Literature

 
 
 La Rédaction - Nos visages-flashs ultimes
2007
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
17.30 8.50 €
This visual essay on hostage portrait questions the emotional relationship to the image in wartime. The artist uses basic communication tools to encourage us to reflect on information in public spaces.
Franck Leibovici - Des documents poétiques
2007
French edition
Al Dante - History, theory & criticism / essays
In this essay, Franck Leibovici attempts to describe how information technologies can serve as tools in our lives. Illustrated with examples taken from the scientific, political and artistic spheres, his reflection leads to a new division between art and science.
Peter Greenaway - The Historians - Book 39 – The Rise & Fall of Gestures Drama
2007
English edition
Dis Voir
The first volume of an experimental series on historiography devoted to the place of gesture and language in the historical narrative.
Peter Greenaway - Les Historiens - Livre 39 – Grandeur et décadence du théâtre de gestes
2007
French edition
Dis Voir
The first volume of an experimental series on historiography devoted to the place of gesture and language in the historical narrative.
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 It features many unpublished documents, an introductory essay by Isabelle Maunet-Salliet, and a recording of phonetic poems read by Raoul Hausmann.
Julien Blaine - Poëmes vulgos
2007
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
39.60 19.00 €
Full-color anthology dedicated to the works of visual poet and performer Julien Blaine.
Joachim Montessuis - Eros3 + Cosmogon + DDF (DVD + CD)
2007
bilingual edition (English / French), texts and subtitles
Optical Sound
Two films and a musical piece by Joachim Montessuis.
P.N.A. Handschin - Tout l\'Univers - Volume 3 – L\'Eclipse
2007
French edition
Mix
The third volume in a series of experimental novels deconstructing the semantic and formal structure of literature.
Bruno Pellier - Dictionnaire des longues distances - Volume 1 – Notes de paysage
2007
French edition
Mix
A personal atlas for landscape description.
Fabien Vallos - Le poétique est pervers
2007
French edition
Mix
Some thoughts on the definition of poetics.
Patrick Weidmann - Bimboplastie
2007
French edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
10.00 6.00 €
A short story and a literary layering.
 Bernadette Corporation - Eine Pinot Grigio, Bitte
2007
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
A drama in three acts on the main theme of zombies: the most recent novel by the artists' collective.
Brion Gysin - Live in London, 1982 (CD)
2007
Sub Rosa
Recorded four years before the death of Beat legend Brion Gysin, this live set features the poet reciting poems from the late '50s and early '60s, accompanied by a makeshift no wave backing band.
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.
Jacques Donguy - Poésies expérimentales - Zone numérique (1953-2007)
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
J. Donguy introduces the visual and sound experimentations of concrete poetry, from 1953 (Gomringer and de Campos) to the current movements ("digital area"). The anthology, followed by an international bibliography, offers the first overview of this art, with 300 illustrations.
Saul Anton - Warhol\'s Dream
2007
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
(last copies available!)
An imaginary encounter between Robert Smithson and Andy Warhol, talking about entropy, glamour, science-fiction, cinema, and the art of their times.
Sibylle Berg - By the way, did I ever tell you...
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
A novella illustrated by Andro Wekua and Rita Ackermann.
Elodie Pong - We Are Knights on the Trajectories of a Post-everything Era
2007
English edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
Book illustrated by Loredana Sperini, in which Elodie Pong (artist and filmaker) creates intimate dialogues in the SMS language form.
Narrativity: How Visual Arts, Cinema and Literature Are Telling the World Today
2006
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
This book considers the importance given today to the research for new narrative modes in artistic practices: visual arts, cinema, and literature.
Jeux et enjeux de la narrativité dans les pratiques contemporaines (arts visuels, cinéma, littérature)
2006
French edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Essays
This book considers the importance given today to the research for new narrative modes in artistic practices: visual arts, cinema, and literature.
Peter Greenaway - Nightwatching
2006
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
Following the 400th anniversary of the painter's birth, this film script re-reads Rembrandt's most celebrated painting, The Nightwatch. Nightwatching is the first of a series of films dedicated to the golden age of Dutch painting.
Peter Greenaway - La Ronde de nuit
2006
French edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
Following the 400th anniversary of the painter's birth, this film script re-reads Rembrandt's most celebrated painting.
