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Les presses du réel – editions
 
Emanuele Quinz - Le cercle invisible - Environnements, systèmes, dispositifs
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
The essays gathered in this volume explore interactivity in art, in a historical and interdisciplinary perspective.
Star Turns in Hollywood Musicals
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
This book focuses on the distinctiveness of the stars of Hollywood's Golden Age. These stars were cast for their specific dancing or singing skills, that could be recognized by audiences and sold by the studios' publicity machine. They acquired Hollywood stardom through a dialogue with highbrow culture and mass industry, that cinema tried to bring into harmony. This collection brings together the contributions of American, British and French researchers.
Stars et solistes du musical hollywoodien
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
This book focuses on the distinctiveness of the stars of Hollywood's Golden Age. These stars were cast for their specific dancing or singing skills, that could be recognized by audiences and sold by the studios' publicity machine. They acquired Hollywood stardom through a dialogue with highbrow culture and mass industry, that cinema tried to bring into harmony. This collection brings together the contributions of American, British and French researchers.
David Signer - Économie de la sorcellerie
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
An ethnological study of witchcraft in West Africa, based on field research conducted in five countries between 1994 and 2000.
Keisuke Kanda - Transphère - Le vêtement réinventé
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
10.00 5.00 €
Exhibition catalogue dedicated to the meeting of two of the most innovative fashion designers in Japan, Keisuke Kanda and Kunihiko Morinaga.
Rwanda, 1994-2014 - Histoire, mémoires et récits
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A transdisciplinary study on the Tutsi genocide, tackling various issues related to the writing and the transmission of the genocide's history, to its political and judicial dimensions, and to its media and artistic representations.
Jean-Philippe Antoine - Farces et Attrapes - Inventer les images
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A collection of essays focusing on the notions of invention and image in art.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets - Textes, entretiens, conférences, lettres (10 volumes box set)
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
236.00 168.00 €
Rémy Zaugg's complete writings in 10 volumes in a box set (new edition).
Haegue Yang - Lingering Nous
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph, documenting 21 installations conceived by Haegue Yang during the past decade.
Sonia Boyce - Thoughtful Disobedience
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Focusing on several major collaborative performance-videos by a figure of the British Black Art movement, this illustrated monograph includes a series of essays which interpret Boyce's interdisciplinary practice in the light of art history, and analyse her interest in black feminism, cultural studies, film studies, art history and critical theory.
Marc Décimo - Des fous et des hommes avant l\'art brut - suivi de Marcel Réja : L\'Art chez les fous – Le dessin, la prose, la poésie – 1907 (édition critique et augmentée)
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Les Hétéroclites
An introductory examination of asylum art before the theorization of art brut, followed by a new critical edition of French alienist Marcel Réja's study on the “madmen's art”.
Tanka G. Tremblay - Le texte à l\'épreuve de la folie et de la littérature
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Les Hétéroclites
A study on the relationship between literature and madness from the 18th century until now.
Pierre Montebello - Deleuze, esthétiques - La honte d\'être un homme
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Fama
The aesthetics of Gilles Deleuze.
Didier Debaise - L\'appât des possibles - Reprise de Whitehead
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
A pluralistic approach to nature (after Alfred North Whitehead).
Pierre Montebello - L\'autre métaphysique
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
An essay that aims to reconstruct another metaphysics, substituting the primacy of life, matter, and consciousness, to that of reason, on the basis of a philosophy of nature (referring to Ravaisson, Tarde, Nietzsche and Bergson) and a renewed cosmology.
Isabelle Stengers - Civiliser la modernité ? - Whitehead et les ruminations du sens commun
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
Common sense: a philosophical investigation (after Alfred North Whitehead).
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets –  Volume 3 - Du même à l\'incertain – 1972-1976/1978
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The third volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1972-1978): analysis and critical evaluation of forms of representation and of perception.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets –  Volume 4 - La Ruse de l\'innocence – Chronique d\'une sculpture perceptive 1973-1980
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The fourth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1973-1980): a collection of texts on Donald Judd and minimalist sculpture.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 1 - Constitution d\'un tableau – Journal – 1963-1968/1988
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The first volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1963-1968/1988): entitled The Making of a painting, this transcript of Zaugg's diary revolves around the notion of artistic discourse, and how it is directly influenced by paintings.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 10 - Relations – 1982-2004
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The tenth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1982-2004): the publication gathers texts, interviews, and correspondences on ethics, as well as a series of interviews on cross-cutting themes and projects. It features also a chronology, a list of exhibitions, and a bibliography.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 5 - De la peinture et des images – 1980-2005
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The fifth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1980-2005): a series of texts of utmost importance, related to the great pictorial and philosophical researches of the 1980s. Alongside these texts, the publication features a collection of interviews and letters to friends, colleagues, art dealers, curators, and art collectors.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 6 - Le Lieu de l\'œuvre – 1982-1993
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The sixth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1982-1993): featuring some of the most influential texts written by the Swiss artist on art museum.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 7 - Exposer – 1984-2004
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The seventh volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1984-2004): the publication brings together texts that formulate a practice and a criticism of exhibition that goes beyond genres and mediums, using concrete projects in given architectonic situations.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 8 - Conversations avec Jean-Christophe Ammann – Portrait – 1988-1989
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The heighth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1988-1989): a portrait of Jean-Christophe Ammann.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 9 - L\'Art pour la ville – 1986-2005
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The ninth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1986-2005): a reflection on the artist's projects for public spaces, illustrated with personal statements and sketches.
