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Naeemeh Naeemaei - Dreams Before Extinction Perceval Press 2014 ISBN 9780989561631 Acqn 23374 Hb 26x36cm 35pp 12col ills £9.25 Dissolving the artificial boundary between human society and wild nature is the goal of Dreams Before Extinction, a series of twelve remarkable paintings of endangered species by the Tehran-based Iranian artist Naeemeh Naeemaei. Painted in a dream-like, figurative style that is disarming in its sincerity, her artworks bring a distinctly Muslim perspective to environmental art and activism. Through a deeply personal narrative that is disturbing for both its intimacy and its boldness, Naeemaei bravely crosses the dividing line between humans and wild nature to awaken emotional concern not only for the animals in question, but also for the environment as a whole. "I use my dreams, wishes, memorabilia and legends, plus information about the species, to extend my imagination. In each painting, I've lived with an animal in my mind. It is a deep connection." With illuminating comments on each painting by the artist, a preface by the Iranian environmentalist Kavous Seyed-Emami, and an introduction by the historian and graphic artist Paul Semonin, this beautiful bilingual book speaks across the cultural barriers existing today between the Muslim world and Western societies.

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Jim Lambie - Not Just For Me. A Sample of The Poetry Club Fruitmarket Gallery 2014 ISBN 9781908612298 Acqn 23866 Hb 15x21cm 176pp 75ills 50col £17.95 Known for his visually compelling, generous and beguiling work which attracts both popular and critical acclaim, Jim Lambie came to prominence with Zobop (1999), a floor-based sculptural intervention that consists of continuous lines of multi-coloured vinyl tape laid in concentric circuits of a room from its outside edges to its centre. First shown in Transmission in Glasgow in 1999, it is now in several major international collections. Lambie’s work makes its magic from relatively humble materials – tinfoil and coat hangers, jackets, mirrors, records, turntables, potato sacks, plastic bags and household paint. Bringing together early sculptures like The Kid with the Replaceable Head (1996), Ultra-Low (1998/2007), Stakka (1999), Roadie (1999), and Zobop (1999), with more recent work including a spectacular new version of Shaved Ice (2012/14) that fills the ground floor of the Gallery with a forest of floor to ceiling, brightly coloured mirrored ladders, this exhibition offers the opportunity to trace the development of Lambie’s exuberantly intelligent and visually arresting sculptural language. The exhibition is accompanied by this new publication that celebrates one of Jim Lambie’s most generous sculptures: a poetry club he established in Glasgow in 2012. Including poetry from Patti Smith, Richard Hell, Liz Lochhead, John Giorno, Soul Williams and Gerard Malanaga, the book presents a sample of The Poetry Club, a rich assemblage of some of the people who, in Lambie’s words, ‘give us our dreams’.

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Jim Lambie - Exhibition Film DVD Fruitmarket Gallery 2014 ISBN 9781908612304 Acqn 24143 DVD 14x19cm £8.33 +VAT Known for his visually compelling, generous and beguiling work which attracts both popular and critical acclaim, Jim Lambie came to prominence with Zobop (1999), a floor-based sculptural intervention that consists of continuous lines of multi-coloured vinyl tape laid in concentric circuits of a room from its outside edges to its centre. Lambie’s work makes its magic from relatively humble materials – tinfoil and coat hangers, jackets, mirrors, records, turntables, potato sacks, plastic bags and household paint. Bringing together early sculptures like The Kid with the Replaceable Head (1996), Ultra-Low (1998/2007), Stakka (1999), Roadie (1999), and Zobop (1999), with more recent work including a spectacular new version of Shaved Ice (2012/14) that fills the ground floor of the Gallery with a forest of floor to ceiling, brightly coloured mirrored ladders, this exhibition offers the opportunity to trace the development of Lambie’s exuberantly intelligent and visually arresting sculptural language.

