Modern art

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

Dick Higgins, one of the main figures of Fluxus, points out the particularity of poet-artists who, since German and English Romanticism, have refused to make distinctions between what is sonorous, visual and written.

Two studies on the link between language, art and reality in Marcel Duchamp's work.

Reprint of the first Dada anthology (Berlin, 1920), with Tzara's chronicles, manifests and documents.

Hans Hartung always gave a lot of attention to the filing of his works. This essay on the abstract painter is linked with a specific web site where one will find a rich iconography and documentation.

A new approach of Duchamp's keywords.

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, presents us with “her” Marcel, and relates her encounters with Jacques Doucet, Constantin Brancusi, Henri-Pierre Roché, Man Ray and Kiki de Montparnasse, Jean Cocteau, the Ballets Russes, the Duchamp family, Jean Crotti, Mary Rumsey, Katherine Dreier and Robert Desnos, and describes the atmosphere at the Villons' (in Puteaux, just outside Paris), the Picabias' (at Mougins, in the South of France) and the Sarazin-Levassors' (in Étretat, on the Normandy coast).

Marcel Duchamp “laid bare” by Marc Décimo who talks about the creative process in this essay on the father of conceptual art.

A selection of unfavourable articles on Gauguin.

The Fluxus anthology.

This posthumous work is the first study of his friend Gustave Courbet (who requested a text for a catalog), and of the role of art in society.

The last document of the dadasopher of Berlin.

An essay on Duchamp's readings, and a systematic chart of his personnal library.

Unpublished text, signed original woodcut, unique for each copy

A selection of unfavourable, violent, conformist, sceptic or narrow judgments on Picasso, published in French and international newspapers (Le Figaro, The Daily Mail, Les Lettres françaises, Life...) between 1917 and 1973.

This biography of Hermann Hesse by his friend Hugo Ball is one of the best exposés of his spiritual journeys, and also an approach of Ball's own fundamental themes

The anti-romanesque, a-metaphysical and theoretical Einstein's dadaist autobiography.

First publication in French on Fluxus artist, including the transcription of an intervention by Higgins at the International Conference on Action Art in October 1998. With texts by Charles Dreyfus and Jacques Donguy.

Unpublished text, signed original artwork, unique for each copy

Using unpublished material at the Fondation Hartung Bergman, this exhibition catalogue concentrates on the earlier phases of Hartung's career and demonstrates the critical importance of his drawings.

A presentation of Hans Hartung's painted work.

Reference monograph edited by the artist, with introductions by Octavio Paz and John Golding.

Reference monograph, with an introduction by Herbert Read and autobiographical texts by the artist.

Reference monograph, with an introduction by Herbert Read and autobiographical texts by the artist.

Reference monograph, with an introduction by Herbert Read and autobiographical texts by the artist.

The 1959 study that simultaneously established sculpture as a major art form in the 20th century, and established Michel Seuphor as a pioneer in art criticism, with 411 illustrations and 438 biographies of sculptors.

A survey of Louise Nevelson's research on collage.

A history of southern surrealism, between Monaco and Alexandria: a journey that defies established cartographies, far from the nationalistic landmarks of a European-centric history of modernity.

The catalog of the international exhibition initiated at Les Abattoirs reveals a little-known story that was a milestone in 20th century psychiatry and its new links with art brut and modern art, taking as its starting point the career of the Catalan psychiatrist François Tosquelles (1912-1994).

Retrospective monograph of the Greek painter Yannis Tsarouchis (1910-1989).

Catalogue of the exhibition gathering a set of eighty works, on canvas or paper, in small and very large formats, that Anna-Eva Bergman created in the wake of her two travels to northern Norway, in 1950 and 1964, from which emerges a plastic language that signs the whole of his future work.

Recipes from all over the world: an illustrated cookbook by Anna-Eva Bergman, published for the first time.

This publication devoted to Otto Dix's print works (woodcuts, etchings, lithographs) showcases a collection from the Zeppelin Museum Friedrichshafen, Germany. A large iconographic thematic section and a series of essays revisit Otto Dix's favourite themes—the nude, the portrait, the city, religion and war—symptomatic of his desire to portray man holistically, from birth to death, as a creature of flesh, palpitations and blood.

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.

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.

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.