Doctoral theses

 
 
Lucia Piccioni - Art et fascisme - Peindre l\'italianité (1922-1943)
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A reconstruction of the vast network of images and texts that give shape to Italian fascist totalitarianism.
David Lemaire - Les hauteurs difficiles - La peinture religieuse d\'Eugène Delacroix
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Why does a painter like Delacroix paint so many religious subjects?
Iveta Slavkova - Réparer l\'homme - La crise de l\'humanisme et l\'Homme nouveau des avant-gardes autour de la Grande Guerre (1909-1929)
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
An ambitious and transversal study on the crisis of humanism resulting from modernity, and on the historical consequences of the universalist and absolute conception carried by Futurism and the Bauhaus, proposing little explored paths for a re-reading of the artistic stakes in the 20th century.
Aurélie Verdier - Aujourd\'hui pense à moi - Francis Picabia, Ego, Image
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The stakes of Francis Picabia's creative process, between exaltation and rejection of the self, at the heart of the constitution of modernity.
Michele Boni - L\'architecture de la bulle d\'air
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
A manifesto of the architecture of the air.
Laurence Schmidlin - La Spatialisation du dessin dans l\'art américain des années 1960 et 1970
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
The development of spatial and tridimensional drawing in American art, both in theory and in practice, from the 1960s through the 1970s.
Marco Assennato - La muse inquiétante - Architecture & société chez Manfredo Tafuri
2019
French edition
Mix
A genealogy of modern architectural culture through an analysis of the project both theoretical and practical of the Italian architect, historian and critic of architecture Manfredo Tafuri (1935-1994).
Gaëlle Beaujean - L\'art de cour d\'Abomey - Le sens des objets
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Conceived around an anthropology of the object, this book proposes to follow the course of royal objects of Abomey, former capital of the pre-colonial Kingdom of Dahomey (in present-day Benin).
Angéline Neveu - Synthèse / désir
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
Reissue of the main publications by Angéline Neveu (1946-2011), a political figure of the poetic underground scene in France.
Isabelle Delorme - Quand la bande dessinée fait mémoire du XXe siècle - Les récits mémoriels historiques en bande dessinée
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The historical-memorial narrative in comics, from Art Spiegelman to Marjane Satrapi, as a new form of representation of History, between individual and collective memory.
Thomas Baumgartner - L\'Hypothèse du baobab - Notes sur la radio
2019
French edition
Hippocampe - Books
Notes on the radio.
Estelle Zhong Mengual - L\'art en commun - Réinventer les formes du collectif en contexte démocratique
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An investigation into the artistic and political issues of participatory art since the 1990s.
Antoine Lefebvre - Artiste éditeur
2018
French edition
Strandflat
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Publishing as an alternative artistic practice.
Sophie Cras - L\'économie à l\'épreuve de l\'art - Art et capitalisme dans les années 1960
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The history of capitalism of the 1960s revisited in the light of the artworks that challenged it.
Pauline Chevalier - Une histoire des espaces alternatifs à New York - De SoHo au South Bronx (1969-1985)
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Artistic practices in New York's alternative art spaces (1969-1985).
Clara Pacquet - Signature et achevé en soi - Esthétique, psychologie et anthropologie dans l\'œuvre de Karl Philipp Moritz (1756-1793)
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An essay conceived as an intellectual portrait of the German writer, psychologist and art theorist Karl Philipp Moritz, whose purpose is to investigate the relationships between aesthetics, psychology and anthropology in the second half of the 18th century, and the importance of their simultaneous development for the debates about art after 1800.
Kurihara Nanako - La chose la plus étrangère au monde - Analyse critique du Butō de Hijikata Tatsumi
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Délashiné!
A critical analysis of Hijikata Tatsumi's Butoh dance.
Marie Boivent - La revue d\'artiste - Enjeux et spécificités d\'une pratique artistique
2015
French edition
Incertain Sens - Grey Series
An analysis of the implications, challenges and specificities of the artist's magazines, as an artistic practice.
Yves-Michel Bernard - Origine et création des fonds régionaux d\'art contemporain - 1981/1986 les années militantes
2015
French edition
various
This study of the origin and creation of the FRACs (Regional Funds of Contemporary Art) between 1981 and 1986 reviews the history and assesses one of the flagship measures of French decentralized cultural policy.
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.
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.
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).
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).
Matthieu Saladin - Esthétique de l\'improvisation libre - Expérimentation musicale et politique
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
Improvisation as musical and political experimentation (essay).
Clara Schulmann - Les chercheurs d\'or - Films d\'artistes, histoires de l\'art
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Dedalus
A history of film in contemporary art (a witty critical history of artist's films and their inscription into the broader history of art, as well as their impact on their social contexts).
Pierre-Luc Abramson - Mondes nouveaux et Nouveau Monde - Les utopies sociales en Amérique latine au XIXe siècle
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A study of social utopias (of European origin, mainly French) in Latin America in the 19th century: a contribution to the defense of utopia as a driving force of human progress, against all forms of utilitarianism and pragmatism.
