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Guillaume de Sardes - Retours à Beyrouth - Journal photographique
2016
French edition
Kaph Books
De Sardes' photographic wanderings in and around Beirut: an impressionist two-sided journey between day and night, dream and documentary.
Inter - La revue comme action
2016
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
Art magazines as exhibition objects and spaces.
Signature Strengths
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Signature Strengths reproduces in full the four books in the series “No-Frills” published in the early eighties. Inspired by the unadorned packaging of a grocery brand, the series editors designed genre fiction books with similar straightforward and experimental approaches. The volume is completed with enlightening notes on genre writing and mass-market publishing.
Jean-Luc Moulène - Documents (box set 4 books)
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
(last copies available!)
220.00 120.00 €
4-volume box set gathering six of the artist's most iconic photographic series. This special publication brings an end to a research on the notion of document that started in 1999 (limited edition of 700 signed copies).
Espace art actuel - Faces
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
Espace is a magazine dedicated to all art forms associated with spatiality. Its 114th issue focuses on the representation of the face in the arts. Contents include an opening text by Jacques Py, “The Native Mask as an Object to Read Identity” by Alexia Pinto Ferretti, “The Double-dealing of the Contemporary Face” by Marion Zilio, “Biometrics, Identity, and the Potential Of the Visage” by Vincent Marquis, “The Face: the Other Of the Portrait?” by André-Louis Paré, “Events” and “Public Artworks” Sections, exhibition reports and book reviews.
Caméra(Auto)Contrôle (+ 2 books)
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
sold out
Exhibition Guide from the Triennal 50JPG 2016 – 50 Days for Photography in Geneva, accompanied by the two artist's books published on the occasion of the exhibitions, Giacomo Bianchetti – Bilderberg 2015 et Sébastien Reuzé – Indian Springs (bundle).
Demain l\'école d\'art - Actes des assises nationales des écoles supérieures d\'art
2016
texts in English and French
various
Proceedings of the 2015 National conference of the French Schools of Arts.
Leszek Brogowski - Editer l\'art - Le livre d\'artiste et l\'histoire du livre
2016
French edition
Incertain Sens - Grey Series
Artist's books and book history (new edition).
Milieux & créativités
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
ENSAD Nancy (Nancy National School of Art and Design)
An analysis of new collaborative artistic practices interconnecting artists, designers, graphic designers, architects and researchers with different social and economic backgrounds, outside the strict boundaries of the art world.
Publishing as Artistic Practice
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
An examination by artists, publishers, and scholars of recent publishing concepts emerging from the experimental literature and art scene.
Ericka Beckman -
2016
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Retrospective monograph on all Beckman's video works since the 1970s.
Annette Le Fort - Phonetic Skin - A Library of Voices (CD)
2016
Errant Bodies - Records & DVDs
An acoustic-phonetic approach of book's corporeality in 38 tracks.
Leonor Antunes - The tiny pliable plane (box set)
2016
no text
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
sold out
A series of seven silk-screen prints depicting close-up images of Antunes's sculptures inspired by the works of Anni Albers and Lina Bo Bardi (artist's edition).
Giovanna Silva - Syria - A Travel Guide to Disappearance
2016
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Taken at the height of the Assad days, the images of the photographer Giovanna Silva overlap in this publication with Syrian tourist guides' images and texts, creating a net of intended and unintended relationships and time interconnections.
Donatella Bernardi - Into Your Solar Plexus
2016
English edition
Humboldt Books - Artist's Travels
This artist's book presents the sum of a multitude of journeys, people and stories collected and edited by Donatella Bernardi and stemming from her own family archives. The artist connects this whole documentation with works by Lebanese artist Saloua Raouda Choucair and her daughter Hala Schoukair, as well as with the Swiss Confederation Fine Art Collection.
Peeping Tom\'s Digest - Paris (Le Grand and beyond)
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Peeping Tom's Digest
Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom's Digest
Peeping Tom's Digest is an experimental, empirical and subjective publication dedicated to contemporary artistic practices. This issue, dedicated to Paris, teases out an offbeat and distanced portrait of the Parisian and French scene
Peeping Tom\'s Digest - Paris (Le Grand and beyond)
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Peeping Tom's Digest
Peeping Tom - Peeping Tom's Digest
Peeping Tom's Digest is an experimental, empirical and subjective publication dedicated to contemporary artistic practices. This issue, dedicated to Paris, teases out an offbeat and distanced portrait of the Parisian and French scene
The Archive as a Productive Space of Conflict
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
This applied research project and publication deals with archival practice and its spatial repercussions. Inquiring whether any accumulation and organization of knowledge is productive—to the effect that it generates a narrative and / or history—the project focuses specifically on archives becoming productive due to their spatial framework.
