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Goth: Designing Darkness
Isbn 9789083210100
Publisher Design Museum Den Bosch
Idea code 22367
€ 29.95
The Enlightenment heralded reason and progress, yet also spawned a world organised along increasingly rigid lines of technological development and economic gain. In the late 18th century, this “disenchantment” with the world triggered a reaction, a counter-movement and antidote to notions of progress, clarity, and globalisation. The goth subculture as we know it today was born in the 1980s, but its roots are much older. It is a lifestyle steeped in an undefined yearning for the dark side of life, deeply rooted in our material culture and especially omnipresent in our ways of looking and understanding. This book seeks the essence of goth by exploring and crossing its outer limits.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Acts of Painting
Isbn 9789492574213
Publisher Grafische Cel
Idea code 22416
€ 26.00
This book explores various forms of painting in which the act of painting itself is foregrounded. It offers a range of perspectives on how and why such paintings consciously show, reflect upon and sometimes even stage their own making. Every painting is of course the result of a process, but the paintings and texts on painting discussed here make the artistic process itself the centre of attention. Or, at least, they make it tangible.
256 p, ills colour, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Nancy Holt - Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings
Isbn 9780999605509
Publisher Bruna Press
Idea code 22357
€ 23.85
This book offers an in-depth look at a single artwork by the American artist Nancy Holt (1938–2014). ‘Stone Enclosure: Rock Rings’ was completed in 1978 and remains a significant work in Western Washington University’s prestigious outdoor collection. Located in Bellingham, Washington, the structure has appeared in many discussions on the artist’s earthworks but has not received direct focus until now. The book is an enlightening guide to the project and its execution, and further examines Holt’s sculpture and practice through multiple perspectives, including essays, a poetic memoir, interviews, archival documentation, and the artist’s own exposition in writing and images.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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What happens between the knots?
Isbn 9783956796388
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 22359
€ 12.00
‘What happens between the knots?’ is part of the annual A Series of Open Questions. Each instalment includes newly commissioned writing as well as a selection of perspectives, images, and references related to the CCA Wattis Institute’s year-long research seasons dedicated to single artists. Each book takes the work of a single artist as its point of departure. This third issue is informed by themes found in the work of Cecilia Vicuña, including ecofeminism, indigenous forms of knowledge, poetry and politics, dissolution and extinction, exile, dematerialisation, regeneration, and environmental responsibility.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Elizabeth Povinelli - Routes/Worlds
Isbn 9783956795664
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 22361
€ 18.00
Elizabeth Povinelli’s anthropology of the otherwise locates itself within forms of life that run counter to dominant modes of being under late settler liberalism. In these essays, she considers the emergence of new worlds and the extinguishment of old ones, seeking to develop a social imaginary that can sustain radical potentiality without turning a blind eye to our deep interdependence.
224 p, ills bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Kunst en de zin van het bestaan
Isbn 9789491444722
Publisher Artez Press
Idea code 22368
€ 34.95
Als mensen reflecteren wij op ons precaire bestaan en de betekenis ervan. Kunst is onlosmakelijk verbonden met die vraag naar de betekenis van ons leven. En in tijden van onzekerheid als de onze wordt de vraag hoe kunst ons kan helpen om na te denken over de zin van wat wij doen, urgenter. In dit boek moedigt filosoof Onno Zijlstra op inspirerende wijze het gesprek aan over de zinvraag in samenhang met het denken over kunst. Hiervoor haalt Zijlstra zes denkers voor het voetlicht die in de moderne tijd de zinvraag indringend aan de orde hebben gesteld en de kunst nadrukkelijk bij hun reflecties hebben betrokken: Kant, Hegel, Schopenhauer, Kierkegaard, Nietzsche en Wittgenstein.
208 p, ills colour, 15 x 22 cm, pb, Dutch
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Stefano Calligaro - Poetricks
Isbn 9783945900574
Publisher Edition Taube
Idea code 22421
€ 15.30
Stefano Calligaro presents a selection of his ongoing work of literal “poetical-tricks” consisting of modified words and common terms, silly but clever verbal glitches that challenge established social and cultural codes through visual simplicity and a precise but deliberate (mis)use of language. The series originated with the aim of becoming a “visual ecology of signs and meanings”, in contrast to the hyper-spectacle often seen in art and culture in general today. “Poetricks” are simultaneously artworks, minimal poems, and tools the artist uses to question and redefine the essence, meaning, and boundaries of art, language, and poetry.
