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Experimental Fashion
Shortlisted for the Millia Davenport Publication Award Experimental Fashion traces the proliferation of the grotesque and carnivalesque within contemporary fashion and the close relation between fashion and performance art, from Lady Gaga's raw meat dress to Leigh Bowery's performance style. The book examines the designers and performance artists at the turn of the twenty-first century whose work challenges established codes of what represents the fashionable body. These innovative people, the book argues, make their challenges through dynamic strategies of parody, humour and inversion. It explores the experimental work of modern designers such as Georgina Godley, Bernhard Willhelm, Rei Kawakubo and fashion designer, performance artist, and club figure Leigh Bowery. It also discusses the increased centrality of experimental fashion through the pop phenomenon, Lady Gaga.
Supercommunity
Leading artists, theorists, and writers exhume the dystopian and utopian futures contained within the present “I am the supercommunity, and you are only starting to recognize me. I grew out of something that used to be humanity. Some have compared me to angry crowds in public squares; others compare me to wind and atmosphere, or to software.” Invited to exhibit at the 56th Venice Biennale, e-flux journal produced a single issue over a four-month span, publishing an article a day both online and on site from Venice. In essays, poems, short stories, and plays, artists and theorists trace the negative collective that is the subject of contemporary life, in which art, the internet, and globalization have shed their utopian guises but persist as naked power, in the face of apocalyptic ecological disaster and against the claims of the social commons. “I convert care to cruelty, and cruelty back to care. I convert political desires to economic flows and data, and then I convert them back again. I convert revolutions to revelations. I don’t want security, I want to leave, and then disperse myself everywhere and all the time.”
Art on the Line
On 1 May 1780, England's Royal Academy of Arts opened its twelfth annual exhibition, the first to be held in the magnificent rooms of William Chambers's newly built Somerset House. For the next fifty-seven years, the Great Room of Somerset House effectively defined the centre of the London art world - the place where viewers had to see and be seen, and where artists fiercely vied for the attention of potential buyers. Such great exhibition performers as Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Lawrence, John Constable, J. M. W. Turner and David Wilkie sharpened their skills during these stimulating decades. In this extensively illustrated book, seventeen renowned experts revisit and assess the Somerset House...
Pop-Up Forest
A dazzling pop-up book full of amazing facts about trees around the world, certain to entertain the entire family! Have you ever wondered how trees grow? Did you know that the Amazon rainforest is considered the “lungs of the planet”? Pop-Up Forest tells you everything you’ve always wanted to know about forest ecosystems around the world with fact-packed text, lively and colorful illustrations—and pop- ups! Discover what happens when trees communicate with each other; the kinds of creatures that live in them; and what the Scandinavian legend of Yggdrasil has to do with all of this. This fascinating book features detailed illustrations and stunning paper engineering for amateur biologists and nature lovers. Readers will delve deep beneath the root systems and climb up into the canopy to explore some of the oldest and most important trees alive. Anyone curious about how our forests work will be amazed!
Chris Stein / Negative
INDIEFAB Book of the Year Awards -- 2014 Finalist On the occasion of Blondie’s fortieth anniversary, Chris Stein shares his iconic and mostly unpublished photographs of Debbie Harry and the cool creatures of the ’70s and ’80s New York rock scene. While a student at the School of Visual Arts, Chris Stein photographed the downtown New York scene of the early ’70s, where he met Deborah Harry and cofounded Blondie. Their blend of punk, dance, and hip-hop spawned a totally new sound, and Stein’s photographs helped establish Harry as an international fashion and music icon. In photos and stories direct from Stein, brilliant writer of hits like "Rapture" and "Heart of Glass," this book pr...
Return of the Rudeboy
The 'Return of the Rudeboy' exhibition has been encapsulated into a beautifully printed 128-page hard cover book. Containing unseen images, essays on Rudeboy heritage and culture and references to the curated spaces at the Somerset House exhibition. The book was released exclusively to the public at the Rudeboy Salon at The Hospital Club, London on the 5th and 6th June 2015. Limited numbers of the first edition are available online through select retailers.
Moroccans
Leila Alaoui a réalisé sa série "Les Marocains" entre 2010 et 2014. Il ne s'agit pas de scènes de la vie quotidienne mais - au sens le plus fort et le plus classique du mot - de portraits. Réalisés à l'aide d'un studio mobile à travers tout le Maroc, ils s'inscrivent dans la ligne du travail de Richard Avedon. Ils sont réunis aujourd'hui dans un catalogue à l'occasion de l'exposition qui se tient au musée Yves Saint Laurent de Marrakech du 30 septembre 2018 au 5 février 2019. Révélant les costumes traditionnels marocains de différents groupes ethniques, arabes comme berbères, "Les Marocains" est non seulement une oeuvre d'art, mais aussi une archive qui garde la trace de traditions qui tendent à disparaître sous les effets de la mondialisation. Leila Alaoui (1982-2016), photographe et vidéaste franco-marocaine, est décédée lors d'un attentat à Ouagadougou en 2016 alors qu'elle effectuait un reportage pour Amnesty International. Son travail engagé et empreint d'humanisme est régulièrement publié et exposé à travers le monde.
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Spring
Published to celebrate Skye Gyngell's new restaurant in London, Spring presents a collection of delectable recipes from the menu—beautiful new breads and pasta dishes, exquisite seafood and meat dishes, colorful salads and vegetables, enticing ice creams and desserts, original preserves, and drinks newly fashioned for the restaurant. Spring also provides a fascinating insight into the creation of the restaurant itself, from Skye's first visit to the space at Somerset House, through to the design and development of the site, to the opening of the restaurant, decor, and even staff uniform.
