new releases
 
Ronan Bouroullec - Lausanne
no text
Nieves
Ronan Bouroullec's daily drawings.
MuMo
bilingual edition (English / French)
MuMo
The new adventure of the Musée Mobile (a traveling museum aimed at making contemporary art accessible to those who are far from it, from the earliest age, that has been touring France, Europe and Africa since 2011), in partnership with the Centre Pompidou: the first museum truck dedicated to Europe's largest collection of modern and contemporary art, designed by architect Isabel Hérault and artist Krijn de Koning, travelling to various regions and villages.
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English edition
Damiani - Photography
The heyday of New York's underground and alternative cultural scene in the 1980s: a look back at the history of the Pyramid Cocktail Lounge, a primary hub for the burgeoning East Village drag, gay, feminist, punk, and art scenes.
Steve Cannon - Groove, Bang and Jive Around
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
New edition of Steve Cannon's riotous 1969/71 erotic novel Groove, Bang and Jive Around, "an underground classic of such legendary stature that New York's black cognoscenti have transmogrified the work into urban myth," with a foreword from Darius James and an afterword by poet Tracie Morris.
Klima - Mutabilities
bilingual edition (English / French)
Klima
The sixth issue of the transversal journal, at the crossroads of art and thought, political philosophy, gender studies and academic knowledge, delves into the various forms of mutation that ripple through our world.
Frog
texts in English and French
Frog
Torbjørn Rødland, Pierre Joseph, Jill Mulleady, Samuel Fasse, Rob Pruitt, Ugo Rondinone, Lili Reynaud-Dewar, Ana Jotta, Donald Judd, GaHee Park, Ange Leccia, Richard Phillips, NP2F, Seton Smith, Giacomo Borella, Valérian Goalec, Sean Landers, Huma Bhabha, Paul Pfeiffer, Claes Oldenbourg, Brian Calvin, Karen Kilimnik, Robert Gober, Rita Ackermann, Allen Ginsberg, Karen Kilimnik, Robert Longo...
Azimuts - Dé-designer
bilingual edition (English / French)
Azimuts
The "deconstruction" of design, between practice and reflection.
Volume ! - La fin des genres musicaux ? Catégoriser les musiques populaires
texts in English and French
Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
Mélanie Seteun - Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
A historicist approach of music genres.
David Simpson - Courir
bilingual edition (English / French)
Flee
Photographer David Simpson opens his 30-year archive on Louisiana's rural Mardi Gras traditions.
Miquel Mont - ÉL S. A. - Biographie#Dissociée
texts in French, Catalan, Castilian, English
Naima
The culmination of a multidisciplinary project developed over ten years, where Miquel Mont blends real and fictional autobiographical elements to explore the economy of affects.
Kehinde Wiley - A Maze of Power
bilingual edition (English / French)
Templon
The series of portraits of African heads of state unveiled by Kehinde Wiley at the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac in Paris, an exploratory project around the representation of power on which the painter has been working confidentially since 2012.
 The Rita - Correlations
English edition
Amaya Productions
currently out of stock
This monograph presents the visual language inseparable from the higly influential sound project of Sam McKinlay, pioneer of the "harsh noise wall" with the multidisciplinary entity The Rita.
Jacqueline Burckhardt - My Commedia dell\'Arte
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
An extended meandering conversation between Swiss art historian, critic and curator Jacqueline Burckhardt and curator/art historian Juri Steiner, accompanied by numerous texts, documents and artist inserts.
Julia Eckhardt - Intermediary Spaces
bilingual edition (English / French)
umland / Q-O2
In the long interview that forms the body of this publication, Éliane Radigue talks about her work, her reflections and underlying research, as well as her historical context. The publication also contains a commented list of works and Radigue's programmatic text on The Mysterious Power of the Infinitesimal (new expanded edition).
Bagarres - La Pièce Montée
bilingual edition (English / French)
Bagarres
The Drawer - Bagarres
The third issue of the magazine Bagarres, made of constraints and rules of the game.
Binta Diaw - Toolu Xeer
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cécile Fakhoury
First monograph devoted to the work of the Italian-Senegalese artist Binta Diaw.
 Iliazd - PhiloSophia - Istanbul 1921
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
The fifth volume of the bie bao series presents Ilya Zdanevich's fictional auto-biographical writings based on his one-year stay in Istanbul in 1921.
Marion von Osten - Material Marion von Osten 1 - MoneyNations
English edition
Wirklichkeit Books
The first volume in a series devoted to the archives of German artist, author and curator Marion von Osten (1963-2020), around the MoneyNations project, transversing between art, theory, and activism.
