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Presenting the latest installment in Scheynius' My Photo Books collection of contemplative yet carnal erotic portraitsBetween 2007 and 2019, Swedish photographer Lina Scheynius organized an intimate archive of her images into 11 self-published books, reissued as a collection by JBE Books. Following this boxed edition, Scheynius reunites with JBE to publish the individual volumes Book 12, Book 13 and Book 14, a continuation of the My Photo Books series. Covering the last three years of her work, the images in these new titles encapsulate Scheynius' unique style of soft grace applied to erotic and intimate portraits.Lina Scheynius (born 1981) began her professional career as a model before turning to photography in 2002. Since then she has received solo exhibitions at Galerie Tanja Wagner, Berlin and Christophe Guye Galerie, Zurich. Her work has also been exhibited at Centre de la Photographie Genève, Fotografiska, Stockholm and the Kaunas Photo Festival.

An ode to nature, poetry and design, this sumptuously produced book illuminates an understudied language and its poetic traditionsIn Nahuatl, a language spoken in present-day central Mexico since the 7th century, poetry is designated by a pair of metaphors, in xochitl in cuicatl: "the flower, the song." This term defines poetry as "an elevation, an outpouring that is expressed." Poems are a bouquet of words and associations to be sung to the sky. A confluence between an art book and a book of poetry, this work is a voyage into the poetic land of Nahuatl, an exploration of the literature of the Song of Flowers. It comprises 50 poems in Nahuatl, translated into English by Adam W. Coon, written by Mardonio Caballo. His work is introduced by literary scholar Alberto Manguel, who denotes the symbolism of songs and flowers in world literature. The stunning volume is made-to-measure by designer Fernando Laposse, using natural fibers derived from wine and corn production.

Designs and decorative objects celebrating Art Nouveau and the art of livingAt the crossroads of an artistic, aesthetic and poetic heritage, A Banquet of Wonders: Delighting in the World invites readers to partake in a visual feast of art and decorative objects celebrating the taste for collecting and the love of nature. The "banquet" of the title refers specifically to the objects and utensils laid out for consuming a meal, especially those that celebrate food and drink's connection to the natural environment. Selected pieces range from the Art Nouveau period to the present day, and include vases, glasses and plates from designers such as Gallé, Christofle and Lalanne, sourced from the British Museum, the Rijksmuseum and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. The collection is introduced by poet Ryoko Sekiguchi, who "makes the objects of the banquet speak," thus decentralizing our gaze. Each piece is then listed and described by curator Benjamin Loyauté. Additional essays include a manifesto on Art Nouveau and its relationship to abstraction by Jean-Louis Gallemin, a treatise on the importance of bees and honeycombs by Yves Élie, and a discussion by Laure Ménétrier of how botany informs the practice of collecting.

Over 200 photographs of Schenyius' black-and-white self-portraits taken over a year's time, presented in chronological orderBetween 2007 and 2019, Swedish photographer Lina Scheynius organized an intimate archive of her images into 11 self-published books, reissued as a collection by JBE Books. Following this boxed edition, Scheynius reunites with JBE to publish the individual volumes Book 12, Book 13 and Book 14, a continuation of the My Photo Books series. Covering the last three years of her work, the images in these new titles encapsulate Scheynius' unique style of soft grace applied to erotic and intimate portraits.

A comic book for the future, created by two pioneers of artificial intelligenceA graphic novel inspired by artbooks, Out Side is a unique collaboration between two leading digital artists: K Allado-McDowell and Ilan Manouach. Together, the two construct an extraordinary pictorial story in the manner of a comic strip, combining the exacting clarity of Allado-McDowell's post-internet vision with Manouach's conceptual and formal depth. Manouach has created the images with the help of Midjourney.In the story, a young painter named Stone navigates the art world--meeting shady dealers and strange collectors--while pining for her long-lost parrot, Petey. Eventually, she finds her way into the upper echelons of technology, working as a VR designer. It is here that she discovers a conspiracy that will shake her understanding of reality itself. Blending layers of dreams, real life and simulation, Out Side explores the possibilities of storytelling with AI: creating a multiverse on the page that infiltrates our own mixed reality.K Allado-McDowell is a musician and co-author of books in collaboration with GPT-3. In 2016 they created the Artists + Machine Intelligence program at Google AI, which they still run today.Ilan Manouach is an artist, book editor and researcher with a particular interest in conceptual and post-digital comics. He holds a PhD from Aalto University in Helsinki, and is currently a visiting scholar at Harvard Metalab.

