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Wilhelm Sasnal - Painting as Prop
Isbn 9789464460667
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 24557
€ 25.30
Emerging from an eponymous exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, ‘Painting as Prop’ features four new essays and a conversation with Polish painter Wilhelm Sasnal. Throughout his career, the artist has consistently offered reinterpretations of existing imagery, whether an artwork, a newspaper image, or a book. Other paintings, some of which played a role as props in Sasnal’s recent film project, “The Assistant”, take cues from archival images, banal snapshots, popular culture, and art history. All of the paintings were made between 2002 and 2024. The texts introduce Sasnal’s distinct portraiture, modernist inspirations, and the evolution of his first feature film.
162 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Ronan Bouroullec - Triptyque
Isbn 9782494711006
Publisher Éditions 7L & Villa Noailles
Idea code 24478
€ 49.00
In 2023, as part of the rich programme celebrating its centenary, the villa Noailles has invited Ronan Bouroullec to present three exhibitions: Dessins quotidiens (Daily Drawings) at the Hôtel des Arts in Toulon, Les mains à l'argile (Hands to Clay) at the Galerie du Canon and Productions récentes (Recent Productions) at the villa Noailles itself. The invitation took the form of a triptych resonating with the world of Ronan Bouroullec, where the effects of unfolding, perspective and the organisation of visual planes occupy a central place. The graphic design of this book is an extension of this. For the first time, Ronan Bouroullec's three intertwined daily practices are brought together in a single work: drawing, clay—through his ceramic sculptures, vases, facing tiles and bas-reliefs—and also his latest proposals for object design and in situ projects, including the renovation of the Saint-Michel chapel in Brasparts.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, French/English
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Ines Doujak - Twisted Language
Isbn 9781915609328
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 24567
€ 24.00
In the context of Ines Doujak's exhibition Geistervölker, Kunsthalle Wien and Sternberg Press publish a book that looks deeply into the artist's practice. In the exhibition, curated by What, How & for Whom / WHW, the artist traced, in fragments, the origins of pandemics throughout history and linked them to a global economy that is based on logics of extraction facilitated by colonial legal mechanisms and late capitalism. These subjects have always been present in Doujak's works. Therefore, it felt crucial to have a book that allows several writers, theoreticians, and poets from different geographies to reflect on the political and aesthetic strategies that Doujak has been using during these past thirty years. The book is not a monograph nor a catalogue but rather a mosaic of texts in dialogue with Ines Doujak's Oeuvre, which engage with burning and urgent topics such as how we relate to the world around us and to each other.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, pb, English
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Stinkhorn - How Nature’s Most Foul Smelling Mushroom Can Change the Way We Listen
Isbn 9781915609274
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 24591
€ 29.00
The stinkhorn mushroom is one of the weirdest wonders of the fungal world, certainly the smelliest. Ever since it was described by a Dutch doctor in a sixteenth-century pamphlet, the stinkhorn has been reported to emit odors resembling damp earth, dung, rotting cheese, decaying flesh, and even semen. It also happens to look like a phallus. A heady mix of natural history, science writing, musicology, philosophy of the senses, and illness memoir, Siôn Parkinson uses examples of so-called bad smells to argue for a theory of Stink as a kind of “smelling sound.” The book expands upon the philosophy of listening to consider the role of the nose and the “nasal imaginary” in how we make sense of sound. In this treatise on malodors and how they can transform the conditions for listening, Parkinson considers John Cage’s silent fungal forays, Brian Eno’s compositions with perfumes, the hum note of a vibrating bell, the “eggy” odor of space, and the author’s own hallucinated stench as the result of an epileptic seizure. What links these disparate ideas and sensory experiences can be found in a single encounter with a ripe stinkhorn mushroom.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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A Tree, A Reader on Arboreal Kinship
Isbn 9789493382077
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 24632
€ 13.85
'A Tree', is about vegetal agency, plant knowledge, and the interaction between plants and people, with a specific focus on trees. This book comprises a variety of contributions that take a multitude of approaches to tree life, from sensory to ancestral, intimate to speculative. Taking the time to think about trees through imagination, art, music, storytelling, poetry, and images, the works in this reader share the aim of nurturing and furthering dialogue that exercises arboreal kinship. Moreover, the contributions inspire us to move beyond large systems of oppression and towards exorcizing anthropocentrism, capitalism, individualism, heteronormativity, and coloniality, by learning from and with tree time
128 p, ills bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, English
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Three Becomes Two Becomes One Becomes None - cosmopoiesis of mandragoras
Isbn 9789493382060
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 24633
€ 20.30
The plant genus ‘Mandragora’, commonly known as the mandrake, is one of the best recorded gynaecological herbal substances. It is also the only plant in the European context to be historically depicted as a half-human, half-plant creature. In this book, artist Leonie Brandner explores the medicinal and magical properties of the plant, along with the many stories that have grown around it throughout history. Joining rigorous historical research with her own perception and encounters, she traces ‘Mandragora’ from the beginning of recorded storytelling through medicinal tomes and folklore, eventually arriving at the impact the plant had during the witch hunts of the Middle Ages.
