Surrealism

 
 
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.
Marnie Weber - The Day of Forevermore - Synopsis, Script, Storyboard
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
MAMCO - Monographs
A complete documentation on Marnie Weber's first feature film, a strange kind of carnival that emerges from the American cultural repressed.
Robert Lebel - Le surréalisme comme essuie-glace, 1943-1984 - Œuvres complètes t. I
2016
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
A collection of texts by Robert Lebel on surrealism.
Didier Semin - Duchamp - The Paradigm of the Cartoon
2015
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
The influence of cartoon on Duchamp's work.
Isabelle Waldberg - Masque à lame
2015
French edition
MAMCO - Artists' books
A facsimile edition of a surrealist poem by Robert Lebel and originally published in 1943. Illustrated with seven constructions by artist Isabelle Waldberg.
Robert Lebel - Sur Marcel Duchamp
2015
French edition
MAMCO - Monographs
currently out of stock
A facsimile edition of the first ever monograph dedicated to Marcel Duchamp and originally published in 1959. A complete introduction to his works and personality as well as a reflection on the artist's role in modern society. Graphic design by Marcel Duchamp. With texts by Duchamp, André Breton & Henri-Pierre Roché. Featuring a bibliography and a catalogue raisonné.
Véronique Bergen - Le cri de la poupée
2015
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A novel on German artist and writer Unica Zürn, a close friend of the surrealist movement and Hans Bellmer's lover.
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.
Thierry de Duve - Essais datés I - Duchampiana
2014
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
Thierry de Duve's writings on Marcel Duchamp.
Herbert Molderings - Duchamp traversé - Essais 1975-2012
2014
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
Seven essays about Marcel Duchamp's work.
Richard Hamilton - Richard Hamilton in the reflection of Marcel Duchamp (DVD)
2014
English edition (French / Spanish subtitles)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Books-DVDs
A film by Pascal Goblot that explores an exceptional relationship between two influential figures of contemporary art.
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.
Stefan Banz - Marcel Duchamp - Pharmacie
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
currently out of stock
First publication ever to focus exclusively on Marcel Duchamp's Pharmacie, the first rectified readymade in art history.
Anne Van der Linden - Carnage intime
2014
no text
United Dead Artists
Anne Van der Linden's drawings and paintings from 2008 to 2014.
Anne Van der Linden - Grand Père (new illustrated  dition)
2014
French edition
Eretic-art
The novel by Jean-Louis Costes in a deluxe edition, illustrated by Anne Van der Linden—the crazy epic of Costes' grandfather at the beginning of the 20th century: a Cossack in Russia, a legionnaire in Morocco, a convict in Guyana and a collaborator in 1940...
Jeff Wall - Marcel Duchamp - Étant donnés
2013
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
Transcript of Jeff Wall's extraordinary lecture on Marcel Duchamp's great legacy Étant donnés, presented at the First Annual Anne d'Harnoncourt Memorial Symposium, September 11, 2009, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Georges Sebbag - 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.
Markus Schinwald -
2013
bilingual edition (English / French) / texts in English and French
CAPC
15.00 5.00 €
After he transformed the whole nave of the CAPC Museum into a mechanical theatre, Markus Schinwald conceives an elegant and sophisticated artist's book that reflects this physical and mental adventure through preparatory prints, film dialogues, and a series of stickers alternating exhibition views and reproduction of works.
Thierry Tillier - Principe d\'incertitude - Que faire ?
2013
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A surrealist, erotic and political assemblage of texts, quotes and images with which Thierry Tillier, heir to the great tradition of artistic collage, exposes his libertarian vision of contemporary art.
Thierry Tillier - Principe d\'incertitude - Que faire ? – Limited edition
2013
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A surrealist, erotic and political assemblage of texts, quotes and images with which Thierry Tillier, heir to the great tradition of artistic collage, exposes his libertarian vision of contemporary art (limited edition accompanied by an original and unique collage, signed).
La broyeuse de chocolat
2013
bilingual edition (English / German)
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
First publication ever to be devoted entirely to Duchamp's Broyeuse de chocolat, this volume also documents the event organized by the Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of this iconic work.
Xavier Forneret - Ecrits complets - Volume I (1834-1876) – Théâtre, poésie, musique
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
The theatrical, poetical and musical work of Xavier Forneret, French Romantic writer, precursor of the Surrealist movement.
Xavier Forneret - Ecrits complets - Volume II (1836-1880) – Aphorismes, contes et récits, roman, vie quotidienne
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Stories, novels, correspondence and short texts by Xavier Forneret, French Romantic writer, precursor of the Surrealist movement.
H. R. Giger - Alien Diaries
2013
bilingual edition (English / German)
Edition Patrick Frey
The facsimile of HR Giger's Alien Diaries, with unpublished material, including drawings, Polaroids, and still shots.
Keiichi Tanaami - No More War
2013
English edition
Edition Patrick Frey
A group of recently discovered sculptural works created by the Japanese pop-art pioneer Keiichi Tanaami in the 1980s.
