Contemporary art

1970 artist's book: Buren explains and positions his work with commented plans.

Hartung's early watercolor works on paper (33 tipped in full page color illustrations, under boxset).

First volume of the great reference monograph conceived and designed by the artist, offering a glimpse of Vasarely's graphic period.

First volume of the great reference monograph conceived and designed by the artist, offering a glimpse of Vasarely's graphic period.

The legendary reference monograph, with the musical piece Spatiodynamisme by Pierre Henry on a 45RPM vinyl record (available in English edition).

Reference monograph, with texts, sketches, and scores by the artistes, and some musical exemples on a 45RPM vinyl record included.

Artist's book: a series of procedures to follow, which substitute for all forms of religious and ideological injunction.

Artist's book: a series of patterns drawn from the library of a vectorial drawing software, homothetically reduced to the dimensions of the book to rectangles of different sizes, laid out over the pages as in an urban map.

Artist's book: compositions with borrowings, alterations, quotations as well as original propositions, functioning on a binary mode.

Artist's book: 37 Christs photographed in as many Roman churches.

Artist's book: a selection of patterns cut out from fashion magazines, details of clothes, accessories, as well as figures, landscapes, words.

Artist's book: 37 foodstuffs photographed in high angle shots, lit by electric light.

Artist's book: portrait of a young soldier reproduced exactly on each page of the book.

Unpublished text, signed original screenprint.

Catalogue.

This first monograph in French on the Swedish artist Lars Fredrikson, situated at the intersection of art history, sound studies, and media studies, seeks to shed light on the distinctive features of his work by highlighting its dialogue with the history of painting, kinetic and electronic arts, music, and sound practices in art, as well as the epistemologies and material cultures of science and technology.

A detailed overview and history of "ero-guro-nansense", an editorial, artistic and literary movement of iconoclastic and subversive magazines in Japan in the 1925-1930s, ancestor and precursor of the post-war Japanese underground.

The first comprehensive overview of the work of the Argentine-Japanese duo, which builds a unique bridge between Latin America, Europe, and Japan.

Eleven years after the publication of the first volume of Feminine Futures in 2011, this sequel explores the dance history of abstraction in the feminine, during the first half of the 20th century and continuations today, unfolding new research perspectives with a new body of rare or unpublished original photographs.

A critical history of a fundamental video art event: the large-scale study of the entire history of Locarno's VideoArt Festival, the culmination of a four-year research project.

An anthology that brings together an exemplary selection of essays that e-flux has commissioned and published from artists over the course of some twenty years.

An exploration of the "swampy" zone between the human and the other forms of life that make up his ecosystem and his environment, at the intersection of art, architecture and philosophy, in the perspective of a posthumanist ecology.

A collection of critical, polemic, and personal essays composed in the past decade.

This first comprehensive survey of Joseph Kosuth's work with public media centers on his pioneering project The Second Investigation (1968–74).

The first monograph on the Hong Kong artist.

The first collection by award-winning performance artist/poet Justin Chin.

This monograph on French-Caribbean artist Lucas Erin offers the first occasion to encompass an artistic practice rooted in a multicultural exploration of encounters, human interaction and forms of resistance to social normalisation.

A much-needed mapping of the Indian art scene.

Renewing our understanding of Ruscha's art.

Renewing our understanding of Ruscha's art.

A literary adventure resulting from a collaboration spanning several years between an artist experimenting with AI and an academic working on issues of literature, media, and attention.

A massive anthology of photographs made by Ari Marcopoulos between 2009 and 2018, featuring an introduction text by the artist as well as an essay by art critic, curator, and New York figure Bob Nickas..

This intimate publication documents an iconic art space of the 20th century, the Warsaw apartment and studio of Polish artists Henryk Stazewski (1894–1988) and Edward Krasinski (1925–2004)—a lively artistic and social space shared by multiple artists.

New monograph, based on Saskia Holmkvist's film Margaret (Back Translation), weaving together staged scenes, documentary elements and archival footage, exploring the recent history of Belfast through a series of tonally diverse scenes, by turns comic, elegiac and speculative.

Weekly Planner I & II by Silje Iversen Kristiansen is two individual pocket-books filled with drawings. The drawings records in a fragmented way her subjective experience of life in time and space. Each book covers the span of a year, always starting in May and ending in April. In addition to the drawings, the books contain a text by Jan Verwoert that reflects upon the subject at hand.

This edition by Walter and Jan Verwoert pairs an 7" record featuring 6 pieces of sound poetry with facsimiles of the 6 collages used as scores for the recordings.

Soft Photography examines the role of human emotions in the creation and reception of images produced using generative Artificial Intelligence (AI) or computer-generated imagery (CGI).

An interview conducted on December 18, 1974, with photographer Peter Hujar about an ordinary day in his life, released to the public half a century after it was recorded.

The third volume in the "EKES (EarthKeeping EarthShaking)" series, this collective work—a forum for dialogue among artists, curators, and experts in the humanities and environmental sciences—sets out to explore "ecological vitality."

A comprehensive study of the multifaceted practice of Argentine artist Edgardo Antonio Vigo (1928–1997)—sculptor, printmaker, poet, mail artist, performance artist, typographer, designer, etc.—focusing on his publishing activities in the 1960s and 1970s, set against an extremely repressive political backdrop marked by instability, coups d’état, and violence.

Drawing on a material, cultural and social history of art, Hugo Daniel proposes to understand the recognition and redefinition of drawing by the avant-garde in the 1950s and 1960s, between the questioning of artists, the evolution of critics and the projects of gallery owners and curators, to show how drawing is understood as a complex reality, in act.

An overview of the early days of video art in Europe, drawing on a network of some fifty researchers.

Published several years after the fact, "Exposure" is a catalogue for Patricia L. Boyd's solo exhibition "Hold" at Kunstverein München in 2021.

The first in-depth examination of the life and work of the Pakistani feminist artist, activist and pedagogue Lala Rukh (1948-2017).