Books about Ibiza?

I was just reading this book while I was on the Island in May/June

Raoul Hausman
IBIZA
A forgotten island
Edited by Bernd Stiegler
Series: Konstanz University Press

Raoul Hausmann (1886–1971) was an Austrian artist and writer and one of the centralFigures of Dadaism. His experimental collages and texts are key works for theEuropean avantgarde.

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The dream of another life and writing.
Raoul Hausmann in Ibiza.
When Raoul Hausmann emigrated to Ibiza in the mid-1930s, the island was not only a refuge for numerous intellectuals, such as Walter Benjamin, but also a place where tradition and modernity crossed in a peculiar way. At that time, the island was far from being a tourist destination. Hausmann discovered his ethnographic streak here and documented the landscape and its inhabitants in texts and photographs. There lived just 30,000 inhabitants on the entire island, who pursued various activities. They were fishermen, farmers and craftsmen at the same time and set up their households accordingly. Everything had its place there: Form followed function here, too - only for hundreds of years.For Hausmann, Ibiza was a veritable discovery between archaism and avant-garde and thus became a projection screen for a different way of life and writing. Hausmann made extensive studies on the special Ibizan architecture, which was also discovered by Le Corbusier and Gropius as a prefiguration of classical modernism, worked on the history of the island, but also on archaeological finds and ethnographic peculiarities. He planned to make a book out of these works, which he also offered to several publishers. Nevertheless, this hybrid project between travel guide and ethnographic study remained unpublished and is now being edited for the first time using materials from the estate. The edition contains numerous photographs and sketches that Hausmann made especially for the planned publication.

Probably only available in german though
 
Really wanted to enjoy The Life Impossible but couldn’t. Went into the realms of ridiculous for me.
 
Mekka said:
Really wanted to enjoy The Life Impossible but couldn’t. Went into the realms of ridiculous for me.
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I’ve just ordered it along with the Neneh Cherry autobiography

Is it a tough Read or just gets a bit Naff? Been looking forward to reading it
 
An old pal of mine called Steve (whose name might be familiar to anyone who ever spent time in Enfield, Brighton or on the Balearic thread) has just published a book of essays to accompany his 50 years on earth. There's a big Ibiza theme to a lot of it, as many of the memories are in some way connected to his experiences of CDM or bars such as Babel.

*disclaimer: I myself helped out with various bits & pieces but, leaving that aside, it is a mighty good read!

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50 at 50 from Andres Y Xavi

50 at 50 from Andres Y Xavi
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A bit of shameless promotion ha ha ha, my third novel is (mostly) set in Ibiza in 1994 and is a prequel and a sequel to All Back to Mine and All Back to Yours.

They have been described as 'Layer Cake Meets The Inbetweeners' which I am kind of okay with lol
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Amigo said:
Iain Stewart's Rough Guide book is indeed a fantastic piece of work. It was invaluable in helping me explore the island further and further from the starting point of San An - which was my, and what was many many other people's Ibiza starting point back then - long before the PDB expansion. A huge amount of my early island discoveries are down to that book.
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thanks Amigo ! glad to help out
 
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