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Passive human hands are animated and become activators of the silent objects. Their touching, pinching and caring they help the viewer in their understanding of the material. Objects become characters and abstract forms come to life. Hundreds of images and try-outs for collages come together on the pages in unexpected combinations. They provide the viewer with context for the collages, reveal the underlying work process and at the same time compose a personal guide for making new work. Books about housekeeping, books that explain to us how to live, how to do the garden, arrange flowers, or hang the curtains.
It is a question and at the same time a constraint.
This way and no other way should it be done. A compelling guideline, doomed to be violated and therefore produce failures. In this presentation the walls will be the stage and different images will be brought together. Circumstances are created in which playing, searching, intuition and humor can play the leading role. Levitators come together with dramatic flower arrangements and houseplants covered with snow. Pink figures dance with flowers and black and white ladies hang from the ceiling like green beans. Starting from her archive, Ruth van Beek makes collages and books.
The images from this archive are constantly conversing with one another.
A large part of the image archive finds its origin in old manuals. Books that are made as a tool, as an advisor for everyday occupations. The images mainly show hands that demonstrate how something is supposed to be done. Hands that dig in the earth, that make dolls, that arrange flowers, that cook. All sorts of daily actions pass by.
By focusing on the action and detaching from the original context, van Beek encourages imagination, thereby provoking un-comfortable and uneasy feelings: Hundreds of images and tests from van Beeks image archive come together. They show a method and create, in turn, a manual for creating new work. With the financial support of Mondriaan Fund. With a keen eye for detail, extensive production knowhow and a penchant for bold colors, Shannon worked closely with artists to conceptualize and produce new works in multiple format.
Through an often collaborative process, he encouraged artists to push the boundaries of their practice and embrace new materials, experiment with multiple processes, produce work in variable format, and to collaborate with other artists. Please join us for an opening reception on Friday, July 20, PM. Drawing from a phrase in Alice in Wonderland, this exhibition explores players and playfulness in contemporary photography.
The curator Hester Keijser has chosen twelve artists because of the elaborated playfulness in their work or their willingness to accept challenges that expand their creative capacity. Two teams one Swiss and the other Dutch have been formed with six players on each. The exhibition features a selection of videos by Roman Signer that mark the midpoint of the playing field. The visitors will be able to place an un-vote for the un-winning team, but without knowing for which team they are casting their un-vote.
May 18 - 20, Concealer, curated by Toim Lovelace, presents the work of five contemporary artists working with photography, photo collage and video.
Significantly the artists in Concealer seemingly turn their backs on conventional photographic representation and instead choose to explore, create and build new abstract languages and visual systems. The artworks on display either bear little resemblance to our recognisable visual world or actively attempt to obfuscate through different strategies of abstraction.
In a time when the potency of the photographic image as a fast, digital carrier of information continues to rise and proliferate, the artworks that form Concealer, drawn from Mexico, America, the Netherlands and the UK, intentionally conceal rather than reveal. Untitled New Arrangements , Untitled figure 8 Untitled The Arrangement Like the hands of a giant, these fingers initiate a playful exchange between the physical and temporal space of the rudimentary toy construction sets in the original photographs and the colourful, faceless characters who now fill the frame of the work.
Ruth van Beek and Nico Krijno. They question the connotations of surface and meaning by engaging their images in unexpected conversations, both poetic and full of humour. Whereas Van Beek assembles her images from her archive and new images appear within the arranged encounter of archival footage, Krijno manipulates his images digitally and leaves room for the messy, as to purposefully leave room for the accident from which new images come forth.
Ruth van Beek shows individuals and the relationship among them. Midway between genre painting, group portrait and installation, this informal circle is an invitation to share discreetly in what we recognize as an interview, discussion, negotiation or sacra conversazione to which they are listening so attentively. A composition in which all the fragments whether abstract or figurative of collected images collages, paintings, drawings, photographs, furnishings, etc influence the space they occupy.
In the basement gallery, Ruth van Beek turns the space into a metaphor for the unconscious. A place between life and death, wakefulness and sleep. Around the central figure of the sleeping rock with feet, shaped like a body, statues from ancient history, animals, plants, rocks, dolls and masks appear to be attending a ceremonial gathering. A large-format storytelling map, made from archive images of motionless objects. The selection of objects will incorporate sculptures of cats from ancient Egypt, together with year old Mexican ceramic Colima dogs, Classic 19th century portraits next to modern paintings by artists such as Gino Severinni and Kees Van Dongen and many more.
