Les presses du réel – editions
 
Patrick Neu -
2015
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
(last copies available!)
New monograph.
Composing Differences - Imagining New Models for Knowledge Production and Exchange
2015
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A montage of theoretical and speculative texts, conversations, fictions, and documents exploring different tactics of production and intellectual exchange that operate in the interstices between artistic, educational, and political contexts, and imagine novel institutional forms.
Hans Haacke - Esthétique des systèmes
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
First French translation of the two famous essays in which Jack Burnham draws the profile of an “aesthetic systems.”
Le sujet digital
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
An interdisciplinary reflection on the new figures of subjectivity in the digital age.
N. Katherine Hayles - Parole, écriture, code
2015
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.
Friedrich Kittler - Mode protégé
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
A reflection on the domination of the software industry on our use of computers, which calls for a stimulating reinterpretation of materialism.
Estefanía Peñafiel Loaiza - Fragments liminaires
2015
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
First monograph.
Didier Debaise - L\'appât des possibles - Reprise de Whitehead
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
A pluralistic approach to nature (after Alfred North Whitehead).
Pierre Montebello - L\'autre métaphysique
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
An essay that aims to reconstruct another metaphysics, substituting the primacy of life, matter, and consciousness, to that of reason, on the basis of a philosophy of nature (referring to Ravaisson, Tarde, Nietzsche and Bergson) and a renewed cosmology.
Danse - A Catalogue
2015
English edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
Danse – A Catalogue comprises dialogues and essays by dancers, choreographers, writers, and curators reflecting on the mutual influences of French and American choreographic cultures. Together these writings examine the ways in which dance matters in an increasingly globalized contemporary field.
À perte de vue - Les nouveaux paradigmes du visuel
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
A unique multidisciplinary approach to Visual Studies.
Christopher Wood - Renaissance anachroniste
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Two leading contemporary art historians offer a subtle and profound reconsideration of the problem of time in the Renaissance.
Jacqueline Lichtenstein - L\'argument de l\'ignorant - Le tournant esthétique au XVIIIe siècle
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History –
An examination of the new approach to the artistic phenomenon that emphases the role of sensitivity and centered around the figure of the spectator in the eighteenth century.
Penser l\'image - Volume 2 – Anthropologies du visuel
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
The return of the anthropological question has completely redesigned the issues of representation. A state of play.
Recréer / scripter - Mémoires et transmissions des œuvres performatives et chorégraphiques contemporaines
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
Between documention and recreation: memories and transmissions of performance art and contemporary dance.
Dario Gamboni - La destruction de l\'art - Iconoclasme et vandalisme depuis la Révolution française
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The relationship between Modern art and its destruction.
Anaël Lejeune - Perspective et géométral - Problématisation de la sculpture aux États-Unis (1966-1973)
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
Raoul Hausmann et les avant-gardes
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
This publication aims to explore how the multiple production of Raoul Hausmann, a central figure of Dada, has helped to shape the art of modernity.
Paysage industriel
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A documentation on the singular projects by four contemporary artists—Michel Aubry, Élisabeth Ballet, Susanne Bürner, and Lani Maestro—developed as part of the Foundation of France “Nouveaux Commanditaires” (new patrons) action to question the industrial history of four regional nature park in France (Lorraine, Monts d'Ardèche, Pilat, and Vercors).
Jérôme Bazin - Réalisme et égalité - Une histoire sociale des arts en  République Démocratique Allemande (1949-1990)
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A social history of socialist realism imagery in the former East Germany.
Malcolm Le Grice - Le temps des images
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Monographs
Reference monograph of one of the most influential modernist filmmaker in British cinema, with twenty texts by Malcolm Le Grice and commissioned essays by Yann Beauvais and Philippe Langlois on his cinema and its relationship with art and music.
Julien Blaine - La poésie à outrance - À propos de la poésie élémentaire de Julien Blaine
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
A critical book: a reassessment of Julien Blaine's poetry and the aesthetic problems related to it.
Jean-Max Colard - Une littérature d\'après - « Cinéma » de Tanguy Viel
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field
A study of the novel “Cinéma” by Tanguy Viel, that also questions the relationship between literature and cinema.
Esteban Restrepo Restrepo - (anti)Chambres - Les architectures fragiles dans l\'œuvre de Samuel Beckett
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field
A reading of Samuel Beckett's work from its architectures.
James Schuyler - Un nid de nigauds
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Motion Method Memory
The only novel written together by two great American poets associated with the New York School.
