Art & utopia

 
 
Yona Friedman - Slide Shows (3 books box set)
2016
trilingual edition (English / French / Chinese)
Cneai
Slide Shows is a three-volume box set, with over 1.500 original drawings and texts in which Friedman gives his own personal understanding of the multiple ways of thinking the world through a series of “cartoons.”
Yona Friedman - Drawings & Models / 手稿与模型 - 1945-2010
2016
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
(last copies available!)
The updated 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).
Felicity D. Scott - Disorientation – Bernard Rudofsky in the Empire of Signs - Critical Spatial Practice 07
2016
English edition
Sternberg Press - Critical Spatial Practice
Felicity D. Scott reconsiders the learnings of Bernard Rudofsky on vernacular architecture in the light of his relation with Japan.
Tacet - The sounds of Utopia
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tacet
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
The sound arts and experimental music annual review's 4th issue, on the theme of utopias.
Cahiers Charles Fourier
2015
French edition
Cahiers Charles Fourier
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
This issue brings together four articles (by Michel Antony, Loïc Foulon, Gilles Gourbin, Jean-Claude Sosnowski), two projects (by Michel Cordillot and Patrick Samzun), and a great number of reading notes which demonstrate the significant vitality of the research on Fourier, Fourierism, and utopia.
Sur
2015
bilingual edition (English / Spanish)
Bom Dia Boa Tarde Boa Noite
Sur vol. II invites a series of encounters between artists, writers, and curators working in the Middle East and in Mexico to explore the rich, relatively uncharted history linking both places, especially around the notions of utopia and exile.
In the Canyon, Revise The Canon - Utopian Knowledge, Radical Pedagogy and Artist-Run Community Art Spaces in Southern California
2015
English edition
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
currently out of stock
The artistic and pedagogical experimentations and the alternative networks developed in California from the late sixties.
Espace(s) - Rêves, révoltes, révolutions
2015
French edition
Espace(s)
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Espace(s)
Outer space as the place for dreams, revolts, and revolutions: forty authors and artists explore utopian and political possibilities beyond earth.
Yona Friedman - Blvd Garibaldi - Variations on Yona Friedman (book / DVD)
2015
bilingual edition (English / French), DVD in original version with English / french subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Variations on...
Box set including a book and a film on DVD.
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.
Cahiers Charles Fourier
2014
French edition
Cahiers Charles Fourier
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
Two documents and three articles: unpublished texts by Charles Fourier and Eugène Pottier; Georges Orsoni, Denis Andro, and Michel Antony address original perspectives on Fourierism and the spirit of utopia in general.
Jozef Wouters - All Problems Can Never Be Solved
2014
English edition
various
A book about a fictional architecture office in a modernist social housing complex in Brussels, where real architects and locals worked together to make scale models: a reflection on scale models as spaces of negotiation, on maquettes as places where the desire of the architect is visible without the compromises of reality.
Michel Aubry - La Sixième Partie du monde
2014
French edition
Captures - Artist's books
Artist's book, based on the film A Sixth Part of the World by Dziga Vertov (1926).
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).
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.
Serge Pey - Agenda rouge de la résistance chilienne
2014
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A collection of poems dedicated to the Revolutionary Left Movement's struggle against fascism in Chile.
Andrea Pichl -
2014
bilingual edition (English / German)
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
Andrea Pichl's photographs, sculptures, and drawings to date, with two essays by Sven Beckstette and Gabriele Knapstein.
Jérôme Bertin - Projet Wolfli
2014
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
A dystopian tale describing a guerilla between fascist militias and utopist groups.
Charles Fourier - Œuvres complètes - 7 volumes
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
185.00 125.00 €
Special offer for the purchase of Charles Fourier's complete works.
Cahiers Charles Fourier - Le phalanstère représenté
2013
French edition
Cahiers Charles Fourier
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
(last copies available!)
Issue devoted to the phalanstery and its (few) representations: a rigorous as well as singular contribution on the traditional ambiguities passing through the relationship between utopia and its image.
Charles Fourier - Le Nouveau Monde amoureux
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Simone Debout's re-edited version of Fourier's essential work.
