Art & utopia

Utopias, dystopias, and anarchy in the Sixties counterculture and popular music. Plus a special feature on heavy-metal studies.

An overview of French revolutionary armed groups from 1968 to 2000.

The function of utopian thinking in urban planning and spatial culture (based on the project by Sophie Warren & Jonathan Mosley).

A critical biography.

An introduction to the “work of resistance” of East German dramatist, poet, writer and essayist Heiner Müller.

A new approach to the history of Fourierism and societary movement, based on the project of a biographical dictionary of Fourierism.

Reference monograph, including most of Mai-Thu Perret's projects so far, introduced by short captions she has written, as well as newly commissioned essays by Elisabeth Lebovici and Diedrich Diederichsen.

New Dystopia is contemporary author Mark von Schlegell's illustrated screenplay-as-science fiction novel. In conjunction with the curator Alexis Vaillant, von Schlegell curated an exhibition of contemporary art at CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, “Dystopia,” based on his novel's dystopian-present.

This publication documents the innovative pedagogic project of the International School Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in Manosque, conceived by architects Jean-Michel Battesti and Rudy Ricciotti.

Artist's book / first monograph.

A musical, pictorial and cinematographic journey, as many sensitive interpretations of the domain of Certes in Gironde. Through the prism of Ernest Valeton de Boissière, inventor of the place and transmitter of the social utopias of the 19th century.

Essays by Patrick Samzun, Louis Ucciani, Tomomi Fukushima, Quentin Detourbet, Denis Andro...

This artist's book is an illustrated and disenchanted reflection on democracy and its imperfections. Using two different colors, the artist dissociates two layers of meanings—the text and the image—while maintaining a close dialectic.

Using Dubai as a sort of modernist blank slate for urban and social renewal, Ingo Niermann confronts today's most relevant cultural and technological developments with analytical elixirs that are as pertinent as they are unbelievable.

Charles Fourier's theories and archives, his disciples and the concrete becomings of his utopian system, his influences in history, in modern and contemporary art... with about 20 essays and 300 illustrations.

A visual anthropology study on the Wagenburgs and the Berliner punk community.

New Marxist perspectives.

An essay on Charles Fourier's legacy through his disciples and "utopian" activists in late XIXth century.

A philosophical approach to the image in the margins or outer limits of art (from art brut to experimental art and its political extensions).

Pistoletto's theater and performances.

A Glossary of artists' utopias.

A first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation.

The first, fundamental work in which Fourier declares his objectives for a world government and economy administered by "Passionate Attraction".

For the 20 years of Cahiers Charles Fourier: new issues, vast territories, meeting with readers of Fourier (architects, mediums, and anarchists); critical edition of Roland Barthes' researches on Fourier, actuality of Fourierism.

An unfinished project by Eisenstein inspired by the deconstruction of traditional architecture and its ideologies.

Anthology of Yona Friedman's drawings published from 1975 to 1992 in more than thirty countries and in twenty languages. This last volume focuses on the artist's researches on language, interpretation and improvisation within the urban environment.

3 Films inspired by a 1924 agit prop play: a choreography performed by artist friends (Amy Granat, Fia Backström...), on a music composed by Steven Parrino.

An anthology of drawings by Yona Friedman published from 1975 to 1992 in more than thirty countries and in twenty languages.

Special issue devoted to Victor Considerant (1808-2008).

Twelve films created by the artist and his wife between 1960 and 1963.

A new approach on the Situationist International and its paradoxical myths.

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.

Art as a social practice through Gustave Courbet's œuvre and political commitment.

An elucidation of the myths and the political fantasies that surrounded Gustave Courbet's work and life under the second Empire.

A full documentation on the collaborative project between Yona Friedman and Camille Henrot.

A thoroughly investigation of the social role of art articulated by the French left during the July Monarchy and Second Republic.

A part of the Dutch Pavilion at the 52nd International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.

The Fourierist Studies Association Review.

15 images from a serie of photographs realized in Mexico during the Marcos' campaign in 2006, with two essays : a reflexion on contemporary photography.

The Fourierist Studies Association Review.

New edition of the Letterist manifesto, with an original artwork of inter-participation, consisting of a photograph torn by the artist and inserted in an envelope.

An essential work covering the activities of the 19th century French theoretician of anarchy, federalism, perpetual education and the mutual principle.

A 19th century political activism classic.