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Printed on newsprint, Coco X Love With Stranger references 1980s teenage pulp novels. The film and its soundtrack will be released in Spring 2013, on a usb silicone necklace made in collaboration with designer Arielle de Pinto. The book explores different tropes of female identity - mixing personas, identities, some parafictional, some actual. Based on the narrative(...)
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October 2012
Margaret Haines: Coco X Love with stranger
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Printed on newsprint, Coco X Love With Stranger references 1980s teenage pulp novels. The film and its soundtrack will be released in Spring 2013, on a usb silicone necklace made in collaboration with designer Arielle de Pinto. The book explores different tropes of female identity - mixing personas, identities, some parafictional, some actual. Based on the narrative structure of Don Quixote, the book revolves around three female protagonists—Coco, a character that appears in Haines’ forthcoming film, Los Angeles artist and cult figure, Cameron, and Haines’s own ruminations. Published in an edition of 500.
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An extraordinary and surreal art book, this edition has been redesigned by the author and includes new illustrations. Ever since the Codex Seraphinianus was first published in 1981, the book has been recognized as one of the strangest and most beautiful art books ever made. This visual encyclopedia of an unknown world written in an unknown language has fueled much debate(...)
Luigi Serafini: Codex Seraphinianus
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An extraordinary and surreal art book, this edition has been redesigned by the author and includes new illustrations. Ever since the Codex Seraphinianus was first published in 1981, the book has been recognized as one of the strangest and most beautiful art books ever made. This visual encyclopedia of an unknown world written in an unknown language has fueled much debate over its meaning.
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The meteorology of Pietro Corraini is an abstract science applied to an atmosphere stirred by coloured geometric currents. Coloured lines, concentric circles, stars and asterisks are all responsible for how the weather will be in an imaginary place on a day that does not exist. Issue 30 of Un Sedicesimo is dedicated to this abstract forecast!
Un Sedicesimo 30: abstract forecast
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The meteorology of Pietro Corraini is an abstract science applied to an atmosphere stirred by coloured geometric currents. Coloured lines, concentric circles, stars and asterisks are all responsible for how the weather will be in an imaginary place on a day that does not exist. Issue 30 of Un Sedicesimo is dedicated to this abstract forecast!
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Fleurs japonaises
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Pionnier de la photographie japonaise et éminent éditeur de photographie durant l’ère Meiji, Ogawa Kazumasa (1860-1929) a publié à l’intention du marché occidental un grand nombre de livres illustrés présentant des vues du Japon traditionnel. L’ouvrage qui paraît en 1896 sous le titre Some Japanese Flowers, dont il existe un exemplaire original dans les collections du J.(...)
Fleurs japonaises
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Pionnier de la photographie japonaise et éminent éditeur de photographie durant l’ère Meiji, Ogawa Kazumasa (1860-1929) a publié à l’intention du marché occidental un grand nombre de livres illustrés présentant des vues du Japon traditionnel. L’ouvrage qui paraît en 1896 sous le titre Some Japanese Flowers, dont il existe un exemplaire original dans les collections du J. Paul Getty Museum, présente de délicates images de fleurs indigènes japonaises – notamment des lotus, plusieurs variétés de chrysanthèmes et de lys, et des volubilis – prises par Ogawa lui-même et tirées selon un procédé appelé phototypie, les épreuves ayant ensuite été coloriées à la main.
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London Deco
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Thibaud Herem is a French illustrator currently living and working in London. His work is characterised by his love of architectural facades and his fondness for pen and Indian ink. Today he is renowned for his intricately detailed, hand-drawn architectural illustrations.
London Deco
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Thibaud Herem is a French illustrator currently living and working in London. His work is characterised by his love of architectural facades and his fondness for pen and Indian ink. Today he is renowned for his intricately detailed, hand-drawn architectural illustrations.
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Conceived by Nathalie Du Pasquier, this issue of Un Sedicesimo is a sequence of collages. One after the other objects from the artist’s paintings are picked out, modified, photocopied and cut out, ready to undergo yet another rearrangement. Nathalie’s objects , characterized by soft colours, humorous and familiar shapes escape from the mundane world to which they usually(...)
