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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.

Dr S E Barnet and Sally Morfill explore the Mass Observation archives to produce ink and pencil works. The book also details the live transcription performances that took place in London in 2015.

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.

Art exhibition catalogue for Carlo and Fabio Ingrassia at The Museum of Contemporary Art of Rome, November 2015. The catalogue comprises two booklets, the first: a full colour, 16-page, reproducing the work of the Ingrassia twins. The other: a bilingual English/Italian, topsy-turvy book, containing essays and critical review of the work.

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.

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.

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.

The 200 photographs in Trataka record the gradual disappearance of a candle’s physical form and the subtly changing mood of a passing day. Wax is consumed by fire and a solid object converted to light and heat. Finally, a last trace of white smoke rises as the candle gutters and dies. Trataka is a yogic practice of concentration honed through staring at the center of a candle flame. It is said to still the mind, stimulate the pineal gland, open the third eye and promote psychic abilities. This book may be used as an aid to daily meditation, a flick book for the impatient or as a Memento Mori. Ian Whittlesea is an artist whose work explores the relationships between language, light, image and diagram both on the page and in the world. his translation of Yves Klein’s Les Fondements du Judo was published in 2009, Mazdaznan Health & Breath Culture in 2012, Becoming Invisible in 2014, The Egyptian Postures in 2017 and On Colour. in 2019. These texts have been collectively described as ‘instruction manuals for transcendental exercise’. The Everyday Press was founded in 2007 by artist Arnaud Desjardin to publish the work of visual artists as printed matter.

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.

All the cannons and artillery included in this survey are actual, historic weapons, located in Greater London and freely accessible to the public. The hypothetical strike point for each weapon has been calculated using available ballistics information for standard shells or cannon balls and takes into account the location, orientation, altitude and angle of inclination for each gun at the time of observation. The imagined strike points are roughly centred in the accompanying photograph that pairs with that of each gun. Inaccessible guns, sited within museums, other buildings or on private land have not been included. Nor, have guns that have been repurposed, for example, guns used as bollards where the muzzle or breech are buried. The exact identity of some of the guns is not recorded and where information was lacking, they were measured and compared to known designs. Guns pointing at objects a short distance away required less research. The simultaneous firing of all these guns is readable as a performance proposal, but one that is extremely unlikely to happen. All photographs were taken in the public realm. Any members of the public or private property that appear in the photographs are incidental. Includes an interview with the artist by Jon Woods.

During the founding of North Korea, competing visions of an ideal modern state proliferated. Independence and democracy were touted by all, but plans for the future of North Korea differed in their ideas about how everyday life should be organized. Daily life came under scrutiny as the primary arena for social change in public and private life.In Everyday Life in the North Korean Revolution, 1945–1950, Kim examines the revolutionary events that shaped people's lives in the development of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea. By shifting the historical focus from the state and the Great Leader to how villagers experienced social revolution, Kim offers new insights into why North Korea insists on setting its own course.Kim’s innovative use of documents seized by U.S. military forces during the Korean War and now stored in the National Archives-personnel files, autobiographies, minutes of organizational meetings, educational materials, women’s magazines, and court documents-together with oral histories allows her to present the first social history of North Korea during its formative years.In an account that makes clear the leading role of women in these efforts, Kim examines how villagers experienced, understood, and later remembered such events as the first land reform and modern elections in Korea’s history, as well as practices in literacy schools, communal halls, mass organizations, and study sessions that transformed daily routine.

Morris Minor expert Matt Tomkins provides practical advice on maintaining and modifying your Morris Minor. With safety information throughout, this book provides a number of step-by-step guides on how to fit a wide range of simple and more sophisticated upgrades to bring your Morris Minor into the 21st century. Includes sections on Routine servicing of the engine, gearbox, clutch, differential, brakes, suspension, electrics and structure. Modifications and upgrades to the engine, gearbox, wheels and tyres, brakes, suspension, electrics and seats. Modifying the body including GRP panels, weather strips and identifying chop top convertibles. Fitting mod cons such as gauges, heaters, radio/ICE, 12 volt accessory sockets, sound deadening, heated screens, wiper upgrades. With six case studies to show what other owners have achieved

As grown-ups, one of our deepest urges is for life to be more adventurous: a little more excitement, novelty, interest and passion. Unfortunately, many adventures, especially the ‘big’ kinds, are too expensive, threaten to upturn everything and can upset those who rely on us. What we therefore badly need is access to smaller, more pocket-sized adventures.We call these ‘Everyday Adventures’ – from something tiny like eating an unfamiliar fruit from the market to rereading your favourite book to asking a parent what they were like as a teenager. This is a suggestion box to spark the imagination, revive the spirit and motivate us towards the slightly more adventurous lives we long for.Adventures include: Write down five questions you wish someone else would ask you; ask them of someone else.Set your alarm before sunrise and go for a walk