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Johan Maelwael
Rijksmuseum 2017 ISBN 9789462083790 Acqn 27801
Hb 22x28cm 192pp col ills £39

Johan Maelwael (1365/70-1415), internationally known as Jean Malouel, was one of the most
important West European artists of the late Middle Ages. He grew up in Nijmegen as a scion of a
family of successful heraldic painters and later became the court painter of the Dukes of
Burgundy. This innovator in painting created his multifaceted oeuvre nearly a century before
Hieronymus Bosch. His painting is characterized by elegantly sophisticated figures, a high degree
of realism and a bright colour palette with deep shades of blue, red and gold. This publication
describes Maelwael's life, his versatile work and his place in history.

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Tune Andersen - No Quarter

Arkitektur B 2017 ISBN 9788792700193 Acqn 28114
Hb 20x30cm 120pp col ills £39.50

Published with an exhibit of taxidermic sculptures and photography by visual artist Tune
Andersen at the Theatre Museum in Copenhagen, this volume is filled with the nightmarish
creations of a grotesque fascination. Birds with fish tails, rats with bird wings and heads, fish
heads with antlers, beaks, or cat paws, eel faces worn like masks_ Andersen is inspired by the
age-old scientific process of identifying and preserving animal species, which reached its
culmination in the 19th-century private cabinets of curiosities and rarities. Using the materials and
methods of taxidermy, he constructs sculptures that arouse both reflection and disquiet in their
macabre mimicry of animal forms.

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The Dutch In Paris 1789 – 1914

Thoth Uitgeverij 2017 ISBN 9789068687422 Acqn 28039
Pb 22x28cm 272pp 250ills 150col £33.75

Paris was the centre of the art world in the 19th century. Between 1789 and 1914, hundreds of
artists from the Netherlands travelled to France's capital, among them Johan Jongkind, George
Hendrik Breitner, Vincent van Gogh, Kees van Dongen, and Piet Mondrian. Their interactions with
French artists and encounters with a great diversity of art, styles, motives, techniques, and
perspectives profoundly impacted their approach and ideas about art. Upon their return, these
artists spread new insights in the Netherlands, but also left their own traces behind in Paris. This
richly illustrated book tells the story of these creative exchanges through the lives of nine
remarkable Dutch artists.

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The Conference Of The Birds - The Selected Sufi Poetry Of Farid ud Din Attar
Nazar Research Cultural Institute 2017 ISBN 9786001521140 Acqn 28064
Pb 17x21cm 224pp 90ills 65col £18.50

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Bart Janssen, Koen Peeters, Dirk Zoete - Not A Day Without A Line / Geen Dag Zonder Lijn
Art Paper Editions 2017 ISBN 9789490800710 Acqn 28093
Pb 17x24cm 110pp ills £22.50

This publication is a collaboration between the authors Bart Janssen, Koen Peeters and visual
artist Dirk Zoete. This art project is based upon 'Langs de wegen', the first novel of Streuvels. The
book is made in response to the residency of Janssen en Peeters at the writers residency 'het
Lijsternest' at Ingooigem, and of the residency of Zoete at Be-Part, platform for contemporary art
in Waregem.

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Claude Closky - Barking And Meowing

AC Books 2017 ISBN 9781939901095 Acqn 27930
Pb 20x28cm 92pp 70ills 60col £23.75

Using site-specific installations, drawings, collages, videos, and websites, Claude Closky is
known for his commentary on the spectacle of capitalist consumerism. Immediately recognisable
for its political conscience and straightforward formal vocabulary, his work elicits debate, analysis
of artistic production, communication, and issues of representation. This publication, appearing in
conjunction with an exhibition at AC Institute in New York, extensively examines Closky's practice
and artworks, wherein art theorist and artist Holly Crawford surveys the artist's oeuvre, from its
anonymous beginnings in the streets of Paris and New York to his recent installations.

