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Lucy R. Lippard - Headwaters And Other Short Fictions
Isbn 9781953441041
Publisher New Documents
Idea code 250050
€ 29.40
The first comprehensive collection of Lucy R. Lippard's narrative writing features over fifty works spanning five decades. While she is best known for her pioneering work as a curator, author, and activist, Lippard’s compelling and always-candid fiction underscores her broader impact on contemporary culture. The anthology includes previously unpublished pieces, with excerpts from unreleased novels and collaborations with artists. Additional themes include Nature/Culture, Politics Rule, Placings/Replacings, and Happy Ending. These often experimental vignettes range from short stories and conceptual fiction to visual essays and political prose, showcasing the versatility of her literary voice.
356 p, ills bw, 15 x 22 cm, hb, English
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László Moholy-Nagy - A New World
Isbn 9781915989048
Publisher Annely Juda Fine Art
Idea code 24825
€ 44.40
Annely Juda Fine Art presents a major exhibition dedicated to the life and work of Hungarianartist László Moholy-Nagy. In collaboration with the Moholy-Nagy Estate and Galerie Minotaure in Paris, this exhibition spotlights the extraordinary breadth of the artist's artistic career whoseceaseless experimentation and integration of new materials and techniques distinguish him as avisionary proponent of the modern art era. László Moholy-Nagy: A New World offers a profoundinsight into Moholy-Nagy's extraordinary creative curiosity and discipline, tracing his evolutionfrom early figurative oil landscapes in 1917 to the non-objective masterpieces of his later years
110 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 25 cm, hb, English
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Picasso x Koons - Reflections
Isbn 9788412394979
Publisher This Side Up; Museo Picasso Málaga
Idea code 250024
€ 27.55
This book accompanies a painstaking and thought-provoking exhibition at Granada's Museo de Bellas Artes, Spain's oldest provincial art museum, bringing together carefully selected works by Pablo Picasso and Jeff Koons. The museum's historic Circular Court and Room I within the Alhambra complex shows the artists’ distinct approaches to classical motifs – Picasso's paintings rooted in Spanish tradition and Koons' polished steel or glass interpretations. The selected works create a dynamic dialogue between past and present artistic practices. The well-researched texts of detailed explanations for both artists and their selected works is a perfect companion to the curation.
64 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 34 cm, hb, English
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Net Making - The catalogue of the National Pavilion of Ukraine at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia
Isbn 9786179539244
Publisher Ist Publishing
Idea code 24838
€ 35.00
The catalogue for the National Pavilion of Ukraine at the 60th Venice Biennale provides detailed insights into the Net Making project and featured works, with contributions from artists, curators, and thinkers. Net Making refers to crafting camouflage nets for war, which, while born out of necessity, becomes a therapeutic, social, and symbolic act of collective organisation. The project addresses themes of otherness through war, emigration, and social integration. The book includes installation images and visual materials documenting the exhibition's development and its four individual projects.
146 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 25 cm, hb, Ukrainian/English
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Raven Chacon - For Zitkála-Šá
Isbn 9781953441096
Publisher New Documents
Idea code 250055
€ 44.05
'For Zitkála-Šá' collects a series of scores by artist and composer Raven Chacon. Paying tribute to Yankton Dakota writer, musician, and activist Zitkála-Šá (b.1876), this publication is structured through a series of scores for thirteen contemporary female Indigenous performing artists: Laura Ortman, Cheryl L’Hirondelle, Suzanne Kite, Barbara Croall, Jacqueline Wilson, Autumn Chacon, Heidi Senungetuk, Ange Loft, Joy Harjo, Carmina Escobar, Olivia Shortt, Candice Hopkins, and Buffy Sainte-Marie. The book is supplemented by texts by each artist and a contextualizing essay by Chacon.
128 p, ills bw, 24 x 33 cm, pb, English
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Nocturnalities - Bargaining Beyond Rest
Isbn 9789493382091
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 250059
€ 23.10
The value of the project 'Nocturnalities: Bargaining Beyond Rest' is embedded in the way it offers — local and international — different perspectives and understandings of how we relate to the politics of rest, negotiate institutional and intimate care, and imagine varieties of care systems and healing strategies within a local setting. This artistic publication contributes to the diversification of perspectives concerning labour strategies and cultural production while unpacking discursive frameworks around the 24/7 paradigm and the creative age of awake. Besides the project’s creative and aesthetic value, it will also serve as a space for a continuous inclusive dialogue that encourages the public to rethink their care strategies and our role and responsibility in reproducing healthy cultural institutional systems.
