Avant-gardes

A critical biography.

The anthology of the founder of the concrete poetry movement in Brazil.

Letterism's history and posterity: a new reading of the historical issues of an unknown but influential artistic avant-garde.

A symposium-based tribute to Günter Brus by international contributors, philosophers, art critics and historians, curators, artists and musicians (with a CD containing a musical composition by Olga Neuwirth and Burkhard Stangle).

The militant essay by poet, theoretician, critic and translator Haroldo de Campos on one of the most radical members of the Brazilian avant-gardes of the 1920's: a key contribution to the critical rehabilitation of a work that has strongly influenced Concrete Poetry in Brazil, as well as many poetical adventures of Western modernity.

From Picabia's unpublished love letters to a philosophical and aesthetic inquiry on art, through Goethe, Schlegel, Hegel, or Baudelaire.

An in depth analysis of one of the most inventive (but also the most misunderstood) post-war avant-garde movements.

A visual anthropology study on the Wagenburgs and the Berliner punk community.

A panorama of Ben's conflicting ideas and various activities since 1959.

The work of an underestimated writer, a founder of the Ultraism, initiator of Dada in the 1920s Spain.

Accompanied with Fluxus pamphlets, manifestoes and newspapers of the artist, the unpublished manuscript of the mother of the founder of the avant-garde movement constitutes an invaluable entry to the private world of Maciunas, and the occasion of a revaluation of its artistic and strategic choices.

An essay on the reception of Jean-Pierre-Brisset's work among his contemporaries and successors, its relationship with futurism, pataphysics, surrealism, dada, etc., its sources and its offspring in the fields of literature, linguistics, psychoanalysis, science, philosophy and art.

Curiously enough, although Duchamp considered eroticism as the main topic of his work, no essay had really focused on that matter yet. This book collects the lectures of about twenty international art historians and critics during a symposium organized by Marc Décimo.

Viennese Actionism was one of the strongest effort of the 1960's to develop contemporary art and a forerunner of what is now widely known as Performance Art. Danièle Roussel interviewed not only the former actionists (Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, Günther Brus, Rudolf Schwarzkogler) but also some journalists, politicians, historians and witnesses of that time.

An ironic, historic and personal assessment of the transformations of art in the years 1950-1960 by one member of the New realists: the story of collage, the return of dada, an evocation of Léo Malet, the work with Raymond Hains...

A collection of the painter's writings (poetry, interviews, chronicles, previously unpublished texts and documents) who, between the 1930's and the 1970's in St-Germain-des-Prés, never ceased to explore language and to work with words as if with an unprocessed and unlimitted material.

J. Donguy introduces the visual and sound experimentations of concrete poetry, from 1953 (Gomringer and de Campos) to the current movements ("digital area"). The anthology, followed by an international bibliography, offers the first overview of this art, with 300 illustrations.

Marcel Duchamp met Lydie Sarazin-Levassor at the end of March 1927. On 7 June, they were married. Francis Picabia acted as a witness and the ceremony was filmed by Man Ray. On 25 January 1928, they divorced. Lydie Sarazin-Levassor tells the story of their marriage.

The first biography of Robert Filliou.

A critical counterpoint to the famous Tzara's cronic published in the Dada Almanach, by the founder of the Cabaret Voltaire.

Dick Higgins, one of the main figures of Fluxus, points out the particularity of poet-artists who, since German and English Romanticism, have refused to make distinctions between what is sonorous, visual and written.

Two studies on the link between language, art and reality in Marcel Duchamp's work.

An exhaustive documentation on the work of the French artist since 1970, fully illustrated.

Miss Marie le Masson Le Golft (1749-1826) is known as the lady who noted Nature.

Reprint of the first Dada anthology (Berlin, 1920), with Tzara's chronicles, manifests and documents.

An essay on Paul Tisseyre Ananké, the military officer in saharian French colonies and writer, which proposes a linguistic and biographic approach, accompanying the reedition of Ananké's book, denouncing the horrors of the French colonisation in Africa.

A new approach of Duchamp's keywords.

Art as actions : a collection of Martel's essays and articles since the eighties.

Fluxus special issue: texts by theoreticians and artists (Conz, Ucciani, Giroud, Donguy, Martel, Chopin, Heidsieck...), documents (Dupuy, Knowles, Ben, Williams...) .

Marcel Duchamp met Lydie Sarazin-Levassor at the end of March 1927. On 7 June, they were married. Francis Picabia acted as a witness and the ceremony was filmed by Man Ray. On 25 January 1928, they divorced. Lydie Sarazin-Levassor tells the story of their marriage, presents us with “her” Marcel, and relates her encounters with Jacques Doucet, Constantin Brancusi, Henri-Pierre Roché, Man Ray and Kiki de Montparnasse, Jean Cocteau, the Ballets Russes, the Duchamp family, Jean Crotti, Mary Rumsey, Katherine Dreier and Robert Desnos, and describes the atmosphere at the Villons' (in Puteaux, just outside Paris), the Picabias' (at Mougins, in the South of France) and the Sarazin-Levassors' (in Étretat, on the Normandy coast).

Marcel Duchamp “laid bare” by Marc Décimo who talks about the creative process in this essay on the father of conceptual art.

The correspondance between Otto Muehl and Erika Stocker forms an intense journal of Viennese actionism, and more particularly of the artist's work.

Otto Muehl was condemned to 7 years of prison in 1991. He exchanged letters with his family and friends, he painted.

The Fluxus anthology.

Bernard Réquichot is well enough known as a painter, but still unknown as a writer. This new posthumous publication of his writings reveals the singular vision of a recluse, close to Stirner.

The last document of the dadasopher of Berlin.

The funny though serious inventions of the thinker, poet, prophet and annagrammarian.

An unknown, rarely published writer who nevertheless sent shock waves into the 60s and 80s by constructing a text worthy of a great rhetoretician on the game of alliteration.

An essay on Duchamp's readings, and a systematic chart of his personnal library.

A monument for both linquists and writers.

A complete panorama of the astonishing personality of the unknown writer, grammarian, cosmologist and inventor.

A Fluxus journal.

The actionnist's autobiography.

This biography of Hermann Hesse by his friend Hugo Ball is one of the best exposés of his spiritual journeys, and also an approach of Ball's own fundamental themes

The anti-romanesque, a-metaphysical and theoretical Einstein's dadaist autobiography.

An introductory examination of asylum art before the theorization of art brut, followed by a new critical edition of French alienist Marcel Réja's study on the “madmen's art”.

Reference catalogue that examines the notion of Art Brut in a time of new technologies. The first section of the volume features a selection of essays by specialists; the second and richly illustrated section introduces the works of 28 iconic or emerging artists.

Essays and interviews on 20th century avant-gardes in France (from Dada to sound poetry, avant-garde reviews, happenings and events, Fluxus, Raymond Hains, Jacques Villeglé, Gil J. Wolman, Camille Bryen...).

Filliou's catalogue raisonné.

The first critical edition treating a fundamental text by one of the principle actors of Fluxus.