Les presses du réel – editions
 
Véronique Goël - Films et installlations, 1979-2023
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Cinétisme
forthcoming
First monograph, documenting the filmmaker's work as a whole, at the intersection of independent cinema, contemporary art, photography and installation.
Hans Ulrich Obrist - The Indian Files
2025
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
forthcoming
A much-needed mapping of the Indian art scene.
Ed Ruscha - A Reader
2025
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
forthcoming
Renewing our understanding of Ruscha's art.
Louis Ucciani - Essais d\'esthétiques new-yorkaises
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
forthcoming
A philosopher's journey into the heart of New York artistic life.
Jonathan Crary - L\'écorchement du monde - Pour en finir avec l\'ère numérique : vers un monde post-capitaliste
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
forthcoming
Refusing the digital world of late capitalism.
Eyal Weizman - L\'art de la contre-enquête - Esthétiques de l\'investigation – Politiques de vérité
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
forthcoming
A new field of counter-investigation across journalism, human rights, art and law.
Horst Bredekamp - La psychanalyse figurative de Sigmund Freud - Le Moïse de Michel-Ange et la collection d\'idoles
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
forthcoming
Aline Wiame - Revenir d\'entre les morts - Deleuze et la croyance en ce monde au cinéma et dans les séries
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
forthcoming
A very personal essay that provides a clear introduction to Gilles Deleuze's thinking through his relationship with cinema, seen as a field of experimentation (existential, conceptual and aesthetic) to resist death, disaster and the stupefaction produced by the “modern fact”.
Makis Solomos - Pour une écologie de la musique et du son - Le vivant, le mental et le social dans la musique, les arts sonores et les artivismes d\'aujourd\'hui
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
forthcoming
An exploration of the ecologies of music and sound, from an ecosophical and emancipatory perspective.
Emmanuel Alloa - Le contemporain, l\'intempestif et l\'imminent - Petits arrangements avec une époque
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
forthcoming
A reflection on our present, through a series of portraits of contemporary artists.
Vilém Flusser - Vampyroteuthis infernalis
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
forthcoming
The new and definitive edition of Vilém Flusser's fabulous treatise, based on the original French typescripts.
Jessica Russell - Architecture / Astrologie
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
forthcoming
Artist Dan Graham and writer Jessica Russell's playful Architecture / Astrologie considers some of the most important and innovative figures in the world of architecture from an angle few would expect: their star signs.
Marion Laval-Jeantet - Microbiota - Créer et soigner
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
forthcoming
Marion Laval-Jeantet's research into therapeutic care continues her work with Benoît Mangin under the name of Object-Oriented Art on microbiota, at the crossroads of scientific art, biology, anthropology, psychology and ethology.
Uno Kuniichi - Artaud pensée et corps
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
forthcoming
Jacques Donguy - De Jeff Golyscheff à Stelarc - De l\'avant-garde à la post-humanité
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
forthcoming
A collection of texts and interviews, some previously unpublished, covering a period of 40 years, with rare illustrations.
Jacques Donguy - Catalogue raisonné de l\'œuvre de Jean-François Bory
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
forthcoming
Florence Pazzottu - Frères numains - Discours aux classes intermédiaires
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
forthcoming
A both poetic and political text which supports the French social movement that began on 31 March 2016.
Ornella Volta - Autres écrits
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
forthcoming
Writings, manuscripts, bibliography, index.
Enzo Mari - 25 façons de planter un clou
2024
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.
Jean-Jacques Lebel - Front Unique - La traversée du surréalisme de Jean-Jacques Lebel
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
forthcoming
This book recounts Jean-Jacques Lebel's long and tumultuous passage through the powerful laboratory of ideas and experiments of surrealism that was the journal Front Unique (1955-1960), which heralded and sometimes prefigured his future protean activities in the fields of art, poetry and militancy (anticolonial and libertarian).
Olivier Berggruen - Formes du désir - Une brève histoire de la collection d\'art
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
forthcoming
This history of art collecting traces a multiplicity of aesthetic attitudes through the prism of certain key figures in the history of taste. Over the course of the chapters, we discover how art collecting reflects—or responds to—an individual's character.
L\'Art dans la vie - Le constructivisme et le productivisme russe dans les textes
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
forthcoming
An anthology of the constructivist movement, bringing together newly translated or previously unpublished writings by artists and theorists, accompanied by numerous illustrations and an extensive critical apparatus: this reference volume sheds new light on the multiplicity and diversity of the approaches of constructivism and productivism in the 1920s-30, and provides a major contribution to the studies of the Soviet avant-garde.
Ida Soulard - Les abstractions concrètes d\'Anni Albers (1899-1994) - Une histoire textile de la modernité
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
forthcoming
A wide-ranging study of the visual and theoretical practice of Anni Albers, a pivotal figure between two continents and two modernities, as part of a general history of art, design and textile production in the European and American women's avant-gardes.
