Art History

 
Essays and illustrated books.
 
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Giovanna Zapperi - Carla Lonzi : un art de la vie - Critique d\'art et féminisme en Italie (1968-1981)
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A critical examination of the relationship between aesthetics and politics through the iconic figure of Carla Lonzi (1931-1982), an innovative art critic and one of the founders of neo-feminism in Italy.
Estelle Zhong Mengual - L\'art en commun - Réinventer les formes du collectif en contexte démocratique
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An investigation into the artistic and political issues of participatory art since the 1990s.
Cécile Fromont - L\'Art de la conversion - Culture visuelle chrétienne dans le royaume du Kongo
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An an extensive analysis of the advent of Christian visual culture in the Kingdom of Kongo and its and development across four centuries.
Scarlett et Philippe Reliquet - Marcel Duchamp / Henri-Pierre Roché et les Neuf Moules Mâlic
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché, and the Neuf Moules Mâlic (Nine Malic Moulds): the genesis, the history and the destiny of an artwork as exceptional as the relation between an artist and his collector, of which it was the vector.
Rémi Labrusse - Face au chaos - Pensées de l\'ornement à l\'âge de l\'industrie
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The growth of thought on ornament, applied arts and architecture in the industrial age, between ornamental impulse and decorative project.
Yaëlle Biro - Fabriquer le regard - Marchands, réseaux et objets d\'art africains à l\'aube du XXe siècle
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Based on a set of mostly unpublished archives, this book focuses on the role played by art dealers at the turn of the last century in the definition, promotion and circulation of African objects as artworks, in Europe and the United States.
Daniel J. Sherman - Le primitivisme en France et les fins d\'empire (1945-1975)
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
“Primitivism” as a tool for analysis of post-war French society, between a modernization and decolonization movement, and possible forms of resistance.
Louis Michel Eilshemius - Six Musical Moods (+ CD)
2018
bilingual edition (English / German)
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
The first publication ever dedicated to the musical works of American painter Louis Michel Eilshemius: Halfway between romantic tradition and futurist audacity, these sound pieces which prefigure the use of sampling are interpreted with virtuosity by the young pianist Imke Lichtwark in the accompanying CD. The book also includes texts by Roberto Ohrt, Sven Daigger, Stefan Banz, and by Eilshemius himself.
Courbet, épistolier – 24 lettres inédites + La correspondance de Courbet – 20 ans après (2 livres)
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Fama
32.00 24.00 €
Special offer for the purchase of two volumes dedicated to correspondence of Gustave Courbet.
La correspondance de Courbet - 20 ans après
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Fama
A review of the epistolary correspondence of Gustave Courbet, by an ethnologist, a writer, a psychoanalyst, a hunter, a philosopher, a gastroenterologist, a psychiatrist, two curators, and six art historians.
Sophie Cras - L\'économie à l\'épreuve de l\'art - Art et capitalisme dans les années 1960
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The history of capitalism of the 1960s revisited in the light of the artworks that challenged it.
Jean Reubrez - Franz Radziwill, l\'imagier ambigu
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
An in-depth and circumstantial study of the work of Franz Radziwill (1895-1983), a major and controversial representative of “magical realism” in painting.
Sylvia Kahan - Winnaretta Singer-Polignac - Princesse, mécène et musicienne
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
The life and work of Winnaretta Singer, Princesse de Polignac, who used her fortune to support the arts, sciences and literature, and whose influence on the musical and literary worlds of the twentieth century is immeasurable.
Maria Stavrinaki - Contraindre à la liberté - Carl Einstein, les avant-gardes, l\'histoire
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A historiographical study of German art theorist, writer and activist Carl Einstein (1885-1940), that also explores several layers of the history of the early twentieth century, and proposes a critical reflection on some epistemological tropisms of today.
Samuel F. B. Morse - Conférences sur l\'Affinité de la Peinture avec le reste des Beaux-Arts - précédé par Jean-Philippe Antoine : Pour qui peindre et parler ? Un art de la conférence
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Conférences sur l'affinité de la peinture avec le reste des beaux-arts (“Conferences on the affinity of painting with other fine arts”) shed a new light on the career of the inventor of the famous Morse code, best known at his time as one of America's most promising painters of his generation.
Pauline Chevalier - Une histoire des espaces alternatifs à New York - De SoHo au South Bronx (1969-1985)
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Artistic practices in New York's alternative art spaces (1969-1985).
Judith Benhamou-Huet - Aleijadinho - Le Brésil est un sculpteur métisse
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
A biographical essay on the Baroque Brazilian architect and sculptor from the 18th century, Aleijadinho.
Annie Claustres - Objets emblèmes, objets du don - Enjeux postmodernes de la culture matérielle, de 1964 à nos jours
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Postmodernism and gift culture: everyday objects in contemporary art since the 1960s.
Déborah Laks - Des déchets pour mémoire - L\'utilisation de matériaux de récupération par les nouveaux réalistes (1955-1975)
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
This study addresses the scope of the use of found objects and garbage by the Nouveaux Réalistes in the 1960s.
Jonas Beyer - Entre dessin et estampe - Edgar Degas et la redécouverte du monotype au XIXe siècle
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Edgar Degas and the rediscovery of monotyping in the 19th century.
