Art history

 
 
Merz World - Processing the Complicated Order
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
Research about the potential of the Merzbau in contemporary art and architecture, with contributions by art historians, artists, critics and architects.
(SIC)
2006
French edition
(SIC)
(SIC) - (SIC) magazine
(last copies available!)
Five essays, with a special project by Olivier Foulon.
Hugo Ball - Dada à Zurich - Le mot et l\'image (1915-1916)
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
A critical counterpoint to the famous Tzara's cronic published in the Dada Almanach, by the founder of the Cabaret Voltaire.
Dick Higgins - Postface - Un journal critique de l\'avant-garde
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Dick Higgins, one of the main figures of Fluxus, points out the particularity of poet-artists who, since German and English Romanticism, have refused to make distinctions between what is sonorous, visual and written.
Jacques Sivan - Mar/cel Duchamp en 2 temps 1 mouvement
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Two studies on the link between language, art and reality in Marcel Duchamp's work.
Jean-Philippe Antoine - Marcel Broodthaers - Moule, Muse, Méduse
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field
Poetry and space for Marcel Broodthaers—a critical essay.
Richard Huelsenbeck - Almanach Dada
2005
bilingual edition (German / French)
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
Reprint of the first Dada anthology (Berlin, 1920), with Tzara's chronicles, manifests and documents.
Annie Claustres - Hans Hartung - Les aléas d\'une réception
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
Fondation Hartung Bergman
Hans Hartung always gave a lot of attention to the filing of his works. This essay on the abstract painter is linked with a specific web site where one will find a rich iconography and documentation.
Marc Décimo - Le Duchamp facile
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
A new approach of Duchamp's keywords.
Elvan Zabunyan - Black Is A Color - A History of African American Art
2004
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
In Black is a Color, contemporary art historian and curator Elvan Zabunyan proposes a new approach to contemporary art and its history through the practice of Black American artists from the Harlem Renaissance to today.
Elvan Zabunyan - Black Is A Color - Une histoire de l\'art africain-américain contemporain
2004
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
In Black is a Color, contemporary art historian and curator Elvan Zabunyan proposes a new approach to contemporary art and its history through the practice of Black American artists from the Harlem Renaissance to today.
Marc Décimo - Marcel Duchamp mis à nu - A propos du processus créatif
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
Marcel Duchamp “laid bare” by Marc Décimo who talks about the creative process in this essay on the father of conceptual art.
Otto Muehl - Lettres à Erika - Journal de l\'actionnisme
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Bibliothèque art action pensée
The correspondance between Otto Muehl and Erika Stocker forms an intense journal of Viennese actionism, and more particularly of the artist's work.
Otto Muehl - Lettres de prison
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Bibliothèque art action pensée
Otto Muehl was condemned to 7 years of prison in 1991. He exchanged letters with his family and friends, he painted.
Maurice Pianzola - Tu ne joues jamais le jeu - Suivi de Il faudrait que je parle de tant d\'autres rencontres – Conversations
2003
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
14.00 6.00 €
La critique hostile à Gauguin
2003
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
A selection of unfavourable articles on Gauguin.
Fluxus Dixit - Une anthologie
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
The Fluxus anthology.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Du principe de l\'art et de sa destination sociale
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
This posthumous work is the first study of his friend Gustave Courbet (who requested a text for a catalog), and of the role of art in society.
Raoul Hausmann - Eccentric Sensoriality
2002
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
The last document of the dadasopher of Berlin.
Marc Décimo - La Bibliothèque de Marcel Duchamp, peut-être
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
An essay on Duchamp's readings, and a systematic chart of his personnal library.
Didier Semin - Le Peintre et son modèle déposé
2001
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
An essay on conceptual art.
Otto Muehl - Sortir du bourbier
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Bibliothèque art action pensée
The actionnist's autobiography.
La Critique hostile à Picasso
2000
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
A selection of unfavourable, violent, conformist, sceptic or narrow judgments on Picasso, published in French and international newspapers (Le Figaro, The Daily Mail, Les Lettres françaises, Life...) between 1917 and 1973.
Hugo Ball - Hermann Hesse - Sa vie, son œuvre
2000
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
This biography of Hermann Hesse by his friend Hugo Ball is one of the best exposés of his spiritual journeys, and also an approach of Ball's own fundamental themes
Carl Einstein - Bébuquin ou les dilettantes du miracle
2000
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
The anti-romanesque, a-metaphysical and theoretical Einstein's dadaist autobiography.
Dick Higgins - Intermédia - 1938-1998
1999
French edition
Intervention - Monographs and artists' books
First publication in French on Fluxus artist, including the transcription of an intervention by Higgins at the International Conference on Action Art in October 1998. With texts by Charles Dreyfus and Jacques Donguy.
Maurice Pianzola - Partir à Pernambouc - Récit
1999
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
14.00 6.00 €
What canvases reveal to us is often beyond what we believe we understand. Like true false semblances, they subtley encourage us to turn away from them in order to engage ourselves in their hidden intrigues (where they often meet our own).
Martin Kippenberger - Kippenberger sans peine / Kippenberger leicht gemacht
1997
bilingual edition (German / French)
MAMCO - Artists' writings
33.00 15.00 €
Conversations with Daniel Baumann and Jutta Koether, accompanied by "reconnaissance photos".
Rosalba Carriera - Journal pendant mon séjour à Paris en 1720-1721
1997
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
The journal of one of the first women artists of the history of painting.
