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Anthony Caro - The Last Judgement Swiridoff Verlag 1999 ISBN 9783934350007 Acqn 7569 Pb 25x31cm 184pp 87ills 75col 14.95 The Last Judgement, shown to the public for the first time at the 1999 Venice Biennale is one of the most important sculptures Caro made, for in addition to its fine details, it expresses, with its challenging three-dimensionality, a depth of artistic creation that goes beyond the religious subject matter and will remain valid for all time. With contributions by Peter Baelz, Giovanni Carandente, Hans Magnus Enzensberger, Nadime Gordimer, Robert Hinde, Philip Rylands, Francisco Calvio Serraller and John Spurling.
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Anthony Caro - Quest For The New Sculpture Swiridoff Verlag 2004 ISBN 9783899290240 Acqn 11579 Hb 25x27cm 336pp 300ills 150col 14.95 Anthony Caro was internationally renown as the greatest modernist sculptor of our time. His radical approach heralded a revolution in sculpture. Through his work and teaching he freed sculpture from the monolith. This landmark publication brings together for the first time selections from his previously unpublished correspondence with critics, including Clement Greenberg and Michael Fried, and the artists who helped him with his quest for a new language for sculpture. The story of Caro's quest is told through these extracts from letters and interviews with his contemporaries, which contain a wealth of information. Caro's views on sculpture are detailed through this engaging chronological examination of his entire development that is complemented with previously unpublished documentary images of the exhibitions, places and personalities that influenced his sculpture. Critical reaction to his sculpture is also traced through selected press cuttings from his principal exhibitions and other major events of his career.
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Lorna Simpson - Works On Paper Aspen Art Museum 2013 ISBN 9780934324632 Acqn 22559 Pb 20x26cm 336pp 310ills 300col 47.95 One of the leading artists of her generation, Lorna Simpson (born 1960) came to prominence in the mid-1980s through her photographic and textual works that challenged conventional attitudes toward race, gender and cultural memory with a potent mixture of formal elegance and conceptual rigor. Published on the occasion of her 2013 exhibition at Aspen Art Museum, Lorna Simpson: Works on Paper highlights four recent bodies of work on paper that explore the complex relationship between the photographic archive and processes of self-fashioning, including a new group of works being developed during her time as the AAMs 2013 Jane and Marc Nathanson Distinguished Artist in Residence. As in Simpsons earlier works, these new drawings and collages take the African-American woman as a point of departure, continuing her longstanding examination of the ways that gender and culture shape the experience of life in our contemporary multiracial society. This beautifully illustrated catalogue features new scholarship by New Yorker staff writer Hilton Als, MoMA Chief Curator of Drawings, Connie Butler, LACMA Chief Curator of Contemporary Art, Franklin Sirmans, and the AAMs Nancy and Bob Magoon CEO and Director, Heidi Zuckerman Jacobson.
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Wim Wauman - Paraphernalia - On The Status Of Inspirational Objects ROMA Publications 2013 ISBN 9789491843082 Acqn 23092 Hb 17x24cm 88pp 50ills 26col 21.50 Wim Wauman, known for his still life photographs, invited fellow artists and cultural practitioners to contribute meaningful objects to his Paraphernalia project, resulting in a collection of 171 objects with which he created and photographed 21 compositions in his studio. These odd still lifes resonate with historical visual traditions and alchemy, asking observers to make individual interpretations and connections. In this publication, each object is connected to its respective donor and therefore his or her artistic strategy. It includes commentary from the artists about their contributions, a critical essay by Stefaan Vervoort about the project, and a personal manifesto by Wauman.
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Naze - Go Outside Foil Co. Ltd 2013 ISBN 9784902943856 Acqn 23128 Pb 124pp 120ills 45col 24.95 NAZE, who never ceases having a sense of wonder about the world around him and being in it, keeps creating works on objects left abandoned. Drawings of monster-like creatures that are depicted with subtle lines, creepy but cute creature-like objects, portraits in delicate lines, pictographs look like a curse, canes and weapons made of rubbish- his works are so bizarre and unique that they have a big impact on viewers.
