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Cruzamentos - Contemporary Art In Brazil Wexner Center For The Arts 2014 ISBN 9781881390534 Acqn 23945 Hb 25x32cm 224pp 166ills 140col 42 Cruzamentos features 35 artists, working across all genres, who reflect the vibrant artistic scene currently flourishing throughout Brazil. Many of the artists are emerging or mid-career and, with very few exceptions, have not been widely (or ever) exhibited in the US. Cruzamentos translates literally as crossings or intersections, but in Brazil it also refers to the mixing of cultures that renders the country so distinctive. Cruzamentos extends that metaphor to contemporary art, focusing on artists whose practices are as varied as the country itself. Although a handful of post-war Brazilian visual artists have received recognition in North America, the astonishingly high level of artistic production throughout Brazil over recent decades remains significantly overlooked beyond its borders. Among the artists included are Mrcio Almeida, Jonathas de Andrade, Laura Belm, Tatiana Blass, Jos Damasceno, Cia de Foto, Dias & Riedweg, Marcius Galan, Fernanda Gomes, Jac Leirner, Cristiano Lenhardt, Cinthia Marcelle, Beatriz Milhazes, Regina Silveira, Adriana Varejo and Marcia Xavier.

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28 Chinese Rubell Family Collection 2014 ISBN 9780991177004 Acqn 23637 Pb 23x31cm 260pp 149col ills 28.50 Held at the Rubell Family Collection in Miami, Florida, 28 Chinese was the culmination of six research trips that the Rubell family made to China between 2001 and 2012, over the course of which they visited more than 100 studios. This publication gathers pieces by 28 artists working across several generations and in a myriad of themes, offering a broad survey of the Chinese art world today. The Chinese-English bilingual volume includes works and writings by artists such Ai Weiwei, Chen Wei, Chen Zhou, Fang Lu, He Xiangyu, Hu Qingyan, Hu Xiangqian, Huang Ran, Huang Yong Ping, Lan Zhenghui, Li Ming, Li Ran, Li Shurui, Li Songsong, Li Zhanyang, Liu Chuang, Liu Wei, Qiu Zhijie, Shang Yixin, Wang Guangle, Wang Xingwei, Xie Molin, Xu Zhen, Yan Xing, Zhang Enli, Zhang Huan, Zhao Yao and Zhu Jinshi. Interview by Juan Roselione-Valadez with Don and Mera Rubell. Text by Ai Weiwei, Chen Wei, Chen Zhou, Fang Lu, He Xiangyu, Hu Qingyan, Hu Xiangqian, Huang Ran, Huang Yong Ping, Lan Zhenghui, Li Ming, Li Ran, Li Shurui, Li Songsong, Li Zhanyang, Liu Chuang, Liu Wei, Qiu Zhijie, Shang Yixin, Wang Guangle, Wang Xingwei, Xie Molin, Xu Zhen, Yan Xing, Zhang Enli, Zhang Huan, Zhao Yao, Zhu Jinshi.

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Cluster Dialectionary Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790607 Acqn 23863 Pb 11x15cm 304pp 17.95 Cluster: Dialectionary looks at the role of visual arts organisations in relation to the broader social and political contexts that they operate within, drawing from the work of the eight members of the network Cluster. The book contains commissioned essays, conversations, and a series of keywords that are drawn from the practices and experiences of the people who work at, visit, and live with the organisations. Alongside contributions from the Cluster organisations, commissioned writers include Can, Altay, Ayreen Anastas and Rene Gabri, Ricardo Basbaum, Celine Condorelli, Mark Fisher and Nina Montmann, Rebecca Gordon-Nesbitt, Elaine W.HO, Annette Krauss, Mattin, Marion von Osten, Dr Andrea Phillips, Dimintrina Sevova, Simon Sheikh, and Steven ten Thije.

