Picpus Press - Editors: Charles Asprey & Simon Grant
An A6 arts quarterly, distributed free in book shops and art galleries globally.
A reprint of issue #1 with a special hand-colourised cover by Christian Flamm in a limited edition of 1000 copies only.
#22 – Cover – John Ruskin ‘Blenheim Orange Apple c1873
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Editorial: Jean Fautrier - ski instructor, jazz club owner, peripatetic printer, sculptor and painter.
Katie Puckrik celebrates the Japanese Fart Wars
Jean Cocteau’s ‘Salle des Marriages’ by Rosy Head
On Dementia: The Case of William Untermohlen
Suzanne Fagence Cooper on John Ruskin the environmentalist
.....et labora, curated by Bice Curiger at the Fondation Vincent Van Gogh, Arles
Sean Scully: Flying by the Seat of his Pants. By Charles Asprey
In memory: of Karsten Schubert 1961-2019
#21 – Cover – Camille Paglia photographed by Heji Shin
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Hell Ain't a Bad Place to be by Charles Asprey
Camille Paglia On Alcohol and the National Minimum Drinking Age Act
Camille Paglia On Kenneth Clark's The Nude (1956)
Daniel Pflumm: Hallo TV
The Figures of Ain Ghazal
Sacha Craddock on Alberto Savinio
Arabic Typography - Lara Assouad's Alphabet
Alfred Kubin at The Lenbachhaus, Munich
Cady Noland: An everyday hardware of brutality - As told by Kirsty Bell
#20 – Cover – Design from a printed fabric, Paris c1850
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Paul Lawrence on Centro Design Montefibre's publication Decorattivo
Kito Nedo on Gunter Fruhtrunk and his design for Aldi
Cumbrian Cosmopolitanisms: Hammad Nasar on Li Yuan-chia
Carl Williams on the hidden world of Gabriel von Schnell
Kirsty Bell on Black Flags, a work by the influential artist, curator, writer and teacher Ian White (1971-2013)
Nothing as Seductive by Gisela Schmalz
#19 – Cover – Keith Vaughan, Male figure kicking, draped in wet cloth, c1930s
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John Berger: Turkey Then and Now. With a specially commissioned Turkish translation.
Peter Freeman on James Castle
The Critic as Artist: A Manifesto by Andrew Hunt
In Praise of....K.O. Götz
The Folkton Drums - editorial (SG)
Keith Vaughan - The Unseen Photographs
Matthew Antezzo On Polaroids
A Bruise by Saul Fletcher
#18 – Cover – #1 – Wolfgang Tillmans “The Hoist” 2016
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Editorial: (CA) Some non-musical Performers in the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens Post-1800
Extracts from Pepys Diaries 1660-1669
Godfrey Worsdale of James Worsdale
The Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens: A History. Extracted from the book by David Coke and Alan Borg, (Yale University Press 2011)
Book Covers Designed by Paul Nash (1889-1946)
Colin Lucas on Aesthetics
The Art World as a Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common by Roger Cook
Sky News Live – by Simon Thompson & Ed Atkins
#18 – Cover – #2 – Wolfgang Tillmans “The Eagle” 2016
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Editorial: (CA) Some non-musical Performers in the Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens Post-1800
Extracts from Pepys Diaries 1660-1669
Godfrey Worsdale of James Worsdale
The Vauxhall Pleasure Gardens: A History. Extracted from the book by David Coke and Alan Borg, (Yale University Press 2011)
Book Covers Designed by Paul Nash (1889-1946)
Colin Lucas on Aesthetics
The Art World as a Community of Those Who Have Nothing in Common by Roger Cook
Sky News Live – by Simon Thompson & Ed Atkins
#17 – Cover – Sean Snyder Cloud Sediment (Gstaad) 2016 film still
Gillian Wearing Remembers Her Former Tutor Jon Thompson (1936-2016) Head of Goldsmiths Dept of Art, Artist, Writer and Key Figure in Post-War British Art
Harry Thorne on Artist, Film-Maker and Poet Jeff Keen (1923-2012)
Merlin James on Louis M. Eilshemius: Legend of the Avant-Garde
In Praise of Wooden Pencils by Charles Asprey
Georgiana Houghton: A Radical Artist from the 19th Century by Simon Grant
Robbie O’Halloran on Erika Verzutti
Lou Stoppard on Raf Simons’ New Collection SS16 inspired by Mark Leckey’s Seminal Film Firoucci Made Me Hardcore (1999)
#16 – Cover – A Design by Marc Camille Chaimowicz, 2015 – printed in 4 different colours on 4 versions of this issue.