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Boris Vian - I Spit On Your Graves Tam Tam Books 2012 ISBN 9780966234602 Acqn 20925 Pb 178pp 12.50 Written under Vians famous Vernon Sullivan pseudonym, I Spit on Your Graves tells the story of a white negro who avenges his murdered brother with a series of killings in a small town in the deep-south. A bestseller in France, the book was notoriously used as a model for a copycat killing.
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Ion Grigorescu - The Man With A Single Camera Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783956790157 Acqn 23164 Hb 21x27cm 362pp 547ills 189col 21 Edited by Alina erban With contributions by Maria Alina Asavei, Nuno Faria, Klara Kemp-Welch, Anders Kreuger, Ileana Pintilie, Alina erban. The Man with a Single Camera provides an extraordinary overview of Ion Grigorescus body of work since the late 1960s until today. Regarded as one of the key protagonists of Eastern European conceptualism, the Romanian artist advocates a radical convergence between the organic and spiritual, an uninhibited immersion of life into art. The concept of reality is at the heart of Grigorescus work. His ritualized actions and intimate performances, his films and photographs, and his paintings and writings allow, in a unique and antitraditional manner, existential concerns to proliferate. This book is a result of long-term research conducted in the artists archive. It brings together a complete selection of source materials and theoretical contributions, which grasp the complexity of the social and political surroundings in which Grigorescu has worked, and provides an extended insight into the particularity of his artistic strategies.
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Geta Bratescu - The Studio Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783956790164 Acqn 23165 Hb 21x27cm 352pp 321ills 146col 21 Edited by Alina erban Contributions by Anca Arghir, Geta Brtescu, Silvia Eiblmayr, Adrian Gu, Magda Radu, Alina erban, Magdalena Zikowska The book is dedicated to Romanian artist Geta Brtescu, one of the most remarkable personalities of the Eastern European postwar avant-garde. The main part of the publication comprises visual materials and texts written by the artist that span several decades of her activity, outlining the exceptional manner in which she has appropriated the lesson of modernism and interrelated it with conceptual challenges. Brtescu focuses on the artistic process, advancing a multidisciplinary approach by using various media: film, happening, tapestry, engraving, collage, objects, and text. The book comes as a result of long-term research conducted in the artists archive. It contains theoretical contributions that track the multilayered dialectics of Brtescus work: from the remarkable conceptualization of the act of drawing to the crucial role advocated by the studio, from the preoccupation with self-representation and seriality to the subtle diffusion of theatricality in her work.
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Andrea Pichl Sternberg Press 2013 ISBN 9783956790300 Acqn 23177 Hb 24x30cm 60pp 50col ills 19.95 Using materials from the modern built environmentplaster, timber, plywood, wallpaper, chipboard, aluminumAndrea Pichl creates impressive installations and constructions that bring to the fore architectural details and peculiarities that are often overlooked. Her work engages with and questions utopian ideals associated with Brutalist architecture or prefab housing developments in places such as Berlin, Taskent, Paris, Dublin, and London. Using photographs as a starting point, Pichl analyzes spaces, abstract forms, or banal objectsa chair, a corner, a flowerbox, a balconytraces left behind or embedded into the layers of concrete and timber found in public plazas, GDR Plattenbau housing complexes, and most recently Berlins Alexanderplatz. Drawing on specific architectural elements, Pichl reduces these in scale and reconstructs or reimagines them into something else. By doing so, the Berlin-based artist brings to light social visions associated with design and building, and discloses the tenuous nature of our own surroundings. Pichls work reflects on the gap between the imagined future and the reality that occurred, revealing a correspondence, a synthesis between people and place where all time merges in the contours of design and material. This publication consists of two essays by Sven Beckstette and Gabriele Knapstein, as well as Pichls photographs, sculptures, and drawings to date. The catalogue release coincides with the exhibition opening of delirious Dinge at the Krome Gallery, Berlin.
