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Peter Greenaway - Gold
2002
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Fictions
An illustrated novel about the spoliation of property by the Nazi regime, working as an extension of the film trilogy The Tulse Luper Suitcases.
Douglas Coupland - School Spirit
2002
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Encounters
An artistic and literary journey through the soul of a dead and disembodied student, lost in the memories and infrastructure of a Californian High school.
Douglas Coupland - School Spirit
2002
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Encounters
An artistic and literary journey through the soul of a dead and disembodied student, lost in the memories and infrastructure of a Californian High school.
Olaf Breuning -
2002
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
The book constitues the first « exhibition » of the drawings by the artist.
Olaf Breuning - Miuze
2002
French edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
Leporello.
Alice Anderson - Belles Rives
2002
Yvon Lambert - Monographs and artists' books
(last copies available!)
This small book accompanies the video Belles Rives (2001), with a selection of screen shots.
Steven Parrino - Electrophilia - Shock Wave Troop (vinyl EP)
2002
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
Vinyl EP (live performance).
Julia Scher - Always There
2002
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Always There offers a comprehensive survey of American artist Julia Scher's work. The artist's installations and performances have always featured a complex relation to techno-social control, demonstrating our complicity in the proliferating technologies used to surveil both our physical and virtual identities.
Monica Bonvicini - Eternmale
2002
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
The format of the Eternmale duplicates Pirelli's famous calendars, while subverting its codes. The artist's book reproduces a serie of collages based on Playboy magazine's features of « bachelor pads » in the ‘60s. With an interview of the artist by beatrix Ruf.
Dan Walsh - Paintings
2002
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
Paintings is both an artist's book and a document on the work of the New York painter.
Ben Kinmont - Prospectus 1988-2002 - Thirty-one works by Ben Kinmont
2002
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
First monograph of the conceptual American artist.
Jens Haaning - The Refugee Calendar
2002
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
Haaning's project consists in a wall calendar similar in format and lay-out to the colorful ones you can buy in bookstores an shops. Instead of using popular images, it presents photographs of refugees, either alone or in small groups.
Georg Baselitz - Ce que tu n\'es pas est un autoportrait - Limited edition
2002
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Limited edition, accompanied by a numbered and signed etching, printed by Niels Borch Jensen in Copenhagen.
Georg Baselitz - Ce que tu n\'es pas est un autoportrait
2002
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Baselitz returns on his own history and on his conception of the painting, on self-portraits, inversed paintings, his reference artists, German painting...
Yayoi Kusama - Performance & environnement - 1962-2000
2002
German edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Coinciding with a travelling show that presented ten specially created environments, this book assembles the artist's extravagant works of the 60's when she organized performances, happenings and orgies in the streets of New York, as well as the environments of the 80's and 90's that distort reality to propose near-hallucinatory experiences.
Yayoi Kusama - Performance & environnement - 1962-2000
2002
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Coinciding with a travelling show that presented ten specially created environments, this book assembles the artist's extravagant works of the 60's when she organized performances, happenings and orgies in the streets of New York, as well as the environments of the 80's and 90's that distort reality to propose near-hallucinatory experiences.
Dan Walsh - Recycling - Livres et estampes 1995-2002
2002
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
Walsh has produced many artist's books and prints that function as an experimental field for his paintings. The first documentation on this body of work.
49/3 - ECAL, Lausanne – Fondue déchaînée
2002
49/3
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
sold out
Special issue, dedicated to the Swiss art school ECAL.
Steven Parrino - Exit/Dark Matter
2002
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
sold out
A re-appropriation of the comic books iconography.
Uri Tzaig - Moonstruck
2002
Frac Champagne-Ardenne
(last copies available!)
15.00 5.00 €
Artist's book.
Permanent Food
2002
no text
Permanent Food
(last copies available!)
Claude Closky - Mon Père
2002
no text
M19 - I.S. (Inventaire Supplémentaire)
sold out
Artist's book: a series of collected photographs, derived from advertisements, referring to the father figure.
Peter Downsbrough - AND HERE, AS
2002
no text
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Artist's book.
Marcel Odenbach - Blenden/Blinds
2002
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
19.00 10.00 €
With its comprehensive illustrations and essays, including a text by the artist, this book features Odenbach's most important works.
Fabrice Gygi - Common Ground
2002
French edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
All black and white photographs reproduced in the book as well as the cover image were taken by Gygi during the winter 1990-1991. Immediately thereafter, the quasi totality of the negatives were stacked in a press and pierced with a drill. 4 - color leaflets present recent works of the artist.
Gabrielle Wittkop - Nouveaux mémoires de l\'Abbé de Choisy habillé en femme, pour servir de supplément aux modes du Grand Siècle
2002
French edition
Yvon Lambert - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
François-Timoléon de Choisy's writings (1644-1724), presented and illustrated with original collages by Gabrielle Wittkop.
