Criticism, theory & documents

The political dimension of Visual Studies, between Francophone and Anglo-American studies.

The aesthetic and functions of the mirror in contemporary art.

The great Brazilian critic Mário Pedrosa (1900-1981)'s farewell to art criticism, written to his countrymen in the manner of Montesquieu's Persian Letters.

The concept of time in art history.

Fourth and final volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on painting, sculpture, installation, and architecture.

A collection of interviews with artists and curators.

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.

A montage of theoretical and speculative texts, conversations, fictions, and documents exploring different tactics of production and intellectual exchange that operate in the interstices between artistic, educational, and political contexts, and imagine novel institutional forms.

An interdisciplinary reflection on the new figures of subjectivity in the digital age.

How the impact of code on everyday life has become comparable to that of speech and writing.

A reflection on the domination of the software industry on our use of computers, which calls for a stimulating reinterpretation of materialism.

A unique multidisciplinary approach to Visual Studies.

The return of the anthropological question has completely redesigned the issues of representation. A state of play.

Third volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on photography, film, video, and new media.

A questionnaire (interviews with international artists, architects, and curators of the contemporary art world, such as John Baldessari, Suzanne Cotter, Bice Curiger, Chris Dercon, Charles Esche, Liam Gillick, Jacques Herzog, Thomas Hirschhorn, Rem Koolhaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Thierry Raspail, Beatrix Ruf, etc.).

Czech artists of the 1960s–1970s.

One hundred texts on art by René Denizot.

An innovative analysis of our relationship to the image.

An epistemology of performance.

A “memorial” consisting of testimonies and interviews with friends, models, collaborators, and specialists of Robert Mapplethorpe (Pierre Apraxine, Pierre Bergé, Germano Celant, Lucinda Childs, Marcus Leatherdale, Richard Marshall, Bettina Rheims...).

Questioning neoliberalism: a collection of Jeff Derksen's writings on art, architecture, and globalism.

Second volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on performance and performativity.

An anthology: selected criticism, essays, interviews, and curatorial projects, since 1986-2012.

An epistemology of performance (also available in English edition).

An historical and theoretical investigation into art teaching and transmission.

A collection of previously unpublished or revised texts by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn (1992-2012).

A study of the work of Olivier Mosset in 46 chapters.

A multidisciplinary reflection on a new type of engagement of art in democracy, renewing relationships between creation, culture and society: 47 contributions by international thinkers and actors of the art world (with 9 movies on DVD).

A new model of action to invent new modes of art production and exchange by establishing a direct dialogue between the artist, the citizen-commissioner and the cultural mediator, outside the museum and apart from the art market.

First monographic book on the unique work of Korean-American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982), at the crossroads of performance, of conceptual art, of video and of poetry.

The law after the dematerialization of the artwork: a legal perspective on contemporary art.

An anthology (1975-2000).

Igor Zabel's writings.

The legendary life of Maurizio Cattelan: a fictional biography of which the artist himself is the biographer.

The legendary life of Maurizio Cattelan: a fictional biography of which the artist himself is the biographer.

A biographical approach to Gerhard Richter's work.

A biographical approach to Gerhard Richter's work.

A sociological approach to new practices in public art commissioning.

A new model of action to invent new modes of art production and exchange by establishing a direct dialogue between the artist, the citizen-commissioner and the cultural mediator, outside the museum and apart from the art market (available in English edition).

A portrait of the great Ukrainian photographer based on a film on Boris Mikhailov by David Teboul.

The unknown and disregarded literary arts of sixteenth century England (graffiti, tatoos, writing on clothes or ceramics...): a startling new perspective of early modern literature and cultural history.

An essay based on a group exhibition conceived by French philosopher and writer Gilles A. Tiberghien.

An anthology of reference texts published in the German magazine "Texte Zur Kunst" between 1990 and 1998.

The first artistic perspective on prehistoric art through the rigorous study of its formal conventions and stylistic developments.

French translation of Manovich's major book The Language of New Media, the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media.

Interviews with 10 Italian curators.

First translation in French of the study on American beaver by a pioneer of ethology and anthropology in the US, an avant-garde and surprisingly relevant work in an age of global ecological crisis.

A critical anthology (texts and interviews on/with Christian Boltanski, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Paul McCarthy, Douglas Gordon, Glenn Ligon, Pipilotti Rist, John Baldessari, Florence Lazar, Bruce Nauman, Bruno Peinado, Michel Kireger, Delphine Reist, Karina Bisch, Guy de Cointet, Larry Bell...).