Art & craft / “applied arts”

A collective exploration of the relationship between contemporary art and archeology.

The fourth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry.

A contemporary artistic reinterpretation of a vanished craft.

A collective reflection on the question of objects in artistic situations, at the crossroads of art history and theory, social sciences and artistic practices.

An overview of the use of textile in contemporary visual arts around the world.

Massa Confusa is a combinatorial codex cataloguing João Maria Gusmão's recent material transformations in the studio, featuring an accompanying text by the artist and faithful reproductions.

Artist and curator discuss the role and value of art in the 21st century, and the potential for artistic creation to contribute to the development of new knowledge.

Curator, art historian, writer Chus Martínez and writer and curator Filipa Ramos bring together a group of artists who have been using clay, pottery and ceramics to imagine, project and shape the world they live in.

This volume presents a little-known facet of Japanese culture: the know-how of traditional wooden architecture.

The third issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to folding.

A publication compiled, edited and designed by Danish graphic artist Anni's, based on research into the uses of the grid.

Four artist's posters.

The third issue of the annual review of the École des arts décoratifs de Paris, placed under the complex and ambivalent sign of "TRANS", covering the various ways of transgressing (identity, textuality, coding, training, etc.).

Hybridizations presents the most recent work of the French artist ORLAN which reflects, from the aesthetics of ancient Mesoamerican cultures, on the canons of beauty, cultural exchanges, and the symbolic and material powers of native peoples in a globalized world.

An overview of Michel Gouéry's surrealist and exuberant artistic output, through a collection of previously unpublished works and documents, as well as detailed notes by some twenty specialists.

Tori Kudo's ceramics.

Archival documents and new writings on the intermedia collaborations of avant-garde jazz trumpeter Don Cherry and textile artist Moki Cherry.

This 5th issue of the anthropology journal created by Mariana Castillo Deball explains and develops the issues at stake in the artist's recent research.

New monograph.

New monograph, focused on the last years of work of the duo around the animal, landscape and ecological issues that cross it.

Malagasy artist Joël Andrianomearisoa explores Moroccan traditional knowledge and engages dialogue with diverse artistic perspectives, for the very first monographic exhibition dedicated to a contemporary artist at MACAAL, Marrakech.

An overview of the Canadian designer's creative process.

The reference book in French on the Global Tools design movement linked to the Italian radical architects of the 1970s.

This book uses the production of some twenty international creators to discuss methods of transforming metal in contemporary design.

A film by Gilles Coudert and Damien Faure about the stained glass windows made by Kimsooja for the Metz Cathedral: a dialogue between contemporary art and cultural heritage and between Eastern and Western thought.

A community project initiated by the renowned Indian photographer with Adivasi papier-mâché artists from the Kokna and Warli tribes in Palghar district, India.

The second issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to weaving.

A series of drawings made during a field visit by the filmmaker, writer and artist Ahmed Bouanani. Here ethnographer and illustrator, Bouanani analyzes the construction of Berber jewelry by sketching a taxonomy and a geography of formal symbolism of Berber groups in Morocco.

The new meaning of craft.

Four contemporary artists in touch with their territories (the catalogue of the exhibition at the Maison de la culture du Japon in Paris).

The manufacture of contemporary art objects.

The second issue of the annual review of the École des arts décoratifs de Paris, devoted to the question of the vulgar, explores through creations, portfolios, interviews, fictions and theoretical texts the polysemy of this word which embodies all the tensions of our time.

Four artist's posters.

Global Tools 1973–1975 documents and narrates the story of the eponymous experience of Radical Design and its multidisciplinary school program "without students or teachers."

A sort of anti-monograph in several episodes proposed by the artist Simon Nicaise around his project of Tour de France of trades and practices.

This volume presents Laura Aldridge's recent and older works, and features an interview and three original essays about her practice.

A travel diary of a handwoven poncho with the keynote of interconnectedness.

A documentation of the participatory project inspired by calligraphic batik initiated by the artists Ada Van Hoorebeke, Maartje Fliervoet and the manoeuvre platform.

The first monograph of the Romanian avant-garde artist, focusing on the "preliminary drawings" for the work "The Solemn Process" (1964–2008).

45 low tables imagined by as many architects / designers from personal objects of fascination.

Retrospective monograph.

The first issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to molding.

Written by one of the pioneers of twentieth-century textile art, Anni Albers' 1965 seminal text offers a brilliant meditation on the art of weaving, its history, tools, and techniques, and its implications for modern design (new expanded edition, with three critical texts and color illustrations).

The history of Arabic calligraphy.

First issue of the annual review of the École des arts décoratifs de Paris, devoted to the challenges of contemporary decor.

The iconic everyday objects, “soft” sculptures, ceramic pieces and collages by the Swiss duo.

Olaf Holzapfel's textile works made from cactus fibre together with a family of traditional weavers from Argentina.

An artistic project around the secret code of the Incas developed with a system of knotted cords.