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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Douglas etc.), gathered from the numerous publications of the famous art and music critic and including many previously unpublished texts.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.

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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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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The art scene for collectors, and art and economics.

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 selection of essays by the artist, poet, writer, happening-maker, cinematographer, art and literary critic.

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".

An essay on conceptual art.

A complete panorama of the astonishing personality of the unknown writer, grammarian, cosmologist and inventor.

Bob Nickas' writings.

Bob Nickas' writings (English edition).

Exhaustive first presentation of Christian Robert-Tissot's work.

What canvases reveal to us is often beyond what we believe we understand. Like true false semblances, they subtley encourage us to turn away from them in order to engage ourselves in their hidden intrigues (where they often meet our own).

A journey into the universe of one of the most original composers in the field of the concrete music.

An essay to demonstrate Fourier's fundamental role in the emancipation of women and the transformation of society, "for the sake of imagination, of permanent interaction between sensitivity and reason."

A narrative.

A compelling read on the status of the object in contemporary art and design.

A compelling read on the status of the object in contemporary art and design.

A critical exploration of the values and qualities inherent in independent educational organizations and the hurdles in the way of remaining "alternative" with the passing of time.

Two lectures from art historian and curator Griselda Pollock address feminist questions and art education in the 1980s and today.

An essay on the new challenges facing exhibition curators.

A contemplation on the abstruse nature of machine learning, mathematics, and the deep incursion of racial hierarchy.

Image and contemporary art in the post-digital age.

A how-to manual for free improvisation music.

The first publication of a lost 1978 text by Peter Gidal—one of the most influential experimental filmmakers ever.

The misappropriated notion of care and the paths for its rehabilitation.

A science of sensitive experience prolonged by a theory of atmospheres, at the origins of philosophical aesthetics.

The first English translation of Jacques Rancière's early philosophical text "The Dialectic of Reason and Private Interest", originally published in 1963. Written under the influence of Louis Althusser, the text is discussing the forms of law in Karl Marx's writings on the "debates on the law on thefts of wood".

Can the modern uses of prehistory shed new light on the modern experience of time and, thus, the art of this period?