art june 2014

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Zhang Huan - Spring Poppy Fields Pace London 2014 ISBN 9781909406100 Acqn 23705 Hb 34x26cm 76pp 33ills 29col £40 For his first exhibition at Pace since winter 2010, Zhang Huan premieres new oil paintings based on Buddhist masks and iconography inspired by extensive travel in Tibet, Nepal, Bhutan and India. Densely layered, these all-over paintings reference the history of China from ancient Buddhist dance masks to the hallucinatory imagery of opium smokers and the cultural revolution.

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Li Songsong - We Have Betrayed The Revolution Pace London 2013 ISBN 9781909406056 Acqn 23706 Hb 30x29cm 18col ills £35 New paintings that portray historical figures and events that play part in the Chinese collective conscious. Li Songsong was born in 1973 in Beijing, China. After he graduated from the Subsidiary School of the Central Academy of Fine Arts in Beijing in 1992, he went on to receive his B.F.A in oil painting from the Central Academy of Fine Arts in 1996. He has since been the focus of many publications and international exhibitions. Li Songsong joined the Gallery in 2010. The artist currently lives and works in Beijing. Texts by Demetrio and Ai Weiwei.

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Calder At The Castle Pace London 2014 ISBN 9781909406049 Acqn 23707 Hb 29x23cm 32pp 18col ills £15 Pace is pleased to present Calder at the Castle, the first-ever outdoor exhibition of monumental works by Alexander Calder in England, at Sudeley Castle. The exhibition is on view until 26 October 2013. Calder at the Castle features six monumental sculptures installed in the Castle’s garden, and is made possible with the collaboration of the Calder Foundation. Alexander Calder (1898–1976) is one of the most acclaimed and influential sculptors of the twentieth century. Renowned for his invention of the mobile, a kinetic construction of suspended abstract elements that describe individual movements in changing harmony, Calder also devoted himself to making outdoor sculpture on a grand scale from bolted sheets of steel.

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Paul Thek - Nothing But Time: Paul Thek Revisited 1964-1987 Pace London 2013 ISBN 9781909406063 Acqn 23708 Pb 24x21cm 72pp 32ills 22col £15 A rare and unprecedented overview of Paul Thek works from the early to mid 1960's, across all the media he worked, and never seen before to this extent in the UK. The exhibition, curated by Kenny Schachter, includes works from the noted newspaper series to the legendary and singular Technological Reliquary series.

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Kevin Francis Gray Pace London 2013 ISBN 9781909406087 Acqn 23710 Pb 30x40cm 24pp 11col ills £45 The first exhibition of Kevin Francis Gray’s work at Pace London. The new sculptures aim to transcend the natural and the material in both form and subject matter seeking to render a physical perfection that is not reached in the temporal world. Kevin Francis Gray’s dedication to realism in his work, the meticulous attention to detail in his subject matter, and the use of materials such as bronze and marble may seem conventional to some viewers of contemporary art yet it is precisely this material and visual reference point that remains unconventional. The work aims to transcend the natural and the material in both form and subject matter, seeking to render a physical perfection that is not reached in the temporal world. This tension between the real and unreal lends itself to a worthwhile questioning of contemporary definitions of tradition and innovation. Kevin Francis Gray (b. in 1972 in Northern Ireland) has generated bodies of work which address the complex relationship between abstraction and figuration.

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Adam Pendleton - I'll Be Your Pace London 2012 ISBN 9781909406001 Acqn 23711 Pb 24x32cm 54pp 25ills £25 An exhibition by the American artist Adam Pendleton (b. 1984), who moves fluidly between painting, publishing, photographic collage, video, and performance. This is Pendleton’s first solo U.K. exhibition, as well as his first with the gallery. Adam Pendleton (b. 1984, Richmond, Virginia) is a conceptual artist known for his multi-disciplinary practice, which moves fluidly between painting, publishing, photographic collage, video and performance. His work centres on an engagement with language, in both the figurative and literal senses, and the re-contextualization of history through appropriated imagery to establish alternative interpretations of the present and, as the artist has explained, “a future dynamic where new historical narratives and meanings can exist.”

