Les presses du réel – editions
 
Lydie Fischer Sarazin-Levassor - Un échec matrimonial - Le cœur de la mariée mis à nu par son célibataire même (Marcel Duchamp et Lydie Fischer Sarazin-Levassor)
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Marcel Duchamp met Lydie Sarazin-Levassor at the end of March 1927. On 7 June, they were married. Francis Picabia acted as a witness and the ceremony was filmed by Man Ray. On 25 January 1928, they divorced. Lydie Sarazin-Levassor tells the story of their marriage, presents us with “her” Marcel, and relates her encounters with Jacques Doucet, Constantin Brancusi, Henri-Pierre Roché, Man Ray and Kiki de Montparnasse, Jean Cocteau, the Ballets Russes, the Duchamp family, Jean Crotti, Mary Rumsey, Katherine Dreier and Robert Desnos, and describes the atmosphere at the Villons' (in Puteaux, just outside Paris), the Picabias' (at Mougins, in the South of France) and the Sarazin-Levassors' (in Étretat, on the Normandy coast).
Marc Décimo - Marcel Duchamp mis à nu - A propos du processus créatif
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
Marcel Duchamp “laid bare” by Marc Décimo who talks about the creative process in this essay on the father of conceptual art.
Otto Muehl - Lettres à Erika - Journal de l\'actionnisme
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Bibliothèque art action pensée
The correspondance between Otto Muehl and Erika Stocker forms an intense journal of Viennese actionism, and more particularly of the artist's work.
Otto Muehl - Lettres de prison
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Bibliothèque art action pensée
Otto Muehl was condemned to 7 years of prison in 1991. He exchanged letters with his family and friends, he painted.
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster - Alphavilles ?
2004
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A book of sentimental structure of architectural souvenirs gathered during various trips. A collection of images of cities and edificies in alphabetical order beginning with Acapulco-Agra-Albuquerque…
Olivier Mosset - Route Nationale 6
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
Artist's book (photographs taken on the road).
Xavier Douroux - Nouveaux Commanditaires en Bourgogne
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A retrospective presentation of 10 years of creation resulting from the association of international contemporary artists and commissions for public works.
Flower power - Catalogue Lille 2004
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
38.00 20.00 €
Exhibition catalogue on the theme of flowers.
Printemps de septembre à Toulouse – Volume 1 - In extremis
2004
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
(last copies available!)
10.00 7.00 €
Catalogue (with Giovanni Anselmo, Virginie Barré, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Serge Comte, Pascal Convert, Christoph Draeger, Jan Fabre, Roni Horn, Martin Kippenberger, Christian Marclay, Stéphane Sautour, Franck Scurti, Uri Tzaig, Didier Vermeiren, Clotilde Viannay, Rémy Zaugg, Michel Zumpf...).
Elisabeth Wetterwald - Rue sauvage
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
8.00 5.00 €
A collection of essays on ten contemporary artists (Peinado, Achour, Sala, Cattelan, Huyghe, Scanlan, Trouvé, Bublex).
Peter Downsbrough - From [to] (DVD)
2003
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
A b/w movie realized in digital video, on the road and between machines.
7th Lyon Biennal - C\'est arrivé demain – Avant
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
(last copies available!)
Éric Troncy - Coollustre
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
40.00 25.00 €
Three exibitions by Éric Troncy (with Robert Barry, Angela Bulloch, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Sylvie Fleury, Gloria Friedmann, Liam Gillick, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Gucci, Pierre Huyghe, On Kawara, Anselm Kiefer, Bertrand Lavier, Claude Lévêque, Sol LeWitt, Allan McCollum, Sarah Morris, Helmut Newton, Philippe Parreno, Ugo Rondinone, Thomas Ruff, Niele Toroni, Xavier Veilhan, Andy Warhol, Franz West...).
Anna Sanders Films - The In-Between
2003
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
(last copies available!)
27.00 15.00 €
The key book about French production company Anna Sanders Films.
Christophe Cherix - Prise directe
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
11.00 6.00 €
Collection of interview and essays (Parrino, Morris, Armleder, Veilhan, Walsh, Mosset, Gygi, Miller...).
Piero Gilardi - Not for Sale - A la recherche de l\'art relationnel 1982-2000
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
This publication assembles twenty years worth of social, aesthetic and philosophical reflexions that essentially place the individual within the contemporary community.
Chen Zhen - The discussions
2003
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Chen Zhen talks to Daniel Buren, Hou Hanru, Eleonor Heartney, Emma Lavigne, Ken Lum, Enrico Lunghi, Yves Michaux, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Jérôme Sans and Nari Ward and others who shared his adventure in art.
Lee Bul - Monsters
2003
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First monograph.
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster - Films
2003
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster's films and video works.
Jens Haaning - Hello, my name is Jens Haaning
2003
quadrilingual edition (English / Danish / German / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
28.00 15.00 €
Documentation on selected works by Jens Haaning and texts.
