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Le Fonds Paul Destribats Centre Georges Pompidou 2012 ISBN 9782844264961 Acqn 20069 Pb 21x30cm 378pp 1018col ills £66 Text in French A full colour catalogue of covers from the collection of international avant-garde periodicals held in the Bibliotheque Kandinsky in Paris. With texts by Alain Seban, AlfredPacquement, Pierre Leroy, Didier Schulmann, Agnes de Bretagne, Francois Chapon and Jean-Yves Lacroix.
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Open Field - Conversations On The Commons Walker Art Center 2012 ISBN 9781935963004 Acqn 20302 Pb 15x23cm 144pp 95ills £12 Edited by Sarah Schultz, Sarah Peters. Text by Steve Dietz, Stephen Duncombe, Futurefarmers, Jon Ippolito, Red 76, Rick Prelinger, Scott Stulen, Works Progress. George Bernard Shaw once wrote: “If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.” Open Field is the Walker Art Center's ongoing experiment in participation and public space. Taking place outdoors in the summer months, the project invites artists and visitors to imagine and inhabit the museum's campus as a cultural commons--a shared space for idea exchange, creative gatherings and unexpected interactions. In 2010, the Walker's backyard was home to numerous activities from conversations to performances and temporary sculptures. This volume discusses Open Field's genesis, exploring the meaning and impact of public practice for institutions.
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Lidwine Prolonge - Who Had Virginia Woolf For Dinner? Black Jack Editions 2011 ISBN 9782918063070 Acqn 20866 Pb 15x21cm 268pp 50ills 10col £26 Text in French First monograph: thirteen projects conducted by French artist Lidwine Prolonge over the past five years, including literature, film, installations and performances. Accompanied by a booklet containing the English translation.
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Shooting Time - Conversations with Cinematographers Post Editions 2012 ISBN 9789460830617 Acqn 21126 Pb 16x20cm 224pp 40ills 30col £19.95 Shooting Time is a collection of conversations with directors of photography from all over the world, who talk about their profession in the era of transition from analog to digital cinema. The conversations centre around two main areas: film language and digital revolution. How does each DP employ his own visual style or 'film language'? And in addition, how do the DP's relate to the cinematography of previous decades? Who were their pre-eminent influences? As regards the turn to digital, do the new tools transform the profession of DP's? For better or for worse? Moreover, do the hypermodern cameras affect the language and visual outlook of the cinema? If so, how? Cinematographers in conversation are Luciano Tovoli, Vilmos Zsigmond, Anton van Munster, Robby Müller, Dante Spinotti, Christian Berger, Slawomir Idziak, Frederick Elmes, Walther van den Ende, Edward Lachman, Roger Deakins, Maryse Alberti, Bruno Delbonnel, Pieter Vermeer, Benoît Debie, Melle van Essen, Nicolas Provost, Alexis Zabe and Mátyás Erdély. The conversations are preceded by four articles: on the history of film styles; on shooting a documentary; on the importance of being digital savvy, and the fourth advocates the enduring relevance of celluloid.
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Marina Abramovic - Dream Book Gendaikikakushitsu Publishers 2012 ISBN 9784773812145 Acqn 21194 Pb 15x21cm 240pp 43ills 23col £31 Performance artist Marina Abramović has imagined a house in which dreams – an essential aspect of human consciousness neglected in modern culture – can be stimulated, recorded and appreciated. In the ‘Dream Book’, instructions are given on how to use the so-called “Dream House”, a place built of the necessity to dream again, and the rituals Abramović has conceived for its various spaces. Recorded in the book are 100 dreams selected from more than 1800 that were written down between July and November 2010, a period when the project and house were actualised in Japan. Abramović’s work explores the limits of the body and the possibilities of the mind.
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Andy Warhol And Czechoslovakia Arbor Vitae 2012 ISBN 9788074670008 Acqn 21378 Pb 24x29cm 448pp 1230ills 730col £69.95 Through a wealth of research, and illustrated with more than 1,200 photographs and documents (many published here for the first time), this enormous compendium traces Andy Warhol’s relationship to his parents’ native Czechoslovakia. Neither routine monograph nor ordinary biography, Andy Warhol and Czechoslovakia is the fruit of a 22-year labor of love by editors Rudo Prekop and Michal Cihlár, who were granted unprecedented access to the family archives by the artist’s brothers. Prekop and Cihlár amassed a wealth of interviews with friends and family members (both in the U.S. and in Czechoslovakia), and compiled these alongside archival interviews and all manner of ephemera, from family mementos and early artworks to previously unseen snapshots of Warhol. The editors also examine Warhol’s close relationship to his mother and explore his influence upon Prague’s underground music scene. The vast wealth of material gathered in this splendidly designed Warhol scrapbook paints a vivid portrait of the artist’s connection to his ethnic background.
