Les presses du réel – editions
 
Cahiers Maurice Blanchot
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Cahiers Maurice Blanchot
Derrida's postcards to Blanchot, essays by Jean-Luc Nancy, Didier Cahen, Kevin Hart, Michel Deguy, lectures at the Collège International de Philosophie (Gisèle Berkman, Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Leslie Hill, Michael Holland), studies (Jérémie Majorel, Daniel Dobbels, Yuji Nishiyama), reading notes...
Isabelle Launay - Undertraining - On A Contemporary Dance
2011
English edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
English edition of the interviews with French dancer and choreographer Boris Charmatz.
Günter Brus - Expositions - Colloque en l\'honneur des 70 ans de l\'artiste (+ CD)
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Bibliothèque art action pensée
A symposium-based tribute to Günter Brus by international contributors, philosophers, art critics and historians, curators, artists and musicians (with a CD containing a musical composition by Olga Neuwirth and Burkhard Stangle).
L\'affaire des 1052 m2 - Les vitraux de la Cathédrale de Nevers
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A reference book on contemporary church stained glass window: an extensive documentation on a monumental public commission involving five French major artists.
Fabricateurs d\'espaces
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Space as the raw material and the underpinning of the work of art (different approaches looking into the concept of space in all its ramifications, from the recent history of sculpture to the latest research in astrophysics).
Jean-Christophe Cambier - Abstracts
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field
A text written between 1984 and 1987, with no equivalent in French literature.
Une anthologie de la revue Texte zur Kunst de 1990 à 1998
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
An anthology of reference texts published in the German magazine "Texte Zur Kunst" between 1990 and 1998.
Anna-Eva Bergman -
2011
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph.
Charline von Heyl - Paintings 1990-2010 - Limited edition
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
Limited edition with an original print, hand numbered and signed by the artist (30 copies print run).
Gina Pane - Situation idéale
2011
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Retrospective monograph dedicated to one of France's major proponents of body art.
Gina Pane - Situation idéale
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Retrospective monograph dedicated to one of France's major proponents of body art (available in English edition).
Hiraki Sawa -
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
currently out of stock
First monograph dedicated to the intimate dreamscapes created in Japanese video artist's delicate animations.
P. Nicolas Ledoux - G.M.V. - Is there any Ghislain Mollet-Viéville ? Information ou fiction ?
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A unique project, between the artist's book and the book on art history, around Ghislain Mollet-Viéville's personal archives.
La rébellion du Deuxième Sexe - L\'histoire de l\'art au crible des théories féministes anglo-américaines (1970-2000)
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Forty years of Anglo-American feminist theory in art history (an anthology of reference texts by Laura Cottingham, Gen Doy, Lisa E. Farrington, Lisa Gail Collins, Judith Halberstam, Amelia Jones, Lucy R. Lippard, Linda Nochlin, Rozsika Parker, Griselda Pollock, Abigail Solomon-Godeau).
Emmanuel Guy - Préhistoire du sentiment artistique - L\'invention du style, il y a 20 000 ans
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
The first artistic perspective on prehistoric art through the rigorous study of its formal conventions and stylistic developments.
Pierre Ardouvin - Eschatologic Park
2011
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph / catalogue raisonné of 650 both playful and disturbing works, between melancholy, humor and poetry.
Pierre Ardouvin - Eschatologic Park
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph / catalogue raisonné (available in English edition).
Cahiers Charles Fourier
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
Essays by Patrick Samzun, Louis Ucciani, Tomomi Fukushima, Quentin Detourbet, Denis Andro...
 Superamas - Big 3 episode - Art / Discourse
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
A performative and choreographic exploration of social conventions and modern narrative strategies (mainly developed in the media and advertising fields) that shape our representation of reality.
 Superamas - Big 3 episode - Art / Discourse
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
A performative and choreographic exploration of social conventions and modern narrative strategies (mainly developed in the media and advertising fields) that shape our representation of reality (available in English edition).
Lev Manovich - Le langage des nouveaux médias
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
French translation of Manovich's major book The Language of New Media, the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media.
Charline von Heyl - Peintures 1990-2010
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First monograph: Charline von Heyl's paintings chronologically presented, each vis-à-vis a detail view manipulated by the artist, with four texts that shed light on the evolution of her work and contextualize her practice regarding the question of the renewal of contemporary painting.
Pratiques et expériences curatoriales italiennes
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
Interviews with 10 Italian curators.
Lewis H. Morgan - Le castor américain et ses ouvrages
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
First translation in French of the study on American beaver by a pioneer of ethology and anthropology in the US, an avant-garde and surprisingly relevant work in an age of global ecological crisis.
Maïté Vissault - Der Beuys Komplex - L\'identité allemande à travers la réception de l\'œuvre de Joseph Beuys (1945-1986)
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A study of political and ideological stakes of Beuys' oeuvre and its myth in Germany.