208 p, ills bw, 9 x 13 cm, pb, English
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Archivio 07: The Seventies Issue
Isbn 25331043
Publisher Archivio Magazine
Idea code 22401
€ 15.05
Between the desire for change and deep tensions, utopian impulses and oblique gazes, the 1970s were full of surprises. ‘Archivio’ continues its journey backwards through the 20th century with numerous anecdotes and insights into this tumultuous decade. It features a conversation with Academy Award-winning production designer Dante Ferretti, a letter written by Michele De Lucchi about his younger years as a radical architect, a transcribed television documentary by Loredana Rotondo, a reflection on his years as an activist-photographer by Mimmo Jodice, an archival tour of beauty and product photographer Franco Bottino, a conversation with Alan Bishop, and more.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Making Matters - A Vocabulary for Collective Arts
Isbn 9789493246119
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 22352
€ 22.50
The concern for material existence on our planet is more pressing than ever. ‘Making Matters’ spells out various roles that visual artists and designers play when facing these issues. Collective action is necessary and inevitable. Collective action often changes the artist’s identity and ways of working, from individuality and autonomy to collectivity and collaboration, both locally and globally. This books gives insight into practices that are taking place at the moment on all continents. These practices do not conform to a Western concept of art, nor to traditional distinctions between art, design, research, and activism.
300 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar. A Dialogue with the Fondation Beyeler
Isbn 9791254930007
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 22407
€ 18.95
'Pablo Picasso and Dora Maar' investigates the mutual influences and intense exchanges between the two artists, bringing to light Maar not only as the object of representation for Picasso, his lover, and muse, but as a multifaceted artist in her own right, a photographer at the height of her career and a major intellectual reference point for the Spanish artist. Focusing on the years 1935-1944, the publication explores the interpretation of their artistic partnership through essays by Raphaël Bouvier, curator at the Fondation Beyeler in Basel, and Emma Lewis, assistant curator at Tate Modern.
80 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Emily Kocken & Ruta Butkute - How To Make Sculpture Move
Isbn 9789492852588
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code
€ 30.00
Sculpture, choreography, and installation are the main pillars of Ruta Butkute’s art practice. Her method is guided by a reflective approach to the physicality of sculpture and the relation to the performers, audiences, and the spaces in which they interact. Departing from the principle that an object has a function hidden inside, she redefines the origins and functions of materials and forms in order to evoke their intricate capacity to move. During her Rijksakademie residency (2014–15) in Amsterdam, Butkute started to translate sculpture into different mediums. Over the course of several years, she developed a new medium she calls ‘sculptural performance’, which places objects, sculptures, and space in a transformative field, enabling the direction of movement.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Composing Interactions
Isbn 9789082893540
Publisher V2_
Idea code 22402
€ 45.00
'Composing Interactions' brings together aesthetic considerations, practical guidelines for project development, and an overview of sensors, circuits, and processing algorithms. Marije Baalman applies her extensive experience as an artist and as an engineer to guide the reader through the creation process of interactive digital artworks. She elaborates on different techniques for creating meaningful interactions and presents detailed case studies of a range of artistic work from the field to illustrate the techniques in practice.
608 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Gianfranco Baruchello - Painters Ain't Butterflies
Isbn 9788822907769
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 22296
€ 21.50
In a series of previously unpublished conversations between Italian art critic and historian Enrico Crispolti (1933–2018) and Italian artist Gianfranco Baruchello (b. 1924), this book traces the latter’s work from the start of his practice in the late 1950s to 2004, the year when these dialogues took place. The collection forms an important tool with which to delve into the artist’s work and the milieus in which he operated, between Rome, Paris, and New York, from Neo-Dada assemblage to cinema, from painting to video, and from actions to long-term initiatives. Presented in the direct and informal language of a chat, it offers complex ideas and a trajectory that are never linear.
264 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 21 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Titina Maselli - Like a Glove Holding a Cup
Isbn 9788822907752
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 22295
€ 21.50
In this book, Titina Maselli (1924–2005), a leading figure in 20th-century Italian art, tells her story as an artist and a person to Italian art critic and historian Enrico Crispolti (1933–2018), Alberto Olivetti, and the students of the Graduate School of Art History, University of Siena. The conversation, which took place in January 1996, becomes an opportunity to evoke the great names of Italian and international culture from the 1920s to more recent years, such as Luigi and Fausto Pirandello, Mario Labroca, Corrado Alvaro, and Weegee, and to unpack a number of ideas that are essential for a critical understanding of Maselli’s work as it unfolded in context.