Un Sedicesimo 25a: Nathalie du Pasquier
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Conceived by Nathalie Du Pasquier, this issue of Un Sedicesimo is a sequence of collages. One after the other objects from the artist’s paintings are picked out, modified, photocopied and cut out, ready to undergo yet another rearrangement. Nathalie’s objects , characterized by soft colours, humorous and familiar shapes escape from the mundane world to which they usually belong to meet on the paper in new and exciting combinations. Nathalie Du Pasquier was born in Bordeaux (France) in 1957, she has lived in Milan since 1979. Until 1986 she worked as a designer and was a founder member of Memphis for which she designed many textiles, carpets, furniture and objects. When the group broke up in 1987, painting became her main activity.
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Bohemians: a graphic history
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The nineteenth-century countercultures that came to define the bohemian lifestyle spanned both sides of the Atlantic, ranging from Walt Whitman to Josephine Baker, and from Gertrude Stein to Thelonius Monk. Bohemians is the graphic history of this movement and its illustrious figures, recovering the utopian ideas behind millennial communities, and covering the rise of(...)
Bohemians: a graphic history
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The nineteenth-century countercultures that came to define the bohemian lifestyle spanned both sides of the Atlantic, ranging from Walt Whitman to Josephine Baker, and from Gertrude Stein to Thelonius Monk. Bohemians is the graphic history of this movement and its illustrious figures, recovering the utopian ideas behind millennial communities, and covering the rise of Greenwich Village, the multiracial and radical jazz world, and West Coast and Midwest bohemians, among other scenes. Drawn by an all-star cast of comics artists, including rising figures like Sabrina Jones, Lance Tooks, and Summer McClinton, alongside established artists like Peter Kuper and Spain Rodriguez, Bohemians is a broad and entertaining account of the rebel impulse in American cultural history.
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Komiks: comic art in Russia
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José Alaniz explores the problematic publication history of komiks--an art form much-maligned as "bourgeois" mass diversion before, during, and after the collapse of the USSR-- with an emphasis on the last twenty years. The book provides heretofore unavailable access to a rich artistry through unique archival research, interviews with major artists and publishers, and(...)
Komiks: comic art in Russia
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José Alaniz explores the problematic publication history of komiks--an art form much-maligned as "bourgeois" mass diversion before, during, and after the collapse of the USSR-- with an emphasis on the last twenty years. The book provides heretofore unavailable access to a rich artistry through unique archival research, interviews with major artists and publishers, and readings of several artists and works--many unknown in the West.
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This catalogue presents a comprehensive exploration of the artist’s cartoon works, which he created for various publications throughout his lifetime, most notably the progressive tabloid daily newspaper P.M., in which his How to Look series first appeared in 1946.
How to look : Ad Reinhardt art comic
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This catalogue presents a comprehensive exploration of the artist’s cartoon works, which he created for various publications throughout his lifetime, most notably the progressive tabloid daily newspaper P.M., in which his How to Look series first appeared in 1946.
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Anyone who hearts New York will love this illustrated homage to the city. Artist, author, and New Yorker Julia Rothman brings humor and tenderness to an eclectic assortment of historical tidbits (how the New York Public Library lion sculptures got their names), idiosyncratic places to visit (where to find the tennis courts at Grand Central Station), interviews with locals(...)
Hello NY: an illustrated love letter to the five boroughs
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Anyone who hearts New York will love this illustrated homage to the city. Artist, author, and New Yorker Julia Rothman brings humor and tenderness to an eclectic assortment of historical tidbits (how the New York Public Library lion sculptures got their names), idiosyncratic places to visit (where to find the tennis courts at Grand Central Station), interviews with locals (thoughts on love from a Hasidic Jewish landlord), and personal recollections from growing up in the Bronx (fried fish at Johnny's Reef)—all illuminated in her beloved signature style.
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