Les presses du réel – editions
 
Carlo Ginzburg - Peur révérence terreur - Quatre essais d\'iconographie politique
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The frontispiece of Hobbes' Leviathan, Marat at his last breath by David, "Your country needs you", Guernica by Picasso: four essays on political iconography.
Horst Bredekamp - Leibniz, Herrenhausen et Versailles - Le jardin à la française, un parcours de la modernité
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History –
A Leibnizian reinterpretation of the traditional opposition between French geometric and English landscape gardens.
Thomas Crow - Comprendre Andy Warhol / Comprendre l\'art contemporain
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History –
Thomas Crow aims to explain what makes Warhol a precursor and a virtual paragon of the contemporary artist.
Judith Ickowicz - Le droit après la dématérialisation de l\'œuvre d\'art
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
The law after the dematerialization of the artwork: a legal perspective on contemporary art.
Lucio Fontana - Ecrits (manifestes, textes, entretiens)
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
An anthology of Fontana's manifestos, texts and interviews.
Lucio Fontana - Ecrits (manifestes, textes, entretiens)
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
An anthology of Fontana's manifestos, texts and interviews.
Stéphanie Cherpin - The Landscape Opens at Set Times
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First monograph on Stéphanie Cherpin's work, with two essays, an interview, and a complete catalogue of her sculptures.
Veduta / Lyon Biennal 2011 - A Terrible Beauty Is Born
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
(last copies available!)
30.00 15.00 €
A retrospective overview of the 11th edition of the Lyon Biennale, curated by Argentinean curator Victoria Noorthoorn, with a focus on the two parallel programs “Veduta” and “Resonance”, held in the Lyon conurbation and its region.
Thalia Field - L\'amateur d\'oiseaux, côté jardin
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Motion Method Memory
At the crossroads of genres and species, Thalia Field expands the art of storytelling.
Le tournant populaire des Cultural Studies - L\'histoire  de l\'art face à une nouvelle cartographie du goût (1964-2008)
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An anthology which brings to light the fertile relations between two disciplines: Cultural Studies and art history.
Tacet - Experimentation As Questioning
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
2nd issue of the experimental music annual review, around the question of experimentation in music.
Xavier Forneret - Ecrits complets - Volume I (1834-1876) – Théâtre, poésie, musique
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
The theatrical, poetical and musical work of Xavier Forneret, French Romantic writer, precursor of the Surrealist movement.
Xavier Forneret - Ecrits complets - Volume II (1836-1880) – Aphorismes, contes et récits, roman, vie quotidienne
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Stories, novels, correspondence and short texts by Xavier Forneret, French Romantic writer, precursor of the Surrealist movement.
Parachute - The Anthology (vol. 1) – Museums, Art History, and Theory
2013
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
An anthology (1975-2000).
Igor Zabel - Contemporary Art Theory
2013
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
Igor Zabel's writings.
Francesco Bonami - Cattelan, Maurizio - Autobiographie non autorisée
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fama
The legendary life of Maurizio Cattelan: a fictional biography of which the artist himself is the biographer.
Francesco Bonami - Cattelan, Maurizio - Autobiographie non autorisée
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fama
The legendary life of Maurizio Cattelan: a fictional biography of which the artist himself is the biographer.
Céline Guillot - Inventer un peuple qui manque : que peut la littérature pour la communauté ? - Blanchot, Bataille, Char, Michaux, Nancy, Agamben
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field
An analysis of the contemporary crisis of the concept of community, rethought in a philosophical but also poetical perspective, from the work of Maurice Blanchot, Jean-Luc Nancy, Giorgio Agamben, Georges Bataille, René Char, and Henri Michaux.
Cécile Pichon-Bonin - Peinture et politique en URSS - L\'itinéraire des membres de la Société des artistes de chevalet (OST) (1917-1941)
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A study of the production and reception of art in the USSR in the years 1920-1930 through the analysis of the work of the Society of Easel Painters (OST)'s members.
Emmanuel Pernoud - Paradis ordinaires - L\'artiste au jardin public
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Dedalus
Public garden in art between the mid-XIXth and early XXth centuries.
Phill Niblock - Working Title (+ DVDs)
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
An overview of American minimalist composer, filmmaker and video artist Phill Niblock's work since the 60's, through about twenty essays and interviews by musicologists, art critics and historians, various documents, scores, and more than 8 hours of videos on DVDs.
