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Allen S. Weiss - Varieties of Audio Mimesis - Musical Evocations of Landscape
2008
English edition
Errant Bodies - Audio Issues
sold out
An extensive essay, Varieties of Audio Mimesis is many things: an investigation of the metaphoric relationship between music and landscape, a study of the poetics of onomatopoeia, and a theory of sound in the arts.
Michel Giroud - Paris, laboratoire des avant-gardes - Transformations / transformateurs, 1945-1965
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
sold out
Essays and interviews on 20th century avant-gardes in France (from Dada to sound poetry, avant-garde reviews, happenings and events, Fluxus, Raymond Hains, Jacques Villeglé, Gil J. Wolman, Camille Bryen...).
Bob Nickas - Theft is Vision
2008
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
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Essays and interviews by the American curator and critic: a portrait of the American art scene over the last few decades.
Thierry de Duve - Faire école (ou la refaire ?) - Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
sold out
An activist analysis of new transmission models in art teaching.
Yvonne Rainer - Une femme qui... - Ecrits, entretiens, essais critiques
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
JRP|Editions - Positions (co-edition Les presses du réel)
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Written texts and films, interviews, symposia, and essays by a central figure in the history of the New York avant-garde.
Jean-Marc Chapoulie - Alchimicinéma - Enquête sur une image invisible
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Literary field – Fictions
sold out
A film-maker and curator's reflection on moving image and its viewer.
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.
John Miller - The Price Club - Selected writings (1977-1998)
2000
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
JRP|Editions - Positions (co-edition Les presses du réel)
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.
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
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.
Brigit Pelzer - Le désir tragique - On Gerhard Richter (signed edition)
1993
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
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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
A study of German Renaissance painters and the social movements of the time.
Anselm Kiefer - Nachtschattengewächse
1991
French edition
Yvon Lambert - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Anselm Kiefer's universe revisited by the philosopher Jean-Noël Vuarnet.
René Denizot - Une empreinte n\'est jamais seule - Niele Toroni
1975
French edition
Yvon Lambert - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
A critical text on Niele Toroni's work, with exhibitions views and documents.
Reiner Schürmann - Heidegger\'s De(con)struction of Metaphysics
2028
English edition
Diaphanes - TransPositions
forthcoming
The Heideggerien deconstruction of metaphysics by Reiner Schürmann.
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
forthcoming
This first monograph in French on the Swedish artist Lars Fredrikson, situated at the intersection of art history, sound studies, and media studies, seeks to shed light on the distinctive features of his work by highlighting its dialogue with the history of painting, kinetic and electronic arts, music, and sound practices in art, as well as the epistemologies and material cultures of science and technology.
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Bizarre
forthcoming
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Bizarre
forthcoming
2027
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.
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
The first French translation of a selection of texts by Bolivian sociologist and intellectual Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui: a way of thinking with and through images that challenges the distinction between scholarly knowledge and political practice, at the intersection of sociology, visual studies, and decolonial thought.
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Bizarre
forthcoming
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
The first French translation of texts by a pioneering American researcher on the concept of media infrastructures in our digital environments, this book introduces readers to the contemporary issues at the heart of a line of thought that touches on every aspect of our connected lives: technical, economic, social, cultural, emotional, ecological, and more.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
forthcoming
A pioneering study of the relation between the fine arts and philosophy in France, from the aftermath of the 1789 revolution to the end of the nineteenth century, when a philosophy of being called "monism"—the concept of a unity of matter and spirit—emerged and became increasingly popular among intellectuals, artists and scientists.
2026
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.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Délashiné!
forthcoming
The history of NHK electronic music studio and the making of an international "center" for contemporary music: a wide-ranging, totally unprecedented study of the role and position of a Japanese avant-garde music institution founded in 1955 within international production until the late 1960s, based on first-hand documentation.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics
forthcoming
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