On Kawara - Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills
2003
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Kawara's Date paintings, telegrams and books from the One Million Years series.
Lily van der Stokker - Friends and Family
2003
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
50.00 30.00 €
First monograph.
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster - Films
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
24.00 15.00 €
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster's films and video works.
Christiane Geoffroy - Hommage à Grandville
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
10.00 5.00 €
An artistic reflexion on science and images.
Fluxus Dixit - Une anthologie
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
The Fluxus anthology.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Du principe de l\'art et de sa destination sociale
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
This posthumous work is the first study of his friend Gustave Courbet (who requested a text for a catalog), and of the role of art in society.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Les confessions d\'un révolutionnaire
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
The Confessions, written in six weeks in a prison cell, recounts the political life of a social thinker.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Les majorats littéraires (« La propriété intellectuelle c\'est le vol ! ») - (et un choix de Dominique Sagot-Duvauroux de contributions d\'époque sur le droit d\'auteur)
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Proudhon's book against rights of ownership for authors, and collection of the most significant contributions toward the original debate over literary property..
Bernard Réquichot - Ecrits divers - Journal, lettres, textes épars, Faustus, poèmes, 1951-1961
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Bernard Réquichot is well enough known as a painter, but still unknown as a writer. This new posthumous publication of his writings reveals the singular vision of a recluse, close to Stirner.
Raoul Hausmann - Eccentric Sensoriality
2002
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
The last document of the dadasopher of Berlin.
Jean-Pierre Brisset - Œuvres natatoires
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
The funny though serious inventions of the thinker, poet, prophet and annagrammarian.
François Dufrêne - Le Tombeau de Pierre Larousse
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
An unknown, rarely published writer who nevertheless sent shock waves into the 60s and 80s by constructing a text worthy of a great rhetoretician on the game of alliteration.
Marc Décimo - La Bibliothèque de Marcel Duchamp, peut-être
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
An essay on Duchamp's readings, and a systematic chart of his personnal library.
Prières américaines
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A collection of texts and interviews of artists, musicians and art critics (Kim Gordon, Mike Kelley, Christian Marclay, John Miller, Bob Nickas...) based on the relationship between art, "rock" music and culture in the largest sense of the word.
François Hers - Le protocole
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Relations between society and artists.
Nicolas Thély - Vu à la webcam - (essai sur la web-intimité)
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Those who spread their image over Internet, what do they want? And what do those who view them get out of it? Numerous are those who jumped on the bandwagon of the webcam, pushing its spectrum of video-surveillance and condemning it to voyeurism or exhibitionism. Far beyond the simplistic idea of opposing exhibitionist / voyeur, actor / spectator, active / passive, the webcam serves as a meeting point of exchanges, complicity, views of or relationships with others, what Nicolas Thély terms as "web-intimacy".
Éric Troncy - Le docteur Olive dans la cuisine avec le revolver - Monographies et entretiens 1989-2002
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Texts and interviews by Eric Troncy.
Öyvind Fahlström - Essais choisis
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
A selection of essays by the artist, poet, writer, happening-maker, cinematographer, art and literary critic.
Lee Bul - Monsters
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First monograph (available in English edition).
Bruno Serralongue -
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
This is the first monograph of this photographic artist who, for the past ten years has investigated all the four corners of the planet.
Lilian Bourgeat -
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
15.00 5.00 €
Artist's book.
Charles Fourier - Le nouveau monde industriel et sociétaire ou invention du procédé d\'industrie attrayante et naturelle distribuée par séries passionnées
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
In 1829, Fourier synthesizes his entire doctrine: a systematic critique of civilization and its natural deviations, as well as his proposal for a new social scheme of mutual assocation, governed by passionate attraction rather than by repression and constraint.
Charles Fourier - Théorie de l\'unité universelle - Tome 1
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A social and spiritual vision based on an economy, ecology, education, global erotic sense and aesthetics, according to laws of passionate attraction. A modern proposal for a totally restructured society.
Charles Fourier - Théorie de l\'unité universelle - Tome 2
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A social and spiritual vision based on an economy, ecology, education, global erotic sense and aesthetics, according to laws of passionate attraction. A modern proposal for a totally restructured society.
Jean-Pierre Brisset - Œuvres complètes
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A monument for both linquists and writers.
Marc Décimo - Jean-Pierre Brisset - Prince des penseurs, inventeur, grammairien et prophète
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A complete panorama of the astonishing personality of the unknown writer, grammarian, cosmologist and inventor.
Michel Giroud - Mille voix / 1000 voies - Comment va ta vache ?
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
5.00 2.00 €
A Fluxus journal.
Otto Muehl - Sortir du bourbier
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Bibliothèque art action pensée
The actionnist's autobiography.
Maurizio Cattelan - 6th Caribbean Biennal - A Project by Maurizio Cattelan
2001
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A true false Caribbean biennial imagined by Maurizio Cattelan for ten real artists.
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