Within a Sky Full of Earth

Sobre o público e a massa crítica, um texto muito interessante de Maria do Rosário Pedreira, a não perder.
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With over 100 projects, this book is an encyclopedic look at the cutting edge in garden design and offers an inspirational archive for practitioners and enthusiasts. Contemporary garden design has embraced the latest thinking in science and materials, architecture and product design – redefining the border between nature and the man-made.
One indication of the rise in popularity – and controversy – of these gardens has been the growing number of conceptual garden festivals, which have become the premier international showcases for new ideas.
Avant Gardeners presents the fifty most exciting and innovative contemporary garden- and landscape-design practices from around the world, profiling the work of each designer through informative texts, photographs and plans.
Topical essays explore the underlying principles, and show how a rising generation has rejected the tradition of Western garden design, favouring instead the influences of Modernism, Postmodernism, Pop Art and Land Art.

Tim Richardson is an internationally respected landscape critic. Former landscape editor at Wallpaper*, gardens editor at Country Life and founding editor of New Eden magazine, he is the author of several books, including The Vanguard Landscapes and Gardens of Martha Schwartz and, most recently, The Arcadian Friends: Inventing the English Landscape Garden.

Avant Gardeners • 50 Visionaries of the Contemporary Landscape
By Tim Richardson • Foreword by Martha Schwartz • Introduction by Tim Richardson • THAMES AND HUDSON

A partir de uma perspectiva de memória, a presente obra recua ao passado nos últimos 30 anos, consagrando-se como uma espécie de diário do autor, actualizado a partir de blocos de notas. Nele encontramos um conjunto de textos desde apontamentos da vida pessoal do autor e das suas complexas relações familiares com laivos de lirismos e toques de humor, até ensaios sobre cultura e análise política. Além de uma short story da sua autoria, o livro inclui igualmente uma entrevista dada à Paris Interview e a conferência do Prémio Nobel, intitulada «A Mala do Meu Pai». Outras Cores permite-nos pressentir a sua intimidade e da sua família, a necessidade de literatura e da escrita. Pamuk manifesta ainda uma vez mais a sua revolta contra a censura, numa tentativa de compreender, ele próprio, que posição deverá assumir num mundo em transformação. Uma obra deslumbrante. Para além do encanto sagaz e das observações sábias, Outras Cores é um apelo ao distanciamento necessário para se considerarem as causas históricas e psicológicas das parangonas alarmantes do mundo actual.

SOBRE O AUTOR
Orhan Pamuk nasceu a 7 de Junho de 1952, em Istambul, no seio de família próspera da classe média turca. Formou-se em Arquitectura na Universidade Técnica de Istambul e em Jornalismo na Universidade de Istambul, mas nunca exerceu nenhuma destas profissões. Entre 1985 e 1988 viveu nos Estados Unidos da América onde frequentou a Universidade de Columbia, em Nova Iorque, e também a Universidade do Iowa durante um curto período de tempo. Vive actualmente em Istambul.
No seu país natal, Pamuk é um reputado comentador, embora se defina principalmente como um autor de ficção sem compromissos políticos. Algumas das posições assumidas publicamente valeram-lhe o título de persona non grata para alguns dos seus compatriotas. Foi o primeiro autor no mundo islâmico a condenar abertamente a fatwa contra Salman Rushdie e a tornar público o seu apoio ao escritor turco Yasar Kemal quando este foi julgado e condenado pelas autoridades turcas, em 1995. O próprio Pamuk foi perseguido pela justiça por “insulto aberto à nação turca” depois de ter afirmado, numa entrevista a um jornal suíço, que 30.000 Curdos e um milhão de Arménios foram mortos na Turquia. A queixa, que gerou protestos a nível internacional, acabou por ser retirada no início de 2006.

Outras Cores, de Orhan Pamuk • EDITORIAL PRESENÇA • 2009

MCCM Creations, by the hand of the wonderful Mary Chan, started as a publisher in Hong Kong. Their dream was to pubblish beautiful and great books and from the first book they were a world apart. Bloom met MCCM even before we opened and from there on we've mantained a close friendship and venture.
Mary Chan and MCCM flow into the endless possibilities of creativity. Living in an age where people can move freely across boundaries of regions and exercise their thoughts through virtual space. These criss-cross experiences often produce surprises and open up new horizons for thoughts and ideas.
Since going into book publishing since 2001, MCCM aspirations in books have not changed – they wish to bring the original and inspiring books from creators who share a passion in books as well as having a strong desire to explore new concepts and visualise their experiences.
These adventurous spirit often take them across boundaries of different categories. Being a ‘crossover’ appeal to different age and interest groups. Most of the titles are published in English or Bilingual, mostly Chinese and English, with a step into published English and French titles. They don’t publish a lot of books every year, but they do have a special talent to make them.
But now is different. MCCM is giving a step ahead by opening The Bookshop at the Hong Kong Arts Centre. They're running it for a few time now, but the official opening will be held tomorrow with "a casual get-together for books, photography, light drinks, chars and... improvised music by guest musicians Kung Chi Shing and Yank Wong." [click on the image above]

