Modern art

The American photographer appropriates the objects that populate the Italian painter's work.

The autobiography, translated into French for the first time, of Ré Soupault (1901-1996), trained at the Bauhaus, photographer, filmmaker, stylist, writer and traveler, translator of Dada and Surrealism, major protagonist of European artistic, literary and intellectual life, and companion of the avant-garde throughout the 20th century.

The origins, scope, and legacy of Duchamp's revolution in the visual arts.

A groundbreaking curatorial proposal by Jean-Hubert Martin, bringing together five galleries with very different specialties (primitive arts, art of the Middle Ages and Renaissance, antiquarian books and incunabula, Surrealism and modern art, Nouveau Réalisme and contemporary art).

Published in the Noor's Heroes children's book series that celebrates inspiring figures from the Arab world, this volume explores the creative life of Saloua Raouda Choucair, a pioneering Lebanese artist who challenged norms through geometry, abstraction, and sculpture.

A history of art in France from the women's perspective.

Invited by Pierre Mabille, nine artists, from both sides of the Atlantic (Sheila Hicks, Fanette Mellier, Mathieu Mercier, Sarah Morris, Dan Walsh...), share their impressions of one of the 20th century's most influential abstract painters and teachers.

This posthumously published essay presents Hans De Wolf's sharp analysis of one of the greatest rivalries in art history, a rivalry between two centuries, embodied by two of their most prominent figures: Courbet for the 19th and Duchamp for the 20th century.

A total environment-cum-woodland utopia created by an all-star team of "mad sculptors" led by Jean Tinguely.

A total environment-cum-woodland utopia created by an all-star team of "mad sculptors" led by Jean Tinguely (also available in English).

An invitation to rediscover the diversity of 20th-century Arab modernism and to take a fresh look at the history of art scenes still little known in Europe, focusing on the relationship between Arab artists and Paris throughout the last century.

A wide-ranging discursive study of the cultural geography of the Central European avant-garde between the wars.

What meaning can be given to abstract art forms when the figurative is evacuated in favor of pure gesture and color? This book investigates the case of Hans Hartung, delving into the depths of his psyche—at the frontier between aesthetics, neuroscience, psychoanalysis and medicine.

The first book dedicated to Cornelia B. Sage Quinton (1876-1936), this essay traces the visionary career of the first woman director of a major art museum in the United States.

A selection of texts by Valentine de Saint-Point, emblematic of both the Belle Époque and anticolonial militancy.

The revelatory world of Emma Reyes.

The revelatory world of Emma Reyes.

As the most comprehensive monograph on Synnøve Anker Aurdal's work to date, Through the Threads writes a new, and sorely missing, chapter on the oeuvre and six-decade career of this textile pioneering artist.

Without ever giving a lesson in painting, Alain Gunst lists 32 reasons for painting that, “bad” or “not so bad”, take malicious pleasure in mocking an art world.

The cultural and political legacies of the the 1933 and 1934 Arab Exhibitions in Jerusalem.

This history of art collecting traces a multiplicity of aesthetic attitudes through the prism of certain key figures in the history of taste. Over the course of the chapters, we discover how art collecting reflects—or responds to—an individual's character.

A wide-ranging study of the visual and theoretical practice of Anni Albers, a pivotal figure between two continents and two modernities, as part of a general history of art, design and textile production in the European and American women's avant-gardes.

The notion of primitivism rethought to highlight the role of the African referent in the development of the artistic and literary avant-garde in Europe.

A partly autobiographical novel that the German surrealist artist and author Unica Zürn (1916-1970) wrote for her ten-year-old daughter in 1953, although it would never be published in her lifetime. This is the first translation of the tale from German into English.

Parker and Pollock's seminal volume of feminist art history.

This special boxed set, numbered 1 to 50, contains Franck Scurti's DVD Ulf Linde – Marcel Duchamp: Certifié pour copie conforme, Pascal Goblot's DVD Richard Hamilton dans le reflet de Marcel Duchamp and Pascal Goblot's book To be Broken / À refaire le Grand Verre, plus a silkscreen print on transparent film.