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Editorial (CA) We Remember Khaled Al-Assad (1932-2015)
Jo Melvin on William Coldstream & Film
You Want Glitzy New Cultural Centre in Backofbeyondistan? Don’t Call Shiegeru Ban by Stephen Bayley
Fiona Banner: I Am a Font
Fashion Stories at Between Bridges, Berlin by Lucy K. Moore
Collecting Art: Where has all the love gone? By Charles Asprey
Charles Pollock and Sandu Darie: Two Artists Who Should Be Better Known by Simon Grant
Editorial (SG): The World’s First Skyscapers Reduced to Rubble
Hepple Gin Advert
#16 – Cover – A Design by Marc Camille Chaimowicz, 2015 – printed in 4 different colours on 4 versions of this issue.
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Editorial (CA) We Remember Khaled Al-Assad (1932-2015)
Jo Melvin on William Coldstream & Film
You Want Glitzy New Cultural Centre in Backofbeyondistan? Don’t Call Shiegeru Ban by Stephen Bayley
Fiona Banner: I Am a Font
Fashion Stories at Between Bridges, Berlin by Lucy K. Moore
Collecting Art: Where has all the love gone? By Charles Asprey
Charles Pollock and Sandu Darie: Two Artists Who Should Be Better Known by Simon Grant
Editorial (SG): The World’s First Skyscapers Reduced to Rubble
Hepple Gin Advert
#16 – Cover – A Design by Marc Camille Chaimowicz, 2015 – printed in 4 different colours on 4 versions of this issue.
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Editorial (CA) We Remember Khaled Al-Assad (1932-2015)
Jo Melvin on William Coldstream & Film
You Want Glitzy New Cultural Centre in Backofbeyondistan? Don’t Call Shiegeru Ban by Stephen Bayley
Fiona Banner: I Am a Font
Fashion Stories at Between Bridges, Berlin by Lucy K. Moore
Collecting Art: Where has all the love gone? By Charles Asprey
Charles Pollock and Sandu Darie: Two Artists Who Should Be Better Known by Simon Grant
Editorial (SG): The World’s First Skyscapers Reduced to Rubble
Hepple Gin Advert
#16 – Cover – A Design by Marc Camille Chaimowicz, 2015 – printed in 4 different colours on 4 versions of this issue.
inside:
Editorial (CA) We Remember Khaled Al-Assad (1932-2015)
Jo Melvin on William Coldstream & Film
You Want Glitzy New Cultural Centre in Backofbeyondistan? Don’t Call Shiegeru Ban by Stephen Bayley
Fiona Banner: I Am a Font
Fashion Stories at Between Bridges, Berlin by Lucy K. Moore
Collecting Art: Where has all the love gone? By Charles Asprey
Charles Pollock and Sandu Darie: Two Artists Who Should Be Better Known by Simon Grant
Editorial (SG): The World’s First Skyscapers Reduced to Rubble
Hepple Gin Advert
#15 – Cover – Mark Leckey Leckey Legs 2014 3D Polymer Print
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Amnesiac Registration: Or an Attempt to Track an Ephemeral Image by Sean Snyder
Jennifer Higgie on Huguette Caland
Michael Bracewell: Morrissey at the Los Angeles Sports Arena, 8pm, May 10th, 2014
Emily King on designer Anthony Symonds
Adrien Henri by Antony Hudek
Christian Flamm on Graphic Designer Benoit Hennebert
#14 – Cover – Unknown Photographer; A massive explosion c1914
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The entire contents of this issue are devoted to never previously published images by unknown photographer/combatants of World War 1, sourced with help from The Archive of Modern Conflict in London.
Our respects go to the amateur photographers of all ranks and armies who documented the realities of The Great War.
#13 – Cover – ‘Lily’ POP Magazine A/W 2013
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Magazines: A Golden Age by Lucy K. Moore
Editorial (CA): Marek Piasecki: An Experimental Polish Photographer Rediscovered.