196 p, ills colour, 15 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Hokuei – Master of Osaka Kabuki Prints
Isbn 9789464781151
Publisher Ludion
Idea code 24552
€ 50.00
Hokuei: Master of Osaka Kabuki Prints belicht het leven en het werk van een van de meest intrigerende kunstenaars in de wereld van de acteursprenten: Shunbaisai Hokuei (ca. 1828-36). Hokuei, een raadselachtige figuur uit Osaka, produceerde meer meesterwerken dan enige andere kunstenaar in de regio Kyoto-Osaka (Kamigata). De prenten in deze rijk geïllustreerde publicatie zijn grotendeels afkomstig uit de privéverzameling van John Fiorillo, een van de meest uitgebreide collecties vanhet werk van Hokuei.
280 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, hb, English
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Tunji Adeniyi-Jones - Encounters
Isbn 9781399988100
Publisher Neuendorf
Idea code 24572
€ 49.50
“A recurring set of characters and compositions, each bearing an equal tally of similarities and differences,” says British-Nigerian painter Tunji Adeniyi-Jones about his work. “We are so often presented with a suggested uniformity only to notice, upon closer inspection, acute individuality and contrast.” This book provides an extensive overview of the artist’s practice over the past eight years, culminating in his participation in the Nigerian Pavilion at the 60th Venice Biennale. Alongside numerous vibrant figurative paintings, it includes an essay by British writer and curator Ekow Eshun, as well as a conversation between the artist and Osei Bonsu, senior curator at Tate Modern in London.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 30 cm, hb, English
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Care where no-one does - A grassroots style guide to progressive cultural production
Isbn 9789083404158
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 24605
€ 20.00
Urging a grassroots style based on activist engagement, entrepreneurship, design, and more, this book offers opposing perspectives on independent, progressive cultural production stemming from small initiatives. Similar to a pamphlet or a bundle of essays, it considers the formal frameworks and cultures of an independent and truthful undercurrent to move upwards. The book offers no evidence but shares experiences and perspectives with analytical support, which equally brings a rhetorical style to be distrusted. Even so, it hopes to spark an alternative economy to the needs of progressive cultural production, one based on trust and engagement wherever possible.
136 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Anushka Nair – Roo(u)ting
Isbn 9789491444791
Publisher Artez Press
Idea code 24636
€ 14.95
The word “vegetative” usually brings to mind passiveness and decay. But vegetal matter is, in fact, a source of existence, sustenance, peace, beauty, and hope. When plants join in rhizomatic networks, they participate in a lively exchange of energy and information. Performance artist and writer Anushka Nair proposes a conceptual and artistic methodology in the context of plant life, encouraging an embodied form of co-existence. Nair thus offers a unique perspective on connecting with plants, moving beyond traditional human-centric thinking. ‘Roo(u)ting’ mirrors this process to foster deep, symbiotic relationships with the natural world, leading to a harmonious existence.