Switched On - The Dawn of Electronic Sound by Latin American Women
English edition
Contingent Sounds
restocking in progress
currently out of stock
The first book dedicated exclusively to the female protagonists of Latin American electronic music.
Spike - The Pessimist Issue
English edition
Spike
How to look at polycrisis without freaking out (with Henrike Naumann, Shirin Neshat, Roberto Villanueva, Ben Davis, Mire Lee, Precious Okoyomon, Ivan Cheng, Nil Yalter, Anselm Franke, Anna Jermolaewa, Catherine Liu, Oliver Ressler, Morag Keil, Jeppe Ugelvig and many more).
Dorothy Dean - Who Are You Dorothy Dean?
bilingual edition (English / French)
Éditions 1989
The first book devoted to the late African American writer and actress, Dorothy Dean (1932-1987), one of the few prominent African American women of New York City's bohemian heyday, close to Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe.
GaHee Park -
English edition
Perrotin
A selection of the artist's drawings and paintings from 2019 to 2023, accompanied by a text by Jennifer Higgie and an interview with Éric Troncy.
Nick Doyle - Blue
English edition
Perrotin
A selection of the artist's work from 2020 to 2023, accompanied by a text by Glenn Adamson.
Mark Gonzales - Going to Love You
English edition
Nieves
This new body of work consists of paintings featuring heart-headed figures in various emotional states and situations that sometimes teeter between the ordinary and extraordinary. From tender amorous moments to unexpected skate scenes, the work is full of the next iteration of emotive "schmoo" characters.
Caroline Bachmann - Aube
no text
Nieves
Caroline Bachmann's dawn paintings.
Simple Architecture - The Villa Baizeau in Carthage By Le Corbusier and Jeanneret
bilingual edition (English / French)
Accattone
A dialogue between architectural history and design, in homage to Le Corbusier's theoretical vision behind the construction of the Villa Baizeau in Carthage.
Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach - Project of a Historical Architecture
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
The facsimile and English-language reprint of the volume published in 1721 by Austrian architect and historian Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, a historical and theoretical work covering all architectural periods and styles, from Stonehenge to Chinese imperial arches, which had a considerable influence throughout Europe.
The Aquarium is a Listening Glass
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
The glass as a listening device.
Nasser Rabbat - Critical Encounters
English edition
Dongola
The second installment in the Dongola Architecture Series, dedicated to the great voices of contemporary architecture in the Arab culture, delves into the life and work of the distinguished Syrian architect and architecture historian Nasser Rabbat.
Achim Szepanski - In the Delirium of Simulation - Baudrillard Revisited
English edition
Mille Plateaux
A serious diagnosis of the current form of capital, a profound excavation and presentation of the most important and helpful ideas that Jean Baudrillard published: from the unravelling of western philosophy, to a redefining of marxist theories of economics and capital, to a shift in critical theory that complies with quantum theory. 
Rosé
English edition
Errant Bodies
currently out of stock
Rosé is a queer art zine, edited by Ben Egger and Sarah Berger, that aims to provide a curated public platform for queer artistic perspectives and concerns.
Laurel Halo - Octavia / Manifolds (vinyl LP)
Shelter Press - Records
A split album as part of the GRM Portraits series bringing together two pieces by Jessica Ekomane (explores the multiple possibilities of polyphonic writing) and Laurel Halo (for piano and electronics).
 dissonArt Ensemble - Piano, Violin, Viola, Cello (2 vinyl LP)
God Records
Morton Feldman's last composition, performed by dissonArt Ensemble.
Catherine Christer Hennix - Solo for Tamburium (2 vinyl LP)
Blank Forms - Records
Solo for Tamburium captures Catherine Christer Hennix's most recent major work. Hennix plays an instrument of her own creation, a keyboard interface controlling a suite of eighty-eight recordings of precision-tuned tambura, creating a sweeping and continuous flow of rich harmonic interplay.
Charlemagne Palestine - DINGGGDONGGGDINGGGzzzzzzz ferrrr SSSOFTTT DIVINI TIESSSSS​!​!​!​!​!​!​!​!​! (vinyl LP)
Blank Forms - Records
Two mesmerizing works for carillon, the keyboard-controlled bell tower derived in the 16th century.
 Dagar Brothers - Berlin 1964 - The Lost Studio Recording (vinyl LP)
Black Truffle
Archival releases from the Dagar Brothers, among the most revered 20th century exponents of the ancient North Indian dhrupad tradition.
