The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Talk to Me

Design and the Communication between People and Objects

Since the introduction of the personal computer in the early 1980s, many objects have been designed to have capabilities well beyond their immediate use or appearance. Whether openly and actively or in subtle, subliminal ways, these objects talk to us, and we have come to expect interaction with them. Contemporary designers, besides giving objects form and function, write their initial scripts--the foundation for useful and satisfying conversations. Talk to Me focuses on projects that involve such direct interaction--including interfaces, websites, video games, devices and tools, and information systems--as well as installations that establish practical, emotional, or even sensual connections to cities, companies, governmental institutions, or other individuals. The featured objects range in date from the late 1980s to today, with particular . . . . Pbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 208 pgs / 407 color.

Edited by Paola Antonelli. Text by Paola Antonelli, Jamer Hunt, Alexandra Midal, Kevin Slavin, Khoi Vinh.

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Siglio

It Is Almost That

A Collection of Image & Text Work by Women Artists & Writers

A marvelously bold interdisciplinary anthology, It Is Almost That collects works by women artists and writers who have constructed hybrid environments that merge image and text. The works in this collection are supremely imaginative in both form and content: from the semi-autobiographical novel painted by a young artist who died in the Holocaust (Charlotte Salomon) to Alison Knowles' computer-generated chance operation for "imagining" houses and their inhabitants; from the pseudo-scientific examination of a conversation between a mother and a daughter (Eleanor Antin) to the dark, comic interrogation of violence against women (Sue Williams); from the transformations of newspaper headlines (Suzanne Treister) to the probing of animal consciousness (Cole Swensen & Shari De Graw); from the body maps drawn by South African . . . . Clth, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 296 pgs / illustrated throughout.

Edited by Lisa Pearson.

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Aperture

Diane Arbus: A Chronology

Diane Arbus: A Chronology is the closest thing possible to a contemporaneous diary by one of the most daring, influential and controversial artists of the twentieth century. Drawn primarily from Arbus' extensive correspondence with friends, family and colleagues, personal notebooks and other unpublished writings, this beautifully produced volume reveals the private thoughts and motivations of an artist whose astonishing vision derived from the courage to see things as they are and the grace to permit them simply to be. Further rounding out Arbus' life and work are exhaustively researched footnotes that amplify the entire chronology. A section at the end of the book provides biographies for 55 family members, friends and colleagues, from Marvin Israel and Lisette Model to Weegee and . . . . Pbk, 6.5 x 8 in. / 177 pgs.

Text by Elisabeth Sussman, Doon Arbus, Jeff L. Rosenheim.

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Metropolis Books

Beyond Shelter

Architecture and Human Dignity

Across Africa, Asia, Latin America and the United States, groundbreaking work is being done by small teams of outstanding professionals who are helping communities to recover from disaster and rebuild, bridging the gap that separates short-term emergency needs from long-term sustainable recovery. Questions about the role and responsibility of architects in disaster recovery have been circulating since the Indian Ocean tsunami killed more than 200,000 people in 2004. In the last decade, 200 million people have been affected by natural disasters and hazards. Ninety-eight percent of these victims are in the developing world, where billions of dollars in aid are absorbed annually by climatic and geologic crises. Those in the developed world are not immune, as extreme temperatures, intense heat waves, . . . . Pbk, 8 x 8 in. / 304 pgs / 300 color.

Edited by Marie J. Aquilino. Text by Sheikh Ahsan Ahmed, Zahid Amin, Marie J. Aquilino, Jennifer E. Duyne Barestein, Alfredo Brillembourg, Guillaume Chantry, Patrick Coulombel, Robin Cross, Teddy Cruz, James Dart, Rajedra and Rupal Desai, Sandra D'Urzo, Guy Fimmers, Andrea Fitrianto, Francesca Galeazzi, Deborah Gans, Mehran Gharaati, Victoria L. Harris, Rohit Jigyasu, Jenny Kivett, Hubert Klumpner, Arlene Lusterio, Andrea Nield, John Norton, Kimon Onuma, Sergio Palleroni, Raul Pantaleo, Dan Rockhill, Brittany Smith, Maggie Stephenson, Anita Van Breda, Thiruppugazh Venkatachalam, Naomi Handa Williams.

