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Herman De Vries - Infinity In Finity Les Presses Du Reel 2014 ISBN 9782914291606 Acqn 21494 Pb 17x21cm 24pp 1col ills 11 Born 1931 in Alkmaar (The Netherlands), Herman de Vries lives and works in Eschenau (Germany). In this artist's book "infinity in finity" is endlessly repeated.

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Kees Goudzwaard - Between Red And A Transparent Plane ROMA Publications 2014 ISBN 9789491843259 Acqn 24281 Pb 21x28cm 32pp 24col ills 15.75 Published on the occasion of an exhibition of work by Dutch artist Kees Goudzwaard at De Vleeshal, Middelburg, this presentation of fourteen artworks enigmatic patches and fields of colour set against neutral monochrome backgrounds unfolds to reveal installation views of the exhibition. Evocative of both macrocosms and microcosms, Goudzwaards distinctive style seems to draw upon the tangible, such as mineralogy and microbiology, to vastly incomprehensible mechanisms, like tectonic shifts and the spaces between the stars.

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Yoshitomo Nara + Yng - The Crated Rooms In Iceland Crymogea 2014 ISBN 9789935420183 Acqn 24382 Hb 23x21cm 28pp 28col ills 54 Easily one of the most important Japanese artists of the recent past, Yoshitomo Nara (born 1959) has rocketed to worldwide fame for his darkly whimsical figures that put a creepy twist on childhood ingenuousness. For his 2009 exhibition at the Reykjavik Art Museum, Nara presented his works within the wooden shipping crates in which they had been transported to the museum. Pictures were hung on the outside of the crates, and figures lurked within their interior nooks. This beautifully produced board book records and continues the show's themes of containment and transportation: it features windows that can be opened to reveal the youthful figures ensconced within their confinements, waiting to be freed by the participation of the reader.

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Yan Pei-ming - Night Of Colours Les Presses Du Reel 2014 ISBN 9782840667346 Acqn 24435 Hb 29x23cm 80pp 38ills 26col 21 This publication presents a series of new paintings, done in homage to Vincent van Gogh, in which colour occupies an unusual place in the work of the Franco-Chinese artist, as well as major works by Yan Pei-Ming related to the theme of the night. The body of the book is framed by some archival footage used by Yan Pei-Ming as iconographic source for his paintings, which have never been published before.

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Post-revolutionary Iranian Art Nazar Research Cultural Institute 2014 no ISBN Acqn 24491 Pb 20x26cm 150pp 150ills 100col 38 Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at Brunei Gallery in London, which gathered a selection of artworks from post-revolutionary Iran, this catalogue and accompanying essay reflect perhaps the first coordinated efforts to analyse and contextualise recent Iranian art practice within the nations social history and in comparison to the broader body of modern Iranian art. For curators Aras Amiri, David Hodge, Rozita Sharafjahan and Hamed Yousefi it has been a challenging task, as art historical research in the field remains fragmentary, lacking archival material. Combining formalist art history with social history, they hope to shed new light on the artists and work.

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Mould 1: Curated by Studio Miessen Mould Press 2015 ISBN 9788894036800 Acqn 24691 Pb 17x24cm 184pp 120ills 60col 19 Guest-curated by architect Markus Miessen, this inaugural edition is an open, flexible platform for transdisciplinary investigation that aims to interpret the complexity of contemporary culture by stimulating a dialogue between its multiple forms and contaminations. Central to this is the concept of the mould as conveyor of the notions of cultural imprint and press: recording the existing and generating new ideas. Cultures of Assembly is offered as this editions conceptual framework. With diverse contributions by Studio Miessen, Marcus Knupp, Maria Lind, Patricia Reed, Barbas Lopes Arquitectos, Hito Steyerl, Trish Lorenz, Jonas Staal, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Federica Bueti and many more.

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Projective - Essays About The Work Of Victor Burgin Les Presses Du Reel 2014 ISBN 9782940159659 Acqn 24740 Pb 17x14cm 172pp 30ills 21.50 The work of British conceptual artist and writer Victor Burgin revolves around the relationship between image and text, one in which neither optical nor verbal predominates, and explores the territory between still and moving images. Four essays are included in this volume, written by D.N. Rodowick, Glru akmak, Homay King and Anthony Vidler, each analysing various aspects of Burgins attention to the affective agency of space in his work, from orientalism and the cultural politics of modernity, to viewing Burgins work through the lens of Henri Bergson and Gilles Deleuze. Also, the artists own thinking about visual culture is revealed in an interview with David Campany.