An audacious account of the ways in which the arts in the Americas were modernized during the first half of the 20th century.

The story of the Galerie Janine Rubeiz, a major venue on Beirut's cultural and artistic scene.

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.

An overview of Eugène Carrière's work, through a selection of little-known or previously unpublished paintings, alongside his major masterpieces.

This monograph, taking a thematic approach that brings together both words and objects, aims to highlight the extreme inventiveness of Gaston Chaissac.

An analysis of the true theoretical and commercial system developed by Michel Tapié de Céleyran (1909-1987), who invented his profession of art entrepreneur by combining several activities—art critic, editor, artistic advisor, broker and collector—, contributed to the international destiny of some 200 artists (including Dubuffet, Mathieu, Pollock, Tapiès, Saura, Fontana, and De Kooning) and was at the origin of "Informal Art".

Igor Terentiev's biography of Ilya Zdanevich published in 1919 in Tbilisi.

Simone Hoffmann's films invites us to rediscover one of the world's most important contemporary artists in the context of her retrospective exhibition at the Musée d'Art Moderne in Paris in 2023.

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.

A thorough exploration of the discourses on Japonisme that emerged in France from the late 19th to the early 20th century, placing them in the context of the totality of discourses of the time and exploring their dynamic meanings in their places of origin.

A transnational and transhistorical investigation carried out in the heart of museum and artistic practices between France and Senegal in the 1950s to 1970s, inviting us to decentralize our views in order to consider the globalized history of art of these years in a new light.

Special deluxe edition with an original photogravure by Cerith Wyn Evans.

In addition to providing an unprecedented overview of the Swiss Surrealist artist Walter Grab's oeuvre, this catalogue also presents a wide range of different angles on his art, including subjective looks at individual works, art history essays and an associative correspondence using the cadavre exquis technique that was so dear to the Surrealists.

A reevaluationof Surrealism since 1940: a large-scale, groundbreaking work covering seven decades, questioning the discourses, narratives, and debates on the poetic, political, and artistic commitments of the movement, in the context of the deep social and cultural mutations of the world of the second half of the 20th century.

An erudite investigation into the enigma of Marcel Duchamp's great testamentary work Étant donnés, an installation conceived for twenty years in the greatest secrecy before being unveiled to the public a year after the death of the inventor of the readymade, which gives the viewer new keys to interpretation, by examining both what the work concludes and what it opens.

Philosopher Éric Alliez rethinks Marcel Duchamp's legacy in relation to contemporary art and the image, psychoanalysis and gender.

Catalogue gathering the series of works realized around the furniture by two artists of different generations but having in common a same refusal of the authority, the paintings of Enrico Baj produced at the beginning of the years 1960 meeting the new sculptures of Martin Kersels.

As a cofounder of Cabaret Voltaire in 1916, Emmy Hennings, with her partner, the Dadaist Hugo Ball, is recognized as having established and environment for collective experimentation. This book gathers an extensive collection of Hennings's writings, ephemera, and art, to give shape to a practice and an individual so ofter flattened for the sake of art historical narrative.

A large series of essays, written by people from around the world who have contributed to the Josef and Anni Albers Foundation's work, revealing how the non-profit organization has carried on the Albers' legacy over the years. The heart of the book, lavishly illustrated, is devoted to the Foundation's many donations to international museums, including rarely shown works of art.

The different aspects of the work of Marcel Mariën (1920-1993)–member of the surrealist group of Brussels, poet, creator of images, publisher, theoretician and political activist, accomplice of René Magritte and Guy Debord.

The first official monograph project around Ramsès Younan (1913-1966), a major figure and member of the Egyptian surrealists group, this volume gathers an exhaustive catalogue of Younan's paintings, drawings and visual experimentations with an anthology of critical essays about and by the artist.

The little-known history of a major cultural encounter: a study of the reception of Chinese painting in the West and its artistic resonances, which underwent profound changes between the 19th century and the 1930s.