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Bringing together the large-scale works that comprise Kent Monkman’s suite of paintings entitled The Four Continents, a reworking of Tiepolo’s Apollo and the Four Continents, this book explores the creation of these contemporary studies that address the original Eurocentric fantasies of “the other”.Monkman’s paintings, which are reproduced here in full with gatefolds, present a collation of tragic-comedic scenarios, resulting in mythical, graphic and satirical depictions, heavily influenced by the anti-colonial approach that Monkman takes in his work. The process of each painting that the artist has undertaken as part of the suite is illustrated throughout the book, in addition to texts from contributing writers that contextualise Monkman’s work both within the confines of contemporary art, as well as the embedded sociological and political issues that are explored as part of this.Kent Monkman is a Canadian artist of Cree ancestry who works with a variety of mediums, including painting, film/video, performance, and installation. He has had solo exhibitions at numerous Canadian museums including the Montreal

Rivington School: 80s New York Underground documents the work of the Rivington School group of artists that emerged during the turbulent 1980s in the heart of the Lower East Side. The book explores the underground scene that formed around the Rivington School, taking its name from an abandoned public school building on Rivington Street. Here, like-minded street artists, sculptors, performers, set about to create works that refuted and challenged an increasingly commercialised art world.Situated across the road from the school, the No Se No social club—also run by Rivington School founder “Cowboy” Ray Kelly—acted as a meeting and performance space for many of the artists involved, such as Kembra Pfahler, Dragan Ilic, Arleen Schloss, Taylor Mead, Michael Carter, Jack Waters and Phoebe Legere, and was where the renowned "99 NIGHTS" of performance took place in 1983, documented every night by the photographer Toyo Tsuchiya for exhibition the following day. The School was also the origin of the guerrilla sculpture space the Rivington Sculpture Garden, which opened in 1985 and was destroyed more than once by the city authorities. Its construction/destruction is documented in the super-8 film ANTI CREDO by Monty Cantsin aka Istvan Kantor. Formed in a vacant lot next to the No Se No club, the evolving collective space was the site of the massive, welded metal junk sculpture that the group has become known for.The Rivington School gave rise to a number of highly regarded artists, including EF Higgins III, Ray Kelly, David Mora Catlett, Shalom Neuman, Toyo Tsuchiya, Istvan Kantor, Linus Coraggio, Paolo Buggiani, Tovey Halek, Jack Vengrow, Ken Hiratsuka, Gloria McLean, FA-Q (Kevin Wendall), Geoff "Gizmo" Gilmore, Julius Klein, JIM C, Angela Idealism and Peter Missing.

Actors, Networks, Theories / D'un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant explores the notion of deferred receptions of theories and art through language, context and translations. Through examinations of texts and artists’ works, the book explores the gap that manifests itself between the publication of a text in one language and that of its translation, or between the inaugural presentation of an artwork in one context and its subsequent display.In the first part of the publication, Bonin explores the assimilation of writings by French philosophers in English-speaking visual arts milieus from the late 1970s until today. This trajectory has been mapped in an indexical manner by alluding to the network of institutions and communities of elective affinities that intercepted these texts and recycled them. In the second part, the narrative of North American imports of “French Theory” takes a different tack, highlighting the ways in which artists, critics, theorists and curators graft affect onto the transmission of these discourses and references. Collaboration—while not suspending the power relations that exist between these aforementioned protagonists—has become a means to safeguard the concept of autonomy within the heteronomous field of art.The book thoughtfully engages with discourses surrounding contemporary art practices, and includes work by significant artists such as Jean-Luc Godard, Ian Wallace, Bernadette Corporation and Mary Kelly. Actors, networks, theories / D'un discours qui ne serait pas du semblant accompanies a major exhibition presented at the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery of Concordia University, and also at Dazibao, curated by Vincent Bonin.Published in partnership with Dazibao and the Leonard & Bina Ellen Art Gallery.

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.

The first UN Habitat Conference on human settlements attracted a who?s who of international thinkers to Vancouver, including Margaret Mead, Buckminster Fuller, Mother Teresa, economist Barbara Ward and utopian architect Paolo Soleri, along with politicians such as Pierre Trudeau and Bogota?s famous mayor Enrique Pen~alosa. Habitat ?76 specifically focuses on the conferences? free public component known as Habitat Forum, which was simultaneously deemed an out-of-control hippie gathering and ?the official suicide of counter culture? as a UN legitimized substitute for informal protest. Nevertheless, the Habitat Forum was a catalyst for those involved, having an influential bearing on their work for decades to come. Canadian writer, designer and activist, Lindsay Brown tells the imaginative and chaotic narrative of activists that circumvented government to bring the debate to the public. Through first hand accounts of those that participated, Habitat ?76 illuminates an imaginative moment of utopian possibility in Canadian politics, exploring approaches and discourses that perhaps merit reconsideration as a constructive counterpoint to contemporary urbanism and politics. Habitat ?76 is a timely publication with great implication for contemporary debate, documenting the rise of those issues our contemporary cities and communities continue to face, now to an even greater degree.

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.

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.

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.

The perfect gift for anyone interested in tech and gadgetry, this book provides fans of the long-running TV show with an insight into the minds of Craig Charles and the team, while offering tech-heads young and old the lowdown on the coolest gear and gizmos out there – and what to look out for in the not-too-distant future.

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.

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.

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.

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.

A representation of the triennial exhibition, Vancouver Special, which explores the recent artistic production of the region.

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.

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.

This book accompanies Kent Monkman's large-scale exhibition which takes the viewer on a journey through Canada's history.

THROWN brings together essays by curators, first hand accounts by potters, archival documents, photographs and letters from the personal collections of seven highly respected potters.

Perhaps best known for hyper realistic portraits of subjects from Kate Moss to the heavily tattooed Mr. X and Zoe which take the process of portraiture beyond the photographic medium, Jason Brooks rose to prominence in the early 1990s with a generation of British artists who enjoyed wide international acclaim. In these and his recent work exploring old masterpieces and anonymous found paintings, Brooks demonstrates his interest in affirming the faith that painters retain in the medium of painting.Ranging from his iconic portraits of the 1990s, through to restless experiments with sculpture, found materials and the essence of painting as a medium, Jason Brooks: Perpetual Orgy is the first overview of the career of a singular and versatile artist. Heavily illustrated with colour images from Brooks’ rich and varied oeuvre, Perpetual Orgy offers a poetic and insightful reading of his practice from novelist, curator and critic, Michael Bracewell. Specially commissioned for this title, Bracewell has written a series of essays in response to an extended conversation with the artist and an engagement with his work spanning many years.