Art History

 
Essays and illustrated books.
 
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Svetlana Alpers - Velázquez est dans les détails
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History –
A new approach to Velázquez' work, from the analysis of the "small characters" who haunt his paintings.
Hans Belting - La double perspective - La science arabe et l\'art de la Renaissance
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History –
A conference on the invention of perspective, Arab science and the art of the Renaissance.
Brigitte Aubry - Richard Hamilton - Peintre des apparences contemporaines (1950-2007)
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
First publication in French on a major figure of British Pop Art, this essay analyses notably the questioning of the contemporary appearances in Richard Hamilton's works.
Thomas Schlesser - Paul Chenavard - Monuments de l\'échec (1807-1895)
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An essay on French artist Paul Chenavard (1807-1895), romantic cursed painter-prophet, illustrating the distance between the historic claims which build the modern myth of the artist and a relative efficiency.
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.
Fabien Danesi - Le mythe brisé de l\'Internationale situationniste - L\'aventure d\'une avant-garde au cœur de la culture de masse (1945-2008)
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A new approach on the Situationist International and its paradoxical myths.
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.
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.
T. J. Clark - Une image du peuple - Gustave Courbet et la révolution de 1848
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Art as a social practice through Gustave Courbet's œuvre and political commitment.
Thomas Schlesser - Réceptions de Courbet - Fantasmes réalistes et paradoxes de la démocratie (1848-1871)
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An elucidation of the myths and the political fantasies that surrounded Gustave Courbet's work and life under the second Empire.
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.
Annie Claustres - Hans Hartung - Les aléas d\'une réception
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
Hans Hartung always gave a lot of attention to the filing of his works. This essay on the abstract painter is linked with a specific web site where one will find a rich iconography and documentation.
Rosalba Carriera - Journal pendant mon séjour à Paris en 1720-1721
1997
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
The journal of one of the first women artists of the history of painting.
Alain Schnapp - Ruines - Essai de perspective comparée
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History –
sold out
A comparative history of the ruins from the ancient East to the modern West.
Aby Warburg - Miroirs de faille - À Rome avec Giordano Bruno et Édouard Manet, 1928-29
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
sold out
A collection of mostly unpublished essays, notes and letters which shed a new light on Warburg's last studies.
Maurice Pianzola - Peintres et vilains - Les artistes de la Renaissance et la grande guerre des paysans de 1525
1993
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
sold out
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
forthcoming
Drawing on a material, cultural and social history of art, Hugo Daniel proposes to understand the recognition and redefinition of drawing by the avant-garde in the 1950s and 1960s, between the questioning of artists, the evolution of critics and the projects of gallery owners and curators, to show how drawing is understood as a complex reality, in act.
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
forthcoming
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Al Dante
forthcoming
An essay on the birth of artistic manifestos in the 19th century, from Jacques Louis David to Gustave Courbet.
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