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Cecilia Vicuña – Saborami
Isbn 9781912570270
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 24118
€ 35.20
'Saborami' is a response to the Chilean military coup of 1971 written at the distance of an exile. Born in Santiago in 1948, Vicuña had been involved in the Latin American avant-garde and a participant in the Chilean youth movement. The work combines Vicuña’s two major art practices: the sculptural precarios – ephemeral objects made from discarded found materials – and mythopoetic and performance texts. It has long been acknowledged by the artist as her pivotal artwork, containing outlines of later bodies of work. This new edition includes an introduction by Luke Roberts and Amy Tobin, and archival material documenting Vicuña’s contribution to the Chilean solidarity movement.
192 p, ills colour, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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José Quintanar - Dutch Landscape
Isbn 9783906213439
Publisher Rollo Press
Idea code 24159
€ 48.40
Rotterdam-based artist José Quintanar presents the next instalment of his ongoing series dealing with the notion and tradition of landscape painting in the Netherlands. ‘Dutch Landscape’ is an exercise in synthesising a traditional art historical subject in the Netherlands into a simple drawing game using very rudimentary rules and constrictions. Playing with the concept of colonisation and setting, the book works as a protocol, as a ritual, or as a narrative device in which the same landscape is drawn again and again until it disappears. This volume compiles both previous and new work produced for the series.
336 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 32 cm, pb, English
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How to Survive After Art School?
Isbn 9782931110089
Publisher Surfaces Utiles
Idea code 24217
€ 14.00
The question posed by the title of this book seems even more relevant for young artists today than it did in 2020, when it was first published in French. Presented as a manual, the book shares a number of tips and tricks that have enabled art professionals to progress in the period after their studies. The short, often ironic and sometimes even humorous instructions written in the imperative mood provide pieces of the answer to the big question. A host of contributors representing a wide range of practices are included in the book, among them Olivier Bertrand, Juliette Defrance, Antoine Doyen, Bernadette Kluyskens, Ivan Murit, and many more.
188 p, no ills, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Meandering - Art, Ecology, and Metaphysics
Isbn 9781915609519
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 24169
€ 22.95
Inspired by how rivers bend and curve, connecting entire ecosystems, Meandering: Art, Ecology, and Metaphysics unfolds the cultural, historical, spiritual, and ecological trajectories of waterways, reflecting the vitality of water, from source to sea. A diverse group of artists and writers set out to trace river systems from the sierras and forests of southern Spain, to the heartlands of the Americas and the undersurface of the Mediterranean, proposing new routes for collaborative research and knowledge-production. In newly commissioned texts and a selection of influential essays—including a transhistorical dialogue between the twelfth-century mystic, Ibn ‘Arabī and the renowned essayist, Sylvia Wynter—as well as lyrics, scent, recipes, critical-contemplative writing, and guided meditations, Meandering combines rich visual documentation with insights from the fields of art, visual culture, environmental humanities, ecotheosophy, mysticism, critical theory, and decolonial studies. This volume offers a practical and poetic toolset for a dynamic reconciliation between action and imagination to address the pressing social and environmental challenges of our time.
248 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Decolonizing Nature Contemporary Art and the Politics of Ecology (reprint)
Isbn 9783956790942
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 24278
€ 22.00
While ecology has received little systematic attention within art history, its visibility and significance has grown in relation to the threats of climate change and environmental destruction. By engaging artists' widespread aesthetic and political engagement with environmental conditions and processes around the globe—and looking at cutting-edge theoretical, political, and cultural developments in the Global South and North— Decolonizing Nature offers a significant, original contribution to the intersecting fields of art history, ecology, visual culture, geography, and environmental politics.