Marc Décimo - La Bibliothèque de Marcel Duchamp, peut-être
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
An essay on Duchamp's readings, and a systematic chart of his personnal library.
Jack Goldstein -
2002
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Magasin
sold out
Anthology of essays on Jack Goldstein's work (contributions by Hélène Winer, Laurie Anderson, Morgan Fisher, Douglas Crimp, David Salle, Thomas Lawson, Carter Ratcliff, Michael Newman, Jack Goldstein, John Hutton, Craig Owens, Therese Lichtenstein, Jean Fisher, Chris Dercon, Hal Foster, Jack Bankowsky, Rosetta Brooks, Philip Pocock, Bruce Greenville, Lionel Bovier, Fareed Armaly).
Lilian Bourgeat -
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
15.00 5.00 €
Artist's book.
 Koo Jeong-A -
2001
French edition
Yvon Lambert - Monographs and artists' books
(last copies available!)
French edition (available in English).
Yayoi Kusama - Kusama Orgy - Vol.1 Reprint (1969)
2001
English edition
miscellaneous
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
sold out
Reprint of Kusama's porno-artistic tabloid of 1969.
Permanent Food
2001
no text
Permanent Food
sold out
A sad and violent issue, coming after September 11.
Walter Pfeiffer - Welcome Aboard
2001
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
sold out
Reference monograph / artist's book.
Martin Parr - Flowers
2001
French edition
Galerie du jour agnès b. - Monographs & artists' books
Artist's book.
 Koo Jeong-A -
2001
English edition
Yvon Lambert - Monographs and artists' books
(last copies available!)
First monograph on Korean artist, with installations views and two critical essays.
Raymond Hains - Vedettes
2001
French edition
Galerie du jour agnès b. - Monographs & artists' books
Artist's book.
Marc Décimo - Jean-Pierre Brisset - Prince des penseurs, inventeur, grammairien et prophète
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A complete panorama of the astonishing personality of the unknown writer, grammarian, cosmologist and inventor.
Maurizio Cattelan - 6th Caribbean Biennal - A Project by Maurizio Cattelan
2001
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A true false Caribbean biennial imagined by Maurizio Cattelan for ten real artists.
Yayoi Kusama - Performance & environnement - 1962-2000
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Coinciding with a travelling show that presented ten specially created environments, this book assembles the artist's extravagant works of the 60's when she organized performances, happenings and orgies in the streets of New York, as well as the environments of the 80's and 90's that distort reality to propose near-hallucinatory experiences.
Fabrice Gygi - Self-Tattoos - Estampes et multiples 1982-2001
2001
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
The book includes an extensive interview with the Swiss artist and an inventory of his work.
Olivier Nottellet - Dommage et Intérêt
2001
French edition
Florence Loewy
Artist's book (b/w drawings, sequenced by fluorescent yellow pages).
Philippe Mairesse - Jean-Quête magazine
2001
French edition
Cneai
A graphic collation and synthesis of diverse collected material raising questions and encouraging dialogue around the images (artist's book).
Peter Greenaway - A Zed and Two Noughts
2000
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
Divided in eight sequences corresponding to the stages of Darwin's Theory of Evolution, A Zed and Two Noughts (Z.O.O) stars two zoologists and conjoined brothers whose lives are dramatically altered when their wives are killed in a car crash. A tragic story in which Greenaway discusses the irreversibility of death as opposed to the reversibility of forms.
Peter Greenaway - The Belly of an Architect
2000
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
An American architect goes to Rome to oversee an exhibition on Étienne-Louis Boullée, a French architect from the Eighteenth Century. Accompanied by his young pregnant wife, he soon complains of abdominal pain... This film is a tribute to the figure of the circle, either in Boullée's spherical constructions or through the image of the belly bearing death (the architect's cancer) and life (his pregnant wife).
Isa Genzken - Urlaub
2000
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Urlaub constitutes Genzken's multilayered inquiry into the meaning of work and leisure.
Francis Baudevin - Yeah / Okay
2000
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
First monograph on the artist / poster.
Eugene Chadbourne - The Acquaduct (CD)
2000
Rectangle
A compilation of unreleased tracks by Eugene Chadbourne: four-track recordings at home, with his daughters, in the studio, in concert. A panel of all his art. Covers of Coltrane or Coleman on the banjo, of Nick Drake, of Phil Ochs, of Herbie Nichols, a jam session with Mexican improvisers... An incredible record that was ranked among his 7 best records by The Wire.
Eugene Chadbourne - To Doug (vinyl 7\
2000
Rectangle
A tribute to Doug Sahm.
Gerard Malanga - Up from the Archives (CD)
2000
Sub Rosa
sold out
Gerard Malanga's first hand documents from his personal archives, with unpublished music by various personalities.
Sophie Agnel - Solo (CD)
2000
Vand'Œuvre / CCAM Éditions
A poetic odyssey on solo piano.
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