new releases
 
The Colour Journal - The Blue Issue
English edition
miscellaneous
various
The Colour Journal is a lavish publication that explores colour in art and photography. It has been conceived as a collection of six volumes, each devoted to a single colour: blue, red, yellow, green, white and black. The Blue Issue contains, over more than 400 pages, about twenty contributions by international art historians, writers, anthropologists, philosophers, critics, artists and photographers that start from the colour blue.
Méandre(s) - An experience in spontaneous, collective creating (book + CD + DVD)
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Chant du Moineau / Casta - Books
A sound and music experience along the Dordogne river, with Le Chant du Moineau and the Ensemble UN orchestra (Pascal Battus, Benjamin Bondonneau, Michel Doneda, Jérôme Noetinger, Mathieu Werchowski...), and a group of invited researchers (with a composition by Lionel Marchetti on CD and a film by Camille Auburtin on DVD).
Marie-Claire Mitout - Les plus belles heures
bilingual edition (English / French)
Roven - books
First monograph dedicated to Marie-Claire Mitout's series of painted images, fixing the best of the day, a life's work initiated in 1990 now including more than one thousand gouache paintings on paper.
Cy Twombly - Marocco 1952/1953
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
The photographs made by Cy Twombly and Robert Rauschenberg in Morocco in the 1950s.
Paul Thek - Italian Hours
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books
A collection of works reflecting the influence of Italy on Paul Thek's artistic trajectory, with several contributions highlighting his Italian period.
Laurent Mannoni - Movements of Air - The Photographs from Étienne-Jules Marey’s Wind Tunnels
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
The book "Movements of Air" reprints the breathtaking pictures of Étienne-Jules Marey, that he took between 1899 and 1901 during his scientific experiments with moving air and smoke, and complements them with two essays of Georges Didi-Huberman and Laurent Mannoni. 
Jeanne Vicerial - Armors
bilingual edition (English / French)
Templon
The first publication dedicated to the French artist known for her avant-garde practice, pushing back the codes of the textile industry, questioning the dichotomy between made-to-measure and ready-to-wear, and the place of women and the female body in society.
Samy Rio - Autochtonie
bilingual edition (English / French)
Amers Editions
A collection of photos by the French designer condescending a topographic analysis of the Cevennes forests as part of a research project on their revitalization.
Ammar Khammash - Notes on Formation
English edition
Dongola
The first issue of the Dongola Architecture Series, dedicated to the most iconic contemporary architects of Arab culture, dives into the transdisciplinary perspective of Jordanian architect, artist and anthropologist Ammar Khammash.
Paul Neagu -
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
The first comprehensive monograph on the Romanian-born, UK-based artist Paul Neagu (1938-2004), whose oeuvre transcends traditional artistic disciplines, and who was for several decades an important source of inspiration for young artists, curators and intellectuals.
Rita Ackermann - Hidden
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This book traces the last thirty years of Rita Ackermann's career containing both well-known and previously unpublished works, ranging from painting to drawing, created in a range of media and formats.
Dan Graham - Some Rockin\' - Dan Graham Interviews
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A collection of Dan Graham's interviews and conversations with a wide array of individuals from various backgrounds and disciplines.
T. J. Demos - Radical Futurisms - Ecologies of Collapse / Chronopolitics / Justice to Come
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
What comes after end-of-world narratives: visions of just futurity and multispecies flourishing.
Architecture of the Territory - Constructing National Narratives in the Arab world
English edition
Kaph Books
Architecture of the Territory examines the role that national narratives have in defining the Arab world through the use of architecture and urban planning, through 30 essays, by contributors of each region.
Rä di Martino - Carmelo Bene - Là dove muore, canta
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Carmelo Bene. Là dove muore, canta is the work of the artist Rä di Martino and she comes to terms with the memory of Carmelo Bene (1937–2002), through his archive materials.
Michel François - Contre nature
English edition
MER. B&L
A look at 40 years of artistic practice by Belgian artist Michel François.
Trinh T. Minh-ha - Traveling in the Dark
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A fully-fledged artistic project expanded with writings, poems, and aphorisms by the artist alongside various interviews.
Jonas Mekas - Images are real
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Cura. - Cura.books
A retrospective devoted to Jonas Mekas's 70-year activity within and beyond the history of avant-garde cinema.
Rajesh Vangad - Fields of Sight
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A unique collaboration between photographer Gauri Gill and renowned Warli artist Rajesh Vangad.
Jess Atieno - Of Ghostly Silences and Constant Yearnings
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cécile Fakhoury
First monograph of the Kenyan artist.
Roméo Mivekannin - Les Âmes du peuple noir
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cécile Fakhoury
First monograph of the Beninese painter.
Maa Ka Maaya Ka Ca A Yere Kono - 13th Edition of the Rencontres de Bamako - African Biennale of Photography
bilingual edition (English / French)
Archive Books
The catalogue of the 13th edition of the Rencontres de Bamako - African Biennale of Photography, focusing on multiplicity, difference, becoming, and heritage.
Massimo Bartolini - Hagoromo
English edition
Nero
The most complete publication ever dedicated to the Tuscan artist.