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Paul Scheerbart - Lesabendio. An Asteroid Novel Wakefield Press 2012 ISBN 9780984115594 Acqn 21384 Pb 15x23cm 232pp 16ills £11.95 First published in German in 1913 and widely considered to be Paul Scheerbart’s masterpiece, Lesabéndio is an intergalactic utopian novel that describes life on the planetoid Pallas, where rubbery suction-footed life forms with telescopic eyes smoke bubble-weed in mushroom meadows under violet skies and green stars. Amid the conveyor-belt highways and lighthouses weaving together the mountains and valleys, a visionary named Lesabéndio hatches a plan to build a 44-mile-high tower and employ architecture to connect the two halves of their double star. A cosmic ecological fable, Scheerbart’s novel was admired by such architects as Bruno Taut and Walter Gropius, and such thinkers as Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem (whose wedding present to Benjamin was a copy of Lesabéndio). Benjamin had intended to devote the concluding section of his lost manuscript “The True Politician” with a discussion of the positive political possibilities embedded in Scheerbart’s “Asteroid Novel.” As translator Christina Svendsen writes in her introduction, “Lesabéndio helps us imagine an ecological politics more daring than the conservative politics of preservation, even as it reminds us that we are part of a larger galactic set of interrelationships.” This volume includes Alfred Kubin’s illustrations from the original German edition. Paul Scheerbart (1863–1915) was a novelist, playwright, poet, newspaper critic, draftsman, visionary, proponent of glass architecture and would-be inventor of perpetual motion, who wrote fantastical fables and interplanetary satires that were to influence Expressionist authors and the German Dada movement, and which helped found German science fiction.
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Dali - Album De L'Exposition Centre Georges Pompidou 2012 ISBN 9782844265883 Acqn 21575 Pb 27x27cm 60pp 60ills 44col £9.50 This album features a selection of almost sixty exceptional works from the major retrospective held at the Centre Pompidou in Paris, a fitting tribute to the artist’s extraordinary modernity.
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Cubisme Centre Georges Pompidou 2012 ISBN 9782844265494 Acqn 21577 Pb 19x19cm 96pp 68ills 58col £10.95 Text in French Richly illustrated, this series of small monographs on Twentieth Century art movements, are written by experts on the subjects. This new title, adding Cubism to the list, is written by Brigitte Leal, joint director of the modern art collections at Centre Pompidou.
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Dis Connecting Media Christoph Merian Verlag 2011 ISBN 9783856165338 Acqn 21593 Pb 17x24cm 240pp 100ills 50col £29.95 Fixed-line telephone, mobile phone, Skype, iPhone – the once familiar ‘telephone set’ has turned into a mobile all-rounder. Twenty cultural scientists and artists delve into the technology, practice and aesthetics of the telephone. Matt Adams, Regine Buschauer, Nicholas Knouf, Stefan Munker, Hansmartin Siegrist, Heike Weber and others explore in their articles an everyday object in constant change.
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Dali - Collection Monographie Centre Georges Pompidou 2012 ISBN 9782844265913 Acqn 21722 Pb 19x19cm 96pp 60ills 40col £10.95 Text in French A small but fully illustrated monograph on Dali by Jean-Michel Bouhours published to coincide with the large retrospective at Centre Pompidou in Paris 2012.
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La Raison Du Fou - Dali Et La Science Centre Georges Pompidou 2012 ISBN 9782844265920 Acqn 21723 Pb 12x19cm 128pp £11 Text in French Salvador Dali unceasing fascination with the science of his time nourished his unique artistic output. Dali’s interests included psychoanalysis, physics, biology and mathematics. Art critic Vincent Noce explores this little known aspect of the artist.
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Ryoji Ikeda - =/- [The Infinite Between 0 And 1] Access 2012 ISBN 9784901976688 Acqn 21766 Hb 19x26cm 144pp 50col ills £55.95 Japanese sound artist Ryoji Ikeda creates music concerned primarily with sound in a variety of ‘raw’ states, such as sine tones and noise, often using frequencies at the edges of the range of human hearing. The conclusion of his album +/- (Touch, 1997) features just such a tone, "a high frequency sound… that the listener becomes aware of only upon its disappearance". This book documents the nature of his methods, where he explains fascinating theories about sound and its perception in an interview, ‘Music as marginal art’. A list of works and biography completes the volume.
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Raphael Zarka Editions B42 2012 ISBN 9782917855324 Acqn 21839 Hb 20x27cm 236pp 300ills 100col £33.95 Skateboarder, artist and sculptor-chronicler Raphaël Zarka “does not seek to give form to his ideas, looking instead for underlying forms.” Influenced by minimalism and land art, and moving beyond formal connections with conceptual art, his work captures the sculptural possibilities of unfinished, forgotten, or broken constructions scattered throughout the urban landscape. This comprehensive monograph documents gallery installations, found objects, skateboarding on public artworks, etc., expressing the hidden dynamism of the forms that surround us. With texts by Guillaume Désanges, Didier Semin and Jean-Pierre Criqui, plus an interview by Christophe Gallois.
