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Jeff Wall - Marcel Duchamp - Étant donnés
2013
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
Transcript of Jeff Wall's extraordinary lecture on Marcel Duchamp's great legacy Étant donnés, presented at the First Annual Anne d'Harnoncourt Memorial Symposium, September 11, 2009, at the Philadelphia Museum of Art.
Dario Gamboni - Paul Gauguin au « centre mystérieux de la pensée »
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An essay that renews the study of Gauguin, highlighting the consistency that connects the entire production of the painter, based on his exploration of the relationship between perception, cognition and imagination, and that connects his interests in psychology, ethnology, history of religion and the natural sciences, not to mention the art of all times and all cultures.
Georges Sebbag - Sur l\'objet surréaliste
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Dedalus
The enigma of the surrealist object, from its origins to its future, between the demystification of the artwork and the reinvention of reality.
Franz Roh - Postexpressionnisme – Réalisme magique - Problèmes de la peinture européenne la plus récente
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
First translation into French of tghe seminal book of German historian, photographer, and influential theorist and critic of avant-garde film and photography Franz Roh (1890-1965).
Laurence Madeline - Picasso devant la télé
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Dedalus
Picasso in front of the TV: unexpected links between the media—especially television—and Picasso's work.
Raoul Hausmann - Hylé - État de rêve en Espagne
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Raoul Hausmann's autobiographical novel.
Ulf Linde - De ou par Marcel Duchamp par Ulf Linde
2013
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
currently out of stock
Ulf Linde summarizes his decades of investigation into the geometry of Duchamp's works.
La broyeuse de chocolat
2013
bilingual edition (English / German)
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
First publication ever to be devoted entirely to Duchamp's Broyeuse de chocolat, this volume also documents the event organized by the Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp on the occasion of the 100th anniversary of this iconic work.
Carlo Ginzburg - Peur révérence terreur - Quatre essais d\'iconographie politique
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The frontispiece of Hobbes' Leviathan, Marat at his last breath by David, "Your country needs you", Guernica by Picasso: four essays on political iconography.
Lucio Fontana - Ecrits (manifestes, textes, entretiens)
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
An anthology of Fontana's manifestos, texts and interviews.
Lucio Fontana - Ecrits (manifestes, textes, entretiens)
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
An anthology of Fontana's manifestos, texts and interviews.
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.
Emmanuel Pernoud - Paradis ordinaires - L\'artiste au jardin public
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Dedalus
Public garden in art between the mid-XIXth and early XXth centuries.
E. L. T. Mesens - L\'alphabet d\'étoiles d\'E.L.T. Mesens - Dada & le surréalisme à Bruxelles, Paris & Londres
2013
French edition
MER. B&L
currently out of stock
The catalogue of the Ostend exhibition, a reference publication on Dada and Surrealism around the figure of E.L.T. Mesens, a pillar of the surrealist movement in Belgium.
Émile Bernard - Les lettres d\'un artiste (1884-1941)
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Émile Bernard's correspondence.
Artistes et partis - Esthétique et politique (1900-1945)
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Artists and parties: aesthetics and politics in the first half of the 20th century.
Marcel Duchamp - Correspondance - 1918-1959
2012
French edition
MAMCO - Artists' writings
A unique testimony to Duchamp's personality, to his relationship to his friends and to his works, and to the slow reception of his works in France and in the U.S.
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).
Karl Waldmann - Les collages de Karl Waldmann
2011
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
First major publication devoted to the mysterious germano-soviet artist's collages, one of the latest discoveries of constructivism.
Kazimir Malevitch - Carrément
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
Catalogue focusing on both ambiguous and explicit Morellet's relationship to Malevich's oeuvre.
Anna-Eva Bergman -
2011
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Fondation Hartung Bergman
Reference monograph.
La rébellion du Deuxième Sexe - L\'histoire de l\'art au crible des théories féministes anglo-américaines (1970-2000)
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Forty years of Anglo-American feminist theory in art history (an anthology of reference texts by Laura Cottingham, Gen Doy, Lisa E. Farrington, Lisa Gail Collins, Judith Halberstam, Amelia Jones, Lucy R. Lippard, Linda Nochlin, Rozsika Parker, Griselda Pollock, Abigail Solomon-Godeau).
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.
Carole Boulbès - Picabia avec Nietzsche - Lettres d\'amour à Suzanne Romain (1944-1948)
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
From Picabia's unpublished love letters to a philosophical and aesthetic inquiry on art, through Goethe, Schlegel, Hegel, or Baudelaire.
Henry Moore - Ideas for Sculpture
2010
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
New light on Henry Moore's work through Zaha Hadid
Guillermo de Torre - Ultra-Dada entre deux avant-gardes
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
The work of an underestimated writer, a founder of the Ultraism, initiator of Dada in the 1920s Spain.
Thomas Schlesser - Paul Chenavard - Monuments de l\'échec (1807-1895)
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An essay on French artist Paul Chenavard (1807-1895), romantic cursed painter-prophet, illustrating the distance between the historic claims which build the modern myth of the artist and a relative efficiency.
