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American artist Chris Johanson (b.1968) has built a loyal following with his vibrant and sometimes hilarious take on the universe and our place in it. His idiosyncratic paintings, drawings and sculptural installations portray the contemporary human condition with sincerity and wit, as explored in this new comprehensive monograph.

Organised in clear chapters surveying Johanson's work, including interviews, commentaries, influences, chronology and bibliography of the artists work, this monograph offers a panoramic view of Johanson's practice from his roots as a street artist in San Francisco to celebrated exhibitions at the SITE Santa Fe (2002), Istanbul Biennial (2005), Whitney Biennial (2002), and Portland Art Museum (2007).

About the Author:
Bob Nickas is a curator and writer based in New York. His books include 'Painting Abstraction' (2009), 'Catalogue of the Exhibition' (2011) and two collections of his writing, 'Live Free or Die' (2000) and 'Theft is Vision' (2007)

Hardback. English. 290 x 250 mm, 11 3/8 x 9 7/8 in. 160 pp. Learn More

Featuring work by Adrienne Kammerer, Mark Dudiak, Nicholas Aoki, Noel Middleton, Patrick Krzyzanowski and Tibi Tibi Neuspiel, 8 Days No Contact is an exhibition curated in response to a found break up journal from 1994. Authored by a machismo romantic, the journal offers an intimate perspective on the lifecycle of love and loss and invites exploration of the disintegrated landscape of a splintered heart. Through individual artworks and objects created and collected, the journal serves as a portal to a purgatory for the broken hearted.

Curated by Kristin Weckworth
Exhibition catalogue
Softcover. Full colour.
72 pages. 6x8″ Ltd Ed. Learn More

The Phaidon Graphic Design Archive features over 500 of the most iconic graphic designs from the beginnings of mechanical reproduction to the present day. Arranged in chronological order, the designs are accompanied by texts and illustrated with a range of imagery - including rarely seen historical, contextual and archival material - to shed light on their origin and development.

Hardcover, 1000 pages
Dimensions: 12.75 x 16.3 x 10.9 inches Learn More

This lavishly produced two-volume catalog raisonné, created with the full participation of Yoshitomo Nara, is the most extensive, authoritative, and beautiful expression of the artist's work ever published. Featuring two 400-page volumes bound in fabric featuring Nara's designs, the catalog covers all of the artist's prolific output over the span of his career to date, including more than 4,500 paintings, drawings, editions, sculptures, photographs, and collaborations with otherartists.

Hardcover, 800 pages
Dimensions: 11.2 x 13.3 x 4.4 inches Learn More

Featuring works from the Dakis Joannou Drawing Collection, Animal Spirits comments on the current global crisis and the cultural climate it has fostered. The book’s title references British economist John Maynard Keynes’ idea that “animal spirits”--emotional factors that cannot be quantified, and that are often downplayed by economists--are crucial to the understanding of economic dynamics. Learn More

What time is it? Adventure Time! Explore the magical world of Ooo with Jake the dog and Finn the human, along with the Ice King, Princess Bubblegum, Marceline the Vampire Queen, and all your favorite Adventure Time characters, in this first official guide to Cartoon Network’s hit animated series.

Hardcover. 160 pages. English Learn More

The photographs, drawings and texts published in this book are part of a collection of more than 3,000 tattoos accumulated over a lifetime by prison attendant Danzig Baldaev.

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Animals with Sharpies is a collection of paintings with hand-lettered texts. In each painting, Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber have depicted an animal holding a Sharpie, ostensibly writing a message. These messages are varied in nature: political and religious tracts, confessions, recipes, arithmetic problems, and more. Above all, these paintings are funny, but they are also startlingly poignant and jarring for the humanness of the suffering and longing depicted in these animals’ simple words.

Hardcover. 64 pages. English. Measures 9.2 x 7.1 x 0.5 inches. Learn More

Taxidermy is back in fashion again. It seems that almost every bar, restaurant or new boutique you walk into these days sports the mounted head of some animal or other gazing down from on high. For those of us who are--for whatever reason--reluctant to decorate our walls with the heads of decapitated mammals, a happy alternative has finally presented itself. Now, using sewing, crochet, knitting and papier-mâché--and, in some cases, just cutting and pasting--the spirit of taxidermy can be summoned with none of the morbid overtones.

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