Art & craft / “applied arts”

 
 
Décor - Vulgaire
2022
French edition
Décor
ENSAD (École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris)
The second issue of the annual review of the École des arts décoratifs de Paris, devoted to the question of the vulgar, explores through creations, portfolios, interviews, fictions and theoretical texts the polysemy of this word which embodies all the tensions of our time.
Isa Melsheimer - 2/5
2022
no text
Captures - 2/5 Series
Four artist's posters.
Simon Nicaise - Pain Liquide
2022
French edition
Empire - Books
A sort of anti-monograph in several episodes proposed by the artist Simon Nicaise around his project of Tour de France of trades and practices.
Laura Aldridge - Things That Soak You
2022
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This volume presents Laura Aldridge's recent and older works, and features an interview and three original essays about her practice.
Claudia Hill - Social Fabric Earth Return
2021
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A travel diary of a handwoven poncho with the keynote of interconnectedness.
Ada Van Hoorebeke - Fake Calligraphy
2021
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A documentation of the participatory project inspired by calligraphic batik initiated by the artists Ada Van Hoorebeke, Maartje Fliervoet and the manoeuvre platform.
Ana Lupas - Drawing The Solemn Process
2021
English edition
various
The first monograph of the Romanian avant-garde artist, focusing on the "preliminary drawings" for the work "The Solemn Process" (1964–2008).
Objects of Fascination
2021
English edition
Accattone
45 low tables imagined by as many architects / designers from personal objects of fascination.
Elisabeth Haarr -
2021
bilingual edition (English / Norwegian)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Retrospective monograph.
Tools - To Mold
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
The first issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to molding.
Anni Albers - Du tissage
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art
Written by one of the pioneers of twentieth-century textile art, Anni Albers' 1965 seminal text offers a brilliant meditation on the art of weaving, its history, tools, and techniques, and its implications for modern design (new expanded edition, with three critical texts and color illustrations).
Scripts and Calligraphy - A Timeless Journey
2021
English edition
Kaph Books
The history of Arabic calligraphy.
Décor
2021
French edition
Décor
ENSAD (École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris)
First issue of the annual review of the École des arts décoratifs de Paris, devoted to the challenges of contemporary decor.
Olaf Holzapfel - Textile
2021
trilingual edition (English / German / Spanish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Olaf Holzapfel's textile works made from cactus fibre together with a family of traditional weavers from Argentina.
Ada Van Hoorebeke - Pattern Nor Painting
2021
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Artist's book / monograph.
Bert Flint - Afro-Berber Planet - The Trans-Saharan arts at the Tiskiwin Museum, from Marrakech to Timbuktu
2021
English edition
Zamân - Zamân Books
An augmented reissue of the guide to the Tiskiwin museum in Marrakech, created by collector and anthropologist Bert Flint following his various travels through Transsaharian Africa.
Bert Flint - الكوكب الأفرو-بربري - الفنون العابرة للصحراء في متحف تيسكوينمن مراكش إلى تومبوكتو
2021
Arabic edition
Zamân - Zamân Books
An augmented reissue of the guide to the Tiskiwin museum in Marrakech, created by collector and anthropologist Bert Flint following his various travels through Transsaharian Africa.
Michel Gouéry - Plethora
2021
French edition
Arsenicgalerie
Catalogue bringing together four virtuoso artists in excess, overflow and debauchery.
Sarah Thornton - 33 artistes en 3 actes
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
French edition of the compelling narrative that goes behind the scenes with the world's most important living artists to humanize and demystify contemporary art.
Protext! (2 volumes)
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
The possible role of weaving as a transgressive practice, as a weapon of protest and sabotage.
Sara Enrico - The Jumpsuit Theme
2021
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
The series of works developed by Sara Enrico around the concept of the textile jumpsuit.
Olaf Holzapfel - Blaues Gras Entlang Flüsse / Pasto azul a lo largo de los rios
2021
trilingual edition (English / German / Spanish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Olaf Holzapfel's and Guido Yannitto's textile works.
Guillaume Dénervaud - Fumées Sombres
2021
English edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
A series of cutouts from drawings made in graphite on 46 by 61 cm size paper, and which are part of the Fumées Sombres series (2020).
Laurent Le Deunff - L\'incroyable
2021
French edition
L'Incroyable - Books
An illustrated portrait of Laurent Le Deunff through interviews with various personalities, artists, filmmaker, philosopher and art critics.
Roberto Sironi - Encoded Symbols
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
This book is dedicated to the work of Roberto Sironi, as part of a series of monographs on the thought and work of young contemporary designers. The activity of the Italian designer unfolds through highly symbolic projects, based on his personal interest in anthropology and ethnology.
