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Jim Shaw - My Mirage
2011
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
The culmination of Jim Shaw's most important project under the form of an artist's book.
David Antin - John Cage sans cage
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Motion Method Memory
(last copies available!)
Two talks about John Cage and the concept of structure by American poet, critic, linguist and performance artist.
Ben Kinmont - Prospectus 1988-2010 - Forty-two works by Ben Kinmont
2011
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
A collection of Kinmont's project descriptions, written over a 22-year period.
Ben Kinmont - Prospectus 1988-2010 - Quarante-deux pièces
2011
French edition
Mix
Forty-two project descriptions by Ben Kinmont.
Brandon LaBelle - Lecture on Nothing (CD)
2011
Errant Bodies - Records & DVDs
A recording of John Cage's original text as read by a deaf individual (audio CD with booklet).
Brandon LaBelle - The Sonic Body - Figures 1-12 (CD)
2011
Errant Bodies - Records & DVDs
A collection of the audible traces of dancing bodies (audio CD with booklet).
Doug Aitken - The Idea of the West
2011
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
A hybrid artist's book that reflects Aitken's expansive approach to art-making.
Ed Ruscha - Huit textes / Vingt-trois entretiens - 1965-2009
2011
French edition
JRP|Editions - Lectures Maison Rouge
Writings and interviews.
Michael Leon - A Curious Catalogue
2010
English edition
Nieves
A skateboard product catalogue of pencil drawn anti-graphics, spin-art wheels, and slalom gemstones.
Marnie Weber -
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Magasin
First monograph on Californian artist / musician's surreal-oriented universe (collages, sculptures, costumes, performances, music, films and videos), with essays by Doug Harvey, Stéphanie Moisdon and a conversation between the artist and Mike Kelley.
Piero Golia - Desert Interviews or How to Jump Off the Roof and Not Hit the Ground
2010
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Artist's book (limited edition).
John Baldessari - Parse
2010
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
The poetic of the fragment (artist's book).
Dave Hullfish Bailey - What\'s left
2009
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Using non-linear heuristic methods and experimental webs of information to draw links between the cities of Utrecht, and Slab City, California, USA, this book brings together speculative proposals that ask basic questions about public space, conceived as a physical and conversational sphere.
Brandon LaBelle - Dirty Ear (CD)
2008
Errant Bodies - Records & DVDs
Dirty field recordings, found sounds, sound effects, archives, and sonorous dramas, composed as a series of micro-narratives each designed to intervene onto imagined settings or spatial locations, as a counter-sonorities.
Meg Cranston - Hot Pants in a Cold Cold World
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First monograph on Californian artist, including essays and interview.
Charlie White - American Minor
2008
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Exploring the complex realities of American teen culture.
 Chris Johanson & Jo Jackson - Peaceable Kingdom
2008
no text
Nieves
The first book of collaborative work by the two American artists, partners in life and art.
Brandon LaBelle - Radio Memory (+ CD)
2008
English edition
Errant Bodies - Audio Issues
A project based on archiving people's memories connected to specific songs and radio broadcasts. Includes over 100 memories from around the globe, along with contributions by curators and theorists Bastien Gallet and Carmen Cebreros Urzaiz, and an audio CD of related work by the artist.
Brandon LaBelle - Live Bootleg (+ CD)
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
An overview of sound installations and environments by the experimental artist-musician, with three essays and an interview, a specific project, installations views and performances on audio CD.
Jim Shaw - Distorted Faces & Portraits (+ poster) - 1978-2007
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Artist's book: drawings in very large format with a dust jacket-cum-poster, an anthropological reading of American popular culture.
Liz Craft -
2007
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First monograph on the Californian artist.
Euan Macdonald - Selected Standards
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
An artist book that combines title pages from sheet music found in a second hand store in Los Angeles with drawings and aerial photographs of L.A.
Richard Jackson - New works - 2006-2007
2007
English edition
Yvon Lambert - Monographs and artists' books
(last copies available!)
Recent works by American artist, with several illustrations and preparatory drawings, as well as an essay by Robert Hobbs and a biography.
Next To Nothing - A collection of Tuxedomoon covers (CD)
2006
Optical Sound
A record of Tuxedomoon covers.
Catherine Sullivan - Film and Theater Works - 2002-2004
2006
texts in English and French
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
40.00 20.00 €
First monograph devoted to the Californian artist.
Doug Aitken - Alpha
2005
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
Artist's book.
Recent Pasts – Art in Southern California from the 1990s to Now - SoCCAS Symposium Vol. I
2005
English edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
An overview of the Californian art scene from 1990 to the present.
Norma Jeane - Body Proxy
2004
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
An exploration of the body in contemporary culture (artist's book / collection of texts).
Thomas Lawson - Mining for Gold - Selected Writings (1976-2002)
2004
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
JRP|Editions - Positions (co-edition Les presses du réel)
An anthology of the artist's important essays, published between 1978 and today in the pages of Artforum, Flash Art and Lawson's own magazine Real Life.
