Anthologies

A collection of texts by Robert Lebel on surrealism.

Fourth and final volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on painting, sculpture, installation, and architecture.

This volume brings together essays on the German writer W. G. Sebald (1944-2001), iconographic documents and manuscripts of the author, and a script written by Sebald for a film ever made about the life of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Between 1946 and 1953, the Macy Conferences brought together a diverse and interdisciplinary community of researchers who together developed the basics of the new science of cybernetics. This publication contains the complete transcription and protocols of all contributions of one of the most important event in the contemporary history of science.

Drawing on key texts by S. M. Eisenstein, Deleuze and Guattari, Alain Badiou, Donna Haraway et al., and analyzing works by iconic artists and contemporary ones, this volume brings together theory and art, showing how both turned to animals to find new ways of problematizing “life.”

A set of contributions that explore the conditions of possibility of speculative (and truly engaged) “gestures”, in the context of a widespread crisis of the modes of thinking of modernity (contributions by Didier Debaise, Donna J. Haraway, Bruno Latour, Pierre Montebello, Isabelle Stengers...).

A collection of texts connecting ancient Chinese culture and contemporary art in search of a better understanding of our relationship with nature.

A collective work bringing together thirty contributors, based on an experimental research project conducted with artists and theoreticians (philosophers, sociologists, historians, scientists...) around the question of the formats of art, a forgotten yet decisive issue that crosses contemporary artistic practices in depth.

An anthology of texts on the work of Sigmar Polke written between 1973 and 2000.

Collection of poems by Cameroonian poet Kouam Tawa.

L'Écart et l'Accolade gathers 23 texts of various kinds dedicated to contemporary artists, artistic practices, the art critic, exhibitions and curatorial activities.

An interdisciplinary reflection on the new figures of subjectivity in the digital age.

This collection of essays seeks to comprehensively address the concept of “neighborhood technologies” by establishing a platform for the thorough discussion of neighborhood concepts and notions across scientific cultures—e.g., computer science, mathematics, sociology, media and cultural studies, theater studies, and architecture.

Publication gathering a team of thinkers that confront one of the most crucial questions when dealing with the very definition, concept and operativity of art: How to link art to the concept of the contemporary?

The return of the anthropological question has completely redesigned the issues of representation. A state of play.

An anthology interrogating the concept of antropofagia in Brazilian thought and its philosophical, ecological, and cosmopolitical influence.

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

Czech artists of the 1960s–1970s.

Video art history.

One hundred texts on art by René Denizot.

The posthumous collection of texts on art by the French philosopher.

Collection of poems bringing together French authors on the fringes of literary trends, past and present. Under the supervision of François Dominique and Bruno Lemoine. This edition includes a DVD of video-poems by Isabelle Filleul de Brohy.

Mendini's writings 1972-2011.

An anthology of the international avant-garde poetry journal created in 1796 by Julien Blaine.

This inter- and transdisciplinary collection of essays by philosophers, artists, critics, and art historians, reconsiders the place of the aesthetic in contemporary art, with reference to four main themes: aesthetics as “sensate thinking”; the dissolution of artistic limits; post-autonomous practices; and exhibition-values in a global artworld.

A collective examination of the relationship between surrealism and the “splendid nineteenth century” (André Breton), and changes that have occurred in the field of political ideas, industrial development, psychiatry, philosophy or morality, between appropriation, misappropriation and rejection.

The collected essays presented here form the compartments of Hans Ulrich Obrist's curatorial toolbox, along with elucidating his views on stewardship, patronage, and art itself. Influences and interlocutors cited and discussed here include, among others, Alexander Dorner, Édouard Glissant, Claude Lévi-Strauss, Jean-François Lyotard, Dominique de Menil, Josef Ortner, Cedric Price, Sir John Soane, and Harald Szeemann.

Critical texts by Kim Gordon brought together for the first time.

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

Surveying figures ranging from Clement Greenberg to Jacques Derrida, this compendium of 20 short essays by New York-based critic Barry Schwabsky focuses on his reflections on art writing itself.

A collection of nonfiction essays that provides an illuminating meander through what we call culture today.

The first in-depth study of the reception of “French Theory” by American artists since the early 1960's.

The essays collected in Thinking – Resisting – Reading the Political engage with political phenomena in their interrelations with arts as well as with recent theoretical and philosophical perspectives on the very meaning of politics, the political, and community.

Six texts exploring the mutations of contemporary housing and objects.

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

A collective work / exhibition on paper / second reading book / subjective anthology: ten artists' inserts conceived ​​specifically for the book, and ten historical and contemporary philosophical texts (Bloch, Lukács, Poincaré, Sloterdijk...) in relation.

An anthology (1975-2000).

Igor Zabel's writings.

An overview of American minimalist composer, filmmaker and video artist Phill Niblock's work since the 60's, through about twenty essays and interviews by musicologists, art critics and historians, various documents, scores, and more than 8 hours of videos on DVDs.

A collective study on the notion of hybridization in contemporary art.

An anthology.

Anthology dedicated to the poetic and theoretical work of Ilse & Pierre Garnier, the founders of spatialism.

Essay and interviews.

An anthology that examines the poetics and politics of interior experience within the frame of contemporary art.

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 ...).

An anthology of the most important experimental poetry review in 1970s France (25 issues + 1).

Collective book with essays by leading art historians and experts based on a series of conferences held at Witte de With.

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