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Jacques Sivan - Mar/cel Duchamp en 2 temps 1 mouvement
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Two studies on the link between language, art and reality in Marcel Duchamp's work.
Jean-Philippe Antoine - Marcel Broodthaers - Moule, Muse, Méduse
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field
Poetry and space for Marcel Broodthaers—a critical essay.
Annie Claustres - Hans Hartung - Les aléas d\'une réception
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
Fondation Hartung Bergman
Hans Hartung always gave a lot of attention to the filing of his works. This essay on the abstract painter is linked with a specific web site where one will find a rich iconography and documentation.
Daniel Birnbaum - Chronology
2005
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A philosophical essay on time, phenomenology and beyond, Daniel Birnbaum's Chronology was presented in frieze as a “compelling and sophisticated take on the common theme of Deleuzian immanence."
Nicolas Bourriaud - Postproduction - Culture as screenplay: How art reprograms the world
2005
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
The art of postproduction as a response to the proliferating chaos of global culture in the information age.
Michel Onfray - Oxymoriques - Les photographies de Bettina Rheims
2005
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
Philosopher and essayist Michel Onfray analyzes the nature of Bettina Rheims' photos, and develops the thesis of a work which, more than scandalous or sulphurous, introduces new models of representation of our society.
Marc Décimo - Le Duchamp facile
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
A new approach of Duchamp's keywords.
Olivier Dubouclez - Valère Novarina - La physique du drame
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field
An essay on Novarina's dramatic theatrical and literary work.
Denys Zacharopoulos - Capriccio - Adrian Schiess, l\'œuvre plate
2004
bilingual edition (English / French)
Immédiats / Analogues - Monographs
26.00 13.00 €
This first monograph (both a study and an essay) highlights the diversity and span of Adrian Schiess' work.
Nicolas Bourriaud - Postproduction - La culture comme scénario : comment l\'art reprogramme le monde contemporain
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
The art of postproduction as a response to the proliferating chaos of global culture in the information age (also available in English edition).
Thomas Lawson - Mining for Gold - Selected Writings (1976-2002)
2004
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
JRP|Editions - Positions (co-edition Les presses du réel)
An anthology of the artist's important essays, published between 1978 and today in the pages of Artforum, Flash Art and Lawson's own magazine Real Life.
Michel Gauthier - Olivier Cadiot - Le facteur vitesse
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field
Essay.
Bob Nickas - Collection Diary
2004
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
The art scene for collectors, and art and economics.
Marc Décimo - Marcel Duchamp mis à nu - A propos du processus créatif
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
Marcel Duchamp “laid bare” by Marc Décimo who talks about the creative process in this essay on the father of conceptual art.
Elisabeth Wetterwald - Rue sauvage
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
8.00 5.00 €
A collection of essays on ten contemporary artists (Peinado, Achour, Sala, Cattelan, Huyghe, Scanlan, Trouvé, Bublex).
Maurice Pianzola - Tu ne joues jamais le jeu - Suivi de Il faudrait que je parle de tant d\'autres rencontres – Conversations
2003
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
14.00 6.00 €
Jean-Charles Massera - Sex, Art, and the Dow Jones
2003
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
25.00 15.00 €
How can the events in which we are supposed to participate be translated into experience? How can we represent ourselves in a History that is being written in terms of the economy and the stock market? Along these questions, French author Jean-Charles Massera discusses the works of various artists (Vito Acconci, Stan Douglas, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Pierre Huyghe, et al.) and film-makers (Jean-Luc Godard, Wong Kar-wai, Nanni Moretti, Pier Paolo Pasolini, et al.).
Michel Gauthier - L\'Anarchème
2002
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
24.00 10.00 €
A study on Elisabeth Ballet, Jessica Stockholder, Claude Rutault, Peter Downsbrough, Cécile Bart.
Nicolas Thély - Vu à la webcam - (essai sur la web-intimité)
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Those who spread their image over Internet, what do they want? And what do those who view them get out of it? Numerous are those who jumped on the bandwagon of the webcam, pushing its spectrum of video-surveillance and condemning it to voyeurism or exhibitionism. Far beyond the simplistic idea of opposing exhibitionist / voyeur, actor / spectator, active / passive, the webcam serves as a meeting point of exchanges, complicity, views of or relationships with others, what Nicolas Thély terms as "web-intimacy".
Öyvind Fahlström - Essais choisis
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
A selection of essays by the artist, poet, writer, happening-maker, cinematographer, art and literary critic.
Didier Semin - Le Peintre et son modèle déposé
2001
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
An essay on conceptual art.
Marc Décimo - Jean-Pierre Brisset - Prince des penseurs, inventeur, grammairien et prophète
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A complete panorama of the astonishing personality of the unknown writer, grammarian, cosmologist and inventor.
Bob Nickas - Live Free or Die
2000
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Bob Nickas' writings.
Bob Nickas - Vivre libre ou mourir
2000
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Bob Nickas' writings (English edition).
Catherine Quéloz - Christian Robert-Tissot
1999
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMCO - Monographs
29.00 20.00 €
Exhaustive first presentation of Christian Robert-Tissot's work.
Maurice Pianzola - Partir à Pernambouc - Récit
1999
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
14.00 6.00 €
What canvases reveal to us is often beyond what we believe we understand. Like true false semblances, they subtley encourage us to turn away from them in order to engage ourselves in their hidden intrigues (where they often meet our own).
