new releases

Maria Bottero, Umberto Riva
Forays beyond the Modern – The Architecture of Umberto Riva

trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)

Caryatide / Cosa Mentale

A monumental anthology of critical essays devoted to the figure of Umberto Riva, introduced and edited by Maria Bottero, accompanied by a collection of sketches and drawings from the architect’s personal archives (new revised edition).

Toilet Paper #21

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Toilet Paper

Damiani - Toilet Paper

22 new dreamlike (or nightmarish) living tableaux by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.

C.A.S.A. – Casablanca Art School Archives

English edition

Zamân - Zamân Books

A historical and thematic book that aims to tell the adventure of the Casablanca Art School, through a polyphony of stories, experiences and actors.

Frédéric Acquaviva
Hans Naumann, Maurice Lemaître et le Lettrisme

bilingual edition (English / French)

AcquAvivA

An intimate journey through the Lettrist movement via the collection and library of Hans Naumann (born in 1933 in Germany), one of Maurice Lemaître's most trusted collectors and one of the most important Lettrist bibliophiles, who has assembled a vast collection of rare or unique works and books related to this avant-garde movement founded in 1946 by Isidore Isou and still largely overlooked.

Marin Karmitz
Et la vie continue… – Dessins de la collection Karmitz

bilingual edition (English / French)

Empire - Books

More than 150 drawings from the collection of producer and filmmaker Marin Karmitz: a selection of works by historical, modern and contemporary artists that highlights the tension between the life and death drives.

Alexandra Midal
Witches of Design – Ann Lee: Design, Trance and Feminism

English edition

Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous

MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)

Witches of Design interweaves design with the rebellious and feminist figure of the witch, based on the history of the messianic, socialist, utopian, and egalitarian Shaker sect in the 18th century.

ECAL – A Typographic Atlas

English edition

Empire - Books

A comprehensive illustrated compilation of typographic works produced by bachelor and master students at ECAL over the past ten years.

Sarah Tritz
Life Is a Long Journey

bilingual edition (English / French)

Empire - Books

The second monograph on artist Sarah Tritz looks back on the last ten years of her work.

Rudy Ricciotti, Jean-Louis Poitevin
The City of Thelema – Do What You Will!

English edition

Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Encounters

An exploration of the utopian labyrinth that has fueled the imagination and work of internationally renowned architect Rudy Ricciotti, through a quasi-cinematic montage of images and quotes, constituting a stroll through the mind of the “character” Ricciotti, each space visited punctuated—as in a voice-over—by a text by Jean-Louis Poitevin.

Chiara Camoni
Certain things

English edition

Nero

A new monograph on the Italian artist Chiara Camoni, published in conjunction with her exhibition at the Italian Pavilion of the 61st Venice Biennale.

Massimiliano Gioni
High Waters – An Oral History of The Venice Biennale

English edition

Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents

JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)

A 33-year journey through the Venice Biennale (1993–2026).

Slavs and Tatars
Simurgh Self-Help

English edition

JRP|Editions - Monographs

The 2025 Ringier annual report (artist's book).

Lolita Danse

bilingual edition (English / French)

Mess

The first book dedicated to the collective of artists, dancers, set designers, and musicians who profoundly transformed the practice of choreography in France and beyond in the 1980s.

Paolo Monti
Milano 1957/1973

bilingual edition (English / Italian)

Humboldt Books - Time Travel

Paolo Monti's photographs capture the affirmation of modernist aesthetics and the dawn of the golden age of Milanese architecture in the postwar period.

Kris Lüdi
Smoke

English edition

Edition Patrick Frey

The artist's photographic view of the folk tradition that celebrates Swiss tobacco culture by introducing young children in Appenzell to smoking.

Andy Julia
Materia Prima – Selected Works

bilingual edition (English / French)

Timeless

The first major retrospective dedicated to the work of photographer Andy Julia.

En travaux ! – De la rénovation à la réouverture – La transformation du Centre culturel suisse à Paris

bilingual edition (English / French)

CCS (Centre culturel suisse Paris)

An artistic and documentary exploration of the transformation of the Swiss Cultural Center building in Paris and the renovation process carried out between 2022 and 2026 by the architectural agencies ASBR (Paris) and Truwant + Rodet + (Basel).

Marina Abramović
On the Erotic

English edition

Bierke

Eroticism and sexuality in Marina Abramović's work.

Florentina Holzinger
Holzinger

bilingual edition (English / German)

Bierke

The catalog accompanying the provocative performance installation by Austrian artist and choreographer Florentina Holzinger, presented at the 61st Venice Biennale.

Liz Johnson Artur
PDA

English edition

Bierke

For her long awaited second monograph, Liz Johnson Artur follows the legendary London club scene PDA and the community that created it.

Beyond the Manosphere – Masculinities Today

English edition

Bierke

A critical and multifaceted examination of contemporary masculinities, as explored through the works of some thirty artists from different generations.

$Jack O\'Brien - Cue the Cue$

Jack O'Brien
Cue the Cue

bilingual edition (English / German)

Bierke

First monograph / artist's book.

Roma vietata – Journey into the reachable city / Viaggio nella città raggiungibile

bilingual edition (English / Italian)

Humboldt Books - Globetrotter

An exploration of the future of Rome through what has become forbidden.

Le Un
Rivage(s) – An attempt at collective play and reflection around the Gironde Estuary

bilingual edition (English / French)

UNRec

Le Un ensemble orchestra, accompanied by a group of guest researchers, continues its sonic, musical, and poetic experiments as it travels downriver along the Gironde estuary.

Walter Pfeiffer
In Good Company

bilingual edition (English / Italian)

Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)

A renewed reading of Walter Pfeiffer's photographic practice.

Gianfranco Baruchello
Last Lines

trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)

Nero

A book dedicated to the last drawings created between 2021 and 2022 by Gianfranco Baruchello, who passed away in January 2023.

Jimmie Durham
PoesiePoems

bilingual edition (English / Italian)

Nero

An important collection of poems by Jimmie Durham (1940–2021).

Andreas Valentin - Inventing with Hélio Oiticica: The Story of a Friendship

Andreas Valentin, Hélio Oiticica
Inventing with Hélio Oiticica: The Story of a Friendship

English edition

Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite

The publication traces Andreas Valentin's lifelong relationship with Brazilian avant-garde artist Hélio Oiticica (1937-1980).

Shirin Sabahi
Zenit

English edition

Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite

Zenit brings together photographs, films, and light-responsive installations by Berlin-based artist Shirin Sabahi. Shown in non-chronological order, and some for the first time, the photographs ground her artistic roots in photography—at times as a study, and at others as the work itself.

Eglė Budvytytė
Tender Tremble

English edition

Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite

Published on the occasion of Eglė Budvytytė's representation of Lithuania for its national pavilion at the 61st Venice Biennale, this book offers an overview of the artist’s interdisciplinary practice.

