Art & language

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.

An unprecedented insight into Louise Bourgeois' art by Jenny Holzer.

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.

An anthology of texts by writers, artists, choreographers, poets and performers who think about the relationships between body, writing and textuality.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Monographic study on the work of artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan on the perception of language, sound, and listening.

The new novel by Keren Cytter: an incomplete guide for life.

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 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.

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).

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.

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.

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.

An extension of the exhibition "Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language," curated by Laura Hoptman at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

First publication dedicated to Isou's extensive work with hypergraphics.

Christopher Wool's stained glass windows for the Prieuré of La Charité sur Loire, France.

Concrete poems / language "drawings" (artist's book).

An illustrated anthology (almost all of the speeches given by the artist on the occasion of his exhibition openings over 30 years).

First monograph: a survey of the Belgian artist's work over more than 35 years.

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.”

An exploration of the relationship between language and visual arts (works by/essays on Pierre Ardouvin, Art Keller, Julien Audebert, Gérard Collin-Thiébaut, Éric Duyckaerts, Dora García, Mark Geffriaud, Martin Le Chevallier, Claude Lévêque, François Morellet, Christian Robert-Tissot, Charles Sandison, Yann Sérandour, Lawrence Weiner).

An artist's book in which Falke Pisano demonstrates her ability to reconcile form and knowledge, both visual and textual.

An exploration of the artist's use of language and images as a means of representation that further the reach of the real (first of a series engaging with publications as a primary medium of practice, enabling artists to explore the inherent constraints and possibilities of the printed document.

Limited print run artist's book.

Full color monograph showcasing some of Georgian-born artist's most recent collages.

Facsimile appropriations, scanned pages, Xeroxes by several artists (Armleder, Gillick, Ruppersberg...) – Grey Flags is a book of texts and ideas published to accompany the homonymous exhibition at the Sculpture Center, NY.

Baldessari's cinema works on DVD.

First monograph (paintings, collages, sculptures).

First extensive publication of American artist, poet and performer's texts, illustrated with 4 screenprintings.

This small monograph follows the set-up of Robert Barry's artistic programs within the corporate spaces of a bank and the ways he conceived simultaneously his site-specificity and his break away from this framework.

A series of black and white drawings by Andro Wekua.

New edition of the Letterist manifesto.

A series of poems by Henri Cole used by conceptual artist Jenny Holzer for her monumental “signs” installations.

Facsimile reissue of the original graphic poetry book self-published in 1975 by Guy de Cointet.

This small monograph shows the realization of Liam Gillick's designs in conference rooms, corridors, and offices of a bank, coinciding with his sustained interest in the negotiation of a middle ground between corporate culture and contemporary art. The volume is accompanied by an artist's essay discussing the dissolution of the public/private dichotomy into a grey zone of semi-public/semi-private spheres.

Written in seven chapters and seven styles, this book constitutes the first novel by the Israeli artist and filmmaker Keren Cytter.

Badge in reference to the artist's work entitled C'est selon, ORDONNER.

Paintings and photographies.

An anthology focusing on the relationship of language to sound, writing to music, bringing together a collection of essays, interviews, meditations, visual projects, text-sound scores and audio by some of the leading individuals in the field of cultural and performance studies, experimental music and contemporary art.

Two artist's books reprinted with a third book never published.

This book presents the whole texts of the Living series by Jenny Holzer, printed on 400 tracing paper pages.

Artist's edition: three books batch ("philosophy", "history", "economy").

Artist book from a 16mm film in which an urban scene is repeated several times with slight variations.

Exhibition catalogue.

Reproduction of the artist's book published in 1975.