Art & language

 
 
Peter Downsbrough - ET/C
2005
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
14.00 9.00 €
Monograph with texts by Eva González-Sancho, Michel Gauthier, Line Herbert-Arnaud and Richard Klein, exploring different aspects of Downsbrough's work (movies, maps, space...).
Abdelkader Benchamma - C\'est ici que l\'on met les titres
2005
French edition
Galerie du jour agnès b. - Monographs & artists' books
Drawings.
Franz Erhard Walther - ABC... Museum - Wortbilder
2004
bilingual edition (German / French)
MAMCO - Artists' books
32.00 25.00 €
German artist's "word-images" (early works).
Peter Downsbrough - Group-ED (3 DVDs)
2004
Le Fresnoy
50.00 20.00 €
A video triptych.
Liam Gillick - Gabriel Tarde - Underground (Fragments of Future Histories)
2004
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
mfc-michèle didier - Import
(last copies available!)
Script of the movie by Liam Gillick, adaptation of Underground Man - Fragments of Future Histories, by Gabriel Tarde (1896).
Peter Downsbrough - ET/C (DVD)
2004
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
mfc-michèle didier - Import
An urban journey.
Peter Downsbrough - Position
2004
French edition
MAMCO - Monographs
Reference monograph.
Peter Downsbrough - Many
2004
no text
various
17.00 10.00 €
Artist's book: an invitation to travel by way of a mappemonde punctuated by lines and photographs of city spaces.
Mel Bochner - Spéculations - Ecrits 1965-1973
2003
French edition
MAMCO - Artists' writings
The writings of a major artist of the 70's NY scene.
Peter Downsbrough - From [to] (DVD)
2003
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
mfc-michèle didier - Import
(last copies available!)
A b/w movie realized in digital video, on the road and between machines.
Peter Downsbrough - AND HERE, AS
2002
no text
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Artist's book.
Liam Gillick - Five or six
2000
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Five or six contains texts selected from more than 100 reviews, articles, and catalogue essays published by Liam Gillick since 1989.
Philippe Cazal - Les litanies
2000
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
Artist's book.
Catherine Quéloz - Christian Robert-Tissot
1999
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMCO - Monographs
29.00 20.00 €
Exhaustive first presentation of Christian Robert-Tissot's work.
Liam Gillick - L\'île de la discussion - Le Grand Centre de Conférence
1998
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
(last copies available!)
11.00 5.00 €
Ben Vautier - Manifeste d\'Art Total - Limited edition
1997
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Unpublished text, original signed silkscreen print.
Pierre Bismuth - Humming (CD)
1997
Yvon Lambert - Objects, editions and multiples
(last copies available!)
37 minutes sound piece realized in 1995 (limited edition).
Jacques Villeglé - Un homme sans métier - Limited edition
1995
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Unpublished text illustrated by a unique original signed lacerated poster.
Rémy Zaugg - A Sheet of Paper / Ein Blatt Papier II
1992
bilingual edition (English / German)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
35.00 17.00 €
The series of engravings A Sheet of Paper, with which Rémy Zaugg develops his reflection on the exchange of the glance between the spectator and the work
Rémy Zaugg - Le tableau te constitue et tu constitues le tableau - Projets
1991
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
Le Consortium - Monographs
Preliminary graphic designs for paintings.
Rémy Zaugg - Personne
1990
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Le Consortium - Monographs
Paintings, photographies of two exhibitions, exhibitions plans.
Joël Ducorroy - Naked
Jannink - Naked (prints)
Silkscreen (120 numbered and signed copies limited edition).
Jacques Villeglé - Naked
Jannink - Naked (prints)
Lithograph (120 numbered and signed copies limited edition).
David Douard -
2023
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Serralves
sold out
Monograph.
The Poetry of Translation
2022
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
New perspectives on the process of translation from the works of more than thirty international artists.
Carole Douillard - 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.
Jenny Holzer - The Violence of Handwriting Across a Page
2022
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
An unprecedented insight into Louise Bourgeois' art by Jenny Holzer.
Rene Ricard - 1979-1980
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Editions Lutanie
sold out
Rene Ricard 1979-1980 is the first collection of American poet and artist Rene Ricard's poetry, first published by the Dia Art Foundation in 1979. This new edition presents, in a new format, both the original book design reproduced as a facsimile and the first French translation of Ricard's poems.
Les Écritures bougées - Une anthologie
2018
French edition
Mix
sold out
An anthology of texts by writers, artists, choreographers, poets and performers who think about the relationships between body, writing and textuality.