Artwork by 20 award-winning African and Afro-American artists spotlights the need for greater racial diversity in art institutionsThis publication presents a multifaceted vision of Africa that transcends historical borders. The book revolves around the impact of curatorial voices in the contemporary art world, particularly with regard to the inclusion and representation of African and Afro-American artists. Three curators--Armelle Dakouo, Allison Glenn and Jeanne Mercier--explore these notions by highlighting the practices of some 20 artists. This year's publication serves as a direct link between the 8th edition of the Also Known As Africa (AKAA) fair in Paris and the next curated exhibition to be held in Los Angeles in May 2024.Artists include: Alice Mann, Maymouna Baradji, Angelo Dakouo, Abdesslem Ayed, Les soeurs Chevalme, Cosmo Whyte, Fahamu Pecou, Troy Makaza, Julien Creuzet, Cassio Markowski, Georgina Maxim, Teresita Fernandex, Adama Sylla, Theresah Ankomah, April Bey, Didier William, Ruth Owens, Maria Magdalena Campos-Pons.

In her characteristically intimate manner, Schenyius documents her sicknesses and solitude during CovidBetween 2007 and 2019, Swedish photographer Lina Scheynius organized an intimate archive of her images into 11 self-published books, reissued as a collection by JBE Books. Following this boxed edition, Scheynius reunites with JBE to publish the individual volumes Book 12, Book 13 and Book 14, a continuation of the My Photo Books series. Covering the last three years of her work, the images in these new titles encapsulate Scheynius' unique style of soft grace applied to erotic and intimate portraits.

Minter's daring, sensational, intensely chromatic photo series of senior sexOriginally published for a 2022 New York Times article on "The Joys (and Challenges) of Sex after 70," this photographic series by Marilyn Minter explores the almost unchartered territory of sex late in life. Intimate, fantastically bold, sometimes shocking and very Marilyn Minter in the best way, these photographs cast an uninhibited look at "unconventional" bodies and challenge our traditional and often stereotyped vision of sex. Ultimately, these joyful, empowering and body-positive images remind us that the frontiers of sexuality are unlimited and that we can choose the type of pleasure we want at every stage of our lives.An afterword by acclaimed New Yorker writer Naomi Fry dwells on the feminist implications of Minter's work as it addresses the issues our society faces when it comes to aging.In paintings, videos and photos, Marilyn Minter (born 1948) has been exploring the intersection of desire, feminism and modes of representation since the late 1960s. She has had solo exhibitions at White Columns in New York and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art among other locations. Her retrospective Pretty/Dirty was presented in 2016 at the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston and MCA Denver, before traveling to the Orange County Museum of Art and the Brooklyn Museum in New York.

A witty, ingenious, alternative history of art as a record of time"What is the purpose of the shadow in a painting, if not to indicate the time?" David Hockney once proposed. In this revelatory volume, poet and artist Franck Leibovici invites us to a journey into six centuries of Western painting history through a simple question: "what time is it?" Relying on everyday knowledge, ancestral gestures and tools accessible to all (Google street view, suncalc.org) as well as osint (open source intelligence), Leibovici radically expands the metadata of iconic paintings by Breughel, De Chirico, Holbein, Lorrain, Manet, Monet, Renoir and more, offering us a refreshing approach to the history of art. Along the way, many small and unusual details, such as the Annunciation of the angel Gabriel to Mary a little too early, or the beginning of the moving image in painting, are revealed. Thanks to this book, we can finally know when exactly Jesus appeared to Mary Magdalene, Zeus abducted Europa or the emperor Titus conquered Jerusalem. Reproductions of each work discussed are accompanied by diagrammatic analyses of the painting.French conceptual poet and multimedia artist Franck Leibovici (born 1975) has created performances, installations, essays, Panini albums, transcripts and spam correspondences. He works with the International Criminal Court in the Hague on using the strategies of poetry, the visual arts and the social sciences to expand the repertoire of tools for processing evidence. Leibovici is the author of Low Intensity Conflicts and De l'amour, among other publications.

