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Ana Mendieta - Search for Origin (ES/EN edition)
Isbn 9788412604740
Publisher This Side Up; MO.CO.; MUSAC; Musée des beaux-arts La Chaux-de-Fonds
Idea code 24063
€ 35.75
Devoted to Cuban-born American artist Ana Mendieta (1948–1985), this monograph appears with an exhibition at Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Castilla y León, which brings together around 100 works from over fifteen years of production (1968–1985). The exhibition explores how the artist never ceased to reinvent herself through political and vibrant contemporary work, developing an original, ephemeral sculptural language, at times performative in act and informed by her research into primitive myths and rock art. It reveals her relationship to the visible and invisible, her way of rendering the unspeakable intelligible through traces of the body and its relation to nature.
216 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Outside the Frame: Art and the Moving Image
Isbn 9781922545268
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 24058
€ 31.80
Today, as we navigate the opportunities and implications of networked technologies and social media, the moving image is positioned at the nexus of the cultural milieu. Since 2009, the Samstag Museum of Art, in collaboration with the Adelaide Film Festival, and Melbourne’s ACMI have driven programmes to commission new moving image works that have helped both redefine and further locate the medium at the core of Australian and global creative practice. This book, the first of its kind in Australia, provides a series of historical and newly commissioned critical and discursive reflections on both the artistic outputs and the role and history of commissioning practice.
384 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 28 cm, pb, English
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Zoo Index - Reader (volume 1)
Isbn 9781734094329
Publisher Terezie Štindlová
Idea code 23684
€ 27.50
Zoo Index Reader examines the relevance and effect that zoos have in shaping our gaze towards non-human animals and by extension ourselves/each other. Through a mixture of visual research into zoological space—in the form of an A-Z glossary—and written contributions on the history of menageries, the confinement and privatization of land, pets, zoo architecture, the "naturalization" of animals, and the role of zoos and animals in the history of cinema, among many other things, this first volume asks: Do we need zoos? What does a meaningful coexistence with animals look like? Why have we decided to give a balloon to an elephant?
332 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Nara Yoshitomo – The Beginning Place
Isbn 9784861529337
Publisher Nara Yoshitomo Foundation | Seigensha
Idea code 23865
€ 30.65
The Aomori Museum of Art, which is close to Nara's birthplace, began collecting Yoshitomo Nara's works in 1998 and currently has approximately 180 works. It is the largest public collection of Nara's work in the world. The museum has followed Nara's activities over a long period of time through year-round exhibitions of its collection, special exhibitions and large-scale commission work. This exhibition and catalogue look back on the artist's activities over the 12 years since the Great East Japan Earthquake up to the present day and includes several outstanding works dating back to his student days.
348 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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The White West - Fascism, Unreason, and the Paradox of Modernity
Isbn 9783956795336
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 24007
€ 21.95
Ever since neofascist movements began to surge across the globe, liberal commentators have tried to put a name to what they are defending from these illiberal ideologies. The consensus is reason or rationality—after the Second World War, mainstream scholarship has supported the view that adherence to fascism is a thing of unreason. This distinction between reason and unreason, a tenet of Enlightenment thought, sustains the universal appeal of liberal democracy but leaves unexamined the paradoxes that haunt modernity, particularly its colonial foundation, thus obscuring the continuities between fascism and imperial policies. The White West contends that, without confronting the structuring force of race in the production and reproduction of global wealth disparities, fighting for reason only leads to flawed utopias in which a critique or disruption of capitalism is easily inflected in the direction of neofascism. This collection of writing by leading historians, theorists, and scholars is an attempt to engage the overlaps between philosophical predicates and colonial legacies, as well as the undertheorized continuities between fascism and settler colonialism.
248 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Christine Smallwood - La Captive
Isbn 9780645454734
Publisher Fireflies Press
Idea code 24047
€ 14.30
In the fifth published title of the Decadent Editions series, Christine Smallwood explores Chantal Akerman’s adaptation of Marcel Proust’s The Prisoner, the fifth volume of In Search of Lost Time, in a text that moves elegantly between Akerman’s films, Proust’s novel, and Smallwood’s own life.
