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Afterall Summer 2015, Issue 39

Cahill Zachary, Gronlund Melissa, Kreuger Anders, Lafuente Pablo, Vilalta Helena

ISBN: PB: 9781846381577, University of Chicago Press, August 2015
144 pp., 29.8x19 cm, 80 colour plates

"Afterall", a journal of contemporary art, provides a forum for analysis of art's context and seeks to inspire artists to see art as an agency for change. Each issue contains in-depth considerations of the work of contemporary artists, along with ess...

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Culture Studies

Enactments

Festive Devils of the Americas

Cozart Riggio Milla, Marino Angela, Vignolo Paolo

ISBN: PB: 9780857421791, Seagull Books, August 2015
384 pp., 22.8x15.2 cm, 36 halftones

The devil is a defiant, nefarious figure, the emblem of evil, and harbinger of the damned. However, the festive devil – the devil that dances – turns the most hideous acts into playful transgressions. "Festive Devils of the Americas" is the first vol...

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Literary Criticism

The French List

Kafka, Angry Poet

Casanova Pascale

ISBN: HB: 9780857421623, Seagull Books, December 2014
304 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Franz Kafka was one of the most influential writers of the twentieth century. His writing contributed greatly to existentialism, and the term "Kafkaesque" is now synonymous with the literature of the surreal, the complex and the illogical. His works...

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Fiction

The French List

Tombe

Cixous Helene

ISBN: HB: 9780857420251, Seagull Books, December 2014
284 pp., 25x15 cm

"In 1968-1969 I wanted to die, that is to say, stop living, being killed, but it was blocked on all sides", wrote Helene Cixous, esteemed French feminist, playwright, philosopher, literary critic and novelist. Instead of suicide, she began to dream o...

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History of Art

Catalogue Raisonne

Francis Picabia Catalogue Raisonne, Volume 1 (1898-1914)

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

ISBN: HB: 9780300208283, Yale University Press, Mercatorfonds, November 2014
504 pp., 30.5x24.1 cm, 425 colour images, 50 black&white illus.

This publication is the first of four volumes in the catalogue raisonne of Francis Picabia, one of the most significant, challenging artists of the 20th century. The works in Volume I range from Picabia's early pieces as an Impressionist in 1898 to h...

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Children's Books

Fiction

Pinocchio

Collodi Carlo

ISBN: HB: 9781454912200, GMC Group, Sterling, October 2014
184 pp., 20.3x15.6 cm, black&white illus.

This is the latest title in Sterling's Unabridged Classics series. It is an adventure-filled, menacing fairy tale with a moral. It is suitable for children aged 10 and over. Pinocchio, in Carlo Collodi's original version, is an adventure-filled, mena...

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Poetry

The French List

Hypnos

Char Rene

ISBN: HB: 9780857422170, Seagull Books, September 2014
72 pp., 20.3x12.7 cm

Rene Char (1907-1988) is considered the most important French poet of his generation. A member of the surrealists in the early 1930s, he became increasingly preoccupied by the rise of Nazi Germany and later played a key role in the French Resistance....

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Psychology

Anthropology

Call of the Trance

Clement Catherine

ISBN: HB: 9780857421906, Seagull Books, September 2014
184 pp., 21.6x12.7 cm

"The Call of the Trance" is a magnificent book that takes us to the unchartered frontiers of the forbidden. From initiation ceremonies to crises of hysteria, from suicide attempts to the ecstasies of witches, Catherine Clement explores in simple but...

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Political Science

Women Studies

End of Equality

Campbell Beatrix

ISBN: PB: 9780857421135, Seagull Books, December 2013
96 pp., 25x15 cm

Among liberal thinkers, there is an optimistic belief that men and women are on a cultural journey toward equality – in the workplace, on the street, and in the home. But observation and evidence both tell us that in many ways this progress has stopp...

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Performing Arts

Enactments

Beijing Xingwei Contemporary Chinese Time-based Art

Cheng Meiling

ISBN: PB: 9780857420879, Seagull Books, December 2013
420 pp., 25x15 cm, 50 halftones, 100 colour illus.

From cannibalism to light-calligraphy, from self-harming to animal sacrifice, from meat entwined with sex toys to a commodity-embedded ice wall, the idiosyncratic output of Chinese time-based art over the past twenty-five years has invigorated contem...

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