Michael Bracewell Bücher

The Scottish artist France-Lise McGurn paints on canvases as well as directly on the walls of exhibition spaces, often combining the two to create an immersive experience. In her work she draws on a collected archive of images from films, club flyers and magazines, as well as her own experiences, ranging from life in a city, partying and dreams to motherhood and female sexuality. Bodytronic refers to the rhythmic, the trance and the moving body. Individual body parts float unrestrained across the different surfaces, connecting the canvases with the wall painting they are placed directly on to. The swift brushstrokes and repeated marks spill freely across canvases onto surrounding surfaces, animating the space with suggestions of pleasure, continual motion and the layered quality of contemporary experience. McGurn's archetypal figures suggest both the distance of city life and the strange intimacy of urban connection. The solo exhibition and accompanying publication show a selection of new works that McGurn produced during the COVID-19 lockdown. Confinement has highlighted for her the gap between private and public lives, specifically the response to certain kinds of behaviour.

Tim Eitel initiates an exchange between recollection and painting. The work on his pictures, he says, is "a conversation about reality and memory" in which he engages the canvas. In the course of this dialogue, Eitel reflects on personal experiences, creating a standalone figural-abstract reality that needs to be internally consistent-the canvas has a strong will of its own. That makes the scenes depicted in his paintings analogues or afterimages of a situation rather than renditions of it. They are characterized by a certain openness that enables the beholders to inject their own recollections into the pictorial space as well. The dialogue between canvas and artist thus gives way to a colloquy between audience and finished work. Not by coincidence, many of the paintings by Eitel gathered in this catalog show people in museums: these scenes facilitate the leap into the pictorial space. The beholders have experienced a situation like the one shown in the pictures in the past or are experiencing it right now, and so they are already at the heart of the works; they become part of the painting, and the picture becomes a particle of their recollection.

This illustrated collection of texts by Michael Bracewell – novelist, writer and cultural commentator – reads like a social and artistic history of British art from the 1950s to the 2010s.

Made across a 32-year span, the works in Tabula Rasa unite the central themes in the art of John Stezaker, from capacities of collage to the current flow in an age of mass media. Silkscreens on canvas from the early 1990s with film still collages from the 1990s and 2009 are brought together for the first time. Tabula Rasa is an important overview of Stezaker's work centered around the notion of screens, voids and cut-outs. An essay by Michael Bracewell, The Space Between, looks at the connections between this selection of 13 works. Also included are a series of installation views from Stezaker's 2010 exhibition at The Approach, London.

Gilbert and George have become international art stars, exhibiting worldwide since the 1970s. Accompanying the retrospective exhibition of their work—which will travel to America in 2008— Gilbert & George is a unique introduction to these extraordinary artists.The book reproduces previously unpublished installations, drawings, and ephemera and includes original critical essays, an illustrated chronology and a bibliography designed by the artists.EXHIBITION Tate Modern, London, February 13–May 7, 2007de Young, San Francisco, February 15–May 4, 2008Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, June 6–August 31, 2008Brooklyn Museum, New York, September 2008–January 2009

Exploring the life of a suburban dilettante in the 1980s, the narrative delves into his aesthetic ambitions and the lucrative career he embarks upon. Set against the backdrop of London and Bristol, it unveils a haunting story of loneliness and lost love, capturing the complexities of human relationships and the emotional void that accompanies his pursuits.

The first novel in twenty years from 'the most under-appreciated of our living fiction writers' (John Burnside)

Merril, manager of the Crypto-Amnesia Club, a trendy London nightclub, is a witness to his customers' pursuit of fashion and fads

A lovesong to London in the early 80s: a pre-computer, pre-digital, pre- mostmodern, New Wave age

A new edition as part of the Faber Social Greatest Hits - books that have taken writing about music in new and exciting directions for the twenty-first century.