Art history

The 5th issue of the art history magazine published by the Mamco, Geneva, is entirely dedicated to Philippe Thomas.

Women's artistic literature: a collective and transnational history of discourses of women on art in the 18th and 19th centuries (essays).

Women's artistic literature: a collective and transnational history of discourses of women on art in the 18th and 19th centuries (an anthology of essays, articles, travelogues, letters ...).

Émile Bernard's correspondence.

A philosophical, social and political study of a series of public sculptures by Claes Oldenburg et Coosje van Bruggen.

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

The Nouveau Réalisme between Paris and West Germany in the 1960's.

The story of objectivity, by two of the greatest historians of science today.

A reexamination of the role of female avant-gardes in the fields of performance and dance: a comprehensive publication with over 2500 color illustrations, together with documentary material on Valentine de Saint-Point, Marinetti, Futurism, Canudo, Russian Ballets, German and American expressionism (original photographs, manuscript letters, drawings, woodcuts, manifestos, first editions and ephemera).

Essay.

First major monograph in French, fully illustrated, devoted to the key figure of Joseph Beuys, revealing the aesthetic ambition and political issues through a genealogy that retraces a whole part of the XXth century.

A pioneering and masterly study of the history of art markets in Italy (covering the fields of painting and scultpure, but also architecture, applied arts and performing arts), which demonstrates the possibility of an economic history of art linking social or political mechanisms and symbolic or patrimonial issues.

Letterism's history and posterity: a new reading of the historical issues of an unknown but influential artistic avant-garde.

The carpet paradigm: critical prolegomena to a theory of flatness (an original and stimulating analysis of an essential concept of modern art history).

The dimension of self-reflexivity in the work of eighteenth-century French painter, Jean-Siméon Chardin.

The unknown and disregarded literary arts of sixteenth century England (graffiti, tatoos, writing on clothes or ceramics...): a startling new perspective of early modern literature and cultural history.

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

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 first artistic perspective on prehistoric art through the rigorous study of its formal conventions and stylistic developments.

The artist as a theoretician: six essays (one text in English) on the question of reciprocity between theory and art practice.

A study of political and ideological stakes of Beuys' oeuvre and its myth in Germany.

A study of the musical (and political) aspects of one of the most subversive artistic movements of the 60's.

An anthology of texts by philosophers, theoricians and art historians (H. Belting, H. Bredekamp, G. Didi-Huberman, J.-L. Nancy, W.J.T. Mitchell...) around the specific logic of the image and the transformation of the contemporary visual field.

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

An history of illuminated manuscript from its origins, in the early Christian era, until the Renaissance, through the study of the book opening medium.

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

Second issue of the art history magazine published by the Mamco, Geneva.

Reference monograph.

An in depth analysis of one of the most inventive (but also the most misunderstood) post-war avant-garde movements.

The collection of texts on contemporary art by Jean-Christophe Ammann.

Charles Fourier's theories and archives, his disciples and the concrete becomings of his utopian system, his influences in history, in modern and contemporary art... with about 20 essays and 300 illustrations.

A new approach to Velázquez' work, from the analysis of the "small characters" who haunt his paintings.

A conference on the invention of perspective, Arab science and the art of the Renaissance.

An anthology.

Net Pioneers 1.0 discusses media art history with a new, interdisciplinary look at the historical, social, and economic dynamics of our contemporary, networked society.

An erotic history of art, from the figure of Pygmalion.

Essay.

A comprehensive overview of Kantor's versatility, from his theater productions and actions to his painterly and sculptural works.

This book reexamines the legacies of modern theoretical and artistic iconoclasm in the context of the current religious-political image wars.

Accompanied with Fluxus pamphlets, manifestoes and newspapers of the artist, the unpublished manuscript of the mother of the founder of the avant-garde movement constitutes an invaluable entry to the private world of Maciunas, and the occasion of a revaluation of its artistic and strategic choices.

First translation in French of a major work by British social anthropologist.

Deciphering Duchamp.

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.

First issue of the art history magazine published by the Mamco, Geneva.

The magazine of Albert Skira, 1933–1939.

Inside the white cube.

The "Anthology of art" established during more than a year a ground of exchange on Internet for artists and art critics worldwide, being interested in the relations between art, its theoretical discourse, the conditions of its production and its distribution. This work collects the contributions.