Essay

The Tenant is a monographic critical essay by Marie Canet. It is the first text to directly address the connections between McKenzie's work, pornography, and special effects.

An intimate journey through the Lettrist movement via the collection and library of Hans Naumann (born in 1933 in Germany), one of Maurice Lemaître's most trusted collectors and one of the most important Lettrist bibliophiles, who has assembled a vast collection of rare or unique works and books related to this avant-garde movement founded in 1946 by Isidore Isou and still largely overlooked.

A reflection on the power of writing, based on the work of the Swedish artist and writer Öyvind Fahlström (1928–1976).

Art as a set of practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context: the manifesto that has renewed the approach of contemporary art (also available in English edition).

A genealogy of the modern artist.

A radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.

On the forms of sabotage, insubordination, and invisible activity that evade the terrain of politics.

A reflection on our present, through a series of portraits of contemporary artists.

Alexis Nouss's manual on cultural resistance in seven lessons.

An essay by Alexandra Midal on visual learning experiences through images, based on two revolutionary projects by major 20th-century designers: Charles & Ray Eames, Georges Nelson and Alexander Girard, and Ken Isaacs.

An intellectual portrait of a major figure in 20th-century architecture.

Three essays in which philosopher Étienne Balibar questions the notion of war through the thinking of Simone Weil, Carl von Clausewitz, and Karl Marx, as well as the current geopolitical situation and the war in Ukraine.

The choreographic in cinema.

Emma Merabet explores non-anthropocentric forms of performance, in which humans are no longer the focus of attention, and in which non-human elements (materials, objects, animals, machines, natural phenomena, etc.) become fully-fledged presences and agents.

A highly personal reflection on the practice, teaching, and very essence of architecture and design.

Exploring the contemporary art scene in Cambodia, Soko Phay examines modes of representing extremes and shows how memorial works prompt reflection on the profound scars left by the Cambodian genocide on society.

A meditative reflection by the Lebanese artist and writer on language and its loss.

A meditative reflection by the Lebanese artist and writer on language and its loss.

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?

Fatima-Zahra Lakrissa revisits a sequence of Morocco's cultural history: the encounter of two anthropologists and the intersecting history of their approaches to popular and traditional art objects.

An artistic exploration of the political and emotional stakes of translation in the context of asylum law, through the lens of rarely heard testimonies: those of interpreters.

A delightful dive, both documentary and imaginary, into a dreamlike and cult horror cinema in the southern United States.

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

Over a decade’s worth of essays: movies of America in parallax view.

Architect Mark Lee presents a body of work on the basis of five considerations: on history, on cadence, on autonomy, on America, and on point.

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

How does photography depict our environment? How does it contribute to its destruction? This book explores this paradox through the analysis of the work of fifteen contemporary artists.

A non-relationalist anthropological approach to singularity.

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

An artistic stroll with Vanessa Morisset.

Eiscafé Europa is a cartwheeling essay collection by Enis Maci on the culture, media, and politics of Europe. Comprehensive in its targets, the author mixes the personal and political to skewer and expose the media strategies and fascist lineage of the Identitarian Movement.

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.

Maria Clara Araújo dos Passos examines the interplay of education, identity, and liberation in Brazil's travesti community.

The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.

First published in 1998, Nicolas Bourriaud's Relational Aesthetics laid out a thesis for art's turn towards participation, experience, and the whole of human relations. Over twenty years after its original release, Relational Aesthetics has been updated with a new translation by Denyse Beaulieu and a new foreword by the author.

The first French translation of Giorgio Grassi's 1967 text La construction logique de l'architecture [The Logical Construction of Architecture] is a strong statement in favor of an architecture conceived for its own sake, standing in opposition to the experimental excesses characteristic of both his time and ours.

Production of exhibitions and production of discourse on exhibitions.

The other side of images in cinema, between phenomenology, art history, literature and ecology.

An account of an imaginary fashion exhibition that has no clothing, but in its place, sonic responses to garments and cloth act as a series of calls to explore the concept of Fashion Thinking.

The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.

Considers the work of seven artists through the framework of art as research.

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.

In this essay, Alexandre Gérard recounts his discovery and interpretation—which was not entirely straightforward at first—of the work of his great-uncle, the artist Jean Dupuy (1925-2021).

A wide-ranging philosophical investigation into the origins and potential of "perspectivism", beyond mere relativism and subjective "interpretation".

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 analysis by American historian Dagmar Herzog of the emotional springs and body-related obsessions of the new extreme right.