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L\'art des charpentiers japonais - Au cœur de l\'architecture en bois traditionnelle
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
MCJP (Maison de la Culture du Japon à Paris)
This volume presents a little-known facet of Japanese culture: the know-how of traditional wooden architecture.
Tools - To Fold
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
The third issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to folding.
Philippe Despoix - K. B. W. - La bibliothèque Warburg, laboratoire de pensée intermédiale
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
The challenges of the library and the photographic collection founded by Aby Warburg in the 1920s, as a "laboratory" for collective research on the forms of transmission of images since Antiquity, and an intermedial device of knowledge. An exceptional case study, driven by the question: what was the impact of photography in Warburg's turning point in the history of art and culture?
Jonas Ekeberg - Post-Nordic - The Rise and Fall of a Nordic Art Scene 1986–2006
2023
English edition
Torpedo
The first extensive survey of Nordic art during the transition from postmodernism to what might be called "the period of contemporary art".
Keep it Flat - A little history on flat earth
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
A design theorist (Alexandra Midal), a neuroscientist (Albert Moukheiber), two designers (Antoine Fœglé and Emma Pflieger) and two curators (Jolanthe Kugler and Scott Longfellow) take a look at the mechanisms behind the flat-Earth theory, and the ways in which "alternative" narratives are disseminated.
Objective: Earth - Designing our Planet
2023
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object.
Keep it Flat - Petite histoire sur la Terre plate
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
A design theorist (Alexandra Midal), a neuroscientist (Albert Moukheiber), two designers (Antoine Fœglé and Emma Pflieger) and two curators (Jolanthe Kugler and Scott Longfellow) take a look at the mechanisms behind the flat-Earth theory, and the ways in which "alternative" narratives are disseminated (also available in English).
Objectif Terre - Le design de notre planète
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
Artists, designers and researchers investigate the "becoming object" of the Earth, in the face of the techno-scientific vision and geo-engineering projects that tend to turn our planet into a design object.
Art performance, manœuvre, coefficients de visibilité
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
Performance art with a “low artistic coefficient of visibility”.
Carmelo Bene - L\'esthétique du déplaisir
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – ArTeC
Two interviews in which Carmelo Bene exposes his working method and his ideas on television, and opens a reflection on the links between artistic avant-gardism and mass diffusion.
Mário Pedrosa - Discours aux Tupiniquins
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
The great Brazilian critic Mário Pedrosa (1900-1981)'s farewell to art criticism, written to his countrymen in the manner of Montesquieu's Persian Letters.
Simon Frith - Une sociologie des musiques populaires
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – ArTeC
Two studies by the pionneer of the popular music studies.
Georges Appaix - Post-scriptum
2022
French edition
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Notebooks (ebooks)
The French choreographer looks back on his career in a very personal text, both playful and poetic.
Dieter Schnebel - Son et corps
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – ArTeC
A collection of theoretical texts by the German composer: a valuable testimony of his research on the musical link between sound and body.
N. Katherine Hayles - Parole, écriture, code
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
How the impact of code on everyday life has become comparable to that of speech and writing.
Nicolas Bourriaud - Planet B - Climate Change and the New Sublime
2022
English edition
Radicants
Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the contemporaneity of the romantic concept of the sublime, at the age of the anthropocene.
Nicolas Bourriaud - Planète B - Le sublime et la crise climatique
2022
French edition
Radicants
Nicolas Bourriaud invites artists from all around the world to question the contemporaneity of the romantic concept of the sublime, at the age of the anthropocene.
Friedrich Kittler - Mode protégé
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
A reflection on the domination of the software industry on our use of computers, which calls for a stimulating reinterpretation of materialism.
René Schérer - Utopies nomades
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
An essay on the concept of utopia today, more relevant than ever at the time of the economic, social, ecological and intellectual crisis.
Pierre Montebello - Deleuze, esthétiques - La honte d\'être un homme
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Fama
The aesthetics of Gilles Deleuze.
Madeleine Abassade - Danser l\'imprévu - Une lecture politique et sensible des Cahiers de Vaslav Nijinski
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Gestes
Through a new reading of the Notebooks of Vaslav Nijinsky, who was described as "insane", and by taking them out of their reduction to a psychiatric diagnosis, Madeleine Abassade reveals the dancer's revolt against an established order of which he was the instrument and from which he sought to emancipate himself by creating his own choreographies.
Nicolas Bernier - Sur le diapason - Autour d\'un cycle de création, entre son, science et lumière
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
The art of the tuning fork: the manifesto of the sound artist, performer and composer Nicolas Bernier.
