Les presses du réel – editions
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
First monograph.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
currently out of stock
The chronicles of the digital poetry movement, by one of its pioneers and main actors in France.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
135 poems, calligrams and other visual experiments, spread over 54 years of poetic activity, by one of the major actors of the poetic avant-garde in France.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
Fourteen comical, absurd, ironic, moving short novels, by Jean-François Bory, unfaithful successor to Dada and active author of the avant-garde movements of the 1960s/1970s.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
A selection of essays that Jean-François Bory devoted to his favorite and somewhat marginal authors, ranging from Nadar to Raoul Hausmann via d'Annunzio.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
From “The Left Bank Publisher” to “Miss Fukushima”, 102 portraits of a person or a profession in 10 expressions in the form of an inventory.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
From “The Left Bank Publisher” to “Miss Fukushima”, 102 portraits of a person or a profession in 10 expressions in the form of an inventory, with an original and unique artwork.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Reissue of the main publications by Angéline Neveu (1946-2011), a political figure of the poetic underground scene in France.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
This publication brings together two new texts by Stéphane Nowak Papantoniou, with an audio link granting access to a recorded version of the publication, accompanied by a composition by sound artist motif_r.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
This publication brings together two new texts by Stéphane Nowak Papantoniou.
The limited edition includes an original and unique artwork, as well as a CD with a sound declension of the poem, recorded by the author and accompanied by a composition of the sound artist motif_r.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Collection of transcripts of performance poetry by Christian Prigent. This edition comes with a CD including the recordings of these performances, featuring the author and actress Vanda Benes.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A seminal text of Contemporary Mexican poetry, inspired by the Tarahumara and peyote rituals. Included in appendix is the first manifesto of infra-realism, written by Anaya in 1975.
2019
texts in English and French
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A magazine for visual and experimental poetry and works inspired by Dada and Fluxus, directed by Jean-François Bory.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The historical-memorial narrative in comics, from Art Spiegelman to Marjane Satrapi, as a new form of representation of History, between individual and collective memory.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – ArTeC
Two interviews in which Carmelo Bene exposes his working method and his ideas on television, and opens a reflection on the links between artistic avant-gardism and mass diffusion.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Figures
Philosopher Ludger Schwarte presents a critical essay against the notion of contemporaneity in art and pleads for a renewed temporality: an art of futurity.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A collective exploration of 45 years of protean poetic activities, between printed text, exposed text and proffered text, with some thirty contributions by academics and poets, with numerous illustrations.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
French art historian Anne Lafont delivers an unpublished study on the close and paradoxical relations of art and race in the Enlightenment. A new voice in current works on issues of race, art, images and colonization.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
The first French translation of Neuhaus's writings.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Fama
It is a hundred and fifty years since Hector Berlioz is caught between storm and passion, violence and adolescence. This book wants to get out of these cliches, even to sink into others.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Délashiné!
A detailed investigation into the Japanese noise scene (Japanoizu), with a sharp critical eye and an in-depth knowledge of local sources, by a specialist of alternative cultures and experimental musics in Japan.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
A biography of the founder of Pataphysics, by Alastair Brotchie.
2019
bilingual edition (French / Portuguese)
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
Special issue dedicated to Brazilian poet Augusto de Campos.
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.
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.
2019
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
Catalogue documenting the project for the restructuring of the Besançon Museum of Fine Arts and Archeology by Architectures Adelfo Scaranello.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Medias/Theories
A collection of texts by Soviet avant-garde filmmaker and theoretician Dziga Vertov, including a critical apparatus and visual documents.
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
First publication dedicated to Jamaican-born American photographer Percy Rainford, a longtime collaborator of both Marcel Duchamp and architect Frederick Kiesler. Drawing from extensive archival research and interviews, author Michael R. Taylor showcases the work of this remarkable avant-garde photographer, while also shedding new light on his collaborations with Duchamp and Kiesler.
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – ArTeC
20 proposals for the intersection of artistic practice and research in academic milieu.
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
This monograph spans forty years of drawings and works on paper, offering an insight into a lesser-known part of Moulène's artistic practice. A jubilant documentation rich with autobiographical elements.
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Second volume of the catalogue dedicated to the collection of digital art at the Espace Multimedia Gantner, presenting 23 new acquisitions as well as a glossary and two unpublished texts on the place of digital art in contemporary art and the issues related to conservation and restoration.
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.
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.
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – ArTeC
Two studies by the pionneer of the popular music studies.
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
A history of photography through its accidents.
2018
trilingual edition (English / French / Chinese)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
This trilingual catalogue documents nine essential works from the Taiwanese artist through nine interviews with curators and institution officials, illustrated with archives and exhibition views.
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Rémy Zaugg's early work.
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
All poems written by Apollinaire during World War I, gathered for the first time.
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A poetic story in prose at the crossroads of genres, difficult to locate as it only describes the non-place in which it is built.
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Claude Favre delivers a poetry made of readings and borrowings, a present poetry, attentive to the movements of men and to those who constrain them.
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Figures
A philosophy of decolonization that intends to show how, in knowledge and the arts, the past can be passed.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
A series of wood carvings by Peter Schuyff, reproduced on a scale of 1:10, alongside a short sorry by Arthur Miller staging the relationship between man and beaver.