Criticism, theory & documents

Different perspectives (art history, philosophy, photography, film, architecture, history of science...) on the heterogeneous forms the discourse of pictures can take (an anthology).

An interdisciplinary reflection on the new figures of subjectivity in the digital age.

Reflecting upon the necessary conditions for the development of the New Patrons Protocol, the French conceptual artist calls for a better involvement of museums as well as for an art history that would relate creative processes with political conditions.

Reflecting upon the necessary conditions for the development of the New Patrons Protocol, the French conceptual artist calls for a better involvement of museums as well as for an art history that would relate creative processes with political conditions.

Crossing perspectives on living among screens.

The AICA France Art Criticism Prize: a retrospective catalogue (2013-2015)

The political dimension of Visual Studies, between Francophone and Anglo-American studies.

The aesthetic and functions of the mirror in contemporary art.

The great Brazilian critic Mário Pedrosa (1900-1981)'s farewell to art criticism, written to his countrymen in the manner of Montesquieu's Persian Letters.

The concept of time in art history.

Fourth and final volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on painting, sculpture, installation, and architecture.

A collection of interviews with artists and curators.

A collective work bringing together thirty contributors, based on an experimental research project conducted with artists and theoreticians (philosophers, sociologists, historians, scientists...) around the question of the formats of art, a forgotten yet decisive issue that crosses contemporary artistic practices in depth.

A montage of theoretical and speculative texts, conversations, fictions, and documents exploring different tactics of production and intellectual exchange that operate in the interstices between artistic, educational, and political contexts, and imagine novel institutional forms.

First French translation of the two famous essays in which Jack Burnham draws the profile of an “aesthetic systems.”

An interdisciplinary reflection on the new figures of subjectivity in the digital age.

How the impact of code on everyday life has become comparable to that of speech and writing.

A reflection on the domination of the software industry on our use of computers, which calls for a stimulating reinterpretation of materialism.

A unique multidisciplinary approach to Visual Studies.

The return of the anthropological question has completely redesigned the issues of representation. A state of play.

Third volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on photography, film, video, and new media.

A questionnaire (interviews with international artists, architects, and curators of the contemporary art world, such as John Baldessari, Suzanne Cotter, Bice Curiger, Chris Dercon, Charles Esche, Liam Gillick, Jacques Herzog, Thomas Hirschhorn, Rem Koolhaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Thierry Raspail, Beatrix Ruf, etc.).

Czech artists of the 1960s–1970s.

One hundred texts on art by René Denizot.

An innovative analysis of our relationship to the image.

An epistemology of performance.

A “memorial” consisting of testimonies and interviews with friends, models, collaborators, and specialists of Robert Mapplethorpe (Pierre Apraxine, Pierre Bergé, Germano Celant, Lucinda Childs, Marcus Leatherdale, Richard Marshall, Bettina Rheims...).

Second volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on performance and performativity.

An anthology: selected criticism, essays, interviews, and curatorial projects, since 1986-2012.

Questioning neoliberalism: a collection of Jeff Derksen's writings on art, architecture, and globalism.

An epistemology of performance (also available in English edition).

An historical and theoretical investigation into art teaching and transmission.

A collection of previously unpublished or revised texts by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn (1992-2012).

A study of the work of Olivier Mosset in 46 chapters.

A multidisciplinary reflection on a new type of engagement of art in democracy, renewing relationships between creation, culture and society: 47 contributions by international thinkers and actors of the art world (with 9 movies on DVD).

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.

First monographic book on the unique work of Korean-American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982), at the crossroads of performance, of conceptual art, of video and of poetry.

The law after the dematerialization of the artwork: a legal perspective on contemporary art.

An anthology (1975-2000).

Igor Zabel's writings.

The legendary life of Maurizio Cattelan: a fictional biography of which the artist himself is the biographer.

The legendary life of Maurizio Cattelan: a fictional biography of which the artist himself is the biographer.

A biographical approach to Gerhard Richter's work.

A biographical approach to Gerhard Richter's work.

The story of objectivity, by two of the greatest historians of science today.

A sociological approach to new practices in public art commissioning.

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).