Come with us!
26TH OF FEBRURARY • 6.30 PM • HONG KONG ARTS CENTRE • 2 HARBOUR ROAD • HONG KONG

No panorama de crise que despertou o início do ano é com bastante dificuldade que os mais variados projectos culturais garantem as condições necessárias para continuarem a respirar. É um claro efeito de bola de neve. Vem atrás do pânico generalizado face ao desenho de um futuro negro espalhado pelos jornais e televisões e que, quando se olha para o dia seguinte, se reflecte no estrito consumo de bens necessários, sem deixar margem para o que pode sempre ficar para outra altura. Muitas vezes os livros fazem parte desse capítulo de elementos supérfluos que são substituídos por outras decisões de primeira ordem. Com isto as notícias de editoras em dificuldades deixa de ser uma surpresa. Mais se o propósito inicial do projecto não é virado para o consumo fácil mas para o incentivo da leitura e do conhecimento, trazendo novos autores e verdadeiras pérolas da literatura.
É com bastante tristeza que recebemos as notícias do possível fecho da Campo das Letras e das dificuldades da Cavalo de Ferro para se manter à tona da água. A Bloom apostou, desde o seu início, nestas duas editoras para a concepção de um catálogo de livros de qualidade no território, o que acabou por se tornar um feito inédito, a presença das obras destas editoras em Macau. Desde o contacto inicial que fomos recebidos de braços abertos, a Bloom nos primeiros passos, vinda do nada, desconhecida do mundo livreiro, formando parceiros que apostassem também em nós, criando as condições necessárias para que pudéssemos trazer uma grande colecção de livros para este lado do planeta. A Cavalo de Ferro sempre teve um lugar de destaque no nosso espaço, com prateleiras feitas à medida dos seus livros e separados de todos os outros, a certa altura tivemos toda as suas obras publicadas que, a pouco e pouco, se foram esquivando com o sabor dos clientes. A Campo das Letras encontrou o seu espaço espalhada por todos os cantos da nossa loja, foi ela que nos trouxe o Rubem Fonseca e o Ryszard Kapuscinski, por exemplo, foi lá que encontrei um livro de Bento de Jesus Caraça, de quem o meu avô sempre me falava. Ou a fabulosa colecção de livros infantis, com uma aposta em novos ilustradores e em novas vias de fazer livros.
E isto tudo faz parte da nossa história, da maneira como nos fomos encontrando, procurando trazer algo de único para Macau. Algo que se encontra de momento congelado e em período de plena avaliação. Acreditamos em melhores dias para a Bloom. São também esses os votos, e um grande abraço, que aqui deixamos a estes projectos de referência que nos acompanharam desde sempre.

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The legendary editor Robert Giroux, who died Friday at the age of 94, worked closely throughout his career with literary giants including Robert Lowell, Flannery O’Connor, Jack Kerouac and Bernard Malamud. But there was one that got away. In his new book, “The Time of Their Lives: The Golden Age of Great American Publishers, Their Editors and Authors” (St. Martin’s Press), Al Silverman includes the following anecdote from Mr. Giroux, recounting how early in his career he lost the chance to publish “The Catcher in the Rye.” (The “Mr. Shawn” that J. D. Salinger mentions is The New Yorker’s editor at the time, William Shawn.)

I was eating a sandwich at my desk when our receptionist called. “Mr. Salinger is here,” she said, “and he wants to meet you.” I said: “Mr. Salinger? What’s his first name?” And she said, “Jerome, his name is Jerome.” I said, “Send him in.”

In he came. He was very tall, dark-haired, had a horse face. He was melancholy looking. It’s the truth — the first person I thought of when I saw him was Hamlet.

“Giroux,” he said. I said something like, “Right. It’s nice to meet you, Mr. Salinger.”

“Giroux,” he said again. “Mr. Shawn has recommended you to me. But I want to tell you that to start me out it would be much better to publish my first novel instead of my stories.” I laughed, thinking, you want to be the publisher, you can have my seat. But I said, “I’m sure you’re right about that.” And I said, “I will publish your novel. Tell me about it.” He said, “Well, I can’t show it to you yet. It’s about half finished.” I said, “Well, let me be the publisher.” And he said yes, and we shook hands. ...

A year later a messenger came to the office with a package from Dorothy Olding, Salinger’s agent. ... There on the top page I read the title: “The Catcher in the Rye.” ...