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Keiko Minami - Bonheur 20 Postcards Little More 2013 ISBN 9784898153710 Acqn 23124 Pb 11x15cm 20pp 20col ills 10.83 +VAT Keiko Minami (born 1911 Toyoma Prefecture, died in 2004) began crafting poems and drawings from an early age. These postcards are a selection of the copperplate engravings she made 1953 onwards.
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Asami Kiyokawa - 4 Stories. 20 Postcards Little More 2013 ISBN 9784898153703 Acqn 23127 Pb 11x15cm 20pp 20col ills 10.83 +VAT Asami Kiyokawa creates works by applying cloth, thread and embroidery to photographs. his booklet contains 20 postcards of her works.
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Robert Irwin - Double Blind. Secession Revolver Publishing by VVV 2013 ISBN 9783868953190 Acqn 23119 Pb 16x22cm 76pp 9col ills 16.50 Irwins exploration of perception and experience dates back to the beginning of his career as an Abstract-Expressionist painter in Los Angeles in the 1950s. Soon plagued with doubts about the adequacy of the panel painting as a depiction of reality, in the 1960s he pioneered the Californian Light and Space movement, which also included Larry Bell, John McCracken, James Turrell, and Doug Wheeler. Robert Irwins artistic work has always been accompanied by theoretical philosophical considerations and questions on the function of aesthetics, perception and surroundings, which the artist carried out in numerous texts and lectures. This book publishes a key text on his idea of conditional art, Being and Circumstance - for the first time in German translation.
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Yael Bartana - If You Will It, It Is Not A Dream Revolver Publishing by VVV 2013 ISBN 9783868952247 Acqn 23120 Hb 17x22cm 152pp 120ills 100col 17.95 "Are we bound forever to remain suspended in the limbo of the endless issues of our identity?" Here, Yael Bartana addresses the spirits of two pioneers, Sigmund Freud and Theodor Herzl who, in different approaches sought to bring redemption to the individual and to the collective and whom she declares the spiritual gods of the Jewish Renaissance Movement in Poland (JRMiP), which she founded in 2007. The founder of modern psychoanalysis and the visionary of a state for Jews lived just a couple of houses away from each other on Berggasse in Vienna, yet their paths never crossed. Yael Bartana thus brings them together in her installation Wenn Ihr wollt, ist es kein Traum a temple of Utopia to create a moment of collective consciousness and awake the ghost of history to hopefully get some answers. From the beginning of her work as an artist, Bartana has critically questioned the history and selfimage of her homeland Israel, sometimes drawing heated reactions with her use of deliberately contradictory material and her charged visual idiom that borrows from political propaganda of all stripes, thus demanding from the spectators to question this language and its continuing allure in a new context. With Wenn Ihr wollt, ist es kein Traum she is turning to Europe, specifically to Austria, asking if a return to the crime scene will bring us the hoped-for redemption?
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Rosella Biscotti - The Side Room. Secession Revolver Publishing by VVV 2013 ISBN 9783868953060 Acqn 23121 Pb 17x22cm 142pp 32ills 20col 17.95 Events in recent history and politics usually form the starting point for Rossella Biscottis projects. She is also interested in issues and insights in the social and natural sciences, particularly in studies and experiments involving memory and dreams. Whether doing research or conducting conversations and interviews with people involved in events or contemporary eyewitnesses, her method of working is always based on dialogue and guided by her quest for formally compelling solutions for her exhibitions. Her preferred media are poor materials such as concrete, iron, lead, chipboard, or more recently compost, which Biscotti relates to her subject matters and uses to draw together the various strands of narratives. Rossella Biscottis latest work, I dreamt that you changed into a cat gatto ha ha ha, was originally created for this years Venice Biennale. For this project, Biscotti held a dream workshop (Laboratorio Onirico) lasting several months with a group of fourteen inmates of the Venetian womens prison on Giudecca Island.
