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Jurriaan Benschop - Why Paintings Work

Garret Publications 2023 ISBN 9789527222171 Acqn 33497
Pb 14x20cm 284pp col ills £28.75

In 'Why Paintings Work', Jurriaan Benschop navigates the diverse landscape of contemporary
painting. He introduces the work of dozens of painters and asks: Why do these paintings work? In
what ways do they speak to the viewer? He considers both the visible aspects of painting_such
as the depicted motif and the application of paint_and the concepts, beliefs and motivations that
underlie the canvas. 'Why Paintings Work' is not just about how we look at paintings, but also
about finding a language that suits the art and viewing experience of today.

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Cristiano Berti - Boggiano Heirs

Quodlibet 2023 ISBN 9788822921185 Acqn 33520
Pb 14x21cm 264pp £30

Boggiano Heirs is an artist's book written in the form of a historical essay which interrogates
Italy's pro-slavery past. It focuses on the intangible legacy of Antonio Boggiano, a wealthy
merchant from Savona (Italy) who lived in Cuba in the 19th century and owned hundreds of
slaves. At the centre of attention is the surname Boggiano, imposed on the slaves and still
widespread in the Afro-Cuban community.

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Joan Mitchell - By her Friends

Les Presses Du Reel 2023 ISBN 9782378964283 Acqn 33578
Pb 15x21cm 224pp col ills £34

Influential American painter, Joan Mitchell (1925-1992), was a leading figure in the Abstract
Expressionist movement of the mid-20th century. Breaking boundaries as a female artist, Mitchell
achieved critical acclaim in a male-dominated art world. This book provides an intimate portrait of
the artist through a collection of previously unpublished conversations with Mitchell's closest
friends. From artists, art historians, and personalities such as Paul Auster and Zuka, this book
brings together Guy Bloch-Champfort's interviews, revealing new character traits and stories
about the artist. The author was a close friend of Mitchell and the coordinator of her estate after
her death.

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Yvonne Rainer - Remembering a Dance - Part of Some Sextets 1965/2019

Lenz 2023 ISBN 9791280579119 Acqn 33579
Pb 21x28cm 160pp col ills £36

Parts of Some Sextets, Yvonne Rainer's 1965 performance for ten people and twelve mattresses,
represents a turning point in the American choreographer's oeuvre. "My mattress monster," as
Rainer calls it, was built in her formative years with the experimental downtown New York group
Judson Dance Theater. In this work, she asserted her exploration of "ordinary" actions as well as
her disregard for narrative constructions to create an intricate choreography that unfolded with a
new scene every thirty seconds. More than half a century after its premiere, Rainer, in
collaboration with choreographer and dancer Emily Coates, directed the 2019 revival of the piece
for the Performa 19 Biennial in New York, grappling with the changing contexts of a new
presentation of her radical performance. Remembering a Dance: Parts of Some Sextets,
1965/2019 delves into every aspect of this dance, from its original manifestation to its
reconstitution.

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Maaike Schoorel - Vera/Icon

nai010 publishers 2021 ISBN 9789462086357 Acqn 31527
Pb 22x27cm 200pp col ills £35.50

Dutch artist Maaike Schoorel (1973) belongs to a new generation of painters whose work
references the mythical history of painting from the Netherlands. The subjects of her paintings
seem at once recognizable and elusive and are drawn from familiar experiences and everyday
encounters. She uses photographic source material as a way of beginning her paintings that are,
in turn, rooted in the art-historical genres of landscape, portrait, and still life. The monograph
'Vera Icon' is a major overview of her work since her graduation from the Royal College of Art
(London) in 2002.

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Tomas Saraceno - Spiders in Motion, Rainy Commotion

Ivory Press 2023 ISBN 9788412279283 Acqn 33483
Pb 11x15cm 110pp col ills £29.50

Born in Argentina and based in Berlin, Tomas Saraceno creates projects in dialogue with forms of
life and life-forming, rethinking dominant threads of knowledge in the "Capitalocene" era and
recognising diverse modes of being. This book, published to accompany a solo exhibition at the
Serpentine Gallery in London, presents his ongoing research on proverbs. The proverbs collected
here are an invitation, an exercise in collective memory, for some to change habits and not the
climate. Saraceno pursues the question of whether such popular sayings carry the knowledge to
forecast other climates. What if we could all re-learn how to read the weather without relying on
the digital cloud?

