new releases
 
Tools - To Cut
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
The fourth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry.
Jean-Christophe Thomas - Diabolus in Musica - 2008-2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Maison ONA
Jean-Christophe Thomas analyzes François Bayle's complete work in 52 recurring features (book augmented with 151 sound examples to download).
Rene Ricard - Love Poems
bilingual edition (English / French)
Editions Lutanie
Three long poems by American writer, artist and actor Rene Ricard (1946-2014), an icon of the New York underground in the 1970s, accompanied by a series of drawings by American painter Robert Hawkins.
Ronan Bouroullec - Triptyque
bilingual edition (English / French)
Éditions 7L & Villa Noailles
Ronan Bouroullec's first comprehensive monograph, bringing together his drawings, sculptures and ceramics, and design objects and projects.
Meg Stuart - Let\'s Not Get Used to This Place - Works 2008-2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
A personal and intimate look behind the scenes of Meg Stuart's creative process over more than a decade.
Jan Kinsbergen - Plates
English edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
A visual, experimental research on the architectonic potential of the horizontal surface in building processes.
JTM - Pour que tu m\'aimes encore
bilingual edition (English / French)
JTM
Pli - JTM
This first issue of the annual magazine on architecture, scenography and design brings together designers and artists whose approach is anchored in their perception and emotions. Featuring GGSV, Formafantasma, Atelier Senzu, Flora Fishbach, Romain Brau, Bunker Palace, Pinaffo & Pluvinage, Atelier blam, Xolo Cuintle, etc.
Alphabet Magazine
English edition
Alphabet
The first issue of the magazine made by artists, founded by Donatien Grau and Thomas Lenthal : contributions by Mathias Augustyniak, Naomi Campbell, Théo Casciani, Michael Chow, Pan Daijing, Es Devlin, Claire Fontaine, Edwin Frank, Theaster Gates, Nicolas Godin, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Hedi El Kholti, Michèle Lamy, Paul McCarthy, Ian McEwan, Eileen Myles, Marc Newson, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Diana Widmaier Picasso, Ariana Reines, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Julian Schnabel & Jason Momoa, Hanna Schygulla, Juergen Teller, Iké Udé, McKenzie Wark, Robert Wilson, Yohji Yamamoto.
Toilet Paper - Calendar 2025
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Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
The 2025 Toilet Paper wall calendar.
Chris Dorley Brown - A History of the East End
bilingual edition (English / French)
Nouveau Palais
Four decades of urban change in London's East End: a comprehensive retrospective of the British photographer's documentation work since the 1980s.
Jean-Marie Massou - Sodorome - Volume III – Les Romans de Massou (vinyl LP)
La Belle Brute
La Belle Brute's fourth release dedicated to "Art Brut" French artist Jean-Marie Massou, which delves his "novels", a series of sound fictions, created over the last two decades of his life, intertwining striking narratives via spoken text accompanied by collages of sound effects, music, and ambient sounds.
 Les gens du 110 - GEM (vinyl LP)
La Belle Brute
A sonic adventure, where the Coax musicians' collective merges with the vibrant spirit of the Groupe d'Entraide Mutuelle de Montreuil, a mental health peer-help structure nicknamed "Les gens du 110". The ebullient, motley crew explores uncharted sonic territory, inspired by a series of workshops at the GEM, amid sculptures, frescoes, odds and ends, cries and laughter...
Micol Roubini - La montagna magica
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
An extensive investigation on the ecosystem of Europe's largest asbestos quarry in Balangero (TO) and the dense network of relations between human and land.
Flash Art - Fall 2024 – De-Object
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
Lou Cantor, Sylvie Hayes-Wallace, Elizabeth Jaeger, Stanislava Kovalčíkova, Mire Lee, Jack O'Brien, Frida Orupabo, Rirkrit Tiravanija, Anicka Yi...
Matthew Brookes - Expression of Freedom - Through the world of dance
English edition
Damiani - Photography
An homage to melliferous, unifying art of dance, as captured over the course of 10 years and across four continents.
Luke Gilford - National Anthem - America\'s Queer Rodeo
English edition
Damiani - Photography
A unique document of America's gay rodeo subculture, National Anthem is a celebration of outsiders and the beauty of chosen families everywhere.
Neal Slavin - When Two or More Are Gathered Together
English edition
Damiani - Photography
The expanded reissue of the famous 1976 photo book by Neal Slavin, a pioneer of full-color group portraiture, shedding a striking light on hierarchies and social dynamics in the United States.
Lee Quiñones - Fifty Years of New York Graffiti Art and Beyond
English edition
Damiani - Photography
The first monograph of Puerto Rican born artist Lee Quiñones presenting his monumental work and following his evolution over five decades.
Joshua Charow - Loft Law - The Last of New York City\'s Original Artist Lofts
English edition
Damiani - Photography
currently out of stock
A photographic investigation with around 50 New York artists still benefiting from the "loft" law, intended to protect financially troubled artists living illegally in the city's commercial and industrial lofts from eviction.
John Dolan - The Perfect Imperfect - The Wedding Photographs of John Dolan.
