Visual Studies

A historical and theoretical reflection, on the border between aesthetics and politics, on the decisive role of the images and the power and limits of representation, in the context of the last genocide of the twentieth century.

Social and political dimension of the emergence of a culture of the image carried by the amateur practice of photography in Germany at the dawn of the twentieth century.

Function of visual arts in France during the First World War.

An "archaeology" of contemporary art, between Matisse and Duchamp, between art and philosophy: a book to deconstruct the aesthetic regime of the image, for a new diagrammatic thinking, after Deleuze and Guattari.

The frontispiece of Hobbes' Leviathan, Marat at his last breath by David, "Your country needs you", Guernica by Picasso: four essays on political iconography.

An exploration of the relationship between artistic creation and industrial production, between the artist and his material.

Thirteen texts (including an unpublished essay by Georges Didi-Huberman) to think art and history together, from the tools developed by the theorist of the future of images.

Forty years of Anglo-American feminist theory in art history (an anthology of reference texts by Laura Cottingham, Gen Doy, Lisa E. Farrington, Lisa Gail Collins, Judith Halberstam, Amelia Jones, Lucy R. Lippard, Linda Nochlin, Rozsika Parker, Griselda Pollock, Abigail Solomon-Godeau).

An anthology of texts by philosophers, theoricians and art historians (H. Belting, H. Bredekamp, G. Didi-Huberman, E. Coccia, J.-L. Nancy, W.J.T. Mitchell...) around the specific logic of the image and the transformation of the contemporary visual field.

An essay on the the appearance of the image.

This brilliant work studies the notion of modernity as it's been defined at the end of the XIXth century, especially through the analyse of the links between the visual culture and several main social debates of the time such as sexuallity, urban crowd, riots and social control mechanisms, the Republic and the Church, nationalism and militarism.

A thoroughly investigation of the social role of art articulated by the French left during the July Monarchy and Second Republic.

A critical reflection on memory and images through a collection of rare photography books produced as part of liberation movements in the former Portuguese colonies in Africa between the 1960s and 1980s, reflecting on the importance of visual culture in anti-colonial struggles and the early years of independence, between activism and formal experimentation closely linked to armed struggles.

A science of sensitive experience prolonged by a theory of atmospheres, at the origins of philosophical aesthetics.

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.