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Dear readers and booksellers,

We are proud to present to you the additions to our catalogue for the current year and the first months of 2025. The list covers a wide range of topics, linked together by the elegance and quality that have always characterised 5 Continents Editions’ publications.

In Seeds and Shells , Paul Starosta’s photographs take us on an extraordinary visual voyage of discovery through these tiny masterpieces of nature. The 200 shots in these two books reveal an incredible variety of shapes, colours and details normally hidden from the human eye.

Luigi Spina figures in three titles. In Red Figures , he trains his lens on the Magna Graecia vases kept in the Ridola Museum in Matera, revealing a technical mastery and a wealth of meanings that transcend the boundaries of time. In the fourth and final volume of the Canova Four Tempos series, Spina takes us once again into the creative world of the Neoclassical master, disclosing the hidden soul of the works in the Antonio Canova plaster cast museum in Possagno, while in Culture(s) he zooms unto the details of 99 miniature treasures from the Donnadieu Collection, in a journey across five continents and (almost) all historical eras.

Design and craftsmanship are the common feature of some significant new publications. The impressive monograph Babled. La main des autres explores the multicultural world of a designer who has made collaboration with master craftsmen his signature style. The wood sculptures in Ernst Gamperl seem to bring the souls of centuries-old trees back to life, while the Japanese artist Uehara Michiko turns into sublime fabrics her aesthetic quest for lightness, weaving gossamer threads delicate as dragonfly wings in her atelier on the island of Okinawa, as described in Lighter than Air.

Finally, in Holding the Shadow by the Hand , Maria Lai (1919–2013) transforms fairy tales into works of textile art, interweaving simple stories and profound reflections. Taking her cue from local myths and legends, the Sardinian artist embarks on an inner journey to bring out the essence of shadows, symbols of the dark corners present in each of us.

We would like to thank all those who continue to place their trust in our publishing house throughout the publishing process and, above all, to encourage all those who would like to act on their curiosity and passion for the world of art and beauty, of which 5 Continents Editions has been an ambassador for many years.

Eric Ghysels Publisher

NEW TITLES

Photography

[8] Shells

[11] Seeds

[53] Canova Four Tempos. Volume IV Sculptures from the Gypsotheca of Possagno

Archaeology

[12] Red Figures Vase Painting from the Museo Ridola

Design

[18] Babled La main des autres

Asian Ar t

[22] Lighter than Air

The Flight of the Dr agonfly, Uehara Michiko

Modern Ar t

[26] Helen McNicoll An Impressionist Jour ney

Contemporar y Art

[15] Er nst Gamperl Poetry in Wood

[31] Samantha McEwen. London Paris New York Works and Life from the 1980s to the Present

[32] Passenger of Silence

My Quest for the Ancient Arts in Post-Cultural Revolution China

[35] Lor is Cecchini

[38] Nothing too Beautiful for the Gods

Today’s Altars and Artists from the Global World

[46] Mar ia Lai. Holding the Shadow by the Hand

Outsider Ar t

[41] Magalí Her rera A Spar k of Light in this World

[43] Ar t Brut CUBA

[44] Jaime Fer nandes

Applied Ar ts

[51] Costume Balls

Ancient Ar t

[54] Culture(s) A World Tour of 99 Miniature Treasures

African Ar t

[57] Ar t of the Cameroon Grasslands

[59] BEST SELLERS

[60] RECENT TITLES

[62] DISTRIBUTION

24 x 24 cm, 240 pages

196 colour illustrations

Hardback

English edition

£ 36.00 | US$ 48.00 | € 40.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-082-5

SHELLS

Photographs by Paul Starosta

Preface by Paolo Portoghesi

Molluscs are extraordinary builders; indeed, their architectural skills are almost unparalleled in the animal world. Who among us has failed to marvel at the wonderful structure of the smallest shell picked up on the beach? Some enthusiasts collect them throughout their lives – attracted by their beauty if they are aesthetes, or sought out for scientific purposes, as in the case of Jacques Senders. In this book, Paul Starosta’s spectacular photographs take the reader on a journey through this astounding collection, first started fifty years ago. These shells, marvels of nature as they are, naturally suggest exotic or futuristic architecture, ancient or Art Nouveau vases, or even precious stones or volcanic rocks, and reaffirm the importance of nature as a source of inspiration for artists and architects. By celebrating the extraordinary variety and architectural refinement of the shells in Jacques and Rita Senders’s collection, the book reveals a world where nature far surpasses human imagination and invention.

At the end of the volume, miniature photographs are accompanied by scientific information on shells: their life, characteristics and different families.

Publication date: January 2025

Paul Starosta is a biologist and photographer. Combining his twin passions of nature and photography, he has published over 40 award-winning books on plants and animals. He is the subject of issue 129 (2010) of Photo Poche, a series created by Robert Delpire and published by Actes Sud, which has become a yardstick in its field throughout the world.

Paolo Portoghesi (1931–2023) took part in the theoretical developments of contemporary architecture in Italy, alternating his involvement in the debate concerning the future of architecture with intense activity in the field of historiographic research. The personal relationship Portoghesi developed with history and modernity increasingly influenced his architectural design over the years.

24 x 24 cm, 240 pages

196 colour illustrations

Hardback

English edition

£ 36.00 | US$ 48.00 | € 40.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-079-5

SEEDS

Photographs by Paul Starosta

Text by Michel Butor

Paul Starosta is a French nature photographer, famous for finding and highlighting the artistic beauties of nature. The 200 superb photographs in this book illustrate the splendour and complexity of seeds, including the very smallest specimens. Drawing on the collections of Jean Laty and the La Voie des Fleurs society in Draveil (France), they showcase the infinite shapes, colours and stunning details to be found in objects often ignored: some seeds look like flowers, others stones or sculptures, while still others suggest jewels fashioned by some imaginary goldsmith. The almost magical beauty of these little masterpieces, which enclose the mystery of life in both the infinitely small and the infinitely large, is brought out by the play of light and shadow. These little wonders conjure up others and are reminiscent of works of art or architectural features. Human beings are themselves nature and have found inspiration in it to create their own bold and curious works.

At the end of the volume, miniature photographs are accompanied by scientific information on the seeds: their life, characteristics and different families.

Publication date: January 2025

Michel Butor (1926–2016), French novelist and essayist, was one of the leading figures in the Nouveau Roman movement in the 1950s. He studied philosophy at the Sorbonne, graduating in 1947, and taught in Egypt, Manchester, Salonika, the United States and Geneva. He won numerous prizes, including the Apollo Prize, the Fénéon Prize and the Renaudot Prize.

