SOUL OF A NATION
D.A.P./Tate
ISBN 9781942884170
US $45.00  CDN $62.00
PUB DATE 9/26/2017

African American Art & Culture
Art: African-American
Art: Political
Art: Sixties

Hbk, 8.5 x 10 in. / 256 pgs / 203 color / 33 b&w.

African American art in the era of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers

• ABOUT THE BOOK: Surveys 1963-1983 African American Art on the 50th Anniversary of the term "Black Power" (coined by Stokely Carmicheal).Art made in the context of politics including the March on Washington, the Watts Riots, and the Black Panthers.Artists include Barkley L. Hendricks, Betye Sayer, Romare Bearden, David Hammons, Faith Ringgold, Emory Douglas, Sun Ra.
• PRESS & PROMOTION: The book is published in conjunction with a major international exhibition opening at the Tate in London in Fall 2017 and travelling to the Brooklyn Museum, September 7th, 2018 - February 3rd, 2019 . Show at Tate opened to rave reviews:

  “Civil rights meet aesthetics in this riveting survey of 20 crucial years of black American art and struggle” -- The Guardian

  "The Black Power movement was more than just a protest group; it was a watershed moment in American history and a coming-together of enormous importance and influence -- not just socially and politically, but culturally and artistically as well.”--CNN Style

  "At London’s flagship modern art gallery, Tate Modern, one of this summer’s most lauded exhibitions features work by African-American artists made in the age of Martin Luther King Jr. Yet, while “Soul of a Nation” is nominally a historical display, gallery goers spilling out of the show this week found an obvious contemporary resonance to the art they had just seen."--The New York Times

• There is no other illustrated book on this topic
• A great visual companion to the book from the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Dream a World Anew: The African American Experience and the Shaping of America
• American contributors include Susan Cahan (Yale) author of Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power (Duke University Press, 2016) and David Driscoll, a curator of African American Art
• WEST COAST INTEREST: Features Emory Douglas' graphic art from Oakland CA based Black Panthers, Noah Purifoy's Watts Tower Art Center, and the Los Angeles based Black Arts Council among others.

STEPHEN SHORE
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450486
US $75.00  CDN $99.00
PUB DATE 11/21/2017


Hbk, 10.5 x 9 in. / 336 pgs / 450 color.

One Man MoMA show for the American color photographer Stephen Shore

• Big Show - Big Press
• Stephen Shore (b. 1947) is one of the pioneers of 1970's color photography
• Best-known series are epic 70s road trips shot in brilliant color and published in his books American Surfaces and Uncommon Places (30,000+ copies sold)
• His books are considered 'bibles for the new color photographers'
• Shore is the director of the photography department at Bard College, Annandale on Hudson NY
• This is a major book and includes over 400 illustrations.

AUTOPHOTO: CARS & PHOTOGRAPHY, 1900 TO NOW
Editions Xavier Barral/Fondation Cartier Pour L'Art Contemporain
ISBN 9782869251311
US $65.00  CDN $87.00
PUB DATE 7/25/2017

Photography: Survey
Transportation: Car Pictorials
Regional Interest: US Midwest
Hbk, 8.25 x 10.25 in. / 464 pgs / 300 color / 300 duotone.

The CAR in PHOTOGRAPHY: 600 images by 100+ photographers

• ABOUT THE BOOK:The book is handsome and chunky, with a shiny metallic "new car" blue cover with a tipped-in photograph - by Willliam Eggleston.A Who's Who of Photography: Includes Robert Adams, Eve Arnold, Elliott Erwitt, Walker Evans, Robert Frank, Lee Friedlander, Anthony Hernandez, Joel Meyerowitz, Daido Moriyama, Catherine Opie, Martin Parr, Ed Ruscha, Malick Sidibe, Stephen Shore and Henry Wessel.
• Also includes vernacular, "found" car photos: the family posed in front of the new car, the prom date in front of the car portrait -- from the US, Asia, Europe and Africa; Nostalgic set photography from films like The Misfts
• PRESS & PROMOTION: Exhibition in Paris opened Summer 2017 and is recieving international review coverage including The New York Times “…traces cars’ impact on the world through hundreds of photographs dating to the early 20th century… makes it easy to understand why photographers’ romance with the car may be as strong as ever."
• For veteran booksellers: Speed Style and Beauty + Lee Friedlander America By Car + The Open Road =Auto Photo
• Will appeal to CAR buffs as well as the PHOTO, DESIGN, and NOSTAGLIA markets
• A great Holiday gift for Dad
• WEST COAST INTEREST: Clement Cheroux is a Curator at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art

FRANKENSTEIN: THE FIRST TWO HUNDRED YEARS
Reel Art Press
ISBN 9781909526464
US $39.95  CDN $53.95
PUB DATE 11/21/2017

Fiction & Poetry
Film & Video
Culture: Pop Culture

Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 125 color / 75 b&w.

Frankenstein lives! 200 years of the book, the movies and the monster in pop culture and beyond

• On the 200th birthday of Frankenstein: a visual overview including a facsimile reprint of the earliest-known manuscript and images of the beloved monster in film posters, magazines, playbills, prints, book covers, advertisements, packaging, comics and graphic novels
• A great package at just $39.95: the hardcover features 200 illustrations
• The only book in print providing an historical & VISUAL overview of Frankenstein.
• Author Christopher Frayling (born 1946) is a popular cultural historian -- and the author of Once Upon A Time in Italy: The Westerns of Sergio Leone (Abrams, 2005), The 2001 File: Harry Lange and the Design of the Landmark Science Fiction Film (RAP 2015), and Vampyres: Genesis and Resurrection (T&H 2016)
• Will appeal to LITERARY audiences, FILM buffs, and POPULAR CULTURE Monster fans
• Works for the NOSTALGIA market, film poster DESIGN lovers, and BIBLIOPHILES.
• Expect review coverage on Book REVIEW pages in print and on-line, popular culture and film pages in mainstream entertainment magazines like Rolling Stone, Entertainment Weekly, and GQ
• Did you know there have been 120+ Frankenstein films?
• Includes posters and memorabilia from films such as James Whale's Frankenstein (1931) and The Bride of Frankenstein (1935), both with Boris Karloff (still the predominant visual image of the monster), Hammer's The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)and Kenneth Branagh's/Francis Ford Coppola's Mary Shelley's Frankenstein (1994)
• Pub date timed to have books in-store for Halloween!

JASPER JOHNS
Royal Academy of Arts
ISBN 9781910350683
US $65.00  CDN $87.00
PUB DATE 11/21/2017

Art: Painting
Hbk, 11 x 11.75 in. / 240 pgs / 200 color.

A major overview of the American Pop artist Jasper Johns from the Royal Academy of Arts

• Jasper Johns (b. 1930 Augusta GA; lives in Sharon CT) is one of the world's most important living and influential American artists.
• Johns is best known for his paintings of flags, targets, maps, letters and numbers. He laid the groundwork for Pop Art and Minimalism.
• He is also known for his personal relationships with Robert Rauschenberg, Merce Cunningham, and John Cage.
• The book covers all aspects of his art: 200 works including sculpture, drawings, and prints.
• Well-priced at $65.00 for a generous 11 x 11 3/4 inch square hardcover with more than 200 color reproductions
• Ties-in with the Robert Rauschenberg exhibition at MoMA and the Walker Art Center and MCA Chicago Merce Cunningham exhibitions.
• Yale just released Johns Catalogue Raisonne (April 2017) at $1500 (authored by Roberta Bernstein, a contributor to the RA Johns catalog).
• Roberta Bernstein is a professor at the University of Albany, New York (SUNY).
• Morgan Meis is NY based and the founder of Flux Factory as well as a frequent contributor to The New Yorker, n+1, The Believer and Harper's Magazine.
• Robert Storr was until recently the Dean of the Yale Art School. Prior to that he was senior curator at MoMA where he authored, among other important catalogs, the bestselling Gerhard Richter: Forty Years of Painting.
• WEST COAST INTEREST: Exhibition travels to The Broad in Los Angeles Winter 2018

PHILIP GUSTON: NIXON DRAWINGS
Hauser & Wirth Publishers
ISBN 9783906915029
US $60.00  CDN $79.00
PUB DATE 6/27/2017

History
Art: Drawing

Hbk, 11.5 x 12.5 in. / 248 pgs / 256 color / 4 b&w.

Satirical portraits of Nixon made at the height of Watergate scandal in 1971: A timely book in the age of Trump!

• One of the best-reviewed and most-attended gallery shows of the last season
• "Now, as we stare down the barrel of four years of white supremacism, virulent sexism, vilification of dissidents, states' rights over civil rights, and an escalation of Us against Them strife, we gotta wonder if Guston was actually half a century ahead of the curve." The Village Voice
• "The wit in these drawings is in Guston's giving Nixon a schlong for a nose, the better to fuck America with, and playing endless variations on Dick's dick." William Corbett in The Brooklyn Rail
• Philip Guston was an influential Abstract Expressionist painter, who late in his career returned to representational, cartoonish renderings. He was Jewish and liberal - both of which influenced his art work.
• He taught at NYU, Pratt Institute, and Boston University.
• 73 of these drawings were published in 'Poor Richard' (University of Chicago Press, 2001)
• This book has ALL 180 of Guston's Nixon drawings.
• Debra Bricker Balken is an independent curator who teaches at RISD
• Phong Bui is The Brooklyn Rail's Artistic Director and Publisher
• William Corbett teaches at NYU, Harvard, and MIT
• Irving Sandler is the esteemed art critic and writer and a professor of art at SUNY Purchase
• Lisa Yuskavage is a NY-based figurative artist
• Bob Mankoff is the cartoon editor for The New Yorker
• Katy Siegel is Curator at the Baltimore Museum of Art and teaches at Stony Brook University, NY.

JIM MARSHALL: PEACE
Reel Art Press
ISBN 9781909526488
US $29.95  CDN $39.95
PUB DATE 9/26/2017

Photography: B&W
Photography: Documentary
Photography: Political
Hbk, 6.75 x 9.25 in. / 128 pgs / 120 b&w.

Give the gift of PEACE with this AFFORDABLE, $29.95, small-format (6 3/4 x 9 1/4 in) GIFT book celebrating one of the most simple but also most powerful symbols in the world: the PEACE sign

• Photos made between 1961-1968 all across America of the peace symbol in street graffiti, on the walls and trains of the New York subway, on buttons pinned to hippies and students, on posters at peace rallies
• While nostalgic, these photos also feel timely in our current age of protest marches, with a new generation of home-made signs.
• The book is a reminder of the power of people's protests to change the course of history.
• Foreword by JOAN BAEZ, the American folk singer and activist
• Afterword by SHEPARD FAIREY, the street artist, graphic designer, activist, illustrator and founder of OBEY Clothing who became widely known for his Barack Obama "Hope" poster.
• Photographer Jim Marshall (1936-2010) is best known as a photographer of rock stars, and he was chief photographer at Woodstock. His iconic portraits include Janis Joplin with her bottle of Southern Comfort, Jimi Hendrix setting his guitar on fire onstage at Monterey, Johnny Cash flipping the bird onstage in Folsom Prison.
• Jim Marshall's previous books include Jazz Festival (RAP 2016) and The Rolling Stones 1972 (Chronicle 2012).
• 2018 will be the 50th Anniversary of the Peace symbol. It was designed in 1958 by Gerald Holtom for the British Campaign for Nuclear Disarmament.
• Expect coverage by CNN, TIME Magazine, New Yorker, USA Today, Rolling Stone, Mother Jones, and The Guardian -- among many outlets.

LOUISE BOURGEOIS: AN UNFOLDING PORTRAIT
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450417
US $55.00  CDN $72.50
PUB DATE 9/29/2017

Art: 20th Century
Art: Women Artists
Art: Prints
Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 248 pgs / 340 color.

Accompanies a MoMA exhibition of American artist Louise Bourgeois' prints and artist's books

• Louise Bourgeois (1911-2010) was based in NYC from 1938 to her death. She is best-known for her organic, totemic sculptures--like giant spiders.
• But Bourgeois made more than 1000 prints over the course of her career and even had a press in her basement. She was most active in printmaking in the 1940s and then in the 1990s and 2000s.
• This book includes 330 of her prints and handmade books, organized by theme
• A major appeal of this book is that her prints are her most accessible work -- and also her most colorful.
• Her foundation (Easton Foundation) is in the process of turning her townhouse in West 20s into a museum.

