new releases
 
 Fuminori Nousaku & Mio Tsuneyama - Dixit - Conditions / About Condition
bilingual edition (English / French)
Dixit
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Dixit
The fifth issue of Dixit, the journal of architecture criticism features the words of architects Charlotte Truwant + Dries Rodet, Mio Tsuneyama + Fuminori Nousaku who confront each other around the theme of conditions.
Lawrence Weiner - Faire – To look at things
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire magazine – To look at things
The 49th issue of the critical graphic design journal, about Lawrence Weiner and his relationship with typography.
Tim Ingold - Architecture educates! - Au contact de l\'art
bilingual edition (English / French)
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
An education turned around by art: famous English anthropologist Tim Ingold invites us to consider the arts as the very basis of an education in the 21st-century, an education that might begin to address the profound social and ecological crises we face.
Christophe Brunnquell - La guerre du feu
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various
French artists Christophe Brunnquell and Estelle Hanania celebrate 15 years of collaboration with this book published by the legendary Japanese bookstore Komiyama Tokyo, combining performance, illustration and photography.
Toilet Paper - ToiletMiles PaperAldridge
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Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
The new special Toilet Paper edition, in collaboration with British artist-photographer Miles Aldridge.
Jean-Michel Bouhours - When the Eye Trembles - The Cinema of Paolo Gioli
bilingual edition (English / French)
Light Cone
An anthology of texts by Jean-Michel Bouhours on photographer and filmmaker Paolo Gioli, a key figure in the Italian avant-garde of the 1970s.
Ryan Gander - Phantom Ambition
English edition
Tonini Editore
This artist's book collects the series "All the ambition in the world" (2024) by Ryan Gander, a series of posters for fictitious group exhibitions that never took place, but were imagined by the artist's mind.
John Armleder - Autobiography
English edition
Tonini Editore
John Armleder delivers a series of drawings for his “autobiography”.
Stefano Arienti - Autobiography
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Tonini Editore
Stefano Arienti's photographic "autobiography" (artist's book).
Giorgio Andreotta Calò - In girum imus nocte
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
A look back at the poetic, political and anthropological dimensions of the collective performance initiated by artist Giorgio Andreotta Calò around a mining plant in Sardinia.
Rirkrit Tiravanija - On Making Less
English edition
Bierke
Rirkrit Tiravanija's methods for making less.
Barrault Pressacco - Wallness - Nature and culture of insulation – Building with hempcrete
bilingual edition (English / French)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
A polyphonic, hybrid work, somewhere between a fine architectural book and a scientific essay, the result of research into contemporary forms of insulation.
Conversations on Architecture – Swiss Talks – About and Beyond / Conversazioni sull’architettura – Swiss Talks – Intorno e oltre
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
The richness of cultural exchanges between Italy and Switzerland, especially in terms of architectural culture, is the framework within which this publication was conceived and structured. The editorial project retraces and expands some of the themes addressed during the first seven years of the Swiss Talks, born in 2017 as a cultural partnership between the Istituto Svizzero and the architecture magazine Casabella.
Eva Hesse - Transatlantique
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Seven European women artists (Katinka Bock, Claire-Jeanne Jézéquel, Rachel Labastie, Mélanie Matranga, Juliette Minchin, Valérie Mréjen, Agnès Thurnauer) brought together by Sébastien Gokalp share their views on Eva Hesse (1936–1970), a major figure of the 20th century.
Pedro Zylbersztajn - Export Quality Poetry (1924–2024)
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
CAN (Centre d'Art Neuchâtel)
Joint artistic research, between Switzerland and Brazil, around ideas of consumption and exhaustion, the legacies of colonialist expropriation and its monocultural ideologies, besides the infrastructures of export and displacement, across both countries and their intertwined historie.
Lentil Space - Recipes from Artists\' Homes
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A compilation of recipes from the Arab world that were presented by artists for Mophradat's online cooking show Lentil Space.
Natalie Häusler - Corals
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A book-length poem by Berlin based artist and poet Natalie Häusler.
Camille Richert - Parents Must Unite + Fight - Hackney Flashers: Agitprop, Labor and Socialist Feminism in England
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tombolo Presses
The first monograph dedicated to the Hackney Flashers collective, a group of nine activist women who engaged in agitprop from 1974 to 1980 in the working-class neighborhood of Hackney in London.
Ingemo Engström - About Narration - Materials, Comments, Interventions
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
Published in collaboration with Harun Farocki Institut, this book unpacks About Narration [Erzählen], a 1975 essay film directed by Ingemo Engström and Harun Farocki.
Rosi Braidotti - Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Incidents
On the advanced knowledge economy, which perpetuates patterns of discrimination and exclusion, and the threat of climate change devastation for both human and nonhuman entities.
Gender and Postsecularity in Visual Culture and Knowledge Production
English edition
Sternberg Press - Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
A collection exploring the intersections of gender and religion in post-secular knowledge production and visual culture.