270 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 21 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Maria Lai - I Am Sardinia
Isbn 9788822907745
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 22294
€ 17.20
This volume presents a transcript of a conversation with Maria Lai, organised by Enrico Crispolti and Silvia Loddo and held in the 2005–2006 academic year at the Graduate School of Art History at the University of Siena. In the course of her exchange, Lai retraces the threads of her poetic works, inspired by made-up stories, fairy tales, and legends, and also tells her own stories. These include ones about her artistic education under Marino Mazzacurati in Rome and Arturo Martini in Venice, as well as on her artistic forays using bread dough and charcoal as a child. She reflects on her strong relationship with her roots, radically stating, “I was not born in Sardinia. I am Sardinia.”
136 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 21 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Between Greece and the Orient - Mapping the Russian Self
Isbn 9788822908155
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 22293
€ 12.90
The Russian Symbolist period reformulated its own cultural identity from a spatial point of view, shaping an imaginary place formed by the hybridisation between Ancient Greece and the Orient. This is the main idea of this essay by Martina Morabito, which regards geographical space as a tool to read literary and cultural history in a new way. The book maps the Russian Zeitgeist from around 1890 to 1917 according to notions of the “Russian Self” posed by Andrej Belyj, Valentin Serov, Mikhail Vrubel, Lev Bakst, and others. The analysis reveals how Russian thought in the Symbolist period lays the foundations for a new identity, interpreted as a coherent holistic space.
124 p, ills bw, 12 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Gabriela Gerber, Lukas Bardill - To a Mouse
Isbn 9783907112410
Publisher Vexer Verlag
Idea code 22432
€ 44.95
The publication To a Mouse is based on twelve animated films produced by Gabriela Gerber and Lukas Bardill between 2011 and 2022. The motifs emanate from the artist couple’s pre-alpine and rural environment and address the relationship between people and landscape, or people and nature. Consistently depicted in black and white, we see a badger, a farmer scything, numerous mice. The sequence or images create movement: someone shoots a photo, a train derails, a deer runs past a meadow. By transposing them into a new medium, peripheral occurrences move into the focus of perception and can be experienced as such.
432 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 21 cm, pb, English/German
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A Lasting Truth Is Change
Isbn 9783947858385
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 22319
€ 20.90
Transformative justice movements consistently recognise the power of art. Culture workers simultaneously acknowledge the need to challenge the historical and institutional conditions in which art is made. And while heritage art institutions display radical works, it is often without meaningfully addressing the structural injustice that has constrained their production. This book asks: What lies beyond hierarchical and extractive traditions that can activate change, here and now? The responses from scholars, non-normative collectives, and artists engaging with emancipatory experiments at the perimeters of institutions include interviews, essays, comics, and a play.
186 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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The Material Kinship Reader
Isbn 9789493148789
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 22336
€ 22.00
Spanning fiction and theory, this collection of texts brings words into dialogue with an aesthetic proposition. What does it mean to acknowledge one’s closeness to, involvement in, or even kinship with the material world? And what does it mean to question family structures and dwell in other possibilities of kin-making? ‘The Material Kinship Reader’ addresses material extraction histories and social relations that frame much of contemporary life. From colonial conquest to climate collapse, these are toxic and tender stories of interdependence among all creatures. With contributions by Sara Ahmed, Kim TallBear, Steven Millhauser, Hana Pera Aoake, Ursula K. Le Guin, and more.
480 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 16 cm, pb, English
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Cabrita Les Trois Grâces - A Chronicle
Isbn 9788412162547
Publisher C2C Editorial
Idea code 22343
€ 24.50
This book presents Juan Rodríguez’s photographic documentation of the Portuguese artist Pedro Cabrita Reis’s process to create and produce the artwork known as ‘Les Trois Grâces’ (The Three Graces). The sculpture, which was installed in the Tuileries Garden in Paris in January 2022, was commissioned by the Louvre. Not only does this record comprise 90 previously unpublished photographs, it also includes reproductions of the artist’s workbooks – pages filled with notes, sketches, concepts, and art historical references, from Lucas Cranach the Elder to Rubens and Rafael. With texts by Joao Pinharanda, Éric de Chassey and Emmanuelle Héran.