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Pierre Leguillon - Le Tapis (Fair Use) ROMA Publications 2015 ISBN 9789491843273 Acqn 24743 Pb 22x22cm 18pp col ills 15 Distributed on the occasion of the exhibition The Museum of Mistakes: Contemporary Art and Class Struggle, conceived by Pierre Leguillon and bringing together works he has created over the last fifteen years from reproduced images, this folding brochure/poster continues in this spirit by mimicking the economy of means and autonomy of images Leguillon deploys in his work. It proposes an exhibition model that attempts to foil or declassify the hierarchies of art, as each work is informed by a principle of movement, or even reversibility, and reflects a perpetual process of emitting and receiving information, spurring us to rethink the conditions of the reception of art.

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Grant Watson - How We Behave If I can't Dance 2014 ISBN 9789081447171 Acqn 24733 Pb 21x27cm 64pp 45ills 42col 15 The research project 'How We Behave' by Grant Watson is inspired by an interview of the same name with Michel Foucault published in Vanity Fair in 1983, in which Foucault asked why cant life be the material for a work of art? In more than fifty interviews, conducted in New York, So Paulo, Los Angeles, San Francisco, London and Amsterdam, the project explores how people shape their lives. This publication includes an essay by Watson introducing notions of "care of the self", the original Vanity Fair interview and new interviews with Paul Rabinow and Leo Bersani.

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Gregg Bordowitz - Taking Voice Lessons If I can't Dance 2014 ISBN 9789081447188 Acqn 24735 Pb 21x27cm 64pp 15 Invited as a researcher for the If I Can't Dance's Performance in Residence programme, Bordowitz posed himself a guiding question: Is poetics a relevant term for current art-making, and if so how? With this incisive query, Bordowitz brings to light insights gleaned over three decades work across video-media, art criticism, coalition-based AIDS activism, poetry and pedagogic practice, revisiting the abiding concerns in his work for freedom, autonomy and self-determination. The publication includes critical texts written by Bordowitz over 2013 and 2014, poetry and essays by Robert Duncan, a psychoanalytic text by Wilfred Bion, and poetry by Essex Hemphill and Ari Banias.

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Louise Lawler, Sven Luetticken - A Movie Will Be Shown Without The Picture If I can't Dance 2014 ISBN 9789081447164 Acqn 24736 Pb 21x27cm 64pp 20ills 10col 15 Louise Lawler's 'A Movie Will Be Shown Without the Picture' (1979) presents a movie in a regular cinema environment, but without any moving images. This publication is the result of an extensive research project into 'A Movie' and its 2012 iteration, undertaken with researcher Sven Ltticken and Louise Lawler. The publication includes a research essay by Ltticken that places 'A Movie' in the context of cultural developments in the 1970s and works by the Pictures Generation, and contributions by art historians Debbie Broekers, Eve Dullaart, and Danil van der Poel.

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Jacob Korczynski - I See / La Camera: I If I can't Dance 2014 ISBN 9789081447157 Acqn 24737 Pb 21x27cm 64pp 20ills 6col 15 'I See/La Camera: I' is the outcome of an extensive research project by Jacob Korczynski into Babette Mangolte's film 'The Camera: Je, La Camera: I' (1977), and Lucy Lippard's novel 'I See/You Mean' (1979). It investigates the relationship between the subjective role of the camera in Mangoltes film and the simultaneous exploration of text and image in Lippards novel. The publication, designed by Will Holder, includes a research essay by Korczynski, a visual essay by Babette Mangolte composed for this publication, and a collaborative text/drawing by Lucy Lippard and Sol LeWitt produced during the development of her novel.

