This anthology gathers some of the most interesting successes, and a few instructive failures, published in the first forty issues of Cabinet. Taking the form of an illustrated encyclopedia, the collection includes idiosyncratic entries such as Addiction, Animal Architecture, Goalkeeping, Micronation, Otolith, Sandal, Worlding, and Zoosemiotics. This hardcover book is over 500 pages long and a must for the intellectually curious!
A photographic examination of matter as the basis of life
This book chronicles the most extensive photographic project to date from Spanish photographer Aleix Plademunt (born 1980). Started in 2013, Matter addresses the age-old question of our existence by delving into the foundation of all life: matter.
https://aleixplademunt.com/Matter
“Best book design from all over the world”. Stiftung Buchkunst
“The most beautiful Swiss book of the year”. Swiss culture awards
“Mejor libro de fotografía del año 2022”. PhotoEspaña
Silver plate. Deutscher Fotobuchpreis
Paperback, 8.75 x 12.25 in. / 640 pgs / 40 color / 560 bw.
May 2023 ISBN 9783959055758
The 52nd edition of steirischer herbst, a major interdisciplinary festival of contemporary art in Graz and Styria, Austria, delved deep into the disruptive contradictions and uncanny charms of Hapsburgian Europe and their relevance for the rest of the world. In a three-week-long expanded exhibition of installations, performance works, and discursive events, the festival’s 2019 edition focused on the tension between pleasure and catastrophe in the culinary and aesthetic pleasure zones of our day. Its title was Grand Hotel Abyss—a striking turn of phrase used by philosopher Georg Lukács to describe the European intellectual and cultural scene as it faced the approach of fascism.
A Pleasant Apocalypse: Notes from the Grand Hotel Abyss is the title of the accompanying reader, published by Hatje Cantz this spring. Richly illustrated with full-color images of artworks created for the festival, it gathers specially commissioned texts by philosophers, historians, writers, and artists, offering theoretical reflections and artistic insights into the structure of hedonism in ever-more apocalyptic times.
The book’s contributions tap into the unsettling histories and fascist substrates of seemingly idyllic settings and into the dialectical images of suffering and destruction consumed daily. They reveal how the neoliberal economy extracts surplus pleasure and trumpets the imperative to be happy, all the while generating images rehearsing the end of the world, images to be mistrusted, but never to be taken lightly. These are analyses, confessionals, polemics, and travelogues—contributions to an as-of-yet unwritten critical history of catastrophic pleasures and normalized transgressions.
A Pleasant Apocalypse: Notes from the Grand Hotel Abyss is introduced through a foreword by Ekaterina Degot and David Riff, and features contributions by Ariel Efraim Ashbel, Keti Chukhrov, Goran Ferčec, Riccardo Giacconi, Eva Illouz, Siegfried Kracauer, Stephan Lessenich, Daniel Mann, Marko Radmilovič, Aaron Schuster, Vladimir Sorokin, Hasso Spode, Michiel Vandevelde, Gernot Wieland, and Evan Calder Williams.
Walking portraits of Everything Passes stretching from the 1950s to the end of the 1970s; a few blocks of a famous street the Calle de Junin in Medellin, Colombia.
From the 1950s through the end of the 1970s, street photographers known as fotocineros would photograph passersby on the Calle Junín and offer their images for sale documenting everyday life of bygone eras (along with the clothing, cars, buildings, advertisements, shops and display windows of the time).
Powerful sense of ephemerality and mortality that inheres in the casualness of both the images and the act of walking. Some 400 anonymous photographs were collected to make this volume, over a four-year period. Charmingly designed with a stamped cloth cover featuring a pedestrian in silhouette, the publication includes a meditation on the history of the Calle Junín that accompanies the photographs throughout.
Clth, 5.25 x 4.75 in. / 104 pgs / 120 color.
September 2013, Out of Print, Last Copy!
ISBN 9788415118558
This collection contains 17 stories published by Rulfo beginning in 1945, when “Nos han dado la tierra” appeared in the literary reviews América and Pan. Thanks to a first grant from the Centro Mexicano de Escritores, Rulfo was able to finish eight more stories, which appeared with those already published under the general title of El Llano en llamas (The Burning Plain)
Book in Spanish, Out of Print, Last Copy
Paperback, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 174 pgs.
November 2005 ISBN 9788493442613
A collection of essays examining key works and individuals associated with the cinema of the sexual revolution.
Free to Love looks at a selection of films from the 1960s and 70s, both commercial and experimental, to investigate how issues surrounding sexual liberation and the undoing of censorship laws manifested themselves in moving-image art from around the world. While the sexual revolution cannot simply be viewed as one unified movement, its conflicts and contradictions inspired some of the most important films from this period, asserting sexual power in an era when "power to the people" was the motto. The essays examine key works and individuals associated with the cinema of the sexual revolution (Radley Metzger, Pat Rocco, Phyllis and Eberhard Kronhausen).
Book includes a DVD of three short films:Desire Pie (Lisa Crafts, 1976),A Quickie(Dirk Kortz, 1970) andNorien Ten(John Knoop, 1972). Also included is a discussion with A.K. Burns, Barbara Hammer, M.M. Serra and A.L. Steiner.
Paperback, 5.25 x 7.75 in. / 128 pgs / 47 duotone
ISBN 9780615934525 December 2014
Berlin-based architect and rapper Van Bo Le-Mentzel is the founder of the popular Hartz IV Moebel initiative and website “Build more! Buy less!”
Hartz IV Moebel shows you how to build your own furniture with minimal resources and cost (Hartz IV is the name of Germany’s social welfare benefit). Amateurs worldwide have followed these instructions and built a cube sofa, a “Berliner Hocker,” a “24-Euro Chair” or a “100-Second Lamp.” This inspirational volume offers both a practical guide and manifesto for affordable furniture.
Bilingual book: English, German
Only one available.
ISBN: 9783775733953
144 pp, February 2013
