Art & war / violence

 
 
Rei Naito - Transphère - Émotions de croire
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
Third publication in the framework of the “Transphère” Exhibition cycle, this catalogue documents a work by Rei Naito, a Japanese artist who has built an international reputation with her minimalist and conceptual creations. The installation Émotions de croire (The emotion of belief) is a moving reflection on the atomic bomb, and a place of mourning and hope.
Rabih Mroué - Diary of a Leap Year
2017
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
In Diary of a Leap Year, Lebanese artist produces 366 daily collages from political newspapers in Lebanon and the Arab World, as a protest to the violence taking place in this region.
Jussi Parikka - The Contemporary Condition - A Slow, Contemporary Violence – Damaged Environments of Technological Culture
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
Finnish media theorist discusses slow violence & environmental crisis through the prism of art, design, and technological practices.
León Ferrari - The Words of Others - Conversations between God and a few men and between a few men and a few men and God
2017
English edition
X Artists' Books
The first full English translation of the Argentine artist León Ferrari's uncompromising literary masterpiece from 1967. A critique of the Vietnam War and American imperial politics, the book weaves together hundreds of excerpts from newspapers, periodicals, works of history, the Bible, and other sources.
Caméra(Auto)Contrôle (+ 2 books)
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
Exhibition Guide from the Triennal 50JPG 2016 – 50 Days for Photography in Geneva, accompanied by the two artist's books published on the occasion of the exhibitions, Giacomo Bianchetti – Bilderberg 2015 et Sébastien Reuzé – Indian Springs (bundle).
Sébastien Reuzé - Indian Springs
2016
no text
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
This artist's book gives a photographic account of the Creech Air Force Base—a Drone Base set in Indian Springs, Nevada, which carries out military actions in the Middle East. Picture alteration plunges the viewer into an eerie, dreamlike narrative recalling the universe of J. G. Ballard.
 Goldschmied & Chiari - La démocratie est illusion
2016
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
This monographic catalogue collects the visuals of works focusing on the relationship between the activities of the intelligence agencies and magic practices during the Cold War era.
Alexander Kluge - Le raid aérien sur Halberstadt le 8 avril 1945
2016
French edition
Diaphanes - Literature
Filmmaker and writer Alexander Kluge combines fiction and reality to deliver one of the most striking testimonies that have been written about the bombing of German cities by the Allies.
Alessandro de Francesco - La vision à distance
2016
French edition
Mix
Collection of poems gathering texts on similar subjects, such as the unknown, violence and war, technology and information, phylogeny and the ontogenesis.
Michael Lucken - Nakai Masakazu - Naissance de la théorie critique au Japon
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Délashiné!
An introduction to the work of a pioneer in media, cinema and sport criticism in Japan, whose thinking deeply marked the counter-culture movements of the 60's.
Greetings from Auschwitz
2015
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Greetings from Auschwitz is a book based on an unusual collection put together over several years by Polish artist and curator Paweł Szypulski. It shows postcards sent by tourists who visited the former Nazi death camp Auschwitz-Birkenau. The oldest postcard dates from 1947—only two years after the liberation of the camp.
Political Landscape / Politische Landschaft - Kunst, Widerstand, Salzkammergut
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
An unprecedented encounter between contemporary art and World War II historic & natural sites in Austria.
Eyal Weizman - The Roundabout Revolutions - Critical Spatial Practice 06
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Critical Spatial Practice
How did an urban apparatus put in the service of authoritarian power became the place of its undoing: the roundabout revolutions, from South Korea to recent Arab Spring.
Jérôme Zonder - Fruits
2015
no text
United Dead Artists
Jérôme Zonder's drawings in large format.
Giovanna Silva - Foxtrot Gate - Cyprus
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A portrait of a divided Nicosia.
Hermann Nitsch - 6. Sinfonie (2 CD)
2015
Tochnit Aleph
19.00 14.50 €
Nitsch's Sixth Symphony for large orchestra performed and recorded November 1, 1980 at Museum des 20. Jahrhunderts, Vienna.
PARIS LA - CHEZ CHEZ PERV PERV
2015
English edition
PARIS LA
DoPe Press
PARIS LA #13 or CHEZ CHEZ PERV PERV has been especially created by the artists Gardar Eide Einarsson, Matias Faldbakken, and Oscar Tuazon.
Dario Gamboni - La destruction de l\'art - Iconoclasme et vandalisme depuis la Révolution française
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The relationship between Modern art and its destruction.
Peter Piller - Materialien (F) - Nachkriegsordnung
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
The press photographs reproduced in this publication show the bombing of Bagdad. They were taken from German newspapers soon after the beginning of the second iraqi-american war in March of 2003. Following their removal they were placed and stuck in the centre of a piece of paper, aiming to be as precise as possible (artist's book).
Vandy Rattana - Monologue
2015
trilingual edition (English / French / Khmer)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
14.00 3.00 €
A “monologue” by the Cambodian photographer who offers an intimate reflection on the traumas of the recent history of his country.
Troy Brauntuch - Early Work
2015
English edition
Petzel
18.00 9.00 €
A large selection of drawings from Brauntuch's early carreer, based upon iconographic resources from the Third Reich.
Jann-Marc Rouillan - Le rat empoisonné
2014
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
The last volume of the journal of political activist Jann-Marc Rouillan after his prison release.