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Sol LeWitt - The Well-Tempered Grid Williams College Museum of Art 2012 ISBN 9780913697313 Acqn 21851 Pb 24x27cm 120pp 120ills 60col £26 Sol LeWitt: The Well-Tempered Grid is the first exhibition to focus on the centrality of the grid in LeWitt’s art. The exhibition focuses on LeWitt’s use of the grid as a generative matrix for his artistic production over the span of nearly five decades, from 1960 until his death in 2007. Inspired by his first encounter with the work of photographer Eadweard Muybridge in the late 1950s, LeWitt began experimenting with a loosely structured grid in several large oil paintings of 1960, based on the Muybridge motif of a running man. By 1962 he had simplified his use of this format to exclude figurative elements, and by 1964 he was making his first wall-mounted grid structures. When LeWitt made his first wall drawings in 1968 he used the grid as the underlying structural principle. Thereafter, grids became a pervasive matrix in all of the media in which LeWitt worked--three-dimensional “structures,” drawings and gouaches on paper, photographic cycles, artist’s books, furniture and wall drawings. Fully illustrated with 95 color images (and a plate section), the book includes three essays, including Charles W. Haxthausen on LeWitt’s relationship to the grid and classical music, especially Bach; Christianna Bonin on LeWitt’s relationship to Richard Serra and the wall drawing; and Erica DiBenedetto on LeWitt’s 1980 artist’s book, Autobiography, a publication consisting solely of 1,101 photographs of LeWitt’s New York studio, organized over 128 pages in nine-part grids.
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Curiosity And Method - Ten Years Of Cabinet Magazine Cabinet 2012 ISBN 9781932698565 Acqn 21852 Hb 22x28cm 528pp 452ills 339col £29.50 Since its launch in late 2000, Cabinet magazine has become a touchstone for a certain approach to understanding culture, one that shuns orthodox distinctions--high/low, serious/humorous, professional/amateur--in favor of a commitment to the idea that all objects, practices and discourses can, if read against the grain, teach us something important about the world. Its hybrid sensibility merges the visually engaging style of an arts periodical, the exuberance of a fanzine and the in-depth exploration of a scholarly journal to create a sourcebook of ideas for an international audience of readers, from artists and designers to scientists, philosophers and historians. Using essays, interviews and artist projects to present a variety of topics in language accessible to the non-specialist, Cabinet has aimed to encourage a new culture of curiosity. This anthology brings together some of the most interesting successes, and a few instructive failures, published in the first 40 issues of Cabinet, virtually all of which are sold out, along with essays specially commissioned for the volume. It includes contributions by more than a hundred writers and artists, including Jonathan Ames, Alain Badiou, Daniel Birnbaum, Matthew Buckingham, D. Graham Burnett, Paul Collins, Simon Critchley, Lorraine Daston, Mark Dery, Brian Dillon, Jeff Dolven, Spencer Finch, Joshua Foer, Leon Golub, Douglas Gordon, Anthony Grafton, Joseph Grigely, Shelley Jackson, Denis Johnson, Wayne Koestenbaum, Jonathan Lethem, Josiah McElheny, Helen Mirra, Albert Mobilio, Alexander Nagel, Francine Prose, Matthew Ritchie, Daniel Rosenberg, Luc Sante, Christopher Turner, Tom Vanderbilt, Marina Warner, Slavoj Zizek and many others.
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Brian Dillon - I Am Sitting In A Room Cabinet 2012 ISBN 9781932698541 Acqn 21853 Pb 13x19cm 74pp 18ills 7col £8.95 The inaugural volume in Cabinet’s new 24-Hour Book series, I Am Sitting in a Room—written and designed in one day—explores the scenography and architecture of writing itself. Inspired in part by Georges Perec’s short fragment in Species of Spaces on Antonello da Messina’s painting of St. Jerome in his study, Dillon’s text is both a personal reflection on the theatrics of the study, the library and the office, and a historical consideration of such writerly paraphernalia as Proust’s bed, Nabokov’s index cards and Philip Roth’s moustache. Dillon, who arrived at Cabinet’s office without any prepared text, also had to remain open to the contingencies of an unfamiliar writing environment, peculiar and perhaps slightly dodgy take-out food, a makeshift bed, and a capricious heating system, not to mention the obvious pressures of working under extreme time constraints. If that were not enough, this particular scene of writing was a public one, with curious onlookers dropping in during the process to watch the author (and his support staff) “at work.” Inspired by literary precedents such as automatic writing, by the resourcefulness of the bricoleur making do with what is at hand and by the openness toward chance that all artistic production under severe constraint must necessarily incorporate, Cabinet’s 24-Hour Book series will invite a number of distinguished authors and artists to be incarcerated in its gallery space to complete a project from start to finish within 24 hours.