English edition
Damiani - Photography
An intimate exploration of the American wedding, an enduring public ritual (new revised edition).
Emmanuelle Parrenin - Nosferatu (livre / CD)
Bisou Records
The soundtrack to Murnau's Nosferatu composed / improvised / played by the trioof Emmanuelle Parrenin, Quentin Rollet and Jérôme Lorichon. The book accompanying the CD contains four versions of the Nosferatu story by four French artists: Marie-Pierre Brunel, Foolz, Caroline Sury and Alexios Tjoyas.
Nadia Terranova - ETNA - La lingua del fuoco
Italian edition
Humboldt Books
A journey around Mount Etna, in the words of Sicilian writer Nadia Terranova and the images of photographer Stefano Graziani.
Jean-Michel Wicker - Logorrhea
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
The fruit of a long-term project, this artist's book focuses on the written word and language in Jean-Michel Wicker's work.
 Qu Qianmei - Ors et excentricités minérales - L\'œuvre peint, 2009-2024
texts in English, Chinese and French
Naima
Twelve Western and Chinese authors have contributed their texts to accompany the singular works of Chinese painter Qu Qianmei over two decades.
Christopher Wilson - Richard Hollis designs for the Whitechapel - A graphic designer and an art gallery in twentieth-century London
English edition
various
A remarkably well-documented and detailed book on designer Richard Hollis's graphic work for London's Whitechapel Gallery, from the late 1960s to the mid-1980s.
Larissa Reisner - The Decembrists
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
The first English translation of Larissa Reisner (1895-1926)'s writings on the Decembrist uprising.
 Iliazd - Berlin Khaltura
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
The sixth volume of the bie bao series presents the first English translation of Ilya Zdanevich's writings on Berlin.
Sandrine Nicoletta - Interplay (vinyl LP)
Kohlhaas
Interplay is performed by five singers, from tenor clef to treble clef, recorded in different places at different times. Each singer had not listened to what the others had recorded before.
Alessandro Bosetti - Portraits de Voix (CD)
Kohlhaas
Sound artist and composer Alessandro Bosetti paints a series of portraits from a collection of conversations recorded in Italy over the course of a Summer.
Claudio Rocchetti - An imitation of life
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Kohlhaas
An artist's book in which musician and sound artist Claudio Rocchetti questions the act of looking.
BOM Magazine – Ballet of the masses - On Football and Cartharsis
English edition
Archive Books
The BOM Magazine, the publication for the Ballet of the Masses project at Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), focuses on rare perspectives on football as a field of both tension and relaxation.
Caroline Rennequin - Joie
bilingual edition (English / French)
The Drawer - Books
Monograph dedicated to Caroline Rennequin's flower paintings (gouaches on Indian paper), with texts by Yves Michaud and Émilie Ovaere-Corthay.
Sam Francis - Transatlantique
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Pierre Wat invites height artists from both sides of the Atlantic to share their views of Sam Francis (1923-1994).
Pier Paolo Calzolari - Casa ideale
bilingual edition (English / French)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
Retrospective monograph.
Wade Guyton - Five Paintings - 2013-2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Galerie Chantal Crousel
Catalogue dedicated to the series of paintings exhibited at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Paris, Wade Guyton's first exhibition in a French museum.
Faye Wei Wei - Portals
English edition
Editions Lutanie
London-based artist Faye Wei Wei’s debut monograph.
 Ultra-red - A Journal of Militant Sound Inquiry - Vol. 1 – Naming the Moment
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
For their thirtieth anniversary, Ulta-red, the international sound art and popular education collective is releasing the first volume of Ulta-red: A Journal of Militant Sound Inquiry, investigating movement-based listening practices that take the forms of militant inquiry and political education. 
 Chromacolor - Heartbeats (10\
Arbitrary
Arbitrary presents the second in a series of 10" vinyl remix collaboration releases by Danish musician Mads Emil Nielsen and Chromacolor.
 The Shadow Ring - The Shadow Ring (1992-2002) (11 CD + DVD + book box set)
English edition
Blank Forms - Records
A comprehensive overview of the work produced by British musicians Graham Lambkin, Darren Harris, and later Tim Goss over the course of a decade, across eleven CDs and a DVD, accompanied by an nearly five-hundred-page book.
Jacopo Benassi - A Star in the Garden
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
various
Jacopo Benassi brings together in this "private" edition 40 color photographs of the garden of his friends Stella and Pino perched on a ledge between the sea and the sky, in his Liguria land.
Unica Zürn - Katrin - The Tale of a Young Writer
English edition
Crackers
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.
The Drawer - Under 25
French edition (texts in English and French)
The Drawer
The Drawer - The Drawer (magazine)
For its 24th volume, The Drawer brings together a selection of drawings by some thirty final-year students from French and international art schools.
Joseph E. Yoakum - Mount Horeb Palestine
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Nieves
Poetic drawings of Mount Horeb by self-taught Native American artist Joseph E. Yoakum (1891-1972).
