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Contents

Cooper Hewitt 2

The Museum of Modern Art, New York 4

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston 12

Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain 14

Ludion 16

Cahiers d’Art 18

RM 19, 40

MCA Australia 20

Walther König 21, 46

Distributed Art Publishers 24, 37

Art/Books 25

Circa Press 28

FUEL 32

Fontanka 34, 43

Editions Didier Millet 36

Braun 38

Niggli 38

Max Ström 39, 42

Contrasto 44

Front cover image: A whale off the coast of Norway by Alexander Voitsekhovsky,

taken from A Visit to the Museum of Electricity and Other Encounters,

published by Fontanka. See page 35.

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Cooper Hewitt

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BeautyCooper Hewitt Design Triennial

Edited and with an Introduction by Andrea Lipps and Ellen Lupton

Design

235 illustrations • 32.5 x 22.5cm • 276pp

ISBN 978 1 942 303114 • April

£35.00

Beauty honours the voices of designers from

26 countries around the world by conducting

original interviews about their works and

processes – showing that aesthetic innovation

can drive change, whether materially, structurally

or ethically.

Beauty is an object to be touched, smelled

and savoured. Each of the book’s seven sections is

printed on a luxurious Japanese matte paper with

its own fifth accent colour. A smaller signature of

pages – printed on its own creamy pink paper at the

centre of the book – is called the heart. It contains

the responses from designers to the questions:

What comes to mind when you hear the word

beauty? What is the most beautiful time of day?

What is the most beautiful place you’ve visited?

The authors have selected the designers for the

book and exhibition with a group of international

curatorial advisors: Adélia Borges (Brazil), Claire

Catterall (England), Kenya Hara (Japan), Mugendi

M’Rithaa (South Africa), Sarah Scaturro (United

States), Annemartine van Kesteren (Netherlands)

and Suvi Saloniemi (Finland).

Andrea Lipps is Assistant Curator and Ellen Lupton is Senior Curator of Contemporary Design at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

Cooper Hewitt

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The Museum of Modern Art, New York

DegasA Strange New Beauty

Edited by Jodi Hauptman

Art


ISBN 978 1 633 450059 • March

£32.00

A towering figure in 19th-century art, Degas is

best known as a painter and chronicler of the

ballet. In the 1870s, Degas was introduced to the

monotype process, a technique in which the artist

draws in black ink on a metal plate that is then run

through a press, typically resulting in a single print.

Captivated by the medium’s potential, Degas took

the medium to new and radical heights, inventing

a new repertoire of mark-making that included

wiping, scratching, abrading, finger printing and

rendering via removal. Degas explored a variety of

subject matter in these works, including scenes of

modern life; harshly illuminated café singers; ballet

dancers onstage, backstage, or in rehearsal; the life

of the brothel; intimate moments at the bath; and

landscapes.

Published to accompany an exhibition at The

Museum of Modern Art, this richly illustrated

catalogue presents approximately 120 Degas

monotypes along with some 60 related works,

including paintings, drawings, pastels, sketchbooks

and prints. Essays and case studies by curators,

scholars and conservators explore the creative

potency of Degas’s rarely seen monotypes, and

highlight their impact on his wider practice.

Jodi Hauptman is Senior Curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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What Degas SawSamantha Friedman • Illustrations by Cristina Pieropan

Children’s | Art

Illustrated throughout • 29.8 x 22.9cm • 40pp

ISBN 978 1 633 450042 • March

£12.95

What Degas Saw looks at the world through a

beloved artist’s eyes and provides insight into his

creative process. Walking through the streets of

Paris with cape and cane, the French artist Edgar

Degas observes the world around him, finding

inspiration at every turn. From the blurry faces

of passersby glimpsed through a bus window to

the sun-dappled landscape seen from a moving

train, from the hunched profiles of laundresses at

work to light-bathed ballerinas on the opera house

stage, the artist – with open eyes and a curious

mind – collects impressions of the people and

places he sees. This book will inspire children to

make their own art about the people and places

around them.

Samantha Friedman is an assistant curator in the Department of Drawings and Prints at The Museum of Modern Art in New York. She is the author of Matisse’s Garden, among other books on modern art. Cristina Pieropan is a children’s book illustrator who uses the technique of etching to illustrate her prints. She has published more than 20 books and works with publishers in Italy, Switzerland, England, Korea, and Taiwan. Cristina lives in Castelfranco Veneto, Italy with her husband, three children, and a big black dog.

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Marcel BroodthaersEdited by Christophe Cherix and Manuel J. Borja-Villel

Art


ISBN 978 0 870 709623 • February

£50.00

Marcel Broodthaers’s extraordinary output across

mediums placed him at the center of international

activity during the transformative decades of the

1960s and 1970s. Broodthaers occupied a unique

position throughout his career, often operating

as both innovator and commentator. Setting a

precedent for what we call installation art today,

his work has had a profound influence on a broad

range of contemporary artists, and he remains

vitally relevant to cultural discourse at large.

Published to accompany the artist’s first

retrospective in New York, Marcel Broodthaers

examines the artist’s work across all mediums.

Essays by the exhibition organizers Christophe

Cherix and Manuel J. Borja-Villel, along with a

host of major scholars, including Benjamin H.

D. Buchloh, Jean François Chevrier, Thierry de

Duve and Doris Krystof, provide historical and

theoretical context for the artist’s work. The

book also features new translations of many of

Broodthaers’s texts.

Christophe Cherix is The Robert Lehman Chief Curator of Drawings and Prints, The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Manuel Borja-Villel is Director, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid. Other contributors: Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Jean-François Chevrier, Thierry de Duve, Doris Krystof, Cathleen Chaffee, Kim Conaty, Rafael García Horrillo, Christian Rattemeyer, Sam Sackeroff, Francesca Wilmott and Teresa Velázquez.

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Francis PicabiaOur Heads Are Round so Our Thoughts Can Change Direction

Edited by Anne Umland and Cathérine Hug

Art


ISBN 978 1 633 450035 • June

£50.00

Among the great modern artists of the past

century, Picabia is one of the most elusive, given

his extreme eclecticism and persistent acts of

self-contradiction. Published in conjunction

with the first large-scale retrospective of the

artist’s work in the USA since 1970, this volume

thoroughly surveys his profoundly innovative and

influential career. It presents over 100 paintings,

complemented by works on paper, publications

and film, exploring the full range of Picabia’s

oeuvre in some 500 illustrations and 14 essays.

Authors including Anne Umland and Cathérine

Hug, distinguished professors George Baker, Briony

Fer and David Joselit, and renowned Picabia

scholars Carole Boulbès and Arnauld Pierre discuss

a varied series of topics, including the corporeal

character of Picabia’s abstractions, his unexpected

turn to mechanical painting, his experiments

with materials and source imagery, the problems

of his politics, and his contemporary legacy. A

richly illustrated chronology details the expanded

nature of Picabia’s visual production – from press

polemics to party organizing.

