new releases
 
John Balance - Bright Lights and Cats with No Mouths
Timeless
The re-release of the much-sought-after art book by Coil's John Balance—the first ever extensive overview of his drawings, paintings and sketches—in a reformatted and largely redesigned edition.
Alexandra Midal - Do You Speak Flower?
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
At the crossroads of design, art, architecture and popular culture, Alexandra Midal investigates the techniques developed by artists, designers and revolutionaries to conceal information and messages, through the lens of the coded language of flowers.
Maïc Baxane - Pisseurses
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.
Elzo Durt - Complete Works #2 (2017-2023)
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Timeless
A retrospective of Elzo Durt's work since 2017.
Daniel O\'Sullivan - The Shell is A Cell
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Timeless
The first book of visual artworks by acclaimed musical wunderkind Daniel O'Sullivan.
Jean-Pierre Turmel - The Last Slogan
English edition
Timeless
Personal correspondence between Genesis P-Orridge and Jean-Pierre Turmel over a fifteen-year period.
 Mad Meg - Mad Meg III
Timeless
A new series of very large-format drawings, the ideal entry point into the world of Mad Meg.
Eric Kroll - The New York Years - 1971 to 1994
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Timeless
A photographic dive into a New York City at the height of its decadence and its cultural importance.
Antoine Bernhart - Papiers hantés - Les yeux de la main
bilingual edition (English / French)
Timeless
A collection of Antoine Bernhart's automatic drawings.
Johnny Ryan - War+Penis
Timeless
Illustrators / comic book makers / funny people Johnny Ryan and Frédéric Fleury started insulting each other by posting obscene, crude, hilarious drawings to each other. As they are both proud young men and also profoundly disturbed in their brains, they kept this going for, like, six months or something. Finally, here is the book that collects all those comics.
Antoine Bernhart - Juju Jinx
Timeless
Antoine Bernhart returns with a new army of skeletons and other infernal creatures to populate his intimate theater of cruelty.
Loulou Picasso - Early Bazooka - 1972/1976
Timeless
This book displays the unseen early artworks from Loulou Picasso while he was in art school till the begining of Bazooka in 1976. It also includes some collaboration with Olivia Clavel and Romain Slocombe. Foreword by Genesis P-Orridge.
Mirka Lugosi - 80/90
Timeless
Mirka Lugosi's retrospective including her first drawings, her custom bondage photos and her appearence in French noise band Entre Vifs. Layout by Gilles Berquet.
P L  S – The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
Issue 39 of the magazine of the Palais de Tokyo takes us into group dynamics conducive to the experience and learning of joy.
Richard Niessen - Faire – To look at things - A Site: The Palace of Typographic Masonry
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire magazine – To look at things
Four epistolary exchanges between Thierry Chancogne and Richard Niessen about the Palace of Typographic Masonry, a project initiated in 2014 by the Dutch graphic designer as an imaginary architecture devoted entirely to the variety, abundance, digressions and poetry of graphic expression.
Lawrence Weiner - Faire – To look at things
bilingual edition (English / French)
Faire
Empire - Faire magazine – To look at things
The 49th issue of the critical graphic design journal, about Lawrence Weiner and his relationship with typography.
 Clusterduck - Deep Fried Feels
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
A memetic exploration of the "poor images" found on the fringes of the internet's dynamic and ever-expanding reservoir of content.
Tomás Saraceno - Life(s) of webs
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
A collection of essays discussing the role of spider/webs in different cultures from an inter-species perspective.
Yves Klein - Le Vide et Le Plein
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
(last copies available!)
The first examination of the practices of two French artists who were key exponents of the Nouveau Réalisme movement, highlighting two opposing and complementary aspects of their poetics.
Mike Kelley - Materialistic Aesthetics And Memory Illusions
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An analysis of Mike Kelley's work as a position in materialist philosophy, which appears as the feature that is most at stake in his artistic practice, focusing on the pieces he produced around the issue of memory––his leitmotiv from 1995 onward (new edition).
Synnøve Anker Aurdal - Through the Threads
bilingual edition (English / Norwegian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
As the most comprehensive monograph on Synnøve Anker Aurdal's work to date, Through the Threads writes a new, and sorely missing, chapter on the oeuvre and six-decade career of this textile pioneering artist.
