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Transmettre l\'art - Figures et méthodes – Quelle histoire ?
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
HEAD (Geneva University of Art and Design)
An historical and theoretical investigation into art teaching and transmission.
Jean-Claude Lebensztejn - Déplacements
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
A collection of previously unpublished or revised texts by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn (1992-2012).
Dan Graham - Nuggets - New and Old Writing on Art, Architecture, and Culture
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
JRP|Editions - Positions (co-edition Les presses du réel)
Other Writing.
 Dadamaino -
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Retrospective monograph of the work both conceptual and sensitive of Dadamaino (1930-2004), at the crossroads of major European postwar avant-garde movements.
Geneviève Cloutier - L\'avant-garde russe face à la « terreur de l\'histoire » - Historiosophie et historiographie chez Velimir Khlebnikov et Pavel Filonov
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A reflection on the Russian avant-garde's artistic project in the early twentieth century, and the problem of their paradoxical relationship to history.
Le temps de l\'écoute - Pratiques sonores et musicales sur la Côte d\'Azur des années 1950 à nos jours
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
Villa Arson
Sixty years of sound and music creation on the French Riviera and beyond (with Jean Dupuy, Éliane Radigue, Arnaud Maguet, Jean-Jacques Lebel, Sun Ra, Yves Klein, Thomas Köner, Pascal Broccolichi, Lars Fredrikson, Robert Malaval, Ludovic Lignon, The Bells Angels...).
The Rendering Eye - Urban America Revisited
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
A series of images of the urban United States based on 3D screenshots taken from Apple Maps, by Regula Bochsler.
Anne Van der Linden - Carnage intime
2014
no text
United Dead Artists
Anne Van der Linden's drawings and paintings from 2008 to 2014.
Petra Feriancová - Bird Guide II
2014
English edition
Sputnik
14.00 6.00 €
An ornithology guide which reconciles Mythology with scientific soundness (artist's book).
 Július Koller & Květa Fulierová - J+K!
2014
bilingual edition (English / Slovak)
Sputnik
The everyday as an artistic act: a look back at the artistic and romantic relationship between Július Koller and Květa Fulierová through a series of personal belongings and documents (artist's book).
Maria Pratts - Atalaia (+ 2 vinyl EP)
2014
Spanish edition
Terranova
A collaborative and multidisciplinary narrative including music, sound sculpture, photography, and literature.
Anne Van der Linden - Grand Père (new illustrated  dition)
2014
French edition
Eretic-art
The novel by Jean-Louis Costes in a deluxe edition, illustrated by Anne Van der Linden—the crazy epic of Costes' grandfather at the beginning of the 20th century: a Cossack in Russia, a legionnaire in Morocco, a convict in Guyana and a collaborator in 1940...
Frédéric Fleury - Recess
2014
English edition
Timeless
Exhaustive compendium of monsters drawings in colours and black and white by Frederic Fleury (Frederic Magazine/Vice).
Andrew Liles - Dreamy Gorgeous Monster (book + CD)
2014
Timeless
currently out of stock
An art book by Andrew Liles (Nurse With Wound), a collection of exotic and erotic images, including a 20 mn music on CD (music by Andrew Liles, narration by Maude Swift).
Daniela Comani - Eine glückliche Ehe / Un matrimonio felice / A Happy Marriage
2014
texts in English, German, Italian
Edition Patrick Frey
Daniela Comani's gender game.
David Renggli - 25% Painting
2014
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A collection of about 500 collages, repeatedly and arbitrarily re-arranged during the printing process, making each book its own unique work of art.
Erik Steinbrecher - Mondfotografie
2014
no text
Edition Patrick Frey
Erik Steinbrecher's pictures of the moon (artist's book).
David Rabouin - Intuitive Notebook #-1 - Diagrams, Drawings and Spaces – Penser comme un pied
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
The first issue of the Intuitive Notebook's series of theoretical texts features an unpublished text by philosopher of mathematics David Rabouin on the relationships between mathematics, physicality, and intuition.
Jan Wenzel - Labyrinth - Four Times Through the labyrinth
2014
English edition
Cneai
Transcript of four lectures given in Leipzig in 2010 regarding an installation Olaf Nicolai made in Paris back in 1998. This publication revolves around the theme of the labyrinth and its various manifestations and associations—from the Minotaur to geographical maps and Ikea's assembly instructions.
Carla Filipe - Da cauda à cabeça
2014
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Archive Books
The first-ever monograph dedicated to the artist focuses on a project based on a research into the Portuguese railways, and also refers to a number of previous projects selected or especially created by Carla Filipe.
Raphaël Julliard - Rreptiles
2014
English edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
An artist's book by Raphaël Julliard built around his meeting with post-minimalist artist Richard Tuttle.
Susanne Strassmann -
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
Monograph dedicated to the German artist which gathers a series of figurative paintings inspired by her practice of photography and site-specific painting. The publication includes commissioned texts by various contributors.
Kai Althoff - Souffleuse der Isolation
2013
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
New monograph.
Scandalous - A Reader on Art and Ethics
2013
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Models of subjective and situational ethics in the contemporary cultural field.
Barry Schwabsky - Words for Art - Criticism, History, Theory, Practice
2013
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Surveying figures ranging from Clement Greenberg to Jacques Derrida, this compendium of 20 short essays by New York-based critic Barry Schwabsky focuses on his reflections on art writing itself.
John Smith -
2013
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Comprehensive new monograph on the influential British avant garde artist-filmmaker—renown for his playful and formally ingenious subversion of the everyday world—, with essays by Ian Christie, Martin Herbert, Kathrin Meyer, and Ethan de Seife.
Martha Rosler - E-flux journal - Culture Class
2013
English edition
Sternberg Press - E-flux journal
Martha Rosler embarks on a broad inquiry into the economic and historical precedents for today's soft ideology of creativity, with special focus on its elaborate retooling of class distinctions.
