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New Titles in Art, Essays & Performing Arts

28 February 2023

Seven Logics of Sculpture – Encountering Objects Through the Senses

Isbn 9789493246157
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 23056
€ 25.00

The current discourse on sculpture seems to be stuck in historical, material, or thematic frameworks. This book explores seven “logics” of sculpture, not as a historical overview, but with a contemporary analytical approach drawing from literature, philosophy, psychoanalysis, architecture, and everyday culture. These logics help us to understand specific manifestations of sculpture and the active perception by the viewer, and relate to aspects such as the senses, the skin, the body, objecthood, narrative dynamics, the shaping of space, fragmentation, and montage. Featuring work by Henry Moore, Donald Judd, Lygia Clark, Bruce Nauman, Rachel Whiteread, Eva Hesse, and many more.

256 p, ills bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English

Some Rockin’ - Dan Graham Interviews

Isbn 9783956796548
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23104
€ 22.00

Dan Graham was a contrarian. His art confronted viewers with a multiplicity of possible perceptions and intersubjective experiences. Some Rockin’ was his last project and—through conversations with friends, artists, architects, curators, and former assistants—articulates his sensitivity to context, media, and people. The interviews address rock music and urbanism, humor and astrology, history and the hybrid form. Mediating historical and social experience was a major concern of his. “The Museum in Evolution,” an essay he finished just before his death, and published here, highlights that nothing is final in becoming. Rather, it allows for: Some Rockin’.

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

Radical Futurisms: Ecologies of Collapse / Chronopolitics / Justice to Come

Isbn 9783956795275
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23106
€ 19.00

There is widespread consensus that we are living at the end—of democracy, of liberalism, of capitalism, of a healthy planet, of the Holocene, of civilization as we know it. In this book, drawing on radical futurisms and visions of justice-to-come emerging from the traditions of the oppressed—Indigenous, African-American, multispecies, anti-capitalist—as materialized in experimental visual cultural, new media, aesthetic practices, and social movements, T. J. Demos poses speculative questions about what comes after end-of-world narratives. He argues that it's as vital to defeat fatalistic nihilism as it is to defeat the false solutions of green capitalism and algorithmic governance. How might we decolonize the future, and cultivate an emancipated chronopolitics in relation to an undetermined not-yet? If we are to avoid climate emergency's cooptation by technofixes, and the defuturing of multitudes by xenophobic eco-fascism, Demos argues, we must cultivate visions of just futurity and multispecies flourishing.

224 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, English

Irene Kopelman - Marine Models Notes on Representation Vol. 12

Isbn 9789464460360
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 23122
€ 30.00

Irene Kopelman examines three interconnected phases in her work through the lens of two small marine animals: Botryllus schlosseri and Nematostella vectensis. One is colonial, the other is solitary, yet they both have the ability to regenerate their entire body. For the artist, drawing is a way of thinking and processing what we see through material and physical activity; dwelling on a subject and exploring it through looking and learning. It is extraordinary to think how much we could learn from these two marine models. Kopelman’s long-term project, initiated by the Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art in Nice, is an attempt to tackle such questions through drawing and imagination.

200 p, ills colour, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English/French

Isabelle Graw - On the Benefits of Friendship

Isbn 9783956796524
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23057
€ 22.00

Isabelle Graw’s latest book reflects on the purposes and struggles of friendship in competitive social milieus. By focusing on her own social milieu—the art world—Graw demonstrates how friendships are neither totally disinterested nor reduceable to their use. Written in the intimate form of a fictional diary, this book laments useful friendships while praising true friendship in all its forms. For Graw, friendship is an existential necessity—if only because it points to how we relate to and depend on others. Friendship, she finds, is as important as the air we breathe—with it, we are able to fully live.

128 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 21 cm, pb, English

Simon Boudvin - Motivi

Isbn 9789464460292
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 22659
€ 28.00

‘Motivi’ is a collection of graphic compositions by artist Simon Boudvin, who created this during his residency at Villa Medici in Rome between 2020–2021. Drawing inspiration from famed Italian architectural and design magazines, Boudvin collected noteworthy pages from issues published in the 1980s. He then enlarged them by 400% to create 192 close-ups of seemingly random shapes and patterns. These reproduced fragments present a chapter in the history of Italian design, creating a background of the time.