48 p, ills colour, 15 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Democracy and Urban Form
Isbn 9781915609472
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 24590
€ 19.00
“Never have the potential political consequences of architecture been greater, and never has the political sensibility of architecture been less.”This was the state of the discipline that social theorist and urban thinker Richard Sennett declared when he addressed an audience at the Harvard University Graduate School of Design in 1981. Over a series of six lectures, Sennett presented social discourse as the foundation of democracy, and posited that our cities are uniquely positioned to either empower or constrict this discourse—and that the difference could lie in architecture and urban design.Now, over forty years later, as political polarization persists and its consequences arise in both new and familiar ways, Democracy and Urban Form revisits questions that remain relevant: If discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable it?
200 p, no ills, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Marc Bijl - The Works 1984–2084
Isbn 9789492852670
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 24589
€ 30.00
What will the world look like 100 years from now? In Marc Bijls’ catalogue for a fictional survey exhibition in the year 2084, time comes to us from the future. Bijl considers himself an observer of society, of everyday conditions and contemporary culture. In a society structured by narratives and fictions, by immaterial scripts that insinuate themselves into lifestyles, institutions, and ideology, he turns his attention to concealed myths, codes, and structures that order everyday life. He leads us into the year 2084 and from there back to the aesthetics of the 1980s.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 29 cm, pb, English
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Andy Warhol: Vanitas
Isbn 9789462088771
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 24587
€ 34.00
Andy Warhol was known for his preoccupation with temporality, spirituality, and astrology. A devoted Byzantine Catholic, the artist regularly attended church, especially after his mother’s death in 1972 and following a near-fatal assassination attempt. This book therefore highlights a lesser-known part of his oeuvre: paintings and drawings of skulls and self-portraits, reminiscent of the 17th-century ‘vanitas’ genre. Spiritual subjects such as impermanence and time are explored through multimedia art and archival material. As an elaboration on the subject, the book also includes several original engravings and mezzotints by Dutch engravers and artists from the 1600s.
144 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, hb, English
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[SHIFT]. Exploring Relationships between Artists and Technology in Education
Isbn 9789491444807
Publisher Artez Press
Idea code 24580
€ 14.95
By investigating the interplay of technology and education within the arts, this publication reveals the often unnoticed structures of domination that influence our interactions with digital and learning environments. It challenges the perceived neutrality of technology and proposes a radical rethinking of our relationships with the tools we use to create and learn. It is also a call to action, encouraging artists, educators, and technologists to forge paths towards a more inclusive and equitable future. Contributors offer experimental strategies for dismantling oppression and reimagining how we live and learn in a technology-driven world, free from traditional constraints.
112 p, ills bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Famous Paintings, Marcus Mårtenson
Isbn 9789198870565
Publisher Art & Theory Publishing
Idea code 24581
€ 40.85
Marcus Mårtenson produces art preoccupied with how our behaviours and thoughts are rewarded or punished by algorithms, without us really being aware of it. The immersive, addictive state of auto-gratification offered by the online realm is one of the Stockholm-based artist’s major themes. Recurring topics include concepts like prediction products, digital self, synthetic data, information prepping, and deep fakes. These often appear as sharp one-liners, or take the form of simple, pointed statements accompanied by faces that, despite being highly stylised, give the impression of being portraits of specific individuals – perhaps why this collection is called ‘Famous Paintings’.
232 p, ills colour, 23 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Readymade Shinichi Kaneko Photographs
Isbn 9784861529535
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 24566
€ 40.20
Plastic containers from around the world figure in this series by still-life photographer Shinichi Kaneko. The containers originate from 20 cities, the majority of which Kaneko visited himself, making the rounds past DIY stores, mid-sized supermarkets, suburban big-box stores, and more in search of bottles of intriguing shape. He then shot the objects under strong lighting while using filters to minimise surface halation and render a matte finish, a process he describes as akin to puzzling out a chess problem. Yet the results reveal aspects and guises that ordinarily remain hidden from view. The aim of Kaneko’s project is to discover new narratives within readymade products.
