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| | DATE: 5/29/2013 | BY CORY REYNOLDS  Siglio and 192 Books invite you to a book signing and reception on Friday, May 31 at 7 p.m. to celebrate the publication of Karen Green’s Bough Down, which Maggie Nelson, of the Los Angeles Review of Books, calls "an astonishment." She writes, "It is one of the most moving, strange, original, harrowing, and beautiful documents of grief and reckoning I’ve read. The book consists of a series of prose poems, or individuated chunks of poetic prose, interspersed with postage-stamp-sized collages made by Green, who is also a visual artist. Collectively the text bears witness to the 2008 suicide of her husband, the writer David Foster Wallace, and its harrowing aftermath for Green. The book feels like an instant classic, but without any of the aggrandizement that can attend such a thing. Instead it is suffused throughout with the dissonant, private richness of the minor, while also managing to be a major achievement." For the event, space is limited, so please RSVP at 212-255-4022 or info@192books.com. Featured image is reproduced from Bough Down.
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DATE: 5/24/2013 | BY CORY REYNOLDS  DATE: 5/24/2013 | BY CORY REYNOLDS Featured image is the exterior of Sloan House in Fire Island Pines, designed by architect Horace Gifford in 1972. Reproduced from this summer's must-have architecture monograph, Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction, published by Metropolis Books & Gordon de Vries Studio, "the Sloan residence was the consummate example of Gifford’s mature period," according to author Christopher Rawlins. "Norton and Marlo Sloan—one of many heterosexual couples who embraced the freewheeling culture of the Pines—commissioned a luxurious home whose smooth volumes appeared to have washed up on their site. Although any physical resemblance to Louis Kahn’s work had receded, it still bore his "order of the castle," in which complex ancillary rooms surround a rectangular central space and endow the facade with a rippled presence." more
 DATE: 5/23/2013 | BY CORY REYNOLDS DATE: 5/23/2013 | BY CORY REYNOLDS  This Saturday, May 25 at 5PM, Greenlight Bookstore presents artist Laura Anderson Barbata, author of Transcommunality: Interventions and Collaborations in Stilt Dancing Communities, in conversation with some of her artistic collaborators, including Najja Codrington and Ali Sylvester, founders of the Brooklyn Jumbies; artist Tim Rollins; curator and art historian Edward Sullivan; and participating photographers Stefan Falke and Stefan Hagen. This event, timed to coincide with BAM’s DanceAfrica festival, will conclude with a book signing and perhaps… Moko Jumbies! Featured image, "Intervention: Wall Streeet" (2011), a collaboration with the Brooklyn Jumbies in the Financial District in New York, is by Frank Veronsky. It is reproduced from Transcommunality. more
 DATE: 5/20/2013 | BY CORY REYNOLDS DATE: 5/20/2013 | BY CORY REYNOLDS  In Art / Books illuminating new monograph on the late, great, British fashion photographer Terence Donovan (who never allowed a book of his photographs to be published in his lifetime), the artist is quoted, "Photography is an elusive craft. I don’t consider it art because it is very specific and finite – not like painting, which evokes emotion beyond what you see. Nevertheless, it is a very difficult thing to make work. It is a curious combination of precision and chaos. A photographer must have a grasp of a complex cockpit drill in order to overpower the technical density which is very evident the more you understand photography." Featured image, of model Hiroko Matsumoto posing for "Ces Collections romantiques Pierre Cardin" in the March 3, 1966, edition of French Elle, is reproduced from Terence Donovan Fashion. For a slideshow of additional images from the book, see The New York Times Lens blog. more
 DATE: 5/17/2013 | BY CORY REYNOLDS Featured image, "Ginevra" ("Geneva"), from the Atmosfera 1933 series (originally published in the early- and mid-century Italian contemporary art annual, Almanacco Letterario) is reproduced from Bruno Munari: My Futurist Past, just published by Silvana Editorale. In her catalog essay, Miroslava Hajek writes, "The use of paradox was central to all aspects of Munari's activity, not only that of an artistic nature. He employed it in order to undermine banal stereotypes and to stimulate mental agility. In visual terms it was reflected in his juxtaposition of geometric shapes and organic forms." more
DATE: 5/15/2013 | BY CORY REYNOLDS  This Friday, May 17 from 7-10 pm, artist/photographer Thomas Campbell and former-pro-turned-surf-ambassador Dan Malloy will present a slideshow and booksigning for Campbell's glorious photography book, Slide Your Brains Out, at the Patagonia Cardiff Surf Shop (founded by Malloy and his equally legendary brothers, Keith and Dan, in 2006) with music by The Mattson 2. Featured image is "Joel Tudor color quiver," Del Mar, California, 2003. more
DATE: 3/5/2013  "Paging through a book is like closing a door behind you that simultaneously opens another onto a new room -- all the while keeping the previous room available, just behind the now-closed door of the turned page. Here I am in the hallway of the introduction..." -- excerpt from Sharon Helgason Gallagher's remarks at the New York Public Library panel discussion The Future of the Art Book more DATE: 9/27/2012  What are the kinds of books we ought to be publishing today as exemplars of the book for the future? What is the enduring legacy of "bookishness" that we want to -- may I say "ought to" -- transmit to the future? What kinds of meaning are and can be transmitted uniquely in the book form? What is the "bookishness" of the book that does not survive conversion, translation, adaptation, or reformatting as a digital publication? And what kinds of books even posses this quality? more DATE: 7/16/2012  Tonight, TamTam Books launches Gilles Verlant's authoritative new biography of the legendary French pop star, Serge Gainsbourg. Below is an excerpt: Verlant's chapter on Gainsbourg's passionate but short-lived love affair with screen legend, Brigitte Bardot. more DATE: 5/10/2012  "ONE DAY Schindler was looking at the floor plan of a house that had just been developed in quarter scale from the rough plan he had made directly on the surveyor’s eight-scale contour map." more | | |
