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Sabine Bitter & Helmut Weber
Autogestion, or Henri Lefebvre in New Belgrade
Autogestion, an artist book by Bitter and Weber, is structured around an unpublished text written in 1986 by French philosopher and urbanist Henri Lefebvre. The text was part of a proposal with French architects Serge Renaudie and Pierre Guilbaud to the International Competition for the New Belgrade Urban Structure Improvement in Yugoslavia. In his rethinking of the urban vision, Lefebvre rejects the failed formulas embraced by modernist capitalism and urban planning and emphasizes the processes and potentials of self-organization of the people of any urban territory. It is from Lefebvre’s essay that Bitter and Weber pick up the dialogue and formulate their own theoretical ideas for a more successful urban environment.
ISBN: 978-1-933128-77-1
Retail Price: $27.00
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JEAN-LUC BLANC
Opera Rock
This is the first comprehensive monograph on the French artist Jean- Luc Blanc’s enigmatic “glam” oeuvre. It documents his retrospective exhibition at the Musée d’art contemporain de Bordeaux (2009), where Blanc’s works have been juxtaposed with those of 45 historic and contemporary artists, as well as with numerous artifacts, antiques, jewels, crystals, curios, and naturalia. In Alex Farqhuarson’s perceptive essay, he comments, “Jean-Luc Blanc mostly paints portraits … Like phantoms, the people he paints have no corporeality, much less a developed identity; and like actors, his subjects appear ‘in character’, void of self, projecting the lives of others.” Additional writings by Thierry Jousse, Melvin Moti and interview by Alexis Vaillant.
Softcover / 81/ 4 x 101/ 2 inches / 160 pp / 80 color
ISBN: 978-1-933128-69-6
Retail Price: $29.95