Dada

This historical essay assesses the impact of Dadaist ballet Relâches on the French artistic community by restoring the historical context that has transformed the collaboration of Picabia, Satie and Börlin into a unique event in the history of dance and performance.

Theatrical rendition of an experimental international symposium centered around the topic of “presence” in arts, humanities and social sciences at Cabaret Voltaire.

Experimental poetry, historical avant-garde, contemporary music, dance, visual arts, intermedia.

The influence of cartoon on Duchamp's work.

This publication aims to explore how the multiple production of Raoul Hausmann, a central figure of Dada, has helped to shape the art of modernity.

Thierry de Duve's writings on Marcel Duchamp.

Seven essays about Marcel Duchamp's work.

A genealogy of cut-up: the history and development of a radical and pioneering literary technique, in Europe and the US, in the twentieth century (readings from William S. Burroughs).

A film by Pascal Goblot that explores an exceptional relationship between two influential figures of contemporary art.

A visual archive of movement.

A real, potential and fictitious museum by Michel Giroud.

First publication ever to focus exclusively on Marcel Duchamp's Pharmacie, the first rectified readymade in art history.

Transcript of Jeff Wall's extraordinary lecture on Marcel Duchamp's great legacy Étant donnés, presented at the First Annual Anne d'Harnoncourt Memorial Symposium, September 11, 2009, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.

Jean Dupuy's anagrams, from the 1970's to the present day (artist's book): 160 series of works accompanied by the artist's notes, with texts by Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux and Emmanuelle Lequeux.

Raoul Hausmann's autobiographical novel.

First publication ever to be devoted entirely to Duchamp's Broyeuse de chocolat, this volume also documents the event organized by the Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of this iconic work.

French edition of a study which not only offers new interpretations of Rauschenberg's work, but also deepens our understanding of the entire neo-avant-garde project.

The Nouveau Réalisme between Paris and West Germany in the 1960's.

A unique testimony to Duchamp's personality, to his relationship to his friends and to his works, and to the slow reception of his works in France and in the U.S.

The resurgence of Dada in the U.S. (a genealogy of American post-war experimental art).

First major publication devoted to the mysterious germano-soviet artist's collages, one of the latest discoveries of constructivism.

From Picabia's unpublished love letters to a philosophical and aesthetic inquiry on art, through Goethe, Schlegel, Hegel, or Baudelaire.

The work of an underestimated writer, a founder of the Ultraism, initiator of Dada in the 1920s Spain.

A poetic investigation into the exile of Merz founder Kurt Schwitters in Norway and England after the Nazis' takeover of Germany.

First critical anthology of the poetry of Raoul Hausmann, one of the founders of Dada Berlin. It features many unpublished documents, an introductory essay by Isabelle Maunet-Salliet, and a recording of phonetic poems read by Raoul Hausmann.

Research about the potential of the Merzbau in contemporary art and architecture, with contributions by art historians, artists, critics and architects.

J. Donguy introduces the visual and sound experimentations of concrete poetry, from 1953 (Gomringer and de Campos) to the current movements ("digital area"). The anthology, followed by an international bibliography, offers the first overview of this art, with 300 illustrations.

Marcel Duchamp met Lydie Sarazin-Levassor at the end of March 1927. On 7 June, they were married. Francis Picabia acted as a witness and the ceremony was filmed by Man Ray. On 25 January 1928, they divorced. Lydie Sarazin-Levassor tells the story of their marriage.

A critical counterpoint to the famous Tzara's cronic published in the Dada Almanach, by the founder of the Cabaret Voltaire.

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

Reprint of the first Dada anthology (Berlin, 1920), with Tzara's chronicles, manifests and documents.

A new approach of Duchamp's keywords.

Marcel Duchamp met Lydie Sarazin-Levassor at the end of March 1927. On 7 June, they were married. Francis Picabia acted as a witness and the ceremony was filmed by Man Ray. On 25 January 1928, they divorced. Lydie Sarazin-Levassor tells the story of their marriage, presents us with “her” Marcel, and relates her encounters with Jacques Doucet, Constantin Brancusi, Henri-Pierre Roché, Man Ray and Kiki de Montparnasse, Jean Cocteau, the Ballets Russes, the Duchamp family, Jean Crotti, Mary Rumsey, Katherine Dreier and Robert Desnos, and describes the atmosphere at the Villons' (in Puteaux, just outside Paris), the Picabias' (at Mougins, in the South of France) and the Sarazin-Levassors' (in Étretat, on the Normandy coast).

Marcel Duchamp “laid bare” by Marc Décimo who talks about the creative process in this essay on the father of conceptual art.

Jean Dupuy's anagrams in three volumes, with a selection of artworks.

The last document of the dadasopher of Berlin.

An essay on Duchamp's readings, and a systematic chart of his personnal library.

A Fluxus journal.

This biography of Hermann Hesse by his friend Hugo Ball is one of the best exposés of his spiritual journeys, and also an approach of Ball's own fundamental themes

The anti-romanesque, a-metaphysical and theoretical Einstein's dadaist autobiography.

Reference monograph, with an introduction by Herbert Read and autobiographical texts by the artist.

Reference monograph, with an introduction by Herbert Read and autobiographical texts by the artist.

Reference monograph, with an introduction by Herbert Read and autobiographical texts by the artist.

Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) is the poet through whom Dada arrived. In Zurich, he animated the Cabaret Voltaire with Hugo Ball; in Paris, he then inspired some surrealists in the making. If he was a great lover of Villon and Rabelais, his poetry is as iconoclastic as the music of Nurse With Wound, who composed for this edition of Minuits pour géants an unpublished piece lasting about ten minutes: On the Edge of the Outside.

Powerful instrumental music performed by Robert Rauschenberg, Kat Epple, and Bob Stohl on electronics, and a series of musical metal sculptures called Strategic Structures.

This publication devoted to Otto Dix's print works (woodcuts, etchings, lithographs) showcases a collection from the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Germany. A large iconographic thematic section and a series of essays revisit Otto Dix's favourite themes—the nude, the portrait, the city, religion and war—symptomatic of his desire to portray man holistically, from birth to death, as a creature of flesh, palpitations and blood.

Originally released by Multhipla Records, The Entire Musical Work of Marcel Duchamp is a collection of experimental pieces composed in 1913 by the legendary artist, and executed by Petr Kotik and the S.E.M. Ensemble in 1976. Employing chance operations and non-musical sounds, Marcel Duchamp's musical oeuvre predated some radical concepts developed forty years later by John Cage.

A complete study on Tinguely's Torpedo Institut, an ever-evolving & never-ending iconoclastic exhibition venue shut down after his death – and against his will. Gathering the Swiss artist's latest works, and those of his closest friends (Niki de Saint Phalle, Daniel Spoerri, Ben...), this “total anti-museum” is now reassigned to its rightful place among Tinguely's oeuvre in the form of this exceptional publication.