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Do We Dream Under The Same Sky Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791659 Acqn 25318 Pb 16x24cm 64pp 34col ills 7.50 Contributions by Nikolaus Hirsch, Karl Holmqvist, April Lamm, Antto Melasniemi, Philipp Misselwitz, Michel Mller, Jrn Schafaff, Rirkrit Tiravanija Published in conjunction with the eponymous installation at Art Basel 2015, DO WE DREAM UNDER THE SAME SKY is an extension of the collaboration between artist Rirkrit Tiravanija, architects Nikolaus Hirsch and Michel Mller, and chef Antto Melasniemi. Designed by Hirsch and Mller as an outdoor shelter, the installation, made of modular bamboo and steel, welcomes visitors to engage in discussions while participating in the convivial atmosphere of shared food. This supplemental publication includes interviews, texts, images, and poems that illuminate the installations properties of self-sufficiency and how it was conceived as a new component of Tiravanija and Kamin Lertchaipraserts ongoing project the land, a self-sustaining artistic community near Chiang Mai, Thailand. At the end of the festival, the structure will be transported to Thailand and will be the first building block of a new workshop on the land.

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Wendelin Pressel - Luna Park Revolver Publishing by VVV 2015 ISBN 9783957630964 Acqn 25299 Hb 20x26cm 206pp 120ills 60col 21 In his book Delirious New York (1978) Rem Koolhaas compared Coney Island and his legendary Luna Park (1903-1944) with a laboratory. An amusement park full of attractions as a lab for the world! Wendelin Pressl picks up this idea and transforms it into his own Luna Park. Text by Walter Moser, Franz Thalmair & Marcus Steinweg.

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Ellie Omiya - Emotional Journey Foil Co. Ltd 2015 ISBN 9784902943924 Acqn 25301 Pb 23x28cm 152pp 125col ills 27.50 Foil present the first catalogue of paintings by Japanese Film director and screenwriter Ellie Omiya.

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Genichiro Inokuma - Cats. ilove.cat Little More 2015 ISBN 9784898154113 Acqn 25303 Pb 18x18cm 128pp 100ills 50col 17.50 Text in Japanese

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Georg Baselitz - Avignon Catalogue Gagosian Gallery (NY) 2015 ISBN 9781938748158 Acqn 25170 Pb 24x34cm 36pp 18col ills 17 Published on the occasion of the 56th International Art Exhibition of la Biennale de Venezia: "All the World's Futures," curated by Okwui Enwezor. With a text by Georg Baselitz.

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Intenzione Manifesta - Drawing In All Its Forms Corraini Editore 2014 ISBN 9788875704711 Acqn 24515 Hb 21x27cm 288pp 200ills 150col 38.95 This volume, which accompanied the exhibition of the same name at Castello di Rivoli, focuses on drawing in its various forms and through its many different languages. The practice of drawing, often hidden or kept in the shadows, is actually the common ground that is shared by each artistic practice, whether it be a sketch, a design or a finished work that is full of messages. Curated by Beatrice Merz with Marianna Vecellio, this book is divided into different concepts and pathways: ways of drawing; trace; paradox of praxis; story of being an artist; timeless concept; political drawing; quote as memory; chiaroscuro; writing in the world, drawing as project practice; action. Pablo Picasso, Joan Mir, Paul Klee, George Grosz, Giacomo Balla, Giorgio Morandi, Osvaldo Licini, William Kentridge, Matt Mullican, Francis Als, Hanne Darboven, Matthew Barney, Robin Rhode, Nan Goldin, Mario Merz, Giovanni Anselm, Giulio Paolini, Elisabetta Benassi, Keith Haring, Mircea Cantor.

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Joan Jonas - In The Shadow A Shadow. Gregory R. Miller & Company 2015 ISBN 9780980024289 Acqn 18914 Hb 24x33cm 536pp 804ills 64.50 One of the most continuously influential figures of the past half century, Joan Jonas was among the first artists to embrace the forms of video, performance and installation. From her beginnings as a sculptor, and her emergence in the New York art and performance scenes of the 1960s and 70s (including the seminal "Vertical Roll" video piece of 1972, in which the titular television malfunction enacted a memorably fractured female identity), up through her six appearances at Documenta and her performance at the Performa 13 biennial, her work has always been surprising, groundbreaking and necessary. This extensively illustrated volume, containing hundreds of full-colour photographs, drawings, scripts and diagrams, presents the definitive collection of Jonas' work. The first and authoritative career-spanning monograph of the multimedia pioneer, it covers more than 40 years of performances, films, videos, installations, texts and video sculptures. Art writer Joan Simon has painstakingly researched every one of Jonas' works and includes notes on each piece, along with new and never-before-published writings by the artist that provide extensive background. In the Shadow a Shadow also contains essays by Douglas Crimp, Barbara Clausen and Johanna Burton, and unpublished photographs and drawings from Jonas' archives. With a detailed production and exhibition history of the video and performance works, as well as the first comprehensive bibliography and biography of the artist, this intensively researched and authoritative book documents the range, breadth and depth of one of the most prolifically original artists of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Edited with text by Joan Simon. Text by Joan Jonas, Douglas Crimp, Johanna Burton, Barbara Clausen, Richard Serra, Susan Rothenberg.

