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Tracey Emin – By the time you see me there will be nothing left
Isbn 9789491245367
Publisher Xavier Hufkens
Idea code 24490
€ 41.60
Love permeates Tracey Emin’s entire oeuvre. In this series of paintings, which revolves around love in its myriad forms, she explores its multifaceted nature, from the wondrous to the painful, the obsessive to the elusive. With small-scale and monumental works, the series encompasses the intricacies of human emotions. Gestural brushstrokes and a bold use of colour evoke the intimacy of the human body while laying bare its emotions. Central to these paintings is the symbiotic relationship between love and time. The artist’s personal experiences of love and mortality appear alongside past, present, and future manifestations. With a contribution by art critic Hettie Judah.
140 p, ills colour, 24 x 30 cm, hb, English
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Synthesis Curated For Youssouf Fofana
Isbn 9782487343023
Publisher A Magazine
Idea code 24492
€ 39.00
Launching ahead of the 2024 Paris Olympics to coincide with an immersive expo organised by professional footballer Youssouf Fofana, this project explores the African diaspora in the city’s 18th arrondissement, in particular creatives connected to Senegal and West Africa, looking at how sport and shared culture can create community. From the football matches at Square Leon, where aunties sell their crafts and foods to onlookers, to Senegalese textile and embroidery and new takes on classic French cuisine, the magazine examines ideas around a synthesis of French identity, where the children of immigrants espouse a creative expression based on their blended heritage.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Marijn van Kreij - Pictorial Content?
Isbn 9789464460605
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 24323
€ 35.00
Appearing in conjunction with an exhibition at De Pont museum in Tilburg, this volume is somewhere between an artist’s book and an overview catalogue of recent work, bringing together paintings on paper, drawings, and collages from the past decade. Processes of appropriation and repetition characterise the oeuvre of Marijn van Kreij. He often combines manually copied artworks and illustrations from children’s books with cut-out snippets of text, or applies loosely painted brushstrokes to pages from art catalogues and magazines. Through this approach, the artist seeks to give iconic and lesser-known works of art from the 20th century a new place and form in the here and now.
204 p, ills colour, 21 x 26 cm, hb, English
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Ingrid Caven: i Am a Fiction
Isbn 9780645454789
Publisher Fireflies Press
Idea code 24497
€ 17.50
From Ingrid Caven’s start in cinema alongside Rainer Werner Fassbinder (1945–1982) and the myriad extraordinary roles that followed, to her theatre performances and legendary concerts, the German actress and singer has been a force of inspiration and a vital collaborator for artists across five decades. Appearing on the occasion of a retrospective honouring Caven at FIDMarseille 2024, this is the second title of the monograph series One Two Many, which explores and celebrates a given artist’s oeuvre. The book features a new interview with the artist and a selection of archival materials, plus essays and other texts exploring their unique contribution to cinema.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Mckenzie Wark - Life Story
Isbn 9798989378067
Publisher Hanuman Editions
Idea code 24540
€ 15.10
“My idols are dead, and my enemies are in power. Domination co-opts language, making it almost unusable, other than by machines. We are to be ruled without even the semblance of style. I speak instead of what I have loved: writing, the city. In the end, after many diversions, this body, this world—and you.” From acclaimed theorist and trans icon McKenzie Wark, Life Story is a divulsion and revision of the author’s multiple forms. Life Story asks, "how to write not about love, but with love, in love, in form as well as content?" With an offering of lucidity amid disaster; a reinvention in the face of modernity’s unraveling. A tour of her selves, works, and worlds, Life Story is at once elegiac and mutinous, “an arc of history as built on an ontology of love.” In Life Story, McKenzie Wark plays with her future epitaph, creating a biographical form that eludes captured data-points. But for our purposes, let’s say that this Australian-born writer and scholar is renowned for her work on media theory, critical theory, the avant-gardes, and in recent years, raving and transsexual narratives. She is a professor of Media and Cultural Studies at The New School in New York City.
