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Chus Martínez - The Oracle, On Fantasy and Freedom
Isbn 9781915609779
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 251085
€ 28.95
'The Oracle' names and honours the symbolic place from where all beings wonder about the course of life. Because we care about tomorrow, we should assume we care about staying alive, about a world in peaceful coexistence. Times of increasing insecurity and the experience of living in a world that refuses to acknowledge our needs give rise to various forms of escapism and misguided decision-making. Searching for big answers and expecting significant movements capable of undoing the damage of wars and dark forces seems unrealistic. Art assumes the existence of a tiny but meaningful spot from which to dream and demand freedom and peace. The Oracle is about this spot. The book is published on the occasion of the 36th Ljubljana Biennale of Graphic Arts.
360 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Interwoven Histories - Contemporary Art, Migratory Narratives and Textiles
Isbn 9789462087309
Publisher Nai010 Publishers
Idea code 250856
€ 34.00
In 'Interwoven Histories: Contemporary Art, Migratory Narratives and Textiles' curator and textile researcher Christel Vesters unravels the intricate connections between textile, history, and society from a contemporary art perspective. Through essays and detailed examination of five seminal works of contemporary art, she looks at textile and textile techniques as a medium and as a mediator, exploring how textile objects – old and new – bear witness to histories and stories that are often marginalized or forgotten.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Katie West: KNOWN
Isbn 9781922545435
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 251092
€ 35.25
'KNOWN' is a series of publications that promotes and celebrates contemporary Indigenous Australian artists, facilitating cross-cultural dialogue between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and writers. 'KNOWN' elevates and amplifies First Nations voices; strengthening cultural knowledge, language, and artistic engagement. This volume features Katie West, a Yindjibarndi woman and artist based in Noongar Ballardong boodja (Country), whose work spans found and naturally dyed textiles, video, sound, and social practice in its consideration of the ways in which we weave our stories, places, histories, and futures.
80 p, ills colour, 20 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Marrnyula Munuŋgurr: KNOWN
Isbn 9781922545411
Publisher Perimeter Editions
Idea code 251093
€ 35.25
'KNOWN' is a series of publications that promotes and celebrates contemporary Indigenous Australian artists, facilitating cross-cultural dialogue between Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and writers. 'KNOWN' elevates and amplifies First Nations voices; strengthening cultural knowledge, language, and artistic engagement. This volume traces the work of Marrnyula Munuŋgurr, a Yolŋu woman, senior artist, and printmaker who has been working as part of the Buku-Larrŋgay Mulka Centre in Yirrkala, Arnhem Land, since the 1980s. Raised in a family of prolific artists, she is perhaps best known for her vast installations of meticulously painted and arranged small barks.
96 p, ills colour, 20 x 27 cm, pb, English
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How We Made Noise: Reimagining the Museum from Within
Isbn 9789493382039
Publisher Onomatopee
Idea code 251006
€ 23.50
Institutions worldwide, especially museums, are rethinking their roles as they confront colonial, gendered, and other harmful legacies. This anthology draws on the practice of Buro Stedelijk, a physical space and institution within the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam. Between 2022 and 2025, Buro Stedelijk collaborated with over 200 voices to test how institutions might be reimagined from within. Through ambitious and critically attentive programming, it explored the tensions between care and power, legacy and change. ‘How We Made Noise’ reflects on daily labour, self-implication, and whether such in-between spaces can open temporary pockets of transformative potential.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 32 cm, pb, English
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Sam Porritt Album
Isbn 9783906213590
Publisher Rollo Press
Idea code 251003
€ 18.00
'Album' is composed of six loose A3 sheets, folded in half and assembled at random. The individual sheets can be taken apart and framed. Each sheet features a full colour ink and wax crayon drawing on one side and a black and white, brush and ink one on the other. Together, they form an anthology of Sam Porritt’s drawings of the last twenty years.
24 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Maisa in Webland - Detouring UX Destinies
Isbn 9789083579542
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 251094
€ 23.10
What does a “user-friendly” web really mean when behaviours once seen as marginal - stalking, teasing, ghosting - have become part of how we survive, care, and belong online? How can one thrive without becoming an “Interdisciplinary Unicorn,” the ideal user-citizen fluent in optimization, branding, and constant productivity? And how are we supposed to log off when surveillance and the erosion of privacy have been normalized, while every cool or cringe gesture fuels the platform’s reward system? How do we resist the web’s toxic seductions? Drawing on early cyberfeminist websites and conversations with digital thinkers, media artist and web developer Maisa Imamović undertakes a philosophical, practice-based journey through the internet’s bright surfaces and murky infrastructures. Exploring imperfect uses of perfect software, the preservation of fragile web spaces, tactical content strategies, and experiments in autonomous economies, she seeks ways of thriving without surrendering to optimization. In these subterranean traversals, Imamović imagines a speculative, precarious, poetic Webland where binaries loosen and meaning escapes monetization - raising the question: can a non-extractive internet truly exist?
