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Discover the album of the photographic exhibition "Corps à corps" at the Centre Pompidou, a condensed version of the exhibition in bilingual version ! • See exhibition details
As part of the last exhibition before the Centre Pompidou closes in June 2025, Editions du Centre Pompidou is offering a new version of its book on masterpieces, introduced by a text on the history of the collection by Christian Briend.
Through the study and commentary of a large, previously unpublished corpus of the artist's drawings, notebooks, handwritten notes and poems, this catalog will shed new light on a little-studied, even obscured, period of Dora Maar's work, from 1936 to 1943, during which the artist shared her life with Picasso.
Robert Doisneau's enchanting black-and-white photographs immortalize the magic of Paris, with its combination of dreamy nostalgia and teeming modernity.
This book, co-published with macLyon, explores the question of displacement, from the first steps of humanity, to the contemporary context of a fluid world where the movement of people, things and ideas is amplified to excess by globalisation.
Published to accompany the exhibition "Agnès Thurnauer. Aliénor l'Ouragane", at the Musée d'Art Moderne de Fontevraud (2023), curated by Dominique Gagneux (Museum Director) and Gatien du Bois (Project Manager).
In 1883, halfway through his long life and settling in at Giverny, Claude Monet, still in search of inspiration, made his first trip to Monte Carlo and the Riviera, which he discovered with his friend Pierre-Auguste Renoir. He returned alone in 1884 and again in 1888.
The International Museum of Perfumery, Grasse, France presents an exhibition devoted to the strategies adopted by perfume companies in creating their brands and the changing visual codes used in advertising campaigns for more than a century. • Book preview • See exhibition details
From the 1970s onwards, American artist Robert Guinan (1934-2016) painted the Chicago of the marginalized and excluded. With an attentive, realistic and empathetic eye. His work is part of a period that is also that of civil rights and protest movements in the United States, where the boundaries between communities were becoming more porous. • See...
The exhibition "Thu-Van Tran. Nous vivons dans l'éclat" at the MAMAC highlights the main aspects of her work: an artistic universe imbued with her dual Franco-Vietnamese culture; the shared history of the two countries and the visible or invisible heritage still inscribed in language and bodies in Vietnam; the lasting transformation of landscapes and the...
A study of theatrical portraiture through the work of William Hogarth (1697-1764) and David Garrick (1717-1779). Both artists closely associated themselves with Shakespeare, embodying a relationship between plays, painting and performance that had been understood since Antiquity and which shaped the rules for history painting drawn up by the Académie...
Accompanying a major exhibition of new and recent works by Peter Doig at The Courtauld, London, this publication will present an exciting new chapter in the career of one of the most celebrated and important painters working today and will include paintings and works on paper created since the artist's move from Trinidad to London in 2021.
Best known for her contemplative films, often shot in a single sequence, Tacita Dean's work is a veritable praise of slowness. Moving away from films with commentary in the 1990s, she has since favoured discreet soundtracks that further intensify the minimalism of her narratives.
Heroic Symbols’ included black and white photographs taken at various European locations in which the artist gave the forbidden Nazi salute.
A dive into the troubled waters of a dark year that transforms this seafront into a real war front. A coastline, Canet-Collioure-Banyuls, like a concentration of space. A date, 1940, like a precipitate of history. Book preview
French artist of Tatar origin, Pascal Haudressy (1968 - 2021) has developed a singular body of work combining sculpture, painting and new technologies.
Conceived as a visual art exploration, with commentary, of Tolkien’s œuvre as well as of the origin of medieval legends, which today are predominant in comic books, video games, and on the small and big screens, the exhibition catalogue presents more than 250 drawings and paintings by the artist John Howe.
From the 1880s onwards, aesthetics underwent a profound change. A radical renaissance of the imaginary, enriched by an extraordinary dissemination of scientific knowledge, enhanced creative potential in all spheres of art. At the end of the century in France, this movement converged towards Art Nouveau in a creative spirit that enlivened the work of the...
The collection of Japanese prints put together by Claude Monet brings together more than two hundred engravings. These prints are kept in the painter's house in Giverny and presented in particular in the famous dining room with pale yellow paneling and bright yellow moldings which were so popular with the regulars of the house.
AWAKENING is dedicated to Nature and the Body, as a way of celebrating spring by questioning what both the notion of "awakening" and the concept of nature mean at a time of climate emergency, pandemic and now war. • Book preview
The artist Denis Monfleur is one of the few sculptors of his generation to uphold the ancestral tradition of direct carving and to tackle the hardest stones. His work belongs to a secular tradition of sculpture, from Romanesque art to Louise Bourgeois, via Michelangelo, Brancusi, Dubuffet and Chillida.
The sculptor Ron Mueck works slowly, making time itself an important element of his creative process. His human figures are meticulously detailed, with surprising changes of scale that place them as far from academic realism as they are from pop art or hyperrealism. • See exhibition details
Immortelle is a combat exhibition. Bringing together more than 350 works created by 122 artists born since 1970, it was conceived with the aim of revealing the uninterrupted vitality of young French figurative painting.
