Art history

 
 
Matthieu Pinette - L\'œil de Ruskin - L\'exemple de la Bourgogne
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Essay.
Jean-Philippe Antoine - La traversée du XXe siècle - Joseph Beuys, l\'image et le souvenir
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
MAMCO - Monographs
First major monograph in French, fully illustrated, devoted to the key figure of Joseph Beuys, revealing the aesthetic ambition and political issues through a genealogy that retraces a whole part of the XXth century.
Guido Guerzoni - Apollon et Vulcain - Les marchés artistiques en Italie (1400-1700)
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A pioneering and masterly study of the history of art markets in Italy (covering the fields of painting and scultpure, but also architecture, applied arts and performing arts), which demonstrates the possibility of an economic history of art linking social or political mechanisms and symbolic or patrimonial issues.
Fabrice Flahutez - Le lettrisme historique était une avant-garde
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Letterism's history and posterity: a new reading of the historical issues of an unknown but influential artistic avant-garde.
Joseph Masheck - Le Paradigme du tapis - Prolégomènes critiques à une théorie de la planéité
2011
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
The carpet paradigm: critical prolegomena to a theory of flatness (an original and stimulating analysis of an essential concept of modern art history).
Ewa Lajer-Burcharth - Chardin Material
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - Institut für Kunstkritik
The dimension of self-reflexivity in the work of eighteenth-century French painter, Jean-Siméon Chardin.
Juliet Fleming - Graffiti et arts scripturaux à l\'aube de la modernité anglaise
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
35.00 28.00 €
The unknown and disregarded literary arts of sixteenth century England (graffiti, tatoos, writing on clothes or ceramics...): a startling new perspective of early modern literature and cultural history.
Judith Delfiner - Double-Barrelled Gun - Dada aux Etats-Unis (1945-1957)
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The resurgence of Dada in the U.S. (a genealogy of American post-war experimental art).
La rébellion du Deuxième Sexe - L\'histoire de l\'art au crible des théories féministes anglo-américaines (1970-2000)
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Forty years of Anglo-American feminist theory in art history (an anthology of reference texts by Laura Cottingham, Gen Doy, Lisa E. Farrington, Lisa Gail Collins, Judith Halberstam, Amelia Jones, Lucy R. Lippard, Linda Nochlin, Rozsika Parker, Griselda Pollock, Abigail Solomon-Godeau).
Emmanuel Guy - Préhistoire du sentiment artistique - L\'invention du style, il y a 20 000 ans
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
The first artistic perspective on prehistoric art through the rigorous study of its formal conventions and stylistic developments.
L\'artiste comme théoricien
2010
French edition
(SIC) - Mut zum Druck
(last copies available!)
The artist as a theoretician: six essays (one text in English) on the question of reciprocity between theory and art practice.
Maïté Vissault - Der Beuys Komplex - L\'identité allemande à travers la réception de l\'œuvre de Joseph Beuys (1945-1986)
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A study of political and ideological stakes of Beuys' oeuvre and its myth in Germany.
Olivier Lussac - Fluxus et la musique
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
A study of the musical (and political) aspects of one of the most subversive artistic movements of the 60's.
Penser l\'image
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
An anthology of texts by philosophers, theoricians and art historians (H. Belting, H. Bredekamp, G. Didi-Huberman, J.-L. Nancy, W.J.T. Mitchell...) around the specific logic of the image and the transformation of the contemporary visual field.
Sophie Leclercq - La rançon du colonialisme - Les surréalistes face aux mythes de la France coloniale (1919-1962)
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The story of the surrealists' radical anticolonialism: a political, aesthetic and poetic avant-garde.
Jeffrey F. Hamburger - Ouvertures - La double page dans les manuscrits enluminés du Moyen Âge
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History –
An history of illuminated manuscript from its origins, in the early Christian era, until the Renaissance, through the study of the book opening medium.
Carole Boulbès - Picabia avec Nietzsche - Lettres d\'amour à Suzanne Romain (1944-1948)
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
From Picabia's unpublished love letters to a philosophical and aesthetic inquiry on art, through Goethe, Schlegel, Hegel, or Baudelaire.
Retour d\'y voir
2010
French edition
Retour d'y voir
MAMCO - Retour d'y voir
22.00 15.00 €
Second issue of the art history magazine published by the Mamco, Geneva.
Dexter Dalwood -
2010
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph.
Bernard Girard - Lettrisme, l\'ultime avant-garde
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
(last copies available!)
An in depth analysis of one of the most inventive (but also the most misunderstood) post-war avant-garde movements.
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.
Charles Fourier - L\'écart absolu
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Misceallenous
Charles Fourier's theories and archives, his disciples and the concrete becomings of his utopian system, his influences in history, in modern and contemporary art... with about 20 essays and 300 illustrations.
Svetlana Alpers - Velázquez est dans les détails
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History –
A new approach to Velázquez' work, from the analysis of the "small characters" who haunt his paintings.
Hans Belting - La double perspective - La science arabe et l\'art de la Renaissance
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History –
A conference on the invention of perspective, Arab science and the art of the Renaissance.
Avant-garde in the Bloc
2010
bilingual edition (English / Polish)
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
An anthology.
Net Pioneers 1.0 - Contextualizing Early Net-Based Art
2010
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
19.00 9.00 €
Net Pioneers 1.0 discusses media art history with a new, interdisciplinary look at the historical, social, and economic dynamics of our contemporary, networked society.
Jean-Claude Lebensztejn - Pygmalion
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
An erotic history of art, from the figure of Pygmalion.