Thierry de Duve - Du nom au nous
1995
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
The critical importance of the theme of “designation” in arts and its gradual emergence in the thinking of Thierry de Duve since 1985.
François Dagognet - In Favour of Today\'s Art - From the Object of Art to the Art of the Object
1992
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
A compelling read on the status of the object in contemporary art and design.
François Dagognet - Pour l\'art d\'aujourd\'hui - De l\'objet de l\'art à l\'art de l\'objet
1992
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
A compelling read on the status of the object in contemporary art and design.
1, 2, 3... couleur ! - L\'autochrome exposée
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Albums (exhibition catalogues)
sold out
The portfolio of the exhibition at the Jeu de Paume in Château de Tours, dedicated to autochrome, a technique patented at the very beginning of the 20th century by the Lumière brothers, which revolutionized the history of photography by introducing color, before falling into oblivion and then being rediscovered in recent decades by historians and collectors.
 Iliazd - Le degré 41 sinapisé - Lecture on Pearl Disease, Paris 1922
2022
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
sold out
The first volume in bie bao series dedicated to militant investigations on Russian poet, designer, typographer, theoretician, and publisher Iliazd (Ilya Zdanevich, 1894-1975), who developed a new philosophy and methodology from zaum (trans-sense) experiments.
Stories of Paper
2022
English edition
Kaph Books
sold out
"Stories of Paper" traces the history of paper as a thousand-year-old material used from antiquity to the present day, and provides an original perspective on the history of graphic arts.
La Déconniatrie - Art, exil et psychiatrie autour de François Tosquelles
2021
French edition
various
sold out
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).
Masterworks of Modern Photography from MoMA - The Thomas Walther Collection
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Albums (exhibition catalogues)
sold out
The portfolio of the exhibition at the Jeu de Paume: a panorama of the visual inventions of the photographic avant-gardes, in the heart of MoMA's modern photography collection.
Everything Passes Except the Past - Decolonizing Ethnographic Museums, Film Archives, and Public Space
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
Everything Passes Except the Past takes an artistic and discursive approach to coming to grips with a colonial past that remains present in ethnographic museums, public space, and image archives.
Orietta Lanzarini - The Living Museums - Franco Albini – BBPR – Lina Bo Bardi – Carlo Scarpa
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
sold out
An analysis of four museums by architectural historian Orietta Lanzarini, built between the 1940s and 1960s, and set up by four of the most groundbreaking Italian architects of the 20th century.
Artifices instables - Histoires de céramiques
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
A journey of invention and experimentation through more than 200 pieces by international artists, observing the diversity not only of forms and decorations, but also of manufacturing processes of ceramic.
Tristan Tzara - Minuits pour géants / On the Edge of the Outside (+ CD)
2020
French edition
Lenka lente
sold out
Tristan Tzara (1896-1963) is the poet through whom Dada arrived. In Zurich, he animated the Cabaret Voltaire with Hugo Ball; in Paris, he then inspired some surrealists in the making. If he was a great lover of Villon and Rabelais, his poetry is as iconoclastic as the music of Nurse With Wound, who composed for this edition of Minuits pour géants an unpublished piece lasting about ten minutes: On the Edge of the Outside.
Otto Dix - Estampes
2018
French edition
MASC (Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix)
sold out
This publication devoted to Otto Dix's print works (woodcuts, etchings, lithographs) showcases a collection from the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Germany. A large iconographic thematic section and a series of essays revisit Otto Dix's favourite themes—the nude, the portrait, the city, religion and war—symptomatic of his desire to portray man holistically, from birth to death, as a creature of flesh, palpitations and blood.
Japanese Connections - The Birth of Modern Décor
2018
English edition
Kaph Books
sold out
Following the opening up of Japan to the West in the 1850s, artists, designers and makers across Europe became gripped by a new fashion for “Japonism”. The catalogue of the Louvre Abu-Dhabi exhibition focuses on the pioneering group of Parisian artists Les Nabis, their fascination for Japanese prints, and the importance of this cross-cultural influence in the development of the decorative arts.
Affinités japonaises - Vers le décor moderne
2018
French edition
Kaph Books
sold out
Following the opening up of Japan to the West in the 1850s, artists, designers and makers across Europe became gripped by a new fashion for “Japonism”. The catalogue of the Louvre Abu-Dhabi exhibition focuses on the pioneering group of Parisian artists Les Nabis, their fascination for Japanese prints, and the importance of this cross-cultural influence in the development of the decorative arts.
Lori Waxman - Keep Walking Intently - The Ambulatory Art of the Surrealists, the Situationist International, and Fluxus
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
An historical account of walking as an artistic practice inside Surrealism, the Situationist International, and Fluxus.
George Brecht - This is the Cover of the Book
2017
English edition
IF Publications
sold out
In his “Book” George Brecht describes the specific nature of each single page, in a gesture that renders the printed matter a tautological object.
Alain Schnapp - Ruines - Essai de perspective comparée
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History –
sold out
A comparative history of the ruins from the ancient East to the modern West.
Clive Phillpot - Booktrek - Selected essays on artist\'s books
2013
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
sold out
Artists' book history.
EP Vol. 1 - The Italian Avant-Garde – 1968-1976
2013
English edition
Sternberg Press - EP
sold out
Avant-garde in Italy between 1968 and 1976.
Celebrity Cafe
2013
French edition
Celebrity Cafe
sold out
Experimental poetry, historical avant-garde, contemporary music, dance, visual arts, intermedia.
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