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Mothering Myths - An ABC of Art, Birth and Care
Isbn 9789493246423
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 250204
€ 31.60
“Mothering Myths” unravels the cliches, stigmas, and myths behind motherhood through the lens of art, using a transhistorical and intersectional perspective. It breaks with convention to make space for collectivity, different forms of mothering, and political questions around self-determination. The book presents the emancipatory nature of the artist-mother, the voluntarily childless woman, the non-female mother, and the raven mother. Its release is parallel with exhibitions at the Centraal Museum Utrecht and Nest Art Space in the Hague.
312 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Daan Paans – Floating Signifiers
Isbn 9789493363168
Publisher The Eriskay Connection
Idea code 250185
€ 39.50
Inspired by Heraclitus's concept that "all that is observable flows continuously," Daan Paans explores how objects and phenomena constantly transform across time under the influence of a complex set of factors. In this richly illustrated volume, fascinating case studies ranging from extinct aurochs to sci-fi meteorites and Indiana Jones's Golden Idol, Paans reveals how archetypal forms continue to shape contemporary visual culture. His multimedia approach combines photography, video, 3D renders, and sculpture to examine humanity's evolving relationship with ecology, offering profound insights into the fluid nature of time and space.
158 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Batia Suter - Parallel Encyclopedia 2 Revised Edition (reprint)
Isbn 9789492811141
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 18109
€ 60.00
Batia Suter’s work intuitively situates found images in new contexts to provoke surprising reactions and significative possibilities. This volume follows on from the first ‘Parallel Encyclopedia’, published in 2007. Underlying themes of Suter’s practice are the “iconification” and “immunogenicity” of old images, and the circumstances by which they become charged with new associative values. “In my work, I collect groups of images based on various themes and characteristics, and I investigate how they can manipulate each other, depending on where and how they are placed. In the process of making this book, narrative lines unfolded before my eyes as I shifted images around.” This is a revised reprint.
592 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Anne Geene - P. 225
Isbn 9789083359625
Publisher Blind Finch Books
Idea code 250202
€ 49.00
The Koninklijke Bibliotheek holds over 120 km of written heritage, ranging from 'Donald Duck' to legal codes, from literature to rare books in its special collection. To mark the KB’s 225th anniversary, Anne Geene made a random selection from this archive using an algorithm created by Erik Vos (a data specialist at the KB). This process resulted in the selection of 225 books, with page 225 of each book reproduced. This collection reflects the diversity of the books held at the KB.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch
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Planetary Realism - Art Against Apocalypse
Isbn 9781915609236
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 250148
€ 21.95
When the Anthropocene creates a new real, how do artists respond? The devastation left in the wake of modernity and globalization is revealing a fragile and unfamiliar planet, and humanity has awakened to a new real. If the old “realist” tools of objectivism have contributed to capitalist society's divorce from the natural world, how are artists finding new ways to make us really see—and feel—the planet? Surveying a body of planet-facing art, communal practices, and activism, Josephine Berry investigates art's power to break with capitalist realism and decarbonize the imagination. With chapters on feeling as world-making, the rupture of petroleum landscapes, artists' urban exodus, and migration as survival, Planetary Realism delves deeply into art's necessary reimagining of life on Earth.
248 p, no ills, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Breaking Free: Queer Temporality and Collaborative Art
Isbn 9789083449838
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 250116
€ 25.85
This guide offers manuals to stitch, paint and identify appropriate wear, a script to perform and stimulating ideas and experiences. 'Breaking Free: Queer Temporality and Collaborative Art' is a celebration of collective creativity and self-expression, offering a dynamic fusion of artistic tools to explore and to queer identity. Inspired by Brazilian artist Hélio Oiticica and brought to life by queer artist LDB+ (Lieven De Boeck), this manual blend academic insight, artistic practice, and lived experiences. Through stitching, painting, and performing, this book guides and invites participants to engage in collaborative art making while challenging traditional norms. Highlighting the strength of community, the book offers open-source tools, ideas for creating, activating, and experiencing art in dynamic and transformative ways.
