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Some Canterbury Tales - Illustrated by Marvin Gaye Chetwynd. Four Corners Familiars Volume 9 Four Corners Books 2014 ISBN 9781909829008 Acqn 23512 Pb 21x30cm 280pp col ills £12.99 The latest Four Corners Familiar present a selection of Chaucer's great stories. For her edition of The Canterbury Tales, Marvin Gaye Chetwynd has selected her favourite tales and produced a heavily illustrated, collaged book that mixes Medieval and contemporary imagery, and includes the following tales: Prologue, The Miller’s Tale, The Reeve’s Tale, The Friar’s Tale, The Merchant’s Tale, The Wife of Bath’s Tale, The Summoner’s Tale, The Pardoner’s Tale. Marvin Gaye Chetwynd was born in London in 1973 and now lives in Glasgow. She recently changed her name from Spartacus Chetwynd and was nominated for the Turner Prize in 2012.

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Hannes Bock – Secession Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783868953091 Acqn 23071 Pb 17x22cm 108pp 36ills 22col £16 The specific discourses of film aesthetics, visual studies, and critical history form central points of reference for the films and photo series of Vienna-based artist Hannes Böck. In his formally reduced, 16mm films and series of photographs from recent years, he has increasingly dealt with issues of visual studies and post colonialism, in particular with the creation and mediation of images and the resulting, stereotypical concepts of history and other cultures in the collective visual memory. The book includes three texts, written by Eva Kernbauer, Volker Pantenburg, and Miguel John Versluys, who examine Hannes Böck’s works from recent years and the new film installation 5 Skulpturen in thematic, formal, and aesthetic terms from the perspectives of art history, film and media studies, and archaeology.

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Ulla von Brandenburg - Inside Is Not Outside Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783868953077 Acqn 23072 Pb 23x31cm 152pp 476ills 76col £24 Ulla von Brandenburg has developed a sizeable, complex, and distinctive oeuvre. In her films, installations, performances, and drawings, she uses the methods and approaches of the theatre to address societal, social, and historical issues. She applies aspects of the theatre, the stage, and the rules of performance to create metaphors for the way people live their lives together in which the divide between actor and viewer and actor, reality, and illusion is continually dissolved. The aim of this publication is to present the multifaceted yet coherent oeuvre of Ulla von Brandenburg and to anchor it in theory. The book opens with an extensive image section that brings together her work from the years 2008 to 2013. In the text section that follows, Nina Möntmann talks to the artist about specific cultural and historical references as well as numerous aspects that typify her work, and her films in particular, such as temporal indeterminacy and the creation of spaces on the threshold of the real world and the mental realm of the unconscious and unspoken. They also discuss production conditions, the obviously staged appearance of the work, and the frequently sung dialogues. The essays by René Zechlin and Annette Südbeck analyze two central motifs, the mirror and the shadow, looking at how they are applied semantically, historically, and across different media. Ulla von Brandenburg uses them in a wide array of techniques, including the silhouette and shadow play that are so characteristic of her work, in order to explore layers of reality and the border zones between being and appearance.

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Sujet Palermo - Merker TV, Uwe Jantsch Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957630025 Acqn 23434. Pb 25x19cm 116pp 100ills 80col £21 In April 2011, MerkerTV collaborated with Palermo-based artist Uwe Jäntsch to create the sounds for a film and performance, “AC/DC Greetings from Palermo”. They went on to release an album in 2012 titled “Coca, Fanta, Palermo!”, which they describe as “Hörspielmusik” - music for the radio. It became clear during the project that the work needed an extra layer. The idea of a photo album came naturally. The aim here was not to show a mere collection of impressions or to strictly document their journey, but to reveal, with photography, a yet unknown aspect of MerkerTV. If most of today’s photography can be classified in genres and styles, MerkerTV is something quite different: images of moments. Sujet Palermo is not about photographic truth - it’s about the reproduction of these moments.

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Simone Kempert - Blaue Trude Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783868953008 Acqn 23435 Pb 10x15cm 172pp 86col ills £11.50 172 photographs to tear off, look at, stimulate, hang up, stick on, tinker, paint, use, write on, sit in front of, frame, steal, enjoy, remember, giggle, think, be amazed, dream, turnthepage, entertain, miss, giveaway, beautivy, waste, scribble, wonder, show...