224 p, ills colour, 20 x 27 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Keiichi Tanaami: Adventures of Memory
Isbn 9784861529467
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 24563
€ 36.15
This is the official catalogue for the career-spanning retrospective exhibition of Japanese pop artist Keiichi Tanaami (1936–2024), held at the National Art Center, Tokyo. His brain-melting, protean oeuvre spans not only fine art but also illustration, graphic design, and video. Fuelled by psychedelic forms, comic books, electric colours, and Hollywood films, the decidedly reactionary practice he developed since the 1960s has since led to worldwide acclaim. A self-described “image director”, Tanaami was also inspired by Any Warhol’s multidisciplinary approach and became fascinated with the potential of printed matter as an artistic medium capable of duplication and proliferation.
420 p, ills colour, 22 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Dispossessed: Personal Stories of Dispossession and Restitution
Isbn 9789462088580
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 24346
€ 27.50
The Jewish Cultural Quarter and the Rijksmuseum are organizing the exhibition 'Dispossessed', a major museum project on cultural property that was stolen by the Nazis from Jewish owners in the Netherlands, with a special focus on art, Jewish books, and ritual objects. The stories of Samuel Jessurun de Mesquita, Max Heppner, Dési Goudstikker, Louis Lamm, and others make the owners visible and show that claiming and returning Jewish cultural property is still relevant today, and a form of redress. Designed by Irma Boom.
352 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Mothering Economy
Isbn 9789152770337
Publisher Plastic Letters Press
Idea code 24585
€ 25.00
Where do we find small moments of peace in a world that is somewhat falling apart? In our relationships to each other? In love and generosity? In fulfilment, nature or profit? 'Mothering Economy' explores ideas of how we can relate to the world differently. By unravelling the brutal metacrisis we are globally experiencing, the reader is taken on a journey of philosophy, economy, science, and art. The imprint we’re left with asks – can we shift our mindsets to make space for mothering, and by doing so, radically improve the fabric of our world?
172 p, ills bw, 11 x 18 cm, hb, English
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Guy Yanai – Insecurity
Isbn 9782958641511
Publisher Yundler Brondino Verlag
Idea code 24548
€ 47.00
Israeli artist Guy Yanai draws inspiration from everyday life in paintings that reduce objects to geometric blocks. It is a visual experience equally indebted to pixilated digital images as it is to the influence of abstract painters such as Matisse and Cezanne. ‘Insecurity’ traces the PDFs that Yanai sent out to supporters, collectors, curators, and friends before each project between 2020 and 2023 – the pandemic years. Over time, these PDFs started to become an integral part of completing each project in a conceptual way. After the last PDF was compiled for a show in September 2023, the artist decided to gather them all together, transforming digital files into a printed analogue object.
216 p, ills colour, 20 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Stéphanie Baechler – Forget Me Not (Vergissmeinnicht)
Isbn 9789083375625
Publisher Building Fictions
Idea code 24534
€ 60.00
The picturesque landscape of East Switzerland is home to a diminishing number of Hänggiturme and Tröckneturme: peculiar yet monumental wooden towers once used for drying dyed textiles. These structures are remnants from the 19th century, when the region was a booming global centre of textile production. Once herself a textile designer in St. Gallen, Stéphanie Baechler decided to uncover the histories of these towers and the work they housed, as well as to re-invigorate their present through an artistic intervention. 'Forget-Me-Not' catalogues a series of photographs of the remaining towers taken by Ladina Bischof in the form of an atlas, photographs that become the surface onto which Baechler’s research unfolds visually.
404 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 34 cm, pb, English
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Amy Ching-Yan Lam – Property Journal
Isbn 9781912570317
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 24575
€ 20.70
From December 2021 to December 2022, artist and writer Amy Ching-Yan Lam kept a record of each time real estate, property, or housing came up in conversation. What began as a simple journal and framework soon became an index of precarity, told through the indignities, dread, and dreamscapes of what we are able to call “home”. Just as property organises people’s lives, it also overtakes them. Over the course of a year, neighbourhood landmarks are demolished, politicians break promises, friends despair, and parents age. ‘Property Journal’ is a damning indictment of the permanent state of affairs known as the housing crisis.