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A Book Of Glyphs Granary Books 2014 ISBN 9781887123815 Acqn 23893 Pb 10x15cm 168pp 73col ills 17.50 A Book of Glyphs is a facsimile reproduction of legendary author, musician and Fugs founder Ed Sanders first book-length work of glyphs, which he created in Florence, Italy in 2008, using coloured pencils and a small sketchbook. Though each piece stands on its own, collectively the 72 glyphs convey, with characteristic humility and humour, many of the themes explored by Sanders over his long and diverse career, including history, myth, activism and pacifism. The glyph--a drawing that is charged with literary, emotional, historical or mythic and poetic intensity--has been a dimension of Sanders poetry since 1962; he cites Zen rock gardens, the markings on Egyptian tombs and the typographic designs in John Cages writings as influences in the development of the form. Sanders name for the original notebook is Smile-Book of Grace-Joy, which aptly describes the range of concerns explored in this important and joyful work.

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James Drake 1242 Radius Books 2014 ISBN 9781934435823 Acqn 23944 Hb 39x32cm 320pp 1280col ills 59.50 Three years ago, the artist James Drake (born 1946) began the ambitious project of creating 1,242 drawings that would trace and reference all of the developments of his multifaceted career. Known as both a sculptor and video artist, Drake has always considered draftsmanship to be a key to his process, and this body of drawings does not disappoint. It is both a fascinating tour of Drake's creative thinking and a testament to the simple power of graphite and ink on paper in the hands of a master of the craft. The volume is published to accompany a touring exhibition (titled The Anatomy of Drawing and Space) opening at The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego in July 2014--the largest show of Drake's work to date. Interview by Cormac McCarthy.

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Ruffneck Constructivists ICA Philadelphia 2014 ISBN 9780985337742 Acqn 23946 Pb 22x26cm 96pp 81col ills 17.50 Ruffneck Constructivists, published to accompany a group exhibition curated by artist Kara Walker, brings together 11 international artists in order to define a contemporary manifesto of urban architecture and change. Inspired by both the Russian Constructivists and McLyte's 1993 hit song "Ruffneck," the phrase "Ruffneck Constructivists" evokes thuggishness as an expression of abjection. The book features sculpture, photography and video by the artists Dineo Seshee Bopape, Kendell Geers, Arthur Jafa, Jennie C. Jones, Kahlil Joseph, Deana Lawson, Rodney McMillian, Pope.L, Tim Portlock, Lior Shvil and Szymon Tomsia. As Walker states, "Ruffneck Constructivists are defiant shapers of environments. Whatever their gender affiliation, Ruffnecks go hard when all around them they see weakness, softness, compromise, sermonizing, poverty, and lack; they don't change the world through conscious actions, instead they build themselves into the world one assault at a time."

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Jamie Wyeth MFA Publications 2014 ISBN 9780878468140 Acqn 23948 Hb 27x24cm 208pp 143col ills 35 As famous, and sometimes famously controversial, as the three generations of Wyeth artists have been, the artistic vision of Jamie Wyeth (born 1946), considered separate from the context of his family, remains surprisingly little known. This retrospective, the first in more than 30 years, presents a full range of work from his earliest virtuoso portraits to his most current mysteriously symbolic seascapes. Jamie Wyeths early exposure to painting in his father Andrew Wyeths studio, his youthful immersion in Andy Warhols Factory and the New York art scene of the 1970s, and his continuing dialogue with artists past and present combine with his artistic imagination to create an elusive, hybrid form of realism that ranges from sharply observed portraits of historical and cultural figures, to personified animals and animated landscapes, to a vision of an inferno set on Maines Monhegan Island. By exploring the themes and subjects central to Jamie Wyeths vision, the authors place him in the context of his own distinguished artistic heritage as well as the long tradition of American realist painting and its contemporary revival. The more than 100 paintings, works on paper and multimedia assemblages lavishly reproduced in this book invite us to explore the world of a prodigiously gifted, adamantly individualistic American artist.

