Art history

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work from his paintings but also from his life, correspondence and archives relative to his family, for some hitherto unpublished.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.

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.

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, E. Coccia, 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.