Review: Reviews
Absent insights
By its title, L’Écartelage reveals its focus on Surrealism in the work of Pierre Faucheux…
A small ‘M’ modern master
The history of graphic design has many gaps and omissions, whether through shifting tastes, technology…
We made this: A life in artefacts
Tom Dixon’s Dixonary (Violette Editions, £35) is a big book (632 pages) that is beautifully…
Towering ambition
Audiovisual events that genuinely work are so rare that Brooklyn Babylon (Holland Festival, 24 June…
The future was Afro
Slightly larger than a 45rpm single and thick as a modest box-set, this book evocatively…
Violently opposed to war
Looking for images of ‘peace’ on the internet yields predictable and clichéd results, as Signs…
Cute cultural tourism
Hello Kitty and Pokemon seem to have taken over the world in recent decades. But…
Menacing identities
This brooding black hardback, which looks like a CIA manual, is a worldwide survey of…
A cornucopia of Indian design
This anthology of interviews with Indian graphic designers gained exposure in the UK earlier this…
Raw and radical
The ‘underground press’ died out more than 40 years ago. Yet it lives on, thanks…