19.5 x 26 cm, 176 pages

165 colour illustrations

Hardback

Bilingual edition: English and Italian

£ 41.00 | US$ 54.00 | € 45.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-029-0

RED FIGURES

VASE PAINTING FROM THE RIDOLA MUSEUM

Photographs by Luigi Spina

Texts by Annamaria Mauro, Claude Pouzadoux, Adriana Sciacovelli, Luigi Spina

The Italiote red-figure vases from Magna Graecia and the Rizzon Collection, preserved in the National Museums of Matera’s Ridola Museum, offer an opportunity to perceive the ancient world with new eyes and to tease out its innermost meanings, thanks to the photography of Luigi Spina. Significant testimony to vase painting between the 5th and 4th centuries BCE, the museum’s artefacts largely date back to the discoveries of Domenico Ridola (1841–1932) and form part of elaborate funerary assemblages, in which everyday life is reflected in myths, and possess great aesthetic and historical value.

In the book, black is the protagonist: it enhances the red figures and brings out the keen eye of photographer Luigi Spina. Anatomical details, drapery, and decorative motifs emerge in all their strength without the filter of museum cases, while touches of white enrich the vases’ bichrome palette. Photographing a work of art means capturing its deep meaning to communicate it to the world. Far from the idea of a museum catalogue, the volume is rather a figurative atlas of antiquity.

Publication date: July 2024

Luigi Spina , a photographer, has published several volumes with 5 Continents Editions, including The Buchner Boxes (2014), Hemba (2017), and Mythical Diary (2017), dedicated to the Farnese Collection. With the same publisher, he created the series “Hidden Treasures”: The Farnese Cup , The Alexander Mosaic , San Domenico by Niccolò dell’Arca , The Riace Bronzes (2022), the project Canova Four Tempos (2020–2024) and the largescale photographic project Inside Pompeii (2023).

26.5 x 32.5 cm, 256 pages

209 colour illustrations

Hardback with jacket

Trilingual edition: English, German and French

£ 68.00 | US$ 90.00 | € 75.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-086-3

ERNST GAMPERL POETRY IN WOOD

Texts

by Frank Matthias Kammel and Antonia Boström

The relationship Ernst Gamperl, an artist of international renown, has developed with wood as a living material, toghether with his acknowledgment of the inescapable nature of serendipity, is a source of creative inspiration as well as the driving forces behind his work – a work revolving around the artist’s deep connection with nature and respect for his raw material. The wood worked by Gamperl sometimes comes from majestic trees tens or even hundreds of years old – grown in nature, it is nature that has often sent these unmistakable creatures crashing down. Trees are an integral part of creation, symbols of life and strength that Gamperl has studied and “perceived” for many years in symbiosis with their essence and nature. His ability to combine an unconventional approach to the material with a revolutionary technique and an original interpretation honed over many years results in works that stand out for their elegance and charisma. Gamperl stretches technique to its limits in creating powerful sculptures that unfailingly stir the viewer, who discovers something never before encountered.

Publication date: May 2025

Exhibitions

Bayerisches Nationalmuseum, Munich, May 14 – October 5, 2025

Sarah Myerscough Gallery, London, Spring 2025

Galerie Handwerk, Munich, June 27 – August 2, 2025

The monograph provides a comprehensive analysis of the life and work of Ernst Gamperl, tracing his extraordinary career spanning almost forty years. Born in Munich and trained as a carpenter, Gamperl taught himself to use his skills for artistic ends, attracting international attention very early on. Living and working in northern Italy, close to the hive of creativity that is Milan, was instrumental in his development. Frequenting artists, musicians, designers, photographers, museum curators and gallery owners, he soon began to build a network of important partners. His works are exhibited in numerous museums and private collections around the world, including the Issey Miyake Collection in Japan, the LOEWE Foundation in Madrid, the Victoria and Albert Museum in London, the Amorepacific Museum of Art in Seoul, the Fond National d’Art Contemporain in Paris, and the Neue Sammlung in Munich. Among his numerous awards, Gamperl was the very first winner of the LOEWE Craft Prize in 2017, one of the most important art prizes in the world.

Frank Matthias Kammel is a German art historian and General Director of the Bavarian National Museum in Munich. He studied art history, classical archaeology and aesthetics at Humboldt University, specialising in medieval art. He worked at the National Museums in Berlin and at the Germanisches Nationalmuseum in Nuremberg, where he was also deputy director. Kammel appears as an expert on sculpture and religious folk art in the Bavarian television programme Kunst und Krempel

Antonia Boström is an art historian and curator with a long career in major museums in Britain and the US, including the Victoria & Albert Museum, The Detroit Institute of Arts, the J. Paul Getty Museum and The Nelson Atkins Museum of Art. She has specialized in the Baroque sculptor F.X. Messerschmidt, on whom she curated the Messerschmidt and Modernity exhibition at the Getty Museum. She serves on the expert panel of the LOEWE Foundation Craft Prize, and is a trustee of the Henry Moore Foundation.

27.5 x 35.5 cm, 336 pages

800 colour illustrations

Hardback with jacket

Bilingual edition: English and French

£ 72.00 | US$ 96.00 | € 80.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-064-1

BABLED

LA MAIN DES AUTRES

Texts by Angela Vettese and Veerle Devos

This monograph’s title, La main des autres (The Hand of Others), could not be more appropriate, as it aptly summarizes Emmanuel Babled’s work and essence. The French designer, who now operates his studio in Lisbon after stints in Paris, Milan, and Amsterdam, initially graduated as an industrial designer. However, early in his career, inspired by the great Ettore Sottsass, he realized that his true passion did not lie in the mass production of plastic objects, but rather in creating distinctive, precious functional pieces through close collaboration with master craftspeople. These artisans are situated in specific production centre where age-old traditions and highly skilled craftsmanship continue to produce magic today, albeit increasingly challenged by the signs of our times. Babled’s objects encapsulate the collective knowledge of master craftspeople, his design talent, and his ability to collaborate with masters worldwide. His unparalleled talent for integrating out-of-the-box design thinking with cutting-edge technology culminates in limited editions that contain examples of the intangible world heritage. Precious traditions, local history, and groundbreaking innovation converge in Babled’s work, breathing new life into ancient crafts and precious materials such as marble. Within this monograph, we gain a behind-the-scenes look at the creation of Babled’s limited editions, delving into the spirit of the designer as he celebrates a successful career spanning over 30 years. Through him as an intermediary, we are initiated into the rare craft of highly skilled craftspeople in places inaccessible to the public, where secrets are passed down from generation to generation.

