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Raoul Hausmann - Eccentric Sensoriality
2002
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
The last document of the dadasopher of Berlin.
Jean-Pierre Brisset - Œuvres natatoires
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
The funny though serious inventions of the thinker, poet, prophet and annagrammarian.
François Dufrêne - Le Tombeau de Pierre Larousse
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
An unknown, rarely published writer who nevertheless sent shock waves into the 60s and 80s by constructing a text worthy of a great rhetoretician on the game of alliteration.
Öyvind Fahlström - Essais choisis
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
A selection of essays by the artist, poet, writer, happening-maker, cinematographer, art and literary critic.
Bernard Réquichot - Ecrits divers - Journal, lettres, textes épars, Faustus, poèmes, 1951-1961
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Bernard Réquichot is well enough known as a painter, but still unknown as a writer. This new posthumous publication of his writings reveals the singular vision of a recluse, close to Stirner.
Michel Giroud - Mille voix / 1000 voies - Comment va ta vache ?
2001
French edition
miscellaneous
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
5.00 € 2.00 €
A Fluxus journal.
Peter Greenaway - A Zed and Two Noughts
2000
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
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
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
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).
Hugo Ball - Hermann Hesse - Sa vie, son œuvre
2000
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
This biography of Hermann Hesse by his friend Hugo Ball is one of the best exposés of his spiritual journeys, and also an approach of Ball's own fundamental themes
La langue à l\'œuvre - Le temps des écrivains à l\'université
2000
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
14.00 € 7.00 €
Peter Greenaway - Eight and a Half Women
1999
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
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
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
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).
Bernar Venet - Apoétiques - 1967-1998
1999
French edition
MAMCO - Artists' writings
Venet's writings.
Dick Higgins - Intermédia - 1938-1998
1999
French edition
Intervention - Monographs and artists' books
First publication in French on Fluxus artist, including the transcription of an intervention by Higgins at the International Conference on Action Art in October 1998. With texts by Charles Dreyfus and Jacques Donguy.
Peter Greenaway - Fear of Drowning by Numbers - Règles du jeu
1998
bilingual edition (English / French)
Dis Voir - Cinema – Fictions
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.
Jean-Luc Parant - Et je fais des boules - Limited edition
1998
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Unpublished text, signed original work, unique for each copy
Peter Greenaway - Le Grand Atelier de Peter Greenaway
1998
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
15.00 € 7.00 €
Collection of texts.
Sherrie Levine -
1998
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
MAMCO - Monographs
Poem by Sherrie Levine; texts by Susanne Anna, Christian Bernard, Michel Assenmaker, Erich Franz and Susan Kandel.
Peter Greenaway - The Pillow Book
1997
French edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
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
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
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.
Rosalba Carriera - Journal pendant mon séjour à Paris en 1720-1721
1997
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
The journal of one of the first women artists of the history of painting.
Peter Greenaway - The Baby of Mâcon
1994
French edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
In a time of plague when the community of the cathedral city of Mâcon is struck with infertility, a beautiful, healthy child is born. He is immediately seen as an opportunity for profit, both by his own sister and by the Church. The newborn brings prosperity and is considered to be a saint. Until greed and ambition lead to his tragic demise.
Peter Greenaway - The Falls
1993
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Fictions
A commission examines a sample of 92 persons subject to an enigmatic obsession with birdwatching and flying: a fictional investigation playing with the codes of documentary journalism which served as a script for Greenaway's film The Falls.
Peter Greenaway - The Falls
1993
French edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Fictions
A commission examines a sample of 92 persons subject to an enigmatic obsession with birdwatching and flying: a fictional investigation playing with the codes of documentary journalism which served as a script for Greenaway's film The Falls.
Peter Greenaway - Rosa
1993
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Fictions
The libretto to the opera Rosa, with music by the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen.
Peter Greenaway - Rosa
1993
French edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Fictions
The libretto to the opera Rosa, with music by the Dutch composer Louis Andriessen.
Antonio Saura - Señoritas y caballeros - Limited edition
1992
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
Five unpublished short stories, original signed silkscreen print.
Oralités / Polyphonix 16 - « La pensée se fait dans la bouche »
1992
French edition
Intervention - Catalogues and anthologies
The diverse range of practices that center on the voice.
Peter Greenaway - The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover
1989
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
The complete script of the film The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, a tragic tell about revenge and an allegory for Thatcherism. Greenaway reveals himself not only as a great creator of cinematographic splendors but also as an authentic writer who seeks literary imagery and metaphor.
Peter Greenaway - Le cuisinier, le voleur, sa femme et son amant
1989
French edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
The complete script of the film The Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover, a tragic tell about revenge and an allegory for Thatcherism. Greenaway reveals himself not only as a great creator of cinematographic splendors but also as an authentic writer who seeks literary imagery and metaphor.