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Claudy Jongstra
nai010 publishers 2017 ISBN 9789462083608 Acqn 27994
Pb 20x25cm 344pp col ills £56

Internationally acclaimed Dutch artist Claudy Jongstra creates visceral landscapes of texture and
colour. These site specific and often monumental murals and sculptural installations have a
strong connection with their physical space. Using a surprising range of natural materials and
techniques, Jongstra's distinctive approach involves a breathtaking inquiry into the mysteries of
dye crops and natural pigments from which her intense nuances of colours are crafted. With deep
connections with her surroundings as vital elements for the production of her work and
sustainability at the center of her philosophy and working process, Jongstra is committed to the
preservation and activation of natural and cultural heritage.

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Apichatpong Weerasethakul (Eye Amsterdam)

nai010 publishers 2017 ISBN 9789462084155 Acqn 28027
Pb 17x24cm 96pp col ills £22.50

Apichatpong Weerasethakul navigates between feature film production and the assembly of
spatial film installations in museums. He makes films that are about his native soil - Thailand -
and that actually take place there. In Weerasethakul's films he creates his own universe filled with
stories, people, folklore, views, and landscapes from his own surroundings. The themes he
addresses are nevertheless global and link subjects such as trust, religion, connection to the
landscape, magic, friendship, poverty, and beauty with existential questions about, for example,
'reality' or 'death'.

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The Noise Of Being

Sonic Acts Press 2017 ISBN 9789082321630 Acqn 28111
Pb 17x24cm 212pp col ills £21.95

What does it mean to be human, to be part of a world that is an ever-changing network?

Published on the occasion of the 2017 Sonic Acts Festival, this book endeavours to piece
together the dissonance produced by the participants and spectators of the festival, whether at
the conference or in the museums, clubs, and cinemas. This is the noise of technology,
capitalism, hackers, bots, communication breakdowns, humanity, clouds, and so much more.
With essays by Nina Power, Louis Henderson, Daniel Rourke, and Rick Dolphijn, interviews with
Ytasha Womack, Jennifer Gabrys, Eyal Weizman, and Metahaven, plus contributions by Joey
Holder, Ingrid Burrington, and more.

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Alessandro Perini - Operation Olympiad

Danilo Montanari Editore 2017 ISBN 9788885449046 Acqn 28112
Hb 17x24cm 140pp col ills £70

Curious in both its content and form, Alessandro Perini’s ‘Operation Olympiad’ says as much
about its creator as it does of the subject it represents. As part of his Missing Games Project, the
book addresses the significance of Japan’s Olympic history in light of Tokyo again being selected
to host the 2020 Olympic Games, specifically the cancelled games of 1940. The event would
have coincided with the 2600th anniversary of Japan’s imperial line, and full records of
preparations for this symbolic occasion were kept and published by the International Olympic
Committee. Perini presents archival material and mementos of a process controversial for its
fusion of militarism and sport.

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Ryan Sullivan – Sprayed Paintings

Dancing Foxes Press 2017 ISBN 9780996690607 Acqn 25879
Pb 21x26cm 36pp 36col ills £29.95

The first full-scale monograph on the work of New York-based artist Ryan Sullivan (born 1983),
this book explores the relationships his abstract paintings propose between image and object.
Staging complex interactions of materials, Sullivan produces images that are seemingly in
motion, alive and contingent in their embodiment and description of material flows. Published on
the occasion of Sullivan's exhibition at ICA Miami, the book focuses on a group of large-scale
works that are distinguished by noncompositional forms and alternately vivid, murky and sublime
palettes. Ultimately transcendent of medium and process, Sullivan's works offer critical solutions
to a world in which abstraction has taken on a life of its own.

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Art in Unexpected Places II

Aspen Art Press 2017 ISBN 9780934324731 Acqn 26293
Hb 29x21cm 172pp 130ills 100col £59.95

In honor of Aspen Art Museum's collaboration with the Aspen Skiing Company, this
comprehensive survey includes interviews with artists such as Mark Bradford, Anne Collier,
Teresita Fernandez, Mark Grotjahn, Cai Guo-Qiang, Dave Muller, Takashi Murakami, David
Shrigley and Shinique Smith.