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Marilyn Minter - Pretty/Dirty Gregory R. Miller & Company 2015 ISBN 9781941366042 Acqn 24574 Hb 25x28cm 176pp col ills 39 Marilyn Minter is famed for her glossy, hyper-realistic paintings, photographs and video worksseductive images that borrow the language of fashion and advertising photography, exploring the boundaries of desire, sensuality and body anxiety in the age of consumption. Close-up imagery of mouths, feet, splashes and puddles, rendered in high-gloss enamel on sheets of metal, subversively questions the pathology of glamour. Produced in conjunction with the first major museum retrospective on her work, Pretty/Dirty examines every period of the artist's 40-year career, from her beginnings with the controversial porn paintings, initially rejected by the critical establishment, to her later large-scale photorealistic works. Essays from the exhibition's curators examine the trajectory of Minter's development and her engagement with debates over the representation of the female body. Texts from musicians, artists, writers and curators speak to Minter's wide-ranging influence: reflections from the likes of artist K8 Hardy, musician and author Richard Hell, and poet Eileen Myles, as well as an artist interview with writer Linda Yablonsky. Illustrated with hundreds of full-colour reproductions, and with a complete biography and bibliography, Pretty/Dirty charts a new perspective on the career of this exciting and continually evolving artist. Text by Bill Arning, Elissa Auther, Nick Flynn, K8 Hardy, Richard Hell, Colby Keller, Eileen Myles, Jenni Sorkin, Neville Wakefield. Interview by Catherine Morris, Linda Yablonsky.

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The Dawn Of Technicolor George Eastman House 2015 ISBN 9780935398281 Acqn 24575 Hb 26x32cm 448pp 428ills 267col 51 Published to coincide with Technicolor's centennial in 2015, The Dawn of Technicolor recounts the beginnings of one of the most widely recognized names in the American film industry, reconstructing the company's early years from a wealth of previously unavailable internal documentation, studio production files, contemporary accounts and unpublished interviews. Following its incorporation in 1915, Technicolor developed a series of two-colour processes as necessary steps toward full-colour photography and printing. Despite success in the laboratory and in small-scale production, the company was plagued by repeated disappointments. With the support of patient investors and the visionary leadership of Herbert T. Kalmus, Technicolor eventually prevailed against daunting odds to create the only commercially viable colour process for motion pictures. The Dawn of Technicolor investigates these vital make-or-break years, as the firm grew from a small team of exceptional engineers into a multimillion-dollar corporation. The authors chart the making of pivotal films in the process, from the troubled productions of Ben-Hur (1925) and The Mysterious Island (192629), to the early short films in Technicolor's groundbreaking three-colour process: Walt Disney's animated Flowers and Trees (1932) and the live-action La Cucaracha (1934). The book spotlights the talented engineers and filmmakers associated with Technicolor and the remarkable technical innovations that finally made colour films practical, changing the film industry forever. Lavishly illustrated with more than 400 reproductions, it includes a comprehensive annotated filmography of all two-colour Technicolor titles produced between 1915 and 1935. Edited by Paolo Cherchi Usai, Catherine A. Surowiec. Preface by Paolo Cherchi Usai. Foreword by Bruce Barnes. Text by James Layton, David Pierce.

