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Marcel Broodthaers - Charles Baudelaire - Je hais le mouvement qui déplace les lignes
2016
French edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Facsimile edition of an artist book by Marcel Broodthaers based on a verse from Baudelaire's poem La Beauté.
Félicia Atkinson - Animals
2016
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
sold out
Animals questions through a poetic approach the modernist apprehension of time and locomotion, in the realm of today.
Bernard Villers - Les Éditions du Nouveau Remorqueur - Catalogue raisonné
2016
French edition
Incertain Sens - Grey Series
The catalogue raisonné of the artist's books published by Bernard Villers's publishing house Le Nouveau Remorqueur (2003-2015).
Yona Friedman - Slide Shows (3 books box set)
2016
trilingual edition (English / French / Chinese)
Cneai
Slide Shows is a three-volume box set, with over 1.500 original drawings and texts in which Friedman gives his own personal understanding of the multiple ways of thinking the world through a series of “cartoons.”
Ziad Antar - After Images
2016
English edition
Kaph Books
Ziad Antar experiments forms, colors and light with his lensless camera, during a long journey searching for the cities where mythology was born. At the core of his work is the questioning of the foundations of photography, through the destructuration of this art (monograph edited in collaboration with Hans Ulrich Obrist).
Carole Douillard - Alive
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
This first monograph on French-Algerian artist and performer Carole Douillard spans her entire work from the end of the 1990s and invites us to reflect on her performative and non-material practice, interrogating the forms and issues of contemporary performance.
 Florian & Michaël Quistrebert -
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
First monograph.
Ben Kinmont - Open by Chance & Appointment
2016
English edition
Incertain Sens
sold out
An historical account of Ben Kinmont's bookstore, from the structure's origin, the events and publications it has generated. Kinmont also demonstrates how this activity has contributed to his independence as an artist vis-à-vis the commercial art circuit.
Fouad Bouchoucha -
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
Designed by the artist in collaboration with the graphic studio S-y-n-d-i-c-a-t, Fouad Bouchoucha's first monograph gathers a selection of his works along with four essays and an interview.
Marion Muller-Colard - Hannah Arendt\'s Little Theater
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Plato & Co.
Hannah Arendt is not at all keen to build an edifice of ideas or to develop abstract concepts. Rather, she gets on to the stage herself! To enter the scene of her little theater means to take matters into her own hands, take responsibility, to act. In short: Thinking is acting! Whereas the bureaucrats can conceive of only one thing: to build a world out of paper (an illustrated philosophy book for children).
Jean-Paul Mongin - Mister Descartes and his Evil Genius
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Plato & Co.
On a long, cold winter night, more than three hundred years ago, Mister Descartes is suddenly beset by profound doubts: Can I trust my senses, or am I fooled by illusions? Is there an Evil Genius behind all things? What if the outside world is only a dream? Is my own existence nothing but the product of my imagination? (an illustrated philosophy book for children).
Peter Downsbrough - Then Set (box set 2 books)
2015
no text
CDLA (Centre des livres d'artistes)
Artist's book in two volume.
Mustapha Akrim - Collective Memory - 70-85
2015
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
With Collective Memory, Mustapha Akrim appropriates one of the most pervasive and widely circulated media of official postcolonial visual culture, the Moroccan dirham. At stake here is how visual representation affects political representation and vice versa.
Andrée Putman - Andrée Putman at the CAPC by Heinz Peter Knes
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
35.00 10.00 €
German photographer Heinz Peter Knes offers a new photographic perspective on the furnishing of the CAPC museum of contemporary art in Bordeaux, one of the famous interior designer Andrée Putman's most accomplished projects and a milestone in the history of design.
Tomi Ungerer - Elephants, Whales & Kangaroos (box set 3 books)
2015
no text
Nieves
These three thin volumes feature drawings by legendary illustrator Tomi Ungerer selected from his sixties sketchbooks. In the likes of fabulists, Ungerer portrays the animal kingdom (elephants, whales, kangaroos and a handful of camels) to satirize with humour the manners of his contemporaries.
May
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
May
Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho, Georgie Nettell, Dave Miko, Ned Vena, Antek Walczak, by Tanja Widmann / Paris Noche by Jay Chung / Verena Dengler by Lili Reynaud Dewar / Call and Response and Forever Now by Kari Rittenbach / Daniel Pommereulle by Hélène Fauquet / Hans Christian Lotz by Sam Pulitzer / Sigmar Polke's reception in the United States and Germany in the 1980s by Magnus Schaefer / interviews with Magnus Schaefer et Guy Tosatto / On Some Models of Artist / Gallery Relations (with Marie Angeletti, Camille Blatrix, Hélène Fauquet, Renaud Jerez, Mélanie Matranga)...
Didier Semin - Duchamp - The Paradigm of the Cartoon
2015
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
The influence of cartoon on Duchamp's work.
Erica Baum - The Naked Eye
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Galerie Crèvecœur
40.00 20.00 €
The result of a series started in 2008, all of The Naked Eye photographs are looks between the fanned pages of paperbacks that date back to the 1950s–1970s. This first exhaustive monographic publication of an ongoing series reveal a particular taste for mass-market celebrity biographies and movie novelizations featuring photo sections and pulpy paper stained by brightly-dyed edges.
The Territories of Artists\' Periodicals
2015
English edition
various
sold out
This book gathers the papers presented at an international symposium on artists' periodicals, organized by academical Marie Boivent and curator Stephen Perkins. It serves as a smart introduction to a broad range of publishing strategies adopted by artists and others who were experimenting across the field of periodical publishing in new and expanded ways from the 1960s onwards.
