Les presses du réel – editions
 
Joël Hubaut - Re-mix épidemik - Esthétique de la dispersion
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
An exhaustive documentation on the work of the French artist since 1970, fully illustrated.
Didier Marcel -
2006
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
Reference monograph on the French artist (landscapes, installations, sculptures; architectural models, drawings).
Richard Phillips -
2006
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
Illustrated monograph dedicated to the American hyperrealist artist's drawings. With texts by Kim Gordon, Liam Gillick, Karl Holmqvist...
 Yan Pei-Ming - Execution
2006
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A collection of texts and interviews around the artist's work.
Annette Messager - Mot pour mot
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Lavishly illustrated, this monograph contains a collection of texts and interviews with the artist, many of which are unpublished.
Annette Messager - Mot pour mot - Signed edition with original artwork
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
currently out of stock
A limited and signed edition of the monograph Mot pour mot, with original artwork by the artist.
Jean-Philippe Antoine - Marcel Broodthaers - Moule, Muse, Méduse
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field
Poetry and space for Marcel Broodthaers—a critical essay.
Christophe Huysman - 8 poèmes
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field – Fictions
8 poems, between theater and performance.
Edouard Merino - Avant la neige / Je suis une Mercedes 300SL / Mario
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field – Fictions
A collection of dadaïst and surrealistic texts.
Marie Le Masson Le Golft - Balance de la nature
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Miss Marie le Masson Le Golft (1749-1826) is known as the lady who noted Nature.
Richard Huelsenbeck - Almanach Dada
2005
bilingual edition (German / French)
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
Reprint of the first Dada anthology (Berlin, 1920), with Tzara's chronicles, manifests and documents.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Carnets (1847-1851)
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
An essential work covering the activities of the 19th century French theoretician of anarchy, federalism, perpetual education and the mutual principle.
Emile Pouget - Le sabotage
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
A 19th century political activism classic.
Cahiers Charles Fourier
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
Loïc Raguénès - Vie Nouvelle
2005
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Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
Artist's book: a journey through Tyrol landscapes with Bob Dylan.
Printemps de septembre à Toulouse – Volume 2 - Vertiges
2005
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
15.00 5.00 €
Contemporary art French festival catalogue (with Franz Ackermann, Fred Tomaselli, Chloe Piene, David Reed, Siobhan Hapaska, James Rosenquist, Franz West, Jennifer Steinkamp, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Gerhard Merz, Cindy Sherman, Stephane Calais, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Sigmar Polke, Daniel Schlier, Ger Van Elk, Alice Anderson...).
Annie Claustres - Hans Hartung - Les aléas d\'une réception
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
Hans Hartung always gave a lot of attention to the filing of his works. This essay on the abstract painter is linked with a specific web site where one will find a rich iconography and documentation.
Marc Décimo - Le Diable au désert – Ananké Hel ! - suivi de Paul Tisseyre-Ananké : Rires et larmes dans l\'armée !
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
An essay on Paul Tisseyre Ananké, the military officer in saharian French colonies and writer, which proposes a linguistic and biographic approach, accompanying the reedition of Ananké's book, denouncing the horrors of the French colonisation in Africa.
Marc Décimo - Le Duchamp facile
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
A new approach of Duchamp's keywords.
Richard Martel - Art-Action
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Art as actions : a collection of Martel's essays and articles since the eighties.
Yayoi Kusama - Manhattan Suicide Addict
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
26.00 15.00 €
First French translation of the Kusama's psychedelic novel.
Mark Handforth -
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First monograph devoted to the US-based British artist, known for his sculptures made from everyday objects and urban furniture (also available in English edition).
Olivier Dubouclez - Valère Novarina - La physique du drame
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field
An essay on Novarina's dramatic theatrical and literary work.
Luvah Fluxus
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
15.00 8.00 €
Fluxus special issue: texts by theoreticians and artists (Conz, Ucciani, Giroud, Donguy, Martel, Chopin, Heidsieck...), documents (Dupuy, Knowles, Ben, Williams...) .
Gottfried Honegger - Homo scriptor
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Honegger' eclectic writings since 50 years.
Liam Gillick - Gabriel Tarde - Underground (Fragments of Future Histories)
2004
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
(last copies available!)
Script of the movie by Liam Gillick, adaptation of Underground Man - Fragments of Future Histories, by Gabriel Tarde (1896).
Thomas Lawson - Mining for Gold - Selected Writings (1976-2002)
2004
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
An anthology of the artist's important essays, published between 1978 and today in the pages of Artforum, Flash Art and Lawson's own magazine Real Life.
Nicolas Schöffer -
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph.
Peter Downsbrough - ET/C (DVD)
2004
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
An urban journey.
Vincent Pécoil - The Purloined Letter
2004
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
14.00 7.00 €
Exhibition catalogue (with John Armleder, Maurizio Cattelan, Stéphane Dafflon, Philippe Decrauzat, Sylvie Fleury, Mike Kelley, Bertrand Lavier, Sherrie Levine, Allan McCollum, Sarah Morris, Olivier Mosset, Olaf Nicolai, Daniel Pflumm, Daan van Golden, Kelley Walker, Lawrence Weiner...).