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Thomas Locher - Homo Oeconomicus. Secession Revolver Publishing by VVV 2013 ISBN 9783868953053 Acqn 23122 Pb 23x31cm 80pp 53ills 20col 16.50 A pioneer of neo-conceptual art since the late 1980s, the German artist Thomas Locher examines the rules of language and the complex ways in which it functions. His exhibition Homo Oeconomicus, specially conceived for the Secession, continues his examination of the relationship between language and economics as well as the subject acting within this system, themes he has focused on for some years now. In a series of images, objects, and animations, most of them new, Locher treats aspects of exchange, structures of credit, belief, and credibility, and the impact of these notions on the constitution of the subject. Lochers constructions of image and text seek to relativize generally accepted principles and norms in order to embark on a critical exploration of the political implications inherent in the structure of language and show their impact on communities and human behaviour.
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Brian Clarke - Between Extremeties The Pace Gallery 2013 ISBN 9781935410393 Acqn 23132 Pb 20x29cm 96pp 91col ills 24.95 The worlds leading stained-glass artist, Clarke is renowned for his use of line and colour, which is evident in his large-scale architectural glass projects, including collaborations with Zaha Hadid, Norman Foster, Renzo Piano, Arata Isozaki, and other leading architects. The inventiveness of Clarkes techniques is visible at a more intimate scale in a gallery setting, where the exhibition includes work made by layering glass to create optical effects, using a high proportion of lead in compositions, incorporating photographic elements, and collaging patterns and figurative elements within a single work. In glass, Clarkes line is made of lead, which both divides and intensifies colour. In his sculptures, meanwhile, the line becomes the primary element, abstracted into three dimensions and executed in bronze.
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Lucas Samaras XYZ The Pace Gallery 2012 9781935410348 Acqn 23133 Pb 28x16cm 80pp 40ills 30col 21 In XYZ, Samaras continues his deeply focused explorations in manipulating materials and images, alluding to his early work with the Polaroid camera and extending the technique he first embraced in the 1970s of slicing colors into abstract, mosaic-like paintings. Rather than stitching tangible materials, in XYZ, Samaras uses the computer to make dazzling pure pigment prints where he fuses his photographs with selected digital effects to create hyper-chromatic compositions.
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Adrian Ghenie - New Paintings The Pace Gallery 2013 ISBN 9781935410409 Acqn 23134 Pb 23x27cm 42pp 18ills 17col 24.95 Ghenies paintings investigate the darker currents of modern European history, combining sources from historical books, archives, film stills, and the artists imagination to create simultaneously figurative and abstract images that address issues of personal and collective memory. Exposing the horror and complexity of some of the most historically charged moments of the twentieth century, Ghenies painterly and expressionistic canvases force the viewer to confront and bear witness to the past. Ghenies newest works have become increasingly complex, veering closer towards abstraction and emphasizing the textures of scraped, layered, and spilled paint. As in the past, he often inserts self-portraits into the worksas in Persian Miniature (2013) and Self-Portrait as Vincent Van Gogh (2012). Infused with ambiguity, the works operate in the areas between figuration and abstraction, history and imagination, past and present, and identifiable and absurd.
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Zhang Xiaogang The Pace Gallery 2013 ISBN 9781935410430 Acqn 23135 Pb 29x25cm 40pp 31ills 30col 28.95 The exhibition catalogue features Zhang Xiaogangs first series of painted bronzes, which render in three dimensions the prototypical characters who inhabit his paintings. Though the sculptures are an extension of Zhangs portraits, the figures can be classified into psychological types: youthful and idealistic. Sculpted with great clarity in a political-realist style that echoes the statesanctioned sculptures of the Cultural Revolution, the bronzes range in size from six inches to over five feet tall. The coolness of the sculptures is further transformed by the painted surfaces. On each sculpture, colour has been painted with active brushwork, along with occasional patches reminiscent of the stains on old photographs that were first seen in the paintings of Zhangs Bloodline series of the 1990s. Painted in a completely unrealistic manner, the colour is influenced by Tang glazes and the polychrome sculptures of ancient Egypt, including the sculpted head of Nefertiti. The pupils are painted dark, making the formal figures seem alive, their eyes blazing with an unexpected realism.
