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Beautiful Madness – Art Writing as Art Curating
Isbn 9789493246362
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 250079
€ 27.70
Curating exhibitions and writing about art are closely related: both activities construct a meaningful narrative about artefacts and artists; both interact with a public of viewers and/or readers; both make space for the experience of art objects. For their work, curators and art writers often tap the primary source: the living artist. This proximity to the maker allows them to delve into artistic processes and consider things in a state of becoming. This dialogue with the artist is thus an essential tool. Structured around five topics – trace, gesture, rudiment, polyphony, fortitude – ‘Beautiful Madness’ is an accumulation of Mark Kremer’s writings on contemporary art between 1993 and 2023. Featuring work by a.o. Alicia Framis, Rob Johannesma, Joan Jonas, Mike Kelley, Esther Kläs, Klaas Kloosterboer, Job Koelewijn, André Kruysen, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Jeff Wall, and many others
416 p, ills bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Willem Oorebeek - OBSTAKLES
Isbn 9789464460742
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 250108
€ 38.90
Published on the occasion of a solo show by Willem Oorebeek at WIELS in Brussels, this richly illustrated book presents re-readings of fifty years’ work and the materiality of production. These are numbered according to recollection, organised under headings, and translated from Dutch to English. The translations are coloured by two years of conversation with editor/designer Will Holder –accounting for ambiguity, rabbit-holes, and an [un]conscious preference for “quasi-” “ofschoon...” “enzovoort.” Repetition, alliteration, and other material, musical and metric devices are placed on the page, quite intentionally, designed “an sich” to facilitate memory and recall.
360 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 34 cm, pb, English
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I Thought It Was Love, But It Was Just A Barbecue
Isbn 9789526528649
Publisher Other Editions
Idea code 250081
€ 25.00
This book explores the unexpected beauty of everyday objects temporarily covered in the urban landscape. From bikes to cars, barbecues to patio furniture, and even plants, these covered objects are often along our paths, yet we’re never quite sure what’s hidden underneath. Blending humor with insight, the book dives into the mystery of the unseen, drawing parallels between the objects we pass by daily and the complexities of human perception. It invites readers to question how much of what we “see” is shaped by our experiences, imagination, and the stories we tell ourselves. With reflections on perception, life, and everything in between, it celebrates ambiguity and the rich possibilities that come from embracing the unknown. After all, isn’t it the hidden and uncertain that keep us curious and engaged with the world around us?
88 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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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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Sophie Calle – Absences
Isbn 9784861529771
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 250005
€ 38.20
Appearing with the ‘Commemorative Reopening Exhibition: Absences – Toulouse-Lautrec & Sophie Calle’, held at the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum in Tokyo, this unusually bound volume of foldout pages serves as the catalogue for the section on French photographer and installation artist Sophie Calle. Calle’s works frequently combine text, photographs, and videos. Many deal with the painful experience of heartbreak, inevitably leading to a void of loss and absence. The exhibition and this book especially focus on works and series produced by the artist since 2010.
128 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 28 cm, pb, Japanese/French
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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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Hilarius Hofstede - The Collages
Isbn 9788870386042
Publisher Centro Di
Idea code 250126
€ 35.75
Between 2018 and 2023, Dutch artist Hilarius Hofstede created a series of hundreds of collages, or papiers collés, in which he combines pre-existing images sourced from diverse media such as advertisements, postcards, and album covers. Blending art historical references with nods to Dutch history and global pop culture, they form an original and visually arresting body of work. The book presents more than 200 of these collages, published for the first time and showcasing Hofstede’s inventive approach. At once provocative and deeply engaging, his imaginative compositions tackle grand themes – nature, psychology, cosmography – with wit and surprising insight.