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Magiciens De La Terre - Retour Sur Une Exposition Legendaire Centre Georges Pompidou 2014 ISBN 9782844266934 Acqn 24024 Hb 20x26cm 400pp 410col ills £62 Text in French This book, commemorating the 25th anniversary of Magicians of the Earth (Magiciens de la terre), is a remarkable account of what this largely debated exhibition truly was and the role it played in contemporary art history. This volume offers for the first time a complete overview of the 1989 scenography in both venues (Centre Pompidou and Grande Halle de la Villette, Paris) through more than 410 previously unseen photographs and artists’ words. In the second part, the players of the time explain the genesis and conception of Magicians of the Earth : Mark Francis, André Magnin and Aline Luque, associated curators, as well as Hou Hanru, who provides an insider’s perspective of the research and discovery of Chinese artists. Chief curator of the exhibition, Jean-Hubert Martin’s preface for the 1989 catalogue as well as his post-face 25 years later, enlighten the reader about his approach. An interview with Raymonde Moulin and a perspective by Annie Cohen-Solal expand on this account.

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Yael Bartana - Two Minutes of Standstill Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790614 Acqn 24070 Pb 21x30cm 80pp 20col ills £15.95 Edited by Florian Malzacher and Stefanie Wenner With contributions by Yael Bartana, Christina von Braun, Boris Buden, Galit Eilat, Florian Malzacher, Ihab Saloul, Stefanie Wenner Inspired by the Israeli memorial day Yom HaShoah, the holiday that commemorates victims and resistance fighters of the Holocaust, Yael Bartana’s Two Minutes of Standstill took place on June 28, 2013, at 11 a.m., as part of the Impulse Theater Biennale in the city of Cologne. A symbolic interruption of everyday life, Two Minutes of Standstill was a political act, a social sculpture, and a collective performance.� Historically, the act of a silent standstill is a way to commemorate the dead. Bartana’s artwork, however, also calls for a reflection on the present. During the preparation for the performance a range of reactions occurred that were both positive and critical. What does the specific way this history is told in Germany tell us about the country today? And why did Bartana’s performance provoke such strong reactions? This catalogue is a documentation of Two Minutes of Standstill, revealing the ideas behind the work and the process that led to its realization. The book includes several essays that discuss possible interpretations and consequences of the artwork, questioning the role of history and commemoration in Germany today.

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The Art of Smallfilms - The work of Oliver Postgate & Peter Firmin Four Corners Books 2014 ISBN 9781909829022 Acqn 24110 Hb 26x28cm 320pp 340col ills £25 Foreword by Stewart Lee, Introduction by Jonny Trunk. Working from a barn in Kent, Postgate and Firmin produced some of the best-loved children’s television of the 1960s and 1970s, including Bagpuss, The Clangers, Ivor The Engine and Noggin The Nog. This book presents the Smallfilms archive – the puppets and cut-outs from these series, along with insights into how they were made. It’s a book full of pipe cleaners, cotton wool, wire and ping-pong balls, and celebrates the imagination and ingenuity of two artists who shaped the childhoods of a generation. ‘Jonny Trunk has taken the astonishingly thorough archive of Smallfilms… and presented it as one would a collection of artefacts in an exhibition detailing some much-admired 20th century art movement, like Fluxus or Dada. The Smallfilms’ partnership’s sacred relics repay his trust, and our repeated viewings.’ - Stewart Lee, from his introduction.

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Richard Forster – Modern Ingleby Gallery 2014 ISBN 9780956669285 Acqn 24115 Hb 21x17cm 88pp 61ills 18col £15 Richard Forster’s approach is seemingly straightforward, a deliberate choice of the most ordinary of mediums, but his resulting pencil drawings, made with an intense level of skill and a lonely determination over many months, ask awkward questions about the transition of such a deeply private activity into the public realm. Forster draws from photographs rather than from life – either using his own snapshots, or images found in magazines, books, or on the internet. At a glance his choice of subject can seem quite diverse (pastoral nudes from the 1920’s, seascapes from the coast near his home in the north of England and the meeting points of architecture and social change) but they are brought together by his extraordinary technique and by an underlying interest in measuring his experience of the world. Common to them all is a sense of the place of the individual within the collective: the private within the public. This extensively illustrated hardback book explores the development of Richard Forster’s work over the past decade. The publication includes new essays by Claire Gilman, Curator at The Drawing Center, New York and Richard Ingleby.

