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The Wheel Of Fortune Gamebook Jap Sam 2014 ISBN 9789490322496 Acqn 24719 Pb 13x20cm 354pp 15ills 12 Part story, part game, this is a book with a difference one in which the reader becomes the protagonist. Inspired by Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time and Fyodor Dostoyevsky's The Gambler, the action is set in a hotel casino on the coast of Normandy. The Wheel of Fortune recovers the 'Choose Your Own Adventure' gamebook very popular in the early 1990s, right before the advent of the Internet. You, the reader, are responsible for the protagonist's vicissitudes. The narrative changes according to your decisions, the actions you carry out and your interaction with other characters inside the book. Sometimes you will need to try your luck to decide on different situations and to play the games that are offered in the story, like French roulette and . . . Russian roulette. Death, chance, desire and arcane knowledge will unfold as you explore the multiple narrative paths and the unknown that lies ahead. David Maroto is a Spanish visual artist based in the Netherlands. He has created art projects in the form of games (Disillusion) and novels (Illusion). In 2011 he spent a residency in ISCP New York, where he met curator Joanna Zielinska and begun their collaboration in The Book Lovers, a long-term project focused on artist novels with the support of a number of international art institutions. Maroto holds an MFA degree from the Dutch Art Institute and is currently carrying out a PhD in Edinburgh College of Art.

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K. D. Headless Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956790263 Acqn 24729 Pb 11x18cm 348pp 13.95 When workaday author John Barlow is asked to ghostwrite a novel about secretive tax havens, he assumes the job will be straightforward. Then he learns that his employers, Swedish conceptual artist duo Goldin+Senneby, want him to investigate Headless Ltd, a shadowy company with possible links to French philosopher Georges Bataille, famed for his fixation with human sacrifice. Barlow travels to Nassau, the mecca of offshore finance, to uncover the plot. He is not alone. A beautiful, mysterious woman is also seeking the truth about Headlessand about Barlow. One day the ghostwriter is happily posting to his travel blog; the next he is implicated in the decapitation of a police officer, consumed by the dark world of covert capitalism and secret societies. Barlows probing becomes desperate. The more he grasps at the threads of the labyrinthine plot, the closer he comes to madness. With an introduction by Alexander Provan A mysterious and brilliant gesture of fictional investigation. Joseph ONeill, author of The Dog and Netherland, winner of the 2009 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction A remarkable, genre-bending work. Headless reminds us that it is when we leave reality that we are most thoroughly ensconced by it. Bill Maurer, anthropologist and author of Recharting the Caribbean: Land, Law, and Citizenship in the British Virgin Islands K.D. has created a masterwork of metaphysical detective fiction. Headless is a coded, clandestine novel that nevertheless makes for breathless reading until the last page. Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, artist.

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Keith Sonnier - Elysian Plain + Early Works Pace Gallery NY 2014 ISBN 9781935410515 Acqn 24304 Pb 22x25cm 46pp 24col ills 17.50 Sonnier was part of a group of artists who challenged preconceived notions of sculpture in the late 1960s by experimenting with materials. In Sonniers case, materials ranged from latex and satin, to found objects, transmitters and video. In 1968, the artist began creating wall sculptures using incandescent light and sheer fabric. Frustrated by the standardized forms of incandescent light, he started experimenting with neon. Using copper tubing as a template, Sonnier began sketching lines, arches and curves ultimately realized in glass tubing enclosed neon. The linear quality of neon allowed Sonnier to draw in space with light and color while colored light interacted with the surrounding architecture. Over the past two decades, Keith Sonnier has received international recognition for his large-scale works specific to renowned landmarks. In 2000, the artist created a temporary neon installation on four facades of Peter Zumthors Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria, entitled Millennium 2000. The large-scale installation coincided with the exhibition Keith Sonnier: Environmental Works 1968-99. In 2004, the artist created one of Los Angeless largest public installations. Motordom (2004) illuminates the courtyard of Thom Maynes Caltrans District 7 Building as a permanent installation of red neon and blue argon.