Art & Language
In the Belly of the Beast – Art & Language New York Project 1972-1978

English edition

Rab-Rab Press

Edited by Michael Corris, the expanded edition of In the Belly of the Beast: Art & Language New York Project 1972-1978 is a survey of the tumultuous years of the political Conceptualism in the mid-seventies New York.

Johannes van de Weert
The Adventures of Red Rat and BIGGO – The Present

English edition

Rab-Rab Press

A children's book by Johannes van de Weert, a veteran of the punk underground (Rondos, The Ex, Red Rat, Raket).

Eugene Ostashevsky
Alphabet Soup – The Translingual Sayings of Emma and Eva as Recorded by Their Father

English edition

Rab-Rab Press

Alphabet Soup collects the sayings of two multilingual girls as written down by their poet father.

Amanda Booth, Artur Varela
The Donkey who wanted to know things

English edition

Daisy editions

The story of Tony the Donkey! A children's book illustrated by Artur Varela (1937–2017), completed shortly before the Portuguese artist's death, adapted and published posthumously by Daisy Publishing.

Cura. #46 – Soft Power

English edition

Cura.

Cura. - Cura.magazine

Cura. #46 – Soft Power presents artists redefining the geographies of contemporary art. The issue brings together techno-cultural and postcolonial identities, decolonial futures, speculative imaginaries, and narratives rooted in memory, home, and history.

Espace art actuel #143 – Light

bilingual edition (English / French)

Espace art actuel

The role of light in contemporary art.

Pauline Deltour
An apparent simplicity

bilingual edition (English / French)

MADD (Museum of Decorative Arts and Design in Bordeaux)

This monograph traces the dazzling and prolific career of French designer Pauline Deltour (1983–2021) and showcases the richness of her work through images drawn from an extensive archive and contributions from curators, designers, and collaborators.

Azzedine Alaïa, Christian Dior
Two Masters of Haute Couture

English edition

Damiani

A dialogue between the creations of the two designers.

Panamarenko
Panamarenko Fundamentals

English edition

MER. Books

An exciting exploration of the imaginary world of Belgian artist Panamarenko, who became internationally renown for his groundbreaking creations connecting art with science and technique.

Jeff Wall Production
Submission Declined

English edition

HELA Press

An unapproved Wikipedia draft authored under the conceptual label Jeff Wall Production, initiated by curator and essayist Pierre Bal-Blanc.

Antoni Muntadas
Media Architecture Projects

trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)

Anarchive

Based on the relationship between the visible and the invisible in the development of Antoni Muntadas' projects, this publication examines the five series of works that bring together significant projects reflecting Muntadas's artistic approach since 1999.

Edgard Varèse, Gunther Schuller
Conversation

bilingual edition (English / French)

Lenka lente

A few months before the death of Edgard Varèse (1883–1965), Gunther Schuller (1925–2015) sat down with the composer for an in-depth conversation: his career and friendships, collaborations, new instruments, and the rare freedom he allowed the sounds they produced... A rare testament published for the first time in English and French.

Edi Hila
Edited by Anri Sala

English edition

Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)

An artists' book in which Anri Sala interacts with the corpus of paintings by Edi Hila.

K-NOW! – Korean Video Art Today

bilingual edition (English / Italian)

Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)

A look at a href="index_theme.php?id=224&menu=4">South Korea's contemporary art scene through the medium of video art.

Vai, vai, Saudade

bilingual edition (English / Italian)

Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)

A poetic pathway exploring a series of stories related to the art produced in Brazil since WWII.

Ingela Ihrman
Queen of the Night

English edition

Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)

First monograph on the Swedish artist.

Lucía C. Pino
You Who Have Beautiful Manners

bilingual edition (English / Spanish)

Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)

First monographie.

Anaïs Borie
Brèches fertiles

bilingual edition (English / French)

Cité du design / ESADSE

A dive into the world of designer Anaïs Borie, where design is fueled by storytelling, fiction, and the hybridization of expertise, at the crossroads of craftsmanship, digital technologies, and industrial processes.

Allen Ginsberg
AH!MERICA

English edition

ISOLARII

Edited from archival lectures, AH!MERICA captures Allen Ginsberg's profound exploration of William Blake as a guide for modern perception and social consciousness. It offers a "poetics of attention," teaching readers to find beauty in overlooked details and use poetry as a tool for resilience against political and personal despair.

$Reflections on Democracy and Urban Form - Provocations from a Panel at Harvard\'s Graduate School of Design$

Reflections on Democracy and Urban Form – Provocations from a Panel at Harvard's Graduate School of Design

English edition

Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory

Leading scholars explore the connections between democracy and justice, architecture and urban design, the growth of cities, cosmopolitanism, inclusion, and free speech.

Evan Calder Williams
Inhuman Resources

English edition

Sternberg Press - On the Antipolitical

On the forms of sabotage, insubordination, and invisible activity that evade the terrain of politics.

Emilija Škarnulytė
Waters Call Me Home

English edition

Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books

Readers are invited into an immersive, oceanic way of seeing—where the boundaries between body, technology, and environment dissolve into continuous transformation.

Bruno Munari
Xerografia

English edition

Christophe Daviet-Théry

currently out of stock

The first reprint since its 1970 release of Bruno Munari's legendary artist's book Xerografia: an intimate look into Munari's groundbreaking experimentation with the Xerox machine, where technology becomes a tool for poetic and visual exploration.

Joseph Grigely
This Is Where We Are

English edition

Palais de Tokyo - Catalogues & artist's books

Artist's book, produced in limited print run in the Palais de Tokyo's risography micro-publishing workshop.

Jean-Claude Guillaumon

bilingual edition (English / French)

Jannink - Wide Open

The first retrospective of the work of Jean-Claude Guillaumon (1943-2022), a self-taught artist who defies categorization, associated with the French Fluxus scene, avid practitioner of happenings and other forms of ephemeral art.

Mousse #95

English edition

Mousse

Mousse - Mousse Magazine

Scholar and curator Christine Eyene serves as guest editor for this special issue, featuring a central section dedicated to the work and place of women—particularly Lubaina Himid—within the Black Arts Movement.

Frog #24

texts in English and French

Frog

Diego Marcon, Autumn Ramsey, David Ostrowski, Nina Childress, Larry Mantello, Paul Winstanley, André Butzer, Edgar Bryan, Ghislain Mollet-Viéville, Alain Séchas, Philip Guston, John Giorno, Lutz Bacher, Rodolphe Parente, Sapiens Architectes, Michael Krebber, Laurie Simmons, Jacqueline Humpfries, Wolfgang Tillmans, Joe Bradley, Niele Toroni, Saâdane Afif...

Flash Art Volumes #03 – Opacity

English edition

Flash Art

Flash Art - Flash Art Volumes

The third issue, titled "Opacity", of Flash Art's yearly review.

Joar Nango

bilingual edition (English / Sámi)

Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books

The work of Sámi architect and artist Joar Nango, investigating indigenous spaces and their critical value in a contemporary cultural discussion.

