Criticism, theory & documents

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Vertiges des temps - Dialogue entre l\'art contemporain et l\'archéologie
2024
French edition
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forthcoming
A collective exploration of the relationship between contemporary art and archeology.
Arts, écologies, transitions - Un abécédaire
2024
French edition
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forthcoming
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.
Anne-Marie Minella - Les artistes et le textile
2024
French edition
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forthcoming
An overview of the use of textile in contemporary visual arts around the world.
Objets à l\'état vif - Entre dynamiques sociales et pratiques artistiques
2024
French edition
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forthcoming
A collective reflection on the question of objects in artistic situations, at the crossroads of art history and theory, social sciences and artistic practices.
Out of the Grid - Italian Zine 1978-2006
2024
English edition
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Out of the Grid presents a critical selection of 100 Italian zines from 1978 to 2006 that display a broad spectrum of social, political, aesthetic, and technological changes in the use of language and communication strategies across the territory of self publishing.
Thierry Prat - Vivre dans leurs têtes - Entretiens avec Anne Bertrand
2023
French edition
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This book retraces Thierry Prat's career as a player and witness to the history of contemporary art in France for over forty years, through a series of interviews that highlight the main issues at stake.
Christine Bergé - L\'image en cours - Tarkovski Ristelhueber
2023
French edition
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A parallel dive into the images of filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky and photographer Sophie Ristelhueber.
François Hers - Opération - Nouveaux commanditaires
2023
French edition
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The protocol and the action of the New Patrons: the radical transformation of the conditions of emergence and appropriation of the art as political act.
Joan Mitchell - By her Friends
2023
English edition
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An intimate portrait of Joan Mitchell, one of the greatest American painters of the 20th century, through a collection of previously unpublished conversations with the artists, art historians and personalities closest to her, from Paul Auster to Zuka.
François Aubart - L\'attitude de la Pictures Generation - Excès, passion et manipulation
2023
French edition
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A study of the Pictures Generation that considers the feelings provoked by sensational images manipulated by these artists.
Marie Pellaton - Flore des friches urbaines
2022
French edition
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A new and expanded edition of the reference flora, the result of 20 years of studies and floristic surveys on a multitude of urban wastelands, allowing, through 600 photographs and 800 original drawings, to recognize and name some 300 silent plants that we come across every day: a methodical herbarium of the wastelands which constitutes a true guide to biodiversity, beautiful and playful, accessible and rigorous..
Travailler, lutter, diffuser - Archives militantes du Centre Grisélidis Réal de documentation internationale sur la prostitution, Genève
2022
French edition
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The first publication on the archive created by the Swiss writer, painter, activist and prostitute Grisélidis Réal (1929-2005) since the 1970s, containing more than 10,000 documents that trace the international mobilizations for the rights of sex workers and their struggles against exclusion and stigmatization.
Joan Mitchell - Témoignages et confidences
2022
French edition
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An intimate portrait of Joan Mitchell, one of the greatest American painters of the 20th century, through a collection of previously unpublished conversations with the artists, art historians and personalities closest to her, from Paul Auster to Zuka.
Bénédicte Ramade - Vers un art anthropocène - L\'art écologique américain pour prototype
2022
French edition
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The first study devoted to the American ecological art movement.
Jean-Loup Amselle - L\'art de la friche - Essai sur l\'art contemporain africain
2022
French edition
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An anthropologist's view of contemporary African creation.
Dominique Pasqualini - Du biface à l\'interface - Artefacts, affects, etc.
2022
French edition
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From the prehistoric biface to the telephone interface, whose lightning diffusion concretizes a new anthropological threshold for humanity: a theoretical articulation of current global issues from prehistory, thought as the privileged site where to rest the questions of the technique, the language and the image, between archaeology of the media, anthropology, geology, biology and science-fiction.
Dominique Pasqualini - Dummy Airbag Test - Essais en accidentologie bio-mécanique opto-électronique
2022
French edition
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Reissue of Volume A of Dominique Pasqualini's Editome, which explores the permanent state of testing of our lives and our relationship to technology.
Jean-Loup Amselle - L\'art de la friche - Essai sur l\'art contemporain africain
2022
French edition
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An anthropologist's view of contemporary African creation.
Comment devient-on créateur∙trice ?
2022
French edition
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A book to approach differently what is taught and learned in art and design college.
Valérie Da Costa - Paul Thek in Italy (1962-1976)
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
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An essay on the Italian period (1962-1976) of the American artist, never studied before although it has deeply influenced the imagination and the work of Paul Thek.
Benjamin Lavigne - Le Petit Surhomme des jeux vidéo et la gamification du monde - Éthique de la manipulation par l’interactivité ludique
2022
French edition
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The Nietzschean notion of superman and the very real effects of the virtual, the networks, the digital image and the video game in human interrelationships: a striking essay resulting from the posthumously defended thesis of Benjamin Lavigne (1981-2020), which draws up a singular, committed and rigorous critic of the technological foundations of contemporary society.
Benjamin Lavigne - Le Petit Surhomme des jeux vidéo et la gamification du monde - Éthique de la manipulation par l’interactivité ludique
2022
French edition
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The Nietzschean notion of superman and the very real effects of the virtual, the networks, the digital image and the video game in human interrelationships: a striking essay resulting from the posthumously defended thesis of Benjamin Lavigne (1981-2020), which draws up a singular, committed and rigorous critic of the technological foundations of contemporary society.
Roula Matar - L\'architecture selon Gordon Matta-Clark
2022
French edition
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The architectural proposals of Gordon Matta-Clark.