 Dagar Brothers - Berlin 1964 - Live (CD)
Black Truffle
Archival releases from the Dagar Brothers, among the most revered 20th century exponents of the ancient North Indian dhrupad tradition.
Giuseppe Ielasi - Rhetorical Islands (vinyl LP)
Faitiche
First vinyl edition of Giuseppe Ielasi's archipelago of animated sound sculptures.
Hanno Leichtmann - Outerlands (vinyl LP)
Discrepant
Centered around the Villa Aurora Organ, an intriguing and mostly unknown instrument built in 1928/29 by the Artcraft Organ Company in Santa Monica, California, "Outerlands" presents a deeply personal approach to the instrument's particular properties, very much in line with Discrepant's ethos.
Interdependencies - Perspectives on Care and Resilience
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A considered examination of ability in our pseudo-post-pandemic era, Interdependencies: Perspectives on Care and Resilience approaches the intersection of artistic practice, accessibility, and activism with heightened cultural nuance and urgent self-examination, focusing on the mutual dependencies that exist between people, societies, and institutions.
 Tapta - Espaces souples - With Greet Billet, Hana Miletić and Richard Venlet
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Emblematic works by the Belgian-Polish sculptor and textile artist produced in the 1970s, revealing Tapta's attention to the tactility of her materials, the suppleness of structures, individual and collective practice, and the interaction between artwork, space, and viewer.
Giulia Andreani - L\'improduttiva / The Unproductive One
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph, featuring a cohesive body of new work, with large-scale paintings and watercolours.
Designing Dreams - A Celebration of Léon Bakst
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This publication, conceived as an extension of the eponymous exhibition and its design, gathers scientific contributions from leading researchers and art and dance historians alongside in situ installation views, paying tribute to Léon Bakst, the greatest set designer of the modern era (new edition).
Marie Kolbaek Iversen - Histories of Predation
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A book about active mythic thinking and scientific storytelling, about fright, trauma, and potentials for transformation.
Lisa Tan - Dodge and/or Burn
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The catalogue of Lisa Tan's first institutional show in Sweden tenders its own spatial logic through the metaphor of neurological disorders.
Bea Schlingelhoff - \
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first comprehensive monograph devoted to artist Bea Schlingelhoff.
Valentinas Klimašauskas - Telebodies - Bleeding Subtitles for Postrobotic Scenes
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A strange hybrid of Teletubbies and Videodrome in the age of algorithms, Telebodies is a techno-somatic, multifaceted endeavor referring to the ever-growing entanglement of our bodies with epistemic, cybernetic, and kinetic materialities.
Your Time Is My Time
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An analysis of contemporary artistic practices among artists from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in the context of evolving global networks and art production.
Frieda Toranzo Jaeger - Autonomous Drive
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Zolo Press
First monograph of the Mexican queer artist.
Machteld Rullens - Scrapyard Abstraction
English edition
Zolo Press
Machteld Rullens' second publication with Zolo Press documents three years of works, friends & family moments, and travels in Senegal, NYC, LA, and Vincent van Gogh's house…
Neural - Connective Theories, 30 years of Neural
English edition
Neural
Anniversary issue: 30 artists celebrate 30 years of Neural + 20 of Crónica; interviews with Olga Goriunova, Siegfried Zielinski, Luciana Parisi, Hito Steyerl, Jussi Parikka; The Neural Archive; reports: xcoax 23, Renaissance 3.0 ZKM; books/DVDs & music reviews...
Michael Stipe - Even the birds gave pause
English edition
Damiani - Photography
A series of works-in-progress that continue an exploration of contemporary portraiture, instinct and abstraction.
Joshua Charow - Loft Law - The Last of New York City\'s Original Artist Lofts
English edition
Damiani - Photography
sold out
A photographic investigation with around 50 New York artists still benefiting from the "loft" law, intended to protect financially troubled artists living illegally in the city's commercial and industrial lofts from eviction.
Danny Lyon - This Is My Life I\'m Talking About
English edition
Damiani - Photography
A picaresque memoir written from inside the heart of the revolutionary twentieth century by one of its most crucial witnesses.
Ivan McClellan - Eight Seconds - Black Rodeo Culture
English edition
Damiani - Photography
Eight Seconds: Black Rodeo Culture, the first book by Ivan McClellan, offers an inside look at Black cowboy culture across the United States in the 21st century, creating a bridge between present and past through sports, community, and love of the land.
Sebastian Sabal-Bruce - After the Moon
English edition
Damiani - Photography
The first monograph by New York-based Chilean photographer Sebastian Sabal-Bruce.