192 p, no ills, 10 x 15 cm, pb, English
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Samuel Clowes Huneke - A Queer Theory of the State
Isbn 9783982389462
Publisher Floating Opera Press
Idea code 24066
€ 17.20
Queer theory has often been hesitant to align itself with a politics of the state, approaching it with a negative or pragmatic framework. A Queer Theory of the State offers a more optimistic perspective. Rather than eschew engagement with democratic theorizing, the historian Samuel Clowes Huneke asks how queer theory can wed its critically anti-normative impulses to the empirical need for a state. In answering this question, Huneke shows how the state is an integral component of a politics that seeks to subvert and undo the oppression of queer lives.Samuel Clowes Huneke is assistant professor of history at George Mason University. His first book, States of Liberation: Gay Men Between Dictatorship and Democracy in Cold War Germany (2022), won the Charles E. Smith Award for best book in European History from the European History Section of the Southern Historical Association. Huneke has written for Boston Review, the Washington Post, The Point, and the Los Angeles Review of Books.
76 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Fredrik Værslev - The Garden Paintings
Isbn 9791280579348
Publisher Lenz Press
Idea code 24073
€ 37.65
Fredrik Værslev: The Garden Paintings is the first publication dedicated solely to one specific body of work in the artist's practice. It includes essays by Martha Kirszenbaum and Erlend Hammer, and gives a comprehensive and chronological account of the works from the series, showing their stylistic development as well as their exhibition history. The publication gives a comprehensive and chronological account of the Garden Paintings as well as their exhibition history. It thereby shows both the stylistic development of the individual works and the various ways Værslev has presented them since he first began the series in 2011.
184 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 33 cm, pb, English
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Tom Wesselmann - After Matisse
Isbn 9782931236000
Publisher Almine Recht
Idea code
€ 52.70
With his Great American Nudes series of the Sixties, Tom Wesselmann turned the Matissian odalisque into a pop icon. Subsequently, Matisse's work remained a central reference in his search for visual effectiveness and overload. Through a selection of forty-one artworks, the exhibition Tom Wesselmann. After Matisse explores the multiple ways in which the artist expressed his admiration for Matisse, from his first collages in 1959 to his last works, the Sunset Nudes series in the 2000s. They reflect different modes of appropriation: works based on Matisse, direct quotations, or, more profoundly, a Matissian conception of colour and surface.This catalogue investigates Wesselmann's creative processes in the studio and helps to understand the elaborate technique of collage or 3D drawing he used, showing how attentive he was to the question of scale, in small formats as in large-size works. It brings together four significant series of works which testify to the dialogue between this major American Pop artist and Henri Matisse: collages, Great American Nudes, Steel Drawings and Sunset Nudes.
264 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 29 cm, hb, French/English
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Dorothy Dean - Who Are You Dorothy Dean?
Isbn 9782958108410
Publisher Éditions 1989
Idea code 24064
€ 22.60
This second release from Éditions 1989 features Dorothy Dean's unpublished writing and selected correspondence with Edie Sedgwick, Rene Ricard, and Taylor Mead, among other friends and artists. This volume also includes Dean's transcendent script of an unrealized film starring Factory actor, Ondine. Lyrical, humorous, political, and brutally honest, Who Are You Dorothy Dean? is a tribute to one of the few prominent African American women of New York City's bohemian heyday.
296 p, ills bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, French/English
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Paraventi - Folding Screens from the 17th to 21st Century
Isbn 9788887029864
Publisher Fondazione Prada
Idea code 24088
€ 108.90
'Paraventi: Folding Screens from the 17th to 21st Centuries' is an exhibition curated by Nicholas Cullinan, director of the National Portrait Gallery, that investigates the histories and semantics of folding screens by tracing trajectories of cross-pollination between East and West, processes of hybridization between different art forms and functions, collaborative relationshipsbetween designers and artists, and the emergence of newly created works. The exhibition design created for the Podium building by SANAA, gathers more than seventy folding screens, including valuable historical objects and more recent works, and a selection of new creations commissioned from more than fifteen international artists for this project.
