Black Studies / African-American art / British Black Art / Black Arts Movement / Afrofuturism

 
 
Gaëlle Beaujean - L\'art de cour d\'Abomey - Le sens des objets
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Conceived around an anthropology of the object, this book proposes to follow the course of royal objects of Abomey, former capital of the pre-colonial Kingdom of Dahomey (in present-day Benin).
Vanina Géré - Les mauvais sentiments - L\'art de Kara Walker
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
This book traces the career of Kara Walker (born in 1969), the most internationally recognized African-American artist since Jean-Michel Basquiat, and explores the history of the reception of a work that faces the limits of representation, challenging the question of the figuration of the black body.
Sonia Boyce - Thoughtful Disobedience - Nouvelle édition française
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Villa Arson
Focusing on several major collaborative performance-videos by a figure of the British Black Art movement, this illustrated monograph includes a series of essays which interpret Boyce's interdisciplinary practice in the light of art history, and analyse her interest in black feminism, cultural studies, film studies, art history and critical theory.
Anne Lafont - L\'art et la race - L\'Africain (tout) contre l\'œil des Lumières
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
French art historian Anne Lafont delivers an unpublished study on the close and paradoxical relations of art and race in the Enlightenment. A new voice in current works on issues of race, art, images and colonization.
Cécile Fromont - L\'Art de la conversion - Culture visuelle chrétienne dans le royaume du Kongo
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An an extensive analysis of the advent of Christian visual culture in the Kingdom of Kongo and its and development across four centuries.
Glenn Ligon - Debris Field / Notes for a Poem on the Third World / Soleil Negre
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Is-Land
Catalogue of the American artist's exhibition at Galerie Chantal Crousel: the publication presents a series of new works (neon, painting, drawing) inspired by texts by Gertrude Stein and Pier Paolo Pasolini, and by the artist's reflections on language, race and gender. The book includes poems by writer, artist and Act Up activist Gregg Bordowitz, and an essay by teacher and writer Sara Nadal-Melsio.
Yaëlle Biro - Fabriquer le regard - Marchands, réseaux et objets d\'art africains à l\'aube du XXe siècle
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Based on a set of mostly unpublished archives, this book focuses on the role played by art dealers at the turn of the last century in the definition, promotion and circulation of African objects as artworks, in Europe and the United States.
Judy Chicago - Through the Flower - Mon combat d\'artiste femme
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
First French translation of Judy Chicago's autobiography-manifesto.
Guillaume Belhomme - Eric Dolphy
2018
French edition
Lenka lente
The life and times of jazz multi-instrumentalist Eric Dolphy, free-jazz precursor and collaborator of Charles Mingus, John Coltrane, and Ornette Coleman.
Lionel Ovesey - Color line - Oppression et inconscient
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
A landmark study on the psychological effects of oppression on Black Americans during the 1940s.
The White Hunter - African Memories and Representations
2018
English edition
Archive Books
(last copies available!)
This catalogue is part of a project investigating the decentralization of the hegemonic and indisputable model of western artistic modernity in the current geo-political scenario. It attempts to reflect on the construction that the West has made of Africa through works from major collections on Italian colonial history, as well as from Fondation Cartier in Paris. It also includes texts from key postcolonial figures W. E. B. Du Bois, Édouard Glissant, and Léopold Sédar Senghor.
John Coltrane - Conversation
2017
French edition
Lenka lente
First French translation of the famous 1966 interview with the American saxophonist by writer and jazz specialist Frank Kofsky.
Sonia Boyce - Thoughtful Disobedience
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Villa Arson
Focusing on several major collaborative performance-videos by a figure of the British Black Art movement, this illustrated monograph includes a series of essays which interpret Boyce's interdisciplinary practice in the light of art history, and analyse her interest in black feminism, cultural studies, film studies, art history and critical theory.
Steffani Jemison - Sensus Plenior
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Monographs
currently out of stock
Catalogue dedicated to a video project on the practice of gospel mime within the African-American church. This subject is an opportunity for Jemison to express her interest in language and gesture, and on the discursive dimension of African American culture.
Kapwani Kiwanga -
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Captures - Digressions (interviews)
An in-depth exploration of the Canadian artist's anthropology-based research method in the form of a conversation with Corinna Ewald, Smaranda Olcèse, and Julie Pellegrin (inaugural title of the “Digressions” series initiated by La Ferme du Buisson in collaboration with Captures editions).
Sophie Orlando - British Black Art - Debates on the Western Art History
2016
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
With this essay on Black British artists from 1970 onward, Sophie Orlando explores their influences on the Western contemporary art and introduces readers to an important, long-marginalized movement, recontextualizing it with groundbreaking scholarship.
Sophie Orlando - British Black Art - L\'histoire de l\'art occidental en débat
2016
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
With this essay on Black British artists from 1970 onward, Sophie Orlando explores their influences on the Western contemporary art and introduces readers to an important, long-marginalized movement, recontextualizing it with groundbreaking scholarship.