Berlinde De Bruyckere - Crossing a Bridge on Fire
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph.
 Fuminori Nousaku & Mio Tsuneyama - Dixit - Conditions / About Condition
bilingual edition (English / French)
Dixit
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Dixit
The fifth issue of Dixit, the journal of architecture criticism features the words of architects Charlotte Truwant + Dries Rodet, Mio Tsuneyama + Fuminori Nousaku who confront each other around the theme of conditions.
Tim Ingold - Architecture educates! - Au contact de l\'art
bilingual edition (English / French)
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
An education turned around by art: famous English anthropologist Tim Ingold invites us to consider the arts as the very basis of an education in the 21st-century, an education that might begin to address the profound social and ecological crises we face.
 Salvo - Arrivare in tempo
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Comprehensive monograph: a complete overview of Salvo's work, with never-seen-before documentation and archive.
Miriam Cahn - Könnteichsein + Gepäck/Gefühl (2 books)
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Nieves
Two series of brutal, raw drawings by Miriam Cahn.
Chris Johanson - Ants
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Nieves
Chris Johanson's ant and abstract paintings.
Myriam Mihindou - Rebreathing
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Palais de Tokyo - Catalogues & artist's books
Artist's book, produced in limited print run in the Palais de Tokyo's risography micro-publishing workshop.
Alassan Diawara - Post Scriptum - A museum forgotten by heart
English edition
Nero
An hybrid editorial object based on the language of fashion, utilizing the eponymous exhibition at the MACRO museum as a starting point.
Lukas Wassmann - Post Scriptum - A museum forgotten by heart
English edition
Nero
An hybrid editorial object based on the language of fashion, utilizing the eponymous exhibition at the MACRO museum as a starting point.
Marzia Migliora - Seven Imaginative Exhibitions - 1993-2024
English edition
Nero
Seven exhibitions on paper, curated by different curators, to look back at the over-thirty-years production of one of Europe's foremost contemporary artists.
Lina Pallotta - Voce \'e stommache
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
A personal and intimate portrayal of the Neapolitan trans community.
Jim C. Nedd - The Stream
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
A series of photographs of Naples, by Jim C. Nedd, blending and reinterpreting elements from diverse iconographic traditions, such as fashion photography, documentary, and tableau vivant.
Carola Bonfili - Second Order Reality
English edition
Nero
A layered graphic novel, conceived as a video-game trailer, weaving together diverse imaginaries, from Flaubert's The Temptation of St. Anthony to H.G. Wells' short stories, from brutalist architecture to generative artificial intelligence.
Transformative Currents - Art & Action in the Pacific Ocean
English edition
X Artists' Books
Transformative Currents: Art & Action in the Pacific Ocean, edited by Cassandra Coblentz, brings together diverse writers, scientists, artists, activists, and thinkers to investigate social and environmental issues throughout the entirety of the Pacific Ocean.
Michael Snow - Music for Today - Solo piano (vinyl LP)
Editedby
Recorded in 2019 at the Centre Pompidou, Music for Today is the last public performance by Canadian artist Michael Snow, who died in 2023. Entirely improvised on a prepared piano, this musical piece is a true journey through the musical work of an artist who made perpetual experimentation an artistic practice in its own right.
Magda Mayas - Night (CD)
Editions (Jason Kahn)
The first album to come out of the collaboration between Jason Kahn (electronics) and Magda Mayas (piano and objects), who have been playing together regularly in concert since 2012.
Christophe Brunnquell - La guerre du feu
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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.
Eric James Guillemain - Backstage Dreams - The Secret Door to Sets
English edition
Damiani - Photography
The debut publication by French, New York-based, photographer Eric Guillemain offers a privileged insider's view into the captivating world of film sets.
Kim Hastreiter - STUFF - A New York Life of Cultural Chaos
English edition
Damiani - Photography
Kim Hastreiter, co-founder of the beloved Paper magazine, has spent the last 50 years amassing a vast and iconoclastic collection of stuff. This volume, aptly titled STUFF, chronicles an extraordinary slice of history and the people who defined it, using Hastreiter's singular edit of art, fashion, design, photography, books and ephemera as a lens.