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An Uncommon Archive T Adler Books 2015 ISBN 9781938922800 Acqn 24576 Hb 26x26cm 144pp col ills 35 This unusual volume is a selection of images from the projects, books and saved references found in the hard drives, stored files and archives of T. Adler Books. The collection draws from the seemingly disparate worlds of surfing, fashion and style, fishing, music, fine art, rock climbing, travel and adventure. The photographs, paintings, ephemera, illustrations and contact sheets are arranged in pairs and sequences suggesting subtle connections and parallels. Iconic historical images, works by well-known contemporary artists and photographers, and beautiful outdoor photographs blend and share page space with found paintings, incidental vacation snapshots and NASA imagery; works by classic photographers such as Walker Evans, Dorothea Lange and Jacques Henri Lartigue share space with contemporary photographers Craig Stecyk, Ed Templeton, Tim Barber, Dewey Nicks and Thomas Campbell; a portrait of JFK seated in a sailboat eating an ice cream cone is paired with a 1905 photograph of the launch of the steamer Frank J. Hecker; formal portraits of John Muir and Duke Kahanamoku and open ocean photos (above and below the surface) by Wayne Levin and Corey Arnold are scattered throughout the volume, alongside paintings by Maynard Dixon and Robert Overby, nineteenth-century Cyanotypes by Anna Atkins and a handpainted sign by Stephen Powers. Iconic surfing photographs by Don James, Ron Church, Steve Wilkings, Leo Hetzel, Jeff Hornbaker, Art Brewer, Jim Russi, Jeff Divine and Jim Driver are mixed with dramatic climbing images from Glen Denny, Mike Graham, Allen Steck, Johannes Mair and Jeff Johnson. But it is the editor's imaginative sequencing and pairing of these photographs that provides the unique pleasure of this book. A fresh, blue-sky and water-drenched elegance carries the volume along, resulting in a melding of tone and composition, gestures and cultures, associations and connections that reinforce the individual images.

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Philip Guston - Late Paintings Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh 2015 ISBN 9781906129903 Acqn 24615 Hb 31x33cm 60pp 35ills 33col 31.50 In 1967 Philip Guston (191380) left New York City for Woodstock, whereabandoning the Abstract Expressionism of the previous decadeshe revisited the figurative imagery of his youth. Cartoonlike in quality, these paintings began to incorporate motifs familiar to him since childhood, from the hooded figures of the Ku Klux Klan to everyday objects such as lightbulbs, shoes and cigarettes. When these paintings were shown for the first time in 1970, they proved highly controversial but soon gained critical recognition and are now widely regarded as some of the most compelling and influential works of the late twentieth century. Published from the acclaimed exhibition Philip Guston: Late Paintings held at Inverleith House, Edinburgh (which was featured in Artforum's top 100 exhibitions of 2012), this handsome volume includes installation views, colour plates, an illustrated interview, essays and additional plates in both colour and black and white. Edited by Paul Nesbitt. Text by David Anfam, Philip Larratt-Smith, Paul Nesbitt.

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A Journal Of The Plague Year Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791178 Acqn 25334 Pb 15x21cm 192pp 90ills 74col 19.95 Contributions by Michael Berry, Natalia S. H. Chan, Cosmin Costina, Dung Kai-cheung, Inti Guerrero, James T. Hong, Austin Ming-han Hsu, Zuni Icosahedron, Finnouala McHugh, Pak Sheung Chuen, Lawrence Pun, Shih Shu-ching, Xiaoyu Weng. Expanded from A Journal of the Plague Year, a touring exhibition originated at Para Site in 2013, this book critically analyses historical and contemporary imaginations and politics of fear in the face of disease and the spectre of contamination in society and culture. Scholars, artists, novelists, and journalists depart from Hong Kongs history of epidemicthe most recent being the SARS outbreak of 2003, shortly followed by the tragic death of pan-Asian pop icon Leslie Cheung, and tackle the galvanizing power and the varied perceptions of contagion in the context of lingering histories, myths, anxieties, and memories across geographies. While composing a complex picture of the Hong Kong psyche, these contributions speak from a humanistic and global perspective, pointing to the intersections of urban environments and post-colonial psychology, popular culture and racism, public health and migration, national identity and art.

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Vincent Fecteau Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791321 Acqn 25342 Pb 20x26cm 192pp col ills 15.95 In 2005 I was invited to participate in a project in Los Angeles called The Backroom initiated by Magali Arriola, Kate Fowle, and Renaud Proch in which artists were asked to contribute materials related to their research, sources, and interests. Although at that time I was not using collage materials in my sculptures, I had amassed a large collection of magazine pages (mainly from architecture and interior design magazines) that I often flipped through for inspiration. I decided to edit the pages, spending several months arranging and rearranging them as relationships both formal and narrative were revealed. This book is a reproduction of the resulting selection, originally presented in The Backroom in a simple black binder. Vincent Fecteau, San Francisco, 2015 American artist Vincent Fecteau has, over the last two decades, forged a singular aesthetic that mixes homespun materials (Popsicle sticks, champagne corks, string, and the like), meticulous craftwork, and a curious formal grammar. By turns wonky, erotic, extraterrestrial, or baroqueand sometimes all of these at oncehis sculptures are built from small, slow accumulations in which layering, texture, and the work of the hand are all visible. His exhibition You Have Did the Right Thing When You Put That Skylight In is on display at the Kunsthalle Basel from June 18August 23, 2015.

