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Diamela Eltit - Custody of the Eyes
2022
English edition
Sternberg Press - Montana
A story that explores how power is enacted on and through the body—the physical, the social, and the political.
In the Face of War - Ukraine 2022
2022
English edition
ISOLARII
At the time of Russia's invasion of Ukraine, Yevgenia Belorusets, Nikita Kadan, and Lesia Khomenko answer an age-old question: what is art to do in the face of war? (the culmination of Yevgenia Belorusets's war diary, alongside monumental work by Nikita Kadan, and Lesia Khomenko).
Giorgia Aiello - Communication, espace, image
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
A critical approach to visual communication and contemporary globalist aesthetics.
Brian Massumi - Pensée en acte - Vingt propositions pour la recherche-création
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
20 proposals for the intersection of artistic practice and research in academic milieu.
Fred Moten - Les sous-communs - Planification fugitive et étude noire
2022
French edition
Brook
A political and aesthetic critique of racial capitalism and modes of social experimentation in the form of resistance to the colonial commons.
Julius Eastman - Gay Guerrilla - L\'histoire de Julius Eastman
2022
French edition
Éditions 1989
A collection of biographical and musical essays about composer-performer Julius Eastman—a compelling portrait of Eastman's enigmatic and intriguing life and music.
Erri De Luca - Bird Song / Canto della Cinciallegra
2022
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
various
An essay on the climate crisis by Erri De Luca.
Valerio Olgiati - Architecture Non-Référentielle
2022
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
French edition of Valerio Olgiati's and Markus Breitschmid's widely acclaimed manifesto for a new approach in architecture in a world free of ideologies and, therefore, references: a must-read for anyone interested in architecture today.
Pherozeshah Rustomji Mehta - Modernism/Murderism - The Modern Art Debate in Kumar
2022
English edition
Reliable Copy
Modernism/Murderism brings together, for the first time in English, a forgotten debate on Modern Art that took place in the pages of India's Gujarati-language literary periodical Kumar between 1959 and 1964.
Michael Bierut - Direct, accessible et futé
2022
French edition
Bureau Brut
Twelve articles by Michael Bierut, translated into French and annotated, complemented by a selection of his most emblematic projects.
Yevgenia Belorusets - Modern Animal
2021
English edition
ISOLARII
currently out of stock
Modern Animal, a sort of anti-autofiction, knots together humans and animals, retelling interviews, folktales, memories, and visions of the people—bourgeois, urban, rural, Roma, working class—encountered on a multiyear journey through Ukraine.
Antonin Artaud - Here Lies preceded by The Indian Culture
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
Two of Antonin Artaud's foremost poetic works from the last period of his life.
José Ignacio Linazasoro - La mémoire de l\'ordre - Les paradoxes du sens dans l\'architecture moderne
2021
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Opus
First French translation of the essay of the Spanish architect José Ignacio Linazasoro.
Kazuki Tomokawa - Try Saying You\'re Alive!
2021
English edition
Blank Forms - Books
A memoir by Kawasaki-based writer and musician Kazuki Tomokawa, Try Saying You're Alive! offers a semi-fictionalized account of the vibrant Tokyo underground that he has been at the center of since the 1970s.
Punk Suprematism
2021
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
Punk Suprematism includes the first English translation of theoretical writings on punk, art, socialism, bureaucracy, and nationalism by Slavoj Žižek, Rastko Močnik, and Zoja Skušek.
Hans Ulrich Obrist - Archipelago
2021
English edition
ISOLARII
restocking in progress
currently out of stock
15 years of conversations between Caribbean philosopher Édouard Glissant and his friend Hans Ulrich Obrist.
Ueno Chizuko - Une idéologie pour survivre - Débats féministes sur violence et genre au Japon
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Délashiné!
First translation into French of a work by the Japanese sociologist and feminist Chizuko Ueno, who questions the relationship of women to historical tragedies, violence, war and terrorism, rejecting all forms of violence, both state and domestic, as well as domination.
Nakai Masakazu - Introduction à l\'esthétique
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Délashiné!
The first translation into French of a work by the Japanese philosopher, this book, based on photography and cinema, in dialogue with Cassirer, Heidegger, Marx and the authors of the Frankfurt School, proposes an aesthetic of resistance and rebound that is inseparable from the body and the struggles it involves.
Laura Kurgan - Si loin, si proche - Cartographie, technologie et politique
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An analysis of the spatial representations using new digital location and mapping technologies, in the light of the political issues that accompany their multiple interpretations.
Hito Steyerl - De l\'art en duty free - L\'art à l\'époque de la guerre civile planétaire
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
A caustic diagnosis of the situation of the current art, by one of its major protagonists.
Piotr Piotrowski - Dans l\'ombre de Yalta - Art et avant-garde en Europe de l\'Est (1945-1989)
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The first comparative study of artistic culture in Europe under Soviet influence following the Yalta Accords, tracing the complex relationship between art and politics and the tensions between the avant-garde and traditional practices on the other side of the Iron Curtain.
