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| Title: Baron by Richard Kern |
| By (author): Baron |
| ISBN10-13: 1838424822 : 9781838424824 |
| For the seventh instalment of Baron photographer Richard Kern explores the dichotomy between girl and woman, between the nude and the dressed, and between playfulness and seriousness. Kern does not ask his subjects to pose for him, nor does he direct them. He doesnâ t even contact or cast them. Rather, the subjects contact him, and pose for him in any way they are comfortable. They sometimes choose to be portrayed in the nude and they have full control of the way their bodies are photographed. Therefore, the work is a collaboration between the model and the photographer, as they both construct the image. This process plays out an interesting power dynamic, as the photographer is an older man and the subject is a young woman. Yet, by being seemingly opposed, the photographs are shaped by the male gaze, but simultaneously express the subjectsâ agency over their sexuality and their bodies. However, how far is the performance of these young women a true expression of their new-found sexuality? Or is that performance rather shaped by the patriarchy and influenced by the endless stream of pop culture on what it is to be a woman? Kern explains that he wanted this series of portraits to be about the last stage of innocence, the phase where a girl is leaving childhood and is slowly but surely entering adulthood. The many uncertainties that come from being in between age groups, in a place where itâ s unclear what society is expecting of being a woman, are visible through the insecurity and agitation on the girlsâ faces. Itâ s so scary for a girl to leave her old, but safe, life behind, yet so exciting to be introduced into the thrilling, but possibly threatening world of womanhood. There is a sense of safety, but also danger here. The photographs are layered on top of each other, veiling and unveiling the female body. In doing so, Kern creates a hallucinating image of a feminine subject that is neither a girl, nor yet a woman. Both sides are emphasized through the translucency of the pictures. These girls are about to become women; in their eyes, you can see both the doubts and the joys that come with this new-found social position, role and sexual power. Richard Kern Artist Bio: Richard Kern (1954, USA) is a filmmaker and photographer from New York. He was a vivid member of the late â 70â s â no-waveâ scene and the underground cult genre â Cinema of Transgressionâ . His cinematographic work is characterised by subversive elements such as violence and sex. Throughout his career, he has worked with musicians such as Lydia Lunch, Henry Rollins, Sonic Youth and Butthole Surfers. His book, New York Girls, from 1997, features punk queens and sub-cultural heroines portrayed in the nude. More recently, Kern investigated youthfulness in his work. His book, Medicated (2020), features photographs and interviews of girls on prescribed drugs. Baron Issue 7 is a continuation of Kernâ s ongoing research on the portrayal of girlhood. |
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Pages: 128
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| Published: BARON - September 2021 |
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| List Price: 40.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 1 of: 9 |
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| Title: Baron Issue 6 |
| Sub-title: Miert vagy te, ha lehetsz en is? |
| By (photographer): Petra Collins |
| ISBN10-13: 1527254518 : 9781527254510 |
| For the sixth edition of Baron, artist Petra Collins flips the camera lens onto herself. more specifically into herself. Uninhibited, gross, disjointed, and confusing, Collins places us in a world filled with perverse personal thoughts and lucid landscapes. With the bookâ s Hungarian title Miért vagy te, ha lehetsz én is? Collins asks us: Why be you, when you can be me? Collins uses the camera as the third person. It captures historical truths (such as a time and place) and an emotional reality with a complicated relationship to intention and perception. Working with the sculptor Sarah Sitkin, Collins creates moulds of her body as well as her sisters to gain ownership, in a world where our bodies live in multiple realities. This new body of work features Collins first experiments with self-portraiture. â Iâ ve seen my camera take on many truths. And the truths that shocked me the most to see, were my own. I see them in every image I have taken. Seldom am I the subject of my images but I often make my way into the matter of themâ . Acknowledging this, these photographs are set in a world of â constructedâ domestic interiors contrasted with â realâ exterior locations and Collins own family and friends. The sixth instalment of Baron introduces the art director Sandra Leko who has collaborated with Collinâ s to present this new body of work in book form that is inspired by the graphics and layouts of Japanese Kinbaku magazines, the sequencing of the images are disjointed, ambiguous and represent its own peculiar logic. |
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Pages: 166
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| Published: BARON - July 2019 |
