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Alexander Navratil - This Formless Thing ROMA Publications 2013 ISBN 9789491843037 Acqn 22845 Hb 16x21cm 176pp 120ills 60col £23.95 ‘This Formless Thing’, published in conjunction with an exhibition of work by Swiss artist Alexandra Navratil at Kunstmuseum Winterthur and Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, alludes to the materials and artificial substances from which images are made. Besides enchanting film stills and numerous images appealing to an industrial design aesthetic, the book includes six referential text contributions by Simona Ciuccio, Esther Leslie, Matthew Solomon, Mirjam Varadinis, Jelena Rakin and Natasha Ginwala, which serve to illuminate a series of five thematically complementary works by Navratil. A conversation with the artist by Jennifer Burris completes the volume.

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Gregory Harms - It's Not About Religion Perceval Press 2013 ISBN 9780976300984 Acqn 22862 Pb 13x19cm 106pp £9 When the Middle East is covered on the news or depicted in film, what is shown is a region defined almost exclusively by violence, chaos, and extremism, and a common question often arises in response: Does religion have anything to do with it? In this concise book, Gregory Harms examines a range of topics in an effort to answer the question. As the book's title indicates, the region's woes and instability are in fact not caused by biblical or Islamic factors. Harms reveals a list of entirely secular factors and realities as he examines how and why Americans view the Arab Middle East the way they do; the history of European and U.S. involvement in the region; the emergence of Islamic fundamentalism and terrorism; and how academics and the mass media tend to discuss the region and its inhabitants. In roughly one hundred pages, the reader is shown a constellation of history and culture that will hopefully help move the conversation of the Middle East and U.S. foreign policy in a more grounded and precise direction.

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Michael Borremans - Royal Collection of Belgium ROMA Publications 2013 ISBN 9789491843044 Acqn 22863 Hb 17x14cm 68pp 15col ills £26 With their historical manner of painting and static viewpoint, the seven works hanging in the Belgian Royal Palace by Michaël Borremans at first seem to fit seamlessly into the sumptuous interior. Yet the place of art in the context of state representation remains uncertain. Without ever intruding, it is a constant witness to power politics. Borremans’ fantasies approach painting with radically open rules of association between each of the elements depicted. The standing figures, seen from behind, link contemplation with illusionistic depth, moving our observation towards the wide realms of possibility lying behind the image, or to the inner notions upon which the visible impinges.

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Fukt 12 Revolver Publishing 2013 ISBN 9783868953220 Acqn 22870 Pb 22x28cm 136pp 220ills 100col £11 Drawing makes you see things clearer, and clearer and clearer still, until your eyes ache. David Hockney Writing, mathematics, circle, line, landscape, sound, city, science and people – as always, the aim is to present contemporary drawing in a broad variation of expressions, concepts and subjects. But this time we are also more curious what the artists say about their works, and have included several interviews within the pages of the new issue. As we worked on this issue, a recurring theme emerged; drawing and writing. Many of the contributing artists include writing in their works. Pia Linz and Corrie Baldauf are using notes, fragments of conversations or sensations related to the place and time. Participating artists: Amigo, Corrie Baldauf, Stephen Farthing, Tony Fitzpatrick, Geir Haraldseth, Akira Horikawa, Karl Hans Janke, Sophie Jodoin, Steve Johnson, Reece Jones, Ingeborg Kvame, Thomas Laroche-Joubert, Pia Linz, Lotte Konow Lund, Ole Jørgen Ness, Paul Noble, Christine Ödlund, Yuria Okamura, Raymond Pettibon, Candida Powell-Williams, Cameron Robbins, Sebastian Rug, Owen Schuh, Lorna Simpson, Heike Weber.

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French Theory in American Art Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783943365375 Acqn 22677 Pb 15x23cm 69col ills £21.95 Contributions by Philip Armstrong, Victor Burgin, François Cusset, Larisa Dryansky, Benjamin Greenman, Rachel Haidu, Sylvère Lotringer, Stephen Melville, Laura Mulvey, Kassandra Nakas, Peter Osborne, Jean-Michel Rabaté, John Rajchman, Katia Schneller, Alexander Streitberger, Hilde Van Gelder, Erik Verhagen Many postwar American artists were influenced by French philosophy, literary studies, and social sciences. Accordingly, a number of French authors gathered under the label “French Theory”—a name referring roughly to structuralism and post structuralism—has received sustained attention in the United States. As early as the early 1960s, this reception helped to shape both American artistic practice and the fate of French thought in a crucial way. At the turn of the twenty-first century, the wealth of works from the human sciences and philosophy in American culture became the subject of numerous studies. French Theory and American Art examines some of the main historical conditions of this reception. It considers significant texts, artists, authors, and events that were instrumental in the introduction of French thought into the artistic field of the United States. The relation between artistic creation and theoretical thought, between singular, inventive uses and creative misunderstandings of theory, constitutes the other major question of the present volume.

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Martha Rosler - Culture Class. e-flux Journal Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9781934105818 Acqn 22848 Pb 11x18cm 232pp 32ills £10.95 Edited by Julieta Aranda, Brian Kuan Wood, Anton Vidokle Introduction by Stephen Squibb In this collection of essays Martha Rosler embarks on a broad inquiry into the economic and historical precedents for today’s soft ideology of creativity, with special focus on its elaborate retooling of class distinctions. In the creative city, the neutralization or incorporation of subcultural movements, the organic translation of the gritty into the quaint, and the professionalization of the artist combine with armies of eager freelancers and interns to constitute the friendly user interface of a new social sphere in which, for those who have been granted a place within it, an elaborate retooling of traditional markers of difference has allowed class distinctions to be either utterly dissolved or wilfully suppressed. The result is a handful of cities selected for revitalization rather than desertion, where artists in search of cheap rent become the avant-garde pioneers of gentrification, and one no longer asks where all of this came from and how. And it may be for this reason that, for Rosler, it becomes all the more necessary to locate the functioning of power within this new urban paradigm, to find a position from which to make it accountable to something other than its own logic.

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Barry Schwabsky - Words for Art Criticism, History, Theory, Practice Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783956790027 Acqn 22866 Pb 15x22cm 244pp £16.50 In this volume of short essays, Barry Schwabsky reveals himself to be a critic of uncommon range and erudition. Walter Benjamin’s views on color, E. H. Gombrich’s theory of perception, Mel Bochner’s and Liz Kotz’s narratives of Conceptualism, and Sarah Thornton’s perigrinations in the “art world” are but a few of the topics explored in this volume. In an era of hyper-specialization and rigid academic protocols, Schwabsky revives a form of criticism one imagined barely existed— a criticism of varied interests and passionate opinions. —James Meyer, author of Minimalism: Art and Polemics in the Sixties By weaving together evocative and often uncharted episodes from art history, literature, and philosophy, a critical poetic emerges, and an offense of interference and reworked perspectives surfaces from Schwabsky’s essays. Unconcerned with categorical methodologies or totalizing approaches to criticism, Schwabsky writes with nonsequential energy that obliges both artists and critics to complexity, curiosity, and courage. —Michelle Grabner, artist and professor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago Like many of the best critics, Schwabsky has the ability to describe things so precisely that no explicit evaluation is necessary. Every time an idea is introduced, it is allowed to hold the reader’s attention for the time it takes to ground a judgment, and no longer. This gentle rhythm gives the essays an unillusioned clarity and undogmatic authority rarely found in writing about art. —Malcolm Bull, author of Anti-Nietzsche and University Lecturer in Fine Art at Oxford University

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Deborah Ligorio - Survival Kits Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783956790188 Acqn 22878 Pb 12x18cm 136pp 30col ills £13.95 Contributions by Marie-Luise Angerer, Armen Avanessian, Federica Bueti, Paul Feigelfeld, Graham Harman, Stefan Heidenreich, Vincenzo Latronico, Lucy Mercer, Katherine Richardson, Dieter Roelstraete, Ana Teixeira Pinto, Giovanna Zapperi For years now our lives have been shaped by a crisis impacting both our economy and our personal lives. But what is ultimately in crisis? Survival Kits offers twelve perspectives on this issue—from fields as diverse as philosophy, politics, media theory, environmental activism, feminism, post-human theory, literature, geopolitics, art, and economics. These theoretical investigations originated with artist Deborah Ligorio’s research. The book takes its title from an eponymous series of sculptures and video interviews describing situations of emergency, vulnerability, and struggle experienced by a living or a fictional person, which propose inventive tools for adaptation or resistance. A selection from this series is featured in the publication.

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Roy Lichtenstein Centre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844266002 Acqn 22270 Hb 22x28cm 240pp 200col ills £37.95 Text in French Full catalogue of the Centres Pompidou 2013 retrospective on Roy Lichtenstein, one of the key figures of the American Pop Art movement. This catalogue features many of the emblematic images from the Pop era as well as Lichtenstein’s later paintings, such as his series of Chinese Landscapes.

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Roy Lichtenstein – Album Centre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844266019 Acqn 22271 Pb 27x27cm 60pp 60col ills £9.50 Dual text French and English Album version of the 2013 Centres Pompidou Roy Lichtenstein Retrospective catalogue featuring colour reproductions of many of the key works from the exhibition.

