Art history

An ambitious and transversal study on the crisis of humanism resulting from modernity, and on the historical consequences of the universalist and absolute conception carried by Futurism and the Bauhaus, proposing little explored paths for a re-reading of the artistic stakes in the 20th century.

A story, between myth and reality, of Caravaggio, by parodic artist Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux.

Limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20, with an original artwork signed by the artist.

The development of spatial and tridimensional drawing in American art, both in theory and in practice, from the 1960s through the 1970s.

An anthology.

How to explain the intersection, during the twentieth century, of the ideology and theories on violence and creativity?

A transdisciplinary study that sheds new light on the birth of modern architecture in France through its relations with the printed text, vector of the diffusion of the architectural ideal at the scale of the nation, and the emergence of the public sphere between the end of the 17th century and the French Revolution.

A closer reading of the late poetry of Jean Hans Arp (1886-1966), major figure of the Dada movement in Zurich, a friend of the surrealists, painter, sculptor, also author of an important bilingual poetic work, which covers more than half a century of creation (with a choice of poems previously unpublished).

Jean Laude's writings on art.

A collective reassessment of Gertrude Stein's relationship to the arts, allowing to understand the complexity of the relationship between writing and visual arts in her work.

Conceived around an anthropology of the object, this book proposes to follow the course of royal objects of Abomey, former capital of the pre-colonial Kingdom of Dahomey (in present-day Benin).

Can the modern uses of prehistory shed new light on the modern experience of time and, thus, the art of this period?

The reconciliation of art and life, at the heart of the reflection and practice of many modern and contemporary movements.

Jean Dubuffet, Art Brut, and the primitivist paradigm.

A journey covering several episodes of Situationist International.

The historical-memorial narrative in comics, from Art Spiegelman to Marjane Satrapi, as a new form of representation of History, between individual and collective memory.

French art historian Anne Lafont delivers an unpublished study on the close and paradoxical relations of art and race in the Enlightenment. A new voice in current works on issues of race, art, images and colonization.

An an extensive analysis of the advent of Christian visual culture in the Kingdom of Kongo and its and development across four centuries.

Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, and the Neuf Moules Mâlic (Nine Malic Moulds): the genesis, the history and the destiny of an artwork as exceptional as the relation between an artist and his collector, of which it was the vector.

A history of photography through its accidents.

The growth of thought on ornament, applied arts and architecture in the industrial age, between ornamental impulse and decorative project.

Based on a set of mostly unpublished archives, this book focuses on the role played by art dealers at the turn of the last century in the definition, promotion and circulation of African objects as artworks, in Europe and the United States.

“Primitivism” as a tool for analysis of post-war French society, between a modernization and decolonization movement, and possible forms of resistance.

Special offer for the purchase of two volumes dedicated to correspondence of Gustave Courbet.

American critic Isabelle Graw conducts an innovative genealogical study on the success of painting as a medium. Keeping a close eye on painting's fourteenth century theoretical foundations, Graw analyses the work of artists like Édouard Manet, Jutta Koether, Martin Kippenberger, Jana Euler, and Marcel Broodthaers. It also includes conversations with artists who confront their vision with that of the author.

An essay by Frédéric Valabrègue on the American avant-garde artist, one of the main actors of the Fluxus movement.

The history of capitalism of the 1960s revisited in the light of the artworks that challenged it.

An in-depth and circumstantial study of the work of Franz Radziwill (1895-1983), a major and controversial representative of “magical realism” in painting.

The first publication to pay tribute to Ambroise Vollard the Reunionese and to the exceptional gift made to his island in 1947, exhibited at the Léon Dierx museum.

A historiographical study of German art theorist, writer and activist Carl Einstein (1885-1940), that also explores several layers of the history of the early twentieth century, and proposes a critical reflection on some epistemological tropisms of today.

Eight essays on the German avant-gardes (Hugo Ball, Max Beckmann, Marcel Breuer, Franz Marc, Merzbau, Expressionnism, Dada…).

This publication documents a research made by Dora García for a video project on Oscar Masotta, pioneer of Lacanian psychoanalysis in Latin America and influential art critic. It features a selection of Masotta's writings as well as contextual essays on his work.

This book of interviews and conversations with today's most compelling living and resurrected artists and thinkers seeks to address the relevance of Russian cosmism and biocosmism in light of its influence on the Russian artistic and political vanguard as well as on today's art-historical apparatuses, weird materialisms, extinction narratives, and historical and temporal politics.

A collection of essays focusing on the notions of invention and image in art.

An examination of various forms of aesthetic practice seen through the lens of the neoliberal cultural revolution.

This study addresses the scope of the use of found objects and garbage by the Nouveaux Réalistes in the 1960s.

Edgar Degas and the rediscovery of monotyping in the 19th century.

A story of the Grévin wax museum in Paris from 1881 to 1921.

An essay conceived as an intellectual portrait of the German writer, psychologist and art theorist Karl Philipp Moritz, whose purpose is to investigate the relationships between aesthetics, psychology and anthropology in the second half of the 18th century, and the importance of their simultaneous development for the debates about art after 1800.

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

The first French translation of Yve-Alain Bois' reference study on modernism

Different perspectives (art history, philosophy, photography, film, architecture, history of science...) on the heterogeneous forms the discourse of pictures can take (an anthology).

24 unpublished letters by Gustave Courbet.

This publication offers new insights into the broad and differentiated spectrum of functions images could assume in political contexts in those areas dominated by the Portuguese in early modern times. How were objects and artifacts staged and handled to generate new layers of meaning and visualize political ideas and concepts? And what were the respective reasons, means, and effects of the visualization of Portuguese power and politics?

François Boutonnet's Mnemosyne offers the first consideration of the “Arts of Memory” from antiquity to contemporary art, connecting it to mind mapping in digital culture.

With this essay on Black British artists from 1970 onward, Sophie Orlando explores their influences on the Western contemporary art and introduces readers to an important, long-marginalized movement, recontextualizing it with groundbreaking scholarship.

With this essay on Black British artists from 1970 onward, Sophie Orlando explores their influences on the Western contemporary art and introduces readers to an important, long-marginalized movement, recontextualizing it with groundbreaking scholarship.

The political dimension of Visual Studies, between Francophone and Anglo-American studies.