216 p, ills bw, 13 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Villa I Tatti: Mary Berenson's "Golden Urn" Arcadia
Isbn 9788870385847
Publisher Centro Di
Idea code 24513
€ 12.25
On the hillsides of Fiesole and Settignano, overlooking Florence, beautiful villas and gardens recall their former American, British, and European expatriate residents from the late 1800s and early 1900s. Attracted by Florence’s artistic treasures and the Renaissance ideal of villa life, these independent and talented women made their homes here. The series ‘Our Hillsides’ aims to revive and enrich their memories by recounting their stories. The first book in the series draws on Mary Berenson's extensive manuscripts to explore her transformation of the home she shared with her husband, art connoisseur Bernard Berenson, from a rustic farmhouse into The Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies. The essay highlights Mary's vibrant personality and provides a glimpse of the hillsides below Fiesole as the Berensons knew them, uncovering interesting personal and historical connections. It also suggests that Mary's guiding philosophy, the "Golden Urn" principle, shaped her vision for Villa I Tatti, a place that attracted artists, writers, statesmen, and the affluent from around the world.
32 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Princess Ghyka and Miss Florence Blood at the Gamberaia. Stories from the Letters and Diaries of Mary and Bernard Berenson and of Other Neighbors, Friends, and Visitors on "Our Hillside"
Isbn 9788870385861
Publisher Centro Di
Idea code 24514
€ 12.25
On the hillsides of Fiesole and Settignano, overlooking Florence, beautiful villas and gardens recall their former American, British, and European expatriate residents from the late 1800s and early 1900s. Attracted by Florence’s artistic treasures and the Renaissance ideal of villa life, these independent and talented women made their homes here. The series ‘Our Hillsides’ aims to revive and enrich their memories by recounting their stories. Our understanding of Villa Gamberaia in the late 1800s and early 1900s largely revolves around two women: Romanian Princess Catherine Jeanne Ghyka, who bought the villa in 1896, and her companion, American artist Florence Blood, the focus of the second book in the series. Much of what we know comes from the writings of Mary and Bernard Berenson and other neighbors from Settignano, especially letters and diaries preserved in various archives. While these sources reflect the authors' interests and biases, they provide rare insights into the lives of the princess and Miss Blood, the artists and writers who visited the villa, and the allure of its gardens and landscape. For years, as Bernard Berenson noted, the Gamberaia remained a beacon in his life.
32 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Vernon Lee: A Sibyl at Il Palmerino
Isbn 9788870385885
Publisher Centro Di
Idea code 24515
€ 12.25
On the hillsides of Fiesole and Settignano, overlooking Florence, beautiful villas and gardens recall their former American, British, and European expatriate residents from the late 1800s and early 1900s. Attracted by Florence’s artistic treasures and the Renaissance ideal of villa life, these independent and talented women made their homes here. The series ‘Our Hillsides’ aims to revive and enrich their memories by recounting their stories. "Had I ever really cared for any country except Italy?" asked Vernon Lee. "I am fond of this corner of the world and this ramshackle old house." The "ramshackle old house" was the fifteenth-century Villa Palmeri—the setting of the third booklet in the series—which was her home, her "little ivory tower," from the spring of 1889 until her death in 1935. Lee was often seen in the garden in a "vine-dresser's hat and apron, sowing seeds," or presiding over gatherings of aesthetic women in her "culte." She was described by Bernard Berenson as the "Palmerino Sibyl," occupying her villa like an oracle on sacred land. This book explores how Vernon Lee made the hillside of Florence her eternal home and illuminates her network of friends, neighbors, and visitors, including many of the era's renowned writers and artists.
32 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Plant Magic Issue 2: Weeds
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Publisher Hooops Publications
Idea code 24511
€ 25.00
The second issue of Plant Magic brings together a range of artistic perspectives that explore the complex, resilient, and sometimes contradictory existence of spontaneous vegetation, which is referred to as “weeds”. Weeds embody ambivalence and resistance, thriving in the cracks of crumbling worlds and wastelands. They whisper secrets of life that refuses to give up, of beauty that insists on being seen, of healing that happens stubbornly, even in the poorest of soils. Spontaneous flora reminds us that survival goes beyond mere endurance and becomes an art of thriving against the odds. They dare us to look beyond the obvious, to queer the gaze, and unearth worth in what is so often overlooked.