Intersubjectivity – Vol. 4 – Network Affect

English edition

Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory

Leading contemporary artists and thinkers elaborate on how our increasingly networked societies are shaping—and shaped by—exchanges among people and machines.

Maike Statz
Hosting Space

English edition

Errant Bodies

Hosting Space explores how processes of hosting, such as access, support, and gathering, operate within the context of an art institution. It invites readers to reconsider how these activities are embedded in the spaces we inhabit and how they shape spatial practices.

Philippe Weisbecker
Miroirs

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Nieves

Philippe Weisbecker's series of mirrors.

Philippe Weisbecker
Greenhouse Studies

no text

Nieves

Artist's book (a tribute to the beauty of the greenhouse).

Yannis Drakoulidis, Luca Guadagnino
Bones and All

no text

Nieves

A behind-the-scenes look at Luca Guadagnino’s film, captured in Yannis Drakoulidis's set photographs.

Andro Wekua, Rita Ackermann
Chapter 5

no text

Nieves

Artists' book.

Agnès Wyler
DUO / DUEL (2-book set)

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Nieves

A pair of small-format artist's books, conceived as two visual sequences bound together by tension, attraction, and delay.

$Women\'s History Museum - Grisette à l\'enfer$

Women's History Museum
Grisette à l'enfer

English edition

Bierke

Conceived as a hybrid between an exhibition catalogue and a fashion lookbook, as well as a document of their practice and a sculptural object in its own right, the Women's History Museums' first publication interweaves newly commissioned texts with illustrated image spreads that reference iconic precedents, from Matsuda's 1990s lookbooks to early Vivienne Westwood.

Harun Farocki
On the History of Labor / Häuserbauen und Filmemachen

bilingual edition (English / German)

Bierke

A transcript of a lecture by Harun Farocki exploring the relationship between architecture and cinema.

Patrick Staff
Minimum World

English edition

Bierke

P. Staff's first collection of poetry.

Claire Tabouret

bilingual edition (English / French)

Perrotin

Reference monograph, with a wide selection of of Claire Tabouret's works (paintings, drawings, and sculptures), two essays and a set of literary quotes chosen by the artist (new expanded edition).

$Spike - Everything\'s Computer$

Spike #87 – Everything's Computer

English edition

Spike

Art in the digital age.

Daniel Spoerri
Les choses de la vie

bilingual edition (English / French)

Vallois

Reference monograph.

Asier Mendizabal
Recto verso – An Anthology of Works and Writings by Asier Mendizabal

English edition

Paraguay Press - Monographs and catalogs

A comprehensive retrospective of the Spanish artist's work, covering his major exhibitions (Manifesta, Reina Sofia, MACBA, Raven Row, etc.) and including all of his texts published as fanzines over a period of twenty years, a new critical essay by Kim West, and a wide-ranging conversation.

P L S – The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo #40

bilingual edition (English / French)

Palais

Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine

Issue 40 of the magazine of the Palais de Tokyo features a constellation of artists and critical thinkers whose practices are shaped by the lived experiences of disability and issues of accessibility.

John Giorno
The Performative Word

English edition

Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)

The first monograph dedicated to the American artist, poet, and activist John Giorno (1936–2019).

An Orobic Journey – On Migratory Restlessness, Community, and Multispecies Geographies

English edition

Lenz Press

A layered and polyphonic investigation that, setting out from the Orobic Alpine territory in Northern Italy, explores the mountainside not merely as a natural backdrop but as an epistemological lens through which to understand and rethink the contemporary world.

I Am The F****** Subject – Art And Adolescence

English edition

Lenz Press

currently out of stock

A collective reflection on the multiple dimensions of adolescence in its relationship with art.lab

Saad Almasari
Geometry as Thought

bilingual edition (English / Arabic)

Kaph Books

First monograph of pioneering Saudi artist Saad Almasari, tracing a practice shaped by place, memory, and the enduring logic of geometry.

Fouad Mougharbel
Taibah – Remnants and Solace

bilingual edition (English / Arabic)

Kaph Books

First monograph of Saudi artist Fouad Mogharbel.

Mesmer
Terrain Vague II (CD)

Arbitrary

With its second album, the Danish electro-acoustic trio Mesmer creates a sensuous and reflective space to inhabit in a time marked by speed, noise, and digital fragmentation.

Schatterau
Wir gingen durch leere Stunden (vinyl LP)

Hands in the Dark / Fragments Editions

Schatterau's third album sees the German duo blossoms with beauty and sophistication through a broad creative language.

Le Un
25 pièces sans vide (3-CD box set)

bilingual edition (English / French)

UNRec

A three-CD set offering a glimpse into the work of the improvisation ensemble Le UN, featuring performances by a large ensemble in various acoustic settings, small and medium-sized ensembles, and outdoor performances in public spaces (light intervention brigade).

Bill Laswell, P.ST
Mount Analogue (2 vinyl LP)

Sub Rosa

A musical journey that pays tribute to René Daumal's unfinished Moutain and his enchanting world of mysteries and magic, through sound with Bill Laswell, P.ST, featuring Nils Petter Molvaer, Henry Kaiser, Anna Clementi, Dorian Cheah, Percy Howard, Graham Haynes, Hideo Yamaki, Peter Apfelbaum.

eRikm, Pierre Bastien
Observations (vinyl LP)

Sub Rosa

A collaborative album born from a live performance rooted in a meticulous mutual observation of each musician’s playing style and setup: eRikm’s turntables, electronic devices, and vast sound library; and Pierre Bastien’s mechanical orchestra and range of acoustic instruments.

Miroslav Beinhauer
Pieces for Broken Piano (CD)

Sub Rosa

Miroslav Beinhauer performing Terry Riley, Philip Glass, Milan Knížák, Gordon Monahan, Elliot Sharp, Milan Gustar, and Yoon-Ji Lee, on a famous broken piano.

Phil Maggi
Upwards, The Crimes I Committed (CD)

Sub Rosa

Phil Maggi's twentieth album is a body of work five years in the making, conceived between 2019 and 2024 across a period that moved through pandemic stillness and intense creative immersion, between ambient-atmospheric, soundscapes and free-jazz with a touch of concrete music.

Joan Mitchell
Transatlantique

bilingual edition (English / French)

ER Publishing

Invited by Mara Hoberman, nine artists from both sides of the Atlantic reflect on Joan Mitchell's life, work and enduring impact.

Walid Sadek
How to speak dead

English edition

Kayfa ta

A meditative reflection by the Lebanese artist and writer on language and its loss.

Olivier Marboeuf
How to live from fire to fire

English edition

Kayfa ta

The author, artist, and curator Olivier Marboeuf takes us on a journey through myths, archives, and fables, where fire symbolizes Caribbean culture, colonial oppression, and ecological disasters, and where the echo of past revolts becomes the spark for future insurrections.