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Nil Yalter Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783868953305 Acqn 23436 Hb 20x24cm 292pp 350ills 150col £49 The first in-depth study of the life and art of Nil Yalter, a pioneer in the French feminist art movement of the 1970s, this book portrays her as an artist who continues to bear witness to the society in which she lives from a critically sensitive viewpoint. Of Turkish origins and having lived in Paris since 1965, she was active in counter-culture and political movements of the time and has experimented in different media including drawing, photography, video and performance art. Much of her work deals with gender, patriarchy and the issues surrounding migrant workers. Richly illustrated, with an interview plus fascinating texts by Derya Yücel, Juan Vicente Aliaga and Fabienne Dumont.

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Conrad Jon Godly Works + - Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783868953343 Acqn 23437 Hb 21x26cm 128pp 140ills 80col £32.50 A little more than eight years ago, the Swiss artist Conrad Jon Godly found his way back to painting, in which he had received training in the middle of the eighties. The profession he aspired to when he was younger became his true calling in mature years. He followed the call of the mountains and returned to his home region, the Grisons Mountains, where he has since submitted himself to a painterly exercise. Conrad Jon Godly paints mountains and nothing else. His work on canvas is akin to meditation and amounts, as it were, to an exercise in the eternity that the mountain world surrounding him represents. Never are particular mountains at the centre of Godly’s oeuvre. He does not paint real mountains, but the pure essence of mountains. Hence his strong tendency to abstraction in his paintings, in whom the depth of the layers of paint corresponds to a spiritual depth that both his large and small paintings radiate. (Texts Philipp Meier).

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Janine Gerber - Layering Stillness Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783868953312 Acqn 23438 Pb 20x20cm 28pp 21col ills £12.50 Janine Gerber invites viewers to take pleasure in exploring their own perception and its subjective nature through her works: the lingering of the gaze, the eye’s journey over the forms, colours, and surfaces, and through the space. Because white is never just white.

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Julie Sass II Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783868953435 Acqn 23439 Hb 13x17cm 80pp 26ills 24col £12.50 Texts by Ditte Vilstrup Holm, Cora Fisher, Saul Ostrow and Julie Sass.

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Guido van der Werve - At War With Oneself. Secession Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783868953121 Acqn 23441 Hb 26x23cm 276pp 550ills 300col £29.50 As the protagonist of his own films, Dutch video and performance artist Guido van der Werve makes great physical demands upon himself. His works chart approaches to the experience of self and the world by staging an existentialist competition with himself. However, he not only documents the realisation of the conceived events; this documentation is also taken as a starting point from which to condense them into complex narratives about physical endurance, struggling with (one’s own) nature, the passage of time, and the uncontrollable dynamics of chance. Van der Werve, who has also completed training as a classical pianist, often anchors his narratives structurally by reference to the biographies of composers such as Rachmaninov or Chopin, as well as using his own musical compositions. In this way he produces works that measure spatial and temporal determinants by means of physical effort, yet also bear witness to a deep melancholy and the need to come to terms with isolation. Guido van der Werve complied with a programmatic request from the Sesession to develop a new work for his exhibition by producing a publication, Nummer vijftien, at war with oneself. This extensive artist's book includes textual and pictorial documents, self-reflective pieces and analyses of his most recent group of works from the years 2008 to 2012, in which his main theme is sport alongside classical music. Texts: Xander Karskens (Interview), András Pálffy, Hans Ree, Angela Serino (Interview), Guido van der Werve.

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Sarah Lucas - NOB. Secession Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783868953107 Acqn 23442 Pb 17x22cm 156pp 71ills £17 Sarah Lucas is one of the most outstanding British artists of her generation, which garnered an international reputation under the heading Young British Artists in the 1990s. With the sculptures and objects she makes from readily available materials such as household objects or foodstuffs, as well as her photographic self-portraits, Sarah Lucas has developed an unmistakable visual and material language rich in art-historical references and associations. The artist reveals and simultaneously undermines sexual stereotypes with the outspoken directness of the sexual innuendo characteristic of her works. In this way Lucas always expresses deep scepticism towards social norms and the gender-specific attribution of roles, albeit with an enigmatic sense of humour. For her exhibition in secession she designed – together with Julian Simmons – an artist book with Sarah Lucas, which gives a rare insight into the artist’s thinking and making of art. Its title originates from the word "knob", which Sarah Lucas prefers to write as it is pronounced. "knob" can mean a round door handle, but colloquially, of course, it is synonymous with penis – although not quite as crude as "dick", "cock" or "pecker" – and can also be used to refer to an idiot, while "knobs" are a term for female breasts, or to be more precise, for the nipples. Texts: Sarah Lucas, Jeanette Pacher, András Pálffy, Julian Simmons.

