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Specialism
Open Editions 2016 ISBN 9780949004017 Acqn 25971
Pb 12x22cm 18
It is widely assumed that everyone is interdisciplinary nowadays, that we all work in the
intersections of specialised disciplines. But if being flexible, multi-skilled and polymathic are the
prerequisites to survival in todays world, why do educators and art marketeers still find it
imperative to maintain conditions of production that advocate specialist forms? The aim of this
new anthology in the Occasional Table series is to critically reflect upon the role of specialism in
art and society and to understand better how the claim of those who seek to transcend the
parameters of specialisation contrasts to others who maintain that deep levels of achievement
can only be attained within highly focused methods and forms.
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John Fahey - Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You + 5 DVDS

Dust-to-Digital 2016 ISBN 9780997060201 Acqn 25869
Hb 31x31cm 88pp 136ills 48
More than ten years in the making, this critically acclaimed box setoriginally published in
2011features the earliest recordings of one of the most influential guitarists of the 1960s and
70s, blues and folk pioneer John Fahey (19392001). The five CDs feature 115 tracks, most of
which are available on CD for the first time, remastered from Fonotone owner Joe Bussards reelto-reel tapes to achieve pristine sound quality. The CD set is accompanied by a bookthe first
ever written on Faheyfeaturing a host of essays as well as a poem by Byron Coley and
Douglas Blazeks 1967 interview with Fahey, published here for the first time. Focusing on a
critical early period in Faheys career, John Fahey: Your Past Comes Back to Haunt You is a
challenging, engrossing introduction to a figure called the folk guitar-playing equivalent of William
Burroughs or Bukowski by Pete Townshend.

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Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line
Dust-to-Digital 2016 ISBN 9780981734279 Acqn 25871
Hb 17x24cm 256pp 82ills 50col 32
Ola Belle Reed (19162002) was one of the all-time greatest performers of Appalachian music.
Ola Belle Reed and Southern Mountain Music on the Mason-Dixon Line combines Reeds 1960s
recordings, some of the earliest she ever made and available here for the very first time, with
modern-day field recordings of her descendants and those she inspired within her Appalachian
community. This deluxe edition highlights Reeds deep repertoirefolk ballads, minstrel songs,
country standards and originalsand traces the impact her music made and is still making today.
The two-CD set is accompanied by a luxurious publication tracing Reeds influence and the
folklorists who have tracked it: Henry Glassie, who first heard Alex and Ola Belle play in 1966 at
the back of the Campbells Corner general store, and Clifford R. Murphy, who, four decades later,
recorded Reeds modern successors in Maryland, Delaware and Pennsylvania.

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Eastern Bloc Songs - A Sampler

Nottingham Contemporary 2016 ISBN 9781907421099 Acqn 25970
Pb 14x21cm 27pp 12ills 5
This publication has been produced to accompany the display of record sleeves presented as
part of Behold! The Markets Shall Erase Our History! in the Small Collections Room at
Nottingham Contemporary (January 16 to March 27, 2016). The eleven brought together here
offer a small sampling from the archives of Eastern Bloc Songs, a project exploring the range of
popular music and songs released on the official state record labels of Poland, Czechoslovakia,
Hungary and other ex-Communist states during a period that spans the years between the late
1950s and early 1980s. Artists represented in this sampler include Filipinki, Klan, Marta Kubiov,
Czesaw Niemen, Hana Zagorov, Petr Ulrych, Josipa Lisac, Sarolta Zalatnay and Izabela
Trojanowska.

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Monuments Should Not Be Trusted

Nottingham Contemporary 2016 ISBN 9781907421082 Acqn 25969
Hb 18x25cm 202pp 123ills 90col 23.00
Monuments Should Not Be Trusted brings together over 30 leading artists and groups from the
golden years of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia - the period between the early
1960s and the mid 1980s. Over 100 artworks and artefacts illuminate the key contradictions of
this single party state built after WWII on socialist principles, yet immersed in utopian
consumerism. This is the first time in the UK that the art of this period, which has attracted
increasing attention, has been shown in the context of the social, economic and political
conditions that gave rise to it. It draws on new and innovative research on this period, and
features many of its most celebrated artists.
Artists and groups include Marina Abramovi, Zemira Alajbegovi (Gledalie FV), Lutz Becker,
August ernigoj, Goran Djordjevi, Vera Fischer, Karpo Godina, Tomislav Gotovac, Sanja
Ivekovi, Katalin Ladik, Lojze Logar, Duan Makavejev, Goranka Mati, Slavko Matkovi,
NSK/New Collectivism, OHO, Duan Otasevi, Zoran Popovi, Bogdanka Poznanovi, Mladen
Stilinovi, Sven Stilinovi, Lazar Stojanovi, Raa Todosijevi, Milica Tomi, Goran Trbuljak,
elimir ilnik. Bands featured in the exhibition include VIS Idoli, Disciplina Kime, arlo Akrobata,
Oliver Mandi, Laboratorija Zvuka, Toibabe, Laibach, Borghesia, Ekatarina Velika.
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Friedrich Vordemberge-Gildewart - Paintings Collages And Drawings 1919-1962

