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F.R. David Spring 2024 - Erratum
Isbn 9781916249974
Publisher Uh Books / Kw Institute
Idea code 23821
€ 10.40
F.R.DAVID was concerned with the organisation of reading and writing in contemporary art practice. Following an open call, this is - the very last issue - a collectively-compiled "Erratum", or addendum [if you will] to the twenty-three issues from 2007 until now.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Postnational Art Histories: What is Postnational Art History?
Isbn 9781922545206
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 23807
€ 26.65
During the past half-century, contemporary art practices, theories and criticism have engaged intently with notions of the postnational. Nonetheless, the presence of the nation-state and nationalisms in art history remain steadfast. In posing the question ‘What is postnational art history?’ this publication aims not for definitive answers, but rather to broach the broader concept of postnationalism and how it might function to disrupt, rethink and complicate established discourses around national art. Edited by Charles Green and Ian McLean, designed by Beaziyt Worcou, and conceived as part of a colloquium of art historians convened at the Buku-Larrngay Mulka Centre – the Yolgnu art centre in Yirrkala, situated in north-east Arnhem Land, in Australia’s Top End – this book aims to tease out and better understand the transnational resonances and connections between artists across cultures and borders that increasingly shape the emerging post-Western world.
254 p, ills bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Sketches of Transition - An Atlas on Growth and Decay
Isbn 9789493148987
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 23818
€ 30.00
This volume brings together the practices of five different artists (Lara Almercegui, Maria Barnas, Michele Bazzoli, Dagmar Bosma, Yana Naidenov) in relation to the key concept of transition. Texts, visual documentation, and a poem enter into dialogue with each other, offering the reader a sort of exhibition on the page. Today, we find ourselves in the middle of a transition that does not present itself as a process of overcoming or as the production of the new in avant-garde fashion, but rather as a process demanding that we reinterpret the past and redefine our present (which is characterized by a still incomplete paradigm shift).
148 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Heringa/Van Kalsbeek - Area of Impact
Isbn 9789081197601
Publisher Heringa/van Kalsbeek
Idea code 23793
€ 24.95
Heringa/Van Kalsbeek’s sculptures are whimsical, glistening, multicoloured assemblages made from discarded or used up things, objects found washed up on the shore or in rubbish dumps. Nature is a great source of inspiration for the artist duo, and they are fascinated by how natural processes of decay and overgrowth create new forms. Liet Heringa and Maarten Kalsbeek have been working together since 1998, and their output reflects an otherworldly and fantastical realm full of organic palpability and promise. One could even call the creative processes involved in their work “controlled accidents”. This book appears in conjunction with an exhibition at Kunstmuseum Den Haag.
120 p, ills colour, 22 x 28 cm, hb, Dutch/English
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John Armleder – It Never Ends
Isbn 9791280579195
Publisher Lenz Press
Idea code 23796
€ 52.70
Between an artist's book and a catalogue, this publication follows up on John M Armleder's multidimensional exhibition at KANAL in 2020-21. Through archival pictures and in depth conversations, the unusual form of the book is designed to recreate the immersive experience of this collective experiment, and proposes a dive into something akin to a large self-portrait, conceived through the works of more than a hundred artists.
246 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, Dutch/French/English
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De-/Anti-/Post-colonial Feminisms in Contemporary Art and Textile Crafts
Isbn 9780992693473
Publisher KT Press
Idea code 23822
€ 21.75
Twelve essays discussing De-/Anti-/Post-colonial Feminisms in contemporary art and textile craft. This book discusses the theoretical problems of each of these 3 approaches and each author in the book takes a different perspective on the relationships between them. These differences matter. The authors come from France, Sweden, USA (Chicano/First Nation/Black American communities), India, South Africa, The Netherlands, Pakistan, India and UK. They discuss a wide range of practices from contemporary women artists, independent teaching initiatives, experimental film and its histories, avantgarde theatre and women's craft practices in rural communities in conflict areas.
184 p, ills bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Oh, what a way to die!
