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Yoan Mudry - Loops - The future is wild / To loop the loop
2017
French edition
Clinamen
This collective publication questions the literary strategies at stake in the work of visual artist Yoan Mudry.
Cindy Coutant - De la prise de parole sensible à la stratégie de communication médiatique en situation de crise
2017
French edition
Confort Moderne
Halfway between the catalogue and the artist's book, this publication introduces the work of Cindy Coutant. The French artist focuses on issues involving poetics and semantics, in connection with the new technologies and the Internet imagery.
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.
Mel Bochner - Singer Notes, 1968
2017
English edition
mfc-michèle didier - Monographs, editions & artist's books
An important work by American artist Mel Bochner yet strangely it remains little-known.
Alexandra Grant - The Artists\' Prison
2017
English edition
X Artists' Books
This collaborative artist's book is a work of fiction set in a Kafkaesque world where creativity is a criminal offence and artists are imprisonned. Alexandra Grant's text, the testimony of the prison's warden, is powerfully illustrated by Eve Wood's drawings.
 Rometti Costales - Blue has run
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
An intervened facsimile of a anthropological catalogue listing the items belonging to three collections of Mexican fabrics and weaving patterns constituted during the mid-seventies.
Valeska Soares -
2016
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
This first comprehensive monograph details over ten years of work by Brazilian, New York-based artist, Valeska Soares.
Ricardo Basbaum - Diagrams - 1994-ongoing
2016
English edition
Errant Bodies - Critical Ear (monographs)
A publishing survey of the diagrams produced by Ricardo Basbaum in recent years. Both autonomous pieces or elements from installations, these diagrams act as interventional tools and visual poems that connect the literary and plastic spaces.
Maurizio Nannucci - ED/MN - Editions and Multiples 1967/2016
2016
English edition
Viaindustriae
This publication documents around 50 years of Nannucci editions, artists' books, multiples, prints, catalogues, posters, ephemera—edited as artist & editor—from 1967 to 2016. It includes an anthology of essays, two index of works, by category and in chronological order, a bibliography and a biography.
Guy de Cointet -
2016
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The first monograph to offer an overview of Cointet's enigmatic and influential oeuvre.
Guy de Cointet -
2016
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The first monograph to offer an overview of Cointet's enigmatic and influential oeuvre (available in English edition).
Philippe Cazal - Semaine fermée
2016
no text
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Reprint of the multiple produced by Philippe Cazal in 1972.
Intersubjectivity - Vol. 1 – Language and Misunderstanding
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Intersubjectivity is a collection of writings on the presence of language in the visual arts: the first volume makes a case in favor of concretism in contemporary artistic practices.
Matt Carlson - The View From Nowhere (vinyl LP)
2016
Shelter Press - Records
18.00 12.00 €
A record of experimental electronic music that explores possible relationships between voice and modular synthesis.
Stefan Brüggemann - Showtitles
2016
English edition
Christophe Daviet-Théry
A list of titles for exhibitions available free of charge from the artist (artist's book).
Annette Le Fort - Phonetic Skin - A Library of Voices (CD)
2016
Errant Bodies - Records & DVDs
An acoustic-phonetic approach of book's corporeality in 38 tracks.
Anna M. Szaflarski - Letters to the Editors - A Journal
2016
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
The complete issues of Szaflarski's self-produced journal devoted to textual practices.
Marcel Broodthaers - Charles Baudelaire - Je hais le mouvement qui déplace les lignes
2016
French edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Facsimile edition of an artist book by Marcel Broodthaers based on a verse from Baudelaire's poem La Beauté.
Carole Douillard - Alive
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
This first monograph on French-Algerian artist and performer Carole Douillard spans her entire work from the end of the 1990s and invites us to reflect on her performative and non-material practice, interrogating the forms and issues of contemporary performance.
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.
Nora Schultz - Terminal
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Nora Schultz gathered digital associations made with Google's image search engine, and then asked nine other artists to build a series of textual and visual narratives around her results (an artists' book designed by Keren Cytter).
Peter Downsbrough - Then Set (box set 2 books)
2015
no text
CDLA (Centre des livres d'artistes)
Artist's book in two volume.
Final Vocabulary
2015
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Taking its cue from the aftermath of the events of the Egyptian Revolution in 2011, these five essays contemplate the language's role in moments of dramatic change, and ask how to find meaning for artistic practices in these transformative conditions.
Dora García - I See Words, I Hear Voices - Mad Marginal – Cahier #4
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
The fourth cahier of Dora Garcia's Mad Marginal project brings together essays by international authors that develop different threads pertaining to artist Dora García's practice.