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Howard Hodgkin Gagosian Gallery (NY) 2014 ISBN 9781938748028 Acqn 24116 Hb 31x27cm 112pp 50ills 48col £58 Exploring the very nature of painting as both cultivated language and sheer expression, Hodgkin disregards the classical polarities of past and present, abstraction and representation, surface and frame. Assertive, compressed gestures, a lush palette, and the dynamic interchange of light and dark are all traits of his distinctive style. In each painting, Hodgkin's subject is a presence that is sensed rather than apprehended, and remains allusive and fragmentary. New works produced between London, Normandy, and Bombay, represent vibrant traces of location and experience—transcriptions of everyday encounters and memories into layered, richly coloured textures. This fully illustrated catalogue includes texts by Julian Barnes, James Fenton, and Susan Sontag, and a discussion of Hodgkin’s work between Jean-Pierre Criqui and Jeff Wall.

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Maurizio Cattelan Lucio Fontana Gagosian Gallery (NY) 2014 ISBN 9781935263982 Acqn 24117 Pb 15x21cm 28pp 8col ills £58 This exhibition puts in play two key artworks by two epochal artists who have probed the inextricable relationship of the sacred and profane to dramatic effect—Lucio Fontana, with his radical spatial propositions in the post-war period, and Maurizio Cattelan, with his dystopian pranks for the new millennium. The exhibition takes its title from Fontana's climactic painting of the early sixties, its hot pink, egg-shaped surface savaged by the thrusts of a sharp knife. Here Concetto spaziale, La fine di Dio is the altar at which Cattelan's HIM, the figure of small boy visible only from the back, turns out to be none other than Adolf Hitler, kneeling in impossible supplication before an impossible atonement. With a single, deft juxtaposition, the history of iconoclasm takes an exponential leap. With by Francesco Bonami.

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Peter Liversidge - Selected Proposals Ingleby Gallery 2014 ISBN 9780956669261 Acqn 24118 Pb 22x27cm 283pp 189col ills £35 This 284 page publication looks back at the last 8 years of Liversidge’s practice, and includes facsimiles of Liversidge’s original proposals for different artworks and performances alongside full-colour illustrations of their realisations. The book includes the transcript of a discussion between Peter Liversidge and Whitechapel Gallery curator, Daniel F. Herrmann and a new essay by writer and curator Clive Phillpot.

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Ed Templeton - Wayward Cognitions Um Yeah Press 2014 ISBN 9780985361129 Acqn 23881 Hb 20x27cm 160pp col ills £31.50 Wayward Cognitions is a collection of photographs by Ed Templeton (born 1972), chosen from his archives spanning 20 years. For this volume, Templeton selected photographs that do not fit into his usual manner of organizing by theme or subject. In past publications he has arranged his work in straightforward groupings such as Teenage Kissers, Teenage Smokers, or photographs shot from a moving car (as in his book The Seconds Pass). In Deformer he presented the photographs under the theme of suburbia. Wayward Cognitions represents the in-between moments that arise when shooting in the streets without theme or subject. "It's about looking, people watching, finding pleasure in the visual vignettes we glimpse each day," says Templeton. When those moments are removed from the context in which they were shot, dynamic stories can be told or imagined in book form. The photographs in Wayward Cognitions were printed by Templeton in his darkroom; he then created the layout and design himself, building the book from scratch in his home studio.