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Tobias Pils – Secession Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783868953114 Acqn 23443 Hb 23x31cm 104pp 58ills 33col £16 Tobias Pils’s large-format, abstract painting – occasionally laced with representational fragments – develops from questions raised in close connection to the painting process itself. He has produced an extensive new work cycle for his major individual presentation in the gallery. The title of the exhibition is simply Secession. It points to the exhibition venue as a reference but its restraint also allows sufficient space for distance, irony and – artistic freedom. And so in some visual or conceptual quotations, Pils takes up historical references relating to the Secession and the zeitgeist in Vienna at the start of the 20th century as a whole without compromising his consistent work on painterly issues in any way by doing so. Intuition, inspiration and individuality are criteria relevant to Pils's painterly oeuvre, and form the basis of his understanding of painting as a language and means of expression.

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Rob Voerman - Fifth Season Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783868953299 Acqn 23444 Hb 17x23cm 52pp 40ills 21col £8.50 Rob Voerman‘s work deals with subjects like terror, protectionism and the encounters of different religions in a global context as well as in consideration of the developments in his own country. Huge sculptures and installations made of different materials such as paper, wood, glass, carton and plastics form the work of Rob Voerman. Also, he uses found footage materials like church glass or furniture of the end of the 19th and beginning of the 20th century. His enormous installations condense into complex structures that resemble explosions or swirls mixing different ages. Partly, his organic structures look like cathedrals, buildings by Antonio Gaudí, favelas or shanties. Often, visitors can enter into these sculptures that seem to be modular constructions. The idea of a permanent growing and changing architecture and society lies behind these polymorphic sculptures.

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Alexander Johannes Kraut – Tagundnachtgleiche Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783868953145 Acqn 23445 Hb 20x27cm 148pp 114ills 50col £23 Tagundnachtgleiche (Equinox) conveys a comprehensive overview of multifaceted works by Berlin artist Alexander Johannes Kraut. From pencil drawings of the early 1990s, via unique and technically innovative linoprints, and up to the most recent sepia drawings and photographs, Kraut's works display a fascinating tendency for breaching the boundaries between the abstract and the concrete. A. J. Kraut uses extremely different means to create amorphous picture fields, in which ever new and surprising figurations reveal themselves to the viewer. Literary historian Rodolphe Gasché, in his detailed analysis of the linoprint "After Poussin I", and art historian Peter Lodermeyer, in his introductory essay "The Surplus of Picture Possibilities", look into this virtually hallucinatory charging of the pictures. This book, containing ample reproductions, has been rounded out with the artist's travel notes from Lisbon and the volcanic Cape Verdean island of Fogo.

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Open Monument - Research Into Ephemera, Commerative Architecture And Modernist Patrimony Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9789576300011 Acqn 23558 Pb 21x26cm 304pp 400ills 250col £21.95 This volume deals with historic or fictive monuments after they have disappeared as a consequence of ideological or political systems that have changed and follows what happens with the accumulation of information that persists in the material carcases of the built forms. Its focus is on how does this lost information convert at a moment when a change of paradigm happens in the social thinking. Theoretical texts, guest essays, artists‘ special visual inserts, reference material and interviews follow how political vestiges, processes of commemoration and appropriation of cultural information can shape a dynamic memorial culture infused with cross–references and which can be its architectural outcome. Many of the contributions gathered in this volume investigate moments in which the city itself throws out information from its fabric and the void that this displacement left behind, or the imprints and mutations that time left in the built form, the way architecture is a reservoir in which information is selected, confined until it is practically brought into disappearance, as well as the fossilisation of the recent industrial heritage that is assimilated as a sort of futuristic recreation of the past that retrospectively distorts reality. The contributions are engaged in an argumentative way to use, adapt and reconsider the architectonic legacy of modernism and to concoct a permeable monument, non–symbolic and that proposes a dynamic historicization. Artists: Carlos Bunga, Delio Jasse, Hironari Kubota, Matias Machado, David Maranha, Luca Pozzi, Cristian Rusu, Sancho Silva, Yukihiro Taguchi, Nuno Sousa Vieira, Sinta Werner.