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James Franco - New Film Stills Pace Gallery NY 2014 ISBN 9781935410553 Acqn 24309 Pb 28x24cm 80pp 32ills 26 New Film Stills present a series of gelatin silver print photographs made in 2013 ranging in scale from 40-by-30 inch to 8-by-10 inch. Recreating Cindy Shermans Untitled Film Stills, Franco positions his body in the same pose, attire and scenario as Sherman did as the subject in her stills nearly 30 years ago. Like Shermans characters, Bidart writes in the introduction to the catalogue, the figures [Franco] portrays outrun ones naturalistic expectations in their stoicism and defiance, in their mystery. Somewhere in their expressions they keep an awareness of a connection to the void. With this book Franco has made something profound. On the subject of this body of work, James Franco has remarked, Cindy Sherman's Untitled Film Stills broke new ground in so many ways: they can be read as critique of portrayals of women in film, a critique that goes hand in hand with the work of critic Laura Mulvey; they can be read as performances; as photographs; as examinations of types; they are both humorous and earnest. Cindy is an artist who used cinema as a source for her work; she played at being an actress. I am an actor who inserts himself into his work. Where Cindy used cinema as a starting place, I use art as a starting place. She, like so many of my favourite artists (Douglas Gordon, Richard Prince, Dan Colen, Nate Lowman, Paul McCarthy) uses cinema in her work, but she comes at it from a position outside of Hollywood. I am fully embedded in Hollywood, but these photos allow me to take a step to the side, look back, and refashion the work I do in Hollywood. I am at the same time actor, critic, artist, and character.

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Hubs and Fictions - On Current Art And Imported Remoteness Sternberg Press 2015 ISBN 9783956790256 Acqn 24745 Pb 12x18cm 192pp 32col ills 14.50 With contributions by Tobias Berger, Guy Brett, Simon Groom, Sophia Hao, Lisa Le Feuvre, Ma Lin, Markus Miessen and Federica Bueti, Tom Morton, Vanessa Joan Mller, Wang Nanming, Paul ONeill, Edgar Schmitz, Gemma Sharpe Hubs and Fictions, originally a touring forum, invited international curators, writers, and producers to probe how fiction plays out in a globally distributed art-world ecology, and how infrastructures are invented against its background. In 2012, the forum was staged sequentially at Cooper Gallery (Dundee), Baltic Centre for Contemporary Art (Gateshead), Goldsmiths University of London, and operated as a satellite event to Edgar Schmitzs exhibition Surplus Cameo Decor, curated by Sophia Hao at Cooper Gallery. The book functions as a deliberately discontinuous reader; it juxtaposes documents, negotiations, and reflections from and on these conversations. The publication also includes a preface by Andrea Phillips, a new image sequence by Schmitz, and a suite of reflexive annotations exchanged between Hao and Schmitz.

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Antoni Abad - Megafone.net/2004-2014 Turner 2014 ISBN 9788416142385 Acqn 24155 Pb 17x24cm 164pp 75ills 65col 21 Since 2004, Antoni Abad has developed a series of innovative, geographically diverse, multidisciplinary and socially committed projects designed to fit the needs of different groups of people at risk of social exclusion. He invites these groups to document their experiences and express opinions using mobile phones and to instantly publish them online at megafone.net in the form of audio, video, text and photos. Under the scientific direction of Roc Pars, this book examines megafone.net from various perspectives: from project participants and coordinators, to academic approaches by Gerard Goggin, Pablo La Parra, Alberto Lpez Cuenca and Kimberly Sawchuk.

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Mission [space X Art] - Beyond Cosmologies Seigensha Art Publishing 2014 ISBN 9784861524493 Acqn 24270 Pb 19x25cm 184pp 180ills 150col 21.95 Introducing the diverse works presented in Space Art This is an epoch-making book in that it enables the readers to experience the real universe and the universe of the imagination. It introduces art works from different fields, such as the cutting-edge experimental data on space as the eternal longing of mankind, art, literature and animation, etc.

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Leandro Erlich - The Ordinary? My Book Service inc. 2014 ISBN 9784907490041 Acqn 24329 Hb 23x20cm 200pp 140col ills 73 Argentinian conceptual artist Leandro Erlich conceives works that trigger changes in our perception of reality through objects and actions commonly shared by everyone. Taking something ordinary and transforming it into the extraordinary condition in combination with new and unknown elements, his pieces rouse the viewers senses to surprise and delight, often through accessibility and innate humour. Simply put, his oeuvre encourages participation. Published on the occasion of Erlichs first solo exhibition in Japan, at the 21st Century Museum of Contemporary Art, this catalogue documents the exhibited works through images, essays and an interview.