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The Emperor Of China, The Mute Canary & The Executioner Of Peru Wakefield Press 2014 ISBN 9781939663054 Acqn 23889 Pb 15x23cm 234pp 1ills £12.50 This volume collects three savage plays from the man André Breton designated as one of the only "true Dadas" (alongside Tristan Tzara and Francis Picabia): The Emperor of China (1916), The Mute Canary (1920) and The Executioner of Peru (1928). The first two have long been acknowledged as highpoints in the Dada movement's contribution to the theatre, but in their brutal depictions of violent sexuality and nightmarish tyranny, and their casts of manipulative bureaucrats, murderous henchmen, insane dictators, lascivious virgins, Ubuesque cuckolds and nonsense-spewing enigmas, these plays also echo the work of such other dissident surrealists of the era as Georges Bataille and André Masson. These unsettling theatrical works were significant anticipations of Antonin Artaud's Theater of Cruelty and the Theater of the Absurd of the 1960s. Georges Ribemont-Dessaignes (1884-1974) was a French writer and artist, and one of the fiercest adherents of the Paris Dada movement, acting as the group's secretary, and for which he authored some of its most vitriolic texts. Disenchanted with the Surrealist movement that followed, Ribemont-Dessaignes allied himself instead with such other Surrealist dissidents as René Daumal and the Grand Jeu. Throughout his long life, Ribemont-Dessaignes authored a sizable oeuvre of novels, plays, poetry, essays and memoirs, none of which has to date been translated into English.

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The Creator by Mynona Wakefield Press 2014 ISBN 9781939663078 Acqn 23891 Pb 12x18cm 160pp 19ills 1col £9.95 Billed by its author--the pseudonymous Mynona (German for “anonymous” backward)--as “the most profound magical experiment since Nostradamus,” The Creator tells the tale of Gumprecht Weiss, an intellectual who has withdrawn from a life of libertinage to pursue his solitary philosophical ruminations. At first dreaming and then actually encountering an enticing young woman named Elvira, Weiss discovers that she has escaped the clutches of her uncle, the Baron, who has been using her as a guinea pig in his metaphysical experiments. But the Baron catches up with them and persuades Gumprecht and Elvira to come to his laboratory, to engage in an experiment to bridge the divide between waking consciousness and dream by entering a mirror engineered to bend and blend realities. Mynona’s philosophical fable was described by the legendary German publisher Kurt Wolff as “a station farther on the imaginative train of thought of Hoffmann, Villiers, Poe, etc.,” when it appeared in 1920, with illustrations by Alfred Kubin (included here). With this first English-language edition, Wakefield Press introduces the work of a great forgotten German fabulist. Mentioned in his day in the same breath as Kafka, Mynona, aka Salomo Friedlaender (1871–1946), was a perfectly functioning split personality: a serious philosopher by day (author of Friedrich Nietzsche: An Intellectual Biography and Kant for Children) and a literary absurdist by night, who composed black humoured tales he called Grostesken. His friends and fans included Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin and Karl Kraus.

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Bad Luck, Hot Rocks - Toward a Geologic Conscience The Ice Plant 2014 ISBN 9780989785914 Acqn 23896 Pb 19x21cm 144pp 140col ills £27.95 The Petrified Forest National Park in Northeast Arizona protects one of the largest deposits of petrified wood in the world. Despite stern warnings, visitors remove several tons of petrified wood from the park each year, often returning these rocks by mail (sometimes years later), accompanied by a "conscience letter." These letters often include stories of misfortune attributed directly to their theft: car troubles, cats with cancer, deaths of family members, etc. Some writers hope that by returning these stolen rocks, good fortune will return to their lives, while others simply apologize or ask forgiveness. "They are beautiful," reads one letter, "but I can't enjoy them. They weigh like a ton of bricks on my conscience. Sorry…." Bad Luck, Hot Rocks documents this ongoing phenomenon, combining a series of original photographs of these otherworldly "bad luck rocks" with facsimiles of intimate, oddly entertaining letters from the park's archives.

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David Hammons/Yves Klein Yves Klein/David Hammons Aspen Art Press 2014 ISBN 9780934324656 Acqn 23932 Hb 20x26cm 208pp 70col ills £38.50 This volume offers a compelling examination of the surprising conceptual and visual correspondences between the works of these two pivotal artists known for their innovative practices. Klein (1928-1962) was a major figure in post-war art who opened up new possibilities for material, conceptual and performative expression, often touching on the metaphysical. Hammons (born 1943) is a conceptual artist whose works in performance, installation, sculpture, printmaking and other media confront contemporary realities with an often hard-hitting wit. This publication aims not to draw out any notion of influence or direct correlation between these bodies of work, but rather to elucidate a resonance between two artists who both engage transformative processes to invest the humblest of everyday materials with deep aesthetic significance.

