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MICHAEL SAILSTORFER
Reaktor
The most comprehensive book to date on contemporary German sculptor Michael Sailstorfer, whose work combines subversive poetry and melancholic humor. His sculptures endure as memories as much as materials: a spinning tire expands beyond the visual, coming to life by giving off an utterly unpleasant smell of burning rubber; in a looped, slowed-down film of an exploding hangar, the building itself seems to be breathing. Includes an artist interview, fiction by Ingo Niermann and Schorsch Kamerun, an art historical text by Jennifer Allen and a philosophical contribution by Franz Xaver Baier. This book shows Sailstorfer’s importance in the contemporary art scene. Number 16 in the Black Pocket Book Series from Sternberg Press.
Softcover / 4 3/8 x 6 3/4 inches / 150 pp / 27 color
ISBN: 978-1-933128-38-2
Retail Price: $19.95
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SEMINA NO. 2: MAXI KIM
One Break, A Thousand Blows!
Maxi Kim’s first novel was chosen by Book Works’ new Semina series because of its refusal to recognize the differences between fiction and non-fiction, high-brow and low-brow, and art and life. One Break, A Thousand Blows! appears to be a novel about Japan, but the protagonist is a metaphor, aiming to negate Japan by writing falsely about it, and using it as a screen for the author’s innermost hopes and desires. The author cannibalizes every book he references, as he subjects his characters to the occult use of books for divination. Kim, the grandson of illiterate Korean peasant farmers, is a recent graduate of the CalArts MFA Writing Program.
5 1/4 x 7 3/4 inches / 128 pp
ISBN: 978-1-906012-05-2
Retail Price: $22.00