Poetic Series - Fear of Language
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
The third issue in the Poetic Series takes its title Fear of Language from the work of emerging Slovenian poet Katja Perat, featured alongside poetry by Judith Goldman and excerpts from Eileen Myles's forthcoming memoir, Afterglow. Artwork is provided by Willem de Rooij.
Yael Bartana - Two Minutes of Standstill - A Collective Performance by Yael Bartana
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
The role of history and commemoration in Germany today.
We Are Living on a Star
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Catalogue of the main contemporary exhibition at HOK in 2014.
Avava-ovava
2014
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Compendium of stories, reflections and images conceived by a group of young French Romanis, during their trip to Birkenau for the commemoration of the massacre of the Gypsy camp during the night of August 2nd to 3rd, 1944.
Trop humain - Artistes des XXe et XXIe siècles devant la souffrance
2014
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
Representation of pain in the art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Uriel Orlow - Unmade Film
2014
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
An audio-visual project about the impossibility of a film on the Deir Yassin massacre, exploring the complex ramifications of the place (2 volumes artist's book).
Art and Culture in Times of Conflict - Contemporary Reflections
2014
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
Ten contemporary artists present works thematically related to the exhibition “Ravaged: Art and Culture in Times of Conflict”. This publication explores their oeuvres and reveals their creative processes. This contemporary perspective makes clear that the destruction of cultural heritage remains a very current subject today.
Serge Pey - Agenda rouge de la résistance chilienne
2014
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A collection of poems dedicated to the Revolutionary Left Movement's struggle against fascism in Chile.
Nathan Réra - Rwanda, entre crise morale et malaise esthétique - Les médias, la photographie et le cinéma à l\'épreuve du génocide des Tutsi (1994-2014)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A historical and theoretical reflection, on the border between aesthetics and politics, on the decisive role of the images and the power and limits of representation, in the context of the last genocide of the twentieth century.
Akram Zaatari - Time Capsule, Kassel
2014
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A statement about speculation, photography, time and withdrawal.
Giovanna Silva - Libya - Inch by Inch, House by House, Alley by Alley
2014
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
A double portrait of Libya.
Jérôme Bertin - Première ligne - 105 mesures pour une guerre
2014
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A poetic manifesto against the brutality of all forms of power.
Jérôme Bertin - Projet Wolfli
2014
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A dystopian tale describing a guerilla between fascist militias and utopist groups.
Philippe Vatin - Voir et montrer la guerre - Images et discours d\'artistes en France (1914-1918)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Function of visual arts in France during the First World War.
Martha Rosler - E-flux journal - Culture Class
2013
English edition
Sternberg Press - E-flux journal
Martha Rosler embarks on a broad inquiry into the economic and historical precedents for today's soft ideology of creativity, with special focus on its elaborate retooling of class distinctions.
Gustav Metzger - Auto-creative Art
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mathieu Copeland editions
The most monumental auto-creative work ever made by Gustav Metzger (catalogue of the exhibition at MAC Lyon, with numerous archive documents, newly commissioned texts and a conversation with the artist).
Tadashi Kawamata - 11/09/2001 - 11/03/2011
2013
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Artist's book: Tadashi Kawamata compiles, like a scrapbook, photographs taken from newspaper reporting natural disasters, terrorist attacks or accidents.
Tadashi Kawamata - 11/09/2001 - 11/03/2011 - Limited edition
2013
no text
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Artist's book (Tadashi Kawamata compiles, like a scrapbook, photographs taken from newspaper reporting natural disasters, terrorist attacks or accidents), with an original artwork signed by the artist.
Jann-Marc Rouillan - Le tricard - Chronique du dehors d\'un interdit de séjour
2013
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Political activist Jann-Marc Rouillan chronicles his life on parole after 25 years in prison. With illustrations by Marie-Claire Cordat.
George Tabori - Autodafé - Mémoires
2013
French edition
Diaphanes - Literature
Autobiography of Hungarian stage director and playwright George Tabori: a collection of memories oscillating between pathos and drama, delivering a lucid picture of the rise of Nazism.
Jérôme Leuba - Battlefield
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First monograph.
Marc Bauer - The Collector
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
Artist's book (a series of drawings on paper, on aluminium, as well as some wall drawings, dealing with spoliation of artworks in France under the German occupation).
Frank Smith - Gaza, d\'ici-là
2013
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
(last copies available!)
Following the lead of American objectivist poetry, Gaza, d'ici-là is a poetry-testimony based on an official document published by the UN on one of the military operations carried out in Gaza by the Israeli government.
Carlo Ginzburg - Peur révérence terreur - Quatre essais d\'iconographie politique
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The frontispiece of Hobbes' Leviathan, Marat at his last breath by David, "Your country needs you", Guernica by Picasso: four essays on political iconography.
Georges Ibrahim Abdallah - Collectif international pour la libération de Georges Ibrahim Abdallah
2013
French edition
Al Dante - History, theory & criticism / essays
Publication documenting the case of Georges Ibrahim Abdallah—founder of the Lebanese Armed Revolutionary Factions, imprisoned in France since 1984.
Hazem El Moukaddem - Panorama des groupes révolutionnaires armés français de 1968 à 2000
2013
French edition
Al Dante - History, theory & criticism / essays
(last copies available!)
An overview of French revolutionary armed groups from 1968 to 2000.
Henri Fauconnier - Vision
2013
French edition
Lenka lente
A novella.
Omer Fast - 5,000 Feet Is the Best
2012
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Between a critical reader and an artist's book, this publication is dedicated to the eponymous work by Israeli video artist Omer Fast.
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