José Parlá - Ciclos - Blooms of Mold
English edition
Damiani - Contemporary art
The immersive, monumental paintings documented here were the first works that José Parlá created after his recovery from a life-threatening battle against Covid.
Tony Caramanico - Montauk Surf Journals
English edition
Damiani - Contemporary art
Montauk Surf Journals by surfer, artist and world traveler Tony Caramanico presents a stunning selection of his art representing his 60 years in and around surfing.
Manuel Wetscher - Richard
English edition
Daisy editions
Photographer and filmmaker Manuel Wetscher brings together in an artist's book a unique archive of photographs by his father Richard Jenewein, discovered years after he died of AIDS. A universal family album documenting childhood, which questions the evocative power of an altered narrative and deals with the effects of a taboo and the poetic force of images.
Guy de Cointet - Transatlantique
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Rachel Valinsky invites seven artists from both sides of the Atlantic (Davide Balula, Eva Barto, Julie Béna, Jesse Chun, Jean-Pascal Flavien, Gordon Hall, and Alan Reid) to share their views of Guy de Cointet (1934-1983), a major figure in the conceptual and performance art movements.
Disorders - Antoine de Galbert Collection at Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
restocking in progress
currently out of stock
Antoine de Galbert offers a glimpse into his collection, freed from the traditional norms of art history: an immersion into his artistic universe, through a selection of over two hundred works presented without hierarchy or classification.
Épopées Célestes / Epopee celesti - Art brut dans la collection Decharme
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Empire - Books
A veritable panorama of Art Brut at an international level, through 180 works selected from Bruno Decharme's collection.
Myrna Ayad - Alcove - Intimate Essays on Arab Modernist Artists
English edition
Kaph Books
Spanning a pivotal time in Arab art, from the 1950s through to the 1980s, this book celebrates the lives, careers, and personas of some of the region's pioneering artists (from Huguette Caland to Hamed Nada and Etel Adnan) and features archival material, images of artworks as well as of the artists themselves.
Nina Dragičević - Auditory Poverty and its Discontents - An Essay
English edition
Errant Bodies
Where sounding is understood as an exhibition of activity, vitality, and power, Nina Dragičević proposes that we analyse sonic phenomena in econo-political terms.
Charlotta Ruth - Questionology - Are you here?
English edition
Errant Bodies
A zine and exercise book about the applied art of questioning, by the writer Cordula Daus and the choreographer Charlotta Ruth.
Valentina Tanni - Memesthetics - The Eternal September of Art
English edition
Nero
The first book to draw a comprehensive cartography of the relationship between visual arts and digital culture since the early 2000s, tracing the history of memes "from Duchamp to TikTok."
P L  S – The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo - Cosa mentale – Disalienating institutions
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
Issue 37 of Palais de Tokyo magazine addresses the relationships between mental health, contemporary creation, and art and culture venues, in particular through the prism of institutional psychotherapy, a set of practices aimed at disalienating institutions—initially psychiatric ones.
Reiner Schürmann - Ways of Releasement - Writings on God, Eckhart, and Zen
English edition
Diaphanes - TransPositions
A collection of early texts by Reiner Schürmann, on religion, Zen, language, Eckhart and Heidegger.
Yoko Ono - Everything in the Universe is Unfinished
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
This publication by avant-garde artist and cultural icon Yoko Ono combines never-before-published texts and invitation pieces written in 2016–2018 with drawings from the “Franklin Summer” series she started in 1994 (new edition).
Magali Reus - Dearest
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A collectible publication on Magali Reus' thinking of objecthood (an immersive and highly refined artist's book—three assembled volumes, different types of paper, transparency play on layers—based on three new series by the Dutch artist).
Doug Aitken - Mirage
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
An immersive book experience: with numerous special printing features, this luxurious accordion-fold volume documents and embodies Aitken's exploration of mirrored surfaces in architecture.
Nieves Notebook (2 notebooks)
no text
Nieves
Nieves Notebook produced by Moleskine is a lightweight, flexible paper companion for everyday notes and sketches.
Andreas Samuelsson - Vases
no text
Nieves
A series of watercolor images of vases by the Swedish artist, printed in risography.
Fabienne Radi - People Painting
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lendroit éditions
Fan book parody, People Painting is an artist's book made up of a collection of found images of famous personalities (from the 1920s to 2020) painting or posing in their studios.
J.J. Zana - Script
English edition
Bleu.
Script is the second book of artist J.J. Zana and a continuation of the series started with Cycles. Composed of fragments, it gathers eleven sections—with a central part telling about his experiments with drugs.
Robel Temesgen - Faces of Stories
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A comprehensive insight into the images of landscape by the Ethiopian-born artist Robel Temesgen.
