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2024
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.
2024
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.
2024
English edition
Mousse
Mousse - Mousse Magazine
Lin May Saeed, Macarena Gómez-Barris, Simnikiwe Buhlungu, Frantz Fanon, Trisha Donnelly, Natasha Ginwala, Macedonio Fernández, Claire Fontaine, Vir Andres Hera...
2024
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Nieves
Caroline Bachmann's dawn paintings.
2024
Arbitrary
On their first album since 2017, the Berlin-based trio Denseland (Hanno Leichtmann, David Moss and Hannes Strobl) instead ventures slowly but steadily into unknown territory.
2024
English edition
Nieves
This new body of work consists of paintings featuring heart-headed figures in various emotional states and situations that sometimes teeter between the ordinary and extraordinary. From tender amorous moments to unexpected skate scenes, the work is full of the next iteration of emotive "schmoo" characters.
2024
texts in French, Catalan, Castilian, English
Naima
The culmination of a multidisciplinary project developed over ten years, where Miquel Mont blends real and fictional autobiographical elements to explore the economy of affects.
2024
French edition
Mix
This edition, the fifth volume in the Vues & Données series, includes data from the 2,275 "latent shots" taken by artist Aurélie Pétrel.
2024
English edition
Zolo Press
Machteld Rullens' second publication with Zolo Press documents three years of works, friends & family moments, and travels in Senegal, NYC, LA, and Vincent van Gogh's house…
2024
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
The glass as a listening device.
2024
English edition
Kaph Books
Spanning a pivotal time in Arab art, from the 1950s through to the 1980s, this book celebrates the lives, careers, and personas of some of the region's pioneering artists (from Huguette Caland to Hamed Nada and Etel Adnan) and features archival material, images of artworks as well as of the artists themselves.
2024
French edition
Kaph Books
The story of the Galerie Janine Rubeiz, a major venue on Beirut's cultural and artistic scene.
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
New monograph, featuring a cohesive body of new work, with large-scale paintings and watercolours.
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Emblematic works by the Belgian-Polish sculptor and textile artist produced in the 1970s, revealing Tapta's attention to the tactility of her materials, the suppleness of structures, individual and collective practice, and the interaction between artwork, space, and viewer.
2024
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A considered examination of ability in our pseudo-post-pandemic era, Interdependencies: Perspectives on Care and Resilience approaches the intersection of artistic practice, accessibility, and activism with heightened cultural nuance and urgent self-examination,
focusing on the mutual dependencies that exist between people, societies, and institutions.
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A strange hybrid of Teletubbies and Videodrome in the age of algorithms, Telebodies is a techno-somatic, multifaceted endeavor referring to the ever-growing entanglement of our bodies with epistemic, cybernetic, and kinetic materialities.
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A book about active mythic thinking and scientific storytelling, about fright, trauma, and potentials for transformation.
2024
bilingual edition (English / German)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The first comprehensive monograph devoted to artist Bea Schlingelhoff.
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The catalogue of Lisa Tan's first institutional show in Sweden tenders its own spatial logic through the metaphor of neurological disorders.
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
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An analysis of contemporary artistic practices among artists from Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania in the context of evolving global networks and art production.
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Empire - Books
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Antoine de Galbert offers a glimpse into his collection, freed from the traditional norms of art history: an immersion into his artistic universe, through a selection of over two hundred works presented without hierarchy or classification.
2024
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.
2024
Blank Forms - Records
Two mesmerizing works for carillon, the keyboard-controlled bell tower derived in the 16th century.
2024
French edition
ER Publishing
The first of four diaries written by Anne Truitt (1921-2004), a major figure in 20th-century American art.
2024
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.
2024
English edition
Errant Bodies
A zine and exercise book about the applied art of questioning, by the writer Cordula Daus and the choreographer Charlotta Ruth.
2024
English edition
Errant Bodies
Where sounding is understood as an exhibition of activity, vitality, and power, Nina Dragičević proposes that we analyse sonic phenomena in econo-political terms.
2024
Sub Rosa
The album includes Milan Knížák's 1973 private recording BROKEN MUSIC, released as a multiple of forty copies by Armin Hundertmark in 1983 on Edition Hundertmark, and a live version of BROKEN REBROKEN, performed in January 2020 at the Museum of Czech Music in Prague by Milan Knížák, Petr Ferenc (aka Phaerentz) and Opening Performance Orchestra.
