Autumn 2017
Hello We are pleased to announce Black Dog Publishing’s Autumn 2017 catalogue, which includes an exciting range of new titles, as well as recent bestsellers and our renowned backlist. New titles for the autumn season include Bish Bosch, the first scholarly analysis of Scott Walker’s work published with the musician’s permission; Becoming Animal, a study of existential human experience through art; and folly, a beautiful publication of British artist Phyllida Barlow’s work for the upcoming British Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. Celebrating 150 years of Canada, we are excited to introduce The Faraway Nearby, which offers stunning documentation and a unique view into Canadian history through photographs published in The New York Times. Alongside this, Kent Monkman: Shame and Prejudice, A Story of Resilience, our second publication with the artist, documents an extensive collection of his paintings, drawings and sculptural work, which offer the audience an acute and scathing commentary on Canada’s chequered history. We are also pleased to announce the reprinting of Wreckers of Civilisation, the iconic book that explored the history of the British musical and visual arts group Throbbing Gristle. Finally, this season’s catalogue presents two fascinating titles that are of great importance for America, and that have gained the support of the acclaimed, far-reaching and ambitious Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA initiative from Getty, which explores Latin American and Latino art. The first, How to Read El Pato Pascual, is a thrilling investigation into Walt Disney’s influence on Latin American popular culture and visual art, and intends to show how culture is created through a sequence of exchanges, responses and (mis)appropriations. This is followed by Guatemala from 33,000 km, the first major publication that documents Guatemalan contemporary art, and the sociopolitical trends that made the country's art scene flourish. As always, we continue to support our diverse range of popular backlist titles including Picasso: The Artist and His Muses; RAVE: Rave and its Influence on Art and Culture; Turn and Face the Strange; Lost Utopias; The Beaver Hall Group: 1920s Modernism in Montreal; The Nuclear Culture Source Book; Frank Bros.: The Store That Modernized Modern, and many more.
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6 HOW TO READ EL PATO PASCUAL Disney’s Latin America and Latin America’s Disney
8 GUATEMAL A FROM 33,000 KM Contemporar y Art from 1960–Present
12 BISH BOSCH Ambisymphonic: A Project by Scott Walker, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard
30 LIBRE DHC/ART
34 MEL KENDRICK Wood Blocks Water Drawings
38 KENT MONKMAN Shame and Prejudice, A Stor y of Resilience
16 WRECKERS OF CIVILISATION
18 FOLLY Phyllida Barlow
20 THE FAR AWAY NEARBY Photographs from The New York Times Canadian Collection
42 EMPIRE OF ILLUSION Terr y Munro
44 NEIL GALL The Drawings
46 OUT OF ICE The Secret Language of Ice
22 BECOMING ANIMAL
26 HARTMUT BÖHM Objects in Dialogue
28 THE PALE PATH Stephen Appleby-Barr
50 FORM FOLLOWS FICTION Art and Artists in Toronto
52 ENTANGLED Two Views on Contemporar y Canadian Painting
54 SIMON ENGLISH my big self decoy justin beiber
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56 IRIS HAÜSSLER The Sophie La Rosière Project
58 THE BOOK OF NEOISM?!
60 FORM, MODEL, SYNTA X, DISPL AY Terence Gower Sculpture Works
New Titles 62 GARY PEARSON Short Fictions
64 WHAT NOW? On Future Identities
66 NECROPOLITICS AND ITS DISCONTENTS Art, Morality and the Political Imagination
68 DES HUGHES One Hand Washes the Other
70 AFTER THE EDUCATIONAL TURN Critical Art Pedagogies and Decolonialism
71 BACKLIST 107 CONTACTS
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HOW TO READ EL PATO PASCUAL Disney’s Latin America and Latin America’s Disney Editors: Jesse Lerner and Rubén Ortiz-Torres
UK Aug 2017 US/CAN Sep 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-1-911164-72-2 £29.95 · $45.00 30 × 23 cm · 9 × 12 in 304 pages · 180 ills English and Spanish
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Investigating the reception and reuse of the imagery of one of the world’s largest production companies, How to Read El Pato Pascual explores the prevalent presence of Walt Disney in Latin America. Examined through artworks including painting, photography, graphic work, drawing, sculpture and video, as well as vernacular objects and documentary material, the book considers Disney’s engagement within Latin America, extending from Donald Duck’s first featured role, the 1937 Mexican-themed short Don Donald, to the 2013 attempt to copyright the Day of the Dead. The reach and influence of Disney is also examined in a series of commissioned essays drawing on cultural studies, historical research and postcolonial theory. How to Read El Pato Pascual also features a reprint of How to Read Donald Duck (Chile, 1971), an essay by Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart that critiques Disney comics through a Marxist lens as vehicles of American cultural imperialism. The book includes artistic contributions from artists including Liliana Porter, Nadín Ospina, Enrique Chagoya, and Arturo Herrera, as well as written contributions from Jesse Lerner and Rubén Ortiz-Torres, amongst others.
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GUATEMALA FROM 33,000 KM Contemporary Art from 1960–Present Contributors: Rosina Cazali Escobar, Silvia Herrera Ubico, Mario Roberto Morales, Martín Fernández Ordóñez et al
UK Oct 2017 US/CAN Dec 2017 Flexicover ISBN 978-1-911164-41-8 £29.95 · $39.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 192 pages · 140 ills Spanish edition ISBN 978-1-911164-47-0
Guatemala from 33,000 km: Contemporary Art from 1960– Present features artists, works and themes that have defined Guatemala’s contemporary art scene since the 1960s. The book brings together works that have rarely been seen outside Guatemala, but that speak to a range of formal, political and social concerns that permeate contemporary art both in Latin America and across the globe. Featuring artwork in a range of media that traces the tumultuous route traversed through the history of Guatemala since the mid-twentieth century, the book is structured around clusters or groups of works that represent central ideas, themes and media that have been pivotal in Guatemala’s art over the last 50 plus years. These clusters are: art and politics; land, landscape, territory; popular cultures; racism and identities; religion, spirituality, metaphysics; gender perspectives; violence and trauma; art histories; and formal experimentation. The book contains full-colour reproductions of the works, as well as essays that relay a wealth of new research, by curators and Guatemalan scholars Rosina Cazali Escobar, Silvia Herrera Ubico, Mario Roberto Morales and Martín Fernández Ordóñez. Guatemala from 33,000 km is a visual record of many works that have been not been documented. It will itself be a product of contemporary Guatemalan artistic practitioners, and is designed by Ambush Studio, which is based in Guatemala City. Published in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara, in conjunction with the exhibition Guatemala from 33,000 km: Contemporary Art from 1960–Present.
Shirin Aliabadi, Miss Hybrid 3, 2008
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UK Oct 2017 US/CAN Dec 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-1-911164-43-2 £39.95 · $49.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 288 pages · 240 ills Special audio edition including recording of Bish Bosch ISBN 978-1-911164-80-7 £59.95 · $75.00
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Bish Bosch: Ambisymphonic presents the first scholarly analysis of Scott Walker’s work, and is the first book to be published with the musician’s permission. The publication will critically examine Walker’s uncompromising, avant-garde ‘trilogy’, which began with Tilt in 1995, continued with The Drift 11 years later, and concluded in 2012 with his longest studio album to date, Bish Bosch. In 2013, Walker teamed up with British mixed-media artists Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard to create Bish Bosch: Ambisymphonic, an utterly unique and immersive sonic reimagining of the groundbreaking album. The book features a rare interview conducted with Scott Walker by Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard on the making of the installation, together with fragments of the Bish Bosch score, the complete spatialisation script, rare never-before-seen pictures and notebook pages, and Walker’s handwritten lyrics, made available by the musician himself. In addition, several binaural mixes of the ambisonic arrangements of the tracks featured in the installation will be included as a digital download. The Wire’s Rob Young and curator and writer Christopher Scoates succinctly place Walker’s work within the history of sound art and the larger context of experimental music, while a roster of Walker’s collaborators provide insight into the working practices of this most reclusive of musicians.
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Editor: Christopher Scoates Contributors: Scott Walker, Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard, Rob Young
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BISH BOSCH Ambisymphonic: A Project by Scott Walker, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard
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WRECKERS OF CIVILISATION Editor: Simon Ford
UK Aug 2017 US/CAN Oct 2017 Paperback ISBN 978-1-911164-73-9 £24.95 · $34.95 23 × 17 cm · 6½ × 9 in 256 pages · 110 ills
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“These people are the wreckers of civilisation”, exclaimed the Conservative Member of Parliament Nicholas Fairbairn in 1976. His outburst was meant to describe four artists and musicians: Genesis P-Orridge, Cosey Fanni Tutti, Peter Christopherson and Chris Carter—members of the seminal band Throbbing Gristle. Throbbing Gristle are widely lauded as the band that invented industrial music, and their influence can be observed across today’s musical landscape: from house and techno to industrial death metal. Wherever experimental electronic music is being made, Throbbing Gristle’s influence can be felt. From the foreword by Jon Savage: “Wreckers of Civilisation recalls a time which, despite volumes of print, remains occluded, obdurate, even intimidating: that moment before the conservative reconstruction. To be awake in London in the late 1970s was to be plunged into turmoil: externally manifest in riot, internally within various forms of damage and depression and, if one felt brave or driven, extreme aesthetics. Throbbing Gristle’s work marks the furthest reaches of that impulse: even more so than punk, they plunged into a technological and personal examination of the dark side—the forbidden, the taboo, the dystopian future on the doorstep. Today this might seem like science fiction or deliberate shock tactics, but then it seemed like reportage, front line dispatches from a convulsed country.” Reprinted nearly two decades after its original release, the book coincides with Hull—the city in northern England from which Throbbing Gristle hail—being named UK City of Culture. For perhaps the first time, the eyes of the world will be trained not just on Hull, but on its most controversial cultural provocateurs.
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FOLLY Phyllida Barlow Writer: Emma Dexter
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folly UK May 2017 US/CAN Jul 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-1-911164-67-8 £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 128 pages · 70 ills
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folly presents the British Council’s new commission created by Phyllida Barlow for the British Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale. Best known for her colossal sculptural projects, for over five decades Barlow has employed a distinctive vocabulary of inexpensive materials such as plywood, cardboard, plaster, rubber, cement, fabric and paint to create striking sculptures and bold and expansive installations that confront the relationship between objects and the space that surrounds them. Drawing on memories of familiar objects from her surroundings, Barlow’s practice is grounded in an anti-monumental tradition characterised by her physical experience of handling materials in an expedient and direct way. Phyllida Barlow was born in 1944 in Newcastle upon Tyne, England. Barlow studied at Chelsea College of Art (1960–1963) and the Slade School of Art (1963–1966). Her recent solo exhibitions include: demo, Kunsthalle Zürich, 2016; tryst, Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas, 2015; dock, the Duveen Commission at Tate Britain, London, 2014; HOARD, Norton Museum of Art, West Palm Beach, 2013; scree, Des Moines Art Center, 2013; siege, New Museum, New York, 2012; Cast, Kunstverein Nürnberg, Nuremberg, Germany, 2011; and in 2010, she was in the critically acclaimed two-person show at the Serpentine Gallery, London with Nairy Baghramian. In 2011 she became a Royal Academician, and she was awarded a CBE in 2015. Phyllida Barlow is represented by Hauser & Wirth.
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RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE
THE FARAWAY NEARBY Photographs from The New York Times Canadian Collection Contributors: Gerald McMaster, Denise Birkhofer, Gaëlle Morel, Paul Roth
Photographer unknown, Untitled [“Trudeaumania”, Toronto] detail, 1968, silver gelatin print
Canadian Pacific Railway, Untitled [Swimming Pool at Chateau Lake Louise, Alberta], c 1930, silver gelatin print
UK Jun 2017 US/CAN Aug 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-1-911164-68-5 £29.95 · $45.00 28 × 22 cm · 8 × 11 in 256 pages · 150 ills
On the occasion of Canada’s 150th anniversary in 2017, The Faraway Nearby presents a century of Canadian history through photographs published in The New York Times, the United States’ “newspaper of record”. The book will take readers on a visual journey through photographs ranging from breaking news to portraiture, depicting many of the key events and personalities that helped to define Canada in the twentieth century. Taking an expansive view of many of the diverse histories that have constituted Canadian life, The Faraway Nearby highlights images of major political events and conflicts, the Canadian role in wartime, iconic landscapes across the nation, hockey and other sports heroes, and candid reportage on the lives of everyday Canadians. Also featured prominently are images of Indigenous peoples, immigrant communities, notable international figures on official visits to Canada, as well as portraits of such iconic figures as Margaret Atwood, Glenn Gould, Marshall McLuhan, Mary Pickford and Pierre Elliott Trudeau. The publication draws from an archive of nearly 25,000 photographs of Canadian subject matter that appeared in The New York Times, a promised gift to the Ryerson Image Centre from the collection of Toronto-based entrepreneur Chris Bratty.
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BECOMING ANIMAL BECOMING ANIMAL
UK Dec 2017 US/CAN Feb 2018 Paperback ISBN 978-1-911164-40-1 £29.95 · $39.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 240 pages · 180 ills
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BECOMING ANIMAL Editors: Claus Carstensen, Jens Tang Kristensen Contributors: Brian Massumi, Raymond Tallis, Sven-Olov Wallenstein, Donald Preziosi et al “As for humans, God tests them so that they may see that they are like the animals. Surely the fate of human beings is like that of the animals; the same fate awaits them both: As one dies, so dies the other. All have the same breath; humans have no advantage over animals. Everything is meaningless.” —Ecclesiastes, 3:18–19 What does it mean to be human? Unlike animals, who have little to no consciousness of their own existence or the inevitability of death, humans are painfully conscious of themselves, the limits of life, and the emptiness that lies ahead. Becoming Animal explores the existential nature of human experience through a rich survey of major modern and postmodern artworks in a visually and critically ambitious cross section of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art. This investigation builds from a literary and philosophical framework that addresses the development of consciousness and self-awareness. Through a series of apparently irreconcilable artistically and politically divergent movements, empty transcendence is confronted by the enduring concepts of eternity and utopia. In particular, Symbolism and Minimalism are juxtaposed as art movements that shaped the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’ exploration of the relationship between life and death, emptiness and meaning, with their specific artistic languages. Featuring artists such as Francisco de Goya, Albert Oehlen, Gardar Eide Einarsson and Matias Faldbakken, Becoming Animal also includes essays from international thinkers on emptiness and transcendence in modern and contemporary art, including Giorgio Agamben, Michael Kjær, Claus Carstensen, Anne Gregersen and Rosalind Krauss. Becoming Animal coincides with an exhibition produced by a collaboration between Den Frie Centre of Contemporary Art, Copenhagen, and the Museum of Religious Art, Lemvig, which will run from spring to autumn 2018.
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HARTMUT BÖHM Objects in Dialogue
UK Sep 2017 US/CAN Nov 2017 Paperback ISBN 978-1-911164-84-5 £24.95 · $34.95 34 × 24 cm · 9 × 13 in 152 pages · 80 ills
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‘Matrix and metaphor’, ‘emptiness and volume’, ‘overlayering and penetration’, ‘system and syntax’ and ‘form and structure’ are terms Hartmut Böhm offers to his audience in exploring his work. Known for his use of industrial materials, Böhm is one of the most influential German non-figurative and minimalist artists of his generation. Hartmut Böhm is the first substantial publication of the artist’s work to be published in the English language. As a major influence in Europe’s Constructivist art movement in the 1960s, Böhm’s art has been included in numerous revolutionary exhibitions, such as the 1964 exhibition Nouvelle Tendance at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs at the Palais du Louvre, as well as one of the first survey exhibitions of Kinetic art in Europe: Kinetika in Vienna. His later work steps away from geometric art and its dogmas, and explores mathematical systems through simple and repetitive installations, which aim to find discipline and structure to confront and oppose the chaos of the world. His work is currently included in 70 public collections worldwide, including the Neuberger Museum of Art, New York; Busch-Reisinger Museum at Harvard University, Massachusetts; Kunstmuseum Bonn; Museum Ritter, Waldenbuch; Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebæk; Museum Haus Konstruktiv, Zurich; and the Tel Aviv Museum of Art, amongst many others.