I gave [my boss at Harcourt, Eugene Reynal] the book to read. He didn’t like it, didn’t understand it. He asked me, “Is this kid in the book supposed to be crazy?” ...“Gene,” I said, “I’ve shaken hands with this author. I agreed to publish this book.”

“Yes,” he said, “but, Bob, you’ve got to remember, we have a textbook department.” And I said, “What’s that got to do with it?” He said, “This is a book about a kid going to prep school.” So he sent it to the textbook people, who read it and said, “It’s not for us.”

I remember apologizing to Salinger. He said, “Ah, it’s O.K. I expect things like that. It happens.” Well, I never thought it would happen to me.
[FROM THE NEW YORK TIMES / 2007]

Desta guerra entre Bruno e o resto do mundo não é difícil adivinhar quem foi o único morto. Mas nem depois de morto o seu fantasma ficou quieto. Se no século XIX parecia finalmente descansar como mártir da todo‑poderosa ciência, arrumado no panteão [...] já no meio das chamas do cadafalso, com um olhar turvo e arrogante, desviou a vista do crucifixo que lhe apresentavam, e acabou “queimado vivo”, consciente de morrer “mártir, e de boa mente, pois que sua alma subiria junto àquele fumo” para ir reconjugar-se com a alma do universo.
in TRATADO DE MAGIA • EDIÇÕES TINTA DA CHINA

A BOOK THAT COMES ON THE PERFECT TIME
Part cookbook—with more than 120 enticing recipes—part culinary history, part inquiry into the evolution of an industry, Milk is a one-of-a-kind book that will forever change the way we think about dairy products.

Anne Mendelson, author of Stand Facing the Stove, first explores the earliest Old World homes of yogurt and kindred fermented products made primarily from sheep’s and goats’ milk and soured as a natural consequence of climate. Out of this ancient heritage from lands that include Greece, Bosnia, Turkey, Israel, Persia, Afghanistan, and India, she mines a rich source of culinary traditions.
Mendelson then takes us on a journey through the lands that traditionally only consumed milk fresh from the cow—what she calls the Northwestern Cow Belt (northern Europe, Great Britain, North America). She shows us how milk reached such prominence in our diet in the nineteenth century that it led to the current practice of overbreeding cows and overprocessing dairy products. Her lucid explanation of the chemical intricacies of milk and the simple home experiments she encourages us to try are a revelation of how pure milk products should really taste.
The delightfully wide-ranging recipes that follow are grouped according to the main dairy ingredient: fresh milk and cream, yogurt, cultured milk and cream, butter and true buttermilk, fresh cheeses. We learn how to make luscious Clotted Cream, magical Lemon Curd, that beautiful quasi-cheese Mascarpone, as well as homemade yogurt, sour cream, true buttermilk, and homemade butter. She gives us comfort foods such as Milk Toast and Cream of Tomato Soup alongside Panir and Chhenna from India. Here, too, are old favorites like Herring with Sour Cream Sauce, Beef Stroganoff, a New Englandish Clam Chowder, and the elegant Russian Easter dessert, Paskha. And there are drinks for every season, from Turkish Ayran and Indian Lassis to Batidos (Latin American milkshakes) and an authentic hot chocolate.

This illuminating book will be an essential part of any food lover’s collection and is bound to win converts determined to restore the purity of flavor to our First Food.

ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Anne Mendelson grew up in southeastern Pennsylvania in an area where small dairy farms were once common. In addition to Stand Facing the Stove (a history of The Joy of Cooking and its authors), she collaborated with chef-writer Zarela Martínez on three cookbooks exploring Mexican cuisine. She has written for Gourmet, Saveur, and The New York Times. Mendelson lives in northern New Jersey.

Milk, The Surprising Story of Milk Through the Ages, by Anne Mendelson
KNOPF • COOKING • HISTORY • HARDCOVER • OCT 2008

