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First French translation of Shulamith Firestone's first novel.

Julien Blaine's performance manifesto.

Limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20, with an original artwork signed by the artist.

Through the detailed analysis of Antonin Artaud's psychiatric history, Lettrist master Isidore Isou delivers a real indictment in this singular text which is both an investigation and a pamphlet.

The Conclusive Scene - Mao Zedong's Last Meeting with the Red Guards, 28 June 1968 includes the first complete English translation of the Chinese Cultural Revolution document "Conversation in a Meeting with the Responsible Persons of the Capital Red Guards."

The first English-language anthology of writings by the Slovak critic Tomáš Štrauss.

A science of sensitive experience prolonged by a theory of atmospheres, at the origins of philosophical aesthetics.

A poetic document found during a political rally in 2019 (against prisons), without author's name nor any indication of origin. Only mention at the bottom of the last page: copying. to be freely distributed.

A story, between myth and reality, of Caravaggio, by parodic artist Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux.

Limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20, with an original artwork signed by the artist.

First French translation of Clemente Padìn's first poems.

This artist’s book gathers childhood memories, some lived experiences and personal reflections on the family histories and relations, and the ways in which they interweave with geographical locations.

Art as a set of practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context: the manifesto that has renewed the approach of contemporary art since the 1990s.

The heart of the political-aesthetic debate.

Erin Manning expands her research on movement politics to the concept of minor gesture.

Sexuality as a properly philosophical problem of psychoanalysis.

The French translation of the second novel of the German writer.

French edition of Laura Mulvey's writings which range from analyses of Xala, Citizen Kane and Blue Velvet, to an extended engagement with the creations of Native American artist Jimmie Durham and the feminist photographer Cindy Sherman.

In 28 short poetic devices, the author marks a space of thought where the disenchanted memory strengthens the present word. Because “forgetfulness is also a violence”.

An anthology.

How to explain the intersection, during the twentieth century, of the ideology and theories on violence and creativity?

A pioneering approach to the history of emotions.

First French edition of an essential manifesto of modern art written by Russian writer, poet and journalist Ilya Ehrenburg in 1921.

The first French edition of the text on exile by ancient philosopher Favorinos (circa 80-150).

One of Levinas' rare statements focusing on the fine arts.

It is a form of spiritual revolt that Spanish architect Carlos Martí Arís highlights through a transversal analysis of different artistic expressions that combine to enrich his reflection.

The reissue, in a new translation, of one of the most important essays of Latin American poetry from the historical avant-gardes.

A seminal text of Contemporary Mexican poetry, inspired by the Tarahumara and peyote rituals. Included in appendix is the first manifesto of infra-realism, written by Anaya in 1975.

Two interviews in which Carmelo Bene exposes his working method and his ideas on television, and opens a reflection on the links between artistic avant-gardism and mass diffusion.

The first English translation of Hubert Fichte's investigation on New York's African diaspora in the late 1970s. Contesting the stylistic norms of ethnographic studies, Fichte offers an experimental, poetic, and radical reflection on the living conditions, struggles and cultural heritage of New York Africans.

Philosopher Ludger Schwarte presents a critical essay against the notion of contemporaneity in art and pleads for a renewed temporality: an art of futurity.

A biography of the founder of Pataphysics, by Alastair Brotchie.

A collection of texts by Soviet avant-garde filmmaker and theoretician Dziga Vertov, including a critical apparatus and visual documents.

20 proposals for the intersection of artistic practice and research in academic milieu.

An an extensive analysis of the advent of Christian visual culture in the Kingdom of Kongo and its and development across four centuries.

Two studies by the pionneer of the popular music studies.

A history of photography through its accidents.

“Primitivism” as a tool for analysis of post-war French society, between a modernization and decolonization movement, and possible forms of resistance.

This book examines the notion of deferred receptions of theories and art through language, context and translations.Vincent Bonin explores the gap between the publication of a text in one language and that of its translation (using the example of the French Theory), or between the inaugural presentation of an artwork in one context and its subsequent display. A critical reflection on the discourses surrounding contemporary art practices.

After a meteorite crashes into his yard, the daily life of Rockabilly and of his neighbors takes a strange turn… Mike Wilson's third novel combines social criticism and science fiction, depicting the dark corners of American suburbs at night.

First French translation of Judy Chicago's autobiography-manifesto.

Questioning the meaning of one's existence with Martin Heidegger (an illustrated philosophy book for children).

The encounters between the most prominent French philosophers of the 1960s and 1970s and the artists of their times, most particularly the protagonists of the Narrative Figuration movement.

The life and work of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac, who used her fortune to support the arts, sciences and literature, and whose influence on the musical and literary worlds of the twentieth century is immeasurable.

A landmark study on the psychological effects of oppression on Black Americans during the 1940s.