The Arts Books
Smith Street Gift Noodle Box
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£22.80
ATF Press Kim En Joong Et Mark Rothko: Le Langage Universel
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£83.55
UPPERCASE publishing inc Rag & Pulp: Creativity with Paper - Making
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£34.00
Badlands Unlimited Marcel Duchamp: The Afternoon Interviews
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£13.05
Badlands Unlimited Hans Ulrich Obrist: Think Like Clouds
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£26.60
New Vessel Press The Eye: An Insider's Memoir of Masterpieces,
Book SynopsisAn art adventure story that exposes readers to a secret, high-stakes profession involving masterpieces, massive amounts of money and an intense love of painting.
£19.54
Hassla Books Farts
Book SynopsisTrevor Shimizu is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice encompasses performance, video, and sculptures, yet it is his paintings and drawings, which allows him the fastest and most direct way of visualising an idea. Shimizu is primarily concerned with the generic and cliché situations of everyday life, whilst simultaneously being informed by popular media.
£18.05
Hassla Books Sphinx
Book SynopsisCarrie SchneiderSphinxTexts by Susan Cross, Dana DeGiulio, Kristy Edmunds, Aristilde Kirby, Sarah Lookofsky, Carmen Maria Machado240 pages, softcover9 x 11 1/2 inches, 22.9 x 29.2 cmEdition of 500Co-published with MASS MoCA
£31.50
Hassla Books Woods
Book Synopsisedited by David Schoerner
£19.00
Anthology Editions A Dance with Fred Astaire
Book SynopsisA Dance with Fred Astaire is an extraordinary collection of anecdotes and rare ephemera featuring a dizzying cast of cultural icons both underground and mainstream, both obscure and celebrated. Memories and diary entries, conversations and insights into his work sit alongside collages of beautifully reproduced postcards, newspaper cuttings, film negatives, lists, posters and photographs, envelopes and letters, book covers, telegrams, cartoons and doodles. Mekas has kept and archived the artifacts of his life as a cultural touchstone down to the minutiae, all of which is brought together here in the form of a unique and fascinating scrapbook of a life lived with the highest artistic commitment. Guided by Mekas’s distinctive prose and suffused with warmth, A Dance with Fred Astaire is rhapsodic, poetic and funny as all get out. A revealing visual autobiography of a genuine culture hero.Trade ReviewIf avant-garde American cinema were to christen a hero among its kind, it would be nearly unfathomable to think of anyone more deserving than Lithuanian-American filmmaker, film critic, poet and all-around catalyst Jonas Mekas - DazedJonas is a true hero of the underground and a radical of the first degree—a shape-shifter and time-fucker … he sees things that others can't … his cinema is a cinema of memory and soul and air and fire. There is no one else like him. His films will live forever - The GuardianHis is a singular life unlike any other, one filled with passion, determination, and innovation. His stories inspire, enlighten, and entertain with equal parts charm, courage, and originality - Dazed"Mekas didn't just write about movies. He made them, showed them, and it woul be fair to say he lived them." - Bilge Ebiri, The Village Voice"The advance party of the present moment: Instagram and selfies and all forms of social media notations are his diaristic descendants" - Gaby Wood, The Daily Telegraph
£40.50
McSweeney's The Domestic Crusaders
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£10.27
Thorntree Press Psyche
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£14.25
Hat & Beard The Lumpen Times
Book SynopsisA deep archive of the secret histories of Chicago''s countercultural milieus over 30 years of community and artistic engagement. Way back in 1991, a freely-circulated zine called The Lumpen Times was born in Champaign, Illinois. The creators would go on to relaunch it in Chicago in 1993. Over time, the underground magazine would lead to building a Community of the Future. Through the certainty of chance, collective engagement, casual encounters, and accidental actions, The Lumpen Times became the hub for a series of cultural platforms spawning hundreds of projects, spaces, happenings, exhibitions, and initiatives. Some were short-lived, but each project fueled a new one in its wake. As an example, they started a record label, which spawned other publications. Other projects include engaging in dot-communism, opening community art spaces, hosting international art and activism festivals, and producing thousands of exhibitions and events. They also built an FM radio station, opened a bar, restaurants, launched a brewery, built another beverage company, created an artists'' retail shop, and started community kitchens. This range of passions has become an interconnected and deeply inclusive set of ventures now called The Buddy System. The Lumpen Times: 30+ Years of Radical Media and Building Communities of the Future shares stories from a few dozen of the thousands of Lumpen collaborators over the years. It contains a visual survey of the printed matter they produced over the past three decades, illustrating the evolution of the xeroxed-and-stapled zine into an internationally recognised cultural periodical. The book is also a catalogue of strategies, highlighting dozens of ''case studies'' demonstrating how artists, activists, educators, and creative entrepreneurs of all stripes have built community and culture in their beloved city of Chicago via the printed word, physical spaces, and over the airwaves and digital networks. Each study includes the reason it started, examples of its production, and the reasons it failed, mutated, or continues to this day.
