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Jap Sam Books (16)
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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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Beelden
stadsverfraaiing in Rotterdam sinds 1940
|| Hardcover || Siebe Thissen || Jap Sam Books || met inkijkexemplaar
Hoe kwamen De verwoeste stad van Zadkine en de titelloze sculptuur van Naum Gabo naar Rotterdam? En wat betekende de 'percentageregeling' voor de stad? Het boek Beelden. Stadsverfraaiing in Rotterdam sinds 1940 werd geschreven door Siebe Thissen, hoofd van BKOR (het programma Beeldende Kunst & Openbare Ruimte van CBK Rotterdam). Het boek geeft een geschiedenis van de kunst in de openbare ruimte van Rotterdam, en dan vooral vanuit het perspectief van de kunstenaar die invloed wil uitoefenen op...
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Lon Pennock: Works
2016 || Hardcover || Thomas Köllhofer e.a. || Jap Sam Books
Monografie van beeldend kunstenaar Lon Pennock (1945). 'Lon Pennock: Works' documenteert 15 jaar werk bestaande uit beelden en werk op papier. Met tekstbijdragen van Thomas Köllhofer en Frits Scholten.
By investigating simple forms seemingly borrowed from objective reality, Lon Pennock developed an aesthetic language related to that informing Concrete Art, which draws solely on such geometric elements as the rectangular solid, the cube, the cone or the cylinder.' - Thomas Köllhofer
'Even e...
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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 ...