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Mon Lichtenstein A Moi Centre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844266170 Acqn 22272 Pb 22x29cm 40pp 40col ills £7.95 Text in French A new activity book for children aged 4 to 8 years based on key images Roy Lichtenstein’s work to be coloured-in, or cut and paste. With over 50 stickers.

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Pierre Huyghe Centre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844266217 Acqn 22636 Pb 22x27cm 272pp 350col ills £37.95 Catalogue to accompany a retrospective exhibition of the work of Pierre Huyghe: a major figure in the contemporary scene in France and on the international stage, presenting some fifty projects that provide an overview of the work he has been developing for over twenty years. Since the Nineties, Pierre Huyghe has contributed to the redefinition of the status of the art work and the exhibition format, occasionally overlapping the two, such as by giving them the form of a diary (Anna Sanders, L'histoire d'un sentiment, 1997), an expedition to Antarctica (A Journey that Wasn't, 2005) or a yearly calendar in the shape of a circular garden (La Saison des fêtes, 2010). The exhibition aims to raise awareness of the living and organic dimension of his propositions, which envisage the space as a world in itself, unplanned, living according to its own rhythms.

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Navid Nuur - Ta-da. Deviens Un Artiste Contemporain en Quelques Heures Centre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844265906 Acqn 22274 Hb 22x28cm 32pp 30col ills £11.50 Text in French Contemporary Iranian artist Navid Nuur offers a unique method for introducing 10-15 year-olds to contemporary art. The artist enables them to make their own works of contemporary art using simple techniques and materials to create installations, photography, collages or compositions. Step by step, like a cookbook, Ta-Da! reveals the ingredients of a successful work of art and pushes its readers to develop their creativity.

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Braque - Collection Monographies Centre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844266118 Acqn 22633 Pb 19x19cm 96pp 55col ills £11.50 Text in French The Collection Monographies series allows us to discover the world of the most important artists of the 20th and 21st centuries. Richly illustrated with works from the Pompidou collection, and with texts by Brigitte Leal, the latest volume presents the work of the Cubist painter Georges Braque.

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The Graphic World of Paul Peter Piech Four Corners Books 2013 ISBN 9781909829015 Acqn 22700 Hb 22x31cm 192pp 150ills 140col £20 The Graphic World Of Paul Peter Piech, by Zoe Whitley is the first book on this artist Born in New York, Paul Peter Piech (1920-1996) worked for most of his life as a printmaker in the UK, producing prints, posters and books from his home in the London commuter belt and, later, Wales. Piech’s works, sometimes joyful, sometimes angry, always inventive, tackle the political concerns of the late 20th century, combining the artist’s advertising expertise with his forthright personal beliefs. The Graphic World Of Paul Peter Piech reproduces over 120 prints drawn from the collections of the Victoria and Albert Museum and the University of Reading. Published by Four Corners Books, in association with V&A Publishing, London and designed by Familiars designer-in-chief John Morgan.

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Pirate Nightmare Vice Explosion - Edited and introduced by Michael Kupperman Four Corners Books 2013 ISBN 9780956192875 Acqn 22701 Pb 24x32cm 144pp col ills £15.99 In the late 1990s, Michael Kupperman bought a stack of men’s magazines from the 1950s and 1960s. On examining them, he discovered that their original owner had tampered with them, using the contents to form his own hybrid magazines. Pirate Nightmare Vice Explosion presents highlights from that collection, and takes place in a murky, monochromatic world where mysterious, energetic sin is always happening behind closed doors.

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Katsuhiro Yamaguchi – Imaginarium Annely Juda Fine Art 2013 ISBN 9781904621539 Acqn 22833 Pb 22x25cm 56pp 33ills 26col £22.50 The 1950s were a significant period in Japan for experimental art, the decade when the Experimental Workshop was founded by the critic Shuzo Takiguchi. Yamaguchi was one of the founder members. The group's uniting principle was to treat experiment as if it were as important in art as it is in science. Their activities involved all available media, and some of their memorable works included performance, stage design, photography, light sculptures, concerts, and slide and sound presentations. Although the Experimental Workshop only lasted for eight years, it has remained highly influential for Japanese art of today. Already in the early 1950s, Yamaguchi wanted the viewer to interact, even involuntarily, with the works of art he or she was looking at. The works look different from every angle and under different lighting. They are not stable. Hanging sculptures might rotate. Magnetic reliefs can be repositioned. The reliefs, which he calls 'vitrines', reflect the viewers moving in front of them and appear to change in front of our eyes. In Yamaguchi's work, what we see can never be repeated precisely.

