Art history

A comprehensive study of the impact of the life sciences—primarily botany—and their expansion in the 19th century on the thought and work of Gustave Moreau.

A groundbreaking study of the broader impact of the various theories of colour psychology on visual cultures at the turn of the 20th century.

Spices and Wonders: Sailing the Indian Ocean follows 1,000 years of maritime history and culture, charting the routes that connected the civilisations of Africa, Asia, and beyond.

Spices and Wonders: Sailing the Indian Ocean follows 1,000 years of maritime history and culture, charting the routes that connected the civilisations of Africa, Asia, and beyond.

A multidisciplinary perspective on illegibility as a cultural phenomenon (new edition).

A visual history of the Folly Cove Designers (1941-1969)—one of America's longest-running block printing collectives.

Reissue of a primordial work in the history of the art of the countries of North Africa and West Asia, a major reflection on the artistic currents of the Arab world in the 20th century which responds more than ever, thirty years after its first publication, to the need to decolonize the knowledge.

Reissue of a primordial work in the history of the art of the countries of North Africa and West Asia, a major reflection on the artistic currents of the Arab world in the 20th century which responds more than ever, thirty years after its first publication, to the need to decolonize the knowledge.

A painter-poet reflects on Laozi and Zhuangzi "from the heart" in an illustrated volume featuring his ink drawings.

A great Chinese painter, calligrapher, and poet, Fan Zeng conveys the spirit of literati painting in these studies, which draw on classical texts and his own experience with the painting.

An exploration of the relationship between art and science through a cross-disciplinary journey featuring some 100 works of art and scientific artifacts by approximately 30 artists, from the Renaissance to the present day.

Poetry and Revolution brings together three previously untranslated essays by the Czechoslovak avant-garde theorist Karel Teige (1900-1951), accompanied by a polemical introduction by Peter Zusi placing Teige's thinking in the context of debates on "Western" and "Eastern" Marxism.

Jonathan Crary decisively relocates the problem of aesthetic contemplation within a broader collective encounter with the unstable nature of perception—in psychology, philosophy, neurology, early cinema, and photography.

A reflection on the autonomy and eternity of art by Canadian writer Madeleine Thien, based on a mural in the Thousand Buddha Grottoes of Bezeklik, China.

A genealogy of the modern artist.

More than 150 drawings from the collection of producer and filmmaker Marin Karmitz: a selection of works by historical, modern and contemporary artists that highlights the tension between the life and death drives.

By retracing the history of three colossal candelabras made by Piranesi (1720–78) from fragments of ancient Roman sculptures, Caroline van Eck introduces us to the complicated journey of art objects from their production to their reception, and tests the effectiveness of anthropological methods by isolating what relates to the commodification of art objects and their singularization.

A dialogue between classical painting and contemporary art on the theme of nature, exploring the legacy and relevance of Nicolas Poussin.

A dialogue between classical painting and contemporary art on the theme of nature, exploring the legacy and relevance of Nicolas Poussin.

The monumental catalogue (some 1200 pages in four volumes, housed in an 8kg box set) of the 2025 Islamic Arts Biennale, combining ancient heritage and contemporary art, featuring over 500 historical objects and 29 contemporary art commissions.

Colonial images, educational images. A major study in art history in which Sophie Leclercq, drawing on and analyzing multiple sources, texts, and visual documents, sheds light on a blind spot in French colonialism: how, between 1870 and 1960, children were taught about colonial conquest through edifying imagery, and how their view of colonized populations was shaped?

A critical examination of the aesthetic, social, and political dynamics of fascism, questioning its appeal and ideological mechanisms.

A seminal exploration into screens' crucial functions and profound impact on human culture.

A groundbreaking study on the relationship between Wassily Kandinsky, pioneer of abstract art, and the photographic image.

The new information regimes and document uses created by four major figures in the art world between the 1960s and 1970s—Germano Celant, Lucy R. Lippard, and Carla Lonzi, curators and art critics, as well as Seth Siegelaub

A non-relationalist anthropological approach to singularity.

"Para- hosting" as a cooperative methodology for arts institutions.

When considered in parallel, Sigmund Freud's study of Michelangelo's Moses and his private collection of antique statuettes reveal elements of visual psychoanalysis that contradict the supposedly iconoclastic nature of this science.

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

This volume traces the history and the political, cultural, and artistic legacy of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517), one of the great powers of the medieval world, known both for its formidable military force and its flourishing artistic production.

This volume traces the history and the political, cultural, and artistic legacy of the Mamluk Sultanate (1250–1517), one of the great powers of the medieval world, known both for its formidable military force and its flourishing artistic production.

Centered on the emblematic figure of Pontus Hultén (1924–2006), this issue of Revue Faire explores the director's publishing work during his time at the head of the Moderna Museet in Stockholm, from 1960 to 1973.

Production of exhibitions and production of discourse on exhibitions.

A contemporary artist and an anthropologist engage in dialogue with the history of anthropology, philosophy, and art in an attempt to approach the singularity of the human being.

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).

A collection of old photographs of the carved rocks in Brittany by Abbé Fouré (1839-1910), a little-known figure in the Art Brut scene and a contemporary of Facteur Cheval.

This tribute book brings together one hundred and one voices from very diverse backgrounds (historians, artists, writers, philosophers, curators, professors, students, close friends and fellow travelers) to draw , through an inventory of friendship, a multidimensional portrait of Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, and bear witness to the community of intellectual friendship that she was able to create.

The stock theatrical character Pierrot is an enduring figure in French visual art, where he emerges at the intersection of theatricality and the marketplace. This book offers an account of Pierrot's recurrence in painting, prints, photography and film, tracing this distinctive type from the art of Watteau to the cinema of Occupied France.

An exploration of artistic expression rooted in the diverse traditions of Islamic art and culture.

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.

An unclassifiable classic, precursor of the “material turn” and of media theory, finally reissued.

Pictorial abstraction in the Middle Ages: an innovative reflection that offers a powerful cross-disciplinary approach to medieval art, under a completely rethought concept of abstraction in close contact with finely analyzed images.

The critical edition of the pioneering work on art history by Françoise d'Eaubonne (1920-2005), inventor of the concept of ecofeminism.

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 history of the representation of blindness in art, from Brueghel to Louise Bourgeois.

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