Anderson Zaca - Fire Island Invasion - Day of Independence
English edition
Damiani - Photography
Inside the drag-queen “Invasion” on Fire Island.
Danny Lyon - Junk - America in Ruins
English edition
Damiani - Photography
An ode to automobile ruins.
Clark Winter - Here to There - Photographs from the Road Ahead
English edition
Damiani - Photography
Photographer Clark Winter catches the nostalgia and diversity of life moments associated with the automobile.
Jasmine Benjamin - City of Angels - A Book about L.A. Style
English edition
Damiani - Photography
Californian photographer and costume designer Jasmine Benjamin pays tribute to Los Angeles in 120 portraits
Espace art actuel - Mournings
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
Focus on the blockchain digital ecosystem: art on the web of value.
Isabelle Arthuis - Fantaisies
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lendroit éditions
An artist’s book, a work to be read, a journey through the history of painting, drawing on the collection of paintings at the Musée des beaux-arts de Rennes.
Nicolas Daubanes - Malodó
bilingual edition (English / French)
La Maréchalerie
A new architecture of ruin, using wood and steel from the Baumettes prison in Marseille.
Mircea Nicolae - De unul singur
bilingual edition (English / Romanian)
Punch
An extensive survey of Romanian artist Ionuț Cioană's practice, with a selection of texts he wrote over the years.
 Peles Duo - Process
English edition
Punch
An artist's book published in celebration of Peles Duo's twenty years of work.
Trần Lương - Soaked in the Long Rain
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first comprehensive publication exploring the practice of Trần Lương, a key figure in Vietnamese contemporary art.
Vera Kox - Into
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
Simnikiwe Buhlungu - Besides Puleng; dontsa-ring and roving preoccupations
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
South African, Amsterdam-based artist Simnikiwe Buhlungu's most expansive publication to date.
Fernão Cruz - Outro
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Monograph/artist's book featuring numerous exhibition views, texts and an interview, and a series of drawings by Fernão Cruz.
Bruno Zhu - Fiction Non Fiction - Volume 1
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A critical reflection on colonial spaces initiated by the Portuguese artist.
Knots
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New interdisciplinary readings of contemporary urban metamorphoses.
Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira - Invented Skins - Epidermal Readings in Brazilian Art and Literature
English edition
Diaphanes - Think Art
The social, historical and cultural dimensions of the skin in Brazilian art and literature.
Toilet Paper - ToiletMiles PaperAldridge
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Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
The new special Toilet Paper edition, in collaboration with British artist-photographer Miles Aldridge.
Jean-Michel Bouhours - When the Eye Trembles - The Cinema of Paolo Gioli
bilingual edition (English / French)
Light Cone
An anthology of texts by Jean-Michel Bouhours on photographer and filmmaker Paolo Gioli, a key figure in the Italian avant-garde of the 1970s.
Ryuji Tanaka - II
English edition
MER. Books
Tim Onderbeke - Alain Pierre - Quitte à me tromper
English edition
MER. Books
A stark and contemplative tribute to composer and intellectual Alain Pierre (1948-2024) by Belgian artist Tim Onderbeke.
Pieter Vermeulen - The Sleep of Reason - Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Art
English edition
MER. Books
This book offers an original and thought-provoking exploration of a diverse range of contemporary artistic practices, set within a broader cultural context. It argues that art can teach us about the human condition and our way of co-inhabiting the world, in a unique interplay between reason and imagination, creation and contemplation, poetry and inquiry.
Mousse - The Fiction Issue
English edition
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Mousse celebrates its 90th issue with a collectible edition, with a special design and format, entirely focused on fiction.
Ryan Gander - Phantom Ambition
English edition
Tonini Editore
This artist's book collects the series "All the ambition in the world" (2024) by Ryan Gander, a series of posters for fictitious group exhibitions that never took place, but were imagined by the artist's mind.
John Armleder - Autobiography
English edition
Tonini Editore
John Armleder delivers a series of drawings for his “autobiography”.
Stefano Arienti - Autobiography
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Tonini Editore
Stefano Arienti's photographic "autobiography" (artist's book).
Giorgio Andreotta Calò - In girum imus nocte
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
A look back at the poetic, political and anthropological dimensions of the collective performance initiated by artist Giorgio Andreotta Calò around a mining plant in Sardinia.