Anne Umland is Curator of Painting and Sculpture at The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Cathérine Hug is a curator at the Kunsthaus, Zürich.

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A Japanese ConstellationToyo Ito, SANAA and Beyond

Edited by Pedro Gadanho and Phoebe Springstubb

Architecture


ISBN 978 1 633 450097 • March

£38.00

A Japanese Constellation focuses on the work

of a small group of architects and designers

influenced by and gravitating around the architect

Toyo Ito and the architectural firm SANAA.

Beginning with an overview of Ito’s career and

his influence as a mentor to a new generation of

Japanese architects, it presents a richly illustrated

portfolio of recent works by three generations of

internationally acclaimed designers, including Sou

Fujimoto, Akihisa Hirata, and Junya Ishigami.

It also reveals a network of influence and cross-

pollination that has become particularly relevant

at the start of the 21st century. Essays by curators,

architectural historians, and critics reflect on the

transmission of an architectural sensibility, and suggest

an alternative model to what has been commonly

described as an individuality-based ‘star-system’

in architecture. Offering a panorama of interlinked

settled or up-and-coming stars, the publication

reveals how shared architectural themes travel across

generations of architects, creating a strong identity for

a regional practice with global impact.

Pedro Gadanho is a Curator in the Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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An Auteurist History of FilmCharles Silver

Cinema


ISBN 978 0 870 709777 • paperback • April

£22.50

Beginning in 2009, The Museum of Modern Art

offered a weekly series of film screenings titled

An Auteurist History of Film. Inspired by Andrew

Sarris’ seminal work The American Cinema, which

developed on the idea of ‘auteur theory’ first

discussed by the critics of Cahiers du Cinéma in

the 1950s, the series presented cinematic works

from MoMA’s expansive collection with particular

focus on the role of the director as artistic author.

For the five years that the series was presented,

film curator Charles Silver wrote a concise post to

accompany each screening. These texts described

the place of each film in the oeuvre of its director

as well as its significance to wilder film history.

Following the end of the series’ long run, the

Museum has collected these posts for publication,

bringing together Silver’s insightful and often

humorous readings of the series’ films into a single

volume. This volume is an invaluable guide to

key directors and works of cinema as well as an

excellent introduction to auteur theory.

Charles Silver is a former curator in Department of Film at The Museum of Modern Art, New York.

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MoMA Dance

Dance

Each book: c. 40 illustrations • 24.8 x 16.5cm • 160pp

Paperback • June

£19.95

MoMA Dance is a new series of monographs

exploring dance makers in the twenty-first

century. Each volume focuses on a single

contemporary choreographer, presenting a rich

collection of newly commissioned texts along

with a definitive catalogue of the artist’s projects.

Accessible, informative, and inspiring, they are

indispensible guides to contemporary dance for

fans and scholars alike.

Boris Charmatz

Edited and with text by Ana Janevski. Text by Gilles Almavi, Jérôme Bel, Cosmin Costinas, Bojana Cvejić, Tim Etchells, Mark Franko, Gabriella Giannachi, Adrian Heathfield, Noémi Solomon, Peter Tolmie, Christophe Wavelet, Catherine Wood

Ralph Lemon

Edited and with text by Thomas J. Lax. Text by Doryun Chong, Adrienne Edwards, Saidiya Hartman, Deborah Jowitt, Ralph Lemon, André Lepecki, Fred Moten, Okwui Okpokwasili, Katherine Profeta, Will Rawls

Sarah Michelson

Edited and with text by David Velasco. Text by Ralph Lemon, Gia Kourlas, Jay Sanders, Debra Singer


ISBN 978 1 633 450080ISBN 978 1 633 450073ISBN 978 1 633 450066

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William Merritt Chase

Erica E. Hirshler

Art

55 colour illustrations • 24.1 x 19.0cm • 84pp

ISBN 978 0 878 468393 • paperback • June

£12.00

Praised for his jewel-like landscapes, park

scenes, and sympathetic images of women,

William Merritt Chase was a leading American

Impressionist painter and an influential teacher

in the late 19th century. This beautifully illustrated

volume provides a compact introduction to

Chase’s paintings and pastels, reproducing

45 works in brilliant colour, grouped by five

thematic chapters.

Erica E. Hirshler is Croll Senior Curator of American Paintings at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

European Painting and Sculpture after 1800

Emily A. Beeny and Marietta Cambareri

Art


ISBN 978 0 878 468409 • paperback • June

£15.00

This new title in the MFA HIGHLIGHTS series

presents 100 important works of painting and

sculpture from the MFA, Boston, with emphasis

on its stellar collections of Impressionist art. With

an introduction that describes the phenomena

that helped chart the course of art in the period,

it includes such masterpieces as Renoir’s Dance

at Bougival, Gauguin’s Where Do We Come From?

What Are We? Where Are We Going?, Degas’s Little

Dancer and Turner’s Slave Ship.

Emily A. Beeny is Associate Curator at the Norton Simon Museum, Pasadena, California. Marietta Cambareri is Curator, Decorative Arts and Sculpture, and Jetskalina H. Phillips Curator of Judaica, Art of Europe, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston

Megacities AsiaAl Miner and Laura Weinstein

Art



£12.00

More than half of the world’s megacities – cities

with populations of ten million or more – are in

Asia. This compact and dynamically designed

book introduces the work of several artists from

the megacities of Seoul, Beijing, Shanghai, Delhi

and Mumbai who are fuelling their practices with

materials found in those places and responding

with large, immersive sculptures indelibly marked

by their urban contexts. Like the cities in which

they were conceived, the towering accumulations

of stainless steel vessels, plastic wares, discarded

architectural elements, grocery products and

other found objects by artists Ai Weiwei, Choi

Jeong Hwa, Subodh Gupta, Han Seok Hyun, Hu

Xiangcheng, Aaditi Joshi, Song Dong, Hema

Upadhyay, Asim Waqif, Yin Xiuzhen and the

collective flyingCity dazzle us with their sheer

mass and strange transformative power, and

envelop us in complex global issues of migration,

consumption, sustainability and cultural heritage.

Al Miner is Assistant Curator, Contemporary Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Laura Weinstein is Ananda Coomaraswamy Curator of South Asian and Islamic Art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

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Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain

The Great Animal OrchestraBernie Krause, Bruce Albert and Vinciane Despret

Art


ISBN 978 2 869 251236 • June

£30.00

Published to accompany the exhibition opening

in June 2016 at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art

contemporain in Paris, this catalogue introduces

an exclusive acoustic and sensory experience,

unveiling the fascinating musical complexity of

the living world. Highlighting the incomparable

work of musician and bio acoustician Bernie

Krause, it offers an aesthetic, scientific and

philosophical exploration of the animal world.

