Nine essays on home, identity and ruins. Writers, artist curators, and researchers, discuss homelessness and war, utopias of free movement, reconstructing cities and their histories, and the ethics of art. Viewpoints from Benelux, Finland, and Syria are bound together by artist Anssi Pulkkinen's 'Street View (Reassembled)', a mobile installation of a ruined Syrian home. The essays offer surprising perspectives into timely themes in today's world.

With contributions by Umayyad Abu-Hanna, Marwa...

'Lonely Planet. Yamatai Koku.Susan Kooi' is the second part of the triptych, in which Dutch artist Susan Kooi travels to Italy, Portugal, and Japan to work with various traditions of ceramic crafts. During a three-month residency in Arita - birthplace of Japanese porcelain production with a rich history in ceramics - Kooi worked with recontextualizing and poetically reconstructing ceramic objects. This publication shows a selection of works made during Kooi's three-month residency in Arita, a...

A fascinating immersion into the cartography and history of the Low Countries

An old map does not only represent a geographical situation; it also embodies a veritable journey of discovery through world history. In this book, historian Anne-Rieke van Schaik immerses herself in the many stories behind the fascinating maps, prints, atlases, globes and instruments belonging to the Phoebus Foundation’s collection. These objects testify to glorious moments and dark interludes in the history of t...

CES53, GRAFFITI DESIGNS, SKETCHES AND DOODLES.

133 Page book containing 250 graffiti designs, sketches and psychedelic doodles by graffiti and street artist CES53.

Period 1979-1999.

Compilation of classic blackbook drawings, designs, doodles and sketches.

In his work Suriname-born Dutch artist Remy Jungerman (1959) searches for a visual language that will bring different cultures together. His recent work is inextricably bound up with African traditions and the Western, modernistic art tradition. He is interested in the intersecting paths travelled by motifs from Africa, the Surinamese Maroon culture, and 20th century Modernism. By exploring the convergence of patterns and shapes from these seemingly disparate cultural landscapes, he reveals ...

German duo Haubitz + Zoche were among the first artists in Germany to address climate crisis in their work. The book Blind Date with the Future gives a comprehensive overview of the artistic projects on ecological issues such as sea level rise or dwindling resources that they have realised between 2006 and 2022. In the context of current climate debates their oeuvre is becoming increasingly relevant.

An art-historical essay by Ann-Katrin Günzel and an interview between Franziska Kunze and St...

During the 1880s, five ambitious artists, Vincent van Gogh, Georges Seurat, Paul Signac, Emile Bernard, and Charles Angrand, ventured to the suburbs northwest of Paris to paint along the river Seine. Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: Along the Seine is the first publication to investigate these artists’ motivations for leaving the city to paint the suburbs and the profound influence that Asnières, clichy, and the surrounding areas had upon their revolutionary approaches to color and brushstrok...

Andre Schreuder, born in Delft 1960 is a Dutch artist who mainly paints in a colorful figurative way. He is also a member of the movement: Immagine & Poesia which has its roots in Turin Italy. One of his other talents is writing poetry. In this book he combines his paintings and poetry together; the poems are related to the paintings.

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