Art history

A study of representations of HIV and AIDS in American and European art, that opens up a vast political, economic and social history of two decades fatally haunted by the catastrophe.

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.

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.

A study and translation of a fundamental text on the “art of the insane” in Russia, re-establishing a whole section of Western history of the interest of psychiatrists in the relationship between creation and madness.

The collection of writings on art by the French philosopher, historian, semiologist and art critic Louis Marin (1931-1992).

A historiography of impressionism: a historical and critical study of the writing of impressionist history as a documentary (de)monstration.

Socialist realism and the relationship between the visual culture of the 1950s and the geopolitical "climate" of the time.

Copies, appropriations, quotations in the collections of the Centre national des arts plastiques (also available in English).

An analysis of the exhibition pavilions (universal exhibitions and bienniales) from the point of view of their architecture, crossing the contributions of designers and architects, historians, philosophers and aestheticians.

The first study of all the archives and documents relating to the artist's museum created by Martin Kippenberger.

A study that explores the complex relationship between nationalism, traditionalism and the critique of modern culture in France in the decades preceding the First World War.

A reconstruction of the vast network of images and texts that give shape to Italian fascist totalitarianism.

A survey of the history of temporary exhibitions in France, through a series of interviews with 38 curators.

Why does a painter like Delacroix paint so many religious subjects?

An investigation into artistic reproduction and the role of the engravers in the shadows who made prints signed by others, questioning the relationships of domination and subordination in creation.

Experimental poetry, historical avant-garde, contemporary music, dance, visual arts, intermedia.

An historical perspective of the representation of non-western art in western museums and imagination / an essay on the relations between African arts and avant-garde.

A collective analysis of the emergence of the “contemporary” and the transnational and transhistorical logics at work in artistic practices in Dakar in response to questions raised by globalization since the Independances, opening up new territories for sociological, economic, political and aesthetic investigations.

Émilie Notéris focuses her analysis on artworks created by women in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, in a book that is at once literary, aesthetic and political.

A study attempting to put the authorship of God back into perspective with the help of new sources and to explain why this is actually a work by Morton L. Schamberg.

A collection of contributions from art history, history, literature, gender studies and ethnology to rethink the Enlightenment in Switzerland.

A collection of contributions from art history, history, literature, gender studies and ethnology to rethink the Enlightenment in Switzerland.

Between 2017 and 2020, researchers in the fields of art, design, computer science, psychology, sociology, digital humanities and mathematics explored the historical publication of the artist Paul Klee, which appeared in 1925 at the Bauhaus. The research work led to the project being part of a logic of patrimonialisation and transmission of knowledge based on digital technologies.

Examining how things are sold and exchanged within diverse cultural environments, past and present through a collection of contributions by social anthropologists and historians, this book builds a bridge between social history, cultural anthropology and economics and marks a major step in our understanding of the cultural foundations of economic life and the sociology of culture.

Drawing on extensive documentation and unpublished sources, this collective publication proposes an ambitious re-examination of Hans Hartung's prolific work and eventful personal trajectory as an actor in a broader history of abstraction, which also provides a fertile matrix for many other reflections on twentieth-century art.

A journey through Western artistic culture with thirty-nine ancient and contemporary works from the Fabrizio Moretti collection, from the Gothic period to the experiments of the last ten years, passing through Mannerism and the Baroque.

The republishing, in the form of a palimpsest, of the prefaces published in the various editions of the catalogue of the Damascus National Museum, from 1919 to the end of the last century.

Through the detailed analysis of Antonin Artaud's psychiatric history, Lettrist master Isidore Isou delivers a real indictment in this singular text which is both an investigation and a pamphlet.

An essay on art exhibition.

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.

An ambitious and transversal study on the crisis of humanism resulting from modernity, and on the historical consequences of the universalist and absolute conception carried by Futurism and the Bauhaus, proposing little explored paths for a re-reading of the artistic stakes in the 20th century.

A story, between myth and reality, of Caravaggio, by parodic artist Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux.

Limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20, with an original artwork signed by the artist.

The development of spatial and tridimensional drawing in American art, both in theory and in practice, from the 1960s through the 1970s.

An anthology.

How to explain the intersection, during the twentieth century, of the ideology and theories on violence and creativity?

A transdisciplinary study that sheds new light on the birth of modern architecture in France through its relations with the printed text, vector of the diffusion of the architectural ideal at the scale of the nation, and the emergence of the public sphere between the end of the 17th century and the French Revolution.

A closer reading of the late poetry of Jean Hans Arp (1886-1966), major figure of the Dada movement in Zurich, a friend of the surrealists, painter, sculptor, also author of an important bilingual poetic work, which covers more than half a century of creation (with a choice of poems previously unpublished).

Jean Laude's writings on art.

First French edition of an essential manifesto of modern art written by Russian writer, poet and journalist Ilya Ehrenburg in 1921.

A collective reassessment of Gertrude Stein's relationship to the arts, allowing to understand the complexity of the relationship between writing and visual arts in her work.

Conceived around an anthropology of the object, this book proposes to follow the course of royal objects of Abomey, former capital of the pre-colonial Kingdom of Dahomey (in present-day Benin).

The reconciliation of art and life, at the heart of the reflection and practice of many modern and contemporary movements.

Jean Dubuffet, Art Brut, and the primitivist paradigm.

A journey covering several episodes of Situationist International.

The historical-memorial narrative in comics, from Art Spiegelman to Marjane Satrapi, as a new form of representation of History, between individual and collective memory.

How did autonomous art become such an effective tool of the capitalist state? A thorough analysis of the connection between contemporary art and modern biopower.