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Jap Sam Books (18)
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Een zwarte collage
2023 || Paperback || Rob Perrée || Jap Sam Books
In dit boek vertelt Rob Perrée zijn geschiedenis met Afrikaans-Amerikaanse kunst aan de hand van een chronologische collage van nieuwe teksten, verbindende teksten, eerder gepubliceerde artikelen, essays, interviews, recensies, columns en korte verhalen van 1990 tot 2023. Tezamen geven ze de ontwikkeling van deze kunt weer en tonen ze hoe de appreciatie ervoor en de perceptie ervan in de loop der tijd is veranderd, in de VS, maar vooral ook in Nederland, bij het publiek en de kunstinstelling...
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Jan van de Pavert. Collected Works
2023 || Paperback || Jan van de Pavert e.a. || Jap Sam Books
A comprehensive illustrated monograph on the work of Dutch visual artist Jan van de Pavert, with texts by the artist and art critic Mark Kremer.
Jan van de Pavert. Collected Works is a richly illustrated body of work covering the artist’s oeuvre of the past years. Initially, Van de Pavert became known for his sculptures, his early works referred to architecture and resembled parts from buildings, such as windows and doors. An example is the 1987 work Inversion: the work is a door and doorp...
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A Black Collage
2023 || Paperback || Rob Perrée || Jap Sam Books
In this book, Rob Perrée tells the story of his involvement in African-American art through a chronological collage of new texts, linking texts, previously published articles, essays, interviews, reviews, columns and short stories from 1990 to 2023. Together, they show the development of African-American art and demonstrate how its appreciation and perception have changed over time, in the US, but above all in the Netherlands as well, among the public and art institutions. It is a look behin...
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OUT SIDE IN SIDE OUT. Linda Molenaar
2023 || Paperback || Linda Molenaar e.a. || Jap Sam Books
Out Side In Side Out is an overview of 25 years of work by Dutch visual artist and performer Linda Molenaar, linking animal aspects in humans with human aspects in animals.
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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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ACT OF ALIGNMENT. Hee-Seung Choi
ACT OF ALIGNMENT
2023 || Paperback || Hee-Seung Choi || Jap Sam Books
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STITCH YOUR BRAIN
2023 || Paperback || Monika Auch || Jap Sam Books
"Stitch Your Brain" is a long-term study into the intelligence of the hand by artist and former medical doctor Monika Auch. The book reflects the results of the empirical study Auch worked on for the past decade about the importance of creating with your hands in our digital age and the effects of slow creation on neuro cognitive learning, health, and well-being.
The detailed images of a collection of 100+ stitched brains created by participants and their personal comments illustrate the infl...
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Interwoven
Exercises in Root System Domestication
2023 || Paperback || Eleonoor Jap Sam e.a. || Jap Sam Books
Visual artist Diana Scherer is one of the pioneers in biotech art. At the core of her botanical installations and textiles lies a great curiosity about what neurobiologists call ‘the brain of plants’. Scherer studies plants and root systems and applies the intelligence of plants in her work. She employs a unique technique with which, using natural growth processes, she creates mesmerising and seemingly fragile tissues of plant roots with various structures. Scherer’s work is thought-pro...
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TOUCH. Caren van Herwaarden
2023 || Paperback || Merel Bem e.a. || Jap Sam Books