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Per/Form How To Do Things With(out) Words Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790638 Acqn 23969 Pb 22x26cm 352pp 151ills 29col 14.50 Contributions by Jean-Pierre Cometti, Amelia Jones, Antonio Negri, Chantal Pontbriand, Jos Antonio Sanchez; visual essays by Mathieu Abonnenc, Jennifer Allora & Guillermo Calzadilla, Brad Butler & Karen Mirza, Genevive Cadieux, Adrian Dan, Angela Detanico & Rafael Lain, Carole Douillard, Cevdet Erek, Kken Ergun, Esther Ferrer, Chiara Fumai, Simon Fujiwara, Ryan Gander, Dora Garca, Camille Henrot, Sandra Johnston, Latifa Labisi, La Ribot, Ines Lechleitner, Franck Leibovici, Cristina Lucas, Haroon Mirza, Roman Ondak, Falke Pisano, Chlo Quenum, Pedro Reyes, Julio Sarmento, Ulla von Brandenburg, Carey Young, Hctor Zamora Performativity explores the in-between space when bodies or objects are left to perform. The fact that we are living more and more in an immaterial world, dominated by mediatization (which some call spectacle), the impact of globalization, the increasing tendency to think of politics as biopoliticsthese different factors enhance performance over materiality, or object making. Per/Form investigates the process of this enhancementhow to work through form, and how to let form speak for itself. The meaning of performance and performativity today are examined here through different modes of display: a book, an exhibition, and its three Intensity Days of performative situations. This book compliments these events and the sixteen installations of the exhibition curated by Chantal Pontbriand, PER/FORM_How to Do Things with[out] Words, with theoretical texts and visual essays by thirty participating artists, including musical scores, drawings, documents, and photographs, which all work together to generate various perspectives on the subject through different theoretical premises (politics, experience, immateriality, action, realization, manifestation) and also through the artists many diverging perspectives.

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Victor Burgin - Five Pieces For Projection Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790508 Acqn 23970 Pb 29x22cm 148pp 91ills 77col 19.50 How can the suggestive power of images be activated? What effect is generated by the conjunction of images and text? How do the images of our own memory interrelate with images from cinema or art history? Victor Burgins Five Pieces for Projection introduces recent projection work from 2010 to 2014, and coincides with the artist and writers retrospective exhibition Forms of Telling at the Museum fr Gegenwartskunst Siegen. Each of the five projections presented in the catalogue is accompanied by a text by Burgin that discusses how the work emerges from a personal experience, a preoccupation with a building, a place, or a Romantic painting. Like a visual diary, a fictional narrative, or historical document, Burgins projection work takes us on a journey to different places and situations. This publication too reads like a film or a moving storyline where real and imaginary images are activated and intertwined through the use of photographs, paintings, and brief textual recollections. Hanne Lorecks detailed essay discusses some of Burgins digital image projections, such as Dovedale (2010) and Mirror Lake (2013), considering the visual-textual effect of Burgins work and the atmospheres created that trigger numerous associations in the viewerof a book, a film, or a personal memory. Essay by Hanne Loreck and afterword by Eva Schmidt

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Tadashi Kawamata - Collective Folie + DVD a.p.r.e.s 2013 ISBN 9791091490030 Acqn 23750 Pb 15x21cm 80pp 91ills 71col 20.00 The Collective Folie work, the first tower designed by Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata in Paris, dreamed up for the Parc de la Villette, has evolved throughout many workshops attended by high school and university students, volunteers and Kawamata. The tower dialogues with Bernard Tschumis Folies and took shape as impromptu accumulations and arrangements emerged through working and brainstorming with Tadashi Kawamata. The load-bearing structure was gradually clothed with pieces of recycled wood. This DVD-book contains the film by Gilles Coudert and an edition showing the construction and deconstruction process in Tadashi Kawamatas collaborative project. The film tells the story of this adventure through the words of the various participants and reactions from the workshop members who contributed to this collective folly. The texts by art critic Emmanuelle Lequeux analyse and discuss the stakes involved in such a proposal. Echoing this installation in Paris, the book also provides perspective on ten other tower projects Kawamata has built throughout the world.