Jean Jullien - Punctuations
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Nieves
currently out of stock
A series of paintings synthesising big wave surfing, turning the human element into a visual punctuation on the immense aquatic backdrop.
Eckardt Lindner - Inorganic Life - On Post-Vitalism
English edition
Diaphanes
A theory of passive vitalism.
Spike - The State of the Arts
English edition
Spike
Summer issue, featuring: texts by Travis Diehl, Domenick Ammirati, Anna Kornbluh, Daniel Baumann; interview with painter and gallerist Jamian Juliano-Villani; Aodhan Madden on Maggie Lee, Ser Serpas & K8 Hardy; Jaakko Pallasvuo and Kristian Vistrup Madsen; a guide to decentralized social media; Marina Abramović's secret to longevity; Nicolas Bourriaud on this year's Venice Biennale...
Wages For Wages Against - Volume 3 – How Are Artists Chosen? Exclusivity, precarious work and asymmetries in Art Competitions
English edition
L'Amazone
The third volume of a new series of publications by the collective Wages For Wages Against, acting for better work conditions in the visual arts and against all forms of discrimination.
Silvia Bächli - Partitura
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
currently out of stock
A "score" of drawings that highlights both the continuity and the progressive changes in the Swiss artist's work.
Toilet Paper - ToiletAlex PaperPrager
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Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
ToiletAlex PaperPrager is the new edition of Toilet Paper magazine, born from a collaboration with american artist Alex Prager: a vibrant dialogue between visionary minds, where the ironic style of Toilet Paper meets the dark humor of Alex Prager, a parade of familiar yet strange images, suggesting a timeless world placed somewhere between dream and reality.
Jérôme Zonder - Drawings 2013-2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
United Dead Artists
A chronological dive into a decade of production from one of the major representatives of contemporary drawing, with over 500 images and an essay by Catherine Francblin.
Yoshifumi Hayashi - L\'alchimie du cerveau à la mine de plomb
bilingual edition (English / French)
Arsenicgalerie
The first monograph on the Japanese artist of desire.
Soufiane Ababri - Wanderlust
bilingual edition (Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
Soufiane Ababri's sketchbooks.
Emilia Giorgi - Saudiscapes
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
The trip to Saudi Arabia by photographer Giovanna Silva and curator Emilia Giorgi.
Frédéric D. Oberland - SIHR (vinyl LP)
Sub Rosa
Sonic manifesto by a post-anything quartet featuring multi-instrumentalists from the Mediterranean inland Sea / new folklore for a devastated planet, including members of Oiseaux-Tempête, H, Karkhana, Polyphème.
Women In Turkish Electronic Music (CD)
Sub Rosa
A series of recordings that unveils the diverse creativity of young Turkish female artists.
Nicolas Horvath - Pia-Noise (CD)
Sub Rosa
currently out of stock
The cataclysmic meeting between Masami Akita (Merzbow), legend of the Japanese noise scene, and pianist Nicolas Horvath, great connoisseur of the classical repertoire and unparalleled experimenter.
 Pangea De Futura - War Milk (vinyl LP)
Sub Rosa
The debut studio album from the Montreal supergroup Pangea de Futura, an octet that has been exploring since 2019, the many ways of—slowly—constructing massive textural musical shapes and droning tribal post-rock ambiances.
Jean-Luc Fafchamps - Ensemble(s) (CD)
Sub Rosa
Performed by Musiques Nouvelles, conducted by Jean-Paul Dessy, Jean-Luc Fafchamps's eighth release, a kind of compilation of unreleased or rare pieces covering nearly three decades, is undoubtedly the best introduction to his work.
 Atrás del Cosmos - Cold Drinks, Hot Dreams (vinyl LP)
Blank Forms - Records
Issued on LP for the first time, Atrás del Cosmos's Cold Drinks, Hot Dreams,, originally issued on cassette in 1980, is a heady and lush live set by who many consider to be the first free jazz ensemble in Mexico.
James Rushford - Turzets (vinyl LP)
Blank Forms - Records
Turzets collects a pair of new works primarily created and recorded in 2023 while the Australian composer-performer was in residence at La Becque, an art center on Lake Geneva in Switzerland: somewhat a departure for Rushford, working in traces of Klaus Schulze, concrete poetry, and ars subtilior into a precise and ever-unfolding tapestry.
Peter Wollen - Kahlo/Modotti – Forty Years Later / 40 Jahre später
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bierke
Kahlo/Modotti – Forty Years Later is the result of a visit by Laura Mulvey to the Department of Film Studies at the University of Zurich in November 2022. The booklet contains two texts: Mulvey's evening lecture at the Cabaret Voltaire, revisiting hers and Peter Wollen's exhibition and film on Frida Kahlo and Tina Modotti, and Wollen's 2003 essay on the phenomenon of "Fridamania."
Natascha Sadr Haghighian - What I Do Not Recognize Yet, Now at This Very Moment / Was ich noch nicht erkenne, jetzt in diesem Moment
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bierke
Natascha Sadr Haghighian charts modes of strategic ignorance and recognition that operate in structural racism.