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Fundada em 1993 e agora com sede em Coimbra, a Angelus Novus, Editora publicou até 2005, data em que interrompeu a sua produção, 110 títulos, tendo criado uma imagem de prestígio sobretudo na área do ensaio e da edição de clássicos da literatura portuguesa. A Angelus Novus divulgou uma nova geração de autores portugueses e editou uma série muito seleccionada de autores estrangeiros, quer na poesia – Durs Grünbein, Luis Javier Moreno – quer no ensaio: Antonio Candido, João Cabral de Melo Neto, Jacques Derrida, Theodor W. Adorno, Ortega y Gasset, Bill Readings ou Eve Kosofsky.
A Angelus Novus que regressou ao mercado em Janeiro de 2008 deseja prolongar o essencial desta herança – o rigor e exigência na escolha de títulos e autores – mas é, na verdade, uma nova Angelus, na medida em que surgiu com uma imagem totalmente renovada e com um catálogo mais variado, destinado a públicos muito mais diversos, pondo em prática um novo conceito de editora, do ponto de vista do design gráfico, da comunicação com os leitores ou da visibilidade no mercado.
Não desiste, à partida, de nenhum leitor, dos 7 aos 77 anos, dos mais integrados aos mais alternativos. Nesse sentido, não são nem pretendem ser uma editora marginal mas sim uma editora disponível para acompanhar e estimular os debates que movem os nossos contemporâneos. Como sempre, o novo pode estar mais à frente ou mais atrás, pode passar pela encomenda de textos cuja falta se sente ou pela recuperação de textos «clássicos» ou simplesmente esquecidos. Como pode passar por grafismos arrojados ou por soluções antigas e ainda válidas, porque muito testadas e com sucesso. Não há aliás razões para não se considerar um livro um objecto coleccionável, porque belo. Ou porque, belo ou útil, nele se declina um pedaço da nossa vida.
A Angelus Novus publica obras em todos os géneros, sem preconceitos de ordem moral, política ou religiosa no que toca às posições defendidas pelas autoras ou autores nos seus textos e sejam tais obras polémicas ou não.
A Angelus Novus não publica porém obras que façam propaganda política ou religiosa ou obras que defendam expressamente posições racistas, fascistas ou discriminatórias no que respeita a questões de «género» e identidade sexual.
[SITE OFICIAL]

Yesterday we had a full house. It is an amazing book, China: Portrait of a Country, and just to look at the pictures we can talk about them for ages. It was really a pleasure to have Liu Heung Shing and once again Karen Smith with us. We would like to thank to everybody who came to this and to the other events. We will soon post some pictures of all the sessions and we'll return with more in September. This was our first try to revive a lovely area in Macau. We want to do it like the beat of the city's art! Hope you can enjoy it as we do.

OUR BIGGEST THANKS TO PETER SUART, XU XI, KUNG CHI SING, KAREN SMITH, LIU HEUNG SHING, PHILIP TSANG, MARJORIE YAU, MARY CHAN, SHEILA LO, JOSEPHINE MA, ALICE WU, CATHERINE CHENG, LIZ LAM, GLENN TIMMERMANS, ANDREW MOODY, JORGE MESQUITA AND VICENZO. TASCHEN, HONG KONG UNIVERSITY PRESS, HAVEN BOOKS, CHAMELEON PRESS, TIMEZONE 8, ASIA PUBLISHER SERVICES, FOREIGN PRESS DISTRIBUTORS, BAMBU SOCIEDADE DE ARTES LIMITADA, SANTA CASA DA MISERICÓRDIA DE MACAU, CASA DE PORTUGAL EM MACAU, JORNAL HOJE MACAU, MACAU CLOSER MAGAZINE AND TO ALL THE ONES WHO KNOW THAT THIS WOULDN'T BE POSSIBLE WITHOUT THEM!

Due to the very hot weather and mostly because Dan Waters is 88 years old, Bloom and MCCM Creations decided to postpone the presentation of One Couple Two Cultures, event scheduled to this Saturday, 2nd of August, to another date, on a cooler time, to be announced soon.

To everybody our sincere apologies and to Dan our most deep regards.

