Inspired by the the Conservatoire des Arts et Métiers's historical collections, Sismo (Antoine Fenoglio and Frédéric Lecourt) have conceived Invention / Design, highlighting the connections between the ingenuity ofinventors, constructors and designers.
Born in the Catalan capital in 1955, Jaume Plensa works in his vast Barcelona studio, where he creates monumental sculptures that are displayed all around the world.
Exhibition catalogue International Festival of Photojournalism, Perpignan (from August 29 to September 13, 2015).
Designed between 1929 and 1932, the Villa Cavrois is the most emblematic achievement of architect Mallet-Stevens. For this reason it became classified as a monument historique in 1990 and was bought by the state in 2001.
While depictions of gardens are found throughout history, the impressionists were among the first to portray gardens directly from life, focusing on their color and form rather than using them as a background.
This catalogue, accompanying the first exhibition of Jean-Etienne Liotard (1702-1789) works to be shown in the United Kingdom, illuminates the career of this unique but now little-known artist, showcasing a variety of his extraordinary works, including portraits, drawings and enamels.
The Lyon Museum of Contemporary Art (mac LYON) invites to discover the state of contemporary creative art in Southeast Asia.
L’ambition du prix Marcel Duchamp, organisé en partenariat avec le Centre Pompidou, est de rassembler les artistes les plus novateurs de leur génération et de les aider à développer leur visibilité en France et dans le monde.
First exhibition at LE BAL (Paris, 2015) without artwork or artist, Images of conviction examines the way experts, researchers and historians produce images as evidence in instances of crimes or acts of violence suffered by individuals or groups.
In conjunction with the Musée d'Orsay's great exhibition devoted to Bonnard until 19 July, the Musée Bonnard focuses on Henri Manguin, a close friend of Pierre Bonnard whom he initiated to the South of France.
L'exposition et le catalogue Patrice Chéreau. Un musée imaginaire sont un hommage au comédien, scénariste, metteur en scène de théâtre et d'opéra, réalisateur, qui joua un rôle majeur sur la scène artistique et culturelle européenne durant plus de quarante ans.
The Rencontres d'Arles (formerly known as the Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie d'Arles) is a summer photography festival founded in 1970 by Arles photographer Lucien Clergue, author Michel Tournier and historian Jean-Maurice Rouquette.
Bilingual Edition. Dedicated to modern and contemporary Stained Glass since 1945, the exhibition presents the creative explosion of this art renewed after war.
Little known to the general public, Pierre Lesieur (1922-2011) is one of the major painters of the second School of Paris: first a pupil of André Lhote at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, he then preferred, after the war, the freer training of the Montmartre academy.
La prima metà del XVIII secolo, grazie alle innovazioni artistiche favorite dall’affermazione del nuovo Regno di Sardegna, è l’epoca dell’apogeo di Casa Savoia.
La Triennale de l'art imprimé contemporain de Locle en Suisse présente des travaux réalisés dans des styles et techniques différentes, passant de l'abstraction à la figuration, du minimalisme au réalisme, des techniques de la gravure classiques aux impressions hybrides.
‘The sports silhouette is the smart silhouette’. JEAN PATOU
Nouveau Réaliste en France, ami proche des artistes du pop art à New York et Los Angeles, réalisateur de films psychédéliques dans les communautés hippies au Maroc et ailleurs... Martial Raysse est l’un des artistes majeurs de la scène contemporaine.
La maison Hermès a invité Julio Le Parc, figure majeure de l'art cinétique et optique, à s'approprier l'emblématique carré de soie.
Entre nature et culture, art et sciences naturelles, l’exposition “Clouds” est un voyage au long cours au plus près des nuages sur les terres de ce lieu mythique.
Famous for his superb, beautifully constructed suits and coats, Cristóbal Balenciaga was also an undisputed master in the creation of stunning lace dresses.
The Fondation Cartier pour l’art contemporain is honored to present a major solo exhibition of American artist Bruce Nauman, the first in over 15 years in France.
