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Marlene Dumas - Cycladic Blues
Isbn 9789464460339
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 22784
€ 20.00
This cahier is a visual sketchbook for an exhibition by Marlene Dumas at the Museum of Cycladic Art in Athens, in dialogue with the museum's collection. Although the exhibition has been postponed towards 2025, this anticipatory publication already arose from Dumas' enthusiasm and affection for this combination. The enigmatic Cycladic antiquities, dating from 3000-2000 BC, speak to us in the same timeless language as Dumas' contemporary works.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Tine Melzer - Atlas of Aspect Change
Isbn 9783906213361
Publisher Rollo Press
Idea code 23007
€ 32.00
Aspect change means seeing something as something else: it influences our minds, our linguistic practices, and our worldviews. The 'Atlas of Aspect Change' reflects shifting meanings viewed through the prism of language and intersubjective exchange. It elicits phenomena of perspective and reveals how words and images influence each other. It activates understanding of complex and ambiguous situations and shows how to stimulate and refine interdisciplinary discourse. The book bundles expertise from visual, literal, conceptual, cognitive, cultural, historical and geographical practices. With a foreword by Marjorie Perloff and contributions by Martin Stokhof, Thomas Strässle, Batia Suter, Liza May Post, Sigurdur Gudmundsson, Benjamin Hennig, Nicholas Davey, Silvia Maier, Alexandra Leykauf, Uta Eisenreich, Christa-Maria Lerm Hayes, Kasper Andreasen, Tobias Servaas, Nils Röller, Arja Karhumaa, Frans Oosterhof, Ton Zwerver and many more.
626 p, ills colour, 17 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Marc Nagtzaam - PRESENT (limited ed)
Isbn 9789464460308
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 22764
€ 20.00
For this publication Nagtzaam made compositions with frames, lines, dots, bars, scribbles, numbers, and pictures, all scanned from magazines and books in the library of the Laimun artist-in-residence program in Sardinia (Italy). With an accompanying text by Anya Jasbar. Design: Marc Nagtzaam & Roger Willems.
40 p, ills bw, 21 x 29 cm, pb, English
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And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers?
Isbn 9783956796371
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23016
€ 16.00
“And if I devoted my life to one of its feathers?” wrote the Chilean poet, artist, and feminist activist Cecilia Vicuña in the early 1970s. Vicuña countered anthropocentric and hetero-patriarchal urges with healing and appreciation, reviving the aesthetic and spiritual bonds between human and more-than-human entities and worlds. Revolving around this vision of interconnectivity, this book, which accompanies a joint exhibition of the same name of Kunsthalle Wien and Wiener Festwochen, seeks to create a collective dialogue around unequal distribution of power, sovereignty, and social and ecological justice. It includes a folded A2 poster: SPIT! (Sodomites, Perverts, Inverts Together! / Carlos Maria Romero, Carlos Motta & John Arthur Peetz), We The Enemy (poster), 2017. Courtesy the artists.
192 p, ills colour, 13 x 21 cm, pb, English
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David Hockney - 20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures
Isbn 9782868821591
Publisher Annely Juda Fine Art
Idea code 23046
€ 54.60
'20 Flowers and Some Bigger Pictures' presents works created by Hockney in 2021, expanding on a series of iPad paintings in 2020 while quarantining at his studio and residence in Normandy, France. Inspired by his daily observations, Hockney devoted himself to the iPad, a medium of unique immediacy that allowed him to be prolific in his depictions of his home, the changing seasons, and surrounding countryside.
76 p, ills colour, 24 x 31 cm, hb, English
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Johannes Vermeer - Faith, Light and Reflection
Isbn 9789462087583
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23032
€ 25.00
Little is known about the personality of Johannes Vermeer, one of the most famous Dutch painters of the 17th century. We do know that he married the Catholic Catharina Bolnes, whose family was closely associated with the Jesuit community in Delft. In this book, Gregor J.M. Weber, head of visual arts at the Rijksmuseum, shows that Vermeer himself actually pursued a Catholic lifestyle. The relationship between the artistic ambitions of the young Vermeer and his Catholic surroundings is also discussed. Vermeer's unique treatment of light, perception and perspective is examined and linked to the Jesuits' special interest in the camera obscura, the instrument of light and vision par excellence. With his research, Weber places Vermeer's person and art in a new context, which until now has only been touched upon in passing.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Roee Rosen - Kafka for Kids
Isbn 9783956796623
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23015
€ 29.00
Roee Rosen’s film Kafka for Kids is set as the pilot episode for a TV series that perversely aims to make Kafka’s tale “Metamorphosis” palpable for toddlers. In its title, the film Kafka for Kids implies that the intellectual great of modern literature will finally be presented in a way that is generally understandable. Roee Rosen wants to present Franz Kafka, of all people, with his contorted thought constructions, in a way that is even accessible to kids! But unfortunately, that’s not how things turn out: the star writer of the educated middle class is not simplified, but his story becomes much more complex, corresponding to reality, for reality is more complicated than we like to represent using biaxial graphs. Featuring the original script of the movie, readers are invited to dive into a magical story, followed by essays that give a deeper insight in the literary aspects of Roee Rosen’s oeuvre.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Cooking With Scorsese (and Others): The Collection
Isbn 9781910239490
Publisher Hato Press
Idea code 22646
€ 34.00
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. This new edition collects all three previous volumes in over 500 pages of film & food pleasure. 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.