The eclectic selection of photography, video, and specially commissioned installations will reflect the binary- but mostly human- distinction between these two animals through a wide range of cultural representations. Untitled The Levitators, 19 - This is referred to as a spring tide. Willem van Zoetendaal sees this natural phenomenon as symbolising his encounter with the millions of negatives, contact sheets and prints in the Collection of the Nederlands Fotomuseum. Anyone embarking on an exploration of this ocean of images will discover unexpected treasures, often throwing new light on the history of photography.
Exercising his expert eye for the beauties of photography, guest curator Willem van Zoetendaal will introduce us to over photographs from the Collection in their original form: Many of the photographs in the exhibition are well-known in cropped versions but are now being shown for the first time in their entirety.
Van Zoetendaal will reveal the continuing relevance of the photographs in the museum collection by complementing them with contemporary photographs. The combination produces unexpected links and parallels between past and present. For example, the fact that photographers - then as now - were attracted by motifs like solitary trees, moonlight or reflections in water. Participating photographers From the Collection: Purchase of these editions directly support the Book Fair, helping to ensure the event remains free.
Repetition, rhyme, coincidences and parallels form the alphabet of an obscure language. Van Beek rearranges the pictures to create brand new images, but emphasizes the conversations between them. They are part of a scene, react to the room as if they were a Greek chorus, or confront the viewer directly. Van Beek subtlety transforms the exhibition space into an exuberant and ominous carnival. Abstract shapes are brought to life and make for a cast of exaggerated characters, turning the entire room into a masquerade.
Seeing these pets, now bred in all possible shapes and forms, it is hard to believe that they descend from wild animals. In the photos they pose patiently for the camera of their owner, looking their best, tails wagging. To bring the dogs back to life, Ruth van Beek cuts and fold the images. Through this process of animation and fixattion many things go awry. In her attempt to make the dogs fly, they gradually loose their original dog-shape, transforming into fluffy objects, unsuccessful animals.
Thus through this uncertainty they become moldable and open to new interpretations. Sunday the 14th of February Untitled The Levitators, 20 - The combination of what is on the image and the shape that it is in provides the image with an important extra layer of drama. It is a broad presentation and at the same time an inquiry into the use of print and digital techniques in different media.
A small limited edition publication will be printed to accompany this show. May 30th from 1 until 6 pm Show: Images are interfered with, fragmented, punctured, spliced and sewn - undergoing a compositional and physical change. The artists are linked by their manipulative artistic strategies, their material experimentation, and by the sense of alchemic exploration that occurs in their photographs. Untitled The Arrangement , collage, framed 33 x 39 cm. Organised by Suns and Stars and Ton de Boer. The ideological values of the present owner, Natuurmonumenten, are also derived from Romanticism.
The title of the exhibition refers to M. Here lies the origin of the conflict caused by Romantic notions of authenticity and artistic genius. Bei Interesse bieten melden bei Ulrike Cichon, cichon boell. Einige von ihnen tragen Kopftuch, andere wiederum nicht. Es gibt sie nicht, die muslimische Frau.
April im Projektraum des Kunstquartier Bethanien gezeigt. Stellen Sie sich vor, Sie sind in einem Lager gefangen. Da Sie verhungern zu lassen eine der Aufgaben des Lagers ist. Tausende Rezepte wurden aufgeschrieben und dies, obwohl bei ihrer Entdeckung mit der Ermordung zu rechnen war. Ich konnte nicht kochen. Es entstanden Freundschaften, wir kamen zusammen, um etwas zu machen, das wir wirklich genossen. Hier setzt das vom Bagamoyo Film Collective initierte Filmprojekt an. Februar in einer Podiumsdiskussion mit ca.
Wie kann das sein? Wieso rasieren Frauen in der Werbung bereits rasierte, statt behaarte Beine? Der Dokumentarfilm befindet sich mitten in den Dreharbeiten und wird fertig gestellt werden. In ihren filmischen Arbeiten setzt die Nachwuchsfilmerin sich immer wieder mit Systemen, Normen und gesellschaftlichen Konstrukten auseinander. Welten, die sich nicht dem Diktat von richtig oder falsch unterwerfen wollen und ambivalent statt linear sind, faszinieren sie. Das, was nicht konform ist, sondern aneckt, rebelliert und aufbegehrt. Elin Halvorsen lebt und arbeitet in Berlin.