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Kerstin Von Gabain - Raver Geht Ins Archaeologisches. Secession Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957630131 Acqn 23840 Pb 23x31cm 64pp 46ills 12.95 Creating a performative interplay with sculpture, translating this interplay into the medium of photography, as well as bridging classical antiquity and contemporary culture in an unorthodox manner are all key aspects of the series of works which von Gabain has produced for her show in the Secession. The dialogue between sculptures and photographs engenders a spatial situation whose ambiguous nature is further heightened by almost casual interventions including a sound installation in the staircase (in collaboration with Johann Neumeister) and objects discreetly placed here and there as though at random. The blending of high and low, of black-tie and popular culture, is an integral part of von Gabains art; it is not so much a critique of classificatory models as rather a self-evident result of daily practice and the reality of individual experiences.

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Paul Thek In Process - Commentaries On, Of An Exhibition Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957630988 Acqn 23841 Pb 15x21cm 212pp 35ill 15.95 Paul Thek in Process. Commentaries on/of an Exhibition includes all research material that was made public in different formats in the exhibition series Paul Thek in Process. The exhibition was born out of the desire to memorialise Paul Thek's spatial work that the artist realised in Europe in the 1970s and to make it possible to experience it in a larger historic context. Thanks to the historic distance, the latter is possible today. As exhibition, documentation and inscenation at the same time, the project not only traced the tracks of a lost artistic practice, but also questioned the importance of ephemeral material in exhibition contexts, the boundaries of the artwork, the exhibition and institution history, the reception and today's practice of re-inscenation. The publication is conceived as a work list, a biography and a history of objects, an image documentation of the exhibitions and, last but not least, as a self-critical curatorial review on this past project. Furthermore, it contains unpublished images of the collaboration between Paul Thek and Robert Wilson.

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Susanne Huth - Global Forwarding Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957630339 Acqn 23842 Pb 22x29cm 72pp 56ills 52col 21.95 Cheap business cards sent Susanne Huth on the trail of a flourishing international trade: selling cars in upcoming cities in West Africa, cars that would be worth next to nothing on the German second-hand car market. Without committing herself to a chronological documentation, Susanne Huth's photographs taken at the shipping location in Hamburg give us an exact picture of the transfer procedure: the shabby slab building that houses the logistics firm, the transport lists and route maps, the rows of cars against a backdrop of loading cranes, the view through the car window of the interior that is used as an additional hold to accommodate more goods. (Susanne Holschbach)

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Little Warsaw - Naming You. Secession Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957630124 Acqn 23843 Pb 23x31cm 112pp 30ills 15col 15.50 The two Hungarian artists Andrs Glik and Blint Havas, who live in Budapest, adopted the pseudonym Little Warsaw in 1999, when they started creating joint projects. In films, performance pieces, and installations, they examine history and its interpretation, collective consciousness and established visual languages and traditions. Much of their work grows out of an analysis of the ways society engages with its history; the artists own role as a producer of images, objects, or situations that are embedded in, or reflections of, a (historical) context is up for debate as well, as is the perception of works of art as a dynamic process subject to change as social and political realities shift. One preferred strategy Little Warsaw employ in order to generate (renewed) awareness for what has been forgotten or goes unnoticed is the re-contextualization or contextual displacement of monuments and artefacts, primarily by way of spatialand hence contextualtransfer. The temporary interventions are carefully designed to leave the physical integrity of the objects intact. For their exhibition Naming You at the Secession, Little Warsaw have written a novel of the same title that supplies the conceptual backdrop for their show and which is published in this artists book.