Johanne Villeneuve - Chris Marker - La compagnie des images
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
Digital book.
Emmanuelle Huynh - Histoire(s) et lectures
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
A dialogue between two major contemporary choregraphers.
Charles Dreyfus Pechkoff - Fluxus - L\'Avant-garde en mouvement
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Essay and interviews.
Pierre-Yves Macé - Musique et document sonore - Enquête sur la phonographie documentaire  dans les pratiques musicales contemporaines
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
An investigation into the uses of “sound document” in music, since the beginning of phonography.
John Miller - The Ruin of Exchange
2012
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
The production/reception dialectic.
Raymond Bellour - Between-the-Images
2012
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
Art and moving images.
Charles de Meaux - Art at the Time of World expos - Yeosu – A Project by Charles de Meaux
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
15.00 8.00 €
The history of art in the context of universal exhibitions since the late nineteenth century to Charles de Meaux's visual and sound installation for Yeosu 2012.
Sabine Prokhoris - Le fil d\'Ulysse - Retour sur Maguy Marin (+ CD / DVD)
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
An insight into the work of French dancer and choreographer Maguy Marin, with a film on DVD and an audio CD.
Thierry Davila - Pascal Broccolichi - Cartographie de l\'inouï (+ CD)
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
Reference monograph dedicated to an artist who works with sound as a material.
Jürgen Schreiber - Richter, peintre d\'Allemagne - Le drame d\'une famille
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fama
A biographical approach to Gerhard Richter's work.
Jürgen Schreiber - Richter, peintre d\'Allemagne - Le drame d\'une famille
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fama
A biographical approach to Gerhard Richter's work.
Gerhard Richter - Textes
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Richter's texts, essays, letters, manifestos, and interviews.
Gerhard Richter - Textes
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Richter's texts, essays, letters, manifestos, and interviews.
Luigi Ontani - CoacerVolubilEllittico
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph.
Jim Shaw - Left Behind (box set)
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
Luxurious box set of three books dedicated to the monumental eponymous body of works.
Plumes et Pinceaux – Discours de femmes sur l\'art en Europe (1750-1850) - Volume 1
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Women's artistic literature: a collective and transnational history of discourses of women on art in the 18th and 19th centuries (essays).
Plumes et Pinceaux – Discours de femmes sur l\'art en Europe (1750-1850) - Volume 2, Anthologie
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Women's artistic literature: a collective and transnational history of discourses of women on art in the 18th and 19th centuries (an anthology of essays, articles, travelogues, letters ...).
Émile Bernard - Les lettres d\'un artiste (1884-1941)
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Émile Bernard's correspondence.
Sophie Statius - Langage de l\'enfant, langage du peuple - Qu\'est-ce que la « vie du langage » ?
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
The relationship between language and thought in pedagogy and humanities at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries.
Jonathan Beecher - Victor Considerant - Grandeur et décadence du socialisme romantique
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A critical biography.
Vincent Rafis - P.S.|S.K. - Essai sur Sarah Kane
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
A biographical rereading of the English playwright's work.
Eric Valentin - Claes Oldenburg et Coosje van Bruggen - La sculpture comme subversion de l\'architecture (1981-1997)
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
A philosophical, social and political study of a series of public sculptures by Claes Oldenburg et Coosje van Bruggen.
Vittorio Santoro - D[a]edalus, my father\'s horse, taken from the mill, a tourné en rond autour d\'une statue de...
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
35.00 19.00 €
Works 2007-2011, with a new essay by noted British critic Rebecca Geldard as well as a preface by curator and art historian Daniel Kurjaković.
Artistes et partis - Esthétique et politique (1900-1945)
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Artists and parties: aesthetics and politics in the first half of the 20th century.
Antje Kramer - L\'aventure allemande du Nouveau Réalisme  - Réalités et fantasmes d\'une néo-avant-garde européenne (1957-1963)
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The Nouveau Réalisme between Paris and West Germany in the 1960's.
Peter Galison - Objectivité
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
The story of objectivity, by two of the greatest historians of science today.
Myriam Gourfink - Danser sa créature
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
Different readings and interpretations of French choreographer Myriam Gourfink's work.
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