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French Connection
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
BlackJack editions - Catalogues
59.00 29.00 €
The French art scene with 88 art critics and 88 artists, on 800 pages in color.
Landscope - Landscape and Contemporary Drawing
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
BlackJack editions - Catalogues
(last copies available!)
Expanded catalogue of an exhibition bringing together works on paper by nineteen international artists to explore the notion of landscape, with numerous essays.
Richard Deacon - Water Under the Bridge
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
An artistic reflection on Deacon's project for 2008 Saragossa International Exhibition, on the theme of water and its associated elements.
Richard Deacon - Water Under the Bridge - Limited edition
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
An artistic reflection on Deacon's project for 2008 Saragossa International Exhibition, on the theme of water and its associated elements. The limited editon of the book contains an original and unique drawing signed by the artist.
Kees Visser - forM
2008
texts in English, Icelandic, Dutch, French
Jannink - L'art en écrit
The text of the artist's catalogue raisonné.
Kees Visser - forM - Limited edition
2008
texts in English, Icelandic, Dutch, French
Jannink - L'art en écrit
The text of the artist's catalogue raisonné, accompanied with an original signed artwork.
Yann Toