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Rankafu - Japanese Woodblock Prints of Orchids

Seigensha Art Publishing 2024 ISBN 9784861529443 Acqn 36022
Pb 18x26cm 168pp col ills £27.50
Text in Japanese

Kaga Shotaro (1888-1954) was a leading businessman of the Kansai region and a devoted lover
of nature and beauty. At his retreat along the southern front of Mount Tenno in Kyoto, he pursued
his self-confessed lifelong hobby: the cultivation of orchids. His collection comprised some 10,000
specimens, including several cultivars he developed. 'Rankfafu' features paintings of his orchids
commissioned from artist Ikeda Zuigetsu, reproduced using the technique of traditional
woodblock printing. This new and enriched edition of the original botanical anthology updates
binomial names, breeding lines, and other data, presenting the flowers once again in all their
stunning beauty.

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Rheim Alkadhi - Majnoon Field Guide

Archive Books 2024 ISBN 9783949973208 Acqn 35900
Pb 15x23cm 308pp col ills £33.50

The Majnoon oil field lies in southern Iraq. It is one of the richest oil fields in the world. Majnoon
also stands for the violence and the state of mind that survives the violence. Interdisciplinary artist
Rheim Alkadhi's examination of the area is not a field guide in any customary sense. Rather, this
monograph of her project unfolds alongside a search for emancipatory practice across multiple
mediums. The volume is divided into five parts, preceded by maps and legends. Just as any map
is appended by its legends, Alkadhi rewrites them from the perspective of dismantling. Her work
opens up diverse perspectives on borders, migration, gender, and intimacy in a poetic manner.

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Real Intelligence (and Other Flows and Fictions). Basel Dialogues

Christoph Merian Verlag 2024 ISBN 9783039690268 Acqn 36012
Pb 11x18cm 196pp col ills £29.25

Internationally renowned experts from art, design and architecture have their say in the new book
series Basel Dialogues. They offer insight into the experiences and ideas arising from their
current practice in conversations that are personal, passionate, thoughtful and humorous. The
first volume focuses on issues to do with artificial and human intelligence, the relationship
between documentation and reality, and with fiction as a form of design/creativity. The dialogues
indicate that the pressing problems of our day cannot be resolved within individual sectors and
disciplines.

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Kuijer, Rietveld - Rietveld, Kuijer

nai010 publishers 2024 ISBN 9789462088627 Acqn 36016
Pb 17x22cm 48pp col ills £22

For Kuijer, Rietveld / Rietveld-Kuijer, Dutch sculptor Ruud Kuijer (1959) curated eleven striking
combinations of chairs from the famous Dutch designer Gerrit Rietveld (1888-1964) and his own
sculptures. The focus is not on Rietveld as a designer, architect, or member of De Stijl, but
specifically on the process of making a chair versus making a sculpture. Particularly, Rietveld's
early and lesser-known works reveal a making process rooted in the inherent properties of the
materials used.

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The Chips - Ukrainian Naive Mosaics of the 1950-90s

Ist Publishing 2024 ISBN 9786177948437 Acqn 36021
Hb 17x22cm 190pp col ills £38.25

The Chips: Ukrainian Naive Mosaics of the 1950-90s by photographer Yevgen Nikiforov and art
historian Polina Baitsym records a vanishing phenomenon on the periphery of art and public life.
The archive, collected between 2013 and 2023 and conceived as a book in 2019, presents
mosaics by unknown authors in a state of half-decay-when they have already lost their initial
glow, are decaying, or are disappearing into the lower layers of facades and city panoramas.
Naive mosaics are often a mundane backdrop for local residents, or an uncomfortable and
problematic material for the transformation process of public spaces. The book focuses on them
as a phenomenon that raises questions about memory and space, past and present, self-
expression and imitation, and captures the fragility of the monumental, which, like chips,
eventually became crumbs at the bottom of the package.

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