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New Titles in Art & Essays 4 November 2025
Nicolas Bourriaud - Relational Aesthetics

Isbn 9783956795879
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 250870
€ 19.95

First published in 1998, Nicolas Bourriaud’s Relational Aesthetics laid out a thesis for art’s turn towards participation, experience, and the whole of human relations. Republished here in a revised edition nearly twenty years after its original release, Relational Aesthetics has been updated with a new translation by Denyse Beaulieu and forward by the author. Where does our current obsession for interactivity stem from? After the consumer society and the communication era, does art still contribute to the emergence of a rational society? Nicolas Bourriaud attempts to renew our approach towards contemporary art by getting as close as possible to the artists’ works, and by revealing the principles that structure their thoughts: an aesthetic of the inter-human, of the encounter; of proximity, of resisting social formatting.

128 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 19 cm, pb, English


with a Bird, A Reader on Avian Kinship

Isbn 9789493382022
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 250826
€ 20.90

‘With a Bird’ invites readers into an expansive, cross-disciplinary conversation about how we live with an think alongside birds. The book frames birds not as metaphors or curiosities, but as kin – creatures with their own histories, desires, and forms of knowing. Spanning speculative fiction, personal essay, visual art, ancestral memory, and critical ornithology, contributions explore the fragile, often overlooked relationships between birds and humans across myth, science, migration, and dream. With an eye towards multispecies futures, the book draws on decolonial, feminist, and ecological practices to unsettle dominant narratives and invite forms of care, reciprocity, and repair.

288 p, ills bw, 11 x 17 cm, pb, English

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Love and Lightning: A Collection of Queer-Feminist Manifestos.

Isbn 9789493246478
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 250814
€ 29.10

Compiled by Girls Like Us Magazine and Sarah van Binsbergen, this collection spans over a century of queer and feminist manifestos from 1913 to the present. Divided into eleven chapters with socio-historical context, the volume presents diverse forms of manifesto writing across geographical borders, from classic activist texts to poetic compositions. Contributors include Sojourner Truth, Valentine de Saint-Point, Mierle Laderman-Ukeles, and Paul B. Preciado, among others. The 11-chapter anthology draws from all corners of the world, especially Asia, Africa, and Latin America, examining how manifestos transcend conventional boundaries to emancipate readers to envision their own revolutionary possibilities.

480 p, ills bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, English

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Emptying the Shelves

Isbn 9789090403960
Publisher Framer Framed
Idea code 250925
€ 27.90

‘Emptying the Shelves’ traces how Dutch ethnographic museums, including the Dutch National Museum of World Cultures and its predecessors, have shaped and reshaped their displays over the past century. Drawing on a trove of archival exhibition photographs and contemporary essays, it charts the transition from cabinets brimming with cultural artefacts to austere white cube displays, with most objects now kept in storage facilities. With contributions by Tamarah Kerr de Haan, Clémentine Deliss, and Mirjam Shatanawi, the book examines what it means to engage with these objects today and how their silence is intimately connected to colonial legacies, restitution, and repair.

528 p, ills bw, 14 x 19 cm, pb, English

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Come to Your Senses

Isbn 9789462089396
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 250833
€ 29.15

Seeing, tasting, smelling, hearing, feeling… after early education, sensory skills are rarely trained directly. Most professionals naturally develop them with practice. ‘Come to Your Senses’ provides direct exercises that will help sharpen the senses of both educators and students, so they can utilise them in their developing professional and personal spheres. Based on exercises carried out at Maastricht University, the book functions as a manual on how to implement senses-based learning within and beyond academia. A critical reflection, it reasserts the importance of sensory skills in tertiary education and professional practice through interventions in the existing curriculum.

