Jap Sam Books (10)
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Wild park / druk 1
commissioning the unexpected
2012 || Hardcover || Jeroen Boomgaard || Jap Sam Books
De Engelstalige publicatie 'Wild Park. Commissioning the Unexpected' is geschreven door Jeroen Boomgaard, als zesde deel van de essayreeks van het Fonds BKVB.
'Wild Park' is een essay over het verschil in kwaliteit van kunst in de openbare ruimte. Niet alleen vorm en iconografie bepalen een kunstwerk, ook de functies en betekenissen waarmee het op voorhand wordt opgezadeld. Boomgaard gaat op zoek naar werken die er in slagen te ontsnappen aan de belangen en intenties waarmee een plek beladen ...
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As Above, So Below. Ruchama Noorda
2022 || Hardcover || Ruchama Noorda || Jap Sam Books
'As Above, So Below' documents the work made by Amsterdam-based artist, Ruchama Noorda over a twenty-year period and explores the esoteric system of belief that links her practice to the early 20th century Lebensreformers, the European avant-garde, and today's no growth environmentalist movement.
This book offers a comprehensive overview of the artist's installations, drawings, video's, sculptures, and performances with written commentary by the artist and by California-based art and cultural...
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Forget & Remember
2021 || Hardcover || Gil e.a. || Jap Sam Books
Gil Nader (1968) and Moti Porat (1971) are known for their socially engaged work in which they explore the notion of individuality and question forms and norms of identity.
Forget & Remember investigates the background and migration history of their Jewish-Israeli families on the basis of their parents’ collections. In Forget & Remember, Gil's father Yitzhak and Moti's mother Naomi are the protagonists. The reader is introduced to the stories of and about them and their very different coll...
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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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Marc Bijl The Works 1984-2084
2024 || Hardcover || Lynden Hak e.a. || Jap Sam Books
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GRIP: Hedwig Houben
2016 || Hardcover || Hedwig Houben e.a. || Jap Sam Books
Dit boek is de eerste monografie van Hedwig Houben. In Grip wordt haar speelse, humoristische, multi-gelaagde werk verkent en besproken. Visueel, rijk geïllustreerd met tekeningen en foto's, documenteert Grip haar performances, videos en sculpturale installaties.
Door verschillende auteurs, maar ook door de kunstenaar zelf, wordt het werk besproken. Grip omvat een beschrijving van haar cast en hoofdpersonen als zowel drie scripts van Houben; een interview van Vanessa Desclaux (associate cura...
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Stations
Listening to the Deep Earth
2022 || Hardcover || Stuart Hyatt e.a. || Jap Sam Books
What does the Earth sound like? In 'Stations: Listening to the Deep Earth', musician Stuart Hyatt teams up with PRINTtEXT to invite poets, composers, and scientists to answer this question. What begins as a grand science experiment quickly transforms into a lyrical duet with the enchanted ground beneath us.
Hyatt and Enrique Ramirez begin the text with examinations of a whole-Earth sensorium. The text then branches out in three directions—Invocation, Reverie, and Rhapsody—before reconverg...
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Anton Rooskens
Beyond Cobra / Voorbij Cobra
2023 || Hardcover || Marguerite Tuijn e.a. || Jap Sam Books
Anton Rooskens (1906–1976) made a significant contribution to modern art in the Netherlands as an artist affiliated with the Cobra group, but also afterwards. His paintings are included in leading museum collections in the Netherlands and abroad. It is time for a new, comprehensive publication on this important Dutch twentieth-century painter. Over the past years, art historians Marguerite Tuijn and Eliane Odding have delved into his oeuvre and life. Based on previously unused sources from ...
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FELWA
Arja Hop & Peter Svenson
2024 || Hardcover || Peter Svenson e.a. || Jap Sam Books
The photo-book 'Felwa' is a chronicle of transitions that explore an essential paradox of nature, in the context of the Veluwe region in the Netherlands, namely that change is the only constant. Structured like ripples in a pool, the book begins with references to the past examining our ancient emotional relationship with the world in terms of mythology and belief and ends with the scientific data based view we have today. Within these parameters we explore relationships to place ranging from...
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Mother's Milk
2023 || Hardcover || Marie Ilse Bourlanges || Jap Sam Books
Mother’s Milk (re)constructs the story of Ilse, the author’s grandmother. Alienated in the psychiatric hospital of La Timone, in Marseille, Ilse resided there from 1952 until her death in 1983. Bringing together archival material, correspondences and conversations narrated via documentary poetry, Marie Ilse Bourlanges assembles the fragments of a family history hiding in plain sight.
An undertow of embodied memory meets the flow of institutional remembrance, drawing parallels between the ...