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Jochen Gerner – Dogs

Editions B42 2023 ISBN 9782494983038 Acqn 33738
Hb 16x21cm 220pp col ills £32.50

Dogs is a kennel of 200 drawings made by Jochen Gerner between 2021 and 2022, following his
study of birds. Each of these dogs was drawn with pigmented Indian ink felt pens on small-format
lined and squared school notebooks from China and India. This series of drawings follows the
graphic experiment of Jochen Gerner to explore all the potentialities of the grids, lines and
colours in the representation of textures and animals. Focusing on dogs, which Jochen Gerner
represents in a touching and very funny multiplicity, this collection reveals us that hardly nothing
is required on paper for these dogs to breathe, each of them in an outstanding singularity. Braces,
squares, lozenges, waves... The colorful patterns cut and cross each other with a disconcerting,
always innovative simplicity to make their hair shine and ripple. With this new bestiary holding as
much of the illustration as of graphic design, Jochen Gerner invites us to a whimsical look at the
world and proves us once again the singularity of his observation.

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The City Is Ours #4 - Torn Posters

Other Editions 2023 ISBN 9789526878492 Acqn 33842
Pb 15x22cm 80pp col ills £21.50

Ever notice how those eye-catching ads, posters, and flyers plastered all over our cities gradually
transform as they're torn down? What's left is often an abstract image, inviting us to find our own
meaning. In the late 1940s, artists like Mimmo Rotella, Raymond Hains, and Jacques Villegle
recognized the potential in these fragments, revealing the beauty of ripped posters through their
works. But can we truly appreciate these unintentional expressions in our everyday streetscape?
Can we uncover their hidden stories and artistic potentials? With contributions by Barton Lewis,
El Tono, Guido Bollino, James Dyer, Nick Deakin, Poster Boy, Klara Liden, Mimmo Rotella and
many more.

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Illustrators Annual 2023

Corraini Edizioni 2023 ISBN 9791254930311 Acqn 33748
Pb 23x28cm 192pp col ills £55

The Bologna Children's Book Fair's Illustrators Exhibition is one of the most important global
events in the field of illustration and in its more than 50 years of history, it has featured the work of
many of the leading figures in children's publishing. The Illustrators Annual 2023 brings together
illustrations by the artists chosen for the 57th Illustrators Exhibition: a comprehensive catalogue
offering a panorama of the illustrated universe through facets from every corner of the world, with
a selection of images that follow the common thread of creativity and the pursuit of great
emotional impact, chosen by the five members of this year's jury - Gusti (illustrator and author),
Christine Morault (co-founder of the publishing house editions MeMo), Sydney Smith (illustrator
and author), Eric Telfort (illustrator) and Erik Titusson (founder of the publishing house Lilla
Piratforlaget).

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The Infinite World of Japanese Dolls - From Religious Icons to Works of Art
Seigensha Art Publishing 2023 ISBN 9784861529146 Acqn 33761
Pb 18x26cm 192pp col ills £26.50

In Japan, sculptures in the shape of humans have been made since ancient times and have
existed in people's lives in various forms up to the present day. A diverse range of dolls is
presented here, from cursed dolls, dolls for dolls, living dolls, mannequins to contemporary art.
The exhibition introduces 100 dolls and captures aspects of Japanese 'dolls' that have lightly
leapt across the boundaries of various fields.

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Fashion Fictions
Information Office/ Vancouver 2023 ISBN 9781988860176 Acqn 33769
Pb 24x32cm 184pp col ills £36

'Fashion Fictions' accompanies a major exhibition organized by Stephanie Rebick, which surveys
experimental design practices that exist at the intersection of fashion and other modes of cultural
production. International in scope, the exhibition explores the increasing influence of research-
based, materially driven practices on the global fashion scene, while acknowledging the
proliferation of creative practices that challenge the aesthetic, material, and technological
conventions of fashion. Rebick, through the title of the exhibition, references artist and
technologist, Julian Bleecker's influential essay "Design Fiction" (2009) in which he argues that
the most innovative, transformative work is produced in the spaces between fact and fiction.

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The Sodeisha Group - An Era Born Out of Avant-garde Ceramics

Seigensha Art Publishing 2023 ISBN 9784861529221 Acqn 33772
Pb 18x26cm 424pp col ills £33.25

The ceramic arts group known as Sodeisha (Crawling Through Mud Association) played a central
role in Japan in the period following World War II. Formed in 1948 by five ceramic artists involved
in the Kyoto scene - Yagi Kazuo, Kanoh Tetsuo, Yamada Hikaru, Matsui Yoshisuke, and Suzuki
Osamu - at a time when the values of Japanese society had been shaken because of the
country's defeat, Sodeisha became a driving force over the next five decades, even as its
membership endured successive changes. This publication examines the group's history and
activities in the period up to 1973 in detail, offering an opportunity to re-evaluate its purpose and
meaning.

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Eye Ohashi - Sewing Box

He He 2023 ISBN 9784908062544 Acqn 33775
Hb 21x26cm 64pp col ills £75.50

Eye Ohashi's 'Sewing Box' was originally inspired by her mother's sewing box, who is a sewing-
lover. After taking photos of her mother's sewing box, she continued to photograph different
people's sewing boxes. From sturdy sewing boxes that must have been passed down from
generation to generation, to casual containers such as confectionery tins, simple plastic
toolboxes, rattan baskets, cloth bags, and Ziploc bags - sewing box may be a small, everyday
item, but the way the box is chosen, the type of tools used, and the way it is organized and stored
all reflect the personality and style of the owner. These sewing boxes that have been used over
the years give off a certain charm and remind us of the warmth that comes from human
connection, making this photo collection strangely calming.

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Russian Chocolate Wrappers

Seigensha Art Publishing 2023 ISBN 9784861528781 Acqn 33606
Pb 15x21cm 160pp col ills £22.50
Text in Japanese & Russian

On a trip to Russia, Akiko Kogano, the owner of a Russian interior-design shop in Nara, became
enraptured by the Soviet-era chocolate wrappers she came across in a small museum in
Moscow. Although the museum soon closed, she continued to look out for news related to it, and
eventually learned its collection had been transferred to a magazine publishing house; spurred by
her desire to see the collection once more, she sought out editor-in-chief Igor Smirennyi. This
book is the outcome of that encounter.

Russian chocolate wrappers aren't just charming to look at; they're expressions of the historical
and social conditions under which they were created. They have their roots in imperial Russia
around the turn of the twentieth century, when innovative packaging design flourished. The
sensibilities nurtured then were carried on in the Soviet era by designers who continued to
produce sophisticated wrappers even after the major confectioners had been nationalized.
Depicting everything from Cyrillic lettering to animals, folktales, animated films, famous paintings,
historical occurrences, and holidays to even current events, wrappers became inextricably
associated with their chocolates in people's minds-so much so that one catchphrase proclaimed,
"Get your morning news in the paper, your evening news in a chocolate."

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An Illustrated Encyclopedia of Japanese Oni Demons

Seigensha Art Publishing 2023 ISBN 9784861528668 Acqn 33607
Pb 18x24cm 176pp col ills £22.50
Text in Japanese

Learn all about the infamous 'oni' of Japan in this comprehensive illustrated guide, which provides
easy-to-follow accounts of thirty-four of the country's most notable 'oni' accompanied by more
than 160 historical visual resources. Japanese only.

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