Jorge Pardo - Dodgers
1995
French edition
Le Consortium - Artists' editions
(last copies available!)
15.00 5.00 €
A whimsical artist's book by Pardo and White with word "Dodgers" running through book.
Larry Bell - Fraction - Edition de tête
1995
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Unpublished text, signed original work, unique for each copy.
Michael Asher -
1992
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Consortium - Monographs
The book presents an exhibition at The Consortium, Dijon, and reproduces 16 postcards.
Barbara Turner Smith - Body Talks - Interview
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Zero2
sold out
A history of feminist gesture and performance since the 1960s and 1970s in California through an interview conducted by Carole Douillard with art critic Amelia Jones and two pioneering American artists, Barbara T. Smith and Susan Lacy.
Harold Budd - The Pavilion Of Dreams (CD)
2022
Superior Viaduct
sold out
Reissue of a milestone of ambient music, produced and released by Brian Eno in 1978, featuring Marion Brown, Gavin Bryars, and Michael Nyman.
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Love Is A Stream (vinyl LP)
2021
various
sold out
10 year anniversary edition of Jefre Cantu-Ledesma's landmark album originally released in 2010 on TYPE records, remastered by Stephan Mathieu.
David Horvitz - When The Ocean Sounds
2019
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
sold out
A score for 51 human voices intended to mimic the sound of the sea, displayed as loose sheets slipped in PVC sleeve. David Horvitz's hommage to Pauline Oliveros.
Geoff McFetridge - Coming Back is Half the Trip
2018
no text
Nieves
sold out
Studies for paintings and sculptures.
Barry McGee -
2018
English edition
Damiani - Contemporary art
sold out
New paintings, sculptures, photographs and site-specific installations.
John Baldessari - Learning To Read with John Baldessari
2017
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
A portrait of the artist as an inspiring teacher: this publication focuses on Baldessari's practice at the intersection between pedagogy and art. Visually organized in alphabetical order, Learning To Read features essays, artworks, a chronology, and personal insights on Baldessari's teaching and influence by a group of the artist's former students and CalArts collaborators such as Ashley Bickerton, Liz Craft, Meg Cranston, Matt Mullican, and Tony Oursler.
Terry Fox - 552 Steps Through 11 Pairs of Strings (2 vinyl LP)
2017
Edition Telemark
sold out
This double LP includes four unreleased selections from Fox's eponymous sound performance based on the great pavement labyrinth at Chartres Cathedral—which the artist saw as a metaphor for his own life in between health and sickness.
Steve Roden - A thousand breathing forms (6 CD box set)
2017
Sonoris
sold out
A selection of unreleased or hard-to-locate works from 2003 to 2008, a very prolific and creative period for the Californian artist.
Paul Sietsema - Fifty-three Works
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
The first monograph to focus exclusively on Paul Sietsema's paintings and drawings.
Harold Budd - Music for Fragments from the Inside (CD)
2016
Sub Rosa
sold out
New CD edition of a classic from Sub Rosa's catalogue.
Sam Falls - Now
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
sold out
The book documents a mixed-media installation by Sam Falls where the artist explores ways of faithfully representing time and understanding it through art. For Falls, time is elusive and the future is “filled with meaning” only when it becomes “now”. The present, divided between past and future, has the optimism of production and the melancholy of aging.
Jefre Cantu-Ledesma - Comme un seul narcisse (vinyl LP)
2016
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
French artist Félicia Atkinson teams up with New York-based experimentalist Jefre Cantu-Ledesma with Comme un seul narcisse—an epistolar conversation of post-modern times.
Ben Kinmont - Open by Chance & Appointment
2016
English edition
Incertain Sens
sold out
An historical account of Ben Kinmont's bookstore, from the structure's origin, the events and publications it has generated. Kinmont also demonstrates how this activity has contributed to his independence as an artist vis-à-vis the commercial art circuit.
Charles Plymell - Apocalypse Rose (+ CD)
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lenka lente
sold out
An electrical poem by Charles Plymell first published in 1966 in Lawrence Ferlinghetti's City Lights Journal, with a CD on which Bill Nace plays a music inspired by his own reading of Apocalypse Rose.
Petra Cortright - Niki, Lucy, Lola, Viola
2015
English edition
Nero
sold out
Niki, Lucy, Lola, Viola collects screenshots of a desktop-performance made by Petra Cortright where virtual erotic dancers perform on various backgrounds. As a result, the pages of the book look like continuous digital collages; synthetic and painterly landscapes populated by the strippers posing for the viewer.
Paul McCarthy - Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey Sport Dick Drink Donkey Dong Dongs Sunscreen Model
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
An extensive publication, documenting the process and final outcome of Powered A-Hole Spanish Donkey Sport Dick Drink Donkey Dong Dongs Sunscreen Model, a sensational and excessive exhibition by the two controversial artists which takes the form of a “Gesamtkunstwerk” pointing the multifaceted excesses of contemporary art production and commodification.
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