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Ed Pien: Luminous Shadows presents the work of Toronto-based artist Ed Pien, known for his drawing-based installations that immerse the viewer in a surreal, unique experience. The book is lavishly produced, and illustrated throughout with two screenprinted 16-page signatures on bespoke paper with Pien's latest drawings and stunning installation photographs. The book focuses on the eponymous exhibition curated by Catherine Elliot Shaw and presented at McIntosh Gallery in late 2015 that featured his two latest large-scale installations: Imaginary Dwelling, consisting of a makeshift townscape inside a tent with projected videos, mirrors and shadows; and Spectral Drawings, depicting ghostly figures rendered in white ink that float on walls with differing black gradations.The drawing-based installations explore ideas of fantasy and vision as shadows are illuminated on dark walls covered with his drawings. These shadows and projections create the illusion of ghostly silhouettes and figures presented within the installation space. Pien's drawings are assembled as composite images of mysterious monster-human characters. The viewer has a sensual, emotional experience while interacting with the dream-like environments that balance haunting beauty, play and a sense of uneasiness. Pien's work draws upon different influences including Asian ghost stories, myths and legends, hell scrolls, calligraphy, Inuit art and the work of artists such as Francisco Goya. Ed Pien: Luminous Shadows captures the magical, surreal qualities of Pien's work with critical illustrated texts by Catherine de Zegher and Angela Kingston, further exploring Pien's artistic practice while providing fascinating insight into his work and a contextual understanding of his wider practice.Ed Pien was born in Taipei, Taiwan, and immigrated to Canada at the age of 11. He received a BFA from The University of Western Ontario in 1982 and an MFA from York University in 1984. Pien's work has been exhibited at the Drawing Center, New York; Biennale of Sydney, Australia; Goethe Institute, Berlin; Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver; the National Gallery of Canada; and McIntosh Gallery, London, Ontario, Canada. He also currently teaches at the University of Toronto.

In her Foreword to the publication, Dannys Montes de Oca Moreda recognizes that the after-effect of Burns' work is deeply disillusioning, breaking up and foreclosing the harmonious unity of identity, micro and macrocosmic alike.Curator and art historian Dan Adler draws attention to the intrinsic satire informing Burns' work: a fondness for revering the meaningless while casting doubt on the venerable. Lastly, art critic Jennifer Allen uncovers some of the forces at work within Burns' narrativisation of his personal life and reflection on his role as an artist, asserting that the act of forgetting is structural to Burns' overall narrative composition.Hans-Ulrich Obrist Hear Us also includes a first-person narrative by Burns, telling the story of his life through episodes that, although seemingly incongruous, have played a formative role in the development of the artist's career. This history, like memory, is less contiguous than spontaneous, more preoccupied with prophecies and mood swings than the sterileness of factuality.

The book features profiles of over 50 world-renowned artists originating from Scandinavia, highlighting the diversity of work produced across the region. In keeping with the previous books in the series, Contemporary Art in Scandinavia is fully illustrated and organized so as to transcend geographical and regional preconceptions. A specially commissioned introductory essay and appendix of reprinted essays by writers, academics and practitioners working in the field contextualizes the work in this unique and eye-opening introduction to one of the most vibrant and fascinating art scenes today.

Peter Clark's collage's start with a scavenger trip to antiques fairs, flea markets and second hand stores to find the right objects to inspire his works. His most recognized pieces are the series of Dogs, from Spaniels to Bulldogs, and Clothes, from a dress out of old Ordnance Survey maps to a Hell's Angels jacket made of old bible and prayers books.Paperwork presents the working methods of this eccentric and unique artist, showing the progression of these pieces from found ephemera and paper to pieces of art. Clark starts each piece with a number of sketches, he then uses a variety of techniques to manipulate the materials and works with a palette of color, texture, weight, pattern and age to create his three-dimensional collages. The materials have to be positioned so that the colors work, the line works and the mood works and slowly the collage is 'painted'.Accompanied by a background story to his work and beautifully illustrated with full-page prints, this book shows an insight into Peter Clark's career, from his early works to his more recent collages. Paperwork is the perfect gift for anyone with an interest in collage or found objects and now out in paperback at a lower price point.

Cliff Burns' 16th full-length release and his first book of poetry in nearly five years.The writing is spare, minimalist, but the poems, despite their brevity, address cosmological and theological themes and concepts, unbinding the universe with magical invocations and koans to creation. The right word in the right place can loose powerful forces, inspiring soul-shattering epiphanies that offer new and wondrous perspectives on the questions of meaning and purpose that have troubled our species for eons.THE DEFINITION OF MELANCHOLY is unsettling, provocative, cerebral, candid. A small, almost tiny book that will leave its mark and stay with you long after you've finished it.

One of four artist's books to be released in September 2022 Shadows is an intimate and playful photographic publication.

FedericoSolmi: Escape Into The Metaverse examinesthe work of Federico Solmi, a leading practitioner in the genre of new media art.As a narrative and figurative artist, Solmi utilises lurid colours and satire toportray a dystopian vision of contemporary society, highlighting the contradictionsand fallibilities that characterise our time.

The Front Room is a unique study by author Michael McMillan of the position of the home in different migrant groups. McMillan draws upon memories of his relatives' homes in the 1960s and 1970s to show a representation of his vision of the traditional West Indian front room and the symbolism of particular objects. McMillan examines how these rooms raise the issues of class, migration, aspiration, religion, alienation, family and the transition from the colonial to the post-colonial. The front room often provides an outlet to respond to the feelings of displacement, exile and alienation and the rebuilding of a home in a strange land. The Front Room discusses the groundings of the front room in Victoriana and colonialism, with memories from first-generation West Indians and second-generation Black British. Primarily concerned with the West Indian front room the book expands to Moroccan, Surinamese, Antillean and Indonesian migrant groups and the decoration of their interiors and their position throughout decolonization. With text from leading cultural theorist Stuart Hall and photographs from living rooms and lounges of the time, installations by artists on the theme of the living room and photos of associated objects, this book presents a unique discussion of cultural studies.