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Richard Tuttle - Systems, I-XII The Pace Gallery 2012 ISBN 9781935410324 Acqn 23136 Pb 23x30cm 50pp 38col ills 28.95 Since the 1960s, Tuttle has created an extraordinarily varied body of work that eludes historical or stylistic categorization, working instead in the space between painting, sculpture, poetry, assemblage, and drawing. Without a specific reference point, Tuttles investigations of line, volume, colour, texture, shape, and form are imbued with a sense of spirituality and informed by a deep intellectual curiosity. Teasing beauty out of humble materials, the artist reflects the fragility of the world in his poetic works, which he often presents at a scale antithetical to the art world. Language and spatial relationship are also central concerns for the artist, who maintains an acute awareness for the viewers aesthetic experience. Systems, VIIIXII continues Tuttles search for a new type of sculpture that expands space physically while retaining the intimacy of his smaller works. This catalogue includes the poems written by the artist for each of his twelve systems created to date.
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Thomas Nozkowski The Pace Gallery 2013 ISBN 9781935410386 Acqn 23137 Pb 24x29cm 62pp 30col ills 24.95 For over four decades, Nozkowski has produced richly coloured, intimately scaled abstract paintings, yet his extensive vocabulary of organic and geometric forms means that rarely are any two of his pictures alike. Instead, within the self-imposed restrictions of his working method, Nozkowski creates a seemingly limitless array of works that are simultaneously abstract and pictorial, derived from daily visual experience yet indecipherable. Though the works vary greatly, they share a continual exploration of the relationship between figure and ground, complex and often pattern-like shapes and grids, and colours that run the gamut of spectrum and intensity.
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Robert Ryman - Recent Paintings The Pace Gallery 2013 ISBN 9781935410461 Acqn 23140 Hb 27x28cm 54pp 20ills 19col 32.95 For over six decades Robert Ryman has continuously and methodically experimented with the different possibilities that can happen within a painting through material, brushstroke, support and scale, always with rigorous attention to their installation. Recent Paintings includes six oil on stretched cotton canvas works from 2010 and 2011, and also features a ten panel painting, No Title Required 3 (2010).
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Kienholz - The Ozymandis Parade. Concept Tableaux The Pace Gallery 2012 ISBN 9781935410362 Acqn 23141 Pb 27x43cm 20pp 17col ills 16.95 Incendiary large-scale installation The Ozymandias Parade (1985) is an opulent allegory of the abuse of political power, with a parade of figures and symbols representing elements of society. The decadent, nationalistic ship of fools is capped with nearly 700 blinking lights, which change with each presentation to reflect the colours of the nation where the work is being displayed. Addressing the corrosive effects of fear and propaganda, the tableau depicts a chaotic world turned upside-down: an armed general rides on the back of a fragile female figure who is lured by the carrot of a crucifix; the vice presidents horse has toppled off of his roller skates; the menacing, headless vice president faces backwards, blowing a trumpet and waving the flag; the sinister president clings to the belly of his horse, a red phone clutched in his hand and a yellow rubber ducky on his head. Whether the parades president shows a YES or a NO across his face is the result of a poll conducted in the weeks leading up to the installations opening, comprised of just one simple question: Are you satisfied with your government? Characterized by Kienholzs direct and sometimes shocking visual language, many of the concept tableaux serve as harsh indictments of contemporary America, from the racial inequalities of 1960s society to the countrys pervasive waste.