£43.19
Goodman Games Dungeon Crawl Classics #100: The Music of the
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£55.49
Otago University Press Ko Aotearoa Tatou I We Are New Zealand
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£25.14
Otago University Press Landfall 240
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£13.50
Hendrik Varju Mexican Dinner Parties: Complete Menus for
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£30.35
Freya Rothwell-Bodycomb Blush Feelings Notebook: We Are Greater Series
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£8.55
Freya Rothwell-Bodycomb Lemon Feelings Notebook: We Are Greater Series
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£8.55
Mandy Stanley Art and Design Lettice Ballet Practice
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£11.07
Victoria Miro Yayoi Kusama: I Want Your Tears to Flow with the
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£74.50
Zidane Press Being In Time: Performance Art
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£9.49
No Eraser Publishing Ghetto Biennale Geto Byenal 2009-2015
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£22.50
Editions Flammarion Art in Cuba
Book SynopsisGilbert Brownstone is an art historian and exhibition curator. In 1999 he created the Brownstone foundation, which promotes social justice through cultural development. Graziella Pogolotti is a historian and Cuban art critic. Camilo Guevara, photographer, teaches at the Havana School of Photography and runs the Che Guevara Studies Center, dedicated to his father.
£13.48
Jean Boite editions The Leaked Recipes Cookbook
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£33.25
Jean Boite editions The Window
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£13.50
Jbe Books A Song of Flowers Le Chant des Fleurs
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£34.00
Shelter Press Metamorphosis
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£9.50
Etudes MARJORIE
Book SynopsisArtworks by Daniel TurnerImage post production by Janvier
£13.50
Etudes Ecstatic Nature
Book SynopsisTim Barber's Ecstatic Nature, published by France-based Études Books, is a diary-like meandering through natural scenes and urban landscapes. A mix between digital and analog photography, the book wanders between everyday moments (a girl's head resting on the dashboard of a car, a group of friends walking down a street as the sun sets behind them), deliberate stagings (two hands touching with an unnatural gesture, a fishbowl held as if to replace a head), and spectacular views (a car burning on the side of the road). The title Ecstatic Nature refers not only to the book's subject matter but also to the cyanotype process used for some of the images, tinting them a monochromatic shade of blue. The cyanotype process emphasizes how when an image is simplified, it can reveal itself, be more emotionally resonant, truer to form (). Photographs are like rubbings of three-dimensional reality, translations of impressions.- Tim Barber
£43.35
Editions Skira Paris CalderPicasso
Book SynopsisAlexander S. C. Rower, president of the Calder Foundation. Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, co-founder and co-president of the Fundación Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso Para El Arte (FABA). Laurent Le Bon, president of the Musée national Picasso-Paris. Claire Garnier, curator and collections director at the Musée national Picasso, Paris. Émilia Philippot, curator at the Musée national Picasso, Paris.
