Contemporary art

Monographs

 
 
Jean-Luc Moulène - Dessins / Drawings - 1977-2016
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
This monograph spans forty years of drawings and works on paper, offering an insight into a lesser-known part of Moulène's artistic practice. A jubilant documentation rich with autobiographical elements.
 Lee Mingwei - 9 Stories / 9 Histoires / 九則故事
2018
trilingual edition (English / French / Chinese)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
This trilingual catalogue documents nine essential works from the Taiwanese artist through nine interviews with curators and institution officials, illustrated with archives and exhibition views.
Rémy Zaugg - Après Rémy Zaugg /  Avant Rémy Zaugg
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Rémy Zaugg's early work.
Jay DeFeo - The Ripple Effect
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Catalogue of the double exhibition examining integral themes within American artist Jay DeFeo's (1929-1989) practice, featuring Sam Falls, Rachel Harrison, Wyatt Kahn, Ron Nagle, Gay Outlaw, Tobias Pils, R.H. Quaytman, Ugo Rondinone, Bosco Sodi, and Oscar Tuazon.
Tomoko Yoneda - Transphère - Dialogue avec Albert Camus
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
10.00 5.00 €
This catalogue presents an unpublished series of work by Tomoko Yoneda: the Japanese photographer has followed in the footsteps of Albert Camus, through Algeria and France, carrying on her reflection on the memory of places by way of her sensitive and poetic photographs. It is a subtle evocation of the youth of the author of “The Stranger.”
Valérie Da Costa - Fabio Mauri - The Past in Acts
2018
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
The first study dedicated to Fabio Mauri's performative work.
Keisuke Kanda - Transphère - Le vêtement réinventé
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
10.00 5.00 €
Exhibition catalogue dedicated to the meeting of two of the most innovative fashion designers in Japan, Keisuke Kanda and Kunihiko Morinaga.
Haegue Yang - Lingering Nous
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph, documenting 21 installations conceived by Haegue Yang during the past decade.
Sonia Boyce - Thoughtful Disobedience
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Focusing on several major collaborative performance-videos by a figure of the British Black Art movement, this illustrated monograph includes a series of essays which interpret Boyce's interdisciplinary practice in the light of art history, and analyse her interest in black feminism, cultural studies, film studies, art history and critical theory.
Alex Israel -
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Monograph dedicated to the Californian artist, whose work takes the city of Los Angeles as both iconographic source and main subject. This well documented and illustrated publication offers a chronological overview of Israel's heterogeneous projects—paintings, flashmobs, a brand of eyewear and its related advertising, a talk-show, interviews, webseries, sculptures, a movie—each introduced by a short text from the artist.
Mari Linnman - À Distances - Œuvrer dans les espaces publics
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Publication documenting an interactive installation by Samuel Bianchini commissioned by the Maison du geste et de l'image in Paris as part of the “New Patrons” program.
Rei Naito - Transphère - Émotions de croire
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Third publication in the framework of the “Transphère” Exhibition cycle, this catalogue documents a work by Rei Naito, a Japanese artist who has built an international reputation with her minimalist and conceptual creations. The installation Émotions de croire (The emotion of belief) is a moving reflection on the atomic bomb, and a place of mourning and hope.
 Information Fiction Publicité (IFP) -
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First retrospective monograph dedicated to the “agency” created in 1984 by Jean-François Brun, Dominique Pasqualini and Philippe Thomas: an immersion into the collective's history through numerous press archives and exhibition views. The publication also includes an unpublished interview with Brun and Pasqualini, and a glossary.
Stefan Banz - Aldo Walker – Logotyp - En gardant un œil sur Marcel Duchamp et William Copley
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
An analysis of the work of an unheralded artist both profound and captivating written by his friend, artist and curator Stefan Banz.
Didier Fiúza Faustino - Transphère - La Maison Magique
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Catalogue of a project designed for Maison de la culture du Japon in Paris as part of the “Transphere” Exhibition cycle. Atelier Bow-Wow and Didier Fiuza Faustino have long explored the issue of the habitat, inventing innovative and often provocative “machinery / habitats”. Here they have come together to create a “magical environment”.
Daito Manabe - Transphère - Fertile Landscapes
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
10.00 5.00 €
The catalogue of Daito Manabe & Motoi Ishibashi's first exhibition in France. On this occasion they created an installation using LED lights and smartphones—a new work combining the real and the virtual, the seen and the unseen. This volume also gives an overall comprehension of Manabe and Ishibashi's practice: together they merge art and technology in projects that are at the cutting edge of innovation.
Lee Ungno - Deux peintres coréens modernistes à Paris
2016
bilingual edition (Korean / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Tracing the Parisian exile of Korean modernists painters Lee Ungno and Han Mook, this catalogue highlights the work and life of two artists who built an innovative work at the crossroads of Western and Eastern traditions.
Phillip King -
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Major monograph on Phillip King, whose work has been essential in the revival of British sculpture in the early 1960s through experiments with abstraction, construction and color. This book gathers various texts and an interview, exhibition views, and a complete illustrated chronology over 300 pages.
Anne Brégeaut -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First monograph devoted to French artist Anne Brégeaut's intimate, phantasmic and colorful universe, a world deceptively happy, sentimental and almost childlike, but contaminated with incongruous or absurd connections that make it successively disturbing, ambiguous or fragile.
Valérie Da Costa - Pino Pascali - Retour à la Méditerranée
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A reference book, the first in French dedicated to the work of Pino Pascali, a central figure of Arte Povera and art of the 1960s.
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.
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