Avant-gardes

Reprint of the first Dada anthology (Berlin, 1920), with Tzara's chronicles, manifests and documents.

An essay on Paul Tisseyre Ananké, the military officer in saharian French colonies and writer, which proposes a linguistic and biographic approach, accompanying the reedition of Ananké's book, denouncing the horrors of the French colonisation in Africa.

A new approach of Duchamp's keywords.

Art as actions : a collection of Martel's essays and articles since the eighties.

Fluxus special issue: texts by theoreticians and artists (Conz, Ucciani, Giroud, Donguy, Martel, Chopin, Heidsieck...), documents (Dupuy, Knowles, Ben, Williams...) .

Marcel Duchamp met Lydie Sarazin-Levassor at the end of March 1927. On 7 June, they were married. Francis Picabia acted as a witness and the ceremony was filmed by Man Ray. On 25 January 1928, they divorced. Lydie Sarazin-Levassor tells the story of their marriage, presents us with “her” Marcel, and relates her encounters with Jacques Doucet, Constantin Brancusi, Henri-Pierre Roché, Man Ray and Kiki de Montparnasse, Jean Cocteau, the Ballets Russes, the Duchamp family, Jean Crotti, Mary Rumsey, Katherine Dreier and Robert Desnos, and describes the atmosphere at the Villons' (in Puteaux, just outside Paris), the Picabias' (at Mougins, in the South of France) and the Sarazin-Levassors' (in Étretat, on the Normandy coast).

Marcel Duchamp “laid bare” by Marc Décimo who talks about the creative process in this essay on the father of conceptual art.

The correspondance between Otto Muehl and Erika Stocker forms an intense journal of Viennese actionism, and more particularly of the artist's work.

Otto Muehl was condemned to 7 years of prison in 1991. He exchanged letters with his family and friends, he painted.

The Fluxus anthology.

Bernard Réquichot is well enough known as a painter, but still unknown as a writer. This new posthumous publication of his writings reveals the singular vision of a recluse, close to Stirner.

The last document of the dadasopher of Berlin.

The funny though serious inventions of the thinker, poet, prophet and annagrammarian.

An unknown, rarely published writer who nevertheless sent shock waves into the 60s and 80s by constructing a text worthy of a great rhetoretician on the game of alliteration.

An essay on Duchamp's readings, and a systematic chart of his personnal library.

A monument for both linquists and writers.

A complete panorama of the astonishing personality of the unknown writer, grammarian, cosmologist and inventor.

A Fluxus journal.

The actionnist's autobiography.

This biography of Hermann Hesse by his friend Hugo Ball is one of the best exposés of his spiritual journeys, and also an approach of Ball's own fundamental themes

The anti-romanesque, a-metaphysical and theoretical Einstein's dadaist autobiography.

Reference catalogue that examines the notion of Art Brut in a time of new technologies. The first section of the volume features a selection of essays by specialists; the second and richly illustrated section introduces the works of 28 iconic or emerging artists.

Essays and interviews on 20th century avant-gardes in France (from Dada to sound poetry, avant-garde reviews, happenings and events, Fluxus, Raymond Hains, Jacques Villeglé, Gil J. Wolman, Camille Bryen...).

Filliou's catalogue raisonné.

The first critical edition treating a fundamental text by one of the principle actors of Fluxus.

Reprint of Kusama's porno-artistic tabloid of 1969.

Richard Huelsenbeck's En avant dada is his first proclamation of Dada in Berlin.

The first major study of the Japanese avant-garde collective emblematic of the post-war artistic revival, bringing together composers, visual artists, musicians, poets, critics and technicians who in the 1950s explored various forms of interdisciplinary collaboration, questioning the classical frameworks of artistic presentation, the relationships between sound and image, time and space.

A detailed overview and history of "ero-guro-nansense", an editorial, artistic and literary movement of iconoclastic and subversive magazines in Japan in the 1925-1930s, ancestor and precursor of the post-war Japanese underground.

A history of avant-garde photography in Japan in the 1950s-70s.