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| List Price: 50.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 2 of: 9 |
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| Title: Baroness |
| Sub-title: (m)Other |
| ISBN10-13: 1838424849 : 9781838424848 |
| For the third edition of Baroness, photographer Yushi Li takes us on a journey of desire, fantasy and looking, through a photographic study of the male body. For Liâ s debut book cover, the photographer has chosen a photograph of a penis. In a heteropatriarchy, where men are represented in the media as big and strong, here the penis is small, flaccid and trapped, presenting a playful, slightly violent, but gentle and almost comical gaze. The naked male bodies in Liâ s works are not intended for consumption. Instead, the male body is represented in its relation to other elements in the frame, which always involves a staging of a scene, a fantasy. The domestic space and the mundane activities in the works, invite the viewer to see beyond the naked body. The man in her images is the phallus, the signifier of desire â the desire of the (m)Other. Liâ s portrayal of the body is a condensation of the imaginary: the unknown paternal and maternal bodyâ and the fantasy of the absent (m)Other. Throughout the book, Li questions the gaze through different works. â My Tinder Boysâ is a set of photographs of naked young men in their kitchens â always soft-fleshed and flaccid, mostly gazing off-camera. â Your Reservation is Confirmedâ , further develops ideas around consumption and satisfaction. Rather than Tinder, this time itâ s Airbnb â a hook-up App for houses. Each image takes us to a new room, in a new house, occupied by a new naked man and often Li herself, fully clothed, engaged in some kind of leisure activity. In Liâ s most recent series â Paintings, Dreams and Loveâ , we are invited to look at paintings through a different lens. Inspired by classical oil paintings of female nudes, Li creates a â cornucopiaâ of men in the diptych â The Feastâ , while Titianâ s â Death of Actaeonâ is re-enacted, with the artist outside pointing her bow and arrow both beyond the frame but also ostensibly at a naked man inside. In â The Dream of the Fisherwomanâ , we see Hokusaiâ s writhing, erotic octopus become a fishmongerâ s corpse, draped across a serenely bathing boy. Li plays with the power dynamic inherent in looking relations further in her moving image work â I Hope You Like What You Have Seenâ , in which Li asked different men to perform naked, mundane activities for her to watch via Skype. In these video chats, Li tries to become the digital eye, not a woman, nor a man, that is constantly looking at us. Through both looking back at old paintings, and looking directly via the webcam, Li leads us to drift between the physical and the virtual, the conscious and the unconscious, approaching a new form of theatre, desire and spectatorship. Baroness by Yushi Li also includes an introduction by psychoanalyst and writer Anouchka Grose. Yushi Li Bio Yushi Li is a Chinese artist, based in London. She holds an MA in Photography and is now doing her PhD in Arts & Humanities, at the Royal College of Art. Li received the Royal Photography Society Hundred Heroines Award in 2019 and was one of the winners of the Female in Focus prize in 2021. Liâ s work has been exhibited internationally, with a recent group show at Fotografiska, Stockholm and solo shows at Union Gallery, London and Vasli Souza, Oslo. |
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Pages: 128
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| Published: BARON - July 2022 |
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| Title: 3 of: 9 |
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| Title: Baroness |
| Edited by: Donatella Versace By (artist): Sarah Baker |
| ISBN10-13: 1838424806 : 9781838424800 |
| Calling the shots from beneath her Versace satin sheets, BARONESS is back for the holiday season with her scintillating book BARONESS by Sarah Baker and a VERY new guest editor, DONATELLA VERSACE. The second instalment of BARONESS visits the world of romantic novels with a photographic storybook penned and visualised by the performance artist Sarah Baker. Following the lives of five outrageous characters as they navigate tumultuous affairs, the story begins when American music mogul Angelina Marina, played by Baker, receives an unwanted holiday gift, inadvertently opening a sordid, seasonal tale of tangled lives and treachery. Everything is at stakeâ Angelinaâ s freedom, the loyalty of her daughter, her friendship with The Baroness, andâ worst of allâ the royalties from her hit single, â Spritz Me with Your Loveâ . Powerful women in popular culture are often depicted as â bitches,â using everything at their disposal to get their way. Baker, however, subverts this tired narrative and creates a story in which the central female characters work collaboratively to deal with blackmail and deceit. There are no cat fights here. With a blockbuster cast, BARONESS by Sarah Baker stars supermodel Helena Christensen as The Baroness, as well as Simonas Pham, Jonathan Saxby and Meghan Roche. BARONESS also introduces the Art Director Stephen Male who has collaborated with Baker to present this new work in book