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Les presses du réel – editions
 
Alain Coulange - Peut-être - Bertrand Lavier et Niele Toroni
1994
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
sold out
Max Reithmann - Joseph Beuys - Si nécessaire nous serons aussi privés de coeur
1994
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
sold out
Claude Rutault - Mes peintures ont la vie courte mais elles ont plusieurs vies - définitions/méthodes vol.7
1994
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
Artist's writings.
Brigit Pelzer - Le désir tragique - sur Gerhard Richter
1993
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
sold out
A study on Richter's work with illustrations.
Dan Graham - Rock my Religion
1993
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
Brigit Pelzer - Le désir tragique - On Gerhard Richter (signed edition)
1993
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
sold out
Limited edition signed by Birgit Pelzer and Gerhard Richter.
Maurice Pianzola - Peintres et vilains - Les artistes de la Renaissance et la grande guerre des paysans de 1525
1993
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
sold out
A study of German Renaissance painters and the social movements of the time.
Steven Parrino - 1983, 1984-86, 1987-90, 1991
1992
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
sold out
Drawings and photographs by the artist / text by Lydia Lunch (hand numbered limited edition).
Dan Graham - Ma position - Ecrits sur mes œuvres
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
forthcoming
This first monograph in French on the Swedish artist Lars Fredrikson, situated at the intersection of art history, sound studies, and media studies, seeks to shed light on the distinctive features of his work by highlighting its dialogue with the history of painting, kinetic and electronic arts, music, and sound practices in art, as well as the epistemologies and material cultures of science and technology.
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Bizarre
forthcoming
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Délashiné!
forthcoming
A detailed overview and history of "ero-guro-nansense", an editorial, artistic and literary movement of iconoclastic and subversive magazines in Japan in the 1925-1930s, ancestor and precursor of the post-war Japanese underground.
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
forthcoming
Aesthetics of breathing: new ways of getting to know the air we breathe and developing a sensitive culture of air qualities.
Feminine Futures 2 - Expression / Abstraction – The Membrane of Dreams – Avant-garde Expressive & Abstract Dance Through Photography & Experimental Film
2027
Texts in English and French
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
forthcoming
Eleven years after the publication of the first volume of Feminine Futures in 2011, this sequel explores the dance history of abstraction in the feminine, during the first half of the 20th century and continuations today, unfolding new research perspectives with a new body of rare or unpublished original photographs.
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
forthcoming
A critical history of a fundamental video art event: the large-scale study of the entire history of Locarno's VideoArt Festival, the culmination of a four-year research project.
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Bizarre
forthcoming
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
What the imagination of networks does to literature (and vice versa).
Hans Ulrich Obrist - The Indian Files
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
forthcoming
A much-needed mapping of the Indian art scene.
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
forthcoming
Ed Ruscha - A Reader
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
forthcoming
Renewing our understanding of Ruscha's art.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
forthcoming
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
forthcoming
Renewing our understanding of Ruscha's art.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
A literary adventure resulting from a collaboration spanning several years between an artist experimenting with AI and an academic working on issues of literature, media, and attention.
Jean-François Bory - Roman en ruine
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
forthcoming
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
forthcoming
A pioneering study of the relation between the fine arts and philosophy in France, from the aftermath of the 1789 revolution to the end of the nineteenth century, when a philosophy of being called "monism"—the concept of a unity of matter and spirit—emerged and became increasingly popular among intellectuals, artists and scientists.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Al Dante
forthcoming
A comprehensive study of the multifaceted practice of Argentine artist Edgardo Antonio Vigo (1928–1997)—sculptor, printmaker, poet, mail artist, performance artist, typographer, designer, etc.—focusing on his publishing activities in the 1960s and 1970s, set against an extremely repressive political backdrop marked by instability, coups d’état, and violence.
2026
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.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Délashiné!
forthcoming
The history of NHK electronic music studio and the making of an international "center" for contemporary music: a wide-ranging, totally unprecedented study of the role and position of a Japanese avant-garde music institution founded in 1955 within international production until the late 1960s, based on first-hand documentation.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
forthcoming
Magical practices (and design) as tools for experiencing the world in a different way.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
forthcoming
An exploration of how design has evolved in interaction with popular and material culture, drawing inspiration from technology as well as magic and the occult.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Bizarre
forthcoming
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
forthcoming
An overview of the early days of video art in Europe, drawing on a network of some fifty researchers.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Cinétisme
forthcoming
An anthology of texts devoted to cinematographic editing (Eisenstein, Tarkovski, Bazin, Godard, Wiseman, van der Keuken, Deleuze, Agamben...), from the beginning of the 20th century to today (new expanded edition).
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Cinétisme
forthcoming
Collected texts.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
forthcoming
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