300 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Gender and Postsecularity in Knowledge Production and Visual Culture
Isbn 9781915609434
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 250013
€ 20.95
During the last three decades, religious practices have gained increased visibility on a global scale, while the concept of secularity—and its relationship to religion—has become an object of intense interdisciplinary debates internationally. While the secular and the religious previously had marginalized positions within the academic field of gender studies, we can now observe a growing interest in religion and spirituality within this area of study, as well as gender-based activism. This publication features essays by scholars in gender and religious studies that collectively reflect upon and develop interdisciplinary and transregional ideas about the intricate dynamics of secularity, religiosity, and gender. The texts explore the entanglements and borders of religions and secularities in everyday life, as well as in art, culture, and knowledge production. Situated in an understanding of religion as both a category of thought and a marker of identity, this book considers new approaches to exploring the dynamic relationships between religiosity, secularity, and gender.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Alternative Pedagogical Spaces: From Utopia to Institutionalization
Isbn 9781915609670
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 250003
€ 12.00
Grounded in empirical research, Alternative Pedagogical Spaces is a critical inquiry into the establishment, development, and transformation of alternative pedagogical and social spaces. Written by Anna Colin, the former director and co-founder of Open School East, an independent art school and community space founded in London in 2013, this essay-length book explores the instituting factors, organizational life cycles, and alignments and misalignments between values and practices that permeate such a project. The book proposes where look for a reconceptualization of waiting, slowness, and longevity and asks how these ideas may benefit cultural practice and the design of future institutions (or the redesign of existing ones). Overriding the common assumption that success equals longevity, the author searches for institutional models that resist chrononormativity, drawing from social movements, psychotherapy, biology, and permaculture.
96 p, no ills, 11 x 16 cm, pb, English
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Feminism, Pedagogy and the Studio: Reflections Across Four Decades
Isbn 9781915609663
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 250002
€ 12.00
This book combines two lectures by feminist art historian Griselda Pollock, delivered in 1985 and 2022. In 1985, Pollock critiqued the gender politics of twentieth-century art education, highlighting its reinforcement of masculinist ideologies and the exclusion of women artists despite their significant contributions. She advocated for "feminist interventions in art's histories" to challenge the male-dominated art narrative and formalist art theory. In 2022, Pollock revisited the impact of the theoretical revolution of 1968 and examined the major geopolitical and ideological shifts post-1989, 2001, and especially 2007. She identifies the a troubling cultural tendency post-2010 (with thanks to Derrida) she names "insta-grammatology," critiquing social media's role in simplifying nuanced thinking and enforcing political surveillance of ideas.
120 p, no ills, 11 x 16 cm, pb, English
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Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities
Isbn 9783956796104
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 250004
€ 14.00
Robots designed to care for people and neglected landscapes of digital trash. The promise of synthetic biology and the panic of living on a dying planet. Wonderful feats of intelligence and systemic acts of violence. Exhilaration and exhaustion. Rosi Braidotti argues that we must think about these apparent contradictions all together in order to make differences that actually matter. In a lecture that seemingly spans a myriad of complex, contradicting topics, Rosi Braidotti situates us in posthuman convergence between the Fourth industrial Age and the Sixth Extinction and between and advanced knowledge economy, which perpetuates patterns of discrimination and exclusion, and the threat of climate change devastation for both human and non-human entities.
88 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Residencies Reflected
Isbn 9788867496310
Publisher Mousse Publishing
Idea code 250033
€ 26.90
'Residencies Reflected' examines international artist residencies through a societal and ecological lens, highlighting the experimental and creative freedom they foster and their roles in addressing ecological crises. It explores the information residencies generate about places, environments, and communities, alongside their artistic, poetic, psychological, and social significance. A key aim of this book is to reveal the often-invisible creative processes behind artworks born during residencies. Through nine essays and one interview, curators, artists, and academics delve into the potential of residencies as spaces for community and artistic development. Edited by Irmeli Kokko, the publication is produced by Saari Residence in collaboration with Mousse Publishing.
184 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Elisa Caldana - The Falcon of Karachi
Isbn 9788867496488
Publisher Mousse Publishing
Idea code 250034
€ 32.25
A companion to Elisa Caldana’s exhibition 'The Falcon of Karachi', this publication expands on the themes of disappearance, identity, and human-animal relationships through the elusive figure of the Laggar falcon. Overlooked and considered a "minor falcon," the Laggar has long been absent from historical depictions – only now gaining attention in the face of its looming extinction. Through counter-narratives and counter-images, Caldana challenges perceptions of value and recognition, exploring the paradox of wilderness within captivity. With captivating interviews and context, it deepens the exhibition’s inquiry, tracing the falcon’s legacy beyond its fading presence in the wild.