Artiste à succès de la première moitié du XIXe siècle, Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres (1780-1867) est un peintre inclassable et visionnaire par bien des aspects. Derrière son apparent classicisme transparaissent une originalité et une recherche de la perfection qui continuent à fasciner. • See exhibition details • Book preview
Jardin is the reference monograph on the work of Stéphane Calais. The book presents a selection of works made from 1996 to 2021.
Robert Mathieu (born 1921) studied metal-turning in bronze at the École Boulle school of applied arts and crafts, but would later go on to invent some of the most exceptional lighting designs of his times.
The book traces the evolution of the artistic practice of Angel Vergara, from his first ‘painted films’ produced in Super 8 in the 1980s, to his video devices that recorded his painting in progress, along with a more classical gallery of large canvases.
Vision Paintings, the first book entirely dedicated to Thomas Houseago’s paintings, features a wide selection of works —more than 130— created between 2020 and 2022, and is ponctuated by close-ups, citations and pages from the artist’s own journals, and by texts by Nick Cave, Flea and L.d.C.
A story of Art paints a portrait of the art of the last sixty years through the tastes and passions of Yvon Lambert who, since the opening of his first Parisian gallery in 1965, has never ceased to support the most audacious creation of his time.
Hugely ambitious, Titian : Sources and Documents includes all known documents about Titian and his work dating from his lifetime, and all known references to him in contemporary publications. The relevant section of each text is transcribed in full, preceded by a short summary in English, with extensive annotation and, where necessary, a commentary.
This concertina fold, a cardboard book with pages you can unfold like an accordion, collects photographs of the vitrines of the exhibition The Origin of Things shown in Passage of the Bourse de Commerce (until 31 december 2023).
This biography traces Anne Eisner's life and art between cultures: from her early years and artistic career in New York, through living at the edge of the Ituri Forest in the ex-Belgian Congo (now Democratic Republic of the Congo), to her return to New York.
This book explores the multiple facets of identity thanks to a series of authors who have observed their inner reality and the world using innovative languages. In today’s scenario, their gazes are more necessary than ever: here, “restless art” is the child of the artists’ expressive urgency that, at the core of their feverish activity, generates unique...
Grazia Varisco is one of the protagonists of European art. For the spaces of the Biscozzi | Rimbaud Foundation in Lecce, she has developed an itinerary of seventeen works dating from 1957–1959 to 2009 that are related to one another. A pathway, in short, in which the single pieces form a unified body, yet each retains its own individuality.
An exploration of the relationship between art and money through a selection of nearly 200 works from antiquity to the contemporary era. • See exhibition details • Book preview
The cycle of exhibitions presented by the Pinault Collection entitled Avant l’orage (Before the Storm), invites visitors on a journey from shadow to light, through installations and works, some iconic, others new, by some fifteen artists, throughout the spaces of the Bourse de Commerce.
The catalogue focuses on Picasso's work during the period 1969-1972, this key moment when the artist's inventiveness was particularly prolific, despite the incomprehension of some critics. See exhibition details
Hermann Nitsch (1938-2022), one of the most paradigmatic artists of the legendary Wiener Aktionismus, author of performances and installations, paintings and drawings, through his artistic expressions creates a genuine 'total theatre' that unites myth and aesthetics, religious metaphors and everyday life, classicism and archaism, and even a barbaric...
Serigne Ibrahima Dieye is part of the young generation of painters from the National School of Arts in Dakar. The characters in his paintings and installations are visual allegories of evils that tear contemporary societies apart.
A provocative and dynamic movement, Surrealism triggered an aesthetic and ethical renewal in the 20th century. Men were not the only ones to have brought this movement and its transgressions to life: many women were major players in it, but nevertheless underestimated by museums and undervalued by the art market. • See exhibition details• Book preview
First monograph of the artist Jean-François Fourtou, whose artistic language - from a dreamlike world emerging from the memories of his childhood - combines sculpture, architecture, photography and offers experiences to live as much as achievements to see.
Pierre Dunoyer was born in Marseilles in 1949. After studying architecture and psychopathology, he began to paint in 1976. His paintings were presented during 1978 in the three exhibitions of the JaNaPa group.
An architect, town planner, and designer, Charlotte Perriand (1903–1999) put her visionary genius at the service of mountain construction, from Saint-Nicolas-de-Véroce to Méribel, from the Belleville valley to Les Arcs in Savoie, as well as in China.
Prune Nourry has created a monumental sculpture for Château La Coste, representing a pregnant woman emerging from the landscape. An immersive installation and eco-responsible architecture, Mater Earth takes us back to human origins and creation myths.
Painting and filmmaking are the two sides of Jean-Michel Meurice's work. For the first time, these two forms of creation are brought together in a reference book.