Modern art

 
 
Hans Hartung - Autoportrait
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Fondation Hartung Bergman
The critical edition of Hans Hartung's autobiographical writings.
Mário Pedrosa - Discours aux Tupiniquins
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
The great Brazilian critic Mário Pedrosa (1900-1981)'s farewell to art criticism, written to his countrymen in the manner of Montesquieu's Persian Letters.
Maurice Fréchuret - Effacer - Paradoxe d\'un geste artistique
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Dedalus
A typology of erasure as artistic gesture throughout the twentieth century.
Colin Lemoine - Giacometti devant Bourdelle - De la conversion au reniement
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Dedalus
An examination of the relationship between Antoine Bourdelle and Alberto Giacometti, thus also exploring the more general history of heritage and artistic education under modernity.
Claire Le Thomas - Racines populaires du cubisme - Pratiques ordinaires de création et art savant
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An historical and ethnographic investigation into the popular origin and environment of Cubist innovations.
Robert Lebel - Le surréalisme comme essuie-glace, 1943-1984 - Œuvres complètes t. I
2016
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
A collection of texts by Robert Lebel on surrealism.
Dario Gamboni - Images potentielles - Ambiguïté et indétermination en art moderne
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Ambiguity is inherent in images because visual perception is an interpretative act involving memory and imagination. Modern art has made this aspect of perception crucial to its relationship with the viewer. Images potentielles (Potential Images), the first systematic exploration of this topic, considers those works of art that rely to a great degree on imaginative response.
Didier Semin - Duchamp - The Paradigm of the Cartoon
2015
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
The influence of cartoon on Duchamp's work.
Andréi Nakov - Kandinsky, secret - L\'énigme du premier tableau abstrait
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Fama
An investigation into the enigma of the first abstract painting by Kandinsky.
Isabelle Waldberg - Masque à lame
2015
French edition
MAMCO - Artists' books
A facsimile edition of a surrealist poem by Robert Lebel and originally published in 1943. Illustrated with seven constructions by artist Isabelle Waldberg.
Robert Lebel - Sur Marcel Duchamp
2015
French edition
MAMCO - Monographs
A facsimile edition of the first ever monograph dedicated to Marcel Duchamp and originally published in 1959. A complete introduction to his works and personality as well as a reflection on the artist's role in modern society. Graphic design by Marcel Duchamp. With texts by Duchamp, André Breton & Henri-Pierre Roché. Featuring a bibliography and a catalogue raisonné.
Dario Gamboni - La destruction de l\'art - Iconoclasme et vandalisme depuis la Révolution française
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The relationship between Modern art and its destruction.
Raoul Hausmann et les avant-gardes
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
This publication aims to explore how the multiple production of Raoul Hausmann, a central figure of Dada, has helped to shape the art of modernity.
Carlo Scarpa - L\'art d\'exposer
2015
French edition
JRP|Editions - Lectures Maison Rouge
The never-before-published selection of Carlo Scarpa's writings and illustrations (photographs, architectural plans, sketches, etc.): an invaluable tool to understanding exhibition history and the importance of the architectural conception of exhibitions.
Elitza Dulguerova - Usages et utopies - L\'exposition dans l\'avant-garde russe prérévolutionnaire (1900-1916)
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Uses and Utopias – The Exhibition in the Pre-Revolutionary Russian Avant-Garde: an essay on the exhibition practice in Russia in the years 1910-1920, and in particular on the relationship between exhibition and public space in the projects of the historical avant-gardes.
Thierry de Duve - Essais datés I - Duchampiana
2014
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
Thierry de Duve's writings on Marcel Duchamp.
Herbert Molderings - Duchamp traversé - Essais 1975-2012
2014
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
Seven essays about Marcel Duchamp's work.
Les fleurs américaines
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Plateau / Frac Île-de-France
The origins of the writing of the history known as the history of modern art (catalogue).
Femmes, attitudes performatives, aux lisières de la performance et de la danse
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
ENSAD Nancy (Nancy National School of Art and Design)
The place and role of women in performing arts from 1912 to 2012, between performance and dance.
Trop humain - Artistes des XXe et XXIe siècles devant la souffrance
2014
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
Representation of pain in the art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.
Gilbert Titeux - Au temps du brame... - Les représentations de la chasse dans l\'œuvre de Gustave Courbet et dans la peinture allemande du XIXe siècle (1800-1900)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Gustave Courbet, hunting, and its contemporary representations in Germany.
Le Splendide XIXe siècle des Surréalistes
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A collective examination of the relationship between surrealism and the “splendid nineteenth century” (André Breton), and changes that have occurred in the field of political ideas, industrial development, psychiatry, philosophy or morality, between appropriation, misappropriation and rejection.
Hans Hartung - La Radice Del Segno – L\'Opera Grafica / The Roots of Signs – Graphic Works
2014
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Fondation Hartung Bergman
The art of etching in Hartung's work
Oskar Schlemmer - Lettres et journaux
2014
French edition
various
Oskar Schlemmer's letters and diaries.
