Encens No. 43
Spring/Summer 2020
Published by Encens, Paris, 2020, unpaginated (colour & b/w ill.), 20.5 × 26.5 cm, English
Price: €24

Published twice a year since 2002, Encens is focused on fashion as artform from the perspective of designers rather than trends. The magazine investigate new forms of dressing from past to present with probing interviews, extensive use of photography and vintage, and dynamic layout. This issue features Willie Christie, Dominique Issermann, Sonia Rykiel, Aurore Clement, Wim Wenders, Margot Pilz, Barbara Hulanicki, Roger Vivier and Emanuel Ungaro.

#2020 #encens #fashion #photography
Are Plants People?
Mark Borthwick
Published by Purple Books, Paris, 2000, 32 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 11 × 15 cm, English/French
Price: €130

Mark Borthwick belongs to a generation of photographers who, in the 1990s, changed fashion’s imagery. Breaking the conventions of fashion photography, he developed a style that was at once intuitive and personal, integrating elements, props, attitudes, that touch contemporary art, environmental issues, interior and architectural design, and a reverence for clothes as works of art.

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

#2000 #fashion #markborthwick #photography #purplebooks
Drawings
Marian Zazeela
Published by Kunst im Regenbogenstadl, Polling, 2000, 144 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 24.5 × 23 cm, English/German
Price: €90

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Marian Zazeela: Drawings at Kunst im Regenbogenstadl, Polling, 2000. Over the past six decades, Zazeela was a central figure of the New York avant-garde. Her expansive practice encompassing painting, calligraphic drawing, film, light projection, stage design, sculpture, and light environments applied rigorous formal procedures to enact states of transcendence.

In 1962, Zazeela produced a series of highly singular drawings that charted the course of her subsequent work. Employing both improvisation and an increasing array of rigorous compositional techniques, Zazeela’s ornamental shapes render the page a concentrated visual field of startlingly complex design.

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

#2000 #marianzazeela
Archäologie Beaux Arts Ethnography Théâtre Vérité
Christopher Williams
Published by Contemporary Art Gallery, Vancouver, 2005, 2 volumes, 48 pp. & 8 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 20.7 × 25 cm, English
Price: €48

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Example: Dix-Huit Leçons sur la Société Industrielle at the Contemporary Art Gallery, January 13 – March 6, 2005.

It includes a forward by Christina Ritchie, essays; Mechanization takes command: Modernization, Terminable and interminable by John Miller and Some References for Christopher Williams by Claudia Beck.

Designed by Christopher Williams with Yvonne Quirmbach.

#2005 #christopherwilliams #johnmiller #photography #yvonnequirmbach
A World Undone
Nicholas Mangan
Published by Lenz Press, Milan, 2024, 256 pp. (colour & b/w ill.), 20 × 27 cm, English
Price: €38 (Temporarily out of stock)

Over the past two decades, Australian artist Nicholas Mangan has created a compelling body of work that considers humanity’s relationship to the natural world, taking everything from coral rubble to cryptocurrency as a point of departure.

Mangan’s art locates human history in the context of deep geological time. With a focus on Australia’s place in the Pacific, his works reflect on how social, political and economic upheaval are connected to the material world, offering new perspectives on pressing global issues, such as the impact of extractive mining on natural resources and climate change.

Designed by Žiga Testen and Stuart Geddes.

#2024 #lenzpress #nicholasmangan #zigatesten
American Imaginations
Richard Kostelanetz
Published by Merve Verlag, Berlin, 1983, 158 pp., 12 × 17 cm, German
Price: €10

An exploration and anthology of the work of Charles Ives, Gertrude Stein, John Cage, Merce Cunningham and Robert Wilson. In German and English.

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

#1983 #johncage #mercecunningham #merveverlag #richardkostelanetz