Following Bernie Krause’s approach, this cri

du coeur argues that the secrets hidden in the

natural world’s shrinking sonic environment

must be preserved, not only for our scientific

understanding, but for our cultural heritage and

humanity’s physical and spiritual welfare. With

powerful illustrations and in-depth and original

contributions by specialists from different

scientific fields, this book is a manifesto for the

appreciation and protection of biodiversity.

Bernie Krause has been travelling the world recording and archiving the sounds of living creatures and natural environments since 1968. Working in different research sites, he identified the concept of biophony based on the relationships of individual creatures to the total biological soundscape as each establishes frequency and/or temporal bandwidth within a given habitat.

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Fondation Carter pour l’art contemporain

Daido TokyoDaido Moriyama

Photography


ISBN 978 2 869 251229 • February

£26.00

Daido Moriyama, a legendary figure in Japanese

photography, is to be the subject of a solo

exhibition at the Fondation Cartier pour l’art

contemporain from February to May 2016.

Moriyama invented a new visual language in his

work from the mid-1960s onwards; frenetic and

tormented, it depicted a reality that was grainy,

blurry and out-of-focus.

In 2003, the Fondation Cartier pour l’art

contemporain organized a landmark solo

exhibition of Moriyama’s black and white work.

His lesser-known colour photography will feature

in this latest exhibition, ‘Daido Tokyo’. Depicting

underground neighbourhoods in the Japanese

capital – a favourite location for the photographer

– these images reference the motifs that are

omnipresent in the artist’s work, as well as his

penchant for textures and shaky compositions.

Daido Moriyama (b. 1938, Japan) has published more than 150 monographs so far. He has had major solo exhibitions at the Philadelphia Museum of Art, the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, the Fotomuseum of Winterthur in Switzerland and SFMoMA in San Francisco. His work is in the collections of MoMA, New York, the Getty Museum of Los Angeles, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston and the Centre Pompidou in Paris, as well as the Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain in Paris.

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Ludion

Marthe DonasA Woman Artist in the Avant Garde

Peter J. H. Pauwels with Kristien Boon

Art


ISBN 978 9 491 819414 • April

£35.00

This is the first monograph in English on Belgian

artist Marthe Donas (1885–1967), a pioneer

of avant-garde art who is finally achieving

the international recognition she deserves. It

encompasses both her surviving work and much

of what was lost and probably destroyed during

the Second World War. Written by the secretary

of the Marthe Donas Foundation, Peter J. H.

Pauwels, it features high-quality reproductions

of the artist’s drawings and paintings – including

Nature Morte M, Portrait de Georgette, Jeux

and Composition abstraite N°5 – as well as a

chronological list of her exhibitions. In clear,

accessible language, the authors interweave close

biographical details with insightful criticism,

allowing us to understand the evolution of her style

from cubism to the abstract. Donas was a friend

of many important figures in the avant-garde, and

exhibited with all the greats of the period, from

Picasso to Mondrian, Braque to Modigliani. But

more importantly, she was an exceptional artist in

her own right, as this luxuriously produced book so

emphatically demonstrates.

Peter J. H. Pauwels is the secretary of the Marthe Donas Foundation, created in 2003 to ensure the preservation and promotion of the works of the painter Marthe Donas.

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Ludion

Bosch in DetailTill-Holger Borchert

Art


ISBN 978 9 491 819513 • April

£29.95

Hieronymus Bosch (1450–1516) is one of the

most important and famous artists in the history

of Netherlandish painting. This book, the latest

in the successful series that began with Van Eyck

in Detail and Bruegel in Detail, explores his best-

known paintings and drawings, showing them

as never before in stunning, full-page details. It

is organized by typical themes in Bosch’s work,

such as faces, heaven and hell, the four elements,

landscapes, and creatures both fantastic and

monstrous. Readers are treated to an exceptional

view of masterpieces like The Garden of Earthly

Delights, The Haywain Triptych, The Temptation of

St Anthony and The Seven Deadly Sins. Till-Holger

Borchert, Director of the Bruges Museums and an

expert on Netherlandish art, guides us through the

painter’s oeuvre in clear and accessible language,

and from less familiar and surprising angles.

Till-Holger Borchert is the director of Musea Brugge, which comprises the museums and historic sites of Bruges, Belgium. A noted art historian and authority on Netherlandish art of the 14th, 15th and 16th centuries, he has curated a number of major exhibitions, including ‘Memling’s Portraits’, which showed in Bruges, New York and Madrid.

Available again Bruegel: The Complete Paintings, Drawings and Prints ISBN 978 9 461 300423 £45.00

Available again

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Cahiers d’Art

Cahiers d’Art Special Issue, 2015 Picasso: In the StudioBrigitte Léal, Ann Hindry, Marilyn McCully, Elizabeth Cowling, Vérane Tasseau and Cécile Godefroy

Art



£50.00

This special issue of the revue reveals rare and

previously unpublished photographs of Picasso

in his studio and his work in progress, offering

a rich and detailed exploration of the artist’s

creative process. Each of its seven chapters is

devoted to a particular technique examined

through photographs by such leading 20th-

century photographers as Yves Manciet, Edward

Quinn, David Douglas Duncan, Lee Miller, Lucien

Clergue and Nick de Morgoli, as well as images

from the Archives of Olga Ruiz-Picasso. Each

chapter is followed by an illustrated interview with

a contemporary artist, including Miquel Barceló,

George Condo, Sheila Hicks, William Kentridge,

Jeff Koons, Robert Longo and Tatiana Trouvé,

all of whom comment on their work and their

relationship to Picasso. Picasso’s relationship with

former Cahiers d’Art publisher Christian Zervos

is also examined through key articles published

during the artist’s lifetime.

Brigitte Léal, Ann Hindry, Marilyn McCully, Elizabeth Cowling, Vérane Tasseau and Cécile Godefroy are all noted art historians.

Also available Cahiers d’Art N°1, 2014: Hiroshi Sugimoto ISBN 9782851171795 Cahiers d’Art N°1, 2015: Calder in France ISBN 9782851171818 Cahiers d’Art N°1-2, 2013: Rosemarie Trockel ISBN 9782851171764

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RM

CalderDiscipline of the Dance

Alexander Calder, Alexander S.C. Rower, Jose Esparza, Chong Cuv, Juan Garcia Ponce and Jose Revueltas

Art


ISBN 978 8 416 282265 • April

£35.00

Published to accompany and build on the

exhibition ‘Calder: derechos de la danza’ at the

Museo Jumex, Mexico City, this catalogue not

only offers a vision of the American artist’s

wide-ranging production, but also explores his

participation in the Cultural Olympiad organized

by Mathias Goeritz on the occasion of the 1968

Olympic Games in Mexico City.

