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September 2021

John Stezaker: At the Edge of Pictures

John Stezaker: At the Edge of Pictures forms the first monographic study to provide a historical account of Stezaker’s life and work. By taking the eventful decades of the 1970s and 1980s as its prism, Yuval Etgar offers a new reading of the artist’s practice as well as a mapping of collage and image appropriation strategies from this pivotal period.

January 2020

NADAR – UN BOHÉMIEN INTROVERSO

The eccentric Baudelaire with a flamboyant black bow and an immaculate white shirt, the proud and inflexible gaze of the aged Victor Hugo and the magnetic appeal of Sarah Bernhardt in her twenties: there are few who do not know the photographic portraits of Félix Tournachon, known as Nadar, more capable than anyone else at capturing the innermost soul of his contemporaries in Paris during the second half of the 19th century. From

May 2022

ABM o della disciplina come soteriologia

The book is a tribute to the Italian virtuoso pianist Arturo Benedetti Michelangeli. Called simply ABM by his fans, Michelangeli is the epitome of the anti-modern artist. For this pianist art has a civilizing power and its dissemination should be free. He himself practices this idea personally financing the education of the less wealthy students. In ABM ethic and aesthetics coincide. Beauty is both the “well achieved” and the “beneficial”. Art according to Michelangeli is

March 2022

Photobooks &

Photobooks & presents and interrogates key themes of the contemporary photobook — from the medium’s post-digital and post-photographic situation, to the purposes of publishing, issues of accessibility and the act of reading. Informed by extensive research, interviews with key individuals from the photobook ecology and his experience with The Photobook Club project, Johnston examines current trends and practices, emphasising connections (made and missed) between makers and readers. Ultimately, this book proposes a critical framework for

April 2020

ATLAS OF SCULPTURAL SITUATIONS I–V

All 5 parts (printed) of the series of spontaneous publications that try to make a variety of public spaces aesthetically and politically tangible The Atlas of Sculptural Situations is a series of spontaneous publications that try to make a variety of public spaces aesthetically and politically tangible. The approach happens through drawings and photographs that document, describe, analyse, shape, move and evolve the space in question. This is about the search for the scu

May 2023

BAD G AND THE UNICORN

This publication is freely inspired by the cycle of six tapestries referred to as The Dame and the Unicorn and kept at National Museum of the Middle Ages of Cluny in Paris. According to one of the most accredited interpretations, the cycle, created in Flanders at the end of the 16th century, represents the path to enlightenment through the five senses. In the last tapestry the inscription A mon seul desir appears to depict the