By retracing the history of three colossal candelabras made by Piranesi (1720–78) from fragments of ancient Roman sculptures, Caroline van Eck introduces us to the complicated journey of art objects from their production to their reception, and tests the effectiveness of anthropological methods by isolating what relates to the commodification of art objects and their singularization.

The choreographic in cinema.

An essay on the figure of the writer-

D. N. Rodowick examines the complex relationships between contemporary art and cinema, around questions of movement, image, time, and history.

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 (also available in English edition).

A radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.

Why continue to produce objects today? In a world saturated with artifacts and facing ecological urgency, the very legitimacy of production seems to waver. Starting from this question, issue 61 of Azimuts brings together designers, researchers, artists, and students around contemporary object practices.

A comprehensive illustrated compilation of typographic works produced by bachelor and master students at ECAL over the past ten years.

A collective reflection on the multiple dimensions of adolescence in its relationship with art.lab

A look at a href="index_theme.php?id=224&menu=4">South Korea's contemporary art scene through the medium of video art.

A layered and polyphonic investigation that, setting out from the Orobic Alpine territory in Northern Italy, explores the mountainside not merely as a natural backdrop but as an epistemological lens through which to understand and rethink the contemporary world.

The relationship between design and industry.

A dialogue between the creations of the two designers.

A dialogue between the creations of the two designers.

Comprehensive and previously unpublished documentation on the unproduced magnum opus of American composer Maryanne Amacher (1938–2009).

Three essays in which philosopher Étienne Balibar questions the notion of war through the thinking of Simone Weil, Carl von Clausewitz, and Karl Marx, as well as the current geopolitical situation and the war in Ukraine.

A dive into the world of designer Anaïs Borie, where design is fueled by storytelling, fiction, and the hybridization of expertise, at the crossroads of craftsmanship, digital technologies, and industrial processes.

A monumental anthology of critical essays devoted to the figure of Umberto Riva, introduced and edited by Maria Bottero, accompanied by a collection of sketches and drawings from the architect’s personal archives (new revised edition).

First monographie.

On the forms of sabotage, insubordination, and invisible activity that evade the terrain of politics.

This first monograph devoted to Claire Colin-Collin’s painting traces her artistic development since the late 1990s.

This monograph traces the dazzling and prolific career of French designer Pauline Deltour (1983–2021) and showcases the richness of her work through images drawn from an extensive archive and contributions from curators, designers, and collaborators.

Edited from archival lectures, AH!MERICA captures Allen Ginsberg's profound exploration of William Blake as a guide for modern perception and social consciousness. It offers a "poetics of attention," teaching readers to find beauty in overlooked details and use poetry as a tool for resilience against political and personal despair.

This artist's book for insiders brings together a selection of Polaroids, silver gelatin photographs, and collages that are part of a series of works on eroticism that Cécilia Jauniau has been working on since 2023.

More than 150 drawings from the collection of producer and filmmaker Marin Karmitz: a selection of works by historical, modern and contemporary artists that highlights the tension between the life and death drives.

A comprehensive retrospective of the Spanish artist's work, covering his major exhibitions (Manifesta, Reina Sofia, MACBA, Raven Row, etc.) and including all of his texts published as fanzines over a period of twenty years, a new critical essay by Kim West, and a wide-ranging conversation.

An essay by Alexandra Midal on visual learning experiences through images, based on two revolutionary projects by major 20th-century designers: Charles & Ray Eames, Georges Nelson and Alexander Girard, and Ken Isaacs.

Fifty verses by New-York musician Moondog (new edition).

An exploration of the utopian labyrinth that has fueled the imagination and work of internationally renowned architect Rudy Ricciotti.

An exploration of the utopian labyrinth that has fueled the imagination and work of internationally renowned architect Rudy Ricciotti, through a quasi-cinematic montage of images and quotes, constituting a stroll through the mind of the “character” Ricciotti, each space visited punctuated—as in a voice-over—by a text by Jean-Louis Poitevin.

Readers are invited into an immersive, oceanic way of seeing—where the boundaries between body, technology, and environment dissolve into continuous transformation.

A never released before live CD/DVD by Univers Zéro, a precious testimony to the band's artistic resurgence and stage energy.

A vast collection of Ettore Sottsass's writings, edited by design historian Emanuele Quinz.

This collection of texts on design by the avant-garde Italian architectural group Superstudio (1966-1982) highlights one of the most powerful and complex moments in the period of Italian architectural neo-avant-garde, revealing a progressive and increasingly radical reflection on the meaning of design, on architecture and design as forms of thought, and finally on life itself as a project.

A collective work examining fifty years of poetic activity by Bernard Heidsieck (1928-2014), a central figure in sound poetry and performance poetry, a major poet of the second half of the 20th century, along multiple axes.

A reflection on our present, through a series of portraits of contemporary artists.

A survey of contemporary design from the Arab World.

The first print issue of the photography journal published by Nouveau Palais.

A true odyssey of design, featuring pieces from a dozen French heritage institutions, and a narrative structured as a play of mirrors between forms, words, and gestures.

A work conceived as an installation, as part of the project created by Amina Agueznay for the Moroccan Pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale.

First monograph of pioneering Saudi artist Saad Almasari, tracing a practice shaped by place, memory, and the enduring logic of geometry.

A collection of poetic, dreamlike and synesthetic texts by the Polish writer and artist.