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Heinrich Dunst - Da. Secession Revolver Publishing by VVV 2014 ISBN 9783957630117 Acqn 23844 Pb 21x28cm 112pp 53ills 52col 18.95 Dunsts conceptual approach is rooted both in the work of artists like Marcel Broodthaers who scrutinize the systems underlying the perception of words and images, and in the Viennese scene of the 1980s and its characteristic ambition to extend abstract painting into the exhibition space. He lends these complex issues fresh interest by developing forms into correlations and pointedly questioning the seemingly unequivocal meaning of the elements through variation, superimposition, and changes of direction. In the Secession, the D and A, cut from pink foam material, lean at a wall that cuts diagonally through the main hall and functions as a bearer of a hypertext line. What happens if the letter objects are seen or read in their spatial context, if they develop themselves to a da-vor (there, in front of), da-neben (there, beside), da-bei (there, at), or da-hinter (there, behind)? This situation is further intensified by repeating the letters on the back of the wall, representing an alienation and reformulation of the front. There too, they are positioned in the middle so as to constitute a spatial axis. Even though they cannot actually be seen together, they move together in the memory. But how does the meaning of the DA change by reviving what has been written: do the letters become a hesitant stutter, or DADA, and thus refer to older forms of calling art into question? Deliberately and with great lightness of touch, Heinrich Dunst questions the unambiguousness of the references invoked. His sensing of semantic attributions oscillates between material and conceptual, between language and image, in order ultimately to reveal the preconditions inherent in art.

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Jose Maria Sicilia Fukushima Turner 2013 ISBN 9788415832706 Acqn 23032 Pb 19x26cm 244pp 130ills 120col 37.95 This catalogue for an exhibition organised at the Fukushima Prefectural Museum of Art presents the most recent output by Jos Mara Sicilia. Through a series of works using different techniques, materials and formats, Sicilia seeks a way to express the events which occurred in the Tohoku region due to the 2011 earthquake and tsunami. The artist visited the affected areas several times, and the results of this investigation are brought together in a selection of works including sculptures, paintings, sound-based pieces, documentary and artworks made by local children at workshops. With text contributions by Antonio Lucas, Takashi Sasaki and the artist himself.

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Change - 19 Key Essays On How Internet Is Changing Our Lives Turner 2014 ISBN 9788415832454 Acqn 23581 Pb 20x26cm 464pp 15ills 10col 22.50 Addressing the single most powerful agent of change in recent history, this highly topical publication takes a close look at the rapid development and large-scale adoption of the Internet. A young technology still undergoing rapid change, it is also the key catalyst of the most extensive technological revolution in history. This collection of essays by leading experts in the field addresses the phenomenons various aspects, benefits and problematic issues, from the question of who owns big data, the politics of online debate and the Webs impact on global society, to future education and workflow, cyber attacks, the music industry, peer production and cultural consumption.

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Ivan Navarro - Tierra De Nadie Caja De Burgos 2013 ISBN 9788492637362 Acqn 23588 Hb 28x23cm 56pp 84ills 74col 16.95 Chilean artist Ivn Navarro uses fluorescent light bulbs, mirrors and other materials to construct objects and installations that can be overtly political, socially relevant, or more generally invoke international and modern art, from American Minimalism and Pop Art to references to modernist design. Viewers often lose themselves in the seemingly infinite spaces he creates, which are only suggestive of what lies beyond. A variety of Navorros works are depicted in this book, from furniture objects and interactions with the city to abyssal holes and doorways. Concept sketches, construction diagrams and a text by Tatiana Flores further our understanding of Navarros captivating oeuvre.

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Meiro Koizumi - Stories Of A Beautiful Country Caja De Burgos 2013 ISBN 9788492637669 Acqn 23589 Hb 17x24cm 56pp 64ills 44col 16.95 Japanese video and performance artist Meiro Koizumi often involves himself, his performers and the viewer in choreographed emotional manipulations, producing works that deal with power dynamics and investigate questions of political and psychological control. Deftly straddling the uncomfortable and nebulous line between cruelty and comedy, the scope of his work spans from absurdist takes on national humiliation and post-war guilt and a fascination with the dynamics of melodrama to darker psychosexual explorations of himself. Reuben Keehans insightful text details Koizumis background and creative evolution, and a conversation with Sarah Suzuki furthers our grasp.