296 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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The upside-down museum - Practice-based institutional critique, working up from the actual museum floor by Aldo Giannotti
Isbn 9789083350172
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 24172
€ 26.00
In defiant response to the mechanisms, habits, and status of the museum, artist Aldo Giannotti’s concepts and props, initially conceived in sketchbooks, transform into tangible institutional realities, reshaping the museum’s social and spatial architecture and sometimes literally breaking its walls. This realignment establishes accountability, on the spot and without holding back, to meet real needs. Through dialogue with the museum staff, guards, and visitors, Giannotti develops an inclusive engagement with the institution and its underlying purpose. This is a practice-based institutional critique based in ongoing, in-person practice, working up from the actual floor. This book surveys numerous cases and obstacles that threaten the sustainability of long-standing habits in high culture. It emphasizes working on the ground rather than from office spaces, focusing on accountability in the very spaces where the museum functions. It presents a challenge to the art world, offers insight to those who passively endorse the existing order of public art, and serves as a mediator between current art workers and outdated art systems.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Zoë Croggon – How to Cut an Orange
Isbn 9781922545282
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 24222
€ 48.10
Piecing together a selection of works made over the last eight years, Croggon’s striking new artist’s book 'How to Cut an Orange' embraces the written word more wholeheartedly than ever before. Featuring an incisive abstracted essay by the celebrated young poet Samantha Abdy, and a selection of poems by Croggon’s mother – renowned cultural critic, author, and poet, Alison Croggon – 'How to Cut an Orange' puts the artist’s sensuous, visceral photographic collages in direct conversation with the words and worlds that bracket and surround them. As much as Croggon’s practice is one of deep research and introspection, it also gazes outward.
104 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Conny Karlsson Lundgren - I Kiss Your Eyes
Isbn 9789198870510
Publisher Art & Theory Publishing
Idea code 24242
€ 32.25
Desire, lust, intimacy, and resistance are reoccurring themes in Karlsson Lundgren’s practice. For more than 20 years, often with a starting point in the hidden micro-histories of the archive, he has gently let surface perspectives on queer experiences and Swedish gay history. Shared and temporary spaces such as the park, the night club, the bedroom or the work of activism often set the stage for his investigations. Within the parameters set up by the works, political and juridical structures are made visible, while often intertwined with moments of ecstasy, community, or liberation. Published in collaboration with Bonniers Konsthall in conjunction with the exhibition I Kiss Your Eyes (2024).
212 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Swedish/English
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Roberto Paci Dalò - eBAU | Art Dreams for the New European Bauhaus
Isbn 9788822922458
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 24259
€ 23.65
eBAU is a collection of thoughts and ideas on what a New European Bauhaus could be. Not an essay, not an administrative document, not a plea, nor a manifesto. Simply a series of suggestions morphing into fleeting visions, sudden vistas breaking through the fog of daily life. What can art mean for the European Bauhaus? What can artists bring to the idea of a new school that invents a new aesthetics, green and sustainable and equal, for a better world? Artist Roberto Paci Dalò shares his thoughts in drawings and texts. An artist’s book, a light collection of insights and incitements fluttering out of the page, to point to other realities that are ours to invent.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Nicu Ilfoveanu - Tipizate / Phantom Inventory
Isbn 9789730395013
Publisher Galeria Posibila
Idea code 24247
€ 22.50
One of the most well-known artists of his generation, Nicu Ilfoveanu has built a reputation in not only photography of the urban and human periphery but also the production and design of art books. Both documentary and personal, his output has generated a new way of looking at photography in Romania. ‘Phantom Inventory’ is part of a series of publications initiated by Galeria Posibila in 2018 that bring the public closer to photography. Besides an introductory essay, this volume includes several previously published texts as well as new commissions that cover topical subjects on the working process in relation to film, education, Romanian printing houses, and more.
196 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, Romanian/English
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Michael Radford – CRASH
Isbn 9783945900956
Publisher Edition Taube
Idea code 24230
€ 25.55
In Michael Radford’s first artists’ book, we see shattered supercar bodies - forming a dialogue between consumer accidents and human desire, questioning these objects and their role in enabling petrol masculinity. The seductive high-gloss compositions draw us in, seen through the lens of automotive sexiness and the capitalist ideological machine, cannoned by the image. The work reflects strategies from his professional background: advertising, publishing, and state-propaganda.
48 p, ills colour, 23 x 33 cm, pb, English
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Jeff Gibson: False Gestalt
Isbn 9781922545305
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 24186
€ 36.25
Jeff Gibson’s career as an artist seems woven from the threads of his travels, both physical and virtual. His neo-Pop investigations embrace both the multiplication of image populations characteristic of the digital world and the reduction of online commerce into silhouetted photographic insignia. More recently, Gibson has returned to analogue image scavenging – cutting, cropping, and layering found images into intricately layered patterns. This monograph gives a comprehensive look back at his career in all its varied phases, from the late 1970s to the present moment. With written contributions by Thomas Crow, Susan Best, Tara Heffernan, and Angela Goddard.