Pascale Martinez - Le temple et les marchands - Une histoire du musée Grévin (1881-1921)
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A story of the Grévin wax museum in Paris from 1881 to 1921.
Clara Pacquet - Signature et achevé en soi - Esthétique, psychologie et anthropologie dans l\'œuvre de Karl Philipp Moritz (1756-1793)
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An essay conceived as an intellectual portrait of the German writer, psychologist and art theorist Karl Philipp Moritz, whose purpose is to investigate the relationships between aesthetics, psychology and anthropology in the second half of the 18th century, and the importance of their simultaneous development for the debates about art after 1800.
Yves Sarfati - L\'Anti-Origine du monde - Comment Whistler a tué Courbet
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Rereading L'Origine du monde and the relationship between Gustave Courbet and James Whistler.
Yve-Alain Bois - La peinture comme modèle
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
The first French translation of Yve-Alain Bois' reference study on modernism
Petra ten-Doesschate Chu - Courbet, épistolier - 24 lettres inédites
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Fama
24 unpublished letters by Gustave Courbet.
Histoires sociales de l\'art - Une anthologie critique – Volume 1
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
currently out of stock
A sourcebook / critical anthology of social art history.
Histoires sociales de l\'art - Une anthologie critique – Volume 2
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A sourcebook / critical anthology of social art history.
Stefania Kenley - Du Fictif au réel - Dix essais sur le Pop art anglais et le Nouveau Brutalisme en architecture
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
From image to object: ten essays on English Pop Art and the New Brutalism in architecture.
Maurice Fréchuret - Effacer - Paradoxe d\'un geste artistique
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Dedalus
A typology of erasure as artistic gesture throughout the twentieth century.
Colin Lemoine - Giacometti devant Bourdelle - De la conversion au reniement
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Dedalus
An examination of the relationship between Antoine Bourdelle and Alberto Giacometti, thus also exploring the more general history of heritage and artistic education under modernity.
Claire Le Thomas - Racines populaires du cubisme - Pratiques ordinaires de création et art savant
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An historical and ethnographic investigation into the popular origin and environment of Cubist innovations.
Dario Gamboni - Images potentielles - Ambiguïté et indétermination en art moderne
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Ambiguity is inherent in images because visual perception is an interpretative act involving memory and imagination. Modern art has made this aspect of perception crucial to its relationship with the viewer. Images potentielles (Potential Images), the first systematic exploration of this topic, considers those works of art that rely to a great degree on imaginative response.
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.
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
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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.
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
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.
Elitza Dulguerova - Usages et utopies - L\'exposition dans l\'avant-garde russe prérévolutionnaire (1900-1916)
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Uses and Utopias – The Exhibition in the Pre-Revolutionary Russian Avant-Garde: an essay on the exhibition practice in Russia in the years 1910-1920, and in particular on the relationship between exhibition and public space in the projects of the historical avant-gardes.
Brigitte Gilardet - Réinventer le musée - François Mathey, un précurseur méconnu (1953-1985)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The history and posterity of François Mathey (1917-1993), a singular curator with the destiny of a romantic hero, a major figure in the promotion of contemporary art and a pioneer of artistic heritage.
Gilbert Titeux - Au temps du brame... - Les représentations de la chasse dans l\'œuvre de Gustave Courbet et dans la peinture allemande du XIXe siècle (1800-1900)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Gustave Courbet, hunting, and its contemporary representations in Germany.
Le Splendide XIXe siècle des Surréalistes
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A collective examination of the relationship between surrealism and the “splendid nineteenth century” (André Breton), and changes that have occurred in the field of political ideas, industrial development, psychiatry, philosophy or morality, between appropriation, misappropriation and rejection.
Nathan Réra - Rwanda, entre crise morale et malaise esthétique - Les médias, la photographie et le cinéma à l\'épreuve du génocide des Tutsi (1994-2014)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A historical and theoretical reflection, on the border between aesthetics and politics, on the decisive role of the images and the power and limits of representation, in the context of the last genocide of the twentieth century.
Christian Joschke - Les yeux de la nation - Photographie amateur et société dans l\'Allemagne de Guillaume II (1888-1914)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Social and political dimension of the emergence of a culture of the image carried by the amateur practice of photography in Germany at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Olga Medvedkova - Kandinsky ou la critique des critiques - Les écrits russes de Kandinsky (1901-1911)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
First translation into French of a series of fundamental texts by Kandinsky, published in Russia in the early twentieth century.
Philippe Vatin - Voir et montrer la guerre - Images et discours d\'artistes en France (1914-1918)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Function of visual arts in France during the First World War.
Geneviève Cloutier - L\'avant-garde russe face à la « terreur de l\'histoire » - Historiosophie et historiographie chez Velimir Khlebnikov et Pavel Filonov
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A reflection on the Russian avant-garde's artistic project in the early twentieth century, and the problem of their paradoxical relationship to history.
Dario Gamboni - Paul Gauguin au « centre mystérieux de la pensée »
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An essay that renews the study of Gauguin, highlighting the consistency that connects the entire production of the painter, based on his exploration of the relationship between perception, cognition and imagination, and that connects his interests in psychology, ethnology, history of religion and the natural sciences, not to mention the art of all times and all cultures.
Emmanuel Guigon - 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.
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