Les presses du réel – editions
 
Gary Webb - Mirage of Loose Change
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Monograph dedicated to one of the most daring sculptors of his generation, whose work generates a sense of mutability, instability and visual tension, derived from a mixed bag of references embracing Pop art, Minimalism, New Generation sculpture, Kinetic art and the Tropicalia movement.
Hans Ulrich Obrist - ...dontstopdontstopdontstopdontstop
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
sold out
A compendium of texts containing famous exhibition case studies, involving some of the more thought-provoking artists, architects, and scientists of our time. A must-have for anyone interested in the unusual strategies of a curator-at-large.
Fabian Stech - J\'ai parlé avec Lavier, Annette Messager, Sylvie Fleury, Hirschhorn, Pierre Huyghe, Delvoye, D.G.-F., Hou Hanru, Sophie Calle, Ming, Sans et Bourriaud
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
sold out
A collection of interviews with artists and curators.
Olivier Mosset -
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Monograph / catalogue documenting recent, actual and future exhibitions dedicated to Mosset's latest works or to a whole radical and minimalist œuvre.
Wade Guyton -
2007
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
sold out
Monograph / artist's book: reproduction on glossy paper of 3 printer drawings series realised from art books' pages, with a text by Vincent Pécoil.
On Kawara - Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills - Volume 2
2007
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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Catalogue published, as a second volume, after the world tour of an exhibition by On Kawara Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills, gathering the complete documentation produced for the exhibitions and presenting the installations views.
 M/M (Paris) - Printemps de septembre à Toulouse - Boxset + photo
2006
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
sold out
Numbered edition of a photography and a poster (Jean-Marc Bustamante fecit), which are added to the special box set by M/M (Paris) containing the last three catalogues of the Printemps de septembre festival.
Pae White - Ohms and Amps / Amps and Ohms
2005
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
sold out
Comprising sixteen cardboard pages, this artist's book explores two exhibitions that were literal complements of each other.
Mike Kelley - Interviews, conversations, and chit-chat (1986-2004)
2005
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
sold out
Mike Kelley's major interviews and critical essays.
 Yan Pei-Ming - Fils du Dragon
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
First monograph.
 Yan Pei-Ming - The Way of the Dragon
2004
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
First monograph.
Pierre Huyghe - Le Château de Turing
2003
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
The sole monograph available on the most internationally known French artist (English edition).
Pierre Huyghe - Le Château de Turing
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Available in English edition.
Christopher Wool - Crosstown
2003
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Paintings and photographies.
Robert Filliou - Catalogue raisonné des éditions et multiples
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
sold out
Filliou's catalogue raisonné.
Chen Zhen - Les entretiens
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
Chen Zhen talks to Daniel Buren, Hou Hanru, Eleonor Heartney, Emma Lavigne, Ken Lum, Enrico Lunghi, Yves Michaux, Hans-Ulrich Obrist, Jérôme Sans and Nari Ward and others who shared his adventure in art (available in English edition).
7th Lyon Biennal - C\'est arrivé demain – Après
2003
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
sold out
The 7th Lyon Contemporary Art Biennal catalogue.
Isabelle Launay - Entretenir - A propos d\'une danse contemporaine
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
sold out
An interview with French dancer and choreographer.
Nicolas Bourriaud - Relational Aesthetics
2002
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
sold out
Art as a set of practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context: the manifesto that has renewed the approach of contemporary art since the 1990s.
Yayoi Kusama - Performance & environnement - 1962-2000
2002
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Coinciding with a travelling show that presented ten specially created environments, this book assembles the artist's extravagant works of the 60's when she organized performances, happenings and orgies in the streets of New York, as well as the environments of the 80's and 90's that distort reality to propose near-hallucinatory experiences.
Yayoi Kusama - Performance & environnement - 1962-2000
2002
German edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Coinciding with a travelling show that presented ten specially created environments, this book assembles the artist's extravagant works of the 60's when she organized performances, happenings and orgies in the streets of New York, as well as the environments of the 80's and 90's that distort reality to propose near-hallucinatory experiences.
Steven Parrino - Exit/Dark Matter
2002
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
sold out
A re-appropriation of the comic books iconography.
George Brecht - Chance-Imagery
2002
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
sold out
The first critical edition treating a fundamental text by one of the principle actors of Fluxus.
Kendell Geers - My Tongue in your Cheek
2002
texts in English, German, French
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
The first full length survey of the work of Kendell Geers.
Yayoi Kusama - Kusama Orgy - Vol.1 Reprint (1969)
2001
English edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
sold out
Reprint of Kusama's porno-artistic tabloid of 1969.