It includes reproductions of around 100

works presented at the exhibition, in addition to

numerous photographs and documents from the

archive of the International Meeting of Sculptors

which was held at the Olympiad. Finally, the

book details the design process, fabrication and

installation of El sol rojo, a sculpture by Alexander

Calder that was part of the ‘Route of Friendship’

and can still be seen on the esplanade of the

Estadio Azteca in Mexico City.

Alexander Calder was an American sculptor known as the originator of the mobile, a type of moving sculpture made with delicately balanced or suspended shapes that move in response to touch or air currents.

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MCA Australia

Grayson PerryMy Pretty Little Art Career

Rachel Kent, Grayson Perry, Julian Baggini and Louisa Buck

Art


ISBN 978 1 921 034787 • slipcased • April

£32.00

Grayson Perry is one of the best known artists

of his generation, acclaimed for his ceramics,

sculptures, drawings, prints and tapestries. With

a keen eye for detail and a love of the popular

and vernacular, Perry infuses his artworks with

a sly humour and reflection on society past and

present. The artist’s highly decorated pots in

particular reveal a panoply of imagery ranging

from the highly personal to the political, their

subjects including his own family, the art world,

Biblical stories, the royal family, and images of

warfare and sexual fantasy. Perry’s feminine alter

ego ‘Claire’ emerges through his practice as a

recurring visual motif. He has forged a distinctive

career that sits apart from the cooler theoretical

approach of some of his peers, favouring a more

flamboyant, accessible aesthetic that blurs the

division of high art and popular culture.

This volume, published to accompany Perry’s

first major Australian exhibition, covers the full

spectrum of his practice from the early 1980s to

the present, including new work.

Rachel Kent is Chief Curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Australia. Julian Baggini is editor-in-chief of The Philosophers’ Magazine. Louisa Buck is contemporary art correspondent for The Art Newspaper.

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Walther König

Olafur Eliasson: Reality MachinesEdited by Matilda Olof-Ors Texts by Daniel Birnbaum, Olafur Eliasson and TImothy Morton

Art


ISBN 978 3 863 358624 • paperback • January

£38.00

Olafur Eliasson’s diverse artworks – in sculpture,

painting, photography, film and installations

– have been exhibited widely throughout the

world. Not limited to the confines of the museum

and gallery, his practice engages the broader

public sphere through architectural projects and

interventions in civic space.

Olafur Eliasson: Reality Machines was

conceived and designed by Irma Boom, one of

the world’s most celebrated graphic designers,

to bring to life in book form Eliasson’s artwork

and ideas. Published by Moderna Museet and

König Books on the occasion of the exhibition

‘Verklighetsmaskiner / Reality machines’ at

Moderna Museet in Stockholm, it takes the form

of an artist’s book in which essays and images

interact with tactile papers and transparent films.

Essays by Timothy Morton and Matilda Olof-Ors,

as well as a conversation between Eliasson

and Daniel Birnbaum, director of Moderna

Museet, accompany Anders Sune Berg’s vivid

installation photography.

Olafur Eliasson (b. 1967, Denmark/Iceland) is one of the world’s most acclaimed artists. Daniel Birnbaum has been the director of Moderna Museet since the autumn of 2010. Timothy Morton is the Rita Shea Guffey Chair in English at Rice University, in Houston. Matilda Olof-Ors is a curator at Moderna Museet.

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Walther König

Wolfgang Tillmans: What’s Wrong with Redistribution?Text by Tom McDonough

Art | Photography


ISBN 978 3 863 358228 • January

£38.00

Since Wolfgang Tillmans first exhibited his

multi-part installation on tables with the title

‘Truth Study Centre’ ten years ago, this group

of works has become an integral component of

his exhibitions. Frequently rooted in the local

conditions and the period of their inception,

these collages composed of texts, images and

objects seek to gain a clear perspective on

our increasingly complex age. The question of

redistribution also plays an important role for

Tillmans in the majority of his other truth study

centre installations: ‘asking this question kind of

innocently, may remind oneself that the specific

way something is distributed today, is not done so

by following a law of nature, but by a complex set

of moral and political choices’, states Tillmans.

The scope and complexity of this long-term

project is revealed for the first time in this book

and in the parallel exhibition at Hamburger

Bahnhof. An essay by Thomas McDonough places

Tillmans’ project within the context of 20th-

century collage, from Hannah Höch to Robert

Rauschenberg.

Thomas McDonough is professor for comparative literature at Birmingham University, New York, and regularly publishes articles on contemporary art in magazines such as Afterall, Artforum and OSMOS.

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Walther König

Francesca Woodman On Being an AngelEdited by Anna Tellgren Foreword by Daniel Birnbaum and Ann-Sofie Noring Introduction by Lena Esseling Texts by Anna Tellgren, Anna-Karin Palm and George Woodman

Photography


ISBN 978 3 863 357504 • January

£22.50

Francesca Woodman (1958–1981) created a

fascinating body of photographic work in a few

intense years before her premature death. Her

oeuvre has been the subject of numerous in-depth

studies and exhibitions in recent years, and her

photographs have inspired artists all over the

world. Woodman’s photographs explore gender,

representation, sexuality and the body. Her work

includes several self-portraits, using herself and

her friends as models. The figures are often placed

behind furniture and other interior elements;

occasionally, the images are blurred in such a

way that their identity is hidden from the viewer.

Woodman worked in unusual settings such as

derelict buildings, using mirrors and glass to evoke

surrealist and occasionally claustrophobic moods.

This book accompanies and augments a major

exhibition at the Moderna Museet, which has been

produced in association with the Woodman Estate.

It presents a compilation of photography from

the Museum’s collection that shows Woodman in

context and which will increase our understanding

of her work.

Francesca Woodman studied at the Rhode Island School of Design from1975 to 1978.

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Distributed Art Publishers

Donald Judd: Complete Writings 1959–1975

Donald Judd

Art



£30.00

Originally published in 1975, reprinted in 2005

and out of print for many years, this collection

of Donald Judd’s writings is now a sought after

classic. His uncompromising reviews avoid the

familiar generalizations so often associated with

artistic styles emerging during the 1950s and 60s.

Here, Judd discusses in detail the work of more

than 500 artists showing in New York at that time,

and provides a critical account of this significant

era in American art.

Donald Judd (1928–1994) began his artistic career as a painter, but switched to making objects in the early 1960s, convinced that ‘colour could continue no further on a flat surface … colour to continue had to occur in space.’

On Curating 2Interviews with Fourteen International Curators

Carolee Thea

Art



£19.95

On Curating 2, Carolee Thea’s new volume of

interviews with 14 of today’s leading curators,

explores the lively system of art biennials that is

thriving around the world – particularly outside

Europe and America. The new generation of

curators hail from cities as diverse as Bogotá,

Dakar, Havana, Jakarta, Jerusalem, Lagos, Mumbai,

Seoul and Zagreb, and they are the subjects of the

interviews collected in this book.

