Marie Darrieussecq

"First published in France in 2016, Being Here Is So Much traces the short, obscure, and prolific life of the German expressionist painter Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876-1907). In a brief career, cut short by her death from an embolism at the age of thirty-one, shortly after she gave birth to a child, Modersohn-Becker trained in Germany, traveled often to Paris, developed close friendships with the sculptor Clara Westhoff and the poet Rainer Maria Rilke, and became one of her generation's preeminent artists, helping introduce modernity to the twentieth century alongside such other painters as Picasso and Matisse. Marie Darrieussecq's triumphant and illuminating biography at once revives Modersohn-Becker's reputation as a significant figure in modernism and sheds light on the extreme difficulty women have faced in attaining recognition and establishing artistic careers"--Provided by publisher.

"In Undercurrents, a mother and daughter mysteriously disappear to a deserted seaside town in France, as the novel poetically evokes the varied moods and rich palette of the ocean. From seemingly simple events, Darrieussecq deftly plunges the reader into a sensual, surrealistic literary experience grounded in - yet worlds away from - day-to-day reality."--BOOK JACKET.

The premise is simple, but the story quickly becomes surreal: the narrator's husband leaves to buy a loaf of bread and never returns. Searching for him day and night, forced to explain his absence to friends and family, the unnamed narrator withdraws into a mysterious universe ruled more by image than language. In the wake of her husband's disappearance, the world becomes a strangely immaterial place, shapeless, devoid of sentiment. Once-familiar territories become terrifying: the supermarket, the beach, the bedroom. Even the wedding album has changed: her husband's face now appears altered in every shot. An innovative, daring book on the physicality of absence, My Phantom Husband explores familiar reactions to sudden loss and the disruption of daily routine.

... The story of a mother and her three grow-up daughters. Jeanne, the eldest, has moved to Argentina with her husband; Anne lives alone in Paris, but is in the throes of an unhappy affair with a married man; and Nore, the youngest, is in her first year at university but still living at home. Although not close, all four women are drawn together by an incident from their past - a secret that the story only gradually reveals."--Jacket flap.

Photographs of fifty years of life at French beaches, with an essay by Marie Darrieussecq.

Caroline est agent secret. Dans le cadre d'une mission non définie, elle se rend enfin sur l' "Île" pour rencontrer le "boss." Un enchaînement inéluctable la ramènera sur les marches du Musée de la fondation Moreau. On pense à l'Île du docteur Moreau. Des Métamorphoses, une certaine "Caroline." Agent secret? Fantôme du passé? On ne sait. Et tout cela finit devant la mer. Inexorablement.

"Un simple récit, phrase après phrase sur un cahier, pour raconter la mort de Tom, quatre ans et demi, à Sydney, en Australie. Tom a un grand frère et une petite soeur, il a un père et une mère. C'est elle qui raconte, dix ans plus tard, Française en exil, cherchant ses mots dans les Montagnes Bleues."--Publisher's description.

"Après avoir dirigé la galerie Éric Franck, à Genève, et la galerie Jennifer Flay, à Paris, Caroline Bourgeois a travaillé, de 1998 à 2001, à la réalisation de projets artistiques indépendants. Entre 2004 et 2008, directrice artistique du Plateau à Paris, elle a été commissaire de nombreuses expositions, parmi lesquelles "L'Argent - Joan Jonas, Cao fei, Melik Ohanian, Adel Abdessemed, Loris Gréaud". Depuis 2007, elle assure le commissariat des expositions de la Collection Pinault: "Passage du temps" (2007) au Tripostal de Lille; "Un certain état du monde?" (2009) au Garage Center for Contemporary Culture de Moscou; "Qui a peur des artistes?" (2009) à Dinard puis àVenise; "Éloge du doute" à la Punta della Dogana, et "Le Monde vous appartient" (2011) au Palazzo Grassi; "Madame Fisscher" et "Paroles des images" (2012) au Palazzo Grassi. En 2013, en tant que co-commissaire avec Michael Govan, elle présente "Prima Materia à Punta della Dogana" et assure également le commissariat de l'exposition "À triple tour" à la Conciergerie, Paris."--Page 4 of cover.

A collection of stories about and from South Africa, Botswana, Zimbabwe, Swaziland and Mozambique since 1960, is a vibrant collection, chosen to reflect lived experience of these places in these times - surely the most exciting and most productive period in the history of Southern Africa and its literature. This collection was first published in 19 and has become a favourite of teachers and students. It has now been updated, and also contains teaching suggestions and new points for discussion.

A woman working in a beauty parlor chronicles her descent into gluttony and lust. In one word, she is becoming a pig and she even grows a corkscrew tail. The woman's transformation reflects that of her country, raked by revolution, epidemics and famine. Part fantasy, part satire on France. A debut in fiction.

An in-depth look at the work and career of this fascinating artist, who is having a profound impact on contemporary painting. Nigel Cooke is known for his complex paintings, which thematically explore the meeting point between creative labour, consciousness, art history, consumer culture, and nature. Primarily centred on meticulously painted, large-scale urban landscapes, which he calls 'hybrid theatrical spaces', Cooke's work employs disparate styles, often integrating trompe l'oeil miniature rocks and trees with backdrops of graffiti-marked buildings, to create scenes conveying obscure and macabre narratives. This survey of Cooke's career to date explores the artist's style, approach, and impact on contemporary art and includes his very latest works, completed shortly before publication.