Ziel ist so zu authentischen und ungesehenen Stadtbildern zu gelangen. Zudem gilt es, kulturelle Arbeit wie z. In Zeiten von Selbstoptimierung ist deine Wampe eine Demo. Was aber bedeutet der Wahrheitsbegriff in einem Land, in dem scheinbar nur konstruierte Wahrheiten verbreitet werden? Moviendo la Fe dt. Karin de Miguel Wessendorf. Quarter calf, gilt lettered, marbled boards, bookplate, moderate wear at spine extremities, light wear at corners, otherwise very good. Though a devout Sufi, Hafiz C. A beautiful, handsome edition, apparently the third printing from Schahin.
Purple pictorial boards, very good. Hartmann von Aue c. Der arme Heinrich , written while Hartmann recovered his piece of mind after the death of his lord, is considered his best work. Very thick 4to, xiv, 2 , pp, leaf of ads, with 24 tinted photographic plates and text illustrations. Half calf, gilt title. Pre-eminent drug historian Bo Holmstedt speaks of "this monumental volume," containing a "gigantic quantity of material Gives a detailed description of all kinds of drugs.
Wasson, Soma, bibliography no. This volume brings together the three earliest writings before Sein und Zeit: All is preceded by a forward by Heidegger, who hints at some autobiographical background to these early pieces. This was issued simultaneously in wrappers and hard-bound. But Heidegger forbid any mention of the book in the press, prevented any reviews from taking place, and obstructed the separate publication until years later. Hoffman und Kampe, [i. Foxing througout, otherwise fine. Though beginning his career as a painter, Heine soon turned to caricature as his primary medium, is known for his erotica, and is considered the Hogarth of his time.
Heine provides a charmingly wry introduction to a book that, in toto, provides an excellent view of Germany as revealing as it is amusing about a difficult period in her history. Zusammengestellt von Felix A. Black cloth backstrip, gilt lettered and ornamented, paper boards, black lettered, very light wear, otherwise near fine.
Covers physicians whose prominence was achieved by ; there were later supplements which included doctors who came to prominence since and these supplements were included in later editions that must be used with caution because of editorial defects etc. Among the few before the First World War to take an active role in the "reform of the antiquated sexual code that prevailed at the time" Fine, History of Psychoanalysis, p. Havelock Ellis also paid tribute to Hirschfeld in the third edition of Sexual Inversion, lauding him for his "scholarly history of the antiquated laws against homosexuality in Germany, [and for being the] first authority to deal adequately with lesbianism" Grosskurth, Havelock Ellis, p.
The current four-volume work provides a very comprehensive overview of human sexuality, in terms of its history, its varieties and their causes. About homosexuality in particular Hirschfeld argues that it, as many other varieties of sexuality, is congenital, and that sexual inversion might be caused by internal secretions. Hirschfeld escaped and died in Nice. Orig blue printed wrappers, spine lightly chipped, unopened, very good. Hitschmann hoped to enlighten therapists who were antagonistic or indifferenct to psychoanalysis" Philip Becker, "Edward Hitschmann" in Psychoanalytic Pioneers, p.
This edition includes much material not found in the first: His voluminous output included psychoanalytic biographies, among which were studies of Goethe, Swedenborg, Eckermann, Brahms, and Boswell. Original printed wrappers, inserted in a pamphlet binder. First vol in orig. Both near fine in a worn slipcase. Claudio, who has spent his life examining the reflection of life in art but who has never given himself to anyone, is approached by the fiddle-bearing Death.
Claudio explains that, as he has not yet really lived, he cannot follow Death. But Death produces witnesses: Kiefer Catalog of History of Urology and Medicine later edition. Half calf over speckled boards, calf label. Crease to front board, barest occasional foxing, otherwise fine. This edition may be pirated, likely preceding the edition, which is generally considered the true second edition.
