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Brandon LaBelle - Live Bootleg (+ CD)
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
An overview of sound installations and environments by the experimental artist-musician, with three essays and an interview, a specific project, installations views and performances on audio CD.
Fabrice Flahutez - Nouveau monde et nouveau mythe - Mutations du surréalisme, de l\'exil américain à l\'« Écart absolu » (1941-1965)
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
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.
Avital Ronell - Life Extreme - An Illustrated Guide to New Life
2007
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Encounters
At the junction of art and science, Life Extreme intends to present new living beings created by man, beings no longer produced solely by “nature”. This poetic proposition takes the form of a guide to new lives among the most astonishing that have appeared at the beginning of the Twenty-first century.
Avital Ronell - Life Extreme - Guide illustré des nouvelles formes de vie
2007
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Encounters
At the junction of art and science, Life Extreme intends to present new living beings created by man, beings no longer produced solely by “nature”. This poetic proposition takes the form of a guide to new lives among the most astonishing that have appeared at the beginning of the Twenty-first century.
Liam Gillick - Factories in the Snow
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph designed by the English artist, focusing on the projects of the last five years, with a new theoretical framework and full description of numerous projects.
Rachel Harrison - If I did it
2007
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Comprehensive monograph highlighting a new group of sculptures.
John Tremblay - Plastic
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
Based on an exhibition curated by Christophe Cherix and John Tremblay at the Print Room of Geneva, this volume presents an overview of the use of vacuum-formed plastic in art of the last forty years.
Jim Shaw - Distorted Faces & Portraits (+ poster) - 1978-2007
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
Artist's book: drawings in very large format with a dust jacket-cum-poster, an anthropological reading of American popular culture.
Peter Downsbrough - [TILL - Limited edition
2007
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
This publication, conceived by Peter Downsbrough, includes three unpublished texts and constitutes a real artist's book. The limited edition is accompanied with a box set signed and enhanced with the stamp of two parallel lines, as well as an original work, folded and inserted in the book.
Matthew Buckingham - Play the Story
2007
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
(last copies available!)
25.00 15.00 €
An original monographic publication (4 books in a boxset) devised as part of an exhibition of video installations recently produced by the American artist.
Brion Gysin - Live in London, 1982 (CD)
2007
Sub Rosa
Recorded four years before the death of Beat legend Brion Gysin, this live set features the poet reciting poems from the late '50s and early '60s, accompanied by a makeshift no wave backing band.
Stephen Vitiello - Listening to Donald Judd (CD)
2007
Sub Rosa
A work in progress evolving from the numerous recordings Stephen Vitiello made of the sculptures of American artist Donald Judd in Marfa, Texas.
Christopher Wool - Can your monkey do the dog
2007
no text
mfc-michèle didier - Monographs, editions & artist's books
Can your monkey do the dog is the title for this book conceived jointly by Josh Smith and Christopher Wool. Thanks to digital imaging, they created together a series of pieces; one of them proposed an image from his corpus, which the other one reworked, by adding or removing elements. A new "layer" was each time superimposed on the previous one, without any constraint or mutual censorship regulating the alternating interventions.
Liam Gillick - Proxemics - Selected Writings (1988-2006)
2007
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
JRP|Editions - Positions (co-edition Les presses du réel)
This publication reunites a selection of critical writings for the most part printed in magazines or exhibition catalogues: a reinterpretation of Conceptual and Minimal art, as much as a testimony of the 90's art scene.
Alexandra Baudelot - Jennifer Lacey & Nadia Lauro - Dispositifs chorégraphiques
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
An essay / fully illustrated monograph on choreographer and dancer Jennifer Lacey and artist and scenographer Nadia Lauro.
Liz Craft -
2007
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First monograph on the Californian artist.
Louise Lawler - The Tremaine Pictures - 1984-2007
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
currently out of stock
Conditions, procedures, framing and circulation of art works.
John Tremblay - Plastic
2007
French edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
10.00 6.00 €
Based on an exhibition curated by Christophe Cherix and John Tremblay at the Print Room of Geneva, this volume presents an overview of the use of vacuum-formed plastic in art of the last forty years.
Euan Macdonald - Selected Standards
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
An artist book that combines title pages from sheet music found in a second hand store in Los Angeles with drawings and aerial photographs of L.A.
Peter Downsbrough - [TILL
2007
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
This publication, conceived by Peter Downsbrough, includes three unpublished texts and constitutes a real artist's book. A work on the notion of position and centring which questions the relationship between space and language.
Richard Jackson - New works - 2006-2007
2007
English edition
Yvon Lambert - Monographs and artists' books
(last copies available!)
Recent works by American artist, with several illustrations and preparatory drawings, as well as an essay by Robert Hobbs and a biography.
Amy O\'Neill - Suburban Imagination
2007
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
The sculptures, installations, and drawings by the New York-based artist are presented in this first monograph as a journey through the American suburban imagination.
Kelley Walker -
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
Reference monograph.