Lionel Marchetti - La musique concrète de Michel Chion
1998
French edition
various
(last copies available!)
20.00 10.00 €
A journey into the universe of one of the most original composers in the field of the concrete music.
Nicolas Bourriaud - Esthétique relationnelle
1998
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Also available in English edition.
Simone Debout - L\'utopie de Charles Fourier
1998
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
An essay to demonstrate Fourier's fundamental role in the emancipation of women and the transformation of society, "for the sake of imagination, of permanent interaction between sensitivity and reason."
Maurice Pianzola - Passé le col de Monscera
1996
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
9.00 5.00 €
A narrative.
François Dagognet - In Favour of Today\'s Art - From the Object of Art to the Art of the Object
1992
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
A compelling read on the status of the object in contemporary art and design.
François Dagognet - Pour l\'art d\'aujourd\'hui - De l\'objet de l\'art à l\'art de l\'objet
1992
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
A compelling read on the status of the object in contemporary art and design.
Achim Szepanski - In the Delirium of Simulation - Baudrillard Revisited
2024
English edition
Mille Plateaux
sold out
A serious diagnosis of the current form of capital, a profound excavation and presentation of the most important and helpful ideas that Jean Baudrillard published: from the unravelling of western philosophy, to a redefining of marxist theories of economics and capital, to a shift in critical theory that complies with quantum theory. 
Ramon Amaro - The Black Technical Object - On Machine Learning and the Aspiration of Black Being
2023
English edition
Sternberg Press - On the Antipolitical
sold out
A contemplation on the abstruse nature of machine learning, mathematics, and the deep incursion of racial hierarchy.
John Corbett - Improvisation libre - Manuel d\'écoute
2022
French edition
Lenka lente
sold out
A how-to manual for free improvisation music.
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung - The Delusions of Care
2021
English edition
Archive Books
sold out
The misappropriated notion of care and the paths for its rehabilitation.
Jacques Rancière - Marx in the Woods
2019
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
sold out
The first English translation of Jacques Rancière's early philosophical text "The Dialectic of Reason and Private Interest", originally published in 1963. Written under the influence of Louis Althusser, the text is discussing the forms of law in Karl Marx's writings on the "debates on the law on thefts of wood".
Maria Stavrinaki - Saisis par la préhistoire - Enquête sur l\'art et le temps des modernes
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
sold out
Can the modern uses of prehistory shed new light on the modern experience of time and, thus, the art of this period?
Quinn Latimer - Like a Woman - Essays, Readings, Poems
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
Collection of recent essays and poems in which the American poet and critic examines issues of genealogy and influence, the poverty and privilege of place, architecture's relationship to language, and feminist economies of writing, reading, and art making.
Martin Herbert - Tell Them I Said No
2017
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
This collection of essays by Martin Herbert considers various artists who have withdrawn from the art world or adopted an antagonistic position toward its mechanisms (essays on Lutz Bacher, Stanley Brouwn, Christopher D'Arcangelo, Trisha Donnelly, David Hammons, Agnes Martin, Cady Noland, Laurie Parsons, Charlotte Posenenske, and Albert York).
Jean-Claude Moineau - Queeriser l\'art
2016
French edition
Art Book Magazine
sold out
Queer theory as a critical tool against the very idea of identity in art.
L\'expérience de l\'expérimentation
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
sold out
An overview of the experimental sound practices today (contributions by Jean-Yves Bosseur, Pierre-Albert Castanet, Bertrand Denzler, Bastien Gallet, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Fabien Hein, Michel Henritzi, Tom Johnson, Eric La Casa, Lionel Marchetti, and Matthieu Saladin).
Alain Schnapp - Ruines - Essai de perspective comparée
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History –
sold out
A comparative history of the ruins from the ancient East to the modern West.
Chantal Pontbriand - The Contemporary, the Common - Art in a Globalizing World
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
A collection of essays in which Chantal Pontbriand examines themes of being-in-common in today's world and their relation to the development of art practices.
Julie Perrin - Figures de l\'attention - Cinq essais sur la spatialité en danse
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
sold out
An analysis of the experience of spatiality in dance, through five works by Xavier Le Roy, Yvonne Rainer, Olga Mesa, Boris Charmatz, and Merce Cunningham.
Christof Migone - Sonic Somatic - Performances of the Unsound Body
2012
English edition
Errant Bodies - Audio Issues
sold out
A text by Christof Migone on a history of sound art and its relation to performance.
Arnauld Pierre - Futur antérieur - Art contemporain et rétrocipation
2012
French edition
M19 - 20/27 series
sold out
Five essays.
 Momus - Solution 214-238 - The Book of Japans
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - Solution
sold out
The rehabilitation of the idea of the “far.”
Jean-Claude Lutanie - Protestation devant les libertaires du présent et du futur sur les capitulations de 1980
2011
French edition
Editions Lutanie
sold out
Protestation devant les libertaires du présent et du futur sur les capitulations de 1980 ("A protest aimed at the libertarians of the present and the future, about the surrenders of 1980") was published in 1981. It was only signed with the word Incontrôlé ("Uncontrolled"), didn't bear the name of any publisher, and was printed on stolen paper.
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