Annely Juda Fine Art 2016 ISBN 9789046216903 Acqn 25958
Pb 22x24cm 64pp 53ills 51col 20
Vordemberge-Gildewart was one of the leading abstract artists of the 20th century and was a
member of the De Stijl group. He was at the forefront of the visual arts at the time as well as
being a typographer and graphic designer. Vordemberge-Gildewart stands at the crossroads
between the Russian Constructivism of El Lissitzky, sharing its dynamic pictorial structure, and
the ideas of the Dutch De Stijl movement propagated by Van Doesburg.

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Kathryn Andrews - Run for President

Museum Of Contemporary Art Chicago 2015 ISBN 9780996211611 Acqn 25258
Pb 20x26cm 116pp 75ills 70col 28.95
Occasioned by the artist's first US solo museum exhibition, Run for President examines the
sculptures that have made Kathryn Andrews (born 1973) one of the crucial voices of her artistic
generation. Through her shiny, colorful sculptures, which literally reflect the viewer and the
exhibition environs, Andrews examines how image producers--artists, corporations, Hollywood
studios and politicians--employ visual cues and material packaging to elicit desire. In Run for
President, Andrews situates her sculptures against a conceptual backdrop of a fictitious
presidential election. The narrative encompasses campaigning, Election Day, sitting in office and
the end of presidency, charting the rise and fall of the president--a metaphorical double for the
artist and the viewer.

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Wardell Milan
Osmos 2015 ISBN 9780986166518 Acqn 25263
Hb 19x27cm 144pp 95ills 75col 49.95
Wardell Milan (born 1978) earned a BFA in photography and painting in 2001 at the University of
Tennessee, Knoxville, and his MFA at Yale University in 2004. Right out of school in 2005 Milan
emerged and was included in institutional exhibitions such as Greater New York at P.S.1
Contemporary Art Center and Frequency at The Studio Museum in Harlem. Milan has continued
to challenge conventions of medium and message in his deeply personal and prolific work, which
has been exhibited internationally.
His work has been collected by The Studio Museum in Harlem; Denver Art Museum; Museum of
Modern Art, New York; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Hessel Museum of Art, Bard
College, and Art Institute of Chicago. Milan is represented by David Nolan Gallery in New York.
This is Milan's first monograph covering the breadth of his studio and exhibition practice over the
course of the past decade and leading into the next.

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Prix de Rome 2015 - Visual Arts

nai010 publishers 2015 ISBN 9789462082526 Acqn 25355
Pb 20x27cm 96pp 60ills 50col 13.50
The publication Prix de Rome 2015 presents the work of four talented young artists who have
been selected by an international jury for the shortlist of the Prix de Rome Beeldende Kunst
2015. The nominees are Foundland, Hedwig Houben, Christian Nyampeta and Magali Reus. The
jury was impressed by their rich and diverse oeuvres, as well as by their innovative and
experimental attitude. Despite the overlap in topics and research, each of the nominees works
from a unique position and approach.

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Luc Tuymans - Birds Of A Feather

Ludion 2015 ISBN 9789491819391 Acqn 25923
Hb 22x27cm 112pp 35ills 25col 26.50
This book, published in conjunction with an exhibition at Edinburghs Talbot Rice Gallery, features
the Belgian artists most recent work. Here, his fascination with Scottish light and its thinkers, who
believed in the perfectibility of man, becomes apparent. Inspired by a visit to the art collection of
the University of Edinburgh, Tuymans realised three small portraits of Scottish philosophers.
Besides the theme of light, the notion of impending horror also plays a role in a monumental dark
work, The Shore, which refers to Goya, and in the portrait of Issei Sagawa, a cannibalistic
murderer. Includes a short story by British author Will Self and an essay by art historian Collin
Chinnery.

