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Marina Seretti - Endormis - Le sommeil profond et ses métaphores dans l\'art de la Renaissance
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
A critical and nuanced overview of the figures of the sleeping in the art and thought of the Renaissance, a source of inspiration for artists—Mantegna, Dürer, Brughel, Michelangelo or Tintoretto—as well as theologians, doctors and philosophers (from Aristotle to Zwingli, via Augustine and Montaigne), beyond the negative definition and the traditional condemnation of inactivity and unconciousness.
Michaël La Chance - Les inventeurs de vacarmes - Théorie et pratiques de la performance
2021
French edition
Intervention - Theory
A collection of Michaël La Chance's observations and reflections on performance art in Quebec and on the international scene.
Kristian Vistrup Madsen - Doing Time - Essays on Using People
2021
English edition
Floating Opera Press
A series of essays conncerned with the ethics of writing (about people and art), as well as a reflection on the identity politics of the early 2000s.
Peter Gidal - The Author as Producer of Nothing
2021
English edition
Rab-Rab Press
The first publication of a lost 1978 text by Peter Gidal—one of the most influential experimental filmmakers ever.
Fabien Vallos - Essai sur l\'image latente / PVL
2021
French edition
Mix
A short essay on the concepts of "latent images" and "latency" based on the philosophy and history of the work of French artist Aurélie Pétrel.
Thibault Boulvain - L\'art en sida - 1981-1997
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A study of representations of HIV and AIDS in American and European art, that opens up a vast political, economic and social history of two decades fatally haunted by the catastrophe.
Iglika Christova - Art & Microbiologie
2021
French edition
Jannink - Wide Open
Art & microbiology: an essay on the critical, ethical and historical dimensions that result from the entry of microorganisms into the creative process, between art and science.
Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung - The Delusions of Care
2021
English edition
Archive Books
currently out of stock
The misappropriated notion of care and the paths for its rehabilitation.
Reiner Schürmann - Reading Marx - On Transcendental Materialism
2021
English edition
Diaphanes - TransPositions
Schürmann's lecture on Marx emphasizes the philosophical axis of the German theoretician's work and reads it as a transcendental materialism.
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.
Wu Yi - The Sea as Mirror - Essayings in and against Philosophy as History
2021
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
The deep political and moral ambiguity attributed to the maritimeelement in Western philosophical and literary imaginaries.
Brian Alkire - The Last Mask - Hamann\'s Theater of the Grotesque
2021
English edition
Diaphanes - Think Art
A philological and theoretical rereading of the late work of Johann Georg Hamann (1730-1788).
Davide Giuriato - Infinitely Determinable - Children and Childhood in Modern Literature
2021
English edition
Diaphanes - Think Art
Children and childhood in modern literature.
Alessandro de Francesco - Pour une théorie non dualiste de la poésie (1960-1989)
2021
French edition
Mix
A comparative analysis of the poetic creation of the second half of the 20th century, under the aegis of the notion of non-dualism, redefining the epistemologies of action peculiar to the poetry of the 1960-80s but also, in perspective, of the extreme contemporary.
William J. Simmons - Queer Formalism: The Return
2021
English edition
Floating Opera Press
A new kind of queer art writing.
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.
Philippe Guisgand - Analyser les œuvres en danse - Partitions pour le regard
2021
French edition
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Research (ebooks)
A reflection on the stakes of the analysis of dance works and the education of the gaze.
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.
Jean-Pierre Bobillot - Rimbaud, Thiers, Pétain & après
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
various
currently out of stock
An essay on the political dimension of Rimbaldian poetry.
Mathieu Copeland - En affinité(s) - Allan Kaprow / Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Loevenbruck
A new essay by curator and publisher Mathieu Copeland about Arnaud Labelle-Rojoux's reinvention of Allan Kaprow's environment The Apple Shrine and considering, more generally, the themes of reinvention in art and the exhibition form.
Michael Marder - La pensée végétale - Une philosophie de la vie des plantes
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
Vegetal life at the forefront of philosophical thought.
Brian Massumi - Ontopouvoir - Guerre, pouvoir, perception
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
An original theory of power based on a dense and insightful inquiry into the consequences of the "Global War on Terror" and the security state, up to the imposition of neoliberal logic and the overflowing of the media made viral.
Liliane Giraudon - Sade épouse Sade
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
An essay on the love relationship between Sade and Renée Pélagie, his wife, followed by an anthology of letters from Sade to Renée Pélagie.
Liliane Giraudon - Sade épouse Sade - Limited edition
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
An essay on the love relationship between Sade and Renée Pélagie, his wife, followed by an anthology of letters from Sade to Renée Pélagie. The limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20 and signed, contains an original artwork by Liliane Giraudon (drawing on tracing paper).
Neil McWilliam - L\'esthétique de la réaction - Tradition, foi, identité et l\'art français (1900-1914)
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A study that explores the complex relationship between nationalism, traditionalism and the critique of modern culture in France in the decades preceding the First World War.
