Art & language

An ironic, historic and personal assessment of the transformations of art in the years 1950-1960 by one member of the New realists: the story of collage, the return of dada, an evocation of Léo Malet, the work with Raymond Hains...

Reference monograph designed by the English artist, focusing on the projects of the last five years, with a new theoretical framework and full description of numerous projects.

This publication, conceived by Peter Downsbrough, includes three unpublished texts and constitutes a real artist's book. The limited edition is accompanied with a box set signed and enhanced with the stamp of two parallel lines, as well as an original work, folded and inserted in the book.

Can your monkey do the dog is the title for this book conceived jointly by Josh Smith and Christopher Wool. Thanks to digital imaging, they created together a series of pieces; one of them proposed an image from his corpus, which the other one reworked, by adding or removing elements. A new "layer" was each time superimposed on the previous one, without any constraint or mutual censorship regulating the alternating interventions.

This publication reunites a selection of critical writings for the most part printed in magazines or exhibition catalogues: a reinterpretation of Conceptual and Minimal art, as much as a testimony of the 90's art scene.

Artists' book: the materialization of John dewey's conceptual system.

This publication, conceived by Peter Downsbrough, includes three unpublished texts and constitutes a real artist's book. A work on the notion of position and centring which questions the relationship between space and language.

This collaborative project by Mark Soo and Tim Lee formally pushes the boundaries of what a book is. The book is blank except for four printed pages containing words set in Univers.

Artist's book.

The writings by Annette Messager assembed by Marie-Laure Bernadac appear to be exuberant, poetic, trivial. Lavishly illustrated, this monograph contains a collection of texts and interviews with the artist, many of which are unpublished.

Details shows a succession of scenes filmed in static shots, appearing behind words letters cut on a black screen, giving the word the function of the frame and therefore rephrasing the link between language and image.

A video creation by one of the most famous representatives of conceptual art, exploring relations between language, time and space.

Art as theory of the practice and practice of the theory.

First monograph dedicated to the Czech artist .

A book and a DVD-ROM by Thierry Kuntzel (notes, essays, works, database).

An unpublished interview with the American artist, a series of photographic boards and an essay by Kay Rosen: a presentation of her recent works as well as a general introduction to her oeuvre.

An impersonal autobiography (artist's book).

Two studies on the link between language, art and reality in Marcel Duchamp's work.

Lavishly illustrated, this monograph contains a collection of texts and interviews with the artist, many of which are unpublished.

A limited and signed edition of the monograph Mot pour mot, with original artwork by the artist.

Poetry and space for Marcel Broodthaers—a critical essay.

New edition of the Letterist manifesto, with an original artwork of inter-participation, consisting of a photograph torn by the artist and inserted in an envelope.

Monograph with texts by Eva González-Sancho, Michel Gauthier, Line Herbert-Arnaud and Richard Klein, exploring different aspects of Downsbrough's work (movies, maps, space...).

Drawings.

German artist's "word-images" (early works).

A video triptych.

Script of the movie by Liam Gillick, adaptation of Underground Man - Fragments of Future Histories, by Gabriel Tarde (1896).

An urban journey.

Reference monograph.

Artist's book: an invitation to travel by way of a mappemonde punctuated by lines and photographs of city spaces.

The writings of a major artist of the 70's NY scene.

A b/w movie realized in digital video, on the road and between machines.

Artist's book.

Five or six contains texts selected from more than 100 reviews, articles, and catalogue essays published by Liam Gillick since 1989.

Artist's book.

Exhaustive first presentation of Christian Robert-Tissot's work.

Unpublished text, original signed silkscreen print.

37 minutes sound piece realized in 1995 (limited edition).

Unpublished text illustrated by a unique original signed lacerated poster.

The series of engravings A Sheet of Paper, with which Rémy Zaugg develops his reflection on the exchange of the glance between the spectator and the work

Preliminary graphic designs for paintings.

Paintings, photographies of two exhibitions, exhibitions plans.

Silkscreen (120 numbered and signed copies limited edition).

Lithograph (120 numbered and signed copies limited edition).

Monograph.

New perspectives on the process of translation from the works of more than thirty international artists.

The re-issue of Rene Ricard's second volume of poetry, originally published in 1989, is a vibrant testament to 1980s New York.

A history of feminist gesture and performance since the 1960s and 1970s in California through an interview conducted by Carole Douillard with art critic Amelia Jones and two pioneering American artists, Barbara T. Smith and Susan Lacy.