Louis Ucciani - L\'index fouriériste
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Digital version of the Fourierist conceptual index: a tool allowing a completely new reading of Charles Fourier's complete writings based on current possibilities of science and technology applied to texts, through a dedicated software interface for content analysis.
Louis Ucciani - L\'index fouriériste (+ CD-rom)
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
The Fourierist conceptual index: a tool allowing a completely new reading of Charles Fourier's complete writings based on current possibilities of science and technology applied to texts, through a dedicated software interface for content analysis (CD-rom included).
Wilfrid Almendra -
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First monograph: a transversal survey and a critical analysis of the sculptural work of the French artist who questions the suburban destiny of modernist utopias.
Volume! - Contre-cultures II – Utopies, dystopies, anarchie
2013
texts in English and French
Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
Mélanie Seteun - Volume! – The French journal of popular music studies
Utopias, dystopias, and anarchy in the Sixties counterculture and popular music. Plus a special feature on heavy-metal studies.
Hazem El Moukaddem - Panorama des groupes révolutionnaires armés français de 1968 à 2000
2013
French edition
Al Dante - History, theory & criticism / essays
(last copies available!)
An overview of French revolutionary armed groups from 1968 to 2000.
 Sophie Warren & Jonathan Mosley - Surface Tension Supplement - Beyond Utopia
2012
English edition
Errant Bodies - Surface Tension Supplements
The function of utopian thinking in urban planning and spatial culture (based on the project by Sophie Warren & Jonathan Mosley).
Jonathan Beecher - Victor Considerant - Grandeur et décadence du socialisme romantique
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A critical biography.
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.
Cahiers Charles Fourier - Biographies fouriéristes
2012
French edition
Cahiers Charles Fourier
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
A new approach to the history of Fourierism and societary movement, based on the project of a biographical dictionary of Fourierism.
Mai-Thu Perret -
2011
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
Reference monograph, including most of Mai-Thu Perret's projects so far, introduced by short captions she has written, as well as newly commissioned essays by Elisabeth Lebovici and Diedrich Diederichsen.
Mark von Schlegell - New Dystopia
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
CAPC
New Dystopia is contemporary author Mark von Schlegell's illustrated screenplay-as-science fiction novel. In conjunction with the curator Alexis Vaillant, von Schlegell curated an exhibition of contemporary art at CAPC musée d'art contemporain de Bordeaux, “Dystopia,” based on his novel's dystopian-present.
Rudy Ricciotti - L\'École internationale de Manosque
2011
French edition
Al Dante - Architecture
This publication documents the innovative pedagogic project of the International School Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur in Manosque, conceived by architects Jean-Michel Battesti and Rudy Ricciotti.
David Coste - Intermittent Boundaries
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - Wide Open
Artist's book / first monograph.
 Quatuor Cassini - Géographie utopique - Créations Musique - Peinture - Cinéma au Domaine de Certes, Audenge, Gironde, 2010-2011 (CD / DVD)
2011
Le Chant du Moineau / Casta - Records
A musical, pictorial and cinematographic journey, as many sensitive interpretations of the domain of Certes in Gironde. Through the prism of Ernest Valeton de Boissière, inventor of the place and transmitter of the social utopias of the 19th century.
Cahiers Charles Fourier
2011
French edition
Cahiers Charles Fourier
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
Essays by Patrick Samzun, Louis Ucciani, Tomomi Fukushima, Quentin Detourbet, Denis Andro...
Yona Friedman - Démocratie
2011
French edition
Cneai
This artist's book is an illustrated and disenchanted reflection on democracy and its imperfections. Using two different colors, the artist dissociates two layers of meanings—the text and the image—while maintaining a close dialectic.
Ingo Niermann - Solution 186-195 - Dubai Democracy
2010
English edition
Sternberg Press - Solution
Using Dubai as a sort of modernist blank slate for urban and social renewal, Ingo Niermann confronts today's most relevant cultural and technological developments with analytical elixirs that are as pertinent as they are unbelievable.
Charles Fourier - L\'écart absolu
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Misceallenous
Charles Fourier's theories and archives, his disciples and the concrete becomings of his utopian system, his influences in history, in modern and contemporary art... with about 20 essays and 300 illustrations.
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.
Hervé Touboul - Chemins de Marx
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
New Marxist perspectives.
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