152 p, ills bw, 7 x 11 cm, pb, English
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Enrique Vila-Matas - Insistence as a Fine Art
Isbn 9798990416505
Publisher Hanuman Editions
Idea code 24541
€ 15.10
From a mind once described as “an endless labyrinth in which all forks lead to literature,” Insistence as a Fine Art trades the ekphrastic form for passage through a hall of interlocutors, mirrors, and guides (Nietzsche, Gadda, Calvino, Orson Welles). Thus Enrique Vila-Matas’ study of an artwork, Romero de Torres’s La Buenaventura (The Fortune Teller) swiftly becomes much more, spinning out with signature erudition into a whirlwind meditation on painting, history, and the opacity of the present tense. As one turn folds into another, voices rise and drift into a keenly elliptical flow. This work transforms into a rich reflection on art, history, and the mysteries of the present. Vila-Matas is celebrated for his deeply intertextual style, with works translated into 32 languages and numerous literary awards.
84 p, no ills, 7 x 11 cm, pb, English
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Raymond Pettibon & Mike Topp - The Frontier Index
Isbn 9798990416512
Publisher Hanuman Editions
Idea code 24542
€ 17.10
Guiding readers across the desiccated landscape of twenty-first century America in The Frontier Index is the cult duo of Raymond Pettibon and Mike Topp, two of contemporary art and literature's wildest provocateurs in pen and ink. As they note, The Frontier Index is loosely based on Kenko’s 1332 Essays In Idleness, comprising a preface and 243 passages that can span a single line or a few pages. Essays In Idleness is similar to Sei Shōnagon’s The Pillow Book, from around 1000 AD, in that both books employ zuihitsu, a Japanese literary form that literally means “follow the brush,” where the creation of order depends on disorder. Zuihitsu demands as its starting point juxtapositions, fragments, contradictions, random materials and pieces of varying lengths. Oh yes, and wrestlers
160 p, ills bw, 7 x 11 cm, pb, English
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Cookie Mueller - Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and Crank Calls
Isbn 9798989378081
Publisher Hanuman Editions
Idea code 24543
€ 15.10
Following the publication of Cookie Mueller’s Garden of Ashes in Hanuman's first series, this is the reissue her first contribution to the Hanuman canon: Fan Mail, Frank Letters, and Crank Calls, an epistolary portrait of the absurdity of human connection. Her book also doubles as a shrine to channels of analogue communication between private and public personas that have since metastasized in our climate of microcelebrity ideation. Sexy and hilarious, Mueller’s text embraces the discomfiting nature of desire with empathy and trademark wit. Cookie Mueller (1949–1989) was an American writer, actress, and advice columnist, best remembered as a regular cast member of some of the director John Waters's groundbreaking films, including Multiple Maniacs, Pink Flamingos, Female Trouble, and Desperate Living. She died from AIDS-related complications in 1989.
96 p, no ills, 7 x 11 cm, pb, English
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Bora Chung - Grocery List
Isbn 9798990416529
Publisher Hanuman Editions
Idea code 24544
€ 15.10
“‘Do you know what an ah-gwi is?’ ‘A ghost of someone who starved to death.’ Ghost stories, urban legends, weird tales floating around the Internet, I was into all of that. Sometimes, I would tell her some of them between puffs as we stood there staring at the dumpsters. But this was the first time she had mentioned that stuff on her own.” In Grocery List, the Korean writer Bora Chung reimagines the ghost story as a chilling tale of intimacy with appetite. The dividing lines of reality and thoughtforms blur as Chung takes on the ever-timely subject of food consciousness. Cutting and evocative, Grocery List is a feast for eaters of all kinds. Born in Seoul, Bora Chung is a distinct new voice in global literature. The author of three novels and three collections of short stories, Chung was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize in 2022.