224 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English

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Liam Gillick A Variability Quantifier

Isbn 9781915609281
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 250744
€ 21.30

In 2022 Liam Gillick installed A Variability Quantifier (The Fogo Island Red Weather Station) on Fogo Island, Newfoundland. An artwork intended to function as an operational weather station, it gathers local weather data and is a place for education, reflection, and discussion. The site and work are open and people are encouraged to visit. In 2023 Liam Gillick returned to Fogo to make a documentary film about his work and interview islanders on all aspects of how the climate emergency affects their lives. This book is a record of the documentary and includes a fully illustrated account of the working process and the discussions that took place. Not the first work that he has completed to address the issue, with earlier projects in Paris, Japan and Australia, Gillick is engaged in representing the science of the climate crisis. His project is to collect data to feed into the global system. As with earlier projects, it is the maths and science that he attempts to elevate.

200 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 25 cm, pb, English

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Algorithmic Imaginations: Critical Reflections on AI in Art and Design Practice

Isbn 9789491444838
Publisher Artez Press
Idea code 250818
€ 14.55

‘Algorithmic Imaginations’ sets out to investigate the reality of AI – how machine intelligence relates to the world, to our human capacities, to creativity and imagination, but also to social inequality, bodies, other beings, and the environment. The book operates under the assumption that designers and artists are not so much under threat from AI as they are in a unique position to critically engage with and shape our understanding of machine learning’s possibilities and limitations. It comprises written contributions, recorded conversations, and visual explorations, inviting students, practitioners, and researchers of art and design to explore the role of AI within their practice.

236 p, ills colour, 20 x 27 cm, pb, English

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Slow Technology Reader

Isbn 9789493246461
Publisher Valiz
Idea code 250837
€ 28.10

This third volume of a series by Carolyn F. Strauss, Slow Research Lab’s director, looks at what technology and (digital) culture can mean from a Slow perspective. Contributors reimagine technology through feminist, queer, indigenous, and ecological practices. The collected essays explore "soft tech" and human systems, challenging Western technological narratives while drawing inspiration from ancient and indigenous knowledge. Contributors including Silvia Federici, Chus Martinez, and Kader Attia examine how alternative approaches to technology could create more equitable, sustainable futures. Through diverse voices, the anthology proposes a slower, more conscious relationship with technology that aligns with natural systems and human potential.

400 p, no ills, 16 x 21 cm, pb, English

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distinguish the limit from the edge

Isbn 9781912570324
Publisher Book Works
Idea code 250929
€ 43.90

An intergenerational dialogue between two artists, Theresa Hak Kyung Cha and Jimmy Robert, this publication reveals how a connection emerges in the intersection of text and image, between selected work from Cha’s oeuvre and Robert’s practice that shares the formal strategies of the fold. Robert utilises paper as a sculptural material, his hand at times appearing to shape the page. For Cha, the fold is present in compositions that enmesh language through strategies of visual poetry. By overlaying one artist’s work with the other, emphasised by the book’s spiral-bound double spine and reverse foldouts, an intimacy, a shared sensibility, and an encounter with the corporeal is forged.

110 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 32 cm, hb, English

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Bread for the Living, Bread for the Dead

Isbn 9786188769700
Publisher TAVROS Space
Idea code 250832
€ 14.30

This book is about bread, which is about life, which is about death. Eight perspectives on bread are gathered here from across the Mediterranean Basin as well as the Black Sea. Taking the form of anthropological (auto)ethnography, short stories, political treatises, fairy tales, and a eulogy, this collection of texts reflects the many meanings of its core subject. Bread gathers, bread nourishes; it plays a central role in celebrations of life and rituals of mourning. Bread offers a site for collecting practices of self-reliance and camaraderie, as well as histories of migration and struggles over land. Combining vernacular wisdom, academic expertise, and embodied forms of intelligence, Bread for the Living, Bread for the Dead comprises a timely and nourishing collection of perspectives.

144 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 18 cm, pb, English

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Hill of Desires. Practices of Rural Imagination

Isbn 9791281790407
Publisher Viaindustriae
Idea code 250782
€ 25.55

‘Hill of Desires’ conceives contemporary art as a situated practice rooted in European peripheral and inland territories, providing a radical exercise in imagination that embraces rurality as a space of counter-narration, capable of generating political ecologies, affective infrastructures, and non-institutional forms of knowledge. It is therefore also a critical contribution to the redefinition of cultural geographies and curatorial paradigms, articulated in five sections: a visual atlas with key Italian works from 1960 to the present; three dust jackets specially designed by artists; nine essays; a collective bibliography; and photographic documentation of the multi-year Traffic Festival.