Wang Du -
2001
bilingual edition (English / Korean)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Foreword The Rodin Gallery has benn the site of an outstanding series of exhibitions featuring a wide spectrum of contemporary artists and including works such as The Gates of Hell and The Burghers of Calis by modern sculpture's seminal artist and master, Auguste Rodin. Thus it gives us great pleasure to develop for the first time a collaborative work with Le consortium, a leading contemporary art center in France on the occasion of the presentation of Wang Du's Disposable Reality. Wang Du, who was trained as sculptor in China within an academic tradition, works with images taken as readymade from newspapers, magazines and advertisements and transforms these two dimensional media images into three dimensional painted sculptural works with his own masterly skill. Through the information conveyed by articles on politics, economics, society, sports, leisure and fashion the artist expresses his feeling, often in a pointed, satirical manner, about the ordinary and our social reality. In this exhibition I believe there is special meaning in seeing the direct confrontation and dialogue between the works of Rodin, which deal with human emotions and those of Wang Du, which deal with contemporary issues in our daily life with sculptures as a common denominator. The vocabularies of contemporary art have expanded so much that somtimes we have a tendency to consider painting and sculpture to be outmoded media fot artistic expression. However, it is high time to demonstrate that it is not the medium which matters, but how it is used. Ra Hee Hong Lee Director, Samsung Museum of Modern Art
Philippe Parreno - Speech Bubbles
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
An anthology of Parreno's writings.
Sylvie Fleury -
2001
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Reference monograph.
Yayoi Kusama - Performance & environnement - 1962-2000
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Coinciding with a travelling show that presented ten specially created environments, this book assembles the artist's extravagant works of the 60's when she organized performances, happenings and orgies in the streets of New York, as well as the environments of the 80's and 90's that distort reality to propose near-hallucinatory experiences.
John Miller - The Price Club - Selected writings (1977-1998)
2000
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
sold out
From “polemical” texts to extensive theoretical essays, passing through Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman or John Baldessari, these writings have proved to be among the most challenging ones.
Richard Huelsenbeck - En avant dada - L\'histoire du dadaïsme
2000
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
sold out
Richard Huelsenbeck's En avant dada is his first proclamation of Dada in Berlin.
Dan Graham - Rock/Music Textes
1999
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
A collection of Dan Graham's articles about rock and experimental music.
 César - La suite milanaise
1999
trilingual edition (German / French / Italian)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Exhibition catalogue.
Liam Gillick - Erasme est en retard
1997
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
Artist's writings.
On Kawara - Whole and Parts - 1964-1995
1996
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
A monumental monograph: works (1964-1995), texts (around thirty since 1970), the most important solo and group shows since 1969.
Rémy Zaugg - Herzog et de Meuron, une exposition
1995
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
How to exhibit the architecture? Two Swiss architects answer this question (a conversation with Rémy Zaugg).
Rémy Zaugg - Le musée des Beaux-Arts auquel je rêve ou le lieu de l\'œuvre et de l\'homme
1995
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
In his influential 1986 text, Swiss artist Rémy Zaugg (1943–2005) laid out fundamental ideas on the art museum. For him, the museum is an everyday tool that enables the encounter between viewer and work—raising the question of the kind of architecture appropriate for such a space (available in English edition)
Alain Coulange - Peut-être - Bertrand Lavier et Niele Toroni
1994
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
sold out
Max Reithmann - Joseph Beuys - Si nécessaire nous serons aussi privés de coeur
1994
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
sold out
Claude Rutault - Mes peintures ont la vie courte mais elles ont plusieurs vies - définitions/méthodes vol.7
1994
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
Artist's writings.
Brigit Pelzer - Le désir tragique - sur Gerhard Richter
1993
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
sold out
A study on Richter's work with illustrations.
Dan Graham - Rock my Religion
1993
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
Brigit Pelzer - Le désir tragique - On Gerhard Richter (signed edition)
1993
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
sold out
Limited edition signed by Birgit Pelzer and Gerhard Richter.
Maurice Pianzola - Peintres et vilains - Les artistes de la Renaissance et la grande guerre des paysans de 1525
1993
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
sold out
Steven Parrino - 1983, 1984-86, 1987-90, 1991
1992
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
sold out
Drawings and photographs by the artist / text by Lydia Lunch (hand numbered limited edition).
Dan Graham - Ma position - Ecrits sur mes œuvres
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
forthcoming
Drawing on a material, cultural and social history of art, Hugo Daniel proposes to understand the recognition and redefinition of drawing by the avant-garde in the 1950s and 1960s, between the questioning of artists, the evolution of critics and the projects of gallery owners and curators, to show how drawing is understood as a complex reality, in act.
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Délashiné!
forthcoming
The first major study of the Japanese avant-garde collective emblematic of the post-war artistic revival, bringing together composers, visual artists, musicians, poets, critics and technicians who in the 1950s explored various forms of interdisciplinary collaboration, questioning the classical frameworks of artistic presentation, the relationships between sound and image, time and space.
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Délashiné!
forthcoming
A detailed overview and history of "ero-guro-nansense", an editorial, artistic and literary movement of iconoclastic and subversive magazines in Japan in the 1925-1930s, ancestor and precursor of the post-war Japanese underground.
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