Félicia Atkinson - Comme un seul narcisse (vinyl LP)
2016
Shelter Press - Records
sold out
French artist Félicia Atkinson teams up with New York-based experimentalist Jefre Cantu-Ledesma with Comme un seul narcisse—an epistolar conversation of post-modern times.
Laurent Moreau - Professor Kant\'s Incredible Day
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Plato & Co.
What can I know? What should I do? What may I hope? What's for dinner? More than two hundred years ago, on a day that takes quite a peculiar course, Professor Kant is working hard to give an answer to all these questions. Not only the morning papers, but also a slightly perfumed letter get in his way however. As a result, he even forgets to go out on his regular digestive walk—and everything goes off the rails… (an illustrated philosophy book for children).
Françoise Armengaud - Wittgenstein\'s Rhinoceros
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Plato & Co.
1914. Europe is at war. The experts on deciphering code and secret writing are wild with excitement: What in the world can be the meaning of those incomprehensible notes scribbled by secret agent Ludwig Wittgenstein? The young scholar himself is unable to help them—he is hunting a wild beast, a figure of dubious existence… (an illustrated philosophy book for children).
Espace art actuel - Fetishes
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
Special feature on Fetishism (ready-mades, the aesthetics of commodity, Benoît Pype and Kapwani Kiwanga, interview with Musa paradisiaca…), “Events” section honours artist Mathieu Lefèvre, essay by Jean-Alexandre Perras and Érika Wicky on Tate Britain's exhibition “Sensorium,” exhibitions and books reviews…
Marcel Broodthaers - Charles Baudelaire - Je hais le mouvement qui déplace les lignes
2016
French edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Facsimile edition of an artist book by Marcel Broodthaers based on a verse from Baudelaire's poem La Beauté.
Félicia Atkinson - Animals
2016
English edition
Shelter Press - Books
sold out
Animals questions through a poetic approach the modernist apprehension of time and locomotion, in the realm of today.
Bernard Villers - Les Éditions du Nouveau Remorqueur - Catalogue raisonné
2016
French edition
Incertain Sens - Grey Series
The catalogue raisonné of the artist's books published by Bernard Villers's publishing house Le Nouveau Remorqueur (2003-2015).
Yona Friedman - Slide Shows (3 books box set)
2016
trilingual edition (English / French / Chinese)
Cneai
Slide Shows is a three-volume box set, with over 1.500 original drawings and texts in which Friedman gives his own personal understanding of the multiple ways of thinking the world through a series of “cartoons.”
Ziad Antar - After Images
2016
English edition
Kaph Books
Ziad Antar experiments forms, colors and light with his lensless camera, during a long journey searching for the cities where mythology was born. At the core of his work is the questioning of the foundations of photography, through the destructuration of this art (monograph edited in collaboration with Hans Ulrich Obrist).
Carole Douillard - Alive
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
This first monograph on French-Algerian artist and performer Carole Douillard spans her entire work from the end of the 1990s and invites us to reflect on her performative and non-material practice, interrogating the forms and issues of contemporary performance.
 Florian & Michaël Quistrebert -
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
Palais de Tokyo - Monographs (coedition Les presses du réel)
First monograph.
Ben Kinmont - Open by Chance & Appointment
2016
English edition
Incertain Sens
sold out
An historical account of Ben Kinmont's bookstore, from the structure's origin, the events and publications it has generated. Kinmont also demonstrates how this activity has contributed to his independence as an artist vis-à-vis the commercial art circuit.
Fouad Bouchoucha -
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
Designed by the artist in collaboration with the graphic studio S-y-n-d-i-c-a-t, Fouad Bouchoucha's first monograph gathers a selection of his works along with four essays and an interview.
Marion Muller-Colard - Hannah Arendt\'s Little Theater
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Plato & Co.
Hannah Arendt is not at all keen to build an edifice of ideas or to develop abstract concepts. Rather, she gets on to the stage herself! To enter the scene of her little theater means to take matters into her own hands, take responsibility, to act. In short: Thinking is acting! Whereas the bureaucrats can conceive of only one thing: to build a world out of paper (an illustrated philosophy book for children).
Jean-Paul Mongin - Mister Descartes and his Evil Genius
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Plato & Co.
On a long, cold winter night, more than three hundred years ago, Mister Descartes is suddenly beset by profound doubts: Can I trust my senses, or am I fooled by illusions? Is there an Evil Genius behind all things? What if the outside world is only a dream? Is my own existence nothing but the product of my imagination? (an illustrated philosophy book for children).
