Volume 1
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Draw It with Your Eyes Closed
Paper Monument
Draw It with Your Eyes Closed
Published by: Paper Monument
128 pages 21,6 x 17,8 cm Softcover 2012
£10.00
Draw It with Your Eyes Closed: the Art of the Art Assignment, is a unique and wide-ranging anthology featuring essays, drawings, and assignments from over 100 contributors including: John Baldessari, William Pope.L, Mira Schor, Rochelle Feinstein, Bob Nickas, Chris Kraus, Liam Gillick, Amy Sillman, James Benning, and Michelle Grabner. Practical and quixotic in equal parts, the art assignment can resemble a riddle as much as a recipe, and often sounds more like a haiku, or even a joke, than a clear directive. From introductory exercises in perspective drawing to graduate-level experiments in societal transformation, the assignment coalesces ideas about what art is, how it should be taught, and what larger purpose it might, or might not, serve. The book is a written record of an evolving oral tradition. Bringing together hundreds of assignments, anti-assignments, and artworks from both teachers and students from a broad range of institutions, Draw It with Your Eyes Closed serves as an archive and an instigation, a teaching tool and a question mark, a critique and a tribute.
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GOLD & SILBER Bundle
Peter Kaaden
GOLD & SILBER Bundle
Published by: Pogobooks
36 pages 17 x 24 cm Softcover Colour Offset Edition of 500 9783942547321, 9783942547338 Please Note this is a bundle split into two books.
£17.00
"GOLD & SILBER" are Peter Kaaden's first monographs, split in two books, the golden and the silver part. Both books feature the two sides of Kaaden's work, the commercial and magazine work, as well as his private and personal pictures. Well known faces as Karley Sciortino aka "Slutever", "no bra" Susanne Oberbeck and others appear next to Kaaden's closest friends and private situations. From 2010 till now, Gold and Silver shows Peter Kaaden's world from living in the small town Essen in Germany, moving to New York and London, and traveling around the world. Since 2013 Peter Kaaden lives and works in Berlin.
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Nature
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145
October Magazine
145
Published by: MIT Press
160 pages 22 x 18 cm Softcover 2013
£9.00
At the forefront of art criticism and theory, October focuses critical attention on the contemporary arts—film, painting, music, media, photography, performance, sculpture, and literature—and their various contexts of interpretation. Examining relationships between the arts and their critical and social contexts, October addresses a broad range of readers. Original, innovative, provocative, each issue presents the best, most current texts by and about today’s artistic, intellectual, and critical vanguard.
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On Knowing and Not Knowing
Jean-Baptiste Bernadet
On Knowing and Not Knowing
Published by: Karma
128 pages 21 x 27 cm Softcover 2013
£22.00
"I like the idea of a design that just gives the viewer a 'mood', but we're dealing with life and death here." A text by John D'Agata excerpted from about a mountain 12/6/2012.
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Issue 10
Club Donny
Issue 10
Published by: Club Donny
30 x 21 cm Softcover 2013
£15.00
CLUB DONNY is a strictly unedited journal on the personal experience of nature in the urban environment. It was established in 2008 by Samira Ben Laloua, Frank Bruggeman and Ernst van der Hoeven and is published biannually. The editors invite participants to share their personal experience on nature in cities from all over the world in the form of a text or a photo. Each issue also includes an editorial article on a specific theme. Club Donny offers a platform that aims to bring into the limelight observations, coincidences, stories and encounters of the obvious and sometimes endearing or absurd existence of nature in cities.
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Nazi Knife #9.5 - Rahozah Feres
Jonas Delaborde, Hendrik Hegray
Nazi Knife #9.5 - Rahozah Feres
Published by: Nieves
32 Pages, 19.5 x 25.5 cm, BW Offset, First Edition, 2013
£10.00
Rahozah Feres is the title of the new Nazi Knife issue, numbered #9.5. Two series of collages, realized by Hegray and Delaborde in the early months of 2013, melt together brick wall patterns, aluminum paper foldings, amazon.com cardboard packages and military books extracts in a long and cryptic sequence. It alternates multiple layers and opacity, crude photoshop operations and delicate grey variations, going deeper in the fetishistic and fragmented tunnel opened in Nazi Knife #9. The whole book can also be read as a silent reenactment of Kevin Costner's slow motion car crash at the end of Dances with Wolves.
