Contemporary art

 
Monographs, catalogues, artists' books and editions.
 
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Charles de Meaux - Art at the Time of World expos - Yeosu – A Project by Charles de Meaux
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
15.00 8.00 €
The history of art in the context of universal exhibitions since the late nineteenth century to Charles de Meaux's visual and sound installation for Yeosu 2012.
Luigi Ontani - CoacerVolubilEllittico
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph.
Jim Shaw - Left Behind (box set)
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
Luxurious box set of three books dedicated to the monumental eponymous body of works.
Vittorio Santoro - D[a]edalus, my father\'s horse, taken from the mill, a tourné en rond autour d\'une statue de...
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
35.00 19.00 €
Works 2007-2011, with a new essay by noted British critic Rebecca Geldard as well as a preface by curator and art historian Daniel Kurjaković.
Verne Dawson - Precession of the Equinoxes - Paintings 1994-2010
2012
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph: an overview of the American painter's oeuvre over fifteen years, with two essays and one autobiographical text.
Verne Dawson - Präzession des Äquinoktiums - Gemälde 1994-2010
2012
German edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph (available in English edition).
Verne Dawson - Précession des équinoxes - Peintures 1994-2010
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph (available in English edition).
Laurent Montaron -
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Monograph (with an essay by Michel Gauthier and an interview).
Au loin, une île !
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
14.00 7.00 €
Catalogue of a double exhibition dedicated to the contemporary British art scene.
Augusto de Campos - Poètemoins - Anthologie – Limited edition
2011
bilingual edition (French / Portuguese)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
Limited edition of the anthology, with an original signed silkscreen.
Jean-Philippe Antoine - La traversée du XXe siècle - Joseph Beuys, l\'image et le souvenir
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First major monograph in French, fully illustrated, devoted to the key figure of Joseph Beuys, revealing the aesthetic ambition and political issues through a genealogy that retraces a whole part of the XXth century.
Pierre Joseph - Oui, non, peut-être
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Catalogue raisonné / first monograph of a key figure in the art scene since the late 1980s, this luxurious book (designed by M/M), lavishly illustrated, documents the whole Pierre Joseph's oeuvre, from the first group shows to most recent works.
11th Lyon Biennale - A Terrible Beauty Is Born
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
32.00 17.00 €
Catalogue of the 11th edition of the international exhibition, conceived by Argentinean curator Victoria Noorthoorn, gathering 78 artists from all over the world.
Veduta / Lyon Biennal 2009 - The Spectacle and the Everyday
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
30.00 15.00 €
Retrospective catalogue of the “Veduta” urban art program conceived alongside the 2009 Lyon Biennal, with various local actors and cultural and artistic institutions: an exploration of the diversity of visual cultures, guided by the core ideas of convergence and participation.
L\'art contemporain et la Côte d\'Azur - Un territoire pour l\'expérimentation – 1951-2011
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Contemporary art and the French Riviera (a territory for experimentation).
 Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille - Decade
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph.
Matt Mullican - 12 by 2
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Monograph based on an ambitious project that revisits forty years of Californian post-conceptual artist's work, between symbolism of representation and exploration of the subconscious under hypnosis, with two essays and an interview.
 Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille - Decade - Limited edition
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
Limited edition of the Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille monograph with an insert of a print signed by the artists.
Faire impression - L\'école d\'art de Mulhouse entre industrie et beaux-arts (1829-2009)
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A postmodern portrait of French art schools outside Paris, from the example of Mulhouse, which evolved from industrial arts and fine arts to contemporary art and design.
L\'affaire des 1052 m2 - Les vitraux de la Cathédrale de Nevers
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A reference book on contemporary church stained glass window: an extensive documentation on a monumental public commission involving five French major artists.
Fabricateurs d\'espaces
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Space as the raw material and the underpinning of the work of art (different approaches looking into the concept of space in all its ramifications, from the recent history of sculpture to the latest research in astrophysics).
Anna-Eva Bergman -
2011
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph.
Charline von Heyl - Paintings 1990-2010 - Limited edition
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
Limited edition with an original print, hand numbered and signed by the artist (30 copies print run).
Gina Pane - Situation idéale
2011
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Retrospective monograph dedicated to one of France's major proponents of body art.
Gina Pane - Situation idéale
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Retrospective monograph dedicated to one of France's major proponents of body art (available in English edition).