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Difficulty Of Freedom / Freedom Of Difficulty Crymogea 2014 ISBN 9789935420435 Acqn 24373 Pb 14x20cm 84pp 65ills 35col 21.95 This book is an artistic research project by Erla S. Haraldsdttir and Carin Ellberg, in which they invite other artists and students from art academies to participate. In collaborative spaces like art academies, individuals place trust in each other, and provide each other a platform for giving birth to that which lies at the very heart of civilization - art. Here through enigmatic and direct restrictions, Erla and Carin open up the possibility of a metamorphosis between the mirror-self and the mirror-other.

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Hacking - Edition Digital Culture 2 Christoph Merian Verlag 2014 ISBN 9783856166427 Acqn 24410 Pb 11x18cm 240pp 50ills 16.50 Since computer technology became popularised, thanks to personal computers and the Internet, the strategy of hacking has held a particular fascination for media art. What exactly does it mean, and what messages do artists convey through these projects? This second volume in the Edition Digital Culture series examines these questions.

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Lyon 12th Biennale 2013 Tome 2 Les Presses Du Reel 2014 ISBN 9782840667315 Acqn 24433 Pb 17x23cm 448pp 450ills 400col 32 A retrospective overview of the 12th edition of the Lyon Biennale, 'Meanwhile... Suddenly and Then', curated by Icelandic curator Gunnar B. Kvaran, gathering 80 artists from all over the world who work in the narrative field and use art to experiment with the modalities and mechanisms of storytelling, with a focus on the two parallel programs Veduta and Resonance, held in the Lyon conurbation and its region, with various local actors and cultural and artistic institutions: an exploration of the diversity of visual cultures, guided by the core ideas of convergence and participation.

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It's Play Time 4 Conversations Fucking Good Art 2014 ISBN 9789081775625 Acqn 24486 Pb 11x18cm 160pp 2ills 10 Structured around 4 conversations, 'Fucking Good Art 31' takes as its starting point the 1938 book 'Homo Ludens', a study of the play-element in culture by Johan Huizinga. The artists spoke with the following people as part of their research into the importance of play in different fields: Tijs Goldschmidt, Dutch writer and evolutionary biologist, on why and how animals play; Joris Luyendijk, Dutch journalist who writes for the BBCs experimental Banking Blog, which looks at the world of finance from an anthropological perspective; Evelyne Reeves, director of Le Bureau des Temps in Rennes, an agency that devises improvements in the way the city structures its time; and Zo Gray about her ideas for the biennale in Rennes.

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Maurizio Cattelan CAC Malaga 2014 ISBN 9788494216954 Acqn 24711 Pb 22x25cm 118pp 23ills 20col 38.95 Italian sculptor Maurizio Cattelan is known for his satirical sculptures, and especially for his capacity to appropriate highly polemical icons. Many of his works offer poignant reflections on Italys socio-political actuality, or target clichs and the national image, packaged and presented for the tourist industry. Often the notion of the grotesque emerges in his body of work. Published on the occasion of Cattelans first solo exhibition in Spain, at CAC Mlaga, comprising works from the Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo collection, this catalogue reveals his work in all its intensity, humour and sarcasm. Includes a critical essay by Fernando Castro Flrez.

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Mark Manders - Acolyte Frena ROMA Publications 2014 ISBN 9789491843266 Acqn 24741 Pb 12x17cm 96pp 90ills 15.75 For his third solo exhibition in the Netherlands, Mark Manders created a special environment in De Vleeshal, Middelburg, wherein he refers to his well-known series, Self-Portrait as a Building, begun in 1986. This diminutive publication documents the exhibition in its entirety through black-and-white photographs depicting installation views, the creative process, and the associated artworks, materials and objects.

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Ariel Schlesinger Christoph Merian Verlag 2014 ISBN 9783856166519 Acqn 24151 Hb 21x28cm 90pp 33ills 32col 26 Israeli-born conceptual artist Ariel Schlesinger uses humour and diversion to transform and subvert the everyday objects of our reality. His interventions seem to render the objects functionless according to their original purpose, yet at the same time unlock new possibilities for dealing with their once familiar materiality. Schlesinger creates poetic situations wherein this distanced view lends itself to an irrational, even threatening, feeling in the beholder. Published on the occasion of his largest international solo exhibition to date, at Kunsthaus Baselland in Muttenz, this catalogue includes numerous installation views, an essay by Robert Ginsberg and interview with the artist.

