Art & cultural identity

 
 
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.
A bras le corps - Matérialité, image et devenir des corps
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Bibliothèque art action pensée
A collective publication that brings together artists and researchers on the issue of the body.
Andreas Fogarasi - Panorama
2013
bilingual edition (English / Turkish)
Sputnik
12.00 5.00 €
This 3.5 meters-wide artist's book documents and extends a multifaceted installation by artist Andreas Fogarasi—at once a panoramic view of Istanbul, a public platform, a dysfunctional look-out and a touristic attraction.
Brice Dellsperger - Body Double
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Artist's book (an hallucinated portrait gallery of most of the characters created by Brice Dellsperger for his film remakes) / first substantive study of his work, with an essay by Marie Canet.
Brice Dellsperger - Body Double
2011
French edition
various
Artist's book (available in English edition).
Adel Abdessemed - The Power to Act
2011
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph.
Adel Abdessemed - Puissance d\'agir
2011
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
40.00 25.00 €
Reference monograph (available in English edition).
La rébellion du Deuxième Sexe - L\'histoire de l\'art au crible des théories féministes anglo-américaines (1970-2000)
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
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).
Maïté Vissault - Der Beuys Komplex - L\'identité allemande à travers la réception de l\'œuvre de Joseph Beuys (1945-1986)
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A study of political and ideological stakes of Beuys' oeuvre and its myth in Germany.
Pierre Molinier - Limited edition
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
30 copies limited edition accompanied by a signed color photographic print of Molinier's fetish doll by Philippe Bonan.
Agnès Vannouvong - Jean Genet - Les revers du genre
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Bibliothèque art action pensée
An essay on Jean Genet and the gender performance.
Pierre Molinier -
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Mennour
The method and genesis of Pierre Molinier's oeuvre with more than 800 pictures, mostly unpublished, numerous documents, manuscripts and letters, a complete chronology, a critical biography, and a text by Jean-Luc Mercié.
Pierre Molinier - Limited edition
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
50 copies limited edition accompanied by a signed color photographic print of Molinier's fetish doll by artist photographer Gilles Berquet.
Nicolas Bourriaud - The Radicant
2009
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
15.00 7.50 €
Nicolas Bourriaud's most recent essay: a radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.
Katharine Park - Secrets de femmes - Le genre, la génération et les origines de la dissection humaine
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
The central role of female body in the history of anatomy, beyond the historiographical "taboo" around the religious prohibition.
Mark Wallinger -
2008
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Comprehensive monograph on British artist, including all of his important pieces from the past years.
Shifting Identities - (Swiss) Art Now
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
(Swiss) art now: catalogue of a group exhibition dealing with issues of identity and focusing on the traces of globalisation to be found in contemporary art.
Charlie White - American Minor
2008
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Exploring the complex realities of American teen culture.
Zilla Leutenegger - Zilla and the 7th Room
2008
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Personal narration, drawings, and installations in a grown-up children's book.
Richard Thomson - La République troublée - Culture  visuelle et débat social en France (1889-1900)
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
This brilliant work studies the notion of modernity as it's been defined at the end of the XIXth century, especially through the analyse of the links between the visual culture and several main social debates of the time such as sexuallity, urban crowd, riots and social control mechanisms, the Republic and the Church, nationalism and militarism.
Citizens and Subjects: The Netherlands, for example
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
A part of the Dutch Pavilion at the 52nd International Art Exhibition of the Venice Biennale.
Václav Stratil - I\'m History
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Tranzit
A documentation on the Czech artist's work, based on a series of self-portraits.
 Yan Pei-Ming - Execution
2006
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A collection of texts and interviews around the artist's work.
Rebecca Warren -
2005
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First monograph of the artist, presenting her figures of unfired clay, which grotesquely exaggerate the characteristic traits and trademarks of female sexuality.
Pierre Molinier - Je suis né homme-putain - Écrits et dessins inédits
2005
French edition
Mennour
Writings and drawings.
Keep This Sex Out Of My Sight
2003
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
A study, by five women, on the artistic representations of the female body (essays by Chrystel Besse, Marie-Joseph Bertini, Arlette Fontan, Françoise Gaillard, and Elvan Zabunyan).
Cachez ce sexe que je ne saurais voir
2003
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
A study, by five women, on the artistic representations of the female body (essays by Chrystel Besse, Marie-Joseph Bertini, Arlette Fontan, Françoise Gaillard, and Elvan Zabunyan).
Claude Rutault - Identité et Différence
1978
French edition
Le Consortium - Monographs
Pierre Molinier - Mon cul
1968
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
currently out of stock
Original gelatin silver print (circa 1968) by Pierre Molinier, on sealed Kodak Kodura paper.
