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Valentina Tanni - Memesthetics - The Eternal September of Art

Nero 2024 ISBN 9788880562467 Acqn 34230
Pb 11x17cm 268pp ills £24

Art in the twenty-first century has become a strange affair, even stranger than it was in the
twentieth. The internet, new technologies, and social media have raided our visual universe with
GIFs, photoshopping, and all manner of appropriation. Trolls, YouTubers, and Instagrammers are
bequeathing us a set of practices and aesthetics that recall the precepts of the historical avant-
gardes, playfully distorted in the weirdest, wildest, most uninhibited ways. So, how has the art we
still find in museums and galleries responded to such a reckoning? And more importantly: what if
the art history textbooks of the future listed not the works of a few nineteenth-century artist-
geniuses, but the memes of all those anonymous users hiding behind improbable pseudonyms?
Memesthetics is the first book to draw a comprehensive cartography of the relationship between
visual arts and digital culture since the early 2000s. Tracing the path that's taken us "from
Duchamp to TikTok," Valentina Tanni defines the contours of one of the most interesting, and at
times disturbing, landscapes of our present.

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How to Survive After Art School?

Surfaces Utiles 2023 ISBN 9782931110089 Acqn 34614
Pb 11x18cm 188pp col ills £15.50

The question posed by the title of this book seems even more relevant for young artists today
than it did in 2020, when it was first published in French. Presented as a manual, the book shares
a number of tips and tricks that have enabled art professionals to progress in the period after their
studies. The short, often ironic and sometimes even humorous instructions written in the
imperative mood provide pieces of the answer to the big question. A host of contributors
representing a wide range of practices are included in the book, among them Olivier Bertrand,
Juliette Defrance, Antoine Doyen, Bernadette Kluyskens, Ivan Murit, and many more.

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IMAGINE! 100 Years of International Surrealism (English Edition)

Ludion 2024 ISBN 9789464781137 Acqn 34432
Hb 22x32cm 240pp col ills £38.50

100 years after the publication of Andre Breton's Manifeste du Surrealisme, The Royal Museums
of Fine Arts of Belgium celebrate a century of international surrealism with the extraordinary
exhibition IMAGINE! From Giorgio de Chirico to Jackson Pollock, Salvador Dali, Rene Magritte,
Joan Miro, Dorothea Tanning, Man Ray and Leonor Fini: the exhibition and accompanying book
offer an immersion in surrealist poetry, dream, the labyrinth, metamorphosis, the unknown and
the subconscious, led by the great names of the surrealists.

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Lygia Clark - Helio Oiticica: Letters 1964-1974

Ivory Press 2024 ISBN 9788412090888 Acqn 34391
Pb 14x22cm 244pp £29.50

From 1964 to 1974, two leading artists of the Brazilian 'Neo-Concrete Movement,' Lygia Clark and
Helio Oiticica, had an extraordinary correspondence which has now been translated into English.
The letters are, first and foremost, a testimony to their friendship and complicities, bonds that had
grown since the mid-1950s, when they first met amid an atmosphere of huge creative ferment in
Brazil. Their encounter turned out to be transcendental in the life and career of both, in a country
that was, moreover, preparing for the surge of the so-called second Modernidade, the artistic
development which, according to Ivo Mesquita, began in the 1950s and lasted until the 1980s.

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Mousse Magazine - Issue 86 - Winter 2024

Mousse Publishing 2024 no ISBN Acqn 34398
Pb 24x32cm 260pp col ills £18

Winter issue, featuring Anna Oppermann, Benoit Pieron, Maria Toumazou, Coumba Samba,
Kiyan Williams, Ali Eyal, Samuel R. Delany, Maryanne Amacher, Roe Ethridge, Aleksandra
Kasuba. This issue comes with two different covers, randomly distributed.

