Art History

 
Essays and illustrated books.
 
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Histoires sociales de l\'art - Une anthologie critique – Volume 1
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
currently out of stock
A sourcebook / critical anthology of social art history.
Histoires sociales de l\'art - Une anthologie critique – Volume 2
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A sourcebook / critical anthology of social art history.
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.
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.
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.
Christopher Wood - Renaissance anachroniste
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Two leading contemporary art historians offer a subtle and profound reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance.
Jacqueline Lichtenstein - L\'argument de l\'ignorant - Le tournant esthétique au XVIIIe siècle
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History –
An examination of the new approach to the artistic phenomenon that emphases the role of sensitivity and centered around the figure of the spectator in the eighteenth century.
Dario Gamboni - La destruction de l\'art - Iconoclasme et vandalisme depuis la Révolution française
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The relationship between Modern art and its destruction.
Anaël Lejeune - Perspective et géométral - Problématisation de la sculpture aux États-Unis (1966-1973)
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
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.
Elitza Dulguerova - Usages et utopies - L\'exposition dans l\'avant-garde russe prérévolutionnaire (1900-1916)
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Uses and Utopias – The Exhibition in the Pre-Revolutionary Russian Avant-Garde: an essay on the exhibition practice in Russia in the years 1910-1920, and in particular on the relationship between exhibition and public space in the projects of the historical avant-gardes.
Brigitte Gilardet - Réinventer le musée - François Mathey, un précurseur méconnu (1953-1985)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The history and posterity of François Mathey (1917-1993), a singular curator with the destiny of a romantic hero, a major figure in the promotion of contemporary art and a pioneer of artistic heritage.
Gilbert Titeux - Au temps du brame... - Les représentations de la chasse dans l\'œuvre de Gustave Courbet et dans la peinture allemande du XIXe siècle (1800-1900)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Gustave Courbet, hunting, and its contemporary representations in Germany.
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.
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.
Olga Medvedkova - Kandinsky ou la critique des critiques - Les écrits russes de Kandinsky (1901-1911)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
First translation into French of a series of fundamental texts by Kandinsky, published in Russia in the early 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.
Geneviève Cloutier - L\'avant-garde russe face à la « terreur de l\'histoire » - Historiosophie et historiographie chez Velimir Khlebnikov et Pavel Filonov
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A reflection on the Russian avant-garde's artistic project in the early twentieth century, and the problem of their paradoxical relationship to history.
Dario Gamboni - Paul Gauguin au « centre mystérieux de la pensée »
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An essay that renews the study of Gauguin, highlighting the consistency that connects the entire production of the painter, based on his exploration of the relationship between perception, cognition and imagination, and that connects his interests in psychology, ethnology, history of religion and the natural sciences, not to mention the art of all times and all cultures.
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.
Franz Roh - Postexpressionnisme – Réalisme magique - Problèmes de la peinture européenne la plus récente
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
First translation into French of tghe seminal book of German historian, photographer, and influential theorist and critic of avant-garde film and photography Franz Roh (1890-1965).
Alessandra Russo - L\'image intraduisible - Une histoire métisse des arts en Nouvelle-Espagne (1500-1600)
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A metis art history in New Spain: an analysis of the complex dynamics of crossbreeding between some singular artistic practices invented in New Spain in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries and the European Renaissance, in the political context of the Iberian expansion in the Americas.
Laurence Madeline - Picasso devant la télé
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Dedalus
Picasso in front of the TV: unexpected links between the media—especially television—and Picasso's work.
Transferts de Courbet
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A transdisciplinary set of contributions from art historians, scientists, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts, proposing new interpretations of Gustave Courbet's work from his paintings but also from his life, correspondence and archives relative to his family, for some hitherto unpublished.
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.
Horst Bredekamp - Leibniz, Herrenhausen et Versailles - Le jardin à la française, un parcours de la modernité
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History –
A Leibnizian reinterpretation of the traditional opposition between French geometric and English landscape gardens.
Thomas Crow - Comprendre Andy Warhol / Comprendre l\'art contemporain
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History –
Thomas Crow aims to explain what makes Warhol a precursor and a virtual paragon of the contemporary artist.
Le tournant populaire des Cultural Studies - L\'histoire  de l\'art face à une nouvelle cartographie du goût (1964-2008)
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An anthology which brings to light the fertile relations between two disciplines: Cultural Studies and art history.
Cécile Pichon-Bonin - Peinture et politique en URSS - L\'itinéraire des membres de la Société des artistes de chevalet (OST) (1917-1941)
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A study of the production and reception of art in the USSR in the years 1920-1930 through the analysis of the work of the Society of Easel Painters (OST)'s members.
Emmanuel Pernoud - Paradis ordinaires - L\'artiste au jardin public
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Dedalus
Public garden in art between the mid-XIXth and early XXth centuries.
Plumes et Pinceaux – Discours de femmes sur l\'art en Europe (1750-1850) - Volume 1
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Women's artistic literature: a collective and transnational history of discourses of women on art in the 18th and 19th centuries (essays).
Plumes et Pinceaux – Discours de femmes sur l\'art en Europe (1750-1850) - Volume 2, Anthologie
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Women's artistic literature: a collective and transnational history of discourses of women on art in the 18th and 19th centuries (an anthology of essays, articles, travelogues, letters ...).
Eric Valentin - Claes Oldenburg et Coosje van Bruggen - La sculpture comme subversion de l\'architecture (1981-1997)
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
A philosophical, social and political study of a series of public sculptures by Claes Oldenburg et Coosje van Bruggen.
Artistes et partis - Esthétique et politique (1900-1945)
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Artists and parties: aesthetics and politics in the first half of the 20th century.
Antje Kramer - L\'aventure allemande du Nouveau Réalisme  - Réalités et fantasmes d\'une néo-avant-garde européenne (1957-1963)
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The Nouveau Réalisme between Paris and West Germany in the 1960's.
Matthieu Pinette - L\'œil de Ruskin - L\'exemple de la Bourgogne
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Essay.
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.
Guido Guerzoni - Apollon et Vulcain - Les marchés artistiques en Italie (1400-1700)
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A pioneering and masterly study of the history of art markets in Italy (covering the fields of painting and scultpure, but also architecture, applied arts and performing arts), which demonstrates the possibility of an economic history of art linking social or political mechanisms and symbolic or patrimonial issues.
Judith Delfiner - Double-Barrelled Gun - Dada aux Etats-Unis (1945-1957)
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The resurgence of Dada in the U.S. (a genealogy of American post-war experimental art).
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).
Maïté Vissault - Der Beuys Komplex - L\'identité allemande à travers la réception de l\'œuvre de Joseph Beuys (1945-1986)
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A study of political and ideological stakes of Beuys' oeuvre and its myth in Germany.
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.
Jeffrey F. Hamburger - Ouvertures - La double page dans les manuscrits enluminés du Moyen Âge
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History –
An history of illuminated manuscript from its origins, in the early Christian era, until the Renaissance, through the study of the book opening medium.
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