Figurative painting

 
 
Dorothy Iannone - The Story of Bern, [or] Showing Colors
2019
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
The seminal tale of Iannone's advocacy for sexual liberation.
Nicole Eisenman - L\'incroyable
2019
French edition
L'Incroyable
L'Incroyable - L'Incroyable (magazine)
L'Incroyable is a monographic magazine dedicated to an artist's teenage years and his cultural background. This third issue proposes an immersion into the young years of artist Nicole Eisenman in New York in the 1980s.
Rendez-vous à Paris - Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Cie (1900-1939)
2019
French edition
Kaph Books
Rendez-vous in Paris: Picasso, Chagall, Modigliani & Co (1900-1939) is a collaborative publication between Kaph Books, Louvre Abu Dhabi and Centre Pompidou, which serves to discover the Paris of the “Roaring Twenties”—a Bohemian hub for artists from across Europe. This group of artists came together at a moment of extraordinary creativity to produce some of the most innovative art of the 20th century.
Henni Alftan -
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Is-Land
First monograph.
 Yan Pei-Ming - Yan Pei-Ming face à Courbet
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A face to face between the great works of Gustave Courbet and new paintings by contemporary artist Yan Pei-Ming, specially created for the bicentenary of the birth of Courbet.
Enoc Perez - Liberty & Restraint
2019
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph.
 Yan Pei-Ming - The Man Who Weeps
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph: a retrospective of Yan Pei-Ming's paintings and watercolors from 2006 to 2019, structured around the figure of disappearance and violence, and around the confrontation with the works of the masters of the past as well as with modern iconography, with essays by Franck Gautherot, David Liot, Xavier Douroux and Fabian Stech.
Helge Reumann - Hinterwelt
2019
no text
White Rabbit Prod - Pool of Tears
A collection of paintings by Helge Reumann published in Pool Of Tears, a series of small format artist's books.
Mario Schifano - America 1970
2019
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
Mario Schifano's road trip in the United States.
Sonia Boyce - Thoughtful Disobedience - Nouvelle édition française
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Villa Arson
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.
Alfredo Volpi - The Poetics of Colour
2018
trilingual edition (English / French / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue of the first international retrospective dedicated to Brazilian-Italian painter Alfredo Volpi: a thorough exploration in words and images of the painter's peculiar life and career—from the bounds and relationships with the Brazilian art community, to his special link to the city of São Paulo and his adopted country, leading to the development of his unique artistic language.
Tom Wesselmann - La Promesse du Bonheur
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This catalogue gives a critical overview of a key American Pop artist focusing on specific themes within his work: Victorian and post-Victorian sexuality, female agency, postwar economic abundance, beauty, the erotics of anticipation, the politics of the gaze, and strategies of indeterminacy. Includes essays by Chris Sharp and Sabrina Tarasoff.
Julien des Monstiers -
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Christophe Gaillard Gallery
First monograph: focusing on French painter's Julien des Monstiers most recent work, this publication features a rich iconography with reproductions and exhibition views. An introductory text by Frédéric Valabrègue invites us into the artist's studio, and the interview by Alain Berland gives a formidable insight into des Monstiers' practice.
Rémy Zaugg - Après Rémy Zaugg /  Avant Rémy Zaugg
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Rémy Zaugg's early work.
Seta Manoukian - Painting in Levitation
2018
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
This publication looks back at Manoukian's pictorial work, focusing on the 70s and 80s periods of her practice. It includes an essay by Gregory Buchakjian, a chronology by Aline Manoukian, and an interview with the artist by Kristine Khouri.
Hans Hartung - Les années de guerre
2018
French edition
Fondation Hartung Bergman
This catalogue looks back at Hartung's artistic production and life during the Second World War.
Anne Van der Linden - Zoo
2018
French edition
White Rabbit Prod - Pool of Tears
A collection of paintings by Anne Van Der Linden, exhibited at Galerie Corinne Bonnet in 2018, published in Pool Of Tears, a series of small format artist's books.