264 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 24 cm, hb, English

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Dealing with the Real Stuff: Kunst, activism en burgerschap in het onderwijs NL

Isbn 9789083454313
Publisher Framer Framed
Idea code 250926
€ 21.00

In een tijd waarin maatschappelijke kwesties zoals polarisatie, discriminatie en fake news, alomtegenwoordig zijn stelt 'Dealing with the Real Stuff' de vraag: hoe kan kunst helpen bij het ontwikkelen van kritisch denken en sociaal engagement in het onderwijs? Dit boek onderzoekt hoe de praktijken van hedendaagse activistische kunstenaars een krachtige middel kunnen zijn om leerlingen te inspireren, ze uit te dagen na te denken over hun positie in de maatschappij en ze te stimuleren tot actie.Dit project, geleid door docent/onderzoeker Nathalie Roos, biedt een interdisciplinaire benadering die kunst, activisme en burgerschapsonderwijs samenbrengt. Het boek biedt niet alleen een theoretisch kader, maar ook praktische handvatten voor docenten in opleiding en vakdocenten om actuele, maatschappelijke thema’s in hun lespraktijk te integreren.

138 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Dutch

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Marien Schouten – Ground & Figure, Fugure & Ground

Isbn 9789493329621
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 250903
€ 63.20

Amsterdam-based artist and sculptor Marien Schouten has developed a body of work that challenges the boundaries between painting, sculpture, and architecture. At the heart of his practice lies a desire to transport painting into the real space of the viewer, without ceding its illusionistic and expressive potential. Volatile relationships between figure and ground emerge. Featuring 300 illustrations and several essays, this comprehensive monograph traces Schouten’s evolution from the 1980s until today. It offers a unique encounter with the artist, who oversaw the entire creative process, from the composition and structure of the texts to the graphic design and layout of the book.

304 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 31 cm, hb, English

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Esper Postma - Doppelgänger

Isbn 9789493329454
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 250902
€ 36.95

Esper Postma fragments and collages forms of cultural heritage, revealing how familiar spaces, objects, and icons allow for multiple meanings. The two cojoined volumes of ‘Doppelgänger’ guide us through a city full of symbols: buildings and monuments that remind us who we are, what our history is, and whom we should honour. Yet these objects are not as stable as they seem. Postma breathes life into the dormant side of their identity, the qualities they would rather keep from view. His works show that every edifice and artefact has a doppelgänger – an inner alter ego vying for attention. Flip through the books simultaneously to find visual connections between work and research.

256 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English

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Hans van der Ham - Con Anima

Isbn 9789493329485
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 250901
€ 34.05

Hans van der Ham studied at the Academy of Visual Arts in Rotterdam, where he produced paintings, drawings, and graphics. For over two decades, however, Van der Ham was mainly active as a sculptor, and became known for his black clay figures: fragile souls, wrapped in rock-hard material. Since 2020, he has returned to painting in various formats. In this more recent work, the human figures depicted are inspired by the iconography of ethnographic sculptures. The monograph ‘Con Anima’, designed by PutGootink, provides a broad overview of Van der Ham’s oeuvre, including insightful texts by writer and art critic Lucette ter Borg, writer Monique Tolk, and the artist himself.

200 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, Dutch/English

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Beardsley: A Singular Prodigy

Isbn 9784861529740
Publisher Seigensha
Idea code 250329
€ 29.70

British illustrator Aubrey Beardsley (1872–1898) produced an extraordinary oeuvre marked by exquisite lines and bold use of black-and-white contrasts. This definitive survey traces his all too brief career through more than 200 major artworks, mostly from the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum. It includes such illustrated works as ‘Le Morte d’Arthur’, his first breakthrough, as well as his crowning achievement, ‘Salomé’, and the late masterpieces ‘Mademoiselle de Maupin’ and ‘The Rape of the Lock’. A complete look at Beardsley’s life and work, from his scandalous success through the evolution of his last years, it also covers his sketches, prints, and colour posters.