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2013 Kaohsiung International Container Arts Festival – Inhabitables Garden City Publishing 2014 ISBN 9789866204739 Acqn 23528 Pb 17x23cm 160pp 150col ills £14 The 2013 Kaohsiung International Container Arts Festival, themed “The Inhabitables”, promotes the possibilities of shipping containers as inhabitable spaces for people, with the ultimate goal of achieving better liveability across a spectrum of contexts and functions. Taking urban culture, especially that of port cities, as its starting point, the book presents a detailed overview of the creative and environmentally friendly concepts shown at the festival, featuring designs by Mecanoo, Sou Fujimoto, Arkhenspaces and others. Along with essays by architecture experts Chih-Ming Lin, C.J. Anderson-Wu and Tsung-Che Hsieh, it includes an index of festival projects from 2001 to the present.

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Art Fusion 01 - New Fashion, New Art, New Photography Little More 2014 ISBN 9784898153857 Acqn 23566 Pb 27x33cm 104pp 84ills 76col £19.95 ‘Art Fusion’ is a new magazine for the latest in fashion and contemporary art. Not only does it deliver top trends by cutting-edge independent brands, it also features artworks to stimulate and inspire today’s creative readers, both aesthetically and intellectually. In collaboration with Isetan, the trendsetting, Shinjuku-based high-end fashion department store, the magazine aims to bring fashion’s innovative aspects into the spotlight with contributions by outstanding artists, photographers and writers. The inaugural issue features Viviane Sassen, Mai-Thu Perret, Ina Jang, Bettina Rheims, Daisuke Yokota and many more.

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Sabina Feroci - Your Future, My Past Garden City Publishing 2014 ISBN 9789866204616 Acqn 23579 Pb 18x21cm 252pp 220ills 200col £16.95 Italian sculptor Sabina Feroci applies the most basic lines, shapes and textures to transform her material into imagery of children. Using papier-mâché forms and a wide palette of colours, she skilfully simplifies the complex in a single gesture, portraying a wide range of human postures and elusive facial expressions. Her distinctive, almost anthropological style captures the emotional states of childhood and translates these into the minds of her audience. This engrossing overview of her body of work and creative method, published on the occasion of an exhibition in Taiwan, features more than 200 individual pieces, plus an insightful essay by curator Shiao Chia Chia.

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Torrent 2 - Spring 2014 Burger Collection 2014 ISBN 9783033044425 Acqn 23738 Pb 18x25cm 252pp 105ills 75col £22.50 This issue includes a thought-provoking conversation with curator and writer Robert Storr on ethics in the art world. Artist contributions explore the awe-inspiring relationship between the sky and city space in Hong Kong (Muhanned Cader), materials about hyper-specialists on eBay, radioactive glows, and clouds of bats (Florian Germann) and text experiments and visuals related to pseudo writings and Chinese calligraphy (Enoch Cheung). Also included a visual essay about photographic materiality (Roland Lüthi) and a take on the transcultural dynamics in contemporary art through the example of kung-fu director Robert Tai’s Shaolin Dolemite (Manual Cirauqui).

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Tania Kovats - Oceans DVD Fruitmarket Gallery 2014 ISBN 9781908612281 Acqn 23746 DVD 14x19cm £8.33 +VAT British artist Tania Kovats makes drawings, sculpture, installations and large-scale time-based projects exploring our experience and understanding of landscape. She �is best known for Tree (2009), a permanent installation for the Natural History Museum in London; and Rivers, an outdoor sculpture in the landscape of Jupiter Artland outside Edinburgh. This new exhibition focuses on her fascination with the sea. A highlight of the exhibition is All the Sea, an ambitious new work which presents water from all the world’s seas, collected with the help of a global network of people drawn in by the idea of bringing all the waters of the world to one place. It is joined by new and existing work all of which has to do in some way with the sea. Sculptures referencing cliff formations;�a machine that mimics the formation of mountains;�a sculpture in the form of a reef of proliferating barnacles; a re-orientation of the world in favour of the ocean drawn on a collection of obsolete atlases; a work exploring what happens when two or more seas meet and a selection of drawings made of and with seawater combine in an evocative presentation of the impact of the sea.