José Esteban Muñoz - Cruiser l\'utopie - L\'après et ailleurs de l\'advenir queer
2021
French edition
Brook
First French translation of José Esteban Muñoz's field defining work—an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars.
Benjamin H. Bratton - La Terraformation 2019
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
A provocative and stimulating manifesto by Benjamin Bratton that promotes new ways of inhabiting (and artificialising) the planet, facing the environmental, economic and social crisis that radically belies the possibility of a continuation of the current globalised capitalist model.
Hans Magnus Enzensberger - Jeu de construction pour une théorie des médias - suivi de Usages d\'une théorie marxiste des médias
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Medias/Theories
First French translation of a seminal text of media theory, which this edition contextualizes, notably through the debate it provoked with Baudrillard.
Anni Albers - Du tissage
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art
Written by one of the pioneers of twentieth-century textile art, Anni Albers' 1965 seminal text offers a brilliant meditation on the art of weaving, its history, tools, and techniques, and its implications for modern design (new expanded edition, with three critical texts and color illustrations).
Victor Papanek - Design pour un monde réel
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
Critical re-edition in French of an absolutely precursory and fundamental work for the inclusion of social and environmental issues in the design process: the manifesto of a radical reconfiguration of the field of design, of its forms but above all of its mission.
Maria Chávez - De la technique - Processus aléatoires sur platine
2021
French edition
ARTDERIEN
This book is a documented and illustrated manual of the turntablism practices developed by Maria Chávez over many years. It encourages experimentation and personal research through numerous examples and detailed instructions.
Ion Grigorescu - Diaries and Dreams - 1976-1979
2021
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Second volume of Ion Grigorescu's translated diaries, assembled like a small literary and art-historical sensation of the period between 1976 and 1979.
Maria Bottero - Forays beyond the Modern - The Architecture of Umberto Riva
2021
trilingual edition (English / French / Italian)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Essays
currently out of stock
An anthology.
Anthologie internationale de poésie contemporaine - 1. Arabie saoudite – Dans les galops du sable
2021
bilingual edition (Arabic / French)
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
This publication brings together some of the most representative authors of Saudi Arabian poetic modernity, in its widest scope. Translated by the Tunisian poet Moëz Majed, it is the first anthology of contemporary poetry from Saudi Arabia to be published in French.
Mohammed Al Hers - Semences pour les moissons d\'absence
2021
bilingual edition (Arabic / French)
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
The first publication in French of the Saudi poet.
Ghassan Alkhunaizi - Nuages dans les nuages
2021
bilingual edition (Arabic / French)
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
The first publication in French of the Saudi poet.
Ahmed Almulla - Intranquillité des dunes
2021
bilingual edition (Arabic / French)
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
The first publication in French of the Saudi poet.
Saleh Zamanan - Brève mythologie de l\'effroi
2021
bilingual edition (Arabic / French)
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
The first publication in French of the Saudi poet.
Sarah Thornton - 33 artistes en 3 actes
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
French edition of the compelling narrative that goes behind the scenes with the world's most important living artists to humanize and demystify contemporary art.
Elisa Valero Ramos - La théorie du diamant et le projet d’architecture
2021
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Opus
First publication of the essay of the Spanish architect Elisa Valero Ramos.
Elena Prosvetina - Au temps des utopies radieuses - Création et folie en Russie soviétique (1921-1929) – Suivi de Pavel Karpov : L\'activité créatrice des aliénés, 1926
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Les Hétéroclites
A study and translation of a fundamental text on the “art of the insane” in Russia, re-establishing a whole section of Western history of the interest of psychiatrists in the relationship between creation and madness.
Hans Ulrich Obrist - Brève histoire des musiques actuelles
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
An anthology.
Davide Giuriato - Infinitely Determinable - Children and Childhood in Modern Literature
2021
English edition
Diaphanes - Think Art
Children and childhood in modern literature.
Walter Benjamin - Sonnette / Sonnets
2021
bilingual edition (German / French)
Walden n
The seventy-three sonnets, unpublished in French, written by Walter Benjamin in memory of his friend Fritz Heinle, a poet who committed suicide at the age of 19, in despair or in protest against the advance of the First World War (bilingual edition).
Gabriele Belletti - Objet et sujet dans les miroirs de la poésie
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A singular analysis of Italian poetic modernity and its relationship to reality, by the poet and theorist Gabriele Belletti.
Carlos Martí Arís - Variations of Identity - Type in architecture
2021
English edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Essays
First English translation of the seminal essay on type in architecture by Spanish architect Carlos Martí Arís.
Carlos Martí Arís - Les variations de l\'identité - Le type en architecture
2021
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Essays
First French translation of the seminal essay on type in architecture by Spanish architect Carlos Martí Arís.
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