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Great Temptations
The seduction of painting
2023 || Paperback || Dominic van den Boogerd || Idea Books B.V.
"I can resist everything", wrote Oscar Wilde, "except temptation". What is it that makes a painting so attractive, so irresistible? In this collection of essays, Dominic van den Boogerd writes with passion about the exhibitions he has seen, the painters he has spoken with, and the talks by artists that he has organised as the director of De Ateliers in Amsterdam. About the pleasures and pitfalls of painting, forbidden favourites and the flirtation between the art of painting and other muses.
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Het Brussel van Horta
2023 || Paperback || Françoise Aubry || Idea Books B.V.
In 2023 viert Brussel, en bij uitbreiding het hele land, het jaar van de art nouveau. Wie vertegenwoordigt deze revolutionaire stijl in ons land beter dan de beroemde architect Victor Horta? Deze handige gids loodst u langs zijn creaties in Brussel, van openbare gebouwen tot privéwoningen en monumenten, allen opgetrokken in art nouveau-stijl. Victor Horta wordt in 1861 in Gent geboren en verricht baanbrekend werk met zijn architectuur: denk aan de typische decoratieve vormen, de experimentel...
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Formulating Fake Futures
The tomorrow through the filters of a computational network
2023 || Paperback || Nishant Shah || Idea Books B.V.
Launching the series 'ArtEZ Press Essay Issues', this first instalment features feminist Nishant Shah, who argues that the idea of a future in crisis and future as fake pervades almost all our global and immediate dialogues. Whether it is climate change deniers, flat Earth advocates, anti-vaxxers, incels, men’s rights advocates, neo-Nazi supporters, or fascist states eroding democracy, these two aspects link them all together. However, if fake is not an absolute category and not an inquiry ...