Les presses du réel – editions
 
Louis Ucciani - Avant-garde et contre culture
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Three perspectives (philosophical, sociological and artist's word) on the meaning of the avant-garde, and its relationship to the counter-culture.
Olga Medvedkova - Nom, prénom, patronyme - Enquête en trois cahiers
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Œuvres en sociétés
An experience of introspection, an epistemological reflection and an act of resistance in the face of depersonalization, around the question of the name.
Wendy Hui Kyong Chun - Codes, races, climat, habitudes - Implications sociales de la numérisation
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
New media theorist Wendy Hui Kyong Chun exposes her original conception of programming and code, alerts us to the racialization bias, homophily and eugenic tendencies that govern our interactions on platforms, and analyzes the need to call upon the humanities and social sciences in the development of algorithmic models for predicting the evolutions and impacts of climate change.
Tschabalala Self - Make Room
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First monograph of the African-American artist, renowned for her representations of black femininity, whose spectacular pop patchworks deconstruct and recompose the everyday feminine/masculine relationship in its domestic dimension: an overview of Tschabalala Self's production, with seven essays and an interview.
Joan Mitchell - By her Friends
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An intimate portrait of Joan Mitchell, one of the greatest American painters of the 20th century, through a collection of previously unpublished conversations with the artists, art historians and personalities closest to her, from Paul Auster to Zuka.
 Big Tail Elephant - Build and Resist
2023
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A retrospective of the performances, photographs, installations and videos of the avant-garde collective that disrupted the Chinese cultural scene in the 1990s.
Démosthène Agrafiotis - Prolégomènes à une histoire de la performance en Grèce
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A comprehensive overview of performance and action art in Greece, from its origins to the most contemporary practices.
Liliane Giraudon - Une femme morte n\'écrit pas
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A long narrative poem punctuated by 12x2 drawings, a montage of statements and notations in which a poetess (fat and old) keeps a kind of diary in which the destruction of the private body is articulated to that of the social body.
Adriano Spatola - Vers une poésie totale
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Undoubtedly one of the most important texts on the out of book poetry, both a documentary sum and a manifesto to underline the major role that the poetry and the poets have occupied and occupy in the whole of the transformations that have upset the the contemporary art field, considered by the amateurs and the researchers like a true bible.
Thibault Walter - Audio Trouble - Étude sur les pratiques aurales d\'une école d\'art
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
A singular book resulting from an investigation on the arts of sharing sound in an art school based on experiments with Scott Arford, Mario de Vega, Kevin Drumm, Christina Kubisch, Randy H.Y. Yau, art students and Jason Kahn who offers here a text on his listening to the place.
Les Carnets du BAL - Les temps de l\'image
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
The temporal dimension of the image.
Mário Pedrosa - Discours aux Tupiniquins
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
The great Brazilian critic Mário Pedrosa (1900-1981)'s farewell to art criticism, written to his countrymen in the manner of Montesquieu's Persian Letters.
Traces de guerre
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
An multidisciplinary approach of the war by its traces.
Jacques Donguy - Essai sur la Poésie numérique - Ou vers un élargissement du langage
2023
French edition / excerpts translated into English
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
An international essay (France, USA, Brazil, etc.) on digital poetry, from the first attempts to generate text on the computer to the most contemporary developments and the problems posed by artificial intelligence.
Jérôme Duwa - 591
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
Jérôme Duwa proposes sixteen ways to embark in the company of Jean-François Bory's books.
José Vicente Anaya - Pèlerin
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
The second part of José Vicente Anaya's poetic trilogy, deeply rooted in the infra-realist movement founded in Mexico City in the 1970s, combining verse and prose, is marked by a formal experimentation anchored in the poet's life and his wanderings from the north to the south of Mexico.
José Vicente Anaya - Paria
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
José Vicente Anaya closes his poetic trilogy with a rereading of Mexican political history through the memories of his own wanderings.
Angélica Freitas - Rilke Shake
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Rilke Shake—a humorous variation on the milkshake—summons part of the author's library (Mallarmé, Ezra Pond, Gertrude Stein, etc.) in poetic sketches that are in turn comical, burlesque, and absurd. At once trivial and erudite, this unbridled poetry explodes with images of parties—and the mornings after—, flashes of the street, and reminders of Brazil.
Julien Ladegaillerie - Effracte
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A poetic text fragmented into three parts each generating its own handicap in expressing the economy as alienation from life.
Patrícia Lavelle - Bye bye Babel
2023
bilingual edition (French / Portuguese)
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
The collection of poems by the Brazilian writer, rewritten in French, in a process that includes translation and re-creation, combines with delicacy, ingenuity and great coherence a research on the relationship between language and Eros, personal reflections, extensive cultural references and philosophical questionings.
