Art & sexuality / erotism

 
 
Dieter Hall - A Naked Chair
2025
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
forthcoming
Reference monograph.
Radical Desires - French Gay Liberation and Anticolonial Critique
2025
English edition
Diaphanes - Critical Stances
forthcoming
An intersectional approach to the radicality of desire.
Huguette Caland - Writing in the work of Huguette Caland
2025
English edition
Kaph Books
forthcoming
An exploration of the role of writing in the artistic practice of Huguette Caland (1931-2019).
Huguette Caland - L\'écriture dans l\'œuvre d\'Huguette Caland
2025
French edition
Kaph Books
forthcoming
An exploration of the role of writing in the artistic practice of Huguette Caland (also available in English edition).
Douglas Kirkland - Romance
2025
English edition
Damiani - Photography
The loving images by the eminent American set photographer.
Huguette Caland -
2025
English edition
Sternberg Press - Imagine/otherwise
This enchanting convening of texts and images, diaries and epistles celebrates a unique voice and ongoing dialogue around the erotics of art.
Paul Schrader - Hardcore - A Photo/Journal
2025
English edition
Timeless
A striking new photobook by Eric Kroll, featuring rare and intimate photographs taken during the shooting of Paul Schrader's cult 1979 film—and much more beyond.
Julien Langendorff - Spell Rider
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lendroit éditions
A series of collages that plunges us into a world of multiple references tinged with eroticism, galaxies and cinematic universes.
Aleksandra Waliszewska - Problem Issue 5
2025
no text
Timeless
A huge opus collecting for the first time the latest issues of Aleksandra Waliszewska's Problem (vertical format artworks).
Chromotherapia - Feel-Good Color Photography
2025
English edition
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Photography
Famed Italian visual artist and curator Maurizio Cattelan and curator Sam Stourdzé offer a rereading of the history of color photography through the 20th century into the 21st, and through the works of over 20 artists (as well as the cult images of Toiletpaper) who take us on a journey into vibrant, acidulous worlds.
Miriam Cahn - Könnteichsein + Gepäck/Gefühl (2 books)
2025
no text
Nieves
Two series of brutal, raw drawings by Miriam Cahn.
Irène Schwartz - Le jour où j\'ai été mangée - Carnets 1973-1983, extraits
2025
French edition
various
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.
Berlinde De Bruyckere - Crossing a Bridge on Fire
2025
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph.
Maïc Baxane - Pisseurses
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
United Dead Artists
Pisseurses brings together a series of oil pastel drawings and portraits of the artist and her comrades urinating outdoors in a variety of contexts. A brief science-fiction short story carries the whole into a utopian dimension that re-signifies the trivial act of miction.
Gretta Sarfaty -
2024
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
various
First monograph of the Brazilian feminist artist.
Louis Fratino - Satura
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
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 (new edition).
Pierre Guyotat - La parole visible
2024
French edition
Diaphanes
Architect Patrick Bouchain's reading of the work and his friendship with Pierre Guyotat, as well as an analysis by Bouchain and numerous members of Guyotat's creative community of the power of the alliance between vision and word, image and poem, in the author's work.
Bruno Richard - Choquer le monde à mort - Elles sont de sortie – Pascal Doury – Bruno Richard
2024
French edition
L'Amazone
The outcome of in-depth research into the work of Bruno Richard and Pascal Doury, this anthology of the legendary magazine Elles sont de sortie (ESDS) retraces five decades of a corpus of nearly three hundred publications.
Kathy Acker - FREEING (Our Bodies) - Jean-François Bory, Kathy Acker ou l\'invention de « textemondes »
2024
French edition
FREEING (Our Bodies)
An essay by Yoann Sarrat on two works by Jean-François Bory and Kathy Acker.
Jacopo Pagin - The Sniper In The Brain
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
Over 200 drawings and paintings to explore the visionary, obsessive, and hypnotic qualities of Jacopo Pagin's work.
Tomaso Binga - Euforia
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
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 - The Joy of Cacophony
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
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.
Orshi Drozdik - Adventures in Technos Dystopium - Work, writings, exhibitions 1970–1995
2024
English edition
MER. Books
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.
Soldes
2024
French edition
Soldes Almanac
An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.
Jean-Jacques Lebel - Front Unique - La traversée du surréalisme de Jean-Jacques Lebel
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
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).
Morgan Labar - La gloire de la bêtise - Régression et superficialités dans les arts depuis la fin des années 1980
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Œuvres en sociétés
A history of stupidity (deliberate and sometimes even claimed), regression and superficiality in the arts.
Celebrity Cafe
2024
French edition
Celebrity Cafe
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.
Estelle Hanania - La guerre du feu
2024
no text
various
French artists Christophe Brunnquell and Estelle Hanania celebrate 15 years of collaboration with this book published by the legendary Japanese bookstore Komiyama Tokyo, combining performance, illustration and photography.
Darja Bajagić - It Takes an Island to Feel This Good - 60th International Art Exhibition – La Biennale di Venezia
2024
bilingual edition (English / Montenegrin)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
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 - Wanderlust
2024
bilingual edition (Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
Soufiane Ababri's sketchbooks.
Sidsel Meineche Hansen - Metal Works
2024
English edition
Lenz Press
A complete survey of the cast, forged, and fabricated metal sculptures made by Danish artist Sidsel Meineche Hansen since 2017.
Yoshifumi Hayashi - L\'alchimie du cerveau à la mine de plomb
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Arsenicgalerie
currently out of stock
The first monograph on the Japanese artist of desire.
Dorothy Iannone - Love Is Forever, Isn\'t It?
2024
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
New approaches to Iannone's unique work.
Rosé
2024
English edition
Errant Bodies
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.
Iva Lulashi - Love as a Glass of Water
2024
trilingual edition (English / Italian / Albanian)
Bruno
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.
Steve Cannon - Groove, Bang and Jive Around
2024
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
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.
Frieda Toranzo Jaeger - Autonomous Drive
2024
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Zolo Press
First monograph of the Mexican queer artist.
La Fugitive
2024
French edition
Le Crédac
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.
 The Rita - Correlations
2024
English edition
Amaya Productions
currently out of stock
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.
GaHee Park -
2024
English edition
Perrotin
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.
Jean-Luc Nancy - Sexpositions
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
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.
Vera Lehndorff - The Seen and the Unseen
2024
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
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.
Bruno Richard - Elles sont de sortie #100
2024
French edition
United Dead Artists
1000 drawings ranked from lightest to darkest, a major work by a rare and powerful artist, a major influence on the current graphzine scene.
Judith Bernstein - Active Figuration
2024
English edition
CoMa artbooks
Judith Bernstein's Active Figuration series (2000) consists of ink-on-paper drawings created through a trance-like process, exploring the subconscious. The gestural images address the political injustices of their time, depicting figures in existential angst and turbulent relationships. "It's fun, but it's dead serious".
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