Francis Picabia
Published by Seibu, Tokyo, 1984, 149 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 22 × 27 cm, Japanese/​English/​French
Price: €40

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Francis Picabia, at The Museum of Modern Art, Seibu Takanawa, 21 July–5 September, 1984 and the Seibu Museum of Art, Tokyo 9 September–21 October 1984.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

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1999/2000
Francis Picabia
Published by APT International, Tokyo, 1999, Two volumes in cardboard slipcase, 225 pp. & 120 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 18 × 25 cm, English/​French/​Japanese
Price: €95

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Francis Picabia, which travelled to Isetan Museum of Art, Tokyo, 12 August–7 September, 1999; Iwaki City Art Museum, Fukushima, 17 October–14 November 1999; Kintetsu Art Museum, Osaka, 26 January–9 February, 2000.

Francis Picabia was a French avant-garde painter, writer, filmmaker, magazine publisher, poet, and typographist. He was one of the early major figures of the Dada movement in the United States and in France and was later briefly associated with Surrealism, but would soon turn his back on the art establishment.

*Please note this publication is secondhand and has some traces of previous ownership.

#1999 #francispicabia #painting
Bruno Munari: 100th Anniversary Exhibition
Published by Asahi Shimbun, Osaka, 2007, 200 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 21.2 × 26 cm, Japanese
Price: €58

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Bruno Munari: What Comes From What held at the Itabashi Art Museum, The Museum of Modern Art, Shiga and Kariya City Art Museum, to commemorate the 100th anniversary of the birth Munari, who was an artist, designer, and children’s book author. It features colour illustrations of a wide variety of Munari’s works, including his masterpieces The Nonsense Machine and The Unreadable Book as well as paintings and three-dimensional paper sculptures. The catalogue comprehensively traces a body of work that is permeated with playful ideas and a spirit of inquiry. It reflects the breadth of Munari’s creativity, which spans art, design, and education.

#2007 #brunomunari #design
Licorice
Bridget Penney
Published by Book Works, London, 2020, 144 pp., 11 × 18 cm, English
Price: €15

Licorice is a novel, a mixed-up tale about a film, a windmill and city folk. The plot involves the making of a film by characters who are trying to gain permission to record the noises inside a reconstructed windmill to use as its soundtrack. When they don’t succeed, the eponymous character Licorice makes an Aeolian harp out of bits she finds in a small electricals recycling bin. Brighton based author Bridget Penney, previous publications include Honeymoon with Death and Other Stories (Polygon, 1991) and Index (Book Works, 2008).

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Broken Villas
Helen Marten
Published by Bricks from the Kiln, London, St Leonards-on-Sea & New Haven, 2025, 20 pp. + envelope + insert (colour & b/w ill.), 22 × 29.5 cm, English
Price: €19

Written in response to three physical photographs, Broken Villas contains and considers how a vessel might clasp tightly to known volumetric identities, but also loom with a set of accentuated clues towards otherness: the excavated seams in the earth and what we fill those holes with, imaginary or otherwise; the glacial erraticism of the boulder; the queer crimping of a hotel pillowcase; the modes via which objects are housed as display, but also packaged away, with sorrow, with fear, with erotism etc. Published as a prelude to BFTK#7, Broken Villas is collected and written by Helen Marten, one of the co-editors of the forthcoming issue.

#2024 #andrewwalshlister #bricksfromthekiln #helenmarten #matthewstuart
Tendentious | Neo-Semantics
Lily Greenham
Published by Bricks from the Kiln, London, St Leonards-on-Sea & New Haven, 2024, 36 pp. + insert (b/w ill.), 21 × 27 cm, English
Price: €17

tendentious | neo-semantics is a collection of text-sound pieces by Lily Greenham transcribed and (re)typeset from a previously unpublished edition originally written in 1970. Reproduced and revocalised in dialogue with the Lily Greenham Archive at Goldsmiths, this new edition is bookended by excerpts of contextual writings by Greenham — ‘a few remarks’ (1970 / 71), ‘language and its uses: lingua tongue’ (1972) and a ‘post scriptum’ to the essay ‘lingual music’ (1977) — and also punctuated by ‘aphorisms’ and ‘50 words stories’ as structural beats between semantic poems. A tall format hole-punched insert contains a written remembrance by Larry Wendt and a photograph courtesy of Stephen Ruppenthal.

#2024 #andrewwalshlister #bricksfromthekiln #lilygreenham #matthewstuart #poetry