448 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, hb, English
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Bridget Mullen - Birthday
Isbn 9798986093055
Publisher Zolo Press
Idea code 24069
€ 53.75
The works in Birthday build on Mullen's practice, combining color, decisive mark-making, intuition, and experimentation to conjure psychedelic configurations. Sculptural dimensionality and flatness, representation and abstraction, and solidity and fluidity, serve not as dichotomies within these works, but as two complementary halves of a whole. Together, the forms and figures of the Birthday series are imbued with a sense of life, pregnant with agency and potential. Bridget Mullen (born 1976 in Winona, Minnesota) is an American artist.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 32 cm, hb, English
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Zona Festival
Isbn 9786069505526
Publisher Punch
Idea code 24068
€ 26.90
This book traces the legacy of Zona, Eastern Europe performance art festival that took place in Timișoara, Romania, between 1993 and 2002, years which were marked by a transition from communism to a new society built on different principles. Bringing together artists from the former "Eastern Bloc," Zona became a space of encounters, a platform for theoretical discussions and postmodern art experiments, which displayed a remarkable diversity of artistic languages. In the early 1990s, adopting subversive strategies helped artists overcome critical moments in totalitarian societies, which had been consolidated for decades in Eastern Europe. They combined techniques of expression such as pastiche, quotes, historical images, popular culture, or subcultures with personal mythologies. What resulted was often a critical mixture with an explosive effect. The concerns and intentions of the festival's protagonists were built around political, social, and artistic topics that were debated between the East and the West.
416 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 22 cm, pb, Romanian/English
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Yaron Michael Hakim - Psittaciformes
Isbn 9781737838869
Publisher X Artists' Books
Idea code 24070
€ 37.65
In his body of work Psittaciformes, Yaron Michael Hakim has adopted the formal approach of naturalist illustration to depict imagined anthropomorphic creatures. Through these paintings, he examines his South American heritage and the kind of exoticization that has been projected onto him and that he has, in turn, projected onto himself. The artist was initially inspired by the Macaw, the quintessential parrot that is native to South America. Beginning to think about parrots—their attributes of camouflage and the ability to mimic vocal pitch—led him to see these birds as a metaphor for assimilation and living between cultures. Adopted at birth from his homeland of Colombia, Yaron spent his early life living on three different continents – Australia, Europe, and North America. As the artist states, "I have always lived between cultures, trying to assimilate, and in this regard, I've come to identify with parrots (including the wild, transplant parrots that, like me, call East L.A. home)."
104 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 33 cm, pb, English
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Dana Darvish - Study for Woman
Isbn 9781988689128
Publisher Sternthal Books
Idea code 24037
€ 50.00
Since 2014, Dana Darvish has created montage works compiled into a series titled “The Destruction of All Art”. She cut out canonical images from the history of photography and art history, then mixed and grafted them onto images from a variety of content domains, retaining the title of one of the appropriated artworks and, on occasion, including the caption of the original from which the image was taken. The titles captured in the montages are subverted to the point of actual destruction of the art and a negation of the meanings instilled by their original creators. The works from this series are juxtaposed in this book with photographs and other collages by Darvish.
210 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, hb, English/Hebrew
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Agata Madejska – Mistakes Were Made
Isbn 9783945900963
Publisher Edition Taube
Idea code 24051
€ 23.00
A collection of deconstructed speeches made by Western leaders between 2016 and 2022, Agata Madejska’s ‘Mistakes Were Made’ reimages the poetic pathos that has come to structure the radicalisation of mainstream political thought today. From Trump to Merkel, it develops her ongoing interest in the fissures of institutional power by looking closer at the linguistic structures of contemporary politics. Transformed into jittering, self-affirming monologues, the political content of these public pronouncements is effectively removed. Debased of rhetorical action, Madejska’s editing exposes the patterns of persuasion that colour the play of contemporary political practice.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 22 cm, pb, English/German
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Bruno Munari - El artista / The artist
Isbn 9791254930755
Publisher Corraini Edizioni
Idea code 24054
€ 48.00
For some time now, the multi-faceted figure of Bruno Munari has been known and appreciated beyond the confines of the countries he chose —Italy, Japan, Switzerland, the United States— on account of his personal and intellectual attitude of “traversing” different linguistic territories. As a designer, artist, pedagogue, graphic designer, Munari is renowned for having helped to foster the permeability of the frontiers between artistic languages which during Modernism were regarded as academically separate. Now, after years of exhaustive research into his personality and his highly versatile work, the challenge could be to go against the tide and dive even deeper, considering each and every one of the disciplines to which Munari turned his hand. This entire volume —published on the occasion of the exhibition held by the MACA Museum of Manantiales (Uruguay) under the curatorship of Marco Meneguzzo, one of the foremost experts on Munari— is dedicated to his activity as an artist. Not only are his achievements in the fields of futurism, concrete art, kinetic art and conceptual art —spanning more than sixty years—, covered, they are also compared to the historic context in which they unfolded and to his highly personal idea of “project”.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 26 cm, hb, English/Spanish