274 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Sibyl's Mouths - A Pure Fiction Publication
Isbn 9783956796449
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23017
€ 34.00
Sibyl's Mouths is the most recent in a series of publications by Pure Fiction, a writing and performance group with shifting members active since 2011. From February 12 to March 6, 2022, Pure Fiction presented an exhibition and performance program at the Kölnischer Kunstverein in Cologne titled “Shifting Theater: Sibyl's Mouths”. The starting point was a collective reading of Mary Shelley's 1826 novel The Last Man, in which the narrator discovers a collection of scribbled oak leaves scattered in a cave outside Naples. Alleged prophecies of the Cumean Sibyl, the textual fragments inscribed on the leaves foretell the story of an epidemic that ravages the globe in the 2100's—a period where solitude, intimacy, and the perception of time is radically renegotiated.
304 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 20 cm, hb, English
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herman de vries - basic values
Isbn 9789082783124
Publisher Fieldwork Museum
Idea code 23054
€ 62.50
The publication basic values documents herman de vries' exhibition of the same name in Jakarta, Indonesia. Dutch artist herman de vries, one of the most outstanding artists of his generation, has been an avowed advocate for cultural and biological diversity for decades – long before such terms started to be common. In many respects the exhibition and publication represented the fulfillment of de vries’ long-cherished desire to travel and work in Indonesia. The artist had been interested in Indonesian culture and nature for many decades, but was never in a position to visit the island nation. For the exhibition the artist realized new site-specific sculptures and installations. Appropriating local artifacts and natural materials, such as rice sickles, stems of bamboo from Bogor’s botanical garden, and baskets with rice in all its variety, the artist celebrates the cultural and biological diversity of Indonesia and the ‘basic values’ that they offer.
160 p, ills colour, 18 x 25 cm, hb, Indonesian/English
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Katrina Palmer - Black Slit
Isbn 9781912570294
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 23043
€ 18.80
'Black Slit' documents a process whereby Katrina Palmer learned to throw a knife, using vibrantly painted clay objects as her targets. The setting is a studio/office/classroom/bedsit at night – a multi-purpose space which must be prepared for the action. We see a sofa-bed being made in low light, a knife laid on a table before it flies through the air, and then the focus shifts to the targets themselves. The clay was still wet and unstable when struck by the blade, resulting in unpredictable radical disruptions to the colour and shape of these hand-crafted forms. Alongside filming and editing footage of the knife throwing, Palmer practised drawing lines, to make a series of works on paper which are also reproduced in this book.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Fieldwork for Future Ecologies - Radical Practice for Art and Art-based Research
Isbn 9789493148918
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 23036
€ 39.00
Bringing together contributions by artists, writers and theorists, ‘Fieldwork for Future Ecologies’ addresses the role that art practice and art-based research plays in expanding notions of fieldwork. At once a handbook for research and practice and a philosophical speculation, this book offers the unique opportunity to explore ways of working within vastly diverse climates and terrains using image, sound, movement and other sensing technologies. It also offers more creative and speculative interventions into the idea and location of the ‘field’ itself. Focusing on a range of projects from across different geographic locations and situations, the book highlights the crucial contribution that art can make to environmental and climate studies offering a valuable intervention into current discussions of artistic practice and research.
