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Ion Grigorescu - Diaries 1970 1975 Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790515 Acqn 23597 Hb 14x21cm 248pp 155ills 35col 19.95 Ion Grigorescu is one of the seminal visual artists of his generation in Eastern Europe. In recent years, his complex body of work has attracted increasing attention in the West, entailing a reading of his oeuvre through the prism of canonized Western art histories. This first English edition of his diaries from the crucial years of 1970 to 1975 is a small literary and art-historical sensation. It not only corrects the facile reading of Grigorescus practice in the context of Conceptual art and performance, but provides insight into the artists multifocal thinking, which incorporates an original critique of modernism, the dystopian effects of an instrumentalized idea of reason and rationality, an analysis of subjectivity, and a penetrating gaze into a dialectic of secrecy and elucidation, of exposure and mystification. Grigorescus diaries are written notes revolving around the status of the image, and investigate the relation of the body to society and of art to the world, in a deep phenomenological reconsideration. His work proposes a parallel conception of the public made tangible through the eloquence of the body. In poetic language full of powerfully pictorial metaphors, Grigorescu reflects on his observations of the tension between the realistic effects of the image, the suppression of realism, and the hidden traces the gaze holds through the activities of the increasingly present unconscious of collective memory. Along with the drawings, paintings, photographs, and sketches that accompany them, the diaries serve as an introduction that opens up the possibility of conceiving Grigorescus art as a rare evocation of a singular way of thinking: a stance. orders@artdata.co.uk www.artdata.co.uk

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Jeff Koons - Gazing Ball David Zwirner Gallery 2014 ISBN 9780989980913 Acqn 23632 Hb 24x31cm 80pp 32col ills 36 This volume documents Jeff Koons' (born 1955) major 2013 exhibition at David Zwirner, in which he debuted his Gazing Ball series. The title originates from the mirrored ornaments frequently found on lawns in residential neighbourhoods, including around Koons' childhood home in Pennsylvania. In these works, blue gazing balls, hand blown from glass, have been placed on white plaster sculptures depicting signature examples of antique statues from the Greco-Roman era, including the Farnese Hercules and the Esquiline Venus, along with everyday utilitarian objects encountered in today's suburban landscape, such as rustic mailboxes, a birdbath and an inflatable snowman typically seen outside during Christmas. As Francesco Bonami notes in his catalogue essay, "while all of the sculptures are grounded in their own distinct narratives, derived from art history and suburban towns, the seemingly fragile and delicate gazing ball establishes that sense of uncertain equilibrium that exists between history and fantasy, magic and materiality, mass culture and exclusive beauty." Created in close collaboration with Koons, this elegant publication, which echoes the classic design of a 1970 Picasso catalogue admired by the artist, is the first to survey these works. Exquisitely produced color plates capture the stark contrast between the pristine whiteness of the plaster sculptures and the highly reflective spheres.

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Raymond Pettibon - To Wit David Zwirner Gallery 2014 ISBN 9780989980944 Acqn 23633 Hb 24x32cm 188pp 102ills 90col 32 In the summer of 2013, Raymond Pettibon (born 1957) converted the David Zwirner exhibition space into an improvised studio, in order to prepare the drawings and collages for his critically acclaimed show at the gallery. The works ranged from depictions of Joe DiMaggio as a young boy, Bob Dylan and the comic strip character Bazooka Joe to pieces dovetailing popular imagery with quotations from Marcel Proust, William Faulkner, Henry James, Gustave Flaubert or the Bible, and addressing themes of violence, humour, sex, evolution, religion, politics, literature, youth, art history and sports. This volume documents both the making of these works during Pettibon's intensive tenure in the space and the finished works themselves. Boasting a drawing made especially for the cover, Raymond Pettibon: To Wit includes an essay by Lucas Zwirner titled "A Month with Raymond" that describes the show's making and offers fresh observations on the relationship between word and image, and reading and writing, in Pettibon's art. This essay is complemented by a selection of black-and-white photographs from Andreas Laszlo Konrath, who also documents the creation of these works, and an interview with Pettibon by artist and founding member of Sonic Youth Kim Gordon, who first encountered Pettibon's work in the early 1980s in Los Angeles.