Louis Michel Eilshemius - Six Musical Moods (+ CD)
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
The first publication ever dedicated to the musical works of American painter Louis Michel Eilshemius: Halfway between romantic tradition and futurist audacity, these sound pieces which prefigure the use of sampling are interpreted with virtuosity by the young pianist Imke Lichtwark in the accompanying CD. The book also includes texts by Roberto Ohrt, Sven Daigger, Stefan Banz, and by Eilshemius himself.
Courbet, épistolier – 24 lettres inédites + La correspondance de Courbet – 20 ans après (2 livres)
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Fama
32.00 24.00 €
Special offer for the purchase of two volumes dedicated to correspondence of Gustave Courbet.
La correspondance de Courbet - 20 ans après
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Fama
A review of the epistolary correspondence of Gustave Courbet, by an ethnologist, a writer, a psychoanalyst, a hunter, a philosopher, a gastroenterologist, a psychiatrist, two curators, and six art historians.
Andro Wekua -
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph.
Eric Fischl - If Art Could Talk
2018
English edition
Mousse
Acclaimed for his dark depiction of the American suburbs, painter Eric Fischl sometimes positions artworks within his compositions as symbolic elements. This thematic catalogue brings them together, including more than 120 painting reproductions, and an interview with the artist by Dallas Contemporary Museum director Peter Doroshenko.
Rebecka Tollens - Bright
2018
no text
United Dead Artists
This publication explores the fascinating world of Franco-Swedish artist Rebecka Tollens: Inspired by her own dreams, these lead pencil drawings conjure a troubled atmosphere intermingling themes of Nordic mysticism, sorority and childhood. The publication highlights a series devoted to the Sami people from the Far North.
Judy Chicago - Through the Flower - Mon combat d\'artiste femme
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
First French translation of Judy Chicago's autobiography-manifesto.
Sarah Wilson - Figurations ± 68 - Le monde visuel de la French Theory
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
The encounters between the most prominent French philosophers of the 1960s and 1970s and the artists of their times, most particularly the protagonists of the Narrative Figuration movement.
Jean Reubrez - Franz Radziwill, l\'imagier ambigu
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
An in-depth and circumstantial study of the work of Franz Radziwill (1895-1983), a major and controversial representative of “magical realism” in painting.
Greg Parma Smith - My Ideas
2018
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
The private and personal side of a painter (first monograph / artist's book).
Rafael Delacruz - Exploding Jezebel
2018
no text
Nieves
A selection of recent paintings by San Francisco-born artist Rafael Delacruz. Drawn from the artist's Tech Bum series—which envisions a future portrait of his native Bay Area—, and also from the artist's personal imagery, Exploding Jezebel untwists a narrative universe of misfit characters in Paul Klee-like palettes and visionary hues. Delacruz's work presents a singular exploration of chromatic, painterly storytelling.
Quintessa Matranga - Toilet Paintings
2018
no text
Nieves
Matrangra's inaugural publication presents her celebrated series Toilet Paintings.
Kelly Beeman - Window Shopping
2018
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The first publication dedicated to the work of fashion illustrator and artist Kelly Beeman. Drawing her inspiration from lookbooks and catwalk shots, Kelly Beeman creates paintings that plunges the viewer into a fantasy world of rare delicacy, tinted with subtle references to interior design, architecture, music and literature.
Beatriz González - 1965-2017
2017
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
CAPC
Catalogue celebrating the first European retrospective of the artist and pedagogue Beatriz González: the publication explores 50 years of plural and polymorphic work, inspired by the historical and cultural realities of Colombia. It features a rich selection of images and a critical apparatus which explores the artist's career while revealing the contemporaneity of her work.
Riccardo Baruzzi - Del disegno disposto alla pittura
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Cura. - Cura.books
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.
Enzo Cucchi - Fifty Years of Art Graphics
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
Fifty years of graphic and editorial production of one of the most visionary artists of his generation—Enzo Cucchi. The catalogue includes more than a hundred plates, ordered chronologically, photographic reproductions, detailed information, and a series of essays by reknowned contributors.