Later editions are entitled Makrobiotik: Hufeland cites the case of Thomas Parr, "whose body was opened in his nd year, [proving] that even at this age, the state of the bowels may be so perfect and sound that one might certainly live some time longer. Haller and Hufeland reason that, as an animal lives eight times as long as its period of growth, so too man, "in his natural state" should be able to live eight times the 25 years it takes him to grow.
The "hygenic elite" are working people who lives simply in open air. This present work "was read literally throughout the world" Major II, p. Garrison-Morton Jena ed. Heirs of Hippocrates Jena ed. Osleriana later eds. Lesky later ed. Versuch einer Kritik der logischen Vernunft. Max Niemeyer, 8vo, xii, pp. English, Dictionnaire des oeuvres philosophiques , Husserl restates his explanation of the "transcendental ego," also called "pure consciousness," maintaining that it exists "absolutely" and that all else exists "relative" to it.
Several years later, Husserl changed his position, suggesting that the transcendental ego is "correlative," rather than relative, to the world, and perplexing historians of philosophy to this day. Herausgegeben von Martin Heidegger. Barest external soiling, otherwise fine. Includes a two-page preface by Heidegger. Erzahlung vom grossen Plan. Stiffcard with photo-illustrated dust jacket, rear panel of dj detatched, light-moderate wear to dj overall, otherwise very good.
Noteworthy for the industrial photographs which are reminiscent of the Straight-Photography school in America lead by Paul Strand which found art in the geometry of ordinary and modern objects, often industrial machinery. Authorized translation from the original Russian by Michael Swjetly. With 24 photographic plates. Mit Farben Raume und Bauten zu Gestalten Oblong 4to, 20pp text printed in gray plus 30 color lithograph plates loose in portfolio.
Intended for artists, architects and other professionals, the work is a tour de force of color printing. Some plates are heightened with silver, and the overall effect of the luminous colors is dazzling. Ein Atlas und Lehrbuch. The commanding figure in turn-of-the-century German plastic surgery, Jacques Joseph began as an orthopedic surgeon in Berlin but soon became involved in the reduction of protruding ears and eventually in the reduction of large unshapely noses. He formulated his techniqes on the presumption that he would make his patients inconspicuous and was never in favor of vanity procedures.
He was accused of secrecy with his techniques, but eventually shared them during enormously expensive lessons. Zur Theorie des Schizophrenen Negativsmus. Second edition, first in Attributing the original stimulus for his idea of psychic synchronicity to his acquaintanceship with Einstein in Zurich between and , Jung presents the concept of synchronicity to mean "the simultaneous occurrence of a certain psychic state with one or more external events which appear as meaningful parallels.
Also touched upon is the polemic between Kepler and Robert Fludd, through which Pauli suggests that a discrepancy in the presuppostions of natural science and alchemy was revealed most noticably by a dissimilarity in symbolic notation. Green cloth white lettered, Dust jacket, light wear, otherwise very good. Original printed wrappers, blue label, very good copy in a cloth folding case.
Kafka started to make notes for this work in , using the title Der Verschollene. He describes the boat journey of the sixteen year old Rossman, ordered by his parents to travel to the United States, and his friendship with the stoker whom he encourages to stand up for his own rights.
Der Heizer appeared as vol. Modern full calf, red label, a. Bookplate, light external wear, very good. A superbly engraved collection of prayers in German, divided by subject into sections such as Morning Prayers, Prayers before Communion, Evening Prayers, Prayers for Peace, etc. The quality of the artwork is quite exceptional and includes an extraordinary variety of styles executed with consumate skill. The most striking portions are the numerous minutely exectued allegorical vignettes placed above the text of the prayers.
Kraus suggested that the work was published in Cologne. Ornamentstich Sammlung Elephant folio 26 x 19 inches , 25 chromolithograph plates. Titles in french and german on facing pages, separate indexes. Uniformly bound in red cloth, grey d. Lacks vol II, signature to endpapers, ink name written on bottom edges of all volumes. Verlag des Osterstaatsdruckerei, Folio, 19 by 18 inches, 16pp text, 30 plates, of which 17 are in color. This is one of numbered copies in German there were also each in French and English.
Zij beantwoorden de vraag of er - los van het verleden - ook nieuwe oases denkbaar zijn. This appendix is purported to be a translation of a 14th-century manuscript and includes two full-page woodcuts. Ornamentstich Sammlung Note on back endpaper, otherwise fine in nearly fine pictorial slipcase. He was the first to treat cretinism with a thyroid gland preparation and to treat another thyroid disorder, goiter, with iodine. The first novel in the U. Aus allen Zeiten und Breiten gesammelt.