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Lytle Shaw - The Moire Effect Cabinet 2012 ISBN 9783952339138 Acqn 21854 Pb 11x18cm 128pp 10ills £8.95 The life of legendary Swiss photographer Ernst Moiré is so shrouded in speculation that he sometimes seems more like a phantasm than the flesh-and-blood figure whose name will forever be linked with the well-known printer’s error. Yet as scholar Lytle Shaw reveals in The Moiré Effect, when it comes to Monsieur Moiré and his circle, fact is often stranger than fiction. Tracking the artist from his humble Alpine beginnings as the son of a postal clerk to his fateful founding of a Zurich photography studio in the 1890s and his subsequent role in the lives of a number of curious figures--including the legendary Dutch architect Mer Awsümbildungs, the theosophist philosopher Rudolf Steiner and several members of the secretive Chadwick family--The Moiré Effect takes readers on a journey from the elegant salons of Swiss palazzi to the dusty bowels of ancient archives to a conclusion as hair-raising as it is oblique.
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Allen Ruppersberg - Collector's Paradise Art Institute Of Chicago 2012 ISBN 9780977869657 Acqn 21874 Pb 22x28cm 80pp 200col ills £26 Collector’s Paradise is Allen Ruppersberg’s unique reflection on the history of popular American music. The product of years of combing flea markets and yard sales in search of both the visual and recorded history of rock and roll, this book traces rock and roll back to the Minstrel days and American popular song post-Civil War, in a chronological list of 1,500 key recordings and more than 300 color illustrations of material from Ruppersberg’s collection. In his introductory essay, Ruppersberg discusses the urgency he feels in creating this narrative of a common musical history before it is lost: If you live long enough you begin to see the endings of the things in which you saw the beginnings. “It seemed to me … that this was the last possible moment to be able to gather any of this material in the manner I did and I am even more convinced now that I was right.”
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Keith Haring - 31 Subway Drawings Art Issues Press 2012 ISBN 9780986000805 Acqn 21875 Hb 24x34cm 64pp 90ills 10col £37 Over a five year period, in one of the most epic conquests of civic space ever ventured, Keith Haring (1958–1990) produced a massive body of work across the New York City subway system that remains to this day, some 30 years after the fact, daunting in its scale and its impact upon public consciousness. Dedicated both the people who might randomly encounter them and to the present tense to which their momentary existence was tethered, Haring’s drawings now exist solely in the posterity of myth. Because they were not meant to last, briefly inhabiting blacked-out advertising boards before being covered up by commerce or torn down by authorities and admirers alike, what little remains of this project is oddly (for this most populist of artists) fugitive. 31 Subway Drawings reproduces all archival materials relating to this magnificent project.Foreword by Larry Warsh. Text by Henry Geldzahler, Jeffrey Deitch, Carlo McCormick.
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Oscar Bolton Green - Everyday Drawings. Un Sedicesimo 25B Corraini Editore 2012 no ISBN Acqn 21918 Pb 17x24cm 10pp 14ills £7.50 'Unsedicesimo' is a bimonthly magazine that creates graphics rather than talking about them. A magazine that eliminates the superfluous and goes straight to the point. Each author has 16 blank pages to develop his own project in complete independence.
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Suspended Spaces 2 - A Collective Experience Black Jack Editions 2012 ISBN 9782918063254 Acqn 21934 Pb 15x21cm 272pp 60ills £23.95 Suspended spaces #2 is a trip in the Lebanese territories. It develops artistic proposals and philosophical approaches to modernism in a middle-eastern country. Contributions by Ziad Antar, Kader Attia, Christian Barani, Stefanie Baumann, François Bellenger, Filip Berte, Denis Briand, Marcel Dinahet, Charlène Dinhut, Marion Hohlfeld, Valérie Jouve, Brent Klinkum, Jan Kopp, Jacinto Lageira, Lia Lapithi, Daniel Lê, Seloua Luste Boulbina, Éléonore de Montesquiou, Françoise Parfait, Mira Sanders, Jad Tabet, Éric Valette, Christophe Viart.
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Panorama 14 – Elasticites Le Fresnoy 2012 ISBN 9782917696088 Acqn 21939 Pb 21x28cm 220pp 90ills 60col £16.95 A perspective on contemporary video and multimedia creation through the various works produced by students and invited artists-professors during the two previous years in Le Fresnoy-Studio des arts contemporains. Works by Théodora Barat, Snejana Barteneva, Véronique Beland, Hicham Berrada, Pierre-Yves Boisrame, Anaïs Boudot, Gregory Buchert, Vincent Ciciliato, Seydou Cisse, Alice Colomer, Ico Costa, Denis Côté, Joël Curtz, Jivko Darakchiev, Maya Da-Rin, Pauline Delwaulle, Bakary Diallo, Renaud Duval, Jean-Paul Fargier, Tatiana Fuentes Sadowski, Ibro Hasanovic, Léa Hautefeuille, Louis Henderson, Christophe Herreros, Pierre Hoezelle, Wei Hu, Laura Huertas Millan, Benoît Jacquot, Zhi-Wei Jow, Aurélie Kunert, Ryoichi Kurokawa, Jeanne Lafon, Anna Marziano, Pierre Mazingarbe, Monsieur Moo, Armand Morin, Eliza Muresan, Joachim Olender, Zahra Poonawala, Netty Radvanyi, Felix Ramon, Dania Reymond, Gaëtan Robillard, David Rokeby, Mitsuaki Saito, Jung Hee Seo, Dorothée Smith, Ronny Trocker, Edwin van der Heide, Ana Vaz, Aurélien Vernhes-Lermusiaux, João Viera Torres, Arthur Zerktouni.