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Barbara Bloom Gifts

Ludion 2015 ISBN 9789491819490 Acqn 25924
Hb 16x24cm 112pp 83ills 75col 35.50
Barbara Bloom explores the nature of gifts in relation to aspects such as wrapping, covering and
uncovering, pleasure, secrets, and generosity. Through an exploration of art historical and
cultural practices, she reveals the complicated relationship we have with the concept of the gift,
considering how these traded objects take on meaning and serve as symbols of our affections,
but also anticipate a sense of loss. The gift is a means of apology, making advances, gaining
trust, and providing assurances. Through gift-giving, we show a version of intimacy, love, and
desire that is deliberate and controlled, but also often more meaningful than intended. With texts
by Susan Tallman.

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Thomas Campbell - Slide Your Brains Out

Um Yeah Press 2015 ISBN 9780985361105 Acqn 25952
Hb 17x23cm 176pp col ills 32.95
Growing up in southern California, artist, photographer and filmmaker Thomas Campbell was
raised on the DIY aesthetic of the early 1980s skateboarding culture. Photography tips came from
like-minded fellow photographers employed in the skateboarding press rather than from school,
and art history was a matter of osmosis, not academia. In the mid-1990s, Campbell moved to
New York and immersed himself in the scene around Alleged Gallery, where he quickly
befriended and exhibited among the generation of artists who would star in the landmark 2004
exhibition Beautiful Losers. Campbell began documenting surfing culture in the late 1990s
through both photography and film. His first feature-length film, The Seedling, came out in 1999,
followed by Sprout in 2004 and The Present in 2009. Campbells surfing photography has long
been admired among by fellow surfers for its lack of gloss finish; unlike most, he eschews the
familiar fish-eye shots or tightly cropped land angles. The first of ten projected volumes in Um
Yeah Press surf photobook series, Slide Your Brains Out compiles work from the past 15 years.
Often lo-fi and gritty, other times lush and saturated, Campbells compositions--which include
portraits and action shots of some of the best surfers in the world--are always surprising and full
of emotion, from melancholy to exultation.

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Sterling Ruby CHRON

Karma 2015 ISBN 9781938560965 Acqn 25517
Hb 19x23cm 496pp 450col ills 42
CHRON is an approximately 500-page publication that collects over 300 collages and works on
paper from a decade of Los Angeles-based artist Sterling Ruby's (born 1972) practice. Vivid
backgrounds and a variety of media compose the intricate, geometric collages and reference the
artist's painting and sculptural work. Ruby's DRFTRS and EXHM series are also collected here.
The latter, massive pieces of cardboard originally used as a shell for the studio floor, are painted
in deep hues of primary colours and exhibit the continued accrual of urethane and studio debris, a
technique the artist continues to explore today. Proclaimed "one of the most interesting artists to
emerge in this century" by New York Times art critic Roberta Smith, Ruby--with his graffiti-based
spray paint drawings, nail-polish abstractions and inscribed Formica sculptures--has perfected a
sort of anti-minimalism, here compiled in this massive new volume.

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Gianni Piacentino 3 Vols

Fondazione Prada 2015 ISBN 9788887029635 Acqn 26006
Pb 16x23cm 394pp 420ills 300col 47.50
The artistic path of Gianni Piacentino (born 1945) represents an absolute escape the
imperfection, instantaneity and randomness of making art, in order to access a universe of
perfection, calculation and concentration that can compete with a motor or flight vehicle, on both
sublime and absolute levels. This publication in three books features images of sketches and art
works, and text by Germano Celant, including a conversation with the artist and a chronology of
the artists exhibitions history.
The publication consists of three books.
Book I: Sketches and Projects
Features the research that lead to the creation of artworks, starting from sketches and collages
taken from the artists notebook as well as computer drawings (1966 2015).
Book II: Sculptures and Paintings
An illustrated album of artworks (1965 2015), accompanied by a selection of quotes from the
artist.
Book III: Gianni Piacentino
Contains an illustrated text by Germano Celant, including a conversation with Gianni Piacentino,
and a chronology of the artists exhibitions history, which features documents and images.