Adriano Olivetti - Écrits et discours
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
The first collection of writings and speeches in French by Adriano Olivetti (1901-1960), an Italian entrepreneur and publisher who transformed his writing and calculating machine factory into a laboratory for experimenting with a new model of social, political, and cultural life: a model of "concrete utopia" based on the idea of community and centered on the individual, whose instruments of realization are architecture, urbanism, and design.
François Aubart - L\'attitude de la Pictures Generation - Excès, passion et manipulation
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A study of the Pictures Generation that considers the feelings provoked by sensational images manipulated by these artists.
Créativités artificielles - La littérature et l\'art à l\'heure de l\'intelligence artificielle
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
The very first book devoted to the creations of artificial intelligences in literature and art, and the problems they raise.
P.O.L - Futur, ancien, actuel
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
A survey of forty years of publications, highlighting the importance of the French publishing house P.O.L. and its authors in the emergence and definition of what can be called the contemporary in literature.
Serge Lemoine - Nicolas Ionesco - « Du spirituel dans l\'art »
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
The first monograph of the painter Nicolas Ionesco, born in 1919 in Bucharest, active all his life in Paris, who occupied a prominent place in the art of the 1950s before being forgotten because of the direction he had taken his work: an opportunity to reconsider everything anew.
Sophie Basch - Le Japonisme, un art français
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A thorough investigation that renews the understanding of Japonism from the French art of the nineteenth century, avoiding the temptation of orientalist exoticism while reversing the logic of influence, with an abundant also entirely renewed iconographic corpus.
Simon Frith - Une sociologie des musiques populaires
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – ArTeC
Two studies by the pionneer of the popular music studies.
Angles morts du numérique ubiquitaire - Un glossaire critique et amoureux
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
Blind spots of the ubiquitous digital—a critical and loving glossary: 138 entries to explore the unspoken aspects of new technologies, artificial intelligence and other aspects of digital.
Philippe Roy - Appuis - Essai sur la liberté
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
An conceptual attempt to think differently about freedom in its acts.
Pierre Alferi - Une pratique monstre
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
This volume examines the protean and intermedial work of Pierre Alferi (1963-2023), in order to account for its singularity, and to situate it within contemporary poetic and artistic practices.
Jeanne Graff - Vzszhhzz
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
A novel that captures the glancing intersections of a loose group of artists and lawyers, restaurateurs, philosophers, wine-makers, and boxers.
Julien Blaine - Le motier
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
The continuation by all means of an elementary poetry which develops always and still new poetic devices to restore the world.
Norbert Bugeja - Oublie qu\'elle n\'est pas là
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A poetic journey through the anxious spaces of memory, explored here by one of the most powerful voices of Mediterranean poetry of his generation.
Ahmed Slama - Marche-frontière
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A very personal literary narrative, with a singular writing, of a migrant's experience of wandering and borders.
Maureen Murphy - L\'Art de la décolonisation - Paris-Dakar (1950-1970)
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A transnational and transhistorical investigation carried out in the heart of museum and artistic practices between France and Senegal in the 1950s to 1970s, inviting us to decentralize our views in order to consider the globalized history of art of these years in a new light.
Sara Vitacca - Michelangelismes - La réception de Michel-Ange entre mythe, image et création (1875-1914)
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An exploration of the artistic myth of Michelangelo, which questions the multiple and contradictory uses of the past and the notions of reception, filiation and tradition that are revealed.
Cahiers Charles Fourier - Expérimentations fouriéristes – États-Unis, XIXe siècle
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
The diffusion and applications of Fourierist thought in the United States during the 19th century.
Dieter Schnebel - Son et corps
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – ArTeC
A collection of theoretical texts by the German composer: a valuable testimony of his research on the musical link between sound and body.
Marie Pellaton - Flore des friches urbaines
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A new and expanded edition of the reference flora, the result of 20 years of studies and floristic surveys on a multitude of urban wastelands, allowing, through 600 photographs and 800 original drawings, to recognize and name some 300 silent plants that we come across every day: a methodical herbarium of the wastelands which constitutes a true guide to biodiversity, beautiful and playful, accessible and rigorous..
N. Katherine Hayles - Parole, écriture, code
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
How the impact of code on everyday life has become comparable to that of speech and writing.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz - Reverie, Its Practice and Means of Display
2022
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
This reference monograph, revisiting the conceptual and sensorial developments pursued by the artist since the 1970s, with a layout by graphic designer Zak Kyes under the artistic direction of Marc Camille Chaimowicz and Anna Clifford, includes a key text authored by Marie Canet.
Marc Camille Chaimowicz - Rêverie, dans la pratique et dans ses formes
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph (also available in English edition).
591 - Les idiotes
2022
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Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
Special issue dedicated to the simple and spectacular actions of the group of women artists "Les idiotes" (Hélène Defilippi and Sarah Cassenti): "the most raw and naked materiality of the body, which objectifies itself in act and concretizes itself as form."
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