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Arcana VII - Musicians on Music Hips Road/Tzadik 2014 ISBN 9780978833749 Acqn 23987 Pb 17x21cm 348pp 156ills £24.95 John Zorn's acclaimed Arcana series, now in its seventh installment, is a major source on new music theory and practice in the twenty-first century. The most varied collection to date, Arcana VII includes personal essays by New Music luminaries Pat Metheny, Bryce Dessner, Irvine Arditti, Thurston Moore, Kenny Werner, Eugene Chadbourne and David Krakauer alongside articles on musical theory and practice by veterans Joe Morris, Matt Shipp, Ben Goldberg, Ches Smith, George Steel, Billy Martin, Hilda Paredes and Gloria Coates and insightful new views by younger musicians Chris Otto, James Moore, Theresa Wong, Shanir Blumenkranz, Jay Campbell, Du Yun, James Ilgenfritz, Chuck Bettis, Aya Nishina and many others. A kaleidoscope of manifestoes, scores, interviews, critical papers, musical studies, rants and more, Arcana VII is a fascinating compendium from first word to last.

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Mark von Schlegell. Ickles, Etc. - Critical Spatial Practice 5 Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790737 Acqn 24130 Pb 11x15cm 172pp 9col ills £11.95 Edited by Nikolaus Hirsch, Markus Miessen Featuring artwork by Louise Lawler It’s the late twenty-first century. Technological, environmental, and social catastrophes have changed the meanings of culture, nature, and landscape forever. But in what remains of the international urban scene, architecture still refuses to admit it hasn’t been modern since the early twentieth century. Enter Ickles, Etc. Helming Los Angeles’s most misunderstood info-architecture practice is Henries Ickles, “the man without self-concept.” Time and again Ickles offers practical solutions to the most impenetrable theoretical entanglements of art, architecture, and science in the 2090s. In the fifth book in the Critical Spatial Practice series, Mark von Schlegell’s fusion of theory and fiction puts the SF back in notions of “speculative aesthetics.” A collection of interconnected comical sci-fi stories written for various exhibitions, Ickles, Etc. explores the future of architectural practice in light of developments in climatology, quasicrystalography, hyper-contemporary art, time travel, and the EGONET. Occupying New Los Angeles, visiting the Danish Expansion, Nieuw Nieuw Amsterdam, and 1970s St. Louis, the practice finds selves embroiled in very spicy mustards indeed, redefining info- architecture and jettisoning the burdensome “self-concept” of the Western tradition in the process. Just don’t expect a visit to the ruins of Disney Hall!

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Fear of Language - Poetic Series 3 Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790751 Acqn 24131 Pb 14x22cm 134pp 18col ills £9.50 Edited by Fiona Bryson, Keren Cytter Contributions by Judith Goldman, Eileen Myles, Katja Perat; artwork by Willem de Rooij The third issue in the Poetic Series takes its title Fear of Language from the work of emerging Slovenian poet Katja Perat, featured alongside poetry by Judith Goldman and excerpts from Eileen Myles’s forthcoming memoir, Afterglow. Artwork is provided by Willem de Rooij, whose series comprises collected images from the Internet displaying the aftermaths of destroyed and looted cultural heritage sites in conflict zones such as Iraq, Mali, Egypt, Syria, and Bosnia-Herzegovina. The Poetic Series brings together works of poetry and literature in combination with visual art, introducing young as well as established writers concerned with challenging the boundaries of traditional forms of narrative. Initiated by Keren Cytter and co-edited with Fiona Bryson, the quarterly publications focus on three experimental writers or poets per issue, and image content is supplied by one artist. Co-published with A.P.E (Art Projects Era) Design by Keren Cytter

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Calder After the War Pace London 2013 ISBN 9781909406032 Acqn 24113 Hb 28x32cm 164pp 130ills 50col £50 A major catalogue, Calder After the War, with an introduction by Sir Norman Foster and an important new essay by American art historian Barbara Rose, accompanies the 2013 Pace Gallery exhibition in London. It includes illustrations of the works in the exhibition as well as a chronology of the period, with dozens of never-before-published photographs documenting the artist, his studio, and his practice. Photographs of the important exhibitions that marked the period, as well as related documentation, will also be reproduced in the chronology. Also included is Jean-Paul Sartre’s celebrated essay from 1946 Les Mobiles de Calder, in the original French as well as in the English translation.