Espace art actuel - Counter-monuments
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Espace art actuel
This issue addresses the notion of (counter-)monuments with essays on National Identity, Immersion Serving Memory, Optical Protocols, Alexandra Pirici's Soft Power, The Kai Dikhas Gallery, Thomas Hirschhorn, The Memorial to the Victims of Communism…
Cahiers Maurice Blanchot
2016
French edition
Cahiers Maurice Blanchot
Les presses du réel – Literature – Cahiers Maurice Blanchot
A theoretical, literary and critical dossier dedicated to the relationship between Maurice Blanchot and Georges Bataille; Jean-Luc Nancy's La Communauté désavouée, around the notion of community in Blanchot's oeuvre.
Cahiers Maurice Blanchot
2016
French edition
Cahiers Maurice Blanchot
Les presses du réel – Literature – Cahiers Maurice Blanchot
A theoretical, literary and critical dossier dedicated to the relationship between Maurice Blanchot and Georges Bataille; Jean-Luc Nancy's La Communauté désavouée, around the notion of community in Blanchot's oeuvre.
Hippocampe
2016
French edition
Hippocampe
Hippocampe - Hippocampe Review
Peter Downsbrough - Then Set (box set 2 books)
2015
no text
CDLA (Centre des livres d'artistes)
currently out of stock
Artist's book in two volume.
Mustapha Akrim - Collective Memory - 70-85
2015
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Kulte Editions
With Collective Memory, Mustapha Akrim appropriates one of the most pervasive and widely circulated media of official postcolonial visual culture, the Moroccan dirham. At stake here is how visual representation affects political representation and vice versa.
Andrée Putman - Andrée Putman at the CAPC by Heinz Peter Knes
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
35.00 10.00 €
German photographer Heinz Peter Knes offers a new photographic perspective on the furnishing of the CAPC museum of contemporary art in Bordeaux, one of the famous interior designer Andrée Putman's most accomplished projects and a milestone in the history of design.
Tomi Ungerer - Elephants, Whales & Kangaroos (box set 3 books)
2015
no text
Nieves
These three thin volumes feature drawings by legendary illustrator Tomi Ungerer selected from his sixties sketchbooks. In the likes of fabulists, Ungerer portrays the animal kingdom (elephants, whales, kangaroos and a handful of camels) to satirize with humour the manners of his contemporaries.
May
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
May
sold out
Amy Lien and Enzo Camacho, Georgie Nettell, Dave Miko, Ned Vena, Antek Walczak, by Tanja Widmann / Paris Noche by Jay Chung / Verena Dengler by Lili Reynaud Dewar / Call and Response and Forever Now by Kari Rittenbach / Daniel Pommereulle by Hélène Fauquet / Hans Christian Lotz by Sam Pulitzer / Sigmar Polke's reception in the United States and Germany in the 1980s by Magnus Schaefer / interviews with Magnus Schaefer et Guy Tosatto / On Some Models of Artist / Gallery Relations (with Marie Angeletti, Camille Blatrix, Hélène Fauquet, Renaud Jerez, Mélanie Matranga)...
Didier Semin - Duchamp - The Paradigm of the Cartoon
2015
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
The influence of cartoon on Duchamp's work.
Erica Baum - The Naked Eye
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Galerie Crèvecœur
40.00 20.00 €
The result of a series started in 2008, all of The Naked Eye photographs are looks between the fanned pages of paperbacks that date back to the 1950s–1970s. This first exhaustive monographic publication of an ongoing series reveal a particular taste for mass-market celebrity biographies and movie novelizations featuring photo sections and pulpy paper stained by brightly-dyed edges.
The Territories of Artists\' Periodicals
2015
English edition
various
sold out
This book gathers the papers presented at an international symposium on artists' periodicals, organized by academical Marie Boivent and curator Stephen Perkins. It serves as a smart introduction to a broad range of publishing strategies adopted by artists and others who were experimenting across the field of periodical publishing in new and expanded ways from the 1960s onwards.
David Lemaire - Alain Huck - La Symétrie du saule / The Symmetry of Willow
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMCO - Monographs
This book offers several thematic gateways to Alain Huck's work showing the persistence of the same autobiographic, environmental, historic and linguistic issues in a variety of mediums.
Marie-Hélène Breuil - L\'Inventaire
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMCO - Monographs
The story of an iconic work by Claude Rutault.
Hamish Fulton - Canto di strada (2 books)
2015
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
sold out
The exhibition Canto di strada placed Fulton's & Höpfner's work side by side identifying a common ground for comparison in a 14-day walking journey through the Supramonte and Gennargentu mountains in Sardinia. The artists undertook separate journeys, experiencing a total immersion in the harsh environment without even meeting each other. Their respective approaches have been documented in two separate booklets.
Frank Asch - I Met A Penguin
2015
English edition
Nieves
sold out
Nieves reissues Frank Asch's famous children's book, originally published in 1972.
Estelle Hanania - Happy Purim
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Shelter Press - Books
This new monograph gathers 42 images documenting 3 years of photographs taken between 2011 and 2014 during the Purim holiday in the neighbourhood of Stamford Hill, London.
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