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Barockt Art And Theory Publishing 2014 ISBN 9789198157314 Acqn 23739 Hb 18x24cm 112pp 55ills 51col 17.50 A baroque sensibility finds its expression in different ways in the art of our times. By focusing on certain currents in contemporary art that coincide with the overarching artistic themes of the seventeenth century, this book intends to show the strong links between artists through time. In some cases the coherence between the artworks is primarily visual, in others there is a thematic connection. Several of the contemporary artists can hardly be labelled baroque in the traditional sense. What unites their work is the strong visual expression and interest in questions regarding the human condition, often from a postcolonial perspective.

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Katja Aglert: Winter Event Antifreeze Art And Theory Publishing 2014 ISBN 9789198157321 Acqn 23740 Pb 12x18cm 256pp 200col ills 25 In 2009, the Swedish artist Katja Aglert embarked on an artistic residency research trip to the Arctic. This became the starting point for her project 'Winter Event - antifreeze'. Five years on it has, using repetition and reiteration as its main artistic methods, turned into a complex multi-branched structure, of which this book forms a part and constitutes the finale. The project proposes a different narrative of the Arctic, dissects clichs of romanticism and mysticism related to this context, and deconstructs heroism and so-called discoveries from a norm-critical perspective. The book is the result of a collaboration between Aglert and the curator Stefanie Hessler and includes documentary images by the artist, reference material from a variety of other resources, an extensive introductory essay by Hessler, as well as specially commissioned texts by renowned theorists Lisa Bloom and Sabeth Buchmann.

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Katinka Bock Pazifik ROMA Publications 2014 ISBN 9789491843150 Acqn 23742 Pb 21x30cm 144pp 140ills 90col 31.50 Published to accompany thirteen sculptures and installations by Katinka Bock at the Henry Art Gallery in Seattle, six of which were specially commissioned, this book presents the pieces formally, but also explores the context of their creation. Using natural and found materials, such as clay, wood, stones, sheet metal, steel beams and urban detritus, Bocks work is multi-layered, delving into site, origin and process to uncover spatial, historical and archaeological inquiries. Meditations on the processes that shape materials oxidation, exposure, stress, heat, erosion they are an encounter with transformation. With texts by Luis Croquer, Thomas Clerc and Marie-Ccile Burnichon.

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Munch Through New Eyes Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing 2013 ISBN 9789187543050 Acqn 23792 Hb 22x24cm 160pp 154ills 140col 41 This book brings new research on one of the worlds greatest expressive artists. The book reveals new material on several paintings, with astonishing conclusions. Through different approaches the four authors let us see Edvard Munch through new eyes. An important part of the book throws new light on Munchs position towards religion and philosophy emphasising the artists strong relation to the Danish philosopher Soren Kierkegaard. This is probably the most unusual book ever on Munchs life and work.

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Francis Alys Pacing Ivory Press 2014 ISBN 9788494146268 Acqn 23816 Pb 11x15cm 94pp 2ills 1col 21.95 The work of Francis Als finds place in the interdisciplinary space of art, architecture, and social practice. In Pacing, the Belgian artist drew invisible figures through the public space of post-9/11 Manhattan as a form of imaginary architecture. Although the act itself has no goal, this mode of movement becomes a way in which Als conveys the acts physicality by defining specific tasks that also have certain historical resonances and cultural implications. To use ones steps as a measurement to establish a route between two points is a sentimental mapping of sorts, an intuitive act embodying our representation of the world in relation to sensorial experience.

