Art & sexuality / erotism

This catalogue is the first survey of the art and practice of Art+Positive, a significant affinity group of ACT UP New York during the early years of the AIDS epidemic. The publication presents previously unseen archives featuring artworks, documents, protest ephemera, and meeting notes, as well as commissioned essays and unpublished writings.

The third issue of the erotic journal Féros, featuring Phoebe Clarke, Claire Dantzer, Victor Man, Anthony Pearson, Benoit Platéus, Georges Tony Stoll, Matthew Stone, Phillip Zach...).

Reference monograph, lavishly illustrated, with a preface by Philippe Dagen and a long analysis by Xavier-Gilles Néret of Daisuke Ichiba's work (based on unpublished interviews with the artist), placed in the double context in which it emerged, the Japanese and French graphic underground scenes.

After the long acclaimed Nova Sodomia opus (Une indécence française), S.E. Otto is back with this oversized book (A3 format) Colossale finesse (Colossal Fineness – The women of cockaigne). Otto pays hereby a thundering tribute to all things fleshy, ample, in a single word: to abundance.

An odyssey into sex, death and terror: the sleaziest and scariest pulp comics ever created.

The first monograph on Riccardo Baruzzi, containing a selection of images of works made from 2010 to the present and writings by Alessandro Rabottini, Davide Ferri and Luca Bertolo. A perfect introduction to the italian artist's practice, which explores the notion of the unfinished and the provisional by way of an aesthetic investigation of drawing through the body of the painting.

This voluminous publication gathers 818 drawings by Dutch artist Michael Tedja, along with a series of commissioned texts by critics and curators. It highlights Tedja's practice as hypersubjective and all-encompassing, as well as predicated on studying the circulation and recycling of images.

At the crossroads of an artist book and a graphic novel, Fawda is an ode to Casablanca's life, presented through a non-linear narrative inspired by vox-pops.

Anthology of selected commercial ads published within the US Playboy from 1960 to 2003, Boy constitutes a visual commentary on the normative representations of desire and on the masculine consumer's ideal of life at the end of the 20th century.

On the occasion of her carte blanche at the Palais de Tokyo from 18 October 2017 to 7 January 2018, French artist Camille Henrot is the guest editor-in-chief of this issue 26 of the magazine Palais, devoted entirely to the exhibition “Days are Dogs.”

Collection of black & white photographs celebrating Italian actress and filmmaker Asia Argento in Paris. The volume is risograph-printed and enclosed in a silk-screened slipcase. With a quite striking foreword by no-wave priestess Lydia Lunch.

Focusing on several major collaborative performance-videos by a figure of the British Black Art movement, this illustrated monograph includes a series of essays which interpret Boyce's interdisciplinary practice in the light of art history, and analyse her interest in black feminism, cultural studies, film studies, art history and critical theory.

The first title in a series of publications dedicated to artists' residencies at Maison Bernard, a masterpiece of organic architecture carried out in the 1970s by Antti Lovag in association with Pierre Bernard. The book documents a site-specific project by Paul-Armand Gette, the first artist ever to exhibit at Maison Bernard.

This monograph documents over a decade of works and exhibitions, and offers an intimate portrait of an artist who put the language at the center of his visual practice.

Billy and her sister Betty live in a futuristic American suburban society obsessed with sex. A series of “disturbing” events will change their lives into a grotesque comic novel… Published in 1968 by Grove Press, Billy & Betty is a biting satire of the American way of life, somewhere between Burgess, Calaferte or the Monty Pythons, and a cult object that inspired Nurse with Wound.

Arcana 2 is the second volume of a series of books designed to mount an archive of the present through a collection of emblematic documents of the twenty-first century, culled from the media, advertising, and the Internet. Based on the Nordic myth of Odin, this volume investigates the contemporary representation of the male body.

An insurrectional youth in quest for alternative words: a poetic and visual work by photographer Sadie von Paris and writer Véronique Bergen.

Perfect Cherry Blossom presents the first and long-awaited collaboration between British artist Oliver Payne and Japanese pop artist Keiichi Tanaami. For this new series, Payne has reworked original drawings by Tanaami, adding stickers featuring motifs from Japanese “bullet hell” video games.