Sven Lütticken - Idols of the Market - Modern Iconoclasm and the Fundamentalist Spectacle
2009
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
19.00 9.50 €
This book reexamines the legacies of modern theoretical and artistic iconoclasm in the context of the current religious-political image wars.
Bertrand Clavez - George Maciunas - Une révolution furtive
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Accompanied with Fluxus pamphlets, manifestoes and newspapers of the artist, the unpublished manuscript of the mother of the founder of the avant-garde movement constitutes an invaluable entry to the private world of Maciunas, and the occasion of a revaluation of its artistic and strategic choices.
Alfred Gell - L\'art et ses agents - Une théorie anthropologique
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
First translation in French of a major work by British social anthropologist.
Thomas Schlesser - Paul Chenavard - Monuments de l\'échec (1807-1895)
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An essay on French artist Paul Chenavard (1807-1895), romantic cursed painter-prophet, illustrating the distance between the historic claims which build the modern myth of the artist and a relative efficiency.
Astrid Ruffa - Dalí et le dynamisme des formes - L\'élaboration de l\'activité « paranoïaque-critique » dans le contexte socioculturel des  années 1920-1930
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
An innovative analysis of Dalí's work which focuses on the cultural History during the 1920's, showing that the Surrealist revolution went hand in hand with radical changes in society.
Retour d\'y voir
2008
French edition
Retour d'y voir
MAMCO - Retour d'y voir
(last copies available!)
First issue of the art history magazine published by the Mamco, Geneva.
Minotaure – Chants exploratoires - La revue d\'Albert Skira, 1933-1939
2008
French edition
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
38.00 25.00 €
The magazine of Albert Skira, 1933–1939.
Brian O\'Doherty - White Cube - L\'espace de la galerie et son idéologie
2008
French edition
JRP|Editions - Lectures Maison Rouge
Inside the white cube.
Jochen Gerz - L\'Anthologie de l\'art
2008
French edition
Analogues - Monographs
The "Anthology of art" established during more than a year a ground of exchange on Internet for artists and art critics worldwide, being interested in the relations between art, its theoretical discourse, the conditions of its production and its distribution. This work collects the contributions.
Danièle Roussel - L\'Actionnisme viennois et les autrichiens
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Bibliothèque art action pensée
Viennese Actionism was one of the strongest effort of the 1960's to develop contemporary art and a forerunner of what is now widely known as Performance Art. Danièle Roussel interviewed not only the former actionists (Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, Günther Brus, Rudolf Schwarzkogler) but also some journalists, politicians, historians and witnesses of that time.
Horst Bredekamp - Les coraux de Darwin - Premiers modèles de l\'évolution et tradition de l\'histoire naturelle
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Œuvres en sociétés
A major contribution, by German philosoph and art historian Horst Bredekamp, to the current debate on the 'tree of life' in evolutionary biology. The essay deals with the aesthetic and political dimension of the coral, in Darwin's system a model of anarchic evolution which opposes the hierarchical metaphor of the tree.
François-Gédéon Reverdin - Gravures néoclassiques d\'après François-Gédéon Reverdin - Quand la copie devient modèle
2008
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
28.00 16.00 €
Three studies on Reverdin's biography.
Jörg Heiser - All of a Sudden - Things that Matter in Contemporary Art
2008
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A sharp summary of contemporary art since Marcel Duchamp.
Jacques Villeglé - Le lacéré anonyme
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
An ironic, historic and personal assessment of the transformations of art in the years 1950-1960 by one member of the New realists: the story of collage, the return of dada, an evocation of Léo Malet, the work with Raymond Hains...
Fabien Danesi - Le mythe brisé de l\'Internationale situationniste - L\'aventure d\'une avant-garde au cœur de la culture de masse (1945-2008)
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A new approach on the Situationist International and its paradoxical myths.
Richard Thomson - La République troublée - Culture  visuelle et débat social en France (1889-1900)
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
This brilliant work studies the notion of modernity as it's been defined at the end of the XIXth century, especially through the analyse of the links between the visual culture and several main social debates of the time such as sexuallity, urban crowd, riots and social control mechanisms, the Republic and the Church, nationalism and militarism.
Fabrice Flahutez - Nouveau monde et nouveau mythe - Mutations du surréalisme, de l\'exil américain à l\'« Écart absolu » (1941-1965)
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
How, in the course of their American exile, the surrealist artists (Duchamp, Tanguy, Masson, Ernst, Lam, Carrigton ...) were influenced by the literary and artistic context. Also a specific study on the perpetual renewal of Surrealism after war, linked with the importance of esoterism, the Amerindian civilizations, and Charles Fourier.
T. J. Clark - Une image du peuple - Gustave Courbet et la révolution de 1848
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Art as a social practice through Gustave Courbet's œuvre and political commitment.
Raoul Hausmann - Une anthologie poétique - Précédé de « RH L\'optophonétiste » par Isabelle Maunet-Salliet (+ CD)
2007
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
First critical anthology of the poetry of Raoul Hausmann, one of the founders of Dada Berlin. It features many unpublished documents, an introductory essay by Isabelle Maunet-Salliet, and a recording of phonetic poems read by Raoul Hausmann.
Thomas Schlesser - Réceptions de Courbet - Fantasmes réalistes et paradoxes de la démocratie (1848-1871)
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An elucidation of the myths and the political fantasies that surrounded Gustave Courbet's work and life under the second Empire.
Neil McWilliam - Rêves de bonheur - L\'art social et la gauche française (1830-1850)
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A thoroughly investigation of the social role of art articulated by the French left during the July Monarchy and Second Republic.
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