NEW RELEASES
These books have just arrived at VOLUME.
The first retrospective collection of this savagely interesting artist sprung from Christchurch's itching cultural underbelly.
>> The "low-brow high art world of Tony de Lautour".
>> From earthquakes to fatherhood.
>> The thought part of the act.
"The woman artist had no place in New Zealand at the turn of the century." Living in Hokitika before leaving first for Sydney and then California, Ridge became both a modernist poet and a painter, and a tireless advocate for the working class. Comparisons are made with Mansfield, Bethell and Mander: "Short story writer Katherine Mansfield was the only contemporary New Zealander with international ambition equal to Ridge's," and, "Ridge's main competitor for 'New Zealand's best woman poet of the early 20th century' is another modernist, Ursula Bethell."
>> American anarchist with a West Coast connection.
>> Some poems and a bio.
You couldn't hope for a more stimulating and surprising collection of architectural forms from around the world.
Motherhood is the place in our culture where we bury the reality of our own conflicts. When treated as either idols or scapegoats, mothers become inaccessible as individuals and become a mechanism that prevents the resolution of personal and societal difficulties.
What happens when a mother's love for her country outweighs her love for her family? After his mother's death, Forgách started to discover evidence that she was an informant for Hungary's Kadar regime. This novel tells her story.
>> Mother knows best. Mother knows everything.
>> "My mother was a Cold War spy."
Hockney's illustrations, a mix of etching, aquatint and drypoint, are remarkable and individual, injecting new energy into these tales.
>> Look at some of the illustrations here.
This book is not written by humans but by insects. Zhu Yingchun left ink pools in his garden and collated the marks made by crawling insects into this unique book, in equal parts rigorous science and conceptual art.
>> Writers at work.
The world's oldest literary epic is now a graphic novel! Follow Gilgamesh and his buddy Enkidu as they battle golds, monsters, mortality and the blurred edges of their own humanity.
What are feathers made of? Why do birds have so many of them? How do they help birds fly? And what other purpose do they serve? All these questions and many more are answered in this book bursting with the most beautiful illustrations.
A companion for The Egg.
The Hellenistic period was one of fragmentation, violent antagonism between large states, and struggles by small polities to retain an illusion of independence. Yet it was also a period of growth, prosperity, and intellectual achievement.
John Yeon (1910-1994) was a pioneering figure in architecture, who paved the way for the Northwest Regional style of modernism. Known for a series of exceptionally beautiful houses - including the Watzek House, a National Historic Landmark - Yeon's architecture was celebrated for its subtle relationship to site and place, and its sensitive deployment of local materials. His innovations in construction and early sustainable design, and his stylistic freedom, anticipated several later movements, ranging from ecological modernism to postmodern eclecticism.
>> A few examples.
>> A tour of Watzek House (1937).
The discovery of a woman's body in the canal between Edinburgh and Glasgow by a drifter and the bargeman he is working for supercharges the claustrophobic intensity of this book in which the narrator seduces the bargeman's wife and begins to betray the fact that he knows more about the woman's death than he will admit. First published in 1954.
"The plotless beauty of Trocchi's writing, and its fearless look at the emptiness of his own life, put 'the Scottish Beat' on a par with Kafka and Camus. Asked to name the best existential literature, most of us would probably say Albert Camus, Jean-Paul Sartre or Franz Kafka. But Trocchi actually takes the reader one step further into the philosophical world of existential angst than any of them." - Guardian
>> The book was made into a film.
Hope travels through South Africa and asks what happened to the dream of a egalitarian post-Apartheid future?
When Alice Mistlethwaite is shipped off to boarding school in Scotland it's nothing like she imagines. There are no punishments and the students are more likely to be taught about body painting or extreme survival than maths or English. When Alice's father goes missing and she must run away to find him, can she persuade her new friends to help? An exciting Highlands adventure.