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Frank Walter Ingleby Gallery 2014 ISBN 9780956669278 Acqn 24122 Pb 17x21cm 40pp 44ills 43col £5 Francis Archibald Wentworth Walter was born in Antigua in 1926. He was prodigiously talented as both a writer and artist, but his undeniable genius was flawed by delusions of aristocratic grandeur, namely a belief that the white slave owners in his ancestry linked him to the noble houses of Europe, from Charles II to Franz Joseph of Austria and the Dukes of Buccleuch. As a young man, aged just 22 in 1948, Walter tasted success as the first man of colour to manage an Antiguan sugar plantation, but although hugely revered on the island for his intellect and achievements he left it all behind to tour Europe in pursuit of new skills and his own increasingly convoluted genealogical meanderings. Walter’s remarkable gifts were the product of a fertile, but fragile, mind and having returned to the Caribbean he spent the last twenty five years of his life in an isolated shack on an Antiguan hillside, surrounded by his writings, some 25,000 closely-typed pages of history, philosophy and autobiography, and by the extraordinary paintings and carvings that speak with such an unmistakable and visionary voice. This publication provides an introduction to Frank Walter’s life and work. It includes numerous colour reproductions of Walter’s paintings and essays by Barbara Paca, Art Historian, Landscape Architect and close friend of Frank Walter. The book also includes photographic portraits of Frank Walter taken by Sean Donnola.

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Quentin Blake - Nos Compagnons Quentin Blake 2014 ISBN 9780992892302 Acqn 24124 Pb 22x26cm 62pp 29col ills £15 In a career of some sixty years Quentin Blake has illustrated over three hundred books, and his collaboration with Roald Dahl and many other writers have made him internationally celebrated. In this new suite of drawings Quentin Blake gathers together some characteristic observations from the beaches of a parallel world; one that, nevertheless, can in some respects strikingly resemble our own.

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Christo and Jeanne-Claude - In/Out Studio Verlag Kettler 2014 ISBN 9781938922510 Acqn 24125 Hb 20x27cm 312pp 275ills 87col £39.50 Christo and Jeanne-Claude have created some of the most visually breathtaking works of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Their projects have traversed and transcended the boundaries of painting, sculpture and architecture. This lavishly designed, epic volume brings together a wealth of archival material and photographic documentation, put together in close collaboration with Christo, to offer an intimate behind-the-scenes view of the monumental installations with which the couple have dazzled the public.

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Zetesis - Research Generated by Curiosity - Vol. 1 No. 1 The Cruelty of the Classical Canon ARTicle Press 2014 ISBN 9781873352069 Acqn 24126 Pb 17x23cm 143pp 11ills 7col £10 With this debut volume of Zetesis, the artists, philosophers, designers, technicians and scientists involved with this project and committed to an ‘old fashioned’ kind of research – that which is generated by a curiosity and deep commitment to know (the whatever) – declare a new Daybreak. It is one that intends to take as a given, complexity and the irrational/imaginary in art and the sciences, physics and metaphysics, culture and its economies, skin and the pleasures of the flesh. It steps to the atonal rhythms of the mimetic patterns of camouflage and the flâneur. It aligns itself with the history of those who were (and remain) willing to ask and act upon this basic question: Supposing it could be otherwise, what would this otherwise look like, become, be, now? Preface: We Libidinal Economists! Daybreak: version √2 | Johnny Golding: The Paradoxical Economy of Crisis | Mattia Paganelli: The 9th Technology of Otherness | Johnny Golding: Discourse in a Coma | Daniel Rubinstein: Tape Plays Teletribunals | Lynn Turner: Becoming Gay | Norbert Finzsch: All about my Mother’s Shame | Henry Rogers: Echostate | Stephen Kennedy: A Paradoxical Architecture | Hannah Lammin: Mimetic Rationality | Mark Walker: Intimate Strategies | Perry Zurn: She-wolf | Sarah Mann-O'Donnell: Jennuflectings II | Virgil Brower: Artworks Regrettee Norm | Meryl Donoghue: Guilt is a Terrible Ghost | Meryl Donoghue: TALEPIEJ | Jakub Ceglarz: Imagination Constructs | Liam Worth: Queer Anatomy | Hannah Honeywill: My body is Your Body | AMAE

