Art & sexuality / erotism

Irène Schwartz's notebooks enable us to follow the entire creative process that, between 1973 and 1983, led the artist to three actions in the field of body art or, more specifically, eat art.

First monograph of the Brazilian feminist artist.

A monograph developing an iconographic apparatus that casts a light on the relationships between Italy and Louis Fratino's oeuvre, with newly commissioned essays and contributions by scholars of art and queer theory.

An essay by Yoann Sarrat on two works by Jean-François Bory and Kathy Acker.

Over 200 drawings and paintings to explore the visionary, obsessive, and hypnotic qualities of Jacopo Pagin's work.

This monograph explores the work and the artistic activities of Italian radical performer, poet, visual artist and feminist Tomaso Binga through a specific lexicon, and also features a selection of her poems.

Sonia Boyce engages with the artist and sound theorist Brandon LaBelle, who guides us through the artist's poetics, considering sound as a form of radical inclusion, a medium capable of generating interaction, narratives and new understanding.

A comprehensive overview of the Hungarian post-conceptual and feminist artist's practice in the first decades of her fifty-year long career, including several of her writings.

An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.

This book recounts Jean-Jacques Lebel's long and tumultuous passage through the powerful laboratory of ideas and experiments of surrealism that was the journal Front Unique (1955-1960), which heralded and sometimes prefigured his future protean activities in the fields of art, poetry and militancy (anticolonial and libertarian).

A history of stupidity (deliberate and sometimes even claimed), regression and superficiality in the arts.

Experimental poetry, historical avant-garde, contemporary music, dance, visual arts, intermedia: the sixth issue of Jacques Donguy, Sarah Cassenti and Jean-François Bory's avant-garde artistic and literary journal, with Frédéric Acquaviva, Antonin Artaud, Philippe Boisnard, Bernard Bousquet, Augusto De Campos, Hélène Defilippi, Cassandra Felgueiras, Pascal Le Gallois, Raoul Hausmann, Eduardo Kac, Chris Korda, Thomas Laroppe, Alvin Lucier, Made In Eric, Richard Meier, Simone Osthoff, Nam June Paik, Céline Paul, Diamantino Quintas, Biño Sauitzvy, Raoul Vaneigem.

The catalogue of Darja Bajagić's exhibition for the Pavilion of Montenegro at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, 2024.

Soufiane Ababri's sketchbooks.

A complete survey of the cast, forged, and fabricated metal sculptures made by Danish artist Sidsel Meineche Hansen since 2017.

The first monograph on the Japanese artist of desire.

New approaches to Iannone's unique work.

Rosé is a queer art zine, edited by Ben Egger and Sarah Berger, that aims to provide a curated public platform for queer artistic perspectives and concerns.

The catalogue for Iva Lulashi's exhibition at the Albanian Pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2024, inspired by the sexual revolution advocated by Russian radical thinker and feminist Alexandra Kollonta.

New edition of Steve Cannon's riotous 1969/71 erotic novel Groove, Bang and Jive Around, "an underground classic of such legendary stature that New York's black cognoscenti have transmogrified the work into urban myth," with a foreword from Darius James and an afterword by poet Tracie Morris.

First monograph of the Mexican queer artist.

A lesbian and queer re-reading of Albertine, a central character in Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time. A group show constructed as a portrait of lesbian identity.

This monograph presents the visual language inseparable from the higly influential sound project of Sam McKinlay, pioneer of the "harsh noise wall" with the multidisciplinary entity The Rita.

A selection of the artist's drawings and paintings from 2019 to 2023, accompanied by a text by Jennifer Higgie and an interview with Éric Troncy.

A series of exchanges relating to questions of gender, sexual difference and sexualities, enabling not only a rereading of Jean-Luc Nancy's corpus and its developments through the prism of what Nancy has called sexistence, but also the reinscription of the elaboration of this concept in a web of biographical elements and, hence, an exploration of the philosopher's actual sexistence.

Combining archive material with a wide selection of photographs of body paintings produced by the duo in the 1970-1980s, this publication retraces the evolution of gender identities and the treatment of the female body in visual culture from the 1950s to the present.

1000 drawings ranked from lightest to darkest, a major work by a rare and powerful artist, a major influence on the current graphzine scene.

Edited by artist Sille Storihl, The Stonewall Nation engages the archival remains of a gay colony that a group of gay men wanted to establish in Alpine County in Northern California in the early 1970s.

A complete documentation of Yayoi Kusama's early performative activities in the Netherlands in the 1960s-70s, through a collection of previously unpublished photographs and written and visual accounts from eyewitnesses, showcasing her unique style and engagement with the emerging sexual revolution.

The major influence of Henri Matisse on the work of one of the leading figures of American Pop Art.

This catalogue offers a journey—an odyssey—through the work of Paul-Armand Gette, with the "0m." as a common thread, the manifesto gesture that has punctuated the artist's universe since 1974.

Carroll Dunham's "Green Period."

Issue 36 of the Palais de Tokyo magazine proposes to explore the multiplicity, hybridity and fluidity of identities and the ways of loving, the plurality and complexity of our affects and our sexualities.

The third issue of the annual review of the École des arts décoratifs de Paris, placed under the complex and ambivalent sign of "TRANS", covering the various ways of transgressing (identity, textuality, coding, training, etc.).

The life and work of the precursor of happening and streaking in Japan, Itoi Kanji (aka Dadakan, 1920-2021): the first comprehensive chrono-biographical study in Western language on the great Japanese Dadaist nudist ascetic, with a rare iconography.

An in-depth exploration of the work and destiny of Ana Mendieta (1948-1985), with numerous illustrations and previously unpublished contributions.

A photographic tribute to the LGBTQ creative youth who is currently contributing to Mexican culture.

The restored and remastered vinyl reissue of a sound performance by American writer Kathy Acker and French noise/experimental band Nox, published in 1987, with a poster and a previously unpublished set of documents, letters, texts and photos.

The first monograph dedicated to American sculptor John DeAndrea, one of the founding members of American Photorealism along with Duane Hanson, Chuck Close, Richard Estes or Robert Cottingham in 1970, with an introduction by Catherine Millet, an autobiography of the artist and over 200 pages of illustrations.

The multiple issues of sexual representations in art / the complex relationships between art and the various forms of pornography.

29 new dreamlike (or nightmarish) living tableaux by Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari.

First monograph of the African-American artist, renowned for her representations of black femininity, whose spectacular pop patchworks deconstruct and recompose the everyday feminine/masculine relationship in its domestic dimension: an overview of Tschabalala Self's production, with seven essays and an interview.

A series of viral drawings by Jorge Zontal, signed General Idea, printed in 5 color offset.

A selection of Tanaami's Picasso's series.

A photographic portrait of Porpora Marcasciano, human rights activist, writer, sociologist and honorary president of MIT (the Italian Transgender Identity Movement).

A collection of photographs from the archives of the icon of underground and alternative Parisian nights Dora Diamant.