Why I March
Abrams Books (COR); Getty Images (PHT)
On January 21st, 2017, five million people in 82 countries and on all seven continents stood up with one voice. The Women's March began with one cause, women's rights, but quickly became a movement around the many issues that were hotly debated during the 2016 U.S. presidential race immigration, health ...
Power Mask - The Power of Masks
Walter van Beirendonck
Since the nineties, Walter Van Beirendonck has been fascinated with masks. They change your identity, invoke a certain atmosphere and have an instant impact. Many artists, among whom are Andre Breton, Pablo Picasso and even Brueghel, have been influenced by them. Power Mask - The Power of Masks elaborat...
The Good Life: A Guided Visit to the Houses of Modernity
Inaki Abalos
With his book The Good Life, Inaki Abalos takes the reader on a tour of seven iconic 20th-century houses. Some of them were actually built, others merely imagined or film sets: Mies van der Rohe's House with Three Patios, Martin Heidegger's cabin in the Black Forest, the houses from Jacques Tati's movie...
Volta Photo 1965-1985
Sory Sanle
Ibrahima Sory Sanle (b. 1943) started his photographic career in Bobo-Dioulasso in 1960, the year his country (now Burkina Faso) gained independence from France. Sanle opened his Volta Photo portrait studio in 1965 and, working with his Rolleiflex twin lens medium format camera, Volta Photo was soon rec...
Monograph by Chris Ware
Chris Ware
The first and much-anticipated monograph by multi-award winning cartoonist and graphic novelist Chris Ware, chronicling his influential quarter-century career. While illustrator Chris Ware s singular body of work is often categorized as comics, his trailblazing work defies genre. Whether he is writing g...
Essential Eames - Word and Pictures
Charles Eames
Charles and Ray Eames are counted among the leading designers of the twentieth century. Perhaps best known for their furniture designs, the Eameses also made pioneering contributions to the fields of architecture (Eames House, Los Angeles), film (Powers of Ten), exhibitions ("Mathematica"), toys (House ...
Kuniyoshi X Kunisada
Sarah E. Thompson
An exploration of the rivalry between Kuniyoshi and Kunisada, two of the most popular Japanese ukiyo-e woodblock print artists of the nineteenth century, based on masterworks from the peerless Japanese art collection at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Rival ukiyo-e masters Kuniyoshi and Kunisada were t...
Sonia Delaunay: Art, Design and Fashion
Marta Ruiz del Árbol + Cécile Godefroy + Matteo de Leeuw-de Monti.
Sonia Delaunay: Art, Design and Fashion provides a unified vision of the modernist pioneer’s work in painting, theatrical sets, advertising, interiors, fashion and textiles. Published for a landmark exhibition at Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza in Madrid, and drawing on new scholarship that emphasizes th...
All the Things That I Lost in the Flood
Laurie Anderson
An icon of performance art and the indie-music world, this is the first book on the artist's full career to date, as curated by the artist herself. Laurie Anderson is one of the most revered artists working today, and she is as prolific as she is inventive. She is a musician, performance artist, co...
Tattoos in Japanese Prints
Sarah E. Thompson
Reproduces ukiyo-e prints from the incomparable collection of Japanese art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Many tattoo connoisseurs consider the Japanese tradition to be the finest in the world for its detail, complexity, and compositional skill. Its style and subject matter are drawn from the visua...
An Unfinished Experiment in Living : Australian Houses 1950-65
Conrad Hamann; Geoffrey London; Philip Goad
Architect-designed houses of the period 1950-65 proposed an innovative response to the social, economic, and climatic conditions of post-war Australia. At the same time they embraced the aesthetic, technological, and egalitarian aspirations of modern architecture. An Unfinished Experiment in Living trac...
Kerry Hill: Crafting Modernism
Geoffrey London
Hardcover limited edition in clamshell box: This book examines the development of Kerry Hill Architects over a period of thirty years. Kerry Hill Architects is a Singapore-based practice with a second office in Fremantle, Western Australia. Kerry Hill has received a number of distinguished design awards...
Skateboarding Is Not A Fashion - The Illustrated History of Skateboard Apparel
Jurgen Blumlein
The way apparel has been worn and created by skateboarders has had a tremendous impact on popular culture at large. Skateboarding Is Not A Fashion documents all aspects of this aesthetic movement; from its roots in the 1950s as an offshoot of surfing culture, to the 1980s. Nearly every area of garment d...
