Les presses du réel – editions
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
forthcoming
The autobiography, translated into French for the first time, of Ré Soupault (1901-1996), trained at the Bauhaus, photographer, filmmaker, stylist, writer and traveler, translator of Dada and Surrealism, major protagonist of European artistic, literary and intellectual life, and companion of the avant-garde throughout the 20th century.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
forthcoming
A major study in art history in which Sophie Leclercq, drawing on and analyzing multiple sources, texts, and visual documents, sheds light on a blind spot in French colonialism: how, between 1870 and 1960, children were taught about colonial conquest through edifying imagery, and how their view of colonized populations was shaped?
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
forthcoming
A radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
forthcoming
Performance in the United States as told by those who practiced and theorized it (texts by Al Hansen, Allan Kaprow, Anna Halprin, Carolee Schneemann, Emmett Williams, George Brecht, John Cage, Jonas Mekas, Robert Watts, Yvonne Rainer).
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
forthcoming
Performance in the United States as told by those who practiced and theorized it (texts by Carl Loeffler, Chris Burden, Claes Oldenburg, Jean Toche, Joan Jonas, Jon Hendricks, Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Vito Acconci, Wolf Vostell).
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
forthcoming
The social, political, and anthropological implications of image production by machines, which permeate all spheres of existence and reconfigure the visible.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
forthcoming
A collective work examining fifty years of poetic activity by Bernard Heidsieck (1928-2014), a central figure in sound poetry and performance poetry, a major poet of the second half of the 20th century, along multiple axes.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
forthcoming
Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.
2025
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
forthcoming
Interview with one of the great figures of art photography today, in which Sophie Ristelhueber reflects on her own carrer and practice.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
forthcoming
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
forthcoming
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
forthcoming
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Figures
forthcoming
In a collection of interviews given over a period of almost twenty years, a poet seeks to find out a little more about what he makes by confronting his practice with other arts (plastic, sound, scenic).
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
forthcoming
The stock theatrical character Pierrot is an enduring figure in French visual art, where he emerges at the intersection of theatricality and the marketplace. This book offers an account of Pierrot's recurrence in painting, prints, photography and film, tracing this distinctive type from the art of Watteau to the cinema of Occupied France.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
forthcoming
A vast collection of Ettore Sottsass's writings, edited by design historian Emanuele Quinz.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
forthcoming
A collection of texts and interviews, some previously unpublished, covering a period of 40 years, with rare illustrations.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
forthcoming
Art and poetry in action as performative power.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
forthcoming
A seminal exploration into screens' crucial functions and profound impact on human culture.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Cinétisme
forthcoming
A selection of René Berger's lectures and the proceedings of a symposium he had organized around art, technology and communication, offering a closer insight into his thinking on video art and new media.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
forthcoming
A monograph highlighting the diversity and richness of the work of Chantal Montellier, a comic-book pioneer and mentor to younger generations.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
forthcoming
The first volume of essays devoted to the work of Liliane Giraudon explores the diversity of her oeuvre, its interdisciplinarity but also its coherence, and enables us to understand what makes its strength and importance in the contemporary literary landscape.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
forthcoming
A retrospective of the striking scenographies designed by Nadia Lauro since the early 2000s, visual environments, fictional landscapes, disorienting architectures, and living sets that have played a pivotal role across the vibrant field of dance and performance in Europe.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
forthcoming
A history of art in France from the women's perspective.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Perceptions
forthcoming
The other side of images in cinema, between phenomenology, art history, literature and ecology.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Le Raï de l'homme approximatif, an invitation to an inner journey, an exploration of the meanders of the human soul, takes us on an existential odyssey where joys and sorrows mingle.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Œuvres en sociétés
This tribute book brings together one hundred and one voices from very diverse backgrounds (historians, artists, writers, philosophers, curators, professors, students, close friends and fellow travelers) to draw , through an inventory of friendship, a multidimensional portrait of Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, and bear witness to the community of intellectual friendship that she was able to create.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
Artists' activity examined through the notion of reparation, from the interdisciplinary perspective of the living arts (theater, dance, performance, mediation, multiple practices).
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
A wide-ranging philosophical investigation into the origins and potential of "perspectivism", beyond mere relativism and subjective "interpretation".
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Vincent Broqua twists translation to vandalize literary classics in a sensual act, and expresses the wish for a gay ethic for our time.
Queer beings are inventing alternative ways of holding their bodies together: Vincent Broqua expresses the wish for a gay ethic for our time.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Drawing on feminist criticism and gender studies, the Brazilian poet creates a counter-discourse in which poetic language becomes a place for questioning stereotypes and redefining feminine identities.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A long narrative poem punctuated by 12x2 drawings, a montage of statements and notations in which a poetess (fat and old) keeps a kind of diary in which the destruction of the private body is articulated to that of the social body.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Jean-Marie Gleize continues a poetic and narrative cycle initiated 35 years ago by composing variations on the inexhaustible and elusive theme of memory.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
In this text-visual poem, Denise Le Dantec summons Rosa Luxemburg who, despite the violence of the struggles, the multiple disappointments and the imprisonments, never ceased to believe in the necessity of emancipatory struggles.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
The first book by Jacques-Henri Michot, which has remained unpublished, where we find all the writing techniques used in his subsequent works, with, as its main compass, writing as a weapon against barbarism.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
An autobiographical account and uncompromising meditation on the meaning of design, in the voice of the man who represented the ethical and political conscience of the discipline in the second half of the 20th century.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Medias/Theories
An unclassifiable classic, precursor of the “material turn” and of media theory, finally reissued.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Through the operative concept of literary and political extremism, this volume explores the links between the revolutionary aspirations of far-left socio-political movements and the quest for a new articulation between literature and reality in 1970s Italy, a dynamic exemplified by poet and novelist Nanni Balestrini (1935-2019).
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A challenging study of contemporary theater in all its political dimensions.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Pictorial abstraction in the Middle Ages: an innovative reflection that offers a powerful cross-disciplinary approach to medieval art, under a completely rethought concept of abstraction in close contact with finely analyzed images.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
The critical edition of the pioneering work on art history by Françoise d'Eaubonne (1920-2005), inventor of the concept of ecofeminism.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Ornella Volta's definitive posthumous book on Erik Satie, featuring all the composer's writings, largely unpublished documentation and biographical elements, for the first time precisely related to the works.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
A vast research project to explore the connections and mutual enrichment between cinema and design, both considered as reservoirs of fiction: an illustrated inventory of impossible and unthinkable objects, with some thirty contributions by design researchers and designers.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
A set of insights into the mass culture of the Weimar Republic, and its rituals of distraction, which prefigure our present.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
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A card game designed by Chloé Déchery and Marion Boudier, in collaboration with illustrator Éric Valette, to contribute to the development of a “culture of return” in artistic creation, distribution and teaching.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
Research-creation reconsidered from its historical upstream (before, when we spoke of Arts-Sciences), but also from its possible downstream (after, from the point of view of other conceptions and other practices yet to be invented).