69 p, ills bw, 7 x 11 cm, pb, English
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Vivek Narayanan - The Kuruntokai and Its Mirror
Isbn 9798989378098
Publisher Hanuman Editions
Idea code
€ 15.10
Vivek Narayanan’s The Kuruntokai and Its Mirror is a fractalized translation and reinterpretation of a classical work in the Tamil Sangam canon, an anthology of 401 short poems composed between 100 CE and 300 CE. As Narayanan writes, the poems “explore in excruciating detail the relationship between the interior and the exterior, the personal and the public” to reflect on the fracture of poetry itself. The influence of The Kuruntokai on Tamil culture and more broadly has been vast but webbed; the poems’ inherent eroticism and expressive range has complicated their history of open dissemination, surfacing most prominently in the English-speaking world through a formally liberal, or “Poundian,” translation by A. K. Ramanujan in the late 1960s. For our contemporary moment, Narayanan provides a close experience and elaboration of The Kuruntokai.
73 p, no ills, 7 x 11 cm, pb, English
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Pio Abad - Fear of Freedom Makes Us See Ghosts
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Publisher Hato Press
Idea code 24437
€ 44.00
Pio Abad’s The Collection of Jane Ryan & William Saunders is a ten-year project that has traced the material hauntings of the Philippines’ dictatorial Marcos family. Employing a wide variety of media, from the more traditional forms of painting and photography to new innovations such as 3D printed sculpture and augmented reality, the artist has depicted the history of the Marcos dictatorship as a past that urgently needs to be made present. Beginning in 2012, The Collection of Jane Ryan & William Saunders culminated in 2022 with the exhibition, Fear of Freedom Makes Us See Ghosts, at the Ateneo Art Gallery in Manila. This accompanying and comprehensive publication features three essays by curators and art historians, Kathleen Ditzig, Katy Wan and Marian Pastor Roces, that present new contributions to the scholarship of Abad’s work, as well as an interview with Philippine popular historian Ambeth Ocampo and the most complete visual account of the Marcoses’ plunder.
300 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, hb, English
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Mary Ellen Bartley – Morandi’s books
Isbn 9791280750372
Publisher Danilo Montanari
Idea code 24265
€ 26.90
Mary Ellen Bartley’s series ‘Morandi’s Books’ comprises meditative still life compositions in muted colours, transformed by collage elements. Their palette and restraint, not to mention their understated geometry, are clear homages to the Italian painter Giorgio Morandi (1890–1964). Using photographs from her brief residency at his studio and library in Bologna, she combined these with vellum, pieces of cut-out paper, or aged glassine typical of the papers that covered many of the books from Morandi’s collection, adding a beguiling layer of complexity. Her images of the tattered and well-read volumes that informed Morandi’s thinking and work transform them into sacred relics.
72 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 26 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Echoes of the Brother Countries
Isbn 9783949973550
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 24304
€ 17.35
This publication embarks on a rigorous reappraisal of the historical exchanges between the German Democratic Republic and its so-called ‘Bruderländer’ (brother countries). Appearing on the occasion of the eponymous research and exhibition project at Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin, it examines the resonant aesthetic, social, and political implications of an era from the perspectives of those who were deeply affected by the GDR’s state and labour policies. Conversations and essays from witnesses, scholars, and artists reveal a more discerning perspective on the connections of solidarity that linked the GDR to countries such as Angola, Cuba, Vietnam, and more.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Entangled – Texts On Textiles
Isbn 9788293801092
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 24440
€ 20.45
What does it mean to be a curator who writes, and more specifically, how can curators write about textiles? This publication steps outside the typical exhibition catalogue framework to occupy "the space between literature and criticism." The Community of Writers was established to provide time and space to retreat from external opinions and demands, allowing curiosity and the joy of writing to drive the process. This book was realized under the auspices of Interweaving Structures: Fabric as Material, Method, and Message, through a collaboration between the Faculty of Fine Art, Music and Design at the University of Bergen and the Central Museum of Textiles in Lodz. These partners bring strong specializations: the museum is a guardian of material textile traditions and art in Poland, while the faculty has a robust tradition in textile art and offers Norway’s only education program for curators.