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Anke Eckardt - Sonic Spaces Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783868953367 Acqn 23559 Hb 20x26cm 80pp 60col ills £16.50 Sound and media artist Anke Eckardt builds large-scale multisensory installations. In this monograph, she presents three artistic research projects that illustrate her on-going artistic and theoretical investigation of the basic components and dimensions of space. The ambiguity of both ground and groundlessness, the role of the wall as a (permeable) boundary as well as the close interplay of verticality and the staging of power serve as a means to reflect on perspectives derived from the natural sciences, the humanities and political ethics, and can be experienced within Anke Eckardts poetic installations as tangible phenomena.

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Lilli Kuschel - Cool World Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783868953251 Acqn 23560 Pb 17x24cm 144pp 120col ills £15.95 Although hardly a word is spoken in her films, Lilli Kuschel’s images of urban environments, traffic structures and human constellations are precise and articulate. Her trained eye has an instant comprehension and tells stories even without words. It is the composition of objects and people in her images that makes the sublime as well as the absurd aspects of normal life evident. Lilli Kuschel’s images reflect the fringes of civilization – borders, traffic, communalized nature, media reality, objects being sexually charged... She usually composes her images without a centre point, drawing her viewers’ attention to the periphery, which then either becomes, or ironically disturbs, the very notion of a centre. Her thinking focuses on visible surfaces. To rearrange these surfaces on framed photographic or filmic planes, and compositions of planes, to decide on a particularly telling perspective and to communicate that decision by way of a film projection – that is the artist’s intellectual and artistic achievement. The field of vision is always amorphous, and everybody always sees everything. What is important, however, is how we see, which part of the field of vision the cinematographer decides to show. Lilli Kuschel’s sensibility for the dual character of nature and society makes her images revealing without having to rearrange reality. Her vision itself is revolutionary.

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Peter Dobroschke Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957630049 Acqn 23561 Pb 20x25cm 80pp 30col ills £15.95 First monograph of the work of Peter Dobroschke. Text by Albert Coers.

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Reinventing Abstraction Cheim & Read 2014 ISBN 9780985141080 Acqn 23384 Pb 31x36cm 82pp 30iils 15col £36 Reinventing Abstraction looks at 15 painters born between 1939 and 1949: Carroll Dunham, Louise Fishman, Mary Heilmann, Bill Jensen, Jonathan Lasker, Stephen Mueller, Elizabeth Murray, Thomas Nozkowski, David Reed, Joan Snyder, Pat Steir, Gary Stephan, Stanley Whitney, Jack Whitten and Terry Winters. Challenging official accounts of the decade, which tend to ignore the individualistic abstraction exemplified by these painters in favor of more easily identifiable movements and styles, Rubinstein chronicles how, around 1980, a generation of New York painters embraced elements that had been largely excluded from the radical, deconstructive abstraction of the late 1960s and 1970s, which had influenced many of them. In a long, informative essay titled "The Lure of the Impure," Rubinstein seeks to uncover the "street history" of painting, and redress past, sometimes race-based exclusions. Although many of the artists in Reinventing Abstraction are well known, their collective history has not yet been addressed by art history.

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As If An Entrance Is Over There Lecturis 2014 ISBN 9789070108984 Acqn 23517 Pb 15x21cm 100pp 25ills 5col £26.50 Winner of the Best Dutch Book Designs in 2012, this book focuses on the intersection of landscape and the practice of Edward Clydesdale Thomson, a Scottish/Danish artist based in the Netherlands. Inspired by landscape imagery – specifically that of 19th-century European gardens and decorative arts – Thomson’s work plays with the tension between interior and exterior. His conceptual and multimedia approach seeks to re-examine everyday garden imagery through cultural ideology and the manipulation of nature inherent in its reproduction. With contributions by Ann Bermingham, Edward C. Thomson & Sjoerd Westbroek, Philippe Pirotte, Jan Verwoert and others.