248 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Wangechi Mutu – Black Soil Poems
Isbn 9791280579805
Publisher Lenz
Idea code 251095
€ 51.60
Published on the occasion of Wangechi Mutu’s solo exhibition at the Galleria Borghese - the first by a living female artist in the Villa’s history - this richly illustrated volume takes its title from the notion of “black soil,” evoking the dual nature of Mutu’s practice: poetic and mythological, yet grounded in contemporary realities. Through sculpture, installation, and moving image, Mutu introduces a new vocabulary into the museum, challenging hierarchy, permanence, and fixed meaning. Essays by Cloé Perrone, Adrienne Edwards, Ekow Eshun, Francesco Freddolini, and Ilaria Puri Purini, alongside a conversation with the artist, contextualize an exhibition that reimagines the museum as a living, evolving organism.
184 p, ills colour, 25 x 31 cm, hb, English
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Wouter van Riessen - Joujou Baudelaire
Isbn 9789464460964
Publisher Roma Publications
Idea code 251083
€ 24.30
Puppetry is a central theme in Wouter van Riessen’s work. One of his most significant projects in this vein is a series of photographic tableaux focusing on the oeuvre of French poet Charles Baudelaire (1821–1867), which, despite its pervasive violence, death, and decay, exudes a tender refinement. The tableaux form a visual retelling of Baudelaire’s ‘Les Fleurs du Mal’, in which the consequences of morality are exposed. Another central aspect here is the act of playing. Baudelaire, in his essay “Morale du Joujou” (1853), theorises about games and toys, arguing that toys for children are a first initiation into the world of art. Explore Van Riessen’s darkly whimsical puppetry in this book.
60 p, ills colour & bw, 20 x 27 cm, hb, English
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Jim Shaw - The End Really is Here!
Isbn 9782916636290
Publisher Loevenbruck
Idea code 251088
€ 64.50
Jim Shaw is a major figure in contemporary American art, known for bringing a surrealist sensibility to his sharp observations of U.S. popular and political culture. Across paintings, installations, and his renowned Dream Drawings, Shaw explores the intersections of dreams, conspiracy theories, mass media, and recent history. This monograph, compiled in collaboration with Didier Ottinger, focuses on Shaw’s fascination with the figure of Donald Trump, revealing his method of freely combining images, texts, fables, and historical facts into new myths. Blending dark humor with subversion, Shaw transforms familiar imagery into unsettling visions, offering a critical, often disturbing portrait of contemporary America where imagination and reality collide.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 22 cm, hb, French/English
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Alice Neel - I Am the Century
Isbn 9788867497034
Publisher Mousse Publishing
Idea code 251087
€ 48.40
Alice Neel: I Am the Century accompanies the first major retrospective in Italy dedicated to the American artist Alice Neel (1900–1984), presented by Pinacoteca Agnelli in Turin. Conceived as both a critical and narrative journey, the publication expands on the exhibition through essays, archival materials, and reproductions of sixty works. Contributions by curators, scholars, and artists - including Kelly Richman-Abdou, Jennifer Higgie, Mira Schor, and Annie Sprinkle - offer multiple perspectives on Neel’s radical approach to portraiture. Blending realism with empathy and psychological intensity, Neel chronicled intimacy, community, and political life with unflinching clarity. The book positions her as both artist and witness, underscoring her lasting influence on contemporary art.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, pb, Italian/English
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The Hidden Stories of the Linnaeus Herbarium
Isbn 9789189967120
Publisher Bokförlaget Arena
Idea code 251078
€ 35.05
In this book, photographer Lena Granefelt literally illuminates herbarium sheets from two of the most significant Linnaean collections in the world, one held by the Linnean Society of London and the other by the Swedish Museum of Natural History. In the light from Granefelt’s flash invisible details emerge: the structure of the paper, watermarks, and notes that bring together the thoughts and observations of botanists from many different eras. Colours also re-emerge, folds and enclosed seeds become visible. This photographic documentation is accompanied by the words of Sverker Sörlin, historian of ideas and professor of environmental history, who examines the practicalities of plant collecting and reveals the contribution of herbaria to a revolution in knowledge about our world.
