Since 1945 the modern revolution in sculpture has gathered pace, and sculpture has now ceased to be the fixed category it once was. In recent decades the modernist idea of sculpture across the UK, America, and Europe, has been challenged, and issues such as nationality and politics have been brought in to the arena of public discussion. In this ground-breaking account of the development of post-War sculpture Andrew Causey examines innovative and avant-garde works in relation to contemporary e...

Voorjaar 2014 zal bij Jap Sam books een omvangrijke monografie verschijnen van de Amerikaanse kunstenaar Richard Saxton. Het boek, vormgegeven door Peter de Kan heeft 560 pagina's en is getiteld 'A Decade of Country Hits - Art on the Rural Frontier'. Het boek presenteert een overzicht van werk geïnitieerd en gerealiseerd door Richard Saxton in landelijke gebieden.

'A Decade of Country Hits - Art on the Rural Frontier' omvat onder meer een selectie van foto's uit Saxton's 'Rural Research Arc...

De artistieke praktijk van Rafaël Rozendaal bestaat uit websites, installaties, prints en teksten. Zijn werk tekent zich af binnen en serie transformaties-van beweging naar abstractie, van virtuele naar fysieke ruimte, en van website naar print-die met elkaar in verband staan. Al zijn werken hebben een ding gemeen: ze ontstaan vanuit een fascinatie voor bewegend beeld en interactiviteit in de meest basale vorm. Everything, Always, Everywhere staat stil bij de veranderingen die Rozendaal's we...

Contemporary British artist Ian Berry (1984, Huddersfield UK) has been making virtuous figurative paintings and installations of denim for over 15 years. This eponymous publication accompanies the first solo-exhibition of Berry in the Netherlands. Ian Berry. Splendid Isolation, Museum Rijswijk, December 1, 2020 – April 5, 2021.

Illustrated with numerous images that aim to convey the depth and texture of Berry’s work, which explores our urban environment and examines community issues, or t...

This Naked Incident is a deep dive in search of the place that 'masculinity' holds in the lives of young people today. Alexander van der Heide and Sander Coers spoke with five peers; all assigned male at birth and all with very different experiences of masculinity and equally different gender expressions. Because what is masculinity? Where it sometimes seems that we have no more than stereotypes to resort to in our efforts to make this tangible, it turns out there are specific moments, charge...

The tenth instalment in the Set Margins' series introduces work by Karen Lofgren. Full of enigmatic illustrations and objects, the book combines notes, dialogues, and annotated works, inviting readers to interlace the Canadian-born, Los Angeles-based artist’s living field work into encounters that shape a feminist and decolonial perspective. The compendium considers works from Lofgren’s practice, largely inspired by natural and organic forms and involving sculpture, installation, and work...

The first book to systematically investigate this new visual language. In less than sixty pages, Digital Paining offers a complete overview of the characteristics of digital painting and insight in its five main directions: computer generated, raster, vector, hybrid painting and new photography. All features are provided with clear illustrations. In addition to practical topics like: how can unique works and limited editions be effectively protected? the book offers a useful tool to answer a...