106 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Yuichi Yokoyama - Neutre
Isbn 9782902565610
Publisher Fotokino
Idea code 250145
€ 30.10
Yûichi Yokoyama is primarily known for his radical manga. Neutre brings together, for the first time, a large selection of his paintings and color and black & white collages, along with two previously unpublished comics. This book offers an expansive view of the fascinating world the Japanese artist has been crafting for over twenty years. Embracing a resolutely distant and surface-level approach - where one might detect influences from Pop Art, Minimal Art, and the ukiyo-e tradition of Japanese printmaking - Yokoyama presents a gallery of portraits featuring enigmatic figures (half- robots, half-fashion astronauts) and vividly colored masks, interspersed with geometric landscapes: shimmering construction sites, expanses of water depicted through intricate inlaid compositions of colored paper. Dynamic and striking, Neutre presents images that remain neutral toward their viewers—vivid, liberated, and electric.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, French/English
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Marc Camille Chaimowicz - Writings and Interviews
Isbn 9783956796517
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 250123
€ 34.95
Marc Camille Chaimowicz (1946–2024) was an acclaimed visual artist known for his performances, installations, and curatorial flair - he was also a writer. This first comprehensive collection of his writings spans 1971–2023, featuring seminal interviews, performance reports, letters, jokes, and rare documents, including early leaflets and typewritten handouts. Blending literature, modernist architecture, interior design, art theory, glam rock, and camp culture, the book offers a vivid portrait of the artist alongside the social flânerie of his time. Witty and inclusive, Chaimowicz’s texts set a new template for expressing queerness through writing. Curator and editor Alexis Vaillant provides commentary and context, shaping a time capsule of cultural pleasure featuring Andy Warhol, David Bowie, Jean Cocteau, Elsa Schiaparelli, and others. This volume captures Chaimowicz’s singular prose - both knowing and longing - for the twenty-first century.
728 p, ills bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Nathalie du Pasquier - Campo di Marte II
Isbn 9791280336309
Publisher Humboldt Books
Idea code 250199
€ 26.90
Campo di Marte was conceived in March 2020, at a time when Nathalie Du Pasquier was not painting. After cutting out photos of paintings produced between the 1980s and 2020, the French artist arranged them in a sequence as if they were a series of typefaces, focusing solely on their formal qualities and the scope for interpretation offered by their assembly. The result is an enchanting game of nonsense - an everyday surrealism in which the images form sentences of sorts, interwoven with various elements from the world of books: titles, poems, or mere calculations - moments when the artist was lost for words. Campo di Marte will also be the title of an exhibition, curated by Luca Lo Pinto, scheduled to be held at MACRO in Rome at the end of 2020. As Du Pasquier states: "The book was supposed to be released at the same time as the exhibition opening. That won't be the case, but it doesn't matter as they really are two separate things. This paperback is not a catalogue at all - it's something you can browse through even while sitting on the underground."
160 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 21 cm, pb, Italian/English
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What We Owe the Dead
Isbn 9789083499345
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 250222
€ 18.50
In a desperate attempt to lower the temperature of Earth’s atmosphere, humanity has built cooling mega-siphons. These colossal structures now hold the last remnants of civilization. High above the scorching plains of Antarctica, in one of these vertical habitats, Security Captain Elevii A. Tarkka is tasked with a seemingly unremarkable investigation. 'What We Owe the Dead' is a gripping detective novel set in a dystopian surveillance society. It is a philosophical fiction that explores the themes of personhood, the cultural significance of games, and our duties to the dead.