Michel Gauthier - Olivier Cadiot - Le facteur vitesse
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field
Essay.
Adelfo Scaranello -
2004
texts in English and French
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
First monograph dedicated to the French architect.
Lydie Fischer Sarazin-Levassor - Un échec matrimonial - Le cœur de la mariée mis à nu par son célibataire même (Marcel Duchamp et Lydie Fischer Sarazin-Levassor)
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Marcel Duchamp met Lydie Sarazin-Levassor at the end of March 1927. On 7 June, they were married. Francis Picabia acted as a witness and the ceremony was filmed by Man Ray. On 25 January 1928, they divorced. Lydie Sarazin-Levassor tells the story of their marriage, presents us with “her” Marcel, and relates her encounters with Jacques Doucet, Constantin Brancusi, Henri-Pierre Roché, Man Ray and Kiki de Montparnasse, Jean Cocteau, the Ballets Russes, the Duchamp family, Jean Crotti, Mary Rumsey, Katherine Dreier and Robert Desnos, and describes the atmosphere at the Villons' (in Puteaux, just outside Paris), the Picabias' (at Mougins, in the South of France) and the Sarazin-Levassors' (in Étretat, on the Normandy coast).
Marc Décimo - Marcel Duchamp mis à nu - A propos du processus créatif
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
Marcel Duchamp “laid bare” by Marc Décimo who talks about the creative process in this essay on the father of conceptual art.
Otto Muehl - Lettres à Erika - Journal de l\'actionnisme
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Bibliothèque art action pensée
The correspondance between Otto Muehl and Erika Stocker forms an intense journal of Viennese actionism, and more particularly of the artist's work.
Otto Muehl - Lettres de prison
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Bibliothèque art action pensée
Otto Muehl was condemned to 7 years of prison in 1991. He exchanged letters with his family and friends, he painted.
Nicolas Bourriaud - Postproduction - La culture comme scénario : comment l\'art reprogramme le monde contemporain
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
The art of postproduction as a response to the proliferating chaos of global culture in the information age (also available in English edition).
Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster - Alphavilles ?
2004
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A book of sentimental structure of architectural souvenirs gathered during various trips. A collection of images of cities and edificies in alphabetical order beginning with Acapulco-Agra-Albuquerque…
Olivier Mosset - Route Nationale 6
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
Artist's book (photographs taken on the road).
Xavier Douroux - Nouveaux Commanditaires en Bourgogne
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A retrospective presentation of 10 years of creation resulting from the association of international contemporary artists and commissions for public works.
Flower power - Catalogue Lille 2004
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
38.00 20.00 €
Exhibition catalogue on the theme of flowers.
Printemps de septembre à Toulouse – Volume 1 - In extremis
2004
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
(last copies available!)
10.00 7.00 €
Catalogue (with Giovanni Anselmo, Virginie Barré, Céleste Boursier-Mougenot, Serge Comte, Pascal Convert, Christoph Draeger, Jan Fabre, Roni Horn, Martin Kippenberger, Christian Marclay, Stéphane Sautour, Franck Scurti, Uri Tzaig, Didier Vermeiren, Clotilde Viannay, Rémy Zaugg, Michel Zumpf...).
Elisabeth Wetterwald - Rue sauvage
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
8.00 5.00 €
A collection of essays on ten contemporary artists (Peinado, Achour, Sala, Cattelan, Huyghe, Scanlan, Trouvé, Bublex).
Peter Downsbrough - From [to] (DVD)
2003
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
A b/w movie realized in digital video, on the road and between machines.
7th Lyon Biennal - C\'est arrivé demain – Avant
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
(last copies available!)
Éric Troncy - Coollustre
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
40.00 25.00 €
Three exibitions by Éric Troncy (with Robert Barry, Angela Bulloch, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Sylvie Fleury, Gloria Friedmann, Liam Gillick, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Gucci, Pierre Huyghe, On Kawara, Anselm Kiefer, Bertrand Lavier, Claude Lévêque, Sol LeWitt, Allan McCollum, Sarah Morris, Helmut Newton, Philippe Parreno, Ugo Rondinone, Thomas Ruff, Niele Toroni, Xavier Veilhan, Andy Warhol, Franz West...).
Anna Sanders Films - The In-Between
2003
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
(last copies available!)
27.00 15.00 €
The key book about French production company Anna Sanders Films.
Christophe Cherix - Prise directe
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
11.00 6.00 €
Collection of interview and essays (Parrino, Morris, Armleder, Veilhan, Walsh, Mosset, Gygi, Miller...).
Piero Gilardi - Not for Sale - A la recherche de l\'art relationnel 1982-2000
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
This publication assembles twenty years worth of social, aesthetic and philosophical reflexions that essentially place the individual within the contemporary community.
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