Les presses du réel – editions
1993
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
15.20 8.00 €
A conversation between the sociologist and the artist: a sociology of art at the service of a political project.
1992
bilingual edition (English / German)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
35.00 17.00 €
The series of engravings A Sheet of Paper, with which Rémy Zaugg develops his reflection on the exchange of the glance between the spectator and the work
1990
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Paintings, photographies of two exhibitions, exhibitions plans.
1989
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
21.00 10.00 €
Collection of texts.
1988
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
27.00 15.00 €
Monograph / exhibition catalogue.
1988
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
10.00 5.00 €
Drawings.
1968
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
currently out of stock
Original gelatin silver print (circa 1968) by Pierre Molinier, on sealed Kodak Kodura paper.
2024
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
sold out
Out of the Grid presents a critical selection of 100 Italian zines from 1978 to 2006 that display a broad spectrum of social, political, aesthetic, and technological changes in the use of language and communication strategies across the territory of self publishing.
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
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This volume presents a little-known facet of Japanese culture: the know-how of traditional wooden architecture.
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
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A design theorist (Alexandra Midal), a neuroscientist (Albert Moukheiber), two designers (Antoine Fœglé and Emma Pflieger) and two curators (Jolanthe Kugler and Scott Longfellow) take a look at the mechanisms behind the flat-Earth theory, and the ways in which "alternative" narratives are disseminated.
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
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Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object.
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
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Special issue of the poetry journal directed by Jean-François Bory, dedicated to performance in the broad sense, from the page to the stage.
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
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The first publication on the archive created by the Swiss writer, painter, activist and prostitute Grisélidis Réal (1929-2005) since the 1970s, containing more than 10,000 documents that trace the international mobilizations for the rights of sex workers and their struggles against exclusion and stigmatization.
2022
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
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Lily Van der Stokker's illustrated autobiography of her life in New York in the 1980s, when she opened a gallery in the East Village.
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
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A collection of interviews and studies of performances that constitutes a crossing of the contemporary theatrical and choreographic landscape, re-examining the critical and theoretical tools that allow us to apprehend and think about current scenic forms.
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
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The first comprehensive and thorough scientific study of typographic typefaces created in Germany, Italy and France between 1459 and 1482, which are neither fully gothic nor roman.
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
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This book examines the modes of execution in contemporary art from the viewpoint of production, by means of a series of eighteen interviews. It presents a plural and polyphonic thinking, bringing together the words of different participants concerned with the realisation of artworks and several generations of artists.
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
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For the past ten years or so, several hospitals, art and design schools, social science researchers and design agencies have been mobilizing around the notion of care, a concept derived from American féminist philosophy. This publication aims to explore the place of color in this concept of care.
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Reference monograph.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
sold out
The figure(s) of Cindy Sherman as the plot of a personal narrative by Jean-François Bory.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
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A science of sensitive experience prolonged by a theory of atmospheres, at the origins of philosophical aesthetics.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
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A lexical survey on compositional practice in contemporary dance.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
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A disappointing trip to Manaus capital of the Amazon during the rainy season becomes the opportunity for Jean-François Bory to deploy a text in lush color of vegetal letters.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
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Performance art with a “low artistic coefficient of visibility”.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
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A collective reflection on reciprocal relations between design and the ethics of care, in the areas of health, social innovation, objects, or the environmental issue.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
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Can the modern uses of prehistory shed new light on the modern experience of time and, thus, the art of this period?
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
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Second volume of a special issue devoted to the rediscovery of Charles Fourier's oeuvre by the Surrealists. This volume focuses on André Breton's passionate interest in Fourier, through correspondence (Pierre Naville, Georges Sirot, Jean Gaulmier, Émile Lehouck) and texts by Georges Bataille and Raoul Vaneigem.
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
sold out
The “chairs-poems” conceived by the Quebec sculptor Michel Goulet for the Palais-Royal garden in Paris, with contributions from nearly 70 authors, visual artists, poets, critics, theoreticians, philosophers and thinkers.
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
sold out
The current panoply of private initiatives in the museum world.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
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Catalogue of the first Orleans Biennale of Architecture: introduced by a series of texts on Guy Rottier, Demas Nwoko and Patrick Bouchain, the publication offers an intersecting vision from over forty contemporary architects working on building a shared world. The concluding part presents a mapping of the research in architecture.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Les Hétéroclites
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An introductory examination of asylum art before the theorization of art brut, followed by a new critical edition of French alienist Marcel Réja's study on the “madmen's art”.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
First retrospective catalogue devoted to Dutch painter Peter Schuyff, a prominent member of the Neo-Geo movement, Has Been presents a selection of works produced between 1981 and 1991 in New York. The publication reveals the many paths taken by the artist and exposes the myriad forms which pictorial abstraction can take.
Two critical essays, historical reviews, as well as a text written by Peter Schuyff in 1991, shed light on the artist's work of this period and on the complexity of its referential relationships.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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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.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
sold out
Reference catalogue
that examines the notion of Art Brut in a time of new technologies. The first section of the volume features a selection of essays by specialists; the second and richly illustrated section introduces the works of 28 iconic or emerging artists.
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
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First volume of a special issue devoted to the rediscovery of Charles Fourier's oeuvre by the Surrealists. This volume focuses on the pioneer works of philosopher Simone Debout, including early and recent works, and an unpublished correspondence with André Breton. The issue also features an introduction by Florent Perrier & Gérard Roche, and texts and essays by Charles Fourier, Philippe Audoin, André Breton, Michel Butor, Roger Garaudy, Annie Le Brun, Robert Pagès, Octavio Paz, Raymond Queneau and Alejandra Riera.
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Dedalus
sold out
A typology of erasure as artistic gesture throughout the twentieth century.
2016
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
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The updated chronological compilation of Yona Friedman's plans, sketches, drawings, models, collages, installations, etc., since 1945: a monumental publication which offers a complete overview of the work of one of the greatest artists-architects and urbanist theoreticians today, in its many dimensions (urban, economic, ecological, cultural, social and political).
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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For the past twenty years, Edith Dekyndt has been redefining the interdependence of the artwork and its exhibition context by relocating her work's experiments in a more extended spatiality and temporality—that of the world's ecosystem. This catalog offers a selective approach of her work on the occasion of a joint exhibition at Le Consortium and Wiels.
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Gestes
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Discourses, reflections and documents on performative and choreographic arts today.
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
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This volume, published in parallel to Exhibiting the Moving Image, extends the inquiry into the history, theory and practice of exhibiting artists' cinema, video, installation as well as advertising films, by focusing on the domains of performance and of the “expanded arts.”
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
sold out
The place of films and moving images in the field of contemporary art.
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
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Seven buildings conceived by the Rennes architecture firm.
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
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First French translation of the two famous essays in which Jack Burnham draws the profile of an “aesthetic systems.”