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The Space of Agonism - Markus Miessen In Conversation With Chantal Mouffe. Critical Spatial Practice 2 Sternberg Press 2012 ISBN 9783943365412 Acqn 21954 Pb 11x15cm 148pp 23col ills £12.50 Edited by Nikolaus Hirsch and Markus Miessen Including an artist project by Rabih Mroué The second volume in the Critical Spatial Practice series presents a selection of conversations between Markus Miessen and political philosopher Chantal Mouffe. Taking place intermittently between December 2006 and October 2011, the dialogues attempt to unpack current dilemmas and popular mobilizations in terms of consensus-driven formats of political decision making. The conversations were alternately driven by Miessen’s specific concerns regarding his ongoing investigation into conflict-based forms of participation as an alternative (spatial) practice in democratic systems, and Mouffe’s understanding and theory of a “conflictual consensus.” Thinking in terms of agonism and “demoicracy”—a union that acknowledges the plurality and permanence of its different populations—the book proposes new approaches to countering and responding to the globalizing thrust of neoliberalism.
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Clive Head - From Victoria To Arcadia Marlborough Fine Art 2012 ISBN 9781904373032 Acqn 21956 Pb 30x24cm 40pp 19ills 14col £12.50 A new catalogue of works by Clive Head, known for his striking paintings of urban landscapes, that form part of his project From Victoria to Arcadia on show at Dulwich Picture Gallery. Painted in response to Nicolas Poussin’s The Triumph of David, Clive Head’s work Terminus Place will sit temporarily alongside the Gallery’s collection of works by Poussin. This provides a timely opportunity to reconsider the place of the artist today and a look back to Old Master techniques.
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Marcel Gahler - Nie Ist Die Nacht So Dunkel Wie In Der Kindheit Edition Patrick Frey 2012 ISBN 9783905929249 Acqn 21964 Hb 17x24cm 100pp 45ills £43.50 Marcel Gähler works with small-format, black-and-white photographs that he has copied in pencil in their original size. Here the illustrative process has become even more complex, with the photographs projected onto a sheet fixed to the wall, and then used as the basis for Gähler’s obsessively meticulous miniatures. In this way the images acquire a certain remoteness, loaded with layered meaning. The personal subjects of the original photos – scenes of family life, children sleeping or playing, outings to the beach and celebrations – are dramatized in a hazy, pencil-grey rendering of distant memory. A thoughtful essay by Peter Stamm expands on this perception.
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Elad Lassry White Cube 2012 ISBN 9781906072711 Acqn 21971 Hb 25x33cm 72pp 28ills 20col £31.50 Elad Lassry has developed a reputation for the wit and rigour of his investigations into how we perceive and conceive pictures, through photographs, films and sculpture, as well as interventions in the gallery space. For Lassry, the act of looking, whether at a unique artwork, human face or generic coffee cup, is always a picture making process, an instant that combines a particular sensual experience haunted by the memory of countless images that transform that experience. This book includes an accompanying text by Andre Rottman – research fellow at the Department of Art History at the Freie Universitat Berlin and contributor to Artforum International.
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Arturo Herrera – Series Holzwarth Publications 2012 ISBN 9783935567589 Acqn 21984 Hb 17x24cm 168pp 108col ills £28.50 Text by Jens Asthoff, David Schutter. Conversation with John Corbett. This volume collects 17 new collage series by Venezuelan artist Arturo Herrera (born 1959)--works pitched somewhere between abstract composition and poetically fragmented scrapbooks of the everyday. As the artist writes: “Collage is our portrait of life rearranged and reordered.”
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Rebecca Warren Holzwarth Publications 2012 ISBN 9783935567619 Acqn 21985 Hb 24x33cm 56pp 50col ills £28.50 Rebecca Warren’s sculptures move from figurative to abstract, ranging from amorphous to more clearly recognizable forms. Her sculptures can be tender and droll, yet also aggressive in their depiction of the female form. Her figurative ideal emanates from translating the idioms of different sculptors; from Rodin's monumentality to Giacometti's vertical vision, or de Kooning's and Degas' diverse approaches to sensuality. Whilst she often manages to both invoke and skewer the work of these familiar names, her works individually and collectively form an entirely modern, complex and distinctive visual language. This catalogue from Warren’s 2012 exhibition at Galerie Max Hetzler in Berlin, includes a text by Jorg Heiser.
