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Sur la photographie au Liban - Récits et essais
2018
French edition
Kaph Books
Forty contributors share their perspectives on photography in Lebanon, evoking its equally numerous forms of existence. Examining techniques, practices, uses, objects, images, histories, and artistic approaches, this publication presents 380 photographs produced between the end of the 19th century and the present day.
Gregory Buchakjian - Abandoned Dwellings - A History of Beirut
2018
English edition
Kaph Books
currently out of stock
In a rapidly changing Beirut, neglected dwellings are condemned to disappear as a result of land speculation. This multi-layered transdisciplinary project aims at examining the transformations that these obsolete architectures undergo. The study, carried on site, based on archives, testimonies and oral history, also proposes new artistic perspectives towards the city.
Affinités japonaises - Vers le décor moderne
2018
French edition
Kaph Books
sold out
Following the opening up of Japan to the West in the 1850s, artists, designers and makers across Europe became gripped by a new fashion for “Japonism”. The catalogue of the Louvre Abu-Dhabi exhibition focuses on the pioneering group of Parisian artists Les Nabis, their fascination for Japanese prints, and the importance of this cross-cultural influence in the development of the decorative arts.
Japanese Connections - The Birth of Modern Décor
2018
English edition
Kaph Books
sold out
Following the opening up of Japan to the West in the 1850s, artists, designers and makers across Europe became gripped by a new fashion for “Japonism”. The catalogue of the Louvre Abu-Dhabi exhibition focuses on the pioneering group of Parisian artists Les Nabis, their fascination for Japanese prints, and the importance of this cross-cultural influence in the development of the decorative arts.
Zin Taylor - Lavender Glass
2018
English edition
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This monograph brings together nearly a decade of work, combining sculpture, installation, artist's book and writing. More specifically, the publication explores the themes of growth and training within the artist's conceptual practice, through a long interview conducted by writer and curator Dieter Roelstraete.
Éric Watier - Tout l\'inventaire des destructions
2018
French edition
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Nearly 20 years after the publication of his first inventory, Éric Watier has collected 100 new examples of artworks deliberately destroyed by their creators. This new edition combines 200 destruction cases in one volume.
Vincent Peters - 113 C
2018
no text
Le Dictateur Press - Artists' books & editions / catalogues
Artist's edition: a set of folded posters between two cardboard plates held by elastic bands, featuring a series of black & white female nude by the famous fashion photographer, set in a bus on a rainy night.
Lilian Auzas - Anita
2018
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
Fictionalized biography of Anita Berber, the sulphurous expressionist icon, dancer, actress, and muse.
Alain Garlan - L\'Attrait des leurres
2018
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
17.00 8.50 €
This first novel tells the story of performing art producers who travel around the world looking for new artists. The protagonists will be confronted with the realities of globalization, its promises, its violence and its lures. An enlightening reflection on the role and limits of creation in the transformation of the world.
Oslo Pilot
2018
multilingual edition (English / Arabic / Spanish / Korean / Norwegian / Swedish)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
Oslo Pilot is a two-year research-based project that has laid the groundwork for the Oslo Biennial's first edition in May 2019. It aims to explore art in public spaces and spheres. This publication gathers a collection of commissioned and previously published essays on the subject, and includes a selected transcription of the eponymous symposium.
Gary Kuehn - Practitioner\'s Delight
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Mousse - Mousse Publishing (books)
This catalogue pays homage to the American artist, whose radical language played a significant role in the birth of a new conception of sculpture. Spanning almost six decades of works, The richly-illustrated publication collects several essays and a full-length interview with Kuehn.
Louis Michel Eilshemius - Six Musical Moods (+ CD)
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
The first publication ever dedicated to the musical works of American painter Louis Michel Eilshemius: Halfway between romantic tradition and futurist audacity, these sound pieces which prefigure the use of sampling are interpreted with virtuosity by the young pianist Imke Lichtwark in the accompanying CD. The book also includes texts by Roberto Ohrt, Sven Daigger, Stefan Banz, and by Eilshemius himself.