Skip Norman - On Africa
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bierke
The reprint of a document containing the script of Skip Norman's film On Africa (1970).
Hanns Zischler - Heiner Müller – The Battle/Tractor / Die Schlacht/Traktor - Basel 1976
bilingual edition (English / German)
Bierke
A look back at the collaboration and intellectual exchanges between Harun Farocki, Hanns Zischler and Heiner Müller.
Esther Kläs - Clouds
English edition
Zolo Press
First monograph of German artist Esther Kläs, covering over 15 years of practice.
Magali Reus - KOOL - A Type Specimen
English edition
Lenz Press
An artist's book built around KOOL ("cabbage" in Dutch), a new font designed by Magali Reus, winner of the seventh edition of the Arnaldo Pomodoro Prize for Sculpture.
 PROVENCE - My Alphabet
English edition
Lenz Press
On the occasion of PROVENCE's 15th anniversary, the reader My Alphabet presents 26 texts published by PROVENCE between 2009 and 2024, either in print or digitally in the weekly newsletter. These texts are sorted alphabetically, ranging from A for Amphetamine to N for Ne travaillez jamais to Z for Gen Z.
Sidsel Meineche Hansen - Metal Works
English edition
Lenz Press
A complete survey of the cast, forged, and fabricated metal sculptures made by Danish artist Sidsel Meineche Hansen since 2017.
Lynn Marie Kirby - Time & Place - On the Work of Lynn Marie Kirby
English edition
X Artists' Books
An exploration of Lynn Marie Kirby 's work through a collection of writing, essays and interviews (Etel Adnan, Lynne Sachs, Jalal Toufic, Alexandra Grant, Trinh T. Minh-ha...).
Hélène Cixous - Itinéraires Fantômes (box set)
bilingual edition (English / French)
X Artists' Books
Itinéraires Fantômes is an oracle deck created by Alexandra Grant with Hélène Cixous in celebration of H. Cixous' work.
Sean Crossley - Excess/Support
English edition
MER. B&L
A body of 100 paintings worked through from 2019 to 2023 (artist's book).
Gianni Berengo Gardin - Sicilia 1966/2008
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
Images of religious ceremonies in Sicily, captured on location by the master of Italian photography.
Ryan Gander - Artists at 5
English edition
Mennour
A book bringing together about 160 portraits of artists when they were "about" five years old.
Art Spiegelman - Street Cop
English edition
ISOLARII
The collaboration of two American greats: master of metafiction Robert Coover and graphic legend Art Spiegelman.
James Lovelock - Ever Gaia
English edition
ISOLARII
restocking in progress
currently out of stock
The most accessible introduction to the life and work of James Lovelock (1919-2022), and a guide to address today's "polycrisis."
Will Alexander - Charismatic Spirals
English edition
ISOLARII
Charismatic Spirals is for an America circa 2024, where poetry—the art of developing new means of speaking—has never been of such artistic, technological and political consequences.
 Sjón - Under the Wings of the Valkyrie
English edition
ISOLARII
The English translation of the work that established the Icelandic author's literary career—an exploration of eroticism in extremism.
Scholastique Mukasonga - A Book of My Own
English edition
ISOLARII
"For those who, despite everything, have decided to live, there will always be a home." A work on the experience of exile and migration, memory and selfhood, from legendary French-Rwandan storyteller Scholastique Mukasonga.
In the Face of War - Ukraine 2022
English edition
ISOLARII
At the time of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Yevgenia Belorusets, Nikita Kadan, and Lesia Khomenko answer an age-old question: what is art to do in the face of war? (the culmination of Yevgenia Belorusets's war diary, alongside monumental work by Nikita Kadan, and Lesia Khomenko).
Édouard Glissant - Archipelago
English edition
ISOLARII
restocking in progress
currently out of stock
15 years of conversations between Caribbean philosopher Édouard Glissant and his friend Hans Ulrich Obrist.
F Letter - New Russian Feminist Poetry
bilingual edition (English / Russian)
ISOLARII
The first ever anthology of feminist poetry from Russia.
 Cooking Sections - Salmon: A Red Herring
English edition
ISOLARII
currently out of stock
Salmon: A Red Herring questions what colours we expect in our "natural" environment. It asks us to examine how our perception of colour is changing as much as we are changing the planet. Adapted into the eponymous Turner Prize-nominated exhibition at Tate Britain, this book launched an international campaign against salmon farming.
Towards the Realm of Materiality - Designing Philip K. Dick\'s Non-Existing Technologies
English edition
Nero
currently out of stock
A multidisciplinary exploration of the technological devices, the machines, and the objects conceived by the brilliant mind of Philip K. Dick.
Nilima Sheikh - The Significance and Relevance of Early Modern Indian Painters to the Contemporary Indian Art
English edition
Reliable Copy
The Significance and Relevance of Early Modern Indian Painters to the Contemporary Indian Art, written in 1971, reevaluates the legacies of painting inherited by the artist Nilima Sheikh.
Alioune Diagne - Bokk-Bounds
bilingual edition (English / French)
Templon
Alioune Diagne's project for the first Senegalese Pavilion at the 60th International Art Exhibition of La Biennale di Venezia, 2024.