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Oscar Murillo Work Rubell Family Collection 2014 ISBN 9780982119587 Acqn 23641 Pb 20x26cm 112pp 85col ills 17.95 This volume documents the first U.S. solo exhibition of Colombian-born, London-based artist Oscar Murillo (born 1986), held at the Rubell Family Collection in Florida in 2013. Over the course of a five-week residency in the summer of 2012, Murillo took over a 60-foot space at the Rubell, as well as its sculpture garden, to create 32 works, including five massive paintings, all of which are reproduced here. These works were informed by Murillo's exposure to Miami's Latin culture, as well as a weekend visit to his native Colombia and the gigantic proportions of the exhibition space itself. Two of the largest works are abstract; three are inscribed with words evoking colonial and/or Western appropriation ("mango," "chorizo" and "yoga"); all display the heavily worked surfaces for which Murillo is well known. Also included here is photo documentation of the exhibition's preparation and an interview with the artist.

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Rodolpho Parigi Atraque APC & Cosac Naify 2013 ISBN 9788540501782 Acqn 22145 Hb28x39cm 192pp 300col ills 52 Atraque is the first publication on one of Brazils most talented and prolific young artists, Rodolpho Parigi (born 1977), documenting his explosively psychedelic installations, paintings, writings and drawings.

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Albrecht Durer - Die Erfindung des Aktes Schirmer Mosel Verlag 2014 ISBN 9783829606516 Acqn 22744 Hb 23x33cm 160pp 102ills 77col 51 Text in German Independent of examples from antiquity and the beau ideal of his time, Albrecht Drer established the nude as a genre of arta facet of his oeuvre, which, although of momentous impact, has received little attention. Containing all of his drawings dedicated to the human body, this book presents a new, as yet unknown Drer.

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Lyrics! - A Visual Playlist Curated By Olivier Dermaux 19 80 Editions 2013 ISBN 9782919159079 Acqn 22914 Pb 24x32cm 144pp 100ills 80col 45 Lyrics! is a visual playlist curated by Olivier Dermaux, its subject a collection of works of art exhibited at Galerie Hlne Bailly in Paris. Stemming from his desire to more closely link the visual arts and music, Dermaux collected photo portraits of established musicians, studied the lyrics of their songs, and selected a number of contemporary artists to portray them in a manner expressing the essence of their music.

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String Theory - Focus On Contemporary Australian Art Museum Of Contemporary Art Sydney 2013 ISBN 9781921034671 Acqn 22922 Pb 21x29cm 144pp 120col ills 31.50 This exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia brings together more than 30 Aboriginal artists and artist groups from across Australia, exploring innovative approaches to fibre and textile-based art in a contemporary context. With polished design and vibrant colours, the catalogue features sculpture, photography, painting and video; a selection that seeks connections between the traditional and contemporary, with an emphasis on both cross-generational and collaborative practices, one which considers the role art-making plays in sharing knowledge and experiences. An essay by Glenn Barkley explains the scientific framework of the exhibition.

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Miquel Barcelo - Terra Ignis Actes Sud 2014 ISBN 9782330019327 Acqn 23395 Pb 24x29cm 160pp 80ills 60col 35 This catalogue presents the most recent ceramic work of Catalan artist Miquel Barcel (born 1957). Created in Majorca in a former tilery and brickyard, Barcels unique terracotta objects are deliberately subjected to damage while the clay is still fresh.

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Takashi Murakami - Flowers And Skulls Gagosian Gallery (NY) 2014 ISBN 9781939148476 Acqn 23501 Hb 24x29cm 92pp 75col ills 63.50 This exhibition, Takashi Murakami's first in Hong Kong, explores one of the central dichotomies of his artbetween joy and terror, his optimistic magnanimity as an artist and his pessimistic perspective on post-war Japan. Here, this dichotomy is symbolized by the stark contrast of bright smiling flowers and disturbing, menacing representations of skulls. Whether depicted as single iconic "portraits" or in complex clusters of virtuoso composition and paintwork that combine painstaking traditional artisanal techniques with the pop and fizz of manga, the flower and the skull stand as eternal motifs in the history of art and popular culture. Both oppositional and parallel, they are reminders of the fragile vibrancy of life and the inexorable passing of time. Includes an interview with Hans Ulrich Obrist.

