Anthologies

How will cinema's significance evolve?

Les Cahiers du son once again draw up an inventory of contemporary sound practices while inviting us to discover the stimulating creativity which, today, animates the presence of sound in the field of visual arts, and within an art school.

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.

Invited by Marie de Brugerolle, ten artists, from both sides of the Atlantic (Ericka Beckman, Julien Bismuth, Sharon Lockhart, Tony Oursler, Anna Wittenberg...), look at the work of John Baldessari, one of the leading figures of West Coast conceptual art.

A vast research project to explore the connections and mutual enrichment between cinema and design, both considered as reservoirs of fiction: an illustrated inventory of impossible and unthinkable objects, with some thirty contributions by design researchers and designers.

With her debut chapbook, award-winning author and curator Legacy Russell returns to poetry with her GAY POMPEII, a collection of lyric poems that begin at the end of the world.

This reader brings together artistic and theoretical contributions on the instertitial nature of sound. This issue is addressed through a variety of prisms, such as format, language, politics, or new technologies.

In this anthology of essays, twelve artists explore radically self-reflexive research attitudes integrating embodied experiences within the production of theory.

Drawing together together numerous travesti writers, voices, performers, artists, and historians, this collection amounts to a narrative of survival.

From submerging as emerging: a cross-disciplinary perspective of the medial, aesthetic, and material aspects of submerging, as well as its methodological qualities as a resistant practice and figure of thought.

This anthology presents and discusses current tools, methods, and analytical frameworks to address artistic interventions, taking a multidirectional approach that accounts for the positionality of perspectives and highlights the nondirectional formation of the interventions at hand.

Four texts by Teri Wehn Damisch, attending to the conception of her films on artist Robert Morris, photographer Gisèle Freund and anthropologist Françoise Héritier.

A set of insights into the mass culture of the Weimar Republic, and its rituals of distraction, which prefigure our present.

This book brings together artists and writers who use image-making and text as means to understand ecological change. By presenting their work here, including ongoing projects and commissioned pieces, the publication conveys knowledge within attentive proximity to the contributor's own definitions of the subject and their governance of observation and analysis of global crises in the age of the Anthropocene.

Through the Prism of Borders brings together artistic and academic voices to explore borderlands as dynamic and relational spaces shaped by history, landscape and human experience.

A collection of Philippa Snow's most celebrated writings, articulating with majestic precision the thorny, unbreakable bond between mass media, popular culture and art.

An edited collection of contributions to conversations about the climate crisis and its role in critical discourse.

A set of insights into the mass culture of the Weimar Republic, and its rituals of distraction, which prefigure our present.

The implications of the digitization of image production and distribution on the contemporary ecology of the moving image.

A dialogue between art and quantum physics.

Some sixty artists from different generations not represented in galleries, selected and presented by 35 critics.

How contemporary painting embraces the possibilities offered by digital technology.

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

An "ABC of the arts in transition" examining the ecological turn of the arts, the outcome of long-term collective research into the fundamental elements running through the art world and, more generally, the aesthetic and social universe in the current ecological crisis.

A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century.

The collected writings of artist Marc Camille Chaimowicz, along with the stories behind them told by Alexis Vaillant.

A collection of testimonials from Ukrainian students and researchers hosted at the Maison de l'Ukraine at the Cité internationale universitaire de Paris, who share their stories and future aspirations.

A non-Western way of thinking (a playful interweaving of connections between history and the present and between world regions and disciplines).

The future of architecture lies in the curatorial approach. This is the thesis put forward by architect Wilfried Kuehn and theorist Dubravka Sekulić in their book Curatorial Design: A Place Between, which brings together contributions from more than 30 authors working in the fields of architecture, art, and curatorial knowledge and practice.

A multidisciplinary analysis, based on a historical perspective of theater pedagogies and an eminently contemporary approach to actor training.

New interdisciplinary readings of contemporary urban metamorphoses.

This first collection of texts in French by Félix Candela (1910-1997), a major figure in twentieth-century modern architecture, brings together writings and interviews published in specialized journals, as well as lectures and speeches delivered on various occasions by the Mexican architect and engineer of Spanish origin between 1953 and 1994

Michel Guet's intellectual diary, from his commitment to "Banalytique" (an experimental movement that emerged from French post-situationnism in the early 1980s in response to the triumph of the "colonization of reality by market value" and the injunctions to make work totally profitable) to the social critique of art and the vertigo of a planet on fire.

A collection exploring the intersections of gender and religion in post-secular knowledge production and visual culture.

An anthology of texts by Jean-Michel Bouhours on photographer and filmmaker Paolo Gioli, a key figure in the Italian avant-garde of the 1970s.

Residencies Reflected looks at international artist residencies with a societal and ecological mind shift.

Comprehensive documentation on 43 outstanding socially committed artistic projects over the past twenty years.

The Dream Academy publication explores art education policy in Northern Norway, with the establishment of the Art Academy in Tromsø in 2007 as a pivot point.

What does it mean to be a curator who writes, and, more specifically, how can curators write about textiles? This publication steps outside the framework of the typical exhibition catalogue to occupy "the space between literature and criticism".

Seven European women artists (Katinka Bock, Claire-Jeanne Jézéquel, Rachel Labastie, Mélanie Matranga, Juliette Minchin, Valérie Mréjen, Agnès Thurnauer) brought together by Sébastien Gokalp share their views on Eva Hesse (1936–1970), a major figure of the 20th century.

This collective publication explores the question of Earth rights through the interdisciplinary prism of socio-environmental humanities in relation to contemporary art.

A collective exploration of sound, music and the socio-political dimensions of listening, from researchers and artists with perspectives from the global South.

An epistemological reflection on sensitive forms of research writing at the crossroads of art, design, anthropology and ergonomics, based on singular inquiry-creation projects.

A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century.

An anthology of the constructivist movement, bringing together newly translated or previously unpublished writings by artists and theorists, accompanied by numerous illustrations and an extensive critical apparatus: this reference volume sheds new light on the multiplicity and diversity of the approaches of constructivism and productivism in the 1920s-30, and provides a major contribution to the studies of the Soviet avant-garde.

Twenty renowned international curators write about one of their exhibitions or projects that transformed their ideas about curating.

A musique concrète piece divided into five movements, based on the handling and editing of recordings captured within circuses between 1988 and 1993.

JJ brings together articles by cultural critic, auto/biographer, and lesbian icon Jill Johnston (1929-2010), translated into French for the first time, as well as texts, poems and drawings by Pauline L. Boulba, Aminata Labor, Nina Kennel and Rosanna Puyol.

A collection of poems and fictions which, based on literary experiences from 1985-1989, reflects aesthetic concerns that foreshadow Alexandre Castant's future literary and artistic research.

A glossary of themes running through the work of Élisée Reclus (1830-1905), reflecting the contemporary relevance and diversity of the anarchist geographer's thought.