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Feet of Clay
Lenz 2024 ISBN 9791280579508 Acqn 34400
Pb 11x18cm 288pp col ills £17.50

Curator, art historian, writer Chus Martinez and writer and curator Filipa Ramos bring together a
group of artists who have been using clay, pottery and ceramics to imagine, project and shape
the world they live in. Some may associate clay, pottery and ceramics to tradition, and tradition to
the past. Some may associate technology, digital communication and data with the new, and the
new with the future. What if the future is only a technology as old and unusual as clay? What if
clay is a matter that renews itself constantly and gives time its unpredictable configurations?

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Rachel Whiteread - The Mark of Trauma

Lenz 2024 ISBN 9791280579386 Acqn 34401
Pb 11x18cm 96pp ills £14

The Mark of Trauma is the first book in a series of short essay collections inspired by the site-
specific art projects specially conceived for GAMeC at Palazzo della Ragione, a symbolic, time-
honored location within the city of Bergamo that embodies the values of community life and
participation. Rachel Whiteread was asked to name an author who interests her-be it a
researcher, a philosopher or a scholar-and whose thinking could be said to underpin the project,
with a view to finding a path through the complexities of the present day, starting from the work
produced but without necessarily lingering on it. Through the words of psychoanalysts Angelo
Antonio Moroni and Pietro Roberto Goisis, the book highlights the main characteristics of the
collective trauma that gave rise to Rachel Whiteread's project … And the Animals Were Sold.

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Ali Cherri - Dreams of a Dreamless Night

Lenz 2024 ISBN 9791280579461 Acqn 34403
Pb 21x28cm 192pp col ills £35.50

The publication is the first institutional monograph on the multimedia practice of artist and director
Ali Cherri. It aims to highlight the constellation of ideas, themes, and formal concerns running
through his most recent, highly significant projects. Edited by Alessandro Rabottini and Leonardo
Bigazzi, with Bianca Stoppani, this book provides an overview of the artist's output over the past
three years, teasing out both new strands for interpretation and formal links between his films,
videos, sculptures, drawings, and installations.

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Precarious Movements - Choreography and the Museum

National Gallery Of Victoria 2024 ISBN 9781922398079 Acqn 34404
Pb 18x24cm 232pp col ills £62

Since the mid twentieth century, dance has expanded beyond the stage, with works presented in
myriad forms in galleries and museums around the world. From artistic experiments and reworks
of historical choreographies to performances responding to permanent collections, dance as a
mode of expression has increasingly carved out a unique place in institutions and exhibitions as a
means to engage audiences. 'Precarious Movements: Choreography and the Museum' is a
survey of the choreographic turn within the visual arts, mapping a new field of practice that
considers dance a contemporary-art media.

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Absolute Zeitgeist - Issue A, Action

House Publishing 2024 ISBN 9789083213262 Acqn 34408
Pb 21x29cm 44pp col ills £13

'Absolute Zeitgeist' is an open source curatorial magazine capturing the themes and elements
that shape our present. Simultaneously, it entails an editorial experiment attempting to visualise a
collective sense of time. A different curator will be invited to oversee each edition, and this
inaugural issue launches with the collaboration of Amsterdam-based futurist and scholar Tessa
Cramer. Her approach to her work currently focuses in large part on accepting, even embracing,
notions of uncertainty, which she applies to the issue's theme: "A is for Action". She reflects on
what action is, on action as movement, and how it impacts the world we live in. Is it action or
inaction?

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Jose Quintanar - Dutch Landscape

Rollo Press 2024 ISBN 9783906213439 Acqn 34410
Pb 23x32cm 336pp col ills £53

Rotterdam-based artist Jose Quintanar presents the next instalment of his ongoing series dealing
with the notion and tradition of landscape painting in the Netherlands. 'Dutch Landscape' is an
exercise in synthesising a traditional art historical subject in the Netherlands into a simple drawing
game using very rudimentary rules and constrictions. Playing with the concept of colonisation and
setting, the book works as a protocol, as a ritual, or as a narrative device in which the same
landscape is drawn again and again until it disappears. This volume compiles both previous and
new work produced for the series.