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Phyllida Barlow - Set DVD

Fruitmarket Gallery 2015 ISBN 9781908612366 Acqn 25949
DVD 14x19cm 10 +VAT

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Possibilities of the Object - Experiments in Modern and Contemporary Brazilian Art DVD
Fruitmarket Gallery 2015 ISBN 9781908612335 Acqn 25950
DVD 14x19cm 10 +VAT

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Camille Henrot - Prehistoric Collections

Manuella Editions 2015 ISBN 9782917217733 Acqn 25956
Hb 21x27cm col ills 33.95
Based around an out-of-print anthology devoted to prehistoric collections unearthed by
archaeological expeditions in Algeria, French artist Camille Henrots latest project treats this
ethnographic material as motifs of a contemporary grotesque. The scientific document
photographs, diagrams, and captions becomes part of a layered array incorporating traces of
our present age: humans, animals, plants, minerals, and other objects. Freely mixing the pre- and
post-historic, archaic and actual, Henrot constructs an exploration of human bodies, information
media, and meaning using dated pornography, technological refuse, tools and instruments, signs,
and more.

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William N. Copley
Fondazione Prada 2016 ISBN 9788887029642 Acqn 25873
Pb 21x28cm 400pp 480ills 395col 57
William N. Copley (191996) was a multifaceted American artist and art-world catalyst. Creator of
madcap narrative paintings, drawings and installations, Copley was a unique figure in postwar art
history well known for his humorous and sarcastic imagery. Known by his nom de plume CPLY,
he was a self-taught artist pushing the limits of art-world decorum, as well as a collector, gallerist
and connector of some of the most important artists of the 20th century, in particular European
Surrealists and Dadaists such as Max Ernst, Man Ray and Marcel Duchamp, and American Pop
artists. William N. Copley assembles works from all phases of the artists creation, from the
Parisian years to the last period spent mostly in solitude in his home in Sugarloaf Key, Florida,
tracing the development of his painterly style and continual experiments with line, color, pattern
and allegory. In Paris in the early 1950s, Copley developed a unique, ribald figurative style that
bucked prevailing trends toward abstraction, taking inspiration from Surrealist painting, American,
cartoon and silent-movie imagery. Throughout his career, he repeatedly returned to subjects like
nudes, cars and nationalism; later works reveal his abiding interest in political and psychosexual
themes, surrealist visual punning and vaudevillian Americana, making Copley a link between
European Surrealist and American Pop circles. Featuring approximately 250 paintings and works
on paper, the volume accompanies the first comprehensive presentation of the artists work in an
American museum, also scheduled to travel to Italy.

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Rereading Appropriation
If I can't Dance 2015 ISBN 9789492139047 Acqn 25793
Pb 15x22cm 632pp ills 18
This publication compiles texts read in the sister reading groups of If I Cant Dance, I Dont Want
To Be Part Of Your Revolution, which convened in four cities as part of Edition V Appropriation
and Dedication. The theme reconsiders the artistic strategy of appropriation through later
elaborated theories of affect, to explore how reciprocal investment reconfigures appropriation as
an act based in connecting, acknowledging, and being porous to material. Inquiring into the
relations between property and propriety, ownership and authorship, subjecthood and agency, it
includes texts from art history, feminist theory, political economy, anthropology, artists, and more.

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Snejanka Mihaylova - Acoustic Thought

If I can't Dance 2015 ISBN 9789492139054 Acqn 25794
Hb 19x26cm 64pp 18ills 18
Snejanka Mihaylova was commissioned by 'If I Cant Dance, I Dont Want To Be Part Of Your
Revolution' to produce a new work as part of Edition V Appropriation and Dedication. Her
practice is located at the intersection of philosophy and performance, thinking, and theatre. This
book is the physical outcome of her project, which centres around the aural aspect of the thought
processes manifested in the modes of singing and writing, and is based around early Christian
Gnostic texts in Coptic found in the Nag Hammadi Codex II. The publication is done in
collaboration with 'The Last Books'.

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Dawid - This Is A Photograph

Art And Theory Publishing 2016 ISBN 9789188031068 Acqn 25809
Hb 22x28cm 400pp 370ills 100ills 43.95
The most extensive monograph published to date on Dawid, aka Bjrn Dawidsson, spans five
decades of prolific work and traces the path of this groundbreaking Swedish photographer. The
medium of photography itself is as much the subject of his artistic expression as the depicted
subject, and experimentation with its deconstruction has always been a crucial aspect of his work,
which even includes photography series made without a camera. Minimal and conceptual, yet
also sensual, his oeuvre is given generous form through the reproduction of over 30 of his most
outstanding series, from the late 1970s to his most recent work. With an essay by Steven Henry
Madoff.