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Tomi Ungerer - All in One The Drawing Center 2015 ISBN 9780942324914 Acqn 24632 Pb 15x23cm 220pp 120ills 25col 23.95 Tomi Ungerer is best known as the award-winning author and illustrator of such beloved 1960s children's classics as The Three Robbers and Moon Man. But even as Ungerer was busy producing children's books for Harper & Row, he was making a name for himself with witty advertising campaigns for The New York Times and the Village Voice, satirical illustrations about the business world and brutal responses to racism, fascism and the Vietnam War. Ungerer also made graphic erotic drawings throughout his career. Beginning with his childhood drawings depicting the Nazi invasion of Strasbourg, through his work in New York and Canada, and concluding with Ungerer's most recent political and satirical campaigns as well as his illustrations for the 2013 children's book Fog Island, Tomi Ungerer: All in One reintroduces this wildly creative individual to a broad audience.

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Element 47 - The Art Collection Marquand Books Inc. 2015 ISBN 9780692222003 Acqn 24660 Hb 24x28cm 176pp 142ills 136col 45 In 2012, the Element 47 restaurant in Aspen, Colorado, decided to incorporate contemporary art into the dining experience. This book traces the design of the small locale, and provides in-depth interviews with the nine extraordinary participating artists on the topic of their processes and work.

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Hokusai MFA Publications 2015 ISBN 9780878468256 Acqn 25397 Hb 19x26cm 176pp 135col ills 23 Katsushika Hokusai remains one of Japan's most popular and influential artists. This handy volume presents the wide range of Hokusai's artistic production in terms of one of his most remarkable characteristics: his intellectual ingenuity. It explores the question of how the self-styled "Man Mad about Drawing" approached his subjectshow he depicted human bodies in motion, combined figures and landscapes, represented three-dimensional objects on two-dimensional surfaces and when he used the techniques of illusionism or adjusted reality for greater visual or emotional effect. Including some 50 stunning and unusual paintings, prints and drawings from the peerless Hokusai collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, this book is a treasure trove that introduces readers to a witty, wide-ranging and inimitably ingenious Hokusai. Known by at least 30 other names during his lifetime, Katsushika Hokusai (17601849) was an ukiyo-e painter and printmaker of the Edo period. In 1800, he published his two classic collections of landscapes, Famous Sights of the Eastern Capital and Eight Views of Edo. His influence extended to his Western contemporaries in nineteenth-century Europe, including Degas, Gauguin, Klimt, Franz Marc, August Macke, Manet and van Gogh.

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Common Wealth - Art by African Americans in the MFA Boston MFA Publications 2015 ISBN 9780878468157 Acqn 25398 Pb 34x28cm 256pp 145col ills 38.50 The story of African Americans in the visual arts has closely paralleled their social, political and economic aspirations over the last 400 years. From enslaved craftspersons to contemporary painters, printmakers and sculptors, African American artists have created a wealth of artistic expression that addresses common experiences, such as exclusion from dominant cultural institutions, and confronts questions of identity and community. This generously illustrated volume gathers more than 100 works of art in a variety of media by leading figures from the nineteenth century to the presentamong them, Henry Ossawa Tanner, Jacob Lawrence, Romare Bearden, Lois Mailou Jones, Gordon Parks, Wifredo Lam, Kara Walker, Glenn Ligon and Kerry James Marshallalongside many others who deserve to be better known, including artists from the African diaspora in South America and the Caribbean. Arranged thematically and featuring authoritative texts that provide historical and interpretive context, Common Wealth invites readers to share in a rich outpouring of art that meets shared challenges with individual creative responses. Edited with text by Lowery Stokes Sims. Text by Dennis Carr, Janet L. Comey, Elliot Bostwick Davis, Aiden Faust, Nonie Gadsden, Edmund Barry Gaither, Karen Haas, Erica E. Hirshler, Kelly Hays L'Ecuyer, Taylor L. Poulin, Karen Quinn.