Brice Dellsperger - On Gender Performance
2020
English edition
Floating Opera Press
sold out
A conversation about performance, genre and cinema in the subversive work of Brice Dellsperger.
Daniela Comani - Planet Earth - 21st Century
2020
trilingual edition (English / German / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
sold out
A collection of 360 postcards of cities from all around the world, made with screenshots from 3D software Apple Maps and Google Earth.
Keith Edmier - Mother Mold - Limited edition
2018
English edition
Petzel
sold out
Limited special edition, signed and numbered by the artist with a custom seal. Also included is a card of the 50th and final lifecast self portrait of Edmier made on the exact minute of his 50th birthday and the day of the exhibition opening at Petzel Gallery. Special editions come in a set of 2 books: one first edition copy & one sealed and signed by the artist with the final card.
Laurence Rasti - There Are No Homosexuals in Iran
2017
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
sold out
For two years, Laurence Rasti photographed Iranian homosexual refugees who transit through the city of Denizli in Turkey, waiting to join a host country where to live their sexuality freely. The resulting photographic series explores the sensitive concepts of identity and gender, while juxtaposing the gravity of the situation with lighter and hopeful moments.
Nicola Tyson - Works on Paper
2016
English edition
Petzel
sold out
This book explores a range of works made between 2002 and 2016 from Nicola Tyson's sketchbook pages to large graphite drawings and giant, life-sized ink drawings.
Jean-Claude Moineau - Queeriser l\'art
2016
French edition
Art Book Magazine
sold out
Queer theory as a critical tool against the very idea of identity in art.
Ull Hohn - Foregrounds, Distances
2016
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Foregrounds, Distances aims not only to offer the first comprehensive overview of Hohn's work, but also to contribute to a history of painting-based practices, which occupy a marginal place in the established narratives of the art of the 1980s and 1990s.
Volume! - Avec ma gueule de métèque
2015
texts in English and French
Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
Mélanie Seteun - Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
sold out
If France is a land of immigration, what about its variété genre? This issue of Volume! aims at tracing the French paths of artists of foreign origin—those who integrated the legacy of chanson française, and those who left a mark on their community by singing exile. As a protean form of expression, variété is an ideal object to observe the ways in which immigrant and foreign identities have been moulded in post-1945 popular music.
Kader Attia - RepaiR
2014
English edition
BlackJack editions - Monographs & artists' books
sold out
Both an artist's book and Kader Attia's reference monograph, “RepaiR” consists of interviews and texts around Attia's oeuvre, documented through about 1000 b/w reproductions, and the notion of repair, by 13 academics and researchers working in various disciplines. The book also reveals the artist's research and creation process, with a selection of archive texts and images.
Luciano Castelli - Self-Portrait 1973-1986
2014
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
sold out
Luciano Castelli's self-portraits.
Roni Horn - 153 Drawings
2013
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
Thematic monograph.
Pierre Molinier -
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Mennour
sold out
The method and genesis of Pierre Molinier's oeuvre (available in English edition).
Kader Attia -
2009
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
BlackJack editions - Monographs & artists' books
sold out
A retrospective of Kader Attia's works from 2005 to 2009, with an interview and various texts.
Henrik Olesen - Some Faggy Gestures
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
The "Mnemosyne" of sexual identity.
Glenn Ligon - Figure
2008
English edition
Yvon Lambert - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
A series of 50 unique silkscreens: each figure is a selfportrait of the artist. His head is represented from the front or from the back, showing and hiding the artist identity.
Adel Abdessemed - A l\'attaque
2007
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
New monograph on Adel Abdessemed's videos, installations, scultpures and drawings, as a critique of the various guises of oppression and violence in our modern societies, both in Western and Muslim culture. With an interview and an essay.
Kader Attia -
2006
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
First monograph on the French artist, fully illustrated, with texts, interview and documentation.
 Yan Pei-Ming - For my father, Dijon–Shangai–Guangdong
2005
trilingual edition (English / French / Chinese)
various
sold out
Catalog published for the two exhibitions of the artist in Shangai and Guangdong in 2005.
 Yan Pei-Ming - Fils du Dragon
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
First monograph.
 Yan Pei-Ming - The Way of the Dragon
2004
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
First monograph.
Gabrielle Wittkop - Nouveaux mémoires de l\'Abbé de Choisy habillé en femme, pour servir de supplément aux modes du Grand Siècle
2002
French edition
Yvon Lambert - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
François-Timoléon de Choisy's writings (1644-1724), presented and illustrated with original collages by Gabrielle Wittkop.
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