Contemporary art

Monographs

 
 
Sigmar Polke - Sigmar Polke et les esprits supérieurs
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
An anthology of texts on the work of Sigmar Polke written between 1973 and 2000.
Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza - Fragments liminaires
2015
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
First monograph.
Malcolm Le Grice - Le temps des images
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Monographs
Reference monograph of one of the most influential modernist filmmaker in British cinema, with twenty texts by Malcolm Le Grice and commissioned essays by Yann Beauvais and Philippe Langlois on his cinema and its relationship with art and music.
 Yan Pei-Ming - Night of Colours
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph.
 Yan Pei-Ming - Night of Colours
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph (available in English edition).
Dieter Roth - Processing the World
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Dedicated to the complex, proliferative and innovative work of a major figure in the art of the second half of the XXth century, this comprehensive monograph highlights Dieter Roth's creative processes and the way he pushes them to the limit.
 Dadamaino -
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Retrospective monograph of the work both conceptual and sensitive of Dadamaino (1930-2004), at the crossroads of major European postwar avant-garde movements.
Chloé Pirson - Art Orienté Objet - Marion Laval-Jeantet & Benoît Mangin
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
First extensive publication devoted to the French artists duo.
Armando Andrade Tudela - Selected Works - 2003-2012
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First major monograph: different perspectives on Andrade Tudela's artistic practice, juxtaposing positions and readings from Europe and Latin America, with about 400 illustrations including many reproductions of previously unseen works.
Wilfrid Almendra -
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First monograph: a transversal survey and a critical analysis of the sculptural work of the French artist who questions the suburban destiny of modernist utopias.
 Kimsooja - To Breathe: Bottari
2013
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Fully illustrated retrospective monograph based on Kimsooja's project presented at the Korean Pavilion of the 55th Venice Biennale in 2013, with numerous newly commissioned and re-published texts.
Gianni Piacentino -
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A tribute to Gianni Piacentino's art and to his sense of independence with works spanning 1966 to the present.
Stefan Nikolaev - One for the money, two for the show
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First monograph, with three essays and an interview.
Stéphanie Cherpin - The Landscape Opens at Set Times
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First monograph on Stéphanie Cherpin's work, with two essays, an interview, and a complete catalogue of her sculptures.
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).
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.
 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.
Anna-Eva Bergman -
2011
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph.
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.
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].
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.
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.
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.
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.
Bertrand Lavier - Roma
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph, conceived in close collaboration with Bertrand Lavier, with the most recent works (ceramics, ethnic scultpures) in front of some more ancient pieces.
Laurent Grasso - Le rayonnement du corps noir
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Monograph (available in English edition).
Bertrand Lavier - Roma
2009
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph, conceived in close collaboration with Bertrand Lavier, with the most recent works (ceramics, ethnic scultpures) in front of some more ancient pieces (also available in bilingual English / French edition).
Virginie Marnat-Leempoels -
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
25.00 15.00 €
First monograph devoted to the work of French artist/photographer: an uncanny typological inventory of social representations of mankind (and especially women), questioning the status of contemporary photograph, between documentary, constructed fiction and visual art.
Cécile Bart - Plein jour
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference retrospective monograph conceived by French artist Cécile Bart, with five essays and more than 200 reproductions, from her earliest screens/paintings, playing on the clearance of light in the diaphanous body of a fine film of Tergal cloth, to her most recent works involving threads of coloured cotton and wool.
Christian Robert-Tissot - Update 07
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Monograph dedicated to Swiss artist's words-images, presenting his most recent paintings, wall paintings, and installations, with 20 texts by art critics and artists friends of Robert-Tissot.
Paul Sharits -
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Complete monograph on a master of experimental cinema, with a general introduction, several essays, texts by the artist and interviews (available in English edition).
Paul Sharits -
2008
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Monographs
Complete monograph on a master of experimental cinema, with a general introduction on its œuvre, several essays, texts by the artist and interviews.
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