108 p, ills colour & bw, 26 x 21 cm, pb, English
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New Forms of Art and Contagious Mental Illness
Isbn 9781953441102
Publisher New Documents
Idea code 24281
€ 34.25
Over the years 1919–20, the celebrated medical scientist and doctor Carl Julius Salomonsen began giving public lectures and publishing pamphlets regarding a new “epidemic” that had begun to affect the European populace: the increasing ubiquity of modernist art. In a 1919 pamphlet titled New Forms of Art and Contagious Mental Illness, he wrote: “We stand, at this moment, before a movement in art which is psychopathic in character, and whose victorious journey through all countries is probably caused by the same spiritual disease that gave the older, religious spiritual epidemic such a powerful spread.” This pamphlet and the accompanying talks were countered by a retaliatory pamphlet published by members of Grønningen, a Copenhagen modernist painters group, to which Salomonsen responded with a further pamphlet. Translated into English for the first time by literary theorist Andrew Hodgson, the entire altercation is gathered in this book, documenting one of the earliest rejections of modernist art.
126 p, ills bw, 19 x 28 cm, hb, English
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The Infinite Library: Books 1–50
Isbn 9781953441010
Publisher New Documents
Idea code 24282
€ 53.85
Begun in 2007 by artists Daniel Gustav Cramer and Haris Epaminonda, The Infinite Library is composed of an archive of over 100 books made through the recombination of pages from one or more found publications. Each book is dismantled, modified, and reorganized. Pictures and pages—momentarily out of order—are brought together to shape yet another whole. The concept for each new volume develops gradually, starting from the content of the original book and the associations that unfold in the process of making. This publication fully catalogues the first 50 books in the series, and contains over 1600 photographic illustrations, 20 color inserted sheets, and a contextualizing essay by writer Brian Dillon presented in both English and German translations.
228 p, ills bw, 24 x 33 cm, hb, English
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Semâ Bekirović - For Every Atom...
Isbn 9789090384467
Publisher Fries Museum in collaboration with Semâ Bekirović
Idea code 24526
€ 15.00
Published by the Fries Museum, Leeuwarden, in collaboration with artist Semâ Bekirović, ‘For Every Atom’ appears with an exhibition of the same name. It is at once an autonomous book, a museum guide, and an artwork in itself. Printed museum guides available to the public were treated with forensic fingerprint powder to reveal traces of the visitors to the exhibition. The presentation consists of two parts: works Bekirović made together with various human and non-human artists, and ‘Reading by Osmosis’, an exhibition of works by non-human artists, curated by Bekirović. The wind and the sun, crows, moss, bees, wild boars, and fungi are among the contributors.
212 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 17 cm, hb, Dutch/English
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Off Track - Art and philosophy as triggers for system change
Isbn 9789462264656
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 24449
€ 35.00
In 'Off Track' art and philosophy are the inspiration to look differently at daily life and organizations. The book is a plea to approach the complexity of the current world with new metaphors. The author calls this ‘thinking around’. She sees that in ‘square worlds’ there is a need for tools to approach entrenched patterns and systems differently and to get thought processes moving. Sarai van de Boel challenges the reader to look at one’s own systems from the inside with a philosophical approach.
236 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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The Art Beneath
Isbn 9781916412194
Publisher Centrecentre
Idea code 24405
€ 36.55
Through these microscopic cross-sections of thirteenth-to twentieth-century paintings, Spike Bucklow unearths the hidden processes, materials, and techniques of Rembrandt, Carravaggio, Artemisia Gentileschi, Walter Sickert, Claude Monet, Marianne North, and more. Within one sample of paint, the size of a pin prick or full stop, lies a vast and complex geological strata; a masterpiece by Titian becomes an abstract landscape of yellowing varnish, crunchy blue lapis, a silken slab of lead white, sea shells floating in chalk, egg mingling with oil atop of taut canvas. 'The Art Beneath', reorients painting as three-dimensional and durational, revealing the painter's patient assembling (and conservators' quiet retracing) of an artwork from ground up.
160 p, ills colour, 15 x 20 cm, hb, English
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Caleb Stein - How to Move a Mountain
Isbn 9798218272616
Publisher Luhz Press
Idea code 24167
€ 55.20
Caleb Stein travelled to northern Italy to photograph Robotor, a company based in the Carrara marble quarries that utilises digital schematics and robotic technology to translate marble into sculpture. His photographic essay is a series of intimate portraits of robotic arms and raw marble that offer nuance to today’s debate around artistic authorship and AI and computer-augmented art. The quarry has been mined for millennia, its marble sculpted by generations of artists. Now, technological advancements question conceptions of artistic authorship. Details of the digital schematics that instruct robots to sculpt are printed on sheets of tracing paper throughout the book.
