MODERNISM...WHERE?

With the content having created a debate amongst the critics, I'd say it's worth a read.

What Ever Happened to Modernism by Gabriel Josipovici.

Published by Yale University Press

MINIMALIST FASHION

A book on the field recently published and another on it's way in March 2011; says a lot about where fashion thinks it's heading so why do the streets show otherwise?  Work it out.

Less is More:  Minimalism in Fashion by Harriet Walker

Due for publication March 2011, Merrell Publishers

Minimalism and Fashion:  Reduction in the Postmodern Era by Elyssa Dimant

Out now, Collins Design

PAC-MAN MOLESKINE!

THE NY ART BOOK FAIR

The fifth annual NY Art Book Fair is approaching this weekend.  Presented by Printed Matter, a non-profit organisation dedicated to the promotion of artists' publications, the fair hosts over 200 international presses, booksellers, antiquarian dealers, artists and publishers from 20 countries, and offers top-notch contemporary art book publishing.  As it's FREE and open to the public, I'd say why the hell not!

http://nyartbookfair.com/

http://printedmatter.org/

http://ps1.org/

READ

Pierre Reverdy was a surrealist poet, one time lover of Coco Chanel, and lived, for a large part of his life as a recluse in a monastery.

Nancy Mitford was one of the infamous Mitford sisters, a novelist, a stubborn Francophile, and impressive wit.

Evelyn Waugh wrote Scoop, Brideshead Revisited, Vile Bodies (the inspiration for the film dir. by Stephen Fry,  Bright Young Things), and oddly enough, was an agnostic...

Peter Mandelson was one of the minds that helped create New Labour and whether he worked towards it or not, had a political reputation as a spin doctor, once known as someone who could write the next day's headlines.

If you're looking for a book to get lost in on a Sunday afternoon, the Penguin Dictionary of Symbols is just your ticket.