Essay.

Les enjeux du procédé créatif de Francis Picabia, entre exaltation et rejet du moi, au cœur de la constitution de la modernité.

En renouant le dialogue avec l'anthropologie, ce livre invite l'histoire des sciences à se refonder sur d'autres bases, plus humanistes.

Une étude du dispositif d'exposition du diorama aux Etats-Unis au début du XXe siècle, entre art, anthropologie et sciences naturelles.

The development of spatial and tridimensional drawing in American art, both in theory and in practice, from the 1960s through the 1970s.

A transdisciplinary study that sheds new light on the birth of modern architecture in France through its relations with the printed text, vector of the diffusion of the architectural ideal at the scale of the nation, and the emergence of the public sphere between the end of the 17th century and the French Revolution.

Hans Hartung and the cinema.

An anthology.

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

Jean Laude's writings on art.

Première édition française d'un manifeste essentiel de l'art moderne écrit par l'écrivain, poète et journaliste russe Ilya Ehrenbourg en 1921, caractérisé par le soin apporté à sa mise en page autant que par le regard singulier porté par son auteur sur le cours de l'art de son temps et l'espoir d'une union entre les créateurs du monde entier, livrant une réflexion originale sur les rapports entre art et politique.

A pioneering approach to the history of emotions.

Conceived around an anthropology of the object, this book proposes to follow the course of royal objects of Abomey, former capital of the pre-colonial Kingdom of Dahomey (in present-day Benin).

This book traces the career of Kara Walker (born in 1969), the most internationally recognized African-American artist since Jean-Michel Basquiat, and explores the history of the reception of a work that faces the limits of representation, challenging the question of the figuration of the black body.

Can the modern uses of prehistory shed new light on the modern experience of time and, thus, the art of this period?

A critical look at the place and stakes of representations of the war of independence in the contemporary construction of the French and Algerian art scene.

Jean Dubuffet, Art Brut, and the primitivist paradigm.

The historical-memorial narrative in comics, from Art Spiegelman to Marjane Satrapi, as a new form of representation of History, between individual and collective memory.

French art historian Anne Lafont delivers an unpublished study on the close and paradoxical relations of art and race in the Enlightenment. A new voice in current works on issues of race, art, images and colonization.

A critical examination of the relationship between aesthetics and politics through the iconic figure of Carla Lonzi (1931-1982), an innovative art critic and one of the founders of neo-feminism in Italy.

An investigation into the artistic and political issues of participatory art since the 1990s.

Le récit d'une enquête sur le Paysage du Jura, tableau inédit et mystérieux de Gustave Courbet, qui propose une nouvelle introduction aux paysages du peintre.