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Pierre Schaeffer - À la recherche de Pierre Schaeffer - Portrait(s)
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A vast selection of theoretical, philosophical and literary writings by Pierre Schaeffer, accompanied by testimonies of various personalities, providing a privileged entry into the multidimensional universe of the composer, engineer, theorist and radio man, whose tutelary shadow is constantly cast on the landscape of sound creation.
Anne-Marie Minella - Les artistes et le textile
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An overview of the use of textile in contemporary visual arts around the world.
Strange Design
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
A history of critical design in four episodes: the Italian radical design of the late 1970s; the Dutch conceptual design of the 1990s; the English critical design of the 2000s, and the contemporary scene (with contributions by Bless, Didier Faustino, Alessandro Mendini, Gianni Pettena…).
Gilles Perraudin - Les jours sont ronds
2024
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Essays
The story/manifesto of an architect's life: a re-reading of Gilles Perraudin's career by himself, enabling us to retrace the path of a thought in perpetual motion.
Bernard Quirot - Simplifions
2022
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Essays
In this writing, French architect Bernard Quirot carries a reflection on his theoretical foundations and evokes, through his architectural journey, a critical vision of the increasing complexity of the world.
Toilet Paper - ToiletAlex PaperPrager
2024
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Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
ToiletAlex PaperPrager is the new edition of Toilet Paper magazine, born from a collaboration with american artist Alex Prager: a vibrant dialogue between visionary minds, where the ironic style of Toilet Paper meets the dark humor of Alex Prager, a parade of familiar yet strange images, suggesting a timeless world placed somewhere between dream and reality.
Akasegawa Genpei - Anatomie du Tomason
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Délashiné!
The first French translation of the texts of the Japanese artist and writer Akasegawa Genpei (Katsuhiko Akasegawa, aka Otsuji Katsuhiko, 1937-2014), a figure of the Tokyo avant-garde of the 1960s, on the concept of Tomason, with a rich iconography.
Edward J. Sullivan - Modernités américaines (1910-1960)
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An audacious account of the ways in which the arts in the Americas were modernized during the first half of the 20th century.
Objets à l\'état vif - Entre dynamiques sociales et pratiques artistiques
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A collective reflection on the question of objects in artistic situations, at the crossroads of art history and theory, social sciences and artistic practices.
 Ganko - Glasraum
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
The result of a collaboration in the fields of architecture and photography, Glasraum explores the deliberate ambiguities embedded in a seemingly aloof approach to the construction of both space and image.
Jamie Allen - Infrastructures critiques
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
How do we perceive and think about the infrastructures that condition the ways in which we perceive, think and experience our world? Four essays by Jamie Allen, whose experiments as artist and researcher cross media, disciplines and borders, that invite us to make visible the backstage work of the digitized world, and to think (post)critically about the very notion of critique.
Jean-Luc Nancy - Sexpositions
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
A series of exchanges relating to questions of gender, sexual difference and sexualities, enabling not only a rereading of Jean-Luc Nancy's corpus and its developments through the prism of what Nancy has called sexistence, but also the reinscription of the elaboration of this concept in a web of biographical elements and, hence, an exploration of the philosopher's actual sexistence.
Chantal Guillaume - Fourier ou l\'utopie en réel
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Charles Fourier or utopia as reality.
Matthieu Renault - Maîtres et esclaves - Archives du Laboratoire d\'analyse des Mythologiques de la modernité
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
An experimental fictional ("post-apocalyptic") anthropology of philosophy, focusing on the dialectic of master and slave, itself understood as myth.
Littérature et design - Visualités et visualisations du texte en régime numérique
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Figures
New visualities and visualizations of literature in the digital age: the possible contributions of design thinking to literary theory.
Sophie Orlando - La Part affective
2024
French edition
Paraguay Press - Essays
A chronicle of the recent transformations of art schools, from the point of view of a teacher, at a time when these spaces are both threatened by increasingly fragile and uncertain public policy management, and at the same time more than ever spaces where the word opens up, practices change and art finds itself in direct contact with the most avant-garde movements in society.
Clara Schulmann - Zizanies
2020
French edition
Paraguay Press - Essays
A picaresque tale of Clara Schulmann's often collective experiences.
Michel Guérin - Aménager l\'espace, orner les lieux
2024
French edition
Athom
Three texts by Michel Guérin on the notions of ornament and decoration, at the crossroads of theological, anthropological, aesthetic and philosophical considerations.
Makiko Furuichi - Le vent, la vague, l’étoile
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
MASC (Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix)
A comprehensive overview of Makiko Furuichi's work, focusing on her special installation for the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain in Les Sables-d'Olonne.
 Claire Fontaine - A User\'s Manual to Claire Fontaine
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
In the first monograph on the feminist conceptual artist collective Claire Fontaine, political theorist and somatic practitioner Anita Chari explores the artist's theoretical and political innovations to illuminate a more haptic, embodied approach to the practice of critical theory.
OpticalSound
2024
French edition
OpticalSound
Optical Sound
Interviews with Michel Dector et Jean-Baptiste Farkas, Alice Dourlen, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jim O'Rourke, Steven Stapleton, Andrea Laszlo De Simone; Johanna Went and Dame Darcy by Nicolas Ballet; Mickael Vis; Yûichi Yokoyama; SMITH; Marcel Broodthaers; Current 93; IKHÉA©SERVICES; Alan Dunn; Oskar Schlemmer; Blaine L. Reininger; Martin Le Chevallier; Ludovic Chemarin©...