124 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English/German/Chinese
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Worlding Ecologies – Art, Science and Activism towards Climate Justice
Isbn 9789493246348
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 24489
€ 27.50
How can art, science, and institutional practices counteract the negative consequences of climate and ecological breakdown? How can these practices and ideas advance systemic change? This publication serves as an anthology of examples and a wayward navigational tool, with eighteen authors exploring this question from a diverse range of expertise. The book emphasises the fundamental role of art as a vehicle and support structure for intersectional ecological thought. By navigating imagination, worlding possibilities, scientific fact, social justice, and climate action, it promotes the role of art in creating the blueprints for regenerative and sustainable, more-than-human worlds.
300 p, no ills, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Okumura Koichi – The Master in Sceneries of Light
Isbn 9784861529658
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 24562
€ 24.10
Throughout his career, the painter Okumura Koichi (1904–1974) pursued a new Japanese style. By redefining his own works, Okumura sought to change his landscapes from delicate lines to thick gestures, capturing the subject in outstanding compositions. Moreover, by magnifying certain elements within his works, Koichi emphasised natural phenomenon like waves or clouds, as well as the vitality of trees. This publication appears with an exhibition at the Kyoto City Museum of Art and marks the 50th anniversary of his death. It presents a selection of representative works from each period of his career, plus sketches from the museum’s collection that give insight into his methods.
160 p, ills colour, 21 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Tadanori Yokoo - Henri Yokoo Usso
Isbn 9784336075482
Publisher Kokushokankokai
Idea code 24495
€ 34.75
Tadanori Yokoo is a prolific graphic designer, illustrator, printmaker, and painter whose signature style of psychedelia and pastiche engages a wide span of modern visual and cultural phenomena from Japan and around the world. Yokoo’s engagement with the art of the French painter Henri Rousseau (1844–1910) began back in the 1960s, when he was in his thirties. The post-war revival of the “Rousseau craze” in Japan led him to produce an initial series of five Rosseau-inspired works, commissioned by a magazine. Over the years, Yokoo has added to his homage to the post-impressionist painter with paintings that evoke both humour and dread in equal measure.
162 p, ills colour, 24 x 31 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Ubu to You!
Isbn 9781916247437
Publisher Themerson Estate
Idea code 24501
€ 80.45
Ubu to You! is the title of a box which contains 2 books with Franciszka Themerson's work onUbu Roi. The first book to be read vertically deals with Franciszka's illustrations for the firstEnglish translation of the Alfred Jarry's play Ubu Roi published by Gaberbocchus Press in 1951,then, come her papier-mache masks of the characters in the play for the ICA, and finally, designs for the puppet performance at the Marionetteteatern in Stockholm. The second book, to be read horizontally, is of Franciszka's 90 designs for her Ubu Comic Strip. In reality, each one is 1 metre long.
284 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 35 cm, pb, English
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Soh Souen – Handle with Care
Isbn 9784907562502
Publisher Torch Press
Idea code 24460
€ 32.25
Japanese artist Soh Souen creates paintings, installations, and performances in which she examines the events of our lives through our relationship with our bodies. In order to poetically express the thoughts that go into ephemeral, formless performance as printed matter, the book is composed of video stills and photographs of her various works, together with relevant notes and related drawings. Everything is composed in such a way that these different elements are gently connected and respond to each other. Thus guided by images and words, the book traces Souen’s thinking as she explores fundamental questions through physicality.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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We Will Never Have Earthquakes
Isbn 9789811897825
Publisher Temporary Press
Idea code 24382
€ 27.30
This book consists of documented installation shots, images, and texts from ‘We will never have earthquakes,’ a series of works that explore discomfort and disruption within the process of change. These works revolve around personal, interpersonal, fictional, and non-fictional stories, presenting a collection of narratives about a headache that wouldn’t go away, a Youtuber’s analysis on the 1942 film Casablanca, a forum user arguing the purpose of the skirting board, various reports of tremors felt in Singapore and more. There is a hope to capture the different facets of change that emerge, unfold, and are realized within these seemingly banal moments and gestures of life. The book contains seven chapters of works and texts produced by the artist from 2020 to 2024. Each of these seven chapters were presented as installations that were part of various exhibitions in spaces such as Starch, Objectifs, I_S_L_A_N_D_S, Carp Gallery and more. All covers are deliberately stained with black soy ink.