form, inspired by the graphics and layouts of romantic novels. The book also presents Allegra V. Beck as special guest Fashion Director and a handwritten foreword by Donatella Versace. A riotous whirl of Versace style, rosé champagne, scandalous associations and the sexiest men in town, BARONESS is back with her biggest and boldest issue yet. But be careful when admiring your own reflectionâ ¦someone may be plotting behind your back! Sarah Baker Artist Bio Sarah Baker is a multimedia artist and entrepreneur whose body of work spans performance, photography, film, theatre, and scent. Born in San Francisco, Baker spent her early years in Buffalo, New York before completing her BFA at The San Francisco Art Institute followed by her MFA at Londonâ s Goldsmiths College. Bakerâ s provocative artworks explore the mystique of luxury products, celebrity and fashion, often casting herself as various archetypes from romantic novels, soap operas or celebrity culture. Her work has been exhibited internationally including at The Victoria & Albert Museum, London; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Museum Dhondt-Dhaenens, Gent; Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, New York. Baker is the recipient of grants from Arts Council England, The Andy Warhol Foundation, and The National Endowment for the Arts. |
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Pages: 152
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| Published: BARON - December 2019 |
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| Title: 4 of: 9 |
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| Title: Death Book |
| By (author): Toshio Saeki |
| ISBN10-13: 1838424873 : 9781838424879 |
| The fourth edition of The Death Book is dedicated to Japanese artist, Toshio Saekiâ s (1945- 2019) archive of rarely published illustration work, that explores scenes of violence, brutality, horror and what lies beneath the surface of Japanese culture. Saekiâ s work is notable for combining traditional Shunga and Y?kai styles with elements of Western art and is characterised by eroticism, death and gore, questioning Japanese ideology and expansionism. Historianâ s often describe Saekiâ s work as being closely related to the Japanese cultural phenomenon â Erotic, Grotesque, Nonsenseâ (ero, guro, nansensu). The book also contains an introduction by historian Euphemia Franklin. Artist Bio Born 1945, Miyazaki prefecture, Japan. Saeki's drawings are created by using an original method called â chinto printingâ . This technique emphasizes the "flatness" composed of "lines" and "coloured surfaces," and gives the work a unique character. In recent years, Saeki has had exhibits in New York, San Francisco, London, Paris, Tel Aviv, Hong Kong, Toronto, Japan, Taipei, all of them being received with much critical acclaim. Saeki spent his later years in the mountains of Chiba prefecture, drawing, reading, enjoying ikebana of wildflowers; treasuring and loving the activities of everyday life with his wife. |
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Pages: 76
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| Published: BARON - July 2023 |
| Format: Hardback |
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| Title: 5 of: 9 |
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| Title: Death Book lll - Drawing One Last Breath |
| ISBN10-13: 1838424830 : 9781838424831 |
| The third edition of DEATH BOOK collects contemporary depictions of death, in the form of drawings, illustrations and paintings. Before photography was invented, we relied on illustrations, paintings and, even more so, real dead bodies to gaze upon decaying flesh. Many visual expressions of death were used to moralize or romanticise death. Vanitas paintings were made to remind us that life is only temporary and all mortal possessions remain in vain. The Japanese Kusôzu tradition of watercolour paintings, that depict the nine stages of the decaying body, from the first moment of death unto the final stages, were made to remind us not to give into bodily desires. Romantic war paintings asked the viewer to fight for the cause. For the third edition of DEATH BOOK, you will find various signs and symbols related to death, such as skulls, violence, accidents, spirits, cadavers, sexual acts and references to religion and Christ. The works included remind us of our living status, in ways that are sometimes funny, arousing or DEAD serious. A true representation of death, and its associated pain is impossible, but the works included attempt to communicate the agony, the anguish, the grave sadness and, sometimes, the humour associated with death. DEATH BOOK lll is art directed by PZtoday, who has designed the book as a Bible/Address book. With an introduction by Pernilla Ellens and Lauren Raaijmakers and featuring drawings, paintings and illustrations from Alicia Gibson, Christina Quarles, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Ellen Cantor, Franko B, Hermann Nitsch, Ion Birch, Keith Boadwee, Lin Ke, Mike Diana, Namio Harukawa, Oliver Eales, Patrick Wray, PZtoday, Qiu Xiaofei, Richard Hawkins, Sutapa Biswas, Toshio Saeki, Urs LÃ"thi, Vittorio Scarpati, Will Henry, Julien Ceccaldi and many more. First Edition, 86 Pages, 220 mm x 311mm |
