Art & utopia

 
 
Nicolas Schöffer -
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph.
Version 2004 SIMulation City - 7th Biennial for Art and the New Medias (DVD)
2004
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Bureau des Videos (DVD)
The contemporary urban city and the links to the utopian city.
 Anne & Patrick Poirier - Dangerzone (+ DVD)
2004
French edition
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
Artist's book / DVD.
Otto Muehl - Lettres à Erika - Journal de l\'actionnisme
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Bibliothèque art action pensée
The correspondance between Otto Muehl and Erika Stocker forms an intense journal of Viennese actionism, and more particularly of the artist's work.
Otto Muehl - Lettres de prison
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Bibliothèque art action pensée
Otto Muehl was condemned to 7 years of prison in 1991. He exchanged letters with his family and friends, he painted.
Sture Johannesson -
2003
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
39.00 20.00 €
This book, part psychedelic philosophy, part biography, is the first to present Sture Johannesson's work in depth, documenting his affiliations with the “high” underground and the punk movement, his activism and his radical exploration of the relationships between art, politics, technology, and human consciousness.
Piero Gilardi - Not for Sale - A la recherche de l\'art relationnel 1982-2000
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
This publication assembles twenty years worth of social, aesthetic and philosophical reflexions that essentially place the individual within the contemporary community.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Du principe de l\'art et de sa destination sociale
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
This posthumous work is the first study of his friend Gustave Courbet (who requested a text for a catalog), and of the role of art in society.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Les confessions d\'un révolutionnaire
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
The Confessions, written in six weeks in a prison cell, recounts the political life of a social thinker.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Les majorats littéraires (« La propriété intellectuelle c\'est le vol ! ») - (et un choix de Dominique Sagot-Duvauroux de contributions d\'époque sur le droit d\'auteur)
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Proudhon's book against rights of ownership for authors, and collection of the most significant contributions toward the original debate over literary property..
Charles Fourier - Le nouveau monde industriel et sociétaire ou invention du procédé d\'industrie attrayante et naturelle distribuée par séries passionnées
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
In 1829, Fourier synthesizes his entire doctrine: a systematic critique of civilization and its natural deviations, as well as his proposal for a new social scheme of mutual assocation, governed by passionate attraction rather than by repression and constraint.
Charles Fourier - Théorie de l\'unité universelle - Tome 1
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A social and spiritual vision based on an economy, ecology, education, global erotic sense and aesthetics, according to laws of passionate attraction. A modern proposal for a totally restructured society.
Charles Fourier - Théorie de l\'unité universelle - Tome 2
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A social and spiritual vision based on an economy, ecology, education, global erotic sense and aesthetics, according to laws of passionate attraction. A modern proposal for a totally restructured society.
Otto Muehl - Sortir du bourbier
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Bibliothèque art action pensée
The actionnist's autobiography.
Charles Fourier - Hiérarchie du cocuage
2000
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Hiérarchie du cocuage proposes a system of classification, worthy of Linné for botany, in which he organizes the indomitable differences of beings and their diverse characters.
Simone Debout - L\'utopie de Charles Fourier
1998
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
An essay to demonstrate Fourier's fundamental role in the emancipation of women and the transformation of society, "for the sake of imagination, of permanent interaction between sensitivity and reason."
Eva Grubinger - Group.sex
1998
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
The texts in Group.sex discuss political groups and languages, abstract radicalism and art, feminism and bohemianism, social hierarchies, and telematic friendship.
Michelangelo Pistoletto -
1987
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Magasin
16.00 9.00 €
Catalogue dedicated to the exhibition held by the pionneer of Arte Povera at Le Magasin in 1986 in France. With a text by Franz Kaiser.
Nicolas Schöffer -
1963
English edition
Editions du Griffon - Monographs & catalogues
The legendary reference monograph, with the musical piece Spatiodynamisme by Pierre Henry on a 45RPM vinyl record.
Nicolas Schöffer - Limited edition
1963
Editions du Griffon - Multiples & limited editions
currently out of stock
Limited edition of the legendary reference monograph, with the musical piece Spatiodynamisme by Pierre Henry on a 45RPM vinyl record, and with an original lithograph, dated, numbered and signed.
The Railway - An Adventure in Construction
2020
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
sold out
The reprint of an unjustly forgotten book edited by renowned historian E. P. Thompson, detailing the experience of socialist British youth volunteers working on constructing the railway from Šamac to Sarajevo in Yugoslavia in 1947.
Cahiers Charles Fourier - Dans l\'orbe du surréalisme – Charles Fourier redécouvert – I. Avec Simone Debout-Oleszkiewicz
2016
French edition
Cahiers Charles Fourier
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
sold out
First volume of a special issue devoted to the rediscovery of Charles Fourier's oeuvre by the Surrealists. This volume focuses on the pioneer works of philosopher Simone Debout, including early and recent works, and an unpublished correspondence with André Breton. The issue also features an introduction by Florent Perrier & Gérard Roche, and texts and essays by Charles Fourier, Philippe Audoin, André Breton, Michel Butor, Roger Garaudy, Annie Le Brun, Robert Pagès, Octavio Paz, Raymond Queneau and Alejandra Riera.
