Les presses du réel – editions
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
The work of an underestimated writer, a founder of the Ultraism, initiator of Dada in the 1920s Spain.
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Accompanied with Fluxus pamphlets, manifestoes and newspapers of the artist, the unpublished manuscript of the mother of the founder of the avant-garde movement constitutes an invaluable entry to the private world of Maciunas, and the occasion of a revaluation of its artistic and strategic choices.
2009
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
currently out of stock
The bestseller publication dedicated to pioneering curators and presents a unique collection of interviews by Hans Ulrich Obrist.
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
(last copies available!)
25.00 19.00 €
Digital technologies and interactivity in the artistic field, in an historic and experimental perspective (new edition).
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
First translation in French of a major work by British social anthropologist.
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
The central role of female body in the history of anatomy, beyond the historiographical "taboo" around the religious prohibition.
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
A collection of texts on contemporary experimental practices in art.
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
The first, fundamental work in which Fourier declares his objectives for a world government and economy administered by "Passionate Attraction".
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
For the 20 years of Cahiers Charles Fourier: new issues, vast territories, meeting with readers of Fourier (architects, mediums, and anarchists); critical edition of Roland Barthes' researches on Fourier, actuality of Fourierism.
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
30.00 15.00 €
The catalogue of the 10th edition, curated by Hou Hanru, from September 2009 to January 2010.
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
35.00 19.00 €
Catalogue of the first Rennes Biennal,
exploring what artistic activity and corporate/business activity have in common (and what sets them apart): work and labour, creators of value. With 60 international artists (Adel Abdessemed, Boris Achour, Jean-Marc Chapoulie, Claude Closky, Hans Peter Feldmann, Robert Filliou, Claire Fontaine, Pierre Huyghe, Jean-Charles Massera, Mathieu Mercier, Gianni Motti, Jean-Luc Moulène, Simon Starling...).
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Documenting works by artists dealing with performative issues between the 1960s and today, this catalogue, gathering numerous essays, questions the nature and the relevance of “performative” objects in contemporary practices (also available in English edition).
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A series of works by international artists presented in the style of a natural history museum collection.
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Literature – Motion Method Memory
45.00 20.00 €
Filmed bilingual lectures (9 video DVDs): a perspective on contemporary French and American poetry.
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Literature – Motion Method Memory
45.00 20.00 €
Filmed bilingual lectures (9 video DVDs): a perspective on contemporary French and American poetry.
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
An illustrated essay devoted to Norwegian author Jon Fosse, a cross-reading of the major themes of his theater.
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
First publication in French on a major figure of British Pop Art, this essay analyses notably the questioning of the contemporary appearances in Richard Hamilton's works.
2009
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Artists' books & editions
25.00 12.50 €
The live recording of the performance given by the artists at NBK, Berlin, 17 August 2008
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
The first monograph on the multiple activities of the artist / musician / performer, with numerous illustrations, texts, and an audio CD.
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Fabula
An unfinished project by Eisenstein inspired by the deconstruction of traditional architecture and its ideologies.
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
An essay on the reception of Jean-Pierre-Brisset's work among his contemporaries and successors, its relationship with futurism, pataphysics, surrealism, dada, etc., its sources and its offspring in the fields of literature, linguistics, psychoanalysis, science, philosophy and art.
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An essay / manifesto to reconsider the objectivity of the sensations provided by artworks, and to reconsider contemporary art in itself rather than as a genre, alongside modern and classical art.
2009
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Conceived by the artist, an exhaustive monograph on Laurent Grasso's body of work, with texts, interview, documents and 300 color illustrations.
2009
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph, conceived in close collaboration with Bertrand Lavier, with the most recent works (ceramics, ethnic scultpures) in front of some more ancient pieces.
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Monograph (available in English edition).
2009
bilingual edition (French / Italian)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph, conceived in close collaboration with Bertrand Lavier, with the most recent works (ceramics, ethnic scultpures) in front of some more ancient pieces (also available in bilingual English / French edition).