272 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 25 cm, pb, Japanese/English

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Vibraception - Investigations in Wavespace

Isbn 9783947858767
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 250913
€ 21.20

What if space were not defined by walls or form, but by waves, pulses, and resonances? 'Vibraception: Investigations in Wavespace' reimagines space as a dynamic field shaped by vibration. Conceived alongside sound artist Jan St. Werner’s site-responsive interventions at MSU, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Zagreb, this book documents and extends those sonic experiments through interdisciplinary inquiry. Essays and interviews from philosophers, scientists, artists, and architects explore “wavespace” as a realm of frequencies, interference, and perception - inviting readers to experience space as something that vibrates, moves, and listens back.

200 p, ills bw, 13 x 19 cm, pb, English

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Frank Walter - Frank Walter’s Chessboard

Isbn 9789491245305
Publisher Xavier Hufkens
Idea code 250869
€ 36.40

Xavier Hufkens presents a catalogue on Antiguan painter, sculptor, writer, and philosopher Frank Walter (1926–2009). Featuring 85 illustrated works plus archival material, transcribed audio recordings, poetry, and a detailed family genealogy, the volume highlights Walter’s extraordinary artistic output. Moreover, it charts the physical, emotional and sociocultural trajectories of Walter’s life as he travels – both literally and figuratively – between two distinct worlds: the Caribbean and Northern Europe. Essays by Nina Khruscheva, Mia Matthias, and Barbara Paca explore his inventive, resilient practice in a radical reappraisal of his legacy in the years since his death.

172 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, pb, English

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What is Called Caring?, Vol.1: The Immense Regression

Isbn 9783947858668
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 250100
€ 33.00

'What Is Called Caring?, Vol. 1: The Immense Regression' is the first installment of Bernard Stiegler’s magnum opus, where he confronts the existential crisis of care in the Anthropocene. With thought seemingly helpless against the immense regression of post-truth, despair, and ecological collapse, Stiegler argues it is not too late—provided we rethink thought itself as care: as a form of healing and bandaging. Urgent and profound, this volume, masterfully translated by Daniel Ross, revisits Nietzsche, Guattari, and Deleuze to challenge humanity to rediscover care as a central mode of existence, offering a radical philosophical response to contemporary planetary crises.

346 p, no ills, 15 x 21 cm, pb, English


Laure Prouvost - Au fort les âmes sont

Isbn 9791092708295
Publisher Mucem
Idea code 250811
€ 23.65

For the Mucem, Laure Prouvost has created a series of immersive installations within Fort Saint-Jean, transforming everyday objects, glass sculptures, and underwater videos into a poetic, sensory landscape. Blurring the lines between fiction and reality, she invites visitors on a journey where everything - forms, stories, and life itself - is in flux. Conceived as a visual voyage from Marseille’s Old Port to the heart of each installation, this book captures the dialogue between sea and stone, interior and exterior. Designed in close collaboration with the artist, it features photographs by Raphaël Massart and includes a booklet with texts by Hélia Paukner and Mathilde Roman. Like the works it documents, it’s a book that seems to float between worlds.

112 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, French/English

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It’s About Time: Perspectives on Scandinavian art in relation to architecture

Isbn 9788774075585
Publisher The Danish Architectural Press
Idea code 250839
€ 52.25

In Scandinavia, when the state builds, a small percentage of total construction costs is allocated for art. This policy ensures creativity becomes an intrinsic component of the built environment rather than an afterthought. Yet the spatial implications and artistic dimensions that result from this funding mechanism are rarely studied. This volume explores the relationship between art and architecture in Denmark, Norway, and Sweden. Contemporary case studies weave together histories of cross-disciplinary collaboration, cultural policy, and environmental concerns, mapping a sophisticated framework for grasping the multiple dimensions of art interventions within architecture.

