new releases
 
Louise Bourgeois - Les Fleurs
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Nieves
Louise Bourgeois' flowers series, painted in gouache on paper.
Jacques Ponzio - Monk ABC
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lenka lente
A collection of quotations from Thelonious Monk, organized as an alphabet book (new revised and augmented edition). More than a hundred entries based on the testimonies of musicians (Steve Lacy, Sahib Shihab, Henri Renaud) and journalists (Leonard Feather, Ira Gitler, Val Wilmer…).
Poster Photo Magazine
bilingual edition (English / French)
Poster Photo Magazine
Empire - Poster Photo Magazine
The first issue of the biannual magazine offering an heterogeneous and multifaceted exploration of approaches to modern and contemporary photography through 12 large-format wall posters, folded and detachable, with Julia Andréone, Roman Cieslewicz, Marie Quéau, Stig De Block, Area Of Work, Aurélien Froment, Fabio Mauri, Thomas Demand, Marie Deteneuille, Simon Menner, Kuba Ryniewicz, and Deborah Turbeville.
Blank Forms - Sound Signatures
English edition
Blank Forms
Blank Forms - Blank Forms Journal
The penultimate Blank Forms anthology presents new, in-depth interviews with musicians Theo Parrish, Amelia Cuni, Akio Suzuki, and more.
Chinese Shadows - Through a diplomatic lens
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Albums (exhibition catalogues)
The portfolio of the exhibition at the Jeu de Paume: a selection of little-known or unpublished prints from two photographic collections belonging to the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, covering China from the 1930s to the 1950s.
Peter Greenaway - Papers
bilingual edition (English / French)
Dis Voir - Figures
The first book to unveil the main pictorial works (drawings, paintings and collages) of the British film director, the source of his entire cinematic oeuvre (new edition).
The Stonewall Nation
English edition
Torpedo
Edited by artist Sille Storihl, The Stonewall Nation engages the archival remains of a gay colony that a group of gay men wanted to establish in Alpine County in Northern California in the early 1970s.
Clarissa Baumann - Planning prévisionnel Printemps
bilingual edition (French / Portuguese)
Crossing
This publication presents research conducted by visual artist and choreographer Clarissa Bauman over two years, in the frame of the exerce MA in choreography and performance (National Choreographic Center of Montpellier / Occitanie). Here, writing becomes movement, a weaving of words, gestures, images, and drawings that rub against each other in a dialogue articulated from page to page.
Jule Flierl - A sound has no legs to stand on
bilingual edition (English / French)
Crossing
This publication presents research conducted by Berlin-based choreographer and performer Jule Flierl over two years, in the frame of the exerce MA in choreography and performance (National Choreographic Center of Montpellier / Occitanie). This text manages to maintain a sense of orality, of vocality, within a written format. It is at once a description, an analysis, a score, a piece of music, a voice, etc.
Mor Demer - A choreographic lesson for the faint of Heart and poets of the here the now the yet to come
bilingual edition (English / French)
Crossing
This publication presents research conducted by choreographer Mor Demer over two years, in the frame of the exerce MA in choreography and performance (National Choreographic Center of Montpellier / Occitanie). Against the backdrop of her artistic process, Mor Demer unfolds a reflection on the production and configuration of choreographic materials, as well as on the body and the practices and fictions of which it is composed.
 Chœur tac-til - Blind ecosystem (CD)
UNRec
This album retraces ten years of practice by the contemporary mixed choir of sighted and blind people founded by vocalist, improviser, composer and researcher Natacha Muslera, which explores compositional modes distanced from the visual field, drawing inspiration from ecosystems and biotopes and blending ancestral and experimental vocal practices.
Carla Cerati - Milano 1963/1973
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
Photographer and writer Carla Cerati (1926-2016) captures the architectural, social and political upheavals of 1960-70s Milan.
Jocko Weyland - Elk
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Nieves
The culmination of the American artist's assemblage project.
Aurel Schmidt - Trash Dolls 2
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Nieves
Aurel Schmidt's drawings.
Aurélien Mole - 30 mn
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Empire
A photo report in an photo lab (artist's book).
Koen van den Broek - Out of Place
bilingual edition (English / French)
MER. B&L
The largest and most comprehensive monograph on van den Broek's work to date, a complete and monumental survey of 1998 until now, on over 500 pages, presented and analysed by John C. Welchman.
 Bless - Celebrating 25 Years of Always Stress with BLESS N°42–N°74
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Written and visual documentation of the German stylist-designer duo's projects from 2010 to 2022.
Robert Linhart - The Sugar and the Hunger
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
The first English language translation of Robert Linhart's The Sugar and the Hunger, originally published in 1980. Includes afterword by Luiz Renato Martins, and other materials.
 Iliazd - Zaum for Strangers - Paris 1921
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
The fourth volume of Rab-Rab Press' bie bao series presents Ilya Zdanevich's talk The New Schools in Russian Poetry, given in 1921 in Paris. In this talk, Zdanevich introduced zaum to the French Dadaists. He declared that practical and poetic languages are two poles of existence, two opposite ways of life.
Pali Meursault - Melt (vinyl LP)
Hands in the Dark / Fragments Editions
A project exploring the sounds of glaciers, captured in crevasses, glacial torrents or moraine folds using microphones, hydrophones and seismic sensors.
 Pointe du Lac - Les siphonophores des eaux froides et profondes de l\'Arctique (vinyl LP)
Hands in the Dark / Fragments Editions
The third studio album from the Frenchmen Pointe du Lac offers a deep, catchy and classy dive into kosmische, electronica and jazz.
Seijiro Murayama - Supersedure 2 (book / CD)
Swarming
Percussion by Paris-based Japanese improviser Seijiro Murayama and field recordings by sound artist Éric La Casa, "small, simple gestures" on the threshold of the musical, a low-key presence, listening to inhabited spaces.
Marko Ciciliani - Why Frets? 2083
English edition
Mille Plateaux
A multimedia book featuring transdisciplinary works by composer, audiovisual artist and performer Marko Ciciliani, that illuminate different aspects of a fictional history of the electric guitar from varying angles (including an USB-Stick with audiovisual works).
Stefan Roigk - de—COMPOSED (book + 2 CD)
English edition
Errant Bodies
An artist's book by Berlin-based sound artist Stefan Roigk, documenting acousmatic compositions, sound installations, musical graphics and text-sound compositions of the years 2005 to 2023 on 144 pages and 2 audio CDs.
 Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson - B for the birds
English edition
Errant Bodies - Errant Edition
B for the birds is a singular book that aims to rethink the film-form as an open cartography of its lines of enquiry, desire and fabulation.
 Univers Zéro - Lueur (vinyl LP)
Sub Rosa
(last copies available!)
Univers Zero's first new album since 10 years, a major new contribution to the discography of the band celebrating its fiftieth anniversary.
 DAAU (Die Anarchistische Abendunterhaltung!) - #1 (vinyl LP)
Sub Rosa
Classic DAUU 1995 debut album, first time on vinyl.
Maurice Louca - Moonshine (vinyl LP)
Sub Rosa
A live, raw, collective sound by Maurice Louca & his band Elephantine.
Wesley Brown - Blue in Green (paperback edition)
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
Wesley Brown narrates the day when trumpeter Miles Davis was assaulted by the New York Police Department. A dramatic and humorous story, told from multiple perspectives including that of Frances Taylor, Davis's wife, and the musicians in Davis's bands: a timely meditation on the psychological impact of police brutality, through the lens of a day in the life of Miles Davis.
Pierre Henry - Diary of my sounds
bilingual edition (English / French)
Maison ONA
New expanded edition of an essential text for defining the thought of composer Pierre Henry (1927-2017): a musical biography in the sense of a diary and an autobiography in forty-two sequences that accompanied him in various forms between 1977 and 2005 (audio download link included).
Gabriel Orozco - Diario de Plantas (2 volumes)
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Zolo Press
Diario de Plantas presents 724 drawings made by Gabriel Orozco in Tokyo and Acapulco on 33 notebooks between November 9, 2021, and April 20, 2022 (two volumes in one slipcase).
John Armleder - It Never Ends
trilingual edition (English / French / Dutch)
Lenz Press
Comprehensive documentation on the vast and daring interdisciplinary project conceived and staged by the Swiss artist John Armleder, a programme of exhibitions comprising invitations to other artists as well as presentations of different collections, for the Kanal-Centre Pompidou spaces.
Tarek Atoui - Waters\' Witness #03
English edition
Museum of Contemporary Art Australia
The fourth volume in a series that documents Tarek Atoui's project Waters' Witness, created in collaboration with French photographer and Atoui's long-term collaborator, Alexandre Guirkinger, is intended as a visual embodiment of the work's development for Museum of Contemporary Art Australia.
Pippa Garner - Act Like You Know Me
bilingual edition (English / French)
Bierke
restocking in progress
currently out of stock
The first comprehensive monograph and critical survey of American artist Pippa Garner, Act Like You Know Me surveys fifty years of her radical and transdisciplinary art practice, from the late 1960s to the early 2010s, through ca. 400 photographs, illustration, ephemera, and original writings.
Jimmy Robert - Call and Response (vinyl LP)
Bierke
The artist record Call and Response brings together pieces created in connection with performances and exhibitions by Jimmy Robert, including a booklet wrapped around the record.
Spectres - A Thousand Voices
bilingual edition (English / French)
Spectres
Shelter Press - Spectres
The fourth issue of the annual publication dedicated to sound and music experimentation, co-published by Shelter Press and Ina GRM – Groupe de Recherches Musicales, around the topic of voice (with François J. Bonnet, John Giorno, David Grubbs, Lee Gamble, Sarah Hennies, Joan La Barbara, Pierre Schaeffer, Peter Szendy, Ghédalia Tazartès...).
Manuel Raeder - Agenda 2024
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Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
currently out of stock
Bom Dia's new Agenda offers a different font designed by Studio Manuel Raeder for each month. It provides you with a fun way for new beginnings and to take notes and make sketches. This years Agenda can function on a daily basis as a notebook, or be used for hanging as a wall calendar.
 Anni\'s - Repetition, repetition,
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Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A publication compiled, edited and designed by Danish graphic artist Anni's, based on research into the uses of the grid.
June Crespo - Vieron su casa hacerse campo
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
An indepth survey to June Crespo's artistic practice.
Ēriks Apaļais - Ģimene / Family
bilingual edition (English / Latvian)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Elaborated from an eponymous exhibition held at the Latvian National Museum of Art in 2020, Family examines the visual, autobiographical, and theoretical strands that inform Ēriks Apaļais' practice, featuring texts on his work by the curator Katerina Gregos and Latvian art critic Santa Hirša. 
10 Years of Kinderhook & Caracas 2011-2021
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Looking back at a decade of activity of the project space Kinderhook & Caracas, this compendium showcases the work of the 83 Berlin-based artists whose practices have crossed paths through the small room on Kreuzbergstraße and several off-site projects around the city.
Hannah Ryggen Triennale 2022
bilingual edition (English / Norwegian)
Archive Books
Hannah Ryggen Triennale 2022 presents artists and works that can varyingly be seen in the light of Swedish-born Norwegian feminist textile artist Hannah Ryggen's legacy (1894–1970).
Tono Vizcaíno - Industry / Matrices - Threads and sounds
English edition
Archive Books
A hybrid proposal developed by artist and curator Lorenzo Sandoval and archaeologist Tono Vizcaíno, situated between the creation of an archive and an artistic project, whose objective is to offer a necessarily partial reading of Valencian industrial heritage based on the sound, the intangible and social movements.
Christian Nyampeta - Togetherward
bilingual edition (English / German)
Archive Books
A volume assembling new and existing documents that revisit, mix and remix moments in the work of artist Christian Nyampeta.
O Quilombismo - Reader
English edition
Archive Books
A reader based on a research undertaking, an exhibition, workshops, and a series of performances that invite artists, activists, scholars, and people from other walks of life to imagine new forms of cultural and political resistance through diverse emancipation projects, past and present, taking as point of departure the philosophy of quilombismo as developed by Brazilian artist, author, and politician Abdias Nascimento.
O Quilombismo - Album
English edition
Archive Books
A visual record of a research undertaking, an exhibition, workshops, and a series of performances that invite artists, activists, scholars, and people from other walks of life to imagine new forms of cultural and political resistance through diverse emancipation projects, past and present, taking as point of departure the philosophy of quilombismo as developed by Brazilian artist, author, and politician Abdias Nascimento.
Farkhondeh Shahroudi - Wir sind die feder in des schreibers hand, wohin wir gehen, ist uns nicht bekannt
trilingual edition (English / German / Persian)
Archive Books
The first monographic overview publication of the work of Iranian artist Farkhondeh Shahroudi.