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.
Minotaure – Chants exploratoires - La revue d\'Albert Skira, 1933-1939
2008
French edition
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
38.00 25.00 €
The magazine of Albert Skira, 1933–1939.
agnès b. - Collection agnès b.
2008
English edition
Galerie du jour agnès b. - Catalogues
(last copies available!)
38.00 19.00 €
An unique view into the creative universe and the artistic circle of agnès b. by bringing together major works she has collected and some special contributions.
Richard Thomson - La République troublée - Culture  visuelle et débat social en France (1889-1900)
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
This brilliant work studies the notion of modernity as it's been defined at the end of the XIXth century, especially through the analyse of the links between the visual culture and several main social debates of the time such as sexuallity, urban crowd, riots and social control mechanisms, the Republic and the Church, nationalism and militarism.
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.
T. J. Clark - Une image du peuple - Gustave Courbet et la révolution de 1848
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Art as a social practice through Gustave Courbet's œuvre and political commitment.
Patrick Beurard-Valdoye - Le narré des îles Schwitters
2007
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A poetic investigation into the exile of Merz founder Kurt Schwitters in Norway and England after the Nazis' takeover of Germany.
Raoul Hausmann - Une anthologie poétique - Précédé de « RH L\'optophonétiste » par Isabelle Maunet-Salliet (+ CD)
2007
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
First critical anthology of the poetry of Raoul Hausmann, one of the founders of Dada Berlin. It features many unpublished documents, an introductory essay by Isabelle Maunet-Salliet, and a recording of phonetic poems read by Raoul Hausmann.
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.
Neil McWilliam - Rêves de bonheur - L\'art social et la gauche française (1830-1850)
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A thoroughly investigation of the social role of art articulated by the French left during the July Monarchy and Second Republic.
Merz World - Processing the Complicated Order
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
Research about the potential of the Merzbau in contemporary art and architecture, with contributions by art historians, artists, critics and architects.
Camille Bryen - Désécritures - Poèmes, essais, inédits, entretiens
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A collection of the painter's writings (poetry, interviews, chronicles, previously unpublished texts and documents) who, between the 1930's and the 1970's in St-Germain-des-Prés, never ceased to explore language and to work with words as if with an unprocessed and unlimitted material.
Lydie Fischer Sarazin-Levassor - A Marriage in Check - The Heart of the Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelor, Even (Marcel Duchamp and Lydie Fischer Sarazin-Levassor)
2007
English edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Marcel Duchamp met Lydie Sarazin-Levassor at the end of March 1927. On 7 June, they were married. Francis Picabia acted as a witness and the ceremony was filmed by Man Ray. On 25 January 1928, they divorced. Lydie Sarazin-Levassor tells the story of their marriage.
Hans Hartung - 10 Perspectives
2006
English edition
Fondation Hartung Bergman
35.00 25.00 €
10 new perspectives on the artist, his oeuvre and its reception.
Hans Hartung - 10 perspectives
2006
French edition
Fondation Hartung Bergman
(last copies available!)
10 new perspectives on the artist, his oeuvre and its reception (also available in English edition).
Hugo Ball - Dada à Zurich - Le mot et l\'image (1915-1916)
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
A critical counterpoint to the famous Tzara's cronic published in the Dada Almanach, by the founder of the Cabaret Voltaire.
Dick Higgins - Postface - Un journal critique de l\'avant-garde
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Dick Higgins, one of the main figures of Fluxus, points out the particularity of poet-artists who, since German and English Romanticism, have refused to make distinctions between what is sonorous, visual and written.
Jacques Sivan - Mar/cel Duchamp en 2 temps 1 mouvement
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Two studies on the link between language, art and reality in Marcel Duchamp's work.
Richard Huelsenbeck - Almanach Dada
2005
bilingual edition (German / French)
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
Reprint of the first Dada anthology (Berlin, 1920), with Tzara's chronicles, manifests and documents.
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.
Marc Décimo - Le Duchamp facile
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
A new approach of Duchamp's keywords.
Lydie Fischer Sarazin-Levassor - Un échec matrimonial - Le cœur de la mariée mis à nu par son célibataire même (Marcel Duchamp et Lydie Fischer Sarazin-Levassor)
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Marcel Duchamp met Lydie Sarazin-Levassor at the end of March 1927. On 7 June, they were married. Francis Picabia acted as a witness and the ceremony was filmed by Man Ray. On 25 January 1928, they divorced. Lydie Sarazin-Levassor tells the story of their marriage, presents us with “her” Marcel, and relates her encounters with Jacques Doucet, Constantin Brancusi, Henri-Pierre Roché, Man Ray and Kiki de Montparnasse, Jean Cocteau, the Ballets Russes, the Duchamp family, Jean Crotti, Mary Rumsey, Katherine Dreier and Robert Desnos, and describes the atmosphere at the Villons' (in Puteaux, just outside Paris), the Picabias' (at Mougins, in the South of France) and the Sarazin-Levassors' (in Étretat, on the Normandy coast).
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