Laura Kurgan - Si loin, si proche - Cartographie, technologie et politique
2021
French edition
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An analysis of the spatial representations using new digital location and mapping technologies, in the light of the political issues that accompany their multiple interpretations.
Zaven Paré - Le spectacle anthropomorphique - Entre les singes et les robots
2021
French edition
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From the observation of a society of capuchin monkeys and thought experiments borrowed from theater, Zaven Paré, artist and researcher in interaction design, specialist in theater and robotics, attempts to dismantle the pitfalls of anthropomorphization, in an attention that seeks to preserve the irreducible character of an interspecific copresence.
Le phototexte engagé - Une culture visuelle du militantisme au XXe siècle
2021
French edition
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An original multidisciplinary study of the text-image pair in its political dimension, from the militancy of the early twentieth century to the struggles for "visibility" of minorities.
Valérie Mavridorakis - Siah Armajani, pragmatisme et anarchie (1957-1988)
2021
French edition
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An in-depth study of the elaboration of the functional architectures-sculptures of the American artist of Iranian origin Siah Armajani (1939-2020), between utopia and pragmatism, allegorizing as much the ideals as the contradictions of the American democracy before being dedicated to figures of the anarchy.
Myr Muratet - Manual of Urban Ecology
2021
English edition
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This manual provides the current state of knowledge on the functioning of nature in an urban environment: its ecology.
Walter Grasskamp - The Angel Vanishes - Profiles in Postmodern Art
2021
English edition
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Four decades of incisive writing about contemporary art, fired by enthusiasm and scepticism alike, by the eminent German cultural critic and commentator Walter Grasskamp (essays on Joseph Beuys, Hans Haacke, Duane Hanson, Jörg Immendorff, Axel Kasseböhmer, Alex Katz, Anselm Kiefer, Per Kirkeby, Karin Kneffel, Eduardo Paolozzi, Sigmar Polke, Markus Raetz, Gerhard Richter, Sarkis, Aldo Walker, Ben Willikens).
Tomáš Štrauss - Beyond the Great Divide - Essays on European avant gardes from East to West
2020
English edition
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The first English-language anthology of writings by the Slovak critic Tomáš Štrauss.
Jean-Marc Poinsot - Quand l\'œuvre a lieu - L\'art exposé et ses récits autorisés
2020
French edition
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An essay on art exhibition.
Nicolas Bourriaud - Relational Aesthetics
2020
English edition
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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.
Erin Manning - Le geste mineur
2019
French edition
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Erin Manning expands her research on movement politics to the concept of minor gesture.
Exhibiting in an Educational Field - LiveInYourHead 2009-2019
2019
texts in English and French
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This hybrid publication's starting point relies in ten years of activities of LiveInYourHead, Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD)'s exhibition space. Between a catalogue, an archive and a collective publication, this book explores the relationships between art education and curatorial knowledge.
Uncertain Patterns - Teaching and Learning Socially Engaged Art
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
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An overview of study programs teaching socially engaged art.
A pragmatic poetics - Reflections on the work of Franck Leibovici
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
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Art critic Rahma Khazam brings together a heterogeneous collection of authors offering a variety of interpretations on the work of artist and poet Franck Leibovici.
Stefan Banz - One Rock Upon Another - Marcel Duchamp, Jules Verne, Max Bill, Joseph Beuys, Fischli | Weiss, Ai Weiwei
2018
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
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Six essays dealing with still rarely discussed aspects of the work of Joseph Beuys, Max Bill, Fischli | Weiss and Ai Weiwei, but also Jules Verne, in their relationship with the various artistic concepts of Marcel Duchamp.
Robert Smithson - Mémoire et entropie
2018
French edition
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A synthesis of the multiple dimensions of the protean oeuvre of a legendary artist, which we measure today to what extent they find an echo in contemporary environmental, cinematographic, aesthetic and social issues.
Lee Yil - Dynamics of Expansion and Reduction - Selected Writings on Korean Contemporary Art
2018
English edition
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This book, the first major publication in English devoted to the Korean critic and art historian Lee Yil (1932-1997), is a collection of texts on aesthetics, theory and history of art by the main observer of “Dansaekhwa”, or Korean monochrome. It also brings together essays and monographic prefaces that gave wide coverage to artists who had been active from the end of the Korean war up until the mid-1990s.
Rwanda, 1994-2014 - Histoire, mémoires et récits
2017
French edition
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A transdisciplinary study on the Tutsi genocide, tackling various issues related to the writing and the transmission of the genocide's history, to its political and judicial dimensions, and to its media and artistic representations.
Jean-Philippe Antoine - Farces et Attrapes - Inventer les images
2017
French edition
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A collection of essays focusing on the notions of invention and image in art.
Entre élection et sélection - Le critique face à ses choix
2017
French edition
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Art criticism: historical approach and current practices
Reclaiming Art / Reshaping Democracy - The New Patrons & Participatory Art
2017
English edition
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Drawing on examples from France and the United States, this publication offers a multidisciplinary reflection on a new type of engagement of art in democracy, renewing relationships between creation, culture and society (adaptated from a French publication on the New Patrons's activities, updated with contributions from the Anglo-American intellectual scene).
Michel Gauthier - Le temps des intermèdes - Franz Ackermann, Sarah Morris, Didier Marcel, Franck Scurti, Hugues Reip, Xavier Veilhan, Mathieu Mercier, Simon Starling, Bojan Šarčević, Paul Sietsema
2017
French edition
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A collection of essays exploring the current contemporary art scene through the analysis of the works of ten artistic figures of the present days.
Anne Giffon-Selle - Les astronautes du dedans - L\'assemblage californien – 1950-1970
2017
French edition
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An history of assemblage art in California from 1950 to 1970.
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