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SPRING/ SUMMER 2019 Hello Welcome to the 2019 catalogue for Black Dog Press. We are delighted to offer a fascinating selection of new titles, produced in close collaboration with some of the biggest and most emerging names in contemporary art. It has been an eventful yet rewarding year for Black Dog—in February 2018, we came under the ownership of the SJH Group, a world-leading creative media group. This partnership has put us in an even stronger position, bringing more scope and enabling us to publish a wider selection of beautiful books to a consistently high standard. We are extremely proud of the books we present on the following pages of this catalogue, in particular the variety of dynamic subject matters and perspectives discussed. From exploring identity through creative practice, to the future of art and design and the thinking processes behind this, to the principles and processes of painting, to human perception and sensory apparatus, we are confident these books will speak to a wide range of readers around the world. We are excited about the future for Black Dog Press, what this offers for us, and also for our publishing partners. Read on and enjoy. 1 New and upcoming titles 2 3 IN ACHING AGONY AND LONGING I WAIT FOR YOU BY THE SPRING OF THIEVES Jumana Emil Abboud EDITORS: Jumana Emil Abboud and Lara Khaldi CONTRIBUTORS: Marina Warner and Tina Sherwell Posing questions about memory, the body, folklore and rituals, Jumana Emil Abboud’s artistic practice confronts the telling and retelling of history and the impacts of language and the fragmentation of memories. The Jerusalem-based artist’s oeuvre includes visual, poetic and text-based projects spanning 20 years; In aching agony and longing I wait for you by the Spring of Thieves focuses on two projects— Available Maskouneh (Inhabited), 2015–2017, and I Feel Nothing, 2012–2015. Paperback Closing the book are contributions by Marina Warner and Tina Sherwell ISBN 978-1-911164-90-6 that thoughtfully engage with Abboud’s practice at large. £19.95 · $24.95 The two main chapters of In aching agony and longing I wait for you 25.5 × 19.5 cm · 10 × 7.5 in by the Spring of Thieves focus on Abboud’s long engagement with 80 pages folktales from Palestine and elsewhere. The first chapter brings together drawings, video stills and performance excerpts, all of which belong to Maskouneh (Inhabited), a series that explores Abboud’s connection to the landscape and folktales of her homeland. These works are paired with journal entries from her recent collaboration with filmmaker Issa Freij, in which they return to haunted springs and water wells described in 1922 by ethnographer Tawfiq Canaan. A second chapter similarly represents drawings and video stills from Abboud’s series I Feel Nothing, inspired by a Palestinian variant of the folktale “The Girl Whose Hands were Cut Off”. In aching agony and longing I wait for you by the Spring of Thieves marks the finissage of Abboud’s solo exhibition, The Horse, the Bird, the Tree and the Stone at Bildmuseet in Sweden and the inauguration of her dedicated show The pomegranate and the sleeping ghoul at Darat al Funun–The Khalid Shoman Foundation in Jordan. SUPPORTED BY BILDMUSEET AND DARAT AL FUNUN–THE KHALID SHOMAN FOUNDATION. 4 5 SEE YOURSELF X Human Futures Expanded AUTHOR: Madeline Schwartzman CONTRIBUTORS: Louis-Philippe Demers, Olaf Martens, Katharine Dowson, Mariana Fantich & , Dominic Young, Ruth Marten, et al The second volume of Madeline Schwartzman’s series of books that look at human perception and the sensory apparatus. See Yourself X explores all forms of physical head augmentation; from new organs to hair extensions and dos; head constructions to headdresses; and prosthetics and helmets by artists, designers, inventors, scientists and world cultures. Everyone with a head will be interested in this book. Available An innovative and dynamic study of human perception, presented Paperback as part exhibition in book form and part academic textbook, born out ISBN 978-1-910433-22-5 of Schwartzman’s head-based design projects at Columbia University £24.95 · $34.95 and Parsons. 28 × 23 cm · 11 × 9 in Follows on from the best-selling first volume, See Yourself Sensing, 192 pages a collection of futuristic proposals for the body and the senses that spans across disciplines and media from the 1960s to the present. See Yourself X focuses in on our fundamental perceptual domain— the human head—presenting an array of conceptual and constructed ideas for extending ourselves physically into space. What will be the physical future of the head and the sensory apparatus in 50 years time, as the mechanisms for how we communicate and sense change and become obsolete, prompted, possibly, by the advancement of brain-to-brain communication? See Yourself X looks at where we are now, in the hope of projecting into that future. SEE YOURSELF SENSING Redefining Human Perception Author: Madeline Schwartzman PB · ISBN 978-1-907317-29-3 