200 p, ills colour, 25 x 33 cm, pb, Italian/English

Nathalie Du Pasquier - Sempre Milanese, (3rd upd ed)

Isbn 9782902565191
Publisher Fotokino
Idea code 23023
€ 19.35

Nathalie Du Pasquier moved to Milan in 1979 and became one of the founding members of the Memphis Group that started to form around Ettore Sottsass. During those years, she created many textiles, rugs, patterns, objects, and furniture, and when the group was dissolved in 1987, she gave back painting a central place in her work. Whatever the medium – design, painting, textile, or sculpture –, her work is born from an accumulation that constructs architectures of shapes and colours. Beautifully quiet still lives, electric patterns, domestic landscapes, and construction games are mixed in a joyous freedom, as a myriad of visual spaces to explore. Sempre Milanese is a walk along that singular course through a selection of works.

64 p, ills colour, 17 x 22 cm, pb, English

Philip Metten - Five Works

Isbn 9789464460322
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 23093
€ 38.90

Combining a genuine interest in contemporary and historical architecture with a desire to make sculpture functional, these five projects form a distinct body of work within Philip Metten’s practice: ‘Bar’ (2013), ‘153. Stanton’ (2015), ‘The Corner Show’ (2015), ‘Cinema’ (2017), and ‘Essen’ (2016–2021). Wouter Davidts’s analysis of ‘Untitled’ (2014) sets the tone, a work that seems to anticipate the complex interplay between drawing, sculpture, and architecture apparent in Metten’s other projects, where he gives spaces with a distinct social programme and scale a sculptural transformation. With photos by Jan Kempenaers and drawings by Kris Kimpe and Samyra Moumouh.

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

Kentaro Okawara - Our Life Book

Isbn 9781910239483
Publisher Hato Press
Idea code 23123
€ 56.35

Artist and illustrator Kentaro Okawara is recognised for his depictions of a world of bright colours and stylised motifs. Through an array of interacting humans, creatures, and personified objects, he addresses the importance of direct, face-to-face communication. In Okawara’s book ‘Our Life’, everyday life comes alive. Drawing from his travel experiences and absent friendships due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the book is a visual documentation of more than 200 of Okawara’s many reflections and is presented as black-and-white artworks, each with its own message and narrative. His hope is that everyone will be able to relate and in some way connect with these visual stories. Each book features a screen printed glow in the dark cover.

194 p, ills bw, 20 x 26 cm, pb, English

Jeremy Lawson - It takes a village

Isbn 9781922545152
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 22660
€ 28.50

Jeremy Lawson is fascinated by the way we create archetypes to serve a purpose, only for them to take on lives of their own. ‘It Takes a Village’ considers that the conspiracies behind political assassinations in the 1960s were fictionalised by the creation of the lone gunman myth – the shooter who has no clear motive other than their social alienation. This only served to convince a public all too aware of its own alienation; that same public now produces actual lone gunmen on an industrial scale. Searching with Google Images, Lawson drew every picture of Lee Harvey Oswald available except for that of his murder. A selection of 26 of those drawings is reproduced here.

40 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, English

Lenard Smith – Melancholy Objects

Isbn 9781922545121
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 22661
€ 31.75

It’s no mistake that Lenard Smith’s new book borrows its title from Susan Sontag’s 1977 essay of the same name. 'Melancholy Objects' – the Los Angeles-based artist’s first publication for Perimeter Editions – grounds the photographic endeavour in the surreal, the introspective, and the referential. Working in the tradition of the ragpicker, Smith sifts through personal and found objects to create formal compositions that gently intersect sculpture with the still life, broaching new purposes and hierarchies, and pulsing with a sense of humour, play, and solemnity.