156 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 30 cm, pb, English
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TERRENO. Traces of the Accessible Everyday
Isbn 9791281790247
Publisher Viaindustriae
Idea code 250020
€ 18.40
TERRENO. Traces of the Accessible Everyday is a multidisciplinary exhibition exploring materiality and memory through cultural traditions, historical documents, and artistic practices. Inspired by Gianni Celati's concept of the “accessible everyday,” it highlights overlooked scenes and gestures of daily life, revealing their hidden meanings. The exhibition features artworks from the MAXXI Collections, artefacts and photographs from the Museum of Civilisations in Rome, editorial materials, architectural projects, and a new sound production. Together, these elements create fluid narratives that blend tradition and invention, connecting deeply with the local community and its creativity. With works by: With: Arjun Appadurai, Franco Assetto, Amedeo Aureli, Yto Barrada, Gianfranco Baruchello and Henry Martin, David Blamey, Diego Carpitella, Luciano Caruso and Giuliano Longone, Cavart, Giorgio Ceretti, Pietro Derossi e Riccardo Rosso, Continuum, Mario Cresci, Enrico Crispolti, Clémentine Deliss, Georges Didi-Huberman, Claudia Durastanti, Francesco De Melis, Formafantasma e.a.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Eulàlia Grau - Etnografias – Collages
Isbn 9782378965570
Publisher Vallois
Idea code 250031
€ 20.45
This publication presents a comprehensive panorama of the collages created by Spanish feminist artist Eulàlia Grau in the early 1970s. These "ethnographic" press photomontages—later transferred onto emulsion canvases and silkscreen prints—serve as a powerful critique of capitalist lifestyles and all forms of oppression, offering a visual dissection of societal structures. Published to accompany the eponymous 2024 exhibition at the Georges-Philippe & Nathalie Vallois Gallery in Paris, the book highlights the work of Eulàlia Grau (b. 1946, Terrassa, Catalonia). Known professionally as Eulàlia, she is a pioneer of feminist art in Spain and Europe, recognised for her bold denunciation of social and gender stereotypes, particularly under the Franco dictatorship in Catalonia.
56 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 27 cm, pb, French/English
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The Glossary by by Marianne Halter & Mario Marchisella
Isbn 9783907384152
Publisher Everyedition
Idea code 250016
€ 16.15
This debut publication by Swiss artist duo Marianne Halter and Mario Marchisella is essentially an artists’ book presented as a glossary. The format is intended to offer insights into their work and conceptual approach. Halter and Marchisella invited 26 artists to contribute short essays on specific terms within their unique glossary. In addition, various black-and-white images showcasing different works by the artists reference the different terms. The book is designed by the award-winning studio Vieceli & Cremers. German edition available: Das Glossar by Marianne Halter & Mario Marchisella (Isbn 9783907384169)
196 p, ills bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Moshtari Hilal, Sinthujan Varatharajah - Hierarchies of Solidarity
Isbn 9783948200183
Publisher Wirklichkeit Books
Idea code
€ 19.35
How does solidarity emerge? When are political alliances formed beyond differences, and why do certain struggles seem to garner more solidarity than others? What constitutes solidarity work, and what contradictions, interests and strategies shape it? In their new volume, Hierarchies of Solidarity, சிந்துஜன் வரதராஜா (Sinthujan Varatharajah) and مشترى هلال (Moshtari Hilal) jointly reflect on a practice that, as an act against oppression, manifests itself in both seemingly small, everyday gestures and global political contexts.
280 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 18 cm, pb, German/English
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Thomas Eurlings - Reverse
Isbn 9789462265165
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 24740
€ 48.00
REVERSE explores the back side of portrait busts, created by Dutch product and interior designer Thomas Eurlings. His fascination began after seeing a photo of the back of a bust of Marie Antoinette at the Museum of Modern Art in Houston (featured on the cover). The back, rich in details like curls, braids, pearls, and ribbons, presents a modern silhouette. Eurlings found it intriguing that you could explore these details without anyone looking back at you, creating both distance and intimacy.
552 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, hb, English
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Katsuhito Nishikawa – Serenity in Stillness
Isbn 9784907562519
Publisher Torch Press
Idea code 24772
€ 48.90
The title of the exhibition, ‘Serenity in Silence’, should be understood as a place that makes it possible to experience all the comfortable tranquillity, soothing perspective, and sense of security one feels when given a place of belonging while being confronted with Katsuhito Nishikawa’s work. The works are not completed by the objects themselves but rather come to fruition through the surrounding environment and the experience of the viewers. Published in conjunction with a solo exhibition of work by Nishikawa at Kawamura Memorial DIC Museum of Art, this profoundly meditative volume offers precisely this kind of close encounter with the artist’s practice.