Future Perfect - Catastrophe and Redemption in the Contemporary
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
An artistic and reflexive project around the notion of the "future perfect", the passage of time, individual and collective responsibility in the current cultural and political ecosystem, and future perspectives and goals.
Adrien Vescovi - Jours de lenteur
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A dive into the world and studio of French artist Adrien Vescovi, whose textile compositions are thought and composed like paintings, both monumental and vulnerable, subject to the natural elements and impregnated with the places where they are exposed.
Fahd Burki - Daydreams
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An overview of the Pakistani artist's practice over the past 15 years.
Flash Art - Spring 2023  – Fuck the Bauhaus (New Sculpture)
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
Isabelle Albuquerque, Isa Genzken, Aria Dean, Bri Williams, Cole Lu, Dominique White, Mimosa Echard, Isabelle Andriessen, Jordan Strafer...
Archives on Show - Revoicing, Shapeshifting, Displacing – A Curatorial Glossary
English edition
Archive Books
Archives on Show brings the potential of reformulating the social and political relevance of archives by curatorial means into focus.
Awkward Archives - Ethnographic Drafts for a Modular Curriculum
English edition
Archive Books
A manual for academic teaching and learning contexts.
Emma Wolf-Haugh - Text in Public - Zine Performances and Rants
English edition
Archive Books
The first monograph of writing by visual artist Emma Wolf-Haugh interconnecting performative works, performance scripts and assemblage texts.
The Wall Between Us - (Be)Longing, Repair and its Politics of Affects
English edition
Archive Books
A collective project around the Vietnamese and Asian artistic diaspora, on the theme of cultural identity in the post-migration society.
Pandora\'s Box
English edition
Archive Books
An exploration of the form of conversation as a method of aesthetic solidarity and empowerment.
Kerstin Schroedinger - DNCB - A History of Irritation
English edition
Archive Books
Part visual essay, oral history and artist book, DNCB – A History of Irritation is a companion to the multi-channel installation DNCB by Oliver Husain and Kerstin Schroedinger, around the history of the chemical substance DNCB, used both in film and photo labs to process color, and as a treatment in alternative AIDS clinics.
Faire – To look at things - Volume 12 (#42-43-44-45)
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire magazine – To look at things
Issues 42 to 45 of the critical review dedicated to graphic design.
Simone Forti - Oh, Tongue
English edition
Nero
A new revised version of the notebook of the legendary American dancer, artist and choreographer Simone Forti in which she shares her poetry as well as her thoughts on dance, the body, writing, the state of the world.
Yves Klein - Dreaming in the Dream of Others
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Yves Klein may be one of the first European artists to have taken an explicit interest in Aboriginal visual art. This catalog offers a poetic and completely new approach to his work, placed in perspective with the works of twelve Aboriginal artists.
Larne Abse Gogarty - What We Do Is Secret - Contemporary Art and the Antinomies of Conspiracy
English edition
Sternberg Press - On the Antipolitical
On the aesthetic and intellectual affinities between recent art and conspiracy.
Ana Hoffner ex-Prvulovic - Contemporary / Unconscious
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
First monograph.
Tim Onderbeke - Candles - A Photographic Novel
English edition
MER. B&L
A photographic essay on the spiritual and architectural dimensions of the candle.
Kaspar Müller -
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Retrospective monograph.
NO Rhetoric(s) - Versions and Subversions of Resistance in Contemporary Global Art
English edition
Diaphanes
An incisive examination of the intersection of global art and political resistance.
Liliana Gómez - Archive Matter - A Camera in the Laboratory of the Modern
English edition
Diaphanes - Think Art
A journey through the United Fruit Company's photo archive and its documentation of corporate expansion into the Caribbean.
Anne Mœglin-Delcroix - Ten Artists\' Book Publishers in Their Own Words (1960-1980) - Volume II (English)
English edition
Incertain Sens - Grey Series
Interviews with a group of pioneering artists' book publishers: Simon Cutts, Hansjörg Mayer, and Leif Eriksson.
Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt - Kein Witz, No Joke
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Kein Witz, No Joke combines paintings and objects by Sophie Reinhold with the "Typewritings" of Ruth Wolf-Rehfeldt. As different as the artists may be, their works share a manic perseverance, precision, and subversive humor.
Phill Niblock - Nurturing Exhibitions (book + 2 CD)
English edition
Matière Mémoire
An exhibitions book including 2 CDs with new pieces by Phill Niblock performed By Stephen O'Malley, Deborah Walker, Kasper Toeplitz, Franck Vigroux, David Maranha and many others.
Richard Nonas - Collected printed matter 1971-2020
English edition
Tonini Editore
138 records of artist’s books, catalogues, posters, invitation cards and ephemera (with an essay by Jan Meissner).
Diego Perrone - Run-up - Grasso
English edition
Nero
An artist book celebrating the first five issues of Grasso magazine.
Sven Lütticken - Objections - Forms of Abstraction, Volume 1
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Forms of Abstraction engages with abstraction not as a formal option in art, or as an airy theoretical speculation, but as an operational force that has redesigned our world, and continues to do so.