110 p, ills colour, 13 x 21 cm, pb, English

Archives & Crimes

Isbn 9783948212933
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 22683
€ 12.25

To enter a collective archive is to carry an anonymous corpse on your shoulders. You are not investigating how this corpse met its death so much as feeling impelled, somehow, to fill in the gaps that render it anonymous. Whether or not you are hoping to tell the story and share it with others, you might be able to give this corpse a name and lend a meaning to its life. The corpse is the researcher’s question. Urgent, mysterious, distorted or even inconsistent, it is a question that issues from the present—the here and now—but which lacks the language required to speak it.

76 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 16 cm, pb, English

Sawako Goda - A Retrospective

Isbn 9784861529061
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 22713
€ 24.85

Artist Sawako Goda (1940–2016) lived an unconventional life defying categorisation, embodying the atmosphere of an era when the underground flourished. After graduating from Musashino Art University, she held her first solo exhibition in 1965 and went on to create artworks across media, from three-dimensional works to painting and photographs. Goda received praise from art critics such as Shuzo Takiguchi for her original works. In the 1990s, the artist moved away from her decadent style and delved deeper into her introspective world. This book is the very first and largest posthumous retrospective of the artist’s works.

180 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, Japanese/English

Nigel Peake - Blinking

Isbn
Publisher Nigel Peake
Idea code 22718
€ 26.20

Nigel Peake’s ‘Blinking’ is a poetic ode to five gardens in Kyoto, Japan. His illustrations capture various tangible aspects and visual patterns of the carefully manicured natural spaces and views. These are interspersed with words and short texts that are reminiscent of the sounds of the gardens: sound of counting, sound of sea, sound of shadows, sound of mountain, sound of far. All pictures and words were drawn from visits in 2017 and 2019.

76 p, ills colour, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English

Monsters for Animals - Rafael Doctor / Alberto García-Alix

Isbn
Publisher Cabeza de Chorlito
Idea code 22776
€ 23.65

This book is a collection of collaborative artworks made by artist Rafael Doctor, who painted over the works of renown Spanish photographer Alberto García-Alix. An altruistic project and a type of creative activism, they are raising funds in support of Animal Rescue in Madrid. ‘Monsters for Animals’ was founded by Doctor, in which unique art is created and exchanged for donations for animal protection and rescue organisations. From 2017 to the present, over 5,000 drawings have been made in collaboration with many artists who have either donated images of their works or participated directly in the production of artworks for this project.

96 p, ills colour, 21 x 28 cm, pb, Spanish

Stefan Themerson

Isbn 9781916247420
Publisher Themerson Estate
Idea code 23018
€ 61.15

This volume presents Stefan Themerson through the eyes, minds, and words of 13 writers. It is an introduction to a thinker and writer, whose own words ranged through the many possibilities and variations of the three languages he used. There's philosophy, humour, adventure, conflict, reminiscences, and catastrophe. There are images, moving and still. There's music. In every field Themerson touched on possibilities and methods that he discovered or created for himself. He was interested in science and concerned with ethics, but protested when someone called him a moralist.

224 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English

James Tunks – AI (Art Index)

Isbn 9781922545138
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 23120
€ 25.90

How far can the resonances of art history, shared cultural knowledge, and language echo in the age of Artificial Intelligence (AI) and machine learning? Can such rapidly developing technologies play a meaningful part in the broader art historical schema? These are some of the questions that 'AI (Art Index)', the publication from Vienna-based Australian artist James Tunks, broaches in its dialogue of historical texts, images, and their machine-generated counterparts.

120 p, ills colour, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English

Jan Wade - Soul Power

Isbn 9781988860138
Publisher Information Office/ Vancouver
Idea code 23019
€ 33.35

The book 'Jan Wade: Soul Power' both honours and documents Jan Wade's compelling but underrecognized practice, which reflects her lived experience as an African Canadian person of mixed cultural heritage. Comprising mixed media assemblages, paintings, sculptural pieces, and textiles made from found or ready-made objects and recycled materials, her art explores the places and practices of her ancestors alongside contemporary political concerns and social movements such as Black Lives Matter. 'Jan Wade: Soul Power' accompanied the exhibition at the Vancouver Art Gallery. The show presented a survey of the artist’s rich body of work from the 1990s to the present and marked the first solo exhibition by a Black female artist in the 90-year history of the Gallery.

