Philippe Thomas Declines His Identity
Daniel Bosser
Published by Occasional Papers, London, 2015, 42 pages, 16 × 23 cm, English
Price: €14

This is the first authorised translation of Daniel Bosser, Philippe Thomas décline son identité, a book about modernism and modalities of display first published by Galerie Claire Burrus, Paris, in 1987. The book was part of a performative talk given by the French conceptual artist Philippe Thomas (1951–1995) at the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris on 23 March 1987, and repeated a year later at the Musée de Grenoble. What audience members only realised upon leaving the auditorium was that the talk they had just witnessed was minutely scripted—down to Thomas’ smallest gestures and pauses—in the book itself. Thomas thus blurs definitions of ‘artist’s talk’, ‘performance’, ‘transcript’ and ‘book’, producing instead a play on words, and speech acts. Consistent with Thomas’ desire to separate the author’s name from actual authorship, the book is attributed to Daniel Bosser, the collector who acquired the piece.

Consistent with Thomas’ practice to distinguish his name from authorship, this book is attributed to Daniel Bosser, the collector who acquired the piece.

Translated by Antony Hudek, with a specially commissioned essay by Émeline Jaret.

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Natural Enemies Of Books: A Messy History Of Women In Printing And Typography
Published by Occasional Papers, London, 2020, 176 pages (b/w ill.), 11 × 19 cm, English
Price: €15.50 (Temporarily out of stock)

Natural Enemies of Books is a response to the groundbreaking 1937 publication Bookmaking on the Distaff Side, which brought together contributions by women printers, illustrators, authors, typographers, and typesetters, highlighting the print industry’s inequalities and proposing a takeover of the history of the book. Edited by feminist graphic design collective MMS, the publication includes newly commissioned essays and poems, conversations with former typesetters Inger Humlesjö, Ingegärd Waaranperä, Gail Cartmail, and Megan Downey, and reprints of the original book and other publications.

#2020 #design #occasionalpapers
Book of Games
Published by Metropolis M, Amsterdam, 2009, unpaginated (b/w ill.), 17 × 17 cm, English
Price: €8 (Out of stock)

Produced as a supplement for Metropolis M No. 5, 2009. Featuring games by Bik Van der Pol, Maria Barnas, Keren Cytter, Daniel Roth, Amalia Pica, Falke Pisano, Carla Zaccagnini and others.

#2009 #amaliapica #bikvanderpol #falkepisano
The Absence Of Mark Manders, Bonnefanten
Mark Manders
Published by Roma Publications, Amsterdam, 2020, 144 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 22 × 29 cm, English
Price: €35 (Temporarily out of stock)

A catalogue of the extensive retrospective exhibition The Absence of Mark Manders at the Bonnefanten Museum, Maastricht. The rooms in the exhibition can be regarded as the spaces of the artist’s ongoing work ‘Self-portrait as a building’. The works have been “left behind” by the artist in three different zones: the visitor enters a living room, then the museum, and finally the studio. According to Manders, all of these works are interchangeable and can be put into a different context, “like words in a sentence can also be used in different combinations”. A text by Douglas Fogle focuses on the role of language in Manders’s oeuvre.

#2020 #markmanders #romapublications
Zeichnungen
Michael Krebber
Published by Gisela Capitain, Köln, 1992, 24 pages (colour & b/w ill.), 20 × 24.5 cm, German
Price: €70 (Out of stock)

Produced on the occasion of Michael Krebber Zeichnungen at Gisela Capitain, Köln, October –November, 1992.

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A communication: invitation cards by the artist stanley brouwn
Revue Faire n°04
Published by Faire, Paris, 2018, 20 pages w. foldout poster (colour & b/w ill.), 20 × 29 cm, English
Price: €7

Revue Faire is a bi-monthly magazine dedicated to graphic design, published from October to June, distributed each two months in the form of anthologies of three or four issues. Created by Empire, Syndicat studio’s publishing house. Each publication documents a specific object, addressed by a renowned author, this edition focuses on the invitation cards by the artist stanley brouwn.

#2018 #revuefaire #stanleybrouwn