Shaping Revolutionary Memory - The Production of Monuments in Socialist Yugoslavia
English edition
Archive Books
A comprehensive overview of the vast production of monuments in socialist Yugoslavia (1945–91) dedicated to the antifascist People's Liberation Struggle in the Second World War and the socialist revolution.
John Akomfrah - A Space of Empathy
English edition
Archive Books
An overview of John Akomfrah's work, with contributions by Julia Grosse and Nelly Y. Pinkrah, an interview with the artist, along with a foreword by Sebastian Baden.
As Though We Hid the Sun in a Sea of Stories - Fragments for a Geopoetics of North Eurasia
English edition
Archive Books
This publication is based on an exhibition and research project that foregrounds an ever-incomplete weaving of narratives of artists, curators, writers, and customary knowledge holders. It traces the many worlds that have existed in parallel, often in spite of or against the oppressive visions imagined by successive regimes—the Russian Empire, the USSR, and contemporary Russia—that have controlled areas across Eastern Europe and Central and North Asia.
Cura. - New World Agency™
English edition
Cura.
Cura. - Cura.magazine
Through an extensive investigation of the new searches and work productions of international artists, the new CURA. 41, New World Agency™ raises questions related to the ability of art and artists to have a transformative role as regards the apparent irreversibility of the events that impact our present.
Mousse
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Cally Spooner, Donald Rodney, Ivan Cheng, Niloufar Emamifa, McKenzie Wark, Clémentine Deliss, Kerstin Stakemeier, Chus Martínez...
Christina Kubisch - Inaudible, invisible - Exploring the Works of Christina Kubisch
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
Espace multimedia Gantner
An incursion into a major field of work by Christina Kubisch, a pioneer of sound art who has been exploring the sonic potential of electromagnetic fields generated by our urban and technological environment since the 1970s.
Charlotte Schaer - Vues prises à Romme
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Mix
A visual attempt to index photographic images.
P L  S – The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo - Amour, amours, amourxs
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
Issue 36 of the Palais de Tokyo magazine proposes to explore the multiplicity, hybridity and fluidity of identities and the ways of loving, the plurality and complexity of our affects and our sexualities.
Tadashi Kawamata - Site Sketches n°1-500
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
Site Sketches n°1-500 is the first volume of the catalog raisonné devoted to the Site Sketches series, works on paper made from recycled scrap wood by Japanese artist Tadashi Kawamata.
Estelle Hoy - Jus d\'Orange
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
currently out of stock
A dialogue between Camille Henrot's images and Estelle Hoy's texts, a visual and verbal exploration of melancholy, failure, injustice, and hope.
Julia Margaret Cameron - Capturer la beauté
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Albums (exhibition catalogues)
The portfolio of the exhibition at the Jeu de Paume, first retrospective in Paris in almost forty years devoted to the famous Victorian photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879), pioneer of the photographic portrait, presents a selection of some forty of her landmark photographs.
Zoë Lund - Poems
bilingual edition (English / French)
Editions Lutanie
Poems presents four unpublished poems by American writer and actress Zoë Lund (1962–1999), written in the 1980s. An incandescent voice emerges, revealing the might, sincerity, and precision of her expression, as well as her vulnerability and defiance in the face of death. This is the first publication dedicated to her work.
Georges Rousse - Rising Circles
trilingual edition (English / French / Dutch)
various
A retrospective of Georges Rousse's "circles."
Noah Noyan Wenzinger - Noyan 2015-2022
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The first photo book by Zurich-based photographer Noah Noyan Wenzinger.
Korakrit Arunanondchai - Song for Living Song for Dying
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The most comprehensive publication to date on Korakrit Arunanondchai's practice.
Maude Léonard-Contant - Listen, the crust is cracking
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first-ever comprehensive overview of Maude Léonard-Contant's universe.
Mattia Denisse - Tout - Encyclopaedia
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first major book by the Lisbon-based French artist Mattia Denisse.
Ester M. Bergsmark - Voice under
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The very first book of Swedish film director, artist, and artistic researcher Ester M. Bergsmark.
Studio Marconi 1966–1980 - An Anthology
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An overview of Studio Marconi's publishing activities since the 1960s, tracing the studio's history.
Eva Fàbregas - Enredos
texts in English and Spanish
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph of the Spanish artist Eva Fàbregas.
Fatma Bucak - While the Dust Quickly Falls
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A project by artist Fatma Bucak that considers the relationships between political violence, environmental destruction, and climate change.
Alvin Lucier - Works for the Ever Present Orchestra Vol. II (vinyl LP)
Black Truffle
An ideal introduction to Lucier's late music.
Alvin Lucier - One Arm Bandits (CD)
Important Records
An hour-long piece in four parts, scored for four cellists, featuring Tyler J. Borden, Laura Cetilia, Charles Curtis and Judith Hamann.
Marja Ahti - Tender Membranes (vinyl LP)
Black Truffle
Black Truffle label's first release from Swedish-Finnish sound artist and electro-acoustic composer Marja Ahti: four lengthy pieces, partly inspired by the image of the senses and mind as membranes allowing for the passage between inner and outer spaces, sensation and its causes, creating a world.
Lawrence English - The Shell That Speaks The Sea (vinyl LP)
Room40
A realisation of a 20 years-long conversation, with results that articulate Toop's long held sound vision (here executed with his own voice, electric and lapsteel guitars, whistling, percussion, flutes and electronics) around English's stunning recordings of various insects, birds and exotic animals.
Thomas Köner - Daikan (2 vinyl LP)
Mille Plateaux
Thomas Köner's eighth album, originally released in 2002, pressed on vinyl for the first time, including a 12 minute bonus track.
Nickolas Mohanna - Double Pendulum (vinyl LP)
Run/Off
Double Pendulum is a selection of new material from NY-based artist/composer Nickolas Mohanna. Using a varied palette of percussive devices alongside the electric guitar and computer, hammered notes flutter into brushed cymbals to create pulsing and immersive shapes.
 SG - For Lovers Only / Rain Suite (vinyl LP)
Faitiche
SG is none other than Andrew Pekler returning to faitiche with an album of sentimental guitar escapism. For Lovers Only / Rain Suite features ten tracks made using only an electric guitar and a handful of effects pedals (plus some additional recordings of rain) and finds Pekler once again attempting to reconicile his tendencies towards kitsch, experimentation and minimalism.