Matthias Brunner - Magnificent Obsessions Saved My Life
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A life, between art and cinema (the Swiss film curator’s visual autobiography, with guest appearances from Fassbinder, Warhol, Waters and many more).
Matthias Groebel - Painted Faces - Broadcast Material 1989-2006
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Matthias Groebel's machine paintings from 1989 to 2001
Christoph Keller - Dopostoria
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
An artist's book on photography, cemeteries and museum archives.
Proof of stake - Technological claims
English edition
Lenz Press
Proof of Stake – Technological Claims reflects on the themes of technology, organization, and ownership to investigate how objects are framed as technological and are used to organize life.
We Are Ocean - Berlin+Brandenburg
bilingual edition (English / German)
various
A collection of reflections by pioneering scientists, artists, and thinkers about the ocean environment, fusing art, science, and education, offering a diverse and interdisciplinary perspective on those threatened ecosystems and the crucial role they play in our adaption to climate change.
Daniel Buren - Ascending Point of View, work in situ
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
New monograph, centered around a temporary work in situ by Daniel Buren, allowing to further explore the close relationship that the artist weaves with architecture, landscape but also points of view.
Louisa Gagliardi -
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
This first monograph on Swiss artist Louisa Gagliardi introduces her specific voice within the landscape of contemporary painting.
Patrik Pion - La perte du bonheur
bilingual edition (English / French)
Paraguay Press
A series of sculptures, drawings, and videos that question alienating norms through the lens of sociology and psychoanalysis.
Archivio - The Sixties Issue
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Archivio
The archives of the 1960s.
Wages For Wages Against - Volume 2 – We Know What Remains Unsaid
bilingual edition (English / French)
L'Amazone
The second volume of a new series of publications by the collective Wages For Wages Against, acting for better work conditions in the visual arts and against all forms of discrimination.
From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken Worlds to the Word
English edition
Lenz Press
From Concrete to Liquid to Spoken Worlds to the Word explores the emancipation of language through historical and contemporary positions, from the earliest typographic and sound works of concrete poets to poetic experiments in the digital era, revealing the porosity between art and poetry.
Caroline Mesquita - Ideas
English edition
Lenz Press
First monograph.
Maurizio Nannucci - Autobiography
English edition
Tonini Editore
Maurizio Nannucci's "auto(biblio)biography" (artist's book).
Ali Kazma - Sentimental / A House of Ink
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire
Recent video works by Turkish artist Ali Kazma.
Reto Pulfer - Gina - A Zustand novel
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
In Reto Pulfer's novel, the artist draws a rich picture of a community of hybrid living beings. Characters and scenes from the novel also appear in the works and exhibitions of the artist. A multi-layered cosmos of links emerges and takes the reader into a parallel universe full of references to our current relationship with nature.
 Line Fontana & David Fagart - Renewing the City from Within
bilingual edition (English / French)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
A reflection by the architects of Fagart & Fontana on the renewal of the city from within and more specifically on the processes of transformation and adaptation of existing collective housing to new needs and lifestyles.
Louise Bourgeois - Transatlantique
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Marie-Laure Bernadac, a leading expert in Louise Bourgeois's work, invites nine artists from both sides of the Atlantic (Tracey Emin, Camille Henrot, Jenny Holzer, Rachel Whiteread...) to share their views of this major artistic figure of the 20th century.
François-Xavier Gbré - Album Architecture - Abidjan
bilingual edition (English / French)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Album Architectures
An iconographic work on the modern architecture of Abidjan which aims to offer a photographic survey of thirty buildings representative of the chosen moment of architecture that followed independence.
Giorgio Peghin - Voyages en Sardaigne - Nelle miniere di Iglesias / Into the Mines of Iglesias
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Voyages en Sardaigne
Voyages en Sardaigne (Travels in Sardinia) is a collection of unconventional thematic guides on the island in the middle of the Mediterranean. This first part proposes an itinerary through the mining landscapes of Sulcis-Iglesiente, exploring soil, excavations, incisions, mutations, transpositions and silence of this territory marked by an industrial history.
Laurence Lorenzi -
bilingual edition (English / French)
Is-Land
The series of photographs taken by Jean-Luc Moulène of his partner of ten years, Laurence Lorenzi (1956-2004).
1, 2, 3... couleur ! - L\'autochrome exposée
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jeu de Paume - Albums (exhibition catalogues)
The portfolio of the exhibition at the Jeu de Paume in Château de Tours, dedicated to autochrome, a technique patented at the very beginning of the 20th century by the Lumière brothers, which revolutionized the history of photography by introducing color, before falling into oblivion and then being rediscovered in recent decades by historians and collectors.
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.
Roscoe Mitchell - Sound American - The Roscoe Mitchell Issue
English edition
Sound American
Sound American
Sound American #29 celebrates Art Ensemble of Chicago founder and American iconoclast, Roscoe Mitchell.
Claire Tabouret - I am spacious, singing flesh
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A new critical reading of key dimensions of the Los Angeles-based French artist's work.
Bagarres
bilingual edition (English / French)
Bagarres
The Drawer - Bagarres
The second issue of the magazine Bagarres, made of constraints and rules of the game.