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The Priest The Prince and The Pasha - The Life and Afterlife of an Ancient Egyptian Sculpture MFA Publications 2015 ISBN 9780878467969 Acqn 25399 Hb 15x21cm 208pp 50col ills 19 Sometime in the early fourth century BC, an unknown Egyptian master carved an exquisite portrait in dark-green stone. The statue that included this head of a priest, likely a citizen of ancient Memphis, may have been damaged when the Persians conquered Egypt in 343 BC, before it was buried in a temple complex. Its adventures were not over: after almost two millennia, the head was excavated by Auguste Mariette, a founding figure in French archaeology. Sent to France as part of a collection assembled for the inimitable Bonaparte prince known as Plon-Plon, it found a home in his faux Pompeian palace. After disappearing again, it resurfaced in the collection of American aesthete Edward Perry Warren, who donated it to the MFA, Boston. Along the way, this compelling, mysterious sculpture has reflected the evolving understanding of Egyptian art.

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Alhena Katsof, Dana Yahalomi - Solution 263: Double Agent Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956790935 Acqn 25403 Pb 11x18cm 128pp 20ills 10.95 Solution 263: Double Agent is a methodology, manual, and performance. The training manual, written by Alhena Katsof and Dana Yahalomi of Public Movement, contains two scripts as well as strategy guides and procedures. Readers will learn how to study and perform Debriefing Sessions, a series of one-to-one exchanges about the performative relationship between the state and its cultural institutions. Public Movement presents the debriefing format as a methodology for the transmission of information, turning research into action. At its root is the possibility that to activate art in the political field, an agent may be a double agent. The manual includes contributions by Karen Archey and Janto Schwitters, and Jill Magid. AGENT Most of the details about these paintings disappeared and in their place there is a vacuum, a culture of permissibility making strangers of us all. We began to focus our search on paintings we could find, which had, almost without exception, been carried across borders and cared for by the artists and their families. These paintings live in the Diaspora as exiled people do.

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Dan Graham, Michel Butor Conversation Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956791208 Acqn 25416 Pb 11x19cm 88pp 9 One day I went to interview Dan Graham about the legendary John Daniels Gallery in New York, which he ran from 1964 to 65. Right after I arrived, Dan started talking to me about Michel Butor and his fascination with the writers work back in the 1960s. I merely asked: And did you ever meet him? Dan answered: No. Some people wanted to introduce us, but it never happened. I asked: And would you like to meet him? And he said, with his very own smile: Of course I would. From the editors preface In the fall of 2013, Dan Graham and Mieko Meguro travelled with Donatien Grau to a town in the French Alps to meet Michel Butor, one of the foremost innovators of post-war literature. This is their conversation.

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Tal R - Chimney School Of Sculpture Victoria Miro Gallery 2015 ISBN 9780992709297 Acqn 25329 Pb 21x30ccm 84pp 37ills 25col 25 Tal R has often used the word 'kolbojnik', meaning leftovers in Hebrew, to describe his practice of sourcing and collecting a wide range of imagery, figurative and abstract, from high and low culture. Installed collectively, Tal Rs works can give the impression of a group show, as adherence to a single aesthetic style is eschewed in favour of a non-hierarchical exploration of material and form. This will be explored in this exhibition, which stages sculptures alongside furniture works and a series of paintings and works on paper. Text by Tom Morton.

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Fiona Rae Timothy Taylor Gallery 2015 ISBN 9780992930929 Acqn 25330 Pb 25x30cm 86pp 34col ills 15 This new series of greyscale paintings from 20142015 marks an exciting and significant development in Raes practice. Each paintings composition predicates a notional figure, whose existence is simultaneously manifested and denied in a theatre of direct performative mark-making. These are abstract compositions teetering on the edge of figuration, expressively rendered in black, white and tones of grey. Within this rigorous and strategic system of hue reduction and subtle balancing of tonal relationships, Rae has nevertheless created an intensely colourful and dynamic suite of paintings that embody both the tropes of high modernist idealism and the distanced manipulations of a Photoshop-inflected present.

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Alex Katz - Black Paintings Timothy Taylor Gallery 2015 ISBN 9780992930912 Acqn 25333 Hb 26x32cm 36pp 14col ills 18.75 Katzs paintings are at once figurative and abstract his larger-than-life portraits and landscapes often looming large over their observers. However, in these new works, rather than filling each frame, the subjects are assigned to the margins with black space occupying most of each canvas. What is striking about these new portraits is both the depth and diversity of the black paint contrasted against the dramatically studio-lit figures. Presented within a widescreen format, the figures become both cinematic and theatrical, resembling performers caught mid-motion by a spotlight. Yet even within this framework, each painting still maintains Katzs signature cool sensibility.

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