Mario Merz - Igloos
2020
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
This volume outlines the multiple trajectories that led to one of Mario Merz's most significant bodies of work: the igloos. Essays by Germano Celant, Lisa Le Feuvre, Pietro Rigolo, and Mariano Boggia complement a lavish array of illustrations and hitherto unpublished documents, including a 1974 interview with Merz conducted by Harald Szeemann, and a photographic reconstruction of the Igloos exhibition at the Pirelli HangarBicocca.
Marion Baruch -
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First comprehensive monograph.
Nathalie du Pasquier - Campo di Marte
2020
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
(last copies available!)
Artist's book.
Pli - Minimal & Maximal
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Pli
Pli - Pli (magazine)
The sixth issue of the annual magazine mixing graphic design, publishing and architecture is devoted to the double theme of “Minimal & Maximal”.
Pattern, Crime & Decoration
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Le Consortium - Collective exhibitions catalogues
(last copies available!)
Catalogue of the double exhibition devoted to the Pattern & Decoration movement, with numerous previously unpublished archives.
Viktorija Rybakova - El Plástico, the Sun that lives inside the Rock
2020
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
An observation on evolution of material plasticity, a story about plastic whose native land is Mesoamerica (artists' book).
Mette Winckelmann - Laila Uti
2020
bilingual edition (English / Danish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Artist's book.
Sergej Jensen -
2020
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Retrospective catalogue spanning more than fifteen years of work by the conceptual textile artist known to explore the idiom of minimalist painting.
Eamon Ore-Giron - Infinite Regress
2020
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
First monograph: American artist Eamon Ore-Giron's hard-edge paintings combine Native American traditions and European abstraction. This publication offers a dialogue between his ongoing Infinite Regress series and the prose of poet and scholar Edgar Garcia.
Ulla von Brandenburg -
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
New monograph.
Noémie Étienne - Les Autres et les ancêtres - Les dioramas de Franz Boas et d’Arthur C. Parker à New York, 1900
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An in-depth study of the diorama in the United States at the beginning of the 20th century, a place for the creation and mediation of knowledge but also for the political construction of history, between art, anthropology and natural sciences.
Leonor Antunes - A seam, a surface, a hinge, or a knot
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Catalogue of the artist's exhibition in the Portuguese pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennale: a sculpture project engaging the heritage of post-war Italy's architecture and Italian vernacular craftsmanship.
Mariana Castillo Deball - Replaying Life\'s Tape
2019
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This catalogue documents a research and exhibition project stemming from a fieldwork conducted by the artist on a palaeontological site in South Australia.
Typologie - La cagette en peuplier
2019
French edition
Typologie
Typologie
The fourth issue of Typologie, a collection of design books about ordinary objects, is dedicated to the wooden crate.
CCE - La céramique comme expérience
2019
French edition
Naima
An overview of the experiments carried out over four years by the CCE research laboratory of the National School of Art of Limoges, between ceramics, glass and new technologies.
Pli - Obsession
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Pli
Pli - Pli (magazine)
The fifth issue of the annual magazine mixing graphic design, publishing and architecture questions these disciplines through the theme of obsession.
Sylvie Auvray - Les Cambuses
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Is-Land
Sylvie Auvray's first publication, between an artist's book and a monograph.
Ulla von Brandenburg - Sweets Quilts Sun Works
2019
bilingual edition (English / German)
various
This lavishly illustrated catalogue comprehensively documents three recent projects by Franco-German artist Ulla von Brandenburg.
Cecilia Vicuña - Slow Down Fast, A Toda Raja
2019
English edition
Errant Bodies - Doormats
In this brilliant intergenerational dialogue curator Camila Marambio and Cecilia Vicuña, one of the most intriguing Indoamerican artists of our times, converse about mestizaje/miscenegation, ecological disaster, eroticism and decolonization in their multilingual, subversive and irreverent humorous slang.
Rayyane Tabet - Fragments
2019
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Kaph Books
The book “Fragments”, designed by Lebanese artist Rayyane Tabet as an installation, coupled with a performance, is inspired by a family legend about Tabet's great-grand-father. The book accompanies an exhibition at the Kunstverein in Hamburg.
Persona - Works by Romanian artists
2019
trilingual edition (English / French / Romanian)
Mucem
Persona – Works by Romanian artists questions notions of identity and identification through traditional Romanian motifs, such as the mask. Eight contemporary artists explore how folklore is intrinsically linked to modernity.
Matali Crasset - Wood
2019
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
currently out of stock
Matali Crasset's wild houses.
Matali Crasset - Les capes + Wood (2 books)
2019
French edition
Shelter Press - Books
currently out of stock
The two books by Matali Crasset published by Shelter Press (special offer).
Roads of Arabia - Archaeological Treasures of Saudi Arabia
2019
English edition
Kaph Books
A panorama of the different cultures that have succeeded each other on the territory of the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia from prehistory to the edge of the modern world.
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