David Lemaire - Alain Huck - La Symétrie du saule / The Symmetry of Willow
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMCO - Monographs
This book offers several thematic gateways to Alain Huck's work showing the persistence of the same autobiographic, environmental, historic and linguistic issues in a variety of mediums.
Marie-Hélène Breuil - L\'Inventaire
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMCO - Monographs
The story of an iconic work by Claude Rutault.
Hamish Fulton - Canto di strada (2 books)
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
sold out
The exhibition Canto di strada placed Fulton's & Höpfner's work side by side identifying a common ground for comparison in a 14-day walking journey through the Supramonte and Gennargentu mountains in Sardinia. The artists undertook separate journeys, experiencing a total immersion in the harsh environment without even meeting each other. Their respective approaches have been documented in two separate booklets.
Frank Asch - I Met A Penguin
2015
English edition
Nieves
sold out
Nieves reissues Frank Asch's famous children's book, originally published in 1972.
Estelle Hanania - Happy Purim
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Shelter Press - Books
This new monograph gathers 42 images documenting 3 years of photographs taken between 2011 and 2014 during the Purim holiday in the neighbourhood of Stamford Hill, London.
Éric Watier - Plus c\'est facile, plus c\'est beau : prolégomènes à la plus belle exposition du monde
2015
French edition
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Artist's book.
+ que 20 ans après - Gesammelte Wörter und Bilder / Collected Words and Images
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This richly illustrated publication reviews the additions to the Generali Foundation collection made under Sabine Folie's leadership between 2008 and 2014.
In octavo - Des formats de l\'art
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
A collective work bringing together thirty contributors, based on an experimental research project conducted with artists and theoreticians (philosophers, sociologists, historians, scientists...) around the question of the formats of art, a forgotten yet decisive issue that crosses contemporary artistic practices in depth.
Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza - Fragments liminaires
2015
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
First monograph.
Félicia Atkinson - A Readymade Ceremony (CD)
2015
Shelter Press - Records
A concrete / post-digital oratorio in 5 parts.
Félicia Atkinson - A Readymade Ceremony (vinyl LP)
2015
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
A concrete / post-digital oratorio in 5 parts.
Artist Novels - The Book Lovers Publication
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
This publication is devoted to the phenomenon of the artist novel, and whether it can be considered to be a medium in its own right within the visual arts. Thanks to the contributions of a selected group of artists, writers, curators, and scholars this publication strives to demonstrate that literature, when treated by visual artists, can take place well beyond the space of the book.
Marie Boivent - La revue d\'artiste - Enjeux et spécificités d\'une pratique artistique
2015
French edition
Incertain Sens - Grey Series
An analysis of the implications, challenges and specificities of the artist's magazines, as an artistic practice.
Kader Attia -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Comprehensive monograph.
Yann Le Bras - The Death of Socrates
2015
English edition
Diaphanes - Plato & Co.
For those who look for truth: On the origins of Western philosophy (an illustrated philosophy book for children).
Ronan de Calan - The Ghost of Karl Marx
2015
English edition
Diaphanes - Plato & Co.
The ghost of Karl Marx makes a solemn vow to give the story of the class conflict a happy ending by fighting the Market, that infernal magician (an illustrated philosophy book for children).
Lionel Bovier - 10 Years in Art Publishing
2015
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
An A–Z Memoir about art publishing.
Fluxbooks
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
The first detailed study of the artist's book within the Fluxus movement.
Loris Gréaud - Crossfading (book / CD)
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Dis Voir - ZagZig (books / CDs)
This audio art book documents an experiment in binaural sound by French artist Loris Gréaud performed around the world over five years. Using binaural beats, Crossfading guides the listener to the threshold of sleep. The book includes MRI images of the artist listening to the piece.
Loris Gréaud - Interzone - The Unplayed Notes Museum
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A notebook that combines text and collages to trace the imaginary history of the natural history museum created by Loris Gréaud at the Dallas Contemporary.
Loris Gréaud - Interzone - Copy - The Unplayed Notes Museum – Limited edition
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A notebook that combines text and collages to trace the imaginary history of the natural history museum created by Loris Gréaud at the Dallas Contemporary. Limited edition accompanied by a real butterfly, on black cardboard, unique piece.
Ottavia Castellina - Slices of Life - 52 recipes from 31 perfects strangers
2015
English edition
Bruno
This cookbook is the outcome of a collective project for which random people opened the door of their kitchen to share their favorite recipe and tell their life experience. A celebration of life and cooking in 52 recipes and 31 portraits illustrated with colir photographs.
 Mattin - Collapsing Ourselves (vinyl LP)
2014
Mount Analogue
currently out of stock
This vinyl LP stems from a series of performances by sound artists Mattin and Hong-Kai Wang. The recording consists of a superimposition of four layers of conversations between the two artists.
René Berger - L\'art vidéo
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
Video art history.
Julian Charrière - Future Fossil Spaces
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
First monograph.
Félicia Atkinson - Improvising sculpture as delayed fictions
2014
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
First monograph.
Fernand Baudin Prize 2013 / Prix Fernand Baudin 2013 / Fernand Baudin Prijs 2013
2014
trilingual edition (English / Dutch / French)
various
8.00 4.50 €
The catalogue of the Prize for the Most Beautiful Books in Brussels and Wallonia.
Donatella Bernardi - In pursuit of unlimited hospitality
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Aparté
First monograph, with an essay by Jacqueline Burckhardt.
 Yan Pei-Ming - Night of Colours
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph (available in English edition).
 Yan Pei-Ming - Night of Colours
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph.
Thomas Ruff - Zeitungsfotos - Newspaper Photographs
2014
English edition
various
Artist's book.
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