Álvaro Urbano - Acto I: La Eterna Adolescencia
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A hybrid between travel chronicle and studio process notebook, this artist book tracks the construction of a failed modernist fantasy in the island of La Palma and the hallucinogenic properties of wild plants that grow across the Canary Islands.
Laurens Legiers - Echoes of the Unseen - Works on Paper
English edition
MER. B&L
Works on paper by the Belgian artist.
Espace art actuel - Building
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
With the theme "Building," this issue is interested in the future of architecture as a practice of creating housing for the living within urban agglomerations. It questions the ways architecture, as the creation of living spaces, always requires collaboration with several participants including, hopefully, the users.
François Bayle - 50 ans d\'acousmatique (15 CD + booklet box set)
INA-GRM
François Bayle's luxurious, monumental retrospective box set: 15 CDs covering half a century (1963-2012) of acousmatic creation, accompanied by a 160-page book with various texts, a 2012 interview with Thomas Baumgartner, presentation and annotated catalog of works by Régis Renouard Larivière, and photographs.
 DASDAS - Un zèbre bleu aux yeux de mouche (vinyl LP)
PiedNu
currently out of stock
A record of outsider music (sound objects and voices) made by patients at Le Havre psychiatric hospital, accompanied by Aude Romary on cello and Nosfell.
Fred Frith - Guitar Solos / Fifty (vinyl LP)
Week-End Records
The remastered anniversary reissue of the guitarist's first solo album, released in 1974, accompanied by a new album made by Fred Frith in similar conditions, celebrating the fifty years that separate them.
Christina Kubisch - Zenger Station (vinyl LP)
Edition Telemark
New electromagnetic recordings by Christina Kubisch: a suite of pieces focusing on the electromagnetic sound qualities of trams, buses and related infrastructure.
Holger Trülzsch - The Seen and the Unseen
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Combining archive material with a wide selection of photographs of body paintings produced by the duo in the 1970-1980s, this publication retraces the evolution of gender identities and the treatment of the female body in visual culture from the 1950s to the present.
Hasta que los Cantos Broten / Until the Songs Spring
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A collective approach, from a decolonial perspective, reflecting on worldviews, technologies, territories, and the reconfiguration of gender subjectivities.
Ali Cherri - Dreams of a Dreamless Night
English edition
Lenz Press
The publication is the first institutional monograph on the multimedia practice of artist and director Ali Cherri. It aims to highlight the constellation of ideas, themes, and formal concerns running through his most recent, highly significant projects.
Feet of Clay
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Lenz Press
currently out of stock
Curator, art historian, writer Chus Martínez and writer and curator Filipa Ramos bring together a group of artists who have been using clay, pottery and ceramics to imagine, project and shape the world they live in.
Beatrice Gibson - Dreaming Alcestis
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
Dreaming Alcestis is an artist's book by artist and filmmaker Beatrice Gibson, conceived as an accompaniment to her holographic film installation of the same name.
After Laughter Comes Tears
English edition
Lenz Press
After Laughter Comes Tears, in its exhibition and book forms, brings together artists from different generations who are experimenting with the idea of the performative.
Michel Majerus - What looks good today may not look good tomorrow - The Legacy of Michel Majerus
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A record of a symposium on the legacy of the late Luxembourgish artist Michel Majerus (1967-2002).
Nikil Saval - A Rage in Harlem - June Jordan and Architecture
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Incidents
currently out of stock
Pennsylvania State Senator Nikil Saval tells the story of an unlikely partnership between June Jordan and R. Buckminster Fuller, and their attempt to reimagine Harlem in the wake of the 1964 riots.
Agonistic Assemblies - On the Spatial Politics of Horizontality
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A curatorial approach towards deliberative cultures of assembly and a realistic scenario of decentralized power and decision-making (an anthology edited by Markus Miessen).
Martine Syms - She Mad
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
She Mad gathers materials and documentation on Martine Syms' seminal episodic project of the same name. Each episode of this series takes a different format, using various narrative formats, from sitcoms to TikTok videos, and includes filmed footage as well as research materials.
Afterall - Out of Place
English edition
Afterall
This double issue aims to provide an "out of placeness" by looking beyond Western-centricity to a transnational, pluralist horizon, exploring the new imaginaries created by artists and thinkers from the "Global South", from Brazil to the Democratic Republic of Congo.
Carmen Diez Salvatierra - Matinées sans police - suivi de Guerre
text in French and Spanish
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Written with a sensitive ear to the present, Matinées sans police reveals a relationship with the world in which the intimate and the extimate assert themselves in all their political dimensions.
