Wim Mertens

This catalogue explores girlhood and the beautiful, complex and emotional journey of growing up. It examines various societal, social, and sartorial expectations and realities that shape the teenage years. GIRLS is an interdisciplinary project, bringing together visual artists, fashion designers, stylists and filmmakers. The book and the accompanying exhibition in MoMu Antwerp is created in conversation with teenagers and is inclusive of LGBTQI+ youth. GIRLS features work by artists such as Roni Horn, Robert Gober, Meret Oppenheim, Iris Häussler, Louise Bourgeois, Nathanaëlle Herbelin, Alice Neel, Maya Man, Polina Osipova…

This is the first book which deals with the school of American repetitive music, also know as minimal music. The early work of La Monte Young, Terry Riley, Steve Reich and Philip Glass is discussed in the context of traditional Western music. Minimal music thus emerges as the latest stage in a development leading from Schoenberg, Webern, Stockhausen and Cage. In considering the philosophical thinking of Deleuze and Lyotard, the representatives of the so-called French ' libidinal philosophy', and of Adorno, the author examines the degree to which the 'ecstatic dimension' is present in this music or is even consciously introduced to it.