Younès Rahmoun - Here, Now
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Zamân - Zamân Books
A tricontinental exhibition and publication project that takes the form of a multiauthor monograph to showease an artist whose work creates space to connect with the self; to be in the here and now.
Forgotten Architecture - An Archive of Overshadowed Projects
English edition
Nero
A "minor" and alternative history of architecture.
Simone Forti - New Book
English edition
Nero
A new poem composed by the legendary dancer, artist and choreographer Simone Forti.
Martin Bethenod - Rien de Personnel
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
10 years of stolen iPhone photos of dogs. We follow the author's life and peregrinations, the constancy of a singular passion and the evolution of phones, all with images that are still modest, but constitute a substantial sum—1000 images in 384 flip book pages, with the Instragram scroll effect.
 Andrea Caretto & Raffaella Spagna - Bright Ecologies - Experiences, Forms, Materials
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Viaindustriae
The first overview of the artistic research of Andrea Caretto and Raffaella Spagna, an Italian artistic duo focused on site specific art project with a sensible attitude to the landscape.
Josse Bailly - I Love Wiener Dog
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Nieves
A series of “Bad Paintings” by the Geneva-based artist.
Valentina Tanni - Exit Reality - Vaporwave, Backrooms, Weirdcore, and Other Landscapes Beyond the Threshold
English edition
Nero
The first attempt to map that ensemble of subcultures, popular narratives, and visual and auditory languages we now recognize as "internet aesthetics".
 Ganko - Glasraum
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
The result of a collaboration in the fields of architecture and photography, Glasraum explores the deliberate ambiguities embedded in a seemingly aloof approach to the construction of both space and image.
Accattone
English edition
Accattone
Accattone
Accattone #8 addresses matters of construction in relation to time, use, change and technical knowledge against the backdrop of the "negative commons" inherited from the productivist society of the past century—"zombie" habits, desires, products and processes that our contemporary condition can no longer sustain, yet cannot help but reproduce.
Makiko Furuichi - Le vent, la vague, l’étoile
bilingual edition (English / French)
MASC (Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix)
A comprehensive overview of Makiko Furuichi's work, focusing on her special installation for the Musée d'Art Moderne et Contemporain in Les Sables-d'Olonne.
Octopus notes
texts in English and French
Octopus notes
Daisy editions
The eleventh issue of the journal-collection that brings together academic writings, interviews with artists, critical essays and artists' interventions in the form of inserts: Jeffrey Perkins, Sophie Lapalu, Billy Sullivan, Liz Magor, Moyra Davey, Zoe Beloff, Paul Thek, a long previously unpublished conversation between Paul McCarthy and Sabrina Tarasoff...
Dorothy Iannone - Love Is Forever, Isn\'t It?
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
New approaches to Iannone's unique work.
Ronan Bouroullec - Lausanne
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Nieves
Ronan Bouroullec's daily drawings.
MuMo
bilingual edition (English / French)
MuMo
The new adventure of the Musée Mobile (a traveling museum aimed at making contemporary art accessible to those who are far from it, from the earliest age, that has been touring France, Europe and Africa since 2011), in partnership with the Centre Pompidou: the first museum truck dedicated to Europe's largest collection of modern and contemporary art, designed by architect Isabel Hérault and artist Krijn de Koning, travelling to various regions and villages.
Klima - Mutabilities
bilingual edition (English / French)
Klima
The sixth issue of the transversal journal, at the crossroads of art and thought, political philosophy, gender studies and academic knowledge, delves into the various forms of mutation that ripple through our world.
Dorothy Dean - Who Are You Dorothy Dean?
bilingual edition (English / French)
Éditions 1989
The first book devoted to the late African American writer and actress, Dorothy Dean (1932-1987), one of the few prominent African American women of New York City's bohemian heyday, close to Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe.
Marc Hurtado - De cœur à cœur
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A large survey of Marc Hurtado's cinematographic, musical, poetic and plastic work, with texts by some thirty authors, artists, critics, poets and musicians from all over the world (Lydia Lunch, Pascal Comelade, Nicolas Ballet, F.J. Ossang, Kris Needs, Nick Soulsby, Nicole Brenez, Vincent Deville, Romain Perrot, Alexandre Breton, Marie Möör...).
Élisée Reclus - Abécédaire Reclus - Les 101 mots d\'Élisée
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A glossary of themes running through the work of Élisée Reclus (1830-1905), reflecting the contemporary relevance and diversity of the anarchist geographer's thought.
Morgan Labar - La gloire de la bêtise - Régression et superficialités dans les arts depuis la fin des années 1980
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.
Jehanne Denogent - Palimpsestes africains - Primitivisme littéraire et avant-gardes (Paris, 1901-1924)
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Œuvres en sociétés
The notion of primitivism rethought to highlight the role of the African referent in the development of the artistic and literary avant-garde in Europe.
