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In The Words Of Sparks...Selected Lyrics Tam Tam Books 2013 ISBN 9780985272401 Acqn 22059 Hb 14x21cm 182pp 5col ills 18.50 Sparks--the long-running duo of Ron and Russell Mael--are among the most respected songwriters of their generation, their songs ranking alongside those of Ray Davies (The Kinks having been a formative influence), George Gershwin, Cole Porter and Stephen Sondheim. Formed in Los Angeles in 1971, Sparks have issued over 20 albums and scored chart hits with songs such as This Town Aint Big Enough for Both of Us, Cool Places and Never Turn Your Back on Mother Earth. While their musical style has changed dramatically over the course of 40 years--embracing the British Invasion sound of the 60s, glam rock, disco (they teamed up with Giorgio Moroder for 1979s No. 1 in Heaven) and even techno--their work has consistently stretched the boundaries of pop music and the song form. Sparks continue to break new ground: they are currently working on a project with filmmaker Guy Maddin and are soon to embark on a world tour. Now, for the first time, the Mael brothers have chosen their favorite Sparks lyrics (to some 75 songs), editing and correcting them for presentation in In the Words of Sparks. As James Greer--novelist and former member of Guided by Voices--comments, Sparks-level wordplay is a gift, and more than that, an inspiration. This book also includes a substantial introduction by fellow Los Angeles resident and longtime fan, Morrissey.
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Betsy Eby Marquand Books Inc. 2013 ISBN 9780988227569 Acqn 22608 Hb 31x26cm 152pp 78col ills 29.50 The encaustic paintings of Betsy Eby (born 1967) are contemporary examples of a tradition of painting descended from Romanticism, a tradition that insists that a work of art is both an outward expression and an inner exploration. My paintings are inspired by patterns found in nature-whirling leaves, buzzing insect wings, birds in migratory flight--all combined in gestural rhythms, like the classical music that I practice, she states, citing among her predecessors painters such as Cy Twombly, Joan Mitchell, Petah Coyne, Brice Marden, Anselm Kiefer and Corot. Her passionate insistence that emotion can be the beginning and the end of a work of art places her work firmly within the romantic, but also in opposition to the market-driven, media-conscious art of our time. This monograph accompanies Ebys traveling museum exhibition Painting with Fire.
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Goran Djurovic - Prime Time Ludion 2013 ISBN 9789461301208 Acqn 22911 Hb 25x30cm 176pp 118col ills 37.95 Serbian visual artist Goran Djurovi studied painting at the Dresden Academy of Fine Arts in former East Germany, and has been based in Berlin since 1980. Published to accompany an eponymous exhibition at the Caermersklooster in Ghent, this book offers a compelling introduction to the artist, whose paintings mix the bare, grim solitude of Edward Hopper with the absurd theatre of Michal Borremans. In them, strange and uncanny figures find themselves in unfathomable situations. Eric Rinckhout and Bernard Dewulf outline valuable points of entry into the artists enigmatic and often oppressive world, which is expanded upon through over 100 illustrations.
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Francis Alys - Don't Cross The Bridge Before You Get To The River Seigensha Art Publishing 2013 ISBN 9784861524011 Acqn 23080 Pb 18x25cm 124pp 105ills 95col 32 Belgian artist Francis Als employs a broad range of media, from painting to performance, and his diverse body of work often explores urbanity and spatial objectivity through investigations of the tension between poetics and politics, individual action and impotence. Operating within the interdisciplinary space of art, architecture, and social practice, his idealistic and symbolic actions accentuate political challenges and anxieties. Central to this catalogue for a solo exhibition of work by Als at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo are his actions at Key West (USA) and Havana, and at the Strait of Gibraltar. Included are essays by curators Yuki Kamiya and Kazuhiko Yoshizaki.