Virginie Bobin
The Interpreter Dis/Appears

bilingual edition (English / French)

Archive Books

An artistic exploration of the political and emotional stakes of translation in the context of asylum law, through the lens of rarely heard testimonies: those of interpreters.

Brigitta Kuster
Territoires / Territories / Territorien – Filmtranskripte

trilingual edition (English / German / French)

Archive Books

A monographic publication featuring multilingual text-film transcripts engaging with the legacy of the German colonial project in Cameroon and Germany, as well as broader questions of border crossings, asylum, and exclusion.

Huguette Caland
Les années parisiennes (1970-1986)

bilingual edition (English / French)

Mennour

A retrospective of a deeply prolific and fruitful period in Huguette Caland's career, spent in Paris between 1970 and 1987, during which the Lebanese artist, giving birth to her joyful eroticism and freeing herself from all conventions, reinvented herself and produced some of her greatest masterpieces.

Jean Arnaud
Road Trees

bilingual edition (English / French)

Naima

The artist's travel journal.

Vittorio Pizzigoni
Architecture as a Historical Discipline

English edition

Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Opus

A highly personal reflection on the practice, teaching, and very essence of architecture and design.

Kwame Akoto
Almighty God Art Works

bilingual edition (English / French)

Empire - Books

First personnal catalogue of the Ghanaian artist and preacher Kwame Akoto (Almighty God).

$Joel Meyerowitz - Morandi\'s Objects - The Complete Archive of Casa Morandi$

Joel Meyerowitz
Morandi's Objects – The Complete Archive of Casa Morandi

English edition

Damiani - Photography

The American photographer appropriates the objects that populate the Italian painter's work.

Walter Chandoha
Family Cats – From the archive 1950-1969

English edition

Damiani - Photography

The feline archives of the master of commercial animal photography.

Lee Scratch Perry
Black Ark

English edition

Edition Patrick Frey

Lee "Scratch" Perry's photographic works and writings, inventoried in the legendary Black Ark studio in Kingston, one of the cradles of reggae and dub.

Dominique De Beir
Dos

bilingual edition (English / French)

Roven - books

A book presenting for the first time the reverse sides of artist Dominique De Beir's works, revealing the exploration that went into giving shape to the drawings.

Araya Rasdjarmrearnsook
The Bouquet and the Wreath

English edition

Reliable Copy

The first extensive monograph on the Thai artist.

Madeleine de Sinéty
A Life

bilingual edition (English / French)

Jeu de Paume - Albums (exhibition catalogues)

The portfolio of the unique retrospective conceived by the Jeu de Paume reveals the singular vision of photographer Madeleine de Sinéty (1934-2011) (new edition).

Delphine Coindet
MONO ICONO GRAPHIE

bilingual edition (English / French)

Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs

A monograph covering more than thirty years of creative work, MONO ICONO GRAPHIE traces the unique career of Delphine Coindet, an artist at the crossroads of sculpture, image, and text, offering for the first time an unprecedented overview, both critical and visual, of a major body of work.

Gabriele Basilico
Gabriele Basilico fotografa Aldo Rossi

bilingual edition (English / Italian)

Humboldt Books - Globetrotter

Gabriele Basilico's photographs dedicated to Aldo Rossi's architecture, brought together for the first time.

The Sense of Nature – Contemporary Art in the Mirror of Poussin

English edition

Humboldt Books - Globetrotter

A dialogue between classical painting and contemporary art on the theme of nature, exploring the legacy and relevance of Nicolas Poussin.

And All That Is In Between – Islamic Arts Biennale 2025 (4-volume box set)

English edition

Kaph Books

The monumental catalogue (some 1200 pages in four volumes, housed in an 8kg box set) of the 2025 Islamic Arts Biennale, combining ancient heritage and contemporary art, featuring over 500 historical objects and 29 contemporary art commissions.

Imani Mason Jordan
Pivot

English edition

HELA Press

Pivot is an experimental, book-length poem exploring the profound act of "turning", with the Haitian Revolution as its cornerstone.

Manuel Raeder - Faire – To look at things - Reading Until I Sleep

Manuel Raeder
Faire – To look at things #56 – Reading Until I Sleep

bilingual edition (English / French)

Faire

Empire - Faire – To look at things

A reflection on the practice of designer, graphic artist, and publisher Manuel Raeder.

Joana Vasconcelos
Valentino Garavani – Venus

bilingual edition (English / Italian)

Cura. - Cura.books

Portuguese artist Joana Vasconcelos engages in a dialogue with the city of Rome, the world of haute couture, and the work and legacy of Valentino (1932-2026).

$David Douard - inner GLOw\' replica$

David Douard
inner GLOw' replica

bilingual edition (English / French)

Zzz

An immersion in the flow of language, words, and images within David Douard's work.

Stéphane Blanquet
Kugelberg-Welander

no text

United Dead Artists

This hardcover book documents Stéphane Blanquet's Kugelberg-Welander installation at the Halle Saint-Pierre through close-up photographs by Zoé Forget, depicting the artist and his illness.

Gus Van Sant
Paintings

English edition

Blue Moon Press

The first ever published monograph on Gus Van Sant's paintings brings together a wide overview of his works.

$Ana Jotta - Peau d\'Ana - Conversation with Ana Jotta$

Ana Jotta
Peau d'Ana – Conversation with Ana Jotta

bilingual edition (English / French)

Daisy editions

A long conversation about the work and life of Portuguese artist Ana Jotta, accompanied by 60 previously unpublished photographs of her homes (in Brazil, Morocco, and Zanzibar) and her years in theater in the late 1970s.

Catherine Grenier, Sophie Ristelhueber
The War within

English edition

Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents

JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)

Interview with one of the great figures of art photography today, in which Sophie Ristelhueber reflects on her own carrer and practice.

Nathalie du Pasquier
So Many Real Things

bilingual edition (English / French)

Editions de l'Observeur

Nathalie Du Pasquier presents still lifes bringing together objects, drawings, books, and photographs—assembled like fragments of an intimate language.

Stéphane Blanquet
Balade automnale avec milk-shake à la fraise

no text

United Dead Artists

Stéphane Blanquet's new facsimile sketchbook: drawings made on trains, public transport, notes, drawings everywhere.

Accattone #09

English edition

Accattone

The 9th issue of the magazine that explores minor practices in art and architecture brings together a reflection on the ebb and flow between affirmation and denial as well as material-conceptual operations with dirt.

16 millions de signes – From and about books

bilingual edition (English / French)

Empire - Books

Reflections by Alexandra Midal, Thierry Chancogne, and graphic design duo Syndicat on books and printed surfaces, based on the hundred or so publications produced by MAC VAL over two decades of commitment to contemporary graphic design.

Baukunst
In a way, it is also more primitive – Baukunst on technology, time and abstraction

English edition

Accattone

Baukunst explain the singular logics behind their projects in an interweaving of architecture, philosophy, representation and technology.