Next To Nothing - A collection of Tuxedomoon covers (CD)
2006
Optical Sound
currently out of stock
A record of Tuxedomoon covers.
Tom Burr - Extrospective
2006
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
(last copies available!)
Comprehensive monograph on the US artist.
T.J. Wilcox - Films
2006
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Comprehensive monograph on the US artist, containing a collection of films.
Olaf Breuning - Queen Mary
2006
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
Artists' book with new drawings.
 Continuous Project - Continuous Project #08 - The Final Issue
2006
bilingual edition (English / French)
Cneai
Produced as part of a Continuous Project residence, the collective's final publication brings together contributions from artists, philosophers and art critics around the relationship between art and politics.
Joseph Grigely - Blueberry Surprise
2006
English edition
mfc-michèle didier - Monographs, editions & artist's books
Artist's book.
David Robbins - The Velvet Grind - Selected Essays (1980-2004)
2006
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
JRP|Editions - Positions (co-edition Les presses du réel)
A discussion of art and entertainment and their conflictual relationship (interviews and essays).
Catherine Sullivan - Film and Theater Works - 2002-2004
2006
texts in English and French
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
40.00 20.00 €
First monograph devoted to the Californian artist.
Robert Barry - Details (DVD)
2006
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
mfc-michèle didier - Import
(last copies available!)
Details shows a succession of scenes filmed in static shots, appearing behind words letters cut on a black screen, giving the word the function of the frame and therefore rephrasing the link between language and image.
Lawrence Weiner - Liberté et contraintes - A structure of Lawrence Weiner (DVD)
2006
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
mfc-michèle didier - Import
A video creation by one of the most famous representatives of conceptual art, exploring relations between language, time and space.
Daria Martin -
2006
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First monograph of the American artist and movie-maker.
The Uncertain States of America Reader
2006
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
29.00 15.00 €
An unique compilation of writing around art and cultural politics in America since 2000 (Giorgio Agamben, Bernadette Corporation, Trisha Donnelly, Isabelle Graw, Robert Morris, Seth Price...), as an addendum to the traveling exhibition curated by Daniel Birnbaum, Gunnar Kvaran and Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Josephine Meckseper - The Josephine Meckseper Catalogue No. 2
2006
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A fully illustrated, artist-designed catalogue.
Aleksandra Mir - The Meaning of Flowers
2006
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
32.00 15.00 €
Drawing upon the classic notion that flowers are imbued with meanings and a specific set of semantics with idealistic and hopeful connotations, Sicily-based artist Aleksandra Mir has edited and revised the botanical code in a more socially relevant fashion.
Kay Rosen - Wall Paintings and Drawings, 2002-2006
2006
English edition
Yvon Lambert - Monographs and artists' books
(last copies available!)
An unpublished interview with the American artist, a series of photographic boards and an essay by Kay Rosen: a presentation of her recent works as well as a general introduction to her oeuvre.
Robert Barry - Autobiography
2006
bilingual edition (English / French)
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
An impersonal autobiography (artist's book).
Dick Higgins - Postface - Un journal critique de l\'avant-garde
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Dick Higgins, one of the main figures of Fluxus, points out the particularity of poet-artists who, since German and English Romanticism, have refused to make distinctions between what is sonorous, visual and written.
Richard Phillips -
2006
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
Illustrated monograph dedicated to the American hyperrealist artist's drawings. With texts by Kim Gordon, Liam Gillick, Karl Holmqvist...
Doug Aitken - Alpha
2005
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
Artist's book.
Recent Pasts – Art in Southern California from the 1990s to Now - SoCCAS Symposium Vol. I
2005
English edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
An overview of the Californian art scene from 1990 to the present.
Olaf Breuning - Home
2005
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
(last copies available!)
Monograph featuring works from 2001 to 2004.
Barry Le Va - Fictional Excerpts, Notes, Interviews, Scrapbooks - 1966-2003
2005
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First publication of Le Va's scrapbooks.
Robert Morris - Hurting Horses
2005
English edition
mfc-michèle didier - Monographs, editions & artist's books
In Hurting Horses, the artist uses a distinct literary style from one chapter to another, from autobiography to historical essay, from satirical parody to the fantastic, from letter to fiction, from detailed report to visionary daydream. These masterly pieces of literature are haunted by the great American foundation myths and establish a series of crucial links from myth to history, from history to art, from art to nature.
Peter Downsbrough - ET/C
2005
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
14.00 9.00 €
Monograph with texts by Eva González-Sancho, Michel Gauthier, Line Herbert-Arnaud and Richard Klein, exploring different aspects of Downsbrough's work (movies, maps, space...).
Christophe Rey - Dragon bec verseur - 108 fragments à propos d\'un voyage dans l\'Est des Etats-Unis
2005
French edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
108 textual fragments of a journey through the Eastern United States.
Elvan Zabunyan - Black Is A Color - A History of African American Art
2004
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
In Black is a Color, contemporary art historian and curator Elvan Zabunyan proposes a new approach to contemporary art and its history through the practice of Black American artists from the Harlem Renaissance to today.
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