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THE PALE PATH Stephen Appleby-Barr Author: Mark Kingwell
UK Aug 2017 US/CAN Oct 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-1-911164-45-6 £24.95 · $34.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 128 pages · 100 ills
Born in Canada, Stephen Appleby-Barr is a young artist who employs a classical style in a contemporary world, creating oil paintings and etchings that call to mind Renaissance art with a postmodern twist. Inspired by the dramatic work of Old Masters such as Rembrandt, Goya and Velázquez, Appleby-Barr infuses these elements with arcane references, sci-fi allusions and comic touches. The Pale Path explores Appleby-Barr’s artistic practice, juxtaposing it with images by artists such as Bosch, Delacroix, Freud and Goya as reference points. An accompanying essay by writer and philosopher Mark Kingwell will wind mesmerisingly throughout the book, surrounded by Appleby-Barr’s figurative painting, surreal pastiche and anthropomorphic figures. Appleby-Barr is a member of Team Macho, an artist collective previously featured in the 2007 publication Fancy Action Now: The Art of Team Macho. His work has featured in exhibitions at the Harbourfront Centre, Toronto; Gallery Hanahou, New York; Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto; Magic Pony, Toronto; and Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto. “It’s as though Rembrandt or Vermeer had played Dungeons & Dragons, or been obsessed by The Hobbit.” —The Toronto Star
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UK Dec 2017 US/CAN Feb 2018 Hardback ISBN 978-1-911164-71-5 £29.95 · $45.00 29 × 27 cm · 11 × 12 in 204 pages · 150 ills French edition ISBN 978-1-911164-75-3
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LIBRE DHC/ART Contributors: Sarah Thornton, Jan Verwoert et al LIBRE: DHC/ART tells the story of a contemporary art foundation unlike any other in Canada. Situated in the cosmopolitan city of Montreal, DHC/ART is dedicated to bringing impactful experiences with contemporary art to the public with a mission of accessibility on multiple levels. Since its launch in 2007 by Phoebe Greenberg, the foundation has presented a critically acclaimed programme with major artists from around the world, including Christian Marclay, Joan Jonas and Yinka Shonibare MBE. In a short time, the foundation has created new opportunities for the intellectual and creative communities in Montreal while establishing itself as a strong collaborator with both local and international partners. This publication chronicles the evolution of DHC/ART and through its story provides a platform for critical essays that open up larger questions about the potential for innovative institutional models to develop contemporary art audiences for the future. Amongst the contributors are Sarah Thornton, who will situate DHC/ART within the global philanthropic context, and Jan Verwoert, who explores the interrelated notions of seduction, value and metabolism.
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MEL KENDRICK, WOOD BLOCKS WATER DRAWINGS
MEL KENDRICK
WOOD BLOCKS WATER DRAWINGS
UK Jul 2017 US/CAN Sep 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-1-911164-82-1 £24.95 · $34.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 192 pages · 130 ills
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MEL KENDRICK Wood Blocks Water Drawings Marking the artist’s first major publication in his 30-year-plus career, Mel Kendrick: Wood Blocks Water Drawings presents a collection of the American artist’s wood block prints and water drawings. Produced over a period from the early 1990s to the present day, Kendrick’s prints explore bold yet complex arrangements, all the while introducing the subtle grain of the wood, signifying the organic quality of the artist’s creative process. These large-scale prints, typically measuring 3 × 2 metres in size, are largely informed by the artist’s ongoing sculptural practice, in both spatial engagement and process. Kendrick’s work is discussed within the book through texts that investigate the relationship that the works hold with both architectural and artistic influencers, as well as with his wellestablished sculptural practice, through which he has a storied history of using wood, bronze, rubber, paper and cast concrete. Kendrick has exhibited extensively and to great acclaim since the mid-1970s at institutions including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; and the Brooklyn Museum, New York, among many others. His work is included in many significant public collections, including those of the Art Institute of Chicago; the Brooklyn Museum; the Metropolitan Museum of Art; the Museum of Modern Art; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; and the Whitney Museum of American Art. He has been the recipient of several awards, including the Francis J. Greenburger Award and the Academy Award for Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
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KENT MONKMAN Shame and Prejudice, A Story of Resilience Contributors: Kent Monkman, Barbara Fischer et al
UK May 2017 US/CAN July 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-1-911164-69-2 £24.95 · $34.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 160 pages · 110 ills
Kent Monkman’s new, large-scale project takes the viewer on a journey through Canada’s history that starts in the present and takes us back to 150 years before Confederation. With its entry points in the harsh urban environment of Winnipeg’s north end, and contemporary life on the reserve, Kent Monkman: Shame and Prejudice, A Story of Resilience takes us all the way back to the period of New France and the fur trade. The Rococo masterpiece The Swing by Jean-Honoré Fragonard is reinterpreted as an installation with Monkman’s alter ego, Miss Chief Eagle Testickle, in a beaver-trimmed baroque dress, swinging back and forth between the Generals Wolfe and Montcalm. As both artist and curator, the book coincides with Kent Monkman’s first major solo exhibition at the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, and includes his own paintings, drawings and sculptural works, in dialogue with historical artefacts and artworks borrowed from museum and private collections from across Canada. Kent Monkman is a Canadian artist of Cree ancestry who works with a variety of mediums, including painting, film/video, performance and installation. He has had exhibitions at numerous major museums worldwide, including Witte de With, Rotterdam; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Toronto; and MASS MoCA, Massachusetts. The book accompanies a travelling North American exhibition of Monkman's work stopping at nine venues through to 2020, including the Art Museum at the University of Toronto, the University of Quebec and the Museum of Anthropology.
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TERRY MUNRO
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UK Jul 2017 US/CAN Sep 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-1-911164-81-4 £24.95 · $34.95 28 × 30 cm · 11 × 12 in 128 pages · 100 ills
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EMPIRE OF ILLUSION Terry Munro Over the past decade Canadian artist Terry Munro has concentrated his creative efforts in documenting one street: Las Vegas Boulevard in Nevada, USA. Visually, Las Vegas offers an unprecedented environment that purposely and at great expense seeks to interrogate the relationship between reality, symbols and society in often bizarre, ethnocentric, exaggerated, extraordinary and outrageous ways. It is a place that demands the craving of fantasy, ecstasy and illusion. Munro’s photographs deal in part with the architecture of the region and how the real and fiction are seamlessly blended together, with themes for some of the largest hotels in the world spanning from the Roman Empire and contemporary Paris to ancient Egypt. Rising from a vast desolate desert, the city is a strange and massive American economic engine fuelled by entertainment, gambling, consumerism and sex. The photographs presented here in duotone by Munro distil the hyperbole and extravagance of the Las Vegas strip to reveal simple truths about spectacle as the final manifestation of capitalism. Exploring the ideas and influences of Munro, Bill Jeffries has contributed a text that explores these themes in more detail, and how the photographer’s work sits within the canon of North American photography. Terry Munro is a Canadian artist who lives in Calgary and Vancouver. His photographs can be found in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada, Alberta Foundation for the Arts, Canada Council Art Bank and many others. He is a graduate of the San Francisco Art Institute in California. Bill Jeffries is a writer, artist and former curator, and was recently the Director/ Curator of Presentation House Gallery and Simon Fraser University Galleries in Vancouver.
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NEIL GALL The Drawings
UK Oct 2017 US/CAN Dec 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-1-911164-76-0 £29.95 · $39.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 144 pages · 90 ills
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Neil Gall: The Drawings brings together nearly 60 works of paper by British artist Neil Gall, created from 2005 up to the present. The book will offer an overview of Gall’s engagement with the medium of drawing and, in so doing, highlight this important thread running through his practice. Gall’s works typically engage a range of cultural and art historical references, all of which operate within his own unique and precisely determined visual language. In recent years, the artist has developed a highly skilful and virtuosic approach to drawing, which involves a rendering of loosely constructed maquettes, assembled using coloured tape, translucent cellophane, ping-pong balls and other materials that he finds in his studio. Neil Gall was born in Aberdeen, Scotland, and currently lives and works in London. He received his BA in Painting at Gray’s School of Art and then attended Slade School of Art in London in 1991. His art has garnered him numerous awards in Great Britain, and his work is featured in prominent international collections including the Denver Art Museum, The Morgan Library, New York and the Zabludowicz Collection, London. Gall is represented by David Nolan Gallery in New York and Aurel Scheibler Gallery in Berlin.
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UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH
OUT OF ICE The Secret Language of Ice
OUT OF ICE Elizabeth Ogilvie
UK Sep 2017 US/CAN Nov 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-1-911164-23-4 RRP £29.95 · $39.95 27.5 × 27.5 cm · 11 × 11 in 180 pages · 120 ills
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Editors: Jane Warrilow, Elizabeth Ogilvie Contributors: Andrew Patrizio, Katherine Heron, Tim Ingold, Bergit Arends, Astrid Ogilvie, Julie Decker et al Elizabeth Ogilvie is a Scottish environmental artist who focuses on the psychological, physical and poetic dimensions of ice and water. Out of Ice was Ogilvie’s gigantic immersive art piece, a site-specific work designed for the vast Ambika P3, a London gallery and former construction hall. Her work is deeply concerned with nature, global warming, the age of the Anthropocene and deep time, employing a fusion of art, architecture and science. This publication will explore one of the most significant artists of her generation in Scotland: it includes essays focusing on critical interrogation of Ogilvie’s work but also poetry, journal extracts and the artist’s own writing. A series of stunning images will document Ogilvie’s field research and experimental work, the Out of Ice installation process, and the artist’s community engagement. Ogilvie was the recipient of a Creative Scotland/National Lottery Award, as well as an Arts Council of England grant and a Saltire Award for Art in Architecture. She is the founder/ director of Scottish-based cultural trust Lateral Lab, and she has exhibited in numerous galleries worldwide, including in Korea, Germany, Iceland and Japan.
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ART MUSEUM, UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO
FORM FOLLOWS FICTION Art and Artists in Toronto Contributors: Luis Jacob, General Idea, Michael Snow, Robert Houle, Camille Turner, Suzy Lake et al
UK Aug 2017 US/CAN Oct 2017 Hardback ISBN 978-1-911164-70-8 £29.95 · $39.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 208 pages · 160 ills
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How do artists in Toronto visualise their sense of place? Are there particular made-in-Toronto ways of thinking about the city? Bringing together work selected by internationally renowned Toronto-based artist Luis Jacob, Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto concentrates on a period of more than 50 years to consider the ways in which artists visualise Toronto. Presenting a thematic clustering of works by 86 artists, the book is premised on the tendency of artists in the city to favour performative and allegorical procedures to articulate their sense of place. Four gestures—mapping, modelling, performing and congregating—serve as signposts to a diverse array of artistic practices. The book is a constellation of symbolic forms, or memes, that repeatedly appear in the work of artists of different generations; it presents a panorama of the blueprints that artists have drafted over many decades to give form to life in one of North America’s largest cities. The book includes historical documents gathered from local archives, contemporary ephemera and work from artists including Suzy Lake, Kent Monkman, Ed Pien, Roula Partheniou, General Idea, Oliver Husain, Lisa Steele and Michael Snow.
VANCOUVER ART GALLERY
ENTANGLED Two Views on Contemporary Canadian Painting Editors: Bruce Grenville, David MacWilliam e n t a n g l e d two views on contemporary canadian painting
UK Sep 2017 US/CAN Nov 2017 Paperback ISBN 978-1-911164-44-9 £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 21 cm · 8 × 11 in 112 pages · 90 ills
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The story of contemporary painting in Canada is constantly under revision, and for good reason—dynamic and influential art practices, wildly differing opinions, strongly held beliefs and high expectations make for a charged atmosphere in art schools, studios and public and private galleries. Within this community of painters, strong ideas give shape to new modes of painting, new techniques and new dogmas that are in turn shared, debated, tested and critiqued in studios across the country. Entangled: Two Views on Contemporary Canadian Painting offers an insight into two distinctly different modes that have come to dominate contemporary painting in this country. The origins of both can be effectively traced back to the 1970s, to a moment when the continued existence of painting was hotly debated. Within that debate two new strategies were devised: one that proposed the possibility of conceptual painting—a highly refined notion of painting that emerged from and returned to the ‘idea’—and a second, ambivalent proposition that valued actions and materials over ideas: in short, doing and making were pitted against ideas and concepts. Entangled: Two Views on Contemporary Canadian Painting traces the legacy of that debate and documents the work of 32 artists who have been largely responsible for the strong revival that painting now enjoys in Canada. With work by artists from Halifax to Victoria and many places in-between, the book offers a convincing survey of the lively exchanges that make painting relevant and meaningful today, including the work of Gary Neill Kennedy, Gerald Ferguson, Jeffrey Spalding, Stephanie Aitken, Marvin Luvualu Antonio and Rebecca Brewer.
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UK Sep 2017 US/CAN Nov 2017 Paperback ISBN 978-1-911164-77-7 £24.95 · $34.95 30 × 23 cm · 9 × 12 in 144 pages · 70 ills
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Simon English: my big self decoy justin beiber brings together a significant new body of painted drawings by the artist that format themselves around the double page spread, with both image and text on the page to invite and resist quiet contemplation. These exquisitely delicate and brutal drawings tussle with one another for space, pulling the viewer into the energetic and colourful vortex of the artist’s psyche. Diaries jostle with devotions, desires and disputes—a confabulation of friction and fiction in a place where fetish and fact collide. Simon English draws across the blank page with the instincts of one entering cyberspace. His surfing history is left only too clear on the surface of the page, or buried beneath heavy black deletions and overpainting. His are the ‘old’ gremlins, the monsters within that say one is too much and more is never enough. In 2004, Bill Arning wrote that “for picture addicts like myself, English is the equivalent of a crack dealer”. The work within the book is brought together with written contributions from Laurence Scott, who will contribute a text emanating from English’s imaginary drawing database, and Sally O’Reilly, who will construct a voice for the work somewhere between art, theory, fiction and fantasy. Simon English is a Berlin-born British artist based in London who made his debut in Young British Artists III at the Saatchi Gallery in 1994. Since then, his work has been exhibited in galleries, museums and institutions worldwide. Laurence Scott is a writer and author of the book The Four-Dimensional Human. Sally O’Reilly is a writer and critic who recently published her first novel, Crude.
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IRIS HAÜSSLER The Sophie La Rosière Project Editor: Philip Monk
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THE SOPHIE LA ROSIÈRE PROJECT UK Jul 2017 US/CAN Sep 2017 Hardback ISBN: 978-1-911164-24-1 £29.95 · $39.95 27 × 17 cm · 7 × 10 in 224 pages · 190 ills
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Since 2009, Iris Häussler has produced the complete oeuvre of unknown French painter Sophie La Rosière, who died in 1948. In fact, Häussler has created an artistic persona through which to channel this fictitious artist’s secrets, while at the same time fabricating a biography for her and an elaborate backstory of a hidden erotic liaison that intersects with real people, historical events and actual artistic movements. The paintings are merely a kernel within the larger shell of La Rosière’s life circumstances, which include the recreation of her studio, its products and detritus, and the elements of a forensic investigation that tries to answer the questions, after the paintings’ discovery, of why these paintings were abandoned, why they were concealed by a layer of black encaustic and, ultimately, what secrets do they conceal? Following the spirit of the overall project, this book includes a catalogue raisonné of all Sophie La Rosière’s 293 works, forensic evidence, expert analyses and official reports. Iris Häussler is a German-born conceptual and installation artist, who lives and works in Toronto, Canada. She consistently works with immersive installations that revolve around fictitious stories. Beginning with detailed biographies of invented characters, she builds the material evidence of their obsessive lives and works. This results in unsettling sitespecific environments in domestic dwellings, historical houses and museum spaces.
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THE BOOK OF NEOISM?! Author: Istvan Kantor
UK Oct 2017 US/CAN Dec 2017 Paperback ISBN 978-1-911164-74-6 £19.95 · $29.95 22 × 14 cm · 6 × 9 in 496 pages · 80 ills
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The Book of Neoism?! brings together the collected writings of Hungarian-Canadian artist and cultural provocateur Istvan Kantor, one of the early members of the Neoism movement. The central tenet of Neoism is to ‘make shit happen’, be that ritualistic book burnings, public ‘blood protests’ at MOMA, raucous musical performances or innovative experiments in sculptural form. This parodic movement originated as an underground network in Canada in the late 1970s, operating as a subversive collective creating controversies, live installations and, eventually, an international subculture. Its members employed shared pseudonyms, most notably ‘Monty Cantsin’, which Kantor himself appropriated for his performance art. In this publication, Kantor will continue this tradition by using AMEN. as his nom de plume. This is Black Dog Publishing's second book regarding the work of Kantor. The first, Rivington School, tells the story of his time founding a punk movement on Manhattan’s Lower East Side. Most recently, Kantor hit the headlines after he missed his own book burning due to being detained by customs authorities. Kantor’s further writings are brash and experimental, forming a vital part of underground subcultural history, and The Book of Neoism?! promises to shed light on the infamous activities of twentieth-century Neoists.
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FORM, MODEL, SYNTAX, DISPLAY Terence Gower Sculpture Works Editor: Terence Gower
UK Sep 2017 US/CAN Nov 2017 Hardback ISBN: 978-1-911164-48-7 £24.95 · $34.95 24 × 22 cm · 8.5 × 9.5 in 128 pages · 70 ills
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Form, Model, Syntax, Display is the third monograph on the work of Terence Gower. Although best known for his large research-based installations on twentieth-century architecture and urbanism, this recent body of work analyses post-war abstract sculpture. Gower is interested in how abstract form— in sculpture and architecture—represents abstract ideas, and how these forms’ associated meanings change over time. He has studied the work of artists such as Barbara Hepworth and Isamu Noguchi, using drawing, room-sized mobiles and sculptures in papier mâché, polystyrene, stone and concrete. The design of this book, including its layout and title, is closely modelled on the 1960s Vision & Value book series (Braziller, New York), in which György Kepes invited contributors from wide-ranging disciplines to write on the same cultural or scientific theme. Gower has invited seven writers from literature, art and the social sciences to contribute essays, each accompanied by documentation from the artist’s ten-year study of modern sculpture. Form, Model, Syntax, Display is published to coincide with the installation of Six Formes, a public artwork commissioned by the Région Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes, France.
