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Kulturalis is a publishing company committed to cross-cultural exchange. We bring a wealth of experience to our bespoke services for museums, galleries and other cultural institutions around the world, producing outstanding publications, both in print and deploying newer technologies.

Publications Autumn 2024

Hikobae

A collection of works on the theme of everyday life in Japan, a successor to the award-winning comic book Iogi (2022).

Hikobae: 15 Views Beyond Iogi

Jean-Gaspard Páleníček, Václav Šlajch et al., with an afterword by Pavel Kořínek

A collection of works on the theme of everyday life in Japan, a successor to the award-winning comic book Iogi (2022).

Each of the comics in Hikobae focuses on a different region of Japan – from the northern island of Hokkaido to Shimane Prefecture in the southwest of the archipelago, from the mountain peaks of Gunma Prefecture to the seashore of Shikoku Island. The stories deal with the theme of everyday life, far from the stereotypical ideas of the Land of the Rising Sun. The key focus of the book is on tradition and its transmission, and many of the comics deal with contemporary forms of traditional Japanese crafts, customs or ceremonies (pottery, the tea ceremony, blueprinting, traditional saké bio-production).

Hikobae is the result of an exceptional collaboration between author Jean-Gaspard Páleníček, who brings the perspective of his experience with life in Japan, and students of the Ladislav Sutnar Faculty of Design and Art of the University of West Bohemia in Pilsen under the supervision of Václav Šlajch. The afterword is written by Pavel Kořínek, an acclaimed expert on comics and researcher at the Centre for Comics Studies of the Czech Academy of Sciences (CAS).

ISBN: 978-1-83636-005-6 (English), 978-1-83636-006-3 (Japanese)
Format: 230 x 165mm
Binding: Paperback
Page extent: 264
Language editions: English, Japanese
Price: GBP £26.95 / USD $35

Order a copy here:

https://www.accartbooks.com/uk/book/hikobae/ (English),
https://www.accartbooks.com/uk/book/hikobae-2/ (Japanese)

Rebellious Forests

A collection of unique photographs from the Purépecha region of Michoacán, Mexico, which present a world that rebels against the changes of history in a constant desire not to disappear.

Photographs by Pavel Hroch, text by León García Lam

A collection of unique photographs from the Purépecha region of Michoacán, Mexico, which present a world that rebels against the changes of history in a constant desire not to disappear.

Cherán is a social, political and anthropological phenomenon without precedent in Mexico. Rebellious Forests gathers together images captured by Pavel Hroch during his travels in the land of the Purépecha in Michoacán, particularly the towns of Cherán, Comachuén and Cocucho. These photographs show a world confronting global problems such as deforestation, water shortages and the violence of organised crime, while also rebelling against historical changes, driven by a constant desire to endure. The book reflects the Purépecha community’s successful struggle to achieve autonomy and control over their territory after a confrontation that pitted armed locals against illegal loggers and drug traffickers. This resistance led to the expulsion of these invaders and the establishment of Purépecha systems of security and self-government, based on their own cosmology and traditional practices.

Pavel Hroch is a Czech photographer, translator and journalist born in Bogotá, Colombia. He has had solo exhibitions at, among other places, the House of Representatives, Washington, D.C., the National Gallery of Bucharest and the Museo Memoria y Tolerancia in Mexico City.

León García Lam is a Mexican anthropologist and author born in San Luis Potosí. In 2018, he received the Fray Bernardino de Sahagún Award for his research on the ritual system of the Pame people of Ciudad del Maíz in San Luis Potosí, and in 2022, an honourable mention from the Manuel Espinosa Yglesias Award for an article on the defence of the forests of the indigenous community of San Francisco Cherán K’eri.

ISBN: 978-1-83636-000-1 (English), 978-1-83636-001-8 (Spanish)
Format: 290 x 290mm
Binding: Hardback
Page extent: 248
Language editions: English, Spanish
Price: GBP £50 / USD $65

Order a copy here:
https://www.accartbooks.com/uk/book/rebellious-forests/ (English),
https://www.accartbooks.com/uk/book/bosques-rebeldes/ (Spanish).

I Caught Sight of My Face

A new English translation of celebrated Czech poet Petr Hruška’s book Spatřil jsem svou tvář (2022), recipient of the Magnesia Litera Award for poetry.

Petr Hruška, trans. Joshua Mensch, with illustrations by Jakub Špaňhel

A new English translation of celebrated Czech poet Petr Hruška’s book Spatřil jsem svou tvář (2022), recipient of the Magnesia Litera Award for poetry.