Olivier Lussac - Fluxus et la musique
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
A study of the musical (and political) aspects of one of the most subversive artistic movements of the 60's.
 Cocktail Designers - Cocktail Designers\' music furniture
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
Sound installations by the French graphic design studio.
Haroldo de Campos - Une poétique de la radicalité - Essai sur la poésie d\'Oswald de Andrade
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
The militant essay by poet, theoretician, critic and translator Haroldo de Campos on one of the most radical members of the Brazilian avant-gardes of the 1920's: a key contribution to the critical rehabilitation of a work that has strongly influenced Concrete Poetry in Brazil, as well as many poetical adventures of Western modernity.
Marie de Brugerolle - Premières critiques
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
A critical anthology (texts and interviews on/with Christian Boltanski, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Paul McCarthy, Douglas Gordon, Glenn Ligon, Pipilotti Rist, John Baldessari, Florence Lazar, Bruce Nauman, Bruno Peinado, Michel Kireger, Delphine Reist, Karina Bisch, Guy de Cointet, Larry Bell...).
Ouvrir le document - Enjeux et pratiques de la documentation dans les arts visuels contemporains
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
A collection of texts examining issues and practices of documentation in contemporary visual arts.
Penser l\'image
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
An anthology of texts by philosophers, theoricians and art historians (H. Belting, H. Bredekamp, G. Didi-Huberman, J.-L. Nancy, W.J.T. Mitchell...) around the specific logic of the image and the transformation of the contemporary visual field.
 LAb[au] - MetaDeSIGN
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
The first monographic book of the Belgium interdisciplinary art studio for architecture and urbanism LAb[au].
Sophie Leclercq - La rançon du colonialisme - Les surréalistes face aux mythes de la France coloniale (1919-1962)
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The story of the surrealists' radical anticolonialism: a political, aesthetic and poetic avant-garde.
Jeffrey F. Hamburger - Ouvertures - La double page dans les manuscrits enluminés du Moyen Âge
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History –
An history of illuminated manuscript from its origins, in the early Christian era, until the Renaissance, through the study of the book opening medium.
Carole Boulbès - Picabia avec Nietzsche - Lettres d\'amour à Suzanne Romain (1944-1948)
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
From Picabia's unpublished love letters to a philosophical and aesthetic inquiry on art, through Goethe, Schlegel, Hegel, or Baudelaire.
Pierre Molinier - Limited edition
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
30 copies limited edition accompanied by a signed color photographic print of Molinier's fetish doll by Philippe Bonan.
Christian Höller - Time Action Vision - Conversations in Cultural Studies, Theory, and Activism
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
12 conversations with theoreticians and activists critically engaged in the cultural field, exploring Cultural Studies and raising issues of postcolonialism, globalization, and activism.
Bruno Serralongue -
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
Reference monograph (available in English edition).
Bernard Girard - Lettrisme, l\'ultime avant-garde
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
(last copies available!)
An in depth analysis of one of the most inventive (but also the most misunderstood) post-war avant-garde movements.
Jean-Christophe Ammann - En y regardant mieux
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
The collection of texts on contemporary art by Jean-Christophe Ammann.
Charles Fourier - L\'écart absolu
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Misceallenous
Charles Fourier's theories and archives, his disciples and the concrete becomings of his utopian system, his influences in history, in modern and contemporary art... with about 20 essays and 300 illustrations.
Robert Morris - Bemerkungen zur Skulptur Zwölf Texte
2010
German edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
First comprehensive German edition of legendary texts by Robert Morris.
Véronique Joumard -
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Retrospective monograph: a survey of Véronique Joumard's plays of light since 1985, with two essays and a conversation with the artist.
What comes (box set) - Les Ateliers de Rennes – Biennale d\'art contemporain #2
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
30.00 17.00 €
Catalogue of the second Rennes Biennal, focusing on the theme of the future and the thought surrounding it.
Ce qui vient (box set) - Les Ateliers de Rennes – Biennale d\'art contemporain #2
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
30.00 17.00 €
Catalogue of the second Rennes Biennal (available in English edition).
Jean-Michel Bouhours - Quel cinéma
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
A journey through pivotal moments of the history of experimental cinema.
Ralf Marsault - Résistance à l\'effacement - Nature de l\'espace et temporalité de la présence sur les Wagenburgs de Berlin entre 1990 et 1996
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Bibliothèque art action pensée
A visual anthropology study on the Wagenburgs and the Berliner punk community.
Hervé Touboul - Chemins de Marx
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
New Marxist perspectives.
Igor & Svetlana Kopystiansky - Double fiction / Fiction double
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
22.50 16.00 €
Emblematic videos and recent works by the duo.
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