160 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 34 cm, hb, Swedish/English
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Cindy Moorman - I and the Others: looking for the connections
Isbn 9789083532592
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 251057
€ 26.80
In 'I and the Others', the reader joins artist Cindy Moorman on a search for connections. Between people, ideas, and forms. Eight different voices track their way through Moorman’s work, while exploring what it means to move between each other and the things around us. A gathering in book form. With refreshments, Hannah Arendt, Alice in Wonderland, a contribution by philosopher Marli Huijer, and the occasional conga line. A collective monograph in which art, text, and encounters come together, in a quest that invites you to think along and keep your eyes open.
208 p, ills colour & bw, 21 x 30 cm, pb, English
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Listenings
Isbn 9781988860220
Publisher Information Office
Idea code 251051
€ 56.00
Listenings is published alongside Soundings: An Exhibition in Five Parts, a travelling project that asked: How can a score act as a call and tool for decolonization? Artists responded with works ranging from performance, video and sculpture to beadwork, sound pieces, written instructions and re-presentations of cultural belongings held in museums. Activated by musicians, dancers, performers and the public, these “scores” gradually filled galleries and surrounding spaces with sound and action. Curated by Candice Hopkins and Dylan Robinson, Soundings evolved across multiple venues over three years. Listenings gathers writings responding to the artists who shaped this ever-changing exhibition.
288 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Brackish Waters
Isbn 9781915609861
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 251024
€ 17.95
Brackish Waters is the third title of three projects to engage the resource industries of Vancouver Island (mining, forestry, and fishing) through contemporary art and writing. Departing from industrial ports and shoreline ecosystems, the book crosses oceanic worlds of extraction and distribution. It responds to marine environments diffracted by the perspectives of artists, writers, Indigenous Elders, fish and fishers, biologists, citizen scientists, whales, physicists, boat builders, ship workers, sailors, pirates, brittle stars, and other creatures of the deep. Nanaimo Art Gallery is located one block from the city’s harbour, a place that has seen the forced displacement of Snuneymuxw villages, the arrival of precarious mine workers from China, the UK, and Scandinavia, and the World War II internment of Japanese Canadians who ran herring salteries and shipyards there. Such harbours have also been places of exchange, where shipping news and seafarers’ stories were shared. Brackish Waters is a similar waystation. Expanding from two exhibitions, Landfall and Departure: Prologue and Epilogue, it records globally interconnected aquatic lives and histories, while considering submerged narratives and forms of cultural expression.
120 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 27 cm, pb, English
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Sonic Footprints
Isbn 9789083499321
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 250867
€ 23.10
Sonic Footprints investigates the hidden sonic journey of mass-produced objects and the ecological consequences of the noise they generate. Tracing the industrial soundscape behind a plastic toy dolphin, this project exposes how human-made acoustics intrude on the fragile habitats of real marine life. Through conversations with leading voices in sound ecology and philosophy, it reveals how perception, technology, and power shape what we hear and what we overlook. Paired with recordings from the toy’s supply chain and musical reinterpretations by Inland and SHXCXCHCXSH, Sonic Footprints challenges readers and listeners to tune into the overlooked acoustic links between industry and environment, asking how sound can restructure our understanding of ecology itself.
14 m, ills colour & bw, 31 x 31 cm, vinyl, English
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Elisa Valenzuela – Inframundi
Isbn 9782493467119
Publisher Note Note Éditions
Idea code 251102
€ 33.70
Inframundi gathers a catalogue of imaginary artefacts rooted in a deeply personal story: a childhood spent in the uncanny presence of an ancient pre-Columbian mummy. From this formative memory, Elisa Valenzuela invents the objects one might carry into the afterlife. Developed over several years of research, the project draws on catalogues of pre-Columbian, Oceanic, and ancient art. Valenzuela adopts their visual and descriptive codes, subtly shifting them toward fiction to construct a parallel archaeology - one in which imagination takes the place of scientific method.