104 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 33 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Hans Ulrich Obrist - Simone Fattal
Isbn 9781915609359
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 250125
€ 15.00
For over five decades, Simone Fattal (b. 1942, Damascus) has eschewed any singular form or subject in her wide-ranging practice. In this deeply personal volume, Fattal’s close friend and confidante Hans Ulrich Obrist delves into the artist’s past to explore the remarkable breadth of her body of work. After studying philosophy, first in Beirut and then Paris, Fattal returned to Beirut in 1969 and began life as a painter—creating sensuous abstract works that diverged from the predominantly figurative paintings commonly exhibited in Lebanon at the time. In 1980 Fattal fled the civil war, abandoned her painting practice, and settled in California, where she founded the revolutionary publishing house Post-Apollo Press. After studying sculpture, Fattal was consumed by another wave of creativity that led her to pursue ceramic sculptures—a medium in which she continues to work to this day.
168 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 16 cm, pb, English
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Conversations on art, artworks and feminism
Isbn 9780992693480
Publisher KT Press
Idea code 250121
€ 37.70
‘Conversations on Art, Artworks, and Feminism’ is an important contribution to the literature on feminist art practices and curatorial strategies, offering deep insights into the ways art, memory, and activism intersect. Edited by feminist art critic and scholar Katy Deepwell, the book brings together conversations she had with inspiring artists and curators, published between 1996 and 2017. It is divided into four sections: interviews, artists’ discussions of individual works, feminist curating, and concepts of feminism and the founding of women’s art organisations. Included are conversations with Mona Hatoum, Karen Finley, Zineb Sedira, Marina Abramović, Pélagie Gbaguidi, and others.
336 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Uriel Orlow: Forest Times
Isbn 9783947858613
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 250110
€ 31.20
'Forest Times' brings together Uriel Orlow’s 'Reading Wood' (Backwards) (2022) and 'Forest Futurism' (2024), where plants emerge as political actors, witnesses to history, and guides for the future. 'Reading Wood' (Backwards) explores human and non-human entanglements, questioning what it means to restitute to the natural world. In 'Forest Futurism', Orlow shifts focus to plants’ lives beyond human time, blending film and 3D modeling to connect tree fossils’ deep past with future forest scenarios imagined through the voices of children. Set in South Tyrol, the project bridges local scientific research with global climate challenges, envisioningalternative, more-than-human futures.
216 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 21 cm, hb, French/English
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Invasive Links
Isbn 9783947858606
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 250098
€ 34.40
'Invasive Links' examines the fractured dynamics of modern conflict, where wars are increasingly mediated through digital screens in affluent enclaves, creating a stark divide between those on the frontlines and distant bystanders. Berlin-based artist Michael Schäfer interrogates this “digital spectatorship” through photographic provocations that blur the boundaries between witness and participant. Part of K. Verlag’s Processing Process series, this timely edition features critical texts in which Schäfer urges renewed moral courage to confront uncomfortable realities. By examining the hypermediated nature of warfare, 'Invasive Links' challenges us to grapple with our role in an emergent, unsettling form of global spectatorship.
220 p, ills colour, 14 x 21 cm, pb, German/English
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Splash Résidu – The Mental Masonry Lab
Isbn 9789492574251
Publisher Grafische Cel
Idea code 250135
€ 26.00
‘Splash Résidu’ delves into the world of residue aesthetics crafted by The Mental Masonry Lab (TMML) since its inception in 2014. TMML is a dynamic collective that fosters spatial experiments and reflection in urban contexts, bringing together artists, designers, writers, scientists, and passers-by. Navigating the threshold between disappearance and manifestation, TMML engages in explorations across urban landscapes, from streets to museums. Central to the collective’s ethos is a fascination with residue, a substance both tangible and symbolic, existing on the fringes of control. Through drawing, writing, exhibitions, and more, TMML shares its discoveries and insights.
232 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Silvia Cini - Avant que nature meure
Isbn 9788822922557
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 250084
€ 23.65
The formation of hybrids is a fairly frequent phenomenon in wild orchids, due to the use of pollinating insects to transfer gametes from one flower to another. Silvia Cini searches for these spontaneous orchids. The beauty of these tiny plants, capable of reproducing the form, colour, and odour of the animal linked to their pollination, a silent mutual support, distracts her mind from the clamour of the world. Their silent message is crystallised in form, leaving her defenceless to seek answers to life’s tribulations. The book appears in conjunction with the first stage of Cini’s project ‘Avant que nature meure’ (Before Nature Dies) at the Botanical Gardens in Budapest.
