This new publication, the third in the ongoing series of aica press / Les presses du réel’s publications, Art Critics of The World, is the first English-language anthology of writings by the Slovak critic, Tomáš Štrauss.

Tomáš Štrauss (Budapest, 1931–Bratislava, 2013) was a key theoretician of the post-war neo-avant-gardes in “socialist” Central and Eastern Europe. “A critical reading of his texts unavoidably demands that we situate them in the context of that theory that began to establish itself in the second half of the 1990s, and whose chief younger proponents included Boris Groys, Igor Zabel, Piotr Piotrowski and Edit András”—Daniel Grúň

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition VALIE EXPORT, Gläserne Papiere/Glass Papers at the Generali Foundation , Vienna, November – December, 1990. Edited by Sabine Breitwieser, with a text by Silvia Eiblmayr.

The artist, filmmaker, writer, musician and gay rights activist Derek Jarman (1942–1994) powerfully marked twentieth-century British culture. This exhibition, with some seventy works, highlights his practice as a painter and assemblagist. It focuses on the last part of his life, starting at the time of his HIV-positive diagnosis. This period coincides with the creation of his legendary garden Prospect Cottage in Dungeness, Kent, whose cultivation was both a form of therapy and a metaphor for his own survival.

Produced on the occasion of the exhibition Evil Queen by Derek Jarman at Whitworth Art Gallery, Manchester, 1994.

Artist and filmmaker Derek Jarman’s last set of 17 paintings are a powerful testimony to the way he dealt with his HIV status, his sexuality, with homophobia in the press and their manipulation of the AIDS epidemic, and to his confrontation with his own mortality.

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

ABR Stuttgart emerged in 1983 from the archive of founders René Straub, Ulrich Bernhardt, Gerrit Hoogerbeets and Harrry Walter.

Décor de la Vie, was produced in 1986 by the Württembergischer Kunstverein for the first solo exhibition in a public institution of ABR Stuttgart. The book contains an overview of previous activities and also includes work that can be assigned to Gerrit Hoogerbeets or René Straub. In the exhibition, these pieces were presented, wrapped in bubble film, leaning against the wall as if they had been decommissioned.

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

Dutch translation of Rosa Luxemburg’s The Mass Strike, the Political Party and the Trade Unions originally printed in 1906. With cover artwork by Gerd Arntz.