Modern art

Representation of pain in the art of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries.

Gustave Courbet, hunting, and its contemporary representations in Germany.

A collective examination of the relationship between surrealism and the “splendid nineteenth century” (André Breton), and changes that have occurred in the field of political ideas, industrial development, psychiatry, philosophy or morality, between appropriation, misappropriation and rejection.

The art of etching in Hartung's work

Oskar Schlemmer's letters and diaries.

First publication ever to focus exclusively on Marcel Duchamp's Pharmacie, the first rectified readymade in art history.

First translation into French of a series of fundamental texts by Kandinsky, published in Russia in the early twentieth century.

Function of visual arts in France during the First World War.

A reflection on the Russian avant-garde's artistic project in the early twentieth century, and the problem of their paradoxical relationship to history.

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.

An essay that renews the study of Gauguin, highlighting the consistency that connects the entire production of the painter, based on his exploration of the relationship between perception, cognition and imagination, and that connects his interests in psychology, ethnology, history of religion and the natural sciences, not to mention the art of all times and all cultures.

The enigma of the surrealist object, from its origins to its future, between the demystification of the artwork and the reinvention of reality.

First translation into French of tghe seminal book of German historian, photographer, and influential theorist and critic of avant-garde film and photography Franz Roh (1890-1965).

Picasso in front of the TV: unexpected links between the media—especially television—and Picasso's work.

Raoul Hausmann's autobiographical novel.

First publication ever to be devoted entirely to Duchamp's Broyeuse de chocolat, this volume also documents the event organized by the Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of this iconic work.

The frontispiece of Hobbes' Leviathan, Marat at his last breath by David, "Your country needs you", Guernica by Picasso: four essays on political iconography.

An anthology of Fontana's manifestos, texts and interviews.

An anthology of Fontana's manifestos, texts and interviews.

A study of the production and reception of art in the USSR in the years 1920-1930 through the analysis of the work of the Society of Easel Painters (OST)'s members.

Public garden in art between the mid-XIXth and early XXth centuries.

Émile Bernard's correspondence.

Artists and parties: aesthetics and politics in the first half of the 20th century.

A unique testimony to Duchamp's personality, to his relationship to his friends and to his works, and to the slow reception of his works in France and in the U.S.

The resurgence of Dada in the U.S. (a genealogy of American post-war experimental art).

First major publication devoted to the mysterious germano-soviet artist's collages, one of the latest discoveries of constructivism.

Catalogue focusing on both ambiguous and explicit Morellet's relationship to Malevich's oeuvre.

Reference monograph.

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).

The story of the surrealists' radical anticolonialism: a political, aesthetic and poetic avant-garde.

From Picabia's unpublished love letters to a philosophical and aesthetic inquiry on art, through Goethe, Schlegel, Hegel, or Baudelaire.

New light on Henry Moore's work through Zaha Hadid

The work of an underestimated writer, a founder of the Ultraism, initiator of Dada in the 1920s Spain.

An essay on French artist Paul Chenavard (1807-1895), romantic cursed painter-prophet, illustrating the distance between the historic claims which build the modern myth of the artist and a relative efficiency.

An innovative analysis of Dalí's work which focuses on the cultural History during the 1920's, showing that the Surrealist revolution went hand in hand with radical changes in society.

The magazine of Albert Skira, 1933–1939.

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.

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.

How, in the course of their American exile, the surrealist artists (Duchamp, Tanguy, Masson, Ernst, Lam, Carrigton ...) were influenced by the literary and artistic context. Also a specific study on the perpetual renewal of Surrealism after war, linked with the importance of esoterism, the Amerindian civilizations, and Charles Fourier.

Art as a social practice through Gustave Courbet's œuvre and political commitment.

A poetic investigation into the exile of Merz founder Kurt Schwitters in Norway and England after the Nazis' takeover of Germany.

First critical anthology of the poetry of Raoul Hausmann, one of the founders of Dada Berlin. It features many unpublished documents, an introductory essay by Isabelle Maunet-Salliet, and a recording of phonetic poems read by Raoul Hausmann.

An elucidation of the myths and the political fantasies that surrounded Gustave Courbet's work and life under the second Empire.

A thoroughly investigation of the social role of art articulated by the French left during the July Monarchy and Second Republic.

Research about the potential of the Merzbau in contemporary art and architecture, with contributions by art historians, artists, critics and architects.

A collection of the painter's writings (poetry, interviews, chronicles, previously unpublished texts and documents) who, between the 1930's and the 1970's in St-Germain-des-Prés, never ceased to explore language and to work with words as if with an unprocessed and unlimitted material.

Marcel Duchamp met Lydie Sarazin-Levassor at the end of March 1927. On 7 June, they were married. Francis Picabia acted as a witness and the ceremony was filmed by Man Ray. On 25 January 1928, they divorced. Lydie Sarazin-Levassor tells the story of their marriage.

10 new perspectives on the artist, his oeuvre and its reception.

A critical counterpoint to the famous Tzara's cronic published in the Dada Almanach, by the founder of the Cabaret Voltaire.