A secret history of New York as told through classified ads and advertising posters salvaged from the city's streetsBetween the late 1980s and 2020, from the end of the Reagan era to the beginning of Covid, the New York-based artist and author Kenneth Goldsmith collected hundreds of classified ads and other advertising posters from the streets of the city. Hilarious, offbeat, absurd and sometimes breathtakingly beautiful, the ads are united by their unpredictability as well as their total lack of utility. Whether or not they intentionally drew from the aesthetics of Art Brut, Cubism or concrete poetry, they align in any case with the basic thesis of artistic modernity: to take an object and to divert it from any practical aim.Across the 500 pages of this volume, Goldsmith traces almost 40 years of American history as told from the margins, through his personal collection of objects made by "street poets and other visionaries." Through detailed introductions to each chapter, Goldsmith reflects on the boundaries between art and advertisement, as well as the notion of insider and outsider artists.

On a new generation of artists addressing an uncertain political climate at the crossroads of East and WestThe 16 artists featured in this book are represented by The Pill gallery, founded by Suela Cennet in 2016, located in Istanbul, a city at the crossroads between East and West. How to explore such crucial issues as violence, migration, the relationship to the body, gender and patriarchy in a country with an increasingly uncertain political context? Faced with a highly globalized art system, how to rethink the relationship between center and margins, between global and local? The artists presented in New Art Scales, born at the cusp of the 21st century, are determined to shake up the art world and address these questions.Artists include: Eva Nielsen, Marion Verboom, Leylâ Gediz, Ugo Schiavi, Elsa Sahal, Raphaël Barontini, Apolonia Sokol, Soufiane Ababri, Mireille Blanc, Pablo Dávila, Berke Doganoglu, Daniel Otero Torres, Aykan Safoglu, Elif Erkan, Irem Gunaydin and Lux Miranda.

One hundred and fifty-six poetic actions in conversation with the seaA book-length poem by Los Angeles-based conceptual artist David Horvitz (born 1982), Adjust the Level of the Sea is composed of "156 waves of thoughts and actions to be realized in relation to or contact with the sea." Following in the vein of his previous publications, this artist's book features a vibrant but simplistic design and layout. Each page contains a single instructive prompt in blue text over a white background. Juxtaposed with the prompt on the opposite page, each instruction, such as "write a letter with the sea" or "change the sea from noun to verb," seems to build on the last. Beginning with "Begin with the sea" and ending with "See the sea being," Horvitz's verbal fragments invoke synchronization between humankind and nature, encouraging his audience to find comfort in, and harmony with, the sea.

A gorgeously printed philosophical photobook that reenchants the natural worldThis project is the result of a unique fusion between photographer Viviane Sassen and philosopher Emanuele Coccia, two key figures in their respective fields. Sassen contributes 80 new photographs that celebrate the natural world, and Coccia supplies an ambitious essay that reassesses the unity of all sentient life. Neither an illustration of text nor a commentary on a series of images, Modern Alchemy situates their two streams of creativity in a dialogue, forging a reverent meditation on art and nature. Gorgeously bound in printed cloth, this meditative photobook invites readers to reenvision the earth's ever-present beauty.Viviane Sassen (born 1972) is a Dutch photographer based in Amsterdam who works in both the fashion and fine art worlds. She has photographed campaigns for luxury brands such as Miu Miu, Stella McCartney and Louis Vuitton, and her work has been exhibited at Fotografiska, New York (2017); Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago (2017); and ICA, London (2015). She won the International Center of Photography's Infinity Award for Applied/Fashion/Advertising Photography in 2011.Emanuele Coccia (born 1976) is a philosopher of aesthetics, with a focus on the ontological status and normative power of images in fashion and advertising. He is an associate professor at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris and visiting professor at Harvard. Coccia is the author of Metamorphoses (2021), The Life of Plants (2018) and Sensible Life (2016).

