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Notes on Happiness

2023 || Paperback || Alex Farrar || Jap Sam Books

| A new book project by Alex Farrar, including an index of 49 questions about happiness.

| Limited-edition publication bound with several different covers, cut from a single drawing by Daniel Jacoby.

Are Dutch people happy people?

Does art make you happy?

What was your earliest memory of happiness?

What have you taught your children about happiness?

Notes on Happiness is a book project by artist Alex Farrar. The book is a long reflective text, based on conversations that Farrar had with peop...

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Six impossible things before breakfast

2023 || Paperback || Ingrid de Coster e.a. || Jap Sam Books

How do you make a book about a period that is behind you? The publication Six impossible things before breakfast is a journey across twenty-five years of Verzameld Werk [Collected Work] and beyond. Verzameld Werk was an open house in the heart of Ghent. A playground for designers and guests, architects and artists. Tailor-made by thinkers and doers. It was founded in 1991, with Ingrid De Coster as one of its founders.

For this book, Ingrid De Coster collaborated with Loes Verstappen and Bas S...

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My Mom Wants to Go Back Home. Hanna Hrabarska

2024 || Hardcover || Hanna Hrabarska || Jap Sam Books

'My Mom Wants to Go Back Home' is a documentary diary by photographer Hanna Hrabarska. Together with her mother Iryna, she fled the war in Ukraine, to find a temporary home in the Netherlands.

'This book is a journey. In the beginning it runs across borders, countries and cities. Later it extends inwards, into a landscape of our thoughts, feelings and emotions.'

Hanna Hrabarska (1986) is a Ukrainian photographer, visual artist, and photojournalist. She holds a Master of Arts in Journalism fr...

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Reflect 8 Art and Activism in the Age of Globalisation

2015 || Paperback || Lieven de Cauter e.a. || nai010 uitgevers publishers

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The Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna

The Official Museum Book

2023 || Hardcover || Cäcilia Bischoff || Hannibal Books

Unique insight into one of the world's largest collections of European art

With its aesthetically powerful interior architecture, the Kunsthistorisches Museum Vienna on Maria-Theresien-Platz is completely unique in terms of architecture and interior design. Showcasing the museum in all its glory, this luxurious volume is the definitive reference to the museum and a sumptuous showcase of the permanent collection. The book creates a fascinating dialogue between the greatest artists and their wo...

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AND / AS

art and/as research at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts Antwerp

2016 || Paperback || Els De Bruyn e.a. || Jap Sam Books

In celebration of its rich history in the arts and design community, the 350-year-old Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Antwerp undertook assembling a five-year overview of its arts research programs. In both text and image, AND/AS reflects on what research in the arts means for the artist, for art education and for the art world. The comfortably sized and well-illustrated book offers at its core visual insight into the strategies, processes and results of artistic research in a variety of disci...

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Boerenzij | The Rural Side

2021 || Paperback || Wapke Feenstra e.a. || Jap Sam Books

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Koen Taselaar. Rollable Ramblings

2021 || Paperback || Katalin Herzog || Jap Sam Books

The work of Koen Taselaar is a unique universe in which only he determines the rules. He makes skillful drawings, but also clumsy ceramics and elaborate Tapestries.

Taselaar’s visual language emerged from the grey area in which text is not only meaning but also form. He expresses this in drawn puns, imaginary record sleeves or large psychedelic paintings. In search of ways to process his diverse output, he makes publications and large scale drawings, which function as flat exhibition space...

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Marc Bijl The Works 1984-2084

2024 || Hardcover || Lynden Hak e.a. || Jap Sam Books

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Beautiful Madness

Art Writing as Art Curating

2024 || Paperback || Mark Kremer || Valiz

Curating exhibitions and ‘art writing’ are closely related: both activities construct a meaningful narrative about artefacts and artists, both interact with a public, viewers/readers; both make space for the experience of art objects. For their work, curators and art writers tap the primary source: the living artist, their work and world. Both cherish a proximity to the maker, for it allows them to delve into artistic processes, consider things in a state of becoming. An essential tool fo...