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Independent Curators International

Martha Wilson Sourcebook

40 Years of Reconsidering Performance, Feminism, Alternative Spaces

Martha Wilson's career encapsulates the contestations of feminist and socially engaged art. In her work and throughout her life, Wilson has explored how identity and positioning are not merely given, self-defined or projected, but also negotiated. The complex nature of her work encompasses conceptually-based performances, videos and photo-text compositions since the early 1970s. Martha Wilson Sourcebook is a collection of primary research materials consisting of rare archival documents and excerpts of landmark publications that influenced Wilson, such as Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex, Erving Goffman's The Presentation of Self in Everyday Life and Susan Sontag's On Photography. This unique selection of materials documents Wilson's actions and work, reveals her interest in fellow artists such as Vito Acconci, Carolee Scheemann, Nancy . . . . Pbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / 200 b&w.

Foreword by Kate Fowle. Introduction by Moira Roth. Text by Martha Wilson.

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Metropolis Books

Material Change

Design Thinking and the Social Entrepreneurship Movement

Material Change shows that there is something going on in design-something powerful. Design can change the world. This new way of thinking is revolutionizing the business of design and the design of business.
Material Change is the story of trained architect and entrepreneur Eve Blossom, who built her design business, Lulan Artisans, on a framework of ecological, economic, social, communal and cultural sustainability.
Lulan Artisans is a for-profit social venture that designs, produces and markets contemporary textiles made by Blossom's collaborators-over 650 weavers, dyers, spinners and finishers in Cambodia, India, Laos, Thailand and Vietnam. Lulan's mission is to effect systemic social change: to give workers an ample wage and benefits; to bring stability to communities by creating jobs; to preserve artisanal skills; and . . . . Flexi, 7 x 8.5 in. / 160 pgs / 130 color.

By Eve Blossom. Foreword by Yves Behar.

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The Press of the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design

As Long as It's Pink

The Sexual Politics of Taste

What is the legacy of the architectural and design movement of the mid-twentieth century? Did it deliver its promised vision of an egalitarian, democratic society supported by aesthetically simple, mass-produced goods whose forms fulfilled their utilitarian functions? In this provocative book, first published in 1995 to critical acclaim, design historian Penny Sparke embraces the awkward question of gender and aesthetic preference. Sparke argues that, through its emphasis on masculine rather than feminine culture—on, that is, production rather consumption, style rather than taste, and the public sphere rather than the private sphere—modernist design was a highly gendered and intrinsically flawed project destined to prove inadequate in the pluralistic, multicultural, postmodern world that we inhabit today. Ranging across histories of domesticity and consumerism, . . . . Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 224 pgs / 25 b&w.

By Penny Sparke.

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MFA Publications

The Pop Revolution

How an Unlikely Concatenation of Artists, Aficionados, Businessmen, Critics, Curators, Collectors, Dealers, and Hangers-On Radically Transformed the Art World

This book is a social history of Pop art, a group portrait of both the artists and the people who made some of them rich and famous in just a few years, while setting in motion the drastically altered way art has been marketed and appreciated—in the monetary and aesthetic sense—up to the present day.” So begins Alice Goldfarb Marquis' lively, informative and entertaining account of one of the twentieth century's most flamboyant and influential art movements. Included in this group portrait are the famous: Roy Lichtenstein and his Blam-Pow” comics panels, Andy Warhol, shy, shrewd and tough as nails, the power couple of Leo Castelli and Ileana Sonnabend; the infamous, such as the collector Robert Scull, who bought so heavily . . . . Clth, 6 x 9.25 in. / 222 pgs / 16 color / 18 b&w.

By Alice Goldfarb Marquis.

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Independent Curators International, New York/D.A.P.

High Times, Hard Times

New York Painting 1967-1975

In the late 1960s, the New York art world was, famously, an exhilarating place to be. New forms, including performance and video art, were making their debuts, and sculpture was developing in startling ways. In the midst of it all, experimental abstract painting was pressing art's most iconic medium to its limits and beyond. High Times, Hard Times fills a gap in coverage of this moment in history, recapturing its liveliness and urgency with more than 42 key pieces by 38 artists who were living and working in New York at the time. Many of those featured artists have contributed personal statements reflecting on the work, its meaning and the social scene that surrounded it, including Lynda Benglis, Mel Bochner, Roy . . . . Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 50 color and 30 b&w.

