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Les presses du réel – editions
 
Hans Haacke - Libre-échange
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.
Rémy Zaugg - A Sheet of Paper / Ein Blatt Papier II
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
Rémy Zaugg - Personne
1990
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Paintings, photographies of two exhibitions, exhibitions plans.
Paul-Armand Gette - Textes très peu choisis - Ecrits de 1964 à 1988
1989
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
21.00 10.00 €
Collection of texts.
Gerhard Merz - MCMLXXXVIII
1988
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
27.00 15.00 €
Monograph / exhibition catalogue.
François Perrodin - 15.16
1988
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
10.00 5.00 €
Drawings.
Pierre Molinier - Mon cul
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.
Out of the Grid - Italian Zine 1978-2006
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.
L\'art des charpentiers japonais - Au cœur de l\'architecture en bois traditionnelle
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
sold out
This volume presents a little-known facet of Japanese culture: the know-how of traditional wooden architecture.
Keep it Flat - A little history on flat earth
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
sold out
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.
Objective: Earth - Designing our Planet
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.
591 - Spécial performance
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.
Travailler, lutter, diffuser - Archives militantes du Centre Grisélidis Réal de documentation internationale sur la prostitution, Genève
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.
Lily van der Stokker - How I Went to New York - 1983-1992
2022
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
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.
Eric Vautrin - Le cinquième mur - Formes scéniques contemporaines & nouvelles théâtralités
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.
Gotico-Antiqua, Proto-Roman, Hybrid - 15th Century Types between Gothic and Roman
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
sold out
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.
Faire, faire faire, ne pas faire - Entretiens sur la production de l’art contemporain
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.
Couleur et soin
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.
Farah Atassi -
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Reference monograph.
Jean-François Bory - United C. Sherman Company
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.
Gernot Böhme - Aisthétique - Pour une esthétique de l\'expérience sensible
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
sold out
A science of sensitive experience prolonged by a theory of atmospheres, at the origins of philosophical aesthetics.
Julie Perrin - Composer en danse - Un vocabulaire des opérations et des pratiques
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
sold out
A lexical survey on compositional practice in contemporary dance.
Jean-François Bory - Capitale de la pluie
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
sold out
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.
Art performance, manœuvre, coefficients de visibilité
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
sold out
Performance art with a “low artistic coefficient of visibility”.
Design et pensée du care - Pour un design des microluttes et des singularités
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.
Maria Stavrinaki - Saisis par la préhistoire - Enquête sur l\'art et le temps des modernes
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
sold out
Can the modern uses of prehistory shed new light on the modern experience of time and, thus, the art of this period?
Cahiers Charles Fourier - Dans l\'orbe du surréalisme – Charles Fourier redécouvert – II. Si grand avec ses faucons et ses étoiles
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.
François Massut - Les confidents - Les chaises-poèmes du Jardin du Palais-Royal
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
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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.
The Private Museum of the Future
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
sold out
The current panoply of private initiatives in the museum world.
Marcher dans le rêve d\'un autre - Orleans Biennale of Architecture
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.
Marc Décimo - Des fous et des hommes avant l\'art brut - suivi de Marcel Réja : L\'Art chez les fous – Le dessin, la prose, la poésie – 1907 (édition critique et augmentée)
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”.
Peter Schuyff - Has Been
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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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.
Mari Linnman - À Distances - Œuvrer dans les espaces publics
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
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.
Brut Now - Art Brut in Technological Times
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
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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.
Cahiers Charles Fourier - Dans l\'orbe du surréalisme – Charles Fourier redécouvert – I. Avec Simone Debout-Oleszkiewicz
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.
Maurice Fréchuret - Effacer - Paradoxe d\'un geste artistique
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Dedalus
sold out
A typology of erasure as artistic gesture throughout the twentieth century.
Yona Friedman - Drawings & Models / 手稿与模型 - 1945-2010
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).
Edith Dekyndt - Ombre indigène
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.
Gestes en éclats - Art, danse et performance
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.
Cinema in the Expanded Field
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.”
Exhibiting the Moving Image
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.
 Anthracite - 1 (2005-2015)
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
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Seven buildings conceived by the Rennes architecture firm.
Hans Haacke - Esthétique des systèmes
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
sold out
First French translation of the two famous essays in which Jack Burnham draws the profile of an “aesthetic systems.”
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