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Platform Platvorm 2 Fall/winter 2015

Platform 2015 no ISBN Acqn 25842
Pb 20x27cm 200pp 200ills 150col 13.50
The second edition of this Amsterdam-based open call art magazine gives each participating
artist the opportunity to make a spread about their own work without any interference in the visual
content. Featuring about 90 highly diverse artists who individually tackle a range of subjects
through all kinds of media, from drawing, collage, and photography, to sculpture, performance,
and short film, the magazine presents a wellspring of creativity and inspiration. With contributions
by Marcel van den Berg, Oskar Nilsson, Aukje Dekker, Folke Janssen, Thomas C. Chung, Hagen
Klennert, Tim Ellis, Tanja Ritterbex, 431art, Ding Ren, and many more.

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Alice Neel
Xavier Hufkens 2015 ISBN 9789491245138 Acqn 25845
Hb 20x30cm 76pp 26ills 25col 22.50
The catalogue for an exhibition of work by the late American portraitist Alice Neel at Xavier
Hufkens, Brussels, this book accurately depicts her characteristic style, noted for its
expressionistic use of line and colour, psychological acumen, and emotional intensity. Like the
exhibition, the book does not base its concept on the identity of the persons depicted whether
friends, family, fellow artists, poets, or strangers instead choosing to present individual pictures
that trace a lengthy period of time in Neels artistic career, from 1932 until 1984, and thus
formulating an aesthetic project. In short, it outlines her social activities and expressiveness as
reflected in her paintings.

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Louise Bourgeois - Les Tetes Bleues Et Les Femmes Rouges

Xavier Hufkens 2015 ISBN 9789491245145 Acqn 25846
Hb 21x29cm 76pp 44col ills 22.50
Published on the occasion of an exhibition of work by the late French-American artist Louise
Bourgeois at Xavier Hufkens, Brussels, this book focuses on two aspects of her production: blue
fabric heads and red gouache feminine drawings. In a sense, the former, with their specific forms
and exaggerated facial expressions, anticipate the swollen breasts and tiny heads of the latter.
This juxtaposition of male and female in the art of Bourgeois brings to the forefront her approach
to identity by contrasting the compressed, fixed expressions of the heads with the instability and
mutability of the voluptuous pink and red bodies. With a short text by Philip Larratt-Smith.

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Michael Kvium Saligia

Art And Theory Publishing 2015 ISBN 9789188031143 Acqn 25957
Hb 30x28cm 72pp 37col ills 31.50
Danish artist Michael Kviums mode of expression is both fascinating and repellent. Against
barren backgrounds, people are often presented as solitary and distorted in a critique of modern
society and humanity. This book is published on the occasion of an exhibition of his work based
on the seven deadly sins, its title an acronym reflecting the Latin words first written down in the
sixth century. Kvium invites us to darkly encounter ourselves, at the same time questioning
whether these moral values are still relevant today, from a contemporary perspective. Is it
possible that some of the cardinal sins have become accepted driving forces, even virtues, in
Western consumerism?

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An Eyckian Cricifiction Explored - Ten Essays On A Drawing

Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 2015 ISBN 9789069182902 Acqn 26026
Pb 17x24cm 160pp 100ills 80col 22.50
In 2012 a hitherto unknown "Eyckian" drawing of the 'Crucifixion' was exhibited in 'The Road to
Van Eyck' in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen. Forty years earlier Wim Hofman, a psychiatrist
and art collector from Groningen, had bought the drawing as a reproduction for just ten
guilders at a local estate auction. He was convinced, however, and rightly so, that it was an
original work of art, and he spent the rest of his life researching it. The Rotterdam museum
acquired the drawing shortly after the exhibition. In this book leading specialists examine various
aspects of this mysterious drawing its discovery, the scientific and technical research into the
materials, and the identity of the artist.

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Bart Lodewijks - Sligo Drawings

ROMA Publications 2016 ISBN 9789491843549 Acqn 26028
Pb 17x22cm 120pp 86col ills 19.95
In 2012, Dutch artist Bart Lodewijks began a three-year commission from The Model
contemporary art centre in Sligo, Ireland. This book marks the culmination of that assignment,
which entailed making public drawings in the citys neighbourhoods, and resulted in an exhibition.
It also marks a significant point in the artists career, where fifteen years of practice is reflected
through a continuum of drawings and encounters with communities who have hosted the artist.
His enigmatic yet beautiful chalk lines, enacted upon urban surfaces such as walls, buildings,
fences, and sidewalks, are a fleeting testament to the challenges and interactions the artist
experiences in his work. The book comes with a cover in four different colours.

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