Publication date: October 2024

The book captures the essence of Babled’s career: he transcends the role of an individual designer and instead utilizes his brand to represent an entire industry and culture deeply rooted in tradition and local knowledge. He achieves this through an impressive multidisciplinary use of contemporary design and technological applications, propelling ancient tradition into the 21st century.

In this manner, Babled surpasses his own ego and individual signature, embodying the idea that a designer is not a solitary entity but rather a collective enterprise, beautifully illustrated in this unique monograph.

Angela Vettese is a well-known Italian contemporary art critic, exhibition curator, and journalist. She has published several books on artistic production and its market, and has taught art history at the Academy of Fine Arts in Venice.

Veerle Devos, a Belgian historian and journalist now based in Lisbon, Portugal, has devoted more than twenty years to journalism, covering topics such as urbanism, design, craftsmanship, art, innovation, and human interest for publications such as DAMN° magazine.

21 x 28 cm, 132 pages

98 colour illustrations

Softback

Bilingual edition: English and French

£ 36.00 | US$ 48.00 | € 40.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-076-4

LIGHTER THAN AIR

THE FLIGHT OF THE DRAGONFLY, UEHARA MICHIKO

Texts by Laure Schwartz-Arenales, Bertrand Piccard, Uehara Michiko, Shukuko Voss-Tabe, Miyagawa Tomomi, Moroyama Masanori, Suzanne Lassalle

During the cherry blossom season of April 1924, 100 years ago, on his only trip to the Land of the Rising Sun, Alfred Baur, an extraordinary entrepreneur and founder of the Museum of Far Eastern Art in Geneva, was charmed to discover the sparkling poetry of the “images of the floating world” (ukiyo-e), combined with the landscapes of the great masters of the print and the delightful motifs found throughout the objects in his superb collection of Japanese art.

Echoing his taste and pioneering spirit, and as part of the celebrations marking the 160th anniversary of diplomatic relations between Switzerland and Japan, this book, thanks to contributions from leading specialists in the fields of handicrafts and textiles, takes an indepth historical, technical and comparative look at the desire for lightness that underpins the aims, aesthetics and meaning of the work of Uehara Michiko, a virtuoso weaver. In her studio bathed in the subtropical sunshine of Okinawa, in the archipelago in the far south of Japan where she was born and which is renowned for its textiles, she succeeds in pushing the material to the very edge of nothingness, weaving and dyeing sublime fabrics in three-denier threads, as fine and transparent as “a dragonfly’s wing” (akezuba in the local language).This bonding relationship – combining the physical and the spiritual – which links Uehara to silk fibres and more generally to nature itself, gives rise to “woven air”, as she puts it: an aerial, rhythmic journey, free of borders and attuned to living things.

Publication date: November 2024

Exhibition

Fondation Baur, Musée des Arts

d’Extrême-Orient, Geneva, October 29, 2024 – February 2, 2025

As this book suggests, this quest is not unrelated to some of the research carried out by Swiss explorer Bertrand Piccard, whose solar aircraft, a giant, silent dragonfly whose carbon-fibre ribs combine extreme strength and lightness, intelligently weaves a harmonious path between humanity, earth and sky…

Laure Schwartz-Arenales began her career at the Musée national des Arts asiatiques-Guimet and the École du Louvre, where she taught East Asian art. She has been director of the Baur Foundation, Museum of Far Eastern Arts in Geneva since 2018.

Born in Naha, Okinawa in 1949, Uehara Michiko became familiar with Okinawan textiles through the Japan Folk Art Museum (Tokyo) when she was in college. After entering the world of textiles under the tutelage of the renowned master weaver Yoshihiro Yanagi, she learned traditional Okinawan weaving techniques from Shizuko Ôshiro and established the “Mayu-ori” workshop in 1979. Using 3-denier silk threads, the finest thread a silkworm can produce, Uehara weaves incredibly light and airy textiles, baptized “Akezuba-ori,” which, in Okinawa, means a dragonfly’s wing.

Psychiatrist and pioneer of clean technologies, Bertrand Piccard is the author of two first aeronautical round-the-world flights in a balloon and a solar plane. President of the Solar Impulse Foundation, this United Nations Environment Ambassador uses his fame to serve progress, sustainability and quality of life, three themes that are reflected in his concept of “qualitative economy”.

19.4 x 26.4 cm, 160 pages 90 colour and black-and-white illustrations Hardback

Bilingual edition: English and French £ 32.00 | US$ 42.00 | € 35.00 ISBN: 979-12-5460-067-2

HELEN M c NICOLL

AN IMPRESSIONIST JOURNEY

Edited by Anne-Marie Bouchard

This book accompanies the exhibition entitled “Helen McNicoll. An Impressionist Journey” at the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, which is dedicated to this extraordinary Canadian artist (1879–1915).

At a time when women were often relegated to the domestic sphere, Helen McNicoll stood out for her free spirit and her passion for travel. Painting “en plein air” became her preferred method, enabling her to capture the light and atmosphere of the places she explored. Her favourite subjects were scenes of everyday life, often with an emphasis on women’s work, which gave her a unique perspective compared with the mostly male Impressionists of the time.

The exhibition displays over 60 works by McNicoll from various collections, including 25 from the Pierre Lassonde Collection. The catalogue takes its cue from the works on display to explore themes such as female independence, courage, friendship and freedom, placing them in the context of the suffragette movement in England.

The book offers an invaluable opportunity to rediscover an artist who challenged the conventions of her time and left an indelible mark on the Canadian art scene.

Publication date: July 2024

Exhibition

Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec, June 20, 2024 – January 5, 2025

Helen McNicoll was born in Toronto in 1879 and raised in Montreal. She lost her hearing after contracting scarlet fever at the age of two. Despite this disability, her parents encouraged her to cultivate her artistic and musical talents. She trained initially at the Art Association in Montreal and later moved to London, where she attended the Slade School of Fine Art, an institution renowned for its innovative approach and commitment to gender equality. Trips to Europe were fundamental to her artistic development, giving her direct experience of Impressionism and Post-Impressionism. She later regularly exhibited her work at the Art Association, winning the first Jessie Dow Prize in 1908. Although her works were praised by critics, she long languished in the shadow of other Canadian Impressionists. Helen McNicoll died in 1915 at only 35 years of age as a result of complications from diabetes. Ten years later, the Art Association held her first major retrospective exhibition.