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Arab Express - The Latest Art From The Arab World Mori Art Museum 2012 ISBN 9784582206708 Acqn 23615 Pb 21x28cm 208pp 85ills 70col 32.95 Published on the occasion of the exhibition at the Mori Art Museum in Tokyo, this catalogue presents an in-depth overview of contemporary artworks from the Middle East. Developed within the context of Muslim doctrine, the history of art within this region, which itself encompasses various races, cultures and religions, generally centres upon a particularly abstract aesthetic geometric patterns and an avoidance of representational figures. The contemporary Arab art world is introduced to Japan against this backdrop of diversity, common history and booming modernity. With essays by Kondo Kenichi, Salwa Mikdadi and Nada Shabout, plus works by more than 30 artists.

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Tokujin Yoshioka Crystallize Seigensha Art Publishing 2013 ISBN 9784861524165 Acqn 23622 Pb 18x25cm 192pp 175col ills 28 Published on the occasion of his solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art Tokyo, this monograph investigates the multifaceted work of Tokujin Yoshioka, whose singular fixation with the refraction of light offers fertile ground for his inspired and surreal production. Using crystalline growths, glass fibres, transparent straws, optical glass and similar materials, Yoshioka designs objects and installations that harness light and ethereality to bend our perception of form and substance. Also featured are selected works and projects from 1992-2012, overviews of his assignments for Swarovski and Issey Miyake, and texts by Tomoe Moriyama and Tamaki Saito.

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Olivier Mosset - Painting, Even Les Presses Du Reel 2013 ISBN 9782840666691 Acqn 23625 Pb 17x21cm 16.95 A study of the work of Olivier Mosset in 46 chapters. Anonymity, neutrality and discretion are still among the characteristics of the Mosset uvre. But are we then to fall into the trap (the painting as trapdoor?) of making this formal reservation the key to his painting? What if it is, primarily, a tribute paid to the zeitgeist? A sign indicating the point where the extreme politeness his personal ethos is founded upon meets the collective myths of the man without qualities, the work without subject, or, in the American version, pure objecthood. Olivier Mosset (born 1944 in Berne, lives and works in Tucson) worked in Paris from 1965 to 1977, participated in the creation of the group BMTP and then went to live in New York. He did numerous exhibitions with the Radical American Painters in the 1980s. Mosset describes himself as a painter rather than an artist. His work is based on a principle of neutrality, radicality and self-effacement that constantly challenge the limits of painting. His approach involves continually going back to previous explorations and diversifying them, taking care to integrate into his conceptions the conditions in which they appeared, to modify his work in line with the current cultural context, thus questioning painting in its initial materiality. Catherine Perret (born 1956 in Paris) is associate professor of modern and contemporary aesthetics and theory at Nanterre University (Paris X). She was the director of the Art of Exhibition Department at Paris X. She served as a program director at the Collge International de Philosophie from 1995 to 2001. She is currently responsible for the Centre de recherche sur l'art, philosophie, esthtique (CRART - PHI) at Paris X.

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Irene Kopelman - Esto Es Una Papa. Notes On Representation Vol. 6 ROMA Publications 2014 ISBN 9789491843112 Acqn 23626 Pb 21x28cm 48pp 34ills 12col 21.50 Upon hearing about formal associations of her drawings with the amorphous shapes of native potatoes from the Andean highlands, Irene Kopelman travelled to Peru to investigate. Characteristic of her work, which entails an innate inquisitiveness into the relationship between art and science, her documentation of the journey, its background, stories and characters proves to be a fascinating account of indigenous agriculture and community efforts to preserve hundreds of potato varieties. From meeting a local potato king to witnessing first-hand the amazing variety of tuberous colours and shapes, Kopelmans experience and the resulting drawings are truly unique.

