Essay

The stock theatrical character Pierrot is an enduring figure in French visual art, where he emerges at the intersection of theatricality and the marketplace. This book offers an account of Pierrot's recurrence in painting, prints, photography and film, tracing this distinctive type from the art of Watteau to the cinema of Occupied France.

An analysis by American historian Dagmar Herzog of the emotional springs and body-related obsessions of the new extreme right.

This posthumously published essay presents Hans De Wolf's sharp analysis of one of the greatest rivalries in art history, a rivalry between two centuries, embodied by two of their most prominent figures: Courbet for the 19th and Duchamp for the 20th century.

An unclassifiable classic, precursor of the “material turn” and of media theory, finally reissued.

Through the operative concept of literary and political extremism, this volume explores the links between the revolutionary aspirations of far-left socio-political movements and the quest for a new articulation between literature and reality in 1970s Italy, a dynamic exemplified by poet and novelist Nanni Balestrini (1935-2019).

A challenging study of contemporary theater in all its political dimensions.

Pictorial abstraction in the Middle Ages: an innovative reflection that offers a powerful cross-disciplinary approach to medieval art, under a completely rethought concept of abstraction in close contact with finely analyzed images.

The relationship between quantifiable and experiential knowledge as entanglement of multiple temporalities.

The architecture of disaster: Eyal and Ines Weizman trace the history of the before-and-after image from 19th-century photography to contemporary satellite images.

The posthumous publication of the German philosopher: a major work on the collapse of Western philosophy and on the necessity to rethink the past to build the future.

A set of insights into the mass culture of the Weimar Republic, and its rituals of distraction, which prefigure our present.

Bill Evans / Scott LaFaro / Paul Motian (1959-1961): the story of one of the most original, dazzling and influential trios in jazz history, and of the recording of three legendary albums.

A2 size offset folded poster of Sylvain George's essay "What the Night Sees".

Research-creation reconsidered from its historical upstream (before, when we spoke of Arts-Sciences), but also from its possible downstream (after, from the point of view of other conceptions and other practices yet to be invented).

A history of the representation of blindness in art, from Brueghel to Louise Bourgeois.

An exploration of the ecologies of music and sound, from an ecosophical and emancipatory perspective.

Traditions of realism are brought together with the decolonial and ecological concept of "planetarity" to understand a new realism in contemporary art.

A massive value shift for existing buildings, infrastructure, materials, unbuilt land, earth, and the labor that holds our world together.

How practices that enact the art of constructing open secrets in markets can be mobilized to unfold magic making.

A wide-ranging discursive study of the cultural geography of the Central European avant-garde between the wars.

Twelve texts on as many architectural masterpieces: pursuing their project to disseminate the work and thought of Livio Vacchini, Caryatide publish a new edition in English of Capolavori, the small (and immense) milestone, full of meaning and poetry, that the architect from Ticino wrote in 2006 just before his death.

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

A manifesto against the current moralizing trend in the arts.

Drawing on the notion of “cultural technique”, Bernhard Siegert thoroughly revitalizes posthumanist media studies.

A new field of counter-investigation across journalism, human rights, art and law.

A set of insights into the mass culture of the Weimar Republic, and its rituals of distraction, which prefigure our present.

An original history of Pop Art from the point of view of drawing, resituating the leading role played by this medium in the development of closer links between art and life.

What meaning can be given to abstract art forms when the figurative is evacuated in favor of pure gesture and color? This book investigates the case of Hans Hartung, delving into the depths of his psyche—at the frontier between aesthetics, neuroscience, psychoanalysis and medicine.

A fictionalized biography of Guy de Cointet (1934-1983).

The first in-depth research on fanzines in Quebec.

A historical investigation into why Leonardo da Vinci's plans for the Château de Chambord were censored.

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.

An ethnographic approach to the zoo, revealing the tensions and contradictions of a cultural institution that inherited nature from the colonial exhibitions and has now entered the paradigm of biodiversity conservation.

From the observation of a society of capuchin monkeys and thought experiments borrowed from theater, Zaven Paré, artist and researcher in interaction design, specialist in theater and robotics, attempts to dismantle the pitfalls of anthropomorphization, in an attention that seeks to preserve the irreducible character of an interspecific copresence.

Starting with a bold re-reading of Jacques Rancière, this essay unfolds a philosophy of experimentation, at the crossroads of life, politics and aesthetics, in search of new ways to explore, arrange and map the possible.

An experimental fictional ("post-apocalyptic") anthropology of philosophy, focusing on the dialectic of master and slave, itself understood as myth.

An conceptual attempt to think differently about freedom in its acts.

A very personal essay that provides a clear introduction to Gilles Deleuze's thinking through his relationship with cinema, seen as a field of experimentation (existential, conceptual and aesthetic) to resist death, disaster and the stupefaction produced by the “modern fact”.

An original theory of power based on a dense and insightful inquiry into the consequences of the "Global War on Terror" and the security state, up to the imposition of neoliberal logic and the overflowing of the media made viral.

What does Bergson bring to the history of the concept of "structure" even before the advent of structuralism? Why is his approach still relevant today? Sébastien Miravete proposes a rereading of Bergsonian philosophy to show how it outlines an other structuralist metaphysics, which can inspire all 21st century thought.

A specialist in French philosophy and literature, and a key intermediary in Japan for the work of Deleuze and Guattari, Artaud, Beckett and Genet, Uno Kuniichi publishes in French his fundamental text on Antonin Artaud, a revised, recomposed and expanded version of his thesis, written under the direction of Gilles Deleuze in 1980.

A vast research on the notion of acoustic and sound ecology and its transition to a new sound ecosophy, integrating the multidimensionality of listening to propose to hear differently.

A philosophical reflection on the place of sound, from musical aesthetics to sound habitat, at the crossroads of sound, music and technology studies, and phenomenology.

A major milestone in the history of design, this pioneering work by Tomás Maldonado, published in 1970, lays the foundations for a critical and committed reflection, open to an ecological perspective, against the drifts of utopian regressions or exacerbated productivism.

On the relationship between architecture and design.

Emanuele Coccia analyzes Ernesto Neto's artistic practice and its profound relationship to the body, the senses, the environment and the wider community.