James Worse - A Fothermass Abominesque (CD)
ReQords
Saxophones, voice, electronics and percussions, recorded remotely between France and Australia, with texts/poems by James Worse, and artwork by Steven Stapleton (Nurse With Wound).
Makoto Sato - Espace en l\'espèce (CD)
ReQords
New improvised quartet synthesizer / voice / accordion / saxophone / drums, recorded in concert in Paris then mixed / edited by Jean-Marc Foussat.
Romain Perrot - Le vieux fusible (CD)
ReQords
The continuation of the sound adventures of the duo after "L'impatience des invisibles". A new studio album plus a second CD including the tracks released on vinyl by Mind Records, on mini-CD by Lenka Lente and with a live track in trio with Richard Franès (Pointe du Lac).
Extra Muros - Czech Republic (vinyl LP)
Flee
Extra Muros – Czech Republic is the result of the fourth edition of FLEE's creative residency program which took place in December 2022 on the dance floor of Prague's most infamous nightclub Ankali.
Walter Pfeiffer - Chez Walti 2000-2022
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
currently out of stock
A large retrospective of the Swiss cult photographer's work over two decades.
 Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs - WATER COLUMN
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The second and final installment of FUTURE, a series of publications by Taiyo Onorato & Nico Krebs, explores the deep watery world.
 KCBR -
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
currently out of stock
A series of rail graffiti by the KCBR collective, renewing the practice with an original reflection on the medium, concealment (including, of course, with regard to police services), the trace, public reception and ephemerality, as the works are obliterated by the artists themselves immediately after completion.
Giuseppe Micciché - Cento Passi
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Edition Patrick Frey
A photographic essay on the abandoned project of a suspension bridge between the Calabrian and Sicilian coasts and on the coastline of the Strait of Messina, documenting the transformation of suburban coastal areas and the daily life of the inhabitants.
The Drawer - Portraits
French edition (texts in English and French)
The Drawer
The Drawer - The Drawer (magazine)
The Drawer #23, on the theme of portraits, gathers drawings and contributions by some twenty artists and creative people.
Afterall - Voicings
English edition
Afterall
Issue 54 "Voicings" explores modes of being, perception and expression that have been historically and often violently disabled by society. Focusing on art practices that centre the perspective of D/deaf and non-verbal communicators, it proposes reconfigurations of voice, language and sound. It asks readers to tune into a chorus of voicings, not necessarily audible, but perceivable as "atmospheres", "vibrations", "rhythms".
Spike - Field Guide to AI
English edition
Spike
Spike's Autumn issue is decoding AI, beginning with the age-old question of what intelligence is.
Sahara - A Thousand Paths Into the Future
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Sahara: A Thousand Paths Into the Future is devoted to the ideas, images, poetics, politics, fictions, and movements of this vast desert and its myriad voices.
Lena Marie Emrich - The Darkest Corners
English edition
Floating Opera Press
The Darkest Corners documents and explores sculptures by Lena Marie Emrich and an eponymous exhibition.
Azimuts - Se permettre l\'écriture chez les designer·euse·s, artistes, chercheur·euse·s
bilingual edition (English / French)
Azimuts
The 56th issue of the design research journal, devoted to the question of writing in design practices.
Niki de Saint Phalle - Tableaux éclatés
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Vallois
Catalogue devoted to Niki de Saint Phalle's Tableaux éclatés (Burst paintings), a vast series of paintings composed of cut-out shapes set in motion by motorized devices as spectators pass by, created as an homage to Jean Tinguely (the book's pop-up cover allows to recompose the pattern of a painting using pull tabs!).
 ORLAN - Hibridaciones / Hybridizations
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Temblores Publicaciones
Hybridizations presents the most recent work of the French artist ORLAN which reflects, from the aesthetics of ancient Mesoamerican cultures, on the canons of beauty, cultural exchanges, and the symbolic and material powers of native peoples in a globalized world.
Strata - Italian Art since 2000 – The Words of the Artists
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Lenz Press
An interdisciplinary perspective upon Italian visual culture through the words of 37 artists active from 2000 to today.
François Ristori -
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Comprehensive monograph.
Carroll Dunham - Green Period - Prints, Drawings, and Paintings – 2018-2022
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Carroll Dunham's "Green Period."
Gae Aulenti - Cina 1974
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
A series of astonishing photographs by the Italian architect and designer, discovering China at the end of the Cultural Revolution, between millenary traditions, openness to the world and forced modernization.
Élisa Larvego - Chicanes
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
23 photographs of chicanes taken between 2013 and 2016 on the roads leading to the Notre-Dame-des-Landes ZAD, France (with an interview with philosopher Marie José Mondzain).
Florence Montmare - America Series
English edition
Damiani - Photography
The first monograph by Swedish-Greek-American photographer and artist Florence Montmare showcases images made in 2021–22 while traveling across the United States from east to west (and back), to meet the minorities who make up today's America.
Brown W. Cannon III - North
English edition
Damiani - Photography
currently out of stock
Through powerful portraits and incredible surf scenes, Brown W. Cannon III's book NORTH chronicles the lives of surf people—and the community around them—along the North Shore of O'ahu, Hawaii.
Archivio - The Fashion Issue
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Archivio
Archivio n°9, the first issue of the third editorial cycle, is entirely dedicated to fashion and its history.
Heinz Peter Knes - Correspondences
English edition
Is-Land
In five chapters, the photographer reflects on the multiple "correspondences", influences and interactions at the heart of his artistic work.
 Muoto - Holy Highway
bilingual edition (English / French)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - 6th Caryatide
A collection of texts, projects and images by the Parisian architecture studio on the subject of the highway, the most radical public space ever imagined, but also the most divisive and criticized today, questioning our relationship with modernity.
Ana Mendieta - Aux commencements
bilingual edition (English / French)
MO.CO. Panacée
An in-depth exploration of the work and destiny of Ana Mendieta (1948-1985), with numerous illustrations and previously unpublished contributions.
Daisuke Ichiba - Coulour
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United Dead Artists
restocking in progress
currently out of stock
The third book by Master of the Underworld Daisuke Ichiba published by United Dead Artists focuses on color, blending red demons with the sulfur of strangling gardens.
Noviadi Angkasapura - Sastro Inggil
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United Dead Artists
restocking in progress
currently out of stock
Noviadi Angkasapura frenetically covers paper and bits of cardboard packaging with felt-tip pens, ballpoint pens and pencils, haunting them with the magic of spirits.