100 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Ken Graves – The Meaning of Gravity
Isbn 9798218262549
Publisher Luhz Press
Idea code 24168
€ 76.70
From the mid-1970s, artist Ken Graves (1942–2016) created hundreds of collages using medical journals, technical manuals, advertisements, and found objects. Strongly influenced by surrealism’s proposal to reveal the subconscious through dreamlike scenes, he reconfigured the material of popular culture to unveil the social undercurrents embedded in commercial imagery. His collages examine the tension of societal roles (duty, station, gender) and reveal the hidden rituals that have been erected to create and maintain a set of social orders. A celebrated photographer, Graves reveals a different side of his artistic engagement through this rarely seen collage work.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 29 cm, hb, English
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Junichi Nakahara: Year 111
Isbn 9784861529399
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 24309
€ 26.30
Exactly one year after the end of the Second World War, Junichi Nakahara launched a women’s magazine called ‘Soreiyu’ (Soleil). Nakahara described the new magazine by comparing it to a flower, appealing to readers by proclaiming, “We are all human being who like to decorate our homes with flowers!” Amid the despair and confusion after Japan’s defeat, this line expressed a desire to make it something that would help people remember their human dignity, which many had lost during wartime. Aside from articles on clothes, cosmetics, and hairstyles, it also featured cultural content that had been restricted during the war. This book is a tribute to the magazine’s legacy.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 22 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Aoyama Satoru – A Boy who Sews Forever
Isbn 9784861529450
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 24310
€ 27.70
The sewing machine represents many things: the Industrial Revolution, the decline of handiwork, and perceptions of gender. Using this multifaceted tool, Aoyama Satoru fashions humorous and satirical works that capture the many issues and contradictions which surround us. The beginning of his practice is rooted in his study of textile art at Goldsmiths, University of London, where he cultivated an awareness of not only art but also the labour and feminist issues underlying textiles. Dedicated to revealing Aoyama’s unique vision, this book brings together a selection of roughly 150 works created over a period of two decades, enriched throughout by the artist’s own commentary.
176 p, ills colour, 19 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Luca Trevisani - Salad of Fossils
Isbn 9791281790032
Publisher Viaindustriae and COLLI Publishing Platform
Idea code 24434
€ 35.75
Images of nature and political ideas formulated by designers, thinkers, architects, and artists are tattooed on leaf fossils. For years, artist Luca Trevisani dedicated himself to printing nature-related political visions on dried leaves, but now this work takes on a new temporal dimension: imprinting these fantasies and squiggles on 320-million-year-old leaves is a desperate cry, a subtle and perverse seductive trap. These fragments become part of a contemporary wunderkammer, a collection that exposes our perceptual ignorance. Temporal distance acts as an inverted telescope, relativizing our preoccupations with the present and allowing us to understand ourselves outside the limits of our everyday context. Salad of Fossils is a publication born from the same idea of accumulation and material work, of having to rehash something in order to understand it, or perhaps to feel it with the mind and the senses. It is an atlas, a visual journey within a personal and arbitrary collection of works of art, events, situations, and gestures that relate to the fossil—not understood here as an object, but as the surprise that its encounter generates, as the break with conventions that it embodies.
530 p, ills bw, 20 x 28 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Rahel Zoller: Last Pages
Isbn 9783945900994
Publisher Edition Taube
Idea code 24461
€ 18.15
During the summer of 2022, Rahel Zoller set about tearing out the last page of books she found on the streets of London, Zurich, Paris, Stockholm, Berlin, or any place she happened to be at the time. Street libraries and recycling bins were her primary hunting grounds. Her collection of final pages forms a textual menagerie of chance, last sentences, appendices, advertisements, and indexes ordered numerically by page number. Zoller specialises in artists’ books that explore concepts of language, translation, reading, and writing, as well as the interaction between user, creator, and society as a whole.