Staci Bu Shea - Solution 305 - Dying Livingly
English edition
Sternberg Press - Solution
A series of propositions and encounters in service to an aesthetic, critical, and poetic experience of living life led by death.
Griselda Pollock - Feminism, Pedagogy, and the Studio - Reflections Across Four Decades
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Two lectures from art historian and curator Griselda Pollock address feminist questions and art education in the 1980s and today.
Anna Colin - Alternative Pedagogical Spaces - From Utopia to Institutionalization
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
currently out of stock
A critical exploration of the values and qualities inherent in independent educational organizations and the hurdles in the way of remaining "alternative" with the passing of time.
Suresh Jayaram - Bangalore’s Lalbagh - A Chronicle of the Garden and the City
English edition
Reliable Copy
Bangalore's Lalbagh is a chronicle and anecdotal narrative of the city and its oldest garden—the Lalbagh Botanical Garden— where the author, Suresh Jayaram, has grown up around.
Vikram Divecha - Short Circuits
English edition
Reliable Copy
Short Circuits features essays, interviews, and documentation that highlight Dubai based artist Vikram Divecha's interest in the often invisible structures of planning, construction, demolition and maintenance. It centres on his long-term collaborations with workers, contractors and decision-makers who shape the cities of the United Arab Emirates and beyond.
Matteo de Mayda - There\'s No Calm After the Storm
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
With a documentary approach and in dialogue with elements of scientific and archival research, photographer Matteo de Mayda investigates the long-term consequences of the Vaia storm in Italy.
Carlotta Franco - Monumento
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
Documentation on sculptor Edoardo Tresoldi's permanent monumental installation in Venice's Procuratie Vecchie.
 OHT (Office for a Human Theatre) - Frankenstein - If You Love Solitude, You Don\'t Love Freedom
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Bruno
Born from the works staged by OHT (Filippo Andreatta), this book revisits the original text written by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, incorporating new theoretical and photographic contributions.
Gretta Sarfaty -
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
various
First monograph of the Brazilian feminist artist.
Bruno Pélassy -
bilingual edition (English / French)
Villa Arson
The very first monograph dedicated to the work of Bruno Pélassy (1966–2002), featuring all his works, installation views, and a vast range of materials from his unpublished personal archive.
e-flux Index
English edition
e-flux Index
64 contributions from an international selection of critics, artists, poets, architects, filmmakers, and theorists: the fourth issue of e-flux Index features everything published on e-flux.com from June–July 2024, (re)arranged into 9 thematic chapters—ranging from sections on DIY and amateurism, on verbal domination, on contemporary resistance and organising efforts, and on our doomscrolling fatigue with the networked world.
Volume ! - Les Fabriques sonores du Sud global
texts in English and French
Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
Mélanie Seteun - Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
Double issue of the journal of popular music studies, with a feature on the sound factories of the global South, and a look back at the 20th anniversary of Volume!.
Giovanna Silva - Days Without Number - New York City
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A collection of more than 700 photos shot by Giovanna Silva during the last three years of walks through NYC.
 Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel - Infinite Memory
English edition
Lenz Press
First monograph on cinema duo Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel.
Fouad Elkoury - Cinema Cairo Palace - A Journey into Egyptian Cinema – 1985-1996
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
The images shot on Egyptian film sets by prominent photographer Fouad ElKoury over more than a decade capture the essence of Arab cinema.
Eulàlia Grau - Etnografias - Collages
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Vallois
A panorama of the “ethnographic” collages created by Spanish feminist artist Eulàlia Grau in the early 1970s, providing a visual dissection that criticizes capitalist lifestyles and all forms of oppression.
Fluxus & NeoFluxus / Keep Together (Vol. 2) (2 vinyl LP + booklet)
Sub Rosa
30 Fluxus pieces, new and old, live and studio, finished pieces and scores to be performed, acoustic and classical, solos and pieces for ensemble, using classical and special instruments, with new essays and articles, original photos and other documentation.
Ahmed Essyad - Moroccan Electroacoustic Music 1972-74 (vinyl LP)
Sub Rosa
Three electroacoustic pieces recorded by Moroccan contemporary music composer Ahmed Essyad in the early 1970s, released in Sub Rosa's Early Electronic series.
 Univers Zéro - Crawling Wind (vinyl EP)
Sub Rosa
The first vinyl reissue of this legendary EP, released in 1981 on the Japanese "Chaos International Series" label.
Francesco Cavaliere - I-A-K Interplanetary-Abyssal-Kite (vinyl LP)
Xing
I-A-K Interplanetary-Abyssal-Kite is a composition by Francesco Cavaliere, part of his Abyssal Creatures project based on an ensemble of concave blown glass sculptures that recall transparent creatures far from human representation: beings that inhale sound and exhale resonances.
Luca Trevisani - Amazoom (vinyl LP)
Xing
Amazoom by Luca Trevisani presents two hypotheses of landscape reincarnation, two translations, two strict, entropic protocols of imagination.