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UK Oct 2017 US/CAN Dec 2017 Paperback ISBN 978-1-911164-50-0 £24.95 · $34.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 144 pages · 100 ills
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Gary Pearson is an inventive and protean artist who works in a contemporary idiom, but in the vein of Northern Expressionism. Pearson has a dark sensibility, using mainly graphic rather than painterly means in his work, which explores the human condition. The artist also produces large-scale drawings, and his restless creativity has led him to make videos as well, both fictional/ conceptual and documentary. Pearson has travelled widely, having participated in exhibitions and artist’s residencies in New York, Germany, Norway, Poland, Mexico and Australia. When on the road or at residencies, he generally works on paper and at a small scale, as well as writing in his journal. His small pieces later feed into large paintings once he is back in his Kelowna studio. An award-winning artist, Pearson has been Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia Okanagan in Kelowna, Canada, since 1991. Gary Pearson: Short Fictions includes texts on Pearson’s work by Canadian writers Aaron Peck, Michael Turner and Liz Wylie (the curator of the major solo exhibition this book accompanies). There is also a transcription of an interview with the artist by internationally known Canadian writer and curator Ihor Holubizky.
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ART IN GENERAL
What Now? On Future Identities
UK Jul 2017 US/CAN Sep 2017 Paperback ISBN 978-1-911164-46-3 £16.95 · $19.95 25 × 19 cm · 7 ½ × 10 in 96 pages · 40 ills
WHAT NOW? On Future Identities Editors: Anne Barlow, Kristen Chappa What Now? On Future Identities examines the notions of ‘future identities’ through discussions around the construction of the self, queer theory, self-determination, mutability, the body, technology and social media, as well as the ever-evolving relationship between the digital and the material. Bringing together contributions from artists, curators, educators, cultural theorists and psychologists, alongside artists’ interventions, What Now? On Future Identities is the second in a series of publications that coincide with a symposium of the same name, held by Art in General, New York. The book considers how this contemporary political moment is different from the kinds of activism that arose around identity politics during the 1960s through to the 1990s, and how new thinking might shape ideas around ‘performing citizenship’ or creating a new sense of commons in the future. What Now? On Future Identities follows Black Dog Publishing’s previous title with Art in General, What Now? The Politics of Listening. The series is ongoing, with another title to be published next season.
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Necropolitics aNd its discoNteNts
NECROPOLITICS AND ITS DISCONTENTS Art, Morality and the Political Imagination Editors: Mick Wilson, Silvia Loeffler Contributors: Noel Fitzpatrick, Birgitta Nordström, Behjat Omer Abdullah et al
Necropolitics aNd its discoNteNts Art, Mortality and the Political Imagination UK Sep 2017 US/CAN Nov 2017 Paperback ISBN 978-1-911164-42-5 £19.95 · $29.95 23 × 16 cm · 6 × 9 in 180 pages · 80 ills
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Necropolitics and its Discontents addresses the relationship between the contemporary political production of death and the way mortality is figured in contemporary visual practices. This unique volume brings artists and theorists together to examine the complex ways in which mortality intersects with questions of political community, belonging and identity, as explored in contemporary art practice and debate. At a time of unprecedented public violence and refugee crises, Necropolitics and its Discontents addresses the contribution of artistic practices to thinking through the culture of precarity and death that characterises the current historical moment. The book offers a unique interdisciplinary intervention into current debates on the political and economic instrumentalisation of death, demonstrating the important role of contemporary art in providing alternative images and ideas for the contemporary political imagination. Combining formats such as the visual essay with critical theoretical interventions that draw upon contemporary political philosophy, ethnography, economics and art theory, this volume is an important contribution to understanding the processes shaping contemporary political cultures of death.
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DES HUGHES
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One Hand Washes the Other
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UK Feb 2018 US/CAN Apr 2018 Hardback ISBN 978-1-911164-79-1 £29.95 · $39.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 240 pages · 160 ills
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Bringing together work produced over the past decade, Des Hughes: One Hand Washes the Other is the most comprehensive publication on the British artist’s work to date. Des Hughes' work bears witness to an obsessive, physical enquiry into the materials, methods and traditions of sculpture, rethinking conventional scu lptural materials such as plaster, marble, bronze and clay. Nothing is as it first appears; crudely modelled clay is meticulously cast in resin but, with the inclusion of marble dust, it may appear to have been carved and polished from a block of stone or fashioned from a piece of chewing gum. Hughes also considers the purpose or meaning of sculpture— from the functional doorstop to the sacred effigy. Traditions are revised as he rethinks ecclesiastical equipment and relics as macabre joke-shop props or as modern, abstract sculptural forms (and vice versa). The traditional materials of sculpture are called into question and a robust sense of imagery recalls classic British horror. There is a tender acknowledgement of the twentieth-century modernist canon, while a pre-romantic and more medieval moment is reimagined, with a sombre world view of the transience of life, the futility of pleasure and the certainty of death. Des Hughes is a British artist who studied at Bath School of Art and Design and Goldsmiths, University of London. He has exhibited at galleries including the Henry Moore Foundation, The Hepworth Wakefield, Nottingham Contemporary and Tate Britain. The book includes a wide selection of Hughes’ work, as well as texts that contextualise the artist’s work within the scope of contemporary art practice.
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AFTER THE EDUCATIONAL TURN Critical Art Pedagogies and Decolonialism Contributors: Dave Beech, Kjell Caminha, Glenn Loughran, Steven Henry Madoff, Paul O’Neill, Khashayar Naderehvandi, Mick Wilson
UK Nov 2017 US/CAN Jan 2018 Paperback ISBN: 978-1-911164-49-4 £19.95 · $29.95 21 × 15 cm · 6 × 8 in 176 pages · 60 ills
After the Educational Turn explores the condition and critical potential of contemporary art education with a particular focus on the question of decolonialism. In the era of the globalised art world, when worldwide norms of practice (the biennial, the white cube, the artist’s residency, the art fair) and a competitive economy of higher arts education providers have been established, this volume challenges the conventional frameworks for thinking about critical art education. The book takes its title from the widely recognised phenomenon of the last two decades whereby artistic and curatorial practices adopted pedagogical frameworks for the realisation and production of art (the Educational Turn) and asks how the formally instituted practices for the education of artists now operate in the wake of this critical reconstruction of education within art practice itself. At a time when the global discussion of critical educational practice is overshadowed by neoliberal assaults on public culture, After the Educational Turn seeks to inform the future development of art educational praxis by drawing upon the project of decolonialism. Decolonialism challenges the political, social and cultural domination established through the Eurocentric construction of knowledge and practice; it seeks to produce emancipatory paradigms of knowledge by drawing upon multiple cultural traditions and the concrete project of decolonisation operative for several centuries throughout Latin America, Africa and Asia. Drawing upon the cross-fertilisation of experimental artistic practice, critical pedagogy and decolonialism, this volume provides a resource for the next generation of critical arts pedagogies and reclaims an emancipatory role for art education.
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AGO Highlights from the Collection of the Art Galler y of Ontario Editor: Jim Shedden PB · ISBN 978-1-894243-74-2 RRP £16.95 · $24.95 23 × 16 cm · 6 × 9 in 356 pages · 300 ills
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AN TE LIU Authors: Pablo Larios, Ken Lum, Kitty Scott, Andrew Berardini HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-38-6 RRP £29.95 · $39.95 28 × 21 cm · 8 × 11 in 240 pages · 280 ills
ANARCHY IN THE ORGANISM Editor: Simeon Nelson PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-28-5 RRP £14.95 · $19.95 25 × 17 cm · 7 × 10 in 96 pages · 70 ills
ARE YOU EXPERIENCED? Author: Melissa Bennett PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-01-0 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 192 pages · 203 ills
ART AND TEXT Contributors: Dave Beech, Charles Harrison, Will Hill, Kevin McCaighy, Louis Pattison PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-18-8 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 288 pages · 272 ills
ARIK LEV Y: Art Authors: Arik Lev y, Asaf Gottesman, Kenny Schachter et al HB · ISBN 978-1-908966-56-8 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 25 × 19 cm · 8 × 10 in 304 pages · 280 ills
OUT THERE: Arik Lev y Authors: Jérôme Peignot, Christy MacLear et al HB · ISBN 978-1-908966-80-3 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 25 × 19 cm · 8 × 10 in 272 pages · 240 ills
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ARCHIVE Imagining the East End: A Photographic Discourse Authors: Susan Andrews, Nicholas Haeffner PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-37-7 RRP £14.95 · $19.95 24 × 18 cm · 7 × 9 in 96 pages · 80 ills
ALPHABETS A Miscellany of Letters Introduction: David Sacks HB · ISBN 978-1-907317-09-5 RRP £24.95 · $45.00 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 240 pages · 145 ills
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AMNESIAC HIDE Mike Nelson Authors: Dick Hebdige, Jenifer Papararo, Julia Paoli PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-45-2 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 23 × 14 cm · 6 × 9 in 176 pages · 160 ills
AMY BENNETT Small Changes Ever y Day Author: Eleanor Hear tney HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-45-4 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 21 × 28 cm · 11 × 8 in 96 pages · 82 ills
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AFTER THE AGREEMENT Contemporar y Photography in Northern Ireland Author: Sarah Tuck PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-91-9 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 25 × 20 cm · 8 × 10 in 144 pages · 100 ills
THE POWER PLANT/ CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY, VANCOUVER
ACTORS, NETWORKS, THEORIES / D'UN DISCOURS QUI NE SERAIT PAS DU SEMBL ANT Author: Vincent Bonin Editors: France Choinière, Michèle Theriault PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-91-1 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 208 pages · 40 ills
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ACTIVE WITHDRAWALS Life and Death of Institutional Critique Editors: Biljana Ciric, Nikita Yingqian Cai PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-25-6 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 21 × 12 cm · 5 × 8 in 352 pages · 50 ills
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO
ACE RECORDS Labels Unlimited Authors: David Stubbs, Rob Young PB · ISBN 978-1-906155-03-2 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 27 × 22 cm · 9 × 11 in 192 pages · 220 ills
DAZIBAO LEONARD & BINA ELLEN GALLERY
30 OBJECTS 30 INSIGHTS Gardiner Museum Editors: Rachel Gotlieb, Karine Tsoumis PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-67-4 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 25 × 20 cm · 8 × 10 in 208 pages · 120 ills
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AMERICAN ARTIFACTS Phil Bergerson Authors: Margaret Atwood, Nathan Lyons HB · ISBN 978-1-908966-35-3 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 28 × 31 cm · 12 × 11 in 144 pages · 120 ills
ART AND THE INTERNET Contributors: Joanne McNeil, Domenico Quaranta, Nicholas Lamber t PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-98-9 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 224 pages · 300 ills
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MONTREAL MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS
STEPHEN BULGER GALLERY
SETTING THE STAGE: THE EMERGENCE OF THE BEAVER HALL GROUP
THE ART OF JESSICA VOORSANGER The Impostor Series Contributors: Kathy Kubicki, Dr Jean Wainwright HB · ISBN 978-1-908966-85-8 RRP £29.95 · $39.95 27 × 21 cm · 8 × 10 in 160 pages · 130 ills
THE ART OF WALKING A Field Guide Author: David Evans PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-87-3 RRP £16.95 · $24.95 23 × 17 cm · 7 × 9 in 192 pages · 170 ills
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THE ARTIST'S STUDIO Joseph Hartman Contributors: Melissa Bennett, Alana Traficante, Rober t Enright HB · ISBN 978-1-911164-20-3 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 23 × 30 cm · 12 × 9 in 144 pages · 120 ills
ONE THING LEADS TO ANOTHER EVERY THING IS CONNECTED Art on the Underground Editors: Charlotte Bonham-Car ter, Louise Coysh, Tamsin Dillon HB · ISBN 978-1-907317-89-7 RRP £12.95 · $19.95 22 × 18 cm · 7 × 9 in 88 pages · 106 ills
ART OF THE ARCTIC Reflections of the Unseen Authors: Donald Ellis, Dawn Ades, Colin Browne, Marie Mauze HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-82-9 RRP £40.00 · $65.00 30 × 25 cm · 10 × 12 in 256 pages · 190 ills
The Beaver Hall Group’s arrival on the Montreal scene in late May 1920 coincided with a pivotal moment in the history of Canadian art. In the wake of the war, a new generation of artists was looking for new modes of expression. Earlier in May, the founding of the Group of Seven was marked in Toronto by its first exhibition. The leaders of the Toronto group and the positive reviews that ensued bolstered those who had ideas on art differing from those held by the establishment. Simultaneously, the artists who banded together in Montreal shared the same desire to shed light on aesthetic options that would otherwise have gone unnoticed. At the first annual exhibition of the Beaver Hall Group, in January 1921, a critic declared that “the Montreal art scene has just been given a new boost.”1 Another reviewer was quick to identify a particular characteristic: “Individual expression… is the aim of this group.”2 The cohesive aesthetic and
ideological vision that developed with the Group of Seven and spearheaded a certain Canadian identity — predominantly defined by landscapes of the untamed North — was not fully embraced by the Montreal group, which instead emphasized the urban life of an already centuries-old Canadian city with deep and intricate roots. The larger number of artists associated with the Beaver Hall Group also fostered greater diversity in subject matter and styles. But the group’s most distinctive characteristic was the composition of its membership, half of whom were women, making this mixed group the first association in Canada to unite professional, modernist women artists. The short-lived existence of the Beaver Hall Group continued to be felt in the practices of its most innovative members, and the contacts that had preceded and led to its formation persisted in friendships, professional
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THE BEAVER HALL GROUP 1920s Modernism in Montreal Contributors: Jacques Des Rochers, Brian Foss, Kristina Huneault et al HB · ISBN 978-1-908966-93-3 (French lang) ISBN 978-1-908966-94-0 RRP £34.95 · $49.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 352 pages · 283 ills The Beaver Hall Group: 1920s Modernism in Montreal presents the work of the Canadian painting collective the Beaver Hall Group, known for their early modernist work and as one of the first collectives in Canada in which women played a vital role. The Beaver Hall Group were early adopters of new modernist approaches to painting and explored their potential in a variety of genres including portraiture, still life, landscape and urban scenes. Through an examination of documented exhibitions, press coverage, photographs and key works from the period, the book gives a fascinating insight into the reach of the group by concentrating on 30 established artists including Mabel May, Barbara Meadowcroft, Emily Coonan and Kathleen Morris.
305 Prudence Heward Girl under a Tree 1931 Art Gallery of Hamilton
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Works by the Beaver Hall Group artists exhibited at the British Empire Exhibition, London, 1924 and 1925
Herein are displayed the paintings the artists of the Beaver Hall Group and their Montreal associates exhibited at Wembley Park, London, in 1924 and 1925, for which images have been traced. On the left page (1924), several works appearing elsewhere in the catalogue should be included: 36, 61, 103, 176 and 293; on the right page (1925), the following works must also be added: 104, 105, 106, 173 and 183.