Elitza Dulguerova - Usages et utopies - L\'exposition dans l\'avant-garde russe prérévolutionnaire (1900-1916)
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Uses and Utopias – The Exhibition in the Pre-Revolutionary Russian Avant-Garde: an essay on the exhibition practice in Russia in the years 1910-1920, and in particular on the relationship between exhibition and public space in the projects of the historical avant-gardes.
Parachute - The Anthology (vol. 3) – Photography, Film, Video, and New Media
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
Third volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on photography, film, video, and new media.
Museum of the Future
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
currently out of stock
A questionnaire (interviews with international artists, architects, and curators of the contemporary art world, such as John Baldessari, Suzanne Cotter, Bice Curiger, Chris Dercon, Charles Esche, Liam Gillick, Jacques Herzog, Thomas Hirschhorn, Rem Koolhaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Thierry Raspail, Beatrix Ruf, etc.).
Hans Ulrich Obrist - The Czech Files
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
Czech artists of the 1960s–1970s.
Cahiers Charles Fourier
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
Two documents and three articles: unpublished texts by Charles Fourier and Eugène Pottier; Georges Orsoni, Denis Andro, and Michel Antony address original perspectives on Fourierism and the spirit of utopia in general.
Roberto Cuoghi - Da iḍā e piṅgalā a iḍā e iḍā o piṅgalā e piṅgalā - Luxury edition
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
currently out of stock
Limited edition (20 copies) of Roberto Cuoghi's artist book, accompanied by an offset printing in colors + selective varnish laminated on Dibond (27 x 40 cm), numbered and signed by the artist.
Roberto Cuoghi - Da iḍā e piṅgalā a iḍā e iḍā o piṅgalā e piṅgalā
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
An adventure exploring drifts in translation (artist's book).
Une traduction d\'une langue en une autre
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
A reflection on translation phenomena in the arts.
Pour un art concret / Konkrete Kunst
2014
bilingual edition (German / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
The illustrated catalog raisonné of works from the collection of the Espace de l'Art Concret (Gottfried Honegger and Sybil Albers donation) in Mouans-Sartoux.
Cahiers Maurice Blanchot
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Cahiers Maurice Blanchot
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy readers of Maurice Blanchot, Blanchot's political trajectory, Emmanuel Levinas' unpublished letter to Maurice Blanchot...
René Berger - L\'art vidéo
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
Video art history.
René Denizot - Cent textes sans images
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
One hundred texts on art by René Denizot.
Loïc Rignol - Les Hiéroglyphes de la Nature - Le socialisme scientifique en France dans le premier XIXe siècle
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
An epistemology of historical socialism (politics, natural sciences, humanities and religion in the early XIXth century).
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe - Ecrits sur l\'art
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
The posthumous collection of texts on art by the French philosopher.
Clémentine Hougue - Le cut-up de William S. Burroughs - Histoire d\'une révolution du langage
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A genealogy of cut-up: the history and development of a radical and pioneering literary technique, in Europe and the US, in the twentieth century (readings from William S. Burroughs).
Veduta / Lyon Biennale 2013 - Meanwhile... Suddently and Then
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
30.00 15.00 €
A retrospective overview of the 12th edition of the Lyon Biennale, curated by Icelandic curator Gunnar B. Kvaran, with a focus on the two parallel programs “Veduta” and “Resonance”, held in the Lyon conurbation and its region.
Femmes, attitudes performatives, aux lisières de la performance et de la danse
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
The place and role of women in performing arts from 1912 to 2012, between performance and dance.
Marc Décimo - Les Jocondes à moustaches
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Les Hétéroclites
Does Mona Lisa deserve her mustache? An erudite review of 180 pre- and post-Duchamp caricatures and misappropriations.
Marc Décimo - Sciences et Pataphysique - Tome II : Comment la linguistique vint à Paris – De Michel Bréal à Ferdinand de Saussure
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Les Hétéroclites
Science and Pataphysics, volume II: the birth of linguistics, as an academic field, in France, and the ideological and political issues that contribute to this implementation.
Marc Décimo - Sciences et Pataphysique - Tome I : Savants reconnus, érudits aberrés, fous littéraires, hétéroclites et celtomanes en quête d\'ancêtres hébreux, troyens, gaulois, francs, atlantes, animaux, végétaux, aryens, extraterrestres et autres ?
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Les Hétéroclites
Science and Pataphysics, volume I: the history of the origin myths—how science is torn from what is now defined as pseudo-science.
W. J. T. Mitchell - Que veulent les images ? - Une critique de la culture visuelle
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
An innovative analysis of our relationship to the image.
 Yan Pei-Ming - Night of Colours
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph.
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