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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
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Fox (Paperback)
Anthony Gardner; Illustrated by Nicola Reed
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A virulent disease carried by foxes is spreading across Europe. In
London an urgent cull is underway, spearheaded by Frank Smith, the
young master of the Hyde Park Hunt. But for Britain's paranoid
Prime Minister, fox flu is a chance to foist the ultimate in
surveillance technology on an unsuspecting population: the Mulberry
Tree system, secretly bought from the Chinese. When biochemist
Christophe Hardy discovers the conspiracy, he finds himself caught
up in a chase which starts in Beijing and ends in Northumbria
involving animal rights activists, a beautiful female missionary,
high-society Chinese assassins, and the world most innovative
catering venture, the Pu Dong Pudding Company.
A child is born to a single mother. His feckless father has
vanished, leaving the mother to cope as best she can, watched over
by a kindly Jamaican. A country cottage is visited by a young
hotographer, whose happiest days of childhood were spent there; he
longs to live in it again but first must negotiate the duplicities
of adult and professional politics. Intimations of immortality,
nostalgia and dreams of excape to a reggae or post-hippy lifestyle
permeate these interwoven histories. A vivid London of the
day-before-yesterday is evoked against apprehensions of a more
ideal form of existence.
The generously illustrated, lavishly documented story of NSK (Neue
Slowenische Kunst), the eastern European art collective present at
the last revolution of the twentieth century. This book is the
generously illustrated, lavishly documented, critically narrated
story of one of the most significant art collectives of the late
twentieth century. In 1984, three groups of artists in post-Tito
Yugoslavia-the music and multimedia group Laibach, the visual arts
group Irwin, and the theater group Scipion Nasice Sisters
Theater-came together to form the Neue Slowenische Kunst (NSK) art
collective. Adopting the symbols, codes, appearances, and
discourses of fascism, nationalism, state power, socialist-realist,
and avant-garde art, and pushing the strategies of
overidentification and subversive affirmation to their limits, NSK
exposed the common foundations of various regimes, systems, and
ideologies, while affirming that "art and totalitarianism are not
mutually exclusive." Employing music, video, film, exhibitions,
writing, graphic design, architecture, theater, and public
relations to probe the aesthetic possibilities of declining
socialism and proliferating capitalism, NSK introduced an
idiosyncratic version of postmodernism (the Retro-Avant-Garde) into
the globalizing cultural sphere. Combining primary documents,
period artifacts, critical essays, and contextual notes, NSK from
Kapital to Capital documents NSK's collective practice during the
final decade of Yugoslavia-from the first (and banned) Laibach
concert (1980) in a small proletarian mining town in Slovenia to
the series of projects launched by individual NSK groups entitled
Kapital (1991-92). This illuminating chronicle of NSK's work and
its reception is produced in conjunction with the first major
museum exhibition devoted to NSK. Designed by Novi Kolektivizem
(New Collectivism), the graphic design section of NSK, the cover of
each individual copy of the book is printed with a custom detail;
no two covers exactly are the same. Copublished with Moderna
Galerija / Museum of Modern Art, Ljubljana, Slovenia. Contributors
Eda Cufer, Goran Dordevic, Slavoj Zizek, Marina Grzinic, Rastko
Mocnik, Marina Grzinic, Lev Kreft, Tomaz Mastnak, Mladen Dolar,
Chrissie Iles, Boris Groys, Inke Arns, Alexei Monroe, Catherine
Wood, Daniel Ricardo Quiles, Anthony Gardner, Barbara Borcic,
Alexei Yurchak, Dejan Krsic, and others Exhibition Moderna
galerija, Ljubljana: 12 May-17 August 2015 Van Abbemuseum,
Eindhoven: March-August, 2016 Garage Museum of Contemporary Art,
Moscow: Fall 2016
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