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2013 Carnegie International Carnegie Museum Of Art 2013 ISBN 9780880390569 Acqn 22591 Pb 23x30cm 332pp 300ills 200col 29.50 The 2013 Carnegie International at Carnegie Museum of Art celebrates art as play, experimentation and dissonance, welcoming difference as an alternative to the standardization of cultural production. A major exhibition of new international art, the survey also encompasses an experimental playground project, a display and examination of the museums permanent collection of postwar art, and a pioneering engagement with the city of Pittsburgh, putting the 2013 Carnegie International at the forefront of contemporary art and thinking. Organized by the curatorial team of Daniel Baumann, Dan Byers and Tina Kukielski, the catalogue provides rich background on each of the exhibitions components--including never-before-published pictures of projects and artworks--with an expanded artist section that features original interviews and indepth texts on specific works by 35 artists from 19 countries in Asia, North America, South America, Europe, Africa and the Middle East: Ei Arakawa/Henning Bohl, Phyllida Barlow, Yael Bartana, Sadie Benning, Bidoun Library, Nicole Eisenman, Lara Favaretto, Vincent Fecteau, Rodney Graham, Guo Fengyi, Wade Guyton, Rokni Haerizadeh, He An, Amar Kanwar, Dinh Q. L, Mark Leckey, Pierre Leguillon, Sarah Lucas, Tobias Madison, Zanele Muholi, Paulina Olowska, Pedro Reyes, Kamran Shirdel, Gabriel Sierra, Taryn Simon, Frances Stark, Joel Sternfeld, Mladen Stilinovi, Zoe Strauss, Henry Taylor, Tezuka Architects, Transformazium, Erika Verzutti and Joseph Yoakum.
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Zilvinas Kempinas - Slow Motion Christoph Merian Verlag 2013 ISBN 9783856166205 Acqn 22907 Hb 24x28cm 176pp 107ills 100col 45 Zilvinas Kempinas creates complex and atmospheric room situations of great beauty using the simplest of means. The installations play with light and lightness, with time and chance. This publication provides in-depth insight into the artists work, presents a section of the exhibition of the same name at the Tinguely Museum in Basel and involves the works of Kempinas and Tinguely in a dialogue with one another. The texts deal with Kempinas' early work and with the installations on show at the Tinguely Museum. The foreword was written by Roland Wetzel, director of the Tinguely Museum, who also conducted the interview with the artist.
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Eduardo Arroyo - Sculptures 1973-2012 CAC Malaga 2013 ISBN 9788494083648 Acqn 22919 Pb 22x25cm 142pp 90ills 89col 52.95 Published to accompany an exhibition at the CAC Mlaga, this catalogue offers a retrospective survey of the acclaimed Spanish artist Eduardo Arroyos sculptural work over the past four decades. The exhibition features works made from primarily heavy, inert materials such as lead and stone, which reference everything from human figures to faces and mythological beings. Through numerous, pristine photographs, the book presents a chronological evolution of Arroyos sculptures, featuring more than 70 individual works and, within these, a range of strange encounters. A thoughtful and illuminating critical text by Fernando Francs completes the volume.
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Add Metaphysics Aalto 2013 ISBN 9789526049540 Acqn 23034 Pb 14x20cm 122pp 8col ills 21 Edited by Jenna Sutela, Add Metaphysics is a publishing project at the Aalto University Digital Design Laboratory. Borrowing a textbook format, it presents an experimental curriculum for designers and artists in the midst of a changing electro-cultural field. Its focus goes beyond the material and digital to encompass the metaphysical, moulding perception of the material world as much as the materials and tools themselves. It includes essays and assignments by practitioners and researchers versed in exploring the interrelations between information and material. With contributions by Jane Bennett, Vera Bhlmann, Graham Harman, Ines Weizman and Andrew Witt.
