This event is supported by the European cultural Season, organized during the French Presidency of the European Union (July 1st – Dec. 31st, 2008)

© 2008 - Les Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg
Exhibition catalogue (only available in French):
Éditions des Musées de la Ville de Strasbourg
272 pages, 300 illustrations.
Collective work under the supervision of Isabelle Ewig and Emmanuel Guigon – Contributions by Isabelle Ewig, Georges Sebbag, Eric Robertson, Guitemie Maldonado, Walburga Krupp, Julia Drost, Emmanuel Guigon, Gabriele Mahn, Thierry Dufrêne
With artistic proposals by Patrick Beurard-Valdoye et Martin d’Orgeval
ISBN : 978-2-35125-065-5
Diffusion / Distribution : Le Seuil / Volumen
Price: 49 euros
Summary:
Preface. Roland Ries, Senator, Mayor of Strasbourg
Introduction by Joëlle Pijaudier-Cabot, Head Curator of Cultural Heritage, Director of the Museums of Strasbourg, and Estelle Pietrzyk, Curator of The Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Strasbourg
L’asconaute dans l’atelier de la nature, by Patrick Beurard-Valdoye, poet
Introduction, by Isabelle Ewig, Assistant Professor at the Sorbonne University (Paris IV)
I. Les matériaux de la rupture
Isabelle Ewig
II. Les yeux ouverts et fermés
Georges Sebbag, writer, philosopher and historian of Surrealism
III. Le langage-objet
Guitemie Maldonado, Senior Lecturer at the University of Paris I – Panthéon-Sorbonne
IV. Écrire
Eric Robertson, Professor at the University of London
V. Œuvrer collectivement
- Arp et Sophie Taeuber-Arp
Walburga Krupp, Curator for the Stiftung, Hans Arp und Sophie Taeuber-Arp e.V
- Arp et Max Ernst : Les Fatagaga
Julia Drost, Scientific Director of the German Center of Art History of Paris, in collaboration with Werner Spies at the Forschungsstelle Max Ernst
- Cadavres exquis
Emmanuel Guigon, Curator at the Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology Besançon
- Grasse
Gabriele Mahn, Art historian, Project leader at the Fondation Le Corbusier, Paris
VI. L’aspiration constructive
Isabelle Ewig
VII. La pulsion destructive
Emmanuel Guigon
VIII. Produire/Reproduire
Thierry Dufrêne, Professor at the University Paris X-Nanterre
Visual Essay by photographer Martin d’Orgeval