JOSEF ALBERS IN MEXICO
Guggenheim Museum Publications
ISBN 9780892075362
US $49.95  CDN $67.50
PUB DATE 11/21/2017

Latin American / Caribbean Art & Culture
Art: Abstract

Hbk, 9.5 x 13 in. / 128 pgs / 110 color.

A unique and surprising book on Josef Albers, accompanying a major Guggenheim exhibition on the influence of Mexico on Albers' work

• Josef Albers (1888 - 1976) was both a student and a teacher at the Bauhaus.
• With rise of the Nazis in 1933, he and his wife Anni Albers emigrated to North Carolina, where they founded the art department at Black Mountain College.
• In 1950, they moved to New Haven, Connecticut, where Josef Albers became Director of Department of Design at Yale University School of Art.
• He is best known for his homage to the square paintings.
• Albers traveled repeatedly to Mexico from 1935-1968 and was profoundly inspired by ancient Mexican art and architecture.
• This book is the first to feature the photographs Albers took of the Aztec pyramids & shrines together with the paintings that were inspired by Mexico.
• The structural similarities between Aztec architecture and Albers' paintings are striking -- and will be eye-opening to anyone who thinks they know Albers!
• Josef Albers books of paintings sell out quickly: Josef Albers in America (Hatje Cantz), Josef Albers (Silvanna), Josef Albers: Minimal Means, Maximum Effect (La Fabrica), Josef Albers: Homage to the Square (RM), Josef Albers: No Tricks, No Twinkling (Konig) are all -- unfortunately -- OUT OF PRINT.
• Only 2 other books are in print currently on his paintings: the $100 T&H book from 2006 and the new David Zwirner book.
• Contributors to this books are: Lauren Hinkson, Curator, Guggenheim Museum, and Joaquin Barriendos, Professor, Columbia University

EAMES FURNITURE SOURCEBOOK
Vitra Design Museum
ISBN 9783945852200
US $75.00  CDN $99.00
PUB DATE 12/26/2017

Design: Interiors & Furniture
Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 336 pgs / 350 color.

The definitive guide to the American designers Charles & Ray Eames' furniture

• Charles Eames (1907-1978) and Ray Eames (1912-1988) were husband and wife designers whose furniture is synonomous with "Modern Design": the Eames Lounge Chair, The Molded Plywood Chair, and the Molded Plastic Rocking Chair.
• They also worked in the fields of industrial and graphic design, textiles, toys, fine art and film.
• This books functions as a catalogue raisonne of EAMES Furniture based on the archive of the VITRA Design Museum.
• Includes drawings, plans, models, material studies, prototypes and production examples as well as manufacturing correspondence related to 100+ furniture items.
• Profusely illustrated -- 300+ images.
• How is this book different from other Eames books? Most Eames books cover all facets of their work. This book focuses solely on the furniture: so rather than a wide romp through their career, this is a deep dive into one major aspect of their work.
• The exhibition The World of Charles & Ray Eames will open in Fall 2017 at the Vitra
• Author Pat Kirkham is Professor of Design History and Cultural Studies at Bard Graduate Center for Studies, NYC
• An essential reference book for furniture collectors and the design trade.
• WEST COAST INTEREST: The Eames were based in Pacific Palisades CA , and their house is open to the public by reservation. Los Angeles based Eames Demetrios is their grandson and Director of the Eames Office

ATLAS OF FURNITURE DESIGN
Vitra Design Museum
ISBN 9783931936990
US $250.00  CDN $350.00
PUB DATE 12/10/2019

Design: Interiors & Furniture
Design: Theory
Aesthetics & History
Hbk, 9 x 12 in. / 1,028 pgs / 2,852 color.

The ULTIMATE book on the history of furniture design

DESIGN IS STORYTELLING
Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
ISBN 9781942303190
US $19.95  CDN $28.95
PUB DATE 11/21/2017

Academic Course Adoption
Design: Theory
Aesthetics & History
Pbk, 6.25 x 8.5 in. / 160 pgs / 250 color.

Great graphic design tells a story!

• Ellen Lupton, author of the bestselling Thinking with Type and curator at the Cooper Hewitt in NYC, shows how storytelling is the basis of great design.
• The book is full of examples, diagrams, illustrations and other visuals and is affordably priced as a $17.95 paperback
• The text draws on Lupton's actual classroom teaching experience to demonstrate how using narrative techniques normally associated with writing makes graphic design visually stronger and more persuasive.
• Lupton is the author of popular books on design including Graphic Design: The New Basics (2008, Second Edition 2015), Thinking with Type (2004, Second Edition 2010), Graphic Design Thinking (2011), and Beautiful Users: Designing for People (2014).
• The Cooper Hewitt will present a lecture by Lupton as a launch event for publicity and promotion.

ESSENTIAL EAMES
Vitra Design Museum
ISBN 9783945852170
US $39.95  CDN $53.95
PUB DATE 11/21/2017

Design: Interiors & Furniture
Design: Theory
Aesthetics & History
Hbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 216 pgs / 75 color / 50 b&w.

A great gift book pairing the words of Charles & Ray Eames with images of their work and life.

• Charles Eames (1907-1978) and Ray Eames (1912-1988) were the husband and wife American designers whose furniture (including the famous Eames Lounge Chair and the molded plywood chair) epitomizes Modern Design.
• Inspiring quotes on the design process and on what makes good design from taken letters, talks, and interviews.
• Many rare photographs of Charles and Ray Eames themselves
• The book is edited by the Eames' grandson who runs the Eames Office in LA and is published by the world's premiere architecture and design museum, Vitra, which now houses the Eames estate
• This is a "lighter," more "gifty" and more affordable overview of Eames work than the Essential Furniture Sourcebook.
• The major exhibition The World of Charles & Ray Eames will open Fall 2017 at Vitra.
• WEST COAST INTEREST: The Eames were based in Pacific Palisades CA , and their house is open to the public by reservation. Los Angeles based Eames Demetrios is their grandson and Director of the Eames Office

ITEMS: IS FASHION MODERN?
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450363
US $45.00  CDN $60.00
PUB DATE 10/24/2017

Design: Theory
Aesthetics & History
Fashion: Styles
Periods
Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 288 pgs / 350 color.

MoMA explores the present, past, and future of 111 "indispensable" fashion items — garments, accessories, and accoutrements — of the modern age

• From Converse All Stars to Diane Von Furstenberg's wrap dress.
• ABOUT THE BOOK: An A to Z Encyclopedia of vernacular fashion: Includes Levis, Adidas, the backpack, little black dress, Dashiki, Brooks Brothers Oxford shirt, the Hoodie, and Havainia flip flopsThe entries tell the "story" of the clothing i.e. The Bucket Hat starts as an Israeli Settler hat to South Africa staple to LL Cool J the American rapper with a stop on Bob Denver's head on Gilligan's Island.
• PRESS & PROMOTION Exhibition at MOMA will Fall 2017 and is the museum's first fashion exhibition in 60 years. Already lots of media coverage including The New York Times "...deliriously diverse... from kaffiyehs to kilts, flip-flops to guayaberas, pencil skirts to moon boots, Speedos to Spanx.” WWD "“…an investigation of 111 garments and accessories that have had a profound effect on the world over the last century…runs the gamut from Levi’s 501 jeans and Nike’s Air Force 1s to Chanel No. 5’s bottle and a Vivienne Westwood x Louis Vuitton fanny pack.”

THE HOUSE OF DIOR: SEVENTY YEARS OF HAUTE COUTURE
National Gallery of Victoria
ISBN 9781925432336
US $65.00  CDN $87.00
PUB DATE 9/26/2017

Fashion: Designers & Collections
Hbk, 11 x 13 in. / 256 pgs / illustrated throughout.

The luxury fashion book for the holidays: a spectacular large format celebration of 70 years of Dior fashion

• A holiday must have!
• This 11 x 13 sumptuous book is the ultimate holiday gift. Featuring french fold dust jacket with foil stamping, houndstooth patterned case, both original and archival photography.
• Covers 70 years of designers form Christian Dior through the many designers at the helm including Yves Saint Laurent, Marc Bohan, Gianfranco Ferré, John Galliano, Raf Simons and currently Maria Grazia Chiuri (the House's first female head designer).
• It starts with the iconic spring 1947 New Look collection and takes us all the way right up to the newest 2017 collections.

GINGERNUTZ
MW Editions
ISBN 9780998701806
US $27.50  CDN $37.50
PUB DATE 9/1/2017

Fiction & Poetry
Clth, 6.75 x 9.25 in. / 80 pgs / 65 color.

The perfect stocking stuffer gift for fashionistas of all ages.

• Grace Coddington is creative director at large of American Vogue, fan favorite of The September Issue, author of the bestselling memoir Grace.
Fashion journalist and illustrator Michael Roberts retells Grace's life story in the style of a children's book
• Grace is a red-headed monkey named Ginger Nutz in the jungles of Borneo -- who decamps to the big city to become a fashion model
• She meets familiar characters like Disco & Grubbana.
• Absolutely charming illustrations and story!
• Coddington and Roberts are great friends - she is writing a foreword to the book and will help promote
• Major PRESS & Events already confirmed include: September VOGUE & VANITY FAIR coverage
• Coddington awarded lifetime achievement Cleo in September with ceremony in Lincoln Center. There will be a video tribute including some of the book illustrations.
• Launch events at Bookmarc (NY & LA) Colette (Paris) and Sothebys (London)
• At $27.50 this is most affordable of the "Grace" books: Memoir is $35, Grace 30 Years of Fashion $175, Grace American Vogue $175.

MARGUERITA MERGENTIME: AMERICAN TEXTILES, MODERN IDEAS
West Madison Press LLC
ISBN 9780692768273
US $39.95  CDN $53.95
PUB DATE 6/27/2017

Design: Textiles
Regional Interest: US New York City
Hbk, 8.25 x 10 in. / 144 pgs / 145 color / 39 b&w.

Joyful American textiles of the 1930s: whether Esty or Knoll is your look, you will love them!

• A major design rediscovery: Marguerita Mergentime (1894-1941) was a 1930s designer in New York City.
• She designed table linens, sheets, towels, bedspreads, drapery, flatware, and china. Best known for printed bold, colorful tablecloths created to enliven the average home with color and humor.
• Her fabric and carpet designs can be seen today in Radio City Music Hall and in museum collections including The Museum of Modern Art; the Cooper Hewitt, the Brooklyn Museum; the Museum at FIT.
• Compare her to scarf designer Vera Neumann (Vera) and to Russell Wright with whom she worked with contributing textiles to Wright's American Way campaign and the 1939 New York World's Fair.
• Affordable & fun overview of her work - the book will make you smile - PRESS coverage has included Elle Decor, Metropolis Magazine New York Magazine's Design Hunting, Print Magazine, and Design Observer.
• Author Linda Florio was senior graphic designer at the Metropolitan Museum of Art and Museum of Arts and Design (MAD). Author Madelyn Shaw is curator of textiles at the National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution.

THE PROPAGANDA FRONT
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467631
US $45.00  CDN $60.00
PUB DATE 12/12/2017

History
Design: Graphic design

Hbk, 8.5 x 9.5 in. / 320 pgs / 380 color.

A colorful gift book for history buffs: 350 striking political propaganda postcards from 1890-1945

• Uncle Sam orders Americans to enlist. A socialist worker raises the red flag. Adoring crowds greet Hitler and Mussolini.
• Perfect for accounts that have done well with the MFA Boston's The Postcard Age and bought in the new MFA title, Atget: Postcards of a Lost Paris
• The collector, Leonard Lauder is the former President of Estee Lauder, a prominent art collector, and patron of the Whitney, the Getty, Metropolitan Museum of Art, MoMA, Portland Museum of Art, Gibbes Museum, and MFA Boston.
• Hunter College Connection: two authors teach at Hunter: Lynda Klich and Anna Jozefacka. Benjamin Weiss is a curator at MFA, Boston, and the author of the MFA Boston titles Atget: Postcards of a Lost Paris and The Postcard Age.