SAMANTHA McEWEN SAMANTHA McEWEN

22 x 28 cm, 256 pages

183 colour illustrations

Hardback

Bilingual edition: English and French

£ 40.00 | US$ 54.00 | € 46.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-059-7

SAMANTHA M c EWEN. LONDON PARIS NEW YORK WORKS AND LIFE FROM THE 1980 s TO THE PRESENT

Texts by Linda Yablonsky and Hervé Perdriolle, with a conversation between Samantha McEwen and Neal Brown.

Who is Samantha McEwen? Who is this Anglo-American artist born in 1960 in London, about whom Keith Haring declares in one of his interviews: “When I arrived in New York, I spent my time at school (School of Visual Arts). Everything was new and exciting. I was 20 years old. In my drawing class, I was immediately drawn to a girl named Samantha McEwen.” Samantha remembers: “He sat in front of me and said: ‘Can I draw you?’” Who is this artist, still relatively unknown to this day, who also models for Francesco Clemente and Alex Katz? In the 1980s, Samantha McEwen was one of the few women to exhibit twice in the famous Tony Shafrazi Gallery. She also participates in numerous group exhibitions alongside the leading artists of that flamboyant decade. However, very few texts exist about her work; art critics are mainly men who write about men. In the numerous articles of the art press on these exhibitions, her name is merely mentioned and rarely accompanied by a few lines. In a revealing paradox of that era, Samantha McEwen is found in full-page spreads in the fashion sections of major magazines, such as Interview (Andy Warhol’s magazine) and The New York Times Magazine

Publication date: April 2024

Exhibition

Modesti Perdriolle Gallery, Brussels, April 10 – September 28, 2024

By the late 1980s, most of Samantha’s friends in New York had disappeared, taken by AIDS or drugs. Samantha McEwen returns to live in London and begins (or simply continues) a long period of obscurity, like most female artists of those generations. It takes until the 2010s for her work to reappear. This happens in 2015 in London, in the famous group exhibition organized by Pace Gallery in homage to the great London art dealer Robert Fraser. Forty-eight artists are presented, 45 men and 3 women. This book traces the life and radiant work of Samantha McEwen from the early 1980s to the present day.

Hervé Perdriolle is an art critic and curator. After organizing the first show of the French Figuration Libre movement (Blanchard, Boisrond, Combas, Di Rosa, Viollet) in Paris (1981), he took part in the first exhibitions of Jean-Michel Basquiat and Keith Haring at Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (1984).

Linda Yablonsky is an arts journalist and critic based in New York, where she is a correspondent for The Art Newspaper and a frequent contributor to many other publications.

Neal Brown is an artist and poet-writer based in London. He has written about contemporary art for most UK and many international art magazines, and is the author of a number of books, some published by Tate Publishing. He is also an exhibition organizer and songwriter, and writes about punk.

16.5 x 23 cm, 364 pages

128 colour and black-and-white illustrations

Softback

English edition

£ 36.00 | US$ 48.00 | € 40.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-063-4

PASSENGER OF SILENCE

MY QUEST FOR THE ANCIENT ARTS

POST-CULTURAL REVOLUTION CHINA

Text by Fabienne Verdier. Afterword by Corinna Thierolf

Was it really reasonable to drop everything overnight and go off alone into the depths of Communist China in search of the forgotten secrets of ancient Chinese art? Fabienne Verdier never stopped to ask herself: in the early 1980s, the brilliant young Beaux-Arts student thought of nothing else but her desire to learn the art of painting and calligraphy – something that had been devastated by the Cultural Revolution.

And when, a foreigner in the province of Sichuan, she found herself in an art school run by the Party, she was determined to adjust to the situation: the language and the mistrust of the Chinese, the unbearable lack of privacy, the poverty and disease and an inquisitorial administrative system. Blocking the West from her mind, Fabienne Verdier became the pupil of great artists working at the margins of society, who introduced her to the secrets and techniques of an age-old art form.

This unique experience amounted to a true adventure story, leading eventually to Verdier’s fascinating artistic practice that combines east Asian inspiration with contemporary painting. Passenger of Silence , an autobiographical travel journal by turns gripping and wholly moving, is an expanded English edition of the original French language text published by Albin Michel in 2005. New colour photographs supplement the already richly illustrated volume, with over 100 images alongside a newly written glossary of aesthetic terms.

Publication date: November 2024

Co-published with the Waddington Custot Gallery, London

Throughout her career as a painter, Fabienne Verdier has engaged with schools of thought and science from different cultures and eras. Her various areas of research have been the subject of several fascinating books published by 5 Continents Editions in recent years, including É CHO. Carnets d’atelier (2017-2022) , Sur les terres de Cézanne, Le chant des étoiles and Rainbow Paintings. Fabienne Verdier (by Corinna Thierolf).

Corinna Thierolf is an art historian and freelance curator. Until 2020, she was chief curator at the Pinakothek der Moderne in Munich, whose profile she shaped over twenty-five years through many exhibitions, acquisitions, and publications, for example on Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Dan Flavin, Anselm Kiefer, Walter de Maria, and Andy Warhol. A focus of her current activities is the relationship between private and public collections.

27.5 x 35.5 cm, 280 pages

307 colour illustrations

Hardback with jacket

Bilingual edition: English and French

£ 72.00 | US$ 96.00 | € 80.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-061-0

LORIS CECCHINI

Edited by Ilaria Bernardi

This monograph edited by Ilaria Bernardi is the first comprehensive examination of the oeuvre of the Italian artist Loris Cecchini, from his debut in the mid-1990s to the present.

The publication coincides with the 30th anniversary of the artist’s first inclusion in an exhibition: in three group shows in 1995. The book reviews Cecchini’s solo and group exhibitions, providing information on awards, residencies and lectures, as well as extensive commentary on his most distinctive works.

Alternating between photography, sculpture, drawing, digital processing and environmental installations, Cecchini’s aim is to shape real space by means of innovative materials, focusing on how matter holds together and the aesthetic, architectural, organic, and structural processes associated with it. He has a particular interest in industrial materials such as rubber, resin and steel. His work explores the sense of the real, in a perspective suspended between the natural and the man-made that challenges the viewer’s perception.

This book reconstructs the trajectory of Cecchini’s personal and creative life by interweaving biographical information, historical background and an ample selection of works, thus providing a unique contribution to the literature devoted to the artist.