Gilles Barbier - Vu d\'en bas
2013
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Nine texts by Gilles Barbier.
Emilio López-Menchero - Projet Bel®encontre à Tourcoing
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
Interview with Emilio López-Menchero around a commissioned work executed by the artist as part of the New Patrons program.
Delphine Coindet - Périmètre étendu
2013
French edition
various
25.00 10.00 €
Catalogue / artist's book.
Pierre Laniau - Brisures... 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013
2013
French edition
various
10.00 5.00 €
Rencontre internationale d\'art performance 2012
2013
French edition
Intervention - Catalogues and anthologies
A complete survey of performance arts between Quebec, Colombia, Spain, Switzerland, Uruguay, and Vietnam.
Mousse
2013
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
(last copies available!)
On Purpose and Urgency: Cory Arcangel, Defne Ayas, Angie Keefer, Adam Kleinman, David Levine, Chus Martínez, Seth Price, João Ribas, Carey Young, Akram Zaatari; On Art and the Distributed Spectacle, Kevin Beasley, Caleb Considine, On Cooperation, Thomas Eggerer, GCC, hobbypopMUSEUM, Christina Mackie, Steve McQueen, Alan Moore by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jon Pestoni, Pots on Video, Charles Ray, Tabor Robak, The Artist as Curator (a serial publication debuting in this issue), Luke Willis Thompson, The Value of Art Criticism, Dena Yago...
Mustapha Akrim - Iqraa - Work in progress
2013
bilingual edition (Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
Mustapha Akrim's works mixes at once protest, aesthetics, philosophy and politics. The project documented in this catalogue questions labour and education—two notions symbolized by the recurring motif of the fly. As a work in progress, “Iqraa” also refers to the idea that nothing is fixed—neither aesthetically nor politically.
Daïchi Saïto - Moving the Sleeping Images of Things Towards the Light
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le laps
currently out of stock
Part essay, part autobiography, the first book by Japanese filmmaker Daïchi Saïto offers a reflection on the artist's life, career and practice. With a foreword by André Habib, professor of film studies at the University of Montreal and a specialist in experimental cinema.
Frog
2013
texts in English and French
Frog
55th Venice Biennale, Camille Henrot, Mike Kelley, Pierre Huyghe, Andrea Fraser, 13th Istambul Biennale, Hideyuki Nakayama, Philip King, Michael Werner, Andrew Pike, Ugo Rondinone, Angela Bulloch & David Grubbs, Sou Fujimoto, Gloria Friedmann, Meret Oppenheim, Bruno Serralongue...
Ecart (1969-1980)
2013
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
John Armleder & Fluxus.
Deborah Ligorio - Survival Kits
2013
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Twelve theoretical investigations on the crisis (both economical and personal) issue—from fields as diverse as philosophy, politics, media theory, environmental activism, feminism, post-human theory, literature, geopolitics, art, and economics, originated with artist Deborah Ligorio's research.
 Gelatin - Loch
2013
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
A comprehensive documentation on the Austrian art collective's exhibition and elaborate site-specific performance at the 21er Haus in Vienna.
Jorella Andrews - Visual Cultures as Objects and Affects
2013
English edition
Sternberg Press - Visual Cultures as…
Largely due to the “linguistic turn” that has dominated the humanities since the mid-twentieth century, many contemporary scholars and artists habitually equate works of art with highly coded texts to be deciphered, deconstructed, or otherwise interpreted. Within this quest to consider art differently, Jorella Andrews and Simon O'Sullivan pay attention to the asignifying character of art, or simply its affective qualities.
Astrid Schmetterling - Visual Cultures as Recollection
2013
English edition
Sternberg Press - Visual Cultures as…
Through the medium of distinct films, Astrid Schmetterling and Lynn Turner investigate contemporary questions regarding the ethics of recollection and memorialization within visual culture.
Gilles Barbier - Vu d\'en bas - Limited edition
2013
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Nine texts by Gilles Barbier, accompanied by an unique work, resin and feathers on cardboard.
Mette Winckelmann - Lucky Pieces
2013
trilingual edition (English / Danish / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
An introduction to the painting based artwork of Danish artist Mette Winckelmann.
Kopioitu
2013
English edition (texts in English and Finnish)
Shelter Press - Books
A double exhibition, a mirroring situation or a splitting divergent show between Helsinki and Brussels.
Volume – What You See Is What You Hear - Interviews Special Issue
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Volume – What You See Is What You Hear
What You See Is What You Hear (Volume) - Volume – What You See Is What You Hear
15.00 10.00 €
Interviews Special Issue.
Jeff Wall - Marcel Duchamp - Étant donnés
2013
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
Transcript of Jeff Wall's extraordinary lecture on Marcel Duchamp's great legacy Étant donnés, presented at the First Annual Anne d'Harnoncourt Memorial Symposium, September 11, 2009, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
A bras le corps - Matérialité, image et devenir des corps
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
A collective publication that brings together artists and researchers on the issue of the body.
Choreographing Exhibitions
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
Mathieu Copeland editions
An overview of the relation between choreography and exhibition, through the contributions of over thirty international visual artists, choreographers, musicians, filmmakers, theorists, and curators (Kenneth Anger, Jérôme Bel, Boris Charmatz, Kenneth Goldsmith, Pierre Huyghe, Jennifer Lacey, Alan Licht, Malcolm McLaren, Gustav Metzger, Phill Niblock, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Michael Parsons, Claude Rutault, Catherine Wood...).
Arnauld Pierre - Christian Floquet - Engager la peinture
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMCO - Monographs
Reference monograph / first comprehensive critical tool dedicated to the work of Swiss abstract painter.
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