150 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Teresa Solar Abboud
Isbn 9788412604795
Publisher This Side Up
Idea code 24177
€ 40.85
This publication presents the work of Teresa Solar Abboud (Madrid, 1985), which centres on the creation of sculptural ecosystems where families of sister forms create flows and communities, repeat and mutate in space. By working with organic elements, the artist constructs stories around isolation, immunity and connectivity that appeal to a contemporary subject, fragmentary and in constant displacement. Although sculpture occupies a principal place in Solar Abboud’s production, video has also been a relevant medium, especially in the early years of her artistic practice. Together with her working sketchbooks, they form the support for the origin of each shape, of each piece, and for the relations generated between them. Her most recent works are hybrid, syncretic beings with half-animal, half-machine bodies that occupy an intermediate space between engineering and mythology, emerging from times deep in the Earth’s mantle.
252 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 32 cm, hb, English
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IMAGINE! 100 Years of International Surrealism (English edition)
Isbn 9789464781137
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 24189
€ 35.00
100 years after the publication of André Breton’s Manifeste du Surréalisme, The Royal Museums of Fine Arts of Belgium celebrate a century of international surrealism with the extraordinary exhibition IMAGINE! From Giorgio de Chirico to Jackson Pollock, Salvador Dalí, René Magritte, Joan Miró, Dorothea Tanning, Man Ray and Leonor Fini: the exhibition and accompanying book offer an immersion in surrealist poetry, dream, the labyrinth, metamorphosis, the unknown and the subconscious, led by the great names of the surrealists. (French edition available ISBN 9789464781120) (Dutch edition available ISBN 9789464781113 - idea code 24188)
240 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 32 cm, hb, English
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I Shivered Violently / Don’t be Startled in the Night
Isbn 9789083404127
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 24174
€ 12.50
This publication presents two networked essays that, between them, attempt to visualise the poetics and possibilities of (dis)order, (il)legibility, and (dis)orientation. By addressing the conditions of seeing with, and through, machines used in library technology, Bryony Quinn and Paul Bailey approach the dynamic ordering and continual inventory of the Sitterwerk Foundation Kunstbibliothek as a site and a system of intrigue. Their essays – one written, the other visual – trace the intent of a bespoke machine, fitted with an RFID scanner, that reads the library’s shelves at the end of each day, creating an up-to-date record and map of what has changed due to visitor behaviour.
24 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Fieldnotes Issue 6: the destructive method
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Publisher Fieldnotes
Idea code 24163
€ 15.00
The journal’s sixth issue is a return, which is also the beginning of something. An examination of destruction in all its forms, definitions, interpretations, and offspring, it gathers new writing and artwork from a wide range of creative and inspired minds, among them Anne Carson, Joe Clark, Elijah Jackson, Manuela De Laborde Noguez, Jonas Eika, Sherilyn Nicolette Hellberg, Ocean Vuong, Vanessa Billy, D.S. Marriott, Stephen Emmerson, Kidist Amberber, Robert Beavers, Natasha Cox, Gregory J. Markopoulos, Chris Kraus, Emmett Lewis, Tava Tedesco, Flo Ray, Imane Boukaila, and Rasha Abdulhadi.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Of Dogs and Daughters - Between Surrogate and Self
Isbn 9789083362199
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 24246
€ 14.00
'Of Dogs and Daughters' brings a compelling record of female artists and writers, whose voices have been documented and collected through friendships and chance encounters. Combined with found material that proposes dog-human perspectives, this book attempts to redefine the mother-daughter relationship through a surrogate lens, exploring images of closeness, of anxieties conjured up by film franchises and mechanisms of nostalgia aimed at care-givers and children.The contributions by artists Carmen Dusmet Carrasco and Simona Koutná, and writer Susan van Veen are complemented by the introspections of memoirist Giuseppa and interlaced with passages from the novel 'The Hundred and One Dalmatians' (1956) by Dodie Smith.
