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An essay of political philosophy in which José M. González García examines the role of the metaphor in politics throughout history.

A critical biography.

A biographical rereading of the English playwright's work.

A philosophical, social and political study of a series of public sculptures by Claes Oldenburg et Coosje van Bruggen.

The Nouveau Réalisme between Paris and West Germany in the 1960's.

An introduction to the “work of resistance” of East German dramatist, poet, writer and essayist Heiner Müller.

The story of objectivity, by two of the greatest historians of science today.

A sociological approach to new practices in public art commissioning.

A litterary tribute to Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet by the director, screenwriter and writer Vincent Nordon.

Catalogue raisonné, with 170 publications described, a biography, and an USB card containing a PDF file and an audio interview of Paul-Armand Gette.

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New perspectives on Marguerite Duras' cinematographic works and a young generation of videographers / filmmakers.

Two both aesthetic and political engaged considerations on the relationship between the West and the Middle East (or more generally between the West and its others), from the figures of exile and the two cultures: three unpublished interviews of Edward W. Said / a deconstruction of a common European view on the Arab world by Seloua Luste Boulbina.

First major monograph in French, fully illustrated, devoted to the key figure of Joseph Beuys, revealing the aesthetic ambition and political issues through a genealogy that retraces a whole part of the XXth century.

A pioneering and masterly study of the history of art markets in Italy (covering the fields of painting and scultpure, but also architecture, applied arts and performing arts), which demonstrates the possibility of an economic history of art linking social or political mechanisms and symbolic or patrimonial issues.

Letterism's history and posterity: a new reading of the historical issues of an unknown but influential artistic avant-garde.

The carpet paradigm: critical prolegomena to a theory of flatness (an original and stimulating analysis of an essential concept of modern art history).

The dimension of self-reflexivity in the work of eighteenth-century French painter, Jean-Siméon Chardin.

The unknown and disregarded literary arts of sixteenth century England (graffiti, tatoos, writing on clothes or ceramics...): a startling new perspective of early modern literature and cultural history.

The resurgence of Dada in the U.S. (a genealogy of American post-war experimental art).

An essay based on a group exhibition conceived by French philosopher and writer Gilles A. Tiberghien.

A text written between 1984 and 1987, with no equivalent in French literature.

Writings and interviews.

The first artistic perspective on prehistoric art through the rigorous study of its formal conventions and stylistic developments.

French translation of Manovich's major book The Language of New Media, the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media.

First translation in French of the study on American beaver by a pioneer of ethology and anthropology in the US, an avant-garde and surprisingly relevant work in an age of global ecological crisis.

A study of political and ideological stakes of Beuys' oeuvre and its myth in Germany.

A study of the musical (and political) aspects of one of the most subversive artistic movements of the 60's.

Using Dubai as a sort of modernist blank slate for urban and social renewal, Ingo Niermann confronts today's most relevant cultural and technological developments with analytical elixirs that are as pertinent as they are unbelievable.

New musical practices, modes of production and reception of culture, since the emergence of electronic music in the 1990s.

The militant essay by poet, theoretician, critic and translator Haroldo de Campos on one of the most radical members of the Brazilian avant-gardes of the 1920's: a key contribution to the critical rehabilitation of a work that has strongly influenced Concrete Poetry in Brazil, as well as many poetical adventures of Western modernity.

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...).

The story of the surrealists' radical anticolonialism: a political, aesthetic and poetic avant-garde.

An history of illuminated manuscript from its origins, in the early Christian era, until the Renaissance, through the study of the book opening medium.

From Picabia's unpublished love letters to a philosophical and aesthetic inquiry on art, through Goethe, Schlegel, Hegel, or Baudelaire.

12 conversations with theoreticians and activists critically engaged in the cultural field, exploring Cultural Studies and raising issues of postcolonialism, globalization, and activism.

An in depth analysis of one of the most inventive (but also the most misunderstood) post-war avant-garde movements.

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

A journey through pivotal moments of the history of experimental cinema.

A visual anthropology study on the Wagenburgs and the Berliner punk community.

New Marxist perspectives.

An essay on Jean Genet and the gender performance.

An essay on Charles Fourier's legacy through his disciples and "utopian" activists in late XIXth century.

A theory of contemporary art in response to our moment, when artists and critics must respond to art's unprecedented popularity (illustrated by Wade Guyton).

A philosophical approach to the image in the margins or outer limits of art (from art brut to experimental art and its political extensions).

An erotic history of art, from the figure of Pygmalion.

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