The autobiography, translated into French for the first time, of Ré Soupault (1901-1996), trained at the Bauhaus, photographer, filmmaker, stylist, writer and traveler, translator of Dada and Surrealism, major protagonist of European artistic, literary and intellectual life, and companion of the avant-garde throughout the 20th century.

A collective work examining fifty years of poetic activity by Bernard Heidsieck (1928-2014), a central figure in sound poetry and performance poetry, a major poet of the second half of the 20th century, along multiple axes.

A groundbreaking study on Wassily Kandinsky's relationship with the photographic image.

A vast collection of Ettore Sottsass's writings, edited by design historian Emanuele Quinz.

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 (also available in English edition).

A major study in art history in which Sophie Leclercq, drawing on and analyzing multiple sources, texts, and visual documents, sheds light on a blind spot in French colonialism: how, between 1870 and 1960, children were taught about colonial conquest through edifying imagery, and how their view of colonized populations was shaped?

A radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.

A seminal exploration into screens' crucial functions and profound impact on human culture.

The social, political, and anthropological implications of image production by machines, which permeate all spheres of existence and reconfigure the visible.

A cross-disciplinary and critical reflection on the philosophical stakes of so-called "artificial intelligence", from an epistemological, political and cultural point of view, beyond naive fascination and ignorant rejection.

A selection of René Berger's lectures and the proceedings of a symposium he had organized around art, technology and communication, offering a closer insight into his thinking on video art and new media.

D. N. Rodowick examines the complex relationships between contemporary art and cinema, around questions of movement, image, time, and history.

A monograph covering more than thirty years of creative work, MONO ICONO GRAPHIE traces the unique career of Delphine Coindet, an artist at the crossroads of sculpture, image, and text, offering for the first time an unprecedented overview, both critical and visual, of a major body of work.

A history of art in France from the women's perspective.

Performance in the United States as told by those who practiced and theorized it (texts by Al Hansen, Allan Kaprow, Anna Halprin, Carolee Schneemann, Emmett Williams, George Brecht, John Cage, Jonas Mekas, Robert Watts, Yvonne Rainer).

Performance in the United States as told by those who practiced and theorized it (texts by Carl Loeffler, Chris Burden, Claes Oldenburg, Jean Toche, Joan Jonas, Jon Hendricks, Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Vito Acconci, Wolf Vostell).

Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.

A comprehensive overview of the unique work of the Italian artist born in 1931.

In a collection of interviews given over a period of almost twenty years, a poet seeks to find out a little more about what he makes by confronting his practice with other arts (plastic, sound, scenic).

Interview with one of the great figures of art photography today, in which Sophie Ristelhueber reflects on her own carrer and practice.

The first volume of essays devoted to the work of Liliane Giraudon explores the diversity of her oeuvre, its interdisciplinarity but also its coherence, and enables us to understand what makes its strength and importance in the contemporary literary landscape.

Le Raï de l'homme approximatif, an invitation to an inner journey, an exploration of the meanders of the human soul, takes us on an existential odyssey where joys and sorrows mingle.

A retrospective of the striking scenographies designed by Nadia Lauro since the early 2000s, visual environments, fictional landscapes, disorienting architectures, and living sets that have played a pivotal role across the vibrant field of dance and performance in Europe.

The other side of images in cinema, between phenomenology, art history, literature and ecology.

A collection of texts and interviews, some previously unpublished, covering a period of almost 50 years, with rare illustrations.

Art and poetry in action as performative power.

This tribute book brings together one hundred and one voices from very diverse backgrounds (historians, artists, writers, philosophers, curators, professors, students, close friends and fellow travelers) to draw , through an inventory of friendship, a multidimensional portrait of Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, and bear witness to the community of intellectual friendship that she was able to create.

Artists' activity examined through the notion of reparation, from the interdisciplinary perspective of the living arts (theater, dance, performance, mediation, multiple practices).

A wide-ranging philosophical investigation into the origins and potential of "perspectivism", beyond mere relativism and subjective "interpretation".

A comprehensive overview of the work of Chantal Montellier, a comic-book pioneer and mentor to younger generations, highlighting the diversity, richness, and artistic qualities of an engaged and visionary body of work.

Vincent Broqua twists translation to vandalize literary classics in a sensual act, and expresses the wish for a gay ethic for our time. Queer beings are inventing alternative ways of holding their bodies together: Vincent Broqua expresses the wish for a gay ethic for our time.

Drawing on feminist criticism and gender studies, the Brazilian poet creates a counter-discourse in which poetic language becomes a place for questioning stereotypes and redefining feminine identities.

A long narrative poem punctuated by 12x2 drawings, a montage of statements and notations in which a poetess (fat and old) keeps a kind of diary in which the destruction of the private body is articulated to that of the social body.

Jean-Marie Gleize continues a poetic and narrative cycle initiated 35 years ago by composing variations on the inexhaustible and elusive theme of memory.

In this text-visual poem, Denise Le Dantec summons Rosa Luxemburg who, despite the violence, the multiple disappointments and the imprisonments, never ceased to believe in the necessity of emancipatory struggles.

The first book by Jacques-Henri Michot, which has remained unpublished, where we find all the writing techniques used in his subsequent works, with, as its main compass, writing as a weapon against barbarism.

The stock theatrical character Pierrot is an enduring figure in French visual art, where he emerges at the intersection of theatricality and the marketplace. This book offers an account of Pierrot's recurrence in painting, prints, photography and film, tracing this distinctive type from the art of Watteau to the cinema of Occupied France.

An autobiographical account and uncompromising meditation on the meaning of design, in the voice of the man who represented the ethical and political conscience of the discipline in the second half of the 20th century.

An unclassifiable classic, precursor of the “material turn” and of media theory, finally reissued.

Through the operative concept of literary and political extremism, this volume explores the links between the revolutionary aspirations of far-left socio-political movements and the quest for a new articulation between literature and reality in 1970s Italy, a dynamic exemplified by poet and novelist Nanni Balestrini (1935-2019).

A challenging study of contemporary theater in all its political dimensions.

Pictorial abstraction in the Middle Ages: an innovative reflection that offers a powerful cross-disciplinary approach to medieval art, under a completely rethought concept of abstraction in close contact with finely analyzed images.

The critical edition of the pioneering work on art history by Françoise d'Eaubonne (1920-2005), inventor of the concept of ecofeminism.