Essay

Nicolas Bourriaud's most recent essay: a radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.

This book reexamines the legacies of modern theoretical and artistic iconoclasm in the context of the current religious-political image wars.

Accompanied with Fluxus pamphlets, manifestoes and newspapers of the artist, the unpublished manuscript of the mother of the founder of the avant-garde movement constitutes an invaluable entry to the private world of Maciunas, and the occasion of a revaluation of its artistic and strategic choices.

Digital technologies and interactivity in the artistic field, in an historic and experimental perspective (new edition).

First translation in French of a major work by British social anthropologist.

The central role of female body in the history of anatomy, beyond the historiographical "taboo" around the religious prohibition.

An illustrated essay devoted to Norwegian author Jon Fosse, a cross-reading of the major themes of his theater.

First publication in French on a major figure of British Pop Art, this essay analyses notably the questioning of the contemporary appearances in Richard Hamilton's works.

Ingo Niermann devises in this book ten provokingly simple ideas which would see Germany work it out after all, including a new grammar, a new political party, assigning allotment gardens to unemployed people and retirees, and the Great Pyramid, the tallest building of the world which would serve as a democratic tomb for millions of people.

An essay on the reception of Jean-Pierre-Brisset's work among his contemporaries and successors, its relationship with futurism, pataphysics, surrealism, dada, etc., its sources and its offspring in the fields of literature, linguistics, psychoanalysis, science, philosophy and art.

An essay / manifesto to reconsider the objectivity of the sensations provided by artworks, and to reconsider contemporary art in itself rather than as a genre, alongside modern and classical art.

A pioneering essay on W. G. Sebald (1944-2001), a major author in German contemporary literature, the founder of a literary materialism.

An essay / a collection of memories, facts, stories and ideas on Vietnam by Niele Toroni's wife.

An essay on French artist Paul Chenavard (1807-1895), romantic cursed painter-prophet, illustrating the distance between the historic claims which build the modern myth of the artist and a relative efficiency.

An innovative analysis of Dalí's work which focuses on the cultural History during the 1920's, showing that the Surrealist revolution went hand in hand with radical changes in society.

A philosophical essay reflecting on ethics and poetics through the thought of Gilles Deleuze.

An essay on the the appearance of the image.

A fragmentary essay investigation the characteristics of the novel as a literary genre.

Inside the white cube.

A study of the concept of otherness in Edmund Husserl's phenomenology (with a special project by Olafur Eliasson).

A major contribution, by German philosoph and art historian Horst Bredekamp, to the current debate on the 'tree of life' in evolutionary biology. The essay deals with the aesthetic and political dimension of the coral, in Darwin's system a model of anarchic evolution which opposes the hierarchical metaphor of the tree.

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.