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Kusama's Body Festival In 60's Access 2012 ISBN 9784905448037 Acqn 21988 Pb 15x21cm 296pp 200ills 75col £39.95 Text in Japanese Through numerous photos, prints, texts, clippings and correspondence, the life and work of Japanese-born, New York artist Yayoi Kusama is portrayed in great detail.
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Gutai - Two And A Half Drops Of Bitters. Extraordinary Tales Of Murakami Saburo Seseragi 2012 ISBN 9784884162115 Acqn 21991 Pb 13x21cm 320pp 75ills £41.95 Japanese artist Saburo Murakami was a founding member of the avant-garde movement Gutai, active in the 1950s-‘60s. Gutai artists created works which anticipated later Happenings and performance and conceptual art, as well as installations, and inspired many non-Japanese artists. The group was, for instance, a formative influence on the Fluxus movement. Written in the first-person by Sakaide Tatsunori, ‘Two and a half Drops of Bitters’ recounts numerous stories, impressions and interactions involving Murakami, from casual bar conversations to more formal interviews, plus transcriptions from the Memorial Exhibition held at Bar Metamorphose in January 2006.
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Hello Our Name Is Lastplak And We Love To Paint! Trichis 2012 ISBN 9789490608408 Acqn 21992 Pb 19x26cm 320pp 1000col ills £31.50 Lastplak is a Dutch collective of painters with different backgrounds and skills that was started in 2001 in their home city of Rotterdam. Masters of large-scale urban pieces, graffiti artworks and stickers alike, their work can be found all over the world. Because 99 per cent of what they produce is painted outside, in the urban environment, most of it has now disappeared – cleaned, demolished or painted over. Having grown accustomed to the short life span of their work, Lastplak makes certain to carefully document each instance, numerous examples of which are presented here in a chronological history spanning ten years. Colourful, humorous, abstract and extraordinary.
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Collective Actions - Audience Recollections From The First Five Years 1976-1981 Soberscove Press 2012 ISBN 9780982409053 Acqn 21997 Pb 20x20cm 116pp 100ills 30col £24 Active in Moscow since 1976, the Collective Actions group played a key role in the development of conceptual and performance art in the Soviet Union. Inspired by the work of John Cage, the organizers invited audiences to take part in minimal actions that explored the nature of the aesthetic event. Appearing for the first time in English, the generously illustrated recollections in this volume share the author-participants' idiosyncratic attempts to remember and give narrative to their individual experiences of actions, thus providing a counterpoint to the group's better-known descriptive and theoretical writings.
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Spectral Imprints - Abraaj Capital Art Prize 2012 Abraaj Capital Art Prize 2012 ISBN 9780956070494 Acqn 22007 Hb 30x24cm 160pp 119ills 114col £39.95 The Abraaj Capital Art Prize is for artists from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia. Uniquely, it rewards proposals rather than completed artworks. Each year, five selected artists work with one international curator, culminating in an exhibition at Art Dubai and a new publication. Featured in this year’s edition are quilts by Risham Syed, porcelain vases by Raed Yassin, Taysir Batniji’s paper hand carvings from photographs, a diorama box by Wael Shawky, and a video installation by Joana Hadjithomas and Khalil Joreige. The prize overview also includes critical texts by curator Nat Muller, plus essays by Laura U. Marks, Hanan Toukan and Fadi Tufayli.
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Motherland Vol 03 Issue 08 – Performance W+K Publishing 2012 no ISBN Acqn 22008 Pb 17x23cm 108pp 120ills 90col £7.95 ‘Motherland’, the first Indian magazine to discard the general-interest format in favour of theme-based issues revolving around the trends, topics and ideas that shape contemporary Indian culture. “Performance” is the focus of this instalment, which takes a look at everything from daredevil drivers to professional mourners. Also highlighted are a record label seeking to transition traditional Manganiyar folk music into the mainstream, portraits of honeymooning couples, Assamese dwarfs, Uttarakhand’s film industry struggles, outspoken New Delhi MC Taru Dalmia and much more.
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Kafou - Haiti, Art And Vodou Nottingham Contemporary 2012 ISBN 9781907421051 Acqn 22009 Hb 21x28cm 248pp 117ills 105col £25 Nearly 200 paintings, sculptures and sequin flags by 35 artists from the 1940s to the present day trace the representation of Vodou, reflecting Haiti’s historical experience through the supernatural. Haiti is especially known for the art of its urban and rural poor. The label “naive” has often been applied to it, but doesn’t do it justice. The imaginative power and visual intricacy of these artworks reflect the richness of Haitian history and culture. They are in sharp contrast to the country’s familiar reputation for extreme poverty, natural disaster and political violence. Haitian art is often at its most extraordinary when inspired by Vodou – a spiritual belief system followed by an estimated 90% of Haitians. With its roots in West African religions, Vodou includes aspects of Catholicism (most of Vodou gods are linked to Catholic saints), Islam, European folklore and freemasonry, as well as the religion of the island’s Taino people, who were almost wiped out by the first Spanish settlers. This fusion reflects the history of a small nation at the centre of the Atlantic World.
