Visual Studies

 
 
Jean-Louis Boissier - L\'écran comme mobile
2016
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
The Futures of Screen: an aesthetic and technical analysis.
Vivre par(mi) les écrans
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
Crossing perspectives on living among screens.
Politiques visuelles
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
The political dimension of Visual Studies, between Francophone and Anglo-American studies.
Vision in Motion - Streams of Sensation and Configurations of Time
2016
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
An impressive collection of essays offering a critical examination of representations of vision in motion—from early illustrations of plants to the avant-gardes, from gesture to cinema, from decapitation to dance, from David Hume to Bergson and Deleuze.
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.
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.
Georges Didi-Huberman - The Cube and the Face - Around a Sculpture by Alberto Giacometti
2015
English edition
Diaphanes - Think Art
Renowned French art historian and philosopher Georges Didi-Huberman conducts a careful analysis of Cube—Giacometti's only abstract sculptural work.
À perte de vue - Les nouveaux paradigmes du visuel
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
A unique multidisciplinary approach to Visual Studies.
Penser l\'image - Volume 2 – Anthropologies du visuel
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
The return of the anthropological question has completely redesigned the issues of representation. A state of play.
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.
Herbert Molderings - Duchamp traversé - Essais 1975-2012
2014
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
Seven essays about Marcel Duchamp's work.
W. J. T. Mitchell - Que veulent les images ? - Une critique de la culture visuelle
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
An innovative analysis of our relationship to the image.
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.
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.
Éric Alliez - Défaire l\'image - De l\'art contemporain
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
A book to deconstruct the aesthetic regime of the image, for a new diagrammatic thinking, after Deleuze and Guattari, between art and philosophy.
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.
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.
Devant les images - Penser l\'art et l\'histoire avec Georges Didi-Huberman
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
Thirteen texts (including an unpublished essay by Georges Didi-Huberman) to think art and history together, from the tools developed by the theorist of the future of images.
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).
Penser l\'image
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
An anthology of texts by philosophers, theoricians and art historians (H. Belting, H. Bredekamp, G. Didi-Huberman, J.-L. Nancy, W.J.T. Mitchell...) around the specific logic of the image and the transformation of the contemporary visual field.
Simon Quéheillard - L\'image dans le papier
2008
French edition
Mix
An essay on the the appearance of the image.
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.
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.
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
The first French translation of Vivian Sobchack's work, Le corps du film – Une phénoménologie de l'expérience filmique offers a new perspective to the phenomenological tradition through an interrogation of our cinematographic experience and, more generally, of our relationship to screens.
En quête d\'images - Écritures sensibles en recherche-création
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
2024
French edition
Mix
forthcoming
The result of a research project revolving around the question of data, headed by artist-photographer Aurélie Pétrel and philosopher Fabien Vallos.
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