ESTREIA MUNDIAL EM HONG KONG E MACAU
A história deste livro começa no dia em que a China venceu a disputa pela organização dos Jogos Olímpicos de 2008. Liu Heung Shing, agora com 56 anos de idade, um veterano da revista Time, explica que a partir desse momento a primeira questão em que pensou foi qual seria a imagem do país e de que maneira ele iria ser visto por todas as pessoas que o iriam visitar durante os Jogos Olímpicos. Daí nasceu a necessidade de criar um documento para a compreensão de todo o caminho que a China e as suas gentes percorreram para chegar até aos dias de hoje, um país aberto ao mundo.
A editora alemã TASCHEN responde assim à curiosidade despertada pelas Olímpiadas com uma grande antologia de fotografia que percorre toda a existência da República Popular da China, desde 1949, mostrando a face de todas as suas disputas internas, até aos acontecimentos mais recentes, como o terramoto de Sichuan e o elevar da Tocha ao Monte Everest. O responsável por este ambicioso empreendimento é Liu Heung Shing, foto-jornalista chinês nascido em Hong Kong e formado nos Estados Unidos, onde ganhou respeito como fotógrafo na prestigiada revista Life.
Em 1992, Liu, recebeu o prémio Pulitzer de fotografia, partilhado com os seus colegas da Associated Press, com uma reportagem sobre o desmembramento da União Soviética. "China: Portrait of a Country" parte de um percurso inverso, o de ligar todas as linhas da história registadas dentro das objectivas fotográficas e a partir daí, pela costura de imagens nunca antes vistas pelo resto do mundo, definir com testemunhos reais o retrato de todo um país.
Na China pós-Mao, o líder do governo central Deng Xiaoping incitava os seus concidadãos a "procurar a verdade perante os factos". Levado por este lema, Liu, parte na sua intensa procura, que durou mais de quatro anos, contactando e pesquisando os arquivos de muitos fotógrafos, muitos deles já reformados, que guardavam os seus negativos como relíquias em caixas de sapatos debaixo da cama. Talvez com receio de que o trunfo guardado fosse desconfortável à luz do dia. Pelo pó e pela “verdade” a selecção não deixou nada de lado, não se limitou pela perspectiva de reprovação das autoridades oficiais. Visitar visualmente a história da China era uma tarefa difícil até aqui, é certo que as imagens valem mil palavras e é por aí que se tornam claros todos os pequenos e grandes indícios da construção de uma nação.
Hoje a o grande continente é uma das economias de topo a nível mundial com uma ascensão vertiginosa de sucesso nos últimos anos. Este livro procura acima de tudo apresentar toda essa transformação, unindo todos os seus vértices. Pelos olhos de 88 fotógrafos chineses, Liu leva ao mundo uma viagem visual através dos 60 anos da República Popular, ilustrando pelas suas páginas todo o seu curso humanista e mostrando como o povo chinês floresceu, apesar de uma longa austeridade e privação sofridas nas décadas anteriores.
Com uma edição extremamente cuidada e ao longo de 424 páginas, a editora lendária alemã, que escolheu as cidades de Hong Kong e Macau para o lançamento mundial desta obra, marca um ponto de viragem na sua já longa carreira, entrando na edição de documentos históricos de objectiva relevância. Com este livro e de olhos postos no esplendor olímpico, que festeja acima de tudo a interligação de povos, o universo chinês irá porventura despertar para uma nova era.
Em última instância este é um trabalho que homenageia os fotógrafos chineses e o poder de captação que a pertinência da Fotografia estabelece como plena forma de arte e de vida.

No próximo Domingo, apartir das 18 horas, numa organização conjunta entre a TASCHEN e a Bloom, Liu Heung Shing irá estar presente em Macau na Bloom Yellow situada no Albergue em São Lázaro para apresentar “China, Portrait of a Country”.
[EDIÇÃO TRINLIGUE: INGLÊS, FRANCÊS E ALEMÃO]

Liu Heung Shing (B. 1951.)
Editor of China, Portrait of a Country, a large format book of photography to be launched worldwide in 28 of July,2008, in six languages by the legendary german publisher TASCHEN.
Currently Liu serves as a senior advisor to CAA. (Creative Artists Agency ,Los Angeles, USA) Advisor to Shanghai Special Olympic 2007, and Shanghai World Expo 2010.
Liu joined News Corporation (China ) in Sep. 2000 to 2005 as Executive Vice President, Corporate Communications. In this capacity, Mr. Liu was responsible for government and press relations and marketing for News Corporation in China.
Liu serves as Director of Business Development for Time Warner in China from Oct.1997 to Aug.2000. During this period, he had coordinated the organization of the Fortune Global Forum in Shanghai, in 1999. The forum is the largest gathering of business executives of Fortune 500 companies.
Between 1993 and 1997, Mr. Liu work as editor-in-chief and launched a regional Chinese language Life/Style monthly magazine entitled The Chinese, 中月刊, which was widely distributed in Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand, Taiwan, Hong Kong and China.
Prior to this, Mr. Liu serves as foreign correspondent/photo journalist for TIME Magazine and later The Associated Press in Beijing (1979-1983), Los Angeles (1983-85), New Delhi (19851-89), Seoul (1989-1990) and Moscow (1990-1993).
Liu is the author of China After Mao (Penguin 1982), and USSR: Collapse of an Empire (Associated Press 1992). Noted Sinologist Simon Leys (Pierre Rickman) commented China After Mao, ”Liu Heung Shing’s Photographs are shortcuts to reach a complex and elusive truth.”
He shares the 1992 Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography, on the coverage of the Soviet Union. He was awarded by Overseas Press Club in 1991 for his best coverage of the Soviet Union. In 1989, Liu won Picture of the Year awarded by University of Missouri for the coverage of Tiananmen Incident; and in the same year, he was named Best Photographer by Associated Press Managing Editors.
Liu is a graduate Cum Laude of Hunter College, New York City University. He speaks fluent English, Mandarin, Cantonese, Fijian dialect and some French. He was born in 1951 in Hong Kong. Recent exhibitions include Dialogue with Civilization, Forbidden City, Beijing, China, October 1- November 1, 2004. Paris Photo magazine in 2005 named Liu Heung Shing one of the 100 most influential figures in contemporary photography.

