The Battle Between Carnival and Lent is a masterpiece by Pieter Bruegel the Elder (c. 1525/30-1569). Dating from 1559, the world-famous painting is rich in remarkable stories and characters.

This book zooms in on the many everyday objects portrayed by Bruegel in the painting. These objects have been meticulously examined and interpreted through a contemporary gaze. Just as Bruegel's paintings served in the sixteenth century as conversation pieces among guests at dinner, so too this book prese...

Every kind of change belongs to a form of community art’, stelt de Italiaanse filosoof Antonio Negri. Het is de omkering van het gebruikelijke adagium dat community art een deel kan zijn van gewenste maatschappelijke veranderingen. Negri stelt niet alleen de community art, haar voorstanders en critici voor een uitdagende verantwoordelijkheid, maar iedereen in de samenleving die verandering wil teweeg brengen op sociaal, politiek, economische, technologisch of ecologisch vlak. Artistiek én c...

A collection of paintings made by Andre Schreuder.He was born in Delft in 1960 in The Netherlands.He gets his inspiration from everyday life,nature,reading and most of all music.In this book you will see his style developing from realism to a more abstract way of painting.

Only boys... is a processing artproject that was carried out between 2020 and 2023.

In 25 large pastel portraits Jimmy Groen shows a hidden world of aspects of identity, gender and identification during childhood. The drawings are based upon personal experiences and provide an unique insight in what might become in dissociative identity disorder from adverse experiences during childhood.

Only boys... it\'s the observer of the portraits that completes the dots.

Cool Pastoral Splendor is the first Center Pivot publication the Last Chance Press of M12 Studio. It is published as a special limited edition, in a print run of 250 copies. 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."Cool Pastoral Splendor includes a selection of pictures from Richard Saxton's Rural Research Archive and accompanying ...

'This Road Leads to Nowhere: Pierre Punk' brings together archives and reflections from a music scene that flourished in small-town South Dakota from the early 90's through 2010. Merging the tradition of DIY punk publications and regional travel guides, the book sings an unsung hymn of American underground culture. This Road Leads to Nowhere includes writings and images from Pierre community members, musicians who traveled through and played in the town, and kindred spirits from similar scene...

Being Public onderzoekt de notie van 'publiek' vanuit verschillende invalshoeken. In discussies over de betekenis van cultuur speelt de categorie 'publiek' een belangrijke rol, maar wat er met dit begrip precies bedoeld wordt blijft vaak onduidelijk. De betekenis van zowel 'kunstpubliek' als 'publieke ruimte' is complex geworden in een tijd waarin de grenzen tussen publiek en privé verschuiven en waar 'het publiek' eigenlijk verschillende groepen met veranderende samenstelling en identiteit ...

Batia Suter’s work intuitively situates found images in new contexts to provoke surprising reactions and significative possibilities. This volume follows on from the first ‘Parallel Encyclopedia’, published in 2007. Underlying themes of Suter’s practice are the “iconification” and “immunogenicity” of old images, and the circumstances by which they become charged with new associative values. “In my work, I collect groups of images based on various themes and characteristics, ...