Naima

A programmatic book for rethinking and implementing montage as a medium in contemporary art.

Chalk, a notebook, a notebook cover, a four-color BIC pen, a STABILO highlighter: what do these objects—so familiar that we no longer even notice them—say about us? Sylvain Wagnon, an education historian, joins forces with photographer Raphaël Wagnon to explore some forty everyday school objects.

A great Chinese painter, calligrapher, and poet, Fan Zeng conveys the spirit of literati painting in these studies, which draw on classical texts and his own experience with the painting.

A painter-poet reflects on Laozi and Zhuangzi "from the heart" in an illustrated volume featuring his ink drawings.

Through a dated diary and film photographs, a young woman explores her Algerian and Kabyle roots: a sensitive account of a language that was never passed down, family memory, and personal decolonization.

Mathilde Roman explores contemporary video installation practices through the lens of theater and the performing arts.

An illustrated sociological essay on women's emancipation through sexuality.

New monograph.

The search for identity by Stefan Oberbrünner, a German Jewish lawyer who fled to France in 1934, was interned under the Vichy regime, and was then deported on Convoy No. 51 to Sobibor in 1943. A narrative woven from archival materials, evocative drawings, and reflections on memory.

The first publication devoted to the complete works of André Valensi, this monograph contextualizes the artistic practice and pictorial vocabulary established in 1969–1971 with Supports-Surfaces and developed over three decades until 2001.

Julie Vayssière explores the potential of a list of words taken from a dictionary.

A reflection on the power of writing, based on the work of the Swedish artist and writer Öyvind Fahlström (1928–1976).

The outcome of Caroline Mazel's long-term research on the "critical regionalist architecture" developed by Jean-Raphaël Hébrard (1927–2006) in the Basque Country, which bridges modernist architecture and local building traditions.

Leïla Grace Voight’s debut novel: the story of two parallel confinements, told in forty-three scenes by twenty-one women and twenty-two men—all visual artists—accompanied by an emerging AI, an anti-COVID superheroine.

A text that is both humorous and political by visual artist and author Laurence Denimal.

The artist's travel journal.

This first monograph devoted to Claire Colin-Collin’s painting traces her artistic development since the late 1990s.

André Guenoun's photographic works .

Exploring the contemporary art scene in Cambodia, Soko Phay examines modes of representing extremes and shows how memorial works prompt reflection on the profound scars left by the Cambodian genocide on society.

The artist's book of poems.

A non-relationalist anthropological approach to singularity.

A contemporary artist and an anthropologist engage in dialogue with the history of anthropology, philosophy, and art in an attempt to approach the singularity of the human being.

In this essay, Alexandre Gérard recounts his discovery and interpretation—which was not entirely straightforward at first—of the work of his great-uncle, the artist Jean Dupuy (1925-2021).

Les Cahiers du son once again draw up an inventory of contemporary sound practices while inviting us to discover the stimulating creativity which, today, animates the presence of sound in the field of visual arts, and within an art school.

Artist's book.

This first substantial monograph pays tribute to the silkscreen printer and publisher, more than ten years after his passing.

Le cinéma sans le film explores the trace of cinema in contemporary artworks that are not films.

A dialogue between art and quantum physics.

Some sixty artists from different generations not represented in galleries, selected and presented by 35 critics.

The first book dedicated to Cornelia B. Sage Quinton (1876-1936), this essay traces the visionary career of the first woman director of a major art museum in the United States.

69 different personalities share their unique experiences of Laurent Fiévet's work, inviting us to rethink our relationship with images.

A collection of poems and fictions which, based on literary experiences from 1985-1989, reflects aesthetic concerns that foreshadow Alexandre Castant's future literary and artistic research.

The first issue of the artistic and literary magazine created by Christophe Le Gac and Rozenn Le Roux offers 240 pages of novels, poetry, essays, philosophy, thoughts and other experiences.

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.

20 drawings, 15 architects, 125 steps. Twenty perspective drawings edited to scale from plans, twenty architectural climates in comic-book realism to decipher the language of modern architecture through the work of fifteen architects.

Artist and curator discuss the role and value of art in the 21st century, and the potential for artistic creation to contribute to the development of new knowledge.

Research and creations by a collective of academics and artists on perceptions and practices related to the Romanche river in Isère (France), in a context of massive landscape transformation.

An artistic and literary project based on the emblematic and ambiguous plant figure of the bramble.

A series of historical images of buildings and monuments, retouched by the artist who superimposes the flames that ravaged these monuments long after the time of the original image, overlaying the present and the past.

First monograph of the painter Xavier Drong.

An anthology of 72 texts published by the online French contemporary art journal Lacritique.org.

Les Cahiers du son invite to discover the stimulating inventiveness which, today, animates sound creation in the field of visual arts, and within an art school.

A collective and transdisciplinary publication to address the question of the forms of the living in its scientific, philosophical, artistic and aesthetic dimension, engaging a systematic reflection on our relation to the living and to its forms, and on their theoretical and practical significance with regard to the current world.