Book Presentation
Liu Heung Shing at Bloom Yellow in Macau for the book launch of "China: Portrait of a Country"
August 03, 2008 • Bloom Yellow, Albergue - Calçada da Igreja de S. Lázaro, 8, Macau

Celebrate the launch of China, Portrait of a Country at Bloom Yellow, located in the lovely Albergue, a hidden paradise within the city! Pulitzer-winning photojournalist Liu Heung Shing presents his new book with never before seen pictures and music from each decade between 1949 - 2008.

Begins at 6:00pm
• MORE EVENTS ON CHINA: PORTRAIT OF A COUNTRY HERE
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A morte de cada homem ou mulher significa a morte de uma tradição, de algum conhecimento sobre rituais sagrados detido por ninguém mais. A informação que está contida nas minhas imagens deve ser adquirida de uma vez por todas, ou a oportunidade estará perdida para sempre.

Durante mais de trinta anos, o fotógrafo Edward Sheriff Curtis (1868-1952) percorreu a América do Norte de ponta a ponta. O seu objectivo era registar os vestígios da vida tradicional indígena que se encontravam em progressiva extinção em toda a América do Norte, gravando-os em imagens e palavras. Curtis tornou-se assim um dos nomes de maior relevância no registo e recuperação da cultura dos indígenas, uma técnica que aprendeu por experiência própria por entre as suas sessões fotográficas. Iniciando a sua pesquisa em 1900, criando por si uma máquina fotográfica especial, Curtis aprendeu a utilizar métodos de investigação científica, acreditando sobretudo na fotoetnografia como importante fonte de preservação histórica e obcecado por uma missão superior abraçou essa ideia realizando-a durante toda a sua vida. O resultado tornou-se monumental com a publicação da enciclopédia "The North American Indian". No final este empreendimento compreendia vinte volumes de texto escrito, acompanhado por vinte álbuns com mais de 2000 ilustrações. Nenhum outro fotógrafo criou tamanha obra sobre o mesmo tema, que continha na altura mais de 40 mil fotografias. É Curtis, mais do que nenhum outro, que no fundo moldou de maneira crucial a nossa concepção dos índios americanos. Este grandioso livro mostra as suas imagens mais impressionantes e os detalhes de uma vida que o levou não só pelas pradarias mas também para o meio dos filmes realizados nos estúdios de Hollywood.

SOBRE O AUTOR
Hans Christian Adam estudou Psicologia, História de Arte e Comunicação em Göttingen e em Viena. Como especialista em história pictórica, publicou variados artigos e livros sobre o tema, incluindo títulos sobre viagens e fotografia de guerra.

Edward S. Curtis, de Hans Christian Adam • TASCHEN • VERSÃO PORTUGUESA • NA BLOOM

July 23rd - Wednesday - 18.00
The Master and Margarita - The Passion, Faust and Mikhail Bulgakov
A Talk by Peter Suart

The Russian writer and dramatist Mikhail Bulgakov died in Moscow in 1940. His masterwork novel. The Master and Margarita, first appeared in a Moscow journal in the 60's. It later went on to achieve cult status around the world.
In 2007 Peter Suart illustrated the book for The Folio Society in London, and it is from this work that this talk as sprung. Peter will show his illustrations for the book and discuss the following subjects:
• Bulgakov’s vision of Jesus as a non-divine seer;
• Faust, Science and the whirlpool of good and evil;
• The life and work of Bulgakov.

Peter will close with a look at the presence of some of these ideas in his own series of illustrated books, the Tik and Tok adventures, published by MCCM Creations.

PETER SUART, born in Jamaica, was raised in Hong Kong and schooled in England. In 1985 he returned to Hong Kong to work as an artist, musician, writer and theatrical performer. Since 1999 he has lived in England. He is a zealous sportsman.
[In English / Limited seating]

In collaboration with MCCM Creations • Supported by the British Council
Image frontispiece of the Folio Society's The Master and Margarita

July 26th - Saturday
The City as a Subject for Literary Expression
Talk + Creative Writing Session by Hong Kong writer Xu Xi
[15.00-17.00 Workshop / 18.00 Talk]

Focused on urban, congested life, Xu Xi, a Chinese-Indonesian native of Hong Kong, writes from within, zooming in on her own life in the city and its vanishing culture and sensibility. This surreal example of post-modernity transformed into a 21st Century Communist Chinese city informs her latest book, Evanescent Isles: From My City-Village, a collection of personal essays.

