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François Kollar (1904–1979) worked in the railway industry of his native Hungary and was later employed as a lathe hand at the Renault factories in Billancourt, France. He became a professional photographer in Paris at the age of 24.
Le catalogue raisonné de l’œuvre gravé présente toute la production graphique de Wifredo Lam, de sa première estampe réalisée pour « Voyages à travers la peinture » de Pierre Loeb en 1945 jusqu’à sa dernière collaboration avec le poète Jean-Dominique Rey en 1982.
Gérard Fromanger (Pontchartrain, 1939) est un peintre français. Paroles d'artiste est une collection de format poche pour découvrir ou redécouvrir les grands maître de l'art ancien, moderne et contemporain.
The first major tribute ever paid to this major figure in interior decoration, it takes us chronologically through eighty years of creation, highlighting the skills and knowledge defining the Pierre Frey spirit and vision.
Cet album de photographies sur le Marais à Paris est unique, il combine le regard d’une historienne de l’art et sa connaissance du quartier, à l’œil artistique, esthétique et arbitraire du photographe.
The artist Annette Messager presents works where the body becomes the exclusive object of her experiments, presenting a fantastic world populated by hybrid creatures made up of both paintings and cut-out photographs.
Catalogue of the modern and contemporary art collections. In the mid 1960s, the Musée Unterlinden resolutely turned its attention to contemporary and embarked on an acquisition policy that focused on the major developments in modern art.
French painter Claude Monet (1840–1926) is one of the most popular artists of all time. His paintings of water lilies, haystacks, cathedrals, and much more are all celebrated and beloved. For the first time, this book explores a new aspect of Monet’s work: his fascination, during the 1870s, with bridges.
Set to accompany the exhibition at the Grand Palais, Volez, Voguez, Voyagez — Louis Vuitton surveys the rich heritage and trajectory of the world’s most recognizable luxury brand.
The Louvre Museum asked architects Rudy Ricciotti and Mario Bellini to design an audacious building in the Cour Visconti, to house the Department of Islamic Arts. The result is like "an outstretched hand" between the arts of the West and those of Islam.
Imaginer une exposition rétrospective de Gilles Barbier relève presque de la gageure : son oeuvre est en effet un défi permanent adressé au temps, à l’espace et aux relations qu’ils sont censés entretenir. Ce catalogue propose aux lecteurs une traversée dans le labyrinthe créatif qui caractérise l’oeuvre de Gilles Barbier.
The Mercury Salon in the King's Grand Apartment in the Chateau of Versailles was Louis XIV's ceremonial chamber.
Alberto Cont, né en 1956 au Tyrol italien, a étudié en Italie avant de venir à l’École des beaux-arts de Paris dans l’atelier d’Olivier Debré. Il est installé depuis à Paris.
Panorama de la production d'objets miniatures africains, en ivoire, en os, en bois, en métal ou en pierre, ils proviennent de différentes ethnies et ont une vocation utilitaire, artistique ou religieuse. Des gros plans présentent les détails des talismans, poids, bijoux, coffrets et autres pièces de moins de quinze centimètres.
All too often ignored, Matisse's engraved work is nevertheless of vital importance. From 1900 until the last years of his life, Matisse experimented with different engraving techniques, multiplying his research around a central theme: the figure.
The meaning of the word « Louvre » remains mysterious, with no clear explanation of its origins. Today it is closely associated with one of the most prestigious museums in the world, and enjoys a fame that somehow overshadows the tumultuous path that led to the contemporary institution as we know it.
Born from the Modern Movement, the cities of La Grande Motte (1974), Brasília (1960) and Chandigarh (1953) are each characterised by their distinctive architecture.
Jacques Doucet (1853 - 1929) and Yves Saint Laurent (1936 - 2008) were both creators of beauty and couturiers, each working during one half of the twentieth century. They were also brilliant collectors who composed extraordinary art collections for themselves.
This work traces the artists and photographers who—whether fascinated or repelled by prostitution in all its forms—captured the realities and fantasies of this ambiguous world.
The pictures by Shadi Ghadirian, at the forefront of contemporary photography in Iran, strike the viewer’s attention as they reveal contrasting realities: a patch of colour to enlighten an otherwise dim world, a touch of humour to knock over taboos.
Exhibition catalogue devoted to the American painter Walton Ford, whose animal subjects are as highly sought-after by collectors, as they are the talk of the contemporary art scene. Exhibition details
Roselyne Titaud is a French photographer, born in Aubenas in 1977. She graduated from the École des Beaux-Arts de Saint-Étienne in 2001 and has lived in Berlin since 2010.
An unprecedented re-reading of the work of the high priest of pop art through his connections with the New York underground scene: music, dance, cinema…
Exhibition catalogue Jazz Age, the roaring twenties, presented at Modemuseum Hasselt, Belgium (11 september 2015 - 13 march 2016)
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Élisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun at the Grand Palais, from 23 September 2015 to 11 January 2016.
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.