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e-flux Index
English edition
e-flux Index
76 contributions from an international selection of critics, artists, poets, architects, filmmakers, and theorists, published by e-flux between April–May 2024, arranged into 11 thematic chapters—ranging from the live question of cultural censorship through to the role of diagrams and notation in contemporary artistic practice.
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.
Ingo Giezendanner - Mille Feuilles
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Nieves
Ingo Giezendanner's wild herbarium.
P L  S – The magazine of the Palais de Tokyo
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
Issue 38 of the magazine of the Palais de Tokyo calls upon ancestries, be they intimate or political, transgenerational and historical, human or more-than-human, symbolic or material.
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.
Spencer Gerhardt - Ticking Stripe
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
A new collection of writings by the composer and mathematician Spencer Gerhardt, considering among other topics the rich points of contact between minimalist musical aesthetics and intuitionistic mathematics.
Judith Eisler - Center of the Frame
English edition
Lenz Press
Judith Eisler's first monograph, bringing together paintings made between 1997 and 2024, featuring an essay by Kirsty Bell, an introduction by Christopher Bollen, and an interview with Wade Guyton.
Cally Spooner - Sweat Shame Etc.
English edition
Lenz Press
Across objects, writing, sound and choreography, British artist Cally Spooner addresses the manners in which specific technological and financial conditions shape and organize life. This volume surveys her artistic output of the last five years.
VISIO - Moving Images in Europe Since the 2010s
English edition
Lenz Press
This volume brings together visions, experiences and critical interdisciplinary methodologies that have been instrumental in the development of the language of moving images since 2010.
Francesco Arena - Der Blitz steuert alles / Il fulmine governa ogni cosa
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Lenz Press
A complete documentation of a site-specific project conceived by Francesco Arena, allowing to get more into the heart of the artist's creative process.
 Morvandiau - Vigil
bilingual edition (English / French)
Lendroit éditions
A drawn chronicle of sleepless nights, Vigil brings together over one hundred and sixty drawings by the artist.
Lalitha Lajmi -
English edition
Sternberg Press - Imagine/otherwise
In this first critical volume and biography of the Indian artist Lalitha Lajmi (1932–2023), author Skye Arundhati Thomas delves into Lajmi's archives, papers, letters, and sketchbooks in pursuit of clues about the artist's character and path.
Film Undone - Elements of a Latent Cinema
English edition
Archive Books
Film Undone presents contributions introducing unmade and unfinished film projects, film ideas realised in non-filmic media, as well as films that remained unseen in their intended form and at their intended time.
Athos - Échos de la Sainte Montagne
bilingual edition (Greek / French)
Flee
Devoted to Mount Athos in Eastern Greece, FLEE's sixth project invites artists and researchers to explore and unravel the musical tradition of this important Orthodox site.
Athos - Échos de la Sainte Montagne / Echoes from the Holy Mountain (book + 2 vinyl LP)
bilingual edition (Greek / French)
Flee
58.00 53.00 €
Devoted to Mount Athos in Eastern Greece, FLEE's sixth project invites artists and researchers to explore and unravel the musical tradition of this important Orthodox site.
Jan Kinsbergen - Plates
English edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
A visual, experimental research on the architectonic potential of the horizontal surface in building processes.
Le chant des sirènes / Il canto delle sirene
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Empire - Books
30 artists and 10 authors talk about water.
Ješa Denegri - The Yugoslav Art Space - Ješa Denegri in the First Person
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
A critical introduction to the life and work of Yugoslav modernist and conceptual art's foremost exponent Ješa Denegri.
David Diehl - Icons
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
The story of a series of over seventy paintings that thematically play on the pitch that in recent decades the Church has increasingly had to cede to football.
Yumna Al-Arashi - Aisha
bilingual edition (English / Arabic)
Edition Patrick Frey
Yemeni Egyptian American photographer and filmmaker Yumna Al-Arashi's first artist's book.
MODA - Moroccan Fashion Statements
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / Dutch)
Kulte Editions
A richly illustrated book presenting the artistic work and personal stories of cutting-edge fashion designers and artists from Morocco and the Moroccan diaspora in the Netherlands.
Laetitia Sonami - A Song for Two Mothers / Occam IX
Black Truffle
The first ever solo release from electronic music pioneer and innovator Laetitia Sonami, featuring a new composition especially written for her interface/instrument, the Spring Sprye, by her former teacher the legendary Éliane Radigue.
Artforum - October 2024
English edition
Artforum
Garrett Bradley, Maija Peeples-Bright, Tarik Kiswanson, Matthew Barney, Charles Atlas, Tracey Emin...
Composite
bilingual edition (English / French)
Composite
The fifth issue of the annual graphic design journal, dedicated to image and print techniques.