LSD - A Typographic Issue
bilingual edition (English / French)
LSD (Le Signe Design)
Le Signe – National Graphic Design Center - LSD
The second issue of the Cahiers du centre national du graphisme (National Graphic Design Center) is about typography (new edition).
A history of images / Une histoire d\'images - Donation Antoine de Galbert au musée de Grenoble
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
Through more than 500 images by 95 photographers, the Musée de Grenoble's collection of photographs from Antoine de Galbert's collection and his foundation offers an impressive panorama of our times and the decisive role played by photography in shaping our perceptions and contemporary mythologies.
Yelena Yemchuk - Malanka
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
currently out of stock
Ukrainian American visual artist Yelena Yemchuk's sixth photobook: a series dedicated the Malanka Ukrainian folk holiday celebrated on Old Year's Day.
Ants walk two ways
bilingual edition (English / French)
Villa Arson
A collective publication resulting from a research project led by Sophie Orlando and Katrin Ströbel that takes as its starting point the way in which current geopolitical, economic and social changes induce a renewal and adjustment of artistic strategies, by investing, in an intersectional perspective, contextual thinking and feminist, queer and postcolonial thinking in an artistic and conceptual way.
Jim Dine - Painter\'s Theater 1960–1965
English edition
CDLA (Centre des livres d'artistes)
Two previously unpublished interviews with Jim Dine, about his performances in New York City in the early 1960s, an important period in his career that the artist has so far rarely discussed.
Benoît Piéron - Slumber Party
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
Ulyap Songs - Beyond Circassian Tradition (book + 2 vinyl LP)
bilingual edition (English / Russian)
Flee
58.00 53.00 €
Ulyap is a village in the Caucasus, where one can find an enormous number of accordion and harmonica players. "Ulyap Songs: Beyond Circassian Tradition" represents an attempt to document ancient bards' chants and their entanglement with popular rural heritage as well as post-Soviet culture during modern times, through a critical prism.
Eugène Carrière - Scènes de la vie domestique
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
An overview of Eugène Carrière's work, through a selection of little-known or previously unpublished paintings, alongside his major masterpieces.
Tom Wesselmann - After Matisse
bilingual edition (English / French)
Almine Rech Editions
The major influence of Henri Matisse on the work of one of the leading figures of American Pop Art.
Yayoi Kusama - The Dutch years 1960–70
English edition
MER. B&L
A complete documentation of Yayoi Kusama's early performative activities in the Netherlands in the 1960s-70s, through a collection of previously unpublished photographs and written and visual accounts from eyewitnesses, showcasing her unique style and engagement with the emerging sexual revolution.
Louise Bourgeois - Les Fleurs
no text
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…).
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).
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).
Pierre Schaeffer - À la recherche de Pierre Schaeffer - Portrait(s)
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A vast selection of theoretical, philosophical and literary writings by Pierre Schaeffer, accompanied by testimonies of various personalities, providing a privileged entry into the multidimensional universe of the composer, engineer, theorist and radio man, whose tutelary shadow is constantly cast on the landscape of sound creation.
Strange Design
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
A history of critical design in four episodes: the Italian radical design of the late 1970s; the Dutch conceptual design of the 1990s; the English critical design of the 2000s, and the contemporary scene (with contributions by Bless, Didier Faustino, Alessandro Mendini, Gianni Pettena…).
Akasegawa Genpei - Anatomie du Tomason
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Délashiné!
The first French translation of the texts of the Japanese artist and writer Akasegawa Genpei (Katsuhiko Akasegawa, aka Otsuji Katsuhiko, 1937-2014), a figure of the Tokyo avant-garde of the 1960s, on the concept of Tomason, with a rich iconography.
Edward J. Sullivan - Modernités américaines (1910-1960)
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An audacious account of the ways in which the arts in the Americas were modernized during the first half of the 20th century.
Objets à l\'état vif - Entre dynamiques sociales et pratiques artistiques
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A collective reflection on the question of objects in artistic situations, at the crossroads of art history and theory, social sciences and artistic practices.
Jamie Allen - Infrastructures critiques
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
How do we perceive and think about the infrastructures that condition the ways in which we perceive, think and experience our world? Four essays by Jamie Allen, whose experiments as artist and researcher cross media, disciplines and borders, that invite us to make visible the backstage work of the digitized world, and to think (post)critically about the very notion of critique.