576 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Keren Cytter Does Not Like to Share - A one-sided account by Mathilde Supe
Isbn 9783956796555
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23040
€ 22.00
While studying at the Fine Arts School in Paris in 2013 and having to complete an internship abroad, Mathilde Supe, a 24-year-old student, contacted Keren Cytter to be her assistant. The latter, who had just left Berlin for New York, accepted the offer. Supe embarked on a journey to New York, where she had never set foot, barely speaking English, without a work permit, and without contacts. From this incredible adventure, she transcribed every detail of hardship and learning in a book that took the form of a logbook and followed the evolution of one young artist’s view of another established artist.
248 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Frederick Kiesler: Galaxies
Isbn 9783962160166
Publisher The Green Box
Idea code 23035
€ 42.10
Recognised as an important 20th-century artist with roots in Europe and the United States, Frederick Kiesler (1890–1965) closely associated with members of various avant-garde art movements. He was a multidisciplinary creator who dedicated his life to exploring space and form. Kiesler’s painted compositions of the 1940s through the 1960s, which he called “Galaxies”, have long remained the least studied aspect of his work. Offering historic, intellectual, and visual context, this book provides the first in-depth analysis of these works, which comprise both single compositions and multi-panelled constellations that blur the line between painting, sculpture, and installation.
374 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Becoming Geological
Isbn 9789082893564
Publisher V2
Idea code 23045
€ 24.50
According to editor Martin Howse, “‘Becoming Geological’ functions as a manual for a new relation of the human with the earth and with the cosmos, invoking becoming metal, becoming earth, and becoming cosmic as potential and multiple ways of being and as active philosophies of the earth; a guide for how to live and die within new planetary and cosmic techno-cycles”. The book is published with a major exhibition at V2_ in Rotterdam featuring new and foundational artistic projects which interrogate and reflect on connections, from cosmic geology to sublimated time, from pollution-altered allures to tiny mining, and from geological (dis)articulations to mourning the infinite.
226 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Art + Water
Isbn 9789082893571
Publisher V2
Idea code 23047
€ 17.50
We lack a sustainable approach towards water and a well-balanced relationship with the natural world of seas and oceans. Combined with the impact of climate change, water issues create enormous global challenges that require systemic change. To systematically transform how water is valued across business practices, policies, cultural beliefs and behaviors, we must address social attitudes to keep us and the environment healthy. 'Art + Water' provides imaginative new ideas on water issues and invites us to rethink and reinvent our society. Five essays and ten texts highlighting the artistic projects developed as part of the EC-funded STARTS4Water program provide an overview of cultural and artistic approaches to urgent water challenges.
152 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Alice Neel - Seeing who we are
Isbn 9789491245329
Publisher Xavier Hufkens
Idea code 22781
€ 36.40
Published with the exhibition of the same name, ‘Alice Neel: Seeing Who We Are’ showcases the work of acclaimed painter Alice Neel (1900–1984) made over a fifty-year period. Bringing twentieth-century America to life with her vivid portraits, her works are influenced by the struggles in her own life as a young artist and single mother during the Great Depression. Highly attuned and profoundly empathic, she was able to capture the innate characteristics of her subjects. Neel is especially known for bringing in the female gaze in her nudes of women that contradict the traditional objectified depictions by her male predecessors. Includes essays by Eleanor Nairne and Quinn Latimer.
104 p, ills colour, 24 x 31 cm, hb, English
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Antony Gormley - Body Field
Isbn 9789491245312
Publisher Xavier Hufkens
Idea code 22780
€ 30.00
Known for his philosophical sculptures, installations, and large-scale public artworks, Sir Antony Mark David Gormley OBE thinks of the human body as a place rather than an object, and confronts fundamental, universal questions about our relationship with nature and the cosmos with his art. This book is a catalogue of the installations, sculptures, and prints in his ‘Body Field’ exhibition. Using sculpture as an instrument of awareness, Gormley invites us to explore our relationship with the space around us, the internal space within, and the fusion of the self with the other. Included is a text from Dieter Roelstrate, as well as a conversation between the artist and Diana Campbell.
140 p, ills colour, 21 x 29 cm, hb, English
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Synthetic Becoming
Isbn 9783947858378
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 22778
€ 30.80
Starting with the idea that we are composite entities, just like how synthetic things are composed of multiple parts, ‘Synthetic Becoming’ is a peer-reviewed collective monograph with many components. Bringing together the research of over 30 artists, activists, and feminist technoscience practitioners, the contributors critically examine the effects of industrial, pharmaceutical, and hormonally-active molecules on us. Adopting an approach that is decolonised, feminist, post-humanist, and new materialist, this book hopes to help envision and facilitate more hopeful futures despite the ubiquity of these anthropogenic chemicals.