Lina Pallotta
Tongue on Flames

bilingual edition (English / Italian)

Nero

Lina Pallotta's much anticipated Tongue on Flames captures the underground poetic energy that pulsed through New York from the early 1990s to the early 2000s in poetry and performance clubs that have become legendary, featuring Pallotta's immersive photographs and texts by key figures from that scene.

Takashi Homma
This Is Not My Cat

no text

Nieves

(last copies available!)

Renowned Japanese photographer Takashi Homma observes his daily life through the poses of his cat.

Martin Szekely
Debut

bilingual edition (English / French)

Les commissaires anonymes - Objet d'étude

Monograph dedicated to the famous designer's early work.

Donald Judd
The Low Countries – 1966–1971

English edition

MER. Books

Donald Judd's formative years and recognition in the Low Countries and Europe between 1965 and 1971.

Isabella Ducrot
Profusione

English edition

Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs

A comprehensive overview of the unique work of the Italian artist born in 1931 and "discovered" late on the international scene, with numerous texts and an interview.

Nadia Lauro
Scenographies

bilingual edition (English / French)

Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous

A retrospective of the striking scenographies designed by Nadia Lauro since the early 2000s, visual environments, fictional landscapes, disorienting architectures, and living sets that have played a pivotal role across the vibrant field of dance and performance in Europe.

Jim Shaw
The End Really is Here!

bilingual edition (English / French)

Loevenbruck

American surrealism meets popular culture meets political criticism: Jim Shaw's obsessive series of drawings devoted to Donald Trump.

Alice Neel
I Am the Century

bilingual edition (English / Italian)

Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)

This publication aims to provide a critical and profound reading of Alice Neel's humanism, constructing a journey through her artistic and personal life. The book includes texts by academics and artists, enriched by an extensive number of illustrations, archival photographs and documents.

Things read, things heard, for those who (still) make and look at posters

bilingual edition (English / French)

Tombolo Presses

This book takes as its starting with the question "What is a good poster?"' and then gradually drifts away from it as it unfolds, confronted with the complexity of this question that pertains to the truth, accuracy, functionality or even the good taste of a graphic work.

$Emmanuel Alloa - Le contemporain, l\'intempestif et l\'imminent - Petits arrangements avec une époque$

Emmanuel Alloa
Le contemporain, l'intempestif et l'imminent – Petits arrangements avec une époque

French edition

Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents

A reflection on our present, through a series of portraits of contemporary artists.

$Sophie Leclercq - Éduquer et séduire - Images scolaires de l\'Empire au temps colonial (1870-1960)$

Sophie Leclercq
Éduquer et séduire – Images scolaires de l'Empire au temps colonial (1870-1960)

French edition

Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés

Colonial images, educational images. A major study in art history in which Sophie Leclercq, drawing on and analyzing multiple sources, texts, and visual documents, sheds light on a blind spot in French colonialism: how, between 1870 and 1960, children were taught about colonial conquest through edifying imagery, and how their view of colonized populations was shaped?

Étienne Balibar
Sur la guerre – Trois interprétations

French edition

Suture Press

Three essays in which philosopher Étienne Balibar questions the notion of war through the thinking of Simone Weil, Carl von Clausewitz, and Karl Marx, as well as the current geopolitical situation and the war in Ukraine.

$Valentine de Saint-Point - L\'ardeur et la conquête - Nouvelle édition augmentée$

Valentine de Saint-Point
L'ardeur et la conquête – Nouvelle édition augmentée

French edition

Ardemment

A selection of texts by Valentine de Saint-Point, emblematic of both the Belle Époque and anticolonial militancy.

C.A.S.A. – Casablanca Art School Archives

French edition

Zamân - Zamân Books

A historical and thematic book that aims to tell the adventure of the Casablanca Art School, through a polyphony of stories, experiences and actors.

Erin Brannigan
Cinédanse, chorégraphie et image en mouvement – Une généalogie féminine

French edition

Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – ArTeC

The choreographic in cinema.

$Emma Merabet - Décentrer l\'humain - Écopoétique des scènes contemporaines$

Emma Merabet
Décentrer l'humain – Écopoétique des scènes contemporaines

French edition

Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Gestes

Emma Merabet explores non-anthropocentric forms of performance, in which humans are no longer the focus of attention, and in which non-human elements (materials, objects, animals, machines, natural phenomena, etc.) become fully-fledged presences and agents.

Caroline van Eck
Les candélabres de Piranèse et la présence du passé – Objets démesurés et origines du néo-classicisme

French edition

Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés

By retracing the history of three colossal candelabras made by Piranesi (1720–78) from fragments of ancient Roman sculptures, Caroline van Eck introduces us to the complicated journey of art objects from their production to their reception, and tests the effectiveness of anthropological methods by isolating what relates to the commodification of art objects and their singularization.

Yann Stofer - Tu ne peux pas toujours tuer tout le monde à la fin - Dans le sommeil de Harry Crews

Yann Stofer, Julien Perez
Tu ne peux pas toujours tuer tout le monde à la fin – Dans le sommeil de Harry Crews

French edition

various

An immersive road trip in the footsteps of American writer Harry Crews (1935–2012), by Yann Stofer and Julien Perez: a book featuring film photographs, video clips, and audio excerpts, set in "an America unaccustomed to visits from foreign tourists."

Paolo Amaldi
Livio Vacchini – La construction paradoxale de la forme

French edition

Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Constellation

An intellectual portrait of a major figure in 20th-century architecture.

Alexandra Midal
La puissance des images

French edition

Empire - Books

An essay by Alexandra Midal on visual learning experiences through images, based on two revolutionary projects by major 20th-century designers: Charles & Ray Eames, Georges Nelson and Alexander Girard, and Ken Isaacs.

Alexandra Midal
Sorcières du design – Ann Lee : design, transes et féminisme

French edition

Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous

MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)

Witches of Design interweaves design with the rebellious and feminist figure of the witch, based on the history of the messianic, socialist, utopian, and egalitarian Shaker sect in the 18th century.

Rudy Ricciotti, Jean-Louis Poitevin
La Cité de Thélème – Fais ce que voudras !

French edition

Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Encounters

An exploration of the utopian labyrinth that has fueled the imagination and work of internationally renowned architect Rudy Ricciotti.

Musiques sauvages – Héritages, sons et figures en France et en Suisse

French edition

Mélanie Seteun - Music and Society

This multidisciplinary anthology explores the connections, uses, and tensions between music and what European modernity has grouped under the multifaceted category of "savage."

Louise Colet
Le voyage en Orient

French edition

Ardemment

This revised edition of Louise Colet’s Voyage en Orient (1873)—a vivid account of the poet, novelist, and committed feminist journalist’s enchanted discovery of nineteenth-century Egypt—brings to light a passionate literary work that has long remained overshadowed by her famous, tumultuous romantic affair with Gustave Flaubert.

Revue internationale des livres et des photographies #01

French edition

Revue internationale des livres et des photographies

Nouveau Palais

The first print issue of the photography journal published by Nouveau Palais.

