Art & psychology

 
 
Horst Bredekamp - La psychanalyse figurative de Sigmund Freud - Le Moïse de Michel-Ange et la collection d\'idoles
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
forthcoming
Cesare Pietroiusti - Newton (vinyl LP)
2024
Xing
currently out of stock
Newton is a sound work conceived by Cesare Pietroiusti, an artist interested in micro-events, paradoxical situations, behaviour and minor gestures that make up our daily life. NEWTON is an epic of the fall, experienced, suffered and observed by the artist himself.
Unica Zürn - Katrin - The Tale of a Young Writer
2024
English edition
Crackers
currently out of stock
A partly autobiographical novel that the German surrealist artist and author Unica Zürn (1916-1970) wrote for her ten-year-old daughter in 1953, although it would never be published in her lifetime. This is the first translation of the tale from German into English.
Inter - Arts altercapacités
2024
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
currently out of stock
Inter 143 invites you to explore Mad art, Crip art, disabled art, deaf art, raw art, edible art, situated art and inclusive art: all ways of perceiving, thinking and creating by people with different abilities (physical, intellectual, cognitive, mental, sensory, learning, language and communication skills) or functional diversity.
Lisa Tan - Dodge and/or Burn
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The catalogue of Lisa Tan's first institutional show in Sweden tenders its own spatial logic through the metaphor of neurological disorders.
 DASDAS - Un zèbre bleu aux yeux de mouche (vinyl LP)
2024
PiedNu
A record of outsider music (sound objects and voices) made by patients at Le Havre psychiatric hospital, accompanied by Aude Romary on cello and Nosfell.
P L  S – The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo - Cosa mentale – Disalienating institutions
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
Issue 37 of Palais de Tokyo magazine addresses the relationships between mental health, contemporary creation, and art and culture venues, in particular through the prism of institutional psychotherapy, a set of practices aimed at disalienating institutions—initially psychiatric ones.
Espace art actuel - Neurodiversity
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
The dynamic aspects of neurodiversity in creation, in the context of art therapy, or the production of contemporary visual art works.
Patrik Pion - La perte du bonheur
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Paraguay Press - Monographs and catalogs
A series of sculptures, drawings, and videos that question alienating norms through the lens of sociology and psychoanalysis.
Éric Alliez - Duchamp avec (et contre) Lacan - Essai de mutologie queer
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
Philosopher Éric Alliez rethinks Marcel Duchamp's legacy in relation to contemporary art and the image, psychoanalysis and gender.
Madeleine Abassade - Danser l\'imprévu - Une lecture politique et sensible des Cahiers de Vaslav Nijinski
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Gestes
Through a new reading of the Notebooks of Vaslav Nijinsky, who was described as "insane", and by taking them out of their reduction to a psychiatric diagnosis, Madeleine Abassade reveals the dancer's revolt against an established order of which he was the instrument and from which he sought to emancipate himself by creating his own choreographies.
Madeleine Abassade - Danser l\'imprévu - Une lecture politique et sensible des Cahiers de Vaslav Nijinski
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Gestes
Through a new reading of the Notebooks of Vaslav Nijinsky, who was described as "insane", and by taking them out of their reduction to a psychiatric diagnosis, Madeleine Abassade reveals the dancer's revolt against an established order of which he was the instrument and from which he sought to emancipate himself by creating his own choreographies.
Christian Fogarolli - Pneuma
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Alberta Pane
The Italian artist's research around the issues of normativity and the institutional stigmatization of mental illness.
Luis Guerra - Wandering Echoes - Handbook of Operatives Losses
2022
English edition
Errant Bodies - Errant Edition
Between philosophical essay and poetic experimentation, this text by the Chilean philosopher and artist pays tribute to Fernand Deligny, whose work on autism has allowed a more experimental understanding of difference.
Jalil Bennani - Des Djinns à la psychanalyse - Nouvelle approche des pratiques traditionnelles et contemporaines
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Al Dante
Al Dante - History, theory & criticism / essays
A new approach to psychological suffering, integrating non-Western knowledge with that of psychiatry and psychoanalysis, in order to rethink the cultural and linguistic heritages and crossings that constitute a plural universal.
Lola Nadel - Les papiers mâcheurs
2022
French edition
ACME
The story of a therapeutic experience with paper mache initiated in a Geneva shelter and which ended up "outside the walls", illustrating how another psychiatry is possible.
Céline Frigau Manning - Ce que la musique fait à l\'hypnose - Une relation spectaculaire au XIXe siècle
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Œuvres en sociétés
The unexplored interactions between hypnosis, music and medicine in the 19th century, between the world of science and the world of art.
Xavier Gayan - Roland Gori - Une époque sans esprit (DVD)
2021
French edition
a.p.r.e.s editions - Documents & Video Works (DVD)
currently out of stock
An intimate portrait of the psychoanalyst Roland Gori, of his thought and his fights against the commodification of health, education and culture.
Elena Prosvetina - Au temps des utopies radieuses - Création et folie en Russie soviétique (1921-1929) – Suivi de Pavel Karpov : L\'activité créatrice des aliénés, 1926
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Les Hétéroclites
A study and translation of a fundamental text on the “art of the insane” in Russia, re-establishing a whole section of Western history of the interest of psychiatrists in the relationship between creation and madness.
Ultrasanity - On Madness, Sanitation, Antipsychiatry, and Resistance
2021
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
A curatorial and research project that aims to move beyond insanity as the opposite of sanity, and imagine a space beyond what is understood as sane, i.e. ultrasanity—not a romanticization of madness or mental illness, but an effort to reconsider and challenge the notion of madness and the stigmas labelled on the so-called mad.