XU XI (pronounced “Shoe-See”), is one of Asia’s leading English language writers. Author of seven books of fiction & essays, and editor of three anthologies of Hong Kong literature in English. THE NEW YORK TIME named her a pioneer writer from Asia in English. Awards include an O. Henry prize story, shortlist for the inaugural MAN Asian Literary Award, Cohen Award from PLOUGHSHARES for best story, a NYFA fiction fellowship, the South China Morning Post story contest winner, among others. Her work is taught, broadcast and anthologized internationally. Her language is described as “uncluttered” and “arrestingly poignant.” She is, above all, uncompromising.
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Co-organized by the Department of English of the University of Macau.
MORE INFO AT: www.xuxiwriter.com
PHOTO CREDIT: Peter Hilton

July 27th - Sunday - 20.00
The Box in Bloom

In 1987 Peter Suart and Kung Chi Shing formed THE BOX, a theatrical music ensemble, and the duo presented concerts and music theatre works alone and in collaboration with visual artists, choreographers, theatre folk and musicians in Hong Kong and Taiwan. For their 20th anniversary, they play Bluebeard at the Kwai Tsing Theatre in Hong Kong

First time in Macau together, Peter Suart and Kung Chi Shing, a classical music professor, will perform a selection of material from their twenty-year history; Suart on voice (sung and spoken), keyboard and percussion, and Kung Chi Shing on violin and flute. The music is dark, bizarre and lyrical.
Words in English.

Supported by the British Council
PHOTO from 2008 show: the box, side fourteen — bluebeard CREDIT: Liu Wai Tong

July 29th - 18.00
Mighty Tuesday #1
Nine Lives, The Birth of Avant-Garde Art in New China, by Karen Smith
Book Presentation with the Author / Updated Edition by Timezone 8 • Mar 2008

Nine Lives introduces nine artists and their personal histories and views on China today. Karen Smith‘s highly accessible introduction to an emerging art scene in a society unknown to most of us makes good reading not only for art-world insiders, but for anyone curious about recent history and its effect on the booming Chinese society.

In the early 1990s, the idea of contemporary art in China simply did not compute to a foreign audience. But in 1993, ten contemporary Chinese artists debuted at the 48th Venice Biennale. They were immediately hailed as progenitors of a Chinese „avant-garde." Their brightly colored, Pop Art-inspired paintings played with socialist motifs, parodied Mao, and gave a visual expression to the feelings of disaffected Chinese youth. They were everything western audiences expected of contemporary art from the People‘s Republic of China. But a number of critics were rather guarded in their opinions. The emergence of a market for their art transformed the lives of these avant-garde pioneers from rags to riches, from outcast to hero, from social pariah to cutting-edge cool in a Chinese society adapting to a new era. They did not change but China has changed. The ideology they once had to fight now propagates a cultural climate of laissez-faire that is tantamount to encouragement. Nine Lives paints a compelling picture of artists working beyond the pale of official culture, who started a new cultural revolution that is sweeping China today.

Karen Smith was born in Hertfordshire in the United Kingdom. She graduated from Wimbledon Art School in Fine Art. In 1988, she moved to Asia curious to explore its practically unchartered art scene. She calls Beijing her home, where she lives since 1992, and is one of the foremost authorities on China’s contemporary art scene, both in China and abroad. Karen Smith also curates exhibitions, including The Real Thing, Tate Liverpool, 2007, and Chinese Photography and Video, Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, amongst others. She is also on the advisory board of Three Shadows Photography Art Center in Beijing.

The author will show the works of Wang Guangyi, Geng Jianyi, Fang Lijun, Gu Dexin, Li Shan, Zhang Xiaogang, Xu Bing, Zhang Peili, and Wang Jianwei.

Timezone 8 Limited is a Hong Kong based publisher, distributor and retailer of books on contemporary art, architecture, photography and design.
In collaboration with Asia Publishers Service • HONG KONG

August 2nd - Saturday (time to be announced)
One Couple Two Cultures: 81 Western-Chinese Couples Talk about Love and Marriage • A presentation by the Author, Dan Waters
NEW POCKET SIZE EDITION BY MCCM CREATIONS

There are those who believe a Western-Chinese marriage is no different, say, to a blond marrying a red-head, although there are others who are more cautious and say that two sometimes antagonistic cultures inevitably add heat to the mix and an added dimension to marriage. There are also opposing views and beliefs having been raised on different codes of conduct and varying lifestyles. After marriage what sort of lifestyles do such couples lead? There can be compatibility and communication problems, not just with each other, but also with in-laws and partners' friends. What cuisines do they prefer? How do they raise their Eurasian children?
While a certain amount has been written about Blacks married to Whites, and Whites to Pakistani, and so on, next to nothing has been written about Westerners married to Chinese. Researched and written by Dr Dan Waters, who can claim approaching half a century of actual experience in such a marriage, is the best person to research the subject of mixed marriages.
One Couple Two Cultures is based on original research of eighty-one couples involving among others Chinese from the People's Republic of China and Caucasians of different nationalities. Examples included in this book are of both successful and not-so-successful unions.

