Dis Voir - Les presses du réel

François Bauchet

2000

English edition

Monograph on French designer François Bauchet, whose work stands on the frontier between functionalism and visual art.

François Bauchet

2000

French edition

Monograph on French designer François Bauchet, whose work stands on the frontier between functionalism and visual art.

Peter Greenaway
A Zed and Two Noughts

2000

English edition

Divided in eight sequences corresponding to the stages of Darwin's Theory of Evolution, A Zed and Two Noughts (Z.O.O) stars two zoologists and conjoined brothers whose lives are dramatically altered when their wives are killed in a car crash. A tragic story in which Greenaway discusses the irreversibility of death as opposed to the reversibility of forms.

Peter Greenaway
The Belly of an Architect

2000

English edition

An American architect goes to Rome to oversee an exhibition on Étienne-Louis Boullée, a French architect from the Eighteenth Century. Accompanied by his young pregnant wife, he soon complains of abdominal pain... This film is a tribute to the figure of the circle, either in Boullée's spherical constructions or through the image of the belly bearing death (the architect's cancer) and life (his pregnant wife).

Peter Greenaway
Eight and a Half Women

1999

English edition

Eight and a half women is a laconic black comedy, an examination of the age-old phenomenon of male sexual fantasy, its roots and its consequences, as well as a homage to Fellini (film script).

Peter Greenaway
Huit femmes et demie

1999

French edition

Eight and a half women is a laconic black comedy, an examination of the age-old phenomenon of male sexual fantasy, its roots and its consequences, as well as a homage to Fellini (film script).

Roger Tallon

1999

English edition

Monograph dedicated to the forerunner of French industrial design. Including a critical essay on Tallon's impact on contemporary international design.

Roger Tallon

1999

French edition

Monograph dedicated to the forerunner of French industrial design. Including a critical essay on Tallon's impact on contemporary international design.

Contemporary Practices – Art as Experience

1999

English edition

How to think reality through the experimental and interpretative aspects of arts (essays by Paul Ardenne, Pascal Beausse, and Laurent Goumarre).

$Pratiques contemporaines - L\'art comme expérience$

Pratiques contemporaines – L'art comme expérience

1999

French edition

How to think reality through the experimental and interpretative aspects of arts (essays by Paul Ardenne, Pascal Beausse, and Laurent Goumarre).

Tsai Ming-liang

1999

English edition

A first in-depth study of filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang's universe, both sensual and solitary.

Tsai Ming-liang

1999

French edition

A first in-depth study of filmmaker Tsai Ming-liang's universe, both sensual and solitary.

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Starck's Kids?

1999

English edition

Philippe Starck's legacy through the portraits of his former apprentices.

Petits enfants de Starck ?

1999

French edition

Philippe Starck's legacy through the portraits of his former apprentices.

Garouste & Bonetti

1998

English edition

Monograph dedicated to an iconic couple of the design scene from the 1990's. Their use of uncommon materials with Baroque influence contributed to the development of the “Barbare” style which had a strong impact on contemporary French design aesthetics.

Jasper Morrison

1998

English edition

In the early 1980's, Jasper Morrison anticipated what was to be the ethical position of the designer in a period of crisis, emerging as one of the instigators of the neo-minimalist movement of the 1990s. This monograph elicits the personality of a designer both concerned by questions of plasticity & efficacy and whose work's development obeys an implacable logic of eliminating decorative effects in favor of functionalism.

Bořek Šípek

1998

English edition

Monograph dedicated to Bořek Šípek, whose design is embedded with a sharp mysticism which challenges the rationality of Western European design.

Jasper Morrison

1998

French edition

In the early 1980's, Jasper Morrison anticipated what was to be the ethical position of the designer in a period of crisis, emerging as one of the instigators of the neo-minimalist movement of the 1990s. This monograph elicits the personality of a designer both concerned by questions of plasticity & efficacy and whose work's development obeys an implacable logic of eliminating decorative effects in favor of functionalism.