Cesare Pietroiusti - Newton (vinyl LP)
Xing
Newton is a sound work conceived by Cesare Pietroiusti, an artist interested in micro-events, paradoxical situations, behaviour and minor gestures that make up our daily life. NEWTON is an epic of the fall, experienced, suffered and observed by the artist himself.
Alessandro Bosetti - FasFari (vinyl LP)
Xing
FasFari is composed of short vocal emissions that deal with a form of speech before the act of saying, sound particles that invoke meaning without ever fully unfolding it, and barely suggest a body and a biographical identity.
Iben Edvardsen - Livre d\'images sans images (vinyl LP)
Xing
A sound piece by choreographer and performer Mette Edvardsen in collaboration with her daughter, Iben, based on the performance of the same name.
Valerio Tricoli - A Circle of Grey (vinyl LP)
Xing
A Circle of Grey is an electroacoustic composition blending philosophical contemplation on transience, impermanence and musical exploration.
 Mattin - Seize the Means of Complexity (vinyl LP)
Xing
A sound project by Mattin operating a radical critique of the era of social media, which proposes to free oneself from it by reappropriating its own tools.
Renato Grieco - Ehm (vinyl LP)
Xing
A two-part musique concrète piece by Canedicoda (Ottaven) and Renato Grieco (kNN).
Scott Gibbons - Il Terzo Reich (vinyl LP)
Xing
The score for Romeo Castellucci and Scott Gibbons' stage work.
Flash Art - Winter 2024-25
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
Tom Burr, Lizzie Fitch & Ryan Trecartin, Brett Ginsburg, Coumba Samba, Matthew Barney, Gordon Matta-Clark; Laura Orozco, Jasmine Gregory, Maren Karlson, Elaine Cameron-Weir, B. Ingrid Olson, David L. Johnson, Nina Hartmann...
Spike - The Post-Cool
English edition
Spike
Spike is turning twenty with a special double issue.
Philip K. Dick - How To Build A Universe That Doesn\'t Fall Apart Two Days Later
English edition
ISOLARII
In this prophetic 1978 essay, legendary science fiction author Philip K. Dick explores the nature of reality, the power of media, and the authenticity of human experience, offering startling insights that resonate eerily with our modern world.
Semaine 2018-2024 – La chapelle – espace d\'art contemporain - Le monde comme il va
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Catalogues
The 22 exhibitions programmed by Philippe Piguet at La chapelle de la Visitation art center in Thonon-les-Bains since 2018, in 400 pages.
Yousef Jaha - Yearning for Rain
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
An overview of the pictorial work of a leading figure on the Saudi art scene.
Taha Alsabban - Muse\'s Reverie
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
An overview of the pictorial work of a leading figure on the Saudi art scene.
Echoing the Land
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
Catalog of an exhibition that presents the discourse and developments in the arts of Saudi Arabia that took place between 1959 and the 1980s, highlighting a group of Saudi artists who contributed to shaping the identity of the local art movement.
Alfredo Volpi - The Poetics of Colour
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A retrospective of Alfredo Volpi, a key figure of Brazilian modernism, covering the central themes of his work from the 1940s to the 1970s, his most prolific period.
Jean-Vincent Simonet - Kitengela
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Photographer Jean-Vincent Simonet introduces a new photobook that captures the transforming world of Kitengela Glass, an artistic community in the south of Nairobi, Kenya.
Jagna Ciuchta - Dilated I, Liquid Images and Carnivorous Plants
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Jagna Ciuchta's first monograph reflects the collective, reflexive and evolving logic of the artist's work.
Cally Spooner - A Hypothesis of Resistance
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A Hypothesis of Resistance contains five essays on Asynchronicity, Rehearsal, Undetectability, The Present Tense, and Duration.
Michele Lombardelli - Piacenza – Los Angeles
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A literary bridge between two very different cities through the art and poetry publications edited by Michele Lombardelli between 1991 and 2008.
Farkhondeh Shahroudi -
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Retrospective monograph.
Dawit L. Petros - Prospetto a Mare
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The latest chapter of Eritrea-born artist Dawit L. Petros's long-term investigation of the impact of Italian colonialism and its subsequent imprint on the visual cultures, populations and built environments of Africa, Europe and North America.
Edith Karlson - Hora lupi
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
Faire – To look at things - Mechanical Translations
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire magazine – To look at things
This double issue of the critical graphic design journal examines the origins of the automation and mechanization of translation and writing.
Border-Listening / Escucha-Liminal - Volume 3
English edition
Contingent Sounds
A collective exploration of sound, music and the socio-political dimensions of listening, from researchers and artists with perspectives from the global South.
Resurgent Nahda - Arab Exhibitions in 1930s Jerusalem
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
The cultural and political legacies of the the 1933 and 1934 Arab Exhibitions in Jerusalem.
The Silent Age of Singularity
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
A catalogue that features a group of 20 artists from Saudi Arabia, the Middle East, the Maghreb and the international scene and explores the profound changes of a period marked by the presence of technology, the post internet era.