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Randolph S. Hewton Julienne 1924 or earlier Whereabouts of work unknown
Mabel Lockerby In the Garden 1924 or earlier Whereabouts of work unknown
A. Y. Jackson Entrance to Halifax Harbour 1919 London, Tate Gallery
Mabel May Late Winter 1924 or earlier Whereabouts of work unknown
Mabel May Old House in the Laurentians 1924 or earlier Whereabouts of work unknown
Kathleen Morris After Grand Mass, Berthier-en-Haut Oil sketch (whereabouts unknown) for the 1927 painting (297) In The Canadian Magazine, July 1924
A. Y. Jackson The Winter Road (1925 or earlier) In Illustrated Souvenir of the Palace of Arts: British Empire Exhibition, 1925
Randolph S. Hewton The Angel of Death (1925 or earlier) In Illustrated Souvenir of the Palace of Arts: British Empire Exhibition, 1925
Ethel Seath The Canal, Montreal About 1924 Westmount, The Study
Mabel May Among the Hills 1925 or earlier Whereabouts of work unknown
Albert H. Robinson The Open Stream 1923 Blérancourt, France, Musée de la coopération franco-américaine
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A. Y. Jackson November 1922 Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada
Albert H. Robinson Quebec City 1922 Toronto, Art Gallery of Ontario
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Lilias Torrance Newton Head of a Girl 1924 or earlier Whereabouts of work unknown
Albert H. Robinson Melting Snows, Laurentians 1922 Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada
Albert H. Robinson Village on the Gulf 1921 Ottawa, National Gallery of Canada
Regina Seiden Old Immigrant Woman 1922 Art Gallery of Hamilton
89 A. Y. Jackson Winter, Georgian Bay (1924 or earlier) In Joyner sales catalogue, Toronto, 1994
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100 Kathleen Morris Market Day, Berthier 1925 or earlier Whereabouts of work unknown
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CENTRAL LINE SERIES Art on the Underground Editors: Charlotte Bonham-Car ter, Louise Coysh, Tamsin Dillon HB · ISBN 978-1-907317-90-3 RRP £12.95 · $19.95 22 × 18 cm · 7 × 9 in 88 pages · 111 ills
Jacques des rochers
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BAD GRAFFITI Photographer: Scott Hocking PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-82-8 RRP £9.95 · $14.95 15 × 21 cm · 9 × 6 in 160 pages · 162 ills
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BARBARA NICHOLLS Sedimentar y Flow Author: Mar tin Holman HB · ISBN 978-1-911164-21-0 (German lang) 978-1-911164-38-8 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 30 × 23 cm · 9 × 12 in 128 pages · 110 ills
BEACONSFIELD Chronic Epoch Authors: Margaret Garlake, Julian Stallbrass et al PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-57-5 RRP £16.95 · $24.95 21 × 15 cm · 6 × 8 in 144 pages · 75 ills
BETWEEN EXITS Paintings by Hani Zurob Author: Kamal Boullata Introduction: Jean Fisher PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-91-0 RRP £24.95 · $45.00 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 192 pages · 150 ills
BETWEEN STATES Authors: Simon Faulkner, David Reeb PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-38-4 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 23 × 17 cm · 7 × 9 in 176 pages · 140 ills
BHARTI KHER Matter Editors: Daina Augaitis, Diana Freundl PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-97-3 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 28 × 22 cm · 11 × 8.7 in 160 pages · 120 ills
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Charm, Belligerence & Perversity. THE INCOMPLETE WORKS OF GBH.
Bob and Roberta Smith is the alias of the artist Patrick Brill, a leading contemporary artist known for his 'slogan' artwork. His oeuvre covers broad topics, such as the role of art in schools and the failings of contemporary politicians. CHARM, BELLIGERENCE & PERVERSIT Y The Incomplete Works of GBH Authors: Mark Bonner, Jason Gregor y and Peter Hale HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-90-4 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 192 pages · 312 ills
CONTEMPORARY ART IN GERMANY, AUSTRIA AND SWITZERL AND Introduction: Dominikus Müller PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-99-6 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 208 pages · 200 ills
CONTEMPORARY ART IN EASTERN EUROPE Contributors: Marina Abramovic, Zdenka Badovinac, Boris Groys et al HB · ISBN 978-1-906155-84-1 RRP £29.95 · $49.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 240 pages · 143 ills
BY RAIL AND BY SEA Scott Conarroe Contributors: Bob Bean, Simon Winchester HB · ISBN 978-1-908966-43-8 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 28 × 30 cm · 12 × 11 in 144 pages · 110 ills
CONTEMPORARY ART IN L ATIN AMERICA Contributors: Guy Brett, Luis Camnitzer, Gabriel Perez-Barreiro et al HB · ISBN 978-1-906155-64-3 RRP £29.95 · $49.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 224 pages · 300 ills
CONTEMPORARY ART IN NORTH AMERICA Contributors: Critical Ar t Ensemble, Ken Lum, Michael Wilson et al HB · ISBN 978-1-907317-23-1 RRP £29.95 · $49.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 240 pages · 213 ills
CONTEMPORARY ART IN THE UNITED KINGDOM Contributors: Malcolm Dickson, Amelia Jones, John Rober ts, Andrew Renton, John Slyce PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-68-2 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 240 pages · 200 ills
CHARLES EDENSHAW Editors: Robin K Wright, Daina Augaitis, Jim Har t et al HB · ISBN 978-1-908966-20-9 RRP £24.95 · $39.95 28 × 25 cm · 10 × 11 in 304 pages · 280 ills
COLOUR IN THE MAKING From Old Wisdom to New Brilliance Authors: Philip Ball, Mark Clarke, Carinna Parraman PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-95-8 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 240 pages · 300 ills
THE COLOUR OF TIME Garr y Fabian Miller Authors: Adam Nicolson, Nigel Warbur ton, Marina Warner HB · ISBN: 978-1-907317-06-4 RRP £29.95 · $49.95 25 × 25 cm · 10 × 10 in 192 pages · 150 ills
COMMUNION Ben Judd Authors: Emma Cocker, Alun Rowlands, Pandora Syperek PB · ISBN: 978-1-908966-33-9 RRP £14.95 · $19.95 24 × 18 cm · 7 × 9 in 96 pages · 99 ills
BRIAN GRIMWOOD The Man who Changed the Look of British Illustration Author: Brian Grimwood Introduction: Sir Peter Blake PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-86-6 RRP £24.95 · $45.00 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 224 pages · 238 ills VANCOUVER ART GALLERY
BORDER CULTURES Contributors: Srimoyee Mitra, Dr Lee Rodney, Bonnie Devine PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-44-7 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 160 pages · 100 ills
CAMERA ATOMICA Editor: John O’Brian Contributors: Douglas Coupland, Hiromitsu Toyoski et al PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-48-3 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 25 × 19 cm · 7 × 10 in 304 pages · 256 ills
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I SHOULD BE IN CHARGE Author: Bob and Rober ta Smith HB · ISBN 978-1-907317-26-2 RRP £29.95 · $49.95 29 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 224 pages · 300 ills
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ART GALLERY OF WINDSOR
ART U NEED My Part in the Public Art Revolution Author: Bob and Rober ta Smith PB · ISBN 978-1-906155-16-2 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 24 × 18 cm · 7 × 9 in 160 pages · 46 ills
ART GALLERY OF ONTARIO
BOB AND ROBERTA SMITH
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CAROLEE SCHNEEMANN Unforgivable Contributors: Melissa Ragona, Kristine Stiles, Kenneth White et al HB · ISBN 978-1-908966-51-3 RRP £39.95 · $59.95 25.5 × 20.5 cm · 8 × 10 in 320 pages · 200 ills
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DE MA MAIN À L A COULEUR / HAND TO COLOUR Author: Jean McEwen HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-69-0 RRP £24.95 · $39.95 20 × 28 cm · 11 × 8 in 48 pages · 16 ills
DRAWING PROJECTS An Exploration of the Language of Drawing Authors: Mick Maslen, Jack Southern PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-25-5 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 26 × 21 cm · 8 × 10 in 240 pages · 340 ills
DE MA MAIN À L A COULEUR / HAND TO COLOUR Limited signed edition with slipcase Author: Jean McEwen HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-72-0 RRP £200.00 · $300.00 20 × 28 cm · 11 × 8 in 48 pages · 16 ills
THE DECORATED SCHOOL Essays on the Visual Culture of Schooling Editors: Jeremy Howard, Catherine Burke, Peter Cunningham PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-24-7 RRP £14.95 · $19.95 23 × 17 cm · 5 × 9 in 96 pages · 79 ills
DEGAS’ METHOD Author: Line Clausen Pedersen Contributors: Flemming Friborg et al PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-14-0 (Danish lang) ISBN 978-1-910433-21-8 RRP £39.95 · $69.95 32 × 24 cm · 10 × 13 in 314 pages · 159 ills
THE DRAWING BOOK A Sur vey of Drawing: the Primar y Means of Expression Editor: Tania Kouats PB · ISBN 978-1-904772-81-1 RRP £24.95 · $39.95 25 × 21 cm · 8 × 11 in 320 pages · 260 ills
DESIGN CREATIVIT Y & CULTURE An Orientation to Design Author: Maurice Barnwell PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-40-8 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 240 pages · 120 ills
DOUGL AS COUPL AND Ever y where is Any where is Anything is Ever ything Authors: Daina Augaitis, Bjarke Ingels, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Michael Stipe et al HB · ISBN 978-1-908966-52-0 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 296 pages · 250 ills
MAKE BUILD CREATE Sculpture Projects for Children Author: Paula Briggs PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-70-6 RRP £14.95 · $24.95 26 × 21 cm · 8 × 10 in 144 pages · 120 ills
RYERSON IMAGE CENTRE
THE EDGE OF THE EARTH Climate Change in Photography and Video Authors: Bénédicte Ramade, TJ Demos, Paul Roth HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-98-0 RRP £29.95 · $45.00 25 × 28 cm · 10 × 11 in 192 pages · 165 ills
ED PIEN Luminous Shadows Authors: Catherine de Zegher, Angela Kingston PB · ISBN: 978-1-910433-96-6 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 30 × 23 cm · 9 × 12 in 112 pages · 160 ills
THE ESSENCE OF PERFUME Author: Roja Dove HB · ISBN 978-1-908966-46-9 RRP £29.95 · $39.95 30 × 22 cm · 9 × 12 in 272 pages · 350 ills
EUROPEAN CONTEXTUALISING IN ANALYTICAL SOCIOLOGY AND ETHNOGRAPHICAL REPRESENTATION ON HISTORY AND THE PRESENT Authors: Remco Torenbosch, Charles Esche HB · ISBN 978-1-908966-69-8 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 21 × 15 cm · 6 × 8 in 244 pages · 212 ills
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DRAWING PROJECTS FOR CHILDREN Author: Paula Briggs PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-74-2 RRP £14.95 · $24.95 26 × 21 cm · 8 × 10 in 144 pages · 120 ills
MCINTOSH GALLERY
DAVID WHITAKER Painting Author: Matthew Sturgis HB · ISBN 978-1-907317-44-6 RRP £29.95 · $49.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 144 pages · 120 ills
NV CARLSBERG GLYPTOTEK
CRITICAL DICTIONARY Author: David Evans PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-49-1 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 23 × 17 cm · 7 × 9 in 192 pages · 248 ills
ECO-CHIC The Fashion Paradox Author: Sandy Black HB · ISBN: 978-1-906155-09-4 RRP £24.95 · $39.95 25 × 19 cm · 8 × 11 in 256 pages · 267 ills
EMBRACING CANADA Landscapes from Krieghoff to the Group of Seven Author: Ian M Thom PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-56-0 RRP £29.95 · $39.95 24 × 28 cm · 11 × 10 in 208 pages · 155 ills
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On the Table 7 LEARNING TO SEE YOURSELF
LEARNING TO SEE YO U R S E L F
Let’s start with the self-evident. Great art is almost always a statement of truth and deception, revelations and hypocrisy, profound emotional release and an artistic game. Great representational art is always abstract, just as abstract art is representational. I often think of the assertions from Borduas and Riopelle that they had finally exorcised nature from Canadian painting through abstraction. Take another look at their paintings. All you can see is nature. Van Gogh painted evident irises. Self-evident irises. Much later, these canvases sold for tens of millions to people who thought they wanted irises. I have stood in the walled garden of the mental asylum on the edge of Saint-Rémy-deProvence, staring at the bed of irises which inspired Van Gogh, and it is clear that he did not paint irises. What did he paint? I don’t know. It doesn’t matter. What matters is that he created a painting which is not at all what it appears to be. When you look at Kent Monkman’s Four Continents you may pass from startled silence to an embarrassed giggle to an honest laugh, only to find yourself feeling uncomfortable, then confused, then moved, wondering what he has done to you. Good painters do things to us. The better they are the more they do. At first the Monkman contradictions seem obvious, then unclear. And then there is somehow a frightening ease of style — apparently in one manner or another — until you realize that he has turned all of these manners into something of his own. Morphing would be the wrong term because he continually re-adjusts the mix to produce a sequence of destabilizing styles. I guess you could say he has the trickster in him.
JOHN R A L S T O N S AU L
ON THE TABLE Editors: Blair Fornwald, Jennifer Matotek, Wendy Pear t PB · ISBN 978-1-911164-02-9 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 128 pages · 110 ills
MATERIAL GIRLS Authors: Blair Fornwald, Wendy Pear t, Jennifer Matotek PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-30-0 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 144 pages · 122 ills
ROUL A PARTHENIOU Index Author: Marcus Boon HB · ISBN 978-1-911164-03-6 RRP £29.95 · $45.00 25 × 19 cm · 7 × 10 in 144 pages · 120 ills
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THE FOUR CONTINENTS Ar tist: Kent Monkman Authors: Richard Atleo, John Ralston Saul, Keith Goulet PB · ISBN 978-1-911164-08-1 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 64 pages · 45 ills The Four Continents is a collection of Kent Monkman’s large-scale paintings of the same name, which are reworkings of Tiepolo’s Apollo and the Four Continents. Monkman’s paintings examine how nineteenth- and twentieth-century artists have presented Indigenous American and Canadian history, whilst also constructing new stories through images that take into account the missing narratives and perspectives of Aboriginal peoples.
WHO’S AFRAID OF PURPLE, ORANGE AND GREEN? Authors: Jennifer Matotek, Mark Cheetham, Jaleh Mansoor PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-28-7 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 144 pages · 122 ills
EXPERIMENTAL EATING Author: Thomas Howells PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-40-7 RRP £16.95 · $24.95 23 × 17 cm · 7 × 9 in 192 pages · 125 ills
FIG-2 (50 projects 50 weeks) Editor: Fatos Ustek Contributors: Gilda Williams, HansUlrich Obrist, Louisa Buck, Laura Eldret, Suzanne Treister, Adam Broomberg & Oliver Chanarin et al HB · ISBN 978-1-911164-39-5 RRP £29.95 · $39.95 27 × 21 cm · 9 × 11 in 416 pages · 300 ills
FINDING, TRANSMITTING, RECEIVING Author: Hannah Collins HB · ISBN 978-1-904772-79-8 RRP £29.95 · $45.00 24 × 17 cm · 7 × 10 in 306 pages · 124 ills
FOLLOW-UP ON 11 EXHIBITIONS BY JENS HAANING Editors: Jens Haaning, Sidsel Kjaerulff Rasmussen PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-95-7 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 30 × 21 cm · 8 × 12 in 160 pages · 119 ills
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LEARNING TO SEE YOURSELF
Miss America, Drawing
Miss America, Study
Kent Monkman is a Canadian artist of Cree ancestry who works in a variety of mediums. His work has been exhibited worldwide at major museums including Witte de With in Rotterdam, The Museum of Contemporary Canadian Art in Toronto, and MASS MoCA in Massachusetts. Following The Four Continents, Black Dog Publishing will release a major monographic overview of the artist’s work in 2018.
DEN FRIE
TRAGEDY PLUS TIME Authors: Blair Fornwald, Wendy Pear t, Jennifer Matotek PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-29-4 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 24 × 18 cm · 7 × 9 in 144 pages · 172 ills
This is a concept non-Indigenous Canadians once knew, then forgot, and now are learning again. It is easily talked of in mythology and theatre and fiction. But it belongs as much, if not more, in art. Is this part of the discourse of formal Western art history? No. Even though it would have been a good concept for art in general. The thing is that today we can see the role of the trickster in art in Canada. And we
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FOR EVER GODARD Editors: Michael Temple, James S Williams, Michael Witt PB · ISBN: 978-1-904772-82-8 RRP £24.95 · $39.95 25 × 19 cm · 7.5 × 10 in 464 pages · 305 ills
FORGOTTEN FUTURES British Municipal Cinema 1920–1980 Author: Elizabeth Lebas PB · ISBN 978-1-906155-94-0 RRP £24.95 · $39.95 26 × 22 cm · 9 × 10 in 192 pages · 187 ills
FULL OF LOVE, FULL OF WONDER Nike Sav vas Authors: Rachel Kent, Patricia Ellis et al HB · ISBN 978-1-907317-83-5 RRP £24.95 · $45.00 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 176 pages · 189 ills
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Fondazione Antonio Ratti is a non-profit organisation founded by Antonio Ratti in 1985. The aim of the founder was to transform his deep personal passion for art and textiles into an active reality in the world of culture.