Walking from Scores
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
An anthology of text and graphic scores to be used while walking, from Fluxus to the critical works of current artists, through the tradition of experimental music and performance, gathered and presented by Elena Biserna.
Luc Ferrari - L\'œuvre électronique (10 CD box set)
various
A lavish 10-CD box set with a 106-page book, featuring more than 11 hours of seminal works by one of the most important electronic and electroacoustic composers of the 20th century.
Bernard Parmegiani - L\'œuvre musicale en 12 CD (box set)
various
An essential anthology gathering more than 30 works composed and recorded over four decades by one of the most iconic concrète composers.
Ryoko Akama - Éliane Radigue / Ensemble Dedalus / Ryoko Akama (CD)
Montagne Noire / GMEA
Two pieces written by Éliane Radigue at the same period (2014-2018), one instrumental (recorded at the Philharmonie de Paris by Ensemble Dedalus) and the other electronic (performed by Ryoko Akama).
Dorothy Iannone - First recording 1969 (CD)
Tochnit Aleph
First recording: a cascade of sounds and words, recorded one after the other as they arose in the mind, consists of songs and poetry from diverse sources as well as original works by the artist.
Otto Muehl - Musik 1982-90 (2 vinyl LP)
Tochnit Aleph
85 minutes collection of previously unpublished recordings made at the Friedrichshof commune between 1982 and 1990. Performed by Otto Muehl and members of the commune. Includes actionist group-music, improvised conceptual pieces, and barpianist-songs.
 SIGNA - Det åbne hjerte (The Open Heart) (2 vinyl LP)
Tochnit Aleph
A record resulting from a 12-hour participatory performance by the Danish collective.
Chandra Shukla - Travelogue [Bali] (CD)
Touch
The immersive sound diary of a trip to Bali.
Tomoyoshi Date - 438Hz As It Is, As You Are / あるがまま、あなたのままに (vinyl LP)
LAAPS
The third solo release by a prominent pillar of Japanese ambient music, after 11 years of collaborations.
 Muellie Messiah & Punk Not Punk - Exq I (vinyl LP)
Faitiche
Faitiche presents the album Exq I by Berlin underground techno legends Muellie Messiah & Punk not Punk, mainly known under their 100Records moniker. Weighing in at 36 minutes, the track was recorded in 2010, effortlessly intermingling dub, drone and collage, a blend achieved thanks to the duo's jazz-inspired approach to improvisation.
Kali Malone - Living Torch (vinyl LP)
Shelter Press - Records
back in stock! (repress). The first collaboration between the GRM and new label-partner Shelter Press, continuing the Portraits GRM record series which Peter Rehberg of Editions MEGO set the foundation for in 2012, Living Torch is a major piece by Kali Malone adds a significant milestone to an already fascinating repertoire.
Kassel Jaeger - Shifted in Dreams (vinyl LP)
Shelter Press - Records
François Bonnet's new album, more vaporous, immersive and evocative than ever, explores a wide range of sound sources and techniques to blur musical codes and leave room for memory imprints.
Beatriz Ferreyra - Senderos de luz y sombras (vinyl LP)
Shelter Press - Records
A 16-channel piece composed between 2016 and 2020, inspired by astrophysics, the mystery of the pre-Big Bang era and some of the uncanny motions of the unconscious mind, where strangeness meets the ordinary, in memoriam Bernard Baschet, Bernard Parmegiani and Carlos Pellegrino.
Julia Scher - Filzengraben Boulevard (vinyl LP)
Small World
An autobiographical artist-talk as a performance delivered from the artist's bed over Zoom.
Jens Brand - Motors / Ratchets (vinyl LP)
Staalplaat
Recordings from two installations/performances by the Berlin-based sound artist that explore the physical presence of sound phenomena, by producing the impact of electronic music but with purely acoustic means.
Anne Mœglin-Delcroix - Ten Artists\' Book Publishers in Their Own Words (1960-1980) (2 volumes)
texts in English and French
Incertain Sens - Grey Series
45.00 40.00 €
Interviews with ten pioneering artists' book publishers: Simon Cutts, herman de vries, Michel Durand-Dessert, Leif Eriksson, Guy Jungblut, Yvon Lambert, Irmeline Lebeer-Hossmann, Hansjörg Mayer, Maurizio Nannucci, Maurizio Spatola.
Éliane Radigue - 11 Dec 1980 (2 CD)
Important Records
On December 11, 1980 Eliane Radigue performed live on KPFA. Her full performance is included here, remastered, on two compact discs. Upon hearing these performances for the first time in many years Radigue declared them to be the best versions she'd ever heard.
Arnold Dreyblatt - Tonic 19-01-2001 (vinyl LP)
Black Truffle
A major archival discovery: a stunning document of the only performance by the trio of Tony Conrad, Arnold Dreyblatt and Jim O'Rourke.
Richard Orton - Hemlock Stone (CD)
Persistence of Sound
Persistence of Sound celebrates the British composer Richard Orton (1940-2013) with a selection of electroacoustic and computer music from across his career.
