Art & sexuality / erotism

Documenting works by artists dealing with performative issues between the 1960s and today, this catalogue, gathering numerous essays, questions the nature and the relevance of “performative” objects in contemporary practices (also available in English edition).

Limited edition in a boxed set with the original photo print.

This exhibition catalogue gathers together the visual works—collages, drawings and installations—of three major French experimental poets.

The magazine of Albert Skira, 1933–1939.

Six-volume reprint of the "FILE Megazine" issues.

Curiously enough, although Duchamp considered eroticism as the main topic of his work, no essay had really focused on that matter yet. This book collects the lectures of about twenty international art historians and critics during a symposium organized by Marc Décimo.

Complete monograph on a master of experimental cinema, with a general introduction, several essays, texts by the artist and interviews (available in English edition).

Complete monograph on a master of experimental cinema, with a general introduction on its œuvre, several essays, texts by the artist and interviews.

An overview of American artist's recent paintings and sculptures, exposing connections between the topics and his thematic development in a variety of media.

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.

Two films and a musical piece by Joachim Montessuis.

A short story and a literary layering.

This interview with G&G, filmed in 2000 by the curator Hans Ulrich Obrist, concentrates on the hysteria of the archive and the collection.

A collection of previously unpublished poetic texts by ORLAN, accompanied with photos by Fabrice Lévêque: a new highlighting on her work.

Limited edition with a signed silkscreen enhanced by ORLAN's own lips.

An original monographic publication (4 books in a boxset) devised as part of an exhibition of video installations recently produced by the American artist.

Gathering more than 100 portraits of women by Walter Pfeiffer, most of them being published for the first time, this books shows a new facette to Walter Pfeiffer's rich oeuvre.

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

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.

Artist's book (drawings).

Illustrated monograph dedicated to the American hyperrealist artist's drawings. With texts by Kim Gordon, Liam Gillick, Karl Holmqvist...

Patate is a magazine dedicaded to graphism and poetry edited by French punk graphic design pionneer Pascal Doury.

First French translation of the Kusama's psychedelic novel, published first in 1978 during the exile of the artist in New York.

First monograph of the artist, presenting her figures of unfired clay, which grotesquely exaggerate the characteristic traits and trademarks of female sexuality.

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.

Writings and drawings.

Various artists and authors use two writers' correspondence as a primary source to develop an artistic and literary falsification.

Art and glamour as spaces for transformation of the self.

A collection of artist's writings about literature, semantics, dreams, poetry, photography, women...

A collection of artist's writings about literature, semantics, dreams, poetry, photography... (limited edition accompanied by a hand-enhanced photograph).

82 photos taken in bathrooms (Bettina Rheims, Araki, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Bertrand Desprez, Giselle Freund, Pierre & Gilles...), with an essay by Jean-Claude Kaufmann, half-way between voyeurism and sociological commentary

The films, photos, installations, and graphic artworks of Austrian artist Markus Schinwald create a highly charged aesthetic collection of curios in which the human being stands in the focal point of observation.

Artist's book.

The correspondance between Otto Muehl and Erika Stocker forms an intense journal of Viennese actionism, and more particularly of the artist's work.

Otto Muehl was condemned to 7 years of prison in 1991. He exchanged letters with his family and friends, he painted.

A study, by five women, on the artistic representations of the female body (essays by Chrystel Besse, Marie-Joseph Bertini, Arlette Fontan, Françoise Gaillard, and Elvan Zabunyan).

A study, by five women, on the artistic representations of the female body (essays by Chrystel Besse, Marie-Joseph Bertini, Arlette Fontan, Françoise Gaillard, and Elvan Zabunyan).

This book, part psychedelic philosophy, part biography, is the first to present Sture Johannesson's work in depth, documenting his affiliations with the “high” underground and the punk movement, his activism and his radical exploration of the relationships between art, politics, technology, and human consciousness.

This artist's book brings together photographic images of Japanese pleasure houses and a collection of erotic sculptures.

95 duotone photographs by Alberto García-Alix.

Jean-Jacques Lebel's tribute to Venus.

The actionnist's autobiography.

A triple CD of music made for John B. Root's pornographic films! (with Noël Akchoté, Charlie O, Emiko Ota, Dom Farkas, etc.).

Eight and a half women is a laconic black comedy, an examination of the age-old phenomenon of male sexual fantasy, its roots and its consequences, as well as a homage to Fellini (film script).

An intimate and unsettling diary featuring 56 self-portraits drawn in black and coloured pencils, extensively annotated by the artist.

Unpublished text, signed original work, unique for each copy.

Collection of texts.

Catalogue.