TOMMY KANE: ALL MY PHOTOGRAPHS ARE MADE WITH PENS
Heni Publishing
ISBN 9780993316173
US $34.95  CDN $45.95
PUB DATE 11/21/2017

Art: Drawing
Regional Interest: US Brooklyn
Hbk, 8 x 11 in. / 228 pgs / 210 color.

A light-hearted inspiration book for artists who love to draw and even for the coloring book crew.

• Brooklyn -based native Tommy Kane is best known for memorable ad campaigns for Steve Madden (the famous cartoon-glam ones) and Yellow Tail Wine (most successful launch of a brand in US history)
• The book is an urban sketchbook collection of drawings Kane does on the go in travels to Paris, Rome, London and at home in New York City. Captures locations, people and ideas in detailed, line-intensive style, including wildlife, models, travel and movie sets.
• PROMOTION: Enormous social media following on Instagram, Twitter, Facebook.

TATTOOS IN JAPANESE PRINTS
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468461
US $24.95  CDN $33.95
PUB DATE 9/26/2017

Asian Art & Culture
Art Group: Medium
Art: Japanese
Art: Painting

Hbk, 7.5 x 9.75 in. / 152 pgs / 90 color.

The perfect gift for the inked crowd that yearns for the real history behind the tattoo.

• ABOUT THE BOOK: A Compact & AFFORDABLE introduction to the parallel histories of Japanese tattoos and prints. Features high quality illustrations of ukiyo-e prints from the incomparable collection of Japanese art at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• 19th Century Japanese prints as the inspiration behind contemporary and historical tattoos. Lush colorful images of flowers, sea monsters, and warriors.
• Paper over board , 7 x 9 and $24.95 will work in TATTOO/ ALT Culture sections as well as for aficionados of Asian art.

KUNIYOSHI X KUNISADA
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468478
US $50.00  CDN $67.50
PUB DATE 10/24/2017

Asian Art & Culture
Art History

Hbk, 10.75 x 9.25 in. / 256 pgs / 130 color.

Rival masters of the 19th Century woodblock print

• ABOUT THE ARTISTS: Utagawa Kuniyoshi and Utagawa Kunisada of the Edo era were better known than HOKUSAI. Kuniyoshi (1797-1861) is best known for his prints of battles and Samurai soldiers. Hardly an inch of paper is empty. It's all about ACTION & HEROISM. Kunisada Utagawa (1786-1864) by contrast, was known for refined portraits of kabuki actors and luxurious geishas.It's all about THEATER & SENSUALITY.
• ABOUT THE BOOK: Two artists prints examined in detail. Beautiful Reproductions.
• PROMO: Accompanies exhibition at MFA Boston Showdown! Kuniyoshi vs. Kunisada, August 11, 2017 – December 10, 2017

CASANOVA: THE SEDUCTION OF EUROPE
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468423
US $45.00  CDN $60.00
PUB DATE 9/26/2017

History
Art Group: Theme

Clth, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 344 pgs / 180 color.

A handsomely designed book on the cultural history of Casanova's life and times in 18th century Europe

• 12 illustrated essays lavishly recreate Casanova's visual world in18th century paintings, sculpture, works on paper, furnishings, porcelains, silver and period costumes.
• The book itslef makes a seductive gift: it includes 2 gatefolds and beautiful end papers and the title page is a "peek-a-boo" cut out. The format 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 336 pgs / 185 color makes it both a READING and VISUAL book.
• Aside from Hatje Cantz oversized The Journeys of Casanova 9783775738576 $60, there are no other illustrated books about Casanova.
• Works for HISTORY buffs, LITERARY stores and ART sections -- perfect for encyclopedic museums.
• Promotion: A major exhibition tour starting in TEXAS at KIMBELL Fall 2017, then travelling to LEGION of HONOR San Francisco in Spring 2018 and MFA Boston Summer 2018.
• ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Frederick Ilchman and Thomas Michie are both curators at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. C. D. Dickerson is Curator the National Gallery of Art, Washington, DC. Esther Bell is Curator at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco, CA. Meredith Chilton is a curator at Gardiner Museum, Toronto Canada. Nina Dubin is a Professor at University of Illinois at Chicago. James H. Johnson teaches at Boston University. Malina Stefanovska is a professor at UCLA. Susan M. Wager, Instructor, University of New Hampshire. Michael Yonan, Professor University of Missouri.
• WEST COAST INTEREST: Show travels to The Legion of Honor, Fine Arts Museum, San Francisco in Winter 2018

JOEL MEYEROWITZ: CéZANNE'S OBJECTS
Damiani
ISBN 9788862085649
US $50.00  CDN $67.50
PUB DATE 9/26/2017

Photography: Still Life
Clth, 10 x 12.5 in. / 116 pgs / 65 color.

A photographer's elegant tribute to still-life painting: objects from Cezanne's studio as seen anew through the lens of American master color photographer Joel Meyerowitz

• A follow-up to Meyerowitz's highly successful book Morandi's Objects--here he photographs objects in Cezanne's studio against the wall's of the artist's studio to capture Cezanne's distinctive treatment of foreground and background.
• An elegant, superbly printed gift book.
• Includes photographs of Cezanne's studio, fully preserved, and the artist's gardens.
• Joel Meyerowitz (born NY 1938) is a street, portrait and landscape photographer and key member of the 70's new color school (along with Eggleston and Shore). His work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions and is in the collections of the Boston Museum of Fine Art, the Art Institute of Chicago, the Museum of Modern Art, New York, and many other museums worldwide.
• PRESS & PUBLCITY: Ties-in with the highly anticipated first-ever world tour exhibition of Cezanne portraits (travels to the National Gallery DC this fall).

WILLIAM HENRY FOX TALBOT AND THE PROMISE OF PHOTOGRAPHY
Carnegie Museum Of Art
ISBN 9780880390606
US $25.00  CDN $34.50
PUB DATE 11/21/2017

Photography: Historical
Hbk, 8.5 x 10 in. / 96 pgs / 40 color.

The preeminent Gentleman Scientist of the 19th century, William Henry Fox Talbot (1800-1877) was the photography pioneer who invented many of the first photographic processes.

• A $25 introduction to Talbot: it will be the only AFFORDABLE, SMALL-FORMAT survey on the photographer.
• Handsome design and packaging make this a natural gift book choice.
• Includes 30 photographs by Talbot that demonstrate his wide-ranging interests, including nature, still-life, portraiture, architecture and landscape; one quarter of the featured images have been unpublished since Talbot's time.
• Talbot's The Pencil of Nature (1844-46) was the first book with photographic illustrations.
• PROMOTION and PUBLICITY: Pittsburgh: Carnegie Museum of Art, 11/18/17-2/11/18: THe BIGGEST Talbot show in the US within the last 15 years.
• CONTRIBUTORS: Dan Leers is curator of photography at Carnegie Museum of Art in Pittsburgh. Larry J. Schaaf is the director of the William Henry Fox Talbot Catalogue Raisonne and author of The Photographic Art of William Henry Fox Talbot (Princeton University Press, 2000).

DALí/DUCHAMP
Royal Academy of Arts
ISBN 9781910350478
US $50.00  CDN $67.50
PUB DATE 11/21/2017

Art Group: Exhibitions
Art: Conceptual
Art: Dada/Surrealism
Clth, 9.5 x 10.75 in. / 224 pgs / 280 color.

Eroticism, science and humor collide in the work of these two close friends and titans of modern art.

• ABOUT THE ARTISTS Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) was an artist, writer, provocateur, and chess player who is considered the father of Dada and laid the foundations for Conceptual Art with his 1917 ready-made urinal entitled Fountain. Salvador Dali (1904-1989) was a painter, sculptor, filmmaker, writer, actor, bon vivant, and arguably the most famous of the Surrealists. His 1931 oil painting The Persistence of Memory ( ants on a watch) remains one of twentieth-century pop culture's most widely-known artworks.
• ABOUT THE BOOK A look at the friendship and overlapping themes in the work of these very opposite artists.
• PROMO: Exhibition will be on view at Dali­ Museum, St Petersburg FL in Winter 2018.
• WEST COAST INTEREST: Duchamp's first museum retrospective was in 1963 at the Pasadena Museum of Art. Dali lived in Monterey California during the 1940s. A collection of his work (Dali 17) is housed at the Monterey Museum.

RENé MAGRITTE: THE REVEALING IMAGE
Ludion
ISBN 9789491819735
US $45.00  CDN $60.00
PUB DATE 9/26/2017

Literature: Biography
Photography: Art Photography
Hbk, 8.75 x 11.5 in. / 272 pgs / 200 color / 200 b&w.

A visual biography of our favorite Surrealist, the ever-witty Rene Magritte, as told in photographs

• Heavily illustrated with 350 images, including photographs, paintings, drawings and film stills.
• Truly brings Magritte the man as well as the artist to life in photographs of his family, friends, fellow-surrealists, and self-portraits.
• Accompanies a traveling exhibition (US venue TBD) devoted to Magritte's photographs and films.
• Magritte (French, 1898 - 1967) was one of the best known and most influential of the Surrealists.
• His witty and images often depict ordinary objects in an unusual contexts.
• PRESS & PROMO: SFMOMA will have an exhibition on Magritte's later work next year. Because the focus is on his photographs, it's a good companion book for any museum that has Magritte in their collection.

HAROLD EDGERTON: SEEING THE UNSEEN
Steidl/MIT Museum, Cambridge
ISBN 9783958293083
US $50.00  CDN $67.50
PUB DATE 8/20/2019

Photography: B&W
Science
Clth, 9.5 x 12.5 in. / 224 pgs / 40 color / 70 b&w.

The man who stopped time: Harold Edgerton invented the strobe flash to photograph what the human eye can't see

• "Every time you use the flash on your smartphone or camera, you should give silent praise to Harold Eugene Edgerton. In the era of vacuum tubes and radios the size of tables, Edgerton created a way to stop the world; a bullet passing through an apple; a footballer's boot connecting with a ball; the crown-like splash created from a single drop of milk. He was the first man to harness electricity to freeze time to an instant." -- The BBC.
• Edgerton was an MIT electrical engineering professor, who pioneered the use of the strobe, unleashing the potential of photography.He was known as "Papa Flash"
• A MAJOR PUBLICATION: Published in conjunction with MIT Museum, Cambridge, MA This will be the definitive catalogue of Edgerton's work. There has been no substantial book published on Edgerton since 2000.

TINA MODOTTI: PHOTOGRAPHER & REVOLUTIONARY
La Fábrica
ISBN 9788416248834
US $32.00  CDN $42.50
PUB DATE 8/22/2017

Biography
Latin American / Caribbean Art & Culture
Photography: Writings

Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 288 pgs / 130 b&w.

A long-overdue reissue of the classic biography of Tina Modotti, photographer, model, actress, and revolutionary political activist.

• Tina Modotti was an Italian photographer, model, actress, and revolutionary political activist. Born in Italy, Tina Modotti (1896-1942) immigrated to California when she was 16 and moved form San Francisco to LA to be an actress in silent movies: she often played the "Femme Fatale". She became part of the Bohemian circle: her lover Edward Weston taught her photography, and they moved to Mexico together. In Mexico, Modotti documented the Mexican mural movement, befriending Diego Rivera and joing the Mexican Communist Party. She died at the age of 45 on her way home in a taxi from a dinner with Pablo Neruda, under what is viewed by some as suspicious circumstances. Important collections of her work are at MoMA, SFMoMA, the MET and the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
• PUBLICATION HISTORY: Originally published in the US by Harper Collins in 1993 and reissued in 1993, 1995 & 2000 by Da Cappo. Receiving rave reviews, the book has been translated into 7 languages.
• This new edition is a smaller format paperback priced at $32.00.
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR: MARGARET HOOKS has written extensively on the life and work of artists, among them Frida Kahlo, Tina Modotti and Edward James. Her writing has appeared in Vogue, The Guardian, Afterimage, Elle, and The Observer. Her books include Tina Modotti: Masters of Photography (New York, Aperture, 1999); Tina Modotti (London, Phaidon Press, 2005); Frida Kahlo: Portrait of an Icon (Madrid,Turner/London,Bloomsbury/New York, D.A.P., 2003); and Surreal Eden (New York, Princeton Architectural Press, 2007).