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If I Can't Dance Artist Publications, Collection Edition V If I can't Dance 2014 ISBN 9789492139030 Acqn 24734 Pb 21x27cm 48pp 10col ills 15 Gerry Bibby's volume introduces the process of writing his novel 'The Drumhead' and includes redacted editorial correspondence with novelist Natasha Soobramanien. The volume about Sara van der Heide's work 'Mother Earth Breathing' includes an essay by Nikos Papastergiadis. Snejanka Mihaylova's volume about her work 'Inner Stage' includes an annotated bibliography and part of the musical score to her performance 'A Song'. Emily Roysdon's volume includes the original textual score to her new work 'Uncounted*'.

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Takato Yamamoto / Kyoka Izumi - Grass Labyrinth Editions Treville 2014 ISBN 9784309920306 Acqn 24349 Hb 15x22cm 252pp 86ills 28col 30 Text in Japanese

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Wabi-Sabi - Further Thoughts Imperfect Publishing 2015 ISBN 9780981484655 Acqn 24808 Pb 14x22cm 96pp 23ills 13.95 Wabi-Sabi: Further Thoughts is a complement to Wabi-Sabi: for Artists, Designers, Poets & Philosophers, the seminal volume on the beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. Author Leonard Koren, who trained as an artist and architect, is a design and aesthetics theorist, whose books include Which Aesthetics Do You Mean: Ten Definitions.

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Mikkel Bolt Rasmussen - Playmates and Playboys at a Higher Level Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791055 Acqn 24751 Pb 10x15cm 64pp 15ills 6 J. V. Martin and the Situationist International. Considering these facts the Central Committee of the Situationist International: proclaims that all followers of Nash, the falsifier, and Elde, his agent, will be considered enemies of the SI. confers on J. V. Martin the supreme authority to represent the Situationist International in the area covered by the former Scandinavian section (Denmark, Finland, Norway, and Sweden) together with the task and the responsibility to reorganize the true Situationist elements in these countries before the opening of the 6th SI congress in Antwerp. For the C. C. of the SI. 23 March, 1962 Debord, A. Kotanyi, U. Lausen, R. Vaneigem Proclamation from the Internationale Situationniste, 1962 After the infamous split in the Situationist International in 1962, the Danish artist J. V. Martin was unexpectedly put in charge of the groups Scandinavian section. This book is the first presentation of Martins strange trajectory within the SI, in which he would remain a member until the groups dissolution in 1972. All the Kings Horses series, edited by Daniel Birnbaum and Kim West.

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Nicole Brenez - We Support Everything since the Dawn of Time that has Struggled and Still Struggles Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791062 Acqn 24754 Pb 10x15cm 72pp 15ills 6 In October 1963 I met Gil J., and we schlepped to the scrap-metal market. [...] It was there that I came up with the following definition of Lettrism: Lettrism: 1) technical definition: smithy, arsenal, place where unused weapons are stored; 2) volcanology: rumbling that announces certain volcanic eruptions. Examples: 1) Thanks to L., insurgent groups were armed 2) The people of Herculaneum did not pay heed to L. [Acad.] Jean-Louis Brau, 1972 The Lettrist movement is unique in the history of avant-garde formations. Founded by Isidore Isou in Paris immediately after World War II, it remains active to this day, having lost none of its radicalism, either aesthetic or ethical. In this book, Nicole Brenez presents the key figures and the basic concepts of Lettrist cinema, the art form within which their formal innovations proved the most far-reaching, prefiguring the breakthroughs of the nouvelle vague and the experiments of expanded cinema. All the Kings Horses series, edited by Daniel Birnbaum and Kim West.

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Charlie Chaplin - The Keystone Album. The Invention of the Tramp Editions Xavier Barral 2014 ISBN 9782365110556 Acqn 24136 Hb 40x31cm 112pp 795ills 95 A rare example in images of the beginning of Charlie Chaplins career as an actor, this album brings together photograms of 29 of the 36 first short films in which Charlie Chaplin played in 1914. As the pages turn, we witness the birth of the Tramp character, who gradually takes over in front of and behind the camera on both the script and the direction. The Keystone Album was restored, and this book released, thanks to the support of the Fondation BNP Paribas Suisse. This book has been released on the occasion of the exhibition Chaplin, between wars and peace (1914-1940) presented at the Muse de l'lyse in Lausanne through January 4th, 2015.