Isbn 9789152770320
Publisher Plastic Letters Press
Idea code 23798
€ 15.00
Oh, what a way to die! is a brief exploration of modern manhood. Deteriorated ideas of masculinity – where self interest and profit are more desirable than generous care – are deeply linked to the severe and ongoing planetary crisis. Through a heuristic dialogue between the two investment bankers Sten and Cordell, we are taken on a journey from banking worlds and constant acquisition, to mothers, sustainability and the true meaning of life.
48 p, no ills, 11 x 16 cm, pb, English
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Camille Henrot | Estelle Hoy - Jus d'Orange
Isbn 9788880562276
Publisher Nero
Idea code 23802
€ 30.10
Since late 2021, the artists, united by a close friendship, have been sharing hundreds of images and exchanging thousands of messages via WhatsApp, Instagram, shared Google Docs, voice messages, and live conversations. Result of this correspondence, Jus d'Orange includes a series of Henrot's paintings inspired by Hoy's texts and vice versa. This editorial project, developed together with the artists, is thus a homage to this mutual and continual contamination between their works, and to the personal and professional relationship between them.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, Italian/English
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As Though We Hid the Sun in a Sea of Stories (reader)
Isbn 9783949973451
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 23772
€ 25.55
This reader, published with the eponymous exhibition at Berlin’s Haus der Kulturen der Welt, interweaves essays, conversations, and poetry tracing the multiplicity of worldviews, histories, and archives that have existed within an area of Central and Eastern Europe, Central and North Asia, and beyond. Through reappraisals and novel frameworks, it seeks to parse cosmological, cultural, and political histories in this geographical area. The reader includes themes such as the geographies of Jadidism, understandings of Indigeneity in different contexts in the world, a reconsideration of Muslim subjectivities that defied control and uniformization by the Russian Empire, and much more.
396 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, German/English
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John Akomfrah - A Space of Empathy
Isbn 9783949973444
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 23777
€ 34.70
An overview of John Akomfrah's work, with contributions by Julia Grosse and Nelly Y. Pinkrah, an interview with the artist, along with a foreword by Sebastian Baden. Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Schirn Kunsthalle Frankfurt in 2023-2024. John Akomfrah (born 1957) is a British artist, writer, film director, screenwriter, theorist and curator. His works are characterised by their investigations into memory, post-colonialism, cultural identity, temporality and aesthetics and often explores the experiences of migrant diasporas globally. Akomfrah was a founding member of the influential Black Audio Film Collective, which started in London in 1982 alongside the artists David Lawson and Lina Gopaul, who he still collaborates with today.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Shaping Revolutionary Memory: The Production of Monuments in Socialist Yugoslavia
Isbn 9783948212605
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 23773
€ 30.65
Shaping Revolutionary Memory presents a comprehensive overview of the vast production of monuments in socialist Yugoslavia (1945–91) dedicated to the antifascist People’s Liberation Struggle in the Second World War and the socialist revolution. Since the breakup of Yugoslavia in the 1990s, these monuments have been subject to various fates, from neglect and physical destruction to global fame generated by the high-modernist visual appeal of a number of them. But the full scope, wide-ranging diversity, and complex context of Yugoslav monument making, including its various contradictions, have remained largely unexplored. The book offers a thorough and interdisciplinary exploration of this phenomenon and a rich visual material to examine its key characteristics and specificities.