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The Rainbow Book

Nero 2023 ISBN 9788880562283 Acqn 33603
Pb 19x32cm 228pp col ills £33.50

'The Rainbow Book' is a collection of essays and illustrations devoted to the rainbow and color
spectra, analyzing the significance of color (both physical and metaphysical) from antiquity to
modern times. An encyclopedia of the cultural and artistic manifestations of the rainbow: in myth,
magic and paintings, as well as in prints and poems. The book includes poems by Virgil, Dante,
Blake, Keats, Wordsworth, and others; paintings by Giotto, Bosch, Van der Weyden, Durer,
Rubens, Blake, Turner, Constable, and Church; and the sacred art of Tibet. The reprint of a cult
book of post-1968 psychedelic culture, first published in 1975 in Berkeley, California, on the
occasion of The Rainbow Show exhibition held at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.

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Abbas Zahedi - Eva Wilson " " #07

Nero 2023 ISBN 9788880562061 Acqn 33604
Pb 11x16cm 160pp col ills £18

A conversation between Eva Wilson and the 2022 Frieze Artist Award Abbas Zahedi, around the
core concepts of "translation and transplantation". What happens when we think of the space of
art as a living body? Abbas Zahedi became an artist by way of a medical education, a philosophy
symposium in a chip shop, community organising, and "Dissociative Realism", as described in an
essay by Arsalan Isa. With Eva Wilson, Zahedi explores translation and transplantation as
frameworks that allow us to understand ourselves in relation to others-as life-support systems to
counter the erosion of identity through trauma.

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Basel Cathedral - A Guide to the Stories behind the Stones

Christoph Merian Verlag 2023 ISBN 9783856169930 Acqn 33480
Pb 16x21cm 128pp col ills £30

Historian Oswald Inglin gives an original and refreshing take on the Basel cathedral, inviting
readers to discover the building anew. For the first time, the many figurative descriptions and
surprising construction details on both the building's interior and exterior are able to relate their
own narratives in an entirely different way. Find out why there are differently coloured
sandstones, what the elephants are doing around the choir, why a dragon decorates the floor,
and which queen had herself memorialised on a sarcophagus. Guiding readers through the
building by way of 30 "stations", the book serves as an accessible and informative tour through
Basel's famous historical landmark.

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Alex Silber - Heading into Time works 1971-2021

Vexer Verlag 2023 ISBN 9783907112618 Acqn 33482
Pb 24x31cm 290pp col ills £56

Alex Silber belongs to the first generation of Swiss artists to work with multiple media,
installations, and performances. Since the beginning of his artistic practice, he has been
fascinated by the medial aspect of images and texts. What is it that makes an image come to life?
In a world marked by both an intoxication with images and iconoclasm, Silber has shaped his
reflective approach to visual information into a distinctive voice of the contemporary world. The
German title of this book, 'In die Zeit gefallen', does not imply that his oeuvre has taken a tumble
down the rabbit hole of time. Rather, it is work on time, in time. It is the not-yet-fully-arrived, and
that which is on its way.

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also vol. 1 Art for (and within) a Citizen Scene also vol. 2 Be Water, My Friend
Framer Framed 2023 ISBN 9789493148871 Acqn 33498
Pb 17x24cm 356pp col ills £27.50

Two volumes combined in a single publication. The first examines art which is primarily active in
the context of daily processes. By shifting our attention away from artistic practices based on
object production and individual successes, what can other kinds of practices bring about? Artists
and cultural practitioners mostly from South/East Asia connect and share their insight and
experience through lively conversations and co-creation in digital workshops. Through
anthropological fieldwork and critical analysis, the second volume looks at different forms of
socially engaged artistic practices in China that address social issues while avoiding explicitly
opposing political authorities.

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Dora Garcia - Inserts in Real Time - Performance Work 2000-2023

K. Verlag 2023 ISBN 9783947858538 Acqn 33499
Pb 22x26cm 328pp col ills £33.75

'Inserts in Real Time' is the first monograph on the performance work developed by artist Dora
Garcia over the past twenty years. The book contains a conversation between the artist and
curator Joanna Zielinska; a selection of her performance scripts; her performances to date, listed,
illustrated, described, and contextualized; and three newly commissioned texts - by art historian
Sven Lutticken, performance theorist Bojana Cvejic, and Dora Garcia. The publication is co-
published with M HKA, Antwerp, and accompanies Dora Garcia's exhibition 'She Has Many
Names'.