Mark Thomas Gibson - Early Retirement
2017
no text
Edition Patrick Frey
Mark Thomas Gibson questions the long-lost quest for utopia in the USA through a narrative that brings together the high and low visual languages of painting and comics.
Sonia Boyce - Thoughtful Disobedience
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Villa Arson
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.
François Michaud - Martin Jannink
2017
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
Monograph dedicated to painter Martin Jannink by François Michaud, curator at Paris Museum of Modern Art. The rare and remarkable painting of the French-Dutch artist is figurative, both romantic and expressionist, full of melancholia, out of present time, with a delicate and disturbing strongness. The publication also documents Jannink's participation in the 1956 Budapest insurrection.
Sophie von Hellermann - Cranford Collection 06
2017
English edition
various
Catalogue presenting a series of watercolours in which artist Sophie von Hellermann re-interprets artworks by Alex Israel, Sergej Jensen, Karen Kilimnik, Sarah Lucas, Marisa Merz, Kelley Walker, etc., all from the Cranford Collection.
Pietro Roccasalva -
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
Reference monograph surveying ten years of work centered around painting, with forays in other forms of art. The Italian artist's conceptual universe interweaves personal experiences with references to art history, literature, and music as well as to cinema.
Josef Maria Schröder -
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
First monograph dedicated to the long forgotten German artist Josef Maria Schröder. Starting as a painter during the interwar period, Schröder then developed a ballpoint pen technique with which he produced intensely luminous abstract compositions and portraits of a surrealist/constructivist cast. These late works are featured in this volume, which includes original documents from the artist's estate.
Eberhard Havekost - Inhalt
2017
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
An overview of the German artist's work, through a selection of paintings from 2006 to 2016.
Alex Katz - Katz
2017
English edition
Nero
This publication, edited by Enzo Cucchi, gathers drawings by Alex Katz and words by his son Vincent. It is a project that takes shape through the intimate relationship between the three subjects.
Yves Sarfati - L\'Anti-Origine du monde - Comment Whistler a tué Courbet
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Rereading L'Origine du monde and the relationship between Gustave Courbet and James Whistler.
Yve-Alain Bois - La peinture comme modèle
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
The first French translation of Yve-Alain Bois' reference study on modernism
Martial Raysse - Sera montrée une suite de dessins, études et modellos, issus d\'une pratique peu usitée de nos jours, mais qui n\'a rien perdu de son charme, ni de sa pertinence
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
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.
 Salvo -
2017
Italian edition
Nero
Paperback tribute guide to the work of Italian artist Salvatore Mangione (Salvo).
Matthias Dornfeld - D647
2017
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This catalogue gives an overview of the works by German painter Matthias Dornfeld, who depicts traditional subjects of classical paintings—landscapes, portraits, still lifes—with a style inherited from naïve expressive painting.
 Yan Pei-Ming - Ruines du temps réel
2017
French edition
various
Catalogue of works by Chinese painter Yan Pei-Ming, gathering a series of landscapes, portraits, and historical scenes exposing the tragedy of our contemporary world. Featuring exhibition views, a text by Xavier Douroux, and an interview with the artist by Pascal Pique (catalogue of the eponymous exhibition at Centre Régional d'Art Contemporain in Sète, France).
Thomas Huber - Extase
2017
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
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.
Maria Lassnig - Woman Power - Maria Lassnig in New York – 1968-1980
2017
English edition
Petzel
This catalogue brings together works and archival material from Lassnig's New York days. Along with her paintings, watercolors and drawings, the publication gathers documenation on animated films she created in collaboration with the Women/Artists/Filmmakers, Inc. group. It also includes a text by Elisabeth Bronfen, “A Mysterious Point of Certainty: Maria Lassnig's Body-Awareness Painting.”
Johannes Kahrs - Then, maybe, the explosion of a star (2 books box set)
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Plateau / Frac Île-de-France
Two-volume monograph featuring a picture book with a wide selection of portraits, interiors, and landscapes by the German painter, and a book of interview with Xavier Franceschi from Frac Île-de-France.
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