200 p, ills bw, 11 x 16 cm, hb, English
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Cosmos | Kosmos
Isbn 9789493329355
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 250223
€ 26.75
‘COSMOS’ explores our changing relationship with the stars. Through illustrations, instruments, and astrophotography, the publication strikes up an intriguing dialogue between scientific objects from the 18th and 19th centuries and contemporary artworks. In doing so, it demonstrates how imagination – both in art and science – drives our cosmological awareness and helps us to grasp the vast and infinite story of the universe. Appearing in conjunction with a fascinating exhibition of juxtapositions at Teylers Museum in Haarlem, ‘COSMOS’ offers a wealth of images, essays, and installation views, sparking curiosity about the subject and deepening our contemplation of its themes.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 27 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Selma Selman - Sleeping Guards
Isbn 9789090396583
Publisher ABN Amro
Idea code 250219
€ 28.45
Originally from Bosnia and Herzegovina, Selma Selman is the recipient of the 12th edition of the ABN AMRO Art Award in the Netherlands. As an artist and activist, she has a keen awareness of the importance of recycling and transformation, which is reflected in a multidisciplinary oeuvre that includes performance, drawing, installation, and film. Having grown up in the Roma community during and after the Bosnian War, Selman’s personal stories are central to her work. She poses questions about stereotypes, traditional gender roles, and discrimination, transforming her experiences of these phenomena in a way that encourages reflection on power structures in society today.
76 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 32 cm, pb, Dutch/English
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Ernesto Neto – Art on Earth
Isbn 9791280579621
Publisher Lenz Press
Idea code 250188
€ 12.90
On the occasion of the exhibition Mentre la vita ci respira - SoPolpoVit’EreticoLe, Emanuele Coccia reflects on Ernesto Neto’s practice and his transformation of the exhibition space into a living architecture - an interactive environment that invites viewer participation, forging a deep connection between body, environment, and community. Coccia explores the potential of Neto’s artistic approach, where aesthetic experience is partially mediated through the senses, including smell - too often overlooked in artistic engagement - here invoked to awaken deep-seated memories and emotions.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 11 x 18 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Black Body Index
Isbn 9781912570225
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 250070
€ 17.85
In thermodynamics and physics, the ideal black body is a theoretical object that absorbs and emits all incident radiation. No such object actually exists, though a few things come close. Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, author and poet Andrew E. Colarusso takes this concept as the guiding principle his ‘Black Body Index’. Told in a mercurial constellation of fragments that move between memoir, poetry, and thermodynamic theory, the book inspects the perception of an ideal black life and refutes it, insisting on the freedom to live beyond the demands of an enforced objecthood.
130 p, ills bw, 14 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Santiago de Paoli – First Meeting
Isbn 9791280579546
Publisher Lenz Press
Idea code 250189
€ 37.65
'First Meeting' is the first monograph on Argentine artist Santiago de Paoli. Covering his oeuvre from early experimental projects to his most recent explorations, the book examines his innovative approach to painting on unconventional materials, including plaster, bread, felt, canvas, aluminium, wool, socks, and fur. It features newly commissioned essays by Fernanda Brenner and Mariano Mayer, as well as a conversation between Christian Rattemeyer and the artist.
416 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, Spanish/English
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Andrea Fogli - 7 Atlanti
Isbn 9788822923752
Publisher Quodlibet
Idea code 250180
€ 23.65
What does it mean to preserve memory in an era that seems to devour every form of individuality? Andrea Fogli’s ‘7 Atlanti’ attempts to answer this through an innovative exploration of the concept of “atlas”. The exhibition assembles the main cycles of Fogli’s works over the last 25 years, intertwining historical depth, spiritual tension, and formal research. Each cycle is presented as a personal atlas: a diorama, a map of figures, places, and visions that Fogli constructs with the care of an archivist and the sensitivity of a poet. The works, ranging from drawing and sculpture to texts, retain a meditative, ritual quality, often linked to symbolic sequences of numbers and universal themes.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English
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Alexandra Midal - Do You Speak Flower?
Isbn 9782378965594
Publisher Les Presses Du Reel with Museum of Architecture and Design (MAO)
Idea code 250160
€ 16.15
'Do You Speak Flower?' explores the intersection of flowers and steganography - the art of concealing secret information within images, messages, or objects. Unlike cryptography, which hides meaning through encryption, steganography hides the very existence of a secret. In this essay, curator and author Alexandra Midal examines covert communication methods used by designers, artists, and revolutionaries, revealing hidden messages within the romantic symbolism of floriography. Featuring case studies across design, art, and architecture, the book accompanies the 28th Biennial of Design, BIO28 Double Agent: 'Do You Speak Flower?', held in Ljubljana in 2024–2025.