Carolee Thea is the author of On Curating: Interviews with Ten International Curators and foci: interviews with ten international curators.

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Art/Books

Could Have, Would Have, Should HaveInside the World of the Art Collector

Tiqui Atencio

Art


ISBN 978 1 908 970244 • May

£22.50

Based on interviews with around 80 of the world’s

best-known and influential collectors active

today, this entertaining book by the prominent

international collector Tiqui Atencio reveals the

myriad ups and downs, joys and heartaches of

buying and owning contemporary art. In a series

of thirty chapters – among them ‘Serendipity’,

‘Obsessions’, ‘Auction moments’, ‘What was I

thinking?’, ‘To sell or not sell’, ‘Being custodians’

– the collectors reveal to Atencio their highs

and lows, the successes and regrets, the shared

passions and intense rivalries, the works that got

away … and the ones that perhaps should have

done. Their anecdotes and recollections reveal

the many practical and emotional aspects of

collecting art, all the unexpected pleasures and

challenges. What emerges is a frank and honest,

surprising and eye-opening, and sometimes

hilarious account of a lifelong dedication that is

described by some as a heroic commitment and

by others as a crazy sickness. Cartoons throughout

the book by celebrated artist and satirist Pablo

Helguera complement the humorous and

enjoyable tone of the text.

Tiqui Atencio is a collector of Latin American, pre-Columbian and contemporary art.

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Art/Books

Clare WoodsStrange Meetings

Texts by Michael Bracewell, Rebecca Daniels, Jennifer Higgie, Andrew Marr and Simon Martin

Art


ISBN 978 1 908 970268 • April

£29.99

Clare Woods is internationally regarded as one

of the most significant painters working today.

Her highly colouristic paintings hover somewhere

between abstraction and representation,

expressing both a poetic romanticism and an

unnerving psychic charge. This beautifully designed

and illustrated volume is the first monograph on

her art. It presents all the major works from her

career to date, from small-scale intimate paintings

and prints to ambitious large-scale architectural

projects. The dynamic layout of the book, with a

varied mix of close-up detail and installation shots,

gives the reader a strong sense of the diverse scale

and immersive, push-pull nature of the paintings.

Five prominent writers consider various aspects

of her practice, including her use of photographic

source material; her engagement with the

traditions of landscape and figurative art; her

relationship with artistic forebears; the context of

painting practice today and 21st-century culture;

and the connections between her life and work.

Clare Woods is a British artist. Michael Bracewell is the author of Perfect Tense and England Is Mine. Rebecca Daniels is an art historian. Jennifer Higgie is co-editor of frieze magazine. Andrew Marr is a British broadcaster and journalist. Simon Martin is the Artistic Director of Pallant House Gallery, Chichester.

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StrandStuart Haygarth Texts by Robert Macfarlane and Deyan Sudjic

Art


ISBN 978 1 908 970251 • April

£28.00

Stuart Haygarth gathers discarded or overlooked

objects and elevates them into art. He makes

exquisite designs and stunning installations out of

common detritus and everyday waste. For Strand,

he walked the entire length of the English south

coast, from Gravesend to Land’s End, picking up

hundreds of man-made items left washed up on

the shore. Combs, lighters and baby dolls, plastic

balls, toys, containers and shoes were just some

of the many objects he gathered on the 450-mile

trip. Back in the studio, he categorized every item

by type and colour before arranging them into

precise compositions and photographing them.

Displaying the formal rigour of the designer and

the aesthetic eye of the artist, the resulting images

seduce with their beauty and visual immediacy.

The objects form an archive of sorts, a fragmented

narrative of unknown people’s lives, as well as a

material document of Haygarth’s journey. But his

beautiful pictures tell another tale too: the story of

our reckless pollution of the environment, for each

of these manufactured objects has been thrown

away and then carried by the world’s oceans and

seas. They are the flotsam and jetsam of daily life.

Stuart Haygarth is an award-winning British artist and designer. Robert Macfarlane is an academic and award-winning travel writer. Deyan Sudjic OBE is the director of the Design Museum in London.

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Circa Press

International Space StationArchitecture Beyond Earth

David Nixon

Architecture


ISBN 978 0 993 072130 • March

£65.00

In 1984 President Ronald Reagan gave NASA the

go-ahead to build a Space Station. A generation

later, the International Space Station is an

established and highly successful research centre

in Earth orbit. The history of this extraordinary

project is a complex weave of powerful threads –

political, diplomatic, financial and technological

among them – but none is more fascinating than

the story of its design. This book provides the first

comprehensive account of the International Space

Station’s conception, development and assembly

in space. As a highly accessible chronicle of a

complex piece of design and engineering, it will

appeal to readers far beyond the space field.

NASA Astronaut Nicole Stott, a veteran of

International Space Station Expeditions 20 and 21

and Shuttle Missions STS-128, STS-129 and STS-

133, introduces the book with a personal memoir

– ‘A Home in Space’.

David Nixon is an architect with a particular interest in designing for space exploration. In 1978 he co-founded Future Systems with Jan Kaplický and was among a handful of architects to collaborate on the design of the International Space Station. In 2000 he formed a space venture named Astrocourier to develop miniature spaceflight experiments for schools. His book on the International Space Station is the result of seven years of work.

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An Igloo on the MoonExploring Architecture

David Jenkins Illustrator: Adrian Buckley

Children’s | Architecture


ISBN 978 0 993 072116 • January

£19.95

Aimed at young, enquiring minds, An Igloo on the

Moon explores how and why we build. Beginning

with the igloo, whose origins are lost in time, and

culminating in the latest 3D-printing technology

for building dwellings on the Moon, the book

weaves together themes and ideas to create an

unfolding visual narrative.

Illustrated with a sequence of extraordinary

images, specially created for the book by artist

Adrian Buckley, An Igloo on the Moon is structured

under seven thematic headings, each of which

ranges through history and across architectural

styles: Simple Forms of Shelter; Keeping Cool and

Staying Warm; Exploring New Types of Structure;

Living Beneath the Ground; Habitable Bridges and

Heroic Spans; Reaching up to the Sky; and Visions

of the Future.

Underlying the narrative is an acute awareness

of environmental issues and the need to reconnect

with sustainable patterns of building. It is a book

to engage and excite the next generation of

architects – and their parents and grandparents.

David Jenkins has written and edited numerous books, including Norman Foster Works (Volumes 1 to 6), The Strange Death of Architectural Criticism and a monograph on the architect Pierre Koenig. Adrian Buckley is a graphic artist whose work collages images and references from across time and disciplines.