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Maya Lin - Rivers And Mountains Ivory Press 2014 ISBN 9788494146299 Acqn 24372 Pb 20x24cm 88pp 45ills 25col 37.95 Published on the occasion of an eponymous 2014 exhibition in Madrid of works by American designer, artist and dedicated environmentalist Maya Lin, whose oeuvre ranges from large-scale environmental installations and architectural projects to intimate studio artworks and sculptures, this unusual book reflects her commitment to exploring time, memory, history and language. Photos of each work are featured across two facing pages, but these pages remain uncut at the top, requiring the reader to spread them open from the bottom to observe the image. Besides photos, the book includes design sketches and models by the artist, plus a biographical text.

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Sigurdur Gudmundsson - Dancing Horizon Crymogea 2014 ISBN 9789935420244 Acqn 24380 Hb 24x30cm 222pp 140ills 40col 42.95 Icelandic sculptor Sigurdur Gudmundsson moved to Amsterdam in 1970. The photo works he began to produce around this time reflected conceptual tendencies like the Fluxus movement. His approach to themes like man and his relationship with nature, or mans struggle with existential issues, comes across as highly personal, distinguished by its witty yet melancholic undertone. Like many conceptual artists, Gudmundsson concerns himself with the artists action as a work of art in itself; his photo works thus become poetic contemplations of the world around him. With essays by Kristn Dagmar Jhannesdttir and Lily van Ginneken, plus an interview with the artist.

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Submarine Wharf 2010-2013 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen 2015 ISBN 9789069182827 Acqn 24695 Hb 22x30cm 188pp 162ills 160col 29.95 Between 2010 and 2013 Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen has organized four large scale exhibitions in the Submarine Wharf: Infernopolis by Atelier Van Lieshout, The One & The Many by Elmgreen & Dragset, Ballads by Sarkis en XXXL Painting by Klaas Kloosterboer, Chris Martin and Jim Shaw. This book appears as a conclusion of this series of exhibitions, which was created in collaboration with the Port of Rotterdam Authority. The publication will feature the four exhibitions separately, with an essay by the curator and photographs of the installation, an introduction by Sjarel Ex on the story behind the process of making exhibitions in the harbour of Rotterdam and an essay by Maartje Berendsen, representative of the Port of Rotterdam Authority on the history of this remarkable location.

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S&d 24/ Ape#47 - So Many Dark Gifts, An Essay By Matthew Stadler Art Paper Editions 2014 ISBN 9789490800291 Acqn 24703 Pb 21x30cm 180pp 180ills 30col 19.95 Matthew Stadler joins with Smoke & Dust, a non-profit record label and publishing house in Ghent run by Tim Bryon, Valentijn Goethals and Tomas Lootens, contributing the essay So Many Dark Gifts to this photo-rich volume exploring the groups varied, cross-media output. From punk rock shows, posters and screen printing, to nomadic radio and providing a platform for young artists, the group enforces confrontation with an audience and a public space. Constantly on the hunt for new impulses, whether visually or musically, the focus is always on experimental artistic forms. In his essay, Stadler emphasises the role Goethals plays, and also what fascinates him.

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Adrian Ghenie CAC Malaga 2014 ISBN 9788494216978 Acqn 24712 Hb 25x28cm 104pp 40ills 39col 33 Berlin-based painter Adrian Ghenie chiefly uses only a palette knife and stencils to create representations of historical figures or famous artworks, iconic images which are depicted in an atmosphere and setting reminiscent of film stills. The Romanian artists personal style, which tends towards the collage in more recent works, thus blends reality with fiction in an explosion of smeared colours and seemingly decomposed forms, presented in this catalogue of about 30 recent works shown at CAC Mlaga. This is the first occasion that work by Ghenie has been exhibited in Spain. With a critical essay by Francisco Calvo Serraller and numerous reproductions of works.

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Arno Kramer -Longing Drawings De Kunst 2014 ISBN 9789491196812 Acqn 24730 Hb 22x29cm 176pp 150col ills 34.95 Published to accompany an exhibition at Museum De Pont in Tilburg, this book features the ethereal and darkly radiant visual language of Dutch-born artist Arno Kramer, who has lived and worked extensively in Ireland, a fact which resonates throughout his oeuvre. Within veiled and diaphanous layers of watercolour washes, many of his drawings exhibit motifs of voluminous dresses, or female and ruminant forms, perhaps as fleeting symbols of vulnerability. Others are dense and foreboding landscapes, clouded fields of colours and lines, or the dark silhouettes of buildings. Includes critical texts by Aidan Dunne, Diana A. Wind, Sen Kissane and Claude dAnthenaise.

