Feminism

This essay examines the concept of “missing citizens”, taking as a point of departure the violence in the French suburbs, and focusing on contemporary migrations and the construction of citizenships.

Comprehensive monograph: a broad selection of Josephine Pryde's work from 1990 to 2014.

5th issue of the art and research magazine is dedicated to Andrea Fraser.

Jason Matthew Lee, Daniel Baumann, Marylin Minter, Magali Reus, Know Wave Radio, Beatrice Gibson, Catherine Ahearn, K-Hole, Jamian Juliano-Villani, Alessandro Bava, Zhao Yao; a reconsideration of female identities and role models; Ida Ekblad; 100 pages of visual contributions by artists, curators and image-makers...

Third volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on photography, film, video, and new media.

First monograph.

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

Artist's book.

An epistemology of performance.

A protean series of works in which artist Fatima Mazmouz thinks her pregnant body as an artistic process and as a place of performance.

Second volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on performance and performativity.

An epistemology of performance (also available in English edition).

Martha Rosler embarks on a broad inquiry into the economic and historical precedents for today's soft ideology of creativity, with special focus on its elaborate retooling of class distinctions.

The largest presentation of Marie-Louise Ekman's art ever featured in the form of a book.

A literary tribute to Sarah Lucas, at once an adroit art-historical study and a poetic travelogue.

The first poetry book wrote by the visual and sound artist Felicia Atkinson.

Fully illustrated retrospective monograph based on Kimsooja's project presented at the Korean Pavilion of the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, with numerous newly commissioned and re-published texts.

Limited edition of Kimsooja's monograph, accompanied by a Korean Bottari and a screenprinted bag.

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

A polyphonic self-portrait.

A conversation with the artist (with a selection of reference documents).

Special issue dedicated to the question of the presence and treatment of sexuality in contemporary creation.

Various documentary approaches of Kimsooja's work (8 films).

New translation of Virginia Woolf's book-length essay published in 1938.

What role do the representations of the Other, the body, women and race play in highly publicized cultural productions?

This monograph is derived from a lecture given in 2009 at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts in Brussels. ORLAN takes a retrospective look at her career and brings forward themes explored in her work, such as hybridization and the female body in art.

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).

Most of Gitte Villesen's works made since 1994.

Retrospective monograph dedicated to one of France's major proponents of body art.

Retrospective monograph dedicated to one of France's major proponents of body art (available in English edition).

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).

First monograph on Californian artist / musician's surreal-oriented universe (collages, sculptures, costumes, performances, music, films and videos), with essays by Doug Harvey, Stéphanie Moisdon and a conversation between the artist and Mike Kelley.

A collection of texts with a feminist approach, in which Joumana Haddad tells about the life of female poets who committed suicide.

The 4th issue of May makes an atypical choice by publishing a very large section of archival material coming from what is called the“feminist nebula” in Italy in the 1970s. Beyond their great historical, aesthetic and literary value, these documents contribute to the line of thinking pursued by the magazine to re-posit the terms of a social critique in relation to the critique of present-day artistic production.

An essay on Jean Genet and the gender performance.

A new series of works engaging with the interaction between politics and glamour.

Reference monograph.

The central role of female body in the history of anatomy, beyond the historiographical "taboo" around the religious prohibition.

The live recording of the performance given by the artists at NBK, Berlin, 17 August 2008

First monograph devoted to the work of French artist/photographer: an uncanny typological inventory of social representations of mankind (and especially women), questioning the status of contemporary photograph, between documentary, constructed fiction and visual art.

Between critical writing and visual art practice.

A collection of previously unpublished poetic texts by ORLAN, accompanied with photos by Fabrice Lévêque: a new highlighting on her work.

Limited edition with a signed silkscreen enhanced by ORLAN's own lips.

First monograph on the Californian artist.

Conditions, procedures, framing and circulation of art works.

The writings by Annette Messager assembed by Marie-Laure Bernadac appear to be exuberant, poetic, trivial. Lavishly illustrated, this monograph contains a collection of texts and interviews with the artist, many of which are unpublished.

A fully illustrated, artist-designed catalogue.

Lavishly illustrated, this monograph contains a collection of texts and interviews with the artist, many of which are unpublished.

A limited and signed edition of the monograph Mot pour mot, with original artwork by the artist.