Anthologies

A collection of essays exploring the current contemporary art scene through the analysis of the works of ten artistic figures of the present days.

The avant-garde of the 1990s.

Different perspectives (art history, philosophy, photography, film, architecture, history of science...) on the heterogeneous forms the discourse of pictures can take (an anthology).

An interdisciplinary reflection on the new figures of subjectivity in the digital age.

A collection of original essays focusing on the specific interaction of dance and drawing during the second half of the 20th century.

A collection of original essays focusing on the specific interaction of dance and drawing during the second half of the 20th century.

The museum of contemporary art in all its paradoxical characteristics.

The use and status of literature and arts in Guy Debord's thought.

This collection of essays by Martin Herbert considers various artists who have withdrawn from the art world or adopted an antagonistic position toward its mechanisms: Lutz Bacher, Stanley Brouwn, Christopher D'Arcangelo, Trisha Donnelly, David Hammons, Agnes Martin, Cady Noland, Laurie Parsons, Charlotte Posenenske, and Albert York (new edition).

The current fascination with fiction across art, design, and architecture (including one of Umberto Eco's final interview).

New collection of essays by Boris Groys in which the philosopher discusses the works and artists that influenced his thinking, from Paweł Althamer to Andy Warhol.

The political dimension of Visual Studies, between Francophone and Anglo-American studies.

Intersubjectivity is a collection of writings on the presence of language in the visual arts: the first volume makes a case in favor of concretism in contemporary artistic practices.

Addressing fifteen years—from 1999 to 2014—of André Guedes's artistic practice, this monograph also proves to be the medium of a reflexion on anthological exhibitions.

A set of contributions that explore the conditions of possibility of speculative (and truly engaged) “gestures”, in the context of a widespread crisis of the modes of thinking of modernity (contributions by Didier Debaise, Donna J. Haraway, Bruno Latour, Pierre Montebello, Isabelle Stengers...).

An impressive collection of essays offering a critical examination of representations of vision in motion—from early illustrations of plants to the avant-gardes, from gesture to cinema, from decapitation to dance, from David Hume to Bergson and Deleuze.

A sourcebook / critical anthology of social art history.

A sourcebook / critical anthology of social art history.

An overview of experimental and electronic music in Turkey featuring 29 Turkish artists—from the electronic music of the 1960s to all forms of experimental music of the 2010s.

The complete PDF edition of the avant-garde journal Change, created by Jean Pierre Faye in 1968: 42 facsimile issues in a 8482-page file with free-text search engine.

A history of critical design in four episodes: the Italian radical design of the late 1970s; the Dutch conceptual design of the 1990s; the English critical design of the 2000s, and the contemporary scene (with contributions by Bless, Didier Faustino, Alessandro Mendini, Gianni Pettena…).

This volume is a collection of dynamic and engaged writings by art historian John C. Welchman on a range of contemporary European artists that emerged in the late 1960s and 1970s. Welchman poses thoughtful and provocative questions about how artists receive and negotiate the social and aesthetic histories through which they live and work.

A collection of texts by Robert Lebel on surrealism.

Fourth and final volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on painting, sculpture, installation, and architecture.

This volume brings together essays on the German writer W. G. Sebald (1944-2001), iconographic documents and manuscripts of the author, and a script written by Sebald for a film ever made about the life of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Between 1946 and 1953, the Macy Conferences brought together a diverse and interdisciplinary community of researchers who together developed the basics of the new science of cybernetics. This publication contains the complete transcription and protocols of all contributions of one of the most important event in the contemporary history of science.

Drawing on key texts by S. M. Eisenstein, Deleuze and Guattari, Alain Badiou, Donna Haraway et al., and analyzing works by iconic artists and contemporary ones, this volume brings together theory and art, showing how both turned to animals to find new ways of problematizing “life.”

A set of contributions that explore the conditions of possibility of speculative (and truly engaged) “gestures”, in the context of a widespread crisis of the modes of thinking of modernity (contributions by Didier Debaise, Donna J. Haraway, Bruno Latour, Pierre Montebello, Isabelle Stengers...).

A collection of texts connecting ancient Chinese culture and contemporary art in search of a better understanding of our relationship with nature.

A collective work bringing together thirty contributors, based on an experimental research project conducted with artists and theoreticians (philosophers, sociologists, historians, scientists...) around the question of the formats of art, a forgotten yet decisive issue that crosses contemporary artistic practices in depth.

An anthology of texts on the work of Sigmar Polke written between 1973 and 2000.

Collection of poems by Cameroonian poet Kouam Tawa.

L'Écart et l'Accolade gathers 23 texts of various kinds dedicated to contemporary artists, artistic practices, the art critic, exhibitions and curatorial activities.

An interdisciplinary reflection on the new figures of subjectivity in the digital age.

This collection of essays seeks to comprehensively address the concept of “neighborhood technologies” by establishing a platform for the thorough discussion of neighborhood concepts and notions across scientific cultures—e.g., computer science, mathematics, sociology, media and cultural studies, theater studies, and architecture.

Publication gathering a team of thinkers that confront one of the most crucial questions when dealing with the very definition, concept and operativity of art: How to link art to the concept of the contemporary?

The return of the anthropological question has completely redesigned the issues of representation. A state of play.

An anthology interrogating the concept of antropofagia in Brazilian thought and its philosophical, ecological, and cosmopolitical influence.

Third volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on photography, film, video, and new media.

Czech artists of the 1960s–1970s.

Video art history.

One hundred texts on art by René Denizot.

The posthumous collection of texts on art by the French philosopher.

Collection of poems bringing together French authors on the fringes of literary trends, past and present. Under the supervision of François Dominique and Bruno Lemoine. This edition includes a DVD of video-poems by Isabelle Filleul de Brohy.

Mendini's writings 1972-2011.

An anthology of the international avant-garde poetry journal created in 1796 by Julien Blaine.

This inter- and transdisciplinary collection of essays by philosophers, artists, critics, and art historians, reconsiders the place of the aesthetic in contemporary art, with reference to four main themes: aesthetics as “sensate thinking”; the dissolution of artistic limits; post-autonomous practices; and exhibition-values in a global artworld.

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 collected essays presented here form the compartments of Hans Ulrich Obrist's curatorial toolbox, along with elucidating his views on stewardship, patronage, and art itself. Influences and interlocutors cited and discussed here include, among others, Alexander Dorner, Édouard Glissant, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jean-François Lyotard, Dominique de Menil, Josef Ortner, Cedric Price, Sir John Soane, and Harald Szeemann.

Critical texts by Kim Gordon brought together for the first time.