Criticism, theory & documents

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...).

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

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

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

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A collection of previously unpublished or revised texts by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn (1992-2012).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

The story of objectivity, by two of the greatest historians of science today.

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...).

A collection of texts examining issues and practices of documentation in contemporary visual arts.

An anthology of texts by philosophers, theoricians and art historians (H. Belting, H. Bredekamp, G. Didi-Huberman, J.-L. Nancy, W.J.T. Mitchell...) around the specific logic of the image and the transformation of the contemporary visual field.

12 conversations with theoreticians and activists critically engaged in the cultural field, exploring Cultural Studies and raising issues of postcolonialism, globalization, and activism.

The collection of texts on contemporary art by Jean-Christophe Ammann.

An erotic history of art, from the figure of Pygmalion.

The bestseller publication dedicated to pioneering curators and presents a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Digital technologies and interactivity in the artistic field, in an historic and experimental perspective (new edition).

First translation in French of a major work by British social anthropologist.

The central role of female body in the history of anatomy, beyond the historiographical "taboo" around the religious prohibition.

A collection of texts on contemporary experimental practices in art.

An essay / manifesto to reconsider the objectivity of the sensations provided by artworks, and to reconsider contemporary art in itself rather than as a genre, alongside modern and classical art.

A collection of texts.

An imaginary encounter between Robert Smithson and Andy Warhol, talking about entropy, glamour, science-fiction, cinema, and the art of their times.