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Circa Press

Jan Kaplický DrawingsIvan Margolius and Richard Rogers

Architecture

300 illustrations • 30.0 x 30.0cm • 212pp, plus 32 tipped-

in pages • ISBN 978 0 993 072109 • January

£95.00

Jan Kaplický (1937–2009) was a visionary

architect with a passion for drawing. It was his

way of discovering, describing and constructing;

and through drawing he presented beguiling

architectural imagery of the highest order.

Many of his sketches, cutaway drawings

and photomontages are brought together

and celebrated in Jan Kaplický Drawings. These

drawings date from the early years of his

independent practice, Future Systems, in the

1970s, to his final ink drawings, executed in the

mid-1990s. Featured projects range from design

studies for the International Space Station,

undertaken with NASA, to the Media Centre at

Lord’s Cricket Ground in London, winner of the

1999 Stirling Prize.

Kaplický was one of the world’s last great

architect-poet-draughtsmen, upholding a heritage

that has its roots in the early Renaissance and

has since all but vanished with the advent of

computer-aided design. If this book has one

central message for architects, it is that drawing as

an art and a discipline must not be forgotten.

Richard Rogers is an architect of global renown. He was one of the first people to recognise Jan Kaplický’s talent and offer him a place in his studio. Ivan Margolius is an architect and author. He collaborated on a number of books with Jan Kaplický, including For Inspiration Only.

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Death DriveThere Are No Accidents

Stephen Bayley

Design | Culture


ISBN 978 0 993 072123 • March

£29.95

Cars have a talismanic quality. No other

manufactured object has the same disturbing

allure. More emotions are involved in cars and

car design than in any other product: vanity,

cupidity, greed, social competitiveness and cultural

modelling. But when all this perverse promise ends

in catastrophe, these same talismanic qualities

acquire an extra dimension.

The car crash is a defining phenomenon

of popular culture. Death Drive is both an

appreciative essay about the historic place of

the automobile in the modern imagination and

a detailed exploration of the circumstances of

twenty celebrity car crashes, from Isadora Duncan

in an Amilcar, in 1927, to Helmut Newton in a

Cadillac SRX, in 2004.

En route the narrative traces one very big

arc – the role of the car in extending or creating

the personality of a celebrity – and concludes by

confronting the imminent death of the car itself.

Stephen Bayley is an author, critic, columnist, consultant, broadcaster, curator and founding director of the influential Design Museum. Over the past thirty years his writing has changed the way the world thinks about design.

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FUEL

The Music LibraryRevised and Expanded Edition

Jonny Trunk Editors: Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell Foreword by Jerry Dammers

Music | Design


ISBN 978 0 993 191138 • April

£35.00

The first edition of The Music Library came out

in 2005. It brought together over 325 sleeves

with information about these rare and elusive

albums. This highly sought after book influenced

both graphic artists and music collectors around

the world, quickly becoming known as the

music library ‘bible’. The Music Library sparked a

resurgence of interest in the subject over the last

ten years, with many new libraries and recordings

coming to light. As a result this revised and

expanded edition contains twice the content,

featuring 625 rare sleeves from 230 music library

companies of the 1960s, 1970s and early 1980s.

The amazing cover designs of over 100 newly

discovered libraries are beautifully reproduced

(alongside all the sleeves contained in the first

book) accompanied by exhaustive updated

captions.

Jonny Trunk started Trunk Records in 1995. The first release was the library compilation ‘The Super Sounds Of Bosworth’. Still obsessed by library and film music, Trunk continues to issue rare lost recordings, DJs internationally, broadcasts on television and radio and sources beautiful and often strange music for television and film.

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Russian Criminal Tattoo Police Files Volume IArkady Bronnikov Edited by Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell

Popular Culture


ISBN 978 0 956 896292 • March

£19.95

This book features over 180 photographs and

accompanying texts of Russian criminal tattoos

from the Arkady Bronnikov collection. From the

mid-1960s to the late-1980s Bronnikov worked as a

senior expert in criminalistics at the USSR Ministry

of Internal Affairs. It was here that he interviewed,

gathered information and took photographs of

convicts and their tattoos, building one of the most

comprehensive archives of this phenomenon.

The Bronnikov collection was made exclusively

for police use, to further the understanding of the

language of these tattoos and to act as an aid in

the identification and apprehension of criminals in

the field. Unimpeded by artistry, these vernacular

photographs present a guileless representation of

criminal society. Every image discloses evidence of an

inmate’s character: aggressive, vulnerable, melancholic,

conceited. Their bodies display an unofficial history,

told not just through tattoos, but also in scars and

missing digits. Closer inspection only confirms our

inability to comprehend the unimaginable lives of this

previously unacknowledged caste.

Arkady Bronnikov is Russia’s leading expert on tattoo iconography.

Also available Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume I ISBN 978 0 955 862076 £18.95

Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume II ISBN 978 0 955 006128 £18.95

Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume III ISBN 978 0 955 006197 £18.95

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Fontanka

Capability Brown and Hampton CourtMikhail Dedinkin and David Jacques

Landscape Design


ISBN 978 1 906 257224 • April

£32.00

This album publishes, for the very first time, 100

hitherto unknown watercolours/drawings of

Capability Brown’s designs for Hampton Court

Palace gardens. These were purchased by Empress

Catherine the Great of Russia through her own

gardener James Meader, a disciple of Capability

Brown, and then forgotten in the Hermitage

stores. John Spyers, the artist to whom the albums

have been attributed by Hermitage curator Mikhail

Dedinkin, was Brown’s surveyor. Catherine the

Great paid the huge sum of 1,000 roubles for

them in the early 1780s and they were clearly

bought as Capability Brown drawings. Almost

no other visual material about Hampton Court

and its gardens and park at the period when

Lancelot ‘Capability’ Brown was the resident Royal

Gardener has survived, so the importance of these

views, which have never been published or on

exhibition before, cannot be overstated.

This book accompanies the exhibition ‘The

Empress and The King’s Gardener’ at Hampton

Court Palace from 27 April to 4 September 2016.

Mikhail Dedinkin is Deputy Head of Western European Fine Art at The Hermitage Museum. David Jacques is a garden historian and consultant.

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A visit to the Museum of Electricity and other encountersAlexander Voitsekhovsky

Art


ISBN 978 1 906 257170 • March

£24.00

Alexander Voitsekhovsky was originally a doctor

who drew in his spare time. In 1994 Alexander’s

friends, without his knowledge, assembled the

pictures he’d given them, put them in frames,

transferred the commentaries he’d written on

the back to labels, and hung them in a gallery

on the Moika river in St Petersburg. Then they

invited people along, including the artist. In 2000

Alexander quit his job and started to travel the

world with his pictures. He has exhibited widely,

in the UK, USA and Europe, as well as Russia.

Wherever he goes, the charming, idiosyncratic

humour of his work finds an appreciative audience.

This beautifully designed book showcases

these paintings and drawings and allows them to

speak for themselves – for they genuinely create

an entire world of their own.