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David Robilliard - The Yes No Quality Of Dreams ROMA Publications 2014 ISBN 9789491843167 Acqn 23747 Hb 18x22cm 88pp 59ills 42col £18 Published on the occasion of the eponymous exhibition at ICA London, this book comprises a selection of paintings by London-based poet and painter David Robilliard, whose work reflects an image synonymous with the queer subculture of 1980s London. Combining figurative elements with text taken from his own poems, his paintings employ coded language, wry wit and a melancholic tinge to impart narratives of passing infatuations, sexual encounters and life’s tragedy, as the spectre of HIV looms towards the end of his life. Besides installation views and reproductions of numerous artworks, the book includes a CD of Robilliard reading his poems in 1987.

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Francis Bacon - Graphic Work Noordbrabants Museum 2014 ISBN 9789462260603 Acqn 23749 Pb 22x27cm 120pp 84ills 78col £23.95 During his career Francis Bacon (1909-1992) made 48 lithographs and etchings, which also reflect the themes of his paintings. His complete graphic works can be seen from April in the Noordbrabants Museum in ’s-Hertogenbosch and in their entirety in 'Francis Bacon, The complete graphic works'. His graphic images, just like his paintings, provide an impressive insight into the motives of one of the most important artists of the 20th century.

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Troubling Research - Performing Knowledge In The Arts Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790201 Acqn 23744 Pb 15x21cm 480pp 205ills 92col £18 Edited and with contributions by Carola Dertnig, Diedrich Diederichsen, Tom Holert, Johannes Porsch, Johanna Schaffer, Stefanie Seibold, and Axel Stockburger In 2010/11, a group of Vienna-based art practitioners (artists, art historians, and cultural theorists) embarked on a journey of experimental research, exploring the genealogical and political implications of the ways in which research rhetorics and policies are currently incorporated into the fields of contemporary art and art education. Troubling Research: Performing Knowledge in the Arts, a collection of “books” of essays and conversations, is the quirky and exhilarating outcome of this collaborative endeavor to render a “problematization” by interrogating the very conditions of the current upsurge of the art/research articulation. Michel Foucault once introduced problematization as a “specific work of thought” that transforms “a group of obstacles and difficulties into problems to which diverse solutions will attempt to produce a response.” For this project, the obstacles and difficulties in question were the terms “art” and “research” and their peculiar conjunction as “artistic” or “arts-based research.” As a result of this process, the understanding of individual artistic/theoretical practices was tested. Working both independently and as a collaborative entity, the group found itself negotiating and contesting each participant’s claim to knowledge in the context of art. The eventual responses to the problem of research proved to be both performative and troubling.

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Performing The Sentence - Research And Teaching In Performative Fine Arts Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790539 Acqn 23745 Pb 17x22cm 224pp 27ills £15.95 Contributions by Philip Auslander, Sabeth Buchmann, Margarit von Büren, Barbara Clausen, Carola Dertnig, Andrea Fraser, Sabine Gebhardt Fink, Simone Forti, Sabina Holzer, Amelia Jones, Carrie Lambert-Beatty, Marie-Luise Lange, Suzana Milevska, Lilo Nein, Susanne Neuburger, Yvonne Rainer, Constanze Ruhm, Dietmar Schwärzler, Stefanie Seibold, Felicitas Thun-Hohenstein, Mechtild Widrich, Martha Wilson. Performing the Sentence brings into dialogue the ways that “performative thinking” has developed in different national and institutional contexts, within different disciplines in the arts, and the conditions under which it has developed in experimental art schools. This anthology is a collection of twenty-one essays and conversations that weave in and out of the two key areas of research and teaching within performative fine arts. They bring to light the conventions involved in the production, presentation, reception, and historicization of performance art, as well as the specific cultural and political implications. The various contributions also show how these conventions are produced through or within each artwork, independent from their specific contexts, offering ways of thinking beyond their usual frames of reference. At the same time they recognize the substantial work carried out by artists, critics, and theorists who have built on the meanings, references, and implications of performative thinking since the beginning of the “performative turn.”