Tools - To Weave
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
The second issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to weaving.
Bracha Lichtenberg Ettinger -
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Radicants
A journey through the painted work of the Israeli artist, writer, visual analyst, psychoanalyst, philosopher and feminist theorist, through a set of reproductions and texts by Jean-François Lyotard, Nicolas Bourriaud, Noam Segal, Amelia Jones, Precious Okoyomon and Bracha L. Ettinger herself.
Sherill Tippins - Dans le palais des rêves - La vie et l\'époque du légendaire Chelsea Hotel de New York
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A fascinating exploration of the utopian origins and tumultuous 130-year history of the largest and longest-lived artists' community in the world.
Nicolas Bourriaud - Formes et trajets - Tome 1 : Hétérochronies
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
A collection of texts about time and artists working with it.
Nicolas Bourriaud - Formes et trajets - Tome 2 : Topologies
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
JRP|Editions - Documents (co-edition Les presses du réel)
A collection of texts about space and artists working with it.
Jean-Loup Amselle - L\'art de la friche - Essai sur l\'art contemporain africain
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An anthropologist's view of contemporary African creation.
Myr Muratet - Manuel d\'écologie urbaine
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Al Dante
Al Dante - Architecture
This manual provides the current state of knowledge on the functioning of nature in an urban environment: its ecology.
Claudia Palazzolo - Danser pop - Une figure de la création contemporaine
2022
French edition
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Research (ebooks)
The multiple faces of popular dances in contemporary choreographic creation.
Michael Marder - La pensée végétale - Une philosophie de la vie des plantes
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
Vegetal life at the forefront of philosophical thought.
Benjamin Lavigne - Le Petit Surhomme des jeux vidéo et la gamification du monde - Éthique de la manipulation par l’interactivité ludique
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
The Nietzschean notion of superman and the very real effects of the virtual, the networks, the digital image and the video game in human interrelationships: a striking essay resulting from the posthumously defended thesis of Benjamin Lavigne (1981-2020), which draws up a singular, committed and rigorous critic of the technological foundations of contemporary society.
Brian Massumi - Pensée en acte - Vingt propositions pour la recherche-création
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
20 proposals for the intersection of artistic practice and research in academic milieu.
Chantal Lapeyre - Fictions nécessaires - Pour une danse baroque contemporaine
2022
French edition
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Research (ebooks)
A reflection on the aesthetic stakes of baroque dance, resituated in the vast field of contemporary dance.
Architectures of Memory
2022
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
The complex architectures of the new “memory palaces”, from libraries, archives and museums to the IT structures, databases and server farms that feed the flow of data on the network.
Tools - To Mold
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Tools magazine
The first issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry, dedicated to molding.
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.
Stefan Banz - Morton L. Schamberg: God
2020
English edition
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
A study attempting to put the authorship of God back into perspective with the help of new sources and to explain why this is actually a work by Morton L. Schamberg.
Stefan Banz - Marcel Duchamp: Richard Mutt\'s Fountain
2020
English edition
Kunsthalle Marcel Duchamp
Stefan Banz has brought together and evaluated all the relevant documents and sources relating to Fountain by Richard Mutt alias Marcel Duchamp. At least one thing is certain after reading them: Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven had definitively nothing to do with the creation of Fountain. In addition, Banz has succeeded in writing a highly inspiring book containing many new and revealing ideas that present this work of the century in a much more differentiated light.
Flore Garcin-Marrou - Penser le design avec la philosophie
2020
French edition
various
Thinking design with philosophy (a teaching manual).
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.
Volmir Cordeiro - Ex-corpo
2020
French edition
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Notebooks (ebooks)
Analyzing his own work but also the emblematic works of Brazilian artists Luiz de Abreu, Micheline Torres and Marcelo Evelin, the dancer and choreographer Volmir Cordeiro invents here, through writing, a sensitive form where creation is inextricably linked to his position as a researcher and to his view as a spectator
Nicolas Bourriaud - Relational Aesthetics
2020
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Art as a set of practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context: the manifesto that has renewed the approach of contemporary art since the 1990s.
Isabelle Launay - Cultures de l\'oubli et citation - Les danses d\'après, II
2019
French edition
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Research (ebooks)
The second volume of a diptych dedicated to the question of the memory of works in dance.
Isabelle Launay - Poétiques et politiques des répertoires - Les danses d\'après, I
2019
French edition
CND (Centre National de la Danse) - Research (ebooks)
The first volume of a diptych dedicated to the question of the memory of works in dance.
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