£36.10
Classiques Garnier La Revue Des Lettres Modernes: Correspondance
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£45.00
Poursuite editions Raoul Reynolds: a retrospective
Book SynopsisA name that clears your throat, catches your eyes and ends up infiltrating your thoughts. If you have not heard of Raoul Reynolds, that comes as no surprise. In the shadows he remained, in silence. Raoul Reynolds was one of many dark paths in life - despite burning investigation - leave us with countless unanswered questions. Raoul Reynolds was a pedlar, a confidence trickster, a camelot of art, a storybook character thumbing his nose to a history of a capital. Here we are offered another experience: change the angle and look at the margin. Artist, his default role, he used as a cover for his life of secrets while creating works of art as if they were gateways that would enable him to cross through time. It would be a very good thing if it was going to be so, but it was going to be a little bit more than anything. Alternately a surrealist and a minimalist, he would overcome the most unexpected masks. It was more particularly at the end of his life, though, during exile, that he let himself be indulge totally, undistractedly in art. Here is a retrospective path, a set of works attributed to him, a hypothetical stack where we sometimes give way to doubts, and doubts give way to stories fired by our own fantasies. The exhibition Raoul Reynolds: A retrospective was shown in 2016 at the Glasgow International festival in Scotland and at the Friche la Belle de Mai on the occasion of the Rentrée de l''Art Contemporain in Marseille.
£17.10
Poursuite editions Los Angeles Standards
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£33.30
Lafayette Anticipations Coming Soon
Book SynopsisThinking, dreaming, foreseeing or fearing the future has shaped our presence in the world since its very beginnings. In our current context, one of profound metamorphosis and uncertainty, the exhibition and the book Coming Soon revisit this relationship we have with the unknown. Between predictions, oracles, systems of anticipation and capitulations, this book features essays by Sandrine Alexandre, K Allado-Mcdowell, Ama Josephine Budge Johnstone, Kara Keeling, Rebecca Lamarche-Vadel, Martine Syms and Olivier Zeitoun. It also includes notes on the works exhibited and visuals. The future is a time-space in constant evolution, which all don't get to inhabit under the same terms and conditions. Engaging us to think urgently about the future through different understandings of togetherness, Coming Soon focuses on possible paths of writing, imagining, creating and embodying collective outcomes.
£27.00
Lafayette Anticipations Total
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£27.20
RVB Books Laure Tiberghien
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£28.90
RVB Books FiftyNine Positions
Book Synopsis59 Positions is a 20-minute video, filmed in 1992 using a stationary camera in an empty, unadorned room with a concrete floor, consisting of fragments of actions each lasting just a few seconds, in which we glimpse the artist Erwin Wurm and his friends bundled up in sweaters, pants and shirts, seemingly oblivious to the usual purposes of these articles of clothing. Their bodies are contorted into ridiculous poses, under the influence of a strange choreography made up of motionless objects that tremble almost imperceptibly. Wurm thus aims to explore whether a physical action can become a sculpture and if so, at what point the transition takes place. By making use of looped sequences without movement, his aim was to find out if and when this transformation might happen. Wurm was so impressed by the visual force and immediacy of these curious anthropomorphic forms that he decided to create a series of colour photographs based on this video, thus reconnecting with this medium in which he had often worked in the 1980s. After Self-Portrait as 47 Pickles, 59 Positions is the second title in the series of artist's books by Erwin Wurm published by RVB Books.
£23.40
RVB PARKETT
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£22.50
Brepols N.V. Flemish Minatures 8-16 Century
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£52.72
Librarie Philosophique J. Vrin L'Ombre de la Nuit: La Melancolie Et l'Angoisse
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£20.90
Peeters Publishers Le disque de Phaestos: Archéologie. Épigraphie.