Botanic Gardens: A Living History is an extensive and practical guide to the world s foremost botanic gardens. This visually stunning hardback book unearths the fascinating history of the botanic garden, from the first modern gardens founded in Northern Italy, to the technological achievements of contemporary gardens.

Since its foundation in 1989, Warp Records has become a synonym for futuristic adventures in sound and vision. "Warp" tells the story of how a small Sheffield dance label grew to foster an international range of artists including Aphex Twin, LFO, Autechre, Boards Of Canada, Squarepusher, Broadcast, Vincent Gallo, Tortoise, Antipop Consortium, Jimi Tenor, Plaid and Prefuse 73, eventually adding film production to its list of credits with Chris Cunningham, Chris Morris, and Lynne Ramsay. Coinciding with the rise of the internet as well as radical new music and multimedia technologies during the 1990s, which placed artistic control directly in the hands of musicians, "Warp's" worldwide success had much to do with its unique relationship to its artists and a determination to remain independent and in control of its own destiny. "Warp" features interviews with the label's key artists and co-founder Steve Beckett, sections on the prehistory of Sheffield electronica and "Warp's" stunning artwork by the Designers Republic, plus many unseen photos, documents, press releases, cuttings and artefacts from the label's lifespan, together with a complete discography/filmography from 1989-2005.

This heavily illustrated publication is the first comprehensive monograph of Anton van Dalen's work, which provides a language by which to discuss the consequences of human brutality towards nature and our entanglement with technology.

A book of meditations, reflections and observations, one author's attempt to make sense of a chaotic and frequently terrifying universe. Personal, intimate, spare, arcane--short snippets and carefully worded takes on subjects relating to theology, philosophy, history, life, death, fate and apocalypse.

Transformative Avant-Garde and Other Writings is a comprehensive collection of writings by the artist Krzysztof Wodiczko spanning from the 1970s to the present day. This publication explores the development of Wodiczko's political, theoretical and social motivations in relation to his practice.

Fifteen tales set in modern, metropolitan locales, featuring a diverse cast of characters struggling to eke out an existence amid gleaming, opulent towers and sprawling cityscapes.Timely, unsparing and satirical, Electric Castles employs a variety of genres--including dark fantasy, magic realism and crime fiction--to take readers on a guided tour through the fierce, pulsating heart of contemporary society.

Form Follows Fiction: Art and Artists in Toronto considers the ways in which artists visualise Toronto, throughout a period of fifty years. Presenting a thematic clustering of works by 86 artists, the book is premised on the tendency of artists in the city to favour performative and allegorical procedures to articulate their sense of place.

Fractured Light focuses on a key body of work by the British artist Johnnie Cooper, which was instrumental in his transformation from sculptor to painter.

Introducing Suzy Lake is the first publication to comprehensively address Suzy Lake's extraordinary artistic production from the late 1960s to today. Lake is an intelligent and influential artist working in performance, photography and video, a prescient image maker who interrogates ideas of beauty, ageing and the self.

Yahgulanaas has been exhibited internationally and his books and graphic novels?including RED, Flight of the Hummingbird, A Tale of Two Shamans and Hachidori?have been published in the United States, Canada, Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Macau, Abu Dhabi, Serbia and Spain. The Seriousness of Play coincides with an exhibition at the Seattle Art Museum and is supported by a number of other exhibition fixtures in Japan and Europe.

A portrait of America that captures the fears, desires and hopes of its people in images of material items and artifacts. Phil makes American culture tangible and raw through his choice of images taken on his journey around the historically rich country.

The fourth title in Black Dog Publishing's ARTWORLD series, Contemporary Art in North America showcases the wealth of contemporary art being produced in both the United States and Canada today.

"Active Withdrawals" is an anthology of essays addressing the institutionalisation of artistic practices and the act of withdrawals seeking out of places of contemplation and retreat that are often adopted in Eastern art. Covers artistic practices across Scandinavia, Eastern Europe, China and South East Asia.

MOMENTO brings together the work of established and well-regarded American documentary photographer George S Zimbel. The book is set to coincide with the screening of the documentary film of his life's work.

Art and the Internet is a much-needed visual survey of art influenced by, situated on and taking the subject of the internet over the last two and a half decades. The book examines the legacy of the internet on art, and, importantly, illuminates how artists and institutions are using it and why.

When Morgan Howell paints classic 7" singles, he takes into account every imperfection-producing a one-off artwork, almost identical to the original copy, but on a much larger scale. This completely original approach has resulted in Howell attracting a cult following. A must for vinyl junkies, music heads and art lovers everywhere.

2013 saw Tokyo-born artist Michael Lin transform Beijing art institution Tang Contemporary into a miniature, functional, practical, and most welcome parking lot—being free of charge in a city that only has enough spaces for every second vehicle.PLACE LIBRE is a chronological photo-essay of change and progression within the gallery. In transforming the space, he not only challenges perceptions of the gallery as an arts space, but also presents the parking lot as an improvisational movement piece.

Jorge and Lucy Orta operate not only as artists, but also as social activists, community mediators and educators. This book explores projects by Jorge and Lucy Orta, which have been co-produced with community groups in locations as diverse as Johannesburg, Melbourne and Nottingham.