2024
English edition
Diaphanes - TransPositions
A collection of early texts by Reiner Schürmann, on religion, Zen, language, Eckhart and Heidegger.
2024
English edition
Daisy editions
Photographer and filmmaker Manuel Wetscher brings together in an artist's book a unique archive of photographs by his father Richard Jenewein, discovered years after he died of AIDS. A universal family album documenting childhood, which questions the evocative power of an altered narrative and deals with the effects of a taboo and the poetic force of images.
2024
English edition
Bleu.
Script is the second book of artist J.J. Zana and a continuation of the series started with Cycles. Composed of fragments, it gathers eleven sections—with a central part telling about his experiments with drugs.
2024
Blank Forms - Records
Solo for Tamburium captures Catherine Christer Hennix's most recent major work. Hennix plays an instrument of her own creation, a keyboard interface controlling a suite of eighty-eight recordings of precision-tuned tambura, creating a sweeping and continuous flow of rich harmonic interplay.
2024
Blank Forms - Records
Solo for Tamburium captures Catherine Christer Hennix's most recent major work. Hennix plays an instrument of her own creation, a keyboard interface controlling a suite of eighty-eight recordings of precision-tuned tambura, creating a sweeping and continuous flow of rich harmonic interplay.
2024
English edition
Damiani - Photography
A picaresque memoir written from inside the heart of the revolutionary twentieth century by one of its most crucial witnesses.
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
umland / Q-O2
In the long interview that forms the body of this publication, Éliane Radigue talks about her work, her reflections and underlying research, as well as her historical context. The publication also contains a commented list of works and Radigue's programmatic text on The Mysterious Power of the Infinitesimal (new expanded edition).
2024
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.
2024
INA-GRM
currently out of stock
François Bayle's luxurious, monumental retrospective box set: 15 CDs covering half a century (1963-2012) of acousmatic creation, accompanied by a 160-page book with various texts, a 2012 interview with Thomas Baumgartner, presentation and annotated catalog of works by Régis Renouard Larivière, and photographs.
2024
English edition
Neural
Anniversary issue: 30 artists celebrate 30 years of Neural + 20 of Crónica; interviews with Olga Goriunova, Siegfried Zielinski, Luciana Parisi, Hito Steyerl, Jussi Parikka; The Neural Archive; reports: xcoax 23, Renaissance 3.0 ZKM; books/DVDs & music reviews...
2024
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.
2024
English edition
Kunstverein Publishing Milano
Between an artist's book and a art publication, Greyzones is an attempt to grasp the scope and width of the work of artist duo Inge Nabuurs and Erwin van Doorn.
2024
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
A hybrid between travel chronicle and studio process notebook, this artist book tracks the construction of a failed modernist fantasy in the island of La Palma and the hallucinogenic properties of wild plants that grow across the Canary Islands.
2024
English edition
Mille Plateaux
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A serious diagnosis of the current form of capital, a profound excavation and presentation of the most important and helpful ideas that Jean Baudrillard published: from the unravelling of western philosophy, to a redefining of marxist theories of economics and capital, to a shift in critical theory that complies with quantum theory.
2024
English edition
Humboldt Books - Globetrotter
The facsimile and English-language reprint of the volume published in 1721 by Austrian architect and historian Johann Bernhard Fischer von Erlach, a historical and theoretical work covering all architectural periods and styles, from Stonehenge to Chinese imperial arches, which had a considerable influence throughout Europe.
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
An anthology that gathers a selection of furniture and lamps designed over the years by the Italian architect Massimiliano Locatelli.
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
A kino-political theory of the 21st century.
2024
bilingual edition (English / Portuguese)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Massa Confusa is a combinatorial codex cataloguing João Maria Gusmão's recent material transformations in the studio, featuring an accompanying text by the artist and faithful reproductions.
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A record of a symposium on the legacy of the late Luxembourgish artist Michel Majerus (1967-2002).
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
First monograph.
2024
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
She Mad gathers materials and documentation on Martine Syms' seminal episodic project of the same name. Each episode of this series takes a different format, using various narrative formats, from sitcoms to TikTok videos, and includes filmed footage as well as research materials.
2024
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
The publication Alexander Tovborg: The Church. Photographed by Mishael Fapohunda, edited and designed by Åbäke, follows the artist's eponymous exhibition at Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen (2023), in which Tovborg investigated the mysteries and paradoxes of faith, as well as the power of images.