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Focus Beijing - Collection De Heus Zomer Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 2014 ISBN 9789069182797 Acqn 23860 Hb 23x28cm 176pp 85ills 75col 39.50 'Focus Beijing' is an overwhelming exhibition of Chinese art made over the past fifteen years in the Chinese capital. The collectors Henk and Victoria de Heus-Zomer have kept a close eye on all the developments since 1998 and, during their visits to the studios and homes of the artists in Beijing, have amassed a diverse collection that has no equals. Together with these collectors, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has created an exhibition that for many western art lovers should be their first close encounter with many of the exhibited artists.

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Paul Noble Nobson Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 2014 ISBN 9789069182773 Acqn 23862 Pb 17x24cm 336pp 330ills 30col 31.50 The large-scale, surrealistic and highly detailed pencil drawings for which artist Paul Noble is known often depict a strange metropolis he calls Nobson Newtown. Inspired by the flat, grey skies of Whitley Bay and its surroundings, on the northern coast of Great Britain where Noble grew up, this fantastic realm of ruins, countless stones and hidden deities has been evolving for more than seventeen years. It is a place of extremes, an expression of the cartoonish delirium springing from the mind of this 50-year-old kid. The book is published on the occasion of an exhibition of works featuring Nobson at the Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, assembled like a puzzle by Noble himself.

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Hiraki Sawa Hako Caja De Burgos 2014 no ISBN Acqn 23981 Hb 27x24cm 128pp 180ills 150col 16.95 Published on the occasion of Hiraki Sawas first large-scale exhibition in Spain, at Caja de Burgos, this book presents a mesmerising series of images, positioned on opposing pages with three images on each page. Sawa, known for videos and animations that create a strange and beautiful world where familiar objects perform incredible feats, delves into a new and fascinating territory in Hako. The images are stills from six films that inflect on one another in a subtly shifting and highly structured manner, triggering memories and associations. Jennifer Thatchers text reveals how an exploration of how closely nature and artifice coexist in our experience of the world is at its core.

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Micha Laury 1967-2013 Le Gac Press 2014 ISBN 9782364090224 Acqn 23977 Hb 24x30cm 368pp 370ills 350col 51 Israeli-born visual artist and sculptor Micha Laury has lived and worked in Paris since 1974, though he began working as a self-taught artist at a kibbutz in 1967. The profound experiences in Israel during the first two decades of his life have proven fundamental to his multidisciplinary artistic development and critical stance towards practices in contemporary art, most notably in breaking with conventions governing representation of the human figure and its familiar morphology. This dense, exhaustive and beautifully laid out monograph presents countless examples spanning Laurys entire oeuvre, and includes critical essays by Anne Tronche, Galia Bar Or and Hans-Gnter Golinski.

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Takayuki Yamamto - Most Wanted 4478Zine 2014 ISBN 9789491047046 Acqn 23978 Pb 22x30cm 72pp 36col ills 19.95 Japanese artist Takayuki Yamamoto gathered drawings by elementary school students of the most wanted criminals, offering us an insightful and occasionally humorous glimpse into the lively imaginations of the younger generation. From characters that could appear in comic books, unshaven thugs, pirates and ninjas, to pop stars, athletes and even Santa Claus, the interpretations of the theme are as varied as they are colourfully illustrated. Designed by Erik van der Weijde, the book is presented as a spiral-bound childrens sketchpad.

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The Royal Art Lodge Caja De Burgos 2014 ISBN 9788496421875 Acqn 23979 Hb 28x24cm 62pp 48col ills 16.95 Published on the occasion of the first major exhibition of work by the Royal Art Lodge to be organised in Spain, at the Arts Caja de Burgos, this book presents a selection of the groups most relevant and complex works. The Royal Art Lodge, conceived in Winnipeg in 1996, counts Michael Dumontier, Marcel Dzama and Neil Farber as its members. The groups current work is based in painting and involves a system of developing works in successive stages as they are passed from one artist to the next, resulting in a random, collaborative association of images and texts, wherein natural elements like plants and animals play a prominent role. With an essay by Guido Bartorelli.

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