424 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Anke Coumans – The Artistic Attitude
Isbn 9789492852953
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 23778
€ 24.50
Anke Coumans (1962) is Professor Image in Context at the Research Centre Art and Society of the Hanze University of Applied Sciences Groningen in the Netherlands and affiliated with Minerva Art Academy’s undergraduate and postgraduate programmes. Within her professorship, she develops projects – with fellow researchers comprising students, tutors, artists and citizens – in which art practices lead to new ways of shaping the community. Central to her research are questions concerning the added value of artists and designers, the qualities they bring to the table, the shareability of artistic attitudes and how art schools can equip their students to play a catalytic role in social contexts.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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A BLACK COLLAGE – My History with African-American Art
Isbn 9789492852892
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 23779
€ 27.50
In this book, Rob Perrée tells the story of his involvement in African-American art, from 1990 to 2020. He does so by means of a chronological collage of new texts, linking texts, articles that have been published earlier, essays, interviews, reviews, columns, and short stories. The new texts put the other ones in context. Together, they show the development of African-American art and demonstrate how its appreciation and perception have changed over time, in the US, but above all in the Netherlands as well, among the public, but also among institutions. It is a look behind the scenes, making his passion for this art visible.
512 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Architects Draw
Isbn 9788792700483
Publisher The Architectural Publisher B
Idea code 23746
€ 36.00
After Sue Ferguson Gussow's 'Architects Draw' had been sold out from its original publisher for several years, a group of peers initiated a reissue. Gussow's book is widely used as a source of inspiration and a textbook in schools around the world. It encourages architects to maintain their drawing practices throughout their lives and reminds them that drawing is the best tool to connect the hand, the eye, and the mind. 'Architects Draw' includes more than twenty exercises that explore the most unexpected subjects to train the architect's eye, hand, and mind and is illustrated with more than two hundred inspirational student drawings and examples from postgraduate architectural practices.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Cy Twombly - Marocco 1952/1953
Isbn 9791280336101
Publisher Humboldt Books
Idea code 23733
€ 21.50
In the fall of 1952, Cy Twombly receives a traveling scholarship from the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts and leaves New York for his first trip to Europe and North Africa. He meets up with Robert Rauschenberg in Casablanca, and the two of them travel to Marrakech and the Atlas Mountains, and then to Tangier. They pay a visit to Paul Bowles in Tétouan and go on day trips with him to nearby villages and Roman ruins. Twombly conducts his first and last archaeological excavation there. Upon their return to Rome in February 1953, Twombly studies and sketches the ethnographic objects and tribal artifacts he sees on display in the Museo Nazionale Preistorico Etnografico Luigi Pigorini. These sketches survive in the form of the North African Sketchbooks. Much of the surviving work from this trip consists of photographs taken with a Rolleiflex shared by the artists and sketches made by them, preserved in the archives of the Cy Twombly Foundation and Fondazione Nicola Del Roscio; they provide a unique perspective on Twombly's lesser-known affinity for Africa's Mediterranean shores.
80 p, ills bw, 17 x 21 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Between Affinity and Rupture: Tracing Bubbles
Isbn 9789189270688
Publisher Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing
Idea code 23728
€ 32.25
The publication Between Affinity and Rupture: Tracing Bubbles collects 18 contributions exploring the notion of the ‘bubble’ – a symbol of our personalised mental and social landscapes, where collisions with different realities shape our perceptions, biases, and responses. These insular realms influence how we perceive and react to realities and values, while also offering avoidance or empowerment amidst opposing viewpoints. The collected essays include explorations by the nine artists who participated with their works in the homonymous group exhibition at Bergsjöns Konsthall, as well as reflections by seven external interdisciplinary practitioners. This selection aims to further investigate the idea of the bubble from across multiple disciplines, and to synthesise artistic and theoretical approaches.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, hb, English
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Milena Bonilla - The Hour Before Sunset
Isbn 9789895348091
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 23770
€ 15.30
Artist Milena Bonilla took correspondence written by revolutionary socialist Rosa Luxemburg from prison in 1917 as a starting point to conceive an exhibition in which she explored the potential of the archive and historical interpretation for the creation of collective memory. In the exhibition, political and affective resonances were combined with botanical knowledge and imagery. This book comprises a critical reflection by the exhibition’s curator, Juan Luis Toboso, a conversation between Bonilla and curator Isabeli Santiago, an essay by researcher Vivian Ziherl, the reproduction of Luxemburg’s original letter, and visual documentation of the presentation.
