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Les presses du réel – editions
 
Daito Manabe - Transphère - Fertile Landscapes
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
10.00 5.00 €
The catalogue of Daito Manabe & Motoi Ishibashi's first exhibition in France. On this occasion they created an installation using LED lights and smartphones—a new work combining the real and the virtual, the seen and the unseen. This volume also gives an overall comprehension of Manabe and Ishibashi's practice: together they merge art and technology in projects that are at the cutting edge of innovation.
Change numérique - Édition intégrale de la revue Change (1968-1983)
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Motion Method Memory
The complete PDF edition of the avant-garde journal Change, created by Jean Pierre Faye in 1968: 42 facsimile issues in a 8482-page file with free-text search engine.
Soko Phay - Les vertiges du miroir dans l\'art contemporain
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
The aesthetic and functions of the mirror in contemporary art.
Mário Pedrosa - Discours aux Tupiniquins
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
The great Brazilian critic Mário Pedrosa (1900-1981)'s farewell to art criticism, written to his countrymen in the manner of Montesquieu's Persian Letters.
Lee Ungno - Deux peintres coréens modernistes à Paris
2016
bilingual edition (Korean / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Tracing the Parisian exile of Korean modernists painters Lee Ungno and Han Mook, this catalogue highlights the work and life of two artists who built an innovative work at the crossroads of Western and Eastern traditions.
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.
Jane Feuer - Mythologies du film musical
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – ArTeC
First French translation of a pioneering study on Hollywood musicals.
Keith Moxey - Le temps visuel - L\'image dans l\'histoire
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
The concept of time in art history.
Jean-Michel Alberola -
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
New monograph.
 Florian & Michaël Quistrebert -
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
First monograph.
Aline Wiame - Scènes de la défiguration - Quatre propositions entre théâtre et philosophie
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
The theatrical writings of post-anthropocentric “disfigurement” and the reinvention of expressive means of contemporary philosophy.
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.
Atelier national de recherche typographique ANRT - Archives 1985-2006
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
Through 650 images drawn from the French National Institute for typographic research unpublished archives, this catalogue tells the untold story of a period of profound technological change, exploring the little-known world of typography design through a diverse selection of projects drawing on both an age-old craft tradition and the most radical innovation.
Parachute - The Anthology (vol. 4) – Painting, Sculpture, Installation, and Architecture
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
Fourth and final volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on painting, sculpture, installation, and architecture.
Walead Beshty - 33 Texts: 93,614 Words: 581,035 Characters - Selected Writings (2003-2015)
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
A collection of monographic texts and essays by the artist.
Genet et les arts
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Bibliothèque art action pensée
A collective publication on Jean Genet and the arts.
Politique de la mélancolie - À propos de W. G. Sebald
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
This volume brings together essays on the German writer W. G. Sebald (1944-2001), iconographic documents and manuscripts of the author, and a script written by Sebald for a film ever made about the life of the philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein.
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.
Cinema in the Expanded Field
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
(last copies available!)
This volume, published in parallel to Exhibiting the Moving Image, extends the inquiry into the history, theory and practice of exhibiting artists' cinema, video, installation as well as advertising films, by focusing on the domains of performance and of the “expanded arts.”
Mehdi Belhaj Kacem - Textes inédits
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
A collection of previously unpublished texts by the French philosopher.
Michael Lucken - Nakai Masakazu - Naissance de la théorie critique au Japon
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Délashiné!
An introduction to the work of a pioneer in media, cinema and sport criticism in Japan, whose thinking deeply marked the counter-culture movements of the 60's.
Phillip King -
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Major monograph on Phillip King, whose work has been essential in the revival of British sculpture in the early 1960s through experiments with abstraction, construction and color. This book gathers various texts and an interview, exhibition views, and a complete illustrated chronology over 300 pages.
Cahiers Maurice Blanchot
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Cahiers Maurice Blanchot
A theoretical, literary and critical dossier dedicated to the relationship between Maurice Blanchot and Georges Bataille; Jean-Luc Nancy's La Communauté désavouée, around the notion of community in Blanchot's oeuvre.
Cahiers Maurice Blanchot
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Cahiers Maurice Blanchot
A theoretical, literary and critical dossier dedicated to the relationship between Maurice Blanchot and Georges Bataille; Jean-Luc Nancy's La Communauté désavouée, around the notion of community in Blanchot's oeuvre.
