Avant-gardes

L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)

 
L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) is a philosophical and literary series dedicated to radical tendencies in the arts as well as in the spheres of society, rejecting the fraudulent separation between aesthetic innovation and social transformation.
 
Series founded by Michel Giroud.
Fluxus Dixit - Une anthologie
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
The Fluxus anthology.
Jean-Pierre Brisset - Œuvres natatoires
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
The funny though serious inventions of the thinker, poet, prophet and annagrammarian.
François Dufrêne - Le Tombeau de Pierre Larousse
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
An unknown, rarely published writer who nevertheless sent shock waves into the 60s and 80s by constructing a text worthy of a great rhetoretician on the game of alliteration.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Du principe de l\'art et de sa destination sociale
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
This posthumous work is the first study of his friend Gustave Courbet (who requested a text for a catalog), and of the role of art in society.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Les confessions d\'un révolutionnaire
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
The Confessions, written in six weeks in a prison cell, recounts the political life of a social thinker.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Les majorats littéraires (« La propriété intellectuelle c\'est le vol ! ») - (et un choix de Dominique Sagot-Duvauroux de contributions d\'époque sur le droit d\'auteur)
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Proudhon's book against rights of ownership for authors, and collection of the most significant contributions toward the original debate over literary property..
Bernard Réquichot - Ecrits divers - Journal, lettres, textes épars, Faustus, poèmes, 1951-1961
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Bernard Réquichot is well enough known as a painter, but still unknown as a writer. This new posthumous publication of his writings reveals the singular vision of a recluse, close to Stirner.
Jean-Pierre Brisset - Œuvres complètes
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A monument for both linquists and writers.
Otto Muehl - Sortir du bourbier
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
The actionnist's autobiography.
Charles Fourier - Le nouveau monde industriel et sociétaire ou invention du procédé d\'industrie attrayante et naturelle distribuée par séries passionnées
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
In 1829, Fourier synthesizes his entire doctrine: a systematic critique of civilization and its natural deviations, as well as his proposal for a new social scheme of mutual assocation, governed by passionate attraction rather than by repression and constraint.
Charles Fourier - Théorie de l\'unité universelle - Tome 1
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A social and spiritual vision based on an economy, ecology, education, global erotic sense and aesthetics, according to laws of passionate attraction. A modern proposal for a totally restructured society.
Charles Fourier - Théorie de l\'unité universelle - Tome 2
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A social and spiritual vision based on an economy, ecology, education, global erotic sense and aesthetics, according to laws of passionate attraction. A modern proposal for a totally restructured society.
Marc Décimo - Jean-Pierre Brisset - Prince des penseurs, inventeur, grammairien et prophète
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A complete panorama of the astonishing personality of the unknown writer, grammarian, cosmologist and inventor.
Carl Einstein - Bébuquin ou les dilettantes du miracle
2000
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
The anti-romanesque, a-metaphysical and theoretical Einstein's dadaist autobiography.
Charles Fourier - Hiérarchie du cocuage
2000
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Hiérarchie du cocuage proposes a system of classification, worthy of Linné for botany, in which he organizes the indomitable differences of beings and their diverse characters.
Hugo Ball - Hermann Hesse - Sa vie, son œuvre
2000
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
This biography of Hermann Hesse by his friend Hugo Ball is one of the best exposés of his spiritual journeys, and also an approach of Ball's own fundamental themes
Simone Debout - L\'utopie de Charles Fourier
1998
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
An essay to demonstrate Fourier's fundamental role in the emancipation of women and the transformation of society, "for the sake of imagination, of permanent interaction between sensitivity and reason."
Michel Giroud - Paris, laboratoire des avant-gardes - Transformations / transformateurs, 1945-1965
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
sold out
Essays and interviews on 20th century avant-gardes in France (from Dada to sound poetry, avant-garde reviews, happenings and events, Fluxus, Raymond Hains, Jacques Villeglé, Gil J. Wolman, Camille Bryen...).
Robert Filliou - Catalogue raisonné des éditions et multiples
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
sold out
Filliou's catalogue raisonné.
George Brecht - Chance-Imagery
2002
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
sold out
The first critical edition treating a fundamental text by one of the principle actors of Fluxus.
Richard Huelsenbeck - En avant dada - L\'histoire du dadaïsme
2000
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
sold out
Richard Huelsenbeck's En avant dada is his first proclamation of Dada in Berlin.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
forthcoming
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
forthcoming
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