Anthologies

Writings and interviews.

A collection of texts about noise music: gesture, act, concept and performance.

The artist as a theoretician: six essays (one text in English) on the question of reciprocity between theory and art practice.

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

A critical anthology (texts and interviews on/with Christian Boltanski, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Paul McCarthy, Douglas Gordon, Glenn Ligon, Pipilotti Rist, John Baldessari, Florence Lazar, Bruce Nauman, Bruno Peinado, Michel Kireger, Delphine Reist, Karina Bisch, Guy de Cointet, Larry Bell...).

A collection of texts examining issues and practices of documentation in contemporary visual arts.

An anthology of texts by philosophers, theoricians and art historians (H. Belting, H. Bredekamp, G. Didi-Huberman, J.-L. Nancy, W.J.T. Mitchell...) around the specific logic of the image and the transformation of the contemporary visual field.

An anthology exploring the possibilities of documenting time-based works.

A set of texts written by Salomone according to his artistic protocol: an unclassifiable literary work which extends a visual production, as a specific dimension of artistic representation.

The collection of texts on contemporary art by Jean-Christophe Ammann.

Swiss lines.

A panorama of Ben's conflicting ideas and various activities since 1959.

A collection of essays and interview by an artist who captures the attention of 70,000 people each day through e-flux, as well as unitednationsplaza, Martha Rosler Library, and other traveling projects.

E-flux journal: What Is Contemporary Art? puts the apparent simplicity and self-evident term into doubt, asking critics, curators, artists, and writers to contemplate the nature of this catchall or default category.

This book reassembles the most significant texts and images of works of the 80's art scene, focusing on the problematics of images and representations.

The relationships between art and design.

The relationships between art and design (also available in English edition).

A reader about exhibition display.

A first-hand account of the Western world on the threshold of a major global mutation.

Voice Over examines staging, theatricality, and performative strategies in contemporary art practices.

A fresh approach to the function of an art journal as something that situates the multitude of what is currently available, and makes that available back to the multitude.

The work of an underestimated writer, a founder of the Ultraism, initiator of Dada in the 1920s Spain.

The bestseller publication dedicated to pioneering curators and presents a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist.

A collection of texts on contemporary experimental practices in art.

Deciphering Duchamp.

The "Anthology of art" established during more than a year a ground of exchange on Internet for artists and art critics worldwide, being interested in the relations between art, its theoretical discourse, the conditions of its production and its distribution. This work collects the contributions.

“East Coast Europe,” which took place during Spring 2008, is a project about the perceptions of contemporary European identity and its relation to spatial practices and international politics.

Thinking Worlds brings together numerous essays addressing questions of the sense and purpose of the “event” in contemporary artistic culture, of the current status of philosophy and aesthetic theory, and of the political significance of artistic interventions.

The first in the Solution series where authors are asked to develop an abundance of compact and original ideas for other countries and regions.

Under Pressure (edited by Daniel Birnbaum and Isabelle Graw) gathers together the contributions to a series of conferences held at the Institut für Kunstkritik from 2006-07.

The French art scene with 88 art critics and 88 artists, on 800 pages in color.

Between critical writing and visual art practice.

16 essays and conversations about the nature and consequences of risk in and out of the art world.

A collection of texts.

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.

Anecdote and contemporary art.

“Radio Territories” seeks to open the book on radio's historical, medial, and aesthetical status.

Swiss exhibition catalogue focused on the theme of the acceleration in globalization (with Kader Attia, Francis Baudevin, Daniele Buetti, Chris Cunningham, Philippe Decrauzat, Wim Delvoye, Mathieu Mercier...).

A collection of the painter's writings (poetry, interviews, chronicles, previously unpublished texts and documents) who, between the 1930's and the 1970's in St-Germain-des-Prés, never ceased to explore language and to work with words as if with an unprocessed and unlimitted material.

J. Donguy introduces the visual and sound experimentations of concrete poetry, from 1953 (Gomringer and de Campos) to the current movements ("digital area"). The anthology, followed by an international bibliography, offers the first overview of this art, with 300 illustrations.

Subverting the media and other artistic strategies.

In several theoretical essays, dialogues on collaborative projects and reflections on his own work, the architect Nikolaus Hirsch explores the critical transformations of contemporary space and its effects on spatial practice.

A collection of texts and interviews by the art critic and independant curator (John Armleder, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Guy Debord, Jean-Luc Godard, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Michel Houellebecq, Pierre Huyghe, Jacques Lacan, Jean-François Lyotard, Olivier Mosset, Philippe Parreno, Andy Warhol...).

13 monographical essays on contemporary works (Merz, Bart, Duprat, Verjux, Armleder, Fauguet, Honegger, Boeno, Spoerri, Morellet, Downsbrough, Saytour, Dezeuze).

This book provides a theoretical and critical framework to examine how contemporary art and cinema can still hold out against an experience of vision and of the “visual.”

An exhibition about the gradually “globalizing” art.

Work by artists emerging from Beirut today.

An unique compilation of writing around art and cultural politics in America since 2000 (Giorgio Agamben, Bernadette Corporation, Trisha Donnelly, Isabelle Graw, Robert Morris, Seth Price...), as an addendum to the traveling exhibition curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar Kvaran and Hans Ulrich Obrist.

Taking as their starting point one of the oldest objects in the collection of the Rijksmuseum, a moon rock, artists Bik Van der Pol invited different writers to comment on issues of site-specificity, museum collections, and space law.

Positions in contemporary African art.