64 p, ills bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, English/Czech
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Anton Vidokle - Citizens of the Cosmos
Isbn 9781915609151
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 24157
€ 24.00
'Citizens of the Cosmos' examines the artist Anton Vidokle’s films and the Cosmist philosophy underpinning them. It features essays and conversations with Vidokle by theorists, curators, and artists, among others: Liam Gillick, Boris Groys, Miguel Amado and Georgia Perkins, Elizabeth Povinelli, and Raqs Media Collective. This is the first book to survey Vidokle’s Cosmism-related filmic output, begun in 2014, and includes full scripts from the films. The book’s contributors speculate on Vidokle’s Cosmist conceptions of technological immortality, utopian resurrection, museology, and space travel, grappling with how these ideas embroil or crystallize contemporary theories, practices, and technologies: atmospheric manipulation, cryonics, biopolitics, extraplanetary prospecting, geo-engineering, transhumanism and genetics.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum
Isbn 9781922398079
Publisher National Gallery of Victoria
Idea code 24149
€ 56.55
Since the mid twentieth century, dance has expanded beyond the stage, with works presented in myriad forms in galleries and museums around the world. From artistic experiments and reworks of historical choreographies to performances responding to permanent collections, dance as a mode of expression has increasingly carved out a unique place in institutions and exhibitions as a means to engage audiences. 'Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum' is a survey of the choreographic turn within the visual arts, mapping a new field of practice that considers dance a contemporary-art media.
232 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Rachel Whiteread - The Mark of Trauma
Isbn 9791280579386
Publisher Lenz Press
Idea code 24147
€ 12.90
The Mark of Trauma is the first book in a series of short essay collections inspired by the site-specific art projects specially conceived for GAMeC at Palazzo della Ragione, a symbolic, time-honored location within the city of Bergamo that embodies the values of community life and participation. Rachel Whiteread was asked to name an author who interests her—be it a researcher, a philosopher or a scholar—and whose thinking could be said to underpin the project, with a view to finding a path through the complexities of the present day, starting from the work produced but without necessarily lingering on it. Through the words of psychoanalysts Angelo Antonio Moroni and Pietro Roberto Goisis, the book highlights the main characteristics of the collective trauma that gave rise to Rachel Whiteread's project …And the Animals Were Sold.
96 p, ills bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Feet of Clay
Isbn 9791280579508
Publisher Lenz Press
Idea code 24146
€ 16.15
Curator, art historian, writer Chus Martínez and writer and curator Filipa Ramos bring together a group of artists who have been using clay, pottery and ceramics to imagine, project and shape the world they live in. Some may associate clay, pottery and ceramics to tradition, and tradition to the past. Some may associate technology, digital communication and data with the new, and the new with the future. What if the future is only a technology as old and unusual as clay? What if clay is a matter that renews itself constantly and gives time its unpredictable configurations?
288 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, Portuguese/English
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Keiko Otsuki – Primitive
Isbn 9784763021052
Publisher Kyuryudo
Idea code 24133
€ 35.50
Keiko Otsuki has mastered various traditional techniques in her practice, such as resist-dyeing using paste and woodblock printing, to create the abstracted shapes and colourful patterns that define her work. Moreover, she combines these techniques with others that she has independently developed. Drawing inspiration from her trips to many parts of the world, including India, Ethiopia, Egypt, Greece, Turkey, Spain, Italy, France, and the United Kingdom, Otsuki has created tapestries, rugs, and dyed cloths that convey natural landscapes, plants, people, and cultures. This overview of the Tokyo-based artist’s work includes an array of prints on silk, hemp, linen, and cotton serge.
96 p, ills colour, 31 x 20 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Ruth Patir - Motherland
Isbn 9781988689135
Publisher Sternthal Books
Idea code 24179
€ 45.00
Ruth Patir is a new media artist based in Tel Aviv who integrates documentary storytelling with computer-generated imagery. Her work is often grounded in her own biography, gradually opening up to address larger societal issues, such as the politics of gender, technology, and the hidden mechanisms of power. ‘Motherland’ accompanies her exhibition at the 2024 Venice Biennale of Art, which the artist refused to open until a ceasefire agreement happens. The work is a multipart video installation documenting her egg-freezing odyssey, conceived as a 3D animation where she recasts herself as an ancient “fertility figurine”. The publication includes texts by curators Mira Lapidot and Tamar Margalit, Noam Gal, and Keren Goldberg, plus a dialogue between the artist and Eva Illouz. This book was produced in the months following the terror attacks of October 7 and the devastating Hamas-Israel war, in the depths of horror and despair. Patir dedicates it to all the women who lost their lives in this vicious war -both Israeli and Palestinian- and to those who were left to pick up the pieces. And reiterates the steadfast belief in two states, living in peace. In the polemics following the refusal to open the pavillion, the artist stated "As an artist and educator, I firmly object to cultural boycott, but I have a significant difficulty in presenting a project that speaks about the vulnerability of life in a time of unfathomed disregard for it”.