CALIFORNIA STATE UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM
Each title focuses on the work of a different artist who contributed to the Fondazione Antonio Ratti’s Summer School programme and its Advanced Course in Visual Arts. The Advanced Course is a laboratory for artistic and theoretical experimentation, held by renowned artists who propose the topic of the course and then realise a final exhibition in Como, Italy. HANS HA ACKE Once Upon a Time... Author: Duncan McCorquodale PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-64-4 RRP £14.95 · $24.95 25 × 17 cm · 7 × 10 in 96 pages · 120 ills
LILIANA MORO Moi Author: Duncan McCorquodale PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-09-4 RRP £14.95 · $24.95 25 × 17 cm · 7 × 10 in 96 pages · 89 ills
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FRANK BROS. The Store that Modernized Modern Authors: Cara Mullio, Jennifer M Volland PB · ISBN 978-1-911164-01-2 RRP £29.95 · $45.00 28 × 17 cm · 6.7 × 11 in 272 pages · 761 ills Clockwise from top left and opposite: Arts & Architecture magazine advertisements from July 1951, January 1951, May 1951, April 1952
WALID RA AD Walkthrough Author: Duncan McCorquodale PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-08-7 RRP £14.95 · $24.95 25 × 17 cm · 7 × 10 in 96 pages · 117 ills
GRAFTING PROPRIET Y From Stitch to the Drawn Line Authors: Emma Cocker, Danica Maier PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-07-2 RRP £14.95 · $19.95 22 × 17 cm · 7 × 9 in 128 pages · 73 ills
GROWING STUFF An Alternative Guide to Gardening Editor: Aimee Selby Authors: Elizabeth McCorquodale, Richard Reynolds PB · ISBN: 978-1-906155-68-1 RRP £16.95 · $24.95 25 × 19 cm · 7 × 10 in 144 pages · 212 ills
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GUTTERS OF GOLD Volker Eichelmann with Stephen Tennant ISBN 978-1-911164-13-5 £19.95 · $29.95 25 × 21 cm · 8 × 10 in 176 pages · 120 ills
HABITAT ’76 Author: Lindsay Brown PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-17-1 RRP £29.95 · $39.95 26 × 21 cm · 8.5 × 10.5 in 256 pages · 172 ills
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n his architectural lectures, acclaimed Case Study House architect Edward A. Killingsworth liked to recall an experience he had shared with the Frank Bros. furniture store while preparing one of his projects for a photo shoot. Although he always recounted the event as an entertaining anecdote, a closer
racetrack and declared bankruptcy. Although the buildings were near completion, they were dirty from construction, had no carpet, and were devoid of any appointments. In response, Killingsworth gathered together his office staff and dashed to La Jolla to start cleaning. At the same time, Stanley Young, a sales associate and interior
reading of the incident sheds valuable light on an under-examined chapter in the history of interior design in Southern California. The story unfolds as follows. The Triad (Case Study House #23; 1959–60) comprised three adjacent single-family residences that were intended as a pilot project for a larger housing tract in La Jolla. John Entenza, the editor of Arts & Architecture magazine, was set to feature the work in the March 1961 issue. He was under a tight deadline and had hired Julius Shulman to photograph the project. Unfortunately, however, it wasn’t ready. The project’s developer had lost all of his money gambling at the del Mar
designer with Frank Bros., loaded up three vans of furniture. Once Young arrived on the site, he set to work staging each house, carefully selecting furnishings and accessories in order to bring out the distinct character of each design.
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HANS-ULRICH OBRIST HEAR US Featuring Bill Burns Editor: Bill Burns Contributors: Dan Adler, Jennifer Allen, Dannys Montes de Oca Moreda HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-06-5 RRP £29.95 · $39.95 23 × 16 cm · 6 × 9 in 224 pages · 123 ills
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SUSAN HILLER The Dream and the Word Author: Duncan McCorquodale PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-61-3 RRP £14.95 · $24.95 25 × 17 cm · 7 × 10 in 96 pages · 120 ills
Frank Bros. was at the forefront of modern furniture sales in the United States during the middle of the twentieth century, serving as the primary retailer for some of the most recognisable names in mid-century design. This unique publication documents the history of a store that changed the way Americans responded to their domestic environment. Using pioneering methodologies and practices such as in-house exhibitions, eye-catching graphic design and a specialised sales force, Frank Bros. not only promoted a re-envisioned post-war lifestyle, but also educated the public on the precepts of good design. Frank Bros.: The Store That Modernized Modern comprises archival material, ephemera, essays and interviews, providing a rich complexion of the influence that one store in Long Beach had across an entire country.
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Black Dog Publishing
HARRY CALL AHAN The Street Authors: Grant Arnold, John Pultz HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-58-4 RRP £29.95 · $39.95 25 × 28 cm · 11 × 10 in 160 pages · 100 ills
HEW LOCKE Stranger in Paradise Authors: Jens Hoffmann, Indra Khanna, Kobena Mercer HB · ISBN 978-1-907317-38-5 RRP £24.95 · $45.00 26 × 21 cm · 8 × 10 in 144 pages · 100 ills
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Black Dog Publishing
GLASS Virtual, Real
Koen Vanderstukken
Erwin Eisch, Eight Heads of Harvey Littleton, 1976
I’M WITH HER Rochelle Feinstein Authors: Jennifer Kabat, David Norr PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-35-5 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 192 pages · 152 ills
Glass: Virtual, Real
When you set up the foundation of kiln to make glass, you first search in a favorable month for a propitious day, and only then you set up the foundation of the kiln. As soon as you have completely finished in the building of the kiln, and you go and place Kubu-images there, no outsider or stranger should enter the building thereafter; an unclean person must not even pass in front of the images. You regularly perform libation offerings before the Kubu-images. On the day when you plan to place the glass in the kiln, you make a sheep sacrifice before the Kubu-images, you place juniper incense on the censer, you pour out a libation of honey and liquid butter, and then only, you make a fire in the hearth of the kiln and place the glass in the kiln.... The wood that you burn in the hearth of the furnace should be thick, peeled poplar wood, which has no knots, bound together with leather straps, cut in the month of the Abu [July or August]. Only this wood should be in the hearth of the furnace. The persons whom you allow to come near the kiln have to be [ritually] clean and only then can you allow them to come down to the kiln. If you want to produce zagindurû-colored [greenish type of lapis lazuli] glass, you finely grind, separately, ten minas [about one pound] of immanakku-stone [sand], fifteen minas of naga-plant ashes, and 1–2/3 minas of “white plant”. You mix these together. You put them into a cold kiln which has four fire openings, and arrange the mixture between the four openings.... You keep a good and smokeless fire burning until the glass glows golden yellow. You pour it on a kiln-fired brick and this is called zukû-glass.11
IAN WALL ACE At the Intersection of Painting and Photography Contributors: Daina Augaitis, Jeff Derksen, Ian Wallace et al HB · ISBN 978-1-907317-57-6 RRP £39.95 · $59.95 26 × 21 cm · 8 × 10 in 352 pages · 300 ills
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This recipe shows how empirical knowledge and magical superstition were intertwined. Another clay tablet (also in the British Museum), found at Tell Umar, near the Tigris River in Mesopotamia, gives recipes for “santu glass” and “Accadian santu glass”, this time with fewer magical rituals involved. According to RJ Forbes, however, the text does contain various cryptograms to keep the details of the recipe secret and to keep the competition guessing.12 This sort of superstition and secrecy was, of course, nothing new, and it would undoubtedly have been common practice in other crafts as well, but the complexity of glass production—and particularly the magical transformation from sand to glass and its perceived connection with natural minerals—meant that glass, more than most other mediums, was seen as unique and superior. This superiority is possibly best expressed in the headrests found among Tutankhamun’s treasure. Two wooden headrests were intended for Tutankhamun himself, but there are also two glass headrests. These are almost supernatural in quality, and technically unparalleled by any other glasswork from the same period. In all probability they were intended for the afterlife, as the perfect supports for the head of a divine being.13 Those who have seen the opaque turquoise and light-drenched cobalt blue headrests in person will have no difficulty understanding their link to the divine. Their location and the difference in function from the wooden headrests confirm the elite status of these glass objects. Around 1200 bce many important centres disappeared, a result of war and famine. The resulting drop in the general cultural level meant a strong decline
THE INTERPRETATION MATTERS HANDBOOK Artspeak for the Public Author: Dany Louise PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-88-9 RRP £14.95 · $19.95 20 × 20 cm · 8 × 8 in 96 pages · 30 ills
Clockwise from top left: Spindle Bottle with Handle, New Kingdom Dynasty 18, reign of Akhenaten, c 1353–1336 bc, glass, 17.5 cm, height Vase, New Kingdom Dynasty 19–20, c 1295–1070 , glass, 10.5 × 7.5 cm, diameter Blue and Gold Headrest Tutankhamun, Dynasty 18, c 1332–1323 bc, 17.5 × 28.3 cm Bowl, New Kingdom, Dynasty 19–20, c 1295–1070 bc, glass, 5 × 11 cm, diameter bc
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IF YOU COULD READ MY MIND Jason Mclean Contributors: David Liss, Sarah Milroy, James Patten, Christine Walde PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-03-4 RRP £14.95 · $19.95 22 × 24 cm · 9.5 × 8.5 in 96 pages · 93 ills
In the fall of 2016 Martin Roth published a selection of his works
IN THE AURA OF A HOLE Exploring Sites of Material Extraction Author: A Laurie Palmer PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-58-2 RRP £16.95 · $24.95 25 × 23 cm · 9 × 10 in 128 pages · 40 ills
IMAGINARY HOMEL ANDS Contributors: Carlos Bonil, Nicolas Consuegra, Miler Lagos, Mateo Lopez, Mateo Rivano PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-47-8 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 176 pages · 171 ills
IN THE SPRING OF 2017 MARTIN ROTH PUBLISHED A SELECTION OF HIS WORKS Contributors: Daniel Bozhkov, Arnaud Gerspacher, Kate Sutton, Kate Whitebread PB · ISBN 978-1-911164-15-9 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 27 × 20 cm · 8 × 11 in 144 pages · 100 ills
IN THE LOOP Knitting Now Author: Jessica Hemmings PB · ISBN 978-1-906155-96-4 RRP £24.95 · $39.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 192 pages · 247 ills
INSECT THEATRE Photographer: Tim Edgar Author: Hugh Raffles PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-11-7 RRP £14.95 · $24.95 24 × 18 cm · 7 × 9 in 64 pages · 46 ills
INVENTORS AND INVENTIONS Introduction: Richard Fisher HB · ISBN: 978-1-906155-67-4 RRP £24.95 · $45.00 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 288 pages · 400 ills
LUMINATO FESTIVAL
MCINTOSH GALLERY
VANCOUVER ART GALLERY
Glass: Virtual, Real is a unique publication that explores the increasing use of glass in contemporary art as a relatively new artistic medium in the broader context of art history. Sculptor and educator Koen Vanderstukken investigates how postmodern art has brought glass to the forefront as a breakthrough art medium due to its intriguing qualities. Furthermore, the book draws clear parallels between our increasing familiarity with a virtual reality in today's digital era and an improved understanding of glass within an artistic context. The final, and largest, section of the book explores the impact of glass on the contemporary art scene, focusing on how artists are using the medium in exciting ways in their practices. Providing fascinating insight into the impact of glass as a medium on contemporary art, this book will appeal to historians, educators, students, artists and academics.
12 Forbes, RJ, Studies in Ancient Technology, 2nd ed, vol 5, Leiden: Brill, 1966, pp 133–134.
ART GALLERY OF YORK UNIVERSITY
GL ASS Virtual, Real Author: Koen Vanderstukken HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-92-8 RRP £39.95 · $59.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 288 pages · 230 ills
11 Oppenheim, Leo, Glass and Glassmaking in Ancient Mesopotamia, Corning, NY: Corning Museum of Glass, 1970, p 33, accessed August 2013, www.cmog.org/dynamic. aspx?id=5634.
13 King Tut: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs, exhibition, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, 2009–2010, organised by the National Geographic Society, Arts and Exhibitions International and AEG Exhibitions, with cooperation from the Egyptian Supreme Council of Antiquities.
IN RAMALL AH, RUNNING Author: Guy Mannes-Abbott Editor: Samar Mar tha PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-67-5 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 26 × 19 cm · 8 × 10 in 160 pages · 32 ills
INTO THE CULTURE CAVE Generator of Art and Community, Emotions and Ideas Editor: Jörn Weisbrodt PB · ISBN 978-1-911164-29-6 RRP £29.95 · $39.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 256 pages · 220 ills
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JOCK MACDONALD EVOLVING FORM Author: Anna Hudson Contributors: Michelle Jacques, Linda Jansma, Ian Thom HB · ISBN 978-1-908966-81-0 (French lang) ISBN 978-1-910433-23-2 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 208 pages · 160 ills
KEVIN SCHMIDT Contributors: Nigel Prince, Charo Neville, Kathleen Ritter PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-76-8 RRP £29.95 · $39.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 160 pages · 106 ills
KENNETH ANGER Author: Alice L Hutchison PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-51-4 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 21 × 25 cm · 9.5 × 8.5 in 256 pages · 180 ills
KIDS IN THE WILD GARDEN Author: Elizabeth McCorquodale PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-20-0 RRP £9.95 · $15.95 27 × 21 cm · 9 × 11 in 96 pages · 352 ills
NAVIGATING IN THE DARK Kalliopi Lemos Authors: Simon Critchley, Ar thur C Danto et al PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-31-5 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 160 pages · 300 ills
ART GALLERY OF YORK UNIVERSITY
JESSICA BRADLEY GALLERY (TORONTO) MCLAREN ART CENTER
CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY, VANCOUVER AND KAMLOOPS ART GALLERY
VANCOUVER ART GALLERY CONTEMPORARY ART GALLERY, VANCOUVER
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KELOWNA ART GALLERY
Kevin Schmidt
I AM I BETWEEN WORLDS AND BETWEEN SHADOWS Kalliopi Lemos PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-34-6 RRP £16.95 · $24.95 26 × 21 cm · 8 × 10 in 96 pages · 80 ills
KRISTAN HORTON
JERRY PETHICK Shooting the Sun/Splitting the Pie Authors: Grant Arnold, Monika Szewczyk, John Drur y HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-43-0 RRP £24.95 · $29.95 28 × 21 cm · 8 × 11 in 160 pages · 70 ills
KENNETH GRANGE Making Britain Modern Authors: Gemma Cur tin, Penny Sparke, Deyan Sudjic et al PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-54-5 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 224 pages · 160 ills
Kevin Schmidt
JACK MILROY Cut Out Author: William Packer HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-88-1 RRP £34.95 · $45.00 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 192 pages · 160 ills
JASON BROOKS Perpetual Orgy Author: Michael Bracewell HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-55-3 RRP £29.95 · $39.95 33 × 27 cm · 10.5 × 13 in 168 pages · 107 ills
VANCOUVER ART GALLERY
IS TORONTO BURNING? Three Years in the Making (and Unmaking) of the Toronto Art Scene Author: Philip Monk HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-37-9 RRP £29.95 · $39.95 25 × 20 cm · 8 × 10 in 256 pages · 70 ills
ART FIRST
INVERTED SK Y Letters to Jackie Author: Mar the Ramm For tun Contributor: Johanne Nordby Werno PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-12-6 RRP £14.95 · $19.95 25 × 18 cm · 7 × 10 in 96 pages · 44 ills
Selected A–Z Backlist K ALLIOPI LEMOS
UNGE KUNSTNERES SAMFUND
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KRISTAN HORTON Authors: Dan Adler, Jonathan Shaughnessy PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-87-2 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 192 pages · 160 ills
DR. STRANGELOVE DR. STRANGELOVE Kristan Horton Author: Kristan Hor ton HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-46-1 RRP £29.95 · $39.95 18 × 31 cm · 12 × 7 in 208 pages · 200 ills
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JOHN HALL Travelling Light: A 45-Year Sur vey of Paintings Authors: Alexandra Haeseker, Liz Wylie PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-86-7 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 144 pages · 110 ills
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JULIA DAULT Author: Nigel Prince Contributor: Julia Paoli PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-04-1 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 160 pages · 190 ills
L ACE HERE NOW Editors: Amanda Briggs-Goode, Deborah Dean PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-36-0 RRP £14.95 · $19.95 22 × 17 cm · 7 × 9 in 96 pages · 80 ills
THE L ADY FROM THE SEA Author: Jules Wright Photographer: Thomas Zanon-Larcher HB · ISBN 978-1-908966-63-6 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 28 × 19 cm · 9 × 11 in 208 pages · 195 ills
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KELOWNA ART GALLERY
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CIT Y OF REFUGE A 9/11 Memorial Author: Krzysztof Wodiczko PB · ISBN 978-1-906155-80-3 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 21 × 15 cm · 6 × 8 in 120 pages · 24 ills
L ANDON MACKENZIE: PARALLEL JOURNEY Works on Paper Editors: Liz Wylie, Robin Laurence, Peter Dykhuis, David Liss PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-60-7 RRP £24.95 · $39.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 192 pages · 211 ills
LONDON STITCH AND KNIT A Craft Lover’s Guide to London’s Fabric, Knitting and Haberdasher y Shops Author: Leigh Metcalf PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-52-2 RRP £16.95 · $24.95 24 × 18 cm · 7 × 9 in 192 pages · 287 ills
LOST UTOPIAS Photographs by Jade Doskow Authors: Richard Pare, Jennifer Minner HB · ISBN 978-1-911164-11-1 RRP £29.95 · $39.95 26 × 31 cm · 12 × 10 in 128 pages · 80 ills
MACAO MACAU Authors: Roger Palmer, Tim Simpson PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-41-4 RRP £16.95 · $24.95 24 × 30 cm · 12 × 9 in 104 pages · 54 ills
KRZYSZTOF WODICZKO Contributors: Rosalyn Deutsche, Lisa Saltzman, Andrzej Turowski et al HB · ISBN 978-1-907317-13-2 RRP £39.95 · $59.95 26 × 21 cm · 8 × 10 in 368 pages · 200 ills
TRANSFORMATIVE AVANT-GARDE AND OTHER WRITINGS Author: Krzysztof Wodiczko Contributor: Rosalyn Deutsche HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-27-0 RRP £29.95 · $39.95 25 × 17 cm · 7 × 10 in 352 pages · 6 ills
L ATE CENTURY DREAM Movements in the US Indie Music Underground Editor: Thomas Howells PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-97-2 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 25 × 19 cm · 7 × 10 in 192 pages · 220 ills
TEA & CAKE LONDON Author: Zena Alkayat PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-48-4 RRP £9.99 · $14.95 16 × 14 cm · 5.5 × 6.5 in 192 pages · 170 ills
KIDS LONDON Author: Kate Trant PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-13-1 RRP £9.95 · $14.95 16 × 14 cm · 5.5 × 6.5 in 192 pages · 169 ills
LONDON OUT OF SIGHT Exploring the City’s Secret Green Spaces Editor: Thomas Howells PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-96-5 RRP £9.95 · $14.95 16 × 14 cm · 5.5 × 6.5 in 192 pages · 169 ills
LIEBESLIED: MY SUICIDES Rut Blees Luxemburg Author: Alexander Garcia Düttman PB · ISBN 978-1-901033-52-6 RRP £16.95 · $26.95 24 × 30 cm · 10 × 8 in 72 pages · 140 ills
LIFE OF WORK What Office Design Can Learn From the World Around Us Authors: Jeremy Myerson, Imogen Privett PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-78-0 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 20 × 20 cm · 8 × 8 in 144 pages · 120 ills
THE MACK AY CREEK SERIES Ron den Daas Ar tist: Ron den Daas HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-40-9 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 27 × 29 cm · 12 × 11 in 128 pages · 121 ills
MEAT LONDON An Insider’s Guide Author & Editor: Thomas Howells PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-88-0 RRP £9.95 · $14.95 16 × 14 cm · 5.5 × 6.5 in 176 pages · 170 ills
A GUIDE TO LONDON’S CLASSIC CAFES AND FISH & CHIP SHOPS Author & Editor: Thomas Howells PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-69-9 RRP £9.95 · $14.95 16 × 14 cm · 5.5 × 6.5 in 176 pages · 170 ills
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THE ABOLITION OF WAR Author: Krzysztof Wodiczko PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-66-8 RRP £14.95 · $24.95 21 × 15 cm · 6 × 8 in 144 pages · 80 ills
LETTERS Michael Morris and Concrete Poetr y Author: Jamie Hilder HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-00-3 RRP £29.95 · $39.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 192 pages · 171 ills
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Marlon Griffith
This is the first monograph on the procession and installation practice of Trinidadian-born, Japanbased artist Marlon Griffith. With essays by Emelie Chhangur, Chanzo Greenidge, Gabriel Levine, and Claire Tancons, Symbols of Endurance explores Griffith’s unique contribution to contemporary art through a detailed analysis of the artist’s formative engagement with vernacular tradition, popular and festive forms of civic celebration, and performative forms of colonial cultural resistance in the Americas.