Publishing date: January 2025

Loris Cecchini , born in 1969, currently lives and works in Milan. His work is displayed in various museums throughout the world, including Palais de Tokyo, in Paris; MoMA PS1, in New York; Centro Gallego de Arte Contemporanea, in Santiago de Compostela; Kunstverein, in Heidelberg; MOCA, in Shanghai. Loris Cecchini’s work has also featured in numerous solo international exhibitions. He has also created several permanent and in situ installations in prestigious venues around the world.

Ilaria Bernardi holds a Ph.D. in art history and is a curator. She has published monographs, essays in exhibition catalogues and articles in art magazines, in which she focuses on Arte Povera artists and Italian art from the 1960s to the present, in general. She currently teaches at Milan’s IULM University and has run “Progetto Genesi. Art and Human Rights”, a travelling exhibition and educational project developed by Associazione Genesi, since 2021.

22.5 x 27 cm, 148 pages

90 colour illustrations

Hardback

Bilingual edition: English and French

£ 32.00 | US$ 42.00 | € 35.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-087-0

NOTHING TOO BEAUTIFUL FOR THE GODS TODAY’S ALTARS AND ARTISTS FROM THE GLOBAL WORLD

Texts by Bérengère Primat and Jean-Hubert Martin

Globalisation has forced us to stop thinking that art only exists in the West. The very notion of art was invented by the West and refers to the learned version of its material culture. It was then projected onto other civilisations, particularly Asian ones, and finally onto the pre-literate societies of Africa and Oceania.

Whether or not these cultures possess the concept of art is of little importance, because when they honour their gods, they inevitably address what they consider to be the acme of beauty. For a long time, this openness to other aesthetics was based on the arts of the past, until it was finally accepted that there were living creators in these distant lands, and that today’s means of communication have brought them closer to us.

These “others” who appeared in the 1980s are by no means a homogenous group. Without stretching this analysis too far, they can be regarded as falling into two categories: those who have opted for modernity and submit to the demands of the market and Western-based institutions, and those who concentrate on giving visual expression to their communities and beliefs, ignoring the demands of the art market. Australian Aboriginal art represents an intermediate situation, since alongside art of a sacred nature, there are works deliberately produced for sale, initially encouraged by missionaries.

Publication date: February 2025

Exhibition

Fondation Opale

Lens, Crans-Montana, Valais, December 15, 2024 – April 25, 2025

Nothing too Beautiful for the Gods aims to show the variety of works connected with the spiritual impulse, from those used in religious rites to contemporary artworks that refer to them. These hybrid works are often the result of accommodations with modernity. The exhibition and accompanying book bring together altars from Africa, the Caribbean and Asia, works by artists invested with religious responsibilities (Didi, Shiraga), works by religious artists (Ramoun) and others by artists who refer explicitly to religions and spirituality (Sooja Kim, El Anatsui, Vasquez de la Horra, Bedia, Boltanski, Viola).

Jean-Hubert Martin is an art historian of international standing. He is known especially for his remarkable contribution to the Francis Picabia exhibition held in the Grand Palais in 1976, as well as for the innovations he introduced into the field of museology in the 1980s. Jean-Hubert Martin also played a key role in organising the Magiciens de la Terre exhibition (1989) at the Centre Georges-Pompidou and the Grande Halle de la Villette, reflecting the growing interest in primitive art.

23 x 27.8 cm, 192 pages

206 colour illustrations

Flexibound

Bilingual edition: English and French

£ 35.00 | US$ 45.00 | € 39.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-009-2

MAGALÍ HERRERA

A SPARK OF LIGHT IN THIS WORLD

Texts by Céline Delavaux, Pascale Jeanneret, and Sarah Lombardi

This monographic publication dedicated to Magalí Herrera (1914–1992) reveals for the first time the large body of work by this Uruguayan-born artist and the many personal archives in the holdings of the “Collection de l’Art Brut”. In 1967, Magalí Herrera began corresponding with Jean Dubuffet, who included her drawings in the holdings of the “Compagnie de l’Art Brut” in Paris. For several years, they maintained an epistolary relationship in which Herrera invested herself intensely. For this reason, she entrusted to her husband the task of donating her drawings and personal archives to the “Collection de l’Art Brut” after her death.

Magalí Herrera (1914–1992) was born in Rivera, Uruguay. Raised in an illustrious family, she taught herself dance, theatre and photography, as well as organising poetry evenings. In addition to poems, she wrote science-fiction short stories, some of which have never been published. Around 1952, she began to paint occasionally, then took it up exclusively during the early 1960s, working day and night in a trance-like state.

Publication date: March 2024

Exhibition

Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, March 8 – September 1, 2024

Sarah Lombardi is an art historian and has been director of Collection de l’Art Brut since 2013. She has made the enhancement of the museum’s collections a priority since she was appointed. Her main initiatives include the Art Brut biennales, themed exhibitions devoted exclusively to works from the museum’s holdings, and the creation of a new series of bilingual (French, English) publications entitled “Art Brut, the Collection”.

21 x 27 cm, 184 pages

160 colour illustrations

Flexibound

Bilingual edition: English and French

£ 36.00 | US$ 47.00 | € 39.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-072-6

ART BRUT CUBA

Texts by Derbis Campos, Andrea Dal Lago, Edward M. Gómez, Sarah Lombardi, Rosmy Porter, Samuel Riera, Michel Thévoz

This volume accompanies the Art Brut CUBA exhibition organized by Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne and features essays by Cuban authors and other experts, reproductions of works and previously unpublished letters from the collection’s archives. The exhibition represents a voyage of discovery that explores the world of outsider art in Cuba more than forty years after the first exhibition, which came about as a result of Jean Dubuffet’s desire to gather together in Collection de l’Art Brut works by self-taught Cuban artists assembled by his friend Samuel Feijóo, the curator of the 1983 exhibition. Being an island with a distinctive history that has long been isolated for political and economic reasons, Cuba is a fertile breeding ground for artistic creations unaffected by the traditional artistic influences of the world outside.

The exhibition is divided into two sections: the first presents historical works by the Signos Group, founded by Samuel Feijóo in the late 1960s to promote popular Cuban culture through the graphic arts; the second presents works by contemporary outsider artists from the Riera Studio. Most of the works on display are made from recycled materials – cardboard packaging, newspaper, scrap metal, recycled waste – or natural materials, such as wood and jute fibre.

The works reflect the artists’ personal experiences, the economic, social and political circumstances of their country, and their inner worlds and obsessions. They offer an alternative and authentic view of Cuba, far from the stereotyped imagery associated with this nation.

