Best Revolver Publishing products in the Non-fiction category
On this page you'll find a ranking of the best Revolver Publishing products in this category. To give you a quick overview, we've already ranked the most important information about the products for you.
1. Maria Hassabi (2015-2021)
Since the early 2000s, Maria Hassabi has carved a unique choreographic practice that concentrates on stillness and the in-betweenness of bodies in motion. Considering conventions, hierarchies and codes common in theatres, museums, and public spaces, her acclaimed works always reflect the given context of their presentation and are developed in dialogue with a site's unique architecture. Her live installations reformat the principles of a theatrical performance into an exhibition that spans days, weeks, or months, adapting their duration to the opening hours of the venue. At the centre of these works, stillness and deceleration are utilized as both technique and subject, as the performing body oscillates between dance and sculpture, subject and object, live body and still image. The setup of the work allows visitors to keep to their usual behaviour within institutions while giving them time to consider the live bodies both as physical entities and still image embedded with multiple references.
2. Fritz Panzer. The Double Life of Objects. Drawing Painting Sculpture from 1969 to 2019
The extension of drawing proper towards three-dimensionality enhances the impression that we are dealing with things that inhabit a world in between. Spaces come into being in which the artist has escalators, folding ladders, desk ... emerge from the world and has them likewise grow into it and has them remain in a state of flux between the visible and invisible. Sara Heigl, from: Fritz Panzer, the walk-in drawing (cast your art 2010).
Non-fiction
EUR25,–
Fritz Panzer. The Double Life of Objects. Drawing Painting Sculpture from 1969 to 2019
German, English, 2021
3. Tess Jaray. Thinking on Paper
Through the process of entirely intuitive drawing, suddenly a line or a shape may take on a meaning that can be developed. These drawings are in a way an archaeology of the unconscious mind. A way to make discoveries on paper that may be developed into paintings. Paul Klee famously spoke about "taking a line for a walk." I would take that further and say that for me it's a record of travelling with a pencil. (Tess Jaray).
4. User's Manual 2.0: Contemporary Art in Turkey 1975-2015
Non-fiction
EUR56,–
User's Manual 2.0: Contemporary Art in Turkey 1975-2015
English, Turkish, Sü reyyya Evren, Halil Altindere, 2015
5. Nairy Baghramian. Breath Holding Spell
On the levels of both form and content, "Breath Holding Spell" unmistakably harks back to Bruce Nauman's 1970 artist's book LA AIR, whose eight monochrome pages present photographs of the atmosphere, illustrating the widely varying hues of the air over L.A. It inspired this artist's book by Nairy Baghramian, which features variations on a single photographic motif: no more than a cropped detail of a tightly packed standing crowd of people is visible in Tight Sluice. Monochrome pages that reprise the colours of their attire appear in rhythmical alternation with the pictures. The artist has autographed the books on the back cover, again quoting Nauman, though his signature was a printed facsimile.
6. Anthea Hamilton
Anthea Hamilton's interdisciplinary approach to performance is evident in her sculptural assemblages and installations, which she calls "performative spaces" and which, because they are oriented towards a display side, are reminiscent of stage sets or film sets. Her sculptures, idiosyncratic structures on the verge of emergence and collapse, function in them like props for stories that first have to be told. As an important source of inspiration, she repeatedly quotes the French author Antonin Artaud and his idea of the "physical understanding of images". It is precisely this physical experience that she wants to evoke when one encounters her artworks, which consist of unexpected and unorthodoxly used materials, whose proportions are surprising and which are ultimately borne by a subtle humour. The artist's book she conceived includes a series of collages of personal photographs, found imagery and computer drawings, as well as a short conversation with her daughter.
7. Vital value maximisation. Rita Hensen
VITALWERKEMAXIMIERUNG provides an insight into Rita Hensen's work. If you open the thick cardboard cover, you are already in the midst of drawings, paintings and objects, installations and photographs: "Kraft Mut Trost", "Sei Froh!", "Was alles von oben herunterfallen kann", "Kosmischer Teig", the "Venusfalle" and "Anodes", to name just a few works. "... This is a joyful show that seems to have its origins in Hensen's personal life and experiences. Nevertheless, there is also a sense of joy in the skilful juggling of physical forms, words and objects. If the smile comes over us, it is perhaps because the work hovers between the playful and the serious. Ultimately, though, it reminds us that joy is worth more than facts." (John Wood) With texts by: Giovanna Gabbia, Jörg Koopmann, Imi Pramin, Dr Renate Wiehager, Prof. John Wood.