Jill Johnston - JJ - Tartine-moi et autres textes
French edition
Brook
JJ brings together articles by cultural critic, auto/biographer, and lesbian icon Jill Johnston (1929-2010), translated into French for the first time, as well as texts, poems and drawings by Pauline L. Boulba, Aminata Labor, Nina Kennel and Rosanna Puyol.
Cecilia Pavón - Bonbons à l\'anis
French edition
Brook
The first collection of texts published in French by the Argentinian artist and poet.
Yaël Kreplak - Les réserves des musées - Écologies des collections
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Using an interdisciplinary approach inspired by science and technology studies, and combining museological and sociological perspectives, this groundbreaking study of museum storerooms sheds new light on the world of art and cultural heritage conservation.
Lieux et milieux des arts vivants - Performer l\'institution
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
A polyphonic approach to the emergence, since the 2000s, of new institutional forms dedicated to performative artistic practices.
Vertiges des temps - Dialogue entre l\'art contemporain et l\'archéologie
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A collective exploration of the relationship between contemporary art and archeology.
We Will Survive - Le mouvement prepper
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
A collective reflection on the ability of objects and design to contribute to survival and protection against disasters, based on an examination of the phenomenon of “preppers” (also available in English edition).
Magma - New Surrealist Enquiries
French edition
Magma
To mark the centenary of Surrealism, this ephemeral journal, featuring 150 contemporary voices from literature, art, cinema, poetry, theater, and civil society, brings together over 200 unpublished contributions, responding to the surrealist enquiries.
Arts, écologies, transitions - Un abécédaire
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An "ABC of the arts in transition" examining the ecological turn of the arts, the outcome of long-term collective research into the fundamental elements running through the art world and, more generally, the aesthetic and social universe in the current ecological crisis.
Construire un Matrimoine de la BD - Créations, mobilisations et transmissions des femmes dans le neuvième art, en Europe et en Amérique
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
The first scientific work to trace the history of female comic strip creators, for the (re)valorization of women's heritage.
Griselda Pollock - Maîtresses d\'autrefois - Femmes, art et idéologie
French edition
JRP|Editions - Lectures Maison Rouge
Parker and Pollock's seminal volume of feminist art history.
Pascal Battus - Traîner
French edition
ARTDERIEN
Book-object: a collection of fifty drawings made on a train, within the meanders of a straight line.
Andrew Barker - La typographie des Penguin Classics
French edition
Bureau Brut
The most comprehensive case study ever written on the crucial subject of text typography, by one of the major representatives of this discipline.
Michael Bierut - Direct, accessible et futé
French edition
Bureau Brut
Twelve articles by Michael Bierut, translated into French and annotated, complemented by a selection of his most emblematic projects.
twen [1959–1971]
French edition
Bureau Brut
A spectacular insight into the work of art director Willy Fleckhaus for the German magazine twen, which in the 1960s was arguably the world's most influential magazine in terms of visual daring and graphic innovation, and remains an essential reference for many contemporary practitioners.
Stéphane Darricau - De quoi Garamond est-il le nom ?
French edition
Bureau Brut
This essay examines and explains the history of the most famous classic typeface and its many modern and contemporary incarnations.
Yvon Lambert au Mucem - Une pièce en cinq actes
French edition
Mucem
A poetic conversation, in five acts, between Yvon Lambert (Paris), Marie-Charlotte Calafat (director of the Mucem collections), Stéphane Ibars (artistic director of the Lambert collection), and numerous artists, accompanies the exhibition, which brings together works from the Yvon Lambert collection and Mucem folk art objects.
ZinZac
French edition
ZinZac
Naima
The first issue of the artistic and literary magazine created by Christophe Le Gac and Rozenn Le Roux offers 240 pages of novels, poetry, essays, philosophy, thoughts and other experiences.
Guillaume Sibertin-Blanc - Variations Fassbinder - Images d\'Allemagne, désirs de cinéma
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
A philosophico-cinematographic journey through Fassbinder's filmic oeuvre, from the avant-garde daring of 1968 to the fallout of the leaden years ten years later.
Servin Bergeret - Iris Clert - singulièrement galeriste
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fama
This monographic essay explores Iris Clert, an unclassifiable and emblematic figure of the 1960s artistic avant-garde.
Thierry Fournier - L\'Espace de l\'entre
French edition
various
A first major monograph on Thierry Fournier's practice, French visual artist, with an extensive documentation of many recent works and a collection of texts and interviews.
La collection Francis Meyer (box set)
French edition
Editions du Griffon - Monographs & catalogues
The collection of Francis Meyer, one of the finest private collections in Europe of Art Nouveau glass works.
Pauline Picot - Permettez-moi de palpiter
French edition
Vroum - Editions
50 poems by Pauline Picot, autobiographical fragments that also reflect the daily lives of those around her.
Alexandre Castant - Chaos
French edition
Naima
A collection of poems and fictions which, based on literary experiences from 1985-1989, reflects aesthetic concerns that foreshadow Alexandre Castant's future literary and artistic research.
Charles Pennequin - Dedans
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Reissue of Charles Pennequin's first book, a lengthy text in which the author's writing is characterized by obsessive repetition, a breathless rhythm, a combination of introspective movement and prosaic elements, and a staging of proferation.