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Symbols of Endurance
Symbols of Endurance follows Griffith’s artistic trajectory from his early career as a designer, or ‘Masman’, for Carnivals in Trinidad and London and considers these origins in relation to his later largescale public processions created and staged in-situ across the globe for contemporary art audiences. This publication is a major contribution for anyone engaged in participatory practices of collective and creative resistance, performance as mode of public address and intercultural exchange, and alternative forms of exhibition making in the civic sphere.
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LUCY + JORGE ORTA PATTERN BOOK An Introduction to Collaborative Practices Editor: Paula Orrell PB · ISBN 978-1-904772-75-0 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 29 × 21 cm · 8 × 11 in 160 pages · 219 ills
MADE BY HAND Contemporar y Makers, Traditional Practices PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-39-1 RRP £16.95 · $24.95 24 × 18 cm · 7 × 9 in 192 pages · 150 ills
MARLON GRIFFITH Symbols of Endurance Editor: Emelie Chhangur PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-93-5 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 25 × 19 cm · 7 × 10 in 176 pages · 160 ills
MAPPING AMERICA Exploring the Continent Authors: Fritz C. Kessler, Frank Jacobs HB · ISBN 978-1-907317-08-8 RRP £24.95 · $45.00 29 × 24 cm · 10 × 12 in 240 pages · 212 ills
MAPPING THE INVISIBLE EU-ROMA Gypsies Editor: Lucy Or ta PB · ISBN 978-1-906155-91-9 RRP £24.95 · $29.95 29 × 21 cm · 8 × 11 in 192 pages · 153 ills
FOOD AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE Authors: Lucy + Jorge Or ta Contributors: Nigel Prince, Ellen Lupton HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-80-5 RRP £29.95 · $34.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 240 pages · 169 ills
MAKING STUFF An Alternative Craft Book Author: Ziggy Hanaor Editor: Victoria Woodcock PB · ISBN 978-1-904772-61-3 RRP £16.95 · $24.95 28 × 21 cm · 8 × 11 in 144 pages · 212 ills
MARTIN WONG Human Instamatic Contributors: Antonio Sergio Bessa, Benjamin Binstock et al HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-41-6 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 25 × 25 cm · 10 × 10 in 160 pages · 144 ills
MASHUP The Birth of Modern Culture Contributors: Daina Augaitis, Bruce Grenville, Stephanie Rebick et al HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-39-3 RRP £39.95 · $59.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 368 pages · 267 ills
MCARTHUR BINION Re:Mine Editors: Lower y Stokes Sims, Franklin Sirmans HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-81-2 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 26 × 22 cm · 9 × 10 in 80 pages · 50 ills
MAKING STUFF FOR KIDS Author: Victoria Woodcock PB · ISBN 978-1-906155-00-1 RRP £16.95 · $24.95 25 × 19 cm · 7 × 10 in 160 pages · 232 ills
MARCO BREUER Col•or Contributors: Isabelle Der vaux, Jeffrey Deshell, Mar y-Kay Lombino HB · ISBN 978-1-908966-90-2 RRP £29.95 · $49.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 160 pages · 70 ills
MICHAEL WILKINSON 1979 Author: Mark Fisher PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-43-9 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 192 pages · 120 ills
MINING COUTURE A Manifesto for Common Wear Editor: Barber Swindells PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-92-7 RRP £16.95 · $24.95 22 × 18 cm · 7 × 9 in 128 pages · 107 ills
MARIA PETSCHNIG Nineteen Videos 2002–2014 PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-53-9 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 21 × 16 cm · 6 × 8 in 96 pages · 97 ills
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MAPPING ENGL AND Author: Simon Foxell Editor: Blanche Craig HB · ISBN 978-1-906155-51-3 RRP £40.00 · $70.00 29 × 24 cm · 10 × 12 in 272 pages · 212 ills
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LIGHT WORKS Lucy + Jorge Orta Authors: James Putnam, Gabriela Salgado HB · ISBN 978-1-907317-04-0 RRP £29.95 · $49.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 192 pages · 227 ills
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MICHAEL DELUCIA Author: Michael DeLucia HB · ISBN 978-1-908966-98-8 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 144 pages · 219 ills
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Build Therefore Your Own World
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Blum & Poe
In his research-based practice, Sam Durant follows a tradition of radical historians and writers such as Howard Zinn, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, Robin DG Kelley, Ward Churchill, and Elise Lemire. Inspired by their work, Durant uncovers aspects of history that have remained largely unknown to mainstream society. Some of Durant’s previous projects include a demystification of the origin myths of Plymouth Rock and Thanksgiving, and highlighting the human and economic costs of mass incarceration. He sees this work as critical in order to acknowledge the past and strive for the future that the American Revolution and the civil rights movement promised. His work on the historic site of The Old Manse in Concord, MA, entitled The Meeting House
African-Americans experience discrimination and worse every day, they don’t need to be informed about this. It is the minds and hearts of whites that need to be opened, they are the primary audience for The Meeting House.1
The Meeting House
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Meeting House
My still-shrill war dwelling on parole–– Inhumane bricks amid the oak copse there.
My mere presence, My dark heaven, which could never be burned or mounted. The iron hook hangs history (Once more on the left).
My discolored emphasis––black, blacker than any dusky orb, before or since My orchard of location.
My earthen descendants, My sufferance, My vain form. Midsummer Man carrying a load––
My-thology (Prominent. Astounding.) My biography (robs and murders
My inquired concern, A potter’s wheel of him, Clay and wheel scripture–– An art ever-practiced.
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the whole history enacted here). Let Time intervene the most distinct and dubious tradition
Last inhabitants of these woods before me, Names with coil,
Saluted–– standing–– unoccupied election. My labored lethargy, awake, My poetry skipping, My bells rung in hot haste. Engines fire all together. Fresh sparks.
Civil speech carmine, curled up by use–– The last symbol a dim garden over-run with Roman beggar-ticks.
My ever and anon, My cooled ardor thought concluded. Speaking trumpets,
My dent in the earth, This site These dwellings: buried cellar stones––
Passage in the preface, The soul’s only survivor. Heir of burning first moments. My gaze, my always, remembered absolutely.
and strawberries, thimble-berries, hazel-bush, chimney nook,
NADIA SEBOUSSI Hidad Editor: France Choinière HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-85-0 RRP £16.95 · $19.95 23 × 26 cm · 10 × 9 in 64 pages · 50 ills
NEW SCANDINAVIAN PHOTOGRAPHY Editors: Bjarne Bare, Behzad Farazollahi HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-09-6 RRP £39.95 · $49.95 22 × 17 cm · 7 × 9 in 228 pages · 211 ills
With Nothing Will Surprise You Here, Velibor Božović has succeeded in infusing a dose of truth which surpasses our desire to cling to reality and facts, letting us be carried along by the self-evidence of events. Nothing surprises us here, but everything eludes us, as if aspirated by that truth held in shadow, so intrinsic that it is only revealed in the abstraction of the unspoken. We might see here an attempt to legitimate fiction as a means of attesting to history, but also a manifestation of the ascendance of the map over the territory.
Sam Durant
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The present publication is one of the constituent part of Velibor Božović’s exhibition project Nothing Will Surprise You Here, developed in collaboration with Dazibao.
Danielle Legros Georges Acts of Resistance to New England Slavery by Africans Themselves in New England
p.3
Avec Nothing Will Surprise You Here, Velibor Božović réussit à insuffler une charge de vérité qui surpasse notre désir de nous rattacher à la réalité, à des faits, pour nous laisser porter par l’évidence des événements. Rien ne nous surprend ici, mais tout nous échappe, aspirés que nous sommes par cette vérité maintenue dans l’ombre, si intrinsèque qu’elle ne se révèle que dans l’abstraction du non-dit. On pourrait y voir une tentative de légitimer la fiction comme moyen d’attester l’histoire, mais aussi une manifestation de l’ascendance de la carte sur le territoire.
Velibor Božović
Meeting House
Self-emancipation by
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Nothing Will Surprise You Here
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La présente publication est l’une des composantes du projet
Walking into the blackest night Becoming the river Running into the text
d’exposition Nothing Will Surprise You Here de Velibor Božović développé en collaboration avec Dazibao.
Velibor Božović
Acquiring a fine English as a Second Language As a third, a fourth, a fifth p.6-7
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Feigning fullness With child Loving one’s child Killing one’s child with the red hand of Salvation Killing one’s owner
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Working slowly Spreading rumors Breaking tools Dancing how you know Orishas on the shoulders Marrying Disappearing into another self Disappearing into another race Witnessing Never saying Tarrying and Suicide Spying
Telling the Truth Sowing it
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NEW WAVE Facts about Flags Author: Libby Waite PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-30-9 RRP £7.95 · $15.00 17 × 12 cm · 5 × 7 in 192 pages · 220 ills
NINJA TUNE 20 Years of Beats & Pieces (Labels Unlimited) Author: Stevie Chick PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-00-2 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 27 × 22 cm · 9 × 11 in 192 pages · 193 ills
NOTHING WILL SURPRISE YOU HERE Photographer: Velibor Božovi´c PB · ISBN 978-1-911164-28-9 RRP £16.95 · $19.95 23 × 15 cm · 6 × 9 in 80 pages · 50 ills
ON LOCATION Siting Robert Smithson and his Contemporaries Author: Simon Dell PB · ISBN 978-1-906155-59-9 RRP £29.95 · $55.00 23 × 23 cm · 9 × 9 in 208 pages · 150 ills
OUTSIDE THE BOX Cardboard Design Now Contributors: Michael Czer winski, Santiago Perez PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-10-1 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 21 × 21 cm · 8 × 8 in 208 pages · 200 ills
Sam Durant
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The Meeting House
Sam Durant has exhibited widely in the US and internationally. His work can be found in many public collections including Tate Modern in London and the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
Filing for one’s freedom in the courts of Massachusetts In the courts of New Hampshire In the courts of Rhode Island In the court of one’s mind In the court of one’s body Through the course of one’s body Through the course of one body And the newness of the day
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The artist’s project, The Meeting House, takes place between The Old Manse—a historic house where leading thinkers such as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau and Margaret Fuller discussed the issues of the day, including abolitionist debates—and the Minuteman National Park, where the American Revolutionary War began in 1775.
Nothing Will Surprise You Here
The Meeting House/Build Therefore Your Own World brings together material from American multimedia artist Sam Durant’s project of the same name, which acts as a platform for inspiring new ideas in relation to the intractable structures of racial discrimination and segregation.
MYFANW Y MACLEOD Or There and Back Again Editor: Grant Arnold PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-53-7 RRP £16.95 · $24.95 25 × 20 cm · 8 × 10 in 128 pages · 116 ills
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THE MEETING HOUSE BUILD THEREFORE YOUR OWN WORLD Ar tist: Sam Durant Contributors: Pedro Alonzo, Kevin Young, Danielle Legros Georges, Robin Coste-Lewis, Tim Phillips PB · ISBN 978-1-911164-34-0 RRP £14.95 · $24.95 23 × 21 cm · 8 × 9 in 96 pages · 100 ills
(2016) (fig. 1), looks at the legacy of slavery and its continuing role in the systemic forms of racism we face today. The Meeting House proposes the uncomfortable idea that veiled and institutional forms of racism were largely developed in the North and continue to thrive today through the complacency or complicity of whites. Durant stated in an interview that:
DAZIBAO
The Meeting House / Build Therefore Your Own World
The Meeting House
Suburban Hymn: Complacency = Complicity
The Meeting House
Sam Durant
BLUM & POE
Pedro Alonzo
Sam Durant
MODERN BRITISH POSTERS Art, Design & Communication Author: Paul Rennie HB · ISBN 978-1-906155-97-1 RRP £29.95 · $49.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 192 pages · 250 ills
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MOMENTO Photographs by George S. Zimbel Author: George S Zimbel HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-42-3 (French lang) ISBN 978-1-910433-48-5 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 160 pages · 155 ills
MULTIPLE ELEMENTARY Authors: Hannah Jickling, Helen Reed PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-61-4 RRP £16.95 · $24.95 25 × 18 cm · 7 × 10 in 96 pages · 87 ills
NULL OBJECT Gustav Metzger Thinks About Nothing Editors: Bruce Gilchrist, Jo Joelson PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-12-4 RRP £14.95 · $24.95 24 × 18 cm · 7 × 9 in 96 pages · 68 ills
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trevor paglen trinity cube
Trinity Cube, 2015 Irradiated broken glass collected from inside the Fukushima Exclusion Zone forms the outer layer of this sculpture. The work’s inner core is made out of Trinitite, the mineral created on July 16, 1945 when the United States exploded the world’s first atomic bomb near Alamogordo, New Mexico, heating the desert’s surface to the point where it turned surface sand into a greenish glass. Trinity Cube was created by melting these two forms of glass together into a cube, then installing the cube back into the Fukushima Exclusion Zone as part of the Don’t Follow the Wind project. The artwork will be viewable by the public when the Exclusion Zone opens again, anytime between 3 and 30,000 years from the present.
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THE NUCLEAR CULTURE SOURCE BOOK Editor: Ele Carpenter PB · ISBN 978-1-911164-05-0 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 25 × 18 cm · 7 × 10 in 192 pages · 110 ills
pierre huyghe untitleD (human mask)
PEOPLE APART: 1950s CAPE TOWN REVISITED Photographs by Br yan Heseltine Author: Darren Newbur y PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-85-9 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 192 pages · 100 ills
PL ACE LIBRE A Proposition by Michael Lin Author: Michael Lin HB · ISBN RRP £19.95 · $29.95 22 × 25 cm · 10 × 9 in 112 pages · 56 ills
PL AYA DUST Collected Stories From Burning Man Author: Samantha Krukowski PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-64-3 RRP £16.95 · $24.95 23 × 15 cm · 6 × 9 in 256 pages · 178 ills
Pierre Huyghe (Untitled) Human Mask, (Film still), 2014 Film, colour, stereo, sound, 2:66 Running time: 19 minutes Courtesy the artist, Hauser & Wirth, London and Anna Lena Films, Paris
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joy garnett / poof (2)
British Atomic Nuclear Group design for Hollington & Kyprianou’s The Nightwatchman, in Art & Radioactivity, Nicholls and Clarke building, Shoreditch, London, Arts Catalyst, 2008.