Editorial (CA): The Wayback Machine
Pirates and Farmers by Dave Hickey
Confluences by Lukas Duwenhogger
Editorial (CA) From Cow’s Urine to Canvas, The Curious Story of JMW Turner’s Indian Yellow
Colette Thomas by Paul Buck
The Patty Hearst Ident-I-Kit A.K.A. Hours of Fun 1974, by Carl Williams
#12 – Cover – Matt Mullican ‘Untitled’ ink on paper, drawing produced under hypnosis at the Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery Toronto, Canada in 2007
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Charlotte Goldney on Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Seditious Pamphlets
The Gee’s Bend Quilters by Simon Grant
Mark Tobey: An American Painter in Devon
Editorial (CA) The Whole Earth, Revisited
Editorial (CA) Nancy Hatch Dupree and her Afghan Archive
Kirsty Bell on From Buddha to Picasso: The collector Eduard von der Heydt at Museum Rietberg, Zurich
In Praise of…Modernist Factories by Joshua Abbott
Editorial: Want a new Face? A Brief History of 3D Printing
#11 – Cover – Frank Walter, Hitler Playing Cricket (with Antiguan Men) c1980
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Editorial: Ten Things That you Need to Know about Frank Walter
Bice Curiger on Meret Oppenheim (1913-1985)
Djenné: Mali’s Other Treasure House of Important Manuscripts by Cathy Collins
The Games Master: Picpus Talks to the Man Behind Tetris, Alexey Pajitnov
That Magical Element: Alessandro Raho on the Photography of Slim Aarons
Who is Art Education For? By Sam Thorne
Ice-Age Modernism by Ian Kiaer
#10 – Cover – Ian Hamilton Finlay: All Alone 1964, typed Concrete Poem.
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Editorial (CA) Notes on an Underground Anthem: Die Gedanken sind frei (with additional text by Christian Flamm)
Excuse me, Is this the way to Hell? By Salomon Kroonenberg
The Eccentric Monk and his Typewriter: On Dom Sylvester Houédard by Alice Rawsthorn
Ultra Deep Field Image of An Object Labelled UDFJ-39546284
Sacha Craddock reviews Everything Was Moving: Photographs from the 60s and 70s, at The Barbican Art Gallery, London, Curated by Kate Bush
Colour Alohabet (Notebook Page) by Peter Saville (1983)
Editorial (SG): Top Goon: Satire in Syria
Editorial (CA): Revisiting Kenneth Clarke’s Civilisation
#9 – Cover – Jordan photographed by Six c1976
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Snapshot Memories from a Punk Past by Simon Barker, aka Six
We Celebrate Owen Jones, Architect and Designer (1809-1874)
Picpus Recipe, Rhubarb and Prosecco Jelly by Margot Henderson
Don’t Be Drab by Rachel Campbell-Johnston
Pages from Paul Thek’s Notebooks
Everyone Needs a Window by Gregor Muir
Hans Bellmer’s Love Letter translated for the first time here by Simon Wilson
#8 – Cover – David Shrigley Brain Activity
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Christopher Dresser: The Early Prophet of Natural Abstraction by Simon Grant
Edward Burra’s Forgotten Photographic Album by Simon Martin
What Can a Sculpture Be? Ben Tufnell reviews United Enemies: The Problem of Sculpture in Britain in the 1960s and 1970s at The Henry Moore Institute in Leeds.
Love in Three Languages by Jennifer Allen
Michel Majerus (1967-2002) by Jordan Wolfson
The Spanish Holocaust by Carl Williams
#7 – Cover – The Great Fire of London 1666, from a 17th Century woodcut, English School
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Steven Connor: On Smoke
Eve Peasnall on Dora Maar’s Weeping Woman in a Red Hat c1937
The Origins of Tom and Jerry by Alan Borg
Smoke: A Poem by Pele Cox
Editorial (SG) The Blacky Picture Test
George Bataille on Edouard Manet – extracted from the book by Skira 1955
Paul Nash’s Wittenham Clumps by David Fraser Jenkins
The Wonderful World of Giovanni Battista Bracelli’s Bizzarie
A Thief Responds by ????