Archivio - The Design Issue
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Archivio
Archivio n°10, exclusively devoted to design and its history, is edited by designer Jasper Morrison and Marco Sammicheli, director of the Museo del Design Italiano at Triennale Milano.
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.
Switched On - The Dawn of Electronic Sound by Latin American Women
English edition
Contingent Sounds
Back in stock! (reprint). The first book dedicated exclusively to the female protagonists of Latin American electronic music.
Ambivalent work*s - Queer perspectives and art history
English edition
Diaphanes
An exploration of queerness in visual and material culture with regard to the specific conditions of the making and experience of art in different cultural, sociopolitical, and historical contexts.
Courtplay
English edition
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
The first volume published by Amsterdam-based Hartwig Art Foundation, COURTPLAY constitutes the book counterpart to the eponymous event conceived by Mohamed Almusibli and Ivan Cheng, and presented in January 2024 at the former courthouse of Amsterdam, the location of the foundation's forthcoming museum.
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...
Errant Sounds (vinyl LP)
Errant Bodies - Records & DVDs
16 international sound artists and musicians explore the materiality, spatiality, technicality and diverse cultural, social and political forms of sound, questionning the relationship between improvisation and composition, between performance and installation, etc.
Michèle Bokanowski - Cirque (vinyl LP)
various
A musique concrète piece divided into five movements, based on the handling and editing of recordings captured within circuses between 1988 and 1993.
Nil Yalter - Circular Tension
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A compelling narrative by Omar Kholeif through the life and work of one of the pioneering artists of our time.
Lo Spazio di Via Lazzaro Palazzi - Ovvero: tirar correndo
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
ENSBA Lyon (Lyon National School of Art)
The facsimile of a never-before-published catalogue, documenting a Milanese exhibition banned by the police in 1992, renders the productions and stances of a group of Italian artists in the artistic context of the time.
Bernhard Rüdiger - Horizon of Forms - The Living Languages of Contemporary Art
bilingual edition (English / French)
ENSBA Lyon (Lyon National School of Art)
This book brings together Bernhard Rüdiger's theoretical texts on the questions of language and form in contemporary art, seen from the perspective of the possibility of thinking them within the paradigm of shock or awe.
Yann Annicchiarico - Of Moths and Muybridge\'s Scale
bilingual edition (English / French)
ENSBA Lyon (Lyon National School of Art)
Gathering reflections and testimonies of exhibitions realized by Yann Annicchiarico in various countries, this looks back at a unique state of perception, related to the experience of emptiness and to the suspension of attention, an essential element in the artist's research.
Ines Doujak - Twisted Language
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Through a close examination of the political and aesthetic strategies that artist Ines Doujak employs in her work, this book explores the realities of the current economic, microbiological, and ecological crises.
Film X Autochthonous Struggles Today
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
First global exploration of contemporary forms of filmmaking from political and cultural self-determination movements of Autochthonous communities and peoples.
Richard Sennett - Democracy and Urban Form
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Incidents
If discourse is the foundation of democracy, how can the design of our cities empower and enable discourse? In 1981, Richard Sennett delivered six lectures about this relationship, and issued a call to action that remains relevant today.
Why I Do What I Do - Global Curators Speak
English edition
Sternberg Press - Thoughts on Curating
Twenty renowned international curators write about one of their exhibitions or projects that transformed their ideas about curating.
Kim West - The Contemporary Condition - The Autonomy of Art Is Ordinary – Notes in Defense of an Idea of Emancipation
English edition
Sternberg Press - The Contemporary Condition
An essay-length book arguing for the autonomy of art in the present.
The 14th Shanghai Biennale - Cosmos Cinema
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
Cosmos Cinema combines comprehensive visual documentation of the acclaimed 14th Shangai Biennale with newly commissionned essays reflecting on its themes.
Siôn Parkinson - Stinkhorn - How Nature\'s Most Foul Smelling Mushroom Can Change the Way We Listen
English edition
Sternberg Press
Siôn Parkinson's first, non-fiction book, inspired by his research into sound and smell (particularly "bad" smells) imagined through the figure of the stinkhorn mushroom and his passion for the fungal world more broadly.
 Forty five degrees - Radical Rituals - 45°N 1°W to 45°N 7°E (France)
English edition
Punch
Centered around the themes of latent knowledges, earth uprisings and borders, this second volume in the Radical Rituals series is the result of a research residency carried by forty five degrees collective in the summer of 2022 across France, from 45°N 1°W to 45°N 7°E.
 Sury-Tanuki - Index ​lécheur (CD)
Bisou Records
The electro-experimental project of electronic musician Tanuki aka eRikm and author, cartoonist, illustrator and reader Caroline Sury.
Patrick Müller - Correspondant à une lettre (CD)
Bisou Records
Four veterans of experimental music get together for a sunny studio improvisation.