 Dyvik Kahlen - Dyvik Kahlen In Practice - Villa Ruba
English edition
MER. B&L
For the fourth book in the In Practice series, Dyvik Kahlen architects explore the design process of the Villa Ruba, located near Utrecht.
Matthew Lutz-Kinoy -
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
An overview of the work of the Paris-based American artist, through a series of exhibitions, installations and performances over a dozen years, three essays and two interviews.
Andrew Dosunmu - Monograph
English edition
Damiani - Photography
The first retrospective volume on the photography of the internationally acclaimed Nigerian filmmaker, photographer and music-video director Andrew Dosunmu: a sensual and kaleidoscopic celebration of the world's cultural diversity.
Inge Bondi - Ernst Haas - Letters & Stories
English edition
Damiani - Photography
Writer Inge Bondi sheds fresh light on the life of her close friend and colleague, the Austrian American photographer Ernst Haas (1921–86), an early innovator in color photography, whom she first met in New York's Magnum offices in 1951.
Richard Kalvar - Selected Writings
bilingual edition (English / French)
Damiani - Photography
The American and Parisian photographer, member of Magnum Photos, known for his street and everyday life photographs taken on the spot, celebrates the public use of the written word through a series of images of graffiti and inscriptions on signs, clothing, banners, gravestones, etc., produced over more than 50 years.
Mayan Toledano - No Mames
English edition
Damiani - Photography
A photographic tribute to the LGBTQ creative youth who is currently contributing to Mexican culture.
Frédéric Acquaviva - No Soy Un Robot (CD)
AcquAvivA
For countertenor, parrots, different voices & dead electronics.
Going Out - Walking, Listening, Soundmaking
English edition
umland / Q-O2
An anthology that traces the long legacy of interdisciplinary experimentations at the intersection of walking, listening, and soundmaking (new edition).
Marina Martinez Mateo - Devenir invisible
bilingual edition (German / French)
Nouveau Palais
At a time when refugees in Europe are caught between a "return" policy and the rise of far right governments, this book combines photography and philosophy to examine the representation of refugees.
Warja Honegger-Lavater - Pictograms
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Nieves
A previously unpublished collection of 60 ink pictograms by the early progenitor of the artist's book genre (new edition).
Tiger Tateishi - Cheat Sheets
no text
Nieves
A new edition of Tiger Tateishi's incredible comics sequence.
Tucker Nichols - Flowers
no text
Nieves
Tucker Nichols' flowers paintings.
Moki Cherry - Blank Forms - Organic Music Societies
English edition
Blank Forms
Blank Forms - Blank Forms Journal
Archival documents and new writings on the intermedia collaborations of avant-garde jazz trumpeter Don Cherry and textile artist Moki Cherry.
Daniel Arsham - 100 Hotel Sketches
English edition
Perrotin
In 100 Hotel Sketches Daniel Arsham compiles 100 drawings made over the last few years as Arsham has travelled for exhibitions and installations worldwide.
Heimo Zobernig -
bilingual edition (English / French)
Galerie Chantal Crousel
New monograph.
Composite
bilingual edition (English / French)
Composite
The fourth issue of the annual graphic design journal, dedicated to image and print techniques, with Atelier Murr, Atelier National de Recherche Typographique, Juanma Gomez, Julien Van Anholt, Alexis Dandreis, Sébastien Esteban Desplat, Amélie Dumont, Les Artisans du Regard, Maximage, Fraser Muggeridge, Our Polite Society, Éloïsa Perez, La Perruque, Roman Seban.
Alexandra Midal - Design by Accident - For a New History of Design
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
In Design by Accident, Alexandra Midal declares the autonomy of design—in and on its own terms. This meticulously researched work proposes not only a counterhistory but a new historiography of design, shedding light on overlooked historical landmarks and figures while reevaluating the legacies of design's established luminaries from the nineteenth century to the present (new edition).
Nicolas Le Bault - The Lost Dimension #2
English edition
White Rabbit Prod - Monographs & artist's books
The sequel to Nicolas Le Bault's graphic novel of intimate horror and fantasy.
Ciarán Finlayson - Perpetual Slavery
English edition
Floating Opera Press
In Perpetual Slavery, Ciarán Finlayson investigates the relationship of art to freedom in the work of Cameron Rowland and Ralph Lemon, who both utilize imagery of labor haunted and structured by the historical experience of slavery.
Jean-Marie Appriou -
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A monumental monograph tracing ten years of the French sculptor's practice over some 500 pages, with an interview and five essays.
Tschabalala Self - Make Room
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First monograph of the African-American artist, renowned for her representations of black femininity, whose spectacular pop patchworks deconstruct and recompose the everyday feminine/masculine relationship in its domestic dimension: an overview of Tschabalala Self's production, with seven essays and an interview.
LSD - A DIY Issue
bilingual edition (English / French)
LSD (Le Signe Design)
Le Signe – National Graphic Design Center - LSD
The third issue of Le Signe Design (the Cahiers of the National Graphic Design Center) is about DIY practices and is based on the work of Gilles de Brock, graphic designer who became a ceramic tile manufacturer.
Louis Reyes Rivera - A Strange Celestial Road - My Time in the Sun Ra Arkestra
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
In this memoir, Harlem-born trumpeter Ahmed Abdullah recounts decades of national and international touring with the Sun Ra Arkestra and charts the rise of New York loft jazz scene, offering a fascinating portrait of advanced music in Brooklyn and lower Manhattan from the 1970s through the 1990s.
Toilet Paper
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
29 new dreamlike (or nightmarish) living tableaux by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.
Jean-Luc Nancy - Thinking With - Jean-Luc Nancy
texts in English, German, French
Diaphanes - TransPositions
A collection of about thirty texts to resume the passionate conversation that Jean-Luc Nancy was engaged in throughout his life, with philosophers and artists from all over the world.
Peter Märkli - Dessins, disegni
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
An in-depth study of Peter Märkli's work through an extensive body of 700 drawings by the Swiss architect, with eight essays.
Ugo Bienvenu - Lorem Ipsum - French Pavilion at the 18th International Architecture Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia 2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
An architectural fiction that takes the form of a photo novel, born from the meeting between an author, Ugo Bienvenu, and the architects of the French Pavilion of the 18th International Architecture Biennale in Venice.
