MAMCO

MAMCO's publishing activities are directly linked to the Museum's operations. Its main publication, an ongoing series of works devoted to various aspects of MAMCO's collection, provides a broad audience with insights into the Museum's holdings and the history of contemporary art. MAMCO also frequently publishes exhibition-specific literature offering more in-depth analyses. This includes books on specific topics as well as monographs prepared by MAMCO alone or in collaboration with various partners (such as public museums and independent publishers). A semiannual journal rounds out MAMCO's publications; it highlights the Museum's cultural programming, revisits select events and previews upcoming projects.
 
Geneva
 
115 titles
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Mamco Genève - 1994-2016
2017
French edition
This book is the first compilation of the history of the Mamco; it offers a diachronic path through the institution's first 22 years of existence, from its foundation in 1994 up to 2016, and presents some one hundred exhibitions via illustrations, as well as a brief introductory text describing the characteristics and formats of the shows, and some of traces they have left in the collection (also available in English).
Bernard Piffaretti - 1980-2016 - Reasonable catalog
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
The first major monograph on Piffaretti: a journey through contemporary painting.
Claude Rutault - Dé-finitions/méthodes - 1973-2016
2016
French edition
Collection of 657 “definitions/methods”—the emblematic pictorial statements first created by Claude Rutault in 1973.
Jean-Louis Boissier - L\'écran comme mobile
2016
French edition
The Futures of Screen: an aesthetic and technical analysis.
Max Schoendorff - Peintre avant tout - Entretien avec Jean-Paul Jungo, écrits, œuvres
2016
French edition
A portrait of painter Max Schoendorff through a long-lenght interview, a collection of writings and paintings, and a sketchbook.
Victor Burgin - Scripts
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Since 1993 Victor Burgin has produced projection works, in video or digital form. These works, like all his production since the early 1970s, include a substantial textual component which this book offers for appreciation independently of the images.
Marnie Weber - The Day of Forevermore - Synopsis, Script, Storyboard
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
A complete documentation on Marnie Weber's first feature film, a strange kind of carnival that emerges from the American cultural repressed.
Victor Burgin - Projectif - Essais sur l\'œuvre de Victor Burgin
2016
French edition
Essays about the work of Victor Burgin.
Thierry de Duve - Essais datés II - Adresses
2016
French edition
A second volume of essays by Thierry de Duve dedicated to the form of speech known as the address. Along with theoretical texts, the authors addresses prestigious interlocutors (Jacques-Alain Miller, Benjamin Buchloh, Marie-José Mondzain, Jean Clair, Jean-François Lyotard, Herman Parret, Mieke Bal, Daniel Arasse).
Robert Lebel - Le surréalisme comme essuie-glace, 1943-1984 - Œuvres complètes t. I
2016
French edition
A collection of texts by Robert Lebel on surrealism.
Isabelle Waldberg - Masque à lame
2015
French edition
A facsimile edition of a surrealist poem by Robert Lebel and originally published in 1943. Illustrated with seven constructions by artist Isabelle Waldberg.
David Lemaire - Alain Huck - La Symétrie du saule / The Symmetry of Willow
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
This book offers several thematic gateways to Alain Huck's work showing the persistence of the same autobiographic, environmental, historic and linguistic issues in a variety of mediums.
Robert Lebel - Sur Marcel Duchamp
2015
French edition
A facsimile edition of the first ever monograph dedicated to Marcel Duchamp and originally published in 1959. A complete introduction to his works and personality as well as a reflection on the artist's role in modern society. Graphic design by Marcel Duchamp. With texts by Duchamp, André Breton & Henri-Pierre Roché. Featuring a bibliography and a catalogue raisonné.
Claude Rutault - L\'Inventaire
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
The story of an iconic work by Claude Rutault.
Thierry Davila - Shadow Pieces (David Claerbout)
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
An innovative study of David Claerbout's work, following the shady—and dark—logic, until now never raised by critics, that structures many of his films with mineral duration and slowness, but also number of “invisible” photographs.
Jeux sérieux - Cinéma et art contemporains transforment l\'essai
2015
French edition
The cinematic essay thought as a hybrid form between fiction and documentary, cinema and contemporary art: a cartography of the contemporary cinematic essay in 47 critical texts written by filmmakers, artists, historians and art theoreticians.
Peter Hutchinson - Dissoudre les nuages
2014
French edition
Peter Hutchinson's writings.
Thomas Golsenne - Pascal Pinaud - Serial Painter
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Reference monograph / catalogue raisonné.
Victor Burgin - Projective - Essays about the work of Victor Burgin
2014
English edition
Essays about the work of Victor Burgin.
Thierry de Duve - Essais datés I - Duchampiana
2014
French edition
Thierry de Duve's writings on Marcel Duchamp.
Herbert Molderings - Duchamp traversé - Essais 1975-2012
2014
French edition
Seven essays about Marcel Duchamp's work.
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe - Ecrits sur l\'art