#6 – Cover – Lucy McKenzie, Cat Woman (2011), coloured pencil on paper
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Titus Boeder on the Extraordinary Post-War Japanese Photo-Books
Bice Curiger on Tintoretto (1518-1594)
Henri Gaudier-Brzeska’s Knuckle-Duster by Paul O’Keeffe
Of Blue Mould…
I Know Where I’m Going: The joy of Emeric Pressburger’s opening titles by Alice Rawsthorn
George Henein and Egyptioan Surrealism by Kaelen Wilson-Goldie
A Letter to a Thief, by John Berger
Bella Pacifica: Bay Area Abstraction 1946 to 1963 reviewed by Jonathan Grifin
Lifeless and Pointless: John Lloyd on Marc Quinn
#5 – Cover – The Macaroni. A Real Character at the Late Masquerade 1773. Etching by M. Darly
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Gravity Moves Me by Tom Burr
Democratic Dandyism by Roger Cook
Entartete Uncovered by Saha Rossman and Kriszrina Hunya
Spartacus Chetwynd on Reign of the Fleas
David Carr 1915-1968: Painter and Collector
Sam Thorne on Luigi Ghirri (1943-1992)
Uncanny Tuesday by Jon Thompson
Burning Theatres and Film Breaks by Alexandra Leykauf
Charlotte Posenenske (1930-1985) Manifesto First Published in Art International, May 1968
A Great Number Saskia Draxler on the art of Heimo Zobernig
#4 – Cover – Arthur Lushington Vipan (1914-1944), Squadron Leader RAF (Pilot Bomber Command) c1944
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"Unfit Memorial” The Proposal Over Bomber Command Tribute by Ronald Asprey
From Bagism to Bombs by Carl Williams
David Ekserdjian on The Four Disgracers
Monument to Ninette by Suzie Gauntlett
A Remedy Against Blight and Mildew: Ray Magazine by Andrew Wilson
Konstantin Melnikov’s Cylindrical House by Ian Kiaer
Jean Genet in Norfolk by Marc Camille Chaimowicz
#3 – Cover – Anonymous photographer c1889 from the collection of Thomas Walther
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Editorial (SG): The Accidental Masterpiece (discussing the cover image)
Joseph Grigley finds his pit-stop paradise.
Carved Stone Balls by Murdo MacDonald
Reclaiming Haiti’s Heriatge from the Rubble by Natasha Garnett
Portraits of a King by Alastair King
Vache Concrete or Ten Years of Events Within a Contemporary British Art Gallery as Scripted by Itself by Mark Leckey
Editorial (CA): On the work of Anthony Gormley
Performance Night at the Thinkery - A Story by Sally O’Reilly
Trapped by Your Desire – Sassa Trulzsch on a rare film by Sigmar Polke
#2 – Cover – Isa Genzken with “Schuft”, Bad Oldesloe, Germany c1960
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Extract from John Varley’s Zidiacal Physiognomy (1828) discussing William Blake’s drawing Ghost of a Flea (c1819)
Sentiment de Fer by Martin McGeown
Peter Peri on Nikolai Fedorov
The Old Mine (1985) – A short story by Ian Breakwell
Haute Sculpture: Andreas Schlaegel on John Bock
Senior Citizens Magazine reviews Anish Kapoor
Thutmose: Egyptian Sculptor by Antje Majewski
Michael Bird reviews: The Dark Monarch: Magic and Modernity in British Art
Electrifying Reverie: Michael Bracewell review Marc Camille Chaimowicz at Secession, Vienna.
Dying for an Idea – Thoughts on The Sacred Made Real by Rowan Somerville
A pyrograph drawing by Michael Landy
#1 – Cover – The grave of artist Henri Gaudier-Brzeska at Neuville-St-Vaast cemetery, France
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A woodblock print by Sacha Craddock
Christian Flamm on William Nicholson’s Alphabet, letter P
Ian Hamilton Finlay responds to Waldemar Januszczak
Philip Gumuchdjian on Le Corbusier’s at Ronchamp
George Sitwell on Sacheverell and Cecil
Mark Inglefield on Julian Maclaren Ross
Keith Coventry: Art at the Olympics
Alessandro Raho on Vincent van Gogh
Editorial (CA): The Origin of Picpus
Silky Bisque by Mark Hix
Pablo Bronstein: Scrap Centrepoint
Editorial: Marc Antony is Dead
Travis Elborough reviews ‘Rank: Picturing the Social Order 1516-2009’ at The Grundy Art Gallery in Blackpool
Merlin James: ‘Sex and Picture Framing'
Kitty Kraus: Dekaputcapitalization
Klaus Biesenbach on Henry Darger
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