An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.

Set in a grotesque and colorful decorum, the new kaleidoscopic visions of Keiichi Tanaami intertwine the obsessional patterns of the great Japanese master—eyes, military aircraft, eroticized flesh, and pop culture icons.

Rereading L'Origine du monde and the relationship between Gustave Courbet and James Whistler.

The hundred or so drawings gathered in this monograph provide an intimate glance into the work of Martial Raysse, making available for the general public a body of work that has been little known until now. With an introduction by Anaël Pigeat.

In this publication, artist Gianfranco Baruchello and writer Michele Mari join forces to provide descriptions of their own dreams. Baruchello's illustrations and Mari's written notes unveil oneiric worlds made of symbols, recurring images, and obsessions, and address the question: just what are dreams made of?

9th issue of the art and research magazine is dedicated to Pierre Klossowski.

First monographic catalogue dedicated to the works of multidisciplinary artist Darja Bajagić who culls her imagery from fan-gore magazines, true-crime TV shows, fetish websites, obscure online forums, and hidden chat rooms tucked away in the darker reaches of the Web.

The avant-garde of the 1990s.

A critical analysis of Hijikata Tatsumi's Butoh dance.

Swiss-based artist Raffael Waldner is obsessed by car culture: its gloss, glamour and erotic undertones. In Salon, he focuses on motor shows, photographing—with superficial coolness––the hundreds of female models who act as car company ambassadors.

Artist's book containing a selection of 80 erotic drawings and watercolours taken from the 66 sketchbooks that the artist has used since 1972, and never previously published.

Retrospective catalogue (new edition).

This book displays the unseen early artworks from Loulou Picasso while he was in art school till the begining of Bazooka in 1976. It also includes some collaboration with Olivia Clavel and Romain Slocombe. Foreword by Genesis P-Orridge.

Collage-book from vintage strip-tease magazines.

Monograph featuring series of paintings made by the French-American artist between 2013 and 2016 and based from photographic documents originating mainly from sexploitation films of the 1960s. The volume also includes two essays and exhibitions views.

This artist's coloring book is a silent illustrated narrative of a sudden lust-filled encounter between a cowgirl and an Indian girl and their threatening journey through a psychedelic Wild West at night.

An erotic coloring artist's book juxtaposing scenes of intimacy and loneliness in the city at night.

The new organic soundtrack creation by Francisco López inspired by trance rituals.

Special issue published to celebrate the 22nd edition of L'Étrange festival—dedicated to the strangest and most provocative cinema.

Selected from Bernstein's entire body of work, a compilation of graffiti-inspired charcoal drawings involving male external genital organs.

Monograph offering a collective literary and poetic rendering of Alan Reid's works.

4-volume box set gathering six of the artist's most iconic photographic series. This special publication brings an end to a research on the notion of document that started in 1999 (limited edition of 700 signed copies).

Caroline Sury's latest work: a series of phantasmagoric shadows cut out of black paper in a very refined mirror game.

The graphic tabloïd's brand new issue—for the first time in full color.

First major publication to contextualize feminist artist Bernstein's vast oeuvre within the history of art, feminism, and the American socio-political climate of the late-20th century.

Art and Identity Special Summer (triple) issue.

The first monograph dedicated to the chronicler of New York's underground, Still, Looking – Works 1969-2016 explores the interrelation between Sullivan's photographic work and his paintings & drawings. Includes essays by art historian William J. Simmons and critic Linda Yablonsky.

Counterculture & cyberculture: exploring human potential from psychotropic substances to technological advances.

Martial Raysse's reference monograph: a comprehensive, luxurious and lavishly illustrated publication recounting Raysse's multiple pictorial metamorphosis since 1957.

Martial Raysse's reference monograph, with an original lithograph, numbered and signed.

This catalogue provides a set of photographs and drawings by the artist, as well as documents and installation views that reflect the obsessions of Carreyn, from the female body and pop occultism to symbolism and surrealism.