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In Search Of Europe Jap Sam 2013 ISBN 9789490322434 Acqn 23074 Pb 17x25cm 186pp 70ills 50col 21 Can we talk about Europe without being Eurocentric? How can we meet on equal footing in an unequal world? These were questions that emerged from a research project and an experiment of artists and researchers working together towards an art exhibition in Kunstraum Kreuzberg/Bethanien in Berlin in 2013. This group of artists and researchers set out on a journey on which they - together and collaboratively - tried to Search for Europe. Europe long time ago the metaphor for one's own dreams, the paradise for many in their imagination but also the hell of reality for some. With an eye on creativity, political ideologies, traveling, and migration and with a range of research locations from West Africa, the Middle East, and Western Europe to Southeast Africa and the Balkans, the participants set out to understand how people remember the past, strive for a better future, or think about alternatives in an entangled world. In the course of the exhibition project, seven research-art collaborations evolved and developed these themes into artistic positions. In this book, the researchers, artists, and guest authors document and reflect about the process that resulted in the ISOE exhibition through essays, artwork produced for the exhibition and documentary imagery. The experience of these co-operations/collaborations tells about the dynamics, possibilities, and limitations of academic-artistic co-working practice in general. Rather than providing definite answers, the coming together of research and art creates a third space of openings and experimental formats of reflection and engagement where the world can be conceived in new and different ways.
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Yamamoto -Jikara - The Works And World Of Jabuuchi Satoshi Seigensha Art Publishing 2013 ISBN 9784861523830 Acqn 23081 Pb 19x26cm 144pp 135ills 125col 28.95 Satoshi Yabuuchi, director of the Heisei Gigaku masked dance troupe and an active promoter of the perpetuation of traditional Japanese culture, is also an accomplished sculptor. Published to accompany a retrospective exhibition of work from his 30-year career, this colourful book covers all aspects of the artists endeavours, from wood carving, mythical figures and dance theatre to gallery pieces, preservation and public installations. In everything from the whimsical to the bizarre, his manner of conversing with the richness of ancient Japanese tradition in a contemporary way is remarkable. With foreword and texts by Yabuuchi, plus an essay by Junji Ito.
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A Collection Of Specimens From The Vaults Of Kyoto University Museum: Memories Of The Earth Seigensha Art Publishing 2013 ISBN 9784861523854 Acqn 23085 Pb 26x21cm 172pp 200col ills 37 Opening this book is like peering into a cabinet of curiosities, a glass-encased world of specimens, where all manner of creatures have been meticulously preserved, arranged and classified. Entire drawers of pinned insects, a menagerie of threadbare rodents, sharks as dried husks, speckled assortments of eggs, flattened and brittle plants, lovingly wrapped birds, eerily floating reptiles, tiny skulls in glass jars, and myriad boxes of colourful minerals, shells and fossils, all with delicate, handwritten tags... the immense culmination of decades of scientific inquiry, beautifully photographed, categorised and presented in more than 150 full-colour pages.
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Eduardo Paolozzi - At New Worlds. Science Fiction And Art In The Sixties Savoy Books 2013 ISBN 9780861301287 Acqn 23110 Pb 19x25cm 182pp 200ills 94col 17 From 1964 to 1971 New Worlds magazine, under the far-sighted editorship of Michael Moorcock, evolved from a small science-fiction monthly to what JG Ballard later called one of the most exciting magazines of any kind in this country. The work of Eduardo Paolozzi was showcased in the pages of New Worlds. Paolozzi had been using science-fiction imagery for many years, but New Worlds drew the artist closer to a literary milieu with which he identified. Eduardo Paolozzi at New Worlds examines the magazine during its prime period in the late 1960s, placing Paolozzis science-fiction art in the context of the new SF and offers fresh insights into the images and a fragmentary, collaged approach to writing informed the controversial prose of Ballard, Moorcock, Brian Aldiss, Norman Spinrad and others. The bbok contains rare and unseen images from the archives of New Worlds and the Eduardo Paolozzi Foundation, together with excerpts from what is thought to be an unpublished scince-fiction novel by the artist.
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Cy Twombly - Drawings. Catalogue Raisonne Vol. 3 1961-1963 Schirmer Mosel Verlag 2013 ISBN 9783829604871 Acqn 22259 Hb 26x35cm 216pp 302col ills 150 Volume 3 of the Cy Twombly Catalogue Raisonn of Drawings covers the works on paper created between 1961 and 1963an exceptionally productive period marked by a burst of excitation, sensuousness, and colour.
