Rotterdam Underground Art Book Club
The Rotterdam Underground ABC is an informal forum for the free but not necessarily fair exchange of information about (art) books. Book lovers welcome.
Meetings to be announced at the discretion of the administrator. “In the shop window you have promptly identified the cover with the title you were looking for. Following this visual trail, you have forced your way through the shop past the thick barricade of Books You Haven't Read, which were frowning at you from the tables and shelves, trying to cow you. But you know you must never allow yoursel
Beautiful and inspiring work by Laurence Aëgerter, seen friday night in PrintRoom: http://laurenceaegerter.com/artists-books/.
My favourites are: Cathédrales (http://laurenceaegerter.com/portfolio-item/cathedrales-book/), Tristes Tropiques (http://laurenceaegerter.com/portfolio-item/tristes-tropiques-book/), and the Perecian An Alphabetical Index of Some of the Stories (http://laurenceaegerter.com/portfolio-item/an-alphabetical-index-of-some-of-the-stories-book/).
Tales from the Void The art collective Le Gun has staged a “takeover” of the famous bookshop, stocking its shelves with fake titles. Here are some favorites.
For your expanded reading list: http://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2008/aug/26/historyandhistoryofart
Would like especially to read The Limewood Sculptors of Renaissance Germany:
http://yalepress.yale.edu/book.asp?isbn=9780300028294
Obituary: Michael Baxandall Obituary: Influential art historian noted for his perspicacity and scholarly approach
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v36/n23/tj-clark/world-of-faces
The only problem with reading a T.J. Clark review is that he makes you drop everything and book the first ticket to London. Rumour has it that the Late Rembrandt show is coming to Amsterdam next.
LRB · T.J. Clark · World of Faces: Face to Face with Rembrandt They say that when Jean Genet made occasional visits to London after the war his first stop was always the Rembrandt room in the National Gallery, to see Self-Portrait at the Age of 63. The portrait is dated 1669: Genet believed it was the last Rembrandt painted. (Not true, apparently.) He . . .
It's Nice That : The Bookshelf of London-Based printers/publishers/creatives Hato Press Bookshelf The Bookshelf of London-Based printers/publishers/creatives Hato Press Posted by Liv Siddall, Tuesday 07 October 2014
Bibliothek der Kulturwissenschaft, Hamburg, 1926
Want to read: http://www.newrepublic.com/article/118330/dreamland-humanists-emily-j-levine-reviewed-ingrid-rowland
"At thirteen, Aby Warburg made a deal with his twelve-year-old brother Max: if Max would promise to buy Aby all the books he wanted for the rest of his life, Aby would hand over his designated position in the family bank. Both brothers were as good as their word."
A Banker, a Scholar, and the Invention of Art History The story of the Warburg brothers.
Upon request, a list of the books we've discussed at the book club so far (3):
27 May 2014
Hans Abbing
Why Are Artists Poor
http://press.uchicago.edu/ucp/books/book/distributed/W/bo3706186.html
Karl Buchberg, Nicholas Cullinan and Jodi Hauptman (eds)
Henri Matisse: The Cut-outs
http://shop.tate.org.uk/henri-matisse-the-cut-outs/henri-matisse-the-cut-outs-paperback/invt/13789
Kenya Hara
White
http://www.lars-mueller-publishers.com/en/weiss
Paul de Reus
Opa
http://www.ideabooks.nl/9789080971721-paul-de-reus-opa
Peter Sloterdijk
Sferen
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/bubbles
Susanne Kriemann
One Time One Million (Migratory Birds/Romantic Capitalism)
http://www.mottodistribution.com/shop/publishers/roma-publications/one-time-one-million-migratory-birds-romantic-capitalism.html
Monica Heller
Riley and his Story
http://www.rileyandhisstory.com/
Wim Wenders
On Film
http://www.faber.co.uk/catalog/on-film/9780571207183
Upon request, a list of the books we've discussed at the book club so far (2):
18 March 2014
Andrew Light & Jonathan Smith (ed)
The Aesthetics of Everyday Life
http://books.google.nl/books?id=bmxy8uUs46UC&pg=RA1-PT18&lpg=RA1-PT18&dq=The+Aesthetics+of+Everyday+Life&source=bl&ots=XXv_6I9zs-&sig=BtUUzTAR275LorI3qNoQvJModGU&hl=en&sa=X&ei=f2DXU4CnJoHcPZfsgfAO&ved=0CD0Q6AEwBDgK =onepage&q&f=false
Maira Kalman
The Principles of Uncertainty
The Elements of Style
Cloé Poizat
Fictions
http://www.chloepoizat.com/index.php/petites-editions-et-livres/fictions/
Jonathan Crary
Suspensions of Perception
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/suspensions-perception
Foam
Dummy
http://www.foam.org/foam-magazine/issues/issue-34-dummy
Dorothea von Hantelmann
How to Do Things with Art
http://www.artbook.com/9783037641040.html
Alain Badieu
Ethics: An Essay on the Understanding of Evil
http://www.versobooks.com/books/1136-ethics
Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec
Drawing
http://www.artbook.com/9783037643198.html
Upon request, a list of the books we've discussed at the book club so far:
15 October 2013
Andreas Huyssen
Present Past: Urban Palimpsest and the Politics of Memory
http://www.sup.org/book.cgi?id=4439
Geert Goiris
Lying Awake
http://www.ideabooks.nl/9789077459935-geert-goiris-lying-awake
Frei Otto
Zugbeanspruchte Konstruktionen
http://www.freiotto-architekturmuseum.de/BIOIN.HTM
Silvia Bächli
Lidschlag: How It Looks
http://www.silviabaechli.ch/publications/lidschlag/
Collected Stories of Lydia Davis
http://www.lrb.co.uk/v32/n14/clancy-martin/things-they-dont-want-to-hear
http://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/aug/07/collected-stories-lydia-davis-review
Chris Kraus
I Love Dick
http://mitpress.mit.edu/books/i-love-dick
Elaine Scarry
On Beauty and Being Just
http://press.princeton.edu/titles/6675.html
Robert Flynn Johnson and Donna Stein
Artists books in the modern era 1870-2000: the Reva and David Logan collection of illustrated bookshttp://books.google.nl/books/about/Artists_books_in_the_modern_era_1870_200.html?id=YaNPAAAAMAAJ&redir_esc=y
There's still time to catch this exhibition of artits' books in the Hague, till 13 July.
http://www.meermanno.nl/index/-/p-van-picasso-tot-sol-lewitt2031
Museum Meermanno | Huis van het Boek Prinsessegracht 30 2514 AP Den Haag T 070 34 62 [email protected] Museum MA | gesloten DI t/m ZO | 11:00 - 17:00 uur Gesloten op feestdagen. Voor actuele informatie: www.meermanno.nl Toegangsprijzen
Geluk: als je tien minuten voor sluitingstijd de bieb inrent en het juiste boek ligt voor je klaar.