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Cheryl Buckley - Made in Patriarchy

Bikini Books 2025 ISBN 9789893585924 Acqn 36910
Pb 11x18cm 104pp col ills £17

Made in Patriarchy brings together two key texts by design historian Cheryl Buckley. In 1986,
Cheryl Buckley argued that design history is shaped by patriarchal biases that trivialize,
marginalize, or erase women's contributions. She advocated for a feminist critique that not only
challenges these patriarchal frameworks but also shifts the focus away from individual
achievements to recognize women's roles as designers, consumers, and subjects of
representation. Buckley revisited the evolution of the field in 2020, reflecting critically on both its
progress and persisting challenges while also addressing gaps in her earlier thinking. As Bibiana
Oliveira Serpa notes in her foreword, "questioning one's own worldview is, in itself, a feminist act."
In her essay, Serpa examines the trajectory of the green panuelo, a crucial feminist symbol,
weaving Buckley's insights into the broader context of Latin American struggles for justice and
equality.

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Curatorial Design - A Place Between

Lenz 2025 ISBN 9791280579614 Acqn 36866
Pb 20x29cm 440pp col ills £39.50

The future of architecture lies in a curatorial approach, as argued by Wilfried Kuehn and
Dubravka Sekulic in Curatorial Design: A Place Between. The book features insights from over 30
experts in architecture, art, and curatorial practice. Architectural design and curating resist
specialization, fostering diverse knowledge. This challenges the increasing division of labor and
promotes relational thinking. Together, they create a new practice that shapes rather than
mediates. The book, aimed at architects, designers, and curators, includes three photo series by
Armin Linke, covering topics like public architecture, reconstruction, and shared spaces.

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The Man Who

Building Fictions 2025 ISBN 9789083375632 Acqn 36870
Hb 10x16cm 256pp £17.50

Titles beginning with 'The Man Who' have become a prevalent trope in storytelling over the past
century and a half. Compiling 243 titles from 1869 to 2023 across literature, theater, and film, this
collection lays bare the unchecked ambition, curious pursuits, and dubious power of the man at
the center of it all. Always active and in control, he is the architect of his own destiny. Even the
titles indicating his failure still carry the same expectation: to be knowledgeable, powerful,
exceptional. This collection exposes society's obsession with masculinity in all its contradictory,
unattainable glory, and the isolation of The Man Who is granted the stage all to himself. Six
different typographical covers.

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Revue Faire 51 - "Yell Outside": International Library of Fashion Research

Editions Empire 2025 ISBN 9791095991496 Acqn 36851
Pb 22x30cm 76pp col ills £15.75

A visual journey through an extensive collection of fashion ephemera housed at the International
Library of Fashion Research in Oslo, the world's most comprehensive repository of specialized
fashion research and contemporary fashion publications. Aude Fellay discusses the challenges
facing fashion research today. Revue Faire is a bi-monthly magazine dedicated to graphic design,
published from October to June, distributed issue by issue or in the form of anthologies of three or
four issues. Faire is aimed for undergraduate students as well as researchers and professionals,
documenting contemporary and international practices of graphic design, along with the history
and grammar of styles. Each issue focuses on a single subject, addressed by a renowned author.

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Marta Kuhn-Weber - Puppets, Pop & Poetry

Strzelecki Books 2025 ISBN 9783910298385 Acqn 36809
Pb 23x38cm 208pp col ills £36.50

Marta Kuhn-Weber (1903-1990) was an artist who embraced intellectual, economic, and artistic
freedom, rejecting the boundaries between fantasy and reality. A self-assured and independent
figure, she defied genre classifications and external judgment. She studied at the Badische
Landeskunstschule in Karlsruhe in the mid-1920s and co-published the left-wing artists' magazine
ZAKPO in 1930. After living in Berlin, Freiburg, Basel, and Alsace, she moved to Paris in the mid-
1960s. Known for her flair for self-staging, her work includes photographic and painted self-
portraits and life-sized dolls that explore gender, sexuality, and social roles. Her inspirations
ranged from literature and theatre to the queer scene of the 1960s and 1970s. The publication
features a detailed biography, her artistic networks, and a selected catalogue of works.

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NESTS - An Ode to Domesticity

Temporary Press 2025 ISBN 9789819409068 Acqn 36854
Pb 11x16cm 600pp col ills £80

Over the last 20 years, Manuel and Isabelle Der Hagopian have lived between Singapore,
Vietnam, and Switzerland. The couple have built various dwellings in each location to house their
lives and redefine their domesticity as a fundamental need. Each "nest" arises from intimate
conversations between them and the spaces, giving birth to meticulously-crafted domains and
lovingly-curated interiors echoing the spirit of the local culture. 'NESTS' features six of these
dwellings-Seng Poh, TB80, Bi Khi Ni, Thi Sach, Beaumont, and Diablay De-as seen through the
lens of Khoo Guo Jie. The photographer's images of the life and love that imbue these spaces
have been curated into booklets that are designed to embody the unique character and
materiality of each nest. Together, they weave a voyage across different habitats and offer an
introspective journey back home, in all the senses.

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Practising Solidarity
ArtEZ Press 2025 ISBN 9789491444753 Acqn 36885
Pb 17x24cm 160pp col ills £21

Creatives, practitioners, designers, and artistic researchers are engaging in a participatory

practice of collectively investigating what practising solidarity in fashion entails. This book
recognises the urgency of practising more care for other humans, animals, organisms, and
species, as well as the other (living) matter related to fashion, clothing, and textiles. How can we
activate radical visions and imaginations of alternative, more solidary fashion systems? And how
can we respect the agency of human beings in precarious positions while also acknowledging the
lives of other living (non-human) beings? Learn more about the critical strategies, affirmative
approaches, and embodied practices.

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Thomas Ott - From Scratch

Christoph Merian Verlag 2025 ISBN 9783039690442 Acqn 36882
Pb 24x30cm 148pp col ills £36.75

Swiss comic artist and illustrator Thomas Ott has gained a worldwide reputation, with works
represented in many collections and some of his stories adapted for film. Ott's blacker than black
scraperboard technique combines a pictorial idiom that evokes film while telling nightmarishly
dismal stories. The skilfully rendered images form an oppressive contrast with the nonverbal
character of the narratives. This book offers a first-ever survey of Ott's multifaceted oeuvre, from
his first works for the magazine 'Strapazin' to 'Tales of Error' and other celebrated comic
collections, his work on animations and live-action films, and even the drawings he has produced
for installations.

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