A face to face between the great works of Gustave Courbet and new paintings by contemporary artist Yan Pei-Ming, specially created for the bicentenary of the birth of Courbet.

Special offer for the purchase of two volumes dedicated to correspondence of Gustave Courbet.

A review of the epistolary correspondence of Gustave Courbet, by an ethnologist, a writer, a psychoanalyst, a hunter, a philosopher, a gastroenterologist, a psychiatrist, two curators, and six art historians.

24 unpublished letters by Gustave Courbet.

A transdisciplinary set of contributions from art historians, scientists, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts, proposing new interpretations of Gustave Courbet's work from his paintings but also from his life, correspondence and archives relative to his family, for some hitherto unpublished.

An elucidation of the myths and the political fantasies that surrounded Gustave Courbet's work and life under the second Empire.

Rereading L'Origine du monde and the relationship between Gustave Courbet and James Whistler.

Gustave Courbet, hunting, and its contemporary representations in Germany.

Art as a social practice through Gustave Courbet's œuvre and political commitment.

An essay on the birth of artistic manifestos in the 19th century, from Jacques Louis David to Gustave Courbet.

The sixth issue of the editorial discursive space for the Bergen Assembly triennial, conceived by Saâdane Afif, is dedicated to the figure of the coalman.

The scenography of the project for the restructuring of the Besançon Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology by Architectures Adelfo Scaranello.

First monograph.

Anicka Yi; on “post-work” by Tom McCarthy; Twing Peaks: The Return, by Philippe Parreno & Asad Raza; death of the art gallery model: a round table; Gilbert & George; Oliver Laric; new formats in digital art; Do we need a new avant-garde?; interview with the Contemporary Art Writing Daily; Courbet's La dame au podoscaphe; Documenta X (1997) by Daniel Baumann; John Russell by Tobias Madison; Manifesto for the public museum; reviews from London, Milan, New York, Paris…

A sourcebook / critical anthology of social art history.

A unique multidisciplinary approach to Visual Studies.

Towards the art world's inner contradictions between symbolic meaning and monetary value.

An essay on French artist Paul Chenavard (1807-1895), romantic cursed painter-prophet, illustrating the distance between the historic claims which build the modern myth of the artist and a relative efficiency.

A study, by five women, on the artistic representations of the female body (essays by Chrystel Besse, Marie-Joseph Bertini, Arlette Fontan, Françoise Gaillard, and Elvan Zabunyan).

This posthumous work is the first study of his friend Gustave Courbet (who requested a text for a catalog), and of the role of art in society.