Books published by Solar Books

The iconoclastic work of the Vienna Action Group is now more contemporary than ever before, and THE ART OF DESTRUCTION provides a comprehensive introduction to that work in both film and performance. Fully illustrated and annotated, and including an extensive filmography, this is a book of compelling interest to all students of film, art and performance, and for all readers engaged with questioning social and corporate cultures.

Traces Gilbert and George's trajectory from London art students to major international artists through the lens of their relationship with the moving image. This book reveals how their signature pieces - such as Bend It dance, Red Sculpture, and short film Gordon's Makes Us Drunk - allowed them to reinvent and reinforce their identity on camera.

From the narrow alleyways of the Golden Gai to the flashing ads and jumbotrons of Shibuya street crossings to the skyscrapers of Shinjuku and the cartoon billboards of the Akiba, Tokyo is an intensely visual and mesmerizing city. This work gives an account of Tokyo's urban sensations.

Berlin's unique history of conflict, violence, and transformation has created an arena of extraordinary urban surfaces, from which the this day city and its layered, wounded past are projected simultaneously. This title explores the intimate connections between those surfaces and the works of art and film.