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Mexico Inside Out - Themes In Art Since 1990 Modern Art Museum Fort Worth 2013 ISBN 9780929865324 Acqn 22592 Pb 22x28cm 182pp 80col ills 29.50 Spanning the past 25 years, Mxico Inside Out includes some of todays most significant artists with strong ties to Mexico, whether they were born there, immigrated, attended school or lived there during their formative years. This major exhibition establishes a lineage between the influential artists who revitalized Mexicos mark on the art world--Francis Als, Abraham Cruzvillegas, Teresa Margolles, Gabriel Orozco, Yoshua Okn and Melanie Smith--and those who have followed their lead, emerging as the most recent generation to achieve critical acclaim-Edgardo Aragn, Jos Antonio Vega Macotela and the collective Tercerunquinto. Andrea Karnes, curator, comments, Profound intersections course through the work of these artists, each of whom addresses daily life as a vital part of their practice, from the mundane to the serious to the humorous. Their visual and conceptual output is a testament to how local issues often transgress geographic boundaries to speak to the human condition on a universal level.
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Linda Mary Montano - You Too Are A Performance Artist Site Santa Fe 2013 ISBN 9780985660208 Acqn 22606 Pb 15x23cm 132pp 53ills 13col 21.95 You Too Are a Performance Artist is an artist's project and catalogue by the American performance artist Linda Mary Montano (born 1942). Published to accompany the SITE Sante Fe exhibition Linda Mary Montano: Always Creative, curated by Janet Dees in collaboration with the artist, this book features a "My Art/Life-Your Life/Art" workbook that documents 45 of her performances from 1964 to the present and gives suggestions on how readers can create their own performances based on the themes explored in Montano's work. At the heart of her practice is the belief that the strategies employed in the creation of and engagement with art, such as focused attention, openness and awareness, can enhance the quality of one's life, if turned toward everyday activities.
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Cecily Brown Gagosian Gallery (NY) 2013 ISBN 9781935263869 Acqn 22873 Hb 27x27cm 90pp 50ills 48col 65 Presenting a world that pulses with excesses and appetites, Cecily Brown explores the breadth of human experience in tactile oil paintings. Broadly inspired by the history of paintingfrom Rubens and Veronese to the muscular expressionism of Willem de KooningBrowns personal vision transcends classical notions of genre and narrative, freeing subject matter from its original context and positioning it within a new aesthetic reality. In this exhibition Brown continues to explore the tradition of the nude ensemble in painting. In her visible grapple with formal concerns, she crowds each canvas with stylistically diverse anonymous figuressome loosely suggested, others identifiably expressivewho fulfill her explicit aim of conveying figurative imagery in a justelusive shorthand, resulting in encounters with subjects glimpsed, rather than fully seen. The relative clarity of some faces encourages the viewer to perceptually finish other, less defined figures, to resolve the gestural abbreviations. Each painting reveals an active present state, unfolding in a succession of deliberately fluid unresolved moments over time. With an essay by James Lawrence.
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Roy Lichtenstein - Expressionism Gagosian Gallery (NY) 2013 ISBN 9781935263845 Acqn 22874 Hb 31x31cm 130pp 95ills 75col 97.50 Lichtenstein's early appropriation of the aesthetics of American popular culture made him integral to the development of Pop art. Turning his attention to art history, he began exploring classical architectural motifs. Beginning in the late 1960s, defining elements of Futurism--followed by Cubism, Surrealism, and Expressionism--featured regularly in his work. Among the styles and movements appropriated by Lichtenstein, his borrowing of Expressionist motifsfrom Alexei Jawlensky's close-up, pensive faces to Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's jagged, feline figuresstrikes the clearest irony. Including key paintings, sculpture, drawings, and woodcuts, this exhibition demonstrates the bold paradox that Lichtenstein posed by translating Expressionist subjects into the primary colours and pop flatness of his signature style.
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Louise Bourgeois - Has The Day Invaded The Night Or The Night Invaded The Day Fruitmarket Gallery 2013 ISBN 9781908612250 Acqn 22875 Hb 21x22cm 144pp 100col ills 19.95 Published by The Fruitmarket Gallery to accompany the exhibition, this book focuses on the themes and ideas in the exhibition Louise Bourgeois I Give Everything Away. The book is illustrated with a selection of Bourgeoiss Insomnia Drawings and of her writings, and also includes new texts by Frances Morris and Philip Larratt-Smith.