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Caleb Stein - How to Move a Mountain

Luhz Press 2024 ISBN 9798218272616 Acqn 34412
Pb 17x24cm 100pp col ills £61

Caleb Stein travelled to northern Italy to photograph Robotor, a company based in the Carrara
marble quarries that utilises digital schematics and robotic technology to translate marble into
sculpture. His photographic essay is a series of intimate portraits of robotic arms and raw marble
that offer nuance to today's debate around artistic authorship and AI and computer-augmented
art. The quarry has been mined for millennia, its marble sculpted by generations of artists. Now,
technological advancements question conceptions of artistic authorship. Details of the digital
schematics that instruct robots to sculpt are printed on sheets of tracing paper throughout the
book.

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Ken Graves - The Meaning of Gravity

Luhz Press 2024 ISBN 9798218262549 Acqn 34413
Hb 24x29cm 128pp col ills £84

From the mid-1970s, artist Ken Graves (1942-2016) created hundreds of collages using medical
journals, technical manuals, advertisements, and found objects. Strongly influenced by
surrealism's proposal to reveal the subconscious through dreamlike scenes, he reconfigured the
material of popular culture to unveil the social undercurrents embedded in commercial imagery.
His collages examine the tension of societal roles (duty, station, gender) and reveal the hidden
rituals that have been erected to create and maintain a set of social orders. A celebrated
photographer, Graves reveals a different side of his artistic engagement through this rarely seen
collage work.

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Teresa Solar Abboud

This Side Up 2024 ISBN 9788412604795 Acqn 34416
Hb 22x32cm 252pp col ills £44.50

This publication presents the work of Teresa Solar Abboud (Madrid, 1985), which centres on the
creation of sculptural ecosystems where families of sister forms create flows and communities,
repeat and mutate in space. By working with organic elements, the artist constructs stories
around isolation, immunity and connectivity that appeal to a contemporary subject, fragmentary
and in constant displacement. Although sculpture occupies a principal place in Solar Abboud's
production, video has also been a relevant medium, especially in the early years of her artistic
practice. Together with her working sketchbooks, they form the support for the origin of each
shape, of each piece, and for the relations generated between them. Her most recent works are
hybrid, syncretic beings with half-animal, half-machine bodies that occupy an intermediate space
between engineering and mythology, emerging from times deep in the Earth's mantle.

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Carl Andre - Between Sculpture and Poetry

Torch Press 2024 ISBN 9784907562472 Acqn 34417
Hb 21x30cm 152pp col ills £55

Carl Andre (1935-2024) was a main proponent of the minimal art movement that emerged in the
late 1960s. This catalogue appears with Andre's first solo exhibition in a Japanese museum and
engages with the richness found in the artist's concise and systematic visual language. Unlike
traditional sculptures, his works made of seemingly identical wood blocks, metal plates, or stone
slabs are placed directly on the floor in regular arrangements, spreading out horizontally without
resisting gravity. In addition, the book contains a selection of Andre's poetry as counterpoint to his
sculptures. Devoid of lyrical elements, these "poems" are meant to be enjoyed by looking rather
than being read.

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Ruth Patir – Motherland

Sternthal 2024 ISBN 9781988689135 Acqn 34431
Pb 19x25cm 236pp col ills £49

Ruth Patir is a new media artist based in Tel Aviv who integrates documentary storytelling with
computer-generated imagery. Her work is often grounded in her own biography, gradually
opening up to address larger societal issues, such as the politics of gender, technology, and the
hidden mechanisms of power. 'Motherland' accompanies her exhibition at the 2024 Venice
Biennale of Art, a multipart video installation documenting her egg-freezing odyssey, conceived
as a 3D animation where she recasts herself as an ancient "fertility figurine". Includes texts by
curators Mira Lapidot and Tamar Margalit, Noam Gal, and Keren Goldberg, plus a dialogue
between the artist and Eva Illouz.