Consists of an introductory essay by Klinger in defence of commercial art, followed by black and white reproductions of his work. Head of spine worn, front joint just starting, title rubber-stamped, very good. Krafft-Ebing became professor of psychiatry at the German University of Strassbourg at the young age of 29, and he later held for many years the most coveted chair in psychiatry, that at the University of Vienna.
While his fame rests mostly, of course, on his Psychopathia Sexualis, he did significant work in fields other than the study of sexual behavior and is known to have had a great influence on Alfred Adler. He was also the first to establish the relationship between syphilis and general paralysis. Brecher, The Sex Researchers, pp. This work deals with an amputation method invented by him known as the Kruckenberg-hand. Ein Abriss Seiner Geschichte. Fine copy in damaged slipcase. Half calf over pebbled boards. Spine deteriorating, otherwise very good.
Among many discoveries in physiology and anatomy, Landois discovered the haemolysing effect of blood serum of one species when transfused into another. He also invented the test for carbon monoxide in blood. Stols and had covers designed by R. Modern library cloth, orig.
It deals with the borderline between the pharmacological and the toxicologiacal action of drugs with the untoward or side-effects of all kinds of medicaments" Garrison-Morton. Lewin is a legendary figure, "the most interesting personality of all psychopharmacologists of his time" Holmstedt. Old marbled boards rebacked in black cloth, gilt title. The volume covers metalloids and metals, organic and chemical products, fauna and flora products and poisons, and septic poisons, as well as a number of narcotic substances.
Louis Lewin is a legendary figure, "the most interesting personality of all psychopharmacologists of his time" Holmstedt. A prolific writer, he was the author of more than books and papers, including a history of poisonings and an annotated list of Jewish doctors through history. Historische und Experimentelle Untersuchungen. Lewin was the most important psychoactive drug experimenter of his time. In the two decades preceding the present work he authored monographs on kava-kava, coca, and peyote. Georg Stilke, 8vo, viii, 4, pp.
Small hole in backstirp otherwise very good. The modern classic of psychoactive drug classification. The work has been translated into French, Italian and English. The English edition first introduced Aldous Huxley to drug literature. Blue cloth, edges very lightly worn. It is also an useful reference source for travels, voyages, and military books.
Besterman ; Colas ; Hiler p. Half purple cloth over black cloth, light wear to boards, light even darkening of paper, very good. Lombroso here summarizes his views on the relationship between physical stature and criminal behavior. Special attention is given to the brain and to the shape of the cranium.
Cesare Lombroso , the Italian criminologist, was born of a Jewish family in Verona, and became professor of forensic medicine and of psychiatry at Turin, where he later filled the chair of criminal anthropology. Strongly influenced by Auguste Comte, from whom he adopted a perhaps exaggerated tendency to assign all mental facts to biogical attributes, he was the greatest of a long line of Italian criminologists, which included Bovio, Ferri, and Colajanni.
His far reaching studies showed, in sum, that the criminal population is characterized by a higher percentage of nervous, mental, and especially physical anomalies than non-criminals, and that degeneration and atavism are the causes of these anomolies. In the present volume, Lombroso proposes a classification of criminals, such that those born "criminal types" may receive a different kind of punishment from those whom circumstance tempts into crime. In his work two beliefs are incarnate. Ecru wrappers, wrappers worn, soiled, chipped at edges, interior leaves clean, otherwise very good.
The Scottish-born Weimar poet and novelist Mackay is best remembered as a gay activist and anarchist; when the Nazis came to power his works were condemned and destroyed. The present volume is an early collection of his poetry notable for featuring gender-neutral pronouns. Not found in any of the standard references. Mann , author of such influential and important works as The Magic Mountain and Death in Venice, was awarded the Nobel Prize for literature in The political climate in Germany forced his move to Switzerland in , and to the United States in ; he lived in Pacific Palisades from and became a U.
His scathing denunciations of the Nazis resulted in the revocation of his German citizenship and banning of his works. He returned to Switzerland in and lived there until his death. See Bleiler Checklist p. Die Entstehung der Buddenbrooks. Illustriert von Erich M.
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