Art history

Viennese Actionism was one of the strongest effort of the 1960's to develop contemporary art and a forerunner of what is now widely known as Performance Art. Danièle Roussel interviewed not only the former actionists (Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, Günther Brus, Rudolf Schwarzkogler) but also some journalists, politicians, historians and witnesses of that time.

Three studies on Reverdin's biography.

A sharp summary of contemporary art since Marcel Duchamp.

An ironic, historic and personal assessment of the transformations of art in the years 1950-1960 by one member of the New realists: the story of collage, the return of dada, an evocation of Léo Malet, the work with Raymond Hains...

A new approach on the Situationist International and its paradoxical myths.

This brilliant work studies the notion of modernity as it's been defined at the end of the XIXth century, especially through the analyse of the links between the visual culture and several main social debates of the time such as sexuallity, urban crowd, riots and social control mechanisms, the Republic and the Church, nationalism and militarism.

How, in the course of their American exile, the surrealist artists (Duchamp, Tanguy, Masson, Ernst, Lam, Carrigton ...) were influenced by the literary and artistic context. Also a specific study on the perpetual renewal of Surrealism after war, linked with the importance of esoterism, the Amerindian civilizations, and Charles Fourier.

Art as a social practice through Gustave Courbet's œuvre and political commitment.

First critical anthology of the poetry of Raoul Hausmann, one of the founders of Dada Berlin. It features many unpublished documents, an introductory essay by Isabelle Maunet-Salliet, and a recording of phonetic poems read by Raoul Hausmann.

An elucidation of the myths and the political fantasies that surrounded Gustave Courbet's work and life under the second Empire.

A thoroughly investigation of the social role of art articulated by the French left during the July Monarchy and Second Republic.

Research about the potential of the Merzbau in contemporary art and architecture, with contributions by art historians, artists, critics and architects.

Five essays, with a special project by Olivier Foulon.

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.

Poetry and space for Marcel Broodthaers—a critical essay.

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.

In Black is a Color, contemporary art historian and curator Elvan Zabunyan proposes a new approach to contemporary art and its history through the practice of Black American artists from the Harlem Renaissance to today.

In Black is a Color, contemporary art historian and curator Elvan Zabunyan proposes a new approach to contemporary art and its history through the practice of Black American artists from the Harlem Renaissance to today.

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

The correspondance between Otto Muehl and Erika Stocker forms an intense journal of Viennese actionism, and more particularly of the artist's work.

Otto Muehl was condemned to 7 years of prison in 1991. He exchanged letters with his family and friends, he painted.

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.

An essay on conceptual art.

The actionnist's autobiography.

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.

What canvases reveal to us is often beyond what we believe we understand. Like true false semblances, they subtley encourage us to turn away from them in order to engage ourselves in their hidden intrigues (where they often meet our own).

Conversations with Daniel Baumann and Jutta Koether, accompanied by "reconnaissance photos".

The journal of one of the first women artists of the history of painting.

The critical importance of the theme of “designation” in arts and its gradual emergence in the thinking of Thierry de Duve since 1985.

A compelling read on the status of the object in contemporary art and design.

A compelling read on the status of the object in contemporary art and design.

The portfolio of the exhibition at the Jeu de Paume in Château de Tours, dedicated to autochrome, a technique patented at the very beginning of the 20th century by the Lumière brothers, which revolutionized the history of photography by introducing color, before falling into oblivion and then being rediscovered in recent decades by historians and collectors.

The first volume in bie bao series dedicated to militant investigations on Russian poet, designer, typographer, theoretician, and publisher Iliazd (Ilya Zdanevich, 1894-1975), who developed a new philosophy and methodology from zaum (trans-sense) experiments.

"Stories of Paper" traces the history of paper as a thousand-year-old material used from antiquity to the present day, and provides an original perspective on the history of graphic arts.

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).

The portfolio of the exhibition at the Jeu de Paume: a panorama of the visual inventions of the photographic avant-gardes, in the heart of MoMA's modern photography collection.

Everything Passes Except the Past takes an artistic and discursive approach to coming to grips with a colonial past that remains present in ethnographic museums, public space, and image archives.