Art & sexuality / erotism

 
 
Michael Cline -
2009
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First monograph.
Yann Toma - Journal-poster
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - 127 Series
A set of photographs and texts / a large original photograph.
Katharine Park - Secrets de femmes - Le genre, la génération et les origines de la dissection humaine
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
The central role of female body in the history of anatomy, beyond the historiographical "taboo" around the religious prohibition.
Ne pas jouer avec des choses mortes
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Villa Arson
Documenting works by artists dealing with performative issues between the 1960s and today, this catalogue, gathering numerous essays, questions the nature and the relevance of “performative” objects in contemporary practices (also available in English edition).
Yann Toma - Journal-poster - Limited edition
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - 127 Series
Limited edition in a boxed set with the original photo print.
Jean-Jacques Lebel -
2008
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
This exhibition catalogue gathers together the visual works—collages, drawings and installations—of three major French experimental poets.
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.
 General Idea - FILE Megazine (boxset)
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Six-volume reprint of the "FILE Megazine" issues.
Marcel Duchamp & l\'érotisme
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
Curiously enough, although Duchamp considered eroticism as the main topic of his work, no essay had really focused on that matter yet. This book collects the lectures of about twenty international art historians and critics during a symposium organized by Marc Décimo.
Paul Sharits -
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Espace multimedia Gantner
Complete monograph on a master of experimental cinema, with a general introduction, several essays, texts by the artist and interviews (available in English edition).
Paul Sharits -
2008
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Monographs
Espace multimedia Gantner
Complete monograph on a master of experimental cinema, with a general introduction on its œuvre, several essays, texts by the artist and interviews.
Carroll Dunham - Paintings and Sculptures - 2004-2008
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
An overview of American artist's recent paintings and sculptures, exposing connections between the topics and his thematic development in a variety of media.
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.
Joachim Montessuis - Eros3 + Cosmogon + DDF (DVD + CD)
2007
bilingual edition (English / French), texts and subtitles
Optical Sound
Two films and a musical piece by Joachim Montessuis.
Patrick Weidmann - Bimboplastie
2007
French edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
10.00 6.00 €
A short story and a literary layering.
 Gilbert & George - The Secret Files of Gilbert & George (DVD)
2007
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Bureau des Videos (DVD)
This interview with G&G, filmed in 2000 by the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, concentrates on the hysteria of the archive and the collection.
 ORLAN - Pomme-cul et Petites fleurs
2007
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A collection of previously unpublished poetic texts by ORLAN, accompanied with photos by Fabrice Lévêque: a new highlighting on her work.
 ORLAN - Pomme-cul et Petites fleurs - Limited edition
2007
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Limited edition with a signed silkscreen enhanced by ORLAN's own lips.
Matthew Buckingham - Play the Story
2007
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
(last copies available!)
25.00 15.00 €
An original monographic publication (4 books in a boxset) devised as part of an exhibition of video installations recently produced by the American artist.
Walter Pfeiffer - Cherchez la femme!
2007
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
Gathering more than 100 portraits of women by Walter Pfeiffer, most of them being published for the first time, this books shows a new facette to Walter Pfeiffer's rich oeuvre.
Alexandra Baudelot - Jennifer Lacey & Nadia Lauro - Dispositifs chorégraphiques
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
An essay / fully illustrated monograph on choreographer and dancer Jennifer Lacey and artist and scenographer Nadia Lauro.
Georges Molinié - De la pornographie
2006
French edition
Mix
If pornography, for some, is not presentable, it is argued here that pornography is necessary, and that it is even the only ideal way to try to think freely the meaning, the value of art.
Jacques Floret - Alf-moi partout
2006
French edition
Galerie du jour agnès b. - Monographs & artists' books
15.00 7.00 €
Artist's book (drawings).
Richard Phillips -
2006
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
Illustrated monograph dedicated to the American hyperrealist artist's drawings. With texts by Kim Gordon, Liam Gillick, Karl Holmqvist...
Permanent Food
2005
no text
Permanent Food
Patate
2005
French edition
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
Patate is a magazine dedicaded to graphism and poetry edited by French punk graphic design pionneer Pascal Doury.