72 p, ills colour, 20 x 27 cm, hb, English
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Diagrammatic writing
Isbn 9789083270616
Publisher Set Margins'
Idea code 250797
€ 10.00
Diagrammatic writing is a poetic demonstration of the capacity of format to produce meaning. The articulation of the codex, as a space of semantically generative relations, has rarely (if ever) been subject to so highly focused and detailed a study. The text and graphical presentation are fully integrated, co-dependent, and mutually self-reflexive. This small book work should be of interest to writers, bibliographers, designers, conceptual artists, and anyone interested in the meta-language of diagrammatic thought in graphic form.
36 p, no ills, 14 x 22 cm, pb, English
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Pasé Bél Tan – Francophonies and Creolities in Louisiana
Isbn 9782956967781
Publisher Flee
Idea code 250949
€ 31.20
The songs of Louisiana’s Francophone and Creole heritage have echoed through the bayous for centuries, shaped by African, Native American, French, and Caribbean influences. Pasé Bél Tan: Francophonies and Creolities in Louisiana celebrates this living legacy through a bilingual publication that brings together historical recordings and contemporary reflections. Artists and scholars trace an ever-evolving soundscape that bridges a vibrant present with a complex past, opening a space for dialogue around identity, memory, and transformation within Louisiana’s rich musical traditions.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 21 cm, pb, French/English
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Magali Reus - Our Volumes
Isbn 9789464983555
Publisher MER. B&L
Idea code 250950
€ 69.90
Our Volumes is a comprehensive catalogue published on the occasion of Magali Reus’s mid-career retrospective at the Museum Kurhaus Kleve, Germany (2024). Structured across seven chapters - or “volumes” - the publication adopts an archival aesthetic to trace the evolution of Reus’s practice over the past two decades. The book features a newly commissioned and deeply insightful essay by Evan Moffitt, offering a critical perspective on Reus’s work within the context of the Museum Kurhaus Kleve exhibition. Alongside extensive installation views, the publication weaves a visual dialogue with photographic material from the museum’s renowned historical collection—including medieval woodcarvings, ornate silverware, and sculptures by Ewald Mataré (1887–1965)—presented in striking contrast with Reus’s meticulously selected body of work.
320 p, ills colour & bw, 29 x 33 cm, hb, English
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EURO—VISION: Undergrounding the Critical Mineral
Isbn 9783947858651
Publisher K. Verlag
Idea code 251012
€ 31.90
'EURO—VISION: Undergrounding the Critical Material' explores extraction beyond the removal of minerals, delving into their financialization, management, and policy-driven circulation through the lens of the EU’s Critical Raw Materials Act. This volume examines resource extraction’s genealogies, valuation paradigms, and structural entanglements, offering a critical reassessment of extractive practices. Part of K. Verlag’s Processing Process series, the book features interviews with scholars, activists, and journalists, alongside commissioned texts and visual essays from FRAUD’s research. By interrogating the “extractive gaze” embedded in EUpolicies, it unveils the material poetics and transformative potential of minerals, fostering reflections on their complex entanglements.
224 p, ills colour & bw, 14 x 21 cm, pb, English
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Roméo Mivekannin – Black Mirror
Isbn 9791280750846
Publisher Danilo Montanari
Idea code 251022
€ 37.65
This publication accompanies Roméo Mivekannin’s first solo exhibition in Italy, presented across multiple rooms of Collezione Maramotti. Featuring around twenty new large-scale paintings on black velvet, the project expands the artist’s wide-ranging visual universe with ideas sparked by his encounters with Emilia-Romagna and his dialogue with Italian art and culture. Drawing freely from classical painting, press photography, dance, cinema, and his own archives, Mivekannin reconstructs and inhabits iconic images - from Masaccio and Caravaggio to Pina Bausch, Pasolini, Parajanov, and Carax. In doing so, he shapes a shifting, multifaceted self-portrait that probes the legacy of history and the enduring presence of its “ghosts” in the present. At its core, the work questions the very notion of the Self, opening a broader reflection on the human condition.
104 p, ills colour & bw, 23 x 34 cm, hb, Italian/English
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Caterina Morigi – Migrazione della forma
Isbn 9791280750778
Publisher Danilo Montanari
Idea code 251023
€ 32.25
Caterina Morigi’s work is shaped by the photographic perspective she developed while studying under Guido Guidi in Venice, her exploration of three-dimensionality through experimentation with material and technique, and her commitment to scientific analysis, executed through a meticulous and detailed process. The Bologna-based researcher and artist – who has a fascination for archaeological studies – taps into all these elements through her works, which come to fruition in their relationship to the sites in which they are installed. This overview of her work and investigations is limited to 250 copies, each featuring a manual intervention by the artist on the cover.