Jérôme Lorichon - Night in Red Satin (CD)
ReQords
A performance by Jérôme Lorichon (Buchla, electronics), Thierry Müller (electric guitar, iPad) and Quentin Rollet (saxophones), recorded live on May 5, 2016 at Le Détail, Paris.
Eivind Lønning - Most, but Potentially All (vinyl LP)
Smalltown Supersound
Composed by Jim O'Rourke and pieced together by Jim together with longtime collaborator and trumpeter Eivind Lønning at Jim and Eiko Ishibashi's home in the Japanese mountains, this engrossing new album blows brass wails and tense fanfares across O'Rourke's manipulated Kyma tapestries for a deep, captivating trip into the aether.
Akio Suzuki - Stone (CD)
Room40
An exploration of sound, space and time using found objects and flute. (new remastered version by Lawrence English of the piece recorded by Akio Suzuki in Berlin in 1994).
France Jobin - Infinite Probabilities (Particle 2) (CD)
Room40
An album recorded in different parts of the world, in which the Canadian composer and sound artist explores how quantum mechanics profoundly influences the perception of sound.
Gonçalo F. Cardoso - Exotic Immensity (2 vinyl LP)
Discrepant
More than two years after the release of "Impressões de Outra Ilha", Discrepant's head honcho returns home under his birth name with the appropriately titled "Exotic Immensity". Conjured from the seeds of an exhibition of dioramas at Le Bon Accueil in Rennes, this double LP feels quietly epic in scope, a sprawling travelogue through imagined scenarios and what if possibilities.
Alessandro Di Pietro - Ghostwriting Paul Thek
texts in English and Italian
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A compendium of texts and notes around the project developed by artist Alessandro Di Pietro in dialogue with the work of Paul Thek (1933-1988).
Cauleen Smith - Breaking Cinema - Experimental Film 2010-2023
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A significant contribution to the understanding of the work of artist and filmmaker Cauleen Smith, by art historian Romi Crawford, who analyzes how Smith recastsfilm history, in a pivotal period of her career.
Islands of Kinship - A Collective Manual for Sustainable and Inclusive Art Institutions
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
currently out of stock
The project Islands of Kinship interconnects six mid-scale visual art institutions across diverse regions in Europe in an innovative collaboration model addressing issues of inclusion, kinship and togetherness, democratic exchange and the ethics, emotions and practical solutions for a sustainable and fair institutional operation.
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.
Neural - Artificial Corporeality
English edition
Neural
Co-editor: Zane Cerpina; interviews with Boris Eldagsen, Martinus Suijkerbuijk, Maya Man, Molly Soda; Transmediale 2024; REBOOT: Pioneering Digital Art...
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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. 
 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.
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
A series of paintings synthesising big wave surfing, turning the human element into a visual punctuation on the immense aquatic backdrop.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Dorothy Iannone - Love Is Forever, Isn\'t It?
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
New approaches to Iannone's unique work.
Ronan Bouroullec - Lausanne
no text
Nieves
Ronan Bouroullec's daily drawings.
L\'Art dans la vie - Le constructivisme et le productivisme russe 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Jean-Patrick Fortin - Trilogie - Architectures modernes à Caprino Veronese
French edition
Avenir radieux
Journalist Olivier Namias and photographer Eric Boegly combine their views of the work carried out between 1970 and 2008 by architect Jean-Patrick Fortin (a villa, a pharmacy and a townhouse) in the Italian commune of Caprino Veronese.
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.
Soldes
French edition
Soldes Almanac
An illustrated almanac on arts, science, and society, dedicated to the wise men and the fools.
Léon Bloy - Revenantes (book + CD)
French edition
Lenka lente
Two revenant stories by Léon Bloy (1846-1917), with music by Nurse With Wound.
René Schérer - Cahiers Charles Fourier - René Schérer, un fouriérisme alerte
French edition
Cahiers Charles Fourier
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
Tribute to philosopher René Schérer (1922-2023), a great Charles Fourier specialist.
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).
Anaïs Lelièvre - Littera/terra
French edition
Immédiats / Analogues
The first monograph dedicated to the ceramic works of Anaïs Lelièvre.
Revue & Corrigée
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
Kiki Jones; Fady Joudah; Mica Levi; Pascale Ciapp; Kasper T. Toeplitz; Graham Lambkin; Risaripa; Steve Albini; David Grubbs; DASDAS...
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.
Jihye Jung - Resterenvie
French edition
Zero2
The diary of the Korean-born artist based in France.
Mouvement
French edition
Mouvement
Aboard the lifeboat Ocean Viking; Jérôme Ferrari; Quebec poetry; Florentina Holzinger; Corsican cinema; investigation in the Kodak factories...
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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