Rebecca Warren -
2005
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First monograph of the artist, presenting her figures of unfired clay, which grotesquely exaggerate the characteristic traits and trademarks of female sexuality.
Michel Onfray - Oxymoriques - Les photographies de Bettina Rheims
2005
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
Philosopher and essayist Michel Onfray analyzes the nature of Bettina Rheims' photos, and develops the thesis of a work which, more than scandalous or sulphurous, introduces new models of representation of our society.
Pierre Molinier - Je suis né homme-putain - Écrits et dessins inédits
2005
French edition
Mennour
Writings and drawings.
Yayoi Kusama - Manhattan Suicide Addict
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
26.00 15.00 €
First French translation of the Kusama's psychedelic novel.
Kathy Acker - Spread Wide
2004
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Encounters
Various artists and authors use two writers' correspondence as a primary source to develop an artistic and literary falsification.
The Future has a Silver Lining - Genealogies of Glamour
2004
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
(last copies available!)
Art and glamour as spaces for transformation of the self.
Bernard Dufour - Mes laissées
2004
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A collection of artist's writings about literature, semantics, dreams, poetry, photography, women...
Bernard Dufour - Mes laissées - Limited edition
2004
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A collection of artist's writings about literature, semantics, dreams, poetry, photography... (limited edition accompanied by a hand-enhanced photograph).
Bathroom Manners
2004
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - Wide Open
26.00 8.00 €
82 photos taken in bathrooms (Bettina Rheims, Araki, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Bertrand Desprez, Giselle Freund, Pierre & Gilles...), with an essay by Jean-Claude Kaufmann, half-way between voyeurism and sociological commentary
Markus Schinwald -
2004
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
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.
Paul-Armand Gette - The Nymphalids
2004
bilingual edition (English / French)
Galerie du jour agnès b. - Monographs & artists' books
Artist's book.
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.
Keep This Sex Out Of My Sight
2003
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
A study, by five women, on the artistic representations of the female body (essays by Chrystel Besse, Marie-Joseph Bertini, Arlette Fontan, Françoise Gaillard, and Elvan Zabunyan).
Cachez ce sexe que je ne saurais voir
2003
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
A study, by five women, on the artistic representations of the female body (essays by Chrystel Besse, Marie-Joseph Bertini, Arlette Fontan, Françoise Gaillard, and Elvan Zabunyan).
Permanent Food
2003
no text
Permanent Food
(last copies available!)
Sture Johannesson -
2003
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
39.00 20.00 €
This book, part psychedelic philosophy, part biography, is the first to present Sture Johannesson's work in depth, documenting his affiliations with the “high” underground and the punk movement, his activism and his radical exploration of the relationships between art, politics, technology, and human consciousness.
Kyoichi Tsuzuki - Voulez-vous coucher avec nous ce soir ?
2003
no text
Cneai
This artist's book brings together photographic images of Japanese pleasure houses and a collection of erotic sculptures.
Alberto García-Alix - Lo que dura un beso
2002
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
Mennour
95 duotone photographs by Alberto García-Alix.
Jean-Jacques Lebel - Reliquaire pour un culte de Vénus
2001
bilingual edition (English / French)
Casino Luxembourg
10.00 5.00 €
Jean-Jacques Lebel's tribute to Venus.
Otto Muehl - Sortir du bourbier
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Bibliothèque art action pensée
The actionnist's autobiography.
Luigee Trademarq - Bande Original (Original soundtracks for John B. Root\'s films) (3 CD)
2000
Rectangle
A triple CD of music made for John B. Root's pornographic films! (with Noël Akchoté, Charlie O, Emiko Ota, Dom Farkas, etc.).
Peter Greenaway - Huit femmes et demie
1999
French edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
Eight and a half women is a laconic black comedy, an examination of the age-old phenomenon of male sexual fantasy, its roots and its consequences, as well as a homage to Fellini (film script).
Elke Krystufek - In the Arms of Luck
1999
édition anglaise
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
An intimate and unsettling diary featuring 56 self-portraits drawn in black and coloured pencils, extensively annotated by the artist.
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