Dance First Think Later - The Thinking Body between Dance and Visual Arts
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
An encounter between dance and visual arts.
 Lê Quan Ninh - The Negative Way (book + CD)
bilingual edition (English / French)
ARTDERIEN
The ultimate edition of percussionist Lê Quan Ninh's famous text, which explores, in the form of an ABC, the singular experience of improvising and free improvisation.
Umberto Riva - USA 1966
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
In the spring of 1966, four illustrious travelers cross the United States from west to east, photographing America's architecture at its heyday.
Temples for Industrious Lombards – Architecture by Mario Galvagni in Inveruno / Templi per lombardi laboriosi – Architetture di Mario Galvagni a Inveruno
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
The extravagant villas designed between the 1960s and 1980s by Italian architect Mario Galvagni (1928-2020) for prosperous Lombard families.
Air de repos (Breathwork) (book + vinyl LP)
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
A double vinyl and a catalogue that constitute a proper extension of the exhibition with which the Capc in Bordeaux continues to question the forms that the museum can take, with the aim of creating a renewed awareness of what it means to breathe, both on an individual and collective level, at a time when the world is living in a climate of generalized asphyxia.
Jimmy Robert - The Man Who Envied Women
English edition
Bierke
Retrospective monograph.
Cosima von Bonin - Songs for Gay Dogs
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A book spanning Cosima von Bonin's work of the last decade, and a personal journey into her private world and references.
Katherine Bradford -
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Comprehensive monograph.
Entangled - Texts On Textiles
English edition
Archive Books
What does it mean to be a curator who writes, and, more specifically, how can curators write about textiles? This publication steps outside the framework of the typical exhibition catalogue to occupy "the space between literature and criticism".
Acauã Shereya - Oralaction / Eclipse em gambiarra
trilingual edition (English / French / Portuguese)
Crossing
This edition presents the research of Brazilian choreographer, performer, teacher, visual artist, gardener, craftswoman and "post-pornographer" Acauã Shereya during her Master's degree in choreography and performance at ICI/CCN Montpellier.
Sonia Boyce - The Joy of Cacophony
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
Sonia Boyce engages with the artist and sound theorist Brandon LaBelle, who guides us through the artist's poetics, considering sound as a form of radical inclusion, a medium capable of generating interaction, narratives and new understanding.
Orshi Drozdik - Adventures in Technos Dystopium - Work, writings, exhibitions 1970–1995
English edition
MER. Books
A comprehensive overview of the Hungarian post-conceptual and feminist artist's practice in the first decades of her fifty-year long career, including several of her writings.
Tools - To Cut
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
The fourth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, looks at the cut.
Lalie Thébault Maviel - Notre pain quotidien
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Tombolo Presses
An edition like an archaeology of our more or less contemporary iconography of bread. A lacunary and subjective encyclopedia that reflects its presence in our lives and its political, social, economic, and aesthetic evolutions (artist's book).
Eva Taulois - Paravents
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tombolo Presses
First monograph: an exploration of the thought of the exhibition in relation to its spaces, contexts, and encounters.
Meg Stuart - Let\'s Not Get Used to This Place - Works 2008-2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
A personal and intimate look behind the scenes of Meg Stuart's creative process over more than a decade.
Ronan Bouroullec - Triptyque
bilingual edition (English / French)
Éditions 7L & Villa Noailles
Ronan Bouroullec's first comprehensive monograph, bringing together his drawings, sculptures and ceramics, and design objects and projects.
Ingo Giezendanner - Mille Feuilles
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Nieves
Ingo Giezendanner's wild herbarium.
Éléonore False - Ensembles
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
First monograph.
Tomaso Binga - Euforia
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
This monograph explores the work and the artistic activities of Italian radical performer, poet, visual artist and feminist Tomaso Binga through a specific lexicon, and also features a selection of her poems.
P L  S – The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
Issue 38 of the magazine of the Palais de Tokyo calls upon ancestries, be they intimate or political, transgenerational and historical, human or more-than-human, symbolic or material.
Jean-Christophe Thomas - Diabolus in Musica - 2008-2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Maison ONA
Jean-Christophe Thomas analyzes François Bayle's complete work in 52 recurring features (book augmented with 151 sound examples to download).
Rene Ricard - Love Poems
bilingual edition (English / French)
Editions Lutanie
Three long poems by American writer, artist and actor Rene Ricard (1946-2014), an icon of the New York underground in the 1970s, accompanied by a series of drawings by American painter Robert Hawkins.
Cally Spooner - Sweat Shame Etc.
English edition
Lenz Press
Across objects, writing, sound and choreography, British artist Cally Spooner addresses the manners in which specific technological and financial conditions shape and organize life. This volume surveys her artistic output of the last five years.
