MAMCO

Historical essays & contemporary archives

 
Ecart - Genève 1969-1982
2019
French edition
MAMCO
John Armleder, Fluxus and the Ecart group.
Maria Stavrinaki - Le sujet et le milieu - Huit essais sur les avant-gardes allemandes
2018
French edition
MAMCO
Eight essays on the German avant-gardes (Hugo Ball, Max Beckmann, Marcel Breuer, Franz Marc, Merzbau, Expressionnism, Dada…).
Érik Bullot - Le film et son double - Boniment, ventriloquie, performativité
2017
French edition
MAMCO
An investigation on the performative future of cinema, followed by two studies on Lettrist's cinema and on the end of the projectionist.
Jean-Philippe Antoine - Farces et Attrapes - Inventer les images
2017
French edition
MAMCO
A collection of essays focusing on the notions of invention and image in art.
Marjolaine Lévy - Les modernologues - David Diao, Simon Starling, Josiah McElheny, Martin Boyce, Lucy Williams, Farah Atassi
2017
French edition
MAMCO
Modern art heritage in the works of six major contemporary artists (David Diao, Simon Starling, Josiah McElheny, Martin Boyce, Lucy Williams et Farah Atassi).
Serge Margel - L\'autonomie de l\'œuvre d\'art - Logique des surfaces et avant-gardes
2017
French edition
MAMCO
An historical and theoretical study of the surface in the Western avant-gardes of the twentieth century.
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
MAMCO
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
MAMCO
An history of assemblage art in California from 1950 to 1970.
Yve-Alain Bois - La peinture comme modèle
2017
French edition
MAMCO
The first French translation of Yve-Alain Bois' reference study on modernism
Mamco Genève - 1994-2016
2017
French edition
MAMCO
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).
Jean-Louis Boissier - L\'écran comme mobile
2016
French edition
MAMCO
The Futures of Screen: an aesthetic and technical analysis.
Victor Burgin - Projectif - Essais sur l\'œuvre de Victor Burgin
2016
French edition
MAMCO
Essays about the work of Victor Burgin.
Thierry de Duve - Essais datés II - Adresses
2016
French edition
MAMCO
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
MAMCO
A collection of texts by Robert Lebel on surrealism.
Jeux sérieux - Cinéma et art contemporains transforment l\'essai
2015
French edition
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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.
Victor Burgin - Projective - Essays about the work of Victor Burgin
2014
English edition
MAMCO
Essays about the work of Victor Burgin.
Thierry de Duve - Essais datés I - Duchampiana
2014
French edition
MAMCO
Thierry de Duve's writings on Marcel Duchamp.
Herbert Molderings - Duchamp traversé - Essais 1975-2012
2014
French edition
MAMCO
Seven essays about Marcel Duchamp's work.
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe - Ecrits sur l\'art
2014
French edition
MAMCO
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
MAMCO
Representation of pain in the art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Jean-Max Colard - L\'exposition de mes rêves
2013
French edition
MAMCO
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.
Érik Bullot - Sortir du cinéma - Histoire virtuelle des relations de l\'art et du cinéma
2013
French edition
MAMCO
A history of the relations between art and cinema.
Fabienne Radi - Ça prend - Art contemporain, cinéma et pop culture
2013
French edition
MAMCO
Chronicles, articles and essays on contemporary art, cinema, and pop culture.
Michel Deutsch - Germania, tragédie et état d\'exception - Une introduction à l\'œuvre de Heiner Müller
2012
French edition
MAMCO
25.00 15.00 €
An introduction to the “work of resistance” of East German dramatist, poet, writer and essayist Heiner Müller.
Joseph Masheck - Le Paradigme du tapis - Prolégomènes critiques à une théorie de la planéité
2011
French edition
MAMCO
The carpet paradigm: critical prolegomena to a theory of flatness (an original and stimulating analysis of an essential concept of modern art history).
Jean-Louis Boissier - La relation cmme forme - L\'interactivité en art
2009
French edition
MAMCO
(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
MAMCO
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.
Didier Semin - L\'Atlantique à la rame - Humeurs et digressions
2008
French edition
MAMCO
A collection of texts.
Christian Besson - Abductions – Treize essais sur des œuvres du temps présent - suivi de L\'œuvre et son interprétant
2006
French edition
MAMCO
25.00 10.00 €
13 monographical essays on contemporary works (Merz, Bart, Duprat, Verjux, Armleder, Fauguet, Honegger, Boeno, Spoerri, Morellet, Downsbrough, Saytour, Dezeuze).
Michel Gauthier - L\'Anarchème
2002
French edition
MAMCO
24.00 10.00 €
A study on Elisabeth Ballet, Jessica Stockholder, Claude Rutault, Peter Downsbrough, Cécile Bart.
Didier Semin - Le Peintre et son modèle déposé
2001
French edition
MAMCO
An essay on conceptual art.
Maurice Pianzola - Partir à Pernambouc - Récit
1999
French edition
MAMCO
14.00 6.00 €
What canvases reveal to us is often beyond what we believe we understand. Like true false semblances, they subtley encourage us to turn away from them in order to engage ourselves in their hidden intrigues (where they often meet our own).
Montage - Une anthologie (1913-2018)
2018
French edition
MAMCO
sold out
An anthology of texts devoted to cinematographic editing (Eisenstein, Tarkovski, Bazin, Godard, Wiseman, van der Keuken, Deleuze, Agamben...), from the beginning of the 20th century to today.
Art et science-fiction - La Ballard Connection
2011
French edition
MAMCO
sold out
An anthology of key texts dedicated to the relationship between art and science-fiction.
Michel Gauthier - Les promesses du zéro - Robert Smithson, Carsten Höller, Ed Ruscha, Martin Creed, John M Armleder, Tino Sehgal
2009
French edition
MAMCO
sold out
An analysis of some major contemporary works that challenge the traditional values of art.
Thierry de Duve - Faire école (ou la refaire ?) - Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée
2008
French edition
MAMCO
sold out
An activist analysis of new transmission models in art teaching.
L\'irrésolution commune d\'un engagement équivoque - Ecart, Genève (1969-1982)
1997
French edition
MAMCO
sold out
First study on the Ecart collective.
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