112 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Postnational Art Histories: Rebordering the Archipelago: Asia-Pacific Exchanges
Isbn 9781922545398
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 250138
€ 27.60
Rather than imagining a scattering of small, defined island states, Tongan scholar Epeli Hau’ofa (1939–2009) wrote of the Pacific Ocean as a “Sea of Islands”, a vast oceanic continent full of movement, exchange, and cultural flow. That notion permeates this collection of texts and images, which weaves an interconnected dialogue spanning art practices, knowledges, and research traversing the Asia-Pacific region. Inherently generative and post-national in its approach, it reflects the diversity of practices and voices that resonate throughout this vast area and highlights both intergenerational learnings from the past and new modes of listening, reading, sharing, and resistance.
208 p, ills bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English/Indonesian
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The Contemporary Condition - Contemporaneity in Embodied Data Practices
Isbn 9781915609632
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 250155
€ 8.00
What parallels are there between a human pranayama practitioner and a migratory bird in heavily datafied environments? In Contemporaneity in Embodied Data Practices, two artistic field studies provide the starting point for a dialogical reflection on the entangling of diverse temporalities in body-related, datafied, and experiential practices. Shifting through biological, historical, and technological rhythms, Cornelia Sollfrank and Felix Stalder unfold their respective more-than-human frames of reference and arrive at specific forms of agency in the contemporary moment. Published in partnership with the Centre for Research in Artistic Practice under Contemporary Conditions at Aarhus University.
48 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 19 cm, pb, English
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Rei Naito – I have lived
Isbn 9784908062599
Publisher Hehe
Idea code 250128
€ 28.55
On 10 March 1945, more than 100,000 people perished during the Bombing of Tokyo, a series of bombing raids launched by the US Air Force. Rei Naito, responding to this history, created the work ‘I have lived’ as part of the Tokyo Biennale 2020/2021. For her work, Naito conducted a study of the remaining memories and traces of the war, visiting different sites in the city – a Buddhist temple and cemetery, an air raid shelter – and placing small, human-shaped sculptures in commemoration of the departed souls. This book marks the first time the entire work has been made public and features photography by Naoya Hatakeyama and a text by Kazuko Koike, director of the biennale.
48 p, ills colour, 15 x 21 cm, hb, Japanese/English
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Berlinde De Bruyckere - Crossing a Bridge on Fire
Isbn 9788867496280
Publisher Mousse Publishing
Idea code 250162
€ 37.65
Produced in conjunction with the eponymous exhibition that inaugurated the Museu de Arte Contemporânea – MAC/CCB in Lisbon in October 2023, Crossing a Bridge on Fire is the editorial manifestation of Berlinde De Bruyckere's vision for the museum space. Designed by Pedro Falcão and featuring photographic documentation by Mirjam Devriendt and António Jorge Silva, this book also includes previously unpublished essays by Delfim Sardo and Joaquim Oliveira Caetano, as well as a short story by Turkish curator Selen Ansen. Together, these thematic contributions reflect the broad discursive range of De Bruyckere's work, weaving in anthological overviews, connections to her historical influences (such as Lucas Cranach), and poetic explorations of themes related to sexuality.
164 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Okataoka – Wall of Sound
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Publisher Elvis Press
Idea code 250132
€ 25.50
‘Wall of Sound’ is a collection of works by illustrator Okataoka. In making the series, he chose his own favourite songs, such as those by Neil Young, Spitz, Yo La Tengo, Kacey Johansing, Khruangbin, Kings of Convenience, and Yumi Arai, and expanded his imagination while listening to the music, using blank 7” and 12” record jackets as canvases to create drawings. Enjoy letting your imagination run wild and wondering, “What kind of song is this?” or “What part of that song inspired this?” Okataoka’s diverse practice includes illustrations for books, apparel, ads, and more. He not only paints but also produces works using various techniques such as ceramics and woodcuts.
