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Each of the 168 pages of Lolly Batty's artist book Crosswords presents a grid of 13 x 13 squares arranged in different black and white configurations, as though they were taken from 168 different crossword puzzles. Separated from any written clues to act as a reference, the gridded designs become optic puzzles in which foreground and background fluctuate. Published in a split edition in which 500 copies are bound in a white cover and 500 are bound in a black cover.

The Rapha Continental is an online journal published by the cycling gear company Rapha. In it, riders and bicycle designers chronicle their adventures and “epic rides” in a muscular and often self-aggrandizing prose. This Rapha Continental Bootleg by artist, writer and rider Ludovico Pignatti Morano channels the voices of mythical frame builders builders Ira Ryan and Richard Sachs to produce an intense and intimate account of the author’s cycling obsession: the frames, the rides, the poetic mentality of it all.

The Laundry Room is a project curated by Maiko Tsutsumi & Eduardo Padilha (BalinHouseProjects). The Laundry Room project features works by Richard Wentworth and Michael Marriott from an exhibition and an accompanying series of events, held in September/October 2012 at BalinHouseProjects. The project, inspired by Wentworth's Making Do and Getting By, explored the recent transformation and cultural shifts in the Borough/Bermondsey area, through a series of events and dialogues. The exhibition, a display of Wentworth's photographic work and an intervention by Marriott was created as a response to the physical and historical features of the location: the former laundry room adjacent to BalinHouseProjects, located in a 1930s housing estate. This book is also available as a limited edition book with two prints signed and numbered by Richard Wentworth and Michael Marriott in a run of 25 copies.

Arnaud Desjardin's The Book on Books on Artists Books is a bibliography of books, pamphlets, dealer catalogues and other printed materials on artists' books that takes stock of a wide variety of publications on artists' books since the early 1970s to assess the historical documentation of distribution, circulation and reception in the field. Together, these materials constitute a unique history of the overlooked ephemera produced by the exhibiting, publishing, disseminating and collecting of artists' books during the last 40 years. Desjardin's criterion for inclusion was to include only informational material on artists' books, rather than critical writing or theoretical texts. Consummately researched, with more than 600 entries, The Book on Books on Artists Books constitutes a groundbreaking bibliography that will prove essential for scholars, librarians and fans of artists' books.

Through the work of SE Barnet and Sally Morfill, the Everyday Press publication Drawing and Other Writing offers a look at how meaning is formed and interpreted when we make a mark. The practices of these two artists include a range of influences and source material; from the Mass Observation archive to Henri Michaux's alphabet of lines. Additionally, artists Ana ?avi? and Louisa Minkin have contributed work to the book.

A selection of illustrated architectural details in concrete, glass, metal, stone and wood, with an introduction by David Adjaye. This inaugural volumes of the Details series highlights the importance of considering details in architecture and how the relationship of whole and parts is central to considered buildings. Series editor Wayne Head. 6 folding 16 pages booklets/posters, each booklet unfolds as a poster.

Carlo and Fabio Ingrassia (b. 1985 in Catania, Sicily) work with matter, time, biology, and philosophy. The peculiarity of the identical twins is to work simultaneously on the same precise and scientific body of work, because one is left-handed and the other, right-handed. This natural disposition illustrated most prominently in pastels created on the same paper support, allows each to contribute his own characteristic structure of sign and form in a jointly authored work. Drawing becomes sculpture and back again, in an art that investigates the nature of authorship, and identity, and the material basis for a conceptual practice. Contributors: Jonathan Monk, Valentina Bruschi, Claudio Crescentini, David Freedberg, Cornelia Lauf

The series continues with a larger selection of illustrated architectural details from the City of London and Clerkenwell areas. The fourth volume in the series explores the changing face of the City in light of more modern architectural and engineering techniques, from Sir John Soane's Bank of England to the post-modernist gem that is No. 1 Poultry. This DETAILS series lead to a series of talks at the Sir John Soane's Museum, featured in Architecture Today with guest speakers including Professor Charles Holland, Architect Elly Ward, and Foster and Partners' Armstong Yakubu. Series editor Wayne Head. Volume four of the Details series contains 17 folding booklets in a box, each 16 pages booklet also unfolds as a poster.

The Egyptian Postures is a guide to the most advanced Mazdaznan exercises that Johannes Itten taught his students at the Bauhaus. Often performed while singing or humming the postures were intended to activate glands and re-channel internal energies, stirring the blood in ways that contributed to the perpetual evolution of humanity. They were also said to induce auto-illumination, the participant’s body generating an intense light from within. This edition of Dr. Otoman Zar-Adusht Ha’nish’s original instructions has been newly edited and illustrated by Ian Whittlesea with images of actor Ery Nzaramba demonstrating the postures and an in-depth essay by Pádraic E. Moore that explores the relationships between esoteric movements, their racial theories and early modernism's embrace and eventual dismissal of the occult, Mazdaznan and Itten.

This publication documents an exhibition and seminar curated by Andrew Bick, Jonathan Parsons and Katie Pratt held at The Wilson, Cheltenham Art Gallery and Museum in early 2017. The seminar lectures are transcribed as directly as possible into print format, and an additional performance by A K Dolven of her vinyl record JA as long as I can marked the end of the event. The title, The Order of Things, is taken from the English translation of French philosopher Michel Foucault’s 1966 book, Les Mots et les Choses, (literally translated as ‘words and things’). The book traces the origins of human thought through the arts, sciences, economics, and sociology. Underpinning Foucault’s discussion is the anthropological argument that human categorisation strategy – how we label things - is limited. Furthermore, our use of language fails us in our emotional response to art. Taking Foucault’s book as starting point, this book reflects on the inherent humanity in how artists conceptualise and structure their creativity. Whilst not pictorial itself, much of the work in The Order of Things is offset by the figurative title, encouraging the audience to project the point where the artwork unites with its name. Many artworks deliberately mismatch language and image, so that the appearance or the textual content is apparently incongruous with the title. A regular theme is how a character is transformed, through repetition and context, from a squiggle to something legible and comprehensible. Conversely, other works contemplate the extent to which a symbol can degenerate before it becomes indecipherable. The project was organised in partnership with The Cheltenham Trust and Creative Arts as Research at The University of Gloucestershire, supported by the Being Human Research Priority Area and Arts Council England.