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Hu Fang - Dear Navigator Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790348 Acqn 23751 Pb 12x18cm 160pp 4ills £12.50 Hu Fang’s Dear Navigator is a collection of ten short stories that reflect on contemporary society, politics, and the human condition. The author takes us on a journey across time and space to unexplored realities where we meet performance artists, astronauts, airplanes, Zen masters, filmmakers, and hunger artists. The title story “Dear Navigator” is a collection of letters written during a 520-day simulated space mission to Mars—to test if humans can endure travel from Earth to Mars and back again. “Whale Song” tells the story of XP, a lonely male escort, as he goes on a surreal journey to self-realization, and “The Shame of Participation” tells a tale of two thieving artists who legally steal objects from those living in a city in China. Part fiction, part reality, Hu draws on the experience of everyday life, the past, and the unknown future to create stories of otherworldly melancholy and humour. Hu Fang is a fiction writer and cofounder of Vitamin Creative Space, Guangzhou, and The Pavilion, Beijing. He lives and works in Guangzhou and Beijing. Previously published titles include Troubled Laughter (2012), Garden of Mirrored Flowers (2010), and Pavilion to the Heart’s Insight (2008). His stories have been published in e-flux journal, the exhibition catalogue of the Singapore Pavilion at the 53rd Venice Biennial, and various publications including Ming Wong: Life of Imitation, Drone Fiction, Odyssey: Architecture and Literature, and Gwangju Folly.

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Arthur C. Danto - Remarks On Art And Philosophy + DVD A.S.A.P 2014 ISBN 9780979764271 Acqn 23295 Hb 17x23cm 144pp 6col ills £22.95 What makes something a work of art? This was the question that philosopher Arthur C. Danto (1924–2013) asked himself after seeing Andy Warhol’s "Brillo Box" at a 1964 exhibition at the Stable Gallery in New York City. The philosophy of art was not Danto’s primary area of inquiry at the time, but Warhol’s work prompted him to return to this question over several decades. Danto, professor of philosophy at Columbia University since the 1960s and art critic at The Nation from 1984 to 2009, delivered the previously unpublished lectures presented in this volume at the Acadia Summer Arts Program in Mount Desert Island, Maine, from 1997 through 2009. They explicate the ideas that he set forth in professional philosophical papers and books, including The Transfiguration of the Commonplace (1981), which describes his philosophy of art. Informal yet deeply thought-provoking, these lectures explore how Danto analyzed art through a philosophical lens, yielding an approach that differs from most other contemporary art criticism. Danto’s thoughts on art go beyond formal analysis and taste judgments, instead focusing on questions about the nature of art and attempting to define what a work of art is. These lectures present some of his most notable ideas in terms that those with no training in philosophy can readily understand.

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Brent Green - Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then + 2 DVDs EMPAC 2014 ISBN 9781614681625 Acqn 23400 Hb 15x19cm 34pp 14col ills £38 This film presents a live performance of Brent Green’s Gravity Was Everywhere Back Then, which tells the true story of a man attempting to cure his wife’s illness, with Green and his band--Brendan Canty (Fugazi), Todd Chandler, Drew Henkels (Drew and the Medicinal Pen), Donna K, Mike McGinley and Alan Scalpone--plus footage by Jem Cohen.

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Annie Ratti - The Mushroom Project ROMA Publications 2014 ISBN 9789491843143 Acqn 23767 Pb 14x21cm 96pp 100ills 40col £16.95 Using photography, video, installation, and texts, interdisciplinary artist Annie Ratti questions and rethinks contemporary human conflicts, uncertainties and social complexities, often transforming her private experience into a public or participatory event. Such is the case with her research into the science, cultivation, and cultural and ethnographical significance of psilocybin mushrooms, the results of which appeared as an exhibition at De Vleeshal, Middelburg, in 2013. With source documents, photographs and installation views and step-by-step instructions on how to grow psychedelic fungi, Ratti encapsulates the Western fascination with these rhizomatic organisms.