200 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Pier Paolo Calzolari - Casa ideale
Isbn 9791280336156
Publisher Humboldt Books
Idea code 24479
€ 37.65
Setting out from the manifesto written in 1968, Casa ideale explores the poetic reach of Pier Paolo Calzolari's work: a programmatic text that was to become a vehicle for a series of ideas that endowed the artist's practice with direction, clearly outlining his intentions and evoking a range of interpretative possibilities. Published on the occasion of the exhibition of the same name at the NMNM – Nouveau Musée National de Monaco, the volume offers a wide-ranging overview on his research, retracing the key moments of a career that touched on the mainstays of Arte Povera as well as those of conceptual art. Through reproductions of historic works and performances, a new series of unpublished drawings and a collection of texts commissioned especially for the occasion, the book provides a rare opportunity to discover the world of Pier Paolo Calzolari, known for his unconventional approaches to the various disciplines of the visual arts. By constructing a process of metaphysical abstraction, Calzolari puts together a plural work, capable of combining various formal languages and triggering a transition between the physical and the aesthetic dimensions.
248 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, English/French
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Double Take: On Vices
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Publisher Further Reading
Idea code 24076
€ 18.80
The Double Take series focuses on creative writing and other means of conveying ideas, highlighting certain subjects through various interpretations. Its first iteration, ‘On Vices’, examines the human relationship with vices, expressed in different mediums and filtered through personal experiences. From the tendency to compare oneself with others and the implications of being overly dependent on smartphones, to a socio-cultural observation on drug culture and the sentimental connection to fast food, there are countless reasons why people indulge in their own vices. Each distinctive lens allows readers to explore their own psyche and identify elements of themselves.
84 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 16 cm, pb, English
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The Glover Group: A Los Angeles Story
Isbn 9788880562450
Publisher Nero
Idea code 24425
€ 32.25
'The Glover Group: A Los Angeles Story' narrates the journey of an extraordinary group of artists who have nurtured their unique artistic voices within the same studio complex in Frogtown, Los Angeles. The Glover Group includes Ruby Neri, Hilary Pecis, Megan Reed, Lily Stockman, and Austyn Weiner, a coincidental yet cohesive community of women artists sharing a unique bond through their interconnected workspace. This catalogue, designed to document their collaborative exhibition held at MASSIMODECARLO in Milan during July and August 2023, features interviews to the artists by Cecilia Alemani, Alison M. Gingeras, Justine Ludwig, Marta Papini, and Heidi Zuckerman, together with photographs by Tracy Nguyen.
90 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 33 cm, hb, English
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Japan Modern - Japanese Prints from the Elise Wessels Collection (new ed)
Isbn 9789462087286
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 22547
€ 30.00
'Japan Modern' presents an overview of Japanese printing in the first half of the twentieth century, a time when Japan was flourishing. Prints made after 1900 portray the turbulent times unlike anything else. Using an ancient wood-carving technique, artists show us modern life: streets scenes with high-rise buildings, cars, railroads, factories and Japanese women with modern hairdos dancing and drinking cocktails. However, more traditional subjects, such as idealized portraits of women and romantic landscapes are portrayed as well. Unique in the Netherlands, the Elise Wessels collection comprises Japanese prints from the first half of the twentieth century; outside Japan, it is counted among the best in its field.
264 p, ills colour, 22 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Trevor Paglen Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations
Isbn 9783956795831
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 24339
€ 15.00
How do machines look at images? To ask such a question is to observe the degree to which images today are increasingly produced by machines for machines. Taking Trevor Paglen's series “Adversarially Evolved Hallucinations” as a starting point for an analysis of this and other questions, this volume explores the role of algorithms and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in these processes. More specifically, it examines Paglen's research methods and the extent to which they encourage the viewer to think from within such apparatuses rather than merely reflect upon them. Can, we will ask, the black-box-like technologies that produce such images be negotiated with or, indeed, modulated by methods of envisioning/engaging with their operative logic? How can we, if at all, hold the post-digital, machine-produced image to account?
168 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, English
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