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
The posthumous collection of texts on art by the French philosopher.
Trop humain - Artistes des XXe et XXIe siècles devant la souffrance
2014
French edition
Representation of pain in the art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Yvan Salomone - Zoneblanche
2014
French edition
Six hundred watercolors realized by Yvan Salomone during the first fifteen years of his career (1991-2006).
Arnauld Pierre - Christian Floquet - Engager la peinture
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Reference monograph / first comprehensive critical tool dedicated to the work of Swiss abstract painter.
Jean-Max Colard - L\'exposition de mes rêves
2013
French edition
20.00 10.00 €
The collection of "critical dreams" made and transcribed by the art critic and curator Jean-Max Colard between 2005 and 2013, nocturnal side of his regular writing on art activity.
Retour d\'y voir - Une scène romande
2013
French edition
25.00 15.00 €
An overview of current research in the broader field of human sciences in Switzerland.
Érik Bullot - Sortir du cinéma - Histoire virtuelle des relations de l\'art et du cinéma
2013
French edition
A history of the relations between art and cinema.
Fabienne Radi - Ça prend - Art contemporain, cinéma et pop culture
2013
French edition
Chronicles, articles and essays on contemporary art, cinema, and pop culture.
Yves Bélorgey - Anthropologie dans l\'espace
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Yves Bélorgey's paintings and drawings, reflecting the central topic of the artist's work: a particular stage of modern architecture and the modern city, which Bélorgey sets out to rediscover, reinvent pictorially and record methodically.
Retour d\'y voir - Retraits de l\'artiste en Philippe Thomas
2012
French edition
22.00 15.00 €
The 5th issue of the art history magazine published by the Mamco, Geneva, is entirely dedicated to Philippe Thomas.
Henri-Pierre Roché - Correspondance - 1918-1959
2012
French edition
A unique testimony to Duchamp's personality, to his relationship to his friends and to his works, and to the slow reception of his works in France and in the U.S.
Michel Deutsch - Germania, tragédie et état d\'exception - Une introduction à l\'œuvre de Heiner Müller
2012
French edition
25.00 15.00 €
An introduction to the “work of resistance” of East German dramatist, poet, writer and essayist Heiner Müller.
Jean-Philippe Antoine - La traversée du XXe siècle - Joseph Beuys, l\'image et le souvenir
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First major monograph in French, fully illustrated, devoted to the key figure of Joseph Beuys, revealing the aesthetic ambition and political issues through a genealogy that retraces a whole part of the XXth century.
Thierry Davila - Natacha Lesueur - Surfaces, merveilles et caprices
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
First monograph on French artist-photographer Natacha Lesueur who develops a very coherent and personal work on the themes of the body, food, and the photographic image itself: a complete overview of a work both uncanny, disturbing and attractive, because seductive.
Joseph Masheck - Le Paradigme du tapis - Prolégomènes critiques à une théorie de la planéité
2011
French edition
The carpet paradigm: critical prolegomena to a theory of flatness (an original and stimulating analysis of an essential concept of modern art history).
Bernar Venet - La Conversion du regard - Textes et entretiens, 1975-2010
2011
French edition
Writings and discussions (new revised edition), with two texts by Thierry Kuntzel and Christian Besson.
Retour d\'y voir
2010
French edition
22.00 15.00 €
Second issue of the art history magazine published by the Mamco, Geneva.
Yvan Salomone - Le point d\'Ithaque - Cahiers 1991-2006
2010
French edition
32.00 20.00 €
A set of texts written by Salomone according to his artistic protocol: an unclassifiable literary work which extends a visual production, as a specific dimension of artistic representation.
Jean-Louis Boissier - La relation cmme forme - L\'interactivité en art
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
(last copies available!)
25.00 19.00 €
Digital technologies and interactivity in the artistic field, in an historic and experimental perspective (new edition).
Dominique Chateau - L\'art comptant pour un
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
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.
Retour d\'y voir
2008
French edition
(last copies available!)
First issue of the art history magazine published by the Mamco, Geneva.
Didier Semin - L\'Atlantique à la rame - Humeurs et digressions
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A collection of texts.
Bernard Piffaretti - Si vous avez manqué la première partie… - Fortune critique, écrits et entretiens, 1982-2007
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
22.00 15.00 €
Writings and interviews by (and around) one of the main actors of the return to painting.
Luc Tuymans - Doué pour la peinture - Conversations avec Jean-Paul Jungo
2006
French edition
currently out of stock
A reflexion on painting and image, and its artistic, philosophical, political aspects.
Christian Besson - Abductions – Treize essais sur des œuvres du temps présent - suivi de L\'œuvre et son interprétant
2006
French edition
25.00 10.00 €
13 monographical essays on contemporary works (Merz, Bart, Duprat, Verjux, Armleder, Fauguet, Honegger, Boeno, Spoerri, Morellet, Downsbrough, Saytour, Dezeuze).
Frédéric Roux - Copié/Collé - Magazine
2005
French edition
25.00 10.00 €
A "copy and paste" fiction.
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