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Witnessing You. On Trust And Truth In A Networked World Delft University Press 2012 ISBN 9789081983907 Acqn 22021 Hb 16x24cm 382pp 350ills 300col £22.50 Researcher and designer Caroline Nevejan focuses on the implications of technology on society. Together with thirteen artists she explores today’s footprint on the future. When time and place are not shared, the resulting engagement in merging realities presents a challenge to human dignity. New values for the (meta-)design of participatory systems, in which people accept responsibility for their words and deeds in order to negotiate trust and truth in a networked world, are thoroughly investigated here. Texts, artworks, impressions and analyses fill the book, including work by Debra Solomon, Afaina de Jong, Martin Butler, Angelo Vermeulen, and several others.
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Luc Tuymans - Exhibitions At David Zwirner, 1994-2012 Ludion 2012 ISBN 9789461300720 Acqn 22022 Hb 25x29cm 224pp 156ills 134col £42 The David Zwirner Gallery in New York has been the base of operations for Luc Tuymans since 1994. At the start of his career, Tuymans committed himself to showing a new series of works there once every two years – a promise that he has never failed to keep. In the meantime, he has achieved international recognition with his paintings, whose tempered style is combined with an often political content that tackles controversial topics ranging from the Holocaust to the Belgian colonial legacy. This book presents the major works of the artist together with commentary and supplemental materials, plus interviews with Ann Temkin, Brice Marden, Peter Schjeldahl and Robert Storr.
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I Am Andrea Crews Editions B42 2012 ISBN 9782917855348 Acqn 22023 Pb 17x23cm 416pp 360ills 350col £41 Created in 2002 by Maroussia Rebecq at the Palais de Tokyo, Andrea Crews is a community project for the recycling of second-hand clothes. Since then, it has grown into a multi-faceted collective connecting the worlds of fashion, art and activism. It has documented all its actions, collections, exhibitions, performances and travels, showing a movement full of colour and life. This book tells the story of the collective, depicting the central role it has played in the creative and alternative scenes at the outset of the new millennium. Included are essays by Lauren Bastide, Florence Parot and Lorent Idir, and interviews with Sarah Andelman, Jérôme Sans and Dominque Babin.
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Irene Kopelman - The Molyneux Problem ROMA Publications 2012 ISBN 9789077459881 Acqn 22025 Pb 16x23cm 144pp 38ills 16col £18.95 Molyneux's problem is a thought experiment in philosophy concerning immediate recovery from blindness, notably referenced by John Locke. In brief, “If a man born blind can feel the differences between shapes such as spheres and cubes, could he similarly distinguish those objects by sight if given the ability to see?” Irene Kopelman uses the problem as basis for her investigation into our physical experience of the world. Through various works and projects dealing with the observation and depiction of our surroundings – landscapes, objects, everyday spatial contexts – she recounts an exploration of the “landscape of the visual” with which artists must regularly engage.
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Scott Burton - Collected Writings On Art & Performance 1965-1975 Soberscove Press 2012 ISBN 9780982409046 Acqn 22026 Pb 14x20cm 258pp 16ills 9col £18 Before gaining widespread recognition for sculptural work that sought to dissolve aesthetic boundaries, most notably between sculpture and furniture, Scott Burton produced a substantial body of art writing. This publication brings together for the first time Burton's wide-ranging essays, reviews, and unpublished manuscripts from 1965-1975. The collection offers rich new context for Burton's sculpture and public art reveals him as an important voice in the rapidly changing art world of the 1960s and 1970s.
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Volume 5 - What You See Is What You Hear Les Presses Du Reel 2012 ISBN 9782919217083 Acqn 22029 Pb 21x27cm 128pp 100ills 50col £20 5th issue of the contemporary art journal about sound, devoted to the complex relationships between visual and sound forms (critical texts, historical analysis, interviews, artist's interventions...): Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Erik Bünger, Destroy All Monsters, Julien Discrit & Thomas Dupouy, Rashid Johnson, Kapwani Kiwanga, Claude Lévêque, Haroon Mirza, Kristin Oppenheim, Katie Paterson, Ugo Rondinone, Cauleen Smith, artistic contributions by Meris Angioletti, Isabelle Giovacchini and Joachim Koester... Bilingual (English/French) and biannual, Volume is the first magazine devoted to sound issues in art, and to the complex relationships between visual and sound forms, both in contemporary art and history. Volume is neither a musical magazine, nor a magazine about sound art; rather, it sees sound from the angle of the visual arts.