GORDON PARKS: THE FLAVIO STORY
Steidl/The Gordon Parks Foundation
ISBN 9783958293441
US $65.00  CDN $87.00
PUB DATE 5/22/2018

African American Art & Culture
Latin American / Caribbean Art & Culture
Photography: Documentary
Photography: Photojournalism

Clth, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 300 pgs / 50 color / 150 b&w.

The most widely read photo-essay of all time: Gordon Parks's 1961 Life Magazine story of the little boy Flavio living in wrenching poverty in Brazil

• Parks' moving black-and-white photographs and story elicited more than 3,000 letters and $25,000 in donations to assist the boy, his family and the favela. Parks and Flavio remained close throughout the rest of Parks life - this book covers essay and its aftermath.
• ABOUT THE PHOTOGRAPHER: Gordon Parks was born in Ft Scott, Kansas, started his photography career in St Paul, Minnesota, and traveled throughout the US as part of the Farm Security Administration (FSA). He lived most of his adult life in NYC. Gordon Parks was a photographer, filmmaker, writer and composer who is best known for chronicle the African-American experience for LIFE Magazine, writing and directing the film Shaft, and the author of autobiographical memoir The Learning Tree. The Parks Foundation is run out of Plesantville NY. FSA Archives are at Library of Congress in Washington DC.
• PRESS & PROMOTION: Accompanies Exhibition at Toronto: Ryerson Image Centre, September 2018 traveling to the Getty, Los Angeles, July 2019.

JOSEF KOUDELKA: THE MAKING OF EXILES
Editions Xavier Barral
ISBN 9782365111362
US $65.00  CDN $87.00
PUB DATE 7/25/2017

Photography: B&W
Photography: Photo-Essay
Photography: Photojournalism
Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 160 pgs / 45 color / 89 b&w.

The making of Josef Koudelka's famous photobook Exiles: like a "director's cut" this new book reproduces previously unpublished photos, captions, archival documents and shows how the book was put together.

• Exiles was originally published in 1988 and then revised in expanded edition 2014 by Aperture. It is considered one of the classic photobooks of the 20th century
• Josef Koudelka was born 1938 and came to fame with his 1968 photographs of the Soviet invasion of Czechoslovakia -- after which he fled the country and lived for decades as an exile. He is a member of Magnum. Koudelka has exhibited at the MoMA and at the ICP in New York and the Art Institute of Chicago.
• PROMO: Exhibition at Pompidou Center in Paris
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Clement Cheroux is senior curator at SFMOMA. He is currently preparing a Walker Evans retrospective that will be presented at both SFMOMA and the Centre Pompidou. He was a visiting research fellow in the Art History Department at Princeton University and a guest scholar at the Getty.

GIAN BUTTURINI: LONDON
Damiani
ISBN 9788862085588
US $45.00  CDN $60.00
PUB DATE 9/26/2017

Photography: Travel/Place/Urban
Hbk, 10 x 12 in. / 104 pgs / 86 b&w.

A Facsimile edition of a rare out-of-print photobook: Gian Butturini's 1969 portrait of London

• Stunning black-and-white photographs of London in the "Swinging 60s": hippies and fashionable young women share space with the homeless, the pacifist demonstrations and the orators at Speakers' Corner. The Tube, pubs, Piccadilly and Carnaby Street.
Gian Butturini(1935-2006, Italy) was a graphic designer & photographer. In 1969 he spent one month in London and then published his masterpiece photographic work London.
• Considered a photo book classic: it was included in Martin Parr and Gerry Badger's first volume of The Photo book: A History. First edition copies of the book are very rare and sell for upwards of $500.
• The photos in the book are interspersed with text by Robert CAPA and Allen GINSBERG.
• Contains a new foreword by photographer and Photo book collector Martin PARR.
• Appeals to PHOTO market but also DESIGNERS - the layout and typography are fabulous and FASHION- the clothing and STYLE are wonderful.
• PRESS & PROMO: DAP is handling press for this title - expect coverage in photo & fashion periodicals and on line.

ALEX WEBB AND REBECCA NORRIS WEBB: SLANT RHYMES
La Fábrica
ISBN 9788416248865
US $45.00  CDN $60.00
PUB DATE 8/22/2017

Photography: Artist's Book
Photography: Color
Photography: Writings
Clth, 8 x 9.5 in. / 112 pgs / 80 color.

Photographs taken during the Webbs' nearly 30-year relationship, laid out in pairs -one by Alex, one by Rebecca.

• Brooklyn based couple pair their work side by side in a series of visual love letters
• Together for almost 30 years this book is an ode to their relationship - both personal and professional
• Alex Webb & Rebecca Webb are very active in photo community and known for their popular workshops
• Expect review coverage in photography press but also as a human interest story about a marriage

TRIA GIOVAN: THE CUBA ARCHIVE
Damiani
ISBN 9788862085458
US $40.00  CDN $54.00
PUB DATE 11/7/2017

Latin American / Caribbean Art & Culture
Photography: Color
Photography: Travel/Place/Urban

Hbk, 11.5 x 8.25 in. / 168 pgs / 125 color.

Haunting color photographs of Cuba in the 1990s: the sultry beaches and languid landscapes, the once-elegant but now decaying architecture, and the Cubans themselves -- isolated from the rest of the modern world

• Tria Giovan (b. 1961) is a NYC based photographer: her work has been published in Aperture, Elle, Esquire, Harpers, Travel & Leisure, and Vogue among many other publications and is in the permanent collections of MoMA, The Brooklyn Museum, The Jewish Museum, and The NY Public Library.
• ABOUT THE BOOK: Travel photographs from Cuba in the 90s. She first traveled to Cuba in 1990 and subsequently returned 12 times over the next 6 years, shooting over 25,000 images. This book selects 120 of these images, most previously unpublished.
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Silvana Paternostro, is a noted Colombian-born journalist and senior fellow at the World Policy Institute. Her articles have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The Washington Post, Vogue and Time, among other publications.
• Cuba: The Elusive Island was published by Abrams in 1996 and is now out-of-print

JACK PIERSON: THE HUNGRY YEARS
Damiani
ISBN 9788862085625
US $40.00  CDN $54.00
PUB DATE 11/21/2017

Gay / Lesbian
Photography: Art Photography
Photography: Color
Photography: Portrait

Hbk, 8 x 9.5 in. / 104 pgs / illustrated throughout.

The '80s photographs of Boston School veteran Jack Pierson are at once melancholy and joyous, erotic and slyly witty

• ABOUT THE ARTIST: Jack Pierson (born 1960) is a photographer associated with " The Boston School" - group of young photographers who moved to NYC in late 1970s and worked on fringes (Nan Goldin, David Armstrong, Philip-Lorca diCorcia, Mark Morrisroe.) He divides his time between his home and studio in the Southern California desert near Joshua Tree National Park and New York.
• ABOUT THE BOOK: Lush pastel hazy landscapes, florals and portraits of young sensual men- sophisticated riff on 70s sunset posters. Tipped on image on cover.
• PROMO & PRESS: Expect coverage in photo and fashion magazines likeNew York Times T Magazine, Photograph. These works the subject of exhibition at the Aspen Art Museum Feb - May 21 2017;OMG a sculpture by Pierson was just installed at the Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford CT
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Eileen Myles (born 1949) is an American poet and writer. Seminal books include: Chelsea Girls (Black Sparrow Press, 1994) I Must Be Living Twice: New and Selected Poems 1975-2014.(New York: Ecco Press, 2015) The Importance of Being Iceland(Semiotext(e), 2009). She is partners with Jill Soloway , the creator of Transparent.
• QUOTE:" Your work is notebook-y, it's sun-drenched, it's nostalgic, it's tossed-off, it's working-class beach, it's pop, it's lonesome, it's tinted." Eileen Myles

TOILET PAPER CALENDAR 2018
Damiani
ISBN 9788862085557
US $20.00  CDN $27.95
SDNR50

PUB DATE 9/26/2017


Pbk, 11.5 x 11.75 in. / 13 pgs / 13 color.

• The Toilet Paper Calendar is the perfect venue for Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari's obsession with depicting absurd, humorous and surreal ideas through garishly-colored commercial photography. Toilet Paper all year long!

TOILET PAPER: ISSUE 15
Damiani
ISBN 9788862085564
US $16.00  CDN $23.00
PUB DATE 11/21/2017

Journals: Art
Journals: Photography
Pbk, 9 x 11.5 in. / 40 pgs / 22 color.

• Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari's wordless picture magazine features their distinct hybrid of vintage commercial photographic style with dark humor and bizarre, disturbing narratives.

KARLHEINZ WEINBERGER: SWISS REBELS
Steidl
ISBN 9783958293298
US $65.00  CDN $87.00
PUB DATE 9/26/2017

Gay / Lesbian
Photography: Fashion
Photography: Portrait

Clth, 9.5 x 13 in. / 280 pgs / 45 color / 120 b&w.

A long-awaited overview of the cult photographer of the European gay underground of the 1950s and 1960s

• Karlheinz Weinberger (1921-2006) was a Swiss photographer who took pictures for a gay underground club, Der Kreis. He also photographed a small band of teenagers -- working class boys and girls dissatisfied by the conservative climate of the day. They adopted a powerful gang identity expressed in their self styled and homemade clothing -- embellished jeans, motorcycle jackets, enlarged belt buckles -- emulating American icons Marlon Brando, James Dean, and Elvis Presley.
• Weinberger's other books are out-of-print and highly COLLECTIBLE: KarlHeinz Weinberger: Photos, 1954-1995 (Scalo 2000) sells for $400+ and Rebel Youth: Karlheinz Weinberger (Rizzoli 2011) sells for $150+
• SEXY self-confident portraits of YOUTH in 1950s & 1960s, DEFIANT REBELS, Lots of HOMOEROTIC imagery rockers, bikers, construction workers and athletes.
• The book works for PHOTO, FASHION, GAY & Nostalgia markets.
• The book accompanies a retrospective museum show touring Europe.
• PRESS & PROMO: Photo, Fashion, Music and Gay press all love Weinberger. Expect coverage in broad range venues like AnOTher, The Fader, Huffington Post, and ARTFORUM which have all covered him in the past. Fans of his work include John Waters and Steven Meisel. CULT and FETISH are two words used over and over to describe his audience.

CALIFORNIA INFERNAL: ANTON LAVEY & JAYNE MANSFIELD
Trapart Books
ISBN 9789198324310
US $39.95  CDN $53.95
PUB DATE 9/26/2017

Culture: Pop Culture
Regional Interest: US California
Hbk, 8.25 x 9.75 in. / 152 pgs / 12 color / 130 b&w.

A wildly weird photo documentation of the stranger-than-fiction relationship between buxom blond glamour goddess Jayne Mansfield and the devilishly handsome High Priest of Satanism Anton LaVey.

• ABOUT THE ARTIST: Walter Fischer was a German paparazzo and freelance photographer, based in Hollywood from 1957 to the 1970s, whose campy photos captured Jayne Mansfield and Satanist Anton LaVey.
• Kenneth Anger's participation amplifies the "Hollywood Babylon" aspects of the book: scandal, notoriety, gossip, and the dark side of Hollywood. Both Hollywood Babylon (1975) and LeVey's occult bestseller, Satanic Bible (1976) are still in print and each has sold well over 500,000 copies.
• PRESS & PROMO: A new documentary called Mansfield 66/67 released in early 2017 (from Room 237 director) and will draw attention to the relationship between Mansfield and LaVey (with Kenneth Anger, John Waters and others).

THE "ODESSEY": THE ZOMBIES IN WORDS AND IMAGES
Reel Art Press/BMG Books
ISBN 9781909526440
US $39.95  CDN $53.95
PUB DATE 3/30/2017

Music: Composer/Band
Hbk, 10 x 10 in. / 152 pgs / 62 color / 43 b&w.