Alexander Voitsekhovsky lives in St Petersburg. He trained as a doctor in the Emergency Services and only started working as a full-time artist in 2000.

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Editions Didier Millet

Indonesian Tribal ArtBruce W. Carpenter

World Art

Over 400 illustrations • 30.0 x 28.0cm • 332pp

ISBN 978 9 814 610100 • January

£55.00

Illustrated by more than 400 beautifully

photographed masterpieces from one of the

world’s largest private collections and published

in a large and sumptuous folio, Indonesian Tribal

Art promises to be one of the most important

books ever published on the subject. The works,

which were collected by Rodger Dashow of Boston

over a period of 30 years, not only include many

unpublished pieces but also types that have been

rarely seen.

Bruce W. Carpenter provides the main text.

The book also features an introduction by Andrew

Gurevich and Robert Walter, the president and

chairperson of the Joseph Campbell Foundation,

concerning the continuing relevance of the work

of that seminal philosopher and bestselling author

in the field of tribal studies.

Written for the interested layman, the book

provides a clear overview of the subject and also

discusses the significance of the recent scientific

discovery that Indonesia is home to some of the

oldest art on earth. Every art piece illustrated in

the book is accompanied by descriptive captions

and measurements.

Bruce W. Carpenter is the author or co-author of more than twenty books and scores of articles on Indonesia’s art, history and culture.

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Nick Brandt: Inherit the DustNick Brandt

Photography | Natural History


ISBN 978 0 692 520543 • April

£45.00

With Inherit The Dust, Nick Brandt returns to East

Africa to photograph, in a unique and dramatically

different way, the escalating changes to the

continent’s natural world and its animals. In a

series of epic panoramas, Brandt photographs

in places where the animals used to roam, but

due to the impact of man, no longer do. In each

location, Brandt erects a life-size panel of portrait

photographs that include groups of elephants,

rhinos, giraffes, lions, cheetahs and zebra setting

the panels within a world of explosive urban

development, factories, wasteland and quarries.

The panoramas constitute two thirds of the book.

The final third features portraits of the animals

that were featured in the panels, the kind of iconic

animal portraiture for which Brandt is globally

recognized.

Kathryn Bigelow, Film Director (The Hurt

Locker), writes: ‘Nick Brandt’s unvarnished,

harrowing but stunning new work brings us face to

face with a crisis, both social and environmental,

demanding the renewal of humanity itself.’

Nick Brandt photographs exclusively in Africa, using medium format black-and-white film without telephoto or zoom lenses. Born in Britain and currently based in Southern California, Brandt co-founded the Big Life Foundation in September 2010, which helps protect the endangered wildlife inhabiting a large area of East Africa.

Distributed Art Publishers

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Modern Architecture Kuwait1949–1989

Roberto Fabbri, Sara Saragoça Soares and Ricardo Camacho

Architecture


ISBN 978 3 721 209488 • paperback • February

£35.00

This book features more than 150 Kuwaiti

buildings, all fully illustrated and analysed in

order to understand the dynamics of change

and innovation they represent. It examines a

wide range of buildings selected as examples of

particular design methodologies or typologies,

or for the various forms of adaptation to the

peculiarities of local environmental conditions.

Roberto Fabbri is a UN Development Programme consultant for the Dar al-Athar al-Islamiyyah’s (DAI) galleries in Kuwait. Ricardo Camacho is curator of the Conference on Kuwait Modern Architecture. Sara Saragoça Soares has been working in Kuwait since 2012.

Braun | Niggli

Building Berlin, Vol 5The latest architecture in and out of the capital

Architektenkammer Berlin

Architecture


ISBN 978 3 037 682050 • paperback • March

£24.95

As it does every year, Building Berlin presents the

most important and interesting projects from

the past year in Berlin. Approximately 70 projects

in eight chapters are accompanied by essays on

specific aspects. Particularly noteworthy are an

analysis on postwar buildings and ‘XS Living’,

which looks at the current trend of living in the

city in limited space and its consequences.

Architektenkammer Berlin – the Berlin Chamber of Architects – is made of approximately 8,100 architects, interior designers, landscape architects and urban planners.

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United NationsThe Story Behind the Headquarters of the World

Photography by Åke E:son Lindman Text by Mark Isitt

Architecture | Photography


ISBN 978 9 171 263438 • April

£35.00

This lavish book tells the dramatic story behind

the building of the UN Headquarters, never before

related as revealingly as it is here. The authors take

us on an exclusive tour around the entire complex

through 150 specially commissioned photographs.

The idea for locating the United Nations

Headquarters in an evil-smelling slaughterhouse

district sprang from an astute real estate broker;

the finance came from the Rockefeller family;

and the architecture from Le Corbusier, Oscar

Niemeyer and Sven Markelius, among others.

In a few months of intense creativity the team

conjured up a symbol for peace in the form of a

set of ultramodern buildings that still inspire hope

for a better future.

This large-format book is probably the most

exquisite book on the architecture of the UN

Headquarters ever published.

Åke E:son Lindman’s photographs are published internationally, and he has contributed to a large number of books, including Seventeen Swedish Embassies and the retrospective Pure Architecture. Mark Isitt has contributed to books on Gert Wingårdh, Monica Förster and White arkitekter among others, and in 2008 was awarded the Spot City Prize for his articles in the daily Göteborgs-Posten on urban planning and segregation.

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RM

Gloria Cortina – MexicoGloria Cortina, Carlos Amorales and Jay Merrick

Interior Design


ISBN 978 8 416 282326 • slipcased • April

£80.00

Designed in London by the studio Aloof Design

to the highest production standards, this huge,

lavishly illustrated slipcased volume is the first

survey of the work of Gloria Cortina, Mexico’s

most renowned interior designer. ‘If I can

contribute something beautiful in my designs

that relates to my Mexico, that the world can

see, I’m going to do it because it’s in my DNA,’

says Cortina. Her compositions arise from a

strong, deeply rooted commitment to the history,

physical beauty and craft-skills of Mexico in ways

that create meaningful connections between

history and modernity. This commitment is

equally evident in the design of her collectable

GC Ediciones furniture, which has also been

successfully exhibited internationally.

There is no look-at-me-but-don’t-touch about

Cortina’s designs: they are the antithesis of bling.

The moment you sit in one of her chairs, or run

your palm across one of her handcrafted table-

tops, or walk across a hand-loomed rug, you feel

at home. Her work carries an immediate sense of

tactile, visual and spatial invitation – and so does

this beautiful, covetable book.

Gloria Cortina is the principal of her eponymous design studio. She worked under architects David Ling and Ricardo Legorreta before forming the multidisciplinary design firm A5 Arquitectura with a group of peers.

