Art history

Two leading contemporary art historians offer a subtle and profound reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance.

An examination of the new approach to the artistic phenomenon that emphases the role of sensitivity and centered around the figure of the spectator in the eighteenth century.

The invention of depicting figures participating in an event marks an important change in the ways artists addressed the beholder of the artworks themselves. The contributions of this volume describe this moment from a diachronic and transcultural perspective, while each of them focuses on a specific group of works revealing a new moment in this history.

The return of the anthropological question has completely redesigned the issues of representation. A state of play.

The relationship between Modern art and its destruction.

This publication aims to explore how the multiple production of Raoul Hausmann, a central figure of Dada, has helped to shape the art of modernity.

A social history of socialist realism imagery in the former East Germany.

Thierry de Duve's writings on Marcel Duchamp.

Seven essays about Marcel Duchamp's work.

The posthumous collection of texts on art by the French philosopher.

A genealogy of cut-up: the history and development of a radical and pioneering literary technique, in Europe and the US, in the twentieth century (readings from William S. Burroughs).

The place and role of women in performing arts from 1912 to 2012, between performance and dance.

An innovative analysis of our relationship to the image.

A history of film in contemporary art (a witty critical history of artist's films and their inscription into the broader history of art, as well as their impact on their social contexts).

In about 600 selected letters, this correspondence documents the biography, activities, career and work of the art historian Leo Rosenthal (1870-1932).

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.

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

A collection of previously unpublished or revised texts by Jean-Claude Lebensztejn (1992-2012).

Social and political dimension of the emergence of a culture of the image carried by the amateur practice of photography in Germany at the dawn of the twentieth century.

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 overview of current research in the broader field of human sciences in Switzerland.

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).

A metis art history in New Spain: an analysis of the complex dynamics of crossbreeding between some singular artistic practices invented in New Spain in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries and the European Renaissance, in the political context of the Iberian expansion in the Americas.

Analyzing a variety of films, video pieces, and performances, Sven Lütticken evaluates the impact that our changing experience of time has had on the actualization of history in the present.

Raoul Hausmann's autobiographical novel.

Sound avant-garde in architecture: a journey through architecture, art and music in the twentieth century.

François Boutonnet's Mnemosyne offers the first consideration of the “Arts of Memory” from antiquity to contemporary art, connecting it to mind mapping in digital culture.

A transdisciplinary set of contributions from art historians, scientists, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts, proposing new interpretations of Gustave Courbet's work from his paintings but also from his life, correspondence and archives relative to his family, for some hitherto unpublished.

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.

A Leibnizian reinterpretation of the traditional opposition between French geometric and English landscape gardens.

Thomas Crow aims to explain what makes Warhol a precursor and a virtual paragon of the contemporary artist.

An anthology which brings to light the fertile relations between two disciplines: Cultural Studies and art history.

An anthology (1975-2000).

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.

A polyphonic self-portrait.

French edition of a study which not only offers new interpretations of Rauschenberg's work, but also deepens our understanding of the entire neo-avant-garde project.

The lecture given by the artist in 1984 at the Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris.

French edition (available in English).

Essay and interviews.