Baudouin de Jaer - 4 Geomungo Sanjo - Vol. 2 (CD)
2018
Sub Rosa
sold out
New compositions for ancient Korean instrument: the Geomungo.
Niklaus Stauss - Foto
2018
German edition
Edition Patrick Frey
This publication presents an overview of the Zurich photographer's work as well as a very personal record of the Swiss and European arts scene of the past sixty years. Edited by Barbara Stauss, it's also a daughter's tribute to her father on his 80th birthday.
Céline Ahond -
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Captures - Digressions (interviews)
A conversation with French artist Céline Ahond whose work—from video and objects to performance and collaborative acts—questions the place of the individual, power relations, the territory, and the eventuality of freedom.
Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux - En affinité(s) - Marcel Duchamp / Jean Dupuy
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Loevenbruck
This illustrated essay creates a dialogue between the works of Fluxus artist Jean Dupuy and dadaist Marcel Duchamp around their shared interest with eroticism.
Elizabeth Lebon - The Book of Ghost
2018
English edition
Boabooks
Elizabeth Lebon writes poems, stories and performances, usually with the help of a typewriter. The choice of paper, as well as its format, is centrally important to the conceptualization and experimentation of this artist. This new book-object of concrete poetry plays with the transparency of its leaflets.
Rene Ricard - 1979-1980
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Editions Lutanie
sold out
Rene Ricard 1979-1980 is the first collection of American poet and artist Rene Ricard's poetry, first published by the Dia Art Foundation in 1979. This new edition presents, in a new format, both the original book design reproduced as a facsimile and the first French translation of Ricard's poems.
Jacopo Baboni Schilingi - La Nuova pratica
2018
French edition
Mix
A synthesis of the research conducted by the Italian composer since 1987 (new edition).
Koki Tanaka - Vulnerable Histories - An Archive
2018
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Fully documenting Koki Tanaka's latest video & photo project, this publication focuses on a pressing issue from the artist's native country—the mutual incomprehension and mistrust between Zainichi Koreans and ethnic Japanese—to plead for vigilance when it comes to racism and discrimination.
Bill Laswell - Bass Terror (vinyl LP)
2018
Sub Rosa
Limited edition of a recording confronting the virtuosity of two bassists: Bill Laswell's black trance track Bass Terror Tetragrammaton faces Nik Bullen's hypnotic composition Nocturnal Crawl. The two pieces answer each other strangely, like two sides of the same hidden anxiety.
Hans Hartung - Les années de guerre
2018
French edition
Fondation Hartung Bergman
This catalogue looks back at Hartung's artistic production and life during the Second World War.
Manuel Burgener - Summary
2018
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Summary by Swiss artist Manuel Burgener is a companion piece to his 2018 Manor Prize show at the Kunsthaus Pasquart in Biel, Switzerland. The idea behind this artist's book is to undertake a fundamental examination of the purpose of an exhibition catalogue. It asks whether an artwork, especially a sculpture, can be documented at all in the form of a readable depiction.
Athene Galiciadis - An Acrylic Glass Pyramid and Three Pendulums attached to a Triangle on a Table
2018
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
Monograph by artist Athene Galiciadis gathering unpublished artworks, specially created for this publication: inspired by Emma Kunz, Swiss artist and healer, whose work draws on geometric abstraction, Galiciadis produced a series of drawings—figures, spirals, patterns and vases—printed on graph paper, accompanied by photographic documentation.
Flash Art
2018
English edition
Flash Art
Flash Art - Flash Art International (magazine)
12-page special feature on Tony Conrad, with texts by Nora N. Khan and Charlemagne Palestine, on the occasion of his traveling retrospective; the Cultural Capital Cooperative; Tony Cokes's 1988 video Black Celebration; Raul Guerrero; the art of Tobias Kaspar; the minimalist tendency in Rasheed Araeen's work…
Artforum - September 2018
2018
English edition
Artforum
Artforum invited Catherine Damman, Dorothea Rockburne, La Monte Young, Carolee Schneemann and others to reflect on the Judson Dance Theater in honor of their forthcoming exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art. Editor-in-chief David Velasco on the art of Adrian Piper, Solveig Nelson on the holographs of Simone Forti, special projects by Awol Erizku and the Women's History Museum, Marilyn Minter shares her Top Ten, plus Fall Previews, looking ahead at 40 exhibitions worldwide and much more.