Jessica Warboys - Vanelephant
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Artist's book based on surrealist artist and dancer Hélène Vanel's manuscript.
Marcel Duchamp - Correspondance - 1918-1959
2012
French edition
MAMCO - Artists' writings
A unique testimony to Duchamp's personality, to his relationship to his friends and to his works, and to the slow reception of his works in France and in the U.S.
Anne Van der Linden - Bêtes à bon dieu
2011
no text
United Dead Artists
As in mythological tales, the characters in Anne Van der Linden's paintings and drawings are mortals, animals, angels and demons, all coexisting in a lascivious Pandemonium. Vivid colors and rough strokes render well the grotesque essence of these bestial & erotic scenes whose symbolism could be compared to Frida Kahlo's surrealistic language.
Marnie Weber -
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Magasin
First monograph on Californian artist / musician's surreal-oriented universe (collages, sculptures, costumes, performances, music, films and videos), with essays by Doug Harvey, Stéphanie Moisdon and a conversation between the artist and Mike Kelley.
Alberto Giacometti - Œuvres contemporaines, 1964-1966
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
Catalogue.
Marcel Duchamp and the Forestay Waterfall
2010
English edition
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
A Duchampian discovery.
Sophie Leclercq - La rançon du colonialisme - Les surréalistes face aux mythes de la France coloniale (1919-1962)
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The story of the surrealists' radical anticolonialism: a political, aesthetic and poetic avant-garde.
Carole Boulbès - Picabia avec Nietzsche - Lettres d\'amour à Suzanne Romain (1944-1948)
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
From Picabia's unpublished love letters to a philosophical and aesthetic inquiry on art, through Goethe, Schlegel, Hegel, or Baudelaire.
Pierre Molinier - Limited edition
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
30 copies limited edition accompanied by a signed color photographic print of Molinier's fetish doll by Philippe Bonan.
Pierre Molinier -
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Mennour
The method and genesis of Pierre Molinier's oeuvre with more than 800 pictures, mostly unpublished, numerous documents, manuscripts and letters, a complete chronology, a critical biography, and a text by Jean-Luc Mercié.
Pierre Molinier - Limited edition
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
50 copies limited edition accompanied by a signed color photographic print of Molinier's fetish doll by artist photographer Gilles Berquet.
Giacinto Scelsi - Tre Canti Popolari + Due Componimenti Impetuosi (2 CD)
2010
Sub Rosa
Two long time out of stock references, remastered at le Laboratoire Central.
Astrid Ruffa - Dalí et le dynamisme des formes - L\'élaboration de l\'activité « paranoïaque-critique » dans le contexte socioculturel des  années 1920-1930
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
An innovative analysis of Dalí's work which focuses on the cultural History during the 1920's, showing that the Surrealist revolution went hand in hand with radical changes in society.
Minotaure – Chants exploratoires - La revue d\'Albert Skira, 1933-1939
2008
French edition
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
38.00 25.00 €
The magazine of Albert Skira, 1933–1939.
Marcel Duchamp & l\'érotisme
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
Curiously enough, although Duchamp considered eroticism as the main topic of his work, no essay had really focused on that matter yet. This book collects the lectures of about twenty international art historians and critics during a symposium organized by Marc Décimo.
Susan Hiller - The Provisional Texture of Reality - Selected Talks and Texts (1977-2007)
2008
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
JRP|Editions - Positions (co-edition Les presses du réel)
Between critical writing and visual art practice.
Raymond Roussel - L\'allée aux Lucioles - suivi de Jacques Sivan : Les corps subtils aux gloires légitimantes
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field
An unpublished text by Raymond Roussel, accompanied with an essay by Jacques Sivan.
Fabrice Flahutez - Nouveau monde et nouveau mythe - Mutations du surréalisme, de l\'exil américain à l\'« Écart absolu » (1941-1965)
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
How, in the course of their American exile, the surrealist artists (Duchamp, Tanguy, Masson, Ernst, Lam, Carrigton ...) were influenced by the literary and artistic context. Also a specific study on the perpetual renewal of Surrealism after war, linked with the importance of esoterism, the Amerindian civilizations, and Charles Fourier.
Lydie Fischer Sarazin-Levassor - A Marriage in Check - The Heart of the Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelor, Even (Marcel Duchamp and Lydie Fischer Sarazin-Levassor)
2007
English edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Marcel Duchamp met Lydie Sarazin-Levassor at the end of March 1927. On 7 June, they were married. Francis Picabia acted as a witness and the ceremony was filmed by Man Ray. On 25 January 1928, they divorced. Lydie Sarazin-Levassor tells the story of their marriage.
Jacques Sivan - Mar/cel Duchamp en 2 temps 1 mouvement
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Two studies on the link between language, art and reality in Marcel Duchamp's work.
Pierre Molinier - Je suis né homme-putain - Écrits et dessins inédits
2005
French edition
Mennour
Writings and drawings.
Marc Décimo - Le Duchamp facile
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
A new approach of Duchamp's keywords.
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