254 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English

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In the Spaces Between

Isbn 9788412494266
Publisher Dpr-barcelona
Idea code 250831
€ 25.55

CERN is familiar to us as the largest physics laboratory in the world, responsible for many world-first scientific discoveries. Growing alongside this immense human endeavour, an extraordinary arts programme has developed that explores the captivating beauty of particle physics. In the Spaces Between is a multifaceted journey through this unique fusion of art and science. Edited by Mónica Bello, curator and former head of Arts at CERN, this volume reflects on the history of a programme that has brought together the perspectives of artists and scientists to explore how the fundamental elements of matter and energy interplay between observation, imagination, and experimentation.

286 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English

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Xavier Le Roy - Lives Shaping Works Making Life

Isbn 9788899058722
Publisher Bruno
Idea code 250759
€ 32.25

Lives Shaping Works Making Life is a collection of 24 transcribed public conversations titled Practices: Strategies and Tactics, led by Xavier Le Roy and hosted by the Institute for Applied Theater Studies in Giessen between November 2022 and November 2024. These dialogues bring together artists and cultural workers creating a space where Xavier Le Roy's work engages in conversation with the experiences of each guest. Each encounter follows the same set of 14 questions - printed on the book's cover - which serve as a flexible framework guiding the conversations. Through the careful editing of Giulia Casartelli, Daniel Cordova, and Livia Andrea Piazza, these conversations have been transformed into vivid, polyphonic texts that invite further reflection and offer a point of departure for expanding the dialogue beyond the original live encounters.

448 p, no ills, 12 x 21 cm, pb, English


The Three-Thousandfold Universe – 130 Masterpieces from the Nara National Museum

Isbn 9784763025050
Publisher Kyuryudo
Idea code 250443
€ 104.60

Since its establishment in 1895, the Narahaku (Nara National Museum) has become highly renowned for its collection of Buddhist art. In commemoration of its 130th anniversary, the museum’s curators and photographer Tomohiro Muda selected 130 masterpieces from its collection, to be presented in this volume. In these photographs, Muda captures the boundless compassion and serenity of sacred figures and fleeting scenes, distilled and frozen in a single moment in time. Through a curated selection of perspectives, the images replicate the experience of seeing the various artworks and decorative objects in person, masterfully evoking the perfection of artistry and craftsmanship.

336 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 31 cm, hb, Japanese/English

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Nicola L. - I Am The Last Woman Object

Isbn 9791280579676
Publisher Lenz Press
Idea code 250459
€ 43.00

This fully illustrated monograph accompanies the first European survey of Nicola L. (1932–2018), offering the most in-depth exploration to date of her expansive, boundary-defying practice. While often associated with Pop Art, activism, feminism, and design, her work also engaged with cosmology, environmentalism, spirituality, political protest, and sexuality. With newly commissioned essays by curators Gina Buenfeld-Murley, Martin Clark, Géraldine Gourbe, and Leonie Radine - translated into English, French, Italian, and German - Nicola L.: I Am The Last Woman Object offers fresh perspectives on her life in Paris, Ibiza, Beirut, and New York. These texts situate her within the political and social movements of her time, while also addressing the continuing relevance of her work today. Together, they reveal Nicola L.’s lifelong commitment to art, creativity, and radical subversion, presenting a

240 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 26 cm, pb, Italian/French/English/German

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Louis Fratino - Satura (Updated Edition)

Isbn 9788867496563
Publisher Mousse Publishing
Idea code 250460
€ 48.40

Following the success of the first edition of Louis Fratino. Satura - the publication accompanying the artist’s debut institutional solo show at the Centro per l’arte contemporanea Luigi Pecci in Prato - Louis Fratino (b. 1993) has revised and expanded the volume to include all the new works created for the exhibition. Satura underscores the deep connection between Fratino’s practice and Italy, a country that has offered a rich array of themes, imagery, and emotional landscapes. The book features works from the past decade alongside many new pieces, offering a broad insight into his artistic journey. The richly illustrated volume reflects influences from 20th-century Italian artists such as Filippo de Pisis, Mario Mafai, and Fausto Pirandello; from cities like Rome, Milan, and Genoa; and from Italian poetry and queer culture, including writings by Sandro Penna, Patrizia Cavalli, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and activist Mario Mieli. A special cover-poster features Fratino’s painting Garden at Dusk.