"I remember first hearing 'She’s Not There' on the radio in my bedroom. So ethereal. So spooky ... the DJ said it was The Zombies from England. 'Of course,' I thought. 'That is exactly what a zombie rock group would sound like.'” -Tom Petty

• 1960s British invasion band The Zombies are best known for their hits "She's Not There", "Tell Her No" and "Time of the Season" /li>
• Odessey & Oracle was the last Zombies record. It wasn't released until April 1968, four months after the band had broken up. The misspelling of "odyssey" in the title was the result of a mistake by the designer of the LP cover, the band tried to cover this up at the time of release by claiming the misspelling was intentional.
• Now considered a cult classic of British Psychedelic Pop and is ranked number 100 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of the 500 Greatest Albums of All Time
• Includes the lyrics to each of 22 songs on the record, 1960s photographs and ephemera of the the group, including posters and record covers. Interview with 3 surviving original members
• Introduction by Tom Petty of Tom Petty & The Heartbreakers

NEAL PRESTON: EXHILARATED AND EXHAUSTED
Reel Art Press
ISBN 9781909526457
US $75.00  CDN $99.00
PUB DATE 11/21/2017

Music
Photography: Music/Band/Musician

Hbk, 9.75 x 12 in. / 336 pgs / 100 color / 200 b&w.

"I want the reader at the end of this book to feel like they've just spent a year on the road with Zeppelin with one day off, then six months with Guns 'n' Roses, with one day off and then five years with Bruce Springsteen. Exhilarated and exhausted." -Neal Preston

• Neal Preston (born 1952, Queens NY ) is an Los Angeles-based photographer well-known for his photographs of rock musicians. He has worked closely with Led Zeppelin, Queen, The Who, Bruce Springsteen, Fleetwood Mac, Michael Jackson, Whitney Houston, and many others. His archives were the primary source of still photographs for over 50 episodes of VH-1's music documentary series, Behind the Music. He dated Stevie Nicks (of Fleetwood Mac). His Iconic images include: Robert Plant, on stage in 1973 at Kezar Stadium, holding a dove in one hand, and a cigarette and a bottle of Newcastle in the other; Frank Zappa with a parrot in his head; Stevie M+NIcks with swirling scarves.
• PRESS & PROMOTION: Gibson Guitar /Lightpower sponsored Launch event in Los Angeles at old Tower Records on Sunset Blvd-- with exhibition and party. Expect press in Rolling Stone, USA Today, LA Times, Esquire, GQ -- the book has the same publisher -- Reel Art Press -- and publicist as Total Excess by Micheal Zigaris. Preston loves to travel, tell stories and do events.
• ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Cameron Crowe's film credits include Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Almost Famous, Jerry Maguire and Vanilla Sky, among many more. He and Neal Preston worked together as writer/ photographer for numerous magazines and have been close friends for over 40 years. Dave Brolan edited the books Baron Wolman: The Rolling Stone Years, Trust: The Photographs of Jim Marshall, Real Moments: Bob Dylan by Barry Feinstein, Hell & Redemption: Johnny Cash by Andy Earl.

FREEDOM, RHYTHM & SOUND
Soul Jazz Books
ISBN 9780957260061
US $34.95  CDN $45.95
PUB DATE 8/22/2017

African American Art & Culture
Music: Design

Pbk, 11.75 x 11.75 in. / 192 pgs / 400 color.

Now in Paperback: The classic collection of jazz record covers from the era of John Coltrane and "Spirital Jazz" in the 1960s - 1970s

• THE MUSIC: In the late 1960's and 1970's, Jazz took a turn toward the spiritual. Motivated both politically by the black community ideals of the civil rights movement, and artistically by the transcendent music of John Coltrane, the music of this period is known as "Spiritual Jazz."
• THE BOOK: Now in paperback. Utterly charming collection of Spiritual and Free Jazz album covers from the 60's and 70's, often privately pressed and released by the artists themselves, often in runs as small as 500 copies.
• THE GRAPHIC DESIGN: Often the work of amateur graphic designers blissfully unaware of the rules that were supposed to govern good design, these jackets nevertheless crackle with the energy and purpose of the music contained on the records themselves.
• THE EDITOR: Editor Gilles Peterson, legendary UK DJ and musical evangelist, is one of the foremost authorities on the spiritual jazz of this period, frequently showcasing it on his weekly BBC program, "Worldwide".

DANCEHALL
Soul Jazz Books
ISBN 9780957260085
US $34.95  CDN $45.95
PUB DATE 10/24/2017

Latin American / Caribbean Art & Culture
Culture: Pop Culture
Music: Historical

Pbk, 11.75 x 11.75 in. / 216 pgs / 400 color.

Now in paperback, the definitive visual document of the Dancehall scene in 1980's Jamaica -- with bore than 400 color photos

• THE MUSIC: Dancehall is the Jamaican popular music genre that exploded in the 1980's as a more sparse version of reggae, characterized by electronic effects and a faster tempo.
• Includes the studios and record shops which served as the epicenter of the music and, of course, the artists and producers themselves.
• THE AUTHOR: Writer and photographer Beth Lesser has been documenting and writing about Jamaican music since 1980. This is the definitive document of the scene.

LOOKING FOR LENIN
FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780993191176
US $32.50  CDN $42.50
PUB DATE 6/27/2017

Photography: Documentary
Photography: Political
Photography: Travel/Place/Urban
Hbk, 8 x 6.5 in. / 176 pgs / 90 color.

What happened to Lenin?

• In 1991 there were 5500 of statues of Lenin in the Ukraine, today there are none left on public display.
• Color photographs document what remains of these Lenin statues throughout the Ukraine.
• Included with the photographs are statements from Ukrainians on how they see their country's past and future.
• Works both as HISTORY and also as HUMOR just as Fuel's prior books: SOVIET BUS STOPS and CCCP COOKBOOK did.
• Niels Ackermann is a Swedish photographer living in Kiev Ukraine. His photographs have appeared in The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal.
• Sebastien Gobert is a French Journalist based in the Ukraine. He is a correspondent for various media including: Liberation, Radio France Internationale. Myroslava Hartmond is Research Associate at the University of Oxford. Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell are British graphic designers and the publishers of the best-selling Fuel imprint. They have published books on Soviet culture since 2004 with the release of the first Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia.

SOVIET BUS STOPS
FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780993191183
US $32.50  CDN $42.50
PUB DATE 9/26/2017

Photography: Travel/Place/Urban
Hbk, 8 x 6.5 in. / 192 pgs / 160 color.

Even More Strange Soviet Bus Stops

• Soviet Bus Stops, 9780993191107 was published in 2015 to enormous success. Now Fuel is back with a second volume
• Even stranger bus stops in the remotest areas of Georgia and Ukraine, as well as within Russia itself. Herwig covers more than 9,000 miles from coast to coast across the largest country in the world.
• Fuel is following the model of successful mutli volume series Russian Criminal Tattoos. Russia is sure to be in the news for the foreseeable future.
• THE PHOTOGRAPHER: Christopher Herwig is a Canadian born photographer and videographer. Currently based in Jordan -- he is the author of SOVIET BUS STOPS
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Owen Hatherley is a British writer whose work appears regularly in Architectural Review. He is author of A Guide to the New Ruins of Great Britain (Verso, 2010),) and Landscapes of Communism (Penguin 2015)

HOLIDAYS IN SOVIET SANATORIUMS
FUEL Publishing
ISBN 9780993191190
US $32.50  CDN $42.50
PUB DATE 10/24/2017

Photography: Photojournalism
Photography: Travel/Place/Urban
Hbk, 8 x 6.5 in. / 192 pgs / 200 color.

From the creators of Soviet Bus Stops and the CCCP Cookbook comes this fun and quirky look at the strange ways of relaxation in the USSR.

• Part spa and part medical institution, Soviet Sanatoriums were originally built in the 1920s for workers' holidays, courtesy of a state-funded voucher system. At their peak they were visited by millions of citizens across the USSR every year. From Armenia to Uzbekistan, and from crude-oil baths to radon water douches to stints in underground salt caves, these sanatorium are one of the stranger aspects of Soviet culture.
• PROMOTION: Already an online sensation because its Kickstarter origins, this will receive the usual viral treatment across the web thanks to FUEL's huge international fan base.
• ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Maryam Omidi has written for The Guardian, the Wall Street Journal Europe and Reuters. She was the Features Editor of The Calvert Journal, 2013-2015, an award-winning online magazine dedicated to contemporary art and culture in the New East.
• THE PUBLISHERS & EDITORS: Damon Murray and Stephen Sorrell's imprint Fuel has been publishing books on Soviet culture since 2004 from the Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia to Soviet Bus Stops.

THE FUTURE OF PUBLIC SPACE
Metropolis Books
ISBN 9781942884163
US $17.95  CDN $25.50
PUB DATE 2/27/2018

Architecture: Theory
Architecture: Urban planning
Pbk, 4.25 x 7 in. / 144 pgs.

Short but intellectually invigorating reads on the conflicted subject of public space in an increasingly privatized world

• Writers tackle what "public" space will mean in our future from LITERARY, HISTORICAL and TECHNOLOGICAL angles. * Fiction from sci-fi writer China Mieville. * Journalistic writing about The West from Rachel Monroe, the politics of Public Art from Ben Davis, about Tokyo by Christopher DeWolf, and about NEVADA's Red Rock Desert from Terry Tempest Williams. * Jaron Lanier meditates on the Internet as a way to reimagine our ideas of Public Space
• ABOUT THE CONTRIBUTORS: Ben Davis is currently the National Art Critic for artnet News, he garnered attention for his manifesto Theses on Art and Class. Chrisopher DeWolf is author of upcoming title Borrowed Spaces: Life Btwn the Cracks of Modern Hong Kong from Penguin. Jaron Lanier is a hugely popular computer theorist and a pioneer of virtual reality, author of Who Owns the Future? (2013) and You Are Not a Gadget (2010). Justin McGuirk is the chief curator at the Design Museum in Moscow. China Tom Mieville is the English fantasy fiction author of Perdido Street Station (2000) and The City & the City (2009). Terry Tempest Williams is the Provostial Scholar at Dartmouth College and author of When Women Were Birds (2012).
• ABOUT THE SERIES: The second book in the SOM series presenting contemporary architectural ideas to a general audience. The series features writers who are experts in their field, many with sizable followings beyond the world of architecture. THE FUTURE OF THE SKYSCRAPER (9781938922787).

SPACE COLONIES
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959051217
US $15.00  CDN $21.50
PUB DATE 8/22/2017

Art: Artist's Books
Pbk, 4.25 x 6 in. / 160 pgs / 83 b&w.

A very funny (but loving) spoof of 1960s and 1970s eco-utopianism (think Whole Earth Catalog by Stewart Brand) from Spector publishers

• A gift book for anyone who loved The Moon or Hippie Modernism. It's a very funny and accessible visual essay that assembles historical, present-day, and speculative material, combined with fictional and factual stories to create a loving spoof of 1960s and 1970s eco-utopianism.
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Author Fabian Reimann had a great success with his Another Earth Catalog published in 2012 with Spector, which was an take off on Whole Earth Catalog by Stewart Brand. This new book again returns to Stewart Brand, this time his publications on the topic of colonizing space. He is also a artist working in Leipzig and editor of the "ego-zine" Freeman's Journal (since 2004).
• PROMOTION, PRESS: Beloved on Social media.

FABIAN REIMANN: ANOTHER EARTH CATALOG
Spector Books
ISBN 9783940064646
US $17.00  CDN $24.00
PUB DATE 9/1/2013


Pbk, 4.25 x 6 in. / 192 pgs / 171 color.

A mini treat to delight cyber hippies, eco warriors and assorted fans of 1960s alternative “bible” The Whole Earth Catalog

• ABOUT THE BOOK: A contemporary riff on the Whole Earth Catalog by Stewart Brand Artist Reimann constructs this compact compendium as both a nostalgic time machine and a trip to the future from 1969.
• Includes both vintage and new imagery in a pocket sized format priced at $15.
• Originally published in 2013, this is a BACKLIST BESTSELLER from Spector Books .

FOUR TIMES THROUGH THE LABYRINTH
Spector Books/Rollo Press
ISBN 9783944669038
US $19.95  CDN $26.95
PUB DATE 12/1/2013


Hbk, 5 x 7.5 in. / 320 pgs / 200 b&w.