Publication date: December 2024

Exhibition

Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, December 5, 2024 – April 27, 2025

JAIME FERNANDES

24 x 28 cm, 128 pages

100 colour illustrations

Hardback

Bilingual edition: English and French

£26.00 | US$ 36.00 | € 29.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-060-3

JAIME FERNANDES

Texts by João Pedro Fróis and Michel Thévoz

Jaime Fernandes was born in 1899, in a small village, near one of the most unspoiled and rebellious rivers of Portugal, the river Zêzere. He grew up in an idyllic rural landscape, a crossing site with a geography of fertile lands, where gold, wolfram, and tin were extracted from its entrails. A small rural landowner, he married and watched over his five children up to 38 years of age, when he entered Miguel Bombarda Mental Hospital in Lisbon, 300 km from his village. He is the most important Portuguese artist to emerge from a psychiatric institution.

About ninety drawings in ink, lead pencil, and ballpoint pen on paper, of varied sizes and quality, are known. His artistic activity, entirely lacking the supervision of any visual art atelier, was encouraged by his hospital psychiatrist, who collected most drawings by Jaime. The crudeness of these drawings impresses the unwitting observer: they are anthropomorphic and zoomorphic representations—cattle, goats, elephants, fish, and birds. The human figures burst through as bodies are placed on hold, arms in the air, eyes wide open that observe, others, sometimes, appear merged with animals. Jaime practiced drawing and wrote lengthy semantically indecipherable texts, in a singular calligraphy, where time is set in long numbers. He did this solely motivated by the pure pleasure gained from this slow exercise of revisiting his memories. In that pleasure, he would have acquired a taste for the imaginary, the world of dreams and fantasies of creation, of being cherished by all who participated in the portraits that he gave us to observe. Jaime died in Lisbon in 1969.

Publication date: May 2024

With the support of the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation, Lisbon

João Pedro Fróis was born in Lisbon in 1957. He is a university professor and researcher and is currently a guest researcher at the School of Medicine of the University of Lisbon. He worked as a psychologist in the area of mental healthcare and rehabilitation of children and young people. He coordinated the Gulbenkian Programme on Aesthetic Research and Development and several research projects concerning Education in Art Museums, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology (FCT). He is the author and co-author of various books on education and the visual arts, two of which published by the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. He has published studies on the aesthetic theory of Lev S. Vygotsky, and translated two of his books. He regularly publishes in the area of the Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity, and Visual Arts. He worked on the biography of Jaime Fernandes and studied his art for over a decade, which gave rise to several articles published in international journals.

Michel Thévoz was a conservator at the Cantonal Museum of Fine Arts in Lausanne from 1960 to 1975. Following his contacts with Jean Dubuffet, he set about creating the Collection de l’Art Brut in Lausanne (Switzerland), becoming its director from its foundation in 1976 until 2001. He was Professor of Art History and Museology at the University of Lausanne from 1977 to 2001 and has published about twenty books.

23 x 32.5 cm, 60 pages

20 colour, double-page illustrations

Hardback

Bilingual edition: English and Italian

£ 32.00 | US$ 42.00 | € 35.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-084-9

MARIA LAI

HOLDING THE SHADOW BY THE HAND

Text by Elena Pontiggia

Maria Lai always had a special relationship with fairy tales. She considered them a metaphor for art and a way of communicating with the public in a simple, straightforward way. Starting in the 1980s, fairy tales became central to her art – books created by the artist using cast-off textiles.

Maria Lai’s fairy tales are not merely children’s stories, but profound reflections on life and what it means to be a human being. They are often inspired by Sardinian myths and legends, to which the artist gives a personal twist, adding autobiographical details and philosophical reflections.

This edition of Tenendo per mano l’ombra is a printed version of Maria Lai’s 1987 tale.The original consists of fabric pages sewn together and collages of dyed textiles, on which the artist has embroidered geometric figures, yarn and other materials.The fairy tale tells the story of a human being (and his double) who must learn to accept shadows, the dark part of the world and of himself. The figure’s shadow, in Maria Lai’s fairy tale, is not a negative element to be rejected, but an integral part of his personality. To live an untroubled and complete life, one must learn to accept and live with it.

Elena Pontiggia’s concluding essay accompanies the reader in a fascinating page-by-page interpretation of the fable, and discusses Lai’s artistic and stylistic approach in the context of an extensive network of philosophical, literary and artistic references: from Kant and Manzoni to Klee and Malevicˇ.

Publication date: November 2024

Maria Lai (1919–2013) dropped paint as a medium in favour of “poor” materials such as textiles, creating sewn canvases and books, bread and terracotta sculptures and the first woven works that were to become the leitmotif of her research. In 1967, she created Oggetto-paesaggio, a dismantled loom that was both an ancient object and a contemporary installation. In 1981, she created Legarsi alla montagna in Ulassai, the first relational work in Italy: the inhabitants of the village tied their houses together with a blue ribbon and then bound them to the mountain above as a symbol of harmony between man, nature and art. Maria Lai returned to live in Sardinia in the 1990s and continued to produce theatrical events and to experiment with various art forms: looms, sheets, books, geographies and sewn fairy tales.

Elena Pontiggia is an art historian focusing on Italian and international art between the wars. She teaches at the Brera Academy and the Milan Polytechnic.

25,4 x 34,3 cm, 304 pages

246 colour and black-and-white illustrations

Hardback

English edition

£ 45.00 | US$ 55.00 | € 50.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-071-9

COSTUME BALLS

Various authors

A century and a half ago, extravagant costume balls and skating carnivals were the pinnacle of society’s entertainment, bringing forth a kaleidoscopic array of characters, most drawn from history.

The opportunity to reimagine oneself as a noble hero or heroine from the past was no less than the chance of a lifetime. Participants acquired extravagant costumes and flocked to the photographer’s studio, as attested by the sheer abundance of mementos of these occasions in the McCord Stewart Museum’s collections.

The book is intended to accompany the exhibition “Costume Balls: Dressing Up History, 1870-1927” at the McCord Stewart Museum. Montreal. A lead essay presents an overall view of the fancy dress phenomenon, and the major events in Canada with their colonial underpinnings. Other essays look in turn at the commemoration of these balls in art, photography, and publications, a decolonizing perspective on the representation of Indigenous and other marginalized peoples in fancy dress, and the ephemeral nature of the extant objects.