Fiction-Science #000

French edition

Fiction-Science

Strandflat

The second issue of the journal dedicated to science-art dialogue focuses on the Belle Morue research-creation project.

Caroline Mazel
Maison Chérenda – Jean-Raphaël Hébrard architecte

French edition

Naima

The outcome of Caroline Mazel's long-term research on the "critical regionalist architecture" developed by Jean-Raphaël Hébrard (1927–2006) in the Basque Country, which bridges modernist architecture and local building traditions.

Ludovic Bernhardt - Une écriture mutante

Ludovic Bernhardt, Öyvind Fahlström
Une écriture mutante

French edition

Naima

currently out of stock

A reflection on the power of writing, based on the work of the Swedish artist and writer Öyvind Fahlström (1928–1976).

Lucia Palladino
Callisto et amour – La dernière barricade de la résistance anticapitaliste du langage verbal

French edition

Nero

This book brings together poetic and theoretical texts about Callisto (a woman with a bear's head, a writer and a mythical figure), using metaphors as a form of anti-capitalist resistance.

$Artur Varela - L\'Âne qui voulait savoir des choses$

Amanda Booth, Artur Varela
L'Âne qui voulait savoir des choses

French edition

Daisy editions

The story of Tony the Donkey! A children's book illustrated by Artur Varela (1937–2017), completed shortly before the Portuguese artist's death, adapted and published posthumously by Daisy Publishing.

$Leïla Grace Voight - Une Saine Distance - Quoi de plus beau qu\'une œuvre au premier soir ?$

Leïla Grace Voight
Une Saine Distance – Quoi de plus beau qu'une œuvre au premier soir ?

French edition

Naima

Leïla Grace Voight’s debut novel: the story of two parallel confinements, told in forty-three scenes by twenty-one women and twenty-two men—all visual artists—accompanied by an emerging AI, an anti-COVID superheroine.

Christof Migone
Stéréoophonie

French edition

Le laps

A poetic, gestural, visual, and semantic exploration that extends the Canadian multidisciplinary artist's work on language and the body into the pages of the book.

Lisandre St-Cyr Lamothe
Les son des cloches

French edition

Le laps

The debut novel by Lisandre St-Cyr Lamothe, a shepherdess in the Swiss Alps after leaving behind her artistic life in Montreal and before becoming a flower farmer in the Mauritian countryside.

Dominique Digeon
Série / Séries – Artefact

French edition

Enseigne des Oudin

Retrospective monograph.

Azzedine Alaïa, Christian Dior
Deux maîtres de la couture

French edition

Damiani

A dialogue between the creations of the two designers.

$Kazuo Kitai - L\'éloge du quotidien - Soixante ans à photographier le Japon$

Kazuo Kitai
L'éloge du quotidien – Soixante ans à photographier le Japon

French edition

MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)

A comprehensive overview of the work of one of the great masters of Japanese photography spanning more than half a century.

Cécilia Jauniau
Place Dauphine

French edition

various

This artist's book for insiders brings together a selection of Polaroids, silver gelatin photographs, and collages that are part of a series of works on eroticism that Cécilia Jauniau has been working on since 2023.

$Gilles Coudert - Quand l\'art habite le village (DVD)$

Gilles Coudert
Quand l'art habite le village (DVD)

French edition

a.p.r.e.s editions - Quand l'art... (DVD)

A tour of works by artists Georges Rousse and Vladimir Skoda created in rural public spaces as part of an art biennial in a small village in Saône-et-Loire, in the Burgundy region.

Yoann Thommerel
Mon cœur crépite à mort

French edition

Vroum - Editions

A series of poems written by Yoann Thommerel for the stage: 5 short stories, poetic and performative, conceived as scores, combining text and action.

Bruno Munari
Xerografia

French edition

Christophe Daviet-Théry

currently out of stock

The first reprint since its 1970 release of Bruno Munari's legendary artist's book Xerografia: an intimate look into Munari's groundbreaking experimentation with the Xerox machine, where technology becomes a tool for poetic and visual exploration.

Joseph Grigely
Nous en sommes là

French edition

Palais de Tokyo - Catalogues & artist's books

Artist's book, produced in limited print run in the Palais de Tokyo's risography micro-publishing workshop.

$Azimuts - Pourquoi continuer à produire des objets aujourd\'hui ?$

Azimuts #61 – Pourquoi continuer à produire des objets aujourd'hui ?

French edition

Azimuts

Cité du design / ESADSE

Why continue to produce objects today? In a world saturated with artifacts and facing ecological urgency, the very legitimacy of production seems to waver. Starting from this question, issue 61 of Azimuts brings together designers, researchers, artists, and students around contemporary object practices.

Azimuts – Design Art Recherche Hors-série – Design & industrie : de nouvelles formes de dialogues ?

French edition

Azimuts

Cité du design / ESADSE

The relationship between design and industry.

Laurence Denimal
Fesse morte

French edition

Naima

A text that is both humorous and political by visual artist and author Laurence Denimal.

Mauro Carbone, Graziano Lingua
Pour une anthropologie des écrans – Montrer et cacher, exposer et protéger

French edition

Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions

A seminal exploration into screens' crucial functions and profound impact on human culture.

$Les Carnets du BAL - L\'image à l\'épreuve des machines$

Les Carnets du BAL #11 – L'image à l'épreuve des machines

French edition

Les Carnets du BAL

Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions

The social, political, and anthropological implications of image production by machines, which permeate all spheres of existence and reconfigure the visible.

$Jolanthe Kugler - La salle de bains - De l\'hygiène au bien-être$

Jolanthe Kugler
La salle de bains – De l'hygiène au bien-être

French edition

Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous

MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)

As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic bathroom objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room (new edition).

Jolanthe Kugler
La cuisine – Entre fonctionnalité et plaisir

French edition

Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous

MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)

As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic kitchen objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room (new edition)

$Saidiya Hartman - À perte de mère - Sur les routes atlantiques de l\'esclavage$

Saidiya Hartman
À perte de mère – Sur les routes atlantiques de l'esclavage

French edition

Brook

Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, she reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy and vividly dramatizes the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African American history.

Roven #19

French edition

Roven

Roven - Roven magazine

Victoire Mangez, Erik Dietman, Armineh Neghadari, Françoise Pétrovitch, Laure Pigeon, special feature on artists' connections to children's drawings (Danielle Orhan, Sarah Tritz, Petrit Halilaj, Emmanuel Pernoud, Ramuntcho Matta, Pascal Convert), Hipkiss, Camille Chastang, Vanessa Dziuba, Katerina Christidi, Grégory Cuquel...

Alexis Nouss
Manuel de résistance culturelle en 7 leçons

French edition

ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)

Alexis Nouss's manual on cultural resistance in seven lessons.

