Art & psychology

French edition of Laura Mulvey's writings which range from analyses of Xala, Citizen Kane and Blue Velvet, to an extended engagement with the creations of Native American artist Jimmie Durham and the feminist photographer Cindy Sherman.

Jean Dubuffet, Art Brut, and the primitivist paradigm.

First major monograph devoted to the “Icarus of Lautertal”, a key figure of outsider art, flying machines inventor Gustav Mesmer. This publication looks back at his path through essays by Lucienne Peiry, Juliane Stiegele and Franz Xaver Ott, as well as photographs by Franco Zehnder and Stefan Hartmaier.

This series of four short volumes documents an experimental project by the Colombian artist focusing on the psychological dimension of architecture based on the feeling of déjà-vu.

A landmark study on the psychological effects of oppression on Black Americans during the 1940s.

The third volume of a collection of papers on cognitive capitalism in relation with the conditions of mind and brain in the Information Age.

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.

A three-year survey with patients, families, caregivers and associations who fight off the Huntington's disease using the tools and lessons stemming from the arts and humanities.

With this essay, Ute Holl analyzes in detail and deep historical context major works by Freud, Schoenberg, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, all inspired by the figure of Moses. The author offers a dynamic and comprehensive political and cultural theory of migration and violence.

An introductory examination of asylum art before the theorization of art brut, followed by a new critical edition of French alienist Marcel Réja's study on the “madmen's art”.

Discovering the id, ego, and superego with Dr. Freud (an illustrated philosophy book for children).

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 complete PDF edition of the avant-garde journal Change, created by Jean Pierre Faye in 1968: 42 facsimile issues in a 8482-page file with free-text search engine.

An original reading of Pier Paolo Pasolini's work and “impulses”, between aesthetic and psychoanalytic reflection.

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.

Affect, or the process by which emotions come to be embodied, is a burgeoning area of interest in both the humanities and the sciences. For Timing of Affect, Marie-Luise Angerer, Bernd Bösel, and Michaela Ott have assembled leading scholars to explore the temporal aspects of affect through the perspectives of philosophy, music, film, media, and art, as well as technology and neurology.

The second volume of a collection of papers on cognitive capitalism in relation with the conditions of mind and brain in the Information Age.

After he transformed the whole nave of the CAPC Museum into a mechanical theatre, Markus Schinwald conceives an elegant and sophisticated artist's book that reflects this physical and mental adventure through preparatory prints, film dialogues, and a series of stickers alternating exhibition views and reproduction of works.

A transdisciplinary set of contributions from art historians, scientists, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts, proposing new interpretations of Gustave Courbet's work from his paintings but also from his life, correspondence and archives relative to his family, for some hitherto unpublished.

The first volume of a collection of papers on cognitive capitalism in relation with the conditions of mind and brain in the Information Age.

A picaresque novel taking place in a psychiatric institution. Bertin's “raw” style is reminiscent of Bukowski, Céline, and Artaud.

An insight into the work of French dancer and choreographer Maguy Marin, with a film on DVD and an audio CD.

A confrontation of the works of Marx, Freud, and Lacan.

The second cahier of Dora García's Mad Marginal project, presented as the publication for the Spanish Pavilion at the 54th Venice Biennale 2011.

Between critical writing and visual art practice.

An essay on Gary Hill's video work, taking Maurice Blanchot's writing as a starting point, between literature, philosophy, aesthics and psychoanalysis.

An unusual self-help manual.

The films, photos, installations, and graphic artworks of Austrian artist Markus Schinwald create a highly charged aesthetic collection of curios in which the human being stands in the focal point of observation.

The catalog of the international exhibition initiated at Les Abattoirs reveals a little-known story that was a milestone in 20th century psychiatry and its new links with art brut and modern art, taking as its starting point the career of the Catalan psychiatrist François Tosquelles (1912-1994).

The 10th issue of the art and research magazine is dedicated to Italian pedagogist Maria Montessori.

Susan Hiller's postcard alphabet.

A dialogue between two singular appropriations of the concept of cannibalism at two key historical moments: a new translation of Oswald de Andrade's cult poem, advocating the symbolic ingestion of the colonizer and his culture, faced with an analysis by Suely Rolnik of a perverted contemporary cannibalism experience in the context of financial capitalism.

First monograph (painting, sculpture, installation, wall painting, printing).

Schinwald's encyclopedia.

The most comprehensive publication on the Bresilian artist.

This anthology aims to exploit the psychological associations of space and the psychological reactions to it.

A study on Richter's work with illustrations.

Limited edition signed by Birgit Pelzer and Gerhard Richter.