Edited by Katy Siegel. Essays by Dawoud Bey, Anna Chave, Robert Pincus-Witten, Katy Siegel and Marcia Tucker. Foreword by Judith Richards. Introduction by David Reed.

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Hatje Cantz

Women Gallerists

In the 20th and 21st Centuries

With the exception of Peggy Guggenheim, little has been written by or about the astonishingly influential women who have built their careers around art and artists. In a selection of 30 portraits, this book presents three generations of women who have pursued their ambitions in the gallery business, starting with the pioneers and the established and leading up to the new generation. They include: Juana de Aizpuru, Helga de Alvear, Ilona Anhava, Catherine Bastide, Ellen de Bruijne, Chantal Crousel, Sorcha Dallas, Barbara Gladstone, Antonina Gmurzynska, Marian Goodman, Bärbel Grässlin, Karin Guenther, Annely Juda, Atsuko Koyanagi, Ursula Krinzinger, Pearl Lam, Hyunsook Lee, Michele Maccarone, Giti Noubakhsch, Maureen Paley, Eva Presenhuber, Janelle Reiring, Denise René, Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Elena Selina, Suzy Shammah, Filomena Soares, . . . . Hbk, 6 x 9 in. / 208 pgs / 96 color / 12 b&w.

Text by Claudia Herstatt.

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Editorial RM

Frida Kahlo

This richly illustrated exploration of the sources of Frida Kahlo's inspiration in Mexico's popular arts and folk traditions draws illuminating connections between Kahlo's highly personal creations and the aesthetic traditions that infused her early years: votive paintings, nineteenth-century studio photography (including that of her father Guillermo Kahlo), Catholic iconography, revolutionary corridos and the variegated productions of anonymous craftsmen. Readers will recognize Kahlo's centered parts and moustaches in Jose Maria Estrada's portraits and in anonymous Mexican Catholic paintings. They will see her cutaway, heart-on-sleeve self-portraits, in Jose Maria Velasco's nature studies and butterfly taxonomies. And everywhere they will find the tracks of Kahlo's life, particularly the accident that marred her teen years and the marriage that she described as the second major . . . . Hardcover, 8.75 x 11.5 in. / 164 pgs / 99 color / 17 b&w.

Edited by Juan Rafael Coronel Rivera and Nadia Ugalde.

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Moderne Kunst Nürnberg

Gulsun Karamustafa: Etiquette

Turkish installation artist and film director Gülsün Karamustafa (born 1946) explores orientalism, the effects of global migration, the role of women and the influence of the Orthodox church in Turkish culture. This volume, published in the new Solo Forseries, presents an overview of her work to date. . . . . Flexi, 6.5 x 8.25 in. / 84 pgs / 50 color.

Text by Iris Lenz, November Paynter.

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Kant

Miroslav Tichy: Form of Truth

Hounded by the Czech Communist regime in the 1960s, the controversial photographer Miroslav Tich (born 1926) has today found acclaim for his photographs of women taken with homemade cameras. This handsomely produced Tich monograph is unique among Tichy publications for two reasons: firstly because the photographs, drawn from private collections, are all previously unpublished; and secondly because it is conceived and authored by the Italian former Situationist Gianfranco Sanguinetti, who has likewise come into conflict with state authorities, having been deported from France and Italy several times for his work with Guy Debord. The bulk of the photographs in this volume are derived from Sanguinetti's Tich collection, and are prefaced with a lengthy meditation on the photographer by Sanguinetti, who declares . . . . Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 248 pgs / 252 color / 6 b&w.

Text by Gianfraco Sanguinetti

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Museum of Contemporary Art Denver

Isca Greenfield-Sanders: Light Leaks

This monograph highlights New York-based artist Isca Greenfield-Sanders' Light Leaks, a recent series of paintings and watercolors that draws on formal inaccuracies unique to film photography. An essay by Nora Burnett Abrams shows how the artist uses painting techniques to undermine the facticity of the photograph while simultaneously toying with the aspirations of illusionistic painting. . . . . Hbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 60 pgs / 48 color.