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Cornelius Volker - Works on Paper Schirmer Mosel Verlag 2015 ISBN 9783829607063 Acqn 24800 Hb 25x30cm 248pp 190ills 187col 47 Companions to his mostly large-format, vividly coloured paintings on canvas, Vlkers works on paper take a quieter, more intimate stand, responding to the baroque burst of colour with transparency, sensitivity, and his typical pinch of irony. With texts by Katharina Henkel and Frank Schmidt.

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Klaus Weber - If You Leave Me I'm Not Coming. Already There! Nottingham Contemporary 2014 ISBN 9781907421037 Acqn 24292 Hb 17x24cm 240pp 182ills 150col 20 Klaus Weber is an artist who strays through multiple disciplines and appears to take on various professional rolesfrom engineer to anthropologist, from bee-keeper to anatomistin his ongoing exploration of natural and socio-political forces, questioning our social, physical, psychological and ontological relationships with the environments we live in. If you leave me Im not coming was an exhibition of recent works and new commissions, while Already there! was a dense and finely tuned assemblage of 176 borrowed artworks and assorted objects of different kinds (as well as some of Webers own artworks), spanning 1,000,000 years. A selection of art works, mainly from the Tate collection, echoes Webers interests, dating back to Monkey and Dogs Playing by Francis Barlow from 1661. Artists include Sir William Allen, Louis Anquetin, John Armstrong, Clive Barker, Francis Barlow, Reg Butler, Csar, George Fullard, Philip Guston, Gertrude Hermes, Sir George Howland Beaumont, Henri Michaux, Paul Neagu, David Shrigley, Sir Hamo Thorneycroft and Richard Wentworth. The publication is designed as two books in one, a book with two beginnings and no end. It features essays by Diedrich Diederichsen and Jrg Heiser and introductions by Klaus Weber and Alex Farquharson and Abi Spinks.

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Javier Tellez - Games Are Forbidden In The Labyrinth ROMA Publications 2015 ISBN 9789491843297 Acqn 24827 Pb 14x20cm 192pp 100ills 20col 22.50 Javier Tllez holds a singular perspective on issues surrounding psychiatric treatment, mental illness, normalcy, and the spaces we construct to confine these vexing questions. This book comprises a visual essay, purportedly a guide to the rules of chess, yet interwoven with texts by philosophers, literary figures, sociologists, and others, while touching upon references as diverse as Hieronymus Bosch, the Rorschach test, electroconvulsive therapy, and the Sharon Tate murders. Emergent new possibilities are confined by the administration of norms, albeit within an empathetic space. With a foreword by Hesse McGraw and contributions by Ruth Estvez and Dieter Roelstraete.

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Jan Hoek - The Pattaya Sex Bubble (10 vols.) Art Paper Editions 2015 ISBN 9789490800314 Acqn 24833 Pb 17x24cm 160pp 100col ills 24.95 Jan Hoek travelled to Pattaya, Thailands sex capital, to make ten different magazines in which a cast of unusual characters plays out strange narratives and suggests seedy encounters. Through photo collages, scribbled drawings, short stories, conversations, handwritten diary entries, water-damaged photographs, and grainy portraits, a picture emerges of Hoeks light and humorous creative efforts as a foreigner in a far away place that caters to the sex industry. Transgender prostitutes known as lady boys are his main protagonists, with whom he builds personal relationships and has various adventures, like trying out a mermaid costume, or visiting a wax museum.

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Yuji Kaida - Godzilla Illustrations Aspect 2014 ISBN 9784757223479 Acqn 24848 Pb 21x30cm 128pp 86ills 80col 33 Graphic artist Yuji Kaida is especially known for his illustrations of monsters and robots. During his 30-year career, he has drawn dozens of popular film monsters, foremost among them Godzilla, as well as many characters that have been less well-known outside of Japan until recently. Presented here is the first collection of Kaidas art relating to Godzilla and other Toho monster movies. Also in this volume, an extensive conversation with the artist (for those enthusiasts who can read Japanese). The numerous illustrations of science fiction terrors like Mothra, King Ghidorah, Moguera, Mechagodzilla and other classics are a treat for new fans and Godzilla connoisseurs alike.

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