Giasco Bertoli - Roses Tatouées
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various
The 22nd volume of the artist's journal that the photographer has been publishing for over two decades.
Rirkrit Tiravanija - On Making Less
English edition
Bierke
Rirkrit Tiravanija's methods for making less.
Barrault Pressacco - Wallness - Nature and culture of insulation – Building with hempcrete
bilingual edition (English / French)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
A polyphonic, hybrid work, somewhere between a fine architectural book and a scientific essay, the result of research into contemporary forms of insulation.
Conversations on Architecture – Swiss Talks – About and Beyond / Conversazioni sull’architettura – Swiss Talks – Intorno e oltre
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
The richness of cultural exchanges between Italy and Switzerland, especially in terms of architectural culture, is the framework within which this publication was conceived and structured. The editorial project retraces and expands some of the themes addressed during the first seven years of the Swiss Talks, born in 2017 as a cultural partnership between the Istituto Svizzero and the architecture magazine Casabella.
Eva Hesse - Transatlantique
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Seven European women artists (Katinka Bock, Claire-Jeanne Jézéquel, Rachel Labastie, Mélanie Matranga, Juliette Minchin, Valérie Mréjen, Agnès Thurnauer) brought together by Sébastien Gokalp share their views on Eva Hesse (1936–1970), a major figure of the 20th century.
Lentil Space - Recipes from Artists\' Homes
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A compilation of recipes from the Arab world that were presented by artists for Mophradat's online cooking show Lentil Space.
Natalie Häusler - Corals
English edition
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A book-length poem by Berlin based artist and poet Natalie Häusler.
Camille Richert - Parents Must Unite + Fight - Hackney Flashers: Agitprop, Labor and Socialist Feminism in England
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tombolo Presses
The first monograph dedicated to the Hackney Flashers collective, a group of nine activist women who engaged in agitprop from 1974 to 1980 in the working-class neighborhood of Hackney in London.
Ingemo Engström - About Narration - Materials, Comments, Interventions
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
Published in collaboration with Harun Farocki Institut, this book unpacks About Narration [Erzählen], a 1975 essay film directed by Ingemo Engström and Harun Farocki.
Rosi Braidotti - Posthuman Knowledge and the Critical Posthumanities
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Incidents
On the advanced knowledge economy, which perpetuates patterns of discrimination and exclusion, and the threat of climate change devastation for both human and nonhuman entities.
Gender and Postsecularity in Visual Culture and Knowledge Production
English edition
Sternberg Press - Academy of Fine Arts Vienna
A collection exploring the intersections of gender and religion in post-secular knowledge production and visual culture.
Staci Bu Shea - Solution 305 - Dying Livingly
English edition
Sternberg Press - Solution
A series of propositions and encounters in service to an aesthetic, critical, and poetic experience of living life led by death.
Griselda Pollock - Feminism, Pedagogy, and the Studio - Reflections Across Four Decades
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Two lectures from art historian and curator Griselda Pollock address feminist questions and art education in the 1980s and today.
Anna Colin - Alternative Pedagogical Spaces - From Utopia to Institutionalization
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
currently out of stock
A critical exploration of the values and qualities inherent in independent educational organizations and the hurdles in the way of remaining "alternative" with the passing of time.
Gretta Sarfaty -
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
various
First monograph of the Brazilian feminist artist.
Bruno Pélassy -
bilingual edition (English / French)
Villa Arson
The very first monograph dedicated to the work of Bruno Pélassy (1966–2002), featuring all his works, installation views, and a vast range of materials from his unpublished personal archive.
e-flux Index
English edition
e-flux Index
64 contributions from an international selection of critics, artists, poets, architects, filmmakers, and theorists: the fourth issue of e-flux Index features everything published on e-flux.com from June–July 2024, (re)arranged into 9 thematic chapters—ranging from sections on DIY and amateurism, on verbal domination, on contemporary resistance and organising efforts, and on our doomscrolling fatigue with the networked world.
Volume ! - Les Fabriques sonores du Sud global
texts in English and French
Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
Mélanie Seteun - Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
Double issue of the journal of popular music studies, with a feature on the sound factories of the global South, and a look back at the 20th anniversary of Volume!.