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Samara Golden - The Flat Side of the Knife

MoMA PS1 2017 ISBN 9780989985932 Acqn 26356
Hb 19x27cm 88pp 35col ills £34.50

Los Angeles-based artist Samara Golden (born 1973) creates immersive installations that explore
what she calls the sixth dimension, where a multitude of pasts, presents and futures exist
concurrently. For The Flat Side of the Knife, curated by Mia Locks and organized by MoMA PS1,
Golden presented her largest installation to date, filling the double height of MoMA PS1's Duplex
Gallery with staircases, beds, couches, lamps, musical instruments, video and sound. The Flat
Side of the Knife combines physical spaces with illusory spaces that appear only in mirrors, akin
to psychological and hallucinatory spaces in the mind. Her use of mirrors in conjunction with
sculptural elements made from a silvery insulation board allows the illusion of space to expand in
multiple directions. This catalogue includes documentation of this exhibition alongside the artist's
major works to date.

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Artists on Walter De Maria

DIA Center For The Arts 2017 ISBN 9780944521847 Acqn 27652
Pb 13x18cm 136pp 75col ills £17

Artists on Walter De Maria is the second instalment in a series culled from Dia Art Foundation's
Artists on Artists lectures, focused on the work of artist Walter De Maria (1935-2013).

Established in 2001, the lecture series highlights the work of modern and contemporary artists
from the perspective of their colleagues and peers.

This Artists on Artists title is published in connection with the 40th anniversary of De Maria's The
Lightning Field, The New York Earth Room and The Vertical Earth Kilometer. It features
contributions from Richard Aldrich, Jeanne Dunning, Guillermo Faivovich & Nicolas Goldberg and
Terry Winters.

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Arcana VIII - Musicians on Music

Hips Road/Tzadik 2017 ISBN 9780978833732 Acqn 27661
Pb 17x26cm 280pp 50col ills £29.95

This special anniversary edition presents writings spanning classical music, jazz, rock,
improvisation, world music, film soundtracks and more by exciting young artists, established
masters and visionary mavericks, including Jad Atoui, Steve Beresford, Per Bloland, Brian
Chase, Kris Davis, Robert Dick, Rinde Eckert, Wendy Eisenberg, Harris Eisenstadt, Suzanne
Farrin, Dave Fiuczynski, David Garland, Michael Gordon, Simon Hanes, Barbara Hannigan, John
Hollenbeck, Matt Hollenberg, Jon Irabagon, Julian Lage, Ava Mendoza, Matt Mitchell, Nicole
Mitchell, Vadim Neselovskyi, Linda May Han Oh, Shane Parish, Chris Pitsiokos, Sofia Rei, Ted
Reichman, Sara Serpa, Marc Urselli, Ken Vandermark and Dan Weiss.

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Frederick Hammersley - To Paint without Thinking

The Huntington Library 2017 ISBN 9780998681719 Acqn 27705
Hb 23x28cm 180pp 75col ills £29.95

American painter Frederick Hammersley (1919-2009) is best known for his hard-edged geometric
abstractions. However, their elegant simplicity belies the complex system behind their creation.
Thanks to sketchbooks, notebooks and colour swatches reproduced in this catalogue, the artist's
beautiful documentation of his multistep way of working out compositions is on full view. These
artworks and archival materials show that rather than an all-at-once creative act, Hammersley's
method was step-by-step and structured by rules. Essays by Alan Phenix, a conservation
scientist, as well as by Kathleen Shields and Nancy Zastudil, who manage the artist's foundation,
bring to light new scientific findings about his paintings.

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Odd Nerdrum - Making Painting Great Again

Arvinius + Orfeus Publishing 2017 ISBN 9789187543609 Acqn 28129
Hb 26x28cm 176pp 183ills 143col £52

Nerdrum’s idea of making painting great again means reintroducing a quality concept. Again, one
should be allowed to say, "I've made something wonderful, and I'm proud of it." It is no
coincidence that Aristotle is the thinker who has most influenced the kitsch philosophy. He claims
that craft has its utility and value as a means of mediation. Mimesis, or representation, is of value,
not only because one finds joy and insight in recognizing a motif, but because one can recreate
action in a painting. All human feelings take form in action. Stories that utilize familiar scenes and
archetypal situations are, according to Aristotle, of the greatest value, because they are
expressions of the universal.

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