$Hélène Trespeuch - Kandinsky et l\'image photographique - De la culture visuelle d\'un artiste devenu pionnier de l\'art abstrait$

Hélène Trespeuch
Kandinsky et l'image photographique – De la culture visuelle d'un artiste devenu pionnier de l'art abstrait

French edition

Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés

A groundbreaking study on the relationship between Wassily Kandinsky, pioneer of abstract art, and the photographic image.

P.O.L extented – Écrire entre les arts : scènes, textes, images

French edition

Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous

An exploration of the intermedial potential of literature, extending beyond the book format (into the fields of visual arts, theater, performance, cinema, and music), developed in and around the catalog of the publishing house P.O.L.

$Mourad Benhammou - L\'histoire du jazz n\'est faite que de ça - Entretiens avec Mourad Benhammou$

Sébastien Bertho, Mourad Benhammou
L'histoire du jazz n'est faite que de ça – Entretiens avec Mourad Benhammou

French edition

Lenka lente

How many equally skilled "second-string" drummers are hidden behind the iconic figures of jazz drumming (Max Roach, Art Blakey, Elvin Jones...)? In conversation with drummer Mourad Benhammou about his career as a musician, Sébastien Bertho set out to highlight a handful of them: Walter Perkins, Louis Hayes, Grassella Oliphant.

Le verdissement des Alpes

French edition

various

Between science fiction, popular science, art history and visual theory, Le Verdissement des Alpes (Greening of the Alps) examines current and future changes in Alpine environments in relation to global warming and the biodiversity crisis.

Claire Colin-Collin
Encore une fois ça

French edition

Naima

This first monograph devoted to Claire Colin-Collin’s painting traces her artistic development since the late 1990s.

Revue & Corrigée #147

French edition

Revue & Corrigée

Chuck Roth; Mark Cauvin; Keiko Higuchi; Aude Rabillon & Erell Latimier; Pauline Weidmann; Jean-Claude Éloy (1938–2025)...

Les Feuilles – Revue suspensive #03

French edition

Les Feuilles

The "suspensive" artist Chloé Mogli invites authors, illustrators and researchers to write with her what the gesture of standing above the void generates as perceptions and thoughts, and invites us to suspend our perceptions of reality.

$Charlotte Foucher Zarmanian - La conquête d\'une autorité - Historiennes de l\'art en France$

Charlotte Foucher Zarmanian
La conquête d'une autorité – Historiennes de l'art en France

French edition

Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés

A history of art in France from the women's perspective.

$Ré Soupault - L\'esprit avant tout – Du Bauhaus au reste du monde - Souvenirs$

Ré Soupault
L'esprit avant tout – Du Bauhaus au reste du monde – Souvenirs

French edition

Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)

The autobiography, translated into French for the first time, of Ré Soupault (1901-1996), trained at the Bauhaus, photographer, filmmaker, stylist, writer and traveler, translator of Dada and Surrealism, major protagonist of European artistic, literary and intellectual life, and companion of the avant-garde throughout the 20th century.

$Horst Bredekamp - La psychanalyse figurative de Sigmund Freud - Le Moïse de Michel-Ange et la collection d\'idoles$

Horst Bredekamp
La psychanalyse figurative de Sigmund Freud – Le Moïse de Michel-Ange et la collection d'idoles

French edition

Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions

When considered in parallel, Sigmund Freud's study of Michelangelo's Moses and his private collection of antique statuettes reveal elements of visual psychoanalysis that contradict the supposedly iconoclastic nature of this science.

$Penser l\'intelligence artificielle - Enjeux philosophiques, politiques et culturels de l\'automatisation numérique$

Penser l'intelligence artificielle – Enjeux philosophiques, politiques et culturels de l'automatisation numérique

French edition

Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC

A cross-disciplinary and critical reflection on the philosophical stakes of so-called "artificial intelligence", from an epistemological, political and cultural point of view, beyond naive fascination and ignorant rejection.

$Soko Phay - Cambodge – L\'art devant l\'extrême - De Rithy Panh à la jeune génération$

Soko Phay
Cambodge – L'art devant l'extrême – De Rithy Panh à la jeune génération

French edition

Naima

Exploring the contemporary art scene in Cambodia, Soko Phay examines modes of representing extremes and shows how memorial works prompt reflection on the profound scars left by the Cambodian genocide on society.

Julien Blaine
2025

French edition

Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante

Al Dante - Poetry & Literature

Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.

$Le Sentiment de la Nature - L\'art contemporain au miroir de Poussin$

Le Sentiment de la Nature – L'art contemporain au miroir de Poussin

French edition

Humboldt Books - Globetrotter

A dialogue between classical painting and contemporary art on the theme of nature, exploring the legacy and relevance of Nicolas Poussin.

$Le Parlement de la Recherche - Ce que peut l\'architecture$

Le Parlement de la Recherche – Ce que peut l'architecture

French edition

Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Constellation

22 international architects and architect-researchers collectively question what architecture can do.

Paulo Mendes da Rocha
La ville pour tous

French edition

Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Fondamenta

La ville pour tous is a collection of writings by the great architect Paulo Mendes da Rocha, offering an overview of his work and of Brazilian society in the second half of the twentieth century.

$Giorgio Grassi - La construction logique de l\'architecture$

Giorgio Grassi
La construction logique de l'architecture

French edition

Caryatide / Cosa Mentale

The first French translation of Giorgio Grassi's 1967 text La construction logique de l'architecture [The Logical Construction of Architecture] is a strong statement in favor of an architecture conceived for its own sake, standing in opposition to the experimental excesses characteristic of both his time and ours.

Sylvain George
Ne vois-tu pas que je brûle ? – Foyers critiques et poétiques autour de la trilogie Nuit Obscure de Sylvain George

French edition

Rab-Rab Press

Maxime Lachaud
Shockroads – Des cauchemars américains aux films-rêves

French edition

Timeless

A delightful dive, both documentary and imaginary, into a dreamlike and cult horror cinema in the southern United States.

René Berger
Esthétique et mass media – Sélection de cours et des actes du colloque « Art, technologie et communication », 1970-1972

French edition

Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Cinétisme

ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)

A selection of René Berger's lectures and the proceedings of a symposium he had organized around art, technology and communication, offering a closer insight into his thinking on video art and new media.

Enzo Mari
25 façons de planter un clou

French edition

Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories

An autobiographical account and uncompromising meditation on the meaning of design, in the voice of the man who represented the ethical and political conscience of the discipline in the second half of the 20th century.

Chantal Montellier
Irréductible

French edition

Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues

A comprehensive overview of the work of Chantal Montellier, a comic-book pioneer and mentor to younger generations, highlighting the diversity, richness, and artistic qualities of an engaged and visionary body of work.

$Jean-Michel Durafour - Qu\'est-ce que l\'éconologie ? - Au bout des images : cinéma, monde, perception$

Jean-Michel Durafour
Qu'est-ce que l'éconologie ? – Au bout des images : cinéma, monde, perception

French edition

Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Perceptions

The other side of images in cinema, between phenomenology, art history, literature and ecology.

