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Josiah McElheny - Interactions of the Abstract BodyWhite Cube 2013 ISBN 9781906072766 Acqn 22283Hb 21x30cm 145pp 84ills 57col 37.50

If the human body has scarcely changed since we started walking upright, the history of fashionshows that we have always sought new and extraordinary ways to transform it. Throughexhibitions and performances such as An Historical Anecdote About Fashion (1999) and TheMetal Party (2001), McElheny has explored how the constantly shifting forms of fashion can oftenreveal the core beliefs and assumptions of any given era. With Interactions of the Abstract BodyMcElheny pushed these ideas further, creating a large and varied body of work that looks at howfashion and modernism have intersected and influenced each other, especially through thecommon language of the body. Crucially, McElheny animated this dynamic with the constantpresence of a performer. By combining a continuous flesh-and-blood performance with staticsculpture in the same gallery space, a first for White Cube, McElheny radically fractures thedistinction between performance and exhibition. Text by Ulrich Lehmann.


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Adriana Varejao PolvoVictoria Miro Gallery 2013 ISBN 9780956856692 Acqn 22974Pb 22x28cm 46pp 20col ills 25

Victoria Miro Gallery is delighted to present a new body of work by Adriana Varejo in her fourthsolo presentation at the gallery. One of the most original voices in contemporary Brazilian art,Varejo's diverse practice comprises painting, sculpture, photography and installation. Hersources are many, encompassing baroque art, history, architectural ruins, natural sciences andtheatre.


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The Prairies Third Edition Of The Ateliers De RennesEditions B42 2013 ISBN 9782917855386 Acqn 22928Pb 23x32cm 200pp 150ills 75col 32.95

Published on the occasion of the third edition of the Ateliers de Rennes Contemporary ArtBiennial in 2012, this overview of participating artists and the critical theory which surrounds theirwork is presented within a framework of contemporary notions of the prairie. Under the directionof Anne Bonnin, the prairie is investigated as a place from which new beginnings can take root,wherein the pivotal figure of the pioneer, along with its inherent flatness, are crucial aspects.Besides numerous images, notes on exhibiting artists and a list of works, the book includes aninterview with Bonnin by Nataa Petrein-Bachelez, plus essays by Franois Cusset, Chris Sharpand David Zerbib.


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Okyo Maruyama PostcardsSeigensha Art Publishing 2013 ISBN 9784861523953 Acqn 22961Pb 11x15cm 33pp 33col ills 14

Thirty-two postcards by Okyo Maruyama, a Japanese artist from the eighteenth century.


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Idris Khan - Beyond the BlackVictoria Miro Gallery 2013 ISBN 9780956856685 Acqn 22972Pb 23x28cm 52pp 28col ills 25

Victoria Miro is delighted to present a new body of work by Idris Khan in his third solopresentation with the gallery. Beyond the Black marks an important departure from Khan'sphotographic based works and comprises a suite of large black paintings, a monumental sitespecific wall drawing and a series of works on paper, all of which consider the metaphysics ofcreativity.


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Yayoi Kusama - White Infinity NetsVictoria Miro Gallery 2013 ISBN 9780956856678 Acqn 22973Pb 20x24cm 56pp 26col ills 25

Victoria Miro is delighted to inaugurate its new Mayfair gallery with a presentation of recent whiteInfinity Net paintings by Yayoi Kusama. It is the first time Kusama has exclusively shown whiteInfinity Nets in Europe and in its select concentration on these iconic works the exhibition recallsKusama's debut solo show in New York at the Brata Gallery in October 1959.


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Kenneth And Mary Martin DrawingsAnnely Juda Fine Art 2013 ISBN 9781904621553 Acqn 22976Pb 22x25cm 56pp 55ills 53col 22.50

This catalogue exhibition includes drawings by Kenneth and Mary Martin, many of which have notseen before. Kenneth and Mary Martin were both teachers at Goldsmiths School of Art andChelmsford School of Art respectively, and had their first joint exhibition in 1954 at the HefferGallery in London. Since then they have had joint shows in 1960 at the ICA, a touring ArtsCouncil exhibition 1970-71 and more recently in 2007 at the Camden Arts Centre (this travelled toTate St Ives and the De La Warr Pavilion). In 1956 they collaborated on an 'environment' for theseminal exhibition 'This is Tomorrow' at the Whitechapel Art Gallery. Throughout their careersKenneth and Mary drew on each other for ideas and inspiration, which becomes apparent whenseeing the works installed side by side. Kenneth came to abstraction in 1949, Mary in 1950.

Although their works fit into British Constructivism formally, Kenneth did not want to be labeled'Constructivist' but pre- ferred 'constructive artist'. The drawings by Kenneth Martin in thisexhibition vary between studies for his Screw Mobiles and the later Chance and Order drawings.Everything in his drawings is functional and they carry evidence of how they came about. Mary

Martin's drawings are more spontaneous and less formal than Kenneth's and include earlycollages as well as drawings related to her series of Permutation reliefs.


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Mark Bradford - Through Darkest America By Truck And TankWhite Cube 2013 ISBN 9781906072780 Acqn 22977Hb 23x31cm 160pp 102col ills 35

Through Darkest America by Truck and Tank is a major exhibition of new work by MarkBradford. Using materials found in the urban environment, such as billboard sheets, posters andnews print, Bradfords expansive, multi-layered collaged paintings explore the dynamics of socialabstraction, where image is fused with context. Bradfords masterful manipulation of materialsand techniques, which confound and mesmerise in equal measure, belies the fact that thepaintings are comprised entirely of paper rather than paint. Gestural marks glide acrosscompositions such as Journal Entry (2013)based on episodes from Eisenhowers diary -suggesting intuitive expression rather than controlled labour, while in works such as Biting theBook dcollaged sections appear swept aside in spontaneous action. Through Darkest Americaby Truck and Tank features a conversation between the artist and Susan May, and a text byChristopher Bedford.


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Julie Mehretu - Liminal SquaredWhite Cube 2013 ISBN 9780944219225 Acqn 22979Hb 24x31cm 132pp 76col ills 50

Mehretu's first major solo exhibition in London featured new and recent paintings, some of whichwere presented within a specially constructed environment designed by David Adjaye in closecollaboration with the artist. Described by curator Douglas Fogle as perfect metaphors for theincreasingly interconnected and complex character of the 21st century, Mehretu's large-scalepaintings, which are built up in layers, employ a broad lexicon of drawing techniques together witha precise, muscular abstraction to investigate the intersection of politics, architecture and historyand the way these forces shape the formation of our social identity. Mehretu's process is one ofrevealing and occlusion, of erasing selected areas of drawings and marks to produce what has

been described as an effect of allegorical obliteration. These moments of determined erasurehave been pushed to spectacular effect in recent works where sections of drawing and paintingcreate areas of blurring that appear like cloud-like miasmas or explosions on the surface of thework.


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Tacita Dean - Michael HamburgerFilm And Video Umbrella 2013 ISBN 9781904270362 Acqn 22983Pb 19x20cm 14pp 5col ills 6

Tacita Deans portrait of the poet and translator Michael Hamburger was filmed, at his home inrural Suffolk, in the last year of his life. Set against muted autumn colours, and with Hamburgerperforming an evocative, anecdotal inventory of the harvest from his apple orchard, the piece is abittersweet reminder of times passing that deftly captures, and quietly honours, an exemplary20th century literary figure. Featuring a new essay by Brian Dillon, Deans own notes on themaking of the project, and a transcript of its central voiceover monologue, this publication looksback at the film, one that takes its place alongside a number of studies by Dean of other majorcreative and artistic figures, and one that remains one of her most enduring and affectingachievements.


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Dick Swaab - Art Is Beauty In The Brain Of The BeholderArtEZ Press 2013 ISBN 9789491444135 Acqn 23014Pb 16x24cm 28pp 32ills 24col 13.50

This slim booklet reprints in full the Mondrian Lecture 2012, entitled Art is Beauty in the Brain of

the Beholder, given by physician and neurobiologist Dick Swaab of the Netherlands Institute forNeuroscience in Amsterdam. Known for his research into the human brain and contentiousfindings, which propose that we are the mere manifestation of our brain, here Swaab outlines arelatively new area of research known as neuroaesthetics. The essay examines the variousmechanisms in the brain that are involved in making, perceiving and appreciating art. Creativity,he claims, is determined by our brains not surprisingly, many of its forms stem directly frombrain defects.


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Avigdor Arikha - Works From 1966-2010

Marlborough Fine Art 2013 ISBN 9781909707016 Acqn 23025Pb 24x30cm 60pp 52col ills 12.50

Many children draw, but Avigdor Arikhas drawings were noticed at the age of twelve, when hewas deported to a Romanian-run concentration camp in Transnistria. His drawings of theharrowing scenes he had witnessed in the camp, were shown to Red Cross delegates, and werethe catalyst for the transportation of Arikha and 1500 further children to Palestine in 1944. Afterstudying at Jerusalems Bezalel School of Art, followed by a scholarship to the cole des Beaux

Arts in Paris, Arikha struck up close friendships with Alberto Giacometti and Samuel Beckett,whose sparing use of language taught him the significance of every brush stroke. Thesefriendships lasted throughout their lives and accompanied Arikha in the creative shift from hisabstract period to what he described as his post-abstract naturalism. The exhibition covers thelast 45 years of Arikhas life. He lived as an artist, writer, lecturer and curator. It will explore

Arikhas diverse use of mediums, ranging from pencil, graphite and ink brush (notably Sumi ink),

drawings, etchings and aquatint prints, to oils, watercolours and colour pastels. Arikhas estate isnotable in its diversity of subject matter, in which no one genre is privileged over another. Instead,it is the execution of the works that holds utmost importance. The transience of passing instancescan be perceived in Arikhas work, in which the unnoticed and unchecked becomes a lasting andpermanent subject, revealing the strangeness of familiar objects, angles and bodies, the fragilityof what we observe, and at the same time, its continuance.


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Frida - Voyages Dans Un Tableau Merveilleux. Livre AnimeCentre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844266330 Acqn 22665Hb 15x21cm 90pp 90col ills 18.50Text in French

Pop-Up activity book that takes children on a journey through a Frida Kahlo masterpiece.


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Art Conceptuel - Collection Mouvements ArtistiquesCentre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844266125 Acqn 22634Pb 19x19cm 96pp 55col ills 11.50Text in French

A series of essays to help the general reader discover the world of the greatest movements of the

twentieth and twenty-first centuries based on a selection of iconic works taken mainly from theprestigious collection of the Muse national d'art moderne, Centre Pompidou. The latest in theseries focuses on Conceptual Art, with text by Michel Gauthier.


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Modernites PluriellesCentre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844266224 Acqn 22638Pb 22x28cm 240pp 267col ills 33.50Text in French

A world history of art. For the first time, the Centre Pompidou is presenting a world history of artthrough a display of over 1,000 works representing 400 artists and 47 countries. Edited byCatherine Grenier, this catalogue explories the theme of art and globalization by comparingmodern and contemporary artists from all backgrounds included in the exhibition.


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Modernites Plurielles ALBUMCentre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844266231 Acqn 22639Pb 27x27cm 60pp 60col ills 9.50

Modernites Plurielles Album presents a selection of works from the exhibition alongside dual-language French and English text.


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Gyula KosiceCentre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844266248 Acqn 22640Pb 17x22cm 112pp 87ills 55col 23.95Text in French

Gyula Kosice is one of the most celebrated representatives of the 20thCentury Argentineanartistic avant-garde. In the 1940s Kosice co-founded the movement Madi. A painter and sculptor,Kosice also created new forms of art, such as mobiles. His work was a precursor to Kinetic artand through his use of new technologies, such as neon, and his creation of an urban Utopia, LaVille Hydrospatiale, he is now recognised as a true 20 thcentury visionary artist. Published on theoccasion of Modernites Plurielles and edited by Camille Morineau.


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Art Et MondialisationCentre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844265586 Acqn 22641Pb 20x24cm 240pp 37.95Text in French

This anthology is indispensable for those wishing to explore the relationship between modern artand globalisation. It includes a selection of key texts from the social sciences that contribute to anew history of art. From 1950 to the present day it collects writings by the key theoreticians andresearchers in anthropology, cultural studies, post-colonial studies as well as many texts by theartists themselves.


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Guerlain DonationCentre Georges Pompidou 2013 ISBN 9782844266255 Acqn 22664Hb 24x30cm 304pp 300ills 250col 47.50Text in French

Centre Pompidou presents a Catalogue Raisonne of the drawings donated by Florence and

Daniel Guerlain. The collection of more than 12.00 drawings includes work by Rocker Ackling,Eduardo Arroyo, Georg Baselitz, Christian Boltanski, Paul Chan, Tony Cragg, Robert Crumb,Marcel Dzama, Loris Greaud, Brion Gysin, Jenny Holzer, Yayoi Kusama, Albert Oehlen, TonyOursler, Cornelia Parker, Raymond Pettitbon, Richard Prince, Gerhard Richter, Nancy Spero andmay more. With texts by Alain Seban, Alfred Pacquement, Jonas Storsve and Antonio Mirabile.


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Massimo Minini - Quarantanni 1973-2013A+M Bookstore Edizione 2013 ISBN 9788887071504 Acqn 22925Pb 21x30cm 462pp 300ills 250col 57.95

This dense retrospective volume tells the history of the gallery called Banco, opened in Brescia in1973 by Massimo Minini, and today known as the Gallery Minini. Rather than present achronological narrative, the book is comprised of a series of flashbacks that give a sense of the

gallerys activity driven, influenced and shaped by many different forces. Across 500 deliriouspages, it collects a selection of archival material, such as photos, invitations and a stunningamount of personal correspondence, not to mention examples of the numerous artists, styles andartworks presented throughout the gallerys many seasons, from its quiet beginnings to thepresent moment.


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Kenji Yanobe - 1969-2005Seigensha Art Publishing 2013 ISBN 9784861523939 Acqn 22953Pb 23x30cm 160pp 160ills 150col 32

Kenji Yanobes mechanical sculptures are based on robot forms and cutting-edge industrialdesign, with bright colours, polished surfaces and articulable joints. Yet underlying theseseemingly whimsical and functional features from science fiction is a harrowing question: howmight we survive following a nuclear holocaust? A master of invention who grew up fascinated by

comics and animated films, Yanobes creative expression contains an impactful, perceptive socialmessage. In this comprehensive retrospective of his work, filled with numerous images offascinating projects, the coloured hazmat suits and built-in Geiger counters belie one of thedeepest fears of the modern age.


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Karl Hurm - Colours, Stories, PoemsSwiridoff Verlag 2013 ISBN 9783899292787 Acqn 22984Pb 23x28cm 132pp 121ills 117col 26

The exhibition Colours, Stories, Poems organised by the Wurth Collection in theHirschwirtscheuer in Kunzelsau brings together more than one hundred works by the artist KarlHurm. Hurm is a painter and draughtsman whose fanciful worlds have seen him become one ofthe worlds most loved outsider artists.


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The Russian Avant-Garde - The Khardzhiev Collection at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdamnai010 publishers 2013 ISBN 9789462081048 Acqn 22715Hb 24x31cm 544pp 900col ills 53.50

Nikolai Khardzhiev, a Russian literary scholar, was a friend and admirer of the modern painters ofhis time. He collected work by masters such as Kazimir Malevich, Olga Rozanova, El Lissitzky,

Mikhail Matyushin and Vladimir Tatlin, compiling an extensive repertoire of Russian avant-gardeart from the end of the 1920s. Published on the occasion of the largest survey exhibition ofKazimir Malevichs work in 20 years, taking place at the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, this bookprovides a full overview of the unique Khardziev-Chaga collection, housed there since 1997.


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Jim Hodges - Give More Than You TakeWalker Art Center 2013 ISBN 9781935963028 Acqn 22777Hb 22x27cm 256pp 185ills 165col 47.95

Since the late 1980s, Jim Hodges poetic reconsiderations of the material world have inspired abody of multimedia work in which the manmade and artificial are invested with emotion andauthenticity. Co-published by the Dallas Museum of Art and the Walker Art Center, this volumeaccompanies the first comprehensive, scholarly exhibition to be organized in the United States ofthis critically acclaimed American artist. Examining over 25 years of his artistic career, thisuniquely designed catalogue weaves together the voices of many to situate the artists workwithin issues of identity, social activism, illness, beauty, generosity and death. Contributionsinclude an in-depth overview of Hodges career by Jeffrey Grove, Hoffman Family Senior Curator

of Contemporary Art at the Dallas Museum of Art; an essay and interview with the artist by OlgaViso, Executive Director of the Walker Art Center; a reflection on Hodges early artisticdevelopment by Bill Arning, Director of the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston; an essay onsentimentality and the artists recent video work by Helen Molesworth, Barbara Lee Chief Curatorat the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; as well as ruminations on recurring motifs in theartists work by author Susan Griffin.


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Another Companion To Books From The SimpsonsRollo Press 2013 ISBN 9783906213002 Acqn 22982Pb 12x17cm 325pp 200ills 16.50

Ever noticed Bart or Lisa reading a book in an episode of The Simpsons and missed its title?Each one can be found here, captured with a black-and-white animation still and catalogued in

alphabetical order in this yellow pocket guide to every conceivable type of book featured in thepopular television series. From simply Appointments and Photos books to So Youve Decidedto Steal Cable, The Joy of Sax, or the Flanders Bible, all the humour and diversity of Simpsonreading can be found here. Slightly revised third edition.


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WORD! WORD? WORD! - Issa Samb And The Undecipherable FormSternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783956790270 Acqn 23111Pb 18x28cm 300pp col ills 21.50

This comprehensive monograph contains a selection of emblematic works by Sengalese-bornartist Issa Samb, aka Joe Ouakam. The publication follows Sambs first solo exhibition in Europe,curated by Koyo Kouoh, entitled WORD! WORD? WORD! Issa Samb and the Undecipherable

Form, at the Office for Contemporary Art Norway (OCA). The exhibition is organized incollaboration with Raw Material Company in Dakar, where it will travel to in late 2013. Theexhibition focuses on Sambs multifaceted practice, bringing together work from the past twenty-five years, including paintings, drawings, sculptures, performances, assemblages, andinstallations, as well as essays, plays, notes, and poems. The publication contains essays byindependent curator and novelist Simon Njami and art historian Sylvette Maurin, and aconversation between the artist and Koyo Kouoh.In 1974 Samb founded, together with a group of artists, writers, filmmakers, performance artists,and musicians, the Dakar-based Laboratoire AgitArt. The aim of the group was to transform thenature of artistic practice from a formalist, object-bound way of working to practices that werebased on experimentation and agitation, on process rather than product, ephemerality rather thanpermanence, and political and social ideas over aesthetic ones. Focusing on communicationbetween the artist and audience over physical objects, the actions of Laboratoire AgitArt

engaged with the immediate sociopolitical situation.From the establishment of Laboratoire AgitArt to the present, Samb has produced an extensivebody of work from which emerges a fluid exchange between objects, the artist, and audience. Hiswork, although nontraditional and unconventional, combines African artistic traditionswhereimportance is placed on the spoken word and performative actionswith direct political action.


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Aleksandra Mir - The Space Age. Poster BookSternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783956790225 Acqn 23112Pb 24x16cm 7col ills 21

On Saturday 28 August, 1999, against a background of puffing industrial plumes, a pinkish-bluesky, and the sound of bongo drum beats, Aleksandra Mir, dressed in a smart white dress and with

American flag in hand, scaled the side of a moonscape of sand dunes and makeshift craters tobecome the first woman on the moon. The performance First Woman on the Moonmarked thebeginning of Mirs exploration of outer space as she staged a moon landing by transforming aDutch beach into the moons surface using the help of local people and heavy machinery.Mirs projects offer her own take on popular cultural myths and historical events, by combining

religious iconography with NASA imagery or symbols of space travel. Her work reflects on theseevents that span half a millennium of humanmostly male-dominatedquest, transforming ordeconstructing them into a make-believe world of her own. Mir resists and modifies; her workcreates its own authenticity and truth.The Space Ageconsists of seven fold-out posters and a text by Martin Herbert. The publicationcoincides with the exhibition at M Museum Leuven which encompasses fourteen years of Mirscareer (19992013).


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Secret Behaviour 01 AnonymitySecret Behaviour 2013 ISBN 9780989745604 Acqn 23116Pb 20x28cm 130pp 95ills 60col 17.50

Edited by New York-based artist and curator James Gallagher, Secret Behaviorhas a simplefocus: human beings and contemporary art. It showcases established artists and pairs excitingnew writers with emerging artists. This first issue includes works by Gabriel Martinez, MiroslavTich, Paul Kooiker, Jesper Fabricius and Marco Ugolini; photography by Heidi Johansen, Cass

Bird, Slava Mogutin, Jordan Sullivan and Carrie Levy; painting by Dan Gluibizzi, James BenjaminFranklin, Kerstin Drechsel, Balint Zsako, Christopher Davison, Josh Cochran and Mike Perry;collage by Misha Hollenbach, Jens Ullman, Philippe Jusforgues, Chad Wys, Liam Crockard,Vlatka Horvat, Ashkan Honarvar, James Gallagher, John Gall, Julien Langendorff, OfficeSupplies Inc., Leigh Wells, Javier Rodriguez, Ruth Van Beek, Jesse Draxler, Dennis Busch,

Arturo H. Medrano, Katrien De Blauwer, Alejandro Chavetta and Anders Krisr; and writing byCatherine Lacey, Bianca Stone, Keith Newton, Jeremy Sigler, Tina Brown Celona, MorganTaylor, Jessica Baran, Jared White and Francesca Seravalle.

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