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Olaf Holzapfel - Die Technik Des Landes (The Technology Of The Land) Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956790911 Acqn 24836 Hb 23x31cm 104pp 55col ills 21.50 Olaf Holzapfels work proves the indissoluble connection between human settlement, technique, and abstraction. Elementary space-generating methods like plaiting, weaving, and latticingage-old settler techniquesstem from natural linear entities. These techniques are exceptional in that they dont differentiate between technique or machine, or whether a structure is purely functional, for living, or auxiliary. Holzapfel scrutinizes the perception and presence of material within space and whether an image discourse can exist without these physical modules. For him the landscape, and the material it contains, is more than a symbol that fixes identity; rather, it becomes a transmitter. Holzapfels exhibition at the Lindenau-Museum Altenburg, on occasion of being awarded the Gerhard-Altenbourg Prize 2014, explores the interstices between craft and art, and consequently, between orality and literacy. Much of his work presented in this catalogueframework installations, hay images, and straw images are displayed in this bookwas made together with farmers and craftspeople; by transforming age-old handiwork into contemporary art, Holzapfel unsettles the division between nature and culture, and tradition and modernity.

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Hamlet, Mise-en-Scene - EXTRA TROUBLE. Jack Smith In Frankfurt Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956790676 Acqn 24837 Pb 22x28cm 288pp 200col ills 15.95 Texts by Sylvre Lotringer, Birte Lschenkohl, Sophie von Olfers, Laura Preston, Juliane Rebentisch, Mark von Schlegell, et al. The publication brings together extensive material from Hamlet, mise-en-scne presented at Portikus, along with recently restored as well as never-published stills, drawings, and writings by American filmmaker and artist Jack Smith, related to his film Hamlet in the Rented World (A Fragment) (197073). Hamlet, mise-en-scne, directed by Mark von Schlegell, was an adaptation that retold Shakespeares most abused tragedy while channelling the ghost of Jack Smith. The two-night rendition of Hamlet was performed by members of Stdelschules Pure Fiction seminar, presented here alongside a rare selection of works by Smith, both from private collections and from the Jack Smith Archive.

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Frank Bowling Traingone Art And Theory Publishing 2014 ISBN 9789198157369 Acqn 24483 Pb 23x26cm 120pp col ills 24.50 Frank Bowling, born 1934 in British Guiana, has achieved recognition in recent years as one of the most important British post-war artists, and has come to ever-greater international attention. He was elected into the Royal Academy of Arts in 2005. Traingone focuses on a selection of works from the period 1979-96. These paintings are filled by a lyrical presence that summons up visions of the natural world. This book is published in conjunction with his exhibition at the Spritmuseum in Stockholm.

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Susan Philipsz - The Distant Sound Art And Theory Publishing 2014 ISBN 9789198157345 Acqn 24272 Pb 17x24cm 90pp 45col ills 17.50 This book is part of the In Site project, which highlights the common landscape and rich cultural heritage of resund and the North Sea in Scandinavia, and is the outcome of a collaboration between museums in Denmark, Sweden and Norway. The project is defined by three words: coast, culture and communication. Susan Philipsz is best known for her sound installations, and here she explores themes of distance and separation through an artwork that centres on the Grimeton Radio Station, completed in 1924, which broadcasts radio sequences relayed through a chain of nine locations, together forming a common historical heritage and identity.

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Monir Sharoudy Farmanfarmaian - Infinite Possibility Mirror Works And Drawings 1974-2014 Fundacao De Serralves 2014 ISBN 9789727393107 Acqn 24513 Hb 17x24cm 200pp 97ills 55col 41.95 Published on the occasion of the first museum survey of mirror works and drawings by Iranian artist Monir Shahroudy Farmanfarmaian, held at the Serralves Museum of Contemporary Art, this catalogue offers a critical and art historical view on a singular body of work produced over a career of more than 40 years. According to curator Suzanne Cotter, Her history, like so many artists from Iran and the broader Middle East, is one of starts and ruptures. Although the artist spent much of her life in North America, her formal language was shaped and nourished by the traditions of Iran, allowing her oeuvre to form connections outside the dialectic of East and West.