 The London Sound Survey - From Dusk Till Dawn (CD)
Persistence of Sound
The posthumous album of naturalist field recordings from The London Sound Survey: a sound-journey through the dark in East Anglia, roaming across the counties of Norfolk and Suffolk to places whose sounds have a precarious existence outside the crowded realities of modern everyday life.
John Butcher - Six Hands at an Open Door (CD)
Persistence of Sound
The concrete, electronic sounds of the Langham Research Centre (here Iain Chambers and Robert Worby) combine with the acoustic qualities of John Butcher's saxophone in an extended improvisation session.
Pascal Goblot - Sapiens ou la naissance de l\'art (DVD)
French edition (English subtitles)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
An investigation into the origins of artistic creation, more than 40,000 years ago (a film by Pascal Goblot, with Daniel Buren and a group of specialists in prehistoric art, philosophers, anthropologists and archaeologists, narrated by Virginie Ledoyen).
Charlie Morrow - New York 1982 (vinyl LP)
Recital
An album of lost Derek Bailey sessions recorded with his friend and collaborator Charlie Morrow, that testifies to his art of collective experimentation.
Francesco Messina - Prati Bagnati Del Monte Analogo (vinyl LP)
Superior Viaduct
The long-awaited new edition of the breathtaking oeuvre of Francesco Messina and Raul Lovisoni originally published in 1979 by the legendary Gianni Sassi's Cramps Records label, openly inspired to the unfinished metaphysical novel "Le Mont Analogue" by the French writer René Daumal.
Christian Wolff - A Complete Anthology of Solo and Duo Violin Pieces (CD)
Black Truffle
The complete anthology of solo and duo violin pieces by legendary American experimental composer Christian Wolff, performed by the New York violin duo String Noise (Conrad Harris and Pauline Kim Harris).
 The Wild Classical Music Ensemble - Hell Gate (vinyl LP)
La Belle Brute
A wild improvisation session by the Belgian experimental rock band born from the meeting of five artists with mental disabilities, with the guitarist and co-founder of Sonic Youth.
The Drawer
French edition (texts in English and French)
The Drawer
The Drawer - The Drawer (magazine)
The Drawer #22 is dedicated to the drawing notebooks, gathering the notebooks of a dozen artists (Francis Alÿs, Michele Ciacciofera, Louise Hervé, Dominique Ingres, Théo Mercier, Karine Rougier, Ruytchi Souzouki...).
Anne-James Chaton - I have the solution for the planet
texts in English and French
Daisy editions
The first publication dedicated to the visual work of writer and performer Anne-James Chaton.
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 emotions raised by the sensational representations 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.
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.
Global Tools (1973-1975) - Éco-Design : Dé-projet & Low-Tech
French edition
isdaT (Higher Institute of Arts and Design of Toulouse) - Research Series
The reference book in French on the Global Tools design movement linked to the Italian radical architects of the 1970s.
Frederika Abbate - Cavalière de la tempête
French edition
White Rabbit Prod - Monographs & artist's books
The most important monograph to date devoted to the work of Anne Van der Linden, a major figure in the underground art scene, with nearly 300 images, paintings and unpublished documents in colour.
Ronan Bouroullec - Fièvre
no text
Nieves
Ronan Bouroullec's daily drawings.
Roven
French edition
Roven
Roven - Roven magazine
In the 17th issue of the critical review on contemporary drawing: interviews with Mira Schor, Katrin Ströbel, Paul Maheke, Éric Watier, Kamil Bouzoubaa-Grivel; the Ramo Collection; unpublished drawings by Ulla von Brandenburg; shared drawing by Laurence Schmidlin; Ghérasim Luca by Alexandre Leger; articles on Ketty la Rocca, Rokni Haerizadeh, Ramin Haerizadeh and Hesam Rahmanian, Natalia Jaime-Cortez; artistic contributions by Sylvie Sauvageon, Olivier Garraud, Nicolas Aiello and Sally Bonn...
Marie Pellaton - Flore des friches urbaines
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A new and expanded edition of the reference flora, the result of 20 years of studies and floristic surveys on a multitude of urban wastelands, allowing, through 600 photographs and 800 original drawings, to recognize and name some 300 silent plants that we come across every day: a methodical herbarium of the wastelands which constitutes a true guide to biodiversity, beautiful and playful, accessible and rigorous..
Angles morts du numérique ubiquitaire - Un glossaire critique et amoureux
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
Blind spots of the ubiquitous digital—a critical and loving glossary: 138 entries to explore the unspoken aspects of new technologies, artificial intelligence and other aspects of digital.
Pierre Alferi - Une pratique monstre
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
This volume examines the protean and intermedial work of Pierre Alferi (1963-), in order to account for its singularity, and to situate it within contemporary poetic and artistic practices.
Maureen Murphy - L\'Art de la décolonisation - Paris-Dakar (1950-1970)
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A transnational and transhistorical investigation carried out in the heart of museum and artistic practices between France and Senegal in the 1950s to 1970s, inviting us to decentralize our views in order to consider the globalized history of art of these years in a new light.