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Martin Huger - Mercurial
Isbn 9789083375601
Publisher Building Fictions
Idea code 24024
€ 28.00
Together with pins, nails, tape, glue, and staples, it’s often just simple magnets that have been used to place objects in tension within the body of work presented here. Martin Huger’s artistic approach triggers our understanding of and relationship to the binary forces of attraction and repulsion that appear to govern our lives. The constructions and images he confronts us with reveal that analogous forces are at work in the constant pushing and pulling that reshapes a metropolitan area as well as in the strategies of persuasion commonly used in advertising, fashion and marketing. Hopping on a path made of invisible semantic associations, the artist has consciously let one word or thought attract another. This process forms an eclectic narrative around the notions of elevation, navigation and capital, as if they were bound together by a magnetic field.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 32 cm, pb, English/French
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Plugs, Pores, Walls and Lures Self-Design as Sculpture
Isbn 9789083350110
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 24002
€ 22.50
Doris Boerman’s series of sculptures titled ‘Plugs, Pores, Walls and Lures’ responds to the practice of self-design as a form of mass occupation, common identity, and pseudo-individuality in popular culture. The series addresses the feminine as a commercially constructed value, as well as the normative female body and its role in (art) history. This publication presents the series along with three accompanying texts by fashion researcher Femke de Vries, lesbian activist and poet Joëlle Sambi, and visual artist and writer Timmy van Zoelen. The contributions respond to Boerman’s series through a wide range of topics and create a relevant network for further deliberation.
72 p, ills bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Chrysalis – The Butterfly Dream
Isbn 9791280579447
Publisher Lenz Press
Idea code 24072
€ 53.75
Organized in collaboration with the Collection de l'Art Brut in Lausanne, the exhibition paid homage to the world's never-ending metamorphosis and all its organic (and inorganic) inhabitants. Chrysalis explored the concept of mutability from a wide range of different formal, existential, and political angles. Each thing, each image, and each form in this exhibition was in flux—shifting from one state to another, becoming something else, cycling through multiple identities. Far from simply documenting the exhibition, this catalogue reflects the polyphonic and polymorphic nature of the project and analyzes the notion of metamorphosis, through a number of contributions, from different perspectives, including art history, literary criticism, philosophy, design, music, architecture, virtual reality, anthropology, and poetry. The purpose is not to circumscribe the subject, ungraspable by its very nature, but to show the richness of its implications, and to focus on an urgency: the physical and political necessity of any body to claim its right to a fluid, hybrid identity, subject to constant transformation.
256 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Kate Tucker – A community of parts
Isbn 9781922545244
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 24057
€ 43.65
Kate Tucker’s first book follows the evolution of her practice over the last decade. Describing the Melbourne-based artist’s works as “paintings” seems insufficient, at odds with Tucker’s densely layered, fractured, and rearranged works. A workbook as much as a monograph, the overview does not so much reproduce Tucker’s works as it nestles in among them, testing new sight lines, combinations, and arrangements. Dialogic, generative, and unmistakably physical, the selection of works leads us to new vantages on her painting and sculptural practice. With texts by curators Amelia Wallin and Charlotte Cornish, plus a conversation between the artist and Helen Hughes.
256 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Anne Wenzel - Carte Blanche: Fuck the Dictator
Isbn 9789462088269
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 23860
€ 29.95
In February 2019 Deirdre Carasso, director of the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam, invited the artist Anne Wenzel to enter a boxing ring in the museum, pitting the autonomy of art against the power of cultural institutions. Wenzel, who had never boxed before, accepted the challenge on the condition that if she won, the museum would give her carte blanche. Wenzel won and took over the museum with the aim of putting art centre stage. This book, which documents the carte blanche episode, is both a manifesto for the autonomy of art and a reflection on the position of art and artists in the current institutionalized art world. Along with essays and visual documentation about the different aspects of the carte blanche episode, the book presents the body of work produced and presented by Wenzel at the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 29 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Sight Unseen: Visualising the Unseeable through Art and Science
Isbn 9781922545183
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 23852
€ 35.55
At its most fundamental, the act of seeing is the sensory experience of detecting light. ‘Sight Unseen’ positions the notion of sight to be so much more. The book considers phenomena in our universe hidden from human sight, now made visible through the combined efforts of artists and scientists. Collaborative, multidisciplinary and non-hierarchical in its scope, this group of essays and images draws on Western and First Nations knowledge systems to ask readers to see together; to see the togetherness often hidden from our gaze; and to strive to see an ecological and cosmological entirety while acknowledging that we can only ever see a small portion of what exists.
