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Eloquent Silences - Writings on Art and Architecture

Cosa Mentale 2020 ISBN 9782491039028 Acqn 30907
Pb 17x24cm 172pp ills £27

Jorge Luis Borges, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Yasushiro Ozu, Mark Rothko, Jorge Oteiza - a
writer, an architect, a filmmaker, a painter, a sculptor. Five personalities of the 20th century
separated by their mediums, their subjects of investigation and their disciplines. They are brought
together in this book by the need to save art from its current alteration, and to bring it back to a
more contemplative and introspective dimension.The key words of this consideration, which has
the appearance of a manifesto, are: silence, contemplation, renunciation, transparency,
anonymity and atemporality. Twenty years later, the lesson of Carlos Marti Ari is contemporary
and of fundamental importance for our discipline today.

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Real Feelings - Emotion and Technology

Christoph Merian Verlag 2020 ISBN 9783856169312 Acqn 30908
Pb 17x24cm 192pp col ills £31

Digital technology predominates in every realm of our daily lives: humanoid robots are deployed
in healthcare, sex robots compensate for deficits in human relations, intelligent appliances listen
to our conversations and look after our needs_ the list goes on. It seems we communicate more
with technology than with other human beings. 'Real Feelings' explores the swiftly changing
relationship between technology and emotions, presenting works by 20 artists from around the
globe that explore how technology represents and manipulates our feelings, even to the point of
being able to change them. With works by Justine Emard, Lucy McRae, Liam Young, Maija
Tammi, and more.

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Errant Journal 1 - When Are We?

Errant Journal 2020 ISBN 9789083079301 Acqn 30909
Pb 17x24cm 128pp col ills £16.95

Errant Journal is an international publication for cultural practice and theory aimed at bringing
together diverse local perspectives on a global scale. Working from the premise of our situated
knowledge, the first issue starts with acknowledging the importance of locating oneself in time,
and subsequently question time_s claim to universality. Titled When Are We? this issue features
the politics of time and the way in which we have internalized the idea of the present, of what is
modern, contemporary and now, and how this is in fact riddled with contradictions and based on
mechanisms of exclusion. With contributions by, among others, Narda Alvarado, Season Butler,
Irene de Craen, Shona Mei Findlay, Sophie Hoyle, Remy Jungerman, Rajkamal Kahlon, Yazan
Khalili, Vera Mey, Rasheedah Phillips and Mark Smith.

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Material Matters - Painting And Its Materialities

Art And Theory Publishing 2020 ISBN 9789198606522 Acqn 30917
Pb 17x24cm 128pp col ills £30

Material can be symbolic and coded. Our experience of a medium's temporality becomes
apparent only through our knowledge of its material behaviour. As the world becomes ever more
digital and physically removed, we rely on countless materials to facilitate the remote accessibility
of images. And yet, our fascination with "real" stuff increases. The texts in this volume reflect a
great diversity of practices and materials, but also the diversity of meanings suggested by its title.
In addressing the raw materials of our surroundings, as well as the technical equipment, tools,
and infrastructures they involve, we gain deeper insight into material's significance.

Contributors: Filippa Arrias, Daniel Bozhkov, Sabeth Buchmann, Asli Cavusoglu, Nadia Hebson,
Suzanne Hudson, Kristina Jansson, Mark Miodownik, Silke Otto-Knapp, Rachelle Puryear, Hakan
Rehnberg, Mats Rosengren, Sigrid Sandstrom, Sophie Tottie.

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Matthieu Ronsse - A Procession Of Lobsters

Ludion 2020 ISBN 9789493039254 Acqn 30919
Hb 23x30cm 240pp col ills £45

Matthieu Ronsse creates paintings that often seem unfinished, comprised of references to old
masters, fragments from his private life, or clippings from books on photography and architecture.
He challenges the traditional painting method, questioning its qualities of materials, techniques,
subject, and history. 'A Procession of Lobsters' offers an overview of work that Ronsse creates 'in
situ': at a petrol station, in the house of a collector, for a catering company, within watchtowers,
and elsewhere. Author Maarten Inghels visited all of these locations and spoke extensively with
their occupants, as well as with the artist himself, seeking answers as to the changing perception
of the work.

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Eva Nielsen
Manuella Editions 2020 ISBN 9782490505067 Acqn 30920
Hb 19x25cm 192pp col ills £36.50

The first monograph on Eva Nielsen, whose works range from monolithic forms of concrete
architecture that fill the space, to kaleidoscopic scenes of genres, folded and marked in a break
with reality's linearity. Representations, pieced together from elements of that reality, that are
incomplete - viewed from perspectives interrupted by inert obstacles or structures that partition
the elements on the canvas. A work by Nielsen is constantly on the border of something, on the
edge of the territory, between centre and periphery, at once screen-printed image and painting,
abstraction and figurative art. With essays by Clement Dirie and Marianne Derrien and an
interview by Joel Riff.