Nero su Bianco
2015
English edition
Nero
A provocative interrogation of race and identity in contemporary Italy envisioned by visual artists, scholars and writers from Africa, Europe and the United States exploring new forms of subjectivity and agency shaped by history, immigration and integration, the legacy of colonialism and persistent stereotypes (a project curated by Lyle Ashton Harris, Robert Storr and Peter Benson Miller).
Luc Bouquet - Coltrane sur le vif
2015
French edition
Lenka lente
currently out of stock
A study of John Coltrane's live recordings.
Lili Reynaud-Dewar - Interpretation
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Paraguay Press
Artist's book: the last part of a complex project initiated in 2010—an exploration of the intimate legacies of Sun Ra's peculiar body of work (texts by Diedrich Diederichsen, Anthony Elms, J. Griffith Rollefson...).
William Pope.L - Black People Are Cropped - Skin Set Drawings 1997-2011
2012
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
Artist's book.
Volume! - Sex sells, Blackness too? – Stylisation des rapports de domination dans les cultures populaires et postcoloniales
2012
texts in English and French
Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
Mélanie Seteun - Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
What role do the representations of the Other, the body, women and race play in highly publicized cultural productions?
Volume! - Peut-on parler de musique noire ?
2011
texts in English and French
Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
Mélanie Seteun - Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
What is it we call “Black” music? A selection of texts from the April 2010 conference in Bordeaux based on a critical discussion of Philipp Tagg's open letter about “Black music,” “Afro-American Music” and “European Music.”
Renée Green - Ongoing Becomings - Retrospective 1989-2009
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The first overview of the variety and scope of the research carried out by Renée Green over the past twenty years.
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.
Ramon Amaro - The Black Technical Object - On Machine Learning and the Aspiration of Black Being
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - On the Antipolitical
sold out
A contemplation on the abstruse nature of machine learning, mathematics, and the deep incursion of racial hierarchy.
Julius Eastman - Two Extended Pieces For Four Pianos (2 vinyl LP)
2022
Sub Rosa
sold out
Julius Eastman's Four Pianos (1979-80), performed by Melaine Dalibert, Stephane Ginsburgh, Nicols Horvath and Wilhem Latchoumia.
Julius Eastman - Three Extended Pieces For Four Pianos (2 CD)
2021
Sub Rosa
sold out
Julius Eastman's Four Pianos (1979-80), performed by Melaine Dalibert, Stephane Ginsburgh, Nicols Horvath and Wilhem Latchoumia.
Julius Eastman - Femenine - Performed by ensemble 0  (CD)
2021
Sub Rosa
sold out
Julius Eastman's major yet long-forgotten ensemble piece from 1974, dense and hypnotic, played by Ensemble 0.
Kara Walker - A Black Hole Is Everything a Star Longs to Be
2021
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
The drawing practice of Kara Walker.
Sun Ra - Sound American - The Sun Ra Issue
2020
English edition
Sound American
sold out
The 24th issue of the New York music magazine focuses on the figure of Sun Ra.
Sun Ra - En algún lado y en ninguno - Poemas
2019
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
sold out
A compilation of poems by the jazz musician and poet Sun Ra, in a bilingual edition (English / Spanish).
Jacques Ponzio - Monk encore
2019
French edition
Lenka lente
sold out
Jacques Ponzio re-questions the life and personality of legendary American jazz pianistThelonious Monk as much as his music.
Julie Mehretu - A Universal History of Everything and Nothing
2017
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / Portuguese)
Serralves
sold out
A twenty-year survey of works by Julie Mehretu, considered as one of the foremost painters of her generation.
Rashid Johnson - Reasons
2016
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
GAMeC Books
sold out
The work of African-American artist Rashid Johnson is considered central in the contemporary debate revolving around the issues of identity, integration and memory. This exhibition catalogue showcases a series of his most iconic oeuvres to offer an intimate yet broad introduction to Johnson's artistic practice.
The Africans
2016
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
sold out
At the heart of this book is a solo exhibition of the work of M'barek Bouhchichi in Rabat, and the artist's first attempt at directly confronting the wound of growing up black in Morocco. With contributions by an anthropologist, a filmmaker, and a writer from Africa, this volume puts recent transformations of Moroccan society into perspective. Beyond studying inequality and spatial segregation, what is at stake is the possibility of transfiguring the stigma of racism through art and research.
Glenn Ligon - Figure
2008
English edition
Yvon Lambert - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
A series of 50 unique silkscreens: each figure is a selfportrait of the artist. His head is represented from the front or from the back, showing and hiding the artist identity.
Adam Pendleton - So I independent in Georgia in the 90\'s - LAB 01/12/06
2006
English edition
Yvon Lambert - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
First extensive publication of American artist, poet and performer's texts, illustrated with 4 screenprintings.
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