96 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 20 cm, hb, Italian/English
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Zawawa: Listening to the Aftermaths of Conflicts in Okinawa
Isbn 9783948212858
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 251043
€ 25.55
Zawawa began in 2011, when acoustic scientist Kozo Hiramatsu, anthropologist Rupert Cox, and artist Angus Carlyle met in Okinawa. After their earlier collaboration Air Pressure, the trio turned to an island deeply marked by the last battle of World War II, 27 years of U.S. occupation, and an ongoing military presence. Over seven years, they followed the listening experiences of Okinawans, letting these guide their sound recordings, filming, and interviews. Their fieldwork took them to the edges of airbases and jungle training camps, to bars, markets, lagoons, sacred groves, and ceremonies with priestesses and villagers. The resulting film premiered in civic centres across Okinawa before touring festivals worldwide and being shortlisted for the Jean Rouch Award in 2019. This illustrated bilingual book brings together extended interviews with survivors of the “Typhoon of Steel,” ten further testimonies of auditory life, audience responses, and essays by the three creators, complemented by contributions from Okinawa-based scholars.
272 p, ills colour & bw, 15 x 24 cm, pb, English/Japanese
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Tiziana La Melia - I Come from a Long Line of People
Isbn 9783949973635
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 251044
€ 18.40
I Come from a Long Line of People Who Don’t Use Words gathers a selection of poems by artist Tiziana La Melia - drawn from her first two collections and newly translated into Italian - alongside a new cycle, The Simple Life, which reflects on collective healing through cooking, ritual, and everyday magic. The book emerged through a close collaboration between La Melia, editor Sonia D’Alto, and contributors Federica Bueti, Claudia Gangemi, and Elisa Ferrari, who shaped the volume through a fluid, shared process in which roles frequently overlapped. The title evokes La Melia’s inheritance of instability, migration, and rural Southern Italian culture, experiences she reworks through poetic depictions of urban and agricultural life in Vancouver and the Okanagan Valley. Influenced by surrealism, automatism, pop culture, and mystical countercultures, her writing follows a lineage of political and spiritual experimentation. The publication also includes graphic work by Roxanne Maillet and critical texts by D’Alto, Allison Grimaldi Donahue, and Bueti.
225 p, ills colour & bw, 13 x 20 cm, pb, English/Italian
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Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley - THE DELUSION
Isbn 9783949973970
Publisher Archive Books
Idea code 251045
€ 32.70
Coinciding with Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley’s exhibition, Serpentine and Archive Books have released the artist’s first monograph, THE DELUSION. It imagines a ‘new bible for emotional processing’ and offers intimate insight into the project and the artist’s wider practice, in a gamified, interactive style. Danielle Brathwaite-Shirley (b. 1995, London) is a Berlin/London-based artist who graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art, London in 2019. Working predominantly in animation, sound, performance, and video game development, their practice intertwines lived experience with fiction to imaginatively retell the stories of Black Trans people. Encouraging the active participation of the visitor-player in their installations, the artist highlights the role of individual choices in shaping narratives and histories.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 24 cm, hb, English
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Noor Nuyten – Digital Dust and Other Stories
Isbn 9789493329331
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 251052
€ 28.70
By placing your fingertips on a touchscreen, you set off a chain reaction of electromagnetic currents in the device. Fascinated by this zone in which human actions and the digital world merge, conceptual artist Noor Nuyten visualises the waves that pass through the electrodes after a swipe. These patterns form the basis for Digital Dust, a series of 3D-printed reliefs made from material sourced from discarded and melted-down electronics. Feminist philosopher Donna Haraway’s imagination of a more liveable future inspired Nuyten to make recycling an essential part of her work. ‘Digital Dust and Other Stories’ is the first monograph and overview of Nuyten’s practice.
276 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 18 cm, hb, English
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Marc Boumeester – The Image by Proxy
Isbn 9789493329652
Publisher Jap Sam Books
Idea code 251053
€ 38.85
The exponential growth of image production has created a condition in which images no longer depict, but organise. Marc Boumeester introduces mass-microimaging as a framework for understanding how images function as infrastructural agents: automated and recursive, embedded in the logics of the attention economy. Images operate by proxy, through algorithmic substitution and systemic validation, eroding perception and replacing memory and history with a perpetual present. This book addresses the epistemic, ethical, and political consequences of such automation. It argues that imaging is now the fastest-growing system of production, yet lacks any ethical accountability.
