Art History

 
Essays and illustrated books.
 
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Georges Sebbag - Sur l\'objet surréaliste
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Dedalus
The enigma of the surrealist object, from its origins to its future, between the demystification of the artwork and the reinvention of reality.
Franz Roh - Postexpressionnisme – Réalisme magique - Problèmes de la peinture européenne la plus récente
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
First translation into French of tghe seminal book of German historian, photographer, and influential theorist and critic of avant-garde film and photography Franz Roh (1890-1965).
Alessandra Russo - L\'image intraduisible - Une histoire métisse des arts en Nouvelle-Espagne (1500-1600)
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A metis art history in New Spain: an analysis of the complex dynamics of crossbreeding between some singular artistic practices invented in New Spain in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries and the European Renaissance, in the political context of the Iberian expansion in the Americas.
Laurence Madeline - Picasso devant la télé
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Dedalus
Picasso in front of the TV: unexpected links between the media—especially television—and Picasso's work.
Transferts de Courbet
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A transdisciplinary set of contributions from art historians, scientists, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts, proposing new interpretations of Gustave Courbet's work from his paintings but also from his life, correspondence and archives relative to his family, for some hitherto unpublished.
Carlo Ginzburg - Peur révérence terreur - Quatre essais d\'iconographie politique
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The frontispiece of Hobbes' Leviathan, Marat at his last breath by David, "Your country needs you", Guernica by Picasso: four essays on political iconography.
Horst Bredekamp - Leibniz, Herrenhausen et Versailles - Le jardin à la française, un parcours de la modernité
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History –
A Leibnizian reinterpretation of the traditional opposition between French geometric and English landscape gardens.
Thomas Crow - Comprendre Andy Warhol / Comprendre l\'art contemporain
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History –
Thomas Crow aims to explain what makes Warhol a precursor and a virtual paragon of the contemporary artist.
Le tournant populaire des Cultural Studies - L\'histoire  de l\'art face à une nouvelle cartographie du goût (1964-2008)
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An anthology which brings to light the fertile relations between two disciplines: Cultural Studies and art history.
Cécile Pichon-Bonin - Peinture et politique en URSS - L\'itinéraire des membres de la Société des artistes de chevalet (OST) (1917-1941)
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A study of the production and reception of art in the USSR in the years 1920-1930 through the analysis of the work of the Society of Easel Painters (OST)'s members.
Emmanuel Pernoud - Paradis ordinaires - L\'artiste au jardin public
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Dedalus
Public garden in art between the mid-XIXth and early XXth centuries.
Plumes et Pinceaux – Discours de femmes sur l\'art en Europe (1750-1850) - Volume 1
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Women's artistic literature: a collective and transnational history of discourses of women on art in the 18th and 19th centuries (essays).
Plumes et Pinceaux – Discours de femmes sur l\'art en Europe (1750-1850) - Volume 2, Anthologie
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Women's artistic literature: a collective and transnational history of discourses of women on art in the 18th and 19th centuries (an anthology of essays, articles, travelogues, letters ...).
Eric Valentin - Claes Oldenburg et Coosje van Bruggen - La sculpture comme subversion de l\'architecture (1981-1997)
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
A philosophical, social and political study of a series of public sculptures by Claes Oldenburg et Coosje van Bruggen.
Artistes et partis - Esthétique et politique (1900-1945)
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Artists and parties: aesthetics and politics in the first half of the 20th century.
Antje Kramer - L\'aventure allemande du Nouveau Réalisme  - Réalités et fantasmes d\'une néo-avant-garde européenne (1957-1963)
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The Nouveau Réalisme between Paris and West Germany in the 1960's.
Matthieu Pinette - L\'œil de Ruskin - L\'exemple de la Bourgogne
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Essay.
John Ruskin - Les deux chemins
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An exploration of the relationship between artistic creation and industrial production, between the artist and his material.
Guido Guerzoni - Apollon et Vulcain - Les marchés artistiques en Italie (1400-1700)
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A pioneering and masterly study of the history of art markets in Italy (covering the fields of painting and scultpure, but also architecture, applied arts and performing arts), which demonstrates the possibility of an economic history of art linking social or political mechanisms and symbolic or patrimonial issues.
Judith Delfiner - Double-Barrelled Gun - Dada aux Etats-Unis (1945-1957)
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The resurgence of Dada in the U.S. (a genealogy of American post-war experimental art).
La rébellion du Deuxième Sexe - L\'histoire de l\'art au crible des théories féministes anglo-américaines (1970-2000)
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Forty years of Anglo-American feminist theory in art history (an anthology of reference texts by Laura Cottingham, Gen Doy, Lisa E. Farrington, Lisa Gail Collins, Judith Halberstam, Amelia Jones, Lucy R. Lippard, Linda Nochlin, Rozsika Parker, Griselda Pollock, Abigail Solomon-Godeau).