Michel Parmentier - Transatlantique
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Invited by Molly Warnock, nine artists living in the United States write about the work of Michel Parmentier (1938-2000). A radical founding figure of the BMPT collective who refused all formal and ideological compromise, Parmentier appears here through the diverse prisms of the authors' own artistic commitments and cultures.
Joan Mitchell - By her Friends
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An intimate portrait of Joan Mitchell, one of the greatest American painters of the 20th century, through a collection of previously unpublished conversations with the artists, art historians and personalities closest to her, from Paul Auster to Zuka.
Mieke Bal - Concepts itinérants - Comment se déplacer dans les sciences humaines
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
Attempting to bridge the gap between specialised scholarship in the humanistic disciplines and an interdisciplinary project of cultural analysis, Mieke Bal has written an intellectual travel guide that charts the course "beyond" cultural studies.
La Biennale internationale des jeunes artistes - Paris (1959-1985)
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
The first major work on the history and current importance of the Biennale of Young Artists, known as the "Biennale de Paris", which took place between 1959 and 1985, bringing together thirty-five texts by international authors, including some testimonies from actors who took part in the Biennale.
Imaginaires technologiques
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
Deconstruct and question the images created by digital technology and the technosciences: a look at the imaginary worlds that inhabit techno-scientific realities, transforming our relationship with the world, closing or opening up the future.
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux - LCDB (Le Culte Des Banni.e.s)
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A trans-theoretical essay: Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux explores the arcana of artists' cult status through a kaleidoscopic series of portraits of "banished" visual artists, filmmakers, writers, musicians and architects, from William S. Burroughs to Jean-Luc Godard via John Cage.
Paul-Armand Gette - L\'odyssée du 0 m.
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
This catalogue offers a journey—an odyssey—through the work of Paul-Armand Gette, with the "0m." as a common thread, the manifesto gesture that has punctuated the artist's universe since 1974.
F.J. Ossang - Les guerres polaires, suivi de Les Chauffes de sang
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Reissue of a book of poetry from 1984—perhaps F.J. Ossang's most incandescent poetic period—that never saw the light of day.
Virginie Lalucq - Liste des pages
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A poetic text on the influence of suffering and illness on the act of writing.
Attaques
French edition
Attaques
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A journal of critical and political poetry
Laurent Stalder - Un dessin n\'est pas un plan et autres essais
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
This collection does not propose a theory of architectural drawing, but brings together seven essays (written over the last fifteen years), which explore the potential of architectural drawing during the 20th century, through seven modes of representation: plan, section, arrow, grid, images, diagram, drawing.
Renée Vivien - Le Christ (book + CD)
French edition
Lenka lente
The story of Jesus, or that of a fin-de-siècle anarchist, by the sapphic poet Renée Vivien (1877-1909), accompanied by a new piece by Nurse With Wound on CD.
Nicolas Ballet - Shock Factory - Culture visuelle des musiques industrielles (1969-1995)
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A vast study of the visual culture of industrial music during its development in Europe, the United States and Japan, from the 1970s to the 1990s, a global culture that goes beyond sound experimentation to cross different media (graphics, film, performance, video), in a close dialogue with the heritage of modernity and under the growing influence of technologies.
Thierry Prat - Vivre dans leurs têtes - Entretiens avec Anne Bertrand
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
This book retraces Thierry Prat's career as a player and witness to the history of contemporary art in France for over forty years, through a series of interviews that highlight the main issues at stake.
Philippe Despoix - K. B. W. - La bibliothèque Warburg, laboratoire de pensée intermédiale
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
The challenges of the library and the photographic collection founded by Aby Warburg in the 1920s, as a "laboratory" for collective research on the forms of transmission of images since Antiquity, and an intermedial device of knowledge. An exceptional case study, driven by the question: what was the impact of photography in Warburg's turning point in the history of art and culture?
Roberto Barbanti - Les sonorités du monde - De l\'écologie sonore à l\'écosophie sonore
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A vast research on the notion of acoustic and sound ecology and its transition to a new sound ecosophy, integrating the multidimensionality of listening to propose to hear differently.
Bruno Fernandès - Dadakan ! - Nu intègre descendant les préjugés
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Délashiné!
The life and work of the precursor of happening and streaking in Japan, Itoi Kanji (aka Dadakan, 1920-2021): the first comprehensive chrono-biographical study in Western language on the great Japanese Dadaist nudist ascetic, with a rare iconography.
Christine Bergé - L\'image en cours - Tarkovski Ristelhueber
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A parallel dive into the images of filmmaker Andrei Tarkovsky and photographer Sophie Ristelhueber.
Décor - Trans
French edition
Décor
École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris
The third issue of the annual review of the École des arts décoratifs de Paris, placed under the complex and ambivalent sign of "TRANS", covering the various ways of transgressing (identity, textuality, coding, training, etc.).
Claudia Mareis - Théories du design - Une introduction
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
By introducing the main design theories of the twentieth century, Claudia Mareis outlines approaches and models that postulate an expanded notion of design, in connection with the human and technical sciences, as well as with the challenges of a changing society.
Jean-Paul Fourmentraux - Sousveillance - L\'œil du contre-pouvoir
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
On the border between arts and surveillance studies, this book analyzes the technopolitical role of new "machines vision" and considers sousveillance as a democratic counter-power.
Laurent Buffet - Captation et subversion - L\'art à l\'épreuve du capitalisme tardif
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
Suspected of having been completely assimilated by the commercial industries, it is not so much against these that art must be defended as against a simplistic narrative imposed by a certain sociology of art. When one is finally interested in the artistic practices themselves, it becomes obvious that the art continues to resist: by its politics of the forms.
Herman Parret - La délicatesse des sens
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – esthétique:critique
A collection of three new aesthetic essays, between the visual arts and literature, by Belgian philosopher and semiotician Herman Parret: a reflection on the "delicacy" in the various fields of sensoriality (the visible, the sound, the taste and the tactile)—a most suggestive reading for the construction or the development of a sensitive semiotics.
 eRikm - Douze horizons (book + CD)
French edition
Ouïe/Dire
A sound postcard by eRikm: an instant composition recorded on CD, somewhere between sound performance and radio creation, accompanied by a booklet of photographs.
Isabelle Cornaro -
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph (also available in English edition).
Agnès Thurnauer -
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph (also available in English edition).