76 p, ills colour, 23 x 28 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Bob Nickas - Corrected Proofs. Previously Unpublished, Uncollected, Unwanted
Isbn 9788797261651
Publisher At Last Books
Idea code 24807
€ 34.70
Revenge publishing - a new genre or as old as writing itself? Isn’t all writing, to some extent, a way to avenge an oversight or rejection, aiming to set the record straight? Many pieces in this collection were commissioned, accepted, and paid for but never published - whether due to common mishaps or more devious reasons. 'Corrected Proofs' seeks to remedy this. Alongside previously unpublished works, this collection includes newly written essays and interviews on figures like Lutz Bacher, Charles Ray, and Arnold J. Kemp. Heroes and villains - John Wilkes Booth, Lee Harvey Oswald, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Cady Noland, and Steven Parrino - share the stage with familiar names in unexpected contexts: Marcel Duchamp, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warhol. Rediscovered artists like Bob Smith and Stephen Varble appear alongside Lee Lozano, the January 6 insurrection, and The Fall.
360 p, ills bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Francesca Gavin - Rough Version, The NTS interviews with Francesca Gavin, 2016-2021
Isbn 9788797261620
Publisher At Last Books
Idea code 24808
€ 34.70
This book compiles open and frank conversations about art and music from the first five years of 'Rough Version', the acclaimed radio show on NTS Radio. Conceived and hosted by writer and curator Francesca Gavin, the monthly show explores the musical influences and aural inspirations of some of the most intriguing and emerging names in contemporary art. Music serves as a gateway to each international artist’s practice, offering insights into their identities, motivations, and personal favourites. Contributors include Adam Pendleton, Alex Da Corte, Aria Dean, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Jeremy Deller, Katharina Grosse, Mark Leckey, Wolfgang Tillmans, and many more.
792 p, ills bw, 13 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Script for a Synthetic Play: The Public Building
Isbn 9789493382176
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 250060
€ 20.30
Who inhabits our public buildings, and what roles do we play within them? What if we are both creators and occupants, shaping these spaces as we go? This book stems from Unknown Grounds: The Public Building, a two-day symposium where artists and thinkers reimagined "the public building" through performance and fiction. Participants embodied roles from architects to janitors, exploring how we actively shape the spaces we inhabit. Script for a Synthetic Play: The Public Building features texts by Hamja Ahsan, Lila Athanasiadou, Nina Glockner, and others. It includes a fictionalised wrap-up in the style of Greek comedy, fostering critical reflection on political systems. Both archive and invitation, the book encourages readers to rethink and reshape the public realm.
118 p, no ills, 17 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Re-Materialization of Language
Isbn 9788880562740
Publisher Nero
Idea code 24826
€ 37.65
Re-Materialization of Language. 1978–2022 marks the first philological reconstruction of the groundbreaking 1978 exhibition Materializzazione del linguaggio, reactivating and re-contextualizing its historical themes. Curated by Mirella Bentivoglio, the original exhibition highlighted verbo-visual explorations by eighty international women artists and played a critical role in introducing feminist art to the Biennale di Venezia. Re-presented in 2022 at Fondazione Antonio Dalle Nogare on Bentivoglio’s centenary, this publication features contributions from curators Cristiana Perrella, Andrea Viliani, and Vittoria Pavesi; artists Tomaso Binga, Monica Bonvicini, BRACHA, and Nora Turato; and designers Matilde Cassani, Irma Boom, and Studio Mut. With a foldout of works from the 2022 exhibit, it blurs the lines between art and document, museum and archive.
254 p, ills bw, 22 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English/German
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Jacopo Pagin - The Sniper In The Brain
Isbn 9788880562689
Publisher Nero
Idea code 24831
€ 45.15
Jacopo Pagin’s works are populated by upside-down trees with roots reaching toward the cosmos, transparent vessels, and hybrid bodies blending human, animal, male, and female features. These figures appear decadent and symmetrical, woven into a web of references that highlight the evocative power of the gaze. This first monograph on Jacopo Pagin, co-published with Make Room and featuring a critical essay by Alessandra Franetovich, showcases over 200 drawings and paintings. It delves into the artist’s visionary, obsessive, and hypnotic style, revealing deep connections to exotic, mediumistic, and new-age practices.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Sergiy Maidukov – Zagrava
Isbn 9786177948444
Publisher Ist Publishing
Idea code 24865
€ 40.00
Zagrava — is an artbook by Ukrainian artist Sergiy Maidukov, which documents the experiences from the beginning of February 2022, when there was talk of a major Russian invasion, until the mass shelling in May 2023. In more than 50 illustrations, Sergiy Maidukov recreates the events of a year and a half of full-scale war, working with various media: pencil, ink, paper, tablet. The images of the author's weekly column for the German periodical Zeit Magazin became the basis of this book. It is also supplemented with black-and-white sketches that expand the story. This is how the drawings, which work with private reflection, turn into pages of a large-scale war: the first strikes on Kyiv, the defence of Bakhmut, the daily shelling of the country in the spring of 2023, and the changes taking place both in cities and people. The book includes a conversation between journalist Oleksii Tarasov and Sergiy Maidukov, which is a continuation of their dialogue from the first book KYIV, published in 2021.
160 p, ills colour, 20 x 25 cm, hb, Ukrainian/English
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