Rémy Zaugg - Écrits complets – Volume 2 - La Découverte de la sémiologie – 1970-1979
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The second volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings: five texts from the 1970s which highlight the influence of semiology (de Saussure, Barthes, Levi-Strauss…). on Zaugg's theoretical thought and practice.
14th Lyon Biennale - Floating Worlds
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
(last copies available!)
The book of the 14th edition of the international exhibition, curated by Emma Lavigne, with more than 50 artists.
Frédéric Alix - Penser l\'art et le monde après 1945 - Isidore Isou, essai d\'archéologie d\'une pensée
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Analyzing the theoretical and aesthetic thought of the founder of Lettrism in the intellectual context of the post-war and up to 1968.
Dieter Schnebel - Son et corps
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – ArTeC
A collection of theoretical texts by the German composer: a valuable testimony of his research on the musical link between sound and body.
La tentation littéraire de l\'art contemporain
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
The interplay of literature and contemporary art.
The New Existentialism
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
This reader brings together American and French scholars to discuss the recent paradigmatic shifts from anthropocentric theories toward new models of realism, objectivity, and even metaphysics, occurring in the realm of contemporary art and philosophy—with the school of thought called New Existentialism as a guiding topic.
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.
Entre élection et sélection - Le critique face à ses choix
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
18.00 9.00 €
Art criticism: historical approach and current practices
Alex Israel -
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Monograph dedicated to the Californian artist, whose work takes the city of Los Angeles as both iconographic source and main subject. This well documented and illustrated publication offers a chronological overview of Israel's heterogeneous projects—paintings, flashmobs, a brand of eyewear and its related advertising, a talk-show, interviews, webseries, sculptures, a movie—each introduced by a short text from the artist.
Mari Linnman - À Distances - Œuvrer dans les espaces publics
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Publication documenting an interactive installation by Samuel Bianchini commissioned by the Maison du geste et de l'image in Paris as part of the “New Patrons” program.
Centre d\'Art Contemporain Genève - 1974-2017
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
This work is the result of a historiographical research work carried out to revive the highlights of the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève since its creation in 1974 to the present day. Articulated in two sections, the book traces, through nearly 500 richly illustrated pages, the singular history and the moments of grace of the first Kunsthalle of French-speaking Switzerland.
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.
Morgan Fisher - Off-Screen Cinema
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
A collection of texts by researchers, artists and critics, exploring Morgan Fisher's filmography in relation to his other artistic practices.
Reclaiming Art / Reshaping Democracy - The New Patrons & Participatory Art
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Drawing on examples from France and the United States, this publication offers a multidisciplinary reflection on a new type of engagement of art in democracy, renewing relationships between creation, culture and society (adaptated from a French publication on the New Patrons's activities, updated with contributions from the Anglo-American intellectual scene).
Michel Gauthier - Le temps des intermèdes - Franz Ackermann, Sarah Morris, Didier Marcel, Franck Scurti, Hugues Reip, Xavier Veilhan, Mathieu Mercier, Simon Starling, Bojan Šarčević, Paul Sietsema
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A collection of essays exploring the current contemporary art scene through the analysis of the works of ten artistic figures of the present days.
Anne Giffon-Selle - Les astronautes du dedans - L\'assemblage californien – 1950-1970
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An history of assemblage art in California from 1950 to 1970.
Jacques Donguy - Pd-extended 1 - Poésie numérique en Pure Data
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
Reference monograph dedicated to the pioneer of digital poetry in France, including documentation illustrating recent projects as well as all theoretical texts on digital poetry written by Donguy from 1984 to 2015.
Jacques Donguy - Pd-extended 1 - Poésie numérique en Pure Data
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
Reference monograph dedicated to the pioneer of digital poetry in France, including documentation illustrating recent projects as well as all theoretical texts on digital poetry written by Donguy from 1984 to 2015.
Deborah Hay - Mon corps, ce bouddhiste
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
New expanded edition of a major text by the American choreographer-dancer.
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.
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