268 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, French/Portuguese/English
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Artuarium - The Grammar of Art School
Isbn 9789492574206
Publisher Grafische Cel
Idea code 22345
€ 18.70
‘Artuarium’ presents keywords to reflect on art education today. Each contains a text and/or image that has been constitutive for the formation of the art school. Some texts examine critical ideas and questions, some images evoke careful observations, while others tell stories or reflect on the reflection. It invites readers to bring their own experiences and to discover statements by artists and theorists, as well as examples of both kinds of practice. Historical texts alternate with contemporary texts, through which different art disciplines are combined and confronted with one another. Published by LUCA School of Arts, it includes contributions by 40 renowned creators and thinkers.
374 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Francesco Pedraglio - Battles Vol. 1
Isbn 9781912570126
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 22376
€ 21.10
Artist and writer Francesco Pedraglio uses battles to frame storytelling that focuses on the small details and absurdities which characterise practically all historical events. Funnily enough, these are the seemingly inconsequential things that end up changing the course of how history plays out. Mixed into the historical stories are personal accounts, trivial idiosyncratic events that get elevated to the same status as those which impact history. Each story comes with a drawing, a “potential stage” for re-enacting the battle. Each may be read as a script for a performance, whether that is restaging a battle or simply a moment of everyday life that takes on greater significance in that moment.
224 p, ills colour, 21 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Useless Bodies? Elmgreen & Dragset
Isbn 9788887029802
Publisher Fondazione Prada
Idea code 22386
€ 106.30
Spanning more than 3,000 square meters, 'Useless Bodies?' is an exhibition by the artist duo Elmgreen & Dragset and one of the most ambitious thematic investigations realized by Fondazione Prada to date. Conceived for four gallery spaces and the courtyard of its Milan venue, the exhibition explores the present condition of the body in the post-industrial age in which it seems that our physical presence is losing its centrality or is even completely superfluous. This shift impacts every aspect of our lives: from our working conditions, to our health, our interpersonal relationships, and the way we retain information. The exhibition also explores how we physically adapt to a world increasingly based on two-dimensional imagery, not least in the light of the current pandemic.
528 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, hb, English
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Observatorium - Public Art For Public Life
Isbn 9789462086685
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 22389
€ 44.95
An observatory is a place for the observation of the universe. The artists of Observatorium, however, cast their gaze upon the inhabited world. All over the planet, they have created works of art that are not only to look at, but also to enter, observe and reflect from. Over the past 30 years, Observatorium produced an internationally significant body of work, from the sculpture Zandwacht (Sand Watch) in the Port of Rotterdam to Dwelling in Seclusion, a work of art devoted to solitude in New York.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Dieter De Greef - coup de théâtre
Isbn 9788412398649
Publisher CAC Malaga
Idea code 22393
€ 25.85
This catalogue appears with Belgian artist Dieter De Greef’s first solo show at a European museum, ‘coup de théâtre’ at CAC Málaga, which features a selection of paintings created over the last four years specifically for the occasion. Like a play or a film, De Greef’s works are characterised by the use of a saturated colour palette, interspersing abstract, even cartoonish pop art or fauvist elements to portray fictional landscapes or scenes inspired by photographs he finds online. He uses the same tools as a director to draw attention, build suspense, and surprise. Many of his paintings feature young, beautiful women, often nude, positioned in natural, idyllic surroundings.
112 p, ills colour, 22 x 25 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Swimming with Laure Prouvost
Isbn 9782490505395
Publisher Manuella Editions
Idea code 22433
€ 12.20
Swimming in the sea of the warm French Riviera, one becomes immersed in the horizon: floating, levitating, and leaning on the outside. In 2021 the artist Laure Prouvost spent time in Nice with theorist and critic Mathilde Roman, and her presence triggered a critical analysis of her work guided by bodily sensations and drifting conversations. Their days were shaped by the links that bind and strengthen us as individuals. Through the act of swimming, the two women encouraged sensations and emotions to become fluid, exchanged mothering experiences, and shared insights into the processes which drive Prouvost to create and Roman to write. This book recounts their dialogues.
64 p, ills colour, 14 x 20 cm, pb, French/English
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