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Yoshishige Saito - The Path To Danpen Annely Juda Fine Art 2014 ISBN 9781904621560 Acqn 23629 Pb 22x24cm 32pp 12ills 10col 18.75 Yoshishige Saito is recognised in his native Japan as one of the great abstract sculptors of the twentieth century. Born in 1904 in Tokyo, Saito never attended art school. In 1920 he saw an exhibition in Tokyo that was to have great influence on his work, of Russian Avant-Garde; organised by the Russian artist David Burliuk, who he also met at the time. This influence of European and Russian art of the early 20th Century especially the Russian Constructivists led him to make plywood relief sculptures in the 1930s. During the War, many of Saitos works were lost or destroyed, but when the war was over and materials were readily available once more he began to incorporate large planks and discs of painted wood into his work; the results are great sculptural installations. In 1957 Saito won a prestigious New Artists Prize in Japan, and this exposure helped towards his later inclusion in the Venice and Sao Paulo Biennales. This exhibition includes 10 works; the earliest from 1987 and the latest from 2001, the last work Saito ever made. The gallery becomes a part of the work as the wooden forms jut out and recede into space, over- lapping and interrelating. Saito uses strong, primary colours - black, white and red in these works, which enhance their spacial presence, making the air and space between the materials a part of the work.

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Kehinde Wiley - The World Stage Jamaica Stephen Friedman Gallery 2014 ISBN 9780957567481 Acqn 23634 Hb 22x29cm 60pp 35ills 34col 28.50 The painting of New York-based Kehinde Wiley (born 1977) fuses portraiture and pattern, situating modern subjects in traditional heroic poses against richly patterned backgrounds. Despite the multitude of layers, the abundance of allusions both traditional and contemporary, the results are conceptually clear and impressive. In the works reproduced in Kehinde Wiley: The World Stage Jamaica, the artist paints young, urban Jamaican men and women in poses appropriated from colonial-era British portraiture, who are placed against and intertwined with backgrounds from British textile designer William Morris. Wiley thus restages history: the race and gender of the colonial hero have been transformed. The dignified, strong pose refers not only to the conventions of the genre, but also to the symbolism of Jamaican culture and its particular ideals of style and beauty. Within a single frame, Wiley combines a traditional mode of portraiture, the ongoing complexities of colonialism and a proud, unique, modern culture--a narrative of contemporary Jamaica. Alongside full-colour illustrations and installation images from Wiley's exhibition at the Stephen Friedman Gallery, an extensive essay from leading British-Ghanaian cultural commentator Ekow Eshun explicates the symbolism at play in Wiley's work.

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Michael Chow - Recipe For A Painter Pearl Lam Gallery 2014 ISBN 9789881244185 Acqn 23640 Hb 26x31cm 148pp 72ills 71col 46.50 Michael Chow was born Zhou Yinghua in Shanghai, China, in 1939. At the age of 13 he was abruptly uprooted to England, where he where he lost everything familiar to him; his family, culture and even his name. He studied art, subsequently working as a painter for ten years before deciding to take a break and open his first restaurant, Mr Chow, in Knightsbridge, London, in 1968. The restaurant became an international success, spawning locations around the world, and Chow also thrived in the realm of interior design, from specialty boutiques for Giorgio Armani to his own restaurants and his home in Los Angeles. Chow has continued to be involved in all walks of creativity from architecture and theatre to film. After a 50-year sabbatical, in 2012, encouraged by Jeffrey Deitch, Chow picked up the brush again and returned to his true passion. This volume documents his return to painting.

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Sue Coe - The Ghosts Of Our Meat The Trout Gallery 2014 ISBN 9780982615669 Acqn 23642 Pb 26x27cm 118pp 115ills 100col 14 The Ghosts of Our Meat examines a series of paintings, prints and drawings by artist/activist Sue Coe that criticize the practice of meat consumption and the capitalist slaughterhouse industry, while advocating animal rights and a sustainable, non-meat diet. Coe's work centers on such issues as animal rights, empathy, cruelty, corporate greed and consumer guilt. Discussing her works in an accompanying essay, Stephen Eisenman demonstrates connections between Coe's work and that of Romantics and Expressionists, inviting comparisons with paintings by artists such as Hogarth, Goya, Grosz, Dix, Shahn, Picasso and Golub. However, while these artists focused largely on man's inhumanity towards fellow man, Sue Coe broadens the perspective to include atrocities committed by man against fellow animals. Indeed, many of Coe's works reference the style and imagery of Weimar-era art, drawing uncomfortable and controversial comparisons between the slaughterhouses of the meat industry and those of the Holocaust.