RRP £24.95 · $39.95 28 × 23 cm · 11 × 9 in 192 pages · 300 ills 6 7 JOHNNIE COOPER Sunset Strip CONTRIBUTORS: Peter Murray, Tom Hastings JOHNNIE COOPER SUNSET STRIP Johnnie Cooper is the first monograph of the British artist’s work, joining a curatorial initiative over recent decades to undertake important re-evaluations of the careers of important twentieth- and twenty-first century artists such as Tess Jaray, William Turnbull and John Hoyland. Johnnie Cooper has, for the past half-century, devoted himself to a tireless investigation into the nature and potential of painting in his rural Worcestershire studio, constantly exploring new principles and processes. This book provides an opportunity to explore the Available development of Cooper’s practice, from the figurative totems Hardback sculpted in his student days, to the rich Abstract Expressionist ISBN 978-1-912165-09-4 works of the 1980s and the Minimalist, gestural works on paper £29.95 · $39.95 of the past decade. Johnnie Cooper charts the journey of his 28 × 23 cm · 11 × 9 in signature investigations into colour, line and form. 240 pages Born in Wolverhampton, England, Cooper attended the sculpture course at Staffordshire College of Art, run by internationally renowned sculptor Stuart Osborne. After completing a postgraduate year at Staffordshire University in Fine Art Sculpture, Cooper was awarded a travel bursary and also won a prestigious grant from the Gulbenkian Society to study in Florence. As well as exhibiting in JOHNNIE COOPER’S SOLO mixed shows throughout the UK over the past 40 years, Cooper has EXHIBITION ‘THROE ON THROE’ recently shown work in Dallas and Shanghai, and his work is held in WILL BE ON DISPLAY AT THE numerous private collections. Cooper has also exhibited with the Free SAATCHI GALLERY IN LONDON Painters and Sculptors Society, and at the Manchester Academy of FROM 19 APRIL TO 4 MAY 2019. Fine Art, the Mall Galleries and the Royal Academy. 8 9 PUBLIC ENQUIRIES PARK LEK and the Scandinavian Social Turn EDITORS: Helena Selder, SOMEWHERE, Mick Wilson CONTRIBUTORS: Kerstin Bergendal, Stenka Hellfach, James Holston, Ulrikke Neergard, Andrea Phillips, Mick Wilson, Giorgiana Zachia, et al Public Enquiries is the culmination of a multidisciplinary research project that operated through a series of public hearings in Stockholm, Copenhagen and Gothenburg (2015–2016). The hearings focused on Kerstin Bergendal’s PARK LEK (2010–2014), which was described at the time as “a utopian art project and a concrete intervention in the urban planning process”. Public Enquiries maps how Bergendal’s extraordinary art project Available PARK LEK contested and ultimately transformed the local government Paperback processes used to shape a segregated urban area of Stockholm. ISBN 978-1-911164-30-2 Though PARK LEK is primarily examined within the context of Scandinavian £19.95 · $29.95 society, the writers additionally go on to outline how the project can function 23 x 15 cm · 9 × 6 in as a blueprint for how artistic practice can act as an agent in reconstructing 180 pages local democracy worldwide. The culmination of a multidisciplinary research project that operated through a series of public hearings in Stockholm, Copenhagen and Gothenburg (2015–2016), Public Enquiries provides a multidisciplinary critical reading of PARK LEK and its contribution to the international debate about how artists can contribute to public policy. The book is a ’must read’ for anyone with an interest in the current state of socially engaged art practice and the ways in which the government of contemporary urban spaces can be re-politicised through artistic intervention as a catalyst for local democratic processes. THIS TITLE IS PUBLISHED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH VALAND ACADEMY, UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG. 10 11 STUDIO TIME Future Thinking in Art and Design EDITORS: Jan Boelen, Ils Huygens, Heini Lehtinen CONTRIBUTORS: Bruce Sterling, Dunne & Raby, Rotor, Atelier Van Lieshout, Konstantin Grcic, et al The ability to use imagination and envision future needs is crucial in art, design and architecture. Future thinking and making require imagination and capability to create narratives for near and far Available futures and the capacity to compose proposals to meet the imagined Paperback future needs. Future-oriented creative practices also require ISBN 978-1-912165-08-7 future literacy—understanding the temporal continuum in which £29.95 · $39.95 the future-oriented work is created, and being aware of underlying 20 × 21 cm · 8 × 8 in incentives, motivations and structures of the self-initiated works 296 pages or commissions. Similarly, viewing or consuming the speculative creative works requires some level of understanding of the context of the works. Studio Time: Future Thinking in Art and Design approaches these questions with essays from international design and art thinkers, reflective shorter essays and a selection of art, design and architecture projects.