Essay

Thomas Crow aims to explain what makes Warhol a precursor and a virtual paragon of the contemporary artist.

Starting from the deep malaise and the violent crisis of confidence in state institutions in modern democracies, this essay analyzes the growing influence and power of the multinational corporations in modern democracies.

The essays collected in Thinking – Resisting – Reading the Political engage with political phenomena in their interrelations with arts as well as with recent theoretical and philosophical perspectives on the very meaning of politics, the political, and community.

The law after the dematerialization of the artwork: a legal perspective on contemporary art.

Igor Zabel's writings.

An analysis of the contemporary crisis of the concept of community, rethought in a philosophical but also poetical perspective, from the work of Maurice Blanchot, Jean-Luc Nancy, Giorgio Agamben, Georges Bataille, René Char, and Henri Michaux.

A study of the production and reception of art in the USSR in the years 1920-1930 through the analysis of the work of the Society of Easel Painters (OST)'s members.

Public garden in art between the mid-XIXth and early XXth centuries.

Digital book.

In this short essay, philosopher Richard Shusterman discusses Arthur Danto's aesthetic theory and develops a new reflection to go beyond the differences between art and life.

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.

Essay and interviews.

An investigation into the uses of “sound document” in music, since the beginning of phonography.

Art and moving images.

A study of the philosophical, ethical and political underpinnings of installation art.

An insight into the work of French dancer and choreographer Maguy Marin, with a film on DVD and an audio CD.

The collection of texts of the performance art theorist/activist.

A biographical approach to Gerhard Richter's work.

A biographical approach to Gerhard Richter's work.

The relationship between language and thought in pedagogy and humanities at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.

An essay of political philosophy in which José M. González García examines the role of the metaphor in politics throughout history.

A critical biography.

A biographical rereading of the English playwright's work.

A philosophical, social and political study of a series of public sculptures by Claes Oldenburg et Coosje van Bruggen.

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

An introduction to the “work of resistance” of East German dramatist, poet, writer and essayist Heiner Müller.

The story of objectivity, by two of the greatest historians of science today.

A sociological approach to new practices in public art commissioning.

A litterary tribute to Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet by the director, screenwriter and writer Vincent Nordon.

Catalogue raisonné, with 170 publications described, a biography, and an USB card containing a PDF file and an audio interview of Paul-Armand Gette.

Essay.

New perspectives on Marguerite Duras' cinematographic works and a young generation of videographers / filmmakers.

Two both aesthetic and political engaged considerations on the relationship between the West and the Middle East (or more generally between the West and its others), from the figures of exile and the two cultures: three unpublished interviews of Edward W. Said / a deconstruction of a common European view on the Arab world by Seloua Luste Boulbina.

First major monograph in French, fully illustrated, devoted to the key figure of Joseph Beuys, revealing the aesthetic ambition and political issues through a genealogy that retraces a whole part of the XXth century.

A pioneering and masterly study of the history of art markets in Italy (covering the fields of painting and scultpure, but also architecture, applied arts and performing arts), which demonstrates the possibility of an economic history of art linking social or political mechanisms and symbolic or patrimonial issues.

Letterism's history and posterity: a new reading of the historical issues of an unknown but influential artistic avant-garde.

The carpet paradigm: critical prolegomena to a theory of flatness (an original and stimulating analysis of an essential concept of modern art history).

The dimension of self-reflexivity in the work of eighteenth-century French painter, Jean-Siméon Chardin.

The unknown and disregarded literary arts of sixteenth century England (graffiti, tatoos, writing on clothes or ceramics...): a startling new perspective of early modern literature and cultural history.

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

An essay based on a group exhibition conceived by French philosopher and writer Gilles A. Tiberghien.

A text written between 1984 and 1987, with no equivalent in French literature.

Writings and interviews.

The first artistic perspective on prehistoric art through the rigorous study of its formal conventions and stylistic developments.

French translation of Manovich's major book The Language of New Media, the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media.

First translation in French of the study on American beaver by a pioneer of ethology and anthropology in the US, an avant-garde and surprisingly relevant work in an age of global ecological crisis.

A study of political and ideological stakes of Beuys' oeuvre and its myth in Germany.