Foreword by Adam J. Lerner. Text by Nora B. Abrams.

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The Museum of Modern Art, New York

Marina Abramovic: The Artist is Present

Since the beginning of her career, in Belgrade in the late 1960s, Marina Abramovic has been a pioneer of performance art, creating some of the most important works in the field. Marina Abramovic: The Artist Is Present accompanies an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art that documents approximately 50 of the artist's ephemeral time- and media-based works from throughout her career. The book also discusses a unique element of the Museum's retrospective, live performance: a new work created for the occasion, and performed by Abramovic herself; and re-creations of the artist's works by other performers—the first such to be undertaken in a museum setting. The book spans over four decades of Abramovic's early interventions and sound pieces, video works, installations, . . . . Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 224 pgs / 375 color / Audio CD.

Edited by Klaus Biesenbach. Text by Arthur C. Danto, Chrissie Iles, Nancy Spector, Jovana Stokic.

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Violette Editions

Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed

Psychoanalytic Writings

Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) invented a new kind of language for sculpture--a language that was essentially psychoanalytic, uniquely capable of expressing oedipal struggle, ominous forces of repression, sexual symbolism and material uncanniness. Famed for some of the twentieth century’s most enduring works, such as The Destruction of the Father” (1974), Arch of Hysteria” (1993) and Maman” (1999), Bourgeois also disseminated her influence through her writings, collected in the 1998 volume Destruction of the Father/Reconstruction of the Father: Writings 1927–1997--originally published by Robert Violette, also the publisher of this new deluxe writings-cum-monograph two-volume set. Louise Bourgeois: The Return of the Repressed highlights the enduring presence of psychoanalysis as a motivational force and a site of exploration in the artist’s life and work. Selected . . . . Slip, Hbk, 2 vols., 7.5 x 10 in. / 500 pgs / 113 color.

Edited by Philip Larratt-Smith. Text by Louise Bourgeois, Elisabeth Bronfen, Donald Kuspit, Juliet Mitchell, Mignon Nixon, Paul Verhaeghe with Julie de Ganck, Meg Harris Williams.

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Fuel Publishing

Home-Made Europe

Contemporary Folk Artifacts

For this enchanting sequel to the critically acclaimed Home-Made: Contemporary Russian Folk Artifacts (2006), Russian artist Vladimir Arkhipov has travelled across Europe to further his collection. The objects he has found are made by everyday people inspired to create something themselves, rather than buying manufactured goods. Many have been made in pursuit of a hobby, or because the maker had the time and inclination to construct something personal. In other cases, the objects are more vital to the maker’s livelihood. Arkhipov’s archive includes hundreds of objects created with idiosyncratic functional qualities: an Austrian ski-bob made using an old bicycle frame; a metal strip full of spikes used to deter pigeons from landing on window ledges; a beautifully painted rocking-motorbike for children; . . . . Hbk, 5 x 8.25 in. / 272 pgs / 230 color.

By Vladimir Arkhipov. Edited by Damon Murray, Stephen Sorrell. Foreword by Jeremy Deller.

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Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art

Lois Dodd: Catching the Light

Over the past 50 years, American painter Lois Dodd (born 1927) has been recording the quieter moments of everyday life on New York’s Lower East Side and in mid-coast Maine, infusing the modernist tradition of plein air painting with Shaker-like qualities of modesty, airiness and quiet elegance. Views from city windows, gentle scenes of washing lines in back gardens, the artist’s shadow on a summer lawn with her painting tools at the far edge of the image: these objects of the painter’s attention declare themselves while leaving room to breathe for both viewer and artist. Published on the occasion of the artist’s first museum retrospective at the Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art, Kansas City (which travels to Portland Museum of Art . . . . Clth, 9 x 11 in. / 136 pgs / 85 color.

Edited by Barbara O'Brien. Text by Alison Ferris, Barbara O’Brien, John Yau.