Sara Vitacca - Michelangelismes - La réception de Michel-Ange entre mythe, image et création (1875-1914)
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An exploration of the artistic myth of Michelangelo, which questions the multiple and contradictory uses of the past and the notions of reception, filiation and tradition that are revealed.
Philippe Roy - Appuis - Essai sur la liberté
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
An conceptual attempt to think differently about freedom in its acts.
François Hers - Opération - Nouveaux commanditaires
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
The protocol and the action of the New Patrons: the radical transformation of the conditions of emergence and appropriation of the art as political act.
Costumes - Enquête sur le vêtement, l\'habit, la parure dans le fonds de livres anciens de l\'isdaT
French edition
isdaT (Higher Institute of Arts and Design of Toulouse) - Formes Series
restocking in progress
currently out of stock
Costumes, the second book of images produced from the plates in isdaT's old books collection, focuses on the representation of clothing and ornaments. With a 21st century perspective, the edition explores an exceptional public heritage.
Nils Bertho - Passion Chevals - Tome 3
French edition
Lendroit éditions
The indispensable equine bible by Nils Bertho, illustrator allergic to horses, is back for a third (and final?) edition.
Decolonizing Art Book Fairs - Pratiques de l\'édition indépendante dans les Sud(s)
French edition
various
A manifesto for the decolonization of art book fairs and publishing.
Luvah - Rapports de force
French edition
miscellaneous
The return issue of Luvah journal, after a long absence, on the theme of power relations.
Revue & Corrigée
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Bill Noir; contemporary Arabic poetry: Mouna Ouafik; Bani Khoshnoudi by Carole Rieussec & Elena Biserna; Sister Iodine by Michel Henritzi; interview with Emmanuel Lalande; Stefan Fraunberger by Delphine Dora; Willem Breuker by Gérard Rouy; book and record reviews...
Peter Piller - Spekulationen (I) - Unbestimmte Linien
no text
Nieves
The subject of this and the following books in the Spekulationen series is Peter Piller's approach to Stone Age art and its presence in his daily life. This volume presents four hundred and nine photographs found in publications on prehistoric art.
Peter Piller - Spekulationen (II) - Zahlreiche Übergangsformen
no text
Nieves
The second volume of the artist's book series dedicated to Peter Piller's field of research of prehistoric cave painting features Piller's own drawings.
Ahmed Slama - Marche-frontière
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A very personal literary narrative, with a singular writing, of a migrant's experience of wandering and borders.
Norbert Bugeja - Oublie qu\'elle n\'est pas là
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A poetic journey through the anxious spaces of memory, explored here by one of the most powerful voices of Mediterranean poetry of his generation.
Julien Blaine - Le motier
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
The continuation by all means of an elementary poetry which develops always and still new poetic devices to restore the world.
Bollywood Superstars - Histoire d\'un cinéma indien
French edition
Kaph Books
An exploration of the history of Indian cinema from its origins in the late 19th century to the present day (also available in English).
Adolfas Mekas - Ligne(s) de vie
French edition
various
A collection of letters (from 1957 to 1995) that the famous brothers Jonas Mekas and Adolfas Mekas sent from America to Semeniškiai village, their homeland, all addressed to the most important addressee of their lives—their mother, Elzbieta Mekienė.
Serge Lemoine - Nicolas Ionesco - « Du spirituel dans l\'art »
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
The first monograph of the painter Nicolas Ionesco, born in 1919 in Bucharest, active all his life in Paris, who occupied a prominent place in the art of the 1950s before being forgotten because of the direction he had taken his work: an opportunity to reconsider everything anew.
Alice de Montparnasse - Chaos technique
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United Dead Artists
The first monograph of Alice de Montparnasse, an instinctive photographer, mixing self-portraits on the razor's edge, concrete cityscapes, and portraits of intimates where dirt becomes a wonder. Alice de Montparnasse's work remains in the vein of the artistic life of her great-great cousin Kiki de Montparnasse.
Jeanne Graff - Vzszhhzz
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
A novel that captures the glancing intersections of a loose group of artists and lawyers, restaurateurs, philosophers, wine-makers, and boxers.
Adel Abdessemed - Air (box set)
no text
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An artist's book gathering reproductions of charcoal drawings of bodies suspended in the empty surface of the paper (limited edition box set).
Denis Briand - Travaux
French edition
Incertain Sens
Both a conference proceedings and an exhibition catalogue, this publication looks back at the career of Denis Briand, artist and university professor, who died on 23 April 2018.
Laura Vazquez - Écrire l\'Art II – 2019-2020 - Quelque chose de surnaturel
French edition
Kunsthalle Mulhouse
Laura Vazquez is an author associated with the 2019/2020 exhibition season of La Kunsthalle Mulhouse. She immersed herself in the universe of four exhibitions, composed freely around the works and ideas she perceived there.
Vannina Maestri - Écrire l\'Art II – 2019-2020 - Une suite d\'images et d\'effacements
French edition
Kunsthalle Mulhouse
Vannina Maestri is an author associated with the 2019/2020 exhibition season of La Kunsthalle Mulhouse. She immersed herself in the universe of three exhibitions, composed freely around the works and ideas she perceived there.