 Caroline Poggi & Jonathan Vinel - Infinite Memory
English edition
Lenz Press
First monograph on cinema duo Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel.
Fouad Elkoury - Cinema Cairo Palace - A Journey into Egyptian Cinema – 1985-1996
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
The images shot on Egyptian film sets by prominent photographer Fouad ElKoury over more than a decade capture the essence of Arab cinema.
Eulàlia Grau - Etnografias - Collages
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Vallois
A panorama of the “ethnographic” collages created by Spanish feminist artist Eulàlia Grau in the early 1970s, providing a visual dissection that criticizes capitalist lifestyles and all forms of oppression.
Philip K. Dick - How To Build A Universe That Doesn\'t Fall Apart Two Days Later
English edition
ISOLARII
In this prophetic 1978 essay, legendary science fiction author Philip K. Dick explores the nature of reality, the power of media, and the authenticity of human experience, offering startling insights that resonate eerily with our modern world.
Semaine 2018-2024 – La chapelle – espace d\'art contemporain - Le monde comme il va
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Catalogues
The 22 exhibitions programmed by Philippe Piguet at La chapelle de la Visitation art center in Thonon-les-Bains since 2018, in 400 pages.
Yousef Jaha - Yearning for Rain
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
An overview of the pictorial work of a leading figure on the Saudi art scene.
Taha Alsabban - Muse\'s Reverie
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
An overview of the pictorial work of a leading figure on the Saudi art scene.
Border-Listening / Escucha-Liminal - Volume 3
English edition
Contingent Sounds
A collective exploration of sound, music and the socio-political dimensions of listening, from researchers and artists with perspectives from the global South.
Resurgent Nahda - Arab Exhibitions in 1930s Jerusalem
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Kaph Books
The cultural and political legacies of the the 1933 and 1934 Arab Exhibitions in Jerusalem.
Dance First Think Later - The Thinking Body between Dance and Visual Arts
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
An encounter between dance and visual arts.
 Lê Quan Ninh - The Negative Way (book + CD)
bilingual edition (English / French)
ARTDERIEN
The ultimate edition of percussionist Lê Quan Ninh's famous text, which explores, in the form of an ABC, the singular experience of improvising and free improvisation.
Umberto Riva - USA 1966
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Humboldt Books - Time Travel
In the spring of 1966, four illustrious travelers cross the United States from west to east, photographing America's architecture at its heyday.
Air de repos (Breathwork) (book + vinyl LP)
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
A double vinyl and a catalogue that constitute a proper extension of the exhibition with which the Capc in Bordeaux continues to question the forms that the museum can take, with the aim of creating a renewed awareness of what it means to breathe, both on an individual and collective level, at a time when the world is living in a climate of generalized asphyxia.
Cosima von Bonin - Songs for Gay Dogs
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A book spanning Cosima von Bonin's work of the last decade, and a personal journey into her private world and references.
Katherine Bradford -
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Comprehensive monograph.
Lalie Thébault Maviel - Notre pain quotidien
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Tombolo Presses
An edition like an archaeology of our more or less contemporary iconography of bread. A lacunary and subjective encyclopedia that reflects its presence in our lives and its political, social, economic, and aesthetic evolutions (artist's book).
Ingo Giezendanner - Mille Feuilles
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Nieves
Ingo Giezendanner's wild herbarium.
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, looks at the cut.
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.
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.
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.
Jacques Villeglé - STAR
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Vallois
Catalog conceived as a tribute to Jacques Villeglé's insatiable curiosity, exploring his relationship with the world of entertainment (cinema, dance, theater and music) from the 1950s to the end of his career, with texts by Julie Chaizemartin, Emma Lavigne, and Jeff Mills.
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.
Jonathan Crary - L\'écorchement du monde - Pour en finir avec l\'ère numérique : vers un monde post-capitaliste
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
Refusing the digital world of late capitalism.
Seloua Luste Boulbina - Malaise dans la décolonisation - Terres éparses et îles noires
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Figures
An essay that intellectually deepens the historically traced furrows of colonial aberrations, crossing political science, philosophy, anthropology and psychoanalysis.