152 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Antoinette Nausikaä – Bird, Plane, Butterfly
Isbn 9789493329232
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 250054
€ 34.00
Following her 2018 photobook 'Breathing Mountains', which captured sacred peaks across Europe and Asia, Antoinette Nausikaä turns her lens to global metropolises. Through unsaturated colour photographs, drawings, and texts gathered in cities including Tokyo, New York, Paris, and Amsterdam, she explores urban spaces as mirrors of acceleration and alienation while seeking moments of timelessness within chaos. By zooming in and out between macro and micro perspectives, the work reveals connections between nature and culture, temporary and eternal, organic and abstract – inviting viewers to slow down and rediscover wonder in everyday urban surroundings.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Being Together: A Manual for Living
Isbn 9789083222448
Publisher Page Not Found
Idea code 250080
€ 18.50
Grace Ndiritu delves into radical approaches to education, drawing from her self-directed research in alternative, nomadic, and spiritual communities. Her experiences - from Buddhist monasteries to permaculture communities - profoundly shaped her understanding of embodied learning and its relevance in times of social upheaval. 'Being Together: A Manual for Living' reflects on these themes, weaving voices from her social practices to explore collective action and shared destiny within the context of contemporary art education. This second edition, enriched with new essays, deepens the dialogue around these ideas. Published alongside her solo exhibition 'The Compassionate Rebels, Tools for Everyday Living Part 1' at Page Not Found, the book extends the exhibition’s exploration of transformative educational practices and communal living.
168 p, ills bw, 12 x 19 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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Solution 305 - Dying Livingly
Isbn 9781915609403
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 250023
€ 18.00
Part studious, part visceral, Dying Livingly is a collection of short essays written in the first few years of the author’s holistic deathcare research and practice. With a focus on the truth of impermanence and the material cultures of death and dying, the writing reaches toward a future of compassionate, community-centered deathcare. Death has been outsourced, medicalized, and commodified for over a century. Working in tandem with the possibilities and limits of medicine, the holistic deathcare movement aims to support people and their communities in death literacy and phobia. It stewards both ancient and new practices in deathcare and centers social, political, and ecological imperatives for how we die. Death is a horizon that inspires us to live fully, with the vulnerability necessary in the transformative process of giving and receiving care.
144 p, no ills, 12 x 18 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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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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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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Corporate Collections in the Worlds of Arts, Business and Cultural Heritage
Isbn 9789462087316
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 250107
€ 39.95
Corporate Art Collections have been initiated and curated to educate staff, stimulate creative and out-of-the-box thinking, improve brand image, and express corporate cultural responsibility through support for artists and the art world. Yet while Corporate Art Collections are an important part of the international cultural and art worlds, their position, significance, and agency in those realms are rarely considered in its transnational entirety. The usual perspective is either within national frameworks, or from a single disciplinary viewpoint - mostly that of art history.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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Bettina Henni - Gros Santoun
Isbn 9782902565603
Publisher Fotokino
Idea code 250014
€ 25.80
Gròs Santoun is an illustrated book about rural Provence. Like a small intimate encyclopedia of daily life, Bettina Henni has collected, through her drawings, objects and figures related to popular traditions, nature, craftsmanship, and rural life. Each object, drawn on a base, is accompanied by its name in Provençal: a bit like a catalogue of santons! (Christmas statuettes) A catalogue of objects which makes the reader dive into the imagination of Provence - home of artisans, pickers, farmers, and more.
48 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 24 cm, pb, French
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Maria Stamenković Herranz - This Mortal House Building 1
Isbn 9782493123091
Publisher Palais Books
Idea code 24883
€ 35.75
‘This Mortal House Building 1’ seeks to translate into printed form the artist’s eponymous 2020 performance at the Sakıp Sabancı Museum in Istanbul. Over a period of 24 days, the artist built a brick labyrinth in the museum space, blindfolded, then destroyed it on the last day. Based on photographs of the performance, the book’s unbound pages offer a non-linear reading, itself subject to construction and deconstruction. We are invited to follow two paths: the first is a chronological account of the event, while the second provides new texts and images. By folding, unfolding, and assembling the sheets in different ways, we can modify our experience, both visually and mentally.
