Modern art

Following the opening up of Japan to the West in the 1850s, artists, designers and makers across Europe became gripped by a new fashion for “Japonism”. The catalogue of the Louvre Abu-Dhabi exhibition focuses on the pioneering group of Parisian artists Les Nabis, their fascination for Japanese prints, and the importance of this cross-cultural influence in the development of the decorative arts.

Luxurious bilingual monograph dedicated to Hans Hartung, bringing together numerous works from 1922 to 1989. Directed by Matthieu Poirier, the richly documented publication features a full-color central section with reproductions of Hartung's paintings. Appendix includes a text by Jean Clay and an interview with Pierre Soulages by Pierre Encrevé, in which the painter discusses his friendship with Hartung.

In his “Book” George Brecht describes the specific nature of each single page, in a gesture that renders the printed matter a tautological object.

Originally released by Multhipla Records, The Entire Musical Work of Marcel Duchamp is a collection of experimental pieces composed in 1913 by the legendary artist, and executed by Petr Kotik and the S.E.M. Ensemble in 1976. Employing chance operations and non-musical sounds, Marcel Duchamp's musical oeuvre predated some radical concepts developed forty years later by John Cage.

First volume of a special issue devoted to the rediscovery of Charles Fourier's oeuvre by the Surrealists. This volume focuses on the pioneer works of philosopher Simone Debout, including early and recent works, and an unpublished correspondence with André Breton. The issue also features an introduction by Florent Perrier & Gérard Roche, and texts and essays by Charles Fourier, Philippe Audoin, André Breton, Michel Butor, Roger Garaudy, Annie Le Brun, Robert Pagès, Octavio Paz, Raymond Queneau and Alejandra Riera.

A typology of erasure as artistic gesture throughout the twentieth century.

An unique view into the creative universe and the artistic circle of agnès b. by bringing together major works she has collected and some special contributions (available in

A complete study on Tinguely's Torpedo Institut, an ever-evolving & never-ending iconoclastic exhibition venue shut down after his death – and against his will. Gathering the Swiss artist's latest works, and those of his closest friends (Niki de Saint Phalle, Daniel Spoerri, Ben...), this “total anti-museum” is now reassigned to its rightful place among Tinguely's oeuvre in the form of this exceptional publication.

A manifesto-as-culinary-innovation.

Ulf Linde summarizes his decades of investigation into the geometry of Duchamp's works.

The work of Raymond Roussel as a point of departure for an oblique and transversal reading of 20th century art.

The catalogue of the Ostend exhibition, a reference publication on Dada and Surrealism around the figure of E.L.T. Mesens, a pillar of the surrealist movement in Belgium.

The Zurich works.

A collection of texts, most unpublished in French.

Reference monograph (available in English edition).

Illustrated catalogue of the exhibition Hartung in China, on the relations between calligraphy and Western painting, taking Hans Hartung's work as starting point.

Second volume of the ultimate collection of archives of all the avant-garde in Belgium from Magritte to Broodthaers, from James Ensor to Christian Dotremont.

10 new perspectives on the artist, his oeuvre and its reception (also available in English edition).

A original approach to the life and work of Hans Hartung through its relationship with the space of his houses and workshops, in Menorca, Paris, and Antibes.

First volume of the ultimate collection of archives of all the avant-garde in Belgium from Magritte to Broodthaers, from James Ensor to Christian Dotremont.

Monograph dedicated to the post-impressionnist painter's landscapes.

The first critical edition treating a fundamental text by one of the principle actors of Fluxus.

Richard Huelsenbeck's En avant dada is his first proclamation of Dada in Berlin.

Edited by Marc Dachy, this first CD devoted exclusively to Marcel Duchamp brings forth some very rare documents of the '50s.

Hartung's early watercolor works on paper (33 tipped in full page color illustrations, under boxset).

A pioneering study of the relation between the fine arts and philosophy in France, from the aftermath of the 1789 revolution to the end of the nineteenth century, when a philosophy of being called "monism"—the concept of a unity of matter and spirit—emerged and became increasingly popular among intellectuals, artists and scientists.