250 p, ills colour, 17 x 24 cm, pb, English
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The Institution and Its Intentions
Isbn 9781915609823
Publisher Sternberg Press
Idea code 251054
€ 16.95
This publication collects and preserves the ideas put forward during the symposium “A Model: Reimagining Museums,” which took place at Mudam – The Contemporary Art Museum of Luxembourg, in June 2024. The convening explored the mission of museums today and examined how contemporary institutions can continue to serve as sources of culture, preservation, education, and community in the future. The symposium marked the final chapter of a broader program dedicated to examining the museum as a model. The series was introduced by “A Model,” a three-part exhibition curated by Bettina Steinbrügge that reflected on the role of the museum in the twenty-first century, reaffirming the need to consider the institutions a dynamic, living place, sensitive and receptive to contemporary debates. The Institution and its Intentions is the second book in the Mudam series.
136 p, ills colour & bw, 12 x 18 cm, pb, English
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Isabella Ducrot - Profusione
Isbn 9782378965990
Publisher Les Presses Du Reel
Idea code 251073
€ 43.00
Born in Naples in 1931, Isabella Ducrot’s formative years were marked by continuous travels with her husband, during which they amassed hundreds of Persian miniatures and an assortment of rare antique textiles. As an artist, she created a large body of daring work over the years – whether smooth, translucent, colourful, and/or minimalist – depicting landscapes, couples in love, and more. ‘Profusione’ offers a comprehensive overview of this Italian artist, who only entered the international spotlight later in life. Featuring extensive texts and an in-depth interview, this catalogue for the exhibition at the Consortium Museum in Dijon offers an illuminating look at her practice.
192 p, ills colour & bw, 22 x 28 cm, hb, English
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Violent Images
Isbn 9788880563228
Publisher Nero
Idea code 251074
€ 21.50
'Violent Images' examines how pictures both represent and enact violence in an age overwhelmed by visual media. From AI mimicking war photography in Gaza to Abu Ghraib snapshots turned into global memes, from expanding automated surveillance to persistent sexist advertising, visual violence shapes how we see and interpret the world. It may appear directly in an image or emerge through the technologies and systems that produce and circulate it. The book asks: What makes an image violent? Who decides this, and in what context? How do platforms and production tools influence the relationship between imagery and harm? And how do artists expose, challenge, or subvert the violent potential of visual culture? Bringing together artists and scholars, Violent Images investigates the politics of visual harm and its power to provoke and transform. Building on Giulia Cordin and Eva Leitolf’s Landscape with(out) Locus, it argues for a more critical, engaged understanding of images in a time of global conflict.
216 p, ills colour & bw, 16 x 23 cm, pb, English
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Spencer Lewis Untitled
Isbn 9798990911376
Publisher Zolo Press
Idea code 251086
€ 53.75
Untitled is the first monograph of American artist Spencer Lewis. It covers a decade of the artist practice and gathers more than 200 images of his famous post abstract expressionist paintings, some sketches and drawings, and some exhibition and studio views.The publication features an essay by American art critic Barry Schwabsky and by art historian Kendra Walker as well as a long conversation between the artist and musician David "Dave 1" Macklovitch from the electro-funk band Chromeo. The volume is printed on 4 different paper stock and is bound into a silkscreened and foiled section-sewn soft cover.
240 p, ills colour & bw, 24 x 31 cm, pb, English
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Le Nemesiache – Reclaiming Mythological Rituals
Isbn 9788867497003
Publisher Mousse
Idea code 251089
€ 32.25
This first monograph dedicated to the Neapolitan feminist and pacifist artists’ collective Le Nemesiache brings together unpublished documents, images, photographs, and manifestos, alongside new creative, political, and historical contributions. Founded in Naples in 1970 by artist and writer Lina Mangiacapre, the collective developed an experimental, interdisciplinary practice rooted in feminism, mythology, folktales, and radical imagination. Embracing film, performance, writing, ritual, and protest, Le Nemesiache challenged art as mere representation and questioned fixed notions of feminine identity. Introducing transfeminism in the early 1980s, the group forged a distinct political and artistic language grounded in myth, cosmology, and collective joy, reshaping feminist art history in Italy and beyond.
336 p, ills colour & bw, 17 x 23 cm, pb, Italian/English
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