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Shimura Fukumi - Her Vocation To Weave Life

Tokyo Bijutsu 2020 ISBN 9784808711320 Acqn 30921
Pb 19x26cm 208pp col ills £33.50

This book appears in conjunction with an exhibition of work by Fukumi Shimura from the
collection of the Museum of Modern Art, Shiga. Born in 1924, Shimura began to independently
study the vocation of dyeing and weaving after being divorced at the age of 32. As an artist, she
embraces the rich variety and harmony of colours which she has extracted from plants and then
transferred to silk yarn, and her pure, sincere attitude towards nature is mirrored in her great
respect for the natural sources of her materials. Her own in-depth studies of Japanese culture
and classics imbue her woven textiles with a sense of the importance that colours have for the
Japanese people.

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Ulrika Sparre - Ear To The Ground

Art And Theory Publishing 2020 ISBN 9789151943824 Acqn 30673
Pb 33x25cm 48pp col ills £46

In her work, Ulrika Sparre investigates the mechanisms, behaviours, and social patterns that
constitute our lives. The starting point for 'Ear to the Ground' is a search for the spiritual and
physical in nature, and how these relationships are created and transformed. Moving through the
archipelago of Stockholm, across the desert of Death Valley, and into caves in South Africa,
Sparre explores rocks in their various forms and shapes. Along the way, the artist performs
several field recordings of stones in which she reflects on what we perceive and take with us from
an experience in rugged nature. With essays by Johan Redin, Virginia MacKenny, Jacquelyn
Davis, and others.

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Keiichi Tanaami - Eyeball Great Adventure

Tokyo Kirara 2020 ISBN 9784903883441 Acqn 30950
Pb 30x40cm 40pp col ills £56.25

'Eyeball Great Adventure' is a pummelling deluge of new work by Keiichi Tanaami, served up with
all the delicacy of a fire hose. The large-format book delivers loads more of Tanaami's customary,
refreshingly outlandish and profane visual imagery featuring skulls, fighter planes, eyeballs,
robots, erotic figures, and brain-melting intensity. As one of the leading pop artists of post-war
Japan, Tanaami has remained active as multi-genre artist since the 1960s, with works spanning
graphic design, illustration, video, and fine art. Psychedelia-inspired forms, electric colours, and
classic comic book elements feature heavily in his decidedly reactionary oeuvre.

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Eugene Frey
Paraguay Press 2020 ISBN 9782918252689 Acqn 30952
Hb 23x30cm 304pp col ills £47.50

A painter and an inventor, Eugene Frey (1863-1930) pioneered techniques of animated sets for
the theatre at the same time period as the cinema was invented. While he is contextualized
beside the creations of Loie Fuller, Georges Melies, or Lotte Reiniger, he is reinterpreted by the
artist Joao Maria Gusmao. This first publication devoted on the work of Eugene Frey
accompanies the exhibition at the New National Museum of Monaco, presenting texts by
Stephane Tralongo (University of Lausanne) and Laurent Mannoni (Cinematheque francaise), as
well as a work of fiction by Joao Maria Gusmao.

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Truth Is Black - Examining Arab Art Today

Khalid Shoman Foundation 2020 ISBN 9789082148435 Acqn 30955
Pb 17x24cm 408pp col ills £33.75

To commemorate the 30th anniversary of its support for contemporary Arab artists, Darat al-
Funun invited artists to pause and reflect, to reimagine our world, and to reinvent their narrative
following the challenge set by the late poet Mahmoud Darwish: "Truth is black, write over it with a
mirage's light". The publication's first volume documents exhibitions and events held in 2018,
presenting encounters between artists and their place in the world today. The second presents
the findings of a public colloquium held in Amman in summer 2018, expanding knowledge about
Arab art, challenging paradigms, and calling for a reassessment of conventional narratives about
the region.

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Helmi Vent - Lab Inter Arts - Insights Into The Performance – Lab
Vexer Verlag 2020 ISBN 9783907112250 Acqn 30957
Pb 17x25cm 140pp col ills £35.50

This book offers an insightful look into the process-oriented concept and practices of the Lab Inter
Arts, headed by Helmi Vent at the Mozarteum University Salzburg. Its focus is on a filmic
documentation of the performance lab "Hatte Hatte Fahrradkette" ("shoulda coulda woulda"),
accessible by QR code. Author Karin Mairitsch has developed an independent approach to the
film through her artistic research and reflections on art, art education, and life, and has chosen for
an artistic-transformative approach to the book's design. As such, the performance lab can be
viewed anew and in a different light.

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