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Archipelagic Affects
Framer Framed 2024 ISBN 9789083079363 Acqn 34604
Pb 10x15cm 152pp ills £16.50

'Archipelagic Affects' explores how art residencies nurture effective spaces to study the tangible
and intangible cultural, historical, and geopolitical connections between different island countries.
Conceived by Yornel J. Martinez Elias, researcher Emily Shin-Jie Lee, and in collaboration with
Taiwanese novelist Huang Chong-Kai, the book interweaves visual and textual materials created
in different time-spaces. Together, they form a shared travelogue that documents how cultures
and worlds cross paths through an art residency experience.

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Magali Reus - Red Roses

nai010 publishers 2024 ISBN 9789462088511 Acqn 34607
Pb 23x30cm 192pp col ills £33

London-based artist Magali Reus, winner of the Prix de Rome 2015, has been creating hyper-
realistic sculptures for more than a decade. She represents, redefines, enlarges, and deforms
everyday objects in various materials and using surprising combinations of digital, manual, and
industrial processes. Her work explores our relationship with utilitarian objects and the
inextricable context of consumer society. The sculptures appear functional, yet avoid explicitly
revealing what their function actually is. Through her artistic investigation into objects, Reus is
seeking a strategy to critically interrogate the production and consumption processes of our
society.

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Zoe Croggon - How to Cut an Orange

Perimeter Editions 2024 ISBN 9781922545282 Acqn 34611
Pb 24x32cm 104pp col ills £51

Piecing together a selection of works made over the last eight years, Croggon's striking new
artist's book 'How to Cut an Orange' embraces the written word more wholeheartedly than ever
before. Featuring an incisive abstracted essay by the celebrated young poet Samantha Abdy, and
a selection of poems by Croggon's mother - renowned cultural critic, author, and poet, Alison
Croggon - 'How to Cut an Orange' puts the artist's sensuous, visceral photographic collages in
direct conversation with the words and worlds that bracket and surround them. As much as
Croggon's practice is one of deep research and introspection, it also gazes outward.

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The Pleasures We Choose

K. Verlag 2024 ISBN 9783947858590 Acqn 34615
Pb 12x18cm 192pp col ills £27

The freedom to pursue pleasure is not afforded to all. Many are conditioned to labour on behalf of
causes assumed to be more purposeful or fruitful than art in order to keep the world turning. Art is
often called an act of indulgence, but never a matter of necessity; only if we work hard enough to
afford these leisurely pursuits are we deserving of their affordances. But what if our bodies need
art? This book leans into the concept of "access architecture", presented in the eponymous
exhibition in the Pavilion of Finland at the 60th International Art Exhibition in Venice. Like a
handbook, it can be read in relation to the exhibition, but it also functions as an invitation for all
those who are interested.

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Axel van der Kraan

Van Zoetendaal 2024 ISBN 9789072532589 Acqn 34616
Hb 30x24cm 224pp col ills £60

Axel van der Kraan has a less than optimistic view of humans and civilisation. He is fascinated by
power and bureaucracy and the absurdity of routines and rules that sometimes seem to oppress
people more than help them. The artist sees the world as an "unfocused, absurd, and aimless
battleground". His sculptures, however, are characterised by a high degree of inventiveness in
their construction and use of materials. New, recognisable images are created from discarded
household appliances and machines; a waste bin becomes the body of a soldier and a sink the
gun turret of a tank. This book examines his body of work since 1985, including assemblages,
rubbings, and woodcuts.

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Jeff Gibson - False Gestalt

Perimeter Editions 2024 ISBN 9781922545305 Acqn 34617
Pb 18x25cm 150pp col ills £39

Jeff Gibson's career as an artist seems woven from the threads of his travels, both physical and
virtual. His neo-Pop investigations embrace both the multiplication of image populations
characteristic of the digital world and the reduction of online commerce into silhouetted
photographic insignia. More recently, Gibson has returned to analogue image scavenging -
cutting, cropping, and layering found images into intricately layered patterns. This monograph
gives a comprehensive look back at his career in all its varied phases, from the late 1970s to the
present moment. With written contributions by Thomas Crow, Susan Best, Tara Heffernan, and
Angela Goddard.

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