Bořek Šípek

1998

French edition

Monograph dedicated to Bořek Šípek, whose design is embedded with a sharp mysticism which challenges the rationality of Western European design.

Manoel de Oliveira
Angelica

1998

English edition

The first original screenplay for The Strange Case of Angelica, a long term project started in the fifties and left unfinished until 2010.

Peter Greenaway
Fear of Drowning by Numbers – Règles du jeu

1998

bilingual edition (English / French)

As a footnote to the film Drowning By Numbers, and with intelligence, humour and causticity, Peter Greenaway has undertaken to comment in 100 chapters on the story, the sub-plots, the creation and the possible continuations of his film.

Manoel de Oliveira
Angelica

1998

French edition

The first original screenplay for The Strange Case of Angelica, a long term project started in the fifties and left unfinished until 2010.

Garouste & Bonetti

1998

French edition

Monograph dedicated to an iconic couple of the design scene from the 1990's. Their use of uncommon materials with Baroque influence contributed to the development of the “Barbare” style which had a strong impact on contemporary French design aesthetics.

Michel Gaillot
Multiple Meaning – Techno, An Artistic and Political Laboratory of the Present

1998

English edition

Techno music seen as an experimentation to overcome the sociocultural boundaries instituted in the social space (essay by Michel Gaillot; interviews with Michel Maffesoli and Jean-Luc Nancy).

Michel Gaillot
Sens multiple – La techno, un laboratoire artistique et politique du présent

1998

French edition

Techno music seen as an experimentation to overcome the sociocultural boundaries instituted in the social space (essay by Michel Gaillot; interviews with Michel Maffesoli and Jean-Luc Nancy).

Stephan Balkenhol

1997

English edition

Monograph.

Stephan Balkenhol

1997

French edition

Monograph.

Ron Arad

1997

English edition

Ron Arad has held a position of reference in the world of design since the 1980's. Coming from a sculptural tradition, his work, questioning both aesthetics and modes of production, has transformed the perceptions of professional designers (comprehensive monograph).

Andrea Branzi

1997

English edition

At the heart of the debates which over the past forty years have made design what it is, the work developed by Andrea Branzi stands out as that of a theoretician of design, as much in terms of his production, his writing and lecturing (comprehensive monograph).

Ron Arad

1997

French edition

Ron Arad has held a position of reference in the world of design since the 1980's. Coming from a sculptural tradition, his work, questioning both aesthetics and modes of production, has transformed the perceptions of professional designers (comprehensive monograph).

Wong Kar-wai

1997

English edition

Monograph on the Hong Kong filmmaker, a true aesthete of modernity.

Andrea Branzi

1997

French edition

At the heart of the debates which over the past forty years have made design what it is, the work developed by Andrea Branzi stands out as that of a theoretician of design, as much in terms of his production, his writing and lecturing (comprehensive monograph).

Après Deleuze – Philosophie et esthétique du cinéma

1997

French edition

This essay considers Deleuze's film theory on both an epistemological and historical angle and brings forward recent studies on cinema's aesthetics and philosophy.

Wong Kar-wai

1997

French edition

Monograph on the Hong Kong filmmaker, a true aesthete of modernity.

Peter Greenaway
The Pillow Book

1997

French edition

Set in Kyoto and Hong Kong at the very end of the 20th century, this film pays homage to The Pillow book written at the very end of the 10th century by court lady Sei Shōnagon.

Peter Greenaway
The Pillow Book

1997

English edition

currently out of stock

Set in Kyoto and Hong Kong at the very end of the 20th century, this film pays homage to The Pillow book written at the very end of the 10th century by court lady Sei Shōnagon.

Roman Opalka

1996

English edition

This monograph investigates Opalka's relationship with numbers, time and infinity. With an original long-term interview of the artist which ran on for more than twenty years.

Roman Opalka

1996

French edition

This monograph investigates Opalka's relationship with numbers, time and infinity. With an original long-term interview of the artist which ran on for more than twenty years.

$L\'Esthétique des philosophes$