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Michele Sibiloni - Fuck it
2016
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A photographic portrait of Kampala's bustling nightlife.
Edgardo Aragón - Mésoamérique - L\'effet ouragan
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
The genesis and documentation of a video and mapping project on the detrimental effects of foreign authorities' actions in past and present Mexico.
Guan Xiao - Prévisions météo
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
The starting point of this publication and of the work it accompanies is travel, and more specifically, the wave of new perceptions that travel brings and the transformation that it causes. Artist Guan Xiao compares the volatility of this process with the fluctuation of the weather.
Soko Phay - Les vertiges du miroir dans l\'art contemporain
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
currently out of stock
The aesthetic and functions of the mirror in contemporary art.
Mário Pedrosa - Discours aux Tupiniquins
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
The great Brazilian critic Mário Pedrosa (1900-1981)'s farewell to art criticism, written to his countrymen in the manner of Montesquieu's Persian Letters.
Lee Ungno - Deux peintres coréens modernistes à Paris
2016
bilingual edition (Korean / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Tracing the Parisian exile of Korean modernists painters Lee Ungno and Han Mook, this catalogue highlights the work and life of two artists who built an innovative work at the crossroads of Western and Eastern traditions.
Stefania Kenley - Du Fictif au réel - Dix essais sur le Pop art anglais et le Nouveau Brutalisme en architecture
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
From image to object: ten essays on English Pop Art and the New Brutalism in architecture.
Colin Lemoine - Giacometti devant Bourdelle - De la conversion au reniement
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Dedalus
An examination of the relationship between Antoine Bourdelle and Alberto Giacometti, thus also exploring the more general history of heritage and artistic education under modernity.
Jean Dubuffet - Entrée en matière
2016
French edition
JRP|Editions - Lectures Maison Rouge
French artist Jean Dubuffet and French art historian Hubert Damisch shared a long friendship between 1961—the year Damisch published his first essay on Dubuffet—and 1985—when the latter died. Entrée en matière gathers together all the texts written by Damisch on Dubuffet as well as a selection of their correspondence.
Masaki Fujihata -
2016
trilingual edition (English / French / Japanese)
Anarchive
The groundbreaking work of Masaki Fujihata presented as an immersive intermedia experience through augmented reality technology (retrospective monograph under the form of a ring binder, with a dedicated AR application).
Individual Stories - Collecting as Portrait and Methodology
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
This catalogue compiles individual collections from artists and considers the act of collecting as a portrait of its collector and also as an artistic method—as a process rather than an end result.
Olafur Eliasson - Baroque Baroque
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
This catalogue documents the encounter between Eliasson's sensorial artworks and the baroquean atmosphere of Prince Eugene's Winter Palace in Vienna.
Shahryar Nashat - Obituary
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
With this volume, Shahryar Nashat recalls the life and death of an iconic art object—a green dodecahedron called La Shape—operating in many of the artist's works since 2011.
Barthélémy Toguo - L\'Appel de Dakar
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Barthélémy Toguo's address to the African Ministers of Culture for a better recognition of art and African artists on the Continent.
Carole Douillard - Alive
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
This first monograph on French-Algerian artist and performer Carole Douillard spans her entire work from the end of the 1990s and invites us to reflect on her performative and non-material practice, interrogating the forms and issues of contemporary performance.
Gabriel Sierra - (The title of the exhibition changed every hour)
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This publication is a continuation of Gabriel Sierra's site-specific installation project at the Renaissance Society in 2015. The book expands on and further examines the topics and ideas of the exhibition, that of the relation between the body and its spatio-temporal framework.
Morten Skrøder Lund - Lyst
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A series of paintings reproduced on different scales as if to emphasize the random dynamics and impenetrability at the core of the artist's pictorial practice.
Cura.
2016
English edition
Cura.
Cura. - Cura.magazine
Projects, texts, visual essays and conversations with about thirty international artists, curators, critics and authors: Zoe Williams, Kynaston McShine, the exhibition as poem by Jean-Max Colard, Haim Steinbach's POP UP section investigation, visual projects by Slavs and Tatars and Puppies Puppies, Andra Ursuta, conversation between Simon Denny and Hans Ulrich Obrist, Cécile B. Evans, Emily Roysdon, Melanie Matranga...
 Goldschmied & Chiari - La démocratie est illusion
2016
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
This monographic catalogue collects the visuals of works focusing on the relationship between the activities of the intelligence agencies and magic practices during the Cold War era.
Emanuel Röhss - Location Scout
2016
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
Location Scout is an artist's book by Emanuel Röhss conceived as part of a 2015 project that addresses the interrelation between the Ennis House built by architect Frank Lloyd Wright in Los Angeles in 1924 and the Hollywood film industry in particular and the production of pop culture at large.
Kaspar Müller - Frankfurt Freakout
2016
English edition
Flash Art - Flash Art Publishing (books)
This publication showcases a selection of photographs taken by the artist, over a year-long period, in second-hand shops, flea markets, antique stores and auction houses in Berlin.
Ziad Antar - After Images
2016
English edition
Kaph Books
Ziad Antar experiments forms, colors and light with his lensless camera, during a long journey searching for the cities where mythology was born. At the core of his work is the questioning of the foundations of photography, through the destructuration of this art (monograph edited in collaboration with Hans Ulrich Obrist).
Artforum - March 2016
2016
English edition
Artforum
Tony Oursler and Greil Marcus on David Bowie, Jackson Pollock's late work, the Met Breuer, Cameron Rowland, an exclusive portfolio from Rosemarie Castoro, plus Magali Reus's Top Ten, the band Porches, and exhibition reviews from New York, Berlin, Lisbon, Milan, Prague, Athens, Delhi, Mexico City, and more.