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18 Pictures And 18 Stories - Bulegoa z/b with Isidoro Valcarcel Medina If I can't Dance 2013 ISBN 9789081447126 Acqn 22893 Pb 17x22cm 392pp 78ills 15col 27 This publication collects 22 stories that have been told by guest speakers at art institutions all through 2012, as part of the curatorial research project of Bulegoa z/b in the frame of 'Performance in Residence'. The stories are each inspired by a single photo from a series of 18 pictures made by Valcrcel Medina in 2011, entitled 'Performance in Resistance', that depict 18 actions he performed in different cities between 1965 and 1993. The artist made this work in response to our inquiry into his early performance practice.
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Brice Marden - Red Yellow Blue Gagosian Gallery (NY) 2013 ISBN 9781935263876 Acqn 22900 Hb 27x27cm 76pp 41ills 24col 65 Mardens early monochromatic paintings exist as single panels, diptychs and triptychs. Restraining the gestural intensity of Colour Field painting through contemplative reserve and calm, their inscrutable surfaces belie a nuanced equilibrium between emotive passion and formal rigor. In each of the Red Yellow Blue paintings (1974), Marden painted slabs of dense yet nuanced colour on three adjoined canvas panels, using oil paint mixed on the spot with melted beeswax and turpentine and applied with a knife and spatula. The dull sheen of the encaustic medium intensifies the bold, contrasting colour blocks, built up through the temperamental layering process that yielded such intricately worked surfaces. The spirited variations within each "primary" trio (where red can range from cadmium to almost black, yellow from ochre to saffron, and blue from cobalt to sullen indigo) are rich with interpretative possibilitylike musical chords improvised in major and minor keys.
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Le Dictateur 04 Les Presses Du Reel 2013 ISBN 9782840666363 Acqn 22944 Pb 28x40cm 236pp 90ills 60col 63.50 After three years of waiting, perhaps the most beautiful issue of Le Dictateur, with twenty series of specially commissioned works by international artists and some astonishing features: an editorial tour de force, between artists' magazine, book-object and paper sculpture. Works by John Ballantyne, Roger Ballen, Noma Bar, Mattia Biagi, Bugo (Christian Bugatti), Canedicoda, Pierpaolo Ferrari, Giuseppe Gabellone, JR, Le Dictateur + Luigi Pane (Abstract Groove), Federico Pepe, Agne Raceviciute, Alberto Tadiello, Lady Tarin, Luca Trevisani, Lorenzo Vitturi, Julius von Bismarck & Julian Charrire. Limited edition. Wax sealed book, stamp numbered boxed set.
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Haim Steinbach Travel White Cube 2013 ISBN 9781906072834 Acqn 22978 Pb 13x20cm 125pp 78ills 76col 22.50 Steinbach is interested in the shared social ritual of collecting, arranging and presenting everyday objects and materials, an experience that on a basic level extends to us all, whether its through the way we arrange our homes or the way we select and wear our clothes. This exhibition is comprised of two new series of works that continue that enquiry and trace a trajectory in the artists practice that stretches from the 1970s to today. In 1976, Steinbach produced a series of works based on grid-like geometric patterns created with strips of linoleum flooring. The Linopanel works marked a pivotal moment in Steinbachs career when he abandoned his investigation into minimalist painting and began to work with found objects. His use of linoleum, an everyday material that imitates more valuable floor covering, such as marble and tile, complicates the purist dictates of minimalism and introduces a domestic and social referent that was to become important to his subsequent work. For this exhibition, Steinbach has re-created the Linopanel works for the first time since the 1970s.
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Marionettes - Art, Construction, Play Swiridoff Verlag 2013 ISBN 9783899292817 Acqn 23113 Hb 25x35cm 148pp 250col ills 39 Since the 1970s Marlene Gmelin and Detlef Schmelz have been producing sophisticated theatre puppets. This monograph explores the magic world created by these two leading figures of the puppet world through many stunning colour photographs of the puppets in action.

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