88 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 31 cm, pb, English
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Yuji Moriguchi – Rakuen
Isbn 9784883795178
Publisher Seirin Kogeisha
Idea code 24913
€ 50.95
Yuji Moriguchi’s works, which evoke a sense of Japanese nostalgia and eroticism, are characterised by vivid colours, fine details, fantastic images, and originality. They offer a glimpse of his knowledge of modern culture, history, and mythology, as well as Japanese art such as ukiyo-e and Western art. Heavily based in Showa, mystery, eroticism, and the supernatural, stories unfold within each work, inviting us to explore the fine line between reality and fantasy. Often, a femme fatale is ushered into the mundane, sparking thrilling encounters between femininity, desire, the otherworldly, and the forbidden. Moriguchi graduated from the manga department at Kyoto Seika University.
124 p, ills colour, 16 x 22 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Toulouse-Lautrec – Absences
Isbn 9784861529788
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 24923
€ 25.50
Published with the ‘Commemorative Reopening Exhibition: Absences – Toulouse-Lautrec & Sophie Calle’, held at the Mitsubishi Ichigokan Museum in Tokyo, this book serves as the catalogue for the part about the prolific French artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864–1901). It is filled with numerous examples of his vibrant and meticulously executed works, including paintings, prints, caricatures, and other illustrations, which together record details of the bohemian lifestyle prevalent in Paris in the late 19th century. The artist’s own fascination for brothels and the daily lives of prostitutes and dancers served as the subject matter for many of his works, in which men were often absent.
200 p, ills colour & bw, 19 x 26 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Hato Zines 49 Any Noise Annoys An Oyster by Francis Upritchard
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Publisher Hato Press
Idea code 24696
€ 11.45
Francis Upritchard’s considered ink drawings invite us into her surreal and, at times, haunting world. Her work explores themes of narrative, time and empathy, seamlessly interweaving elements of mythology, science fiction and the personal experience, to construct a thoughtful and often uncanny body of work. Upritchard’s use of medium is considered and playful, and often steps between delicate watercolour forms, decorated ceramic urns, and angular rubber creatures.
16 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Hato Zines nr 48 Reflection by Rio Kobayashi
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Publisher Hato Press
Idea code 24695
€ 11.45
A psychedelic journey through the artist’s mind, Kobayashi’s zine reflects on childhood memories of feeding chickens, catching bugs, and recounting tales of confiscated Game Boys. Viewers are invited to wander past chairs, tables, and pavilions, considering the creative journey and the memories which inform it.
16 p, ills colour, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Rei Naito – come and live – go and live
Isbn 9784908062612
Publisher Hehe
Idea code 24630
€ 35.65
Rei Naito captures the elements of nature surrounding us and the small things in our daily lives. She looks at scenes and subtle phenomena that we often overlook, and her meticulous artworks hold a universal perspective, inviting viewers to enter a submerged state of mind. This catalogue appears with an exhibition at the Tokyo National Museum that was conceived when Naito encountered the museum’s collection and architecture. In the clay objects of the Jomon period she found the human soul that resonated with her own creativity. Her works remind us of the creative process that has been ongoing since ancient times – the power of creation shared between past and present.
144 p, ills colour, 23 x 30 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Imagine
Isbn 9783856168889
Publisher Christoph Merian
Idea code 250064
€ 40.85
This richly illustrated review of the various developments at the Hochschule für Gestaltung und Kunst FHNW embraces contributions from the institutes and their cultural partners outlining the status of research in art, design and the media and covering the 2018 symposium Imagination Friction Transformation. A significant part of this publication focuses on creative processes, ranging from idea to concept to implementation and to artwork, as generators of social and aesthetic results. How are the resources knowledge, nutrition, energy sources and time constituted in a society? How do they shape communal life? Which strategies are applied? What is the social value of art?
360 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, German/English
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