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Matt Mullican's Pure Projection Landscapes If I Can't Dance 2014 ISBN 9789081447140 Acqn 23769 Pb 21x27cm 64pp 38ills 14col £15.75 Since the late 1970s, American artist Matt Mullican has developed a practice of performing under hypnosis that extends from his investigations into representation and subjective projection. The evolution of this body of work offers perspectives on repetition and renewal in performance practice. This book is the outcome of an extensive research project into Mullican’s hypnosis performances and a shared exploration of character construction, undertaken as part of the ‘If I Can’t Dance’ project together with invited researcher Vanessa Desclaux. In her essay, Desclaux addresses the question of personification in light of her analysis of Mullican’s creative process.

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Torrent 1 Burger Collection 2013 ISBN 9783033040274 Acqn 23770 Pb 18x24cm 120pp 100ills 20col £12.95 ‘Torrent’ aims to provide a focused analysis of artistic practices and the institutional, cultural and ideological contexts that influence its production and reception through close reading. The art bulletin by Burger Collection includes source material from a diverse range of artistic practices, conversations, artist commissions and critical research and essays. It is especially interested in the ways artists collect and store information, assemble ideas and observations, try out paths of inquiry and materialise intuitions. With contributions by Daniel Kurjaković, Annie Lai-Kuen Wan, David Platzker, Paul Winstanley, Vittorio Santoro, Martha Colburn, Lawrence Weiner and others.

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Out Of Doubt - Roppongi Crossing 2013 Heibonsha Ltd. 2013 ISBN 9784582206739 Acqn 23771 Pb 21x28cm 312pp 330ills 250col £34.95 The fourth edition of ‘Roppongi Crossing’, an exhibition series held triennially at the Mori Museum of Art since 2004, presents an inquiry into the current state of Japanese contemporary art. It primarily reflects upon the heightened social awareness emergent since the 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake, taking both history and global perspectives into account in questioning what kinds of dialogue can arise through art from the doubt now being expressed about generally accepted ideas and existing systems. With contributions by 29 artists and groups, especially from the younger generation, plus critical essays by Kataoka Mami, Reuben Keehan Gabriel Ritter and Miryam Sas.

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Retrospective By Xavier Le Roy Les Presses Du Reel 2014 ISBN 9782840667025 Acqn 23782 Pb 12x16cm 360pp £18 Texts and interviews around the work of dancer and choreographer Xavier Le Roy. What did “Retrospective” by Xavier Le Roy do to and for choreography, the medium of exhibition, contemporary art, the spectatorial gaze, social and public space...? This book opens up a series of conversations, guided interviews, reports, and essays about this work. Sundry voices of artists, dramaturges, performers, curators, critics, art historians, philosophers, and others reflect on the scope and variety of questions and positions triggered within and through “Retrospective”. Xavier Le Roy holds a doctorate in molecular biology from the University of Montpellier, France, and has worked as a dancer and choreographer since 1991. He has performed with diverse companies and choreographers. From 1996 to 2003, he was artist-in-residence at the Podewil in Berlin. In 2007-2008 he was "Associated Artist" at Centre Chorégraphique National de Montpellier, France. In 2010 Le Roy is an Artist in Residence fellow at the MIT Program in Art Culture and Technology (Cambridge, MA). Through his solo works such as "Self Unfinished" (1998) and "Product of Circumstances" (1999), he has opened new perspectives in the field of choreographic art. His latest works such as the solo "Le Sacre du Printemps" (2007), the group piece "low pieces" (2011), and works for exhibition spaces such as "production" (2011) created together with Mårten Spångberg, "untitled" (2012) for the exhibition 12 Rooms and "Retrospective" first realized in 2012 at the Tapiès Foundation-Barcelona, produce situations that explore the relationships between spectators/visitors/performers and the production of subjectivities.