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RM

Reveal and DetonateContemporary Mexican Photography

Sergio Raúl Arroyo, Ana Casas Broda, Gabriela González Reyes, Sergio González Rodríguez, Gerardo Montiel Klint and Itala Schmelz

Photography


ISBN 978 8 416 282111 • April

£32.00

Reveal and Detonate surveys current photographic

production in Mexico from a multitude of

perspectives: Mexican photographers of various

ages and origins contribute to chart a complex and

sometimes contradictory map of contemporary

photography in Mexico. This broad constellation

of images – almost 200 by 53 different

photographers – has not been put together in a

methodical or linear way, but by visual groupings

that form and break apart along the main axes

of photography: landscape, portraiture, montage

and abstraction.

Sergio Raúl Arroyo was general director of Mexico’s National Institute of Anthropology and History from 2000 to 2005 and 2012 to 2013. He founded and directed the Tlatelolco University Cultural Center of the UNAM. Ana Casas Broda, Gabriela González Reyes and Gerardo Montiel Klintare are photographers. Sergio González Rodríguez is a writer. Itala Schmelz is the director of the Centro de la Imagen, Mexico.

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Imagine

Photography by Erik Johansson Text by Erik Johansson and Göran Segeholm

Photography


ISBN 978 9 171 263704 • April

£19.95

This is the first monograph on Erik Johansson, a

superstar in the Photoshop community. He has

hundreds of thousands of followers on social media

and has had TED-talks on Photoshop. His images are

created with a camera and refined into absurdity on

the computer. Johansson takes numerous pictures,

and combines them to create what looks like a

real photograph, yet with logical inconsistencies

that impart an effect of surrealism. The result:

mathematically precise, compelling landscapes

where perspectives are always misleading.

Erik Johansson is a Swedish-born photography artist based in Prague. Imagine is his first book.

Hurricane Season

Photography and text by Hannah Modigh

Photography

c. 60 illustrations • 26.5 x 29.5cm • 128pp

ISBN 978 9 171 263728 • April

£30.00

The award-winning photographer Hannah Modigh

presents here over 60 of her photographs of

Louisiana’s idiosyncratic landscape, home to

millions of America’s most deprived citizens.

Every year the area is flooded by the summer and

autumn storms that strike Louisiana. When these

storms develop into major hurricanes the poorest

and most low-lying parts suffer the hardest, and

the inhabitants have adapted to the frequency of

the hurricanes in a fatalistic way. This is perhaps

the most penetrating depiction of life in southern

Louisiana ever made.

Hannah Modigh has received numerous awards for her projects Hillbilly Heroin, Honey and Sunday Mornin’ Comin’ Down.

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Fontanka

Candida Höfer: MemoryEdited by Frank Althaus and Mark Sutcliffe

Photography


ISBN 978 1 906 257194 • January

£28.00

In 2014, during St Petersburg’s White Nights, the

renowned German photographer Candida Höfer

was invited by the State Hermitage Museum to

visit the city. She spent ten days photographing

several of the city’s landmarks: the Yusupov

Palace, the National Library, the Mariinsky Theatre,

Pavlovsk Palace, the Catherine Palace and the

Hermitage itself. The 25 mesmerising works that

make up this book are the result. They are the

latest in a series of iconic interiors that Höfer has

photographed throughout the world over several

decades, including the Louvre and Uffizi Gallery,

the Royal Portuguese Library in Rio de Janeiro, La

Scala in Milan and the Teatro Olimpico in Vicenza.

They are characterised by the photographer’s

interest in communicating cultural memory, and

are all linked by the total absence of people.

Memory develops the theme of a tripartite

relationship between the person, the space and

the past.

Candida Höfer studied film and photography at Kunstakademie Dusseldorf where she was one of the first students to use colour in her photographs. Under the tutelage of Bernd Becher, Höfer developed the technical perfection for which she has become known. Her work has been exhibited worldwide, especially in Europe and the USA.

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Conversations with Joel MeyerowitzAlessia Tagliaventi

Photography


ISBN 978 8 869 656361 • March

£19.00

Here is a journey through the mind and work of

Joel Meyerowitz, one of the most famous and

versatile photographers at work in the world

today. Meyerowitz discusses a raft of themes

and issues with the photography critic Alessia

Tagliaventi, including storytelling, the use of colour

and black and white, and personal and social

issues. Meyerowitz’s images and Tagliaventi’s

acute questions give the reader an insight into

the secrets of Meyerowitz’s art, and a lesson in

basic and more advanced photography techniques.

The result is an artful melding of text and photos

that constitutes both a complex examination of

Meyerowitz’s work and a manual on how to read

photography itself.

Joel Meyerowitz is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions around the world. Alessia Tagliaventi is a photography critic and historian, and an editor at Contrasto.

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Contrasto

Jack LondonThe Roads of Man

Edited by Alessia Tagliaventi

Photography


ISBN 978 8 869 656392 • March

£16.95

Jack London is well-known for his novels.

Lesser-known is the fact that he was a prolific

photographer, whose camera was his inseparable

companion in adventures all over the world.

Here, for the first time, is an exploration of Jack

London the photographer, merging his visual

reportage with his narratives to form a more

complete picture of the artist. London witnessed

and documented many of the key events of his

era – the Russo-Japanese War, the San Francisco

earthquake and the incredible Cruise of the

Snark – and his photographs of these cataclysms

are included here in over 70 reproductions and

introduced by Davide Sapienza. The book is

an adventurous journey through the world of

Jack London.

Jack London (1876–1916) is the author of such classic novels as White Fang and The Call of the Wild.

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Walther König

Walker Evans: Labor AnonymousEdited by Thomas Zander • Texts by David Campany, Heinz Liesbrock and Jerry L. Thompson

Photography


ISBN 978 3 863 358716 • January

£35.00

Walker Evans (1903-1975) remains one of the

most important and influential photographers

in the history of the medium. Without Evans the

development of photography would have been

very different, particularly in North America. His

career spanned the emergence of the modern

mass media in the 1920s to the full acceptance of

photography as an art form in the 1960s and 70s.

Many of Evans’s individual images have become

landmarks in both the history of photography

and the social history of that era. Where the

mass media enjoyed celebrity culture, Evans

photographed anonymous citizens. Where the

mass media promoted consumerism, Evans valued

enduring objects and the persistence of the past in

the present. Experimental and yet classical, Evans’s

photo-essays have been overlooked until recently.

Evans’s series ‘Labor Anonymous’, published in

Fortune magazine in November 1946, displayed

pictures of walking workers, taken against

a featureless wall, on a Saturday afternoon

in Detroit. This book presents fifty hitherto

unpublished photos from this classic series.

David Campany is a writer, exhibitions curator and artist. Heinz Liesbrock is a noted author with a particular interest in Walker Evans. Jerry L. Thompson was Walker Evans’s principal assistant from 1973 to Evans’s death in 1975, and is the author of The Last Years of Walker Evans and Truth and Photography.

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