Maïté Vissault - Der Beuys Komplex - L\'identité allemande à travers la réception de l\'œuvre de Joseph Beuys (1945-1986)
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A study of political and ideological stakes of Beuys' oeuvre and its myth in Germany.
Sophie Leclercq - La rançon du colonialisme - Les surréalistes face aux mythes de la France coloniale (1919-1962)
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The story of the surrealists' radical anticolonialism: a political, aesthetic and poetic avant-garde.
Jeffrey F. Hamburger - Ouvertures - La double page dans les manuscrits enluminés du Moyen Âge
2010
French edition
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An history of illuminated manuscript from its origins, in the early Christian era, until the Renaissance, through the study of the book opening medium.
Svetlana Alpers - Velázquez est dans les détails
2010
French edition
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A new approach to Velázquez' work, from the analysis of the "small characters" who haunt his paintings.
Hans Belting - La double perspective - La science arabe et l\'art de la Renaissance
2010
French edition
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A conference on the invention of perspective, Arab science and the art of the Renaissance.
Brigitte Aubry - Richard Hamilton - Peintre des apparences contemporaines (1950-2007)
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
First publication in French on a major figure of British Pop Art, this essay analyses notably the questioning of the contemporary appearances in Richard Hamilton's works.
Thomas Schlesser - Paul Chenavard - Monuments de l\'échec (1807-1895)
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An essay on French artist Paul Chenavard (1807-1895), romantic cursed painter-prophet, illustrating the distance between the historic claims which build the modern myth of the artist and a relative efficiency.
Astrid Ruffa - Dalí et le dynamisme des formes - L\'élaboration de l\'activité « paranoïaque-critique » dans le contexte socioculturel des  années 1920-1930
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
An innovative analysis of Dalí's work which focuses on the cultural History during the 1920's, showing that the Surrealist revolution went hand in hand with radical changes in society.
Fabien Danesi - Le mythe brisé de l\'Internationale situationniste - L\'aventure d\'une avant-garde au cœur de la culture de masse (1945-2008)
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A new approach on the Situationist International and its paradoxical myths.
Richard Thomson - La République troublée - Culture  visuelle et débat social en France (1889-1900)
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
This brilliant work studies the notion of modernity as it's been defined at the end of the XIXth century, especially through the analyse of the links between the visual culture and several main social debates of the time such as sexuallity, urban crowd, riots and social control mechanisms, the Republic and the Church, nationalism and militarism.
Fabrice Flahutez - Nouveau monde et nouveau mythe - Mutations du surréalisme, de l\'exil américain à l\'« Écart absolu » (1941-1965)
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
How, in the course of their American exile, the surrealist artists (Duchamp, Tanguy, Masson, Ernst, Lam, Carrigton ...) were influenced by the literary and artistic context. Also a specific study on the perpetual renewal of Surrealism after war, linked with the importance of esoterism, the Amerindian civilizations, and Charles Fourier.
T. J. Clark - Une image du peuple - Gustave Courbet et la révolution de 1848
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Art as a social practice through Gustave Courbet's œuvre and political commitment.
Thomas Schlesser - Réceptions de Courbet - Fantasmes réalistes et paradoxes de la démocratie (1848-1871)
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An elucidation of the myths and the political fantasies that surrounded Gustave Courbet's work and life under the second Empire.
Neil McWilliam - Rêves de bonheur - L\'art social et la gauche française (1830-1850)
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A thoroughly investigation of the social role of art articulated by the French left during the July Monarchy and Second Republic.
Annie Claustres - Hans Hartung - Les aléas d\'une réception
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
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.
Rosalba Carriera - Journal pendant mon séjour à Paris en 1720-1721
1997
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
The journal of one of the first women artists of the history of painting.
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.
Aby Warburg - Miroirs de faille - À Rome avec Giordano Bruno et Édouard Manet, 1928-29
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
sold out
A collection of mostly unpublished essays, notes and letters which shed a new light on Warburg's last studies.
Maurice Pianzola - Peintres et vilains - Les artistes de la Renaissance et la grande guerre des paysans de 1525
1993
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
sold out
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
forthcoming
Drawing on a material, cultural and social history of art, Hugo Daniel proposes to understand the recognition and redefinition of drawing by the avant-garde in the 1950s and 1960s, between the questioning of artists, the evolution of critics and the projects of gallery owners and curators, to show how drawing is understood as a complex reality, in act.
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
forthcoming
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Al Dante
forthcoming
An essay on the birth of artistic manifestos in the 19th century, from Jacques Louis David to Gustave Courbet.
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