A playful yet informative exploration of the Labyrinth from the hiding place of the minotaur to the floorplans of IKEA stores

• ABOUT THE BOOK: A charming and erudite meander through the history of the Labyrinth from Renaissance gardens to the Las Vegas strip, video games to the structure of the inner ear
• Formatted as a paperback reader with illustrations and pithy text on each page – you can enter the book at any point. Only $19.95!
• Originally published in 2010, this is a BACKLIST BESTSELLER from Spector Books .

MEMORIES OF THE MOON AGE
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959050050
US $22.00  CDN $30.50
PUB DATE 10/1/2015


Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 260 pgs / illustrated throughout.

This little book traces the visual & cultural history of lunar exploration past present and future

• A compact and fun history of travel to the moon in art, culture, and literature --from antiquity to the aesthetics of Stanley Kubrick --through different fields including science, literature, and pop culture.
• The book begins with Ptolemy's early calculations of the distance to the moon, through fictional travels to the moon by the likes of Jules Verne, and J.G. Ballard From NASA's preparation for the Apollo moon landing to lunar travel by Virgin Galactic.
• It’s a 310 page paperback illustrated reader AFFORDABLY priced at $22.
• Originally published in 2015,this is a BACKLIST BESTSELLER from Spector Books

VINCENT SARDON: THE STAMPOGRAPHER
Siglio
ISBN 9781938221163
US $32.50  CDN $42.50
PUB DATE 11/21/2017

Art: Collage & Assemblage
Hbk, 7.75 x 10.5 in. / 108 pgs / 200 color.

A counter-culture book of the highest order. Great fun! Subversive, funny, biting art made from RUBBER stamps out of a little shop in Paris.

• ABOUT THE ARTIST: Vincent Sardon is a radically independent artist who began his career as political cartoonist for the left-wing Liberation, then, disillusioned, he set out on his own to make rubber stamps. He has an ardent cult following in France where a book about him Le Tampographe, is now in its third printing. A good comparison for him would be the US author/humorist/ cartoonist David Rees (Get YOur War On , How to Sharpen Pencil). He is the right artist for ATLAS OBSCURA crowd.
• ABOUT THE BOOK: Some of it is word based (I don't give a Fuck, PIss Off) and many have intricate drawings -- naked gay cowboys, the middle finger, skeletons, and dragon flies. He even has "publisher stamps" with manuscript rejections and publisher correspondence ("We are pleased to announce that we will be publishing your autobiography, however your life will be as a shitty as ever.") This is a book for our times, funny and raunchy, it's also a visual delight. Who doesn't want a stamp right now that says,"Shut the Fuck Up"? Trump has a cameo on a page of stamped images of Dictators and Despots. A lefty political gift book for people who loved "We Go to the Gallery"
• PRESS & PROMO: Working with the Cultural Services of the French Embassy on book-related event(s) and a pop-up exhibition. Launch at NY Artsist Book Fair. Sardon has strong social media presence: 60,000 followers on Facebook. Plus, Sardon produces videos that will be used in promotion. BEA giveaway of the publisher stamps on small cards.

JONAS MEKAS: SCRAPBOOK OF THE SIXTIES
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959050333
US $35.00  CDN $49.95
PUB DATE 2/1/2015


Pbk, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 450 pgs / 88 color / 130 b&w.

"There’s a live-wire spontaneity to Mekas’s writing, an excitement sparked by his sense of beauty, by his sheer pleasure in cinematic imagination, and it’s connected to a soulful sense of inwardness and empathy. --The New Yorker

• ABOUT THE ARTIST: Jonas Mekas (b. 1922, Lithuania) is the quintessential New York downtown artist. Often called the Godfather of American avant-garde cinema, he co-founded of the Anthology Film Archives, the premiere repository of avant-garde film. He continues to make film diaries well into his nineties, and grows more and more famous with his age.
• ABOUT THE BOOK: Staring in 1958 Mekas wrote a weekly column called Movie Journal for the Village Voice. This book brings together published and unpublished texts from this column and up through to 2010. The book includes interviews with Judith Malina & Julian Beck (The Living Theatre), Pier Paolo Pasolini, Richard Foreman, Susan Sontag, Hermann Nitsch, Peter Kubelka, Nam June Paik, John Lennon & Yoko Ono.

I HAD NOWHERE TO GO
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959051460
US $25.00  CDN $34.50
PUB DATE 8/22/2017

Film & Video
Literature: Biography

Pbk, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 480 pgs / 37 b&w.

Now in his 90s, Jonas Mekas -- filmmaker, writer, and poet -- collaborated with Salvador Dali, Allen Ginsberg, Andy Warhol and Nico. This book is a reprint of his memoir of his early years, chronicling his experiences in a Nazi camp through to his first years as a young immigrant in New York City

• ABOUT THE ARTIST: Jonas Mekas (b. 1922, Lithuania) is the quintessential New York downtown artist. Often called the Godfather of American avant-garde cinema, he co-founded of the Anthology Film Archives, the premiere repository of avant-garde film. He continues to make film diaries well into his nineties, and grows more and more famous with his age.
• ABOUT THE BOOK: A REPRINT of the 1991, Black Thistle Press Edition. Coming off the recent success of Mekas' Scrapbook of the Sixties (2015), this reprint will be a welcome addition to the biography table at independent bookstores. This book - Mekas's memoir -tells the story of his early life, before he became the Jonas Mekas who we now revere. This is a first hand account of the life of Jonas Mekas as a Displaced Person: it chronicles his experiences in a Nazi Forced Labor camp; five years in Displaced Persons camps; and his first years as a young Lithuanian immigrant in New York City. The memoir was developed into a documentary by artist Douglas Gordon in 2016.
• PROMOTION: Jonas Mekas is invited at the documenta 14 in Athens 04/06/2017 and in Kassel 06/09/2017. Mekas is revered and is available to do events in the US and had a very successful book launch of the Scrapbook of the Sixties at McNally Jackson in NY.

ART AND CHINA AFTER 1989: THEATER OF THE WORLD
Guggenheim Museum Publications
ISBN 9780892075287
US $75.00  CDN $99.00
PUB DATE 11/21/2017

Asian Art & Culture
Art: Japanese
Art: Performance Art
Art: Political

Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 324 pgs / 225 color / 50 b&w.

The Guggenheim's landmark survey of contemporary Chinese Art -- the largest exhibition ever mounted in the US

• The book begins in 1989 with the close of the cold War and ends in 2008 the year of the Beijing Olympics (where both Ai Wei Wei and were part of the artistic team working on the ceremonies). The book presents contemporary art in China art in the context of the end of the Cold War, the spread of globalization, and the rise of China. It shows how Chinese artists have been both agents and skeptics of China's growth as a world power and Includes over 70 artists and collectives. The best-known artists in the book are Ai Weiwei, Cai Guo-Qiang, Cao Fei, Chen Zhen, Rem Koolhaas/OMA, Liu Wei, Liu Xiaodong, Song Dong, Wang Guangyi, Wang Jianwei, Xu Bing, Zeng Fanzhi, Zhang Peili, and Zhao Gang. The artwork spans media, film, video, ink, installation, Land art, performance, as well as painting and photography.
• PROMO: This is the LARGEST exhibition of contemporary Chinese art ever mounted in the US. It opens at the Guggenheim in Fall 2017 and travels to SFMOMA in Fall 2018 (after going to Guggenheim Biblbao). Expect press coverage in New York Times, Wall Street Journal, The New Yorker as well as in the art press: ARTFORUM, Hperallergic, Art & Auction, and others.
• ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Alexandra Munroe is Senior Curator, Asian Art, at the Guggenheim. Philip Tinari is Director of the Ullens Center for Contemporary Art, Beijing. He has previously worked as China representative for Art Basel and contributing editor to Artforum. Hou Hanru is Artistic Director of MAXXI, National Museum of the 21st Century Arts, Rome. He was director of exhibitions and public programs at the San Francisco Art Institute from 2006-12.
• WEST COAST INTEREST: Show travels to the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art in Fall 2018.

CLUB 57: FILM, PERFORMANCE, AND ART IN THE EAST VILLAGE, 1978–1983
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450301
US $40.00  CDN $54.00
PUB DATE 10/24/2017

Film & Video
Gay / Lesbian
Music
Art: Film & Video
Art: Performance Art
Regional Interest: US New York City
Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 176 pgs / 225 color.

Jam packed with images ranging from paintings and performance to club flyers and nightlife photos, this is the roller-coaster story of the late 1970s - early 1980s New York City East Village club, film, music and art scenes as told through the history of Club 57 on St. Marks Place.

• ABOUT THE NIGHTCLUB: Club 57 was a nightclub located at 57 St. Mark's Place in the East Village, New York City during the late 1970s and early 1980s. It was founded by Stanley Zbigniew Strychacki. It was a hangout and venue for performance- and visual-artists and musicians. Keith Haring had his first New York show at Club 57; Guest DJs included Johnny Dynell and Afrika Bambaataa; Club 57 hosted movies, Drag Queens, Punk Rock shows, art exhibitions, fashion shows, poetry readings, new wave bands, no wave cinema, and performance art. Performers and artists include: Madonna, Kenny Scharf, Jean Michel Basquiat, Klaus Nomi, Joey Arias, John Sex, John Ahearn, Divine, Taboo!, John Epperson (Lypsinka), Tseng Kwong Chi, Kitty Brophy, Fab Five Freddy, Cookie Mueller, Steve Buschemi, The Fleshtones, and B52s. Theme Nights included: Monster Movie Club.
• ABOUT THE BOOK: Curators at MOMA researched every single event at the club for 4 years - 1978-1983. Includes a day-by-day chronological timeline of club events, illustrated with club flyers, film stills, posters, photos, and artworks. The Book starts with high manic energy but ends with AIDS and gentrification. Can be shelved in CULTURAL history, MUSIC, FILM, or ART.
• PRESS & PROMO: Exhibition at MOMA opens October 2017 through April 2018
• ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Ron Magliozzi, Sophie Cavulacos, Laura Hoptman, Lucy Gallun are MOMA curators. J. Hoberman, is an American film critic, who worked at The Village Voice from the 1970s to 2012. He is the author of Film After Film: (Or, What Became of 21st Century Cinema?) (Verso). Jenny Schlenzka is Director of Performance Space 122. Ann Magnuson, Performance artist, is writer now based in LA; she was the manager of Club 57 from 1979-1989.
• QUOTE: Ann Magnuson describes Club 57 as a place for "pointy-toed hipsters, girls in rockabilly petticoats, spandex pants, and thrift-store stiletto heels...suburban refugees who had run away from home to find a new family...who liked the things we liked--Devo, Duchamp, and William S. Burroughs--and (more important) hated the things we hated--disco, Diane von Furstenberg, and The Waltons."

JANE AUSTEN AND HER WORLD
National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855147010
US $19.95  CDN $27.95
PUB DATE 9/26/2017

Literature: Biography
Pbk, 5.5 x 7.75 in. / 120 pgs / 52 color.

A small illustrated biography of Jane Austen from the National Portrait Gallery, London -- including the one known portrait of the beloved novelist

• ABOUT THE BOOK: An illustrated biography of late 18th c. British writer, Jane Austen in the National Portrait Gallery's Companions series of compact, fully illustrated, (works from London's National Portrait Gallery's collection) historical guides to literary and artistic personalities.
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Written by Josephine Ross, also authored Jane Austen's Guide to Good Manners (Bloomsbury, 2006).

THE PUNISHMENTS OF HELL
Atlas Press
ISBN 9780993148736
US $13.50  CDN $19.50
PUB DATE 10/24/2017

Academic Course AdoptionLiterature: Fiction
Pbk, 5.75 x 6.75 in. / 160 pgs.

Written in early 1922, this is the first prose work by Surrealist poet and exemplary practitioner of automatic writing, Robert Desnos

• DESNOS was a writer aligned with both Paris DADA and SURREALIST groups and author of Mourning for Mourning and Liberty or Love
• BOOK is prose format story--wherein Desnos contemporaries like Andre BRETON, Louis ARAGON, Benjamin PERET, among others, make appearances

MADEMOISELLE BAMBU
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663252
US $22.95  CDN $32.00
PUB DATE 1/23/2018

Literature: Fiction
Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 240 pgs / 67 b&w.