Jacques Villeglé - STAR
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Vallois
Catalog conceived as a tribute to Jacques Villeglé's insatiable curiosity, exploring his relationship with the world of entertainment (cinema, dance, theater and music) from the 1950s to the end of his career, with texts by Julie Chaizemartin, Emma Lavigne, and Jeff Mills.
Jan Kinsbergen - Plates
English edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
A visual, experimental research on the architectonic potential of the horizontal surface in building processes.
Composite
bilingual edition (English / French)
Composite
The fifth issue of the annual graphic design journal, dedicated to image and print techniques.
JTM - Pour que tu m\'aimes encore
bilingual edition (English / French)
JTM
Pli - JTM
This first issue of the annual magazine on architecture, scenography and design brings together designers and artists whose approach is anchored in their perception and emotions. Featuring GGSV, Formafantasma, Atelier Senzu, Flora Fishbach, Romain Brau, Bunker Palace, Pinaffo & Pluvinage, Atelier blam, Xolo Cuintle, etc.
Chris Dorley Brown - A History of the East End
bilingual edition (English / French)
Nouveau Palais
Four decades of urban change in London's East End: a comprehensive retrospective of the British photographer's documentation work since the 1980s.
Toilet Paper - Calendar 2025
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Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
The 2025 Toilet Paper wall calendar.
Jérôme Zonder - Drawings 2013-2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
United Dead Artists
A chronological dive into a decade of production from one of the major representatives of contemporary drawing, with over 500 images and an essay by Catherine Francblin.
Toilet Paper - ToiletAlex PaperPrager
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Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
ToiletAlex PaperPrager is the new edition of Toilet Paper magazine, born from a collaboration with american artist Alex Prager: a vibrant dialogue between visionary minds, where the ironic style of Toilet Paper meets the dark humor of Alex Prager, a parade of familiar yet strange images, suggesting a timeless world placed somewhere between dream and reality.
Uno Kuniichi - Artaud pensée et corps
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A specialist in French philosophy and literature, and a key intermediary in Japan for the work of Deleuze and Guattari, Artaud, Beckett and Genet, Uno Kuniichi publishes in French his fundamental text on Antonin Artaud, a revised, recomposed and expanded version of his thesis, written under the direction of Gilles Deleuze in 1980.
S. M. Eisenstein - Cinématisme - Peinture et cinéma
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
A selection of Eisenstein's writings (new expanded edition).
Vilém Flusser - Vampyroteuthis infernalis
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
The new and definitive edition of Vilém Flusser's fabulous treatise, based on the original French typescripts.
Jessica Russell - Architecture / Astrologie
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Artist Dan Graham and writer Jessica Russell's playful Architecture / Astrologie considers some of the most important and innovative figures in the world of architecture from an angle few would expect: their star signs.
Nadia Vadori-Gauthier - Une minute de danse par jour - 2015-2025 – Dix ans d\'une œuvre pour notre temps
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Gestes
One minute of dance a day for a decade: a look back at choreographer Nadia Vadori-Gauthier's daily act of poetic resistance, on the edge of situated dance, philosophy and performance.
Paysages mouvants
French edition
Jeu de Paume
A collective story that recounts the history of the representation of natural landscapes and the imaginations that accompany them.
L\'Art dans la vie - Le constructivisme soviétique dans les textes
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
An anthology of the constructivist movement, bringing together newly translated or previously unpublished writings by artists and theorists, accompanied by numerous illustrations and an extensive critical apparatus: this reference volume sheds new light on the multiplicity and diversity of the approaches of constructivism and productivism in the 1920s-30, and provides a major contribution to the studies of the Soviet avant-garde.
Griselda Pollock - Féminisme et pédagogie au cœur des formations artistiques - 40 ans d\'expérience
French edition
Villa Arson
Two lectures from art historian and curator Griselda Pollock address feminist questions and art education in the 1980s and today.
Anna Colin - Espaces pédagogiques alternatifs - De l\'utopie à l\'institutionnalisation
French edition
Villa Arson
A critical exploration of the values and qualities inherent in independent educational organizations and the hurdles in the way of remaining "alternative" with the passing of time.
Aline Wiame - Revenir d\'entre les morts - Deleuze et la croyance en ce monde au cinéma et dans les séries
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
A very personal essay that provides a clear introduction to Gilles Deleuze's thinking through his relationship with cinema, seen as a field of experimentation (existential, conceptual and aesthetic) to resist death, disaster and the stupefaction produced by the “modern fact”.
Alain Gunst - Pourquoi peindre
French edition
Lenka lente
Without ever giving a lesson in painting, Alain Gunst lists 32 reasons for painting that, “bad” or “not so bad”, take malicious pleasure in mocking an art world.
Ida Soulard - Les abstractions concrètes d\'Anni Albers (1899-1994) - Une histoire textile de la modernité
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
A wide-ranging study of the visual and theoretical practice of Anni Albers, a pivotal figure between two continents and two modernities, as part of a general history of art, design and textile production in the European and American women's avant-gardes.