156 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Katrina Daschner – BURN & GLOOM! GLOW & MOON!
Isbn 9781915609311
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 23841
€ 19.00
'BURN & GLOOM! GLOW & MOON! Thousand Years of Troubled Genders' was the most comprehensive exhibition to date of Vienna-based artist and filmmaker Katrina Daschner. It was curated by by Övül Ö. Durmuşoğlu and encompassed works from the 1990s to the present, ranging from sculptures, textiles, music, performance, community-based work, and, most prominently, film, which sits at the heart of Katrina Daschner’s practice. The publication transfers the immersive environment of senses, textures, and feelings created in the exhibition into book form. Just like the exhibition, it confronts, touches, embraces, and dreams of transforming “femme”-ness, transforming bodies, and transforming genders.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, hb, English
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Robert Linhart - The Sugar and the Hunger
Isbn 9789526518343
Publisher Rab-Rab Press
Idea code 23853
€ 17.20
Widely acclaimed for his engaged social analyses of proletariat and peasant struggles around the world, Linhart's inquiry into the sugar regions of North-Eastern Brazil, juxtaposes heterogeneous traits of the impoverished workers' stories into a vivid cinematic montage.Alongside the translation, the book also includes 'The Third World, Investigations, Social Analysis', an unpublished interview with Linhart from 1980 made by Jean Copans, giving an insight into the political and theoretical background of his investigation in Brazil. The afterword by Luiz Renato Martins, an active Brazilian Marxist art historian and journalist, further contextualises the importance of Linhart's book. Renato Martins who recently directed a documentary film Conversations With Robert Linhart discusses The Sugar and the Hunger against the backdrop of today's world where the practices of expropriation of land and food from peasants and urban poor, which Linhart examined in 1980 on a laboratory-like scale, have now become common global practices, endlessly producing legions of uprooted and hungry refugees.
192 p, ills bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Anna Ingerfurth – Wochen / Weeks
Isbn 9783962160197
Publisher The Green Box
Idea code 23877
€ 39.00
Anna Ingerfurth’s art is perpetual. Every week, she creates a work of art on paper, always A4 landscape format, in addition to her small-format acrylic paintings and large public projects. She records what has occupied her during the week, although the drawings are purposefully unclear, intended as images the viewer discovers for themselves. Full of ingenuity and quiet humour, the German artist shows scenes that suggest without committing, neither in form nor content; isolated figures stand in space, surrounded with loops, shapes, or signs. This book brings together the 52 works from a single year. With their multifaceted clarity, the images speak for themselves without further context.
108 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, hb, German/English
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Leslie Winer - Pretty Broad Tastes
Isbn 9781914236396
Publisher Rough Trade Books
Idea code 24026
€ 37.45
Pretty Broad Tastes is the first full collection of poems from seminal artist and writer Leslie Winer. A literary and visual trialogue between Winer, Christopher Shannon and Linder after a decade of varied collaborative projects across the worlds of design, music, art and performance, Pretty Broad Tastes marks the latest embarkation point on Leslie Winer’s wholly original artistic odyssey through both the mainstream and counter-cultural landscape of the past half a century. Presented here alongside a pamphlet of photomontages by the artist Linder, and a series of images collected by Christopher Shannon, augmented by annotations in Winer’s handwriting. Together, these pamphlets create a single work——and object of intrigue, open-hearted and available to a multitudinous readership’s discreet and varied interpretations. Touching on the images and imagery of the artists’
48 , ills colour & bw, 19 x 22 cm, map, English
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The Monadic Age - Notes on the Coming Social Order
Isbn 9781915609243
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 24034
€ 21.95
The world is marked by deepening conflicts—between democracies and autocracies, woke and populist identity politics, rich and poor, continued environmental exploitation and harsh complications like climate change. In The Monadic Age, Ingo Niermann argues that, stirred by rapid developments in automation and AI, these manifold crises are about to culminate in a new paradigm of self-sufficiency—monadism—that overturns the liberal era and forces a reinvention of all social parameters. The Monadic Age unfolds in thirty-three autonomous—monadic—essays on topics as diverse as environmentalism, terrorism, geopolitics, housing, the metaverse, nonbinarism, language, charity, euthanasia, identity politics, tattoos, ableism, AI, birthrates, war, religion, sex, and art.
352 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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