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Tal R - Walk Towards Hare Hill Victoria Miro Gallery 2014 ISBN 9780992709204 Acqn 23651 Pb 20x24cm 88pp 43col ills 25 Walk towards Hare Hill comprises thirty-seven works created near the artist's summerhouse in northern Denmark, over a couple of months in late summer 2013. More than just the latest series in the Copenhagen-based artist's oeuvre, Walk towards Hare Hill is also an act, a personal narrative and a reflection upon the medium.

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Stephen Willats - Representing The Possible Victoria Miro Gallery 2014 ISBN 9780992709211 Acqn 23652 Pb 15x21cm 32pp 23ills 22col 12.50 Representing the Possible brings together previously unseen works on paper from the 1960s and the present day in a specially conceived installation. Drawing has been key throughout Willats' practice, often as a signifier of larger ideas. From the start of his career in the early 1960s, Willats has rejected aesthetic expression in favour of positioning his drawings as active 'data', which offer a means to communicate a way of looking at and thinking about our environment. The act of drawing for Willats exists on multiple levels, each related but with specific outcomes, as he explains in a new text published to accompany the exhibition: "What as a thought is internal, transient and unfocussed, through the process of drawing becomes clear and possible; to be understood by someone else, from one person to another - a vehicle for social exchange. So the drawing can be both descriptive, in that it gives a view on something that already exists, or prescriptive, in that it seeks to represent something that does not yet exist, is only imagined as a possibility. Something only becomes a possibility once it exists as a thought".

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Bettina Hubby Uniforms The Ice Plant 2014 ISBN 9780982365397 Acqn 23369 Pb 23x31cm 80pp 49col ills 38 Los Angeles artist Bettina Hubby (born 1968) takes a detour from her curatorial, communitybased projects with Uniforms, an artists book of paper collages as precise and elegant as they are chaotic and devious. Here, clothed bodies collide, recombine and somersault across the page; machines mimic birds; jackets seem to genuflect in prayer. Constructed with the muted hues and contemplative negative space of a Noh play, Hubbys mash-ups reassemble the familiar photographic imagery of fashion, commerce and reportage into a open-ended riff on personal identity and the human organism. Complementing the work is an original fictional narrative by Dave Cull, delivered in brief instalments throughout the book. Uniforms is published in an edition of 750 copies on the occasion of Pretty Limber, Hubbys fall 2013 exhibition at Klowden Mann Gallery. orders@artdata.co.uk www.artdata.co.uk

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Fleur Van Dodewaard - 131 Variations Fw 2014 ISBN 9789490119249 Acqn 23606 Hb 17x23cm 288pp 131col ills 31.50 131 Variations is a reinterpretation of Sol Lewitts 122 Variations of Incomplete Open Cubes. Fleur van Dodewaard set about recreating and photographing the piece seeking to produce an exact copy. But in the process things went wrong: some cubes went missing, others appeared double and previously unknown variants arose. With her 131 Variations Van Dodewaard demonstrates that the 122 variations listed and presented by Lewitt did not represent an exhaustive spectrum of all conceivable possibilities. Accordingly, the failure consciously introduces moments of arbitrariness, inconsistency and irrationality into this aleatory process to allow for an element of coincidence, thereby challenging mathematical logic.

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Antigravity Seigensha Art Publishing 2013 ISBN 9784861524134 Acqn 23621 Pb 15x23cm 252pp 150col ills 28 Published on the occasion of an exhibition at the Tokyo Municipal Museum of Art featuring artists whose various manners of expression elicit a buoyant spatiality seemingly liberated from the body, this catalogue frees our perspective from the grounding force of gravity to explore its hypothetical opposite: antigravity. Works by a number of Japanese and international artists use technology across a variety of media, increasing our wonderment while unburdening the heaviness that prescribes our lives. Essays by Hiroshi Yoshioka and Yoko Nose elucidate works by Zilvinas Kempinas, Ryuji Nakamura, Ernesto Neto, Bushiro Mori, Carsten Hller and others.

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Hakuin Postcard Book Seigensha Art Publishing 2013 ISBN 9784861524127 Acqn 23624 Pb 11x15cm 32pp 32col ills 11.67 +VAT Known as the restorer of the Rinzai sect of Zen Buddhism, Hakuin was a Zen monk of the Edo period who produced a vast number of paintings. Hakuinfs Zen paintings and calligraphic works helped to spread the teachings of Zen to the common people in a humorous and straightforward manner. This collection of 32 postcards features many of Hakuinfs representative works, including his depictions of Bodhidharma, Hotei and Kannon.