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Pages: 96
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| Published: BARON - February 2022 |
| Format: Hardback |
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| List Price: 35.00 Pounds Sterling |
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| Title: 6 of: 9 |
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| Title: Joyce Lee |
| By (author): Joyce Lee |
| ISBN10-13: 1838424865 : 9781838424862 |
| Baron is pleased to present artist Joyce Leeâ s debut book, dedicated to the artists archive of watercolour and pencil works, exploring aspects of love, sex and sexuality, and the human body. Like the surrealists before her, Leeâ s work seeks to explore the subconscious. Using lucid landscapes and the body, the artist mixes high culture with trash culture, the picturesque with the disgusting and the two activities of living, humour and sex. Lee places us in a world with perverse personal thoughts and multiple realities. In our image-sharing society, where photography depicting sexuality and the human body is prohibited and censored, Leeâ s work manages to challenge such rules by creating work around sex and the body, in the media of watercolour and pencil, deemed acceptable in these spaces to communicate such themes. As such, Leeâ s work has found contemporary relevance on social networks, with liberators wanting to challenge ongoing censorship rules around the human body and sex, by sharing the artists work. Leeâ s work has been published internationally and received critical praise from publications including Numero and Playboy Magazine. The book also contains an essay by academic Pernilla Ellens editor of Namio Harukawa (Baron 2021) and Death Book lll (Baron 2022). |
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Pages: 76
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| Published: BARON - January 2022 |
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| Title: 7 of: 9 |
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| Title: Namio Harukawa |
| By (author): Baron |
| ISBN10-13: 1838424814 : 9781838424817 |
| Baron is pleased to present the first posthumous book by artist Namio Harukawa (May 1947 â April 24, 2020), dedicated to Harukawaâ s archive of rarely published work. Creating a visionary language through the medium of pencil drawings, Harukawa worked for 60 years under a pseudonym, Namio Harukawa: formed from an anagram of â Naomiâ , a reference to Junâ ichir? Tanizakiâ s novel, and actress Masumi Harukawa, using it until his death in 2020. Forniphilia and domination has fascinated and preoccupied Harukawa, in his artistic practice, and was central to his life work. His artwork typically featured voluptuous women dominating and humiliating smaller men. His work has been exhibited internationally and received critical praise, from Oniroku Dan to Madonna, and found new contemporary relevance on social networks, from feminists, to liberators. The book also contains an essay by academic Pernilla Ellens, editor of Post Butt and The true meaning of S. M. H. and is designed by Sam Boxer, Art Director of Gut Magazine. |
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Pages: 76
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| Published: BARON - May 2021 |
| Format: Hardback |
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| Availability: Temporarily Out of Stock, more expected soon |
| Title: 8 of: 9 |
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| Title: Relm - The Great Escape |
| ISBN10-13: 1838424881 : 9781838424886 |
| The Great Escapeâ is the debut book from Canadian artist, Relm. Uninhibited, romantic, sexy, and perplexing, Relm, places us in a dream-like and sometimes nightmarish world, where there are no limits. Central to Relmâ s work is the power to subvert, or create context, through pencil and painting, inviting us to think beyond the naked body. Inspired by her Balkan/Bosnian background, as well as several years in Germany, and travels through Europe, as a young teen, Relmâ s work also draws from her passion for surrealism and art history, inspired by artists such as Vigee Le Brun and Jean Honore Fragonard. Fantasy is explored in Relmâ s work; as a genre, fantasy tends to circle mortality, desire, and power, often used in religious and historical painting, from a male gaze. With the bookâ s title â The Great Escapeâ , the artist takes us on a journey. Throughout the book, in several of Relmâ s paintings, the female subjects appear doll-like, sometimes depicted as monsters, or eaten by insects. In other, more ethereal works, the female subjects revel in their ability to achieve their own big â Oâ , lesbian romances and love-making are celebrated and the female body is supreme; the women in these works are unafraid of their sexual power. Relm invites us to question traditional power structures in this dichotomy of works. Appropriation is a reoccurring practice in Relmâ s body of work - the artist re-paints classical oil paintings of female nudes, by male artists, inviting us to look at them through a different lens. |
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Pages: 250
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| Published: BARON - January 2024 |
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