Robert Cantarella - Les Carrossiers
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Frédéric Neyrat - Impossessions primitives / L\'Anti-Terre
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
In this tête-bêche book, Amandine André's Impossessions primitives, a text identifiable as poetic, meets philosopher Frédéric Neyrat's L'Anti-Terre, singularly opening up the field of possibilities and thought.
Laurent Marissal - Portrait d\'un terroriste en amateur d\'art
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Al Dante
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
Conversation on art, real and imaginary, in 13 tableaux between ex-Action directe member Jann-Marc Rouillan and painter Laurent Marissal.
Cyrille Bret - Cynanthropie
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
This book takes the domestic dog as an affective standard, a practical horizon and an index of a moral economy specific to the capitalocene.
Benjamin Fouché - Merveilles du monde
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Inducing daydreams, walking under hypnosis, thwarting curfews.
Joëlle Tuerlinckx - Musée de la Mémoire « Propriété Universelle » ® - Catalogue inventaire d\'un musée par lui-même
French edition
Captures - Artist's books
This artist's book, a catalogue of a museum without walls, reads like an account of a work under construction in response to a commission in a former coalfield.
Celebrity Cafe
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.
Fabrice Hyber - La fabrique du climat
French edition
MASC (Musée de l'Abbaye Sainte-Croix)
Catalogue.
Festina Lente
French edition
Festina Lente
The first issue of the biannual magazine that extends and broadens the questions raised by the thematic program of La Criée art center in Rennes, imagining forms of resistance and alternatives to the various crises—ecological, as well as post-colonial, political and social—that punctuate and shape our globalised societies.
Gina Proenza -
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
First monograph on Gina Proenza's suggestive and sculptural work.
Marie Preston - Inventer l\'école, penser la co-création
French edition
Tombolo Presses
A publication by artist and teacher-researcher Marie Preston on the alternative pedagogies developed in France during the 1970s-1990s in "open" schools working on the question of the relationship between co-creation and co-education.
Julien Blaine - 2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.
Julien Blaine - Confidences
French edition
various
Julien Blaine's rebellious confidences, between the political and the poetic.
Pierre Schaeffer - À la recherche de Pierre Schaeffer - Portrait(s)
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A vast selection of theoretical, philosophical and literary writings by Pierre Schaeffer, accompanied by testimonies of various personalities, providing a privileged entry into the multidimensional universe of the composer, engineer, theorist and radio man, whose tutelary shadow is constantly cast on the landscape of sound creation.
Anne-Marie Minella - Les artistes et le textile
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An overview of the use of textile in contemporary visual arts around the world.
Strange Design
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
A history of critical design in four episodes: the Italian radical design of the late 1970s; the Dutch conceptual design of the 1990s; the English critical design of the 2000s, and the contemporary scene (with contributions by Bless, Didier Faustino, Alessandro Mendini, Gianni Pettena…).
Gilles Perraudin - Les jours sont ronds
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Essays
The story/manifesto of an architect's life: a re-reading of Gilles Perraudin's career by himself, enabling us to retrace the path of a thought in perpetual motion.
Bernard Quirot - Simplifions
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Essays
In this writing, French architect Bernard Quirot carries a reflection on his theoretical foundations and evokes, through his architectural journey, a critical vision of the increasing complexity of the world.
Bernard Stiegler - Le Portique - Panser le devenir des savoirs dans le milieu numérique
French edition
Le Portique
Double issue dedicated to the memory of Bernard Stiegler.
Kengo Kuma - Architectes des Jeux de Tokyo
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
A presentation of the fascinating architectural legacy of the Tokyo Olympic Games through two iconic buildings, the Yoyogi Olympic Gymnasium and the New National Stadium, highlighting the two world-renowned Japanese architects behind these projects: Kenzō Tange and Kengo Kuma.
Jacques Ponzio - Monk sur Seine
French edition
Lenka lente
Jacques Ponzio recounts in text and images Thelonious Monk's 10-day stay in Paris in the spring of 1954.
Jean-Guy Coulange - Tout commence par un bruit
French edition
various
A continuation of Jean-Guy Coulange's radio projects and his attempt to "show sound".
Akasegawa Genpei - Anatomie du Tomason
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Délashiné!
The first French translation of the texts of the Japanese artist and writer Akasegawa Genpei (Katsuhiko Akasegawa, aka Otsuji Katsuhiko, 1937-2014), a figure of the Tokyo avant-garde of the 1960s, on the concept of Tomason, with a rich iconography.
Edward J. Sullivan - Modernités américaines (1910-1960)
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An audacious account of the ways in which the arts in the Americas were modernized during the first half of the 20th century.
Objets à l\'état vif - Entre dynamiques sociales et pratiques artistiques
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A collective reflection on the question of objects in artistic situations, at the crossroads of art history and theory, social sciences and artistic practices.