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Maya Lin - Here And There The Pace Gallery 2013 ISBN 9781935410423 Acqn 23142 Hb 26x27cm 88pp 53ills 45col 32.95 Lin explores aspects of the natural world through sculpture and drawing, focusing on mapping as a way to translate the enormity of a place to a scale that we can see and understand. Employing technological methods to study and visualize topographies and geographic phenomena, Lin creates sculptures that interpret the natural world through a twenty-first century lens. By abstracting natural forms into a single material marble, wood, silver, or steel she reveals things that are often hidden below the surface or beyond sight, merging rational order with notions of beauty and the transcendental.
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Zhang Huan - Poppy Fields The Pace Gallery 2013 ISBN 9781935410478 Acqn 23143 Hb 30x23cm 60pp 41ills 40col 32.95 Poppy Fields features a series of vividly coloured, oil on linen paintings that are uniquely intimate in scale and nature compared to the artists iconic large-scale Ash paintings and monumental sculptures. Zhang Huan employs a thick impasto technique and all-over style that engulfs the surface of each Poppy Field painting. Observed at a distance, each work presents a mesmerizing field of candy-coloured pink, teal, lilac and sand, which appears to pulsate with energy. Only upon closer inspection does each burst of colour transform from the abstract into figurative. Tiny faces with round eyes and wild Cheshire grins become evident in close view, a reference to ancient Tibetan dance masks. In her essay, The Art of Impermanence: Zhang Huan and Tibetan Skulls, Kathryn Selig Brown points to Tibetan skulls as a spiritual antidote of passion and vice, used as ritual vessels and worn in crowns and garlands by tantric deities to defeat the power of the ego. Poppy Fields, the title of this new series, evokes the hallucinatory power of the poppy seed and its damaging effects.
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Beksinski - Premium Edition Editions Treville 2013 ISBN 9784309909950 Acqn 23209 Hb 22x31cm 116pp 75ills 64col 47 More death, decay and damage from Polish gothic fantasy painter, photographer and sculptor Beksinski.
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Suehiro Maruo - Maruograph DX Limited Edition (DX I & DX II) Editions Treville 2013 no ISBN Acqn 23210 Pb 19x26cm 492pp 349ills 149col 110 Signed Limited Edition of Suehiro Maruos two iconic monographs DX I & DXII now together in one complete volume.
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Matsui Fuyuko Becoming Friends With All The Children In The World. PREMIUM EDITION Editions Treville 2013 ISBN 9784309909967 Acqn 23211 Hb 24x24cm 218pp 185ills 75col 62.50 Matsui Fuyuko (born in 1974) is one of the most noteworthy young artists working today. Her unique aesthetics based on the feeling of pain commands considerable attention around the globe. Matsui became captivated by the expressive possibilities she discovered in traditional Japanese painting and received extensive training in Nihonga on the undergraduate and graduate level at the Tokyo University of the Arts. Her graduation work, Becoming Friends with All the Children in the World, was a turning point that led to her subsequent paintings dealing with themes more closely connected to the ground of human existence - life, death, and madness.
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Trevor Brown - Girls War Editions Treville 2013 ISBN 9784309909905 Acqn 23212 Hb 19x24cm 80pp 35col ills 37.50 Editions Treville presents a new collection of Trevor Browns paintings on the theme of Girls War.
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Frozen Chicken Train Wreck Ditto Press 2013 ISBN 9780957161221 Acqn 23220 Hb 20x28cm 208pp 201ills 200col 39.99 Chopped Liver Press and Ditto Press present Laurence Hamburger's dark and humorous collection of tabloid posters from the New South Africa. Composed in a local vernacular of shebeen English, these statements are part of the urban fabric; so familiar as to almost disappear. Loud and colourful, tough and sharp, replete with droll wit and blunt gallows humour, their blatant iconoclasm and muscular use of language are invigorating and oddly reassuring.
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