Les presses du réel – editions
 
Michael Lucken - Nakai Masakazu - Naissance de la théorie critique au Japon
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Délashiné!
An introduction to the work of a pioneer in media, cinema and sport criticism in Japan, whose thinking deeply marked the counter-culture movements of the 60's.
Phillip King -
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Major monograph on Phillip King, whose work has been essential in the revival of British sculpture in the early 1960s through experiments with abstraction, construction and color. This book gathers various texts and an interview, exhibition views, and a complete illustrated chronology over 300 pages.
Cahiers Maurice Blanchot
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Cahiers Maurice Blanchot
A theoretical, literary and critical dossier dedicated to the relationship between Maurice Blanchot and Georges Bataille; Jean-Luc Nancy's La Communauté désavouée, around the notion of community in Blanchot's oeuvre.
Cahiers Maurice Blanchot
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Cahiers Maurice Blanchot
A theoretical, literary and critical dossier dedicated to the relationship between Maurice Blanchot and Georges Bataille; Jean-Luc Nancy's La Communauté désavouée, around the notion of community in Blanchot's oeuvre.
Latifa Laâbissi - Grimaces du réel
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
First monograph.
Tacet - The sounds of Utopia
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
The sound arts and experimental music annual review's 4th issue, on the theme of utopias.
Cahiers Charles Fourier
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
This issue brings together four articles (by Michel Antony, Loïc Foulon, Gilles Gourbin, Jean-Claude Sosnowski), two projects (by Michel Cordillot and Patrick Samzun), and a great number of reading notes which demonstrate the significant vitality of the research on Fourier, Fourierism, and utopia.
Pierre Montebello - Métaphysiques cosmomorphes - La fin du monde humain
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
The end of the “human world” A discussion-panorama of trends in current thinking (Badiou, Meillassoux, speculative realism, Latour, Stengers, Descola, Viveiros de Castro...) in Pierre Montebello's own metaphysical perspective.
Ragnar Kjartansson -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
New monograph.
Mélanie Matranga -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
First monograph.
Andréi Nakov - Kandinsky, secret - L\'énigme du premier tableau abstrait
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Fama
An investigation into the enigma of the first abstract painting by Kandinsky.
Claude Patriat - Résidence en résistance - Voyage dans les coulisses d\'Antipodes
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
Gestes spéculatifs
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
A set of contributions that explore the conditions of possibility of speculative (and truly engaged) “gestures”, in the context of a widespread crisis of the modes of thinking of modernity (contributions by Didier Debaise, Donna J. Haraway, Bruno Latour, Pierre Montebello, Isabelle Stengers...).
Anne Brégeaut -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First monograph devoted to French artist Anne Brégeaut's intimate, phantasmic and colorful universe, a world deceptively happy, sentimental and almost childlike, but contaminated with incongruous or absurd connections that make it successively disturbing, ambiguous or fragile.
Anne Brégeaut - Luxury edition
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
Luxury edition of Anne Brégeaut's monograph, accompanied by a screenprinting limited to 50 copies.
13th Lyon Biennale - Modern Life
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
The digital catalogue of the 13th edition of the international exhibition, curated by American curator Ralph Rugoff, under the title “La vie moderne”: a radical and poetic take on daily life and the modern world.
13th Lyon Biennale - Modern Life (paper catalogue + ebook)
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
The book of the 13th edition of the international exhibition, curated by American curator Ralph Rugoff, under the title “La vie moderne”: a catalogue both physical and digital (the paper guide allows access to the complete digital catalogue from a download code).
Pierre Denan - Pourquoi Tom Cruise - Récit prompteur – Livre 2
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field – Fictions
A running-headline tale featuring, in order of appearance: Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise, David Miscavige, Michael Jackson, Annie Leibovitz, Jenna Young, Victoria Beckham, Sheila Weller, Mark Seal, Eleanor Schiralli, Bernard Madoff, Rich Cohen, Jessica Simpson, Lance Armstrong, Ed Ruscha, Sam Ricci, Chris Reinhardt, Suri Cruise, Nicolas Sarkozy, Mickey Rourke, Pierre Hardy, Josh Applebaum, Andre Nemec, J.J. Abrams, Jill Stempel, John Anderton...
Pierre Denan - Pourquoi Tom Cruise - Récit prompteur – Livre 1 + 2 (special offer)
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field – Fictions
24.00 19.00 €
Special offer for the purchase of the 2 volumes of Pierre Denan's Pourquoi Tom Cruise – Récit prompteur.
David Grubbs - Les disques gâchent le paysage - John Cage, les années 1960 et l\'enregistrement sonore
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
The French translation of David Grubbs's long-awaited study of the role that sound recordings play in representing experimental music of the 1960s.