Liam Gillick - From Nineteen Ninety A to Nineteen Ninety D
2015
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A selected survey of Liam Gillick's groundbreaking projects, installations, methods, and practices, which challenged the orthodox presentation and reception of art through the 1990's.
Maurizio Nannucci - Where to Start From
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A comprehensive monograph covering Nannucci's whole career and presenting a selection of his major projects.
Ján Mančuška - First Inventory
2015
bilingual edition (English / Czech)
JRP|Editions - Tranzit
Comprehensive monograph: this first retrospective publication gathers together Mančuška's work, which combined different media—literature, film, theater, installations, video, and text—was exhibited widely, from the second half of the 1990s to his last unrealized projects from 2011.
Keren Cytter - Peep-Hole Sheet - A Drivel
2015
English edition
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A drivel is a short story wrote by Keren Cytter in a style reminiscent of Witold Gombrowicz, though its meaning gets lost in the continuous intertwining of characters, their stories and their memories.
Antoine Dufeu - Sic - Suivi de Zastava ? Je répondis (si) sottement
2015
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A fiction reflecting on the issues of language and information.
N. Katherine Hayles - Parole, écriture, code
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
How the impact of code on everyday life has become comparable to that of speech and writing.
Benjamin Seror - Mime Radio
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A novel written orally by the artist Benjamin Seror.
Shannon Ebner - Strike
2015
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A suite of alphabets exploring the potentiality of langage and symbols (artist's book).
 Art & Language - Made in Zurich - Selected Editions  – 1965-1972
2015
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
various
An essential publication that allows to reevaluate the importance and impact of the work of the pioneering English group Art & Language, and the emergence of Conceptual art in the early 1970s.
 Magali Daniaux & Cédric Pigot - UV
2015
French edition
Supernova - Poetry and storytelling
A collection of hallucinatory epic poems inspired by crime novel & science fiction.
Camille Llobet - Voir ce qui est dit
2015
French edition
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
currently out of stock
This artist's book features the research notes of a video work based on a sign language interpretation by a deaf performer of a Geneva College Orchestra's live performance.
Thomas Huber - L\'Enseigne / Das Ladenschild / The Shop Sign
2014
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
various
At the same time an artist's book and a brief historical investigation, Thomas Huber's The Shop Sign reports the birth of a painting, relates the fate of another one, and questions the art market, the transit of works of art and the links between artists, dealers and collectors, all the while Huber plays with interpictoriality the way others would use intertextuality.
Maria Loboda - “How do we get out of all this darkness?”
2014
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Catalogue / artist's book.
Anne-Lise Coste - Où suis-je
2014
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Artist's book.
Parachute - The Anthology (vol. 3) – Photography, Film, Video, and New Media
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
Third volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on photography, film, video, and new media.
Une traduction d\'une langue en une autre
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
Frac Bretagne
A reflection on translation phenomena in the arts.
Nora Schultz - Portikus Printing Plant and Portikus Sound
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
(last copies available!)
Catalogue / artist's book.
 Mangelos -
2014
English edition
Paraguay Press
A comprehensive survey of mangelos' art across all mediums, this book includes three essays which renew the interpretation of his art and its context. It offers a particular focus on his early work and notebooks, which are extensively reproduced for the first time.
Clémentine Hougue - Le cut-up de William S. Burroughs - Histoire d\'une révolution du langage
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A genealogy of cut-up: the history and development of a radical and pioneering literary technique, in Europe and the US, in the twentieth century (readings from William S. Burroughs).
Guy de Cointet - Who\'s that guy? - Tell me more  about Guy de Cointet (DVD)
2014
original version, bilingual susbtitles (English / French)
various
A film, a portrait of Guy de Cointet (1934-1983), a French-born artist based in California who created text and sculptural works, often combining them as props and stage sets in theatrical performance pieces (interviews with John Baldessari, Larry Bell, Morgan Fisher, Paul McCarthy, Christophe Bourseiller, etc.).
Maurizio Nannucci - Bag Book Back
2014
English edition
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Maurizio Nannucci documents, in the form of an artist's book, a collective action with his family and friends around the world, from Athens to Sydney through Beijing, that literally puts the art in question to better assert its omnipresence while providing a wide range of social interaction.
It\'s moving from I to It
2014
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A linguistic/fictional journey into questions of authorship, language and institutional rhetorics.
Judith Hopf - Peep-Hole Sheet - The World of Things – Silent Today!
2014
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Peep-Hole Sheet
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Judith Hopf highlights Hugo von Hofmannsthal's hypothesis of a hidden language that might resolve the impasse produced by a widespread lack of attention regarding artistic practice.
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