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Iris Garden
John Cage & William Gedney
Iris Garden
Published by: Little Brown Mushroom
63 pages plus insert 17 x 22 cm Edition of 1000
£38.00
My intention in putting the stories together in an unplanned way was to suggest that all things – stories, incidental sounds from the environment, and by extension, beings – are related, and that this complexity is more evident when it is not oversimplified by an idea of relationship in one person’s mind.” – John Cage Like a mushroom hunting trip full of unexpected pleasures, Iris Garden combines 22 of John Cage’s stories with 44 of William Gedney’s photographs (including several of the composer himself) with an ingenious design mirroring Cage’s concept of chance. News: Iris Garden was shortlisted for Aperture Photobook of the Year
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Ping Pong
Alec Soth
Ping Pong
Published by: Little Brown Mushroom
46 pages 20 x 16.7 cm Hardback Colour Offset Edition of 1000 2013
£31.00
Ping-pong is a life style, a training in attention, a diversion, a mad passion and a way of not taking anything important too seriously and taking some tiny things much too seriously.” – Pico Iyer “Ideally, the last picture in this book would show me pumping my fist in brutish victory.” – Geoff Dyer For several years, Alec Soth has combined his passion for both table tennis and photography by collecting vernacular ping-pong photographs. With this publication, Soth asked Geoff Dyer and Pico Iyer, writers and fellow table tennis enthusiasts, to respond to these pictures by engaging in a kind of literary ping-pong match.
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Issue 12
Frieze d/e
Issue 12
Published by:
144 pages 23 x 30cm Softcover 2013
£8.00
Featuring: Essay Vienna Interiorism Is there such a thing? by Dominikus Müller Essay Vienna Interiorism II Vienna has a unique relationship to interior design. An essay by Helen Chang explores the effect on architecture in the city, inside and out by Helen Chang Monograph Unprimed Time
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G.P.O. versus G.P-O
Genesis P-Orridge
G.P.O. versus G.P-O
Published by: Primary Information
104 pages 26.6 x 20 cm Softcover 2013
£11.00
G.P.O. versus G.P-O: A Chronicle of Mail Art on Trial gathers a collection of materials from the archives of the legendary artist and musician Genesis P-Orridge (born 1950) relating to a unique legal battle: Great Britain's General Post Office's 1975 case against P-Orridge for disseminating pornographic postcards through the mail. These postcards collaged imagery from hardcore pornographic magazines onto pictures of Queen Elizabeth II. When the Post Office launched their case against P-Orridge, he seized the opportunity to turn the case into another performance, disseminating further mail art (including invitations to the trial) and recruiting the support of the international mail-art community. The case was ultimately dismissed. A reprint of Ecart Publications' 1976 edition, G.P.O. versus G.P-O collects ephemera, legal documents, correspondence and articles about the case and P-Orridge's mail art practice with Cosi Fanni Tutti as COUM Transmissions.
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Issue 42
Rouleur
Issue 42
Published by: Rouler
194 Pages 26 x 21 cm Softcover 2013
£10.00
Sports photographer Gerry Cranham knew little about bike racing when he shot the Antwerp Six-Day in 1961: “The first thing that hit me was the smell. The air was thick with a mixture of cigar smoke and chip fat oil. And mayonnaise. They ate a lot of that, chips with mayonnaise. Then there was the noise! I’ve never heard anything like it.” The results are astounding. “Tom Southam is considering retiring as the only directeur sportif in history with a 100 per cent win record,” is the sign-off. The Tour of Korea promised to be an interesting story for photographer Daniel Sharp and temporary DS Southam. Then Tom’s young protégé Mike Cuming went and won the race for Rapha-Condor-JLT… Southam stays cool under pressure, as always. Fizik – or fi’zi:k – have taken a huge slice of the top-end saddle market in just 20 years. How did they do it? And where do they come from? Guy Andrews and Taz Darling track them down in Italy. Amalio Hortelano is a fighter. The Spaniard who loaded up his Seat 600 in 1965 and headed for the European six-day circuit battles on despite recent testing circumstances that would sink a lesser man. Carlos Arribas and Timm Kölln visit a spirited character with great stories of life on the road. Dan Martin says: “To win, you have to risk losing.” We like his style. Andy McGrath talks to the attacking Irishman with the English accent. Also featuring one of the best races on the women’s calendar, the Giro Rosa, and the next generation of great Yorkshire riders inspired by the 2014 Grand Départ in Leeds. Plus regular columnist Robert Millar, writers Jordan Gibbons, Giulia De Maio and Ian Cleverly, and photographers Juan Trujillo Andrades, Sam Needham and Paolo Ciaberta.
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How To: Untitled Runway Show
K8 Hardy
How To: Untitled Runway Show
Published by:
144 pages 27.2 x 19.5 cm Hardback Edition of 700 2013
£19.00
How To: Untitled Runway Show is an artist’s book that presents K8 Hardy’s performance Untitled Runway Show, created for the 2012 Whitney Biennal. For this work, Hardy orchestrated a live fashion show performance on the fourth floor of the Breuer building that rivaled the presentations made during a Paris or New York fashion week. How To: Untitled Runway Show follows the apparatus of professional fashion and is organized around three sections: The Show (lookbook), Backstage, and The Campaign. For each of these sections, Hardy specifically created a new series of images for the book. As well, five texts were specially written for this publication, many of whom were involved themselves in the original performance. John Kelsey contributes an important critical text that gives context to this performance in the bigger picture of Hardy’s entire practice. The variety of the writing in this book and perspectives on the piece bring a crucial understanding and richness to Hardy’s incredible performance and unconventional work in general. K8 Hardy (USA, *1977) is a New-York-based artist, one of the founders of the queer feminist art collective LTTR and creator of the cult zine fashionfashion. In her work Hardy often uses fashion as a material to sculpt, photograph, and produce performances interchangeably and simultaneously, creating a new genderqueer vision.