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
25.00 15.00 €
First monograph devoted to the work of French artist/photographer: an uncanny typological inventory of social representations of mankind (and especially women), questioning the status of contemporary photograph, between documentary, constructed fiction and visual art.
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
Monograph accompanied by a signed and numbered print (1-25) from the "Beyrouth, photographs" series (1984).
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field
A pioneering essay on W. G. Sebald (1944-2001), a major author in German contemporary literature, the founder of a literary materialism.
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
10.00 5.00 €
An essay / a collection of memories, facts, stories and ideas on Vietnam by Niele Toroni's wife.
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An essay on French artist Paul Chenavard (1807-1895), romantic cursed painter-prophet, illustrating the distance between the historic claims which build the modern myth of the artist and a relative efficiency.
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
An innovative analysis of Dalí's work which focuses on the cultural History during the 1920's, showing that the Surrealist revolution went hand in hand with radical changes in society.
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A complete overview of a pioneer in the field of interactive electronic and musical sculpture's work, with numerous illustrations, texts, and an audio CD with musical installations recordings.
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
Curiously enough, although Duchamp considered eroticism as the main topic of his work, no essay had really focused on that matter yet. This book collects the lectures of about twenty international art historians and critics during a symposium organized by Marc Décimo.
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Bibliothèque art action pensée
Viennese Actionism was one of the strongest effort of the 1960's to develop contemporary art and a forerunner of what is now widely known as Performance Art. Danièle Roussel interviewed not only the former actionists (Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, Günther Brus, Rudolf Schwarzkogler) but also some journalists, politicians, historians and witnesses of that time.
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Œuvres en sociétés
A major contribution, by German philosoph and art historian Horst Bredekamp, to the current debate on the 'tree of life' in evolutionary biology. The essay deals with the aesthetic and political dimension of the coral, in Darwin's system a model of anarchic evolution which opposes the hierarchical metaphor of the tree.
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
Special issue devoted to Victor Considerant (1808-2008).
2008
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
Between critical writing and visual art practice.
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference retrospective monograph conceived by French artist Cécile Bart, with five essays and more than 200 reproductions, from her earliest screens/paintings, playing on the clearance of light in the diaphanous body of a fine film of Tergal cloth, to her most recent works involving threads of coloured cotton and wool.
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Monograph dedicated to Swiss artist's words-images, presenting his most recent paintings, wall paintings, and installations, with 20 texts by art critics and artists friends of Robert-Tissot.
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Complete monograph on a master of experimental cinema, with a general introduction, several essays, texts by the artist and interviews (available in English edition).
2008
trilingual edition (English / Dutch / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
A set of incisive, funny and poetic drawings by the Belgian artist, capturing the small events of his everyday life or sudden ideas which could become works.
2008
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
A video work by Samuel Bianchini created as an extension to a dance solo by Paul-André Fortier, accompanied with a musical creation of Johnathan F. Lee.
2008
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
A documentary conceived by the artist from the starting point of a former
exhibition whose lightning system is made to flicker at a frequency of 7.8 hz. A compilation of dark-pop music from the eighties and the nineties emphazises
the artist's capture of the flashing apparatus.
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
(last copies available!)
23.00 10.00 €
Retrospective catalogue of the French art center.
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
(last copies available!)
Retrospective catalogue of the ancient rural synagogue transformed in a major contemporary creation space: installations views, presentation of each exhibition, artists' contributions and essays.
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
12.00 8.00 €
This publication presents the 2004-2006 program of Forde independent contemporary art space (with John Baldessari, Philippe Decrauzat, Scott King, Wade Guyton, Mathieu Mercier, Mai-Thu Perret, Seth Price...).
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
26.00 18.00 €
The Institute for
Contemporary Art in a two volumes boxset: memories, symposiums, conferences, images of the main exhibitions, specific projects.