Espace(s) - A l\'épreuve de la correspondance
2006
French edition
Espace(s)
Observatoire de l'Espace / CNES - Espace(s)
currently out of stock
20 epistolary short stories highlighting the spatial dimension of a specific word.
Antoine Dufeu - Nous
2006
French edition
Mix
An essay.
Samuel Rochery - Les reduplications
2006
French edition
Mix
An experimental prose poem by Samuel Rochery.
Jennifer Higgie - Bedlam
2006
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
24.00 15.00 €
A novel inspired by a year in the life of Richard Dadd, a great Victorian painter and inmate of London's Bethlem Hospital – more commonly known as Bedlam.
Mission Impossible
2006
French edition
miscellaneous
Cneai
The literary and poetry magazine's first and unique issue is dedicated to fiction. Featuring artists, writers, academics and choreographers Félicia Atkinson, Alexandra Baudelot, Manuel Joseph, John Giorno, Michel Chion, Véronique Pittolo, Edouard Levé, Boris Achour, Bernard Heidsieck…
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.
Jean-Philippe Antoine - Marcel Broodthaers - Moule, Muse, Méduse
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field
Poetry and space for Marcel Broodthaers—a critical essay.
Christophe Huysman - 8 poèmes
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field – Fictions
8 poems, between theater and performance.
Edouard Merino - Avant la neige / Je suis une Mercedes 300SL / Mario
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field – Fictions
A collection of dadaïst and surrealistic texts.
Isidore Isou - Les Lettristes sont irrécupérables jusqu\'à la société de l\'éternité concrète, paradisiaque - Limited edition
2005
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
New edition of the Letterist manifesto, with an original artwork of inter-participation, consisting of a photograph torn by the artist and inserted in an envelope.
Patate
2005
French edition
Cneai
Patate is a magazine dedicaded to graphism and poetry edited by French punk graphic design pionneer Pascal Doury.
Marie Le Masson Le Golft - Balance de la nature
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Miss Marie le Masson Le Golft (1749-1826) is known as the lady who noted Nature.
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.
Marc Décimo - Le Diable au désert – Ananké Hel ! - suivi de Paul Tisseyre-Ananké : Rires et larmes dans l\'armée !
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
An essay on Paul Tisseyre Ananké, the military officer in saharian French colonies and writer, which proposes a linguistic and biographic approach, accompanying the reedition of Ananké's book, denouncing the horrors of the French colonisation in Africa.
Yayoi Kusama - Manhattan Suicide Addict
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
26.00 15.00 €
First French translation of the Kusama's psychedelic novel.
Olivier Dubouclez - Valère Novarina - La physique du drame
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field
An essay on Novarina's dramatic theatrical and literary work.
Paul Buck - Spread Wide
2004
English edition
Dis Voir - Visual Arts – Encounters
Various artists and authors use two writers' correspondence as a primary source to develop an artistic and literary falsification.
Antoine Dufeu - Inch\'menschen
2004
French edition
Mix
The first part of a literary trilogy examining the issue of nihilism.
Bernard Dufour - Mes laissées
2004
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A collection of artist's writings about literature, semantics, dreams, poetry, photography, women...
Bernard Dufour - Mes laissées - Limited edition
2004
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
A collection of artist's writings about literature, semantics, dreams, poetry, photography... (limited edition accompanied by a hand-enhanced photograph).
Vito Acconci - Vito Hannibal Acconci Studio (+ DVD)
2004
French edition
various
(last copies available!)
Reference monograph.
Christophe Fiat - Action ! (7\
2004
Cneai
An electric rock performance seen as an attempt to free literature from the realm of the book (illustration cover by Thomas Hirschhorn).
Liam Gillick - Gabriel Tarde - Underground (Fragments of Future Histories)
2004
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
mfc-michèle didier - Import
(last copies available!)
Script of the movie by Liam Gillick, adaptation of Underground Man - Fragments of Future Histories, by Gabriel Tarde (1896).
Michel Gauthier - Olivier Cadiot - Le facteur vitesse
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field
Essay.
Pascal Doury - Je me jette (book + DVD)
2004
French edition
Cneai
Artist's book born from the encounter between Charles Pennequin's texts and the intimate immediacy of Pascal Doury's sketchbooks. The DVD features the film Je me jette as well as four other videos.
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