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.
Vivian Darroch-Lozowski - Voice of Hearing
2020
English edition
Squint.press
A phenomenology of voice and hearing.
Jean-Paul Fourmentraux - antiDATA – La désobéissance numérique - Art et hacktivisme technocritique
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
An analysis of the technocritical acts and strategies by artists, hackers and activists in the (post-)digital age.
Anne Bénichou - Rejouer le vivant - Les reenactments, des pratiques culturelles et artistiques (in)actuelles
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
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?
Emmanuel Pernoud - Le serviteur inspiré - Portrait de l\'artiste en travailleur de l\'ombre
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An investigation into artistic reproduction and the role of the engravers in the shadows who made prints signed by others, questioning the relationships of domination and subordination in creation.
Dominique Putz - Les figures architectoniques - La construction logique de la forme architecturale
2020
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Opus
Architectural shape is the interface where form and meaning meet and communicate. In this perspective the research addresses the decoding of the shape of buildings, cities and landscapes.
Maureen Murphy - De l\'imaginaire au musée - Les arts d\'Afrique à Paris et à New York (1931 à nos jours)
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An historical perspective of the representation of non-western art in western museums and imagination / an essay on the relations between African arts and avant-garde.
Émilie Notéris - Alma Matériau
2020
French edition
Paraguay Press - Essays
Émilie Notéris focuses her analysis on artworks created by women in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, in a book that is at once literary, aesthetic and political.
Tom Holert - Knowledge Beside Itself - Contemporary Art\'s Epistemic Politics
2020
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
A study on the role of research and knowledge production in today's contemporary art, and the growing relevance of art as conduit of knowledge.
Carlos Martí Arís - Eloquent Silences - Writings on Art and Architecture
2020
English edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Essays
It is a form of spiritual revolt that Spanish architect Carlos Martí Arís highlights through a transversal analysis of different artistic expressions that combine to enrich his reflection.
Boris Buden - Transition to Nowhere - Art in History After 1989
2020
English edition
Archive Books
The collection of essays on art by the philosopher and critic Boris Buden constitutes a history of post-communism studied through that of works of art.
Jean-Pierre Bobillot - Trois poètes de trop - Divagations sur René Ghil, Jean-François Bory, Lucien Suel
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
various
Divagations about René Ghil, Jean-François Bory, Lucien Suel: three authors who invented and practised the most diverse forms of “experimental poetry” and who have profoundly transformed the very idea of “poetry”.
Clara Schulmann - Zizanies
2020
French edition
Paraguay Press - Essays
A picaresque tale of Clara Schulmann's often collective experiences.
Seloua Luste Boulbina - Le singe de Kafka & autres propos sur la colonie
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Al Dante
Al Dante - History, theory & criticism / essays
The colony as a major philosophical concept in contemporary political thought—a basis for reflection on decolonization (expanded reprint of the book published in 2008).
L\'expérience de l\'expérimentation
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
An overview of the experimental sound practices today (contributions by Jean-Yves Bosseur, Pierre-Albert Castanet, Bertrand Denzler, Bastien Gallet, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Fabien Hein, Michel Henritzi, Tom Johnson, Eric La Casa, Lionel Marchetti, and Matthieu Saladin).
Christine Roquet - Vu du geste - Interpréter le mouvement dansé
2020
French edition
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Research (ebooks)
An essay on dancing corporality as a complex system of interacting elements.
Reiner Schürmann - Neo-Aristotelianism and the Medieval Renaissance - On Aquinas, Ockham, and Eckhart
2020
English edition
Diaphanes - TransPositions
In this course, Reiner Schürmann develops the idea of a distinctive Medieval Renaissance, connected with the rediscovery of Aristotle. His analysis is drawn from readings of St. Thomas Aquinas, William of Ockham and Meister Eckhart's works.
Reiner Schürmann - The Philosophy of Nietzsche
2020
English edition
Diaphanes - TransPositions
This volume of Reiner Schürmann's lectures unpacks Nietzsche's ambivalence towards Kant, in particular positioning Nietzsche's claim to have brought an end to German idealism against the backdrop of the Kantian transcendental-critical tradition.
Mehdi Belhaj Kacem - Système du pléonectique
2020
French edition
Diaphanes - Anarchies
The pleonectic comes from a neologism that means: have-more. The challenge of this major book by Mehdi Belhaj Kacem is to identify the ontological principle from which to question the afflictions in which our world is struggling.
Jean-Marc Poinsot - Quand l\'œuvre a lieu - L\'art exposé et ses récits autorisés
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An essay on art exhibition.
Gernot Böhme - Aisthétique - Pour une esthétique de l\'expérience sensible
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
A science of sensitive experience prolonged by a theory of atmospheres, at the origins of philosophical aesthetics.
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