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Criminal news item as current version of the ready-made: relations between the history of avant-gardes and the aesthetics of murder.

The first French anthology of texts by conceptual artists from the 60's-70's.

As a Weasel Sucks Eggs examines the enigmatic relation of melancholia to an early kind of cannibalism, which psychoanalysis, in particular, stressed. It contains readings of, amongst others, Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Bernhard, Sigmund Freud, G. W. F. Hegel, and the Swedish poet Gunnar Ekelöf.

Viennese Actionism was one of the strongest effort of the 1960's to develop contemporary art and a forerunner of what is now widely known as Performance Art. Danièle Roussel interviewed not only the former actionists (Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, Günther Brus, Rudolf Schwarzkogler) but also some journalists, politicians, historians and witnesses of that time.

Written texts and films, interviews, symposia, and essays by a central figure in the history of the New York avant-garde.

First translation in French of the collection of talks by American poet, critic, linguist and performance artist.

A compendium of texts containing famous exhibition case studies, involving some of the more thought-provoking artists, architects, and scientists of our time. A must-have for anyone interested in the unusual strategies of a curator-at-large.

The first critical edition treating a fundamental text by one of the principle actors of Fluxus.

Art as a set of practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context: the manifesto that has renewed the approach of contemporary art since the 1990s.

Richard Huelsenbeck's En avant dada is his first proclamation of Dada in Berlin.

A collection of Dan Graham's articles about rock and experimental music.

Artist's writings.

The first French translation of a selection of texts by Bolivian sociologist and intellectual Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui: a way of thinking with and through images that challenges the distinction between scholarly knowledge and political practice, at the intersection of sociology, visual studies, and decolonial thought.

The first French translation of texts by a pioneering American researcher on the concept of media infrastructures in our digital environments, this book introduces readers to the contemporary issues at the heart of a line of thought that touches on every aspect of our connected lives: technical, economic, social, cultural, emotional, ecological, and more.

The first collection by award-winning performance artist/poet Justin Chin.

A pioneering study of the relation between the fine arts and philosophy in France, from the aftermath of the 1789 revolution to the end of the nineteenth century, when a philosophy of being called "monism"—the concept of a unity of matter and spirit—emerged and became increasingly popular among intellectuals, artists and scientists.