Emilio Prini - A Visual Bibliography
2018
English edition
Nero
sold out
A collection of visual incursions by Italian artist Emilio Prini in dozens of exhibition catalogues and print publications over the course of five decades. Meticulously researched, and yet necessarily incomplete, this book is a glimpse into the subtlety with which Prini turned each engagement with the world of ideas into a joust for mastery over space, time, and form.
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.
Joseph Kosuth - Colour in Contextual Play – An installation by Joseph Kosuth – Works by Enrico Castellani, Lucio Fontana, Yves Klein, Joseph Kosuth, Piero Manzoni
2017
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
sold out
Designed by the founder of Conceptual Art, this elegant and precious artist's book—and exhibition catalogue—serves as a visual analysis of the conceptual structures that interrogate the nature of color, form, space, and time, where the works and writings of Post-war artists such as Castellani, Fontana, Manzoni, and Klein, converse with Kosuth's statements, and the theoretical as well as personal account of curator Cornelia Lauf.
Ulises Carrión - (the drum)
2017
English edition
Boabooks
sold out
Publication reproducing one of Carrión's early linguistic exercises in English language, in which the conceptual artist dissects names of musical instruments to make sound appear.
Warhol Wool Guyton
2017
English edition
various
sold out
This catalogue traces the trajectory of Warhol's influence on the work of Wool and Guyton. The innovative print processes deployed by the artists operate as conceptual fibers unifying the diversity of paintings oscillating between abstraction and representation. With an essay by Glenn O'Brien.
Lawrence Abu Hamdan - [Inaudible] - A Politics of Listening in 4 Acts
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Monographic study on the work of artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan on the perception of language, sound, and listening.
Keren Cytter - A-Z Life Coaching
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
sold out
The new novel by Keren Cytter: an incomplete guide for life.
Body luggage - Migration of gestures
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Archive Books
sold out
A collection of essays that imagines the migration of cultural signs across borders, of body language as the inalienable signs we carry with us, even if they are the only luggage we are able to carry. By placing history alongside artistic mutations, Body luggage asks questions of how avant-garde forms transmit or are provoked.
Anguish Language - Writing and Crisis
2015
English edition
Archive Books
sold out
Anguish Language approaches language as a core aspect of the present social crisis. The project engages in solidarity with forms of self-publishing, poetry, criticism, experimental writing and declamation that have arisen in the wake of the 2007-8 financial crisis, considering language among and through the social struggles responding to its consequences.
 Charles Mazé & Coline Sunier - Come vanno le cose?
2015
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
<o> future <o>
sold out
A corpus of contemporary Roman inscriptions, which testifies the importance of language—institutional as well as popular—in the collective space of the streets (artist's book).
2015
French edition
Lendroit éditions
sold out
A collection of sentences from Wikipedia articles including "trench". The words are engraved by notches in photographs. A kind of eroded field that becomes a graphic novel.
Rémy Zaugg - The Art Museum of My Dreams or A Place for the Work and the Human Being
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
In his influential 1986 text, now translated into English for the first time, Swiss artist Rémy Zaugg (1943–2005) laid out fundamental ideas on the art museum. For him, the museum is an everyday tool that enables the encounter between viewer and work—raising the question of the kind of architecture appropriate for such a space.
Pierre Leguillon - Dubuffet Typographer
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
(SIC) - Soft Alphabet
sold out
A tribute to the French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) and to the typographic strategies with which Dubuffet achieves, on a visual level, his plan to destroy language through books and lithographs.
Bulletins of The Serving Library - Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language
2013
English edition
Bulletins of The Serving Library
Sternberg Press
sold out
An extension of the exhibition "Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language," curated by Laura Hoptman at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Isidore Isou - Hypergraphic Novels - 1950-1984
2012
English edition
various
sold out
First publication dedicated to Isou's extensive work with hypergraphics.
Christopher Wool - Vitraux
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Christopher Wool's stained glass windows for the Prieuré of La Charité sur Loire, France.
Ryan Gander - Le Dit du Dé
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Villa Arson
sold out
Catalogue / artist's book.
Karl Holmqvist - \'K
2012
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
Concrete poems / language "drawings" (artist's book).
Thomas Huber - Mesdames et Messieurs - Conférences 1982-2010
2012
French edition
MAMCO - Artists' writings
sold out
An illustrated anthology (almost all of the speeches given by the artist on the occasion of his exhibition openings over 30 years).
Jacqueline Mesmaeker - Œuvres 1975-2011
2012
French edition
(SIC) - Pinceau
sold out
First monograph: a survey of the Belgian artist's work over more than 35 years.
Marcel Broodthaers - Album - Un coup de dés
2012
French edition
WDPress / Éditions Moon Rainbow
sold out
Facsimile edition of an unpublished artist's book by Marcel Broodthaers from 1968 referring to Stéphane Mallarmé's poem “Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard.”
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