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One of a Kind
The Unique World of Island Animals
2022 || Hardcover || Mario Ludwig || Persell Trading
Giants, dwarves, living fossils - many animal species living on remote islands have developed extravagant features that would have denied them a chance of survival elsewhere. Text in English and German.
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Pii-Files
2022 || Paperback || Pii Daenen || Komma, Uitgeverij
Beeldend kunstenaar Pii Daenen produceert al ruim 50 jaar sculpturen, installaties, video’s, foto’s, prints, artefacten, multiples, interieur- en meubelstukken. Hij haalt zijn inspiratie vooral uit de elementaire menselijke behoeftes en technologische ontwikkelingen en geeft met zijn kunst met humor commentaar op hoe wij hier als mens mee omgaan.
In 2012 begon Pii zijn werk te archiveren in FileMaker Pro. Zijn totale oeuvre is hierdoor een visuele encyclopedie geworden; een kunstwerk an s...
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The Fold
2022 || Paperback || Fleur Van Dodewaard || Idea Books B.V.
With elementary materials – wood, paper, clay, tape, paint – artist Fleur van Dodewaard creates ephemeral compositions that play with the possibilities of photography, sculpture, and painting. Situated at the intersection of these disciplines, her work uses photography to achieve the final result. ‘The Fold’ presents ten years of practice, reshaped according to the principles of book production methods such as folding, cutting, and binding. Operating like a “making-of” documentary...
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Accountable Temporary Expedients
2022 || Paperback || Irina Baldini || Brave New Books
Accountable Temporary Expedients is a practice that challenges the ability of dancers to attend to multiple stimuli at once and instigate situations which embrace confusion, doubt and uncertainty. This work stands in response to the notion that dance urges to emancipate. Baldini’s current critique sees dance as being "stuck, gooey, a victim of its own habit and, so in love with itself, it does not recognise its limitations. It is self-seduced, self-sufficient, and self-indulgent. Dance is n...
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From Bayreuth to Burkina Faso
Christoph Schlingensief’s Opera Village Africa as postcolonial Gesamtkunstwerk?
2022 || Paperback || Sarah Hegenbart || Leuven University Press
Opera Village, a participatory art experiment by the late German multimedia artist Christoph Schlingensief, serves as a testing ground for a critical interrogation of Richard Wagner’s notion of the Gesamtkunstwerk. Sarah Hegenbart traces the path from Wagner’s introduction of the Gesamtkunstwerk in Bayreuth to Schlingensief’s attempt to charge the idea of the total artwork with new meaning by transposing it to the West African country Burkina Faso. Schlingensief developed Opera Village ...
Fragility
On Touching and Being Touched
2022 || Paperback || Marlies De Munck e.a. || Valiz
Marlies De Munck is philosopher of culture. She teaches at the Philosophy department of the Antwerp University and at the KASK & Conservatory in Ghent. As a member of the Culture Commons Quest Office (CCQO) of the Antwerp Research Institute of the Arts (ARIA) she conducts research into the health of culture. Pascal Gielen is sociologist of culture. He is based at the Antwerp Research Institute for the Arts (ARIA) of Antwerp University. There he leads the research group Culture Commons Quest O...
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New Earth
A Photographic Journey Of The Geldingadalir Eruption
2022 || Hardcover || Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove || Matador
Toen de Fagradalsfjall-vulkaan in IJsland op 19 maart 2021 uitbarstte, was de Belgische fotograaf en natuurgids Jeroen Van Nieuwenhove ter plaatse met zijn camera. Zijn doel? Het vulkanische spektakel ervaren en vastleggen vanop de eerste rij. Het werd het begin van een unieke fotografische reis, die al zijn verwachtingen overtrof.
In dit boek deelt Jeroen zijn verzameling foto’s van dag één van de uitbarsting tot en met de laatste dag. Daarnaast biedt hij je een uniek inzicht in hoe de f...
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LAI MARIA, Mending Pain Weaving Hope
2022 || Paperback || Micol Forti || 5 Continents (ACC)
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Design: The Whole Story
2022 || Paperback || Elizabeth Wilhide || Thames & Hudson Ltd
A revised edition of this popular history of design, updated to reflect innovations since the book's first publication in 2016. Design: The Whole Story takes a close look at the key developments, movements and practitioners of design around the world, from the beginnings of industrial manufacturing to the present day. Organized chronologically, it locates design within its technological, cultural, economic, aesthetic and theoretical contexts.
From the high-minded moralists of the 19th century...
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Pictures of the Floating World
An Introduction to Japanese Prints
2022 || Paperback || Sarah E. Thompson || Exhibitions International
A beautifully packaged introduction to the perennially popular subject of Japanese prints. Slipcased with three prints suitable for framing.