A section consists of detailed profiles of astounding garments, with several images to show views of each that cannot be seen in the exhibition: interior construction and labels, closeup views of textiles and materials, and comparisons of archival photographs of ball guests in costume.

The book is the first historical fashion publication to explore fancy dress in such detail.

Publication date: October 2024

Exhibition

McCord Stewart Museum, Montreal, November 14, 2024 – April 20, 2025

24 x 30 cm, 84 pages

50 three-colour images

Hardback

English edition

£ 37.00 | US$ 45.00 | € 40.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-056-6

Publication date: May 2024

Exhibition

Museo Gypsotheca Antonio Canova Possagno, Treviso, April 20, 2024 – January 7, 2025

CANOVA FOUR TEMPOS VOLUME I

£ 37.00 | US$ 45.00 | € 40.00

ISBN: 978-88-7439-921-5

CANOVA FOUR TEMPOS. VOLUME IV SCULPTURES FROM THE GYPSOTHECA OF POSSAGNO

Photographs by Luigi Spina

Text by Vittorio Sgarbi

The fourth and final volume of the photographic and editorial project Canova. Four Tempos, dedicated to the plaster casts by Antonio Canova at the Gypsotheca of Possagno (Treviso), continues the investigation into the imperfect form: works that use pins to translate plaster works into marble, and as such an expression of genius in his making.

Luigi Spina approaches the works in a completely new way, from mythological subjects to the faces of the patrons, from Daedalus and Icarus , a masterpiece of youth, to Adonis crowned by Venus , unfinished and never translated into marble. From the eternal comparison between the sculpture of Hector in a dynamic pose and Ajax about to draw his sword, to the sensuality of Venus revealing herself as she emerges from her bath. Finally, the volume takes a look at the commissioners: the sculpture of the little prince Heryk Lubominski dressed as Cupid with bow and quiver and the sculpture of Princess Leopoldina Esterházy. The classical model, encapsulating harmony and perfection, is foremost in the sculptor’s mind.

Luigi Spina , a photographer, has published several volumes with 5 Continents Editions, including The Buchner Boxes (2014), Hemba (2017), and Mythical Diary (2017), dedicated to the Farnese Collection. With the same publisher, he created the series “Hidden Treasures”: The Farnese Cup, The Alexander Mosaic, San Domenico by Niccolò dell’Arca, The Riace Bronzes (2022), and the large-scale photographic project Inside Pompeii (2023).

Vittorio Sgarbi is an art critic, exhibition organiser and collector in his own right, as well as the author of many books dedicated to great artists and the central role of art. Among his recent publications: Ecce Caravaggio. Da Roberto Longhi a oggi (La Nave di Teseo, 2021). He is also a politician and a well known public intellectual.

CANOVA FOUR TEMPOS VOLUME II

£ 37.00 | US$ 45.00 | € 40.00

ISBN: 978-88-7439-959-8

CANOVA FOUR TEMPOS VOLUME III

£ 37.00 | US$ 45.00 | € 40.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-026-9

17 x 24 cm, 248 pages

156 colour illustrations

Hardback

Trilingual edition: English, French, Italian £ 32.00 | US$ 42.00 | € 35.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-065-8

CULTURE(S)

A WORLD TOUR OF 99 MINIATURE TREASURES

Photographs by Luigi Spina

The ancient treasures collected over the past twenty years by Ludovic Donnadieu hail from a myriad of ancient cultures, famous or obscure, across all five continents. The selection maintains a balanced representation of different geographical areas, ensuring that all regions of the world and all historical or prehistoric periods are accounted for. Through this comprehensive panorama, the viewer is invited on a cultural and anthropological journey through time and space.

The showcased artworks are “miniatures”; few exceed a size of 20 centimeters. Indeed, an artwork doesn’t need to be monumental to evoke profound emotional impact and fascination! Fragility can endure, the minuscule can embody grandeur, and singular detail can convey a universal message.

This selection of 99 works, forming a unique ensemble worldwide, follows three criteria – authenticity, aesthetic quality, and balance – among the represented subjects and across different forms, materials, or functions. The period covered runs from the eighth millennium BC to the early 20th century. Presenting this collection to the public holds a dual significance: in a world threatened by uniformity, it celebrates the richness and diversity of human cultures while also highlighting the beauty and grandeur of small-scale formats and the need to protect what is fragile.

Publication date: October 2024

Co-published with the Donnadieu Foundation

Luigi Spina , a photographer, has published several volumes with 5 Continents Editions, including The Buchner Boxes (2014), Hemba (2017), and Mythical Diary (2017), dedicated to the Farnese Collection. With the same publisher, he created the series “Hidden Treasures”: The Farnese Cup, The Alexander Mosaic, San Domenico by Niccolò dell’Arca, The Riace Bronzes (2022), the project Canova Four Tempos (2020–2024) and the large-scale photographic project Inside Pompeii (2023).

Under the aegis of the Fondation pour l’Enfance, the Donnadieu Foundation was established in 2023 by Ludovic Donnadieu, art collector, chartered accountant and founder of the firm Donnadieu & Associates, which specializes in securing securing funds entrusted to NGOs. The Foundation aims to enable young people, especially those from disadvantaged backgrounds, to broaden their horizons and engage in civic activism, while also raising awareness among the general public and policymakers about the importance of culture for the world’s youth.

24 x 28.5 cm, 416 pages

369 colour illustrations

Hardback with jacket

English edition

£ 90.00 | US$ 120.00 | € 100.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-062-7

ART OF THE CAMEROON GRASSLANDS

Texts by Peter A. Weis, Bettina von Lintig

Photographs by Andreas Achmann

Art of the Cameroon Grasslands unveils the artistic creativity of a region of West Africa through the Weis Collection. With texts by Peter Weis and Bettina von Lintig, and a contribution by Michael Oehrl, the book is a comprehensive overview of Grasslands art. In contrast to many other African regions, the works of the artists of the ethnic groups that live in the Grasslands are characterized by enormous diversity, dynamism, movement, asymmetry, power, and even unbridled wildness. Other works radiate tranquillity, offering the viewer uncommon visual pleasure and delight. For centuries, kingdoms and rulers in this region competed with each other to create new works of art or perfect inherited styles. These works served cultural, religious and profane purposes, and they reflected the social and ruling structures of the Grasslands—aspects that the book’s essays and descriptions explore in detail.

A broad spectrum of objects and their uses are reflected in the Weis Collection. It includes everyday objects, works of folk art, and ritual and cult objects such as figures, masks, posts, palace doors, representational objects, musical instruments, tobacco pipes, and drinking horns.

