Art History

Œuvres en sociétés

 
An art history series about the links between art and society.
 
Series founded by Xavier Douroux, directed by Laurence Bertrand Dorléac.
Philippe Vatin - Voir et montrer la guerre - Images et discours d\'artistes en France (1914-1918)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Function of visual arts in France during the First World War.
Geneviève Cloutier - L\'avant-garde russe face à la « terreur de l\'histoire » - Historiosophie et historiographie chez Velimir Khlebnikov et Pavel Filonov
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A reflection on the Russian avant-garde's artistic project in the early twentieth century, and the problem of their paradoxical relationship to history.
Dario Gamboni - Paul Gauguin au « centre mystérieux de la pensée »
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An essay that renews the study of Gauguin, highlighting the consistency that connects the entire production of the painter, based on his exploration of the relationship between perception, cognition and imagination, and that connects his interests in psychology, ethnology, history of religion and the natural sciences, not to mention the art of all times and all cultures.
Franz Roh - Postexpressionnisme – Réalisme magique - Problèmes de la peinture européenne la plus récente
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
First translation into French of tghe seminal book of German historian, photographer, and influential theorist and critic of avant-garde film and photography Franz Roh (1890-1965).
Alessandra Russo - L\'image intraduisible - Une histoire métisse des arts en Nouvelle-Espagne (1500-1600)
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A metis art history in New Spain: an analysis of the complex dynamics of crossbreeding between some singular artistic practices invented in New Spain in the XVIth and XVIIth centuries and the European Renaissance, in the political context of the Iberian expansion in the Americas.
Transferts de Courbet
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A transdisciplinary set of contributions from art historians, scientists, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts, proposing new interpretations of Gustave Courbet's work from his paintings but also from his life, correspondence and archives relative to his family, for some hitherto unpublished.
Carlo Ginzburg - Peur révérence terreur - Quatre essais d\'iconographie politique
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The frontispiece of Hobbes' Leviathan, Marat at his last breath by David, "Your country needs you", Guernica by Picasso: four essays on political iconography.
Le tournant populaire des Cultural Studies - L\'histoire  de l\'art face à une nouvelle cartographie du goût (1964-2008)
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An anthology which brings to light the fertile relations between two disciplines: Cultural Studies and art history.
Cécile Pichon-Bonin - Peinture et politique en URSS - L\'itinéraire des membres de la Société des artistes de chevalet (OST) (1917-1941)
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A study of the production and reception of art in the USSR in the years 1920-1930 through the analysis of the work of the Society of Easel Painters (OST)'s members.
Plumes et Pinceaux – Discours de femmes sur l\'art en Europe (1750-1850) - Volume 1
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Women's artistic literature: a collective and transnational history of discourses of women on art in the 18th and 19th centuries (essays).
Plumes et Pinceaux – Discours de femmes sur l\'art en Europe (1750-1850) - Volume 2, Anthologie
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Women's artistic literature: a collective and transnational history of discourses of women on art in the 18th and 19th centuries (an anthology of essays, articles, travelogues, letters ...).
Artistes et partis - Esthétique et politique (1900-1945)
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Artists and parties: aesthetics and politics in the first half of the 20th century.
Antje Kramer - L\'aventure allemande du Nouveau Réalisme  - Réalités et fantasmes d\'une néo-avant-garde européenne (1957-1963)
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The Nouveau Réalisme between Paris and West Germany in the 1960's.
Matthieu Pinette - L\'œil de Ruskin - L\'exemple de la Bourgogne
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Essay.
John Ruskin - Les deux chemins
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An exploration of the relationship between artistic creation and industrial production, between the artist and his material.
Guido Guerzoni - Apollon et Vulcain - Les marchés artistiques en Italie (1400-1700)
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A pioneering and masterly study of the history of art markets in Italy (covering the fields of painting and scultpure, but also architecture, applied arts and performing arts), which demonstrates the possibility of an economic history of art linking social or political mechanisms and symbolic or patrimonial issues.
Judith Delfiner - Double-Barrelled Gun - Dada aux Etats-Unis (1945-1957)
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The resurgence of Dada in the U.S. (a genealogy of American post-war experimental art).
Gilles A. Tiberghien - Pour une république des rêves
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Œuvres en sociétés
An essay based on a group exhibition conceived by French philosopher and writer Gilles A. Tiberghien.
La rébellion du Deuxième Sexe - L\'histoire de l\'art au crible des théories féministes anglo-américaines (1970-2000)
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Forty years of Anglo-American feminist theory in art history (an anthology of reference texts by Laura Cottingham, Gen Doy, Lisa E. Farrington, Lisa Gail Collins, Judith Halberstam, Amelia Jones, Lucy R. Lippard, Linda Nochlin, Rozsika Parker, Griselda Pollock, Abigail Solomon-Godeau).
Maïté Vissault - Der Beuys Komplex - L\'identité allemande à travers la réception de l\'œuvre de Joseph Beuys (1945-1986)
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A study of political and ideological stakes of Beuys' oeuvre and its myth in Germany.
Sophie Leclercq - La rançon du colonialisme - Les surréalistes face aux mythes de la France coloniale (1919-1962)
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The story of the surrealists' radical anticolonialism: a political, aesthetic and poetic avant-garde.
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.
Horst Bredekamp - Les coraux de Darwin - Premiers modèles de l\'évolution et tradition de l\'histoire naturelle
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Œuvres en sociétés
A major contribution, by German philosoph and art historian Horst Bredekamp, to the current debate on the 'tree of life' in evolutionary biology. The essay deals with the aesthetic and political dimension of the coral, in Darwin's system a model of anarchic evolution which opposes the hierarchical metaphor of the tree.
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.
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
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