Can this depressive, razor-tongued essayist, poet, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor, lexicographer, the son of a bookseller show us how to address (or avoid) the pitfalls, vulnerabilities, tediums and hazards of quotidian life? Possibly he can.
How can art be made following a cultural trauma such as that experienced by Europe during World War 2? This important new book includes some 400 works by 150 artists, bringing together for the first time post-war art from both Western and Eastern Europe. The book studies how Henri Matisse, Pablo Picasso, Ossip Zadkine, Henry Moore, Renato Guttuso, Fernand Leger, Yves Klein, Gerhard Richter, Lucian Freud and many others worked through the trauma of 1940-1945 and the Cold War.
An enjoyable, page-turning adventure with clues, mysteries, strange consequences and extremely likeable characters. Can Tess, Theo and Jamie solve the notorious century-old cipher set by the brilliant inventors the Morningstarr twins and save their building from destruction at the hands of developers?
>> Read Stella's review.
When Conley, the son of a small-town Arkansas Baptist pastor, was nineteen, he was outed to his parents and was forced to make a decision: either agree to attend a church-supported conversion therapy program that promised to "cure" him of homosexuality, or risk losing family, friends, and the God he had prayed to every day of his life.
Deep in an overgrown Estonian forest, two women, one young, one old, are hiding. Zara, a murderer and a victim of sex-trafficking, is on the run from brutal captors. Aliide, a communist sympathizer and a blood traitor, has endured a life of abuse and the country's brutal Soviet years. Their survival now depends on exposing the one thing that kept them hidden: the truth.
An idiosyncratic YA graphic novel. Claudia Jones is missing. Her classmates are thinking the worst, or at least the weirdest. It couldn't be an alien abduction, could it? None of Claudia's classmates at Blithedale High know why she vanished - and they're dealing with their own issues. Emily's trying to handle a life-changing surprise. Paula's hoping to step out of Emily's shadow. Nigel just wants to meet a girl who will laugh at his jokes. And Brett hardly lets himself get close to anybody.
>> Meet MariNaomi.
Culture and counterculture had a moment of confluence in 1967, the year of the Summer of Love and LSD, the Monterey Pop Festival and Black Power, Muhammad Ali's conviction for draft avoidance and Martin Luther King Jr's public opposition to war in Vietnam, as well as of debut albums from the Doors, the Grateful Dead, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin. Why 1967?
>> Jimi Hendrix live, (1967)
>> The 'Summer of Love'.
Kiefer wrestles with the darkness of German history, unearthing the taboos that underlie the collective past and interweaving them with Teutonic mythology, cosmology, and meditations on the nature of belief. His works have a disconcerting tactility, at once emerging from the picture plane and decaying into it.
All children like to thoroughly investigate a hole. This beautifully illustrated book surveys all the different sorts of natural and human-made holes, from animal homes to conceptual voids.
From traditional tapas like crispy patatas bravas and bacon-wrapped dates to classic favorites like garlicky sauteed shrimp, pork meatballs, and saffron-spiced seafood paella, Boqueria introduces us to both the food and culinary culture of Barcelona.
Why did the radicals of the sixties turn to Marx, Lenin, Mao and Che Guavara? Are there parallels to the world political situation today?
Robert Hooke and Edmond Halley, whose place in history has been overshadowed by the giant figure of Newton, were pioneering scientists within their own right, and instrumental in establishing the Royal Society.
A search for a family's killers in 1880s Queensland is set against the actions of the Queensland Native Police, the arm of colonial power whose sole purpose is the 'dispersal' of Indigenous Australians in protection of settler 'rights'.
Well illustrated, attractively presented and full of clear and useful information on how to make a variety of delicious breads.
>> It is not as difficult or as time-consuming as you might think.
Essays, interviews, illustrations, songs and consciousness raising for young people, from a wide range of contributors.
Count to 20 and back with these eager animals at their very own Olympic Games. Useful.
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