Art & war / violence

 
 
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.
Alfredo Jaar - The Sound of Silence
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
Reference monograph, with an essay by Okwui Enwezor, images of the most recent exhibitions and public interventions, as well as a selection of the artist's emblematic installations and press works since the mid-1980s.
Raymond Hains - Thunderbolt
2012
no text
Galerie du jour agnès b. - Monographs & artists' books
Artist's book (26 photographs).
Akram Zaatari - Conversation avec un cinéaste israélien imaginé : Avi Mograbi
2012
French edition
BlackJack editions - Monographs & artists' books
15.00 9.00 €
An imaginary conversation between two filmmakers that evokes memories from the conflicts between Israel and Lebanon, and the way the memory and the testimony inevitably mix fiction and documentary (available in English edition).
Alain Declercq - Boum Julie
2012
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Alain Declercq, who usually transposes crime fiction into the visual arts field, changes his method of operation and publishes his first thriller.
Alain Declercq - Boum Julie - Limited edition
2012
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Alain Declercq, who usually transposes crime fiction into the visual arts field, changes his method of operation and publishes his first thriller (the limited edition of the book is accompanied with an original artwork signed by the artist).
Jürgen Schreiber - Richter, peintre d\'Allemagne - Le drame d\'une famille
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fama
A biographical approach to Gerhard Richter's work.
Jürgen Schreiber - Richter, peintre d\'Allemagne - Le drame d\'une famille
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fama
A biographical approach to Gerhard Richter's work.
Jann-Marc Rouillan - Autopsie du dehors - Carnet d\'été d\'un relégué sous surveillance électronique
2012
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
This notebook recounts Jann-Marc Rouillan's first months outside of jail. The political activist and former member of Action directe shares his encounters with the people of Marseille and his thoughts on today's society. With illustrations by Marie-Claire Cordat.
Virginia Woolf - Trois Guinées
2012
French edition
BlackJack editions - F. series
19.00 9.50 €
New translation of Virginia Woolf's book-length essay published in 1938.
Michel Robic - Guère épais - Ébauche de roman fleuve
2012
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A war story narrated by a soldier, from the Second World War to the decolonization.
Gloria Friedmann - Naked
2012
French edition
Jannink - Naked (prints)
Silkscreen (120 numbered and signed copies limited edition).
Ian Tweedy - Crisis
2012
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
Artist's book: a selection of works from 2009 to 2012 over various pages of the original title Missiles of the World, 1972.
Feminine Futures – Valentine de Saint-Point - Performance, Dance, War, Politics and Eroticism
2011
French edition (texts in French, English, Italian, German)
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
A reexamination of the role of female avant-gardes in the fields of performance and dance: a comprehensive publication with over 2500 color illustrations, together with documentary material on Valentine de Saint-Point, Marinetti, Futurism, Canudo, Russian Ballets, German and American expressionism (original photographs, manuscript letters, drawings, woodcuts, manifestos, first editions and ephemera).
Miki Kratsman - All about us
2011
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
New works.
Jann-Marc Rouillan - Contre-attaques - Perspective Jean-Marc Rouillan
2011
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
23.40 12.00 €
This second issue brings together contributions reflecting on the political commitment and literary work of Jean-Marc Rouillan, and shedding light on three of Rouillan's most important influences today: philosophers Daniel Bensaïd and Henri Lefebvre, and activist Pierre Goldman (with contributions by Véronique Bergen, Charles Pennequin, Julien Blaine, Rada Ivekovic, Pierre Linguanotto, Laurence Denimal, Stéphane Nowak Papantoniou…).
 Suspended spaces - Suspended spaces - Famagusta
2011
English edition
BlackJack editions - Catalogues
A ghost town in Cyprus as a metaphor for an aesthetic and political reconstruction in the margins of Europe: an artistic approach to contemporary issues related to a real situation, with about 30 international artists and contributions by writers from different fields (philosophy, anthropology, history, politics, and sociology).
 Suspended spaces - Suspended spaces - Famagusta
2011
French edition
BlackJack editions - Catalogues
35.00 17.00 €
A ghost town in Cyprus as a metaphor for an aesthetic and political reconstruction in the margins of Europe (also available in English edition).
Liv Bugge - You Make Me Want To Die In The Country Side - A meditation on Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
2011
English edition
Torpedo
This artist's book gathers a collection of notes, excerpts, documentation, artworks and interviews that documents Bugge's reading experience of Conrad's Heart of Darkness as well as her own artistic practice.
Simon Patterson - La maison forestière Wilfred Owen - Une œuvre de Simon Patterson
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
20.00 7.00 €
An exhaustive documentation on La Maison Forestière Wilfred Owen, a commissionned work by Simon Patterson inaugurated in 2011 as part of the New Patrons program.
Alain Declercq - Documents
2010
English edition
BlackJack editions - Monographs & artists' books
Retrospective monograph.
Alain Declercq - Documents
2010
French edition
BlackJack editions - Monographs & artists' books
33.00 18.00 €
Retrospective monograph (also available in English edition).
Jean-Christophe Ammann - En y regardant mieux
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)
The collection of texts on contemporary art by Jean-Christophe Ammann.
Jonathan Horowitz - And/Or
2009
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph.
Robert Kusmirowski -
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Artist's book (limited edition).
Gleis 17/Track 17
2009
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
19.00 9.50 €
A critical review of the issues of the memorial for Track 17 at Berlin-Grunewald station by architects Nikolaus Hirsch, Wolfgang Lorch, and Andrea Wandel.
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