Élisée Reclus - Abécédaire Reclus - Les 101 mots d\'Élisée
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A glossary of themes running through the work of Élisée Reclus (1830-1905), reflecting the contemporary relevance and diversity of the anarchist geographer's thought.
Jean-Jacques Lebel - Front Unique - La traversée du surréalisme de Jean-Jacques Lebel
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
This book recounts Jean-Jacques Lebel's long and tumultuous passage through the powerful laboratory of ideas and experiments of surrealism that was the journal Front Unique (1955-1960), which heralded and sometimes prefigured his future protean activities in the fields of art, poetry and militancy (anticolonial and libertarian).
Décor - Contrefeu
French edition
Décor
ENSAD (École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris)
The fourth issue of the annual review of the École des Arts Décoratifs takes as its starting point the observation of an incandescent and damaged world, unequal and inhospitable, which can only arouse concern and anger in new generations.
Alexandre Chèvremont - Donner lieu au son
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A philosophical reflection on the place of sound, from musical aesthetics to sound habitat, at the crossroads of sound, music and technology studies, and phenomenology.
Temps naissant - Un glossaire pour le XXIe siècle
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century.
Nicolas Trembley - My Craft - Entretien avec Véronique Bacchetta sur l\'exposition, l\'artisanat, l\'art, les hiérarchies culturelles et les typologies
French edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
A look back at all Nicolas Trembley's exhibitions over the past 10 years, the cross-fertilization of art and craft, and the various references he has used, both Western and Eastern.
Pierre Guyotat - La parole visible
French edition
Diaphanes
Architect Patrick Bouchain's reading of the work and his friendship with Pierre Guyotat, as well as an analysis by Bouchain and numerous members of Guyotat's creative community of the power of the alliance between vision and word, image and poem, in the author's work.
Joëlle Léandre - Joëlle Léandre versus Julien Blaine
French edition
Frac Franche-Comté - Sound Houses Series
A dialogue between two avant-garde figures, one poetic, the other musical.
Derek Jarman -
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A tribute to Derek Jarman manifold and vital practice.
Revue & Corrigée
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Farida Amadou & Martina Berther; Cécile Babiole; LUFF 2024; Fuji|||||||||||ta; Emmanuelle Tornero; Clément Vercelletto; Donald Miller (1958-2024); Sophie Agnel; Annick Nozati & Daunik Lazro...
Christian Laurella - Détours - Sur les routes d\'Europe avec Chet Baker, Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Archie Shepp, McCoy Tyner, Ahmad Jamal, Jaco Pastorius, Tony Williams, James Carter...
French edition
Lenka lente
Christian Laurella, writer and tour manager ("orchestra conductor", as Ahmad Jamal puts it), recalls his European tours with the greatest figures in American jazz—Chet Baker, Archie Shepp, Tony Williams, Jaco Pastorius, etc.
Marc Ribot - Jusqu\'à la corde
French edition
Lenka lente
An essential guitarist for over forty years, and an enlightened partner to John Zorn, Tom Waits and John Lurie, Marc Ribot composes here, through memories, short stories and essays, a self-portrait of rare originality.
Louis Ucciani - Essais d\'esthétiques new-yorkaises
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
A philosopher's journey into the heart of New York artistic life.
Festina Lente
French edition
Festina Lente
The second issue of the biannual magazine that extends and broadens the questions raised by the thematic program of La Criée art center in Rennes, imagining forms of resistance and alternatives to the various crises—ecological, as well as post-colonial, political and social—that punctuate and shape our globalised societies.
Artistes typographes
French edition
Tombolo Presses
A visual corpus that brings together one hundred and thirty-two artists' books collected and reproduced as part of an artistic residency conducted at the Centre des livres d'artistes (Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche).
Christophe Lemaitre - A letter
French edition
Tombolo Presses
An adaptation of the eponymous Christophe Lemaitre's film: a hypothesis, that of language considered as a parasite for the bodies which give birth to it.
Gabriel Mattei - Witloof & Witty
French edition
Les commissaires anonymes - Portées
A booklet containing two musical pieces by artist Grégoire Motte and composer Gabriel Mattei.
Nils Bertho - Passion Chevals - Calendrier 2025
French edition
Lendroit éditions
The indispensable equine calendar by Nils Bertho, illustrator allergic to horses.
Véronique Goël - Films et installations, 1979-2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Cinétisme
First monograph, documenting the filmmaker's work as a whole, at the intersection of independent cinema, contemporary art, photography and installation.
Fred Moten - Les sous-communs - Planification fugitive et étude noire
French edition
Brook
A political and aesthetic critique of racial capitalism and modes of social experimentation in the form of resistance to the colonial commons.
Joseph Mitchell - Le Merveilleux saloon de McSorley - Récits New-yorkais
French edition
Diaphanes - Literature
Collection of portraits published between 1938 and 1955 in the New Yorker by one of the pioneer of New Journalism: a literary painting of a New York that no longer exists.
Luvah - Mode
French edition
Luvah
The cross-generational literary journal Luvah continues its comeback with an eclectic mix of fashion-related offerings.