Mouvement
2016
French edition
Mouvement
Thomas Blanchard, Roberto Minervini's America, Sébastien Barrier, David Cronenberg's first novel, the Athenian cultural scene versus the economical crisis, Nòvia, drone rock and folk music, looking back on Hong Kong's umbrella movement, Pierre Godard & Liz Santoro's For Claude Shannon, portfolio, poetry, reviews, cultural agenda...
Art Handling - Partituren der Logistik
2016
German edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
The role of infrastructure and logistics in today's art scene
Eva Kot\'átková - Pictorial Atlas of a Girl Who Cut a Library into Pieces
2016
bilingual edition (English / Czech)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Eva Kot'átková's most ambitious publication to date, divided in two volumes, reflects her obsession with reshaping and hijacking pre-existing photographic images.
Semaine
2016
French edition
Semaine
Immédiats / Analogues - Semaine magazine
18.00 9.00 €
Caroline Bosc & Jean-Sébastien Tacher / Mathieu Dufois / PhD in Theory and practice of artistic and literary creation (Walid Ghali, Aurore Guitry, Grégoire Lauvin, Lila Neutre, Émilie Perotto, Corine Robet, Javiera Tejerina-Risso, Mezli Vega-Osorno) / Maude Maris / Grégory Jégado.
 La cellule (Becquemin&Sagot) -
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
22.00 11.00 €
The eponymous duo's monograph explore desire in the context of our post industrial, post human society, between globalisation and sustainable development, in this “glocalisation” that produces new objects, new temptations and new perversions.
John C. Welchman - Past Realization - Essays on Contemporary European Art – XX-XXI – Vol. 1
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
This volume is a collection of dynamic and engaged writings by art historian John C. Welchman on a range of contemporary European artists that emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s. Welchman poses thoughtful and provocative questions about how artists receive and negotiate the social and aesthetic histories through which they live and work.
Eva Grubinger - Black Diamond Bay
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
6.00 3.00 €
Eva Grubinger's catatogue Black Diamond Bay explores the idea of psychological landscapes—a physical or mental journey—that evokes ideas of escapism and the search for the self.
Bulletins of The Serving Library
2016
English edition
Bulletins of The Serving Library
Sternberg Press
Issue #10 of Bulletins of The Serving Library comes back with a new formula and draws up an overall review of previous issues.
Barthélémy Toguo - L\'Appel de Dakar - Limited edition
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Barthélémy Toguo's address to the African Ministers of Culture for a better recognition of art and African artists on the Continent, with an original artwork signed by the artist.
Bruno Peinado - L\'écho / ce qui sépare
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
L'écho / ce qui sépare documents a personal and collective exhibition commissioned by Bruno Peinado where young artists were invited by Peinado to display their works with his own, thus reflecting the notions of space and network within the art field.
Xavier Veilhan - Le Monstre
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
Since the set up of Xavier Veilhan's The Monster in the center of Tours in 2004, the statue has been subject to various cultural appropriation by the locals. This book aims to document both the development of the project as part of the New Patrons program as well as the life of the statue within the city.
K.m Exhibitions / Ausstellungen - 2010-2015
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This book is an overview of the exhibition program of Bart van der Heide from 2010-2015, which he realised as the director of Kunstverein München. Each exhibition is presented by a corresponding booklet, containing all texts and images (with Silke Otto-Knapp, Tobias Madison, Keren Cytter, Willem de Rooij, Richard Tuttle, Simon Denny, Rebecca Warren...).
Denis Savary -
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
38.00 19.00 €
A visual journey through ten years of Denis Savary's exhibitions (first-ever retrospective catalogue).
Flash Art
2016
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
Shanghai special issue.
Espace(s) - Robots, cyborgs & autres compagnons
2016
French edition
Espace(s)
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Espace(s)
Artistic and literary creations on the theme “cyborgs and robots.”
Ann Craven - Time
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Confort Moderne
(last copies available!)
In more than two hundred artworks, the American artist's reference monograph focuses on the fundamentals of her painting, strongly impregnated by notions of time, profusion, systemising and commitment.
Comme sur du papier - Collection du Frac Réunion
2016
French edition
Frac Réunion
A reflection on paper as a creative space (exhibition catalogue based on Frac Réunion's collection).
Jean-Michel Alberola -
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
New monograph.
 Florian & Michaël Quistrebert -
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
First monograph.
Claire Le Thomas - Racines populaires du cubisme - Pratiques ordinaires de création et art savant
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An historical and ethnographic investigation into the popular origin and environment of Cubist innovations.
Xanti Schawinsky - The Album
2016
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
This publication is based on the albums the artist conceived during his tenure at the Bauhaus, and presents, for the first time, photographs and documents, personal as much as artistic, on this key moment of the modern period. It is also the first opportunity to discover this primary material, in a format reproducing the original albums.
John Stezaker - Unassisted Readymade
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
John Stezaker's artist's book: a series of collages with found images—resorting stylistically to Hollywood's golden era—which find a new life on these pages, as much as a new meaning, if not aura.
Inter - Affirmation autochtone
2016
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Canadian native art today
Michael Manning - 100 Paintings
2016
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
A luxurious artist book by Michael Manning gathering a selection of 100 digital drawings, each from four distinct series of paintings.
Alessandro de Francesco - La vision à distance
2016
French edition
Mix
Collection of poems gathering texts on similar subjects, such as the unknown, violence and war, technology and information, phylogeny and the ontogenesis.
Gilles A. Tiberghien - Paysages et jardins divers
2016
French edition
Mix
A collection of texts by philosopher and essayist Gilles A. Tiberghien devoted to landscapes and gardens (new expanded edition).
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