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Scattered Ways - Dickinson/Walser The Drawing Center 2014 ISBN 9780942324792 Acqn 23379 Pb 15x23cm 134pp 80col ills £14.50 This publication brings together Robert Walser’s microscripts and Emily Dickinson’s poem manuscripts for the first time. Although Walser, who was born shortly before Dickinson died, was most likely unaware of her work, both writers were obsessively private as well as peculiarly attentive to the visual dimension of their texts. Walser wrote in tiny, inscrutable script on narrow strips of paper using an antiquated German alphabet that was long considered indecipherable. Only recently have these scripts been shown to consist of early drafts of the author’s published texts. Similarly, Dickinson fitted her poetic fragments to carefully torn pieces of envelope or stationery, which were discovered among her posthumous papers. (W.G. Sebald called Walser a "clairvoyant of the small," and this description might apply to Dickinson as well.) Rarely in literature has the manner in which words are made been so integral to the way they might be read.

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Luis Camnitzer In Conversation With Alexander Alberro Fundacion Cisneros 2014 ISBN 9780982354490 Acqn 23383 Hb 15x24cm 240pp 124ills 100col £17.95 The Fundación Cisneros’ Conversaciones/Conversations series publishes firsthand testimonies of leading artists and intellectuals from Latin America. German-born Uruguayan Luis Camnitzer (born 1937) has been an influential artist, theorist, teacher and curator for nearly five decades. He was at the vanguard of 1960s Conceptualism, working in printmaking, sculpture installation and other media. Camnitzer’s work challenges our perception of reality and the status quo and is often characterized by its humorous, often politically charged use of language to underscore issues of power and commodification. In this eighth volume from the Conversaciones series, Camnitzer continues to explore his unique approach to Conceptualism and art as pedagogy with Latin American art scholar Alexander Alberro.

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The Front Room - Artists' Projects At The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis 2008-2013 Contemporary Art Museum St Louis 2014 ISBN 9780971219595 Acqn 23812 Pb 17x24cm 240pp 350ills 100col £14 This retrospective surveys the first five years of the project series The Front Room at the Contemporary Art Museum, St. Louis. The artists include Claire Fontaine, Kerry James Marshall and Tris Vonna-Michell. Edited by Kelly Shindler. Introduction by Dominic Molon. Foreword by Lisa Melandri. Text by Anthony Huberman, Kelly Shindler.

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Maxim Komar-Myshkin - Vladimir’s Night Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790591 Acqn 23831 Hb 20x30cm 174pp col ills £19.95 Vladimir's Night is the chimerical final work by Maxim Komar-Myshkin, one of the most elusive and tragic figures in Israeli-Russian art. Part children’s book, part gory political assault and part erotic farce involving elaborately detailed paintings that draw from the most disparate sources, the work is not only Komar-Myshkin's magnum opus, but an instrument of psycho-aesthetic retaliation against Vladimir Putin, whom the artist believed had a personal vendetta against him. Komar-Myshkin committed suicide in 2011, soon after completing the album. In her annotations, Rosa Chabanova explores the book’s many layers, covering such wide-ranging topics as the financial schemes of Russian oligarchs, medieval literature, political assassinations and the massive immigration wave of Russians to Israel. In so doing, Chabanova unravels the haunting story of Komar-Myshkin and arrives at startling conclusions as to what actually transpired during Komar-Myshkin's final years. Maxim Komar-Myshkin was born in Moscow in 1978. He immigrated to Israel in 2004. There, he founded the Buried Alive group, a circle of artists, writers and filmmakers who vowed in their manifesto to operate as cultural zombies.

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Ballet, Why And How? ArtEZ Press 2014 ISBN 9789491444081 Acqn 23726 Hb 17x24cm 192pp 80ills £21 Classical ballet is no longer the sole stimulus for today’s audiences, as a fluid fusion of everything from ballet to Bollywood and from breakdancing to Latin represents how dance is consumed today. With the emergence of modern choreographers and new teaching styles, debate on the benefits of classical ballet training for non-classical dancers continues, even raising questions as to its relevance. The increasing academic interest in examining ballet’s role is the focus of this book, published on the occasion of an international conference. Numerous dance professionals and experts share thoughts, ideas and experiences while considering the future direction of dance.

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