French novelist Pierre Mac Orlan's 1930s take on the spy novel, set in Hamburg, London, Palermo, Brest and elsewhere during the 1920s and 1930s.

• ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Pierre Mac Orlan was a French novelist and songwriter. His novel Quai des Brumes was the source for Marcel Carne's 1938 film. He was also a prolific writer of chansons, many of which were popularized by singers such as Juliette Greco. Little-translated into English, he was a huge influence on a generation of French authors, most famously on Boris Vian and Guy Debord. Artaud described him as "the prophet of adventure." Berenice Abbott also counted him as a "huge influence."
• ABOUT THE BOOK: It tells the tales of three secret agents. It is profusely illustrated with the same drawings by 1940s-50s French caricaturist Gus Bofa that were in the French edition. Wakefield's previous Mac Orlan title, Handbook for the Perfect Adventurer, has been a steady seller at independents. Wakefield Press is making a project of translating Mac Orlan (as with Paul Scheerbart and Marcel Schwob) and there will be more Mac Orlan in future seasons.

HASHISH
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663313
US $15.95  CDN $22.50
PUB DATE 4/24/2018

Academic Course AdoptionLiterature: Fiction
Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 184 pgs / 13 b&w.

A collection of interwoven tales of Satanism, eroticism, sadism, cannibalism, necrophilia, death.

• THE AUTHOR: Schmidtz ( 1873-1931) was German writer and dandy whose book Hashish helped inaugurate the German decadent/fantastical tradition. Brother-in-law of Alfred Kubin, lover of Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven, friend of Stefan Zweig. No other books in English.
• THE BOOK: a classic of German Decadant literature, Your basic Decadence. Includes reproductions of the cover and the 12 drawings by Alfred Kubin from the second German edition of 1913.
• QUOTE: 'Polite writers are often chaste in life. Every perversity has one seductive basic idea. Each is a symbol of this idea. From cunnilingus to coprophagy: it's the idea of indulging oneself completely.''Oscar A. H. Schmitz

THE CONSTRUCTION OF THE TOWER OF BABEL
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663320
US $14.95  CDN $21.00
PUB DATE 11/21/2017

Academic Course AdoptionWritings: Art
Writings: Art Theory
Writings: Cultural Theory
Writings: Political Theory
Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 88 pgs / 1 color / 4 b&w.

An engineer by trade, Benet brings his knowledge of building construction to bear on Painter Jan Bruegel's creation, examining the archways, pillars, windows, and the painter's meticulously depicted chaos

• THE AUTHOR: Juan Benet ( 1927-1993) a Spanish Avant Garde writer much admired in Europe but little translated into English. On the author's death, The New York Times ran an obituary for him, comparing his stature in Spain to that of William Faulkner in the United States, James Joyce in Ireland, and Marcel Proust in France.
• THE BOOK: two essays, the first a meditation on Bruegel's famous painting of the Tower of Babel (the first painting in European art to feature a building as a protagonist) and the second an essay on "the dual nature of the spy."
• This is the first translation of the book into English. Book will include a foldout reproduction of the painting in question for reader's reference.
• QUOTE: Even when overcome by the recollection of other more troubling and dramatic paintings, what visitor to the Kunsthistorisches Museum in Vienna can forget the impression produced by Brueghel's Construction of the Tower of Babel?

ODD JOBS
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663290
US $11.95  CDN $17.50
PUB DATE 11/21/2017

Gay / Lesbian
Literature: Fiction

Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 64 pgs.

Duvert assaults parenthood, priesthood, and neighborhood in this mock handbook to suburban living: Leave it to Beaver as written by William Burroughs.

• THE AUTHOR: a cult favorite among American transgressive novelists such as Dennis Cooper, and championed by Roland Barthes, Tony Duvert was the enfant terrible of 60s-70s French literature. Through Barthes, he achieved public recognition in 1973 with his novel Strange Landscape. Semiotexte has recently reintroduced him into English. He was extremely controversial because of his advocacy of pedophilia. Could be compared to Michel Houllebecq or Dennis Cooper
• THE BOOK: set in an imaginary French suburb, it describes, in 23 short satirical texts, a series of horrible jobs: 'The Snot-Remover,' 'The Wiper,' 'The Skinner' etc. Never before translated into English-- a truly savage and shocking satire.

DISTRICT
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663306
US $11.95  CDN $17.50
PUB DATE 11/21/2017

Gay / Lesbian
Literature: Fiction

Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 56 pgs.

An outcast's tour of city life'from construction site to metro, from bar to brothel

• THE AUTHOR: a cult favorite among American transgressive novelists such as Dennis Cooper, and championed by Roland Barthes, Tony Duvert ( 1945-2008) was the enfant terrible of 60s-70s French literature. Through Barthes, he achieved public recognition in 1973 with his novel Strange Landscape. Semiotexte has recently reintroduced him into English. He was extremely controversial because of his advocacy of pedophilia. Could be compared to Michel Houllebecq or Dennis Cooper
• THE BOOK 10 vignettes of the sad, sordid, and sinister aspects to a section of an unnamed French city. One of Duvert's last books, never before translated into English.

CITY OF THE FUTURE
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030559
US $18.95  CDN $26.50
PUB DATE 4/24/2018

Asian American Art & Culture
Literature: Poetry
Regional Interest: US California
Pbk, 5.25 x 8 in. / 188 pgs / 15 b&w.

21 years after Sesshu Foster's City Terrace Field Manual comes this new collection of poems which take on gentrification, modernization and globalization, as told from the same corner of Los Angles.

• ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Sesshu Foster (b. 1957) was born and raised in East Los Angeles. He earned his MFA from the Iowa Writers' Workshop He's a working-class writer, writer of color, and writer for his community:Literary California, mixed with Beat, Asian American and Latino influences.
• ABOUT THE BOOK: Poems that were written on postcards--political Chicano and Asian Am/East LA . This is his first collection of poetry since his award-winning World Ball Notebook (City Lights Books 2009).
• PRESS & PROMO: Foster will have several events in and around Los Angeles and San Diego, and will also do events in New York City and Washington D.C. and will work with some special spaces like the NYU A/P/A Center and UCLA's Asian American Center to provide Foster with venues for multimedia presentations of his work.

SANLé SORY: VOLTA PHOTO 1965–85
Reel Art Press/Morton Hill
ISBN 9781909526525
US $29.95  CDN $39.95
PUB DATE 9/26/2017

African Art & Culture
Photography: B&W
Photography: Portrait
Photography: Travel/Place/Urban

Hbk, 8 x 9.5 in. / 80 pgs / 40 b&w.

Sanle captured the flourishing music scene and joyful youth culture of late 1960s Burkino Faso following its independence from France.

• THE ARTIST: Ibrahima Sanlé Sory (b. 1943) lives and works in, Burkina Faso. He is known for the elaborate painted backdrops which he painted and then used as backgrounds for his studio portraits. Working in the tradition of MALICK SIDIBE and SEYDOU KEITA, SANLE continues the tradition of African Photographic portraiture.
• THE BOOK: This first book on his work covers photos made from 1965 to 1985 with a focus on portraits. Often photographed at dance parties these young African men & women mixed traditional African garb with the Western status symbols: blue jeans, cars, sunglasses, watches, pork pie hats- creating their own FASHIONABLE & CHIC STYLES
• PROMO: Published to accompany first gallery show in London, Sanle is included in AUTO PHOTO at Foundation Cartier in Paris this summer and will have a show of work at Art Institute of Chicago May - October 2018

ROBERT FRANK: THE LINES OF MY HAND
Steidl
ISBN 9783958293205
US $35.00  CDN $47.50
PUB DATE 2/27/2018

Photography: B&W
Pbk, 9 x 12 in. / 102 pgs / 160 b&w.

After The Americans, The Lines of My Hand is Frank's most important book and the publication that established his autobiographical, sometimes confessional, approach to bookmaking.

• THE PHOTOGRAPHER: Robert Frank was born in Zurich in 1924 and immigrated to the United States in 1947. He is best known for his seminal book The Americans, first published in English in 1959, which gave rise to a distinctly 'new form of the photobook, He divides his time between New York City and Nova Scotia, Canada.
• ABOUT THE BOOK: Originally published in 1972, reprinted by Pantheon in 1989, and by Scalo in 1996 this is a a photobook classic.Chronological selections from every stage of Frank's work until 1972: early photos in Switzerland 1945'46, Peru, Paris, Valencia, London and Wales, contact sheets from The Americans, photo-collages, film stills Pull My Daisy (1959).
• This new Steidl edition is made in close collaboration with Robert Frank, it follows and updates the first US edition by Lustrum Press of 1972.

ROBERT ADAMS: TENANCY
Fraenkel Gallery
ISBN 9781881337454
US $65.00  CDN $87.00
PUB DATE 6/27/2017

Photography: America
Photography: B&W
Photography: Landscape/Nature
Photography: Travel/Place/Urban
Regional Interest: US West
Hbk, 10 x 12 in. / 112 pgs / 43 b&w.

Photographs of Nehalem Bay State Park, Oregon, in peril due to imminent threats both man made and environmental along the North Western coastline.

• ABOUT THE ARTIST: Photographer Robert Adams (b. 1937) has published more than forty books of photographs, with the changing landscape of the American West as his primary subject. He lives and works in Astoria, Oregon. He is represented by the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco.
• ABOUT THE BOOK: New work by Adams made between 2013 and 2015, with short texts by the artist. Adams recent photographs of the landscape reference the peril to the land of clear cutting, environmental degradation, and natural disasters along the Northwestern coast of the US.

ROBERT ADAMS: AN OLD FOREST ROAD
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960981237
US $45.00  CDN $60.00
FLAT40

PUB DATE 9/26/2017

Photography: B&W
Photography: Landscape/Nature
Regional Interest: US West
Hbk, 7.75 x 10.25 in. / 72 pgs / 31 b&w.

Photographs of an old forest road in Northwestern Oregon form a lyrical ode to nature and the act of walking.

• ABOUT THE ARTIST: Photographer Robert Adams (b. 1937) has published more than forty books of photographs, with the changing landscape of the American West as his primary subject. He lives and works in Astoria, Oregon. He is represented by the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco.
• ABOUT THE BOOK:Landscape photography of a forest reserve near Adams' home in Northerwestern Oregon.
• ABOUT THE AUTHORS: W.S. Merwin (b. 1927) is an American poet, with an interest in the Ecology and Buddhist philosophy. The book also features excerpts from the writings of Henry David Thereau, American essayist, poet, philosopher and naturalist.The book will appeal both to photography fans and those interested in nature, ecology and environmentalism.

DAVID HURN: ARIZONA TRIPS
Reel Art Press
ISBN 9781909526518
US $39.95  CDN $53.95
PUB DATE 12/26/2017

Photography: B&W
Photography: Travel/Place/Urban
Regional Interest: US West
Hbk, 9 x 10.75 in. / 160 pgs / 150 b&w.

With humor and a keen eye Magnum photographer David Hurn has been photographing everyday life in Arizona since the late 1970s.

• ABOUT THE ARTIST: David Hurn (b. Wales 1934) is a Magnum photographer with aninimitable talent for making the ordinary extraordinary�.
• ABOUT THE BOOK: Like Joel Meyerowitz mixed with Martin Parr everyday life in Arizona -schools, parades, the elderly in exercise classes, holidays and more. Hurn explains that he chose to photograph in Arizona because it is the most right wing state in America, plus it is the driest State in America. The exact opposite of my home country Wales.Book covers Hurn's various visits to the state between 1979 and 2001.

MORE WOMEN IN TREES
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775743150
US $24.95  CDN $33.95
PUB DATE 1/23/2018

Photography: Found Photos
Hbk, 5 x 7 in. / 112 pgs / 52 color.

More vintage photographs of women in trees - a quirky & adorable gift book

• THE BOOK: a follow up the Hatje Cantz's 2016 Women In Trees vintage found photos found at German flea markets. Pretty girls from the 1940s, 50s and 60s.
• This book includes color images and retails for $25.