Ari Marcopoulos - Boarding Pass
2018
no text
Nieves
A series of off-the-cuff photographs demonstrating the poetic experience of air travel (artist's book).
Neural - Blockchain. The Trust Catalyst
2018
English edition
Neural
Issue coedited with Rachel O'Dwyer, media and communications Research Fellow at Trinity College Dublin; interviews with Olivier Sarrouy, Furtherfield (Ruth Catlow & Marc Garrett), Holly Herndon and Mat Dryhurst, Martín Nadal, Ami Clarke, Sarah Friend; A token called ART; How is the Blockchain Transforming the Art World?; reports on the Meta.Morf 2018 – the 5th Trondheim Biennale, and Transmediale 2018.
Ugo Rondinone - The Third Mind
2018
English edition
various
An homage to William Burroughs' and Brion Gysin's eponymous book, this artist book of more than 300 pages is a huge cut-up of the artworks showcased during the group exhibition conceived by Ugo Rondinone at the Palais de Tokyo in 2007.
Yaëlle Biro - Fabriquer le regard - Marchands, réseaux et objets d\'art africains à l\'aube du XXe siècle
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Based on a set of mostly unpublished archives, this book focuses on the role played by art dealers at the turn of the last century in the definition, promotion and circulation of African objects as artworks, in Europe and the United States.
Color Library - Research into Color Reproduction and Printing
2018
English edition
ECAL (Lausanne University of Art and Design)
sold out
A bible for graphic designers: first publication dedicated to “Color Library,” the database of color profiles for artists, designers and printers created at ECAL – University of Art and Design Lausanne. It features documentation on the various tools offered by the platform, a visual essay by Shirana Shahbazi, and texts by specialists.
Bitter Things - Narratives and Memories of Transnational Families
2018
English edition
Archive Books
This publication features academic and literary contributions, interviews, songs and photos which explores the impact of labor migration on the notion of motherhood from the perspectives of women migrant workers and children left-behind.
Romy Rüegger - Language is Skin - Scripts for Performances
2018
English edition
Archive Books
The scripts of Romy Rüegger's performances: a constellation of texts, largely written to be spoken. The scripts as they are printed do not document the performances primarily. They are indications of spacial and temporal layering, juxtapositions of aesthetic and poetic elements and bodies. Overlapping every day observations with archival material, confronting, jumping.
Aneducation - Documenta 14
2018
bilingual edition (English / Greek)
Archive Books
This publication reflects on the education and mediation programs at documenta 14. Organized as a lexicon, it gathers contributions by members of the programs, curators, artists, and educators.
The Struggle Is Not Over Yet - An Archive in Relation
2018
English edition
Archive Books
sold out
Borrowing its title from an unfinished documentary film on post-independence Guinea-Bissau, this reader stems from a conference which brought together artists, writers and researchers to address issues related to the people's struggle for independence from Portuguese colonialism and subsequent nation building. The contributors also engage in a reflection on the experimental use of archives in their research.
Alex Martinis Roe - To Become Two - Propositions for Feminist Collective Practice
2018
English edition
Archive Books
sold out
This publication offers a narrative of artist Alex Martinis Roe's research into a genealogy of feminist political practices in Europe and Australia from the seventies until today.
 Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson - Dark Matter Cinema Tarot (box set)
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les Laboratoires d'Aubervilliers
Limited edition box set including a divinatory tarot game designed by filmmakers Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson. The usual cards are replaced by a selection of 78 photograms from the history of cinema (numbered and signed copies).