Dan Waters was born in 1920 in Norwich, England, a city of pubs and churches. 'There's a pub for every day of the year and a church for every week'. He's now 88 year old and a whole life of experience. Dan and his Hong Kong Chinese wife, Vera Chan, were married on the Queen's Birthday in 1960, and they have lived together in Hong Kong ever since.

THE PUBLISHER
Since going into book publishing in 2001, the aspirations of MCCM Creations in books have not changed: a wish to bring to you original and inspiring books from creators who share a passion in books as well as having a strong desire to explore new concepts and visualise their experiences, stories and perception in their medium of preference - words, images, sound etc… who often take them across boundaries of illustration, visual art, design, architecture, photography, culture, socio-culture, and literature. Their titles have ‘crossover’ appeals to different age groups and interest groups. MCCM is owned by Mary Chan.
Event Co-Organized by MCCM Creations

August 3rd - Sunday - 18.00
China: Portrait of a Country A book launching presented by Pulitzer-winning photojournalist Liu Heung Shing

China: Portrait of a Country is a landmark on the history of publishing. Initially a book on photography it brings the whole history of a country from the past 60 years to a vivid and close-up form. After a research that took more than 4 years, Liu Heung Shing shows the work of 88 Chinese photographers who gave their perception along the extraordinary hardship that makes way to the humanistic course of this immense country. A document that will make its own life on the standards of gradual change and a monument on the passion of photography. When China opens the curtain at the summer Olympics in 2008 and the world’s focus falls upon Beijing, these images will serve to map out the remarkable road the Chinese have traveled to rejoin the rest of the world and the process by which China navigated the path from periphery to a central position in the world.

Liu Heung Shing’s journalistic involvement with China runs parallel with the development of the People’s Republic. Following the 1979 China-U.S. diplomatic normalization, Liu was Time Magazine’s first photojournalist based in Beijing. His first story was on the death of Mao Zedong. He has worked as a foreign correspondent for the The Associated Press in Beijing (1979-1983), Los Angeles (1983-85), New Delhi (19851-89), Seoul (1989-1990) and Moscow (1990-1993). Liu is the author of China After Mao (Penguin 1982), and USSR: Collapse of an Empire(Associated Press 1992). In 1992 he shared the Pulitzer Prize for Spot News Photography on the coverage of the Soviet Union, and in 2005 French Photomagazine named Liu Heung Shing one of the 100 most influential figures in contemporary photography.

THE PUBLISHER
TASCHEN is an art book publisher founded in 1980 in Germany. Taschen has been a noteworthy force in making lesser-seen art available to mainstream bookstores. Bringing this art into broader public view, by publishing potentially controversial volumes alongside its more mainstream books of comics reprints, art photography, painting, design, fashion,advertising history, film, and architecture. TASCHEN's mission is to choose the most interesting, important, and pertinent subjects within a delectable range of disciplines, to make beautiful, unique and high-quality books.
Co-Organized by TASCHEN • Hong Kong

All the events will take place at Bloom Yellow and its boundaries at Albergue, previously know as The Old Ladies House, a complex for Arts and Creativity in Macau.
SUPPORTED by BAMBU SOCIEDADE DE ARTES LIMITADA
ALBERGUE - CALÇADA DA IGREJA DE SÃO LÁZARO, 8 - MACAU

Normalmente associar sexo a uma mulher famosa significa escândalo. Mas... e se for muito mais do que isso? [ABC]

A busca do prazer é o eixo em torno do qual se rege a história do ser humano. Se estamos a falar de um homem essa procura nada tem de estranho, mas o mesmo não acontece quando uma mulher procura viver para o prazer. Será correcto chamarmos sexodependente a uma mulher que dá rédea solta à sua libido?
A sexualidade foi uma faceta fundamental na vida das 21 mulheres que figuram neste livro. Mulheres com uma forte personalidade, que se impuseram à moral e aos costumes da sua época. Mulheres desinibidas, ousadas, audazes, que viveram em distintos períodos da História e que apenas procuravam o seu lugar no mundo. Sem pudor ou complexos, contra tudo e contra todos, conseguiram ser elas mesmas, o que muito contribuiu para aumentar a fama e o mito que deixaram.

SOBRE A AUTORA
Nascida em Madrid em 1962, Paula Izquierdo é formada em Psicologia e é colaboradora do ABCD Cultural. Publicou vários livros, entre os quais: «El hueco del tu cuerpo»; «La vida sin secreto»; «Picasso y las mujeres»; «La falta» (Cavallo di Ferro, edição italiana). É considerada uma das vozes mais importantes da nova narrativa espanhola. A sua obra encontra-se traduzida em várias línguas.

Sexodependentes: 21 Histórias de Mulheres Radicais, de Paula Izquierdo
PARALELO 40º • 2008