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Issue 1
Cat People
Issue 1
Published by: Cat People
146 pages 17 x 25 cm Colour Offset 2013
£17.00
Issue One features the cats and lifestyles of four “cat people”, including interviews with fashion designers Vivetta Ponti (Vivetta) and Suzanne Clements & Inacio Ribeiro (Clements Ribeiro), illustrator Mat Maitland, and artist Tanya Schultz (Pip & Pop). In addition, we are delighted to include a new photo-essay by photographer Takashi Homma (Japan), illustrator Olimpia Zagnoli (Italy) and artist, Lucy James (Australia).
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Issue 3
Verities Magazine
Issue 3
Published by: Verities
136 pages Softcover Colour Offset 2013
£9.00
Verities is an independent biannual publication of thought, observation and reflection, giving equal focus to visual arts and literature. Verities explores new ways-of-seeing the most ordinary and overlooked situations, revealing the arresting and irrational in the everyday. The ability to disorient and estrange through a subjects illumination makes for a potentially explosive catalyst that sits at the heart of Verities. Each issue artists and authors explore a new theme through artworks, photography, design, fashion, essays and short stories. Finding the new in the old and celebrating the old in the new, rescuing beauty from vulgarity, and pushing social issues to the fore. Verities makes intellectual content accessible, yet is not afraid to challenge its readers.
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Issue 3
Monika Magazine
Issue 3
Published by: Monika Magazine
138 pages Softcover 2013
£10.00
Monika is the anonymous journal of art and culture. It began as, and remains, a labour of love; a bit of fun; a challenge inspired by a contemporary art scene that tends to put too much weight on a name. Some might say Monika’s premise is annoying, some find it refreshing. Monika 3 is available as a strictly limited edition of 500 hand-numbered copies showcasing the work of some of the more exciting artists and writers active today. Our contributors come from all over the world, we’ll just leave it to you to work out who they are. Curated around the theme ‘Wildlife’, Monika 3 explores how creative people have been inspired by the wild to do, or depict, the strangest things. It comprises an assortment of short fiction, essays, interviews, artists’ projects and uniquely commissioned illustration, presented as a full colour magazine that makes the most of what print has to offer.
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Volume 3
Odiseo
Volume 3
Published by: The Flames
Odiseo Volume 3 Currently available for pre-order Will be dispatched in December 2013.
£10.00
Volume 3 features photography by Marc Regàs, Olya Oleinic and MaxVon Eumppenberg & Patrick Bienert. A text by Ingo Niermann & Martti Kalliala on nuclear waste management, an essay about gentrification by Joie Reinstein and a analysis on identity and loss of va- lues by Francis Neville. It also includes a comprehensive archive featuring old Playboy magazines selected by Jesús Umbría and car- toons by Samuel Nyholm.
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Botanical Splendor
Saman Kamyab
Botanical Splendor
Published by:
Hardback 2013
£21.00
Saman Kamyab's book Botanical Splendor is comprised of a series of what you could call «aesthetic accidents». What these photographs show us are the arbitrary side-products of a larger, oblivious end – the impermanent monuments that assemble in the wake of urban growth. The objects and arrangements that Kamyab depict are unintentional through and through, yet they are eerily reminiscent of the kind of structures that we are prone to think were intended by someone – they look like sculptures wrought with meaning and expressivity. Despite its conspicuous absence as embodied form, human agency is clearly a topic of Kamyab's photography.
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You Think It Strange
Dan Burt
You Think It Strange
Published by: Notting Hill Editions
167 pages 19 x 12 cm Hardcover
£12.00
‘Prostitution, gambling, fencing, contract murder, loan sharking, political corruption and crime of every sort were the daily trade in Philadelphia’s Tenderloin, the oldest part of town. The Kevitch family ruled this stew for half a century, from Prohibition to the rise of Atlantic City. My mother was a Kevitch.’ Evoking a harsh formative world, You Think It Strange is an expanded version of Dan Burt’s riveting prose memoir, first published in his chapbook collection Certain Windows (2011). Dan Burt is a writer whose poetry and prose have appeared in PN Review, the TLS, the Financial Times, and the New Statesman, among others. His writing draws on work as a butcher, mate, lawyer, public figure, and businessman in, among other places, South Philadelphia; the sea off New Jersey; Washington, DC; New York; Boston; Riyadh, Saudi Arabia; and London. He lives and writes in London, Maine, and St John’s College, Cambridge, of which he is an Honorary Fellow.
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