An an extensive analysis of the advent of Christian visual culture in the Kingdom of Kongo and its and development across four centuries.

The growth of thought on ornament, applied arts and architecture in the industrial age, between ornamental impulse and decorative project.

Based on a set of mostly unpublished archives, this book focuses on the role played by art dealers at the turn of the last century in the definition, promotion and circulation of African objects as artworks, in Europe and the United States.

“Primitivism” as a tool for analysis of post-war French society, between a modernization and decolonization movement, and possible forms of resistance.

The history of capitalism of the 1960s revisited in the light of the artworks that challenged it.

A historiographical study of German art theorist, writer and activist Carl Einstein (1885-1940), that also explores several layers of the history of the early twentieth century, and proposes a critical reflection on some epistemological tropisms of today.

Conférences sur l'affinité de la peinture avec le reste des beaux-arts (“Conferences on the affinity of painting with other fine arts”) shed a new light on the career of the inventor of the famous Morse code, best known at his time as one of America's most promising painters of his generation.

Artistic practices in New York's alternative art spaces (1969-1985).

Postmodernism and gift culture: everyday objects in contemporary art since the 1960s.

This study addresses the scope of the use of found objects and garbage by the Nouveaux Réalistes in the 1960s.

Edgar Degas and the rediscovery of monotyping in the 19th century.

A story of the Grévin wax museum in Paris from 1881 to 1921.

An essay conceived as an intellectual portrait of the German writer, psychologist and art theorist Karl Philipp Moritz, whose purpose is to investigate the relationships between aesthetics, psychology and anthropology in the second half of the 18th century, and the importance of their simultaneous development for the debates about art after 1800.

Rereading L'Origine du monde and the relationship between Gustave Courbet and James Whistler.

A sourcebook / critical anthology of social art history.

A sourcebook / critical anthology of social art history.

An historical and ethnographic investigation into the popular origin and environment of Cubist innovations.

Ambiguity is inherent in images because visual perception is an interpretative act involving memory and imagination. Modern art has made this aspect of perception crucial to its relationship with the viewer. Images potentielles (Potential Images), the first systematic exploration of this topic, considers those works of art that rely to a great degree on imaginative response.

Two leading contemporary art historians offer a subtle and profound reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance.

The relationship between Modern art and its destruction.

A social history of socialist realism imagery in the former East Germany.

Uses and Utopias – The Exhibition in the Pre-Revolutionary Russian Avant-Garde: an essay on the exhibition practice in Russia in the years 1910-1920, and in particular on the relationship between exhibition and public space in the projects of the historical avant-gardes.

The history and posterity of François Mathey (1917-1993), a singular curator with the destiny of a romantic hero, a major figure in the promotion of contemporary art and a pioneer of artistic heritage.

Gustave Courbet, hunting, and its contemporary representations in Germany.

A collective examination of the relationship between surrealism and the “splendid nineteenth century” (André Breton), and changes that have occurred in the field of political ideas, industrial development, psychiatry, philosophy or morality, between appropriation, misappropriation and rejection.

A historical and theoretical reflection, on the border between aesthetics and politics, on the decisive role of the images and the power and limits of representation, in the context of the last genocide of the twentieth century.

Social and political dimension of the emergence of a culture of the image carried by the amateur practice of photography in Germany at the dawn of the twentieth century.

First translation into French of a series of fundamental texts by Kandinsky, published in Russia in the early twentieth century.

Function of visual arts in France during the First World War.

A reflection on the Russian avant-garde's artistic project in the early twentieth century, and the problem of their paradoxical relationship to history.

An essay that renews the study of Gauguin, highlighting the consistency that connects the entire production of the painter, based on his exploration of the relationship between perception, cognition and imagination, and that connects his interests in psychology, ethnology, history of religion and the natural sciences, not to mention the art of all times and all cultures.

First translation into French of tghe seminal book of German historian, photographer, and influential theorist and critic of avant-garde film and photography Franz Roh (1890-1965).

A metis art history in New Spain: an analysis of the complex dynamics of crossbreeding between some singular artistic practices invented in New Spain in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries and the European Renaissance, in the political context of the Iberian expansion in the Americas.

A transdisciplinary set of contributions from art historians, scientists, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts, proposing new interpretations of Gustave Courbet's work from his paintings but also from his life, correspondence and archives relative to his family, for some hitherto unpublished.

The frontispiece of Hobbes' Leviathan, Marat at his last breath by David, "Your country needs you", Guernica by Picasso: four essays on political iconography.

An anthology which brings to light the fertile relations between two disciplines: Cultural Studies and art history.

A study of the production and reception of art in the USSR in the years 1920-1930 through the analysis of the work of the Society of Easel Painters (OST)'s members.

Women's artistic literature: a collective and transnational history of discourses of women on art in the 18th and 19th centuries (essays).

Women's artistic literature: a collective and transnational history of discourses of women on art in the 18th and 19th centuries (an anthology of essays, articles, travelogues, letters ...).

Artists and parties: aesthetics and politics in the first half of the 20th century.

The Nouveau Réalisme between Paris and West Germany in the 1960's.

Essay.

An exploration of the relationship between artistic creation and industrial production, between the artist and his material.

A pioneering and masterly study of the history of art markets in Italy (covering the fields of painting and scultpure, but also architecture, applied arts and performing arts), which demonstrates the possibility of an economic history of art linking social or political mechanisms and symbolic or patrimonial issues.

The resurgence of Dada in the U.S. (a genealogy of American post-war experimental art).

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

Forty years of Anglo-American feminist theory in art history (an anthology of reference texts by Laura Cottingham, Gen Doy, Lisa E. Farrington, Lisa Gail Collins, Judith Halberstam, Amelia Jones, Lucy R. Lippard, Linda Nochlin, Rozsika Parker, Griselda Pollock, Abigail Solomon-Godeau).

A study of political and ideological stakes of Beuys' oeuvre and its myth in Germany.