Alessandro Cicoria - Cicoria - A Brief Account of Alessandro Cicoria\'s Life and Work
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
Cicoria is a visual essay conceived as a stream of images of the Alessandro Cicoria's past and current artworks, put together with apparently no visual coherence by Cicoria himself. A dialogue between the artist and curator Luca Lo Pinto is the map to understand the peculiar attitude behind his work and vision.
Toilet Paper
2018
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
Toilet Paper - Limited edition (+ puzzle)
2018
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
Limited edition, with an exclusive Toilet Paper puzzle.
ToiletMartin PaperParr - Calendar 2019
2018
no text
Toilet Paper
Damiani - Toilet Paper
20.00 3.00 €
The ToiletMartin PaperParr wall calendar 2019 features photographs conceived by Martin Parr, Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari, a back-to-back of images made in collaboration between the three artists. In a hotly anticipated follow-up to the first ToiletMartin PaperParr magazine, this calendar presents a selection of the best images conceived by the three artists.
Marie Canet - Juntos en la Sierra - Speech Act, Identité, Globalisation
2018
French edition
Shelter Press - Books
The production of alternative and solidarity-based knowledge through the linguistic, sexual, biological and geographical margins.
Baltic Triennial 13 - Give up the Ghost
2018
English edition
Cura. - Cura.books
The catalogue of the 13th edition of the Baltic Triennial which takes place in three venues: Contemporary Art Centre Vilnius, Tallinn Art Hall and Kim? Contemporary Art Center Riga. The publication includes a range of curatorial and critical voices to provide highly individual reflections on each of the artists, poets and musicians taking part in the project.
Le Toguna - Une œuvre collective dédiée à la transmission des savoirs imaginée par des artistes et des artisans d\'art
2018
French edition
Palais de Tokyo - Catalogues & artist's books
The Toguna is a collective work co-created by craftsmen and visual artists, a space of conviviality and sharing in the heart of the Palais de Tokyo. This publication follows the project's genesis through texts and images, and addresses the questions raised by the collaboration between craftsmen and artists.
Gianni Pettena - Non-Conscious Architecture
2018
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
This publication surveys the work of Italian critic, architect, and visual artist Gianni Pettena. Focusing on a rich ten-year period of production that began in the mid-sixties, it brings new attention to the artistic and intellectual practice of a figure known primarily as one of the main exponents of the Radical Architecture movement.
Vincent Meessen - L\'Autre Pays / The Other Country
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Monographic catalogue structured around installations by Vincent Meessen which examine the influence of the Situationist International in Sub-Saharan Africa, notably through figures such as Lungela Diangani eand Omar Blondin Diop. This richly illustrated book documents both the IS's relationship with the African continent and the artist's discursive, collaborative and para-curatorial activity of the past four years.
Josephine Pryde - Lapses in Thinking By the person i Am
2018
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
This catalogue presents documentation and texts from the British artist's first exhibition in the United States, which combines a series of color photographs of hands touching objects with a scale-model freight train and track.
 Badlands Unlimited - “ ” - Act 1
2018
English edition
Nero
Set behind the scenes of Badlands Unlimited, an artist-run, New York-based publishing company, this three- act play follows the characters as they launch an erotic novella, deal with internal conflicts, and imagine the promise and threat of technology between the pages and in our lives. Badlands Unlimited is a comedy of errors that morphs into a deeper meditation on art and mortality.
Victor Man - Childhood Drawings for Rózsa
2018
English edition
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
This artist's book reproduces a series of comics made by Victor Man when he was a child in communist Romania in the early 1980s. These drawings reveal the artist's fascination for the then rare Western magazines. The publication opens with a letter from Victor Man to little Rózsa, to whom the book is dedicated.
Stephen Barber - White Noise Ballrooms
2018
English edition
Diaphanes - Forward Fiction
In a corrupt town of North England shortly before Thatcher, a group of kids sets a “white noise” insurgency to try and save the city. A disturbing and captivating novel.
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