Anders Fjeld - Pratiques d\'expérimentation - Cartographier les possibles avec Jacques Rancière
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
Starting with a bold re-reading of Jacques Rancière, this essay unfolds a philosophy of experimentation, at the crossroads of life, politics and aesthetics, in search of new ways to explore, arrange and map the possible.
Michel Guet - Ne rien faire, mais quoi ? - Suivi de Le coup est parti
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
Michel Guet's intellectual diary, from his commitment to "Banalytique" (an experimental movement that emerged from French post-situationnism in the early 1980s in response to the triumph of the "colonization of reality by market value" and the injunctions to make work totally profitable) to the social critique of art and the vertigo of a planet on fire.
Uno Kuniichi - Artaud pensée et corps
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A specialist in French philosophy and literature, and a key intermediary in Japan for the work of Deleuze and Guattari, Artaud, Beckett and Genet, Uno Kuniichi publishes in French his fundamental text on Antonin Artaud, a revised, recomposed and expanded version of his thesis, written under the direction of Gilles Deleuze in 1980.
S. M. Eisenstein - Cinématisme - Peinture et cinéma
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
A selection of Eisenstein's writings (new expanded edition).
Vilém Flusser - Vampyroteuthis infernalis
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
The new and definitive edition of Vilém Flusser's fabulous treatise, based on the original French typescripts.
Vivian Sobchack - Le corps du film - Une phénoménologie de l\'expérience filmique
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – ArTeC
Translated into French for the first time, Vivian Sobchack's Le corps du film – Une phénoménologie de l'expérience filmique offers a new perspective to the phenomenological tradition through an interrogation of our cinematographic experience and, more generally, of our relationship to screens.
Jessica Russell - Architecture / Astrologie
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Artist Dan Graham and writer Jessica Russell's playful Architecture / Astrologie considers some of the most important and innovative figures in the world of architecture from an angle few would expect: their star signs.
Nadia Vadori-Gauthier - Une minute de danse par jour - 2015-2025 – Dix ans d\'une œuvre pour notre temps
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Gestes
One minute of dance a day for a decade: a look back at choreographer Nadia Vadori-Gauthier's daily act of poetic resistance, on the edge of situated dance, philosophy and performance.
Félix Candela - L\'intelligence de la forme
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
This first collection of texts in French by Félix Candela (1910-1997), a major figure in twentieth-century modern architecture, brings together writings and interviews published in specialized journals, as well as lectures and speeches delivered on various occasions by the Mexican architect and engineer of Spanish origin between 1953 and 1994
Ludovic Burel - Le laboratoire de fermentation
French edition
it: editions
The first documentary account by artist, curator and publisher Ludovic Burel, Le laboratoire de fermentation (The fermentation laboratory) retraces four years of investigation, carried out on several continents, into wild and cultivated plants and the means of fermenting them, questioning our relationship to both the human (individual and society) and the non-human (plant and other).
Marianne Mispelaëre - Tu peux répéter ? - Écrire, parler, expérimenter les langues avec Marianne Mispelaëre
French edition
Paraguay Press
Following on from work carried out by artist Marianne Mispelaëre in schools, this book explores the diversity of languages that permeate our lives, as well as the political and social issues at stake.
Revue Peinture - Volte/Face de la Peinture
French edition
Revue Peinture
EESAB (European Academy of Art in Brittany)
This issue of the journal of the inter-schools of art, design and architecture research network Réseau Peinture explores the genre of portraiture.
Offline
French edition (texts in English)
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ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
The 14th issue of the annual magazine of the ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design), with interviews Brian Roettinger, Eliott Grunewald, Aurore Piedigrossi, Jean-Vincent Simonet, Mathilde Agius, Marvin Armand and Cécilia Poupon and a conversation between Erwan Bouroullec and Michel Roset.
Silvère Jarrosson - Vers l\'image manquante
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
A panorama of the work of French painter Silvère Jarrosson (lithographs, monotypes, paintings on canvas and on paper).
Paysages mouvants
French edition
Jeu de Paume
A collective story that recounts the history of the representation of natural landscapes and the imaginations that accompany them.
La Salle de bains - 2013-2024
French edition
La Salle de bains
The story of La Salle de Bains art center in Lyon since 2013.
