Biographies / autobiographies
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
The Confessions, written in six weeks in a prison cell, recounts the political life of a social thinker.
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Bibliothèque art action pensée
The actionnist's autobiography.
2000
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
This biography of Hermann Hesse by his friend Hugo Ball is one of the best exposés of his spiritual journeys, and also an approach of Ball's own fundamental themes
1997
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
The journal of one of the first women artists of the history of painting.
2022
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
Lily Van der Stokker's illustrated autobiography of her life in New York in the 1980s, when she opened a gallery in the East Village.
2021
French edition
Lenka lente
sold out
Sophisticated Giant presents the life and legacy of tenor saxophonist Dexter Gordon (1923–1990), one of the major innovators of modern jazz. In a context of biography, history, and memoir, Maxine Gordon has completed the book that her late husband began, weaving his "solo" turns with her voice and a chorus of voices from past and present.
2019
French edition
Lenka lente
sold out
A portrait of Derek Bailey (1930-2015), by another great figure of sound experimentation.
2019
French edition
Lenka lente
sold out
Jacques Ponzio re-questions the life and personality of legendary American jazz pianistThelonious Monk as much as his music.
2019
French edition
Lenka lente
sold out
The memories of saxophonist Steve Potts, collected by his friend Michel Edelin.
2015
French edition
Lenka lente
sold out
A text by André Salmon on French anarchist Léon Léhautier, accompanied by a mini-CD containing a piece by Nurse With Wound, Close to You.
2002
no text
M19 - I.S. (Inventaire Supplémentaire)
sold out
Artist's book: a series of collected photographs, derived from advertisements, referring to the father figure.
2024
English edition
Archive Books
forthcoming
The posthumous autobiography of Harun Farocki (1944-2014).