Frac Franche-Comté – Une décennie (10 volumes)
French edition
Frac Franche-Comté - Monographs & catalogues
188.00 150.00 €
The ten volumes of the anthology of exhibitions at the Frac Franche-Comté between 2013 and 2022, packaged in a box set.
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.
Sarah Benhaïm - Chroniques du bruit (livre + CD)
French edition
ARTDERIEN
An object book (with CD) featuring 29 concert reviews from the Parisian noise and experimental music scene in 2011 and 2012. It provides insights into a dynamic, radical, and deeply communal music scene (with a selection of photographs by Steeve Bauras, an experimental sound piece by DJ Fusiller created from concert recordings compiled by the author, and period flyers).
Philippe Jaffeux - Éveils
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
An artist's book by experimental poet Philippe Jaffeux that plays with images, letters and layout in the spirit of Lettrism.
Les Ondes de l\'eau - Mémoires des lieux dans la vallée de la Romanche
French edition
Naima
Research and creations by a collective of academics and artists on perceptions and practices related to the Romanche river in Isère (France), in a context of massive landscape transformation.
Michel Gouéry - Les fossiles du futur
French edition
Arsenicgalerie
An overview of Michel Gouéry's surrealist and exuberant artistic output, through a collection of previously unpublished works and documents, as well as detailed notes by some twenty specialists.
Jean-Baptiste Carobolante - L\'image spectrale - Allégorie du cinéma de spectre
French edition
Mix
A study of "spectral" (rather than ghostly) cinema, starting with the film Ringu by Hideo Nakata, as well as a philosophical essay on the haunting of images.
Antoine Bonnet - Poétique de la décroissance
French edition
Mix
Contemporary art and degrowth.
Fabien Vallos - Vues & données (essai)
French edition
Mix
A reflection on the notions of catch and data.
Vues & données (entretiens)
French edition
Mix
Interviews with artists and researchers on the issues of catch and data.
Margaret de Asbaje - Court traité-poème de métaphysique moniste
French edition
Mix
A mysterious hybrid manuscript ("rediscovered", edited and presented by Alessandro De Francesco) whose prose, oscillating between poetry, philosophy and conceptual art, ingenuously explores the great unresolved questions of humanity and nature.
Sébastien Miravete - Bergson structuraliste - L\'aube d\'une autre anthropologie structurale et cognitive
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
What does Bergson bring to the history of the concept of "structure" even before the advent of structuralism? Why is his approach still relevant today? Sébastien Miravete proposes a rereading of Bergsonian philosophy to show how it outlines an other structuralist metaphysics, which can inspire all 21st century thought.
Juliette Evezard - « Un Art Autre » - Le rêve de Michel Tapié
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
An analysis of the true theoretical and commercial system developed by Michel Tapié de Céleyran (1909-1987), who invented his profession of art entrepreneur by combining several activities—art critic, editor, artistic advisor, broker and collector—, contributed to the international destiny of some 200 artists (including Dubuffet, Mathieu, Pollock, Tapiès, Saura, Fontana, and De Kooning) and was at the origin of "Informal Art".
Marcel Alocco - L\'avenir n\'a pas de nom - Tomes 1 & 2
French edition
Enseigne des Oudin
A text by the painter, writer and poet, begun in 1959 as a student and finalized half a century later.
Cahiers Charles Fourier - Les femmes selon Charles Fourier
French edition
Cahiers Charles Fourier
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
Charles Fourier and the origins of feminism.
 Ludovic Chemarin© - Une Trilogie
French edition
Art Book Magazine
A rethinking of the conceptual approach of Ludovic Chemarin©, artist turned fictional and polycephalous, who continues to redraw the figurative boundaries of the artist and the work, the exhibition and the institution.
Yoann Sarrat - Mon livre
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
various
A visceral questioning of what a book can or cannot be, and of the positions of author and reader.
 Pathé\'O -
French edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The extraordinary journey of the Ivorian-Burkinabé stylist Pathé'O, icon of African fashion (also available in English).
Art & Essai - 2014-2020
French edition
Présent composé
This book documents six years of reflections and productions, that is to say the 47 exhibitions—dedicated to young emerging artists as well as to major actors of the French and international art scene—organized at the Galerie Art & Essai of the University Rennes 2 between 2014 and 2020 under the direction of John Cornu.
Revue & Corrigée
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Francisco Meirino; Mona Kareem; Peter Brötzmann; Les Arènes du vinyle by Carole Rieussec & Elena Biserna; interviews with Limpe Fuchs, Quentin Conrate, Mayuko Hino, Yuki Fuji & Wamei...
Jacques-Henri Michot - Au jour dit - Le 24 avril en France (1935-2022)
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A series of samples taken every April 24, for eighty-seven years, from the most diverse sources (press articles, television broadcasts, book and film releases, speeches...): a mass of information that makes, from the smallest to the most imperious, the history of a country.
Claude Favre - Alep – Quinze heures du matin
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A poem built like a long love song to the wounded Aleppo, to all the Aleppo of the world.
Vincent Broqua - La langue du garçon
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A poetic investigation on desire, love and masculinity in the form of a constellation of texts, drawings and photographs.
Cosmos - Design d\'ici et au-delà
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
Weaving fruitful links between the worlds of science and design, this catalog unveils the work of designers who have questioned the architecture of the Universe and the hidden laws of physics that govern it (also available in English).
Objectif Terre - Le design de notre planète
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object (also available in English).
Keep it Flat - Petite histoire sur la Terre plate
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
A design theorist (Alexandra Midal), a neuroscientist (Albert Moukheiber), two designers (Antoine Fœglé and Emma Pflieger) and two curators (Jolanthe Kugler and Scott Longfellow) take a look at the mechanisms behind the flat-Earth theory, and the ways in which "alternative" narratives are disseminated (also available in English).
Robert Bonaccorsi - La Bataille du riz de Gilles Aillaud  et la « Salle rouge pour Le Vietnam » - Itinéraire d\'un tableau singulier
French edition
Loevenbruck
An essay by Robert Bonaccorsi on Gilles Aillaud's highly unusual painting "La bataille du riz", illustrated by a portfolio containing the historical documents mentioned in the text, from museum archives or the author's own collection.
Écodesign et Création - S\'attacher
French edition
Écodesign et Création
École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris
An exploration of the various paths of ecodesign, from material environments to our imaginations, from concern for uses to new narratives.