8. Castle children
Third volume of the Molsdorf trilogy This book contains the authentic memories of the Molsdorf SCHLOSSKINDER (castle children) and their educators who lived in the former princely-countric house in Thuringia in the 1950s. Converted into a children's home, the culturally and historically valuable building was saved from imminent demolition by order of the Soviet military administration. The long-term project of coming to terms with this chapter of the castle's history brought the former children's home residents together repeatedly from 2017 to 2019 and culminated in an exhibition with historical photographs and a video work by the Swiss remembrance artist Mats Staub in what is now the Molsdorf Castle Museum. The transcript of the video work - a kind of dialogical compilation of the interviews with the former educators - is part of the present publication, as are various media snippets of memories of the children aged 3-6 at the time. These periods of life fall into the era of the early German-German division after the end of the Second World War. Thus, the lavishly designed book preserves excerpts from a "larger" historical chapter in addition to the personal stories. It also contains a partial reprint of a photo album of a former educator and is made available free of charge to the former residents of the home. "Schlosskinder" with a work by Mats Staub Exhibition at Schlossmuseum Molsdorf, 25.08.-17.11.2019 Also available: Full House, 2015, ISBN 978-3-95763-284-5 Two Rooms to Yourself. Maria von Gneisenau and Molsdorf Castle, 2016, ISBN 978-3-95763-354-5.
9. Event
Leslie Thornton, a media artist who was influenced by Paul Sharits, Yvonne Rainer, and Joan Jonas often deploys projections complicated by ample sound-image interactions. In her artist book EVENT, Leslie Thornton applies her technique of montaging imagery and textual material to the book medium. Assembled from found material and original footage from her own extensive archive, EVENT morphs into an audiovisual note on artistic production. Concept: Leslie Thornton Texts: James Beacham, Michael Doser, Maria Fidecaro, Leslie Thornton, Thomas Zummer.
10. Now If I Had Been Writing this Story.
For more than four decades, Elaine Reichek has been working on a critical and feminist reading of historical texts and images. The analytical engagement with narratives from myth and literature, and the reflection on their social function as a medium of cultural cohesion, runs through the artist's oeuvre like the thread that Ariadne gave to Theseus, so that he would find his way out of the Minotaur's labyrinth. In the last years her works are exploring the figures of the "Minoan girls" and the stories of lust, seduction, cruelty, and betrayal associated with them: Europa, Pasiphaë, Phaedra, and Ariadne. Although their tragic fates are key to the narratives in which they appear, they are often seen as supporting characters the heroes are invariably men. Reichek, by contrast, puts the spotlight on the women, examining their complex characters by compiling different interpretations and depictions, and assembling eclectic arrangements of elements from visual art and literature to break through overly narrow constructions: in the artist's hands, appropriation becomes a strategy of emancipation. Textile techniques such as embroidery and knitting as well as conceptual methods, photography, and various printing processes have been central to Reichek's practice since the 1970s. Not by accident, what holds her work together on the formal and conceptual levels is the thread-in the figurative as well as literal sense: unspooling Ariadne's thread lets her unfold the story of the labyrinth, while the fine thread used in embroidery interweaves images and selected passages of text in scintillating visual compositions. Like a pixel, the stitch is the basic building block of visual transmission in Reichek's work: a pixelated image resembles an embroidery chart, just as the stitches in a hand-sewn embroidery point back to a JPEG trawled from the Internet or scanned from a printed source. Although digital technology has sped up and expanded the possibilities for research, translation and production, Reichek's works remain material objects, rooted in the history of thread as a medium. Elaine Reichek's artist¿s book is a decorative archival storage box in the design of the Hamilton Urns-one of the earliest examples of American neo-classical wallpaper models-that unpacks her exhibition both physically and conceptually. Inside are two different kinds of books: A standard book includes all the works in the exhibition and an essay by the artist. Then, four accordion-style leporellos explore the most recent piece, Toutes les filles (2016-17), unfolding to reveal each of its 24 motifs and their art-historical sources.