Latifa Laâbissi - Grimaces du réel
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
First monograph.
Tacet - The sounds of Utopia
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
The sound arts and experimental music annual review's 4th issue, on the theme of utopias.
Cahiers Charles Fourier
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
This issue brings together four articles (by Michel Antony, Loïc Foulon, Gilles Gourbin, Jean-Claude Sosnowski), two projects (by Michel Cordillot and Patrick Samzun), and a great number of reading notes which demonstrate the significant vitality of the research on Fourier, Fourierism, and utopia.
Pierre Montebello - Métaphysiques cosmomorphes - La fin du monde humain
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
The end of the “human world” A discussion-panorama of trends in current thinking (Badiou, Meillassoux, speculative realism, Latour, Stengers, Descola, Viveiros de Castro...) in Pierre Montebello's own metaphysical perspective.
Ragnar Kjartansson -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
New monograph.
Mélanie Matranga -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
First monograph.
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.
Claude Patriat - Résidence en résistance - Voyage dans les coulisses d\'Antipodes
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
Gestes spéculatifs
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
A set of contributions that explore the conditions of possibility of speculative (and truly engaged) “gestures”, in the context of a widespread crisis of the modes of thinking of modernity (contributions by Didier Debaise, Donna J. Haraway, Bruno Latour, Pierre Montebello, Isabelle Stengers...).
Anne Brégeaut -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First monograph devoted to French artist Anne Brégeaut's intimate, phantasmic and colorful universe, a world deceptively happy, sentimental and almost childlike, but contaminated with incongruous or absurd connections that make it successively disturbing, ambiguous or fragile.
Anne Brégeaut - Luxury edition
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
Luxury edition of Anne Brégeaut's monograph, accompanied by a screenprinting limited to 50 copies.
13th Lyon Biennale - Modern Life
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
The digital catalogue of the 13th edition of the international exhibition, curated by American curator Ralph Rugoff, under the title “La vie moderne”: a radical and poetic take on daily life and the modern world.
13th Lyon Biennale - Modern Life (paper catalogue + ebook)
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
The book of the 13th edition of the international exhibition, curated by American curator Ralph Rugoff, under the title “La vie moderne”: a catalogue both physical and digital (the paper guide allows access to the complete digital catalogue from a download code).
Pierre Denan - Pourquoi Tom Cruise - Récit prompteur – Livre 2
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field – Fictions
A running-headline tale featuring, in order of appearance: Katie Holmes, Tom Cruise, David Miscavige, Michael Jackson, Annie Leibovitz, Jenna Young, Victoria Beckham, Sheila Weller, Mark Seal, Eleanor Schiralli, Bernard Madoff, Rich Cohen, Jessica Simpson, Lance Armstrong, Ed Ruscha, Sam Ricci, Chris Reinhardt, Suri Cruise, Nicolas Sarkozy, Mickey Rourke, Pierre Hardy, Josh Applebaum, Andre Nemec, J.J. Abrams, Jill Stempel, John Anderton...
Pierre Denan - Pourquoi Tom Cruise - Récit prompteur – Livre 1 + 2 (special offer)
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field – Fictions
24.00 19.00 €
Special offer for the purchase of the 2 volumes of Pierre Denan's Pourquoi Tom Cruise – Récit prompteur.
David Grubbs - Les disques gâchent le paysage - John Cage, les années 1960 et l\'enregistrement sonore
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
The French translation of David Grubbs's long-awaited study of the role that sound recordings play in representing experimental music of the 1960s.
Valérie Da Costa - Pino Pascali - Retour à la Méditerranée
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A reference book, the first in French dedicated to the work of Pino Pascali, a central figure of Arte Povera and art of the 1960s.
In octavo - Des formats de l\'art
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
A collective work bringing together thirty contributors, based on an experimental research project conducted with artists and theoreticians (philosophers, sociologists, historians, scientists...) around the question of the formats of art, a forgotten yet decisive issue that crosses contemporary artistic practices in depth.
Sigmar Polke - Sigmar Polke et les esprits supérieurs
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
An anthology of texts on the work of Sigmar Polke written between 1973 and 2000.
Céleste Boursier-Mougenot -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
New monograph.
Jesper Just -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
New monograph.
Patrick Neu -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
(last copies available!)
New monograph.
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