Sophie Orlando - La Part affective
French edition
Paraguay Press - Essays
A chronicle of the recent transformations of art schools, from the point of view of a teacher, at a time when these spaces are both threatened by increasingly fragile and uncertain public policy management, and at the same time more than ever spaces where the word opens up, practices change and art finds itself in direct contact with the most avant-garde movements in society.
Clara Schulmann - Zizanies
French edition
Paraguay Press - Essays
A picaresque tale of Clara Schulmann's often collective experiences.
Michel Guérin - Aménager l\'espace, orner les lieux
French edition
Athom
Three texts by Michel Guérin on the notions of ornament and decoration, at the crossroads of theological, anthropological, aesthetic and philosophical considerations.
OpticalSound
French edition
OpticalSound
Optical Sound
Interviews with Michel Dector et Jean-Baptiste Farkas, Alice Dourlen, Apichatpong Weerasethakul, Jim O'Rourke, Steven Stapleton, Andrea Laszlo De Simone; Johanna Went and Dame Darcy by Nicolas Ballet; Mickael Vis; Yûichi Yokoyama; SMITH; Marcel Broodthaers; Current 93; IKHÉA©SERVICES; Alan Dunn; Oskar Schlemmer; Blaine L. Reininger; Martin Le Chevallier; Ludovic Chemarin©...
Anne Truitt - Au fil des jours - Le Journal d\'une artiste
French edition
ER Publishing
The first of four diaries written by Anne Truitt (1921-2004), a major figure in 20th-century American art.
Philippe Robert - Free Fight
French edition
Lenka lente
The complete texts and photographs published in the fanzine dedicated to free jazz.
Jean-François Santoro - Midlife crisis
French edition
Vroum - Editions
Monologues and "quasi-monologues" in which the characters talk indiscriminately about pollution, Pokémon, bonzes and alien octopuses.
Jamie Allen - Infrastructures critiques
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
How do we perceive and think about the infrastructures that condition the ways in which we perceive, think and experience our world? Four essays by Jamie Allen, whose experiments as artist and researcher cross media, disciplines and borders, that invite us to make visible the backstage work of the digitized world, and to think (post)critically about the very notion of critique.
Ârash Aminian Tabrizi - Sexpositions
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.
Chantal Guillaume - Fourier ou l\'utopie en réel
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Charles Fourier or utopia as reality.
Matthieu Renault - Maîtres et esclaves - Archives du Laboratoire d\'analyse des Mythologiques de la modernité
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
An experimental fictional ("post-apocalyptic") anthropology of philosophy, focusing on the dialectic of master and slave, itself understood as myth.
Littérature et design - Visualités et visualisations du texte en régime numérique
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Figures
New visualities and visualizations of literature in the digital age: the possible contributions of design thinking to literary theory.
Gérard Berréby - Documents relatifs à l\'édition pirate du Traité du style de Louis Aragon par Gérard Berréby
French edition
Incertain Sens
Gérard Berréby looks back at the first publishing experience of the man who was to become the director of Allia publishing house: the decision, in the early 1980s, to produce a pirate edition of Aragon's book—at the time opposed to any reprinting—, an unprecedented gesture that provoked numerous reactions in the literary world, and raised a number of questions linked to appropriation and self-publishing.
Serge Guilbaut - Ping-pong culturel existentiel - France – États-Unis (1944-1947)
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A genuine investigation, in the opposite direction to the narrative imposed by art historians, of artistic, cultural and political developments in the Western world after the Second World War, between Paris and New York.
Vanessa Theodoropoulou - Le Monde en situation - La révolte sensible de l\'Internationale situationniste
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
An in-depth historical study of the artistic and political project of the Situationist International (1952-1972).
Maurice Fréchuret - Respirer - La puissance créatrice du souffle
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
From the negative hands on the walls of the Chauvet caves (minus 30,000 years ago) to the most recent experiments of a number of contemporary artists, an entire history of art can be written under the prism of breathing. Between these two milestones, this study attempts to highlight the innovative force of breath and the importance accorded to breathing as a creative gesture and artwork on its own.
Sites du film - Le cinéma et ses parages
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Perceptions
Cinema as a method of investigating the visible and a journey into the theoretical thinking of images.
Esther Meunier Corfdyr - Corps endormis corps affranchis
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Gestes
Dancer and playwright Esther Meunier Corfdyr ventures into sleeping territories.
Luca Merlini - La traversée de ma bibliothèque
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
An adventure book, written and drawn, by Luca Merlini that takes us closer to the creative process of the architect and the parallel that can be drawn with literature, highlighting the question of the book and its intimate relationship to architecture.
Jesús María Aparicio Guisado - Le mur - Concept essentiel dans le projet architectonique : la matérialisation de l\'idée et l\'idéalisation de la matière
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Opus
Jesús María Aparicio Guisado expounds here his conception of architecture by exploring the notion of the wall in four major buildings through drawing and words.
Jean-Marie Gleize - Je deviens (séances)
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
This latest book—part of a ten-volume series that began with Léman in 1990—takes up and redistributes the elements of an investigation whose main material is autobiographical. The author restores an imaginary "childhood" that he writes about in a poetic attempt to understand it, and never ceases to "become".
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