164 p, ills colour & bw, 27 x 34 cm, pb, Italian/English

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Unbounded - The Life & Work of Giselle Kuster

Isbn 9789493329379
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 250382
€ 28.70

This is the first comprehensive publication dedicated to Giselle Kuster (1911–1972), an artist who lived a dynamic and independent life in which personal autonomy appeared to be paramount. The book accompanies an eponymous exhibition at Museum van Bommel van Dam in the Netherlands and features works from the museum’s own collection as well as previously “missing” paintings and designs that were rediscovered through a public call for contributions. The result is a rich portrait of a female artist, gallerist, and freethinker who played a significant role in Dutch art in the 20th century, and who has undeservedly remained unknown to this day.

144 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 28 cm, hb, Dutch/English

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Lars Schwander – Anders Brinch The Inner Landscape

Isbn 9788785336019
Publisher At Last Books
Idea code 250384
€ 34.70

The Inner Landscape delves into the vivid and unruly world of Anders Brinch’s paintings. Traversing grotesque figures, surreal dreamscapes, and moments of absurdity and humour, the book centres entirely on the works themselves - rich in narrative, texture, and emotional intensity. Beneath the aliens, skeletons, and pool tables lies a deeper meditation on life and death. As Walter Benjamin once wrote: “The skull’s incomparable language: uniting utter lack of expression - the darkness of the eye sockets - with the wildest expression - the grinning rows of teeth.” Brinch’s practice fuses abstraction, figuration, expressionism, kitsch, and conceptual play into something unmistakably his own. His works are deeply personal, shifting between joy, irony, and anguish.

120 p, ills colour & bw, 18 x 23 cm, hb, English

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Francesca Gavin – Final Copy: The Twin Interviews

Isbn 9788785336026
Publisher At Last Books
Idea code 250385
€ 26.55

A compendium of long-form conversations originally published between 2009 and 2025 in Twin magazine, where Francesca Gavin has served as Art Editor since its founding. This text-only paperback edition features interviews with a diverse group of international artists, including: Amanda Ross-Ho, Anthea Hamilton, Bod Mellor, Cameron Jamie, Clunie Reid, Eli Cortiñas, Eric N. Mack, Friedrich Kunath, Georgina Starr, Haris Epaminonda, Jeremy Shaw, Josephine Meckseper, Kerry James Marshall, Marguerite Humeau, Mark Titchner, Math Bass, Metahaven, Mika Rottenberg, Nico Vascellari, Patrick H. Jones, Paul McCarthy, Paul P., Ron Nagle, Seb Patane, Sara Van Der Beek, Scott King, Tal R, and Tauba Auerbach.

264 p, no ills, 11 x 18 cm, pb, English


ARTeCHÓ - Investigating Decentralized Action in Art

Isbn 9789462265455
Publisher Lecturis
Idea code 250389
€ 24.30

The ARTeCHÓ publication brings together artists and researchers who have explored the complexities and nuances of artificial intelligence and decentralized technologies, along with the new realities they usher in. This book invites readers to reflect on the tension between the hopeful promise of a more sustainable future through decentralization and the enduring colonial and extractive legacies embedded in technological progress. Decentralization suggests a shift from centralized authority to a network of smaller, distributed centers—each playing a role in a larger system. But does the use of decentralized technology automatically equate to decentralized power? Can AI be not only trained but also meaningfully educated? And can its continued evolution be aligned with the finite capacities of the world’s power grids?

144 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English

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Where Minerals Meet Art

Isbn
Publisher Straight Books
Idea code 250350
€ 31.35

Minerals have a specific crystal structure that occurs naturally in pure form, and certain pieces from the diverse range of specimens have become their own kind of art. Fabian Wildfang, one of today’s top collectors, navigates the artistic value of minerals. Like the cabinets of his collection, the photographs of the specimens in this book contain no labels. Mineral names, origin data, and folios are listed in a separate section, so admirers can enjoy their jaw-dropping forms and vibrant colours without preconceptions. The book also provides a detailed explanation of Wildfang’s aesthetics for fine minerals, broken down into categories such as shape, proportion, balance, and texture.

112 p, ills colour, 19 x 24 cm, pb, Japanese/English

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