L\'Art dans la vie - Le constructivisme soviétique dans les textes
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
An anthology of the constructivist movement, bringing together newly translated or previously unpublished writings by artists and theorists, accompanied by numerous illustrations and an extensive critical apparatus: this reference volume sheds new light on the multiplicity and diversity of the approaches of constructivism and productivism in the 1920s-30, and provides a major contribution to the studies of the Soviet avant-garde.
Griselda Pollock - Féminisme et pédagogie au cœur des formations artistiques - 40 ans d\'expérience
French edition
Villa Arson
Two lectures from art historian and curator Griselda Pollock address feminist questions and art education in the 1980s and today.
Anna Colin - Espaces pédagogiques alternatifs - De l\'utopie à l\'institutionnalisation
French edition
Villa Arson
A critical exploration of the values and qualities inherent in independent educational organizations and the hurdles in the way of remaining "alternative" with the passing of time.
Aline Bovard Rudaz - Femmes – Violences
French edition
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
A study of new representations and denunciation of gender violence by women in contemporary photography.
Nassim Daghighian - Exposition de photographie
French edition
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
An analysis of the different exhibition forms in contemporary photography.
Emma Reyes -
French edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
The revelatory world of Emma Reyes.
Claire Zaniolo - Le passage
French edition
Palais de Tokyo - Catalogues & artist's books
Artist's book, produced in limited print run in the Palais de Tokyo's risography micro-publishing workshop.
Aline Wiame - Revenir d\'entre les morts - Deleuze et la croyance en ce monde au cinéma et dans les séries
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
A very personal essay that provides a clear introduction to Gilles Deleuze's thinking through his relationship with cinema, seen as a field of experimentation (existential, conceptual and aesthetic) to resist death, disaster and the stupefaction produced by the “modern fact”.
Alain Gunst - Pourquoi peindre
French edition
Lenka lente
Without ever giving a lesson in painting, Alain Gunst lists 32 reasons for painting that, “bad” or “not so bad”, take malicious pleasure in mocking an art world.
Julien Prévieux - Codex Spatium
French edition
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Books
A project conceived by artist Julien Prévieux around current issues in space law.
Irène Schwartz - Le jour où j\'ai été mangée - Carnets 1973-1983, extraits
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.
Marie Gayet - Écritures transversales
French edition
Caza d'Oro
Writing as a shifting space in which to embody the singular relationship that artists—and art critics—can have with words, texts and language.
Bruno Richard - Choquer le monde à mort - Elles sont de sortie – Pascal Doury – Bruno Richard
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.
Décor - Contrefeu
French edition
Décor
ENSAD (École des Arts Décoratifs de Paris)
The fourth issue of the annual review of the École des Arts Décoratifs takes as its starting point the observation of an incandescent and damaged world, unequal and inhospitable, which can only arouse concern and anger in new generations.
Ida Soulard - Les abstractions concrètes d\'Anni Albers (1899-1994) - Une histoire textile de la modernité
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
A wide-ranging study of the visual and theoretical practice of Anni Albers, a pivotal figure between two continents and two modernities, as part of a general history of art, design and textile production in the European and American women's avant-gardes.
Jean-Jacques Lebel - Front Unique - La traversée du surréalisme de Jean-Jacques Lebel
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).
Élisée Reclus - Abécédaire Reclus - Les 101 mots d\'Élisée
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
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.
Alexandre Chèvremont - Donner lieu au son
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A philosophical reflection on the place of sound, from musical aesthetics to sound habitat, at the crossroads of sound, music and technology studies, and phenomenology.
Temps naissant - Un glossaire pour le XXIe siècle
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century.
Nicolas Trembley - My Craft - Entretien avec Véronique Bacchetta sur l\'exposition, l\'artisanat, l\'art, les hiérarchies culturelles et les typologies
French edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
A look back at all Nicolas Trembley's exhibitions over the past 10 years, the cross-fertilization of art and craft, and the various references he has used, both Western and Eastern.
Pierre Guyotat - La parole visible
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.
Joëlle Léandre - Joëlle Léandre versus Julien Blaine
French edition
Frac Franche-Comté - Sound Houses Series
A dialogue between two avant-garde figures, one poetic, the other musical.
Derek Jarman -
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A tribute to Derek Jarman manifold and vital practice.
