Art & language

The re-issue of Rene Ricard's second volume of poetry, originally published in 1989, is a vibrant testament to 1980s New York.

A history of feminist gesture and performance since the 1960s and 1970s in California through an interview conducted by Carole Douillard with art critic Amelia Jones and two pioneering American artists, Barbara T. Smith and Susan Lacy.

An unprecedented insight into Louise Bourgeois' art by Jenny Holzer.

Rene Ricard 1979-1980 is the first collection of American poet and artist Rene Ricard's poetry, first published by the Dia Art Foundation in 1979. This new edition presents, in a new format, both the original book design reproduced as a facsimile and the first French translation of Ricard's poems.

An anthology of texts by writers, artists, choreographers, poets and performers who think about the relationships between body, writing and textuality.

A collection of visual incursions by Italian artist Emilio Prini in dozens of exhibition catalogues and print publications over the course of five decades. Meticulously researched, and yet necessarily incomplete, this book is a glimpse into the subtlety with which Prini turned each engagement with the world of ideas into a joust for mastery over space, time, and form.

A portrait of the artist as an inspiring teacher: this publication focuses on Baldessari's practice at the intersection between pedagogy and art. Visually organized in alphabetical order, Learning To Read features essays, artworks, a chronology, and personal insights on Baldessari's teaching and influence by a group of the artist's former students and CalArts collaborators such as Ashley Bickerton, Liz Craft, Meg Cranston, Matt Mullican, and Tony Oursler.

Designed by the founder of Conceptual Art, this elegant and precious artist's book—and exhibition catalogue—serves as a visual analysis of the conceptual structures that interrogate the nature of color, form, space, and time, where the works and writings of Post-war artists such as Castellani, Fontana, Manzoni, and Klein, converse with Kosuth's statements, and the theoretical as well as personal account of curator Cornelia Lauf.

In (a, b, c) Ulises Carrión presents one if his early linguistic exercises in English, originally handwritten in green ink in 1972. The author observes and explores the structure of the sonnet. He develops fourteen interrelated sequences, which he uses as a key to codify a narrative. The text of each poem follows the schematic order of its title.

Publication reproducing one of Carrión's early linguistic exercises in English language, in which the conceptual artist dissects names of musical instruments to make sound appear.

Facsimile of the seminal magazine created by Ulises Carrión and Cres, originally published in 1979. In this photographic book—one of very few of Carrion's entire practice—the author is very critical about his own affiliation with the mail art movement. The book presents a series a photographs of his calling card filing box, which the author juxtaposes with witty and poignant captions.

Rrr reproduces typewritten pages written by conceptual artist Ulises Carrión in 1972. In his early linguistic exercises, Carrión played with the notion of learning by sounds and poetry. By creating his own onomatopoeia and sequences of repetition, he expresses his playful attitude towards poetry.

This catalogue traces the trajectory of Warhol's influence on the work of Wool and Guyton. The innovative print processes deployed by the artists operate as conceptual fibers unifying the diversity of paintings oscillating between abstraction and representation. With an essay by Glenn O'Brien.

Monographic study on the work of artist Lawrence Abu Hamdan on the perception of language, sound, and listening.

The new novel by Keren Cytter: an incomplete guide for life.

A collection of essays that imagines the migration of cultural signs across borders, of body language as the inalienable signs we carry with us, even if they are the only luggage we are able to carry. By placing history alongside artistic mutations, Body luggage asks questions of how avant-garde forms transmit or are provoked.

Anguish Language approaches language as a core aspect of the present social crisis. The project engages in solidarity with forms of self-publishing, poetry, criticism, experimental writing and declamation that have arisen in the wake of the 2007-8 financial crisis, considering language among and through the social struggles responding to its consequences.

A corpus of contemporary Roman inscriptions, which testifies the importance of language—institutional as well as popular—in the collective space of the streets (artist's book).

A collection of sentences from Wikipedia articles including "trench". The words are engraved by notches in photographs. A kind of eroded field that becomes a graphic novel.

In his influential 1986 text, now translated into English for the first time, Swiss artist Rémy Zaugg (1943–2005) laid out fundamental ideas on the art museum. For him, the museum is an everyday tool that enables the encounter between viewer and work—raising the question of the kind of architecture appropriate for such a space.

Luis Camnitzer plays the Drawing Room Confessions.

A tribute to the French artist Jean Dubuffet (1901–1985) and to the typographic strategies with which Dubuffet achieves, on a visual level, his plan to destroy language through books and lithographs.

An extension of the exhibition "Ecstatic Alphabets/Heaps of Language," curated by Laura Hoptman at the Museum of Modern Art, New York.

First publication dedicated to Isou's extensive work with hypergraphics.

Christopher Wool's stained glass windows for the Prieuré of La Charité sur Loire, France.

Catalogue / artist's book.

Concrete poems / language "drawings" (artist's book).

An illustrated anthology (almost all of the speeches given by the artist on the occasion of his exhibition openings over 30 years).

First monograph: a survey of the Belgian artist's work over more than 35 years.

Facsimile edition of an unpublished artist's book by Marcel Broodthaers from 1968 referring to Stéphane Mallarmé's poem “Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard.”

One of the two box sets of the HYPER TROPHY project.

Exhaustive monograph

An exploration of the relationship between language and visual arts (works by/essays on Pierre Ardouvin, Art Keller, Julien Audebert, Gérard Collin-Thiébaut, Éric Duyckaerts, Dora García, Mark Geffriaud, Martin Le Chevallier, Claude Lévêque, François Morellet, Christian Robert-Tissot, Charles Sandison, Yann Sérandour, Lawrence Weiner).

An artist's book in which Falke Pisano demonstrates her ability to reconcile form and knowledge, both visual and textual.

An exploration of the artist's use of language and images as a means of representation that further the reach of the real (first of a series engaging with publications as a primary medium of practice, enabling artists to explore the inherent constraints and possibilities of the printed document.

Limited print run artist's book.

A series of "slogans" created from names collected on limited series cars.

A reprise of Ed Ruscha's ground-breaking artist's book from 1963 (boxed set of 26 oversized postcard-like prints of photos).

Artists' book: the materialization of John dewey's conceptual system.

A translation of practice.

Full color monograph showcasing some of Georgian-born artist's most recent collages.

Facsimile appropriations, scanned pages, Xeroxes by several artists (Armleder, Gillick, Ruppersberg...) – Grey Flags is a book of texts and ideas published to accompany the homonymous exhibition at the Sculpture Center, NY.

Baldessari's cinema works on DVD.

First monograph (paintings, collages, sculptures).

First extensive publication of American artist, poet and performer's texts, illustrated with 4 screenprintings.

This small monograph follows the set-up of Robert Barry's artistic programs within the corporate spaces of a bank and the ways he conceived simultaneously his site-specificity and his break away from this framework.

A series of black and white drawings by Andro Wekua.

New edition of the Letterist manifesto.

A series of poems by Henri Cole used by conceptual artist Jenny Holzer for her monumental “signs” installations.

Facsimile reissue of the original graphic poetry book self-published in 1975 by Guy de Cointet.