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David Dawson - London: Wales: New York Marlborough Fine Art 2013 ISBN 9781909707009 Acqn 22840 Pb 27x23cm 24pp 20col ills £12.50 David Dawson has been a painter for nearly thirty years, having studied at both Chelsea and the Royal College of Art in the 1980s. After graduating, Dawson quickly became Lucian Freud’s studio assistant; a role which lasted until Freud’s death in 2011. During this time, Dawson photographed the artist regularly; producing acclaimed images, which were exhibited at the National Portrait Gallery in 2004 and at Pallant House Gallery in 2012. Since Freud’s death, Dawson has devoted himself fully to his painting once again. It was from within this context that Dawson continued to work from his own studio in North West London, painting the suburban views that were visible from his studio window. Recently, Dawson has returned to the place of his childhood in Wales, making works observing the rural landscape. The scale of these paintings, 65 x 80 inches, is Dawson’s approximate arm-span, a scale that suggests the painter’s total immersion within the landscape. A final series of work was made in New York, depicting the city’s epic skyline from a position overlooking Central Park and the skyscrapers surrounding it. These three strikingly varied environments – the suburban, the rural, and the metropolis – are all treated as the raw material from which to work and are interpreted through Dawson’s brush.

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Fiona Banner - The Vanity Press. Edinburgh Art Festival 2013 The Vanity Press 2013 ISBN 9781907631504 Acqn 22876 Pb 21x30cm 28pp 28ills 8col £9 ‘After considering your request for legal deposit, I propose that I publish a comprehensive bound compendium of the ISBN artworks and the data information forms used to register them. I shall supply you with a copy of this publication – it could provide reference and representation of the overall body of work, and of its self.’ From Fiona Banner’s letter to the Legal Deposit Office at the British Library.

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Works In Progress - Digital Film Restoration Within Archives SYNEMA 2013 ISBN 9783901644511 Acqn 22871 Pb 16x23cm 174pp 97ills 44col £22 Digital technology has revolutionised the art of film restoration, offering seemingly limitless possibilities to revitalise and rediffuse aging or endangered films. Yet this digital revolution has also presented film archives with a host of new challenges in their ongoing task of safeguarding the audiovisual cultural heritage in the 21st century. Featuring 17 essays by a number of leading international experts, Works in Progress engages freshly with both the theoretical principles and practical implementations of digital technology within the fields of audiovisual archiving and film restoration. Including case studies on restorations such as Metropolis, Das Einkuchenhaus, America Dreams (Lost and Found), and Der Lebende Leichnam. Contributors: Paolo Cherchi Usai, Thomas C. Christensen, Anna Dobringer, Giovanna Fossati, Alexander Horwarth, Martin Koerber, Reto Kromer, Matteo Lepore, Simona Monizza, Adriana Noviello, Peter Schallauer, Raoul Schmidt, Silvester Stoger, Fumiko Tsuneishi, David Walsh, Anke Wilkening, Nikolaus Wostry, Karl Wratschklo.

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Henri Jacobs - Journal Drawings ROMA Publications 2013 ISBN 9789077459997 Acqn 22884 Pb 24x34cm 492pp 1250ills 1000col £64.95 A repository of nine years of drawing and collecting images. All Jacobs' journal drawings from 001 up to 666 are shown. For some of them, different stages of development are included. These stages reveal how a particular drawing evolved, and throughout the book, the evolution of Jacobs' drawing itself can be seen. A book with a huge number of images which, after painstaking labour, have received a place in which they can interact with each other through the eyes of the viewer.

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We Roma - A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art Valiz 2013 ISBN 9789078088783 Acqn 21630 Pb 12x17cm 286pp 100ills £19.50 We Roma: A Critical Reader in Contemporary Art inquires into the contemporary moment through the lens of Roma artistic and intellectual practices, gathering knowledge from the Roma way of life. As the so-called West’s misconceptions of itself, inherited from the legacy of the modern, are being unmasked through unprecedented shifts in politics, society, aesthetics, and economics – what can we learn from the commonalities among political struggles of historically marginalized communities such as Roma and in what we know as majority society? With the emblematic claim in the artistic imaginary ‘we Roma,’ including in it wider society – how can we invoke the possibility of a different world and alternative futures? Artists, theorists, writers, and activists – both Roma and non-Roma – speculate on such questions and the possibility of art to imagine the world otherwise. Contributors include Albert Atkin, Huub van Baar, Damian James Le Bas, Delaine Le Bas, Ethel Brooks, Ian Hancock, Mike Sell and Salman Rushdie.

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