The thirteenth issue of Initiales is dedicated to Joséphine Baker, an eminently romantic character who crossed the twentieth century and the continents and who allows us today to reconsider the notions of identity and representativeness that occupy our contemporary world.

Told by Charles Berling, the film by Gilles Coudert juxtaposes the director's experience as an adolescent growing up in the biggest project ever built by Le Corbusier in Europe, in Firminy, France with insights from several contemporary artists including architects, a choreographer, a filmmaker, a designer and a composer. Architectural historian Jean Louis Cohen provides comment as do several inhabitants and users of Le Corbusier's complex.

A film by artist Franck Scurti on Marcel Duchamp's masterpiece replica by Ulf Linde.

One of Levinas' rare statements focusing on the fine arts.

Can the modern uses of prehistory shed new light on the modern experience of time and, thus, the art of this period?

New monograph: a retrospective of Yan Pei-Ming's paintings and watercolors from 2006 to 2019, structured around the figure of disappearance and violence, and around the confrontation with the works of the masters of the past as well as with modern iconography, with essays by Franck Gautherot, David Liot, Xavier Douroux and Fabian Stech.

This book traces the career of Kara Walker (born in 1969), the most internationally recognized African-American artist since Jean-Michel Basquiat, and explores the history of the reception of a work that faces the limits of representation, challenging the question of the figuration of the black body.

The catalogue for Francis Alÿs's first large-scale solo museum exhibition in China at the Rockbund Art Museum provides an insightful and critical look into Alÿs's practices.

A visual and poetic proposal that looks back on the different journeys and collaborations realized by Marco Godinho during the preparation of his installation for the Luxembourg pavilion of the Venice Biennale 2019.

Yvan Etienne's new sound composition (Serge Modular, field recording).

Yvan Etienne's new sound composition (Serge Modular, field recording).

Blanquet's new notebook of fantastic and phantasmagorical drawings, in red ink mixed with green.

An album conceived by Carlos Casas from the sound materials recorded during the making of his film Cemetery (about the last journey of an elephant in the Sri Lankan jungle, a meditative and hallucinatory oeuvre between animist documentary, adventure film and experimental cinema), extending the immersive experience of the film.

A dialogue of the drums.

An album conceived by Carlos Casas from the sound materials recorded during the making of his film Cemetery (about the last journey of an elephant in the Sri Lankan jungle, a meditative and hallucinatory oeuvre between animist documentary, adventure film and experimental cinema), extending the immersive experience of the film. This artist's edition includes a hand numbered bonus LP, an art print and a dowload code for an exclusive 99' bonus track.

A rereading of the work of the Swiss architect.

It is a form of spiritual revolt that Spanish architect Carlos Martí Arís highlights through a transversal analysis of different artistic expressions that combine to enrich his reflection.

One year in the art world: Art Basel's official annual publication captures and documents the exhibitions in Basel, Miami Beach, and Hong Kong, and goes beyond them, featuring interviews, portfolios, essays about contemporary art, and personal highlights from artists, curators, collectors, and museum directors.

Cross perspectives by bioartists, philosophers and art theoreticians around the link between bioart and ethics.

An essential book for readers engaged with film and performance, urban cultures and architecture, and Japan's experimental art and its histories.

This collection assembles key essays of Reiner Schürmann centering on the concepts of anarchy and the singularization to come. Setting out from the question of the status of practical philosophy at the end of metaphysics, these texts track the crucial role of Schürmann's engagement with the work of Michel Foucault between 1983 and 1991.

First monograph on Swiss painter Sylvain Croci-Torti.

A special issue about Art and Activism: Claire Bishop on the art of political timing, Christopher Glazek on Nan Goldin and the Sacklers, and Joan Kee on law by art. Plus Ralph Runoff talks with Daniel Birnbaum about the 58th Venice Biennale, James Quant on Olivier Assayas's Non-Fiction, Summer Previews with 40 exhibitions worldwide and much more.

In 2013 Itziar Okariz exhibited Diary of Dreams for the first time. In its original iteration, the artist's daily recollection of dreams took on the form of a cumulative pile of notes.

A book conceived by the artists Yann Sérandour, Félicia Atkinson, Julien Bismuth, and the curator Sophie Kaplan, revolving around questions of narrative, listening and improvisation.

Bunny Rogers by Emily Watlington; Listening to, and Looking at, New Age Now by Dieter Roelstraete; Vanessa Conte by Moritz Scheper; Louisa Gagliardi interviewed by Adam Carr; Jared Madere & Ross Simonini; Anselm Franke; Martine Syms in conversation with Beatrix Ruf; Chris Sharp on Dike Blair; Nick Currie; Dora Budor analyzes Claire Denis's science-fiction film High Life; Andrew Berardini on Mare Vint; Michelle Stuart speaks with Hans Ulrich Obrist...

London Drill rap; Romeo Castellucci; artist's assistants; Suzanne Ciani; Cameron Jamie; Théo Mercier; Barbara Probst...

Surveying the causes championed by feminists in the post-internet era.

A book conceived by the artists Yann Sérandour, Félicia Atkinson, Julien Bismuth, and the curator Sophie Kaplan, revolving around questions of narrative, listening and improvisation, centered around a long unpublished transcript of a talk poem by David Antin.

In this compilation of essays, Dork Zabunyan analyses the creation, use and circulation of images in the contexts of the “Arab Spring” and the Syrian War.

Perrotin's large hardcover Yearbook presents the gallery's activities across its six international locations over the course of 2018, bringing together exhibition views, conversations with the artists, photographs of workshops and events, and additional exclusive content.

A journal of critical and political poetry.

The reissue, in a new translation, of one of the most important essays of Latin American poetry from the historical avant-gardes.

Angéline Neveu, a figure of May '68 then of the French poetic underground, close to the Situationists, tells herself and offers a testimony on the years 1960-70.

An original fable at war against the founding books of monotheisms (unpublished text of 1963).

Comprehensive documentation of the Portuguese artist's sculptural "Forests", including two interviews.

Monograph dedicated to a pioneer and leading figure in new media art.

This unedited issue of Spectre invites contemporary artists to share their interpretation of vegetal trauma.

Special dossier devoted to Simone Fattal; Marina Fokidis; Peter Halley; Yto Barrada; Ghislaine Leung; Laure Prouvost...

Artist's book.

Art and feminism in Italy in the Seventies.

This hybrid publication's starting point relies in ten years of activities of LiveInYourHead, Geneva School of Art and Design (HEAD)'s exhibition space. Between a catalogue, an archive and a collective publication, this book explores the relationships between art education and curatorial knowledge.

An overview of study programs teaching socially engaged art.

A collection of texts, interviews and testimonials about new teaching practices of design.

This book is part of a research project conducted at ECAL that takes a critical look at standards in the field of offset printing. One will find here a collection of texts and images related to colour printing which recount histories, at times unknown, others forgotten, or else, for some, never told.

A DVD documenting a commissioned work for which Jean-Michel Othoniel redesigned spaces housing the sacred treasures of the Angoulême Cathedral.

Jean-Paul Fargier's film about the historical encounter between the filmmaker and the writer in 1984.

The reconciliation of art and life, at the heart of the reflection and practice of many modern and contemporary movements.

Two texts by New York artist Zoe Beloff, pioneer in the field of “media archeology”, whose works are at the crossroads of avant-garde art, popular cultures and critical theory.