Ârash Aminian Tabrizi - Sexpositions
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
A series of exchanges relating to questions of gender, sexual difference and sexualities, enabling not only a rereading of Jean-Luc Nancy's corpus and its developments through the prism of what Nancy has called sexistence, but also the reinscription of the elaboration of this concept in a web of biographical elements and, hence, an exploration of the philosopher's actual sexistence.
Chantal Guillaume - Fourier ou l\'utopie en réel
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Charles Fourier or utopia as reality.
Matthieu Renault - Maîtres et esclaves - Archives du Laboratoire d\'analyse des Mythologiques de la modernité
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
An experimental fictional ("post-apocalyptic") anthropology of philosophy, focusing on the dialectic of master and slave, itself understood as myth.
Littérature et design - Visualités et visualisations du texte en régime numérique
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Figures
New visualities and visualizations of literature in the digital age: the possible contributions of design thinking to literary theory.
Sophie Orlando - La Part affective
French edition
Paraguay Press - Essays
A chronicle of the recent transformations of art schools, from the point of view of a teacher, at a time when these spaces are both threatened by increasingly fragile and uncertain public policy management, and at the same time more than ever spaces where the word opens up, practices change and art finds itself in direct contact with the most avant-garde movements in society.
Clara Schulmann - Zizanies
French edition
Paraguay Press - Essays
A picaresque tale of Clara Schulmann's often collective experiences.
Serge Guilbaut - Ping-pong culturel existentiel - France – États-Unis (1944-1947)
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A genuine investigation, in the opposite direction to the narrative imposed by art historians, of artistic, cultural and political developments in the Western world after the Second World War, between Paris and New York.
Anne Truitt - Au fil des jours - Le Journal d\'une artiste
French edition
ER Publishing
The first of four diaries written by Anne Truitt (1921-2004), a major figure in 20th-century American art.
Philippe Robert - Free Fight
French edition
Lenka lente
The complete texts and photographs published in the fanzine dedicated to free jazz.
 Madame Grès - Alaïa / Grès - Au-delà de la mode
French edition
Damiani
A dialogue between two dress sculptors who, each in their own way, have strongly influenced the world of creation, between art and haute couture.
La Fugitive
French edition
Le Crédac
A lesbian and queer re-reading of Albertine, a central character in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. A group show constructed as a portrait of lesbian identity.
Daniel H. Tajan - Mémoire d\'escalier
French edition
Naima
20 drawings, 15 architects, 125 steps. Twenty perspective drawings edited to scale from plans, twenty architectural climates in comic-book realism to decipher the language of modern architecture through the work of fifteen architects.
Gérard Berréby - Documents relatifs à l\'édition pirate du Traité du style de Louis Aragon par Gérard Berréby
French edition
Incertain Sens
Gérard Berréby looks back at the first publishing experience of the man who was to become the director of Allia publishing house: the decision, in the early 1980s, to produce a pirate edition of Aragon's book—at the time opposed to any reprinting—, an unprecedented gesture that provoked numerous reactions in the literary world, and raised a number of questions linked to appropriation and self-publishing.
Vanessa Theodoropoulou - Le Monde en situation - La révolte sensible de l\'Internationale situationniste
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
An in-depth historical study of the artistic and political project of the Situationist International (1952-1972).
Maurice Fréchuret - Respirer - La puissance créatrice du souffle
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
From the negative hands on the walls of the Chauvet caves (minus 30,000 years ago) to the most recent experiments of a number of contemporary artists, an entire history of art can be written under the prism of breathing. Between these two milestones, this study attempts to highlight the innovative force of breath and the importance accorded to breathing as a creative gesture and artwork on its own.
Sites du film - Le cinéma et ses parages
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Perceptions
Cinema as a method of investigating the visible and a journey into the theoretical thinking of images.
Esther Meunier Corfdyr - Corps endormis corps affranchis
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Gestes
Dancer and playwright Esther Meunier Corfdyr ventures into sleeping territories.
Revue & Corrigée
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Pakito Bolino; Basman Aldiwari; Phill Niblock by Kasper T. Toeplitz; Dominique Grimaud; Félix Blume; Leandro Barzabal; Dror Feiler...
Luca Merlini - La traversée de ma bibliothèque
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
An adventure book, written and drawn, by Luca Merlini that takes us closer to the creative process of the architect and the parallel that can be drawn with literature, highlighting the question of the book and its intimate relationship to architecture.
Jesús María Aparicio Guisado - Le mur - Concept essentiel dans le projet architectonique : la matérialisation de l\'idée et l\'idéalisation de la matière
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Opus
Jesús María Aparicio Guisado expounds here his conception of architecture by exploring the notion of the wall in four major buildings through drawing and words.
