Batia Suter’s work intuitively situates found images in new contexts to provoke surprising reactions and significative possibilities. ‘Parallel Encyclopedia’, which she conceived between 2004 and 2007, contains a precise composition of numerous images taken solely from other books. Significant underlying themes expressed in the Amsterdam-based, Swiss artist’s practice are the “iconification” and “immunogenicity” of old images, and the circumstances by which they assume or beco...

In praise of folly: on the fool and the jester in Flemish art

According to medieval theologians, faith is a deadly serious business. Humour and virtue are irreconcilable, because laughter is uncontrollable and escapes the control of reason. A modest smile is permitted. But laughing loudly, grinning and grimacing: these are the playing field of the devil – just as pernicious as other uncontrollable urges, such as physical love or the addiction of the gambler. That is the domain of the peasan...

Europa 2017, dansen we weer op een vulkaan? Bereiden vreemdelingenhaat, gebrek aan vertrouwen in de politiek, en economische onzekerheid ons voor op een verschrikkelijke ondergang? Misschien wel. Het zou hoop moeten bieden voor dit project, aangezien de beste kunst wordt gemaakt op de rand van wanhoop, wanneer beschavingen uiteen vallen en we afstevenen op een nieuwe wereldorde.Dit boek vertelt over de totstandkoming van The Painted Bird, een collaboratief kunstwerk door negentien kunstenaars...

A fascinating immersion into the cartography and history of the Low Countries

An old map does not only represent a geographical situation; it also embodies a veritable journey of discovery through world history. In this book, historian Anne-Rieke van Schaik immerses herself in the many stories behind the fascinating maps, prints, atlases, globes and instruments belonging to the Phoebus Foundation’s collection. These objects testify to glorious moments and dark interludes in the history of t...

CES53, GRAFFITI DESIGNS, SKETCHES AND DOODLES.

133 Page book containing 250 graffiti designs, sketches and psychedelic doodles by graffiti and street artist CES53.

Period 1979-1999.

Compilation of classic blackbook drawings, designs, doodles and sketches.

This is a book containing 41 drawings created by Jenny Scholten van Aschat using just one ink line to join two souls in love.

There are no titles to any of them as I believe you can make your own titles and stories for each drawing.

Mother’s Milk (re)constructs the story of Ilse, the author’s grandmother. Alienated in the psychiatric hospital of La Timone, in Marseille, Ilse resided there from 1952 until her death in 1983. Bringing together archival material, correspondences and conversations narrated via documentary poetry, Marie Ilse Bourlanges assembles the fragments of a family history hiding in plain sight.

An undertow of embodied memory meets the flow of institutional remembrance, drawing parallels between the ...