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£22.99
Peeters Publishers Bijdragen Tot De Geschiedenis Van De Kunst Der
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£46.55
Peeters Publishers Etrurie D'hier Et De Toujours
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£30.40
Publications des Facultes universitaires Saint-Louis Essai De Syntaxe Grecque Classique. Reflexions Et
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£36.10
P.I.E-Peter Lang S.A., Éditions Scientifiques Internationales Les lieux de conflit et leur mémoire en Europe de
Book SynopsisLe conflit est inhérent aux sociétés humaines, il en façonne les espaces, les structures, les hiérarchies, le devenir ; mais quelle mémoire les sociétés gardent-elles de leurs conflits et comment s'exprime-t-elle ? L'ouvrage aborde ces questions sur le temps long, celui qui court de l'Antiquité au XXe siècle et dans l'un des espaces les plus marqués par les conflits, le continent européen. Le conflit y est considéré comme un affrontement militaire (guerres interétatiques comme civiles), social ou politique accompagné d'actes de violence. En sollicitant tous les vecteurs de la mémoire, l'ouvrage interroge la chronologie de la mémoire du lieu de conflit, son lieu de célébration (in situ ou déplacé), l'exactitude de sa représentation et son éventuelle utilisation politique. Il permet ainsi d'appréhender les évolutions tout comme les permanences de la mémoire du lieu de conflit depuis la Grèce antique et met en perspective celle de nos conflits du XXIe siècle.
£41.40
Palais de Tokyo P L S Issue 37
Book SynopsisIssue 37 of Palais de Tokyo magazine addresses the relationships between mental health, contemporary creation, and art and culture venues, in particular through the prism of institutional psychotherapy, a set of practices aimed at disalienating institutionsinitially psychiatric ones. P L S echoes the awareness of mental health at the Palais de Tokyo which works on various levels, starting with the art centre's expertise when it comes to cultural mediation, which has allowed bonds to be forged with actors in the social, psychiatric and medical fields, as well as with the people concerned. This has also led to the opening of the hamo, a new space for hosting, practising, researching and for experiences which are especially inspired by the notions of well-being and care. (Re)thinking cultural institutions from the perspective of vulnerability means supporting and valuing differences, and inventing new ways of caring and living together. It is also about politicising and poeticising t
£7.00
Palais de Tokyo P L S 38 â ancestries
Book SynopsisIssue 38 of P L S magazine calls upon ancestries, be they intimate or political, transgenerational and historical, human or more-than-human, symbolic or material. Its contributions invite us to communicate with the invisible, in the words of Guadeloupean writer Maryse Condé in her novel I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem. It is a matter of conjuring away oblivion and erasure: to revive connections and lineage, something both familiar and held in common, so as to find strength, protection, guidance and, perhaps, healing. With texts and visual contributions by: Malala Andrialavidrazana, Yasmine Belhadi, Massabielle Brun, Neringa Bumbliene, Miryam Charles, Barbara Chase Riboud, Guillaume Désanges, Alexis Pauline Gumbs, Rebecca Hall & Hugo Martínez, Liz Johnson Artur, Isis Labeau Caberia, Simone Lagrand, LeRhonda S. Manigault Bryant, Myriam Mihindou, Dorothée Munyaneza, Amandine Nana, Deimantas Narkevicius, Naudline Pierre, Anastasia Sosunova, Émilie Villez, Claire ZanioloThis issue is published on the occasion of a new season of exhibitions at the Palais de Tokyo (17.10 2024 05.01 2025), and in particular: Tituba, Who Protects Us?, a group show which invites artists with Carribean and African diasporic trajectories to come together around a meditation on the relationships between grief, memory, migration and ancestrality; Barbara Chase-Riboud's exhibition Everytime A Knot is Undone A God is Released; Myriam Mihindou's exhibition Praesentia; Malala Andrialavidrazana's exhibition Figures; the group show Borders Are Nocturnal Animals / Sienos yra naktiniai gyvunai, organized on the occasion of the Season of Lithuania in France.
£7.00
