Essay

An essay on Gary Hill's video work, taking Maurice Blanchot's writing as a starting point, between literature, philosophy, aesthics and psychoanalysis.

A sharp summary of contemporary art since Marcel Duchamp.

Two essays in which the Italian philosopher proposes a study of the concept of festivity.

A collection of texts.

An unpublished text by Raymond Roussel, accompanied with an essay by Jacques Sivan.

A new approach on the Situationist International and its paradoxical myths.

This brilliant work studies the notion of modernity as it's been defined at the end of the XIXth century, especially through the analyse of the links between the visual culture and several main social debates of the time such as sexuallity, urban crowd, riots and social control mechanisms, the Republic and the Church, nationalism and militarism.

How, in the course of their American exile, the surrealist artists (Duchamp, Tanguy, Masson, Ernst, Lam, Carrigton ...) were influenced by the literary and artistic context. Also a specific study on the perpetual renewal of Surrealism after war, linked with the importance of esoterism, the Amerindian civilizations, and Charles Fourier.

Art as a social practice through Gustave Courbet's œuvre and political commitment.

An elucidation of the myths and the political fantasies that surrounded Gustave Courbet's work and life under the second Empire.

A thoroughly investigation of the social role of art articulated by the French left during the July Monarchy and Second Republic.

Hermeneutics: 6 patterns of analysis.

Some thoughts on the definition of poetics.

Anecdote and contemporary art.

Two discussions about Karl Marx by the famous slovenian philosopher, illustrated by the German artist.

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A collection of the painter's writings (poetry, interviews, chronicles, previously unpublished texts and documents) who, between the 1930's and the 1970's in St-Germain-des-Prés, never ceased to explore language and to work with words as if with an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

A new essay on Charles Fourier's social utopia.

A philosophical essay on time, phenomenology and beyond by the curator and art critic, around the works of Stan Douglas, Eija-Lisa Athila, Doug Aitken, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Tacita Dean, Darren Almond, Tobias Rehberger, Pierre Huyghe and Philippe Parreno.

An essay / fully illustrated monograph on choreographer and dancer Jennifer Lacey and artist and scenographer Nadia Lauro.

A collection of texts about music (from Britney Spears to Helmut Lachenmann, passing through Matthew Herbert, The Melvins, Terre Thaemlitz, Stan Douglas etc.), gathered from the numerous publications of the famous art and music critic and including many previously unpublished texts.

Fully illustrated 2nd edition with a new introduction and afterword by the author, annotated artwork illustrations, a special insert by Paul Chan, and flip-book sequences from two films.

A new reading of the relationship between art and the "question of style", in a social perspective.

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.

Essay.

The story of a choreographic work, from its beginning to its successive appearances. The testimonies of its various actors (choreographer, dancers, artist) lead to make the aesthetic stakes appear and the strengths which underlie the work.

If pornography, for some, is not presentable, it is argued here that pornography is necessary, and that it is even the only ideal way to try to think freely the meaning, the value of art.

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

Two studies on the link between language, art and reality in Marcel Duchamp's work.

Poetry and space for Marcel Broodthaers—a critical essay.

Hans Hartung always gave a lot of attention to the filing of his works. This essay on the abstract painter is linked with a specific web site where one will find a rich iconography and documentation.

A philosophical essay on time, phenomenology and beyond, Daniel Birnbaum's Chronology was presented in frieze as a “compelling and sophisticated take on the common theme of Deleuzian immanence."

The art of postproduction as a response to the proliferating chaos of global culture in the information age.

Philosopher and essayist Michel Onfray analyzes the nature of Bettina Rheims' photos, and develops the thesis of a work which, more than scandalous or sulphurous, introduces new models of representation of our society.

A new approach of Duchamp's keywords.

An essay on Novarina's dramatic theatrical and literary work.

This first monograph (both a study and an essay) highlights the diversity and span of Adrian Schiess' work.

The art of postproduction as a response to the proliferating chaos of global culture in the information age (also available in English edition).

An anthology of the artist's important essays, published between 1978 and today in the pages of Artforum, Flash Art and Lawson's own magazine Real Life.

Essay.

The art scene for collectors, and art and economics.

Marcel Duchamp “laid bare” by Marc Décimo who talks about the creative process in this essay on the father of conceptual art.

A collection of essays on ten contemporary artists (Peinado, Achour, Sala, Cattelan, Huyghe, Scanlan, Trouvé, Bublex).

How can the events in which we are supposed to participate be translated into experience? How can we represent ourselves in a History that is being written in terms of the economy and the stock market? Along these questions, French author Jean-Charles Massera discusses the works of various artists (Vito Acconci, Stan Douglas, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Pierre Huyghe, et al.) and film-makers (Jean-Luc Godard, Wong Kar-wai, Nanni Moretti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, et al.).

A study on Elisabeth Ballet, Jessica Stockholder, Claude Rutault, Peter Downsbrough, Cécile Bart.

Those who spread their image over Internet, what do they want? And what do those who view them get out of it? Numerous are those who jumped on the bandwagon of the webcam, pushing its spectrum of video-surveillance and condemning it to voyeurism or exhibitionism. Far beyond the simplistic idea of opposing exhibitionist / voyeur, actor / spectator, active / passive, the webcam serves as a meeting point of exchanges, complicity, views of or relationships with others, what Nicolas Thély terms as "web-intimacy".