Surrealism

The autobiography, translated into French for the first time, of Ré Soupault (1901-1996), trained at the Bauhaus, photographer, filmmaker, stylist, writer and traveler, translator of Dada and Surrealism, major protagonist of European artistic, literary and intellectual life, and companion of the avant-garde throughout the 20th century.

The last writings of Antonin Artaud published in English and brought together in one edition for the first time.

The origins, scope, and legacy of Duchamp's revolution in the visual arts.

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).

Retrospective monograph.

A short story by Xavier Forneret (1809-1884), set to music by Nurse With Wound.

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.

Ornella Volta's definitive posthumous book on Erik Satie, featuring all the composer's writings, largely unpublished documentation and biographical elements, for the first time precisely related to the works.

The reproduction / reconstruction of Lautréamont's extremely rare text by artists Vincent Labaume and Jean-Luc Moulène, who, with the help of photocopying, photography and digitization, continue a century-old tradition.

Artaud's last unpublished work.

The first monograph, lavishly illustrated, with a preface by Martin Scorsese and numerous texts, devoted to the work of the astonishing American photographer who resurrects forgotten techniques to revisit the aesthetics of the early days of photography (and capture all its uncanny strangeness).

A selection of paintings, drawings, and preparatory works by the Saudi artist that invite into a dreamlike realm where reality and imagination blur.

A specialist in French philosophy and literature, and a key intermediary in Japan for the work of Deleuze and Guattari, Artaud, Beckett and Genet, Uno Kuniichi publishes in French his fundamental text on Antonin Artaud, a revised, recomposed and expanded version of his thesis, written under the direction of Gilles Deleuze in 1980.

A specialist in French philosophy and literature, and a key intermediary in Japan for the work of Deleuze and Guattari, Artaud, Beckett and Genet, Uno Kuniichi publishes in French his fundamental text on Antonin Artaud, a revised, recomposed and expanded version of his thesis, written under the direction of Gilles Deleuze in 1980.

This book recounts Jean-Jacques Lebel's long and tumultuous passage through the powerful laboratory of ideas and experiments of surrealism that was the journal Front Unique (1955-1960), which heralded and sometimes prefigured his future protean activities in the fields of art, poetry and militancy (anticolonial and libertarian).

To mark the centenary of Surrealism, this ephemeral journal, featuring 150 contemporary voices from literature, art, cinema, poetry, theater, and civil society, brings together over 200 unpublished contributions, responding to the surrealist enquiries.

A partly autobiographical novel that the German surrealist artist and author Unica Zürn (1916-1970) wrote for her ten-year-old daughter in 1953, although it would never be published in her lifetime. This is the first translation of the tale from German into English.

This special boxed set, numbered 1 to 50, contains Franck Scurti's DVD Ulf Linde – Marcel Duchamp: Certifié pour copie conforme, Pascal Goblot's DVD Richard Hamilton dans le reflet de Marcel Duchamp and Pascal Goblot's book To be Broken / À refaire le Grand Verre, plus a silkscreen print on transparent film.

Gérard Berréby looks back at the first publishing experience of the man who was to become the director of Allia publishing house: the decision, in the early 1980s, to produce a pirate edition of Aragon's book—at the time opposed to any reprinting—, an unprecedented gesture that provoked numerous reactions in the literary world, and raised a number of questions linked to appropriation and self-publishing.

Combining archive material with a wide selection of photographs of body paintings produced by the duo in the 1970-1980s, this publication retraces the evolution of gender identities and the treatment of the female body in visual culture from the 1950s to the present.

Reference monograph of the most renowned Japanese artist-poet of the 20th century in Europe and the United States, active since the 1920s, a figure of visual poetry, linked to all the European and American literary and artistic avant-gardes, with numerous illustrations.

A selection of Tanaami's Picasso's series.

Edited, translated and with an introduction by Stephen Barber, A Sinister Assassin illuminates Artaud's last, most intensive and terminal work for the first time.

