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)

BOOK "AMERICA" OF 528 PAGES. PACKAGE CONTAINS TWO VOLUMES (VOL. LIVE & VOL. DIE) IN CARDBOARD BOX. Big book of collected works. Cartoons, drawings and paintings brought together for the first time.

Transcendental story of mz’s in the real world that is just a little different from the way we know it and in the world of death where the soul follows a path of the destruction of its physical envelope, making unbelievable revelations.

True story. Life and work of a contemporary artist. A stirring story of one of the most famous artists written by one of the best art theoretists Tomáš Pospiszyl. Incredible revelations from the backstage of the present day art scene full of sex, intrigues and lack of money, accompanied by huge, coloured, shocking and nowhere published reproductions. Recommended to art school students as compulsory forbidding reading.

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.”