Les Feuilles – Revue suspensive
French edition
Les Feuilles
restocking in progress
currently out of stock
The "suspensive" artist Chloé Moglia invites authors and researchers to write with her, what the gesture of standing above the void generates as perceptions and thoughts. In this first issue of Feuilles (Leaves), through verticality, dizziness and risk, it is a question of strength and consideration.
Charif Majdalani - L\'Art et son Lieu - Essai sur les trente ans de la Galerie Janine Rubeiz
French edition
Kaph Books
The story of the Galerie Janine Rubeiz, a major venue on Beirut's cultural and artistic scene.
Shulamith Firestone - Zones mortes
French edition
Brook
First French translation of Shulamith Firestone's first novel.
Pour des écoles d\'art féministes !
French edition
Tombolo Presses
A collective manifesto for feminist art schools.
Mathias Richard - FREEING (Our Bodies) - Spécial Mathias Richard
French edition
FREEING (Our Bodies)
Issue dedicated to the work of writer, poet, performer and musician Mathias Richard.
Pierre Guyotat - Pierre Guyotat et l\'Algérie
French edition
Diaphanes
A collective work to highlight the unique perspective of Pierre Guyotat, one of the greatest authors of the French language and a major figure in the memory of the Algerian conflict, on the war of independence and post-independence Algeria.
Agnès Violeau - Pratiquer l\'exposition - Une écologie
French edition
Mix
currently out of stock
An essay on the new challenges facing exhibition curators.
Véhicule
French edition
Véhicule
Vroum - Véhicule
The partitions, to be activated by the reader, by Aziyadé Baudouin-Talec, Mickaël Berdugo, Jocelyn Cottencin & Olivia Grandville, Matali Crasset, Zoée Dahan, Ines Dobelle, Garance Dor, Frédéric Dumond, Diane Giorgis, Vincent Menu, Alain Michard, Aurélie Noury, Nicolas Richard.
Nicole Brenez - Nous sommes d’accord avec tout ce qui a lutté et lutte encore depuis le début du monde - Introduction au cinéma lettriste
French edition
Light Cone
A presentation of the key figures and the basic concepts of Lettrist cinema, which prefigured the breakthroughs of the nouvelle vague and the experiments of expanded cinema.
Kitasono Katué - 1902-1978
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
Reference monograph of the most renowned Japanese artist-poet of the 20th century in Europe and the United States, active since the 1920s, a figure of visual poetry, linked to all the European and American literary and artistic avant-gardes, with numerous illustrations.
Jean-Marie Gleize - Je deviens (séances)
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
This latest book—part of a ten-volume series that began with Léman in 1990—takes up and redistributes the elements of an investigation whose main material is autobiographical. The author restores an imaginary "childhood" that he writes about in a poetic attempt to understand it, and never ceases to "become".
Denise Le Dantec - Scum, un rêve
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Virginia Woolf and Valerie Solanas inspired a reverie. From there, a text unfolded in slippery formulas and furtive references that sometimes imploded into graphic and visual signs.
François Salmeron - Itinérances écologiques - Art, éthique et environnement
French edition
Caza d'Oro
A critical and ethical reflection on contemporary art and ecology, based on long-term research into the work of some twenty international artists committed to environmental issues.
Bruno Richard - Elles sont de sortie #100
French edition
United Dead Artists
1000 drawings ranked from lightest to darkest, a major work by a rare and powerful artist, a major influence on the current graphzine scene.
Anne-Sarah Huet - Le Meilleur Système
French edition
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
currently out of stock
Le meilleur système is a hybrid and meta text. At once a poetic collection and a critical reader, nourished by references to genre literature, it explores the narrator's dissociative affects and her experience of racial passing.
Gaston Chaissac - Fétiches dernier cri
French edition
MASC (Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix)
This monograph, taking a thematic approach that brings together both words and objects, aims to highlight the extreme inventiveness of Gaston Chaissac.
Anna Gaïotti - Je vomis du nez, le sang bleu de la nuit
French edition
ARTDERIEN
A book of poetic texts by the performance artist, choreographer, musician and writer.
Yoann Thommerel - Écrire un avis
French edition
Zero2
Writer Yoann Thommerel seizes on the rating codes to which we are now subjected for the smallest of our daily gestures to hijack them, deconstruct them and make them the basis of resolutely digressive culinary commentaries, between a diary oriented towards gastronomy and the uninhibited reinvention of a Gault & Millau guide stripped of its prescriptive logic.
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
Some insights into the imaginaries that inhabit techno-scientific realities, transforming our relationship with the world, closing or opening up the future.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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".
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