Revue & Corrigée
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Farida Amadou & Martina Berther; Cécile Babiole; LUFF 2024; Fuji|||||||||||ta; Emmanuelle Tornero; Clément Vercelletto; Donald Miller (1958-2024); Sophie Agnel; Annick Nozati & Daunik Lazro...
Christian Laurella - Détours - Sur les routes d\'Europe avec Chet Baker, Art Blakey, Dizzy Gillespie, Archie Shepp, McCoy Tyner, Ahmad Jamal, Jaco Pastorius, Tony Williams, James Carter...
French edition
Lenka lente
Christian Laurella, writer and tour manager ("orchestra conductor", as Ahmad Jamal puts it), recalls his European tours with the greatest figures in American jazz—Chet Baker, Archie Shepp, Tony Williams, Jaco Pastorius, etc.
Marc Ribot - Jusqu\'à la corde
French edition
Lenka lente
An essential guitarist for over forty years, and an enlightened partner to John Zorn, Tom Waits and John Lurie, Marc Ribot composes here, through memories, short stories and essays, a self-portrait of rare originality.
Louis Ucciani - Essais d\'esthétiques new-yorkaises
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
A philosopher's journey into the heart of New York artistic life.
Festina Lente
French edition
Festina Lente
The second 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.
Artistes typographes
French edition
Tombolo Presses
A visual corpus that brings together one hundred and thirty-two artists' books collected and reproduced as part of an artistic residency conducted at the Centre des livres d'artistes (Saint-Yrieix-la-Perche).
Gabriel Mattei - Witloof & Witty
French edition
Les commissaires anonymes - Portées
A booklet containing two musical pieces by artist Grégoire Motte and composer Gabriel Mattei.
Véronique Goël - Films et installations, 1979-2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Cinétisme
First monograph, documenting the filmmaker's work as a whole, at the intersection of independent cinema, contemporary art, photography and installation.
Fred Moten - Les sous-communs - Planification fugitive et étude noire
French edition
Brook
A political and aesthetic critique of racial capitalism and modes of social experimentation in the form of resistance to the colonial commons.
Joseph Mitchell - Le Merveilleux saloon de McSorley - Récits New-yorkais
French edition
Diaphanes - Literature
Collection of portraits published between 1938 and 1955 in the New Yorker by one of the pioneer of New Journalism: a literary painting of a New York that no longer exists.
Franco Berardi - Respirer - Chaos et poésie
French edition
CAPC
The increasingly chaotic rhythm of our respiration, and the sense of suffocation that grows everywhere: an essay on poetical therapy.
Olivier Berggruen - Formes du désir - Une brève histoire de la collection d\'art
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
This history of art collecting traces a multiplicity of aesthetic attitudes through the prism of certain key figures in the history of taste. Over the course of the chapters, we discover how art collecting reflects—or responds to—an individual's character.
Gilles Perraudin - Trilogie - Trois architectures en pierre
French edition
Avenir radieux
As part of a series of publications on singular architectural bodies of work, this volume focuses on three stone projects by Gilles Perraudin, an advocate of the renewed use of this material.
EKES (EarthKeeping EarthShaking) - Sonder les droits de la Terre
French edition
ESAD Reims (Reims School of Art and Design)
This collective publication explores the question of Earth rights through the interdisciplinary prism of socio-environmental humanities in relation to contemporary art.
 Katja Stuke & Oliver Sieber - Sakae Osugi – Anarchiste japonais - Ville de St-Denis 1923
French edition
Nouveau Palais
Photographic drift in Saint-Denis in the footsteps of the ghost of Osugi Sakae, Japanese anarchist-activist who would have held a speech there 100 years ago. A way for artists to put the urban reality of le Grand Paris under pressure.
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...).
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.
En quête d\'images - Écritures sensibles en recherche-création
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
An epistemological reflection on sensitive forms of research writing at the crossroads of art, design, anthropology and ergonomics, based on singular inquiry-creation projects.
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.
Léon Bloy - Revenantes (book + CD)
French edition
Lenka lente
Two revenant stories by Léon Bloy (1846-1917), with music by Nurse With Wound.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Anne-Marie Minella - Les artistes et le textile
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
restocking in progress
currently out of stock
An overview of the use of textile in contemporary visual arts around the world.
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.
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…).
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.
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