Arnaud des Pallières
Disneyland, mon vieux pays natal

French edition

Tiers paysage

This book brings together three texts on Arnaud des Pallières' documentary Disneyland, mon vieux pays natal (Disneyland, My Old Homeland), extending the critical thinking engaged by this hybrid filmic object on spectacle and late capitalism.

Gregory J. Markopoulos
Vers une nouvelle conscience filmique – Le cinéma de Gregory J. Markopoulos

French edition

Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Cinétisme

ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)

A deep dive into the experimental film work of Gregory J. Markopoulos, a key figure in New American Cinema.

Lisa Mazenauer
Photographie et écologie

French edition

CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)

How does photography depict our environment? How does it contribute to its destruction? This book explores this paradox through the analysis of the work of fifteen contemporary artists.

$Marie Adjedj - Déhiérarchiser le monde de l\'art - Usages du document au tournant des années 1970 par Germano Celant, Carla Lonzi, Lucy R. Lippard, Seth Siegelaub$

Marie Adjedj
Déhiérarchiser le monde de l'art – Usages du document au tournant des années 1970 par Germano Celant, Carla Lonzi, Lucy R. Lippard, Seth Siegelaub

French edition

Incertain Sens - Grey Series

The new information regimes and document uses created by four major figures in the art world between the 1960s and 1970s—Germano Celant, Lucy R. Lippard, and Carla Lonzi, curators and art critics, as well as Seth Siegelaub

Les Cahiers du Collège International de Photographie #01

French edition

Les Cahiers du Collège International de Photographie

The Cahiers du Collège International de Photographie (CIP) put into practice a form of thinking rooted in photographic experience—on the margins of both academic and professional worlds. This first issue seeks to weave together all parts of the photographic ecosystem in a living reflection on the crisis of sensibility that runs through our societies.

Jocaste #0

French edition

Jocaste

Empire - Jocaste

The inaugural issue of the journal of psychoanalysis and interdisciplinary discussions, around the figure of the fold.

Liliane Giraudon
Fragments polyphoniques

French edition

Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous

The first volume of essays devoted to the work of Liliane Giraudon explores the diversity of her oeuvre, its interdisciplinarity but also its coherence, and enables us to understand what makes its strength and importance in the contemporary literary landscape.

$Jérôme Game - Intr/ansitif - Poétique de l\'interstice$

Jérôme Game
Intr/ansitif – Poétique de l'interstice

French edition

Les presses du réel – Literature – Figures

In a collection of interviews given over a period of almost twenty years, a poet seeks to find out a little more about what he makes by confronting his practice with other arts (plastic, sound, scenic).

Robert Filliou

French edition

MAMCO - MAMCO Collection

Robert Filliou's last major creation, Eins. Un. One..., embodies the humor, freedom, and radical thinking of a "genius without talent".

Un art de la réparation – Réparer (par) les arts vivants

French edition

Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC

Artists' activity examined through the notion of reparation, from the interdisciplinary perspective of the living arts (theater, dance, performance, mediation, multiple practices).

$Mathias Gibert - L\'ordre de la perspective - Essai sur les origines du perspectivisme$

Mathias Gibert
L'ordre de la perspective – Essai sur les origines du perspectivisme

French edition

Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama

A wide-ranging philosophical investigation into the origins and potential of "perspectivism", beyond mere relativism and subjective "interpretation".

Virginie Bobin
Désapprendre en traduisant – Une pratique critique et collective

French edition

Villa Arson

The act of translation as a pedagogical tool, a political act, and ultimately a gesture of care in these tense cultural times.

Jean-Marie Gleize
TRNC – Reprises & suites

French edition

Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante

Al Dante - Poetry & Literature

Jean-Marie Gleize continues a poetic and narrative cycle initiated 35 years ago by composing variations on the inexhaustible and elusive theme of memory.

Jacques-Henri Michot
En lieu et place

French edition

Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante

Al Dante - Poetry & Literature

The first book by Jacques-Henri Michot, which has remained unpublished, where we find all the writing techniques used in his subsequent works, with, as its main compass, writing as a weapon against barbarism.

$Angélica Freitas - Un utérus fait la taille d\'un poing$

Angélica Freitas
Un utérus fait la taille d'un poing

French edition

Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante

Al Dante - Poetry & Literature

Drawing on feminist criticism and gender studies, the Brazilian poet creates a counter-discourse in which poetic language becomes a place for questioning stereotypes and redefining feminine identities.

Vincent Broqua
Gaiamen

French edition

Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante

Al Dante - Poetry & Literature

Vincent Broqua twists translation to vandalize literary classics in a sensual act, and expresses the wish for a gay ethic for our time. Queer beings are inventing alternative ways of holding their bodies together: Vincent Broqua expresses the wish for a gay ethic for our time.

Denise Le Dantec
Rosa

French edition

Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante

Al Dante - Poetry & Literature

In this text-visual poem, Denise Le Dantec summons Rosa Luxemburg who, despite the violence, the multiple disappointments and the imprisonments, never ceased to believe in the necessity of emancipatory struggles.

$Françoise d\'Eaubonne - Histoire de l\'art et lutte des sexes$

Françoise d'Eaubonne
Histoire de l'art et lutte des sexes

French edition

Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous

The critical edition of the pioneering work on art history by Françoise d'Eaubonne (1920-2005), inventor of the concept of ecofeminism.

Ornella Volta - Erik Satie en notes et en mots

Ornella Volta, Erik Satie
Erik Satie en notes et en mots

French edition

Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)

Ornella Volta's definitive posthumous book on Erik Satie, featuring all the composer's writings, largely unpublished documentation and biographical elements, for the first time precisely related to the works.

$Sigfried Giedion - La mécanisation au pouvoir - Une contribution à l\'histoire anonyme$

Sigfried Giedion
La mécanisation au pouvoir – Une contribution à l'histoire anonyme

French edition

Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Medias/Theories

An unclassifiable classic, precursor of the “material turn” and of media theory, finally reissued.

$Vincent Debiais - L\'hypothèse abstraite - Écart, excès d\'image au Moyen Âge$

Elina Gertsman, Vincent Debiais
L'hypothèse abstraite – Écart, excès d'image au Moyen Âge

French edition

Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés

Pictorial abstraction in the Middle Ages: an innovative reflection that offers a powerful cross-disciplinary approach to medieval art, under a completely rethought concept of abstraction in close contact with finely analyzed images.

$Ada Tosatti - L\'extrémisme littéraire et politique - Nanni Balestrini et les années 70$

Ada Tosatti
L'extrémisme littéraire et politique – Nanni Balestrini et les années 70

French edition

Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante

Through the operative concept of literary and political extremism, this volume explores the links between the revolutionary aspirations of far-left socio-political movements and the quest for a new articulation between literature and reality in 1970s Italy, a dynamic exemplified by poet and novelist Nanni Balestrini (1935-2019).