Three extraordinary texts—pitched between writing and image—that project Artaud's ferocious engagement with the act of drawing.

Special deluxe edition with an original photogravure by Cerith Wyn Evans.

In addition to providing an unprecedented overview of the Swiss Surrealist artist Walter Grab's oeuvre, this catalogue also presents a wide range of different angles on his art, including subjective looks at individual works, art history essays and an associative correspondence using the cadavre exquis technique that was so dear to the Surrealists.

A reevaluationof Surrealism since 1940: a large-scale, groundbreaking work covering seven decades, questioning the discourses, narratives, and debates on the poetic, political, and artistic commitments of the movement, in the context of the deep social and cultural mutations of the world of the second half of the 20th century.

An erudite investigation into the enigma of Marcel Duchamp's great testamentary work Étant donnés, an installation conceived for twenty years in the greatest secrecy before being unveiled to the public a year after the death of the inventor of the readymade, which gives the viewer new keys to interpretation, by examining both what the work concludes and what it opens.

Philosopher Éric Alliez rethinks Marcel Duchamp's legacy in relation to contemporary art and the image, psychoanalysis and gender.

The portfolio of the exhibition at the Jeu de Paume, the first major retrospective in France on the filmmaker and biologist specializing in underwater fauna Jean Painlevé (1902-1989), considered one of the founding fathers of scientific cinema and a source of inspiration for the avant-gardes and the surrealist movement.

First monograph of the Swiss artist Till Rabus, who creates phantasmagorical subjects from everyday objects and waste of our society before translating them on hyperrealistic canvases, in stagings taking up aesthetic codes of the history of painting and Baroque.

The first ever reissue of the piece recorded by Asger Jorn & Jean Dubuffet in 1960-61 in Paris.

The different aspects of the work of Marcel Mariën (1920-1993)–member of the surrealist group of Brussels, poet, creator of images, publisher, theoretician and political activist, accomplice of René Magritte and Guy Debord.

The first official monograph project around Ramsès Younan (1913-1966), a major figure and member of the Egyptian surrealists group, this volume gathers an exhaustive catalogue of Younan's paintings, drawings and visual experimentations with an anthology of critical essays about and by the artist.

A collection of Antoine Bernhart's automatic drawings.

The translated transcripts of two radio broadcasts by Artaud: To have done with the judgement of god (1947-48) and Madness and Black Magic (1946). Correspondences from that period are also included.

Two of Antonin Artaud's foremost poetic works from the last period of his life.

The facsimile edition of the visionary sketches and notes of the surrealist master for Brian Gibson's horror film Poltergeist II.

The first official monograph project around Ramsès Younan, a major figure and member of the Egyptian surrealists group, this volume gathers an exhaustive catalogue of Younan's paintings, drawings and visual experimentations with an anthology of critical essays about and by the artist.

A retrospective of Anne Van der Linden's paintings and drawings from 2015 to 2020.

An historical perspective of the representation of non-western art in western museums and imagination / an essay on the relations between African arts and avant-garde.

Monograph dedicated to the set of 70 pieces by Arnulf Rainer constituting the Fonds Michel Foëx, of which Rainer Michael Mason presents the first study.

English translation of Artaud le Mômo, edited in the spatial format Artaud intended, for the first time since its original edition in 1947. Includes eight original drawings by the French poet.

The stakes of Francis Picabia's creative process, between exaltation and rejection of the self, at the heart of the constitution of modernity.

A closer reading of the late poetry of Jean Hans Arp (1886-1966), major figure of the Dada movement in Zurich, a friend of the surrealists, painter, sculptor, also author of an important bilingual poetic work, which covers more than half a century of creation (with a choice of poems previously unpublished).

Jean Laude's writings on art.

The Japanese master's new large-format artist's book: a graphic hallucination on 40 pages of Bichrocolor collage drawings.

A courtly tale that takes the form of prose poems, dedicated to Surrealist artist Benjamin Péret. Written by Emmanuelle K., poet, storyteller, video artist, and companion of the Situationist International.