Dali: The Wines of Gala
Hans Werner Holzwarth
Hot on the heels (or lobster claws) of the best-selling Salvador Dalí phenomenon, Les dîners de Gala, TASCHEN presents the artist’s equally surreal and sensual viticulture follow-up: The Wines of Gala. A Dalínian take on pleasures of the grape and a coveted collectible, the boo...
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi Ghost Stories Of Ukiyo-e
Tsukioka Yoshitoshi
With a career that bridged the final years of the Edo period and the first years of Japan’s modernisation following the Meiji Restoration, Tsukioka Yoshitoshi is widely recognized as the last great master of the ukiyo-e genre of woodblock printing and painting. Concerned with the loss of many aspe...
The Frightfest Guide to Exploitation Movies
Alan Jones
From the moment motion pictures were invented, fearless entrepreneurs, poverty row profiteers and money-grabbing grifters gave cinemagoers what they truly craved.... the sex, horror and cheap thrills that were too hot for Hollywood to handle. And so the exploitation industry was born. Nothing was taboo ...
Rave On: Global Adventures in Electronic Dance Music
Matthew Collin
Electronic dance music was once the utopian frontier of pop culture. But three decades after the acid house 'summer of love', it has gone from subculture to the global mainstream. Does it still have the same power to inspire?From the pleasure palaces of Ibiza and Las Vegas to 'new frontiers' like Shangh...
Deadly Woman Blues : Black Women & Australian Music
Clinton Walker
Deadly Woman Blues, stunning, original and brimming with life, is the first of its kind. Part art book, part comic book, part biography and fully deadly, it is a unique graphic history of the black women who made Australian music. Traditional Indigenous music, spirituals, vaudeville, post-war ...
Charles Guyette - Godfather of American Fetish Art
Richard Perez Seves
Charles Guyette, the "G-string King," referenced in the film of Wonder Woman's creator, Professor Marston and the Wonder Women, and costumer to Bettie Page, was the first person to produce and distribute fetish art in America. In 1935, he was arrested and sent to federal prison. But what should've been ...
Malick Sidibe - Mali Twist
Manthia Diawara
Mali Twist offers an essential and immersive survey of the beloved African photographer Malick Sidibé—nicknamed “the eye of Bamako”—who chronicled the exuberant youth culture of his native Bamako, Mali, in the 1950s, ‘60s and ‘70s. The book is structured around...
Altered States : The Library of Julio Santo Domingo
Peter (EDT) Yolanda (EDT); Watts Peter; Cuomo Watts
Julio Mario Santo Domingo was a collector and visionary who filled his homes and warehouses with the world’s greatest private collection related to the subjects of drugs, sex, magic, and rock and roll: a library of more than 50,000 items featuring works by Andy Warhol, Timothy Leary, Sigmund Freud...
Charas - The Improbable Dome Builders
R Buckminster Fuller
n 1970 a meeting took place in an empty loft on the Lower East Side of Manhattan between R. Buckminster Fuller, the revolutionary architect and inventor of the geodesic dome, and six ex-gang members who called themselves "CHARAS." After a few hours, they found themselves having an earnest and important ...
Real Review magazine issue 4 Real Review 04 Summer 2017
Jack Self ed.
Is love an industrial commodity? We interview artist MAGALI REUS on what it means to love today. Together forever, forever apart: JACK SELF reviews Contactless technology. Capital, sex and territory are reviewed in a photo-essay on rent by THEO SIMPSON. STOYA reviews webcam modelling with ANNA BELL PEAK...
Ninja Turtle Sex Museum
James Unsworth
London based artist James Unsworth is renowned for his typically grotesque venereal scenarios, and Ninja Turtle Sex Museum is sure not to disappoint. Really not suitable for children or anyone who objects to lots of Teenage mutant ninja turtles related gay horror action. Housed in a yellow PVC jacket th...
Vivienne Westwood, Andreas Kronthaler, Juergen Teller
This book documents Teller's extensive work with Vivienne Westwood, featuring campaigns and stories taken across a period of twenty years in one of fashion's most iconic collaborations. The book avoids chronology, instead focusing on the power of the double page spread, highlighting the contrasts in thi...
My Mum Went to EMB
Max Olijnyk
‘…whenever I imagine my mum going to Embarcadero by herself in 1992 as a favor to her 15-year-old son and being spat at by a skater, I crumple up inside.’ Dedicated to Shannon Michael Cane....
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