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Daniel Dewar & Gregory Gicquel - Crepe Suzette Editions Loevenbruck 2012 ISBN 9782916636054 Acqn 22030 Pb 20x22cm 192pp 101ills 6col £32 This first monograph is the catalogue to the exhibition with the same throwaway title, presented last spring at Spike Island, an international art centre in Bristol. It features the works shown in Bristol, from the sculptures in wood made since 2004 to the artists' latest works, the 8 animated GIFs, and short video sequences projected in a loop and showing figurative sculptures in clay, shaped by the artists outdoors and then turned into animated images using the stop-motion technique. How does sculpture react when it is reduced to the two dimensions of painting, photography or video? That is one of the questions explored by the artists in this recent institutional proposition, and discussed, among other points, by Alice Motard (deputy director and exhibitions organiser at Raven Row art centre, London), and Zoe Gray (independent curator and vice-president of the IKT, the international association of curators of contemporary art) in their respective texts, and by Helen Legg (director of Spike Island), in her interview with the artists. Each offers a perceptive vision of Dewar and Gicquel's work and the issues it raises.
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Alfredo Jaar - The Sound Of Silence Kamel Mennour 2012 ISBN 9782914171403 Acqn 22031 Pb 21x27cm 256pp 265ills 200col £33.95 Alfredo Jaar is a Chilean-born artist, architect, and filmmaker who lives and works in New York. Working with different media, he examines the nature of images and our relationship to them. Crucial questions explored in his work tackle the possibility of producing art based on events that we would prefer to ignore, and of creating images characterised contextually both by their overabundance and, paradoxically, their invisibility – closely linked to current events, but taking the opposite stance to sensationalist reports. This book covers a wide selection of Jaar’s emblematic installations and press works since the mid-1980s, and includes an illuminating text by Okwui Enwezor.
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Fukio Nakaya - Fog + 2 DVDs Editions Anarchive 2012 ISBN 9782951813229 Acqn 22032 Pb 20x14cm 416pp 315ills 130col £43.95 First comprehensive monograph dedicated to the Japanese artist's fog sculptures: a luxurious box set gathering an annotated catalogue raisonné of Fujiko Nakaya's Fog Works she has created for public spaces all over the world, as well as her video works and paintings, a video DVD featuring selected fog sculptures as well as two rarely seen videos by Nakaya, and an interactive DVD-ROM containing a vast database of her work. Sculpting fog is a decidedly unusual art. Fujiko Nakaya is its pioneer. This first comprehensive monograph presents more than fifty of her Fog Works created for public spaces all over the world, as well as her video works and paintings. The artist's texts and drawings, archive items, videos and previously unpublished essays by French and Japanese authors, document this exceptional art approach, which reinvents the meeting between art, science and technology. A DVD-ROM and a DVD Video include some rare videos by the artist, as well as a substantial filmed documentation about her Fog Sculptures, from the famous Pepsi Pavilion in 1970 to the most recent ones in 2011. Fujiko Nakaya (born 1933 in Sapporo, Hokkaido) pioneered video art in Japan and was the first to explore new technologies in landscape art. Since the 1970s, she has been creating “Fog Sculptures,” or misty environments offering visitors a surprising visual, bodily, and mental experience.
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Jorge Pardo – Tecoh Sternberg Press 2012 ISBN 9783943365443 Acqn 22034 Hb 23x29cm 184pp 119col ills £32 With texts by Alex Coles, Michael Govan, Claudia Madrazo. Edited by Alex Coles. Tecoh is a sprawling series of buildings designed by the artist Jorge Pardo deep in the Yucatán jungle. Taking over six years to fabricate, and engaging existing ruins of a nineteenth-century hacienda, the project is by far the artist’s most ambitious work to date. This book offers the only available glimpse of the project, as it was primarily conceived as a private residence. Over 100 color images choreograph the reader around the myriad buildings and landscaping that constitute Tecoh—from subterranean concrete forms peaking out of the wild jungle grasses to quiet details of tiles and furniture to Pardo’s iconic bulbous lamps. Michael Govan, director of LACMA, provides an introduction and sets Tecoh within a deeper history of his dialogue with the artist, beginning in 2000 with Pardo’s installation at Dia:Chelsea. Alex Coles, describes a critical framework in which to interpret the project, while Claudia Madrazo, the work’s commissioner, contextualizes the project in her afterword. A series of three extended conversations between Pardo and Coles explores the issues of site, historical precedents, and reception that Tecoh brings into focus.
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The Tiger's Mind - Beatrice Gibson And Will Holder Sternberg Press 2012 ISBN 9783943365504 Acqn 22035 Pb 21x27cm 144pp 63ills £17.95 In 2010, a production process was instigated by filmmaker Beatrice Gibson and typographer Will Holder, with the intention of using British composer Cornelius Cardew’s musical score The Tiger’s Mind as a means of producing speech. Since the score concerns the changing relations between six characters in production, practitioners from other fields (musicians and visual artists) were invited to three conversations at Kunstlerhaus Stuttgart, Kunstverein in Amsterdam, and CAC Brétigny. After each conversation, a printed document was made and distributed amongst the characters, to serve as a score for subsequent conversations. Any other ends would be found in conversation. After some time it became clear that a film would be made: Beatrice Gibson’s The Tiger’s Mind. This book is a document of its making.
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