Carla van de Puttelaar opens our awareness to the sensitivity and sensuality of skin. The female body has long been the main subject of her photography, and her models appear poised and aloof, with chilled skin lit by natural light, one of Van de Puttelaar's most important tools and assets - one which she harnesses with incredible deftness. She also examines the skin and texture of flowers in her 'Hortus Nocturnum' series, particularly those about to fade. 'Adornments' comprises a new collect...

'Ema (Nude on a staircase)' pulls the reader into the mind of Ema, the young woman descending the staircase in Gerhard Richter's 1966 painting, 'Ema'. Ema is a young artist who wants to discover what her greatest form of creativity is. She embarks on a journey of awakening, a quest for mastery that brings her into dialogue with her teachers and with her great mentors, the artists Gerhard Richter, Marcel Duchamp and John Cage. Ema explores her field, finds her own voice, considers the world an...

Most of Marc Boumeester's thinking falls under affect theory, a philosophy of a new generation, which in its turn is fueled by Deleuzian scholarship. Boumeester formulates new and contemporary concepts that can be put into action in art and design education through an operational style called "intensive thinking". In the book, many interesting examples of educational programmes and works of art are accompanied by images relating to how this theoretical approach can be applied in art and desig...

De artistieke praktijk van Rafaël Rozendaal bestaat uit websites, installaties, prints en teksten. Zijn werk tekent zich af binnen en serie transformaties-van beweging naar abstractie, van virtuele naar fysieke ruimte, en van website naar print-die met elkaar in verband staan. Al zijn werken hebben een ding gemeen: ze ontstaan vanuit een fascinatie voor bewegend beeld en interactiviteit in de meest basale vorm. Everything, Always, Everywhere staat stil bij de veranderingen die Rozendaal's we...

Europa 2017, dansen we weer op een vulkaan? Bereiden vreemdelingenhaat, gebrek aan vertrouwen in de politiek, en economische onzekerheid ons voor op een verschrikkelijke ondergang? Misschien wel. Het zou hoop moeten bieden voor dit project, aangezien de beste kunst wordt gemaakt op de rand van wanhoop, wanneer beschavingen uiteen vallen en we afstevenen op een nieuwe wereldorde.Dit boek vertelt over de totstandkoming van The Painted Bird, een collaboratief kunstwerk door negentien kunstenaars...

The increasing hectic nature in the world surrounding us makes us more than ever ponder on fundamental questions. What is the meaning of existence? Who am I really? What do I truly want? The answers to those questions are obvious when you take your Soul as a starting-point. This book is the manual for discovering your Soul Path. 15 years of experience on the subject have been summarized into one global statement. It can be seen as the Bible of the New Age. Insightful, fascinating, inspiring, ...

A visual historical renditionHave you always wondered what the Herengracht and Keizersgracht looked like around 1750? And what they look like now? The panoramic photographs of the buildings along these canals have been placed above the drawings by Caspar Philips. These drawings were made and published around 1768. See what remains of the old grandeur and how 'innovation' can also lead to deterioration. In a short introduction, information is provided on the formation, history and growth of Am...

Retail is going through difficult times and is suffering the consequences of both the economic crisis and the digitization of society. But fundamentally, there is a bigger problem: stores cannot keep up with the changing behavior of customers who are connected 24/7, customers for whom there is no distinction between online and offline.

Retailers urgently need new business models if they want to stay relevant in a world dominated by marketplaces and sharing platforms. They need to transform i...