Première monographie consacrée à Craig Hanna, cet ouvrage rassemble dessins, croquis, recherches aux techniques mixtes et textes de l'artiste prélevés de ses "sketch books" sur une période de plus de 10 ans.
Longtemps frappé d'ostracisme dans son pays, Edik Steinberg, né en 1937, est l'un des peintres les plus importants de la génération poststalinienne non-conformiste.
From 1905 to 1939, Paris attracted artists from all over the globe as the capital of the art world. This period of artistic proliferation became known as the School of Paris, and includes a great diversity of artistic expression.
Un groupe de chercheurs internationaux confronte à l’échelle de l’Europe les modes de vie des principaux protagonistes masculins et féminins de la société de cour au début des Temps modernes, en comparant leurs logis, puisqu’à ce niveau de l’échelle sociale, mari et femme ont en général chacun le leur.
The book displays the different artworks exhibited along with short explanatory essays. A clear and precise album suitable for a large audience.
3 Grands Créateurs exposent leurs oeuvres : Cristobal Balanciaga, Givenchy et Philippe Venet.
Edgar Degas est né le 19 juillet 1834 à Paris et mort le 27 septembre 1917 dans la même ville.
Although the Impressionists continued to capture on canvas the constantly changing natural world, their revolutionary contribution was not limited to painting landscapes.
This catalogue raisonné reveals the rigorous and tenacious journey of the artist Georges Folmer 1895-1977. From his figurative and multidisciplinary training in the Nancy Fine Arts School to his purest Geometric abstraction art.
Ce livre-objet résolument contemporain se présente sous la forme de dix cahiers comportant chacun trois papiers, jouant sur les matières, les textures et les transparences pour faire sentir au lecteur à la fois visuellement et tactilement la notion de mutation.
More than 170 works of art, their labels and the wall texts: everything that you are going to see or that you have seen during your visit. It is a ticket offering unlimited access that transforms a temporary exhibition into your permanent collection.
The present edition reproduces the full text in English and French, the illustrations by Pat Andrea underlining the extraordinary vivacity of Lewis Caroll's two masterpieces.
Notes on the hidden meanings of flowers in art.
Canaletto's time in Mid-Georgian Britain has received much scholarly attention in the past. But this book places his work in a broader political and social context, linking his paintings and drawings with a growing sense of assurance and mission which the British nation was beginning to display - perhaps best represented by the works of William Hogarth.
La maison rouge présente la première exposition monographique consacrée à Jérôme Zonder dans une institution parisienne (19 février - 10 mai 2015).
"I don't believe that you can create art. But I believe what will lead you to art is to trust in yourself." Jeff Koons
The seventeenth century is the golden age of French still-life painting. A complete panorama of this subtle, often virtuoso genre, which was sober and meditative at its beginnings andostentatious and brilliant at its height, is presented here.
Cet ouvrage présente les Collections Princières du Liechtenstein, commencées dès le XVIe siècle avec le Prince Hartmann Liechtenstein, elles réunissent cinq siècles de chefs-d'oeuvre de l'art européen et comptent parmi les collections privées les plus importantes du monde.
This publication is the first of four volumes in the catalogue raisonné of Francis Picabia (1879–1953), one of the most significant and challenging artists of the twentieth century.
Bilingual Portfolio of the exhibition Jeff Koons at the Centre Pompidou, Paris (26 november 2014 - 27 april 2015). All the works from the exhibition are displayed!
Beginning with a chapter dedicated to the importance of draftsmanship in the education of sculptors, showing works by Finiguerra, Cellini Bandinelli and Giambologna, the book is split up into chapters dealing with the various challenges sculptors faced while drawing objects in the round, reliefs, and architectural structures.
The sole purpose of this book, published to tie in with a magnificent exhibition at the Château de Versailles, is to lay bare the incredible inventiveness of the century of Enlightenment, that century in which, for the first time, furniture became an art.