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Zamân
2012
French edition
Zamân
Zamân - Zamân journal
sold out
On “heretical Orientalism”: the Sicilian Inquisition in the 17th century, the works of Bahman Mohassess, Marwan, the poems of Etel Adnan…
John Cage - Other People Think
2012
English edition
various
A transcript of the earliest of John Cage's extended writings.
Jeffrey Vallance - The Vallance Bible
2012
English edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
The Bible according to Jeffrey Vallance: a mystical and blasphemous apocryphal tale.
Benoît Maire - Drawing Room Confessions #5
2012
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
sold out
Benoît Maire plays the Drawing Room Confessions.
Gabriele de Santis - AB
2012
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
Artist's book (contributions by Adam Carr, Daria Irincheeva, Jacopo Miliani, Maria Loboda, Marie Lund, Rebecca Digne, Tenzing Barshee, Stefano Raimondi, Ruth Proctor, Lucy Woodhouse, Thomas Kratz, Antonia Alampi, Meriç Algün Ringborg, and Elisabetta Benassi).
Karl Larsson - Consensus (The Room)
2012
English edition
Paraguay Press
A theater play in two acts (the fifth book by Swedish artist and poet Karl Larsson).
Ian Tweedy - Crisis
2012
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
Artist's book: a selection of works from 2009 to 2012 over various pages of the original title Missiles of the World, 1972.
Izet Sheshivari - Macadam Cowboy
2012
no text
Boabooks
Artist's book.
Sophie Coiffier - Me and my dog
2012
French edition
Mix
Woes and misfortunes of a TV celebrity.
Marco Raparelli - Permafrost
2012
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
Artist's book: about 180 plates, portrays a collectivity, gathered in its different human manifestations, in the infinite variety of the characters and typologies that only apparently seem fantastical characters.
Sébastien Leseigneur - Station Dors Ph
2012
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
CPG (Centre de la photographie Genève)
A cross navigation between genres and techniques of photography (artist's book).
Paul-Armand Gette - Un goût certain pour la publication - Essai de catalogue raisonné des livres et publications, 1945-2012 (+ USB card)
2012
French edition
CDLA (Centre des livres d'artistes)
Catalogue raisonné, with 170 publications described, a biography, and an USB card containing a PDF file and an audio interview of Paul-Armand Gette.
Jorinde Voigt - Views on Views on Decameron
2012
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Cura. - Cura.books
An artist's book inspired by Boccaccio's Decameron, which explores the relationship between text and image, addressing the literary and visual culture of Italy.
Namio Harukawa - Maxi Cula
2012
no text
United Dead Artists
sold out
150 drawings of callipygian women dominating men: Namio Haruka's second book at United Dead Artists still focuses on his obsession for BDSM scenes.
Augusto de Campos - Poètemoins - Anthologie – Limited edition
2011
bilingual edition (French / Portuguese)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
Limited edition of the anthology, with an original signed silkscreen.
Pascale Cassagnau - Intempestif, Indépendant, Fragile - Marguerite Duras et le Cinéma d\'art contemporain
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
New perspectives on Marguerite Duras' cinematographic works and a young generation of videographers / filmmakers.
Artur Żmijewski - Singing Lesson (vinyl LP)
2011
Tochnit Aleph
sold out
A musical project that investigates the perception of the otherness of the world of the crippled and their right to their own self-expression.
Circular Facts
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
15.00 11.25 €
A collaborative endeavor between three European contemporary art organizations, which acted as an informal think tank and a mutual support structure for the production and dissemination of artistic projects.
A Thousand Eyes - Media Technology, Law, and Aesthetics
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
How the aesthetics of new media technology and its spatial implementations affect the judicial system in relation to fundamental concepts such as truth and representation.
Olivier Bardin - Expositions
2011
French edition
Mix
Monograph dedicated to the work of conceptual artist Olivier Bardin: a chronological selection of 96 projects, and four interviews with prestigious artists and critics: Pierre Huyghe, Pascale Cassagnau, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, and Vanessa Morisset.
From Berkeley to Berkeley - Objectif Exhibitions, 2008-2010
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - Catalogues
A series of interviews with artists who exhibited at Objectif Exhibitions, Antwerp, over a two-year period.
Urban Images - Unruly Desires in Film and Architecture
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
An anthology.
Caring Culture - Art, Architecture and the Politics of Health
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
Changing political uses of the concept of care in neoliberal democracies, and how artists, architects, and designers both contribute to and attempt to critique its social manifestations.
Casco Issues XII - Generous Structures
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A playful enquiry into “playfulness” as a value in critical cultural practice.
Wolf Vostell - Dé-Coll/Age Musik (CD)
2011
Tochnit Aleph
CD-Reissue of the rare 1983 LP by the pioneer of video-art, happening, and Fluxus.
Revue & Corrigée
2011
French edition
Revue & Corrigée
The visual score of L'Étonnement sonore by Carole Rieussec, Johann Maheut, and Guillaume Robert; Faire un bruit qui me ressemble, Vomir and Francisco Meirino, by Kasper T. Toeplitz; John Cage's Williams Mix reinterpretated by Valerio Tricoli and Werner Dafeldecker; Anna Halprin and Morton Subotnick's Parades and Changes; Quelques compositeurs du Royaume-Uni by Tim Parkinson; Ring Modulation 3, la pensée électronique by KTT...
Erik Niedling - The Future of Art - A Manual (+ DVD)
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
In 1831 Honoré de Balzac wrote a short story, “The Unknown Masterpiece,” in which he invented the abstract painting. Almost 200 years later, writer Ingo Niermann tries to follow in his footsteps to imagine a new epoch-making artwork. Together with the artist Erik Niedling he starts searching for the future of art and, seeking advice, meets key figures of the art world.
