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Read individually they're delightful small reads, pulled together they offer a particular portrait of a global city' Evening Standard  'Exquisitely diverse' The Times  'Eclectic and broad-minded ... beautifully designed' Tom Cox, Observer  'A fascinating collection with a wide range of styles and themes. The design qualities are excellent, as you might expect from Penguin with a consistent look and feel while allowing distinctive covers for each book. This is a very pleasing set of books' A Common Reader blog  'The contrasts and transitions between books are as stirring as the books themselves ... A multidimensional literary jigsaw' Londonist  'A series of short, sharp, city-based vignettes - some personal, some political and some pictorial ... each inimitable author finds that our city is complicated but ultimately connected, full of wit, and just the right amount of grit' Fabric Magazine  'A collection of beautiful books' Grazia  [Praise for Philippe Parreno's work]: 'Exceptional ... a small masterpiece', Laura Cumming, Guardian  'One of France's hottest commodities. An artist with an almost chameleon-like approach to his medium, he can switch from film-maker to sculptor to storyteller to producer with the kind of dexterity that defies categorisation' Guardian  Philippe Parreno is an Algerian artist and filmmaker who has had shows in major art galleries around the world and is considered the finest writer among artists by curators such as Hans Ulrich Obrist. Based in Paris, his documentary film Zidane: A 21st Century Portrait was released in 2006. 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The drawings collected here showcase a delicate, personal touch, as they were created while Parreno was ill with cancer and were sent to his friends. In Parreno's drawings the fireflies' light is often created by an absence of darkness or pigment. This striking contrast perfectly encapsulates the bioluminescent glow emanating from the insect's abdomen. The book is edited by Hans Ulrich Obrist, artistic director of the Serpentine Galleries. An interview with the artist by Obrist and an essay by Belgian philosopher Vinciane Despret accompany the works.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51058306679057,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":51058309103889,"sku":"NIN9781912122110","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/1912122111.jpg?v=1750965002"},{"product_id":"shimabuku-octopus-citrus-human-book-philippe-parreno-9788410024434","title":"Shimabuku: Octopus, Citrus, Human","description":"Shimabuku’s itinerant, imaginative practice creates works inspired by his encounters with humans, plants and animals  Since the 1990s, Japanese artist Shimabuku (born 1969) has traveled to various places around the world, creating drawings, photographs and performances that consider the daily lives of people he encounters, as well as new forms of communication between humans and nonhumans.","brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51261574742289,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51261574906129,"sku":"NGR9788410024434","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52667724333329,"sku":"NLS9788410024434","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"US \/ NEW \/ INGRAM","offer_id":52762936181009,"sku":"NIN9788410024434","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/8410024438.jpg?v=1750838696"},{"product_id":"philippe-parreno-synchronicity-book-philippe-parreno-9783956794360","title":"Philippe Parreno - Synchronicity","description":null,"brand":"WoB","offers":[{"title":"- \/ - \/ -","offer_id":51631339143441,"sku":"","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true},{"title":"GB \/ NEW \/ GARDNERS","offer_id":51631339340049,"sku":"NGR9783956794360","price":0.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/3956794362.jpg?v=1751065564"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/en-gb\/collections\/author-books-by-philippe-parreno.oembed","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}