300 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Vaclav Pozarek - Sweet Wood (cardboard book)
Isbn 9783952569016
Publisher Rookie Books
Idea code 22766
€ 28.60
Vaclav Pozarek was born in Czechoslovakia in 1940 and has lived in Bern for almost 50 years. His sculptural vocabulary is influenced by constructivism, minimalism, concrete art, but also shows a great affinity for the ordinary everyday objects that surround us. In “Sweet Wood” Pozarek shows us with the simplest of means how small the leap from the artist’s studio to the children’s room really is. A must-have for friends of simplicity, harmony and order.
16 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, hb, English
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Nathalie Du Pasquier - How Many (cardboard book)
Isbn 9783952569009
Publisher Rookie Books
Idea code 22760
€ 28.60
Nathalie Du Pasquier (born 1957), a Milan-based artist and designer, was a founding member of the influential Memphis Group for which she created decorated surfaces, patterns, textiles, furniture and objects. She has dedicated herself to painting since 1987. With her counting book, designed exclusively for Rookie Books, readers young and old will learn the numbers from 1 to 10 in no time.
16 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, hb, English
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Fantasies on a Found Phone, Dedicated to the Man Who Lost It
Isbn 9781912570256
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 22649
€ 15.00
Drawn from an unlocked phone, found in a public toilet, the images and texts in 'Fantasies on a Found Phone, Dedicated to the Man Who Lost It' present a portrait of a stranger. Moving between the erotic, intimate, baroque, and everyday, the compulsive sequence of images references the dissonant and voyeuristic experience of scrolling through social media and swiping in dating apps, and the clash of hyper-capitalist forces of productivity and technology with the intimacy of a queer male gaze. This publication accompanies the first UK solo exhibition by Mahmoud Khaled at The Mosaic Rooms.
144 p, ills colour, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Drone Vision: Warfare, Surveillance, Protest
Isbn 9789198606560
Publisher Art And Theory Publishing
Idea code 22691
€ 29.70
'Drone Vision' addresses questions of how visibility and verticality are intrinsic to drone technology and its meanings for artistic and political praxis. This book is based on the two-year research project 'Drone Vision: Warfare, Surveillance, Protest' – a collaborative initiative between Valand, Gothenburg University, and the Hasselblad Foundation. Led by Dr. Sarah Tuck, the research project explores the affective meanings of drone technologies on photography and human rights.
352 p, ills bw, 15 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Industry / Matrices, threads and sounds
Isbn 9783949973048
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 22742
€ 34.70
The collaborative project between artist Lorenzo Sandoval and archaeologist Antonio Vizcaíno for the IVAM Centre Julio González in Valencia began in late 2019. Part archive, part artistic project, it offers a reading of the Valencian industrial heritage based on a compilations of sound, processes, videos, music, art pieces, discourses, as well as the intangible and social movements. Remembering heritage and history allows the understanding of the past, present, and future of the history of labour and its relationship with culture. Includes contributions grouped in three interrelated themes: ‘Speaking Up,’ ‘The Sound of Machines,’ and ‘Devices of Interdependence.’
348 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Archives on Show - Revoicing, Shapeshifting, Displacing A Curatorial Glossary
Isbn 9783948212926
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 22743
€ 12.25
Focusing on the relationship between archive and exhibition, ‘Archives on Show’ explores the many ways that relationship can be shaped for new connections in a curatorial approach. Beyond the practices of selecting, assembling, and ordering materials, curation is process-oriented, bringing the potential of reformulating the social and political relevance of archives. With contributions by artists, curators, and theorists presenting 22 different ways of dealing with archives, this volume highlights the techniques and methods of archival curation that reshape archival logic, structures, and conditions that open them up for the future.
142 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Free Jazz Communism
Isbn 9789526938905
Publisher Rab-Rab Press
Idea code 22733
€ 18.30
Free Jazz Communism actualises the concert of Archie Shepp–Bill Dixon Quartet at the 8th World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki 1962. Edited by Sezgin Boynik and Taneli Viitahuhta, the book contextualizes the politics of free jazz music in light of global decolonisation movements, anti-war activism, structures of racial capitalism, and forms of avant-garde music. Apart from the theoretical and historical overview by its editors, the book includes testimonies of the collective and international spirit of the 1962 Youth Festival, translated documents from the Finnish press, a new interview with Archie Shepp, commissioned text by Jeff Schwartz on the historical context of political engagement of free jazz musicians, and reproduction of three hard-to-find texts by Shepp.
242 p, ills bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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