Lionel Marchetti - En cheminant avec La Noire à soixante, une composition de musique concrète de Pierre Henry
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
forthcoming
David Bihanic - Du gouvernement des formes
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
forthcoming
On the relationship between architecture and design.
En quête d\'images - Écritures sensibles en recherche-création
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
An epistemological reflection on sensitive forms of research writing at the crossroads of art, design, anthropology and ergonomics, based on singular inquiry-creation projects.
René Schérer - Cahiers Charles Fourier - René Schérer, un fouriérisme alerte
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
Tribute to philosopher René Schérer (1922-2023), a great Charles Fourier specialist.
Temps naissant - Un glossaire pour le XXIe siècle
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
A groundbreaking, multidisciplinary collection that rethinks our present moment and anticipates the key concepts that will shape and direct the twenty-first century.
Alexandre Chèvremont - Donner lieu au son
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A philosophical reflection on the place of sound, from musical aesthetics to sound habitat, at the crossroads of sound, music and technology studies, and phenomenology.
Morgan Labar - La gloire de la bêtise - Régression et superficialités dans les arts depuis la fin des années 1980
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Œuvres en sociétés
A history of stupidity (deliberate and sometimes even claimed), regression and superficiality in the arts.
Ješa Denegri - The Yugoslav Art Space - Ješa Denegri in the First Person
2024
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
A critical introduction to the life and work of Yugoslav modernist and conceptual art's foremost exponent Ješa Denegri.
Vertiges des temps - Dialogue entre l\'art contemporain et l\'archéologie
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A collective exploration of the relationship between contemporary art and archeology.
Élisée Reclus - Abécédaire Reclus - Les 101 mots d\'Élisée
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A glossary of themes running through the work of Élisée Reclus (1830-1905), reflecting the contemporary relevance and diversity of the anarchist geographer's thought.
Jacques Villeglé - STAR
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Catalog conceived as a tribute to Jacques Villeglé's insatiable curiosity, exploring his relationship with the world of entertainment (cinema, dance, theater and music) from the 1950s to the end of his career, with texts by Julie Chaizemartin, Emma Lavigne, and Jeff Mills.
Jehanne Denogent - Palimpsestes africains - Primitivisme littéraire et avant-gardes (Paris, 1901-1924)
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Œuvres en sociétés
The notion of primitivism rethought to highlight the role of the African referent in the development of the artistic and literary avant-garde in Europe.
Meg Stuart - Let\'s Not Get Used to This Place - Works 2008-2023
2024
English edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
A personal and intimate look behind the scenes of Meg Stuart's creative process over more than a decade.
Lieux et milieux des arts vivants - Performer l\'institution
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
A polyphonic approach to the emergence, since the 2000s, of new institutional forms dedicated to performative artistic practices.
Yaël Kreplak - Les réserves des musées - Écologies des collections
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Using an interdisciplinary approach inspired by science and technology studies, and combining museological and sociological perspectives, this groundbreaking study of museum storerooms sheds new light on the world of art and cultural heritage conservation.
Marc Hurtado - De cœur à cœur
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A large survey of Marc Hurtado's cinematographic, musical, poetic and plastic work, with texts by some thirty authors, artists, critics, poets and musicians from all over the world (Lydia Lunch, Pascal Comelade, Nicolas Ballet, F.J. Ossang, Kris Needs, Nick Soulsby, Nicole Brenez, Vincent Deville, Romain Perrot, Alexandre Breton, Marie Möör...).
We Will Survive - The prepper movement
2024
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
A collective reflection on the ability of objects and design to contribute to survival and protection against disasters, based on an examination of the phenomenon of “preppers”.
We Will Survive - Le mouvement prepper
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
A collective reflection on the ability of objects and design to contribute to survival and protection against disasters, based on an examination of the phenomenon of “preppers” (also available in English edition).
Arts, écologies, transitions - Un abécédaire
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An "ABC of the arts in transition" examining the ecological turn of the arts, the outcome of long-term collective research into the fundamental elements running through the art world and, more generally, the aesthetic and social universe in the current ecological crisis.
Construire un Matrimoine de la BD - Créations, mobilisations et transmissions des femmes dans le neuvième art, en Europe et en Amérique
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
The first scientific work to trace the history of female comic strip creators, for the (re)valorization of women's heritage.
 Andrea Caretto & Raffaella Spagna - Bright Ecologies - Experiences, Forms, Materials
2024
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
The first overview of the artistic research of Andrea Caretto and Raffaella Spagna, an Italian artistic duo focused on site specific art project with a sensible attitude to the landscape.
Laurent Marissal - Portrait d\'un terroriste en amateur d\'art
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Al Dante
Conversation on art, real and imaginary, in 13 tableaux between ex-Action directe member Jann-Marc Rouillan and painter Laurent Marissal.
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