ROBERT RAUSCHENBERG: THIRTY-FOUR ILLUSTRATIONS FOR DANTE’S INFERNO
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450295
US $24.95  CDN $33.95
PUB DATE 6/27/2017

Art: Collage & Assemblage
Art: Drawing
Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 104 pgs / 44 color.

Rauschenberg's illustrations for Dante's Inferno, a perfect pairing of art & literature

• ABOUT ARTIST:Robert Rauschenberg (1925-2008) is currently the subject of a one man show at The Museum of Modern Art , New York, which will travel to San Francisco MoMA in the Fall. He ushered in a new era of postwar American art in the wake of Abstract Expressionism.
• ABOUT BOOK: From 1958-1960 Rauschenberg made a series of 34 drawings, one for each Canto, or section, of Dante's poem The Inferno (1308-1321). The drawings combined watercolors with images from glossy magazines, including such popular figures as John F. Kennedy and Adlai Stevenson.
• This affordable $24.95 book presents the complete set of drawings, with an introduction by curator Leah Dickerman and newly commissioned poetry from Kevin Young and Robin Coste Lewis. Should appeal to both ART and LITERARY audiences.
• ABOUT AUTHORS: Kevin Young is the Director of the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture in NY. His most recent book is Blue Laws: Selected & Uncollected Poems 1995-2015 (Knopf, 2016). Robin Coste Lewis is American poet, author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015) which won the National Book Award for Poetry.

MARK BRADFORD: TOMORROW IS ANOTHER DAY
Gregory R. Miller & Co.
ISBN 9781941366141
US $60.00  CDN $79.00
PUB DATE 6/27/2017

African American Art & Culture
Art: African-American
Art: Collage & Assemblage
Art: Painting
Art: Performance Art
Art: Political
Venice
Regional Interest: US California
Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 230 pgs / 151 color.

An Artist’s Mythic Rebellion for the Venice Biennale. Mark Bradford’s concern: How can he represent the United States when he no longer feels represented by his government? -- THE NEW YORK TIMES

• ABOUT THE ARTIST: Mark Bradford (American, b. 1961) is African American, Los Angeles based abstract painter. He graduated from Cal Arts He transforms materials scavenged from the street into wall-size collages and installations. He also maintains a social practice, anchored by his Los Angeles-based nonprofit, Art + Practice, which promotes education and culture by providing life skills training and arts education for foster youth in the community of Leimert Park, Los Angeles.
• ABOUT THE BOOK : A non traditional catalog for Mark Bradford’s 2017 Venice Biennale installation in US Pavilion; in addition to his art includes a chorus of compelling voices: Peter James Hudson, Anita Hill, Sarah Lewis, and Zadie Smith; and excerpts from two historical texts: W.E.B. Du Bois’ Black Reconstruction in America and James Baldwin’s Go Tell It On the Mountain.
• PROMO:There has been MAJOR review coverage of Bradford's installation at Venice Biennale. New commissions include a lobby Wall Painting Hammer Museum LA; Hirshhorn Museum has commissioned Mark Bradford to do a site-specific painting that will occupy the entire circumference of the building's second-floor inner galleries to open Fall 2017.
• ABOUT THE AUTHORS: CHRISTOPHER BEDFORD is Director Baltimore Museum of ArtKATY SIEGEL is the Rose Art Museum's curator at large and Chair in Modern American Art, Stony Brook University . ANITA F. HILL Professor of Social Policy, Law,Brandeis UniversityPETER JAMES HUDSON Professor of History UCLA. He is the author of Banking on Empire: How Wall Street Colonized the Caribbean (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2017). SARAH LEWIS Professor of History of Art Harvard University ,She is author of the bestseller The Rise: Creativity, the Gift of Failure, and the Search for MasteryZADIE SMITH is the author of White Teeth Swing Time. She is a Professor at New York University

ED RUSCHA: METRO MATTRESSES
Sprüth Magers/Koenig Books
ISBN 9783000541551
US $49.95  CDN $67.50
FLAT40

PUB DATE 7/25/2017

Art: Artist's Books
Hbk, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 28 pgs / illustrated throughout.

Latest drawing series from Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha

• ABOUT THE ARTIST: Ed Ruscha (born 1937) has been casting his eye across the landscapes of the American West for over 50 years, taking in everything from gas stations to swimming pools.
• ABOUT THE BOOK: In the format of a board book- drawings of mattresses found on the streets of Los Angeles.

JAPAN MODERN
nai010 publishers/Rijksmuseum
ISBN 9789491714887
US $45.00  CDN $60.00
PUB DATE 4/25/2017

Asian Art & Culture
Art Group: Collections
Art: Asian
Art: Japanese

Hbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 264 pgs / 194 color.

Japanese prints from 1920s & 30s when the Jazz Age influenced traditional imagery - rather than geisha make-up the girls sport chin length bobs.

• ABOUT THE BOOK: This book is drop dead gorgeous. It begins and ends with pages of full bleeds. The paper is lightweight, toothy and holds a lot of ink. The cover is wrapped with blue & pink toned heavy vellum. Images of flappers, night cubs & cityscapes in addition to the more traditional tea ceremonies, bathing beauties and rural life.

MIKE KELLEY: MEMORY WARE
Hauser & Wirth Publishers
ISBN 9783952446140
US $65.00  CDN $87.00
PUB DATE 4/25/2017

Art: Sculpture
Regional Interest: US California
Hbk, 9.75 x 12.5 in. / 250 pgs / 144 color.

Mike Kelley's memory pieces --keepsakes embedded onto objects and canvases .

• ABOUT THE ARTIST: Mike Kelley was an American artist, born in Michigan, based in Los Angeles. He made art of found objects, textile banners, drawings, assemblage, collage, performance and video. He was a member of the 1970s Detroit based art rock band “Destroy All Monsters”, graduate of Cal Arts. He committed suicide in 2012 in South Pasadena.
• ABOUT THE BOOK: Memory Ware = North American folk art in which every day utilitarian objects, are embedded with small objects including shells, beads, and buttons. Kelley appropriated this folk tradition using American trash culture.
• ABOUT AUTHORS: Ralph Rugoff is Director of the Hayward Gallery in London. He was previously Director of the California College of the Arts (CCA) Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts. John Welchman edited the Mike Kelley essay included. He is Professor at UC San Diego.
• QUOTE:"one of the most influential American artists of the past quarter century and a pungent commentator on American class, popular culture and youthful rebellion” Holland Cotter, The New York Times

ALEX ISRAEL: SELF-PORTRAITS
Karma, New York
ISBN 9781938560255
US $40.00  CDN $54.00
PUB DATE 8/22/2017

Art: Figurative/Representational
Hbk, 6 x 8.25 in. / 256 pgs / 201 color.

Los Angeles based Alex Israel's work explores the cliches of his hometown: Hollywood, and the cult of celebrity.

• ABOUT THE ARTIST: Alex Israel (b. 1982) is a graduate of Yale and has an M.F.A. from the University of Southern California. he hosts a TV show on You Tube As It LAys .
• ABOUT THE BOOK: A collection of self portraits in silhouette wearing his line of sunglasses called "Freeway Eyewear." (An accessory that carries an air of celebrity with a faint whiff of anonymity.)
• PROMO: Alex Israel & the writer Bret Easton Ellis, are having a show at Gagosian Gallery in L.A. in September 2017

ALEJANDRO JODOROWSKY & PASCALE MONTANDON-JODOROWSKY: PASCALEJANDRO
Actes Sud/Azzedine Alaïa
ISBN 9782330075408
US $30.00  CDN $40.00
PUB DATE 8/22/2017

Latin American / Caribbean Art & Culture
Art: Figurative/Representational

Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 128 pgs / 80 color.

The poet and filmmaker Alejandro Jodorowsky and his wife, the artist Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky, make bright and fantastical works together under the moniker pascALEjandro.

• ABOUT THE ARTIST: Avant garde director Alejandro Jodorowsky (born 1929) is best known for his films Dune and The Holy Mountain He is also screenwriter, playwright, actor, author, poet, producer, composer, musician, comics writer, and spiritual guru. His partner is costume and set-designer and photographer Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky (born 1972).
• ABOUT THE BOOK: The couple’s vibrant comic illustrations peopled by angels, clowns, mystical lovers and dream beings. Jodorowsky provides the line work and Pascale Montandon-Jodorowsky the colors. Will appeal to the RABID fans of Jodorowsky film and comic works
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Klaus Biesenbach (Museum of Modern Art, New York)and Hans Ulrich Obrist (Serpentine Galleries, London), Azzedine Alaia (French Fashion Designer).
• Will work in FILM and COMIC ART Context.

KAARI UPSON: GOOD THING YOU ARE NOT ALONE
New Museum
ISBN 9780915557134
US $24.00  CDN $33.00
PUB DATE 6/27/2017

Art: Installation
Art: Sculpture
Regional Interest: US West
Pbk, 7.25 x 9.5 in. / 152 pgs / 51 color / 11 b&w.

"I want to make work that confuses people.”

• ABOUT THE ARTIST: Artsit Kaari Upson, born 1972 in San Bernardino and is based in Los Angeles is best known for the 'Larry Project' which she began as an undergrad at Cal Arts in 2004, where she turned a collection of one man's personal items into works of art like sculpture, video, photo and performance.
• ABOUT THE BOOK: Exhibition catalog to her show at the New Museum with work based on tract housing in Las Vegas, domestic furniture and the ever-present figure of the mother.
• ABOUT THE AUTHORS: Paul McCarthy and Jim Shaw are Los Angeles based artists and pedagogues. Margot Norton is a curator at the New Museum.

MUSEUM OF CAPITALISM
Inventory Press
ISBN 9781941753156
US $35.00  CDN $47.50
PUB DATE 9/26/2017

Art Group: Exhibitions
Art Group: Theme
Regional Interest: US California
Hbk, 7.5 x 9.75 in. / 208 pgs / 90 color.

A cheeky, yet pointed, critique of capitalism through text and image.

• ABOUT THE BOOK: Accompanies pop up exhibition in Oakland CA The book treats capitalism as a historical phenomenon ,using art works, essays, comics, data and quotations from historical texts from Edward Said to President Nixon's Economic Advisor.
• AUTHORS include: Lucy Lippard (born 1937) is an internationally known writer, art critic, activist and curator based in Galisteo NM. Lester K. Spence teaches at Johns Hopkins University. TJ Demos teaches at UC Santa Cruz, McKenzie Wark author of A Hacker Manifesto Julia Ott teaches at The New School. Jennifer Gonzales teaches at UCSC. Chiara Bottici teaches at UCSC.
• PROMO: The Museum of Capitalism is open in Oakland CA through August 2017.

WE NEED TO TALK
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775743396
US $25.00  CDN $34.50
PUB DATE 9/26/2017


Slip, pbk, 12 x 15.75 in. / 80 pgs / 40 color.

Artists respond to the election of Donald Trump with "a tidal chorus of bitterness, shock and anger" (The New York Times)

ABOUT THE BOOK: The cover features Donald Trump playing golf, consists of 10 fold-out posters which unfold to eighty pages of art centered on the current Trump administration and political climate in the US.ARTISTS INCLUDE: AA Bronson, Paul Chan, Jenny Holzer, Barbara Kruger, Glenn Ligon, Robert Longo, Peter Saul, Dana Schutz, Gary Simmons , among others< A spot on addition to those "Resistance" table displays

VELOTOPIA
nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462083523
US $35.00  CDN $47.50
PUB DATE 10/24/2017

Urbanism
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 244 pgs / 200 color.

A bike-centric model of urban planning, Steven Fleming advocates for Biking what Jane Jacobs championed for Walking.

• The first bike-centric model of urban planning and building design, Velotopia is a book for designers, planners, students, advocates and the general reader—all those shaping cities and the built environment who imagine a future for the cycling city.
• ABOUT THE AUTHOR Steven Fleming is the author of the popular Cycle Space: Architecture and Urban Design in the Age of the Bicycle. He is an ongoing visiting scientist with a Harvard University research team exploring the link between health and cycling and is a brand ambassador for bicycle manufacturer Shimano.