Joy Garnett’s painting Poof (2) comes out of the artist’s career-long fascination with nuclear ordinance and explosive events that mark the Anthropocene. It is part of a series of paintings that reaches back to her research site and internet archive http://TheBombProject. org, which she founded in 2000. While on its surface, this series evokes painterly tropes and pop iconography, the explosive shapes in Garnett’s work mirror cultural and economic cycles of creation and destruction, seismic contraction and cosmic expansion.
Contributors and Artists include Eva + Franco Mattes, Peter C van Wyck, Martin Howse, The Otolith Group, Jane + Louise Wilson, Susan Schuppli, Mark Aeriel Waller, Cornelia Hesse-Honegger, Suzanne Treister, Gabrielle Hecht, Eiko Honda, Pierre Huyghe, Timothy Morton, Yves Klein et al.
ART CENTRE BASEL VANCOUVER ART GALLERY
The Nuclear Culture Source Book serves as an excellent resource and introduction to nuclear culture as one of the most prominent themes within contemporary art and society, exploring the diverse ways in which post-Fukushima society has influenced artistic and cultural production. Building on four years of research by the book’s editor Ele Carpenter, the book brings together a wideranging collection of material from artists and writers working within the scope of nuclear culture.
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PAMEL A JORDEN Contributors: Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Alice Könitz PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-20-1 RRP £14.95 · $19.95 25 × 20 cm · 8 × 10 in 80 pages · 76 ills
Taking a fresh approach to discussions around one of the twentieth century’s greatest artists, Picasso: The Artist and His Muses examines the significance of the six women who were most important to Picasso’s artistic development, as well as exploring in depth the notion of the artist/muse relationship. Featuring texts by some of the world’s leading female art writers, this publication covers work that spans most of Picasso’s career, from 1906 through to the early 1970s. THE PARADOXICAL OBJECT Video Film Sculpture Author: Joan Truckenbrod PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-60-6 RRP £24.95 · $45.00 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 160 pages · 210 ills
FranCOise GiLOt fig.14/ Pablo Picasso, “Baboon and Young,” Vallauris, 1950–1951 (cast in bronze 1955). 53.3 x 33.3 x 52.7 cm. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Mrs. Simon Guggenheim Fund /
fig.15/ Pablo Picasso, Claude et Paloma, ACB # 73376 Mauris purus nib, porta nec, sagittis in lorem, mauris purus nibh, porta nec mattis non, sagittis in lorem /
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fig.6/ Pablo Picasso, “Les deux Femmes Nues,” (Two Nude Women), November 21, 1945 /
By the end of 1948 the Communist run Maison de la Pensée Française in Paris hosted Picasso’s first ever exhibition in the medium of ceramics. The Communists welcomed Picasso’s work in pottery above all for its workman-like, popular, and folkloric aspects, and they imbued it with social, telluric and populist qualities. It allowed them to counter the adverse image of Picasso the millionaire, and it facilitated their efforts to present Picasso’s role in society, as a craftsman and worker, as a man of the people, working for the people. Moreover, and quite rightly, Picasso was hailed as the savior of the local industry, as his activity in the field and the exhibitions of his work drew new attention to the craft, and attracted young artists as well as tourists to the town.36 Moreover it allowed Picasso to work in a medium that could be sold at a cheaper price and was thus available to a wider audience. Similar preoccupations inspired Picasso’s work in lithography.37 Françoise recalls this period as one of the happiest and most harmonious times in her relationship with Picasso. In late summer 1948 she was pregnant again with Paloma, who was born in April 1949. Picasso chose the name, Spanish for dove, because she was born on the opening day of the first Congrès Mondial des Partisans de la Paix, April 10-13 in Paris, where Picasso’s famous dove, which would become a worldwide symbol of peace (pax sovietica), was first seen publicly.38 It may have been Picasso’s work with ceramics that reawakened in him his love of sculpture to which he devoted much of his time in the early 1950s.39 And much like in his ceramics, Picasso, who had been trained as a painter but never as a sculptor, enjoyed the freedom to work without the restriction of rules or the weight of tradition. This contributed to the playful spontaneity of much of his sculpture in which one is tempted to acknowledge the father inspired by the imagination of his children. He even refrained from casting the works in bronze at first, as bronze, according to him, gave the work a kind of museum like quality. In fact, the sculptures were very personal for him and he kept most of them for himself and his family.40 In need of space to store his ceramics and for separate sculpting and painting studios, Picasso bought le Fournas, a disaffected perfume factory in their neighborhood in Vallauris. Almost all of his sculptures of the time were assemblages of various objects. Calling himself “king of the rag pickers,” Picasso salvaged whatever appealed to him on frequent trips to the local garbage dump. This is where he most likely found the basket that forms the body of the Little Girl Jumping Rope, the old shoes on her feet and the chocolate box whose lid became her head. The sculpture, on which he worked in stages from 1950-1953, is astounding, as the little girl is literally suspended in the air, held there by the rope that touches the ground. The find of yet another basket helped Picasso in his desire to make a Shegoat (1950), using it for the belly of the animal. Its spine and forehead were made of a palm frond and her udders of two clay vessels.41 Picasso had a love of goats and he attached a life goat to his sculpture in the garden of his house. One of the first sculptures Picasso produced in the new space, Pregnant Woman of 1950, illustrated Picasso’s desire that Françoise should bare him a third child. Her refusal, feeling still too weak after the birth of Paloma, inspired Picasso to use three empty water jars for the figure’s breasts and belly.42 (ACB # 73043) With yet another one of his sculptures Picasso managed to upset his son by using two of Claude’s little toy cars to make the image of a baboon cradling its little child (1950-51). (Fig. 6) Even the fact that the image seems to portrait his father’s features did not console Claude over the loss of his toys. Lizzy Cowling, in her insightful essay in Picasso: The Mediterranean Years, 1945-1962, speaks of the metaphorical aspect of Picasso’s ceramics and sculptures, in which a ceramic vase becomes a woman, or a gas ring and a cake tin forms the basis of a baby’s head (Woman with a baby Carriage, 1950).43 Picasso himself had alluded to this when he said: “The material itself, the form and texture of those pieces often gives me the key to the whole sculpture… . I achieve reality through the use of metaphor. My sculptures are plastic metaphors. It’s the
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PETER VOULKOS The Breakthrough Years Contributors: Glenn Adamson et al PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-89-8 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 208 pages · 130 ills
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PICASSO The Artist and His Muses Editor: Katharina Beisiegel PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-84-3 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 30 × 24 cm · 9 × 12 in 160 pages · 120 ills
KLAUS VON NICHTSSAGEND GALLERY
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POINTS OF DEPARTURE Vera Frenkel: Words and Works Contributors: David Liss, Jonathan Shaughnessy PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-72-8 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 160 pages · 120 ills
POSTWAR The Films of Daniel Eisenberg Authors: Nora Alter, Tom Gunning et al PB · ISBN 978-1-906155-95-7 RRP £24.95 · $39.95 24 × 19 cm · 7 × 9 in 192 pages · 211 ills
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Walter Van Beirendonck, Hard Beat, A / W 1989–1990 Photo: Ronald Stoops. Illustration: Jan Bosschaert
RAVE Rave and its Influence on Art and Culture Editor: Nav Haq PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-87-4 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 25 × 19 cm · 7 × 10 in 288 pages · 180 ills
Affective Communities and the Cold War Edited by Mark Nash
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REFLECTIONS & REFRACTIONS Author: Alexis Dirks PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-02-7 RRP £14.95 · $19.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 96 pages · 62 ills
HORSE POWER
about. But if you go back to techno, if you go to 86–87, people would argue that the music was a weak copy of Kraftwerk. Kraftwerk did it all! Simple as that. Kraftwerk were the perfect example of making electronic music and taking it to the dance floor. Worldwide. Without them, forget it. If you listen to the early Detroit tracks, they were weak copies of Kraftwerk. Joey Beltram in the techno scene in 89 and 90. In techno, Joey is the blueprint. End of story. He inspired so many with “Energy Flash” and “Mentasm” through the whole 90s. And then you go more into pop culture with The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy. The Prodigy really lifted it to stadium levels. So, I would say The Chemical Brothers and The Prodigy took it to a different level. Of course, The KLF, with their Chill Out album. What a masterpiece that is.
Were there many women involved? Not so many. In those days, no, strangely not. You have Nina Kraviz, who released her first record a few years ago. Since then, I don’t know why but there were hardly any women previously. But since then, it’s women everywhere, producing, DJing. It feels like in 2016, women rule. Paula Temple, yes, she brought techno back. We were in the midst of dubstep, and Paula sent her album and I though wow, this is techno-punk, in a very serious and industrial way. She brought techno back again. Because techno was done, and then Paula came, and now the whole thing came back on.
Jungle and drum and bass were not so big in Belgium, I believe? It was an English thing. R&S released the first drum and bass album on the continent here, and people were not really into it. But Burial, and Mala who is the seed of dubstep. Then you have a split from there on. You have the commercial extreme with Skrillex, and then you have James Blake. And now there is nothing, there is not one person. I’m waiting for the new guy that gives the sign for the next thing.
Are you still running the label together with Sabine Maes? Sabine and I? Sabine tries to keep me stable, as I’m total chaos. She manages the administration and I’m the creative part. Although I have to say, when it comes to business I love to do that but around a big table. When I have to go into a meeting room for a deal, I’m ready and sharp, and I love it too. It gives me a sort of adrenaline too. But I’m in there to guarantee freedom, which is the most expensive commodity in the world, basically. So what’s next for R&S? These days, it is trying to survive. Sales are going down. You have streaming and few have control. But I think some have control, the corporates—Sony, Spotify and Apple. They are connected, and basically all they want is your ten dollars or ten euros a month. But there is no return for the artists. What’s happening? I don’t know. We all have to do it with less. Luckily enough, R&S has the support of our distributors and private equity. They want to keep it alive, otherwise we would be dead already. Because you know, I still think as if it’s the 70s. If I find an artist I will get behind them full on. I lost a fortune by doing that. We’re losing money each year.
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Sergey Shutov, Ptuch VJ Set Compilation, 1993–1996 (video stills) Courtesy of the artist
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RAVE: Rave and its Influence on Art and Culture is one of the first publications to critically engage with the rave movement of the 1980s and 1990s as it relates to contemporary art and visual culture. Following the death of industrial Europe, rave emerged as Europe's last big youth movement.
Sabine Maes and Renaat Vandepapeliere Courtesy of R&S
can earn a little bit. Trying to sell more merchandising, t-shirts, and things like that to try to survive. If you read recent articles on Rihanna, she had a number one album in England with the lowest sales figures in history: 10,000 or so. And it is the number one album? It’s over. I feel Soundcloud will soon be over. This morning I was reading that it will be absorbed by Sony, and now Sony will ask you to pay each month to use Soundcloud. The dream is to not sell any physical records, so you cannot own records anymore. But we still have billions of people. We still have India to go, we still have South America to go. I heard from many majors that this is the market they are looking at. India, China, South America. That’s the way they are thinking. I had guys from big commercial labels here prepared to set up bigger markets for me. And I said: “I don’t want to bother”. So here I am.
This book considers the social, political and economic conditions that led to the advent of rave as a 'counterculture' across Europe, as well as its aesthetics, ideologies, and influence on contemporary art and beyond.
Do you think there is a way to address this problem? What we are trying to do is get R&S on the road with showcases, so we 104
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The KLF had a curious relationship with visual art. A sort of love-hate relationship with it. If you listen back to their album, they’re all samples. How do you do that? First, your knowledge of music has to be extremely good. You really have to be a music person, to do that. And then to make it into one story that makes sense. Amazing. After that, it’s very quiet. Of course there were good techno tracks, don’t get me wrong. But then the repetition and copycats came. But I stopped for ten years, breeding horses. Then in 2005 / 2006 come Mala and Burial. He writes a new page. I’m talking about artists that influence a generation for ten years. I’m talking about those people, not only good tracks.
PROJECT 1975 Contemporar y Art and the Post-Colonial Unconscious Editors: Jelle Bouwhuis, Kerstin Winking PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-22-3 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 24 × 16 cm · 6 × 9 in 192 pages · 170 ills
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PUBLIC ENQUIRIES PARK LEK and the Scandinavian Social Turn Editors: Helena Selder, SOME WHERE, Mick Wilson PB · ISBN 978-1-911164-30-2 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 23 × 15 cm · 6 × 9 in 180 pages · 150 ills
POET-LINC POETRY SL AM VOLUME 2 PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-89-6 RRP £7.95 · $14.95 20 × 13 cm · 5 × 8 in 160 pages · 40 ills
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POET-LINC POETRY SL AM Editor: Andrew Kalish PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-26-1 RRP £7.95 · $14.95 20 × 13 cm · 5 × 8 in 160 pages · 40 ills
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A POCKET GUIDE TO PLANTS AND GARDENING Author: Elizabeth McCorquodale PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-71-2 RRP £9.95 · $14.95 17 × 12 cm · 5 × 7 in 126 pages · 318 ills
SCORE FOR ACID BRASS, 1997
WALTER VAN BEIRENDONCK
RESIDUE The Persistence of the Real PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-26-3 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 144 pages · 69 ills
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RICHARD ARTSCHWAGER Into the Desert Author: John Yau HB · ISBN 978-1-908966-47-6 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 192 pages · 170 ills
RITUAL Photographer: Vincenzo Pietropaolo Contributors: Don Snyder, Maia-Mari Sutnik HB · ISBN 978-1-911164-07-4 RRP £29.95 · $39.95 27 × 31 cm · 12 × 11 in 208 pages · 150 ills
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Rebel Jester Mystic Poet
CONTEMPORARY PERSIANS
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Mohammed Afkhami Collection Exhibited at the Aga Khan Museum
REBEL, JESTER, MYSTIC, POET Contemporar y Persians Author: Fereshteh Daftari Contributor: Shiva Ahmadi, Afruz Amighi, Monir Farmanfarmaian et al HB · ISBN 978-1-911164-31-9 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 160 pages · 180 ills
crammed into the body of what could be any number of animals—maybe a cow, perhaps a donkey—ridden by Molla Nasreddin, a character famous in Iran and beyond, riding his donkey backwards. Leading from behind, he looks to the past rather than the future. The composite animal was inspired by a genre of paintings that includes, for example, the sixteenth-century depiction of a camel with attendant from Khurasan, Iran, in the collection of the Metropolitan Museum of Art (see fig XX).23 By depicting the animal standing on a red balloon—a spectacle watched and photographed by a Western journalist on the left— Haerizadeh turns the collective nation-building enterprise into a risible affair, worthy of a circus.24 Armed with humour, Khosrow Hassanzadeh (b. 1963) targets America. His Terrorist: Khosrow, 2004, a large silkscreen, is one of seven unique prints, each in a different color (see plate XX). A later mixed media variation (Self-Portrait from the Ready to Order series), is framed in a shadow box (see fig XX). It features a display of fake flowers and light decoration that is even more in tune with the local vernacular: the kitsch paraphernalia
encountered in memorial shrines placed over the tombs of martyrs who died in the war. In Terrorist: Khosrow Hassanzadeh stages his self-portrait against the kind of backdrop used in old photo studios, including a picture of a waterfall based on a poster he bought in Lalehzar, a street in an old Tehran neighbourhood. Seated on a kilim, he holds a picture of his grandfather in his left hand and a pot of flowers in his right, placed on a large box made in Yazd. Boxes hold secrets, he says.25 This dominating pater familias, appropriating for himself the grandiosity of the largerthan-life revolutionary icons whose images are plastered on city walls and billboards, is flanked by diminutive images of his son leisurely lounging on the grass at top right and his demure daughter at top left—in short, he depicts a regular, peaceful, proletarian family portrait rendered in a palette that is innocently pink and baby blue. To each portrait he affixes an identity certificate which in the case of the self-portrait indicates his name, nationality, religion (muslim), age, profession, distinctive traits, and, most notably, in quotation marks and capital words, the word “TERRORIST” (see plate XX). Hassanzadeh’s fascination with popular culture has led him to Andy Warhol, who he has admired since 1999 and whose portrait has recently entered into his cast of characters. The impact the Pop artist left
The book brings together work in a dizzying array of different mediums—from Shirin Aliabadi’s photographs of young Iranian women resisting Islamic dress codes, and Afruz Amighi’s Persian carpets hand-woven from the same fabric that the UN uses to make tents for displaced refugees, to Mohammad Ehsai’s classical calligraphy works.