Vincent Menu - L\'érosion
French edition
Vroum - Editions
A poster-book based on a photograph by Vincent Menu and a protocol by Garance Dor.
Mouvement
French edition
Mouvement
Assisted suicide activists; Lebanon under the bombs; activism at the museum; Laurène Marx; prison life at Les Baumettes in Marseille; in the poetry of Laura Vazquez...
Franco Berardi - Respirer - Chaos et poésie
French edition
CAPC
The increasingly chaotic rhythm of our respiration, and the sense of suffocation that grows everywhere: an essay on poetical therapy.
Olivier Berggruen - Formes du désir - Une brève histoire de la collection d\'art
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
This history of art collecting traces a multiplicity of aesthetic attitudes through the prism of certain key figures in the history of taste. Over the course of the chapters, we discover how art collecting reflects—or responds to—an individual's character.
Gilles Perraudin - Trilogie - Trois architectures en pierre
French edition
Avenir radieux
As part of a series of publications on singular architectural bodies of work, this volume focuses on three stone projects by Gilles Perraudin, an advocate of the renewed use of this material.
Jean-Patrick Fortin - Trilogie - Architectures modernes à Caprino Veronese
French edition
Avenir radieux
Journalist Olivier Namias and photographer Luc Boegly combine their views of the work carried out between 1970 and 2008 by architect Jean-Patrick Fortin (a villa, a pharmacy and a townhouse) in the Italian commune of Caprino Veronese.
EKES (EarthKeeping EarthShaking) - Sonder les droits de la Terre
French edition
ESAD Reims (Reims School of Art and Design)
This collective publication explores the question of Earth rights through the interdisciplinary prism of socio-environmental humanities in relation to contemporary art.
 Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber - Sakae Osugi – Anarchiste japonais - Ville de St-Denis 1923
French edition
Nouveau Palais
Photographic drift in Saint-Denis in the footsteps of the ghost of Osugi Sakae, Japanese anarchist-activist who would have held a speech there 100 years ago. A way for artists to put the urban reality of le Grand Paris under pressure.
Marc Hurtado - De cœur à cœur
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A large survey of Marc Hurtado's cinematographic, musical, poetic and plastic work, with texts by some thirty authors, artists, critics, poets and musicians from all over the world (Lydia Lunch, Pascal Comelade, Nicolas Ballet, F.J. Ossang, Kris Needs, Nick Soulsby, Nicole Brenez, Vincent Deville, Romain Perrot, Alexandre Breton, Marie Möör...).
Morgan Labar - La gloire de la bêtise - Régression et superficialités dans les arts depuis la fin des années 1980
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Œuvres en sociétés
A history of stupidity (deliberate and sometimes even claimed), regression and superficiality in the arts.
En quête d\'images - Écritures sensibles en recherche-création
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
An epistemological reflection on sensitive forms of research writing at the crossroads of art, design, anthropology and ergonomics, based on singular inquiry-creation projects.
Azimuts - Utilisation de l\'intelligence artificielle en art et en design
French edition
Azimuts
How AI can be used in the creative process in art and design.
Jehanne Denogent - Palimpsestes africains - Primitivisme littéraire et avant-gardes (Paris, 1901-1924)
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Œuvres en sociétés
The notion of primitivism rethought to highlight the role of the African referent in the development of the artistic and literary avant-garde in Europe.
Jill Johnston - JJ - Tartine-moi et autres textes
French edition
Brook
JJ brings together articles by cultural critic, auto/biographer, and lesbian icon Jill Johnston (1929-2010), translated into French for the first time, as well as texts, poems and drawings by Pauline L. Boulba, Aminata Labor, Nina Kennel and Rosanna Puyol.
Cecilia Pavón - Bonbons à l\'anis
French edition
Brook
The first collection of texts published in French by the Argentinian artist and poet.
Yaël Kreplak - Les réserves des musées - Écologies des collections
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Using an interdisciplinary approach inspired by science and technology studies, and combining museological and sociological perspectives, this groundbreaking study of museum storerooms sheds new light on the world of art and cultural heritage conservation.
Lieux et milieux des arts vivants - Performer l\'institution
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
A polyphonic approach to the emergence, since the 2000s, of new institutional forms dedicated to performative artistic practices.
Vertiges des temps - Dialogue entre l\'art contemporain et l\'archéologie
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A collective exploration of the relationship between contemporary art and archeology.
Soldes
French edition
Soldes Almanac
An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.
Léon Bloy - Revenantes (book + CD)
French edition
Lenka lente
Two revenant stories by Léon Bloy (1846-1917), with music by Nurse With Wound.
We Will Survive - Le mouvement prepper
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
A collective reflection on the ability of objects and design to contribute to survival and protection against disasters, based on an examination of the phenomenon of “preppers” (also available in English edition).