Publication date: October 2024

The introduction presents important aspects of the cultural and artistic development of each object’s region of origin, also in the context of European colonization. All are illustrated with numerous field photographs. This is followed by an essay on beaded artworks from the Grasslands, a subject that has been little researched to date. As the Cameroon Grasslands are embedded in a larger cultural area, objects in the collection from neighbouring ethnic groups are also presented, in many cases shedding light on centuries-old connections and artistic exchanges.

Peter Weis has collected ethnological artifacts —primarily African art—for nearly forty years. His research has focused in particular on works of traditional Cameroonian art. Dr. Weis studied economics and law, and has worked in industry and as a bank manager in Germany and abroad. He was subsequently appointed full professor of human resource management at Kempten University of Applied Sciences.

Bettina von Lintig completed her studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich with an ethnology doctorate specializing in the Cameroon Grasslands. She began publishing journalistic texts with an anthropological focus during her college years. As an expert on “tribal art,” she has worked in the trade, archived collections, and curated exhibitions. She was a member of the Bayreuth-based Humanities Collaborative Research Center’s interdisciplinary program “Local Action in Africa in the Context of Global Influences,” and her research interest has focused on modernist and contemporary art movements in Senegal and Paris. She has worked as an independent researcher for many years and has published numerous books and essays.

LOVING. A PHOTOGRAPHIC HISTORY OF MEN IN LOVE

22 x 28 cm, 336 pages

320 colour illustrations

Hardback

£ 52.00 | US$ 70.00 | € 53.00

ISBN: 978-88-7439-928-4

BILL TRAYLOR

24 x 28 cm, 192 pages

134 colour illustrations

Hardback

£ 37.00 | US$ 50.00 | € 42.00

ISBN: 978-88-7439-821-8

THE RIACE BRONZES

24 x 33,5 cm, 112 pages

76 colour illustrations

Hardback

£ 35.00 | US$ 50.00 | € 40.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-013-9

FRANCO FONTANA

INVISIBLE

22 x 27 cm, 168 pages

114 colour illustrations

Hardback

£ 40.00 | US$ 55.00 | € 45.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-027-6

RIOPELLE

24 x 28 cm, 288 pages

304 colour illustrations

Hardback

£ 42.00 | US$ 50.00 | € 45.00

ISBN: 978-88-7439-943-7

BEAUTY UNUSUAL

24 x 28 cm, 196 pages

123 colour illustrations

Hardback with jacket

£ 60.00 | US$ 75.00 | € 65.00

ISBN: 978-88-7439-951-2

ART BRUT

THE BOOK OF BOOKS

24 x 29.5 cm, 400 pages

436 colour illustrations

Hardback

£ 58.00 | US$ 75.00 | € 55.00

ISBN: 978-88-7439-966-6

ALEXANDER CALDER

RADICAL INVENTOR

24 x 28 cm, 240 pages

240 colour illustrations

Softback

£ 35.00 | US$ 48.00 | € 40.00

ISBN: 978-88-7439-828-7

HEADRESTS OF SOUTHERN AFRICA

24 x 30 cm, 440 pages

698 colour illustrations

Hardback

£ 68.00 | US$ 95.00 | € 80.00

ISBN: 978-88-7439-964-2

SUSANNA BAUER. IN LEAF

22 x 32 cm, 128 pages

80 colour illustrations

Hardback

£ 40.00 | US$ 50.00 | € 42.00

ISBN: 978-88-7439-947-5

ITALIAN AND AMERICAN ART. AN INTERACTION

17 x 24 cm, 176 pages

114 colour illustrations

Softback

£ 30.00 | US$ 40.00 | € 35.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-053-5

A KING’S PASSION

28.5 x 28.5 cm, 580 pages

322 colour illustrations

Hardback

£ 90.00 | US$ 110.00 | € 95.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-049-8

WHEN THE SUN GOES DOWN AND THE MOON COMES UP

24.6 x 30.8 cm, 334 pages

500 colour illustrations

Hardback

£ 40.00 | US$ 50.00 | € 45.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-039-9

ENZO CUCCHI

24 x 28 cm, 248 pagine

135 colour illustrations

Hardback

£ 35.00 | US$ 45.00 | € 39.00

ISBN : 979-12-5460-034-4

FACES

ART BRUT | THE COLLECTION

20.5 x 25.5 cm, 152 pages

128 colour illustrations

Softback

£ 30.00 | US$ 40.00 | € 32.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-052-8

WEST AFRICAN BRONZE MASTERWORKS

24 x 28 cm, 320 pages

212 colour illustrations

Hardback with jacket

£ 65.00 | US$ 80.00 | € 70.00

ISBN: 979-1254600412

OUTSIDER ART OF CANADA

22 x 28 cm, 192 pages

100 colour illustrations

Softback

£ 35.00 | US$ 50.00 | € 40.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-037-5

PYTHON SPIRIT ON THE BAGA COAST

22 x 28 cm, 312 pages

272 colour illustrations

Hardback

£ 70.00 | US$ 85.00 | € 80.00

ISBN: 979-12-5460-044-3

p. 6, 7, 9, 10

p. 13

pp. 14, 16, 17

Courtesy Ernst Gamperl

p. 19

Babled Studio

p. 20

Venini

p. 21

Babled Studio

p. 23

Courtesy Uehara Michiko / Nema Yoshikazu

pp. 24, 25

Courtesy Uehara Michiko, Nema Yoshikazu

p. 27

Helen McNicoll, The Blue Sea , c. 1914, McMichael Canadian Art Collection

p. 28

Tseng Kwong Chi Photos

pp. 29, 30

Courtesy Samantha McEwen

p. 33

pp. 34, 36, 37

Loris Cecchini

p. 39

p. 40

Magalí Herrera (1914-1922), Sans titre , 1991, Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, Atelier de numérisation – Ville de Lausanne

p. 41

Magalí Herrera (1914-1922), Sans titre , 1952-1992, Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, Atelier de numérisation – Ville de Lausanne

p. 42

Carlos Javier García Huergo, untitled, undated, Collection de l’Art Brut, Lausanne, Atelier de numérisation – Ville de Lausanne

p. 45

Jaime Fernandes, untitled, undated, private collection, courtesy João Pedro Fróis

pp. 47, 48–49

pp. 50, 51

Laura Dumitriu, McCord Stewart Museum

p. 52

p. 55

p. 56

p. 58

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