Les presses du réel – editions
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
forthcoming
The autobiography, translated into French for the first time, of Ré Soupault (1901-1996), trained at the Bauhaus, photographer, filmmaker, stylist, writer and traveler, translator of Dada and Surrealism, major protagonist of European artistic, literary and intellectual life, and companion of the avant-garde throughout the 20th century.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
forthcoming
A radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
forthcoming
Performance in the United States as told by those who practiced and theorized it (texts by Al Hansen, Allan Kaprow, Anna Halprin, Carolee Schneemann, Emmett Williams, George Brecht, John Cage, Jonas Mekas, Robert Watts, Yvonne Rainer).
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
forthcoming
Performance in the United States as told by those who practiced and theorized it (texts by Carl Loeffler, Chris Burden, Claes Oldenburg, Jean Toche, Joan Jonas, Jon Hendricks, Lucinda Childs, Merce Cunningham, Meredith Monk, Vito Acconci, Wolf Vostell).
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
forthcoming
A collection of texts and interviews, some previously unpublished, covering a period of 40 years, with rare illustrations.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
forthcoming
A collective work examining fifty years of poetic activity by Bernard Heidsieck (1928-2014), a central figure in sound poetry and performance poetry, a major poet of the second half of the 20th century, along multiple axes.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
forthcoming
Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
forthcoming
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
forthcoming
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
forthcoming
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Figures
forthcoming
In a collection of interviews given over a period of almost twenty years, a poet seeks to find out a little more about what he makes by confronting his practice with other arts (plastic, sound, scenic).
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
forthcoming
The stock theatrical character Pierrot is an enduring figure in French visual art, where he emerges at the intersection of theatricality and the marketplace. This book offers an account of Pierrot's recurrence in painting, prints, photography and film, tracing this distinctive type from the art of Watteau to the cinema of Occupied France.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
forthcoming
A vast collection of Ettore Sottsass's writings, edited by design historian Emanuele Quinz.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
forthcoming
A seminal exploration into screens' crucial functions and profound impact on human culture.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
Artists' activity examined through the notion of reparation, from the interdisciplinary perspective of the living arts (theater, dance, performance, mediation, multiple practices).
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Cinétisme
forthcoming
A selection of René Berger's lectures and the proceedings of a symposium he had organized around art, technology and communication, offering a closer insight into his thinking on video art and new media.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
forthcoming
A wide-ranging philosophical investigation into the origins and potential of "perspectivism", beyond mere relativism and subjective "interpretation".
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
forthcoming
A monograph highlighting the diversity and richness of the work of Chantal Montellier, a comic-book pioneer and mentor to younger generations.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
forthcoming
The first volume of essays devoted to the work of Liliane Giraudon explores the diversity of her oeuvre, its interdisciplinarity but also its coherence, and enables us to understand what makes its strength and importance in the contemporary literary landscape.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
forthcoming
A history of art in France from the women's perspective.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
forthcoming
An autobiographical account and uncompromising meditation on the meaning of design, in the voice of the man who represented the ethical and political conscience of the discipline in the second half of the 20th century.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
forthcoming
A vast research project to explore the connections and mutual enrichment between cinema and design, both considered as reservoirs of fiction: an illustrated inventory of impossible and unthinkable objects, with some thirty contributions by design researchers and designers.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Perceptions
forthcoming
The other side of images in cinema, between phenomenology, art history, literature and ecology.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Medias/Theories
An unclassifiable classic, precursor of the “material turn” and of media theory, finally reissued.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Through the operative concept of literary and political extremism, this volume explores the links between the revolutionary aspirations of far-left socio-political movements and the quest for a new articulation between literature and reality in 1970s Italy, a dynamic exemplified by poet and novelist Nanni Balestrini (1935-2019).
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A challenging study of contemporary theater in all its political dimensions.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Pictorial abstraction in the Middle Ages: an innovative reflection that offers a powerful cross-disciplinary approach to medieval art, under a completely rethought concept of abstraction in close contact with finely analyzed images.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
The critical edition of the pioneering work on art history by Françoise d'Eaubonne (1920-2005), inventor of the concept of ecofeminism.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Ornella Volta's definitive posthumous book on Erik Satie, featuring all the composer's writings, largely unpublished documentation and biographical elements, for the first time precisely related to the works.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
A set of insights into the mass culture of the Weimar Republic, and its rituals of distraction, which prefigure our present.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
A card game designed by Chloé Déchery and Marion Boudier, in collaboration with illustrator Éric Valette, to contribute to the development of a “culture of return” in artistic creation, distribution and teaching.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
Research-creation reconsidered from its historical upstream (before, when we spoke of Arts-Sciences), but also from its possible downstream (after, from the point of view of other conceptions and other practices yet to be invented).
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A both poetic and political text which supports the French social movement that began on 31 March 2016.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A history of the representation of blindness in art, from Brueghel to Louise Bourgeois.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
An exploration of the ecologies of music and sound, from an ecosophical and emancipatory perspective.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Medias/Theories
Drawing on the notion of “cultural technique”, Bernhard Siegert thoroughly revitalizes posthumanist media studies.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
A new field of counter-investigation across journalism, human rights, art and law.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
A set of insights into the mass culture of the Weimar Republic, and its rituals of distraction, which prefigure our present.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A new reading of the links between artistic practices that emerged in Japan in the late 1960s, against a backdrop of reconstruction and massive industrialization, and those of contemporary artists addressing current environmental issues.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Figures
A panoramic, cross-border exploration of performative practices in literature, art, dance, theater and more.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An original history of Pop Art from the point of view of drawing, resituating the leading role played by this medium in the development of closer links between art and life.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
What meaning can be given to abstract art forms when the figurative is evacuated in favor of pure gesture and color? This book investigates the case of Hans Hartung, delving into the depths of his psyche—at the frontier between aesthetics, neuroscience, psychoanalysis and medicine.
2025
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
currently out of stock
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic kitchen objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room.
2025
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
currently out of stock
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic bathroom objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic kitchen objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room.