Nathan Réra - Rwanda, entre crise morale et malaise esthétique - Les médias, la photographie et le cinéma à l\'épreuve du génocide des Tutsi (1994-2014)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A historical and theoretical reflection, on the border between aesthetics and politics, on the decisive role of the images and the power and limits of representation, in the context of the last genocide of the twentieth century.
Anne Marquez - Godard, le dos au musée - Histoire d\'une exposition
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Fama
Jean-Luc Godard and art (a return on Godard's controversial project at the Centre Pompidou in 2006).
Christian Joschke - Les yeux de la nation - Photographie amateur et société dans l\'Allemagne de Guillaume II (1888-1914)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Social and political dimension of the emergence of a culture of the image carried by the amateur practice of photography in Germany at the dawn of the twentieth century.
Philippe Vatin - Voir et montrer la guerre - Images et discours d\'artistes en France (1914-1918)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Function of visual arts in France during the First World War.
Hyman P. Minsky - L\'hypothèse d\'instabilité financière - Les processus capitalistes et le comportement de l\'économie
2013
French edition
Diaphanes - Minima oeconomia
An introduction to Minsky's seminal theory on financial instability.
Judith Ickowicz - Le droit après la dématérialisation de l\'œuvre d\'art
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
The law after the dematerialization of the artwork: a legal perspective on contemporary art.
Cécile Pichon-Bonin - Peinture et politique en URSS - L\'itinéraire des membres de la Société des artistes de chevalet (OST) (1917-1941)
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A study of the production and reception of art in the USSR in the years 1920-1930 through the analysis of the work of the Society of Easel Painters (OST)'s members.
Pierre-Yves Macé - Musique et document sonore - Enquête sur la phonographie documentaire  dans les pratiques musicales contemporaines
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
An investigation into the uses of “sound document” in music, since the beginning of phonography.
Antje Kramer - L\'aventure allemande du Nouveau Réalisme  - Réalités et fantasmes d\'une néo-avant-garde européenne (1957-1963)
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The Nouveau Réalisme between Paris and West Germany in the 1960's.
Michel Deutsch - Germania, tragédie et état d\'exception - Une introduction à l\'œuvre de Heiner Müller
2012
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
25.00 15.00 €
An introduction to the “work of resistance” of East German dramatist, poet, writer and essayist Heiner Müller.
Judith Delfiner - Double-Barrelled Gun - Dada aux Etats-Unis (1945-1957)
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The resurgence of Dada in the U.S. (a genealogy of American post-war experimental art).
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.
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.
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.
Agnès Vannouvong - Jean Genet - Les revers du genre
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Bibliothèque art action pensée
An essay on Jean Genet and the gender performance.
Reyes Mate - Minuit dans l\'histoire - Commentaires des thèses de Walter Benjamin « Sur le concept d\'histoire »
2009
French edition
Mix
Commentary on Walter Benjamin's theses: On the concept of history.
Brigitte Aubry - Richard Hamilton - Peintre des apparences contemporaines (1950-2007)
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
First publication in French on a major figure of British Pop Art, this essay analyses notably the questioning of the contemporary appearances in Richard Hamilton's works.
Astrid Ruffa - Dalí et le dynamisme des formes - L\'élaboration de l\'activité « paranoïaque-critique » dans le contexte socioculturel des  années 1920-1930
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
An innovative analysis of Dalí's work which focuses on the cultural History during the 1920's, showing that the Surrealist revolution went hand in hand with radical changes in society.
Fabien Danesi - Le mythe brisé de l\'Internationale situationniste - L\'aventure d\'une avant-garde au cœur de la culture de masse (1945-2008)
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A new approach on the Situationist International and its paradoxical myths.
Fabrice Flahutez - Nouveau monde et nouveau mythe - Mutations du surréalisme, de l\'exil américain à l\'« Écart absolu » (1941-1965)
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
How, in the course of their American exile, the surrealist artists (Duchamp, Tanguy, Masson, Ernst, Lam, Carrigton ...) were influenced by the literary and artistic context. Also a specific study on the perpetual renewal of Surrealism after war, linked with the importance of esoterism, the Amerindian civilizations, and Charles Fourier.
Thomas Schlesser - Réceptions de Courbet - Fantasmes réalistes et paradoxes de la démocratie (1848-1871)
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An elucidation of the myths and the political fantasies that surrounded Gustave Courbet's work and life under the second Empire.
Jacques Donguy - Poésies expérimentales - Zone numérique (1953-2007)
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
J. Donguy introduces the visual and sound experimentations of concrete poetry, from 1953 (Gomringer and de Campos) to the current movements ("digital area"). The anthology, followed by an international bibliography, offers the first overview of this art, with 300 illustrations.
Annie Claustres - Hans Hartung - Les aléas d\'une réception
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
Fondation Hartung Bergman
Hans Hartung always gave a lot of attention to the filing of his works. This essay on the abstract painter is linked with a specific web site where one will find a rich iconography and documentation.
2025
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.
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