Incertain Sens

Gérard Berréby looks back at the first publishing experience of the man who was to become the director of Allia publishing house: the decision, in the early 1980s, to produce a pirate edition of Aragon's book—at the time opposed to any reprinting—, an unprecedented gesture that provoked numerous reactions in the literary world, and raised a number of questions linked to appropriation and self-publishing.

Both a conference proceedings and an exhibition catalogue, this publication looks back at the career of Denis Briand, artist and university professor, who died on 23 April 2018.

Interviews with a group of pioneering artists' book publishers: Simon Cutts, Hansjörg Mayer, and Leif Eriksson.

Interviews with ten pioneering artists' book publishers: Simon Cutts, herman de vries, Michel Durand-Dessert, Leif Eriksson, Guy Jungblut, Yvon Lambert, Irmeline Lebeer-Hossmann, Hansjörg Mayer, Maurizio Nannucci, Maurizio Spatola.

Interviews with a group of pioneering artists' book publishers: herman de vries, Michel Durand-Dessert, Guy Jungblut, Yvon Lambert, Irmeline Lebeer-Hossmann, Maurizio Nannucci, Maurizio Spatola.

A book-exhibition that brings together the practice of three artists from the contemporary publishing scene around the figure of Mary Ellen Solt (1920-2007), an American artist whose works of concrete poetry enter into graphic and conceptual resonance with the three artists' own publications.

Artist's book.

Written in one night, at the age of 21 by Pierre Escot, Piotr is the possible inner monologue of an actor, struggling with the omnipresence of his character, alternately heroic or cruel. A fight with himself, with his double, both inspiring and paralyzing. A text that Denis Lavant created in a reading at the Théâtre Ouvert in 1989 and who signs the afterword here.

Between an artist's book, an essay and a catalogue, this publication explores the notion of “installation” in the appropriation strategy developed by the now fictional artist Ludovic Chemarin©, through the conceptual figure of the Kentia palm.

Artist's book.

An extensive investigation on art conducted for thirty years by an artist for whom the archives constitute an artistic material in its own right.

This artist's book presents a collection of parking tickets from a private hospital in which the artist was admitted. The tickets are colored with the help of a color chart created from photographs of morning skies and of flowers his sister brought him.

Nearly 20 years after the publication of his first inventory, Éric Watier has collected 100 new examples of artworks deliberately destroyed by their creators. This new edition combines 200 destruction cases in one volume.

Contemporary perspectives on artists' publications twenty-three interviews with twenty-five artists who make publishing an artistic practice).

This leporello is the result of a collective photographic stream of consciousness based on a project lead by the Bureau d'investigation photographique: In random order, each member of the group opts for an image to which the following member answers by association and according to his own subjectivity.

Eight slogans from the May 68 events in France, in duplex printing (artist's book).

A series of four geometrical and minimalist patterns drawn in red, blue, and black, inspired by a cognitive ability test, a quote from Guy Debord and the publications of Fluxus artist Emmett Williams. This artist's book is printed on light paper sheets so the patterns can be traced and used as a decoration for elbow pads and knee pads.

10th anniversary box set gathering the complete collection of Sans niveau ni mètre (43 issues), the newspaper dedicated to the exhibitions showcased at Le Cabinet du livre d'artiste, a French-based space dedicated to artist's books since 2007.

Artist's book (photographs and texts).

Reprint of the multiple produced by Philippe Cazal in 1972.

Artist's books and book history (new edition).

The catalogue raisonné of the artist's books published by Bernard Villers's publishing house Le Nouveau Remorqueur (2003-2015).

Artist's book.

Artist's book.

Artist's magazine.

Artist's book.

An analysis of the implications, challenges and specificities of the artist's magazines, as an artistic practice.

Artist's edition (two-fold brochure).

Artist's book (sketchbook).

Maurizio Nannucci documents, in the form of an artist's book, a collective action with his family and friends around the world, from Athens to Sydney through Beijing, that literally puts the art in question to better assert its omnipresence while providing a wide range of social interaction.

Reprint of Dieter Roth's artist's book published in 1968 in Stuttgart by Hansjörg Mayer.

The social dimensions of artist's books.

Three artist's books in a box set.

Artist's book based on James Joyce's Ulysses.

Artist's book.

Artist's book (infinity in finity, endlessly repeated).

Artist's book.

The continuation and end of Guillaume de Lorris's Romance of the Rose, written in 1216 but unfinished, by artist and writer Bruno Di Rosa.

12 postcards of the Arc de Triomphe, Paris, decorated with cut out and pasted panties patterns.

An inventory of gestures of artists who deliberately destroyed their own works.

Leaflets by artists.

Artist's book (six photographs printed in color & gold offset).

Artist's book based on an information brochure from the 1960s on security measures for a nuclear power plant.

Artist's book (leporello).

The second opus in the story of the "paintless painter"'s clandestine pictorial actions.

Artist's book.

A topographic and allegorical representation of love (unfolding artist's book).