Mouvement
French edition
Mouvement
Zone to Defend in Germany, the opera in Odessa, investigation on the lost trilogy of Abdellatif Kechiche, the end of dancers' careers, the artists in the ready-to-wear, interviews with Mariana Enríquez, Tiphaine Raffier, Bertrand Bonello, Fatima Ouassak, Núria Güell...
Anne Mœglin-Delcroix - Dix éditeurs de livres d\'artistes par eux-mêmes (1960-1980) - Volume I (French)
French edition
Incertain Sens - Grey Series
Interviews with a group of pioneering artists' book publishers: herman de vries, Michel Durand-Dessert, Guy Jungblut, Yvon Lambert, Irmeline Lebeer-Hossmann, Maurizio Nannucci, Maurizio Spatola.
Contre les normes ? - Histoires d\'architectes
French edition
ENSAB (Brittany National College of Architecture) - Books
This book explores, through the eyes of six young researchers, issues of normativity in architecture during the twentieth century, questioning the ability of architects to circumvent or even transgress them.
Adrien Abline - Décomptes
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
An epistemology of multiple forms of counted time in contemporary artistic productions, between art, sociology, history and philosophy.
Guillaume Robillard - Conquête de l\'espace et du temps - Le cinéma antillais
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
restocking in progress
currently out of stock
An analysis of Caribbean film production.
François Mangeol - À la recherche du bonheur
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Christophe Daviet-Théry
François Mangeol appropriates Michel Houellebecq's Sérotonine and reduces it to only the letters representing the chemical symbols composing the neurotransmitter linked to the state of happiness (artist's book).
David Bihanic - Matrices
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
Athom
Faced with the ecological peril, what can design and archarchitecture itecture do but encourage and accompany modes and ways of living that maintain a renewed relationship with nature? Based on realizations and projects, Matali Crasset and David Bihanic share the writing of this book, seeking together, between testimony and analysis, to characterize a design of matrices.
Véhicule
French edition
Véhicule
Vroum - Véhicule
The partitions, to be activated by the reader, by Ludovic Bernhardt, Anaël Castelein, Garance Dor, Frédéric Forte, Linda Hayford, Léa Henry, Anabelle Hulaut, Dominique Jégou, Violaine Lochu, Frédéric Mathevet, Vincent Menu, Karim Ould, Pauline Picot, PPAF éditions (Adrien Chacon and Julien Molland), Matthieu Saladin and Yoann Thommerel.
Kapwani Kiwanga -
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A multidisciplinary and polyphonic portrait of Kiwanga's practice and thinking.
Fiction-Science
French edition
Fiction-Science
Strandflat
The second issue of the annual journal dedicated to science-art dialogue.
Claudia Comte - Autobiography
no text
Tonini Editore
Claudia Comte's "autobiography" (artist's book).
Raphaël Minnesota - Patrice Kirchhofer - Un cinéma pariétal
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
Raphaël Minnesota retraces the career and explores the whole oeuvre of Patrice Kirchhofer (1953-2019), one of the most mysterious and mythical filmmakers of French experimental cinema.
Collectif Brasa - Textes à lire à voix haute
French edition
Brook
A collection of texts by fifteen contemporary Brazilian authors who approach the notions of care and privilege from a transfeminist, anti-racist and decolonial critical perspective.
Jean Lorrain - La Mandragore (book + CD)
French edition
Lenka lente
The most accomplished tale of Jean Lorrain (1855-1906), decadent dandy, ardent erotomaniac and corrosive pen, accompanied by a new piece by Nurse With Wound.
Harutaka Mochizuki - Eugène (book + mini CD)
French edition
Lenka lente
An essay by Guillaume Belhomme on the singularly modern work of the painter Eugène Carrière (1849-1906), accompanied by a piece by Japanese saxophonist Harutaka Mochizuki, inspired by the master's paintings.
De quelques événements sans signification à reconstituer (book + DVD)
French edition
Zamân - Zamân Books
A large research into the first, long forgotten film by Moroccan filmmaker Mostafa Derkaoui About Some Meaningless Events (1974): a cinematographic history that sketches out a constellation of micro-histories on the cultural, artistic and political Morocco of the 1970s.
Marie Canet - Rêverie, dans la pratique et dans ses formes
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph (also available in English edition).
Anne-Valérie Gasc - Machines Aveugles
French edition
Athom
This edition, at the crossroads of the exhibition catalogue and the critical essay, abundantly illustrated, gathers the contributions of about fifteen invited authors around Anne-Valérie Gasc's experiments on the architectural disappearance.
Travailler, lutter, diffuser - Archives militantes du Centre Grisélidis Réal de documentation internationale sur la prostitution, Genève
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
The first publication on the archive created by the Swiss writer, painter, activist and prostitute Grisélidis Réal (1929-2005) since the 1970s, containing more than 10,000 documents that trace the international mobilizations for the rights of sex workers and their struggles against exclusion and stigmatization.
Éric Alliez - Duchamp avec (et contre) Lacan - Essai de mutologie queer
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
Philosopher Éric Alliez rethinks Marcel Duchamp's legacy in relation to contemporary art and the image, psychoanalysis and gender.