The series continues with a larger selection of illustrated architectural details from the City of London and Clerkenwell areas. Series editor Wayne Head. Volume four of the Details series contains 17 folding booklets in a box, each 16 pages booklet also unfolds as a poster.

Freshers is the first project of Sigune Hamann’s residency working with perception and attention in Experimental Psychology, Oxford University in collaboration with neuroscientist Prof Kia Nobre and her students. Sigune Hamann explores how experimental treatment, physical handling and viewing of images test and shift perception of ourselves relating to others. In Freshers Hamann splits images and assembles them into interchanging narratives. The project continued in workshops with a photo-based record of students meeting, one to one, on their first college day at Oxford University, Waseda University, Tokyo and Camberwell College of Arts, University of the Arts London between 2016-18. Freshers exists both as an artist book and as a wall installation of 100 photographs recently showing in the solo exhibition Did you spot the Gorilla at the Barn Gallery, St John’s Oxford. Sigune Hamann is an artist working in London since 1993. She is Reader in Art and Media Practice at the University of the Arts, Camberwell College of Arts London. www. sigune. co. uk

Rut Blees Luxemburg is an artist based in London. She made the permanent art work Silver Forest for the façade of Westminster City Hall and has exhibited and published internationally. She is a reader in urban aesthetics at the Royal College of Art London and co–director of FILET – a space for experimental art production. She grew up in Leiwen.

Only those who love colour are admitted to its beauty and immanent presence. It affords utility to all, but unveils its deeper mysteries only to its devotees. Johannes IttenOn Colour. draws on the theories of colour harmony that Johannes Itten taught at the Bauhaus, and on the literature of Mazdaznan, Rosicrucianism and Theosophy. It describes how one can, potentially, produce the white cloud of invisibility and documents the author’s own attempts to manifest the cloud. These manifestations have a complex group of antecedents that include Lawrence Weiner’s early spray-painted works, John Latham’s One Second Drawings, Robert Irwin’s luminous disc paintings of the 1960s and representations of the ineffable made by spiritualists and occultists.

Riposte No. 7 hits the newsstands with a line up of brilliant women and thought-provoking features that delve into big topics. In this issue singer and cellist Kelsey Lu talks about her experience as a black woman in America; plus size model Paloma Elsesser gives a personal account of her attitude towards her body and her past problems, whilst 95-year old Betty Reid Soskin, the oldest park ranger in America, walks us through the social and political history of America and her own families ascent from slavery. Other features include, Fashion & Art: Astrid Andersen, Cozette McCreery, Caitlin Price and Nick Wakeman of Studio Nicholson discuss the piece of art that changed their life, The Female Fixers: meet women reporting from the Middle East and Don't Do It For The Likes: Why popularity on social media isn't always a good thing.

Sarah Dobai’s The Donkey Field weaves a link between a racist attack in on a young boy and the story of the persecution of Marie and Balthazar in the acclaimed film Au Hasard Balthazar (Robert Bresson, 1966). The book features a text, based on sections of a memoir of Budapest in 1944 and scenes which re-enact and reframe Bresson’s allegorical story about the scapegoating of innocent subjects. Partly shot on the streets of present-day Budapest, under a regime criticised for its anti-immigrant policies and harsh treatment of refugees, The Donkey Field underlines the relevance of the boy’s story to other, more recent stories of displacement and persecution. The black and white book uses the format of a photo novella and loosely references a 1952 book by Jacques Prevert that also features a donkey.

Eighteen iconic details of Milton Keynes and Stevenage are released in the latest editions of DETAILS, bringing drawings, insights and stories into the architectural narrative of 20th Century New Towns. DETAILS is a publication edited by Wayne Head. The series interrogates architectural details in a variety of locations across the UK and further afield. What makes a detail ‘good’ or ‘bad’? What might a detail say about a building, an architect, a place, or a movement in history? If a building can manifest how we think, how does a detail speak about the whole? Can you have good details and a bad building? Or a good building made out of bad details? These and other questions are explored in the publication, a series of illustrated risograph-printed pamphlets. Previous series have looked at The Barbican and Golden Lane Estate, Radical Essex, Clerkenwell and The City of London. The latest edition of DETAILS compares and contrasts the first post-war new town of Stevenage with the final, largest and most ambitious new town of Milton Keynes, created 20 years later. The New Towns Act was passed in 1946. The plan was to move people from over-crowded and bomb-damaged cities to self-contained communities inspired by the garden city model. In the end, Britain created 32 new towns, which are home to nearly three million people today. These editions and accompanying exhibitions explore the art and architecture of Stevenage (designated as the first new town in 1946) and Milton Keynes (one of the last wave, designated in 1967). They chart over thirty years of creative and pioneering designs, reflecting the dramatic shifts in society and politics along the way. “The great delight is that, after years of being branded for their uniformity and mundanity, the new towns are now recognised for the quality of their architecture and its details. ” Elain Harwood, Historic EnglandAccompanying the publications are a series of exhibitions, talks, family activity packs and essays by Historic England’s Elain Harwood, Milton Keynes arts & cultural officer Shane Downe and Curl la Tourelle Head Director and founder of DETAILS, Wayne Head.