128 p, ills bw, 12 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Max Beckmann - On my Painting
Isbn 9798989378050
Publisher Hanuman Editions
Idea code 24613
€ 13.10
Compiled and edited by George Scrivani in 1988, ‘On My Painting’ collects six texts from the pioneering German artist Max Beckmann (1884–1950), who fled Nazi Germany after his paintings – increasingly moody and reflective of the existential terror of the time – were labelled “degenerate”. In addition to the titular essay, this compact edition contains the short pieces “Creative Credo” and “The New Program”, plus extracts from Beckmann’s diaries, three “Letters to a Woman Painter”, and the text of a speech given to the philosophy faculty at Washington University in St. Louis shortly before his death in 1950.
128 p, no ills, 7 x 11 cm, pb, English
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René Daumal - The Lie of the Truth
Isbn 9798989378050
Publisher Hanuman Editions
Idea code 24612
€ 13.40
In this brief, dense essay, French avant-garde poet and writer René Daumal (1908–1944) bids us to resist the very notion of the truth and to recognise it as an artistic and metaphysical dead-end. Although he fought against the label, Daumal is often associated with surrealism, but he also investigated spiritualism in his works and was an early and outspoken practitioner of 'pataphysics. A pupil of mystic and spiritual teacher George Gurdjieff, Daumal was self-taught in the Sanskrit language and translated some of the Tripitaka Buddhist canon into French.
60 p, no ills, 7 x 11 cm, pb, English
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Dodie Bellamy - Feminine Hijinx
Isbn 9798989378029
Publisher Hanuman Editions
Idea code
€ 13.40
Already a member of The Feminist Writers’ Guild and one of the principal founders/proponents of the New Narrative movement, Dodie Bellamy published her first book with Hanuman Books in 1991. 'Feminine Hijinx' brings together two long pieces, 'Complicity' and 'The Debbies I Have Known', along with a new introduction by the author, written for this reissue. Dodie Bellamy (b. 1951) is an American writer, journalist, and educator, and the author of 'The Letters of Mina Harker', 'Cunt-ups', 'The TV Sutras', and co-edited 'Writers Who Love Too Much: New Narrative Writing 1977–1997' with Kevin Killian.
176 p, no ills, 7 x 11 cm, pb, English
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Cookie Mueller - Garden of Ashes
Isbn 9798989378036
Publisher Hanuman Editions
Idea code
€ 13.40
'Garden of Ashes', Cookie Mueller's second entry into the Hanuman Books canon (following 1988's 'Fan Mail', 'Frank Letters', and 'Crank Calls') brings together ten stories, autobiographical accounts of her ascent to cult-cinema superstardom, with tales dedicated to several of her fellow Dreamlanders, including 'Edith Massey: A Star' and 'Divine'. 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 Flamingo's, and Desperate Living. She died from AIDS-related complications.
120 p, no ills, 7 x 11 cm, pb, English
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John Ashbery - The Ice Storm
Isbn 9798989378012
Publisher Hanuman Editions
Idea code
€ 13.40
Published in 1987 as a standalone volume by Hanuman Books, John Ashbery's The Ice Storm is an extended prose-poem by one of the most important and influential poets of our time. John Ashbery (1927-2017) was an American poet and critic. Referred to often as an "avant-garde" poet, "experimentalist", or "surrealist", Ashbery's work resisted easy classification. He was awarded nearly every major prize for an American poet during his career, including a Pulitzer Prize in 1967 for Self-Portrait in a Convex Mirror.
60 p, no ills, 7 x 11 cm, pb, English
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