Marc Décimo - Étant donné Marcel Duchamp - Palimpseste d\'une œuvre
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
An erudite investigation into the enigma of Marcel Duchamp's great testamentary work Étant donnés, an installation conceived for twenty years in the greatest secrecy before being unveiled to the public a year after the death of the inventor of the readymade, which gives the viewer new keys to interpretation, by examining both what the work concludes and what it opens.
Madeleine Abassade - Danser l\'imprévu - Une lecture politique et sensible des Cahiers de Vaslav Nijinski
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Gestes
Through a new reading of the Notebooks of Vaslav Nijinsky, who was described as "insane", and by taking them out of their reduction to a psychiatric diagnosis, Madeleine Abassade reveals the dancer's revolt against an established order of which he was the instrument and from which he sought to emancipate himself by creating his own choreographies.
Joan Mitchell - Témoignages et confidences
French 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.
Lionel Marchetti - Le livre des falaises
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A book of poems by the composer of musique concrète.
(In)actualité du surréalisme (1940-2020)
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A reevaluationof Surrealism since 1940: a large-scale, groundbreaking work covering seven decades, questioning the discourses, narratives, and debates on the poetic, political, and artistic commitments of the movement, in the context of the deep social and cultural mutations of the world of the second half of the 20th century.
Antonio Somaini - Culture visuelle - Images, regards, médias, dispositifs
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
A comprehensive survey of visual studies and visual culture, from its origins in art history to the current perspectives opened by new technologies, virtual reality and artificial intelligence.
Horst Bredekamp - Les fenêtres de la monade - Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz – Art et théâtre de la nature
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
Art historian and philosopher Horst Bredekamp reveals the importance of visual analysis and the central role of images in the development of the philosophical thought of Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz (1646-1716). Relying mainly on the Leibnizian concept of the monad and on the Theater of Nature and Art, elaborated by the German philosopher and scientist from 1671 until his death, Bredekamp places Leibniz as a precursor of the theory of the image.
Seloua Luste Boulbina - Alger-Tokyo - Des émissaires de l\'anticolonialisme en Asie
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Al Dante
Al Dante - Theory & criticism / essays
A transversal vision of the affirmation of a global Afro-Asian South through the anti-colonial resistance and war diplomacy of Algerians in Asia and Japan, bringing together history, politics, political philosophy, and poetics.
 eRikm - Échoplasme - Paréidolie – Encres & Scanographies de eRikm (book + CD)
bilingual edition (French / Japanese)
Bisou Records
A series of ghostly ink drawings and scanographs by eRikm, accompanied by a mixed sound piece, with sound texts freely inspired by fragments of stories about the universe of the Yokai, these ghosts and supernatural creatures that inhabit Japanese mythology, between hypnotizing soundscapes and bewitching instrumental devices.
Alan Courtis - Discographisme maison / Homemade record sleeves
French edition / texts in English and Spanish
ARTDERIEN
Discographisme maison / Homemade record sleeves is a project collecting and assembling a series of record sleeves. They were all reworked and customized by unknown artists who used the original cover as a support or a source of inspiration... This collection echoes an intimate, marginal and overlooked experience, which can be replaced in the history of iconography and pop music.
 Y5/P5 - Sous-bocks
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United Dead Artists
Legend of the graphzine and the graphzone, Y5/P5 draws zombies, skeletons, ghost trains, nightmare memories, rubber spiders in the subways at night. This book gathers his famous drawings on coasters, which he often made for a beer or a few cigarettes.
Henri Lefebvre - Malo suivie
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
In 132 fragments, Malo suivie publishes the desire of a man, the viewer-perceiver, for a woman known as Malo, formulating the lack and the attraction by means of the sketch.
Ettore Sottsass - Architettura Attenuata
no text
Nieves
A series of drawings by the iconic Italian designer.
Pier Vittorio Aureli - Less is Enough - Sur l\'architecture et l\'ascétisme
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Opus
A reflection on asceticism in architecture.
Richard Hertz - Jack Goldstein et la CalArts Mafia
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
The fascinating story of Jack Goldstein, the beginnings of CalArts, and some of the illustrious fellows who, in the 1970s and 1980s, led the transition from conceptual art to the Pictures Generation, paints an uncompromising picture of the art world then and now.
Bénédicte Ramade - Vers un art anthropocène - L\'art écologique américain pour prototype
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
The first study devoted to the American ecological art movement.
Delphine Edy - Thomas Ostermeier - Explorer l\'autre face du réel pour recréer l\'œuvre en scène
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
How Thomas Ostermeier's productions explore the links between literature and theatrical art in order to question, through a complex realism that he reinvents, what the works have to say about the political and social reality of our present.
Anthologie internationale de poésie contemporaine - 2. Brésil – Poésie intraitable
bilingual edition (French / Portuguese)
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
This anthology gathers some of the most emblematic authors of the Brazilian poetic modernity, in its widest amplitude and with the intractable will to reveal its incessant reinvention.
Artistes-chercheur·es, chercheur·es-artistes - Performer les savoirs
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – ArTeC
Innovative hybridizations between research, creation (theater and performance) and pedagogy.
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