A gorgeous botanical tour of art and design across the agesThis handsome volume invites readers on an intimate stroll through centuries of jewelry, botany, drawing, prints, video-game imagery and scientific illustrations, offering a primer on the beauty and ingenuity of nature as reflected in art. Five contributions punctuate the visually structured journey, including a previously unpublished leporello by the late artist Etel Adnan that pulls out into a six-page gatefold. Indeed, this book-as-object is a masterpiece in and of itself, featuring a cover infused with fluorescent and silver inks and titled with a serigraph, in addition to eight pages of sumptuous endpapers printed in deep forest green.A coterie of international thinkers guide Botanical's ambitious scope and aim: Emanuele Coccia, Italian philosopher and author of The Life of Plants: A Metaphysics of Mixture (2018); Estelle Zhong Mengual, French art historian; Filipa Ramos, Portuguese curator and author of the upcoming book The Artist as Ecologist (2023). Through their rigorous and engaging essays, they unravel the mysterious inner workings of nature and celebrate the visionary mimetic art born from culture.Artists and designers include: Noyubushi Araki, Emile Gallé, Joan Fontcuberta, Christian Dior, Claude Monet, Sarah Bernhardt, Eugène Delacroix, Giuseppe Arcimboldo, Anna Atkins, Gustave Courbet, Henri Cartier-Bresson, René Lalique, Georgia O'Keeffe, Otto Dix, Robert Mapplethorpe and Yves Saint-Laurent.

A sumptuously produced, slipcased compilation of the ambulatory minimalist's letters to Yvon LambertAndré Cadere (1934-78) strove to remove art from the restrictions of museums and galleries. He is best known for his "Barres de bois rond" (round wooden bars), which he would carry to public spaces and exhibition openings. Between May 19 and July 3, 1978, Cadere wrote 43 letters to his friend, the gallerist Yvon Lambert, when Lambert came to visit the artist at the University Hospital in Paris.A precious testimony to Cadere's thought and art, these letters are published here for the first time, in their entirety. This edition consists of a slipcase containing the book, which features an introduction by Bernard Marcelis, a specialist in Cadere and author of his first catalog raisonné, followed by the 43 letters with commentary, annotated by Marcelis and illustrated.

A multivolume autobiography in intimate snapshots and nudesSwedish photographer Lina Scheynius (born 1981) has spent nearly two decades relentlessly recording the scenes of her life with her film camera. Working in both color and black and white, Scheynius compiles nude self-portraiture with intimate snapshots of family, friends and lovers. The result is a chronological and deeply personal rendering of the artist's life. Taken between 1991 and 2018, the photographs also offer an unprecedented insight into the life of a 21st-century woman, from the recklessness of young love to the wonder of motherhood. Between 2007 and 2019, Lina Scheynius organized her expansive photographic archive into 11 self-published books which have received international acclaim. Available together in its entirety for the first time as a box set, this comprehensive collection offers a rare sensitivity and intensity against the backdrop of an increasingly digitized and impersonal contemporary world.

The cult classic photobook celebrating the North Korean leader's infinite capacity for "looking at things"Comical and bizarre, Kim Jong Il Looking at Things has become a cult classic among photobook connoisseurs since its publication in 2015. The book was based upon one of the most followed, shared and imitated monothematic Tumblr blogs in recent years. Created by João Rocha, an art director at an advertising firm in Lisbon, the blog is a collection of photographs which depict the former "Dear Leader" of North Korea, often accompanied by military personnel or senior advisers, engaged in the act of looking at things.Since the blog's creation in October 2010, Rocha has posted photographs appropriated from the North Korean Central News Agency, which he matches with deadpan captions: "looking at cows"; "looking at blue rods"; "looking at pastry"; "looking at a metalworker"; "looking at a DVD labeling machine." Now available again after a long period of unavailability, this hilarious book includes an essay by visual culture writer Marco Bohr.