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Things That A Mutant Needs To Know - More Short And Amazing Stories Unsounds 2013 ISBN 9789082087000 Acqn 23654 Pb 14x20cm 88pp 9ills 37 A collection of 55 short stories and 55 brief musical works composed by a momentary collective of eighteen musicians, this book comes with two CDs filled with sonic readings and reactions to the concise tales therein. The text was conceived by Reinaldo Laddaga as an imaginary second volume of a 1956 anthology by Jorge Luis Borges and Adolfo Bioy Casares. Much like theirs, this book comprises an assortment of texts written or compiled by diverse authors, from Virginia Woolf and Emanuel Swedenborg to Blaise Cendrars. The musical pieces are little soundtracks to be heard as the reader peruses the pages, which feature original illustrations by Isabelle Vigier.

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Aesthetics Of The Flesh Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783943365610 Acqn 23658 Pb 15x21cm 342pp 16.50 With contributions by Jennifer Allen, Sabeth Buchmann, Annett Busch, Nils Bttner, Marcus Coelen, Discoteca Flaming Star, Helmut Draxler, Felix Ensslin, Mechthild Fend, Susanne Leeb, Christoph Menke, Frank Ruda, Jan de Vos, Charles T. Wolfe Word becomes flesh, God becomes pigment, beauty becomes empirical form, power negotiates itself in matterand vice versa: these are some of the connotations carried by the aesthetics of the flesh. Flesh has been negotiated with the incarnate, the skin-like surface of paint transcends its material condition toward the embodiment of spirit. But flesh is also, for example, behind the postcolonial metaphor of anthropophago (i.e., incorporating multiple cultural traditions that are at war with each other). It can be further associated with the material of surgery, itself an heir to contradictory impulsesnamely, the discourse of modern aesthetics on the one hand, and of a positivist, even nave scientism on the other. Flesh is the topos of a thought that is unthinkable and the amoral site where force is creative. Philosophically, these primal scenes of the flesh are grouped by Descartes, and also in the radical enlightenment of philosophical materialism. Following on from Cartesian dualism, philosophy is faced with the task of valorizing the flesh beyond the religious support of incarnation. Finally, the never-ending thought which sees the flesh as an unattainable other appearsalways present in its absence in each and every aesthetic discourse. This reader, based on a three-day symposium at the State Academy of Fine Arts, Stuttgart, traces the aesthetic concept of flesh in four sections: Cut Power Matter, Form Cannibalism, Flesh Skin Surface, and Word Flesh Thought. From perspectives as diverse as art history, religion, psychoanalysis, psychology, materialist philosophy, phenomenology, surgery, film studies, and literary studies, the articles present this concept, while at the same time showing how it surpasses the attempts to systematize or define it.

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Critical Spatial Practice 4 Subtraction Sternberg Press 2014 ISBN 9783956790461 Acqn 23659 Pb 11x15cm 112pp 15ills 9col 12.50 Edited by Nikolaus Hirsch, Markus Miessen Featuring artwork by Metahaven Unbuilding is the other half of building. Buildings, treated as currency, rapidly inflate and deflate in volatile financial markets. Cities expand and shrink; whether through the violence of planning utopias or war, they are also targets of urbicide. Repeatable spatial products quickly make new construction obsolete; the powerful bulldoze the disenfranchised; buildings can radiate negative real estate values and cause their surroundings to topple to the ground. Demolition has even become a spectacular entertainment. Keller Easterlings volume in the Critical Spatial Practice series analyzes the urgency of building subtraction. Often treated as failure or loss, subtractionwhen accepted as part of an exchangecan be growth. All over the world, sprawl and overdevelopment have attracted distended or failed markets and exhausted special landscapes. However, in failure, buildings can create their own alternative markets of durable spatial variables that can be managed and traded by citizens and cities rather than the global financial industry. These ebbs and flowsthe appearance and disappearance of buildingcan be designed. Architectstrained to make the building machine lurch forwardmay know something about how to put it into reverse.

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