Alain de La Bourdonnaye - Peintre, graveur, artisan-architecte du livre, typographe, imprimeur et bâtisseur (3 volume box set)
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
Three-volume catalogue raisonné of the work of Alain de la Bourdonnaye.
Magali Brénon - Bonne Continuation
French edition
Is-Land
The first book of drawings by writer Magali Brénon, a body of work developed over several years, between automatic drawing, collage, assemblage, illumination or graffiti, accompanying her daily life and her writing.
Steven Feld - La recherche comme composition
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – ArTeC
Two essays by Steven Feld, a leading figure in anthropology and sound studies, that challenge established acoustic perspectives and open up the exciting field of research-composition.
Livio Vacchini - Capolavori - Chefs-d\'œuvre
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Fondamenta
Twelve texts on as many architectural masterpieces: pursuing their project to disseminate the work and thought of Livio Vacchini, Caryatide publish a new edition in French of Capolavori, the small (and immense) milestone, full of meaning and poetry, that the architect from Ticino wrote in 2006 just before his death.
Marie Preston - Inventer l\'école, penser la co-création
French edition
Tombolo Presses
A publication by artist and teacher-researcher Marie Preston on the alternative pedagogies developed in France during the 1970s-1990s in "open" schools working on the question of the relationship between co-creation and co-education.
Jean-Pierre Raynaud - Guernica / Ukraine
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
A complete light on the unpublished work given by Jean-Pierre Raynaud to Ukraine, a modern version of Picasso's Guernica, a universal symbol of the denunciation by art of the horrors of war, whose exact monumental dimensions the French conceptual artist now takes up in order to realize, almost a century later, the counterpart according to his own aesthetic codes.
Écrire avec et sans - LabBooks
French edition
isdaT (Higher Institute of Arts and Design of Toulouse) - Research Series
Publishing as a discursive process and the book as a device of (re)formulation and enunciation: the culmination of a research program aimed at extending the notion of writing to all dimensions of editorial practice.
Pierre Escot - Carmin Profond
French edition
Vroum - Editions
The transposition of an exhibition into a book format, spatialising concrete poetry on the page (artist's book).
Anna Serra - Danse-Combat
French edition
Supernova - Poetry and storytelling
Anna Serra's new book of poems, born of a struggle on all levels: the body and its illness, the body and its environment, the body in the midst of other struggling bodies, and the body pushing back its own confinement.
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun - Codes, races, climat, habitudes - Implications sociales de la numérisation
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
New media theorist Wendy Hui Kyong Chun exposes her original conception of programming and code, alerts us to the racialization bias, homophily and eugenic tendencies that govern our interactions on platforms, and analyzes the need to call upon the humanities and social sciences in the development of algorithmic models for predicting the evolutions and impacts of climate change.
Antigone Mouchtouris - Avant-garde et contre culture
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Three perspectives (philosophical, sociological and artist's word) on the meaning of the avant-garde, and its relationship to the counter-culture.
Olga Medvedkova - Nom, prénom, patronyme - Enquête en trois cahiers
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Œuvres en sociétés
An experience of introspection, an epistemological reflection and an act of resistance in the face of depersonalization, around the question of the name.
Adriano Spatola - Vers une poésie totale
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Undoubtedly one of the most important texts on the out of book poetry, both a documentary sum and a manifesto to underline the major role that the poetry and the poets have occupied and occupy in the whole of the transformations that have upset the the contemporary art field, considered by the amateurs and the researchers like a true bible.
Liliane Giraudon - Une femme morte n\'écrit pas
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A long narrative poem punctuated by 12x2 drawings, a montage of statements and notations in which a poetess (fat and old) keeps a kind of diary in which the destruction of the private body is articulated to that of the social body.
Thibault Walter - Audio Trouble - Étude sur les pratiques aurales d\'une école d\'art
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
A singular book resulting from an investigation on the arts of sharing sound in an art school based on experiments with Scott Arford, Mario de Vega, Kevin Drumm, Christina Kubisch, Randy H.Y. Yau, art students and Jason Kahn who offers here a text on his listening to the place.
Eric Schrijver - Copiez ce livre - Un manuel sur le droit d\'auteur et les communs culturels, par et pour les artistes
French edition
Les commissaires anonymes
An artist's guide to copyright, written for makers.
Thierry de Duve - Hommes, encore un effort… - Anthropogenèse, christianisme, sexuation
French edition
Diaphanes - TransPositions
In this essay, Thierry de Duve leaves the aesthetics and history of the art to approach, under the religious prism, two anthropological questions that the mutation of the symbolic order in progress makes pressing: the difference of the sexes and the future of the politics of emancipation.
Noël Akchoté - Guitare Conversation
French edition
Lenka lente
In a long conversation about the guitar(s), Philippe Robert and Noël Akchoté sift through the history of the instrument and its practice, from the Renaissance lute to the 12-string, from the Stratocaster to the tabletop guitar surrounded by utensils and effects, from the blues to free improvisation.
Adriano Olivetti - Écrits et discours
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Fondamenta
The first collection of writings and speeches in French by Adriano Olivetti (1901-1960), an Italian entrepreneur and publisher who transformed his writing and calculating machine factory into a laboratory for experimenting with a new model of social, political, and cultural life: a model of "concrete utopia" based on the idea of community and centered on the individual, whose instruments of realization are architecture, urbanism, and design.
Traces de guerre
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
An multidisciplinary approach of the war by its traces.
P.O.L - Futur, ancien, actuel
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
A survey of forty years of publications, highlighting the importance of the French publishing house P.O.L. and its authors in the emergence and definition of what can be called the contemporary in literature.
François Aubart - L\'attitude de la Pictures Generation - Excès, passion et manipulation
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A study of the Pictures Generation that considers the feelings provoked by sensational images manipulated by these artists.
Créativités artificielles - La littérature et l\'art à l\'heure de l\'intelligence artificielle
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
The very first book devoted to the creations of artificial intelligences in literature and art, and the problems they raise.
Jacques Donguy - Essai sur la Poésie numérique - Ou vers un élargissement du langage
French edition / excerpts translated into English
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
An international essay (France, USA, Brazil, etc.) on digital poetry, from the first attempts to generate text on the computer to the most contemporary developments and the problems posed by artificial intelligence.
Sophie Basch - Le Japonisme, un art français
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A thorough investigation that renews the understanding of Japonism from the French art of the nineteenth century, avoiding the temptation of orientalist exoticism while reversing the logic of influence, with an abundant also entirely renewed iconographic corpus.
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