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HARDCOVER Image Perspectives Editor: Rut Blees Luxemburg PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-41-5 RRP £9.99 · $19.95 22 × 17 cm · 7 × 9 in 128 pages · 44 ills
SCIENCE & FICTION Editor: Rut Blees Luxemburg PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-50-6 RRP £9.99 · $19.95 22 × 17 cm · 7 × 9 in 128 pages · 117 ills
SEEING FOR OTHERS Editor: Rut Blees Luxemburg PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-62-0 RRP £9.99 · $19.95 22 × 17 cm · 7 × 9 in 128 pages · 59 ills
WAVING FL AGS Editor: Rut Blees Luxemburg PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-10-0 RRP £9.99 · $19.95 24 × 18 cm · 7 × 9 in 128 pages · 147 ills
SEEING IS BELIEVING The Politics of the Visual Author: Rod Stoneman PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-05-6 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 26 × 22 cm · 9 × 10 in 192 pages · 150 ills
THE SELF AS A STRANGER Simon Lewty Authors: Cathy Cour tney, Ian Hunt et al HB · ISBN 978-1-907317-07-1 RRP £29.95 · $49.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 192 pages · 150 ills
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RIVINGTON SCHOOL 80s New York Underground Editors: Istvan Kantor, Toyo Tsuchiya PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-95-9 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 ×11 in 288 pages · 180 ills
EXIT STRATEGIES Editor: Rut Blees Luxemburg PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-10-2 RRP £9.99 · $16.95 24 × 18 cm · 7 × 9 in 128 pages · 38 ills
Rebel, Jester, Mystic, Poet tells the story of the evolution of Iranian contemporary art by examining the work of 30 artists, taken from the collection of Mohammed Afkhami. This is art where the ills of internal politics remain astutely masked beneath a layer of ornamentation, poetry or humour. What unites the disparate works into a coherent theme is the artists’ coping mechanisms, which consist of subversive critique, quiet rebellion, humour, mysticism and poetry—hence the publication’s title.
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Much more than an academic review, each highly illustrated publication features original material by the new generation of nascent artists. The works are presented alongside texts by distinguished artists and academics, and edited by the renowned photographer Rut Blees Luxemburg.
ROCK Y GRASSY MOUNTAIN IN JUNE Drawings/Tony Anguhalluq Authors: Rober t Kardosh, Tony Anguhalluq PB · ISBN 978-1-911164-17-3 RRP £16.95 · $19.95 23 × 25 cm · 9 × 10 in 80 pages · 60 ills
Sculpture Shock Site-specific interventions in Subterranean, Ambulatory and Historic contexts
SCULPTURE SHOCK Site-specific inter ventions in Subterranean, Ambulator y and Historic contexts Editor: Claire Mander PB· · ISBN 978-1-911164-18-0 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 128 pages · 54 ills
ART FIRST
Composite painting of a camel with attendant, Iran, Khurasan, third quarter of the sixteenth century ink, opaque watercolour and gold on paper, 12.7 × 18.4 cm Gift of George D. Pratt, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1925
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SEEING AND BELIEVING Luis Jacob Contributors: Luis Jacob, Marie Fraser, David Liss, Anne-Marie Ninacs PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-06-3 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 26 × 22 cm · 9 × 10 in 192 pages · 150 ills
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THE SERIOUSNESS OF PL AY The Art of Michael Nicoll Yahgulanaas Author: Nicola Levell PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-11-9 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 160 pages · 128 ills
STANLEY KUBRICK New Perspectives Editors: Tatjana Ljujic, Peter Krämer, Richard Daniels PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-42-1 RRP £29.95 · $39.95 25 × 20 cm · 8 × 10 in 384 pages · 260 ills
STEENBECKETT Atom Egoyan Editors: Timothy Long, Christine Ramsay, Elizabeth Matheson HB · ISBN 978-1-911164-14-2 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 176 pages · 100 ills
STILL MOVE Brendan Fernandes Editor: Cr ystal Mowr y HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-62-1 RRP £29.95 · $45.00 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 160 pages · 137 ills
SEE YOURSELF SENSING Redefining Human Perception Author: Madeline Schwar tzman PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-29-3 RRP £24.95 · $45.00 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 192 pages · 300 ills
SEE YOURSELF X Human Future Expanded Author: Madeline Schwar tzman PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-22-5 RRP £24.95 · $45.00 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 192 pages · 240 ills
SHELF LIFE Neil Gall Authors: Simon Groom, Charles Dar went et al HB · ISBN 978-1-904772-73-6 RRP £29.95 · $45.00 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 192 pages · 220 ills
STONE A Legacy and Inspiration for Art Editor: Joel Fisher HB · ISBN 978-1-907317-37-8 RRP £24.95 · $45.00 19 × 25 cm · 10 × 8 in 208 pages · 160 ills
STUDIOS FOR ARTISTS Concepts and Concrete Editors: Graham Ellard, Jonathan Har vey, Arantxa Echar te PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-08-9 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 27 × 21 cm · 8 × 11 in 128 pages · 100 ills
SUSAN MACWILLIAM Remote Viewing Editor: Karen Downey PB · ISBN 978-1-906155-78-0 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 21 cm · 8.5 × 11 in 144 pages · 170 ills
TAKING THE MATTER INTO COMMON HANDS Contemporary Art and Collaborative Practices Editor: Johanna Billing Contributors: Maria Lind, Lars Nilsson PB · ISBN 978-1-906155-18-6 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 24 × 18 cm · 7 × 10 in 144 pages · 63 ills
TAPESTRY A Woven Narrative Contributors: Caron Penney, Fiona Mathison, Timothy Wilcox HB · ISBN 978-1-907317-24-8 RRP £29.95 · $49.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 208 pages · 227 ills
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THE SPACES BETWEEN Contemporar y Art From Havana Contributors: Tonel, Keith Wallace et al PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-54-4 RRP £16.95 · $24.95 25 × 20 cm · 8 × 10 in 144 pages · 119 ills
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HOW DOES IT FEEL? Inquiries into Contemporar y Sculpture Editors: Mar y Ceruti, Ruba Katrib PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-68-3 RRP £14.95 · $19.95 24 × 18 cm · 7 × 9 in 96 pages · 35 ills
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WHAT ABOUT POWER? Inquiries into Contemporar y Sculpture Editors: Mar y Ceruti, Ruba Katrib PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-84-1 RRP £14.95 · $19.95 24 × 18 cm · 7 × 9 in 96 pages · 35 ills
SPIELRAUM Jasmina Cibic Editors: Jasmina Cibic, Una Popovi´ c HB · ISBN 978-1-911164-35-7 RRP £34.95 · $44.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 296 pages · 250 ills
STAGING DISORDER Editors: Esther Teichmann, Christopher Stewar t PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-15-7 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 128 pages · 63 ills
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SUSAN POINT Spindle Whorl Editors: Ian Thom, Grant Arnold Foreword: Kathleen S Bar tels PB · ISBN 978-1-911164-26-5 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 160 pages · 130 ills
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HE XEN 2.0 Author: Suzanne Treister, Lars Bang Larsen PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-63-7 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 160 pages · 130 ills
HEXEN 2039 New Militar y-Occult Technologies for Psychological Warfare: A Rosalind Brodsky Research Programme Author: Suzanne Treister PB · ISBN 978-1-904772-63-7 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 160 pages · 78 ills
TEACHING PAINTING How Can Painting Be Taught In Art Schools? Editors: Ian Har tshorne, Donal Moloney, Magnus Quaife PB · ISBN 978-1-911164-10-4 RRP £16.95 · $24.95 26 × 22 cm · 8 × 10 in 96 pages · 30 ills
HFT THE GARDENER Author: Suzanne Treister HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-71-3 RRP £34.95 · $54.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 240 pages · 166 ills
NATO The Militar y Codification System for the Ordering of Ever ything in the World Authors: Suzanne Treister, Marek Kohn HB · ISBN 978-1-906155-61-2 RRP £35.00 · $65.00 22 × 30 cm · 12 × 9 in 208 pages · 180 ills
TEN SHOWS Photographer: Barb Choit PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-66-7 RRP £9.95 · $14.95 13 × 13 cm · 5 × 5 in 160 pages · 74 ills
TERRITORIES Brenda Francis Pelkey Editor: Catharine M Mastin Contributors: Ingrid Jenkner, Mar tha Langford, Catharine M Mastin, Nadja Pelkey, Nancy Yakimoski HB · ISBN 978-1-911164-25-8 (French lang) 978-1-911164-52-4 RRP £29.95 · $39.95 28 × 21 cm · 9 × 11 in 192 pages · 150 ills
THINKING IS MAKING Presence and Absence in Contemporar y Sculpture Editor: Michael Taylor PB · ISBN 978-1-908966-04-9 RRP £29.95 · $49.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 192 pages · 260 ills
THROWN British Columbia’s Apprentices of Bernard Leach and their Contemporaries Editor: Scott Watson HB · ISBN 978-1-908966-99-5 RRP £39.95 · $59.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 304 pages · 280 ills
HEXEN 2.0 TAROT Author: Suzanne Treister PB · ISBN 978-1-910433-74-4 RRP £22.95 · $34.95 15 × 10 cm · 4 × 6 in 78 pages · 78 ills
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The second edition of the HEXEN 2.0 Tarot features 78 alchemical drawings depicting the interconnected histories of the computer and the Internet, cybernetics and countercultures, science-fiction and scientific projections of the future, government and military research programmes, social engineering and the control society, alongside diverse philosophical, literary and political responses to advances in technology. This long-awaited reprint of the companion tarot deck to Suzanne Treister’s HEXEN 2.0 takes us to a hypnotic, mesmerising space from where one may imagine and construct possible alternative futures.
In 2016 Suzy Lake won the prestigious Scotiabank photography award. Lake is a prescient image-maker, who interrogates ideas of beauty, ageing and the self. INTRODUCING SUZY L AKE Editor: Georgiana Uhlyarik HB · ISBN 978-1-908966-73-5 RRP £24.95 · $34.95 28 × 23 cm · 9 × 11 in 288 pages · 220 ills
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SUZY L AKE Performing an Archive Editor: France Choinière HB · ISBN 978-1-910433-67-6 RRP £16.95 · $19.95 21 × 16 cm · 6 × 8 in 64 pages · 60 ills
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Jasper Havoc Pages 10–17 Jasper Havoc (Peter McMahon 1953–1979) was an Australian artist and a member of the Sydney drag performance troupe Sylvia and the Synthetics in the early 1970s. He came to London in 1977 and stayed with friends in the flat below me off Ladbroke Grove. On Saturday afternoons, my kitchen was often a gathering place for a motley crew, appraising the possibilities of their vintage finds after mornings in Portobello Road. Afternoon tea parties evolved into impromptu photographic sessions before everyone disappeared to dress up for their night ahead. An antiquated tungsten photographic light was moved from room to room as I photographed friends and visitors. Jasper perched on the kitchen sink one afternoon, posing with louche allure, before we took my camera out into the streets nearby.
VERY VINTAGE The Guide to Vintage Patterns and Clothing Authors: Iain Bromley, Dorota Wojciechowska, Raven Smith PB · ISBN 978-1-906155-38-4 RRP £24.95 · $45.00 28 × 21 cm · 8 × 11 in 192 pages · 149 ills
VIEWS OF MATLOCK BATH Authors: George Miles, Jeremy Millar HB · ISBN 978-1-908966-82-7 RRP £19.95 · $29.95 27 × 30 cm · 12 × 10 in 96 pages · 80 ills
A VISUAL HISTORY OF COOKERY Editor: Aimee Selby Contributors: Ferran Adriá, Anthony Bourdain, Elizabeth David, A A Gill HB · ISBN: 978-1-906155-50-6 RRP £29.95 · $55.00 24 × 21 cm · 8 × 10 in 352 pages · 311 ills
VISUAL AID 2 You Can Never Know Enough Stuff PB · ISBN 978-1-906155-83-4 RRP £7.95 · $15.00 17 × 12 cm · 5 × 7 in 160 pages · 138 ills
VISUAL AID DOODLING BOOK FOR CREATIVE KIDS PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-70-5 RRP £6.99 · $11.95 25 × 17 cm · 7 × 10 in 96 pages · 90 ills
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Eddie was, however, a prolific and industrious draughtsman, producing sensitively observed portraits in coloured pencil of his friends. He would come to visit, pin up a large sheet of paper on our sitting-room wall and focus intently while we sat for him, drawing us while narrating a running account of his latest exploits in an arch Glaswegian accent.
punk circles around the Sex Pistols, Malcolm McLaren and Vivienne Westwood. For a brief period Berlin lived in a rather seedy flat in West Kensington, across the railway track from Olympia, where Jonathan Von Roth held court with Eddie Cairns, Brian Britton and Little Jimmy. Writing under his real name, Bertie Marshall, Berlin produced a frank memoir of the years 1976 and 1977, titled Berlin Bromley, 2006. He wrote that he had become “part of their little retinue”, and described life at Russell Road as “a riot; drugs, dressing up, getting drunk and sex”.
Bertie Marshall, in his book Berlin Bromley, described Eddie vividly, writing that he liked “to think of himself as a cross between David Hockney and Joan Crawford, cruel tongue and far larger than life, promiscuous and damned as hell”. Eddie himself thought that he was “a dead ringer” for Jane Russell. He died of Aids in the early 1980s when people hardly knew what it was. One of his drawings was on the record cover for Coil’s version of “Tainted Love”, and their mournful version of the song gave it a new dark meaning that expressed the tragedy of Aids-related deaths and their anger at the way Aids victims were being treated at that time.
Bertie Marshall published a novel, Psychoboys, 1997, and in 2015 the British Library acquired his personal diaries, notebooks and correspondence from 1978–2014, describing him as an “author, performer and punk scene-maker”. Jimmy Pages 20–21, 84–85
Ricardo and Lavinia Pages 18–19
Jimmy, known as “Little Jimmy”, was a wiry, nervy, streetwise yet vulnerable boy from the rougher side of Fulham who somehow ended up living with Jonathan’s ménage at Russell Road; perhaps it was a refuge from whatever was happening in his life elsewhere. Whenever I visited to photograph the household, he always seemed to have sustained some damage on a night out; a cut lip, a black eye.
Ricardo and Lavinia were two Brazilian boys I photographed one evening when they were en route to a club, having fetched up at our house with mutual friends.
Eddie Cairns Pages 14–15, 24–25, 42–44
Berlin Pages 20–23
Eddie Cairns (c 1953–1983) was an artist from Glasgow; very talented, wickedly funny, but regularly so outrageous that it verged on selfsabotage. Opportunities and commissions would evaporate: he became riotously drunk at a David Hockney private view; and on another occasion offended a potential client, fashion doyenne Lady Clare Rendlesham, with his uninhibited conversation at her elegant soirée, after being introduced to her by Vogue art director, Barney Wan.
Bertie Marshall was a teenager who escaped South London suburbia and reinvented himself as “Berlin”: a pretty, narcissistic, self-styled ‘androgyne’. Berlin and his friend Siouxie Sioux were original members of what journalists (prompted by Malcolm McLaren) labelled the Bromley Contingent. They were a ragtag collection of suburban adolescents who hero-worshiped Bowie and Warhol, ‘posed’ relentlessly and managed to infiltrate and become embedded in
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Rachel Gotlieb is Adjunct Curator at the Gardiner Museum where she was formerly Chief Curator, and Interim Executive Director. She served as the founding Curator of the Design Exchange. She is currently a lecturer of Industrial Design History at Sheridan College. Mark Kingwell is a Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He is the author of many books and articles about politics and art, most recently the essay collections Unruly Voices (2012) and Measure Yourself Against the Earth (2015).
Brian Britton Pages 28–35, 46–47 Brian Britton, Glasgow born, with an accent influenced by teenage years spent in South Wales (although everyone assumed he was Irish), came to London in 1972 to study at St Martin’s School of Art. He says that in the 1970s, he was “a glam rock gender bender Bowie fan” who soon embraced the “chaos and excitement” of punk. Brian lived at Butler’s Wharf and was part of the itinerant household formed around Jonathan and Eddie and an ever-changing coterie who moved from warehouse to flat to squatted Georgian house. He was briefly the custodian of Lucian Freud’s apartment and studio through a friendship with one of Freud’s daughters, Rose Boyt. Bertie Marshall described Brian as resembling “a tree struck by lightning in semi-drag”, but by the 1980s Brian’s vintage clothes period was over. He travelled and had a productive period as an artist, living in Japan and New York. Now based on the Sussex coast, he spends extended periods writing and painting in India and on a Greek island. The photographs of Brian taken early evening in an apartment in Mornington Crescent, became like stills for a non-existent film. Cinema influenced me, and I admired film noir and its auteurs of the 1940s like Jacques Tourneur: his films Cat People, 1942, and I Walked with a Zombie, 1943, evoked an eerie, oddly hypnotic atmosphere and enigmatic mood, a world of shadows and suggestion.
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George Baird is Emeritus Professor and former Dean of the John H. Daniels Faculty of Architecture, Landscape, and Design at the University of Toronto. As an architecture student there, he visited Finland in the summer of 1959.
When Private Eye magazine satirised a scandalous press story concocted by General Idi Amin about Princess Elizabeth of Toro of Uganda, and invented the euphemism “discussing Ugandan affairs”, Agnes, who was related to the Royal Family of the Kingdom of Toro, responded by wearing a t-shirt emblazoned with the words “Amin da Mood”.
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