting a remarkable 30-year career over, this book includes the new photo series ‘nindinawemaganidog (all of my relations)’ and essays about her work, which addresses injustice, racism, violence, trauma, resilience, and ultimately, hope.
184 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Expo 1851-1970 - A Century Of World Expositions
Isbn 9784861528286
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 21321
€ 23.00
In 1851 the Great Exhibition of the Works of Industry of All Nations was held in London, the first modern exposition. Japan’s Meiji government considered the exposition as an indispensable tool for building and promoting a modern nation and decided to participate in the 1873 World’s Fair in Vienna. What followed was a series of government-sponsored national industrial exhibitions in Japan, which greatly influenced the development of the country’s industry, technology, and arts and crafts. This volume looks at Japan’s history of participation in world expos through the lens of Japan itself, up to and including the Osaka Expo in 1970, the first world’s fair to be hosted in Japan.
178 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese/English introductions
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Akane Nakajima - Float
Isbn 9784907562267
Publisher Torch Press
Idea code 21199
€ 29.05
'Float' is the first artist catalogue of drawings by Japanese painter Akane Nakajima. Page after page of abstract painting with pale colours and unique forms that together praise lightness. Like preparatory gymnastics, the drawings have been arranged in a rhythmic manner, using watercolours that bleed and mix as if floating on water. The work offers the viewer a feeling of floating through her mysteriously-shaped paintings, each of which elusively seem to have been seen somewhere, and yet, do not apply to anything at all. Nakajima won the 11th Graphic “1_WALL” Grand Prix in 2014, and has been continuously presenting her works since then.
96 p, ills colour, 11 x 19 cm, pb, no text
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Poststudio
Isbn 9783907112359
Publisher Vexer Verlag
Idea code 21271
€ 42.90
Contemporary German artist Fritz Balthaus' works are both precise experimental arrangements and ironic interventions in the art world and the exhibition business. They oscillate between image, sculpture, and architecture. They uncover the hidden processes of art production and transform them into visible works of art in space. This monograph divides his work into the categories Paper, Light, Air, Wall, and Building, implying the size, location, or medium of his images and sculptures. Whether in museums, art halls, galleries, baroque palaces and gardens, or public contexts, the works of art reflect not only the conditions of their creation, but also the surroundings of their presentation.
280 p, ills colour & bw, 18 X 25 cm, hb, German/English Introduction
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Ten Skies
Isbn 9783981918687
Publisher Fireflies Press
Idea code 21223
€ 14.30
Ten shots of the sky, each ten minutes long. That’s all it takes to describe James Benning’s film from 2004. And yet, this simplicity conceals a rich and absorbing drama, one of the great works of the American avant-garde. Scholar and critic Erika Balsom unfolds its hidden intricacies of meaning, extending its lessons with crystalline prose, a comparable sense of depths, and an exhilarating, maximalist intimation of what criticism can do and become. She brings you from the film itself into the mind of the artist, through philosophical musings and art historical scholarship. The book is part of a Decadent Editions series of 10 books about 10 films.
168 p, ills bw, 10 x 15 cm, pb, English
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The Wanderer: A Traveler Born Out Of Words - Monique Besten
Isbn 9788412039092
Publisher Dpr-barcelona
Idea code 21267
€ 15.30
Monique Besten is an artist and writer researching notions of home by moving through the world in search of narratives of all scales, in the process making connections between the past and future, between people, and between life and media. Through stories she hopes to build virtual connections in a time when we must develop a collective idea of how to shape our future in order to survive. With a focus on long performative walking projects, Besten created ‘The Wanderer’. Here she moves between the projects of six emergent creatives, slowly growing, changing, and becoming. Moving from one to the other, she mirrors and absorbs them, becoming a map for the future.
146 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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A Fair Share Of Utopia
Isbn 9789492852342
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 21375
€ 15.00
If you were to die today and reincarnate a generation later, not knowing where and as whom, what would you change in your life? What world would you like to be born into, no matter who or where you are? In ‘A Fair Share of Utopia’, eleven writers and ten artists speculate about an unknown future of which they themselves are a part. From different perspectives, they offer unique views on current issues and on how to bestow a humane and sustainable world on future generations. This new English edition includes an afterword by Jean Kwok reflecting on how we read the essays now, many months after the book first appeared, during the “new normal” of the first pandemic lockdown.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Changes In Direction - A Journal
Isbn 9783948212445
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 21324
€ 22.45
Changes in Direction – A Journal provides multivocal and transnational African-European statements to current decoloniality debates from different perspectives. The Finnish-German artist Laura Horelli engages with the traumatic and complex histories of colonialism and international solidarity between East Germany, Finland and Namibia, staging micro-historical interventions in public spaces. Her films transform the archive into a space – and publication – of reflective engagement.
280 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, pb, German/English
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Ultrasanity - On Madness, Sanitation, Antipsychiatry, And Resistance
Isbn 9783948212353
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code
€ 20.45
This publication presents a curatorial and research project that aims to move beyond insanity as the opposite of sanity, and imagine a space beyond what is understood as sane, i.e. ultrasanity—not a romanticization of madness or mental illness, but an effort to reconsider and challenge the notion of madness and the stigmas labelled on the so-called mad. The book unfolds as a collection of words, works, and images that informed, incited, and embodied SAVVY Contemporary's project 'Ultrasanity. On Madness, Sanitation, Antipsychiatry, and Resistance', an exhibition and research project on the elasticity of sanity.
252 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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