Stephanie Kloss - Weltausstellung
2015
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Stephanie Kloss's photographs capture the mythos and utopianism of architecture in locations as diverse as Athens, Berlin, the United States, and Japan (catalogue / artist's book).
André Salmon - Léon Léhautier, anarchiste pur / Close to you (+ CD)
2015
French edition
Lenka lente
sold out
A text by André Salmon on French anarchist Léon Léhautier, accompanied by a mini-CD containing a piece by Nurse With Wound, Close to You.
Filippo Tommaso Marinetti - On the Table 4 - The Futurist Cookbook
2015
English edition
Sternberg Press - On the Table
sold out
A manifesto-as-culinary-innovation.
 Le Corbusier - La Ferme radieuse et le centre coopératif
2015
French edition
various
sold out
An unpublished manuscript, La Ferme radieuse et le centre coopératif (“The Radiant Farm and cooperative center”) describes the country planning project conceived by Le Corbusier and Norbert Bézard in the 1930's.
The Phantom of Liberty - Contemporary Art and the Pedagogical Paradox
2014
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
A manifesto to reestablish a social and aesthetic dialogue between visual art, pedagogy, and psychology, philosophy, critical journalism, etc.
Initiales - Initiales M.V. (Monte Verità)
2014
French edition
Initiales
ENSBA Lyon (Lyon National School of Art)
sold out
4th issue of the art and research magazine is dedicated to the “realized” utopia of Monte Verità.
Femmes et anarchistes - Voltairine de Cleyre et Emma Goldman
2014
French edition
BlackJack editions - F. series
sold out
A collection of texts by Voltairine de Cleyre and Emma Goldman, two visionary anarchist women at the turn of the twentieth century.
Revolution - A Reader
2012
French edition
Paraguay Press
sold out
A subjective selection by Lisa Robertson and Matthew Stadler of annotated texts by various authors (Edmund Burke, Frantz Fanon, Louise Michel, Donna Haraway, Oscar Tuazon...) about revolution.
Art et science-fiction - La Ballard Connection
2011
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
sold out
An anthology of key texts dedicated to the relationship between art and science-fiction.
Jean-Claude Lutanie - Protestation devant les libertaires du présent et du futur sur les capitulations de 1980
2011
French edition
Editions Lutanie
sold out
Protestation devant les libertaires du présent et du futur sur les capitulations de 1980 ("A protest aimed at the libertarians of the present and the future, about the surrenders of 1980") was published in 1981. It was only signed with the word Incontrôlé ("Uncontrolled"), didn't bear the name of any publisher, and was printed on stolen paper.
Cyprien Gaillard - Geographical Analogies
2010
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
Artist's book (limited edition).
Yona Friedman - Drawings & Models - 1945-2010
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
Mennour
sold out
The chronological compilation of Yona Friedman's plans, sketches, drawings, models, collages, installations, etc., since 1945: a monumental publication which offers a complete overview of the work of one of the greatest artists-architects and urbanist theoreticians today, in its many dimensions (urban, economic, ecological, cultural, social and political).
Cahiers Charles Fourier - Walter Benjamin lecteur de Charles Fourier
2010
French edition
Cahiers Charles Fourier
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
sold out
Walter Benjamin reader of Charles Fourier.
René Schérer - Utopies nomades
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
sold out
An essay on the concept of utopia today, more relevant than ever at the time of the economic, social, ecological and intellectual crisis.
Wouldn\'t it be nice... - ...wishful thinking in art and design
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Catalogues, Biennales & Collections
sold out
This publication hopes to present a series of projects bluring the line between artists and designers.
Mai-Thu Perret - Land of Crystal
2008
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
Artist's book / complete monograph, with a selection of Mai-Thu Perret's texts and a specially designed collage of references.
 R&Sie(n) - 2050/Bitterness - Non sans amertume
2007
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mix
sold out
The catalogue of the exhibition “I've heard about” by architectural firm R&Sie(n): a documentation on a collaborative project of an organic utopian city associating architecture and visual arts.
Institutional Critique and After - SoCCAS Symposium Vol. II
2006
English edition
JRP|Editions - Anthologies & Art Theory
sold out
The history and contemporary reassessment of the Institutional Critique movement.
Isidore Isou - Les Lettristes sont irrécupérables jusqu\'à la société de l\'éternité concrète, paradisiaque
2005
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
sold out
New edition of the Letterist manifesto.
Paul Noble -
2004
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
First monograph.
Aleksandra Mir - Corporate Mentality
2003
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
For a reassessment of the function of art in late capitalist society (contributions by Bernadette Corporation, Will Bradley, Claude Closky, Dejanov & Heger, Liam Gillick, Lars Bang Larsen, Daniel Pflumm, Superflex...).
Liam Gillick - Erasme est en retard
1997
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
Artist's writings.
 Le Corbusier - The Artist The Writer
1970
English edition
Editions du Griffon - Monographs & catalogues
sold out
A selection of photographs by Lucien Hervé on Le Corbusier and his buildings, with texts and sketches by Le Corbusier, especially around Ronchamp and Chandigarh.
 Le Corbusier - L\'artiste et l\'écrivain
1970
French edition
Editions du Griffon - Monographs & catalogues
sold out
A selection of photographs by Lucien Hervé on Le Corbusier and his buildings, with texts and sketches by Le Corbusier, especially around Ronchamp and Chandigarh.
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