Antje Majewski - The World of Gimel - How to Make Objects Talk (+ DVD)
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
A utopian and subversive take on how to make objects talk.
Jean Olivier Hucleux - Works & Process (DVD)
2011
French edition (English subtitles)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Works & Process (DVD)
25.00 20.00 €
Three films about Hucleux.
Feminine Futures – Valentine de Saint-Point - Performance, Dance, War, Politics and Eroticism
2011
French edition (texts in French, English, Italian, German)
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
A reexamination of the role of female avant-gardes in the fields of performance and dance: a comprehensive publication with over 2500 color illustrations, together with documentary material on Valentine de Saint-Point, Marinetti, Futurism, Canudo, Russian Ballets, German and American expressionism (original photographs, manuscript letters, drawings, woodcuts, manifestos, first editions and ephemera).
Tauba Auerbach - Folds
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Auerbach's eponymous painting series for the first time in book form.
Rita Ackermann - Fire by Days
2011
no text
Nieves
sold out
Rita Ackermann's eponymous new painting series (a highly distilled series of pictures based on two colours and a single composition) in book form.
Benjamin Sommerhalder - Ghost Knigi
2011
English edition
Nieves
sold out
A children's book by Nieves editor-in-chief.
Susanne Strassmann - Art People or Employees
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Al Dante - Contemporary Art
39.60 19.00 €
This catalogue brings together a series of photographs by painter Suzanne Strassmann in which she deals with the specific codes of the art world and plays with the ambiguity of the interactions between artworks, art professionals, and the public.
Jean-Philippe Antoine - La traversée du XXe siècle - Joseph Beuys, l\'image et le souvenir
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
MAMCO - Monographs
First major monograph in French, fully illustrated, devoted to the key figure of Joseph Beuys, revealing the aesthetic ambition and political issues through a genealogy that retraces a whole part of the XXth century.
Pierre Joseph - Oui, non, peut-être
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
M/M (Paris)
Catalogue raisonné / first monograph of a key figure in the art scene since the late 1980s, this luxurious book (designed by M/M), lavishly illustrated, documents the whole Pierre Joseph's oeuvre, from the first group shows to most recent works.
Eduardo Kac - Life, Light, Language
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
CDA (Centre des Arts)
An investigation into Eduardo Kac's practice in 50 questions asked by digital art historian Dominique Moulon.
Thorsten Soltau - Grün wie Milch / Alamut (vinyl LP)
2011
Corvo Records
sold out
Thorsten Soltau musical cut-up piece Grün wie Milch stands alongside Preslav Literary School's drone tragedy Alamut in this wonderfully designed split album.
Oswald de Andrade - Manifeste anthropophage / Anthropophagie zombie
2011
French edition
BlackJack editions - Pile ou face
sold out
A dialogue between two singular appropriations of the concept of cannibalism at two key historical moments: a new translation of Oswald de Andrade's cult poem, advocating the symbolic ingestion of the colonizer and his culture, faced with an analysis by Suely Rolnik of a perverted contemporary cannibalism experience in the context of financial capitalism.
Standing on the Beach with a Gun in my Hand - Eternal Tour – Jerusalem
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
BlackJack editions - Catalogues
29.00 17.00 €
A set of contributions (archive texts, essays, literary texts, iconographic analysis, art works, interviews ...) by over thirty authors, scholars, writers, journalists, artists, Westerners, Middle Easterners, Jews, Muslims, Christians, atheists, to explore the complexities of contemporary Middle Eastern reality.
Philosophie des possessions
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
A series of portraits of philosophers remained outside majority movements of contemporary thought (Gabriel Tarde, William James, Alfred North Whitehead, John Dewey, Charles Péguy, Etienne Souriau, Raymond Ruyer, and Gilbert Simondon), brought together around the theme of the “possession”.
Convivio
2011
French edition
Mix
This publication gathers a collection of twenty texts together with a selection of archives and photographs which examine the literary and artistic representations of the banquet.
Pierre Vadi - Hotel
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
various
35.00 19.00 €
First major monograph devoted to the Swiss artist: a retrospective of Pierre Vadi's work and exhibitions over fifteen years, with three essays.
Rencontre internationale d\'art performance 2010 - Regards sur l\'art action en Amérique latine et en Asie
2011
French edition
Intervention - Catalogues and anthologies
A complete survey of performance arts in Latin America and Asia today.
Veilleurs du monde 3
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
BlackJack editions - Catalogues
20.00 10.00 €
Seven artists (the duo Art Orienté Objet, Amy Balkin, Gilles Bruni, Seamus Farrell, Romain Pellas, and Akira Sunrise) explore the issues of the ecological crisis and how humanity is endangering itself, from a reflection on the territory of the bucolic valley of the Lot in France.
Cursif - Le dessin dans tous ses états
2011
French edition
miscellaneous
Immédiats / Analogues - Catalogues
19.00 10.00 €
The French and Belgian public collections of drawings.
Veit Stratmann - Data - 2006-2011
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Galerie du jour agnès b. - Monographs & artists' books
Reference monograph, with two essays and an interview with the artist.
Inter - Art vs médias – 50 ans après
2011
French edition
Inter, art actuel
Intervention - Inter, art actuel
50 years of “media arts”.
Lidwine Prolonge - Who had Virginia Woolf for dinner?
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
BlackJack editions - Monographs & artists' books
22.00 10.00 €
First monograph: thirteen projects conducted by French artist Lidwine Prolonge over the past five years, between literature, film, installations and performances.
Devant les images - Penser l\'art et l\'histoire avec Georges Didi-Huberman
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
Thirteen texts (including an unpublished essay by Georges Didi-Huberman) to think art and history together, from the tools developed by the theorist of the future of images.
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