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Zetesis - Research Generated by Curiosity - Vol. 1 No. 2 - Wet-Dry-Thick-Thin ARTicle Press 2014 ISBN 9781873352076 Acqn 24127 Pb 17x23cm 121pp 65ills 62col £15 The second issue of Zetesis includes: Beyond the Cooked and the Raw: Abjection and art as transgression | Estelle Barrett The Japanese Jewel Beetle: A painter’s challenge | Franziska Schenk, Bodo D. Wilts and Doekele G. Stavenga Painting. Materials. Matters. Pip Seymour in conversation with the painter Yvonne Hindle | Yvonne Hindle The Archive and Public Art: Archiving the materialities of our times | Sian Everitt Vaughan Material: Photography: Art that draws on, with, and against photography | Andrea Jespersen [Un]common Sense and [Un]disciplined Gestures | Sheena Calvert There is a gardener that works night and day... | David Cheeseman Through the Looking Glass: The cryptesthesia of photography | Grace Williams The Anti-Materialist Ontology of Mystical Realism: How speculation can work against the speculative absolute | Ole Hagen At Every Given Moment | Dane Worallo Pixelpaisleyportal: The materialisation of imagination in 8 pixelated steps| Jennifer Wright Becoming Grey (the unending of) | Samira Nejad

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Frans Hals - A Phenomenon nai010 publishers 2014 ISBN 9789462081680 Acqn 24026 Pb 17x24cm 168pp 160col ills £15.75 The Haarlem painter Frans Hals is, like Rembrandt and Vermeer, one of the greatest painters of the Dutch Golden Age. In this book, art historian Antoon Erftemeijer acquaints the reader with Frans Hals in an accessible and surprising way: what did he look like, who were his predecessors and contemporaries, and what makes him so unique?

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Acid 3 Surfrelated Publishing Project 19 80 Editions 2014 ISBN 9782919159123 Acqn 24167 Pb 17x24cm 128pp col ills £13.50 The magazine about surfing and all things tangential thereto returns with a new issue featuring short stories, what it’s like to become a surfer in Slovenia, figurative coffins in Ghana, a catalogue of surfing linguistics and slang, the hidden life of weather buoys, photography by Will Adler, music about surfing from the collection of Franck Trouet, personal perspectives on the winter season in Hawaii and Roger Jardine’s candid view of Durban, all interspersed with generous helpings of surfing photography and artwork.

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Aesthetic Politics In Fashion Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790799 Acqn 24201 Pb 17x22cm 260pp 74ills 47col £17.95 Texts by Endora Comer-Arldt, Ilka Becker, Tanja Bradaric, Martina Fineder, Eva Flicker, Elke Gaugele, Birgit Haehnel, Alicia Ku ̈ ühl, Michael R. M ller, Sabina Muriale, Taro Ohmae, Barbara Schrödl, Ruby Sircar, Birke Sturm, Monica Titton Aesthetic Politics in Fashion outlines critical studies in the present cross-sections of fashion, art, politics, and global capitalism. Critically examining contemporary collaborations of artists, media, and fashion labels, this groundbreaking anthology locates fashion within ecological and ethical discourses, postcolonial styles, and critical reflections on whiteness. Contributions from a distinguished group of international scholars debate fashion as a cultural phenomenon at the intersection of artistic, creative, economic, and everyday practices. Aesthetic economies, the production of space, and alternative aesthetic politics are explored from interdisciplinary angles: art history, cultural science, sociology, design, and fashion studies. Aesthetic Politics in Fashion advances theorizing of fashion as an aesthetic metapolitics.

art september 2014

Documents

jim lambies

lambies work

naeemeh naeemaei dreams

goal of dreams

development of lambies

lambies words

environmental art

wild nature