Konstantin Raudive - The Voices of the Dead - Featuring David Toop, 
DJ Spooky, 
Lee Ranaldo, 
Calla & 
CM von Hausswolff (vinyl LP)
2020
Sub Rosa
currently out of stock
Original archives from Konstantin Raudive and Gerhard Stempnik and some additional remixes.
Isidore Isou - Antonin Artaud torturé par les psychiatres
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Through the detailed analysis of Antonin Artaud's psychiatric history, Lettrist master Isidore Isou delivers a real indictment in this singular text which is both an investigation and a pamphlet.
Alenka Zupančič - Qu\'est-ce que le sexe ?
2019
French edition
Diaphanes - TransPositions
Sexuality as a properly philosophical problem of psychoanalysis.
Laura Mulvey - Fétichisme et curiosité
2019
French edition
Brook
French edition of Laura Mulvey's writings which range from analyses of Xala, Citizen Kane and Blue Velvet, to an extended engagement with the creations of Native American artist Jimmie Durham and the feminist photographer Cindy Sherman.
Baptiste Brun - Jean Dubuffet et la besogne de l\'Art Brut - Critique du primitivisme
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Jean Dubuffet, Art Brut, and the primitivist paradigm.
Gustav Mesmer - Ikarus vom Lautertal genannt
2019
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Edition Patrick Frey
First major monograph devoted to the “Icarus of Lautertal”, a key figure of outsider art, flying machines inventor Gustav Mesmer. This publication looks back at his path through essays by Lucienne Peiry, Juliane Stiegele and Franz Xaver Ott, as well as photographs by Franco Zehnder and Stefan Hartmaier.
Gabriel Sierra - Before Present
2018
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
This series of four short volumes documents an experimental project by the Colombian artist focusing on the psychological dimension of architecture based on the feeling of déjà-vu.
Lionel Ovesey - Color line - Oppression et inconscient
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
A landmark study on the psychological effects of oppression on Black Americans during the 1940s.
The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism - Part Three
2018
English edition
Archive Books
The third volume of a collection of papers on cognitive capitalism in relation with the conditions of mind and brain in the Information Age.
Dora García - Segunda Vez - How Masotta Was Repeated – A research Project led by Dora García
2018
English edition
Torpedo
This publication documents a research made by Dora García for a video project on Oscar Masotta, pioneer of Lacanian psychoanalysis in Latin America and influential art critic. It features a selection of Masotta's writings as well as contextual essays on his work.
Ute Holl - The Moses Complex - Freud, Schoenberg, Straub/Huillet
2017
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
With this essay, Ute Holl analyzes in detail and deep historical context major works by Freud, Schoenberg, Jean-Marie Straub and Danièle Huillet, all inspired by the figure of Moses. The author offers a dynamic and comprehensive political and cultural theory of migration and violence.
Nathalie Novi - Dr. Freud, Fish Whisperer
2017
English edition
Diaphanes - Plato & Co.
Discovering the id, ego, and superego with Dr. Freud (an illustrated philosophy book for children).
Clara Pacquet - Signature et achevé en soi - Esthétique, psychologie et anthropologie dans l\'œuvre de Karl Philipp Moritz (1756-1793)
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An essay conceived as an intellectual portrait of the German writer, psychologist and art theorist Karl Philipp Moritz, whose purpose is to investigate the relationships between aesthetics, psychology and anthropology in the second half of the 18th century, and the importance of their simultaneous development for the debates about art after 1800.
Yves Sarfati - L\'Anti-Origine du monde - Comment Whistler a tué Courbet
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Rereading L'Origine du monde and the relationship between Gustave Courbet and James Whistler.
Change numérique - Édition intégrale de la revue Change (1968-1983)
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Motion Method Memory
The complete PDF edition of the avant-garde journal Change, created by Jean Pierre Faye in 1968: 42 facsimile issues in a 8482-page file with free-text search engine.
Fabrice Bourlez - Pulsions pasoliniennes
2015
French edition
Franciscopolis
(last copies available!)
An original reading of Pier Paolo Pasolini's work and “impulses”, between aesthetic and psychoanalytic reflection.
Dora García - I See Words, I Hear Voices - Mad Marginal – Cahier #4
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
The fourth cahier of Dora Garcia's Mad Marginal project brings together essays by international authors that develop different threads pertaining to artist Dora García's practice.
Timing of Affect - Epistemologies, Aesthetics, Politics
2014
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
Affect, or the process by which emotions come to be embodied, is a burgeoning area of interest in both the humanities and the sciences. For Timing of Affect, Marie-Luise Angerer, Bernd Bösel, and Michaela Ott have assembled leading scholars to explore the temporal aspects of affect through the perspectives of philosophy, music, film, media, and art, as well as technology and neurology.
The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism - Part Two
2014
English edition
Archive Books
The second volume of a collection of papers on cognitive capitalism in relation with the conditions of mind and brain in the Information Age.
Markus Schinwald -
2013
bilingual edition (English / French) / texts in English and French
CAPC
15.00 5.00 €
After he transformed the whole nave of the CAPC Museum into a mechanical theatre, Markus Schinwald conceives an elegant and sophisticated artist's book that reflects this physical and mental adventure through preparatory prints, film dialogues, and a series of stickers alternating exhibition views and reproduction of works.
Transferts de Courbet
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A transdisciplinary set of contributions from art historians, scientists, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts, proposing new interpretations of Gustave Courbet's work from his paintings but also from his life, correspondence and archives relative to his family, for some hitherto unpublished.
The Psychopathologies of Cognitive Capitalism - Part One
2013
English edition
Archive Books
The first volume of a collection of papers on cognitive capitalism in relation with the conditions of mind and brain in the Information Age.
Jérôme Bertin - Le patient
2012
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A picaresque novel taking place in a psychiatric institution. Bertin's “raw” style is reminiscent of Bukowski, Céline, and Artaud.
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