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Jean Desmet's Dream Factory - The Adventurous Years of Film (1907-1916) nai010 publishers 2015 ISBN 9789462081741 Acqn 24524 Pb 21x26cm 192pp 230ills 200col 29 The early twentieth-century film industry grew with the help of passionate entrepreneurs like Jean Desmet (18751956), who went from being a carnival showman to one of the Netherlands' leading cinema operators, and finally became the country's first professional film distributor. The first decades of film were its most adventurous yearsa period of astonishing technological development, artistic ingenuity and creative entrepreneurship. With his cinema company, Desmet was part of the transformation of cinema from a novelty into a major popular entertainment industry. The Jean Desmet Collection, now housed at the EYE Film Institute, Amsterdam, consists of more than 900 films, mostly from France, America, Italy and England, including masterpieces that were considered lost for decades. In this publication the story of the early days of the medium is told through films in the Desmet Collection, along with related posters, correspondence, photographs and stills. Edited by Marente Bloemheuvel, Jaap Guldemond, Mark-Paul Meyer. Text by Rommy Albers, Soeluh van den Berg, Ivo Blom, Peter Delpeut, Marc-Paul Meyer, David Robinson, Elif Rongen, Leanne van Schijndel.

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30 Ans Du Frac Champagne-ardenne Les Presses Du Reel 2014 ISBN 9782907331296 Acqn 24530 Pb 16x23cm 240pp 115ills 105col 16.50 In 2013, the 23 FRACS celebrated their 30th anniversary by organizing together an important national series of exhibitions. Under the title 'Les Pliades', they prepared a project, with the way artists look at public collections. Throughout this year, each FRAC invited one or more artists/creators to conceive an exhibition based on its collection. The FRAC Champagne-Ardenne chose to invite Gavillet & Rust, who have been in charge of its graphic identity since 2008. The possibilities to look at a collection are numerous. The members of Gavillet & Rust were duly invited to write their own narrative, and broached the question in quite an unusual way, by applying to the collection the codes and systems which they use in their everyday practice of graphic design and art.

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Joao Maria Gusmao & Pedro Paiva - Teoria Extraterrestre Mousse Publishing 2014 ISBN 9788867491339 Acqn 24726 Hb 19x30cm 258pp 200ills 100col 35 Texts by Mattia Denisse, Luigi Fassi, Chris Fitzpatrick, Xavier Franceschi, Massimiliano Gioni, Joo Maria Gusmo, Katia Mazzucco, Philippe-Alain Michaud, Olivier Michelon, Alice Motard, Pedro Paiva, Gonalo Pena, Joo Ribas, Alberto Salvadori, Antonio Scoccimarro, and Marcus Steinweg For almost 15 years now, the two Portuguese artists Joo Maria Gusmao + Pedro Paiva have been constructing an imaginative journey through films, photographs, installations, and sculptures that encapsulate philosophical, existential, and conceptual issues. Produced in conclusion to a series of exhibitionswhich began in 2011 with Alien Theory at frac le-de-france, and le plateau in Paris, by way of Museo Marino Marini in Florence, and ended with Papagaio, 201415 (premiering at HangarBicocca in Milan then moving on to the Camden Arts Centre in London)Teoria Extraterrestre is the most complete monograph to date on Joo Maria Gusmo + Pedro Paiva, condensing nearly four years of work and thought that have been compiled into a film cosmogony by the artists themselves.

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Loris Greaud - Crossfading + CD Dis Voir 2015 ISBN 9782914563758 Acqn 24774 Pb 17x22cm 64pp 60ills 27 This audio art book documents an experiment in binaural sound by French artist Loris Graud (born 1979), performed around the world over five years. Using binaural beats, CROSSFADING guides the listener to the threshold of sleep. The book includes MRI images of the artist listening to the piece.

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Rossella Biscotti - For The Mnemonist, S. ROMA Publications 2015 ISBN 9789491843303 Acqn 24835 Pb 14x20cm 152pp 90ills 30col 24.95 For her first solo exhibition in Belgium, acclaimed Italian artist Rossella Biscotti draws a trajectory across spaces that evoke important historical processes and links them to the sciences of the mind. This book, published in conjunction with the exhibition, follows this example by interweaving narratives in relation to the concrete and discrete architecture of memory, dreams, and ideas. While revisiting sites of punishment, the gathering of works embodies the ability of the human mind to resist oppression, tracing individual destinies or collective endeavours through a combination of materials, language, and scientific techniques. With a text by Adam Kleinman.

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