Octopus notes
2024
texts in English and French
Octopus notes
Daisy editions
The eleventh issue of the journal-collection that brings together academic writings, interviews with artists, critical essays and artists' interventions in the form of inserts: Jeffrey Perkins, Sophie Lapalu, Billy Sullivan, Liz Magor, Moyra Davey, Zoe Beloff, Paul Thek, a long previously unpublished conversation between Paul McCarthy and Sabrina Tarasoff...
Serge Guilbaut - Ping-pong culturel existentiel - France – États-Unis (1944-1947)
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A genuine investigation, in the opposite direction to the narrative imposed by art historians, of artistic, cultural and political developments in the Western world after the Second World War, between Paris and New York.
Anne Truitt - Au fil des jours - Le Journal d\'une artiste
2024
French edition
ER Publishing
The first of four diaries written by Anne Truitt (1921-2004), a major figure in 20th-century American art.
Dorothy Iannone - Love Is Forever, Isn\'t It?
2024
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
New approaches to Iannone's unique work.
Ronan Bouroullec - Lausanne
2024
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Nieves
Ronan Bouroullec's daily drawings.
Iglika Christova - Penser et créer avec le microcosme - Du dessin d\'observation au « dessin vivant »
2024
French edition
various
An interdisciplinary investigation by French-Bulgarian visual artist Iglika Christova, an explorer of the microcosm, into the relationship between the mechanisms of the living world and drawing.
Globalisto - Une philosophie en mouvement – Actes d\'un imbizo
2024
French edition
MAMC+ (Musée d'art moderne et contemporain de Saint-Etienne métropole)
The continuation and culmination of a vast project, articulated between an exhibition and a symposium, imagined by South African curator Ntshepe Tsekere Bopape (Mo Laudi), inviting 17 artists from Africa and its diaspora and a group of researchers to evoke black aesthetics and propose an alternative vision of a world without borders.
MuMo
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
MuMo
The new adventure of the Musée Mobile (a traveling museum aimed at making contemporary art accessible to those who are far from it, from the earliest age, that has been touring France, Europe and Africa since 2011), in partnership with the Centre Pompidou: the first museum truck dedicated to Europe's largest collection of modern and contemporary art, designed by architect Isabel Hérault and artist Krijn de Koning, travelling to various regions and villages.
After Rain - Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale 2024
2024
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
The catalog for 2024 Diriyah Contemporary Art Biennale, under the artistic direction of Ute Meta Bauer, featuring some one hundred artists of different generations: a testament of a unique moment within a changing Saudi Arabian cultural ecosystem.
Philippe Robert - Free Fight
2024
French edition
Lenka lente
The complete texts and photographs published in the fanzine dedicated to free jazz.
Biting the Hand - Traces of Resistance in the Art & Language diaspora
2024
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
Extensive survey of the politically outward-looking Conceptualism emerging from Art & Language in the UK. Especially considering its critique of the norms of Modernist art practices in contemporary art, particularly practices of art education.
Free Jazz Communism
2022
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
Actualising the concert of Archie Shepp–Bill Dixon Quartet at the 8th World Festival of Youth and Students in Helsinki 1962, Free Jazz Communism contextualizes the politics of free jazz music in light of global decolonisation movements, anti-war activism, structures of racial capitalism, and forms of avant-garde music (new augmented edition).
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2024
English edition
Damiani - Photography
The heyday of New York's underground and alternative cultural scene in the 1980s: a look back at the history of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge, a primary hub for the burgeoning East Village drag, gay, feminist, punk, and art scenes.
 Madame Grès - Alaïa / Grès - Au-delà de la mode
2024
French edition
Damiani
(last copies available!)
A dialogue between two dress sculptors who, each in their own way, have strongly influenced the world of creation, between art and haute couture.
Miljohn Ruperto - An Operational Account of Western Spatio-Temporality
2024
English edition
X Artists' Books
An artist's edition by Miljohn Ruperto comprising three flipbooks and an accordion-fold booklet, that examines different forms of time.
Fabien Vallos - Les Banquets (2008-2023)
2024
French edition
Mix
This publication documents the organization of fifty-two banquets (2008-2023) as artistic practice and "social sculpture"
Jean-François Santoro - Midlife crisis
2024
French edition
Vroum - Editions
Monologues and "quasi-monologues" in which the characters talk indiscriminately about pollution, Pokémon, bonzes and alien octopuses.
Shahryar Nashat - 17 Waves
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
New monograph.
Bea Schlingelhoff - The Crooked - Typefaces for Baseless Rumors
2024
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
This artist's book by Bea Schlingelhoff gathers together 366 capping phrases used for kōan practice.
Art for Radical Ecologies (manifesto)
2024
English edition
Bruno
A reflection on the role of art in the interconnected struggles for climate and ecological justice.
Iva Lulashi - Love as a Glass of Water
2024
trilingual edition (English / Italian / Albanian)
Bruno
The catalogue for Iva Lulashi's exhibition at the Albanian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2024, inspired by the sexual revolution advocated by Russian radical thinker and feminist Alexandra Kollonta.
Abdullah Al Saadi - Sometimes you have to go a long way to come back a short distance
2024
English edition
Kaph Books
A comprehensive overview of the Emirati artist's practice, with numerous archive documents.
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