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Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
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Les presses du réel and JRP|Editions, the Documents Series is dedicated to writings by critics and curators questioning the current state of artistic and curatorial practices.
2024
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A critical introduction to the life and work of Yugoslav modernist and conceptual art's foremost exponent Ješa Denegri.
2022
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Acclaimed author Alice Rawsthorn has revised her bestselling field guide to design in the wake of the pandemic, technological change, and the escalating climate emergency.
2022
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A collection of texts about time and artists working with it.
2022
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A collection of texts about space and artists working with it.
2022
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The fascinating story of Jack Goldstein, the beginnings of CalArts, and some of the illustrious fellows who, in the 1970s and 1980s, led the transition from conceptual art to the Pictures Generation, paints an uncompromising picture of the art world then and now.
2022
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Bringing together previously unpublished essays by internationally renowned philosophers, cultural theorists, activists, and art historians, this volume provides a toolkit for addressing contemporary theories and practices of resistance.
2022
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Bringing together previously unpublished essays by internationally renowned philosophers, cultural theorists, activists, and art historians, this volume provides a toolkit for addressing contemporary theories and practices of resistance.
2021
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Rethinking the role of the museum today.
2021
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An anthology.
2020
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An archeology of Swiss experimental film.
2019
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Interview with one of the great figures of art photography today, in which Sophie Ristelhueber reflects on her own carrer and practice.
2018
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A collection of texts about time and artists working with it.
2018
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A collection of texts about space and artists working with it.
2018
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A critical perspective on Guyton's work.
2018
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Comparative Studies of Neo-Avant-Gardes in a Bipolar World.
2017
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A collection of original essays focusing on the specific interaction of dance and drawing during the second half of the 20th century.
2017
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A collection of original essays focusing on the specific interaction of dance and drawing during the second half of the 20th century.
2016
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Fourth and final volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on painting, sculpture, installation, and architecture.
2016
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The place of films and moving images in the field of contemporary art.
2014
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Third volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on photography, film, video, and new media.
2014
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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.).
2014
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Czech artists of the 1960s–1970s.
2014
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Video art history.
2014
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Second volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on performance and performativity.
2014
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An anthology: selected criticism, essays, interviews, and curatorial projects, since 1986-2012.
2014
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Questioning neoliberalism: a collection of Jeff Derksen's writings on art, architecture, and globalism.
2014
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An anthology on new musical forms in the 20th century.
2013
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This first volume of complete John Baldessari's writings traces the genesis and development of the artist's understanding of art in the early 1960s.
2013
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This second volume of complete John Baldessari's writings traces the genesis and development of the artist's understanding of art in the early 1960s through to the present.
2013
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An anthology (1975-2000).
2013
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Igor Zabel's writings.
2012
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Art and moving images.
2011
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An anthology of reference texts published in the German magazine "Texte Zur Kunst" between 1990 and 1998.
2010
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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...).
2010
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12 conversations with theoreticians and activists critically engaged in the cultural field, exploring Cultural Studies and raising issues of postcolonialism, globalization, and activism.
2010
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A journey through pivotal moments of the history of experimental cinema.
2009
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The bestseller publication dedicated to pioneering curators and presents a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
2007
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An imaginary encounter between Robert Smithson and Andy Warhol, talking about entropy, glamour, science-fiction, cinema, and the art of their times.
2007
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A philosophical essay on time, phenomenology and beyond by the curator and art critic, around the works of Stan Douglas, Eija-Lisa Athila, Doug Aitken, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tacita Dean, Darren Almond, Tobias Rehberger, Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno.
2007
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A collection of texts about music (from Britney Spears to Helmut Lachenmann, passing through Matthew Herbert, The Melvins, Terre Thaemlitz, Stan Douglas etc.), gathered from the numerous publications of the famous art and music critic and including many previously unpublished texts.
2007
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A collection of texts and interviews by the art critic and independant curator (John Armleder, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Guy Debord, Jean-Luc Godard, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Michel Houellebecq, Pierre Huyghe, Jacques Lacan, Jean-François Lyotard, Olivier Mosset, Philippe Parreno, Andy Warhol...).
2018
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The current panoply of private initiatives in the museum world.
2016
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This volume, published in parallel to Exhibiting the Moving Image, extends the inquiry into the history, theory and practice of exhibiting artists' cinema, video, installation as well as advertising films, by focusing on the domains of performance and of the “expanded arts.”
2013
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Artists' book history.
2012
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Nonprofit collective organizations in the 1960s-1970s.
2010
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The societal efficacy of art.
2008
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Essays and interviews by the American curator and critic: a portrait of the American art scene over the last few decades.
2007
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A compendium of texts containing famous exhibition case studies, involving some of the more thought-provoking artists, architects, and scientists of our time. A must-have for anyone interested in the unusual strategies of a curator-at-large.
2025
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A much-needed mapping of the Indian art scene.
2025
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forthcoming
Renewing our understanding of Ruscha's art.