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Hatje Cantz

Frantisek Drtikol

Czech photographer Frantisek Drtikol (1883-1961) reinvented the genre of nude photography for the early twentieth century. Drtikol opened his Prague studio in 1907, and his nudes from this early period convey the dreamy eroticism of Art Nouveau and the foreboding accents of Prague Symbolism that he was to return to throughout his somewhat brief career (Drtikol abandoned photography for painting in 1935, and it was not until curator Anna Fárová's now legendary 1972 Prague exhibition that this work was rediscovered by a broader public). But Drtikol quickly absorbed into his photography the myriad new idioms of the interbellum years, and freighted his nudes with the dramatic lighting of silent film and the more austere geometric effects and dynamic poses of Futurism, . . . . Hbk, 9.5 x 12.25 in. / 101 pgs / 60 color.

Edited by Annette Kicken, Rudolf Kicken. Text by Anna Fárová, Vladimir Birgus.

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Hatje Cantz

Pierre Bonnard

Pierre Bonnard (1867–1947) concocted gentle deliriums of color in quiet domestic scenes: views of a table set for lunch, a garden view, a woman adjusting a bouquet or, most famously, the artist’s wife bathing, all infused with an infectious chromatic delight. It seemed to me that it was possible to translate light, forms and character using nothing but color,” he once wrote, without recourse to values.” Bonnard lavishes his domestic scenes with a palpable tenderness that later led to his style (and that of his colleague Eduoard Vuillard) being dubbed Intimiste.” In the 1880s Bonnard was a founding member of the Nabi group, along with his close friends Paul Sčrusier, Maurice Denis, Paul Ranson and Edouard Vuillard. Their Post-Impressionist aesthetic favored . . . . Hbk, 10.75 x 12.25 in. / 176 pgs / 117 color.

Text by Evelyn Benesch, Ulf Küster, et al.

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Poligrafa/Ivam /Fund Azcona

Julio González: Complete Works Volume I

1900-1912

This is the inaugural volume of a planned seven-volume catalogue raisonné on the Spanish sculptor Julio González (1876–1942). The son of a goldsmith in Barcelona, González studied painting and sculpture from an early age. Upon moving to Paris in 1900, he joined the company of fellow Spanish artists such as Juan Gris, Pablo Gargallo and Pablo Picasso. Today, González is primarily known for his work in welded iron. Abstracted figures such his Monsieur’ Cactus” (1939) show a connection to the Cubist sculptures of Picasso, with whom González worked closely from the 1920s onward. Credited with introducing Picasso to welded sculpture, González was also an important influence on the American Abstract Expressionist sculptor David Smith. This monumental project is published in collaboration . . . . Clth, 12 x 12 in. / 708 pgs / 720 color.

Edited by Tomás Llorens.

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Luhring Augustine

Elad Lassry

The photographs, films and sculptures of Los Angeles-based artist Elad Lassry (born 1977) take multiple points of departure: the ultra-saturated imagery of commercial advertising, the seductive rhetoric of retail and the clean production of the film still. Lassry purposefully blurs distinctions between genres, media and sources, confronting our habits of processing and consuming of images. His radical blend of high and low, staged and appropriated, unique and mass-produced, leaves the viewer in a bewitched state of doubt as to the proper function of his work. Questioning origin, authorship and intentionality, Lassry’s disquieting compositions nonetheless glow with sensual, mesmerizing appeal. This catalogue is published for Lassry’s first solo exhibition at Luhring Augustine in New York, and includes 43 color images of both . . . . Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 96 pgs / 43 color.

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Hatje Cantz

Jacqueline Hassink: The Table of Power 2

The financial crisis of 2009 shook the global economy to its very foundations. But has anything changed at the centers of power since then? Do executive suites look different than they used to? And what do they actually look like? In The Table of Power (1996), Jacqueline Hassink (born 1966) captured images of desks and conference-room tables at the largest multinational corporations in the world, and created one of the most important photo books of the twentieth century. With The Table of Power 2, Hassink takes a new look at the headquarters of the 50 banks, insurance companies and corporations that Fortune magazine lists as the most powerful players on the market today, such as Shell, BP and Volkswagen. With scientific . . . . Hbk, 10.5 x 12.5 in. / 224 pgs / 60 color / 20 b&w.