Peter Greenaway - Drowning by Numbers
1988
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
Drowning by Numbers tells the story of three women from different age groups named Cissie Colpitts who each have murdered their husbands by drowning them. The narrative structure of the film underlies a numerical order based on the number 100. A fascinating riddle on man's relationship with death and time.
Peter Greenaway -
1987
French edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Monographs
This monograph points up the many facets of Greenaway's work—pictorial, literary, musical and philosophical—all of which are inherent to his films.
Julien Blaine - Œuvres de papiers
1987
French edition
various
Brochure/catalogue (24 pages) of an exhibition that took place in 1987, simultaneously in Milan (Mercato del Sale gallery) and Paris (Donguy gallery), presenting the pictorial version of metaphysical poems.
Julien Blaine - 13427 Poëmes métaphysiques
1986
French edition
various
24.00 € 12.00 €
The first edition of Julien Blaine's "metaphysical poems".
Meenakshi Chakraverti - Night Heron
2025
English edition
Archive Books
sold out
Meenakshi Chakraverti's first novel.
Claude Cahun - Ce qui fait le jeu de personne (box set)
2024
French edition
Lenka lente
sold out
A limited-edition box containing a booklet poem, a photo plate and a pocket mirror.
Marc Ribot - Jusqu\'à la corde
2024
French edition
Lenka lente
sold out
An essential guitarist for over forty years, and an enlightened partner to John Zorn, Tom Waits and John Lurie, Marc Ribot composes here, through memories, short stories and essays, a self-portrait of rare originality.
Dusk - Anthology – Contemporary Lebanese Women Poets
2024
trilingual edition (English / Arabic / French)
Kaph Books
sold out
A lyrical portrait of Lebanon through the poetry of 60 native women authors.
Dorothy Dean - Who Are You Dorothy Dean?
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Éditions 1989
sold out
The first book devoted to the late African American writer and actress, Dorothy Dean (1932-1987), one of the few prominent African American women of New York City's bohemian heyday, close to Andy Warhol and Robert Mapplethorpe.
Out of the Grid - Italian Zine 1978-2006
2024
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
sold out
Out of the Grid presents a critical selection of 100 Italian zines from 1978 to 2006 that display a broad spectrum of social, political, aesthetic, and technological changes in the use of language and communication strategies across the territory of self publishing.
Sandro Penna - Sleepless Traveler
2023
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Nero
sold out
The English translation of Il viaggiatore insonne, poet legend Sandro Penna's final collection, coupled with illustrations by the American artist Louis Fratino.
Renée Vivien - Le Christ (book + CD)
2023
French edition
Lenka lente
sold out
The story of Jesus, or that of a fin-de-siècle anarchist, by the sapphic poet Renée Vivien (1877-1909), accompanied by a new piece by Nurse With Wound on CD.
Magma
2023
bilingual edition (English / French)
Magma
sold out
The luxurious annual publication in large format Magma aims to return to the artistic, intellectual, and graphic standards of the avant-garde "revues d'art " from the previous century. The inaugural edition features 18 artists, and showcases over 80 original artworks and literary texts.
The Rainbow Book
2023
English edition
Nero
sold out
The reprint of a cult book of post-1968 psychedelic culture:, an encyclopedia of the cultural and artistic manifestations of the rainbow first published in 1975 in Berkeley, California, on the occasion of The Rainbow Show exhibition held at the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco.
Marine Forestier - Les Lichennes
2023
French edition
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
sold out
A novel of anticipation anchored in queer ecologies, a frenetic odyssey interwoven with songs and short poems, mixing the genres of feminist science fiction, young adult literature, space-opera and marvelous fable.
Jo·hana Blanc - Les déserteuses
2023
French edition
Clinamen
sold out
The first novel by Swiss artist Johana Blanc.
Liliane Giraudon - Une femme morte n\'écrit pas
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
sold out
A long narrative poem punctuated by 12x2 drawings, a montage of statements and notations in which a poetess (fat and old) keeps a kind of diary in which the destruction of the private body is articulated to that of the social body.
Jean Lorrain - La Mandragore (book + CD)
2022
French edition
Lenka lente
sold out
The most accomplished tale of Jean Lorrain (1855-1906), decadent dandy, ardent erotomaniac and corrosive pen, accompanied by a new piece by Nurse With Wound.
591 - Spécial performance
2022
French edition
591
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
sold out
Special issue of the poetry journal directed by Jean-François Bory, dedicated to performance in the broad sense, from the page to the stage.
 Iliazd - Le degré 41 sinapisé - Lecture on Pearl Disease, Paris 1922
2022
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
sold out
The first volume in bie bao series dedicated to militant investigations on Russian poet, designer, typographer, theoretician, and publisher Iliazd (Ilya Zdanevich, 1894-1975), who developed a new philosophy and methodology from zaum (trans-sense) experiments.
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