Stu Mead's paintings touch the art world at a tangent. Not that he's exactly an outsider, having received a formal art education. But the Berlin-based American has a bigger reputation in "underground" culture than on the established art scene. Maybe that's because his paintings are unabashedly (one could even say sincerely) about their subject matter rather than about art. (Barry Schwabsky)

It may be tasteless, but above all it is shockingly anti-literary. In other words: it is literature! Nor should its side effects be ignored: it is a great vaccine with life-long efficacy. It is also sickening, meaning that it can jump-start your lust for life, the same way like you feel better after vomiting. This is the right time for The Brown Book, because times are bad. Everyone is fucking everyone else: Halík is fucking Jesus and Donutil is fucking God knows who. Maybe the Dalai Lama? ...

Jedno z nejdůležitějších prozaických děl spisovatele, herce, loutkoherce, dramatika, hudebníka a umělce S.d.Ch. Text je hořkým popisem hororu mužství a bezohledným účtováním se světem a autorovým osobním příběhem. Na obálce byla použita koláž S.dCh., Grafická úprava a sazba Ivan Mečl, Jazyková redakce Olga Sixtová. Kniha o rozměrech 16 x 12 cm má 152 stran na kvalitním papíře.

London Urbanism

Content: Andy Warhol: From A to B and back again, Eugéne Ionesco: The killer, Egon Bondy: Oh central Bohemia, diary of a girl seeking Egon Bondy, Lévi-Strauss: Tristes tropiques, Philip K.Dick: The three stigmata of palmer eldritch, G.A.Effinger: When gravity fails, Hans Belting: The end of art history, Marcel Proust: Remembrances of things past, time regained, Dave Hickey: Air guitar, shining hours – forgiving rhyme, Josef Vondrášek: Texts of the group Jižní pól, Albert Camus: The plague, The rebel,

15 x 21 x 2 cm / 160 pages / offset / 1000 ex

The first part of a four-part publication project by the most playful Czech artist. His most pithy work, Me, is a cross-section of already existing art works that playfully but sarcastically, colorfully but dryly, appealingly but cynically, using the most bizarre techniques comments on our everyday, intimate lives. Texts by progressive art theoreticians and curator Vít Havránek accompany the many reproductions. Hand-made cover by the artist.

This second part of the four-part publication project by the most playful Czech artist is dedicated to his companions in the land-scape of contemporary art. , Art friends, favorite inspiring personalities, older and younger. Each of them Mančuška considers important to his life and work, and here they get a respectable place. With this book you get a peek into the works of Josef Bolf, Milena Dopitová, Stano Filko, Jesper Alvaer, Jiří Kovanda, Roman Ondák, Boris Ondreiček, Jan Šerých. and Tomáš Vaňek,

445 pages in color on matte coated paper, superb hardback in jacket and cardboard box | Size: 26 x 33 x 4,5 cm | Text by George Waldes, Ludmila Vachtová, Otto Smrček, Jan Rous, Petr Meissner, Jindřich Toman and Anna Pachovská | Design: Markéta Othová a Ivan Mečl | Reproduction and print: Divus, Andrea Slováková a Ivan Mečl|Editor: Anna Pachovská | Publised: 1999 | ISBN: 80-238-4617-5

24 x 16 x 1,5 cm | 112 pages on fine heavyweight art paper | duotone print | text by Alexei Monroe | illustrations and artworks by AutopsiA | design by Ivan Mečl | “Níl luibh ná leigheas an aghaidh an bháis.”