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Hatje Cantz

Andreas Gursky

Andreas Gursky (born 1955) is one of the most celebrated living photographers. His images of contemporary culture's excesses and sublimities rival the greatest history paintings for size and narrative richness; more than any of his contemporaries, Gursky has amply fulfilled what Samuel Beckett once declared the task of the artist to be: "to find a form to accommodate the mess." His epic photographs enumerate with relentless acuity the proliferation of goods and commodities in our era-perhaps mostly famously in his 99-cent series of photographs of the endless aisles of American 99-cent stores. In the 1990s, Gursky began to use digital technology to intensify this acuity, compelling every inch of the visual data in his photographs to an almost unbearable pitch of . . . . Hbk, 9.75 x 11 in. / 140 pgs / 57 color.

Text by Frederik Stjernfelt, Poul Erik Třjner.

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Hatje Cantz

Ingo Niermann: Choose Drill

100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series 034

For the Berlin writer Ingo Niermann, the embrace of discipline (“drill”) is the next step in the evolution of demoracy, for which he proposes a Drill Palace.” . . . . Pbk, 4.25 x 5.75 in. / 36 pgs / 4 color.

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Hatje Cantz

Matias Faldbakken: Search

100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series 035

For this publication, novelist and artist Matias Faldbakken (born 1973) went into the log of his various hard drives and extracted parts of his Google search histories. His search phrases, reproduced here chronologically, were mostly oriented around image searches, and therefore illustrate the verbal foundations of Faldbakken's art. This volume occupies a space in between the artist's visual and textual production, thus resembling a form of concrete poetry. . . . . Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 24 pgs / 2 color.

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Hatje Cantz

Dietmar Dath: Girl's Calligraphy Exercise

100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series 036

In his notebook, the author and journalist Dietmar Dath offers ten personal meditations, with protagonists including a weasel, Dath's daughter, his father and his friend Mareike. The notebook closes with this recognition: "Not finishing flourishes in art. It is a kind of succeeding. Failure does not come into it. That is because art is there to invent goals, but not to reach them. An exhibition opening is celebrated and talked about. But its end is passed over in silence." . . . . Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 24 pgs / 6 color.

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Hatje Cantz

David Link: Machine Heart

100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series 037

David Link generates interactive projects at the interface between art, science and technology. For one such project, titled "LoveLetters_1.0," Link reconstructed a functional replica of one of the earliest programmable computers, the Ferranti Mark I, and an equally early program, invented in 1952 by Christopher Strachey at the University of Manchester, in order to produce computer-generated love letters. Anonymously addressed to "Darling Love" or "Jewel Duck," the letters address the reader in a surprisingly human and tender way. . . . . Pbk, 7 x 9.75 in. / 24 pgs / 13 color.

Introduction by Geoff Cox.

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Hatje Cantz

Édouard Glissant

100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series 038

This notebook is Hans Ulrich Obrist's homage to the French author, poet and philosopher douard Glissant (1928-2011). Glissant, one of the most influential figures of the French-speaking Caribbean and a pioneer of postcolonial thinking, called attention to "means of global exchange which do not homogenize culture but produce a difference from which new things can emerge." Obrist encountered Glissant at the beginning of his career, through the recommendation of Alighiero Boetti. In his introduction, Obrist creates a multilayered portrait of the intellectual, laying out some of his key concepts: the creolization of the world, "archipelic thought," and the museum as archipelago, as well as utopia. These ideas are explored by Glissant in a selection of title pages of his books with . . . . Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 24 pgs / 13 color.

Introduction by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

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Hatje Cantz

Salvador Dalí

100 Notes, 100 Thoughts: Documenta Series 039

These previously unpublished notes by Salvador Dalí contain anecdotes about author Stefan Zweig, who helped introduce the artist to Sigmund Freud, and the artist's abiding concern with immortality, reflected in a Scientific American article annotated by Dalí. In his introduction, Ignacio Vidal-Folch discusses Dalí's search for immortality, and explores different views on the topic from scientists and authors such as Ray Kurzweil, Elias Canetti and Eugčne Ionesco. . . . . Pbk, 7 x 9.75 in. / 20 pgs / 13 color.

Introduction by Ignacio Vidal-Foch.

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