Review: Reviews
All the news in theory and in action
Everybody is publishing books about small independent magazines these days (or planning to, from what…
Unravelling pages
Warren Lehrer is best known for French Fries (Visual Studies Workshop Press / EarSay Books…
We made this. Authentic, trilingual landmark
In the early 1990s I produced a number of facsimile editions of publications of the…
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…