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Afterall Autumn/Winter 2016, Issue 42

Vilalta Helena, Kreuger Anders, Morris David, Stankievech Charles

ISBN: PB: 9781846381706, University of Chicago Press, February 2017
144 pp., 29.8x19 cm, 80 colour plates

Issue 42 of "Afterall" addresses the crisis of representation in contemporary art through the work of Pierre Huyghe and Tania Bruguera, reflecting on how they each intervene into biological and political systems. We also put a spotlight on the contri...

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Literary Criticism

Philosophy

Aftermath of War

Sartre Jean-Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780857424471, ISBN: HB: 9781905422883, Seagull Books, February 2017
368 pp., 20.4x13.2 cm

"The Aftermath of War" brings together essays written in Sartre's most creative period, just after World War II. Sartre's extraordinary range of engagement is manifest, with writings on post-war America, the social impact of war in Europe, contempora...

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Philosophy

The French List

Portraits

Sartre Jean-Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780857424488, ISBN: HB: 9781906497170, Seagull Books, February 2017
686 pp., 20.6x13.5 cm

Philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre counted among his friends and associates some of the most esteemed intellectuals, writers, and artists of the twentieth century. In "Portraits" ("Situations IV"), Sartre collected his impressions and accounts of many of h...

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Literary Criticism

Philosophy

Critical Essays

Sartre Jean-Paul

ISBN: PB: 9780857424495, Seagull Books, February 2017
554 pp., 25x15 cm

"Critical Essays" ("Situations I") contains essays on literature and philosophy from a highly formative period of French philosopher and leading existentialist Jean-Paul Sartre's life, the years between 1938 and 1946. This period is particularly inte...

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History of Art

The Africa List

That Which Is Not Drawn William Kentridge and Rosalind C. Morris in Conversation

Kentridge William, Morris Rosalind C.

ISBN: PB: 9780857424457, ISBN: HB: 9780857421753, Seagull Books, February 2017
304 pp., 19.5x14 cm

For more than three decades, artist William Kentridge has explored in his work the nature of subjectivity, the possibilities of revolution, the Enlightenment's legacy in Africa, and the nature of time itself. At the same time, his creative work has s...

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Fiction

Photography

December

Kluge Alexander, Richter Gerhard

ISBN: PB: 9780857424440, Seagull Books, February 2017
130 pp., 19.8x13.9 cm, 39 colour illus.

In the historic tradition of calendar stories and calendar illustrations, author and film director Alexander Kluge and celebrated visual artist Gerhard Richter have composed "December", a collection of thirty-nine stories and thirty-nine snow-swept p...

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Fiction

The Arab List

Maryam Keeper of Stories

Sobh Alawiya

ISBN: HB: 9780857423252, Seagull Books, February 2017
400 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

This acclaimed novel is set during the Lebanese Civil War and offers a rare depiction of women's experiences amid this sprawling, region-defining conflict. In Alawiya Sobh's hands, the details of everyday life mix with female voices from across class...

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Architecture

Why X Matters

Why Preservation Matters

Page Max

ISBN: HB: 9780300218589, Yale University Press, January 2017
224 pp., 19.7x13.3 cm, 31 black&white illus.

Commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the National Historic Preservation Act, a critique of the preservation movement – and a bold vision for its future Every day, millions of people enter old buildings, pass monuments, and gaze at landscapes una...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 2 (1915-1927)

Camfield William A., Pierre Arnauld, Clements Candace, Calte Beverley, Verdier Aurelie, Calte Pierre

ISBN: HB: 9780300222463, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, January 2017
550 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 600 colour illus., 25 black&white illus.

The second of an important multi-volume catalogue project, this publication features work by Francis Picabia (1879-1953) that dates from 1915 into mid-1927. Beginning with Picabia's elaboration of a personal machinist aesthetic, the book continues by...

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Judaism

Anchor Yale Bible Reference Library

House of the Mother The Social Roles of Maternal Kin in Biblical Hebrew Narrative and Poetry

Chapman Cynthia R.

ISBN: HB: 9780300197945, Yale University Press, January 2017
360 pp., 23.4x15.6 cm, 12 black&white illus.

A novel approach to Israelite kinship, arguing that maternal kinship bonds played key social, economic, and political roles for a son who aspired to inherit his father's household Upending traditional scholarship on patrilineal genealogy, Cynthia Cha...

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