160 p, ills colour, 12 x 17 cm, pb, English

Philippe Weisbecker - Wagon

Isbn 9782902565023
Publisher Fotokino
Idea code 23025
€ 12.90

In Philippe Weisbecker’s work, much like a department store catalogue, many of the prerequisites for the home and modern comfort can be found: insoles, beds, clothes, underwear, cameras, mirrors, and more. Embellished with more distant views of factories, industrial buildings (perhaps the same ones that produced all these objects listed above?) and all sorts of vehicles allowing the transport of all this merchandise. Drawn during the same period as the train stations in his book ‘Joyo Oh’ (2019), the sixteen train cars shown here complete the collection. Like a road map, they are presented in a folded poster format.

ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, English

Creative Chance - Surrealist Art and Literature from the Laurens Vancrevel and Frida de Jong Collection

Isbn 9789069183190
Publisher Boijmans Van Beuningen
Idea code 23034
€ 25.00

The collection of surrealist art at Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen is world famous, but this book is not devoted to the oeuvres of great names like Dalí and Magritte. Instead, it tells the story of the pieces found by Dutch collectors Laurens Vancrevel and his wife, Frida de Jong. Long before museums began to take notice, the couple had gathered art and poetry by surrealists who were relatively unknown at the time. Guided by chance, friendships, and random encounters, they built a collection of surrealist art from which Boijmans could make a selection. This book examines these 50 artworks while reflecting on two approaches to collecting surrealist art: privately or by a museum.

184 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English

Green Dolphin On Horseback Salad

Isbn 9782956344155
Publisher Sunset Books
Idea code 23039
€ 20.15

A book by Jean-Marc Ballée, Christophe Gaudard, Olivier Lebrun, and Karl Nawrot which proposes a hybrid editorial form, between an artist’s book and a fictional scenario. It is based on the meeting of four graphic universes and the construction of a possible narration. Each author has a precise function, as if shooting a film. Each double-page design guides the composition of the next, so there is no prior narration, just a textual or visual twist like an anadiplosis. Publishing therefore becomes a new object in its own right. Instead of trying to connect the work of each author artificially, the book offers a unique way of articulating the achievements using this scheme of improvisation.

116 p, ills bw, 24 x 34 cm, pb, English/French

Klaas Gubbels - Het ongelijke van hetzelfde

Isbn 9789462087361
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23050
€ 55.00

The coffee pots, chairs, tables, bottles and chessboards by Dutch artist Klaas Gubbels are iconic. Since the early 1950s, Gubbels occupies a unique and easily recognizable position in Dutch visual art. Although Gubbels is best known for his 'super boring still lifes' – as the artist himself calls them – he does not limit himself to the flat surface. This is the first monograph on Klaas Gubbels that presents an overview of his works on paper, his paintings, as well as his sculptures, assemblages and objets trouvés.Some works deviate from the archetypal Gubbels forms and shapes, yet even those works touch upon the same theme, of tenaciously and unabatingly observing everyday objects.

312 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, hb, Dutch/English

The Riddles of Ukiyo-e - Women and Men in Japanese Prints 1765–1865

Isbn 9789493039902
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 23071
€ 40.00

Drawing on images of women and men from the heyday of Japanese printmaking, this book explores the subtle iconography and complex symbols inherent in the tradition of ukiyo-e (traditional Japanese woodblock printing meaning 'Fleeting World'). The intriguing elements refer to Japanese history, literature, mythology, fashion, folklore and gossip of the Edo period and are at times difficult to discern, let alone grasp, without proper knowledge. Divided into classic printmaking themes such as beautiful women, heroes, actors and shunga (erotic prints), this lavishly illustrated book provides readers with the keys to understanding the hidden meanings in more than 100 top Japanese prints.

256 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 29 cm, hb, English

The Commons - Re-Enchanting the World

Isbn 9781739699208
Publisher Catherine Morland
Idea code 23088
€ 17.50

This publication documents 'The Commons - Re-Enchanting the World' curated by Catherine Morland and Amanda Couch that took place at The Museum of English Rural Life, University of Reading in 2022. The book features colour images of the work and installations of artists Kelechi Anucha, Carl Gent, Sam Wallman, Sigrid Holmwood, Catherine Morland, and Amanda Couch with texts written by the artists contextualising their response to the Commons and the work's relationship to The MERL collections. The book also features introductory texts by the curators, an essay tour of the gallery installations by the curator of MERL Collections, Ollie Douglas.