236 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Raven Chacon: A Worm’s Eye View From a Bird’s Beak
Isbn 9781915609380
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 24117
€ 29.00
A career-spanning catalogue featuring excerpts from Raven Chacon’s scores, musical prompts, and drawings interspersed with full-color documentation and descriptive texts of installations, sculptures, and performances. Raven Chacon is a composer and artist creating musical experiences that explore relationships among land, space, and people. In an experimental practice that cuts across the boundaries of visual art, performance, and music, Chacon breaks open musical traditions and activates spaces of performance where the histories of the lands the United States has encroached upon can be contemplated, questioned, and reimagined. In 2022, Raven Chacon became the first Native American to win the Pulitzer Prize for Music, and was awarded a prestigious MacArthur “genius” fellowship in 2023.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, English
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Lygia Clark | Hélio Oiticica: Letters 1964–1974
Isbn 9788412090888
Publisher Ivorypress
Idea code 24122
€ 26.90
From 1964 to 1974, two leading artists of the Brazilian ‘Neo-Concrete Movement,’ Lygia Clark and Hélio Oiticica, had an extraordinary correspondence which has now been translated into English. The letters are, first and foremost, a testimony to their friendship and complicities, bonds that had grown since the mid-1950s, when they first met amid an atmosphere of huge creative ferment in Brazil. Their encounter turned out to be transcendental in the life and career of both, in a country that was, moreover, preparing for the surge of the so-calledsecond Modernidade, the artistic development which, according to Ivo Mesquita, began in the 1950s and lasted until the 1980s.
244 p, no ills, 14 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Valentina Tanni – Memesthetics | The Eternal September of Art
Isbn 9788880562467
Publisher Nero
Idea code 24145
€ 21.50
Art in the twenty-first century has become a strange affair, even stranger than it was in the twentieth. The internet, new technologies, and social media have raided our visual universe with GIFs, photoshopping, and all manner of appropriation. Trolls, YouTubers, and Instagrammers are bequeathing us a set of practices and aesthetics that recall the precepts of the historical avant-gardes, playfully distorted in the weirdest, wildest, most uninhibited ways. So, how has the art we still find in museums and galleries responded to such a reckoning? And more importantly: what if the art history textbooks of the future listed not the works of a few nineteenth-century artist-geniuses, but the memes of all those anonymous users hiding behind improbable pseudonyms? Memesthetics is the first book to draw a comprehensive cartography of the relationship between visual arts and digital culture since the early 2000s. Tracing the path that’s taken us “from Duchamp to TikTok,” Valentina Tanni defines the contours of one of the most interesting, and at times disturbing, landscapes of our present.
268 p, ills bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, English
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What Has Left Since We Left - Six Takes On Europe
Isbn 9789493148307
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 24166
€ 18.00
Imagine the fictional end of Europe, articulated with the language of love and separation. Likening the political connections that bind European countries to the fluctuations of romance and desire, the book unpacks the complexities of the European relationship by touching on identity, collapse, migration, conflict, and hope. The contributions by Ayşe Zarakol, Marwan Moujaes, Erica Petrillo, Federico Lodoli, and Marina Lalovic complement and expand on the film script for ‘What Has Left Since We Left’, directed by Giulio Squillacciotti and written with Daan Milius and Huib Haye van der Werf. A timeline of Europe since World War II and images from the film’s production provide background.
112 p, ills ills colour & bw, 15 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Enlightenment, Culture, Leisure: Houses of Culture in Czechoslovakia
Isbn 9788090843349
Publisher Vi Per Gallery
Idea code 24197
€ 40.00
Enlightenment, Culture, Leisure: Houses of Culture in Czechoslovakia is the first book that provides a comprehensive overview of the creation of a nationwide network of houses of culture that were systematically established during the period of state socialism in the former Czechoslovakia. As places of public life in post-war society, these buildings enjoyed generous economic, political and legislative support. In addition to their specific typology, the book also looks at the educational and emancipatory potential of houses of culture and their role in the organization and control of leisure time. The publication also takes in the programmatic precursors of this type of cultural and social institution dating back to the nineteenth-century and the inter-war period (clubhouses, national or workers’ houses), as well as overlaps into the period after 1989, when buildings and their operators had to, and sometimes still have to, cope with the demands of modernisation. The book covers both the Czech and Slovak context of the construction of houses of culture, which not only manages to cover the entire territory of the former Czechoslovakia, but also to capture the different historical experiences.
888 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 16 cm, hb, English
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