Arts, écologies, transitions - Un abécédaire
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An "ABC of the arts in transition" examining the ecological turn of the arts, the outcome of long-term collective research into the fundamental elements running through the art world and, more generally, the aesthetic and social universe in the current ecological crisis.
Griselda Pollock - Maîtresses d\'autrefois - Femmes, art et idéologie
French edition
JRP|Editions - Lectures Maison Rouge
Parker and Pollock's seminal volume of feminist art history.
Construire un Matrimoine de la BD - Créations, mobilisations et transmissions des femmes dans le neuvième art, en Europe et en Amérique
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
The first scientific work to trace the history of female comic strip creators, for the (re)valorization of women's heritage.
Andrew Barker - La typographie des Penguin Classics
French edition
Bureau Brut
The most comprehensive case study ever written on the crucial subject of text typography, by one of the major representatives of this discipline.
Michael Bierut - Direct, accessible et futé
French edition
Bureau Brut
Twelve articles by Michael Bierut, translated into French and annotated, complemented by a selection of his most emblematic projects.
twen [1959–1971]
French edition
Bureau Brut
A spectacular insight into the work of art director Willy Fleckhaus for the German magazine twen, which in the 1960s was arguably the world's most influential magazine in terms of visual daring and graphic innovation, and remains an essential reference for many contemporary practitioners.
Stéphane Darricau - De quoi Garamond est-il le nom ?
French edition
Bureau Brut
This essay examines and explains the history of the most famous classic typeface and its many modern and contemporary incarnations.
Pauline Picot - Permettez-moi de palpiter
French edition
Vroum - Editions
50 poems by Pauline Picot, autobiographical fragments that also reflect the daily lives of those around her.
Charles Pennequin - Dedans
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Reissue of Charles Pennequin's first book, a lengthy text in which the author's writing is characterized by obsessive repetition, a breathless rhythm, a combination of introspective movement and prosaic elements, and a staging of proferation.
Robert Cantarella - Les Carrossiers
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Frédéric Neyrat - Impossessions primitives / L\'Anti-Terre
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
In this tête-bêche book, Amandine André's Impossessions primitives, a text identifiable as poetic, meets philosopher Frédéric Neyrat's L'Anti-Terre, singularly opening up the field of possibilities and thought.
Laurent Marissal - Portrait d\'un terroriste en amateur d\'art
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
Conversation on art, real and imaginary, in 13 tableaux between ex-Action directe member Jann-Marc Rouillan and painter Laurent Marissal.
Cyrille Bret - Cynanthropie
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
This book takes the domestic dog as an affective standard, a practical horizon and an index of a moral economy specific to the capitalocene.
Benjamin Fouché - Merveilles du monde
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Inducing daydreams, walking under hypnosis, thwarting curfews.
Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc - Variations Fassbinder - Images d\'Allemagne, désirs de cinéma
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
A philosophico-cinematographic journey through Fassbinder's filmic oeuvre, from the avant-garde daring of 1968 to the fallout of the leaden years ten years later.
Servin Bergeret - Iris Clert - singulièrement galeriste
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fama
This monographic essay explores Iris Clert, an unclassifiable and emblematic figure of the 1960s artistic avant-garde.
Gilles Perraudin - Les jours sont ronds
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Essays
The story/manifesto of an architect's life: a re-reading of Gilles Perraudin's career by himself, enabling us to retrace the path of a thought in perpetual motion.
Anne-Marie Minella - Les artistes et le textile
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
restocking in progress
currently out of stock
An overview of the use of textile in contemporary visual arts around the world.
Pierre Schaeffer - À la recherche de Pierre Schaeffer - Portrait(s)
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A vast selection of theoretical, philosophical and literary writings by Pierre Schaeffer, accompanied by testimonies of various personalities, providing a privileged entry into the multidimensional universe of the composer, engineer, theorist and radio man, whose tutelary shadow is constantly cast on the landscape of sound creation.
Strange Design
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
A history of critical design in four episodes: the Italian radical design of the late 1970s; the Dutch conceptual design of the 1990s; the English critical design of the 2000s, and the contemporary scene (with contributions by Bless, Didier Faustino, Alessandro Mendini, Gianni Pettena…).
Akasegawa Genpei - Anatomie du Tomason
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Délashiné!
The first French translation of the texts of the Japanese artist and writer Akasegawa Genpei (Katsuhiko Akasegawa, aka Otsuji Katsuhiko, 1937-2014), a figure of the Tokyo avant-garde of the 1960s, on the concept of Tomason, with a rich iconography.
Edward J. Sullivan - Modernités américaines (1910-1960)
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An audacious account of the ways in which the arts in the Americas were modernized during the first half of the 20th century.
Ârash Aminian Tabrizi - Sexpositions
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
A series of exchanges relating to questions of gender, sexual difference and sexualities, enabling not only a rereading of Jean-Luc Nancy's corpus and its developments through the prism of what Nancy has called sexistence, but also the reinscription of the elaboration of this concept in a web of biographical elements and, hence, an exploration of the philosopher's actual sexistence.
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