148 p, ills colour, 15 x 20 cm, pb, English

Maa Ka Maaya Ka Ca A Yere Kono – 13ème Édition des Rencontres de Bamako Biennale Africaine de la Photographie

Isbn 9783949973192
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 23090
€ 35.75

The theme of this edition of the African Biennial of Photography focuses on multiplicity, difference, becoming, and heritage, as expressed by Malian writer Amadou Hampâté Bâ (1901–1991) in the words of the title. To collectively reflect on these multiplicities of being and difference, to move beyond the notion of a single being and embrace composite, stratified, and fragmented identities, as well as multiple, complex, and non-linear understandings of space and time. With more than 70 contributing artists, curators, academics, activists, and people from all walks of life, it offers a resilient and prescient assemblage of culture, thinking, and hope on the African continent.

260 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, French/English

Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 4

Isbn 9783949973130
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 23091
€ 15.30

Rehearsing Hospitalities Companion 4 asks what the possibilities and limitations of hospitality are. Should we instead be turning towards “rehearsing” redistribution? This publication points towards the vast ways our lives and worlds could be organised through less hierarchical, extractive, and exploitative practices: with more love afforded to ourselves, one another, and our more-than-human kin. It doesn’t provide all the answers, or a blueprint for a new world, but illustrates how people are doing this work now. Here redistribution is treated as a verb: a doing.

184 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English

Saodat Ismailova - 18000 Worlds

Isbn 9789462087989
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23100
€ 24.95

Saodat Ismailova (b. 1981, Tashkent) is an important voice within the first generation of Central Asian artists who came of age in the post-Soviet era. Her work explores the rich, complex, and layered culture of her native region. Ismailova intertwines myths, rituals, and dreams with everyday life, and in a nuanced way calls attention to social issues such as ecological problems and the right of women to veil or not. In her work there is plenty of room for intuition, magic, music, and performance. The turbulent political history of the region is never far away.

144 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English

Mother’s Milk

Isbn 9789492852748
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 23102
€ 35.00

Mother’s Milk (re)constructs the story of Ilse, the author’s grandmother. Alienated in the psychiatric hospital of La Timone, in Marseille, Ilse resided there from 1952 until her death in 1983. Bringing together archival material, correspondences, and conversations narrated via documentary poetry, Marie Ilse Bourlanges assembles the fragments of a family history hiding in plain sight.

324 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 25 cm, hb, English

Elena Khurtova – Displace

Isbn 9789492852809
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 23103
€ 30.00

'Displace' explores the process of entering into a dialogue with soil as a living entity. It offers an intimate insight into Elena Khurtova's artistic research and process during her residency at 3bisF, on the site of Montperrin Psychiatric hospital in Aix-en-Provence, and delves into her personal connection with displaced soils. Extending the sensitive experience of touching red and yellow soils into the materiality of the book, Elena Khurtova and graphic designer Tariq Heijboer experiment with those very soils as pigments for a duo-colour offset printed book.

96 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English

Marcel Dzama Pink Moon (Special Ed)

Isbn 9781914236143
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 21748
€ 40.05

In Pink Moon, artist Marcel Dzama (b.1974) presents a raft of new works inspired by travelling through Mexico and Morocco which touch on the wonder that travel and the strange immersion in cultures aside from one’s own can so often engender. Taking visual cues from the evocative textures and colours around him, Dzama successfully captures the spirit of place, while communicating something essentially human in the experience of those places. Coming at a time of isolation, of stasis for so many, this book engages the imagination in a broad, borderless project, allowing the viewer access to the thrill of discovery and the excitement of the new. With an introduction by Duro Olowu and interview by Craig Taylor. This special edition includes a 7" picture disc featuring compositions by Sufjan Stevens and Hannah Peel both covering Nick Drake's "Pink Moon".

108 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, pb, English


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