Valérie Da Costa - Pino Pascali - Retour à la Méditerranée
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A reference book, the first in French dedicated to the work of Pino Pascali, a central figure of Arte Povera and art of the 1960s.
In octavo - Des formats de l\'art
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
A collective work bringing together thirty contributors, based on an experimental research project conducted with artists and theoreticians (philosophers, sociologists, historians, scientists...) around the question of the formats of art, a forgotten yet decisive issue that crosses contemporary artistic practices in depth.
Sigmar Polke - Sigmar Polke et les esprits supérieurs
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
An anthology of texts on the work of Sigmar Polke written between 1973 and 2000.
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
New monograph.
Jesper Just -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
New monograph.
Patrick Neu -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
(last copies available!)
New monograph.
Composing Differences - Imagining New Models for Knowledge Production and Exchange
2015
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A montage of theoretical and speculative texts, conversations, fictions, and documents exploring different tactics of production and intellectual exchange that operate in the interstices between artistic, educational, and political contexts, and imagine novel institutional forms.
Le sujet digital
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
An interdisciplinary reflection on the new figures of subjectivity in the digital age.
Hans Haacke - Esthétique des systèmes
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
First French translation of the two famous essays in which Jack Burnham draws the profile of an “aesthetic systems.”
N. Katherine Hayles - Parole, écriture, code
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
How the impact of code on everyday life has become comparable to that of speech and writing.
Friedrich Kittler - Mode protégé
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
A reflection on the domination of the software industry on our use of computers, which calls for a stimulating reinterpretation of materialism.
Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza - Fragments liminaires
2015
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
First monograph.
Didier Debaise - L\'appât des possibles - Reprise de Whitehead
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
A pluralistic approach to nature (after Alfred North Whitehead).
Pierre Montebello - L\'autre métaphysique
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
An essay that aims to reconstruct another metaphysics, substituting the primacy of life, matter, and consciousness, to that of reason, on the basis of a philosophy of nature (referring to Ravaisson, Tarde, Nietzsche and Bergson) and a renewed cosmology.
Danse - A Catalogue
2015
English edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
Danse – A Catalogue comprises dialogues and essays by dancers, choreographers, writers, and curators reflecting on the mutual influences of French and American choreographic cultures. Together these writings examine the ways in which dance matters in an increasingly globalized contemporary field.
À perte de vue - Les nouveaux paradigmes du visuel
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
A unique multidisciplinary approach to Visual Studies.
Christopher Wood - Renaissance anachroniste
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Two leading contemporary art historians offer a subtle and profound reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance.
Jacqueline Lichtenstein - L\'argument de l\'ignorant - Le tournant esthétique au XVIIIe siècle
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History –
An examination of the new approach to the artistic phenomenon that emphases the role of sensitivity and centered around the figure of the spectator in the eighteenth century.
Penser l\'image - Volume 2 – Anthropologies du visuel
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
The return of the anthropological question has completely redesigned the issues of representation. A state of play.
Recréer / scripter - Mémoires et transmissions des œuvres performatives et chorégraphiques contemporaines
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
Between documention and recreation: memories and transmissions of performance art and contemporary dance.
Dario Gamboni - La destruction de l\'art - Iconoclasme et vandalisme depuis la Révolution française
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The relationship between Modern art and its destruction.
Anaël Lejeune - Perspective et géométral - Problématisation de la sculpture aux États-Unis (1966-1973)
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
Raoul Hausmann et les avant-gardes
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
This publication aims to explore how the multiple production of Raoul Hausmann, a central figure of Dada, has helped to shape the art of modernity.
Paysage industriel
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A documentation on the singular projects by four contemporary artists—Michel Aubry, Élisabeth Ballet, Susanne Bürner, and Lani Maestro—developed as part of the Foundation of France “Nouveaux Commanditaires” (new patrons) action to question the industrial history of four regional nature park in France (Lorraine, Monts d'Ardèche, Pilat, and Vercors).
Jérôme Bazin - Réalisme et égalité - Une histoire sociale des arts en  République Démocratique Allemande (1949-1990)
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A social history of socialist realism imagery in the former East Germany.
Malcolm Le Grice - Le temps des images
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Monographs
Reference monograph of one of the most influential modernist filmmaker in British cinema, with twenty texts by Malcolm Le Grice and commissioned essays by Yann Beauvais and Philippe Langlois on his cinema and its relationship with art and music.
Julien Blaine - La poésie à outrance - À propos de la poésie élémentaire de Julien Blaine
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
A critical book: a reassessment of Julien Blaine's poetry and the aesthetic problems related to it.
Jean-Max Colard - Une littérature d\'après - « Cinéma » de Tanguy Viel
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field
A study of the novel “Cinéma” by Tanguy Viel, that also questions the relationship between literature and cinema.
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