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Territories of performance - processes and practices in Italy (1967-1982)

Quodlibet 2023 ISBN 9788822920676 Acqn 33500
Pb 17x24cm 128pp col ills £19

Part of the Focus Series by MAXXI Arte Collection, this volume presents the mapping carried out
by Lara Conte and Francesca Gallo of performative practices in Italy between 1967 and 1982. At
the same moment, it is a historical survey that renders the territorial and geographical
developments of this until now non-existent and fluid archive of performances legible and
consultable on various levels. From politics to anthropology, and from myth to art history, it
provides a topographical and argumentative reading through photographs, drawings, images,
videos, and oral accounts as pure narrative tools. An exploration of both collective memory and
archival documentation.

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Hans Andersson
Art And Theory Publishing 2023 ISBN 9789198672121 Acqn 33501
Pb 17x22cm 144pp col ills £45

Hans Andersson is a Swedish artist best known for his tactile and intricate collages. He
incorporates a diverse array of materials in his work, such as textile scraps, dyed paper, painted
sheets, magazine fragments, shellac, coffee grounds, and more. This book presents a collection
of his striking collages and showcases some photographs of Andersson at work. It also includes a
conversation between curator and writer Silvana Lagos and the artist himself, as well as a text on
the nature of zero, or nothing. Combining traditional craftsmanship with Nordic sensibilities,
Andersson has received various art grants and has exhibited his work internationally.

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Footnotes to Triangular Cartographies - Processing Process

K. Verlag 2022 ISBN 9783947858347 Acqn 33584
Pb 14x21cm 252pp col ills £29.25

In her travel writings, Ana Hupe maps historical relationships while immersing herself in Yoruba
philosophy. A detail observed along a boulevard of imperial palms in Cuba connects the gardens
of the Portuguese court in colonial Brazil to an ancient currency in Nigeria. In this book, the notes
become the body of the text, thereby relaying an intermittent incursion into the universe of
invisible and poetic forces. Coincidences can also be recognised as synchronicities that increase
speculative capacities. As an encounter between the visual arts and anthropology, art history,
literature, and philosophy, Hupe's project moves through these countries on its way to other
destinations and destinies.

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Daijoji - The Art of Maruyama Okyo and His School

Kokushokankokai 2023 ISBN 9784336056641 Acqn 33587
Pb 23x30cm 180pp col ills £32.50

This book showcases the works of master painter Maryuama Okyo (1733-1795) and his students
at Daijoji Temple in the town of Kasumi, Japan. Pioneering a realism style based on 'shasei', the
act of painting by closely examining and understanding the subject, Okyo's philosophy continues
to inspire Japanese painters today. The paintings on the sliding doors and walls survive in their
original context from 1787. The artist did the paintings for the Kakushigi Room, Landscape Room,
and Peacocks Room - in which three life-sized pine trees and three peacocks are depicted on 16
panels. Also included are works by his pupils in various other rooms of the Daijoji Temple.

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Akira Kurosawa – Screenwriter

Kokushokankokai 2023 ISBN 9784336073969 Acqn 33588
Pb 23x28cm 120pp col ills £35

Akira Kurosawa (1910-1998) was an influential Japanese director and screenwriter who produced
numerous masterpieces. This book is a catalogue of the exhibition that explores the creative
processes behind Kurosawa's famous screenplays, such as 'Seven Samurai', as well as newly-
discovered un-filmed scripts. From early in his career, he was influenced by the world's literary
giants like Dostoevsky, Shakespeare, and Balzac, just to name a few. This book documents the
research and exhibition developed by the National Film Archive of Japan in collaboration with the
Kurosawa experts to highlight the director's screenwriting abilities.

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Keisuke Kondo Motohiro Tomii - Plain and simple painting and sculpture that continues
like an enigma
He He 2023 ISBN 9784908062513 Acqn 33591
Pb 15x21cm 86pp col ills £24

This book and exhibition feature the collaborative works between painter Keisuke Kondo and
sculpture artist Hirohiro Tomii. Originally created in 2010 and donated to the Kawasaki City
Museum, the seven art pieces were subsequently damaged by water and mould when Typhoon
Hagibis flooded the city in 2019. This book details the joint efforts and unprecedented way these
contemporary artworks were restored, and the new developments, processes, and feelings that
arose as a result. Despite the original works still bearing traces of the disaster, the artists reunited
to create new pieces and to reconstruct another version of 'I and My Circumstances' for the
exhibition.

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