Criticism, theory & documents

A new model of action to invent new modes of art production and exchange by establishing a direct dialogue between the artist, the citizen-commissioner and the cultural mediator, outside the museum and apart from the art market (available in English edition).

A portrait of the great Ukrainian photographer based on a film on Boris Mikhailov by David Teboul.

The unknown and disregarded literary arts of sixteenth century England (graffiti, tatoos, writing on clothes or ceramics...): a startling new perspective of early modern literature and cultural history.

An essay based on a group exhibition conceived by French philosopher and writer Gilles A. Tiberghien.

An anthology of reference texts published in the German magazine "Texte Zur Kunst" between 1990 and 1998.

The first artistic perspective on prehistoric art through the rigorous study of its formal conventions and stylistic developments.

French translation of Manovich's major book The Language of New Media, the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media.

Interviews with 10 Italian curators.

First translation in French of the study on American beaver by a pioneer of ethology and anthropology in the US, an avant-garde and surprisingly relevant work in an age of global ecological crisis.

A critical anthology (texts and interviews on/with Christian Boltanski, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Paul McCarthy, Douglas Gordon, Glenn Ligon, Pipilotti Rist, John Baldessari, Florence Lazar, Bruce Nauman, Bruno Peinado, Michel Kireger, Delphine Reist, Karina Bisch, Guy de Cointet, Larry Bell...).

A collection of texts examining issues and practices of documentation in contemporary visual arts.

An anthology of texts by philosophers, theoricians and art historians (H. Belting, H. Bredekamp, G. Didi-Huberman, J.-L. Nancy, W.J.T. Mitchell...) around the specific logic of the image and the transformation of the contemporary visual field.

12 conversations with theoreticians and activists critically engaged in the cultural field, exploring Cultural Studies and raising issues of postcolonialism, globalization, and activism.

The collection of texts on contemporary art by Jean-Christophe Ammann.

An erotic history of art, from the figure of Pygmalion.

The bestseller publication dedicated to pioneering curators and presents a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Digital technologies and interactivity in the artistic field, in an historic and experimental perspective (new edition).

First translation in French of a major work by British social anthropologist.

The central role of female body in the history of anatomy, beyond the historiographical "taboo" around the religious prohibition.

A collection of texts on contemporary experimental practices in art.

An essay / manifesto to reconsider the objectivity of the sensations provided by artworks, and to reconsider contemporary art in itself rather than as a genre, alongside modern and classical art.

A collection of texts.

An imaginary encounter between Robert Smithson and Andy Warhol, talking about entropy, glamour, science-fiction, cinema, and the art of their times.

A collection of texts and interviews by the art critic and independant curator (John Armleder, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Guy Debord, Jean-Luc Godard, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Michel Houellebecq, Pierre Huyghe, Jacques Lacan, Jean-François Lyotard, Olivier Mosset, Philippe Parreno, Andy Warhol...).

The art of postproduction as a response to the proliferating chaos of global culture in the information age (also available in English edition).

A collection of essays on ten contemporary artists (Peinado, Achour, Sala, Cattelan, Huyghe, Scanlan, Trouvé, Bublex).

Collection of interview and essays (Parrino, Morris, Armleder, Veilhan, Walsh, Mosset, Gygi, Miller...).

A collection of texts and interviews of artists, musicians and art critics (Kim Gordon, Mike Kelley, Christian Marclay, John Miller, Bob Nickas...) based on the relationship between art, "rock" music and culture in the largest sense of the word.

Relations between society and artists.

Those who spread their image over Internet, what do they want? And what do those who view them get out of it? Numerous are those who jumped on the bandwagon of the webcam, pushing its spectrum of video-surveillance and condemning it to voyeurism or exhibitionism. Far beyond the simplistic idea of opposing exhibitionist / voyeur, actor / spectator, active / passive, the webcam serves as a meeting point of exchanges, complicity, views of or relationships with others, what Nicolas Thély terms as "web-intimacy".

Texts and interviews by Eric Troncy.

Bob Nickas' writings.

Bob Nickas' writings (English edition).

Also available in English edition.

Thirty texts by Eric Troncy.

Cultural mediation in France.

This book examines the modes of execution in contemporary art from the viewpoint of production, by means of a series of eighteen interviews. It presents a plural and polyphonic thinking, bringing together the words of different participants concerned with the realisation of artworks and several generations of artists.

The current panoply of private initiatives in the museum world.

Artists' book history.

Nonprofit collective organizations in the 1960s-1970s.

The societal efficacy of art.

An analysis of some major contemporary works that challenge the traditional values of art.

Essays and interviews by the American curator and critic: a portrait of the American art scene over the last few decades.

An activist analysis of new transmission models in art teaching.

A compendium of texts containing famous exhibition case studies, involving some of the more thought-provoking artists, architects, and scientists of our time. A must-have for anyone interested in the unusual strategies of a curator-at-large.

A collection of interviews with artists and curators.

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.