112 p, ills colour, 18 x 18 cm, pb, Japanese/English
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Nigel Peake - Crossings - New York Paris Tokyo
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Publisher Nigel Peake
Idea code 250044
€ 27.15
A collection of minimalistic line drawings in four colours by artist Nigel Peake, inspired by the markings on roads, streets, and avenues in three global metropolises: New York, Paris, and Tokyo.
64 p, ills colour, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Pope.L - My Kingdom for a Title
Isbn 9781953441058
Publisher New Documents
Idea code 250056
€ 48.95
My Kingdom for a Title is a collection of writing by Chicago–based artist Pope.L documenting his use of language as a mode of visual, narrative, and performative story telling. The act of writing has been integral to how Pope.L works and is arguably the most consistent element in his practice. These works take various forms: scripts, short stories, scribbled notes, large scale installation, and painting—many never before released. Assembled here for the first time, My Kingdom for a Title allows the breadth of the artist’s engagement with language to be fully assessed. Within the book, Pope.L’s work is supplemented with extensive endnotes sourced by artist Kandis Williams.
274 p, no ills, 22 x 30 cm, pb, English
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The Touch Report
Isbn 9781912570355
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 250071
€ 22.90
An artist is invited to take up residency in a gallery filled with historical paintings. They are meticulously crafted, maintained, and revered. She begins to make an audit of the paintings, outlining the depictions of violence, subjugation and physical tension on public display. Eleven arrows in a torso, someone’s hair cut as they sleep, a man nailed to a cross. Horses, decapitations, memorable lobsters. Written in sparse, urgent fragments that invite closer reading, The Touch Report, turns the reader’s gaze into the dark, to question our notions of ‘civilisation’.
176 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 20 cm, pb, English
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Kamwangi Njue – Through the Tinnitus
Isbn 9781912570232
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 250072
€ 17.85
Through The Tinnitus explores spatial and sonic phenomena through psychoacoustics - the scientific study of how sound is perceived psychologically. Using a version of the pioneering Soviet-designed ANS photo-optical synthesiser, images taken in the artist’s locale, the Jamhuri and Sabaki Neighborhoods of Nairobi, are processed and converted into graphical or drawn sound. In the sound work accompanying the book, these ekphrastic rhythms hum to the sonic backdrop of political violence and utopian dreams.
164 p, ills bw, 14 x 20 cm, pb, English
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David Horvitz - Call To A Crow
Isbn 9783689170059
Publisher Edition Taube
Idea code 250075
€ 10.20
A collection of short poems in a pocket-sized leporello book. David Horvitz's poems gently invite readers to connect deeply with nature, drawing inspiration from the majestic Alpine landscape. Phrases such as “Imagine the voice of someone who is no longer alive” or “Call to a crow until a crow calls back to you” invite readers to engage in a contemplative experience that bridges the natural and the poetic. The collection of poems in English and French was originally written for the Biennale Son in Sion, Switzerland. The book is designed by Valaisan artist Romain lannone and published in collaboration with Biennale Son and Kapa Books.
38 , no ills, 8 x 11 cm, leporello, French/English
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150 Years of Impressionism – The Netherlands Sees the Light
Isbn 9789068688818
Publisher Thoth
Idea code 250154
€ 38.85
In 1874, a group of artists held their first groundbreaking exhibition in Paris. With their vibrant, loose brushwork and focus on capturing fleeting moments of light and colour, the Impressionists revolutionised the art world. Critics initially had little enthusiasm for them, and Dutch museums and art collectors were slow to embrace this new style. But today, national collections in the Netherlands boast many French Impressionist works, united for the first time in this exhibition catalogue. How did each work arrive here, and who played a pivotal role in that process? Visionary private collectors were instrumental in securing the masterpieces that now form part of Dutch national heritage.
240 p, ills colour, 23 x 28 cm, hb, English
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