Modern art

An historical and ethnographic investigation into the popular origin and environment of Cubist innovations.

A collection of texts by Robert Lebel on surrealism.

Ambiguity is inherent in images because visual perception is an interpretative act involving memory and imagination. Modern art has made this aspect of perception crucial to its relationship with the viewer. Images potentielles (Potential Images), the first systematic exploration of this topic, considers those works of art that rely to a great degree on imaginative response.

The influence of cartoon on Duchamp's work.

An investigation into the enigma of the first abstract painting by Kandinsky.

A facsimile edition of a surrealist poem by Robert Lebel and originally published in 1943. Illustrated with seven constructions by artist Isabelle Waldberg.

A facsimile edition of the first ever monograph dedicated to Marcel Duchamp and originally published in 1959. A complete introduction to his works and personality as well as a reflection on the artist's role in modern society. Graphic design by Marcel Duchamp. With texts by Duchamp, André Breton & Henri-Pierre Roché. Featuring a bibliography and a catalogue raisonné.

The relationship between Modern art and its destruction.

This publication aims to explore how the multiple production of Raoul Hausmann, a central figure of Dada, has helped to shape the art of modernity.

The never-before-published selection of Carlo Scarpa's writings and illustrations (photographs, architectural plans, sketches, etc.): an invaluable tool to understanding exhibition history and the importance of the architectural conception of exhibitions.

Uses and Utopias – The Exhibition in the Pre-Revolutionary Russian Avant-Garde: an essay on the exhibition practice in Russia in the years 1910-1920, and in particular on the relationship between exhibition and public space in the projects of the historical avant-gardes.

The origins of the writing of the history known as the history of modern art (catalogue).

Thierry de Duve's writings on Marcel Duchamp.

Seven essays about Marcel Duchamp's work.

The place and role of women in performing arts from 1912 to 2012, between performance and dance.

Representation of pain in the art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Gustave Courbet, hunting, and its contemporary representations in Germany.

A collective examination of the relationship between surrealism and the “splendid nineteenth century” (André Breton), and changes that have occurred in the field of political ideas, industrial development, psychiatry, philosophy or morality, between appropriation, misappropriation and rejection.

The art of etching in Hartung's work

Oskar Schlemmer's letters and diaries.

First publication ever to focus exclusively on Marcel Duchamp's Pharmacie, the first rectified readymade in art history.

First translation into French of a series of fundamental texts by Kandinsky, published in Russia in the early twentieth century.

Function of visual arts in France during the First World War.

A reflection on the Russian avant-garde's artistic project in the early twentieth century, and the problem of their paradoxical relationship to history.

Transcript of Jeff Wall's extraordinary lecture on Marcel Duchamp's great legacy Étant donnés, presented at the First Annual Anne d'Harnoncourt Memorial Symposium, September 11, 2009, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

An essay that renews the study of Gauguin, highlighting the consistency that connects the entire production of the painter, based on his exploration of the relationship between perception, cognition and imagination, and that connects his interests in psychology, ethnology, history of religion and the natural sciences, not to mention the art of all times and all cultures.

The enigma of the surrealist object, from its origins to its future, between the demystification of the artwork and the reinvention of reality.

First translation into French of tghe seminal book of German historian, photographer, and influential theorist and critic of avant-garde film and photography Franz Roh (1890-1965).

Picasso in front of the TV: unexpected links between the media—especially television—and Picasso's work.

Raoul Hausmann's autobiographical novel.

First publication ever to be devoted entirely to Duchamp's Broyeuse de chocolat, this volume also documents the event organized by the Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of this iconic work.

The frontispiece of Hobbes' Leviathan, Marat at his last breath by David, "Your country needs you", Guernica by Picasso: four essays on political iconography.

An anthology of Fontana's manifestos, texts and interviews.

An anthology of Fontana's manifestos, texts and interviews.

A study of the production and reception of art in the USSR in the years 1920-1930 through the analysis of the work of the Society of Easel Painters (OST)'s members.

Public garden in art between the mid-XIXth and early XXth centuries.

Émile Bernard's correspondence.

Artists and parties: aesthetics and politics in the first half of the 20th century.

A unique testimony to Duchamp's personality, to his relationship to his friends and to his works, and to the slow reception of his works in France and in the U.S.

The resurgence of Dada in the U.S. (a genealogy of American post-war experimental art).

First major publication devoted to the mysterious germano-soviet artist's collages, one of the latest discoveries of constructivism.

Catalogue focusing on both ambiguous and explicit Morellet's relationship to Malevich's oeuvre.

Reference monograph.

Forty years of Anglo-American feminist theory in art history (an anthology of reference texts by Laura Cottingham, Gen Doy, Lisa E. Farrington, Lisa Gail Collins, Judith Halberstam, Amelia Jones, Lucy R. Lippard, Linda Nochlin, Rozsika Parker, Griselda Pollock, Abigail Solomon-Godeau).

The story of the surrealists' radical anticolonialism: a political, aesthetic and poetic avant-garde.

From Picabia's unpublished love letters to a philosophical and aesthetic inquiry on art, through Goethe, Schlegel, Hegel, or Baudelaire.

New light on Henry Moore's work through Zaha Hadid

The work of an underestimated writer, a founder of the Ultraism, initiator of Dada in the 1920s Spain.

An innovative analysis of Dalí's work which focuses on the cultural History during the 1920's, showing that the Surrealist revolution went hand in hand with radical changes in society.