244 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 19 cm, pb, Portuguese/English
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Toward a Transindividual Self
Isbn 9788270384150
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 23771
€ 20.45
"Toward a Transindividual Self is an ambitious and capacious effort to theorize a new way to approach collectivity for political purposes through the lens of performance. Convinced that the current neoliberal conjuncture has only heightened a form of capitalist individualism that blocks notions of the social, the authors aim to show that a “transindividual formation of the self can bring about different courses of action and a more socially driven imagination. Transindividuation, they assure us, shows how “we form ourselves on the basis of interdependence, sharing, commonality, as well as indispensability of the individual as the agent of creativity/knowledge, freedom, and change, who ‘possibilizes’ their own conditions of formation.” —Professor Janelle Reinelt
340 p, no ills, 14 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Linda Molenaar – Out Side In Side Out
Isbn 9789492852960
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 23659
€ 30.00
In her work, Dutch visual artist and performer Linda Molenaar links animal aspects in humans with human aspects in animals. Her practice occupies her entire life, a life in which the artist creates unknown, and sometimes unloved, worlds her own. Combinations of materials address themes such as wonder and alienation, symbiosis and autonomy, life and death, comfort and hope. Artisan techniques are applied to diverse objects and elements from humans, plants, and animals, which are dissected, joined, sewn, and dressed into a being in its own right – sometimes inhabited by the body of the artist herself. This monograph presents an overview of 25 years of Molenaar’s practice.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Han Schuil: –/ BLAST / HEAT
Isbn 9789493329027
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 23661
€ 39.95
This monograph on the work of Dutch artist Han Schuil appears on the occasion of a solo exhibition at the historic Oud Amelisweerd estate, organised by Centraal Museum Utrecht. Both the exhibition and this book present an overview of Schuil’s work over the past two decades. As its title indicates, it focuses on three series: – (untitled), BLAST, and HEAT. In each, the possibilities of paintings and how they produce meaning are investigated through monumental works on aluminium, in ways as enigmatic as they are concrete. With are foreword by Centraal Museum director Bart Rutten and contributions by Gerrit Willems, Zippora Elders, and Laure van den Hout.
318 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 31 cm, pb, English
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Akane Nakajima – Flow
Isbn 9784907562427
Publisher Torch Press
Idea code 23658
€ 21.00
‘Flow’ presents a collection of recent works by Japanese painter Akane Nakajima, a new realm in which she expresses the sensation of being in contact with the small aspects of nature around her. Utilising watercolour bleed-through, the artist incorporates the forms of plant leaves, shadows on asphalt, flower petals, withered grass, and other delicate details in her creative imaginings. The small book has an accordion-type binding, allowing the artworks to emerge in a continuous flow.
22 , ills colour, 13 x 18 cm, leporello,
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Cleo Fariselli - Your Storm Our Dew
Isbn 9788897753421
Publisher Viaindustriae
Idea code 23815
€ 25.55
This first monograph dedicated to the work of Cleo Fariselli recounts the poetic and formal processes behind the moving image project Your Storm Our Dew (2023), which explores the contemporary collective unconscious at a time when states of emergency have become normalized. The artist transforms everyday items such as thermal blankets, protective suits, high-visibility vests, safety cones, and megaphones into creature that belong in the world of YSOD. These beings are both playful and unsettling, as seen in the large puppets that, illuminated by sudden flashes of light, emerge from the darkness of their habitat only to disappear again shortly afterwards to the amazement of those watching. Expanding upon the film, the contributions by Lucia Aspesi, Cleo Fariselli, Chus Martinez, and Guido Santandrea shed new light on the artist’s multidisciplinary practice. At the same time, they explore the shadows of anthropocentric thinking at the intersection of art and science, ultimately asking how the past and the present inform the futures of our imagination. Exploring the imaginative power of the object elements typical of states of emergency, the artist gives life to a world of its own, illumi nated by the incessant flashing of sirens, creating a new emotional, narrative and aesthetic environment.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 29 cm, pb, Italian/English
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