Hiraki Sawa -
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
currently out of stock
First monograph dedicated to the intimate dreamscapes created in Japanese video artist's delicate animations.
P. Nicolas Ledoux - G.M.V. - Is there any Ghislain Mollet-Viéville ? Information ou fiction ?
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A unique project, between the artist's book and the book on art history, around Ghislain Mollet-Viéville's personal archives.
Pierre Ardouvin - Eschatologic Park
2011
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph / catalogue raisonné of 650 both playful and disturbing works, between melancholy, humor and poetry.
Pierre Ardouvin - Eschatologic Park
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph / catalogue raisonné (available in English edition).
Charline von Heyl - Peintures 1990-2010
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First monograph: Charline von Heyl's paintings chronologically presented, each vis-à-vis a detail view manipulated by the artist, with four texts that shed light on the evolution of her work and contextualize her practice regarding the question of the renewal of contemporary painting.
 LAb[au] - MetaDeSIGN
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
The first monographic book of the Belgium interdisciplinary art studio for architecture and urbanism LAb[au].
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.
Bruno Serralongue -
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
Reference monograph (available in English edition).
Véronique Joumard -
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Retrospective monograph: a survey of Véronique Joumard's plays of light since 1985, with two essays and a conversation with the artist.
What comes (box set) - Les Ateliers de Rennes – Biennale d\'art contemporain #2
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
30.00 17.00 €
Catalogue of the second Rennes Biennal, focusing on the theme of the future and the thought surrounding it.
Ce qui vient (box set) - Les Ateliers de Rennes – Biennale d\'art contemporain #2
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
30.00 17.00 €
Catalogue of the second Rennes Biennal (available in English edition).
Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky - Double fiction / Fiction double
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
22.50 16.00 €
Emblematic videos and recent works by the duo.
Franck Scurti - Home-Street-Museum
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Large format reference monograph with three long essays, more than 300 color illustrations, detailed presentation of Scurti's emblematic works: a complete overview of an oeuvre which, between aesthetic valorization of everyday objects and devaluation of traditional figures of art, simultaneously explores the socio-economic determinism of the individual and the possibilities of an emancipation, to which art participates.
Heimo Zobernig - Catalogue
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
An “experimental monograph” (conceived by Heimo Zobernig) which offers a sidelong journey through the multi-facetted body of workmade by the Austrian artist since more than 30 years, which also offers a novel line of thinking about the layout of an artwork, and gathers a selection of “historical” texts and new commissioned essays.
Sophie von Hellermann -
2010
texts in English and French
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
20.00 12.00 €
A facsimile of the sketchbook made by the two artists for their first duo exhibition.
Insiders
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Over eighty architects and collectives from a variety of backgrounds who have in common ways of overstepping the frontiers of their respective disciplines, brought together under the theme of “the private and the collective”.
Vincent Lamouroux -
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
First monograph: an overview of Lamouroux's wide range of practices (architectural installations, sculptures, works on paper, photos, videos), with two essays and an interview.
Pierre Molinier -
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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.
10th Lyon Biennal - The Spectacle of the Everyday
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
30.00 15.00 €
The catalogue of the 10th edition, curated by Hou Hanru, from September 2009 to January 2010.
Crossing Values - Les Ateliers de Rennes – Biennale d\'art contemporain
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
35.00 19.00 €
Catalogue of the first Rennes Biennal, exploring what artistic activity and corporate/business activity have in common (and what sets them apart): work and labour, creators of value. With 60 international artists (Adel Abdessemed, Boris Achour, Jean-Marc Chapoulie, Claude Closky, Hans Peter Feldmann, Robert Filliou, Claire Fontaine, Pierre Huyghe, Jean-Charles Massera, Mathieu Mercier, Gianni Motti, Jean-Luc Moulène, Simon Starling...).
Ne pas jouer avec des choses mortes
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Documenting works by artists dealing with performative issues between the 1960s and today, this catalogue, gathering numerous essays, questions the nature and the relevance of “performative” objects in contemporary practices (also available in English edition).
N\'importe quoi
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A series of works by international artists presented in the style of a natural history museum collection.
Laurent Grasso - The Black-Body Radiation
2009
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Conceived by the artist, an exhaustive monograph on Laurent Grasso's body of work, with texts, interview, documents and 300 color illustrations.
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