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Jorge Satorre, Erick Beltran - Modelling Standard ROMA Publications 2014 ISBN 9789491843105 Acqn 23519 Pb 25x35cm 64pp 57ills £22.50 This series of illustrations is the result of a project initiated in 2010 by invitation of Catalina Lozano at Gasworks, a centre for contemporary art in South London. In the project, Mexican artists Erick Beltrán (now based in Barcelona) and Jorge Satorre lay out a web of relations based on a shared interest in the methodology proposed by Italian microhistory; specifically a 1979 essay by Carlo Ginzburg. By commissioning Jorge Aviña to illustrate complex concepts through old-fashioned political cartoon and comic book styles, they tackle mythology, science, philosophy, popular fiction and cultural themes in an investigation into a new way of making history, following a detective process.

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Kati Heck - Kopf = Kopfnuss CAC Malaga 2013 ISBN 9788494083686 Acqn 23526 Pb 22x25cm 130pp 57ills 55col £32.95 In a broad sense, German-born artist Kati Heck’s body of work questions the art of painting. While referencing the history of the portrait, she simultaneously engages in breaking down bodily forms, often leaving unfinished aspects, which in turn offer fertile ground for imagination. This mixture of reality and the surreal takes shape in Heck’s nonsensical, absurdist and grotesque themes, and in the obscene or provocative gestures and poses found in her work. Published in conjunction with a solo exhibition at CAC Málaga, this catalogue includes numerous paintings, sculptures and installations, texts by Jan Hoet and Fernando Francés and a conversation between Heck and Luc Tuymans.

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Felix Vallotton - Fire Beneath The Ice Lecturis 2014 ISBN 9789462260542 Acqn 23554 Pb 21x26cm 160pp 180ills 150col £23.95 As a member of the artist group ‘Les Nabis’, the French-Swiss artist Félix Vallotton (1865-1925) was at the artistic forefront of Paris during the fin de siècle. He became internationally renowned for his powerful black-and-white woodcuts, which were unparalleled both in style and technique as well as in ambience. They contain a latent tension or threatening quality and the humour is often paired with biting social criticism. This catalogue to an exhibition in the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam, provides an overview of all facets of Vallotton’s oeuvre and offers a new perspective on this intriguing artist.

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Fiona Tan – Ellipsis 21st Century Museum Kanazawa 2014 ISBN 9784528010543 Acqn 23556 Hb 16x23cm 144pp 50ills 44col £22.50 The lovingly bound catalogue to an exhibition of Fiona Tan’s work at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art in Kanazawa, curated by Hiromi Kurosawa, ‘Ellipsis’ revisits both earlier and more recent work by the artist, whose oeuvre expresses her identification as a symbol for multicultural lives, and discerns a multilayered complexity within herself that is rooted in various histories. Using montage and restructuring, her fragmentary images are imbued with the ambiguities of memory, failing to convey true meaning or facts, and lead viewers to speculate upon the narratives buried therein. With essays by Kurosawa and Okwui Enwezor, plus images and installation views.

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Georg Baselitz - Farewell Bill Gagosian Gallery (NY) 2014 ISBN 9781935263968 Acqn 23591 Hb 27x29cm 104pp 59ills 55col £47.95 Seeking to expand the scope of traditional representation in art, Baselitz has constantly revisited and re-imagined his chosen subjects over time. In this new series, he co-opts figuration as a vehicle for expression in energized, intuitively painted self-portraits—a new approach in his persistent subversion of the painted subject. Marking a clear departure from the retrospective impulses of the Remix paintings of the past decade, these vibrant new works focus afresh on the affirmative act of painting. Like de Kooning's paintings of the period, Baselitz's new works are characterized by a watercolor-like fluidity, achieved through the thinning of oil paints with turpentine and their swift, loose application. Riffs on his own likeness transcend representation, imparting sublime moments of intuition and sheer physicality. Consistent with his established formal vocabulary that works to disrupt the painted subject both visually and symbolically, he repeatedly portrays himself upside down, wearing a cap marked "ZERO" (the name of his paint supplier). Silhouettes are conveyed in the thin, intertwining lines of a reed brush, while explosive color fields reveal new painterly atmospheres, echoing the combative dimensions of de Kooning's paintings. By charging his own figurative investigations with the raw exuberance of Abstract Expressionism, Baselitz reinvigorates the august tradition of self-portraiture with bright, impulsive energies. Essay by Richard Calvocoressi; Reprinted text by Georg Baselitz.

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