Review: Reviews
Towering ambition
Audiovisual events that genuinely work are so rare that Brooklyn Babylon (Holland Festival, 24 June…
The future was Afro
Slightly larger than a 45rpm single and thick as a modest box-set, this book evocatively…
Violently opposed to war
Looking for images of ‘peace’ on the internet yields predictable and clichéd results, as Signs…
Cute cultural tourism
Hello Kitty and Pokemon seem to have taken over the world in recent decades. But…
Menacing identities
This brooding black hardback, which looks like a CIA manual, is a worldwide survey of…
A cornucopia of Indian design
This anthology of interviews with Indian graphic designers gained exposure in the UK earlier this…
Raw and radical
The ‘underground press’ died out more than 40 years ago. Yet it lives on, thanks…
Studies in black, brown and beige
Handsome may be the word to describe this book, conceived by German illustrator Robert Nippoldt…
Surfing a 1960s California wave
Having spent a week alternately prancing and slogging through John Van Hamersveld’s career-capping monograph, I…
Wordplay for a picture palace
In classical texts on the ‘art of memory’, the student is advised to visualise objects…