Petr Hruška is widely considered one of the most important Czech poets writing today, renowned for his acute powers of observation. In I Caught Sight of My Face, translated from the Czech by Joshua Mensch, Hruška exchanges the lyricism of his previous collections for an epic voice that contemplates the contemporary world through the lens of the distant past. And not just any past: his poetic cycle draws on The First Voyage around the World, written five centuries ago by Antonio Pigafetta, one of the few to survive Ferdinand Magellan’s voyage of discovery (1519–22). However, this is no glorious saga of heroic endeavour. Hruška adopts the perspective of the Venetian adventurer to show how little human behaviour has changed in half a millennium. Then as now, mankind is anxious, insecure, sometimes cowardly, xenophobic and violent. The poem’s deceptively simple, accessible style conveys a profound and complex reflection on our capacity for evil.

The illustrations by acclaimed contemporary Czech visual artist Jakub Špaňhel are an integral part of this story, establishing an absorbing dialogue with the text.

ISBN: 978-1-83636-008-7
Format: 210 x 132mm
Binding: Hardback
Page extent: 76
Language editions: English
Price: GBP £19.95 / USD $25.95

Order a copy here:
https://www.accartbooks.com/uk/book/i-caught-sight-of-my-face/

OUR TEAM

Your vision, our expertise

Kulturalis offers decades of extensive experience in producing high-quality publications for prestigious institutions worldwide.

Our multilingual team specialises in a wide range of sectors including art, heritage, education, religion, architecture, sport and corporate publications.

Managing Director

Neil Titman

Neil has worked in publishing for over twenty-five years, initially in Editorial for The Folio Society...

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Neil has worked in publishing for over twenty-five years, initially in Editorial for The Folio Society and then in Business Development for Third Millennium Publishing and Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers. After eight years producing books for museums, galleries and other heritage institutions in Europe, Asia and North America, in 2023 he realised a long-held ambition – to create a new publishing company devoted to the dissemination of the world’s cultures – and Kulturalis was born. Alongside managing the company, Neil is developing business in Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia, Africa and Latin America.

Neil has a PhD in French and Latin literature. He is fluent in French and Spanish and has worked as a translator from these languages and from Latin, Italian and Romanian. He is currently studying Czech, Russian, Ukrainian and Uzbek.

neilt@kulturalis.com

Business Development Director

Jenny McKinley

Jenny has worked in the art publishing sector for over thirty years...

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Jenny has worked in the art publishing sector for over thirty years, with experience in all aspects of publishing, including commissioning, sales, marketing and distribution. She was Managing Director at Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers for ten years, Sales Director at Philip Wilson Publishers, and has worked for Phaidon Press, Merrell Publishers and the British Library. Jenny excels in forming lasting and mutually beneficial business relationships with cultural institutions worldwide. Now based in the UK, she has lived in Australia and has a degree in French. Jenny is responsible for Kulturalis’s activities in the UK, Ireland, Portugal and Australasia.

jennym@kulturalis.com

Business Development Manager

Thom Baylay

Thom began working in arts publishing in 2017 as Sales and Marketing Manager for Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers...

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Thom began working in arts publishing in 2017 as Sales and Marketing Manager for Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers. He commissioned new titles, managed marketing activities and worked closely with distribution partners to ensure maximum exposure in the trade for new titles. Thom has a huge breadth of experience across multiple different industries, including hospitality, finance, entertainment and programming. He brings enthusiasm and positivity to all his collaborations and is always looking to grow strong business relationships. For Kulturalis, Thom is developing activities in North and Western Europe, as well as the Far East, where he lived for two years.

Thom speaks English and Japanese, as well as some French, German, Swedish and Korean.

thomb@kulturalis.com

Business Development Executive

Katerina Siegl

Katerina studied History of Art and Media and Communication at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic...

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Katerina studied History of Art and Media and Communication at Charles University in Prague, Czech Republic. Working in art book publishing for the last twelve years, she has extensive experience in the field and a solid understanding of all stages of publishing production. During her career, she has worked for Arbor Vitae, K-A-V-K-A Art Books and Visual Culture, Kodl Gallery and Scala Arts & Heritage Publishers. As Business Development Executive and Project Manager for Kulturalis, she is responsible for projects in Central Europe and Italy.

Katerina is bilingual in Czech and English, speaks Slovak and some German, and is currently studying Italian.

katerinas@kulturalis.com

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