Stefan Banz - Marcel Duchamp - Pharmacie
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
currently out of stock
First publication ever to focus exclusively on Marcel Duchamp's Pharmacie, the first rectified readymade in art history.
Olga Medvedkova - Kandinsky ou la critique des critiques - Les écrits russes de Kandinsky (1901-1911)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
First translation into French of a series of fundamental texts by Kandinsky, published in Russia in the early twentieth century.
Philippe Vatin - Voir et montrer la guerre - Images et discours d\'artistes en France (1914-1918)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Function of visual arts in France during the First World War.
Geneviève Cloutier - L\'avant-garde russe face à la « terreur de l\'histoire » - Historiosophie et historiographie chez Velimir Khlebnikov et Pavel Filonov
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A reflection on the Russian avant-garde's artistic project in the early twentieth century, and the problem of their paradoxical relationship to history.
Jeff Wall - Marcel Duchamp - Étant donnés
2013
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
Transcript of Jeff Wall's extraordinary lecture on Marcel Duchamp's great legacy Étant donnés, presented at the First Annual Anne d'Harnoncourt Memorial Symposium, September 11, 2009, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Dario Gamboni - Paul Gauguin au « centre mystérieux de la pensée »
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An essay that renews the study of Gauguin, highlighting the consistency that connects the entire production of the painter, based on his exploration of the relationship between perception, cognition and imagination, and that connects his interests in psychology, ethnology, history of religion and the natural sciences, not to mention the art of all times and all cultures.
Georges Sebbag - Sur l\'objet surréaliste
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Dedalus
The enigma of the surrealist object, from its origins to its future, between the demystification of the artwork and the reinvention of reality.
Franz Roh - Postexpressionnisme – Réalisme magique - Problèmes de la peinture européenne la plus récente
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
First translation into French of tghe seminal book of German historian, photographer, and influential theorist and critic of avant-garde film and photography Franz Roh (1890-1965).
Laurence Madeline - Picasso devant la télé
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Dedalus
Picasso in front of the TV: unexpected links between the media—especially television—and Picasso's work.
Raoul Hausmann - Hylé - État de rêve en Espagne
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Raoul Hausmann's autobiographical novel.
Ulf Linde - De ou par Marcel Duchamp par Ulf Linde
2013
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
currently out of stock
Ulf Linde summarizes his decades of investigation into the geometry of Duchamp's works.
La broyeuse de chocolat
2013
bilingual edition (English / German)
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
First publication ever to be devoted entirely to Duchamp's Broyeuse de chocolat, this volume also documents the event organized by the Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of this iconic work.
Carlo Ginzburg - Peur révérence terreur - Quatre essais d\'iconographie politique
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The frontispiece of Hobbes' Leviathan, Marat at his last breath by David, "Your country needs you", Guernica by Picasso: four essays on political iconography.
Lucio Fontana - Ecrits (manifestes, textes, entretiens)
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
An anthology of Fontana's manifestos, texts and interviews.
Lucio Fontana - Ecrits (manifestes, textes, entretiens)
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
An anthology of Fontana's manifestos, texts and interviews.
Cécile Pichon-Bonin - Peinture et politique en URSS - L\'itinéraire des membres de la Société des artistes de chevalet (OST) (1917-1941)
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A study of the production and reception of art in the USSR in the years 1920-1930 through the analysis of the work of the Society of Easel Painters (OST)'s members.
Emmanuel Pernoud - Paradis ordinaires - L\'artiste au jardin public
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Dedalus
Public garden in art between the mid-XIXth and early XXth centuries.
Émile Bernard - Les lettres d\'un artiste (1884-1941)
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Émile Bernard's correspondence.
Artistes et partis - Esthétique et politique (1900-1945)
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Artists and parties: aesthetics and politics in the first half of the 20th century.
Marcel Duchamp - Correspondance - 1918-1959
2012
French edition
MAMCO - Artists' writings
A unique testimony to Duchamp's personality, to his relationship to his friends and to his works, and to the slow reception of his works in France and in the U.S.
Judith Delfiner - Double-Barrelled Gun - Dada aux Etats-Unis (1945-1957)
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The resurgence of Dada in the U.S. (a genealogy of American post-war experimental art).
Karl Waldmann - Les collages de Karl Waldmann
2011
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
First major publication devoted to the mysterious germano-soviet artist's collages, one of the latest discoveries of constructivism.
Kazimir Malevitch - Carrément
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
Catalogue focusing on both ambiguous and explicit Morellet's relationship to Malevich's oeuvre.
Anna-Eva Bergman -
2011
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Fondation Hartung Bergman
Reference monograph.
La rébellion du Deuxième Sexe - L\'histoire de l\'art au crible des théories féministes anglo-américaines (1970-2000)
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Forty years of Anglo-American feminist theory in art history (an anthology of reference texts by Laura Cottingham, Gen Doy, Lisa E. Farrington, Lisa Gail Collins, Judith Halberstam, Amelia Jones, Lucy R. Lippard, Linda Nochlin, Rozsika Parker, Griselda Pollock, Abigail Solomon-Godeau).
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