Art brut / “outsider art”

Artist's book.

Compilation realized within the framework of the "Rencontres de Pratiques Brutes de la Musique" by the association Sonic Protest.

The long-awaited facsimile publication of Dorothy Iannone's 1969 cookbook.

Will Sweeney's new graphic narrative is set in a retrofuturistic England ruled by a twisted elite who exploits a population inhabiting decadent urban centers. Monsters populate this strange world, and humanity's last chance lies in the power of the Vorpal Sword—a metaphysical blade of vital creative energy…

An introductory examination of asylum art before the theorization of art brut, followed by a new critical edition of French alienist Marcel Réja's study on the “madmen's art”.

First double album of the "art brut" sound artist Jean-Marie Massou, mixing field recordings, laments and messages to humanity, recorded by himself on his cassette recorders.

First double album of the "art brut" sound artist Jean-Marie Massou, mixing field recordings, laments and messages to humanity, recorded by himself on his cassette recorders.

Reference catalogue that examines the notion of Art Brut in a time of new technologies. The first section of the volume features a selection of essays by specialists; the second and richly illustrated section introduces the works of 28 iconic or emerging artists.

An audio recording of the American artist performing a German folk song while masturbating.

A complete study on Tinguely's Torpedo Institut, an ever-evolving & never-ending iconoclastic exhibition venue shut down after his death – and against his will. Gathering the Swiss artist's latest works, and those of his closest friends (Niki de Saint Phalle, Daniel Spoerri, Ben...), this “total anti-museum” is now reassigned to its rightful place among Tinguely's oeuvre in the form of this exceptional publication.

A new drug on the market: an illustrated kaleidoscopic trip by Arnaud Loumeau.

With Grotesque female creatures, atomic lightbeams, skulls, Pop monsters and ukiyo-e decoration... These polychromic hallucinations of a Master of Psychedelic art were inspired by a near-death experience.

A seminal text (and introduction to some 25000 pages of drawings, collages, autobiographical writings and compositions by Adolf Wölfli), this “short autobiography” of a major figure in the history of art brut is accompanied by a mini-CD containing the two interpretations of Wölfli's graphic scores by Nurse With Wound, first published in 1986.

Somewhere between Hieronymus Bosch and Roald Dahl, Amandine Urruty's frescoes picture a particularly rich wonderland inhabited by anthropomorphic animals. A graphite virtuoso, Urruty uses sfumato technique with abundant details to form her baroque & bubblegum universe.

A series of surgical experiments on creatures with genetic disorders resulting from a hypothetical interbreeding between aliens and humans: a crude transhumanist nightmare by Wataru Kasahara.

Artist Stéphane Blanquet re-draws a collection of (mostly) vintage pornographic pictures. These disturbing diptychs constitute an essential catalog of sexual fantasies and oddities.

An experimental film by Oswald Wiener (1965)—copy signed by the artist.

A series of speechless strips made in Indian ink describing absurd warfare conflicts set in bucolic landscapes.

A tribute to the French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) and to the typographic strategies with which Dubuffet achieves, on a visual level, his plan to destroy language through books and lithographs.

The series of drawings from “Le lac sombre” (“The Dark Lake”) were inspired by an episode from La Peste Brune (The Brown Plague), a written account of Germany in the Thirties by french writer, theorist and activist Daniel Guérin. There he described his encounter with the Wild Boys, a group from the “Wandervögel” movement, a libertarian youth community which crossed Germany and its history from 1896 to 1936.

Symmetrical portraits of female characters and unidentified creatures cut in black paper.

Variations on the theme of masculine desire: three short comic stories from Ebisu's off-the-wall universe.

Third issue of United Dead Artists' illustrated newspaper.

Special issue: 12 pages / 12 authors. An erotic & nightmarish cover illustration by Stephane Blanquet, a masochistic fantasy by Namio Harukawa, a Metal Monster by Francesco Defourny and many more.

Dark romanticism revisited: Aleksandra Waliszewska' Gothic paintings are a nightmarish blend of European folklore and Mythological influences, macabre characters plunged on the brink of insanity, funeral landscapes, powerful irrational and morbid scenes... “Of bloody dreams, black threats, traps in the forest, tight throat, wasted faces...”.

150 drawings of callipygian women dominating men: Namio Haruka's second book at United Dead Artists still focuses on his obsession for BDSM scenes.

29 highly surreal works by Keiichi Tanaami.

Baudouin de Jaer decodes Adolf Wölfli's hermetic and emblematic scores.

A series of drawings illustrating Haldernablou, an homoerotic text by 19-year-old Alfred Jarry and first published in 1894.

A visual narrative based on a series of randomly selected photographs from National Geographic issues: a “dream generator” taking visual motifs from a version of the real world and pushing them into the realm of the subconscious.

13 drawings by American artist.

L'armée noire is a collaborative review founded by poet Charles Pennequin and illustrator Quentin Faucompré. This first issue gathers texts and illustrations inspired by art brut and experimental poetry.

The many ways to get pleasure from a tree, a log, a wooden stick...

The third issue of Le Tendon Revolver's erotic & macabre graphic eccentricities. With front and back covers by Jonathon Rosen and Ludovic Levasseur.

An extensive selection of works by the American shizophrenic punk musician.

Charley 05 features 400 works by 100 artists that are remained isolated, forgotten, proudly secluded or sightly unnoticed, in spite of their visionary work.

Catalogue of the first extensive show focusing on the cult Chicago musician's drawings.

Artist's book reproducing Gary Panter's sketchbook from Summer 1983. It features the essential of the artist's influences and themes: B-movies posters, comics characters, monsters and punks…