You have a copy of the first book about collage artists from the Lowlands in front of you.

Not the first book about collage art in the world and definitely not the last to be published, but a meaningful document about the collage world.

Collage seems to be the changeling in art, but always has been and still is a beloved technique for a lot of different kind of artists, like : Hannah Höch, Georges Braque, Pablo Picasso, Kurt Schwitters, Raoul Hausmann, Man Ray, Eileen Agar, Joseph Cornell, ...

'An Equine Anthology' weeft niet-lineaire geschiedenissen, getuigenissen en interpretaties van de paardencultuur van het Amerikaanse Zuidwesten tot daarbuiten samen. In plaats van dubbelverhalen over het romantische en het mondaine, over persoonlijkheid en gebruik, presenteert An Equine Anthology de lezer een brede topografische kijk op het paard, een beeld dat veel verder reikt dan dat van de Amerikaanse mythologie. De bloemlezing van M12 combineert poëzie met onderzoeksmethoden die ingaan ...

Future Rural Archive is the fourth Center Pivot publication the Last Chance Press of M12 Studio. Co-publishers: M12 Collective and the Last Chance Press.

Through interdisciplinary approaches, this series explores and connects the changing realities of rural landscapes and communities around the world.

'Tucked inside the covers of this slim volume is a conversation—a chorus, a round. It takes place between the contributions, across a territory of blacktop, botany, and biography. It is as mu...

In 'Before I Was Born', Tja Ling illustrates the story of her family’s journey from China to the Netherlands, between the 1930s and 1970s, in 14 interconnected pencil drawings. Out of respect and admiration for the way her (grand)- parents built a life for themselves with all the challenges they have had to face, migrating without any formal education or knowledge of the local language.

These drawings are a chronicle of pride, strength and respect. A narrative of a child discovering why he...

Displace explores the process of entering into a dialogue with soil as a living entity. It offers an intimate insight into Elena Khurtova's artistic research and process during her residency at 3bisF, on the site of Montperrin Psychiatric hospital in Aix-en-Provence, and delves into her personal connection with displaced soils.

Extending the sensitive experience of touching red and yellow soils into the materiality of the book, Elena Khurtova and graphic designer Tariq Heijboer experiment wit...

AgriValley is a long-term poetic study of Dutch agriculture. In her cinematographic representations, video artist Mirte van Duppen brings together various production landscapes as a social construct: here, humans and machines live and work side by side. The futuristic, almost dreamlike images give an insight into the enormous impact of technological innovation in the agricultural sector.

Van Duppen shows the contemporary landscape in associative analyses, using visual rhyme and essayistic cam...

Anton Rooskens (1906–1976) made a significant contribution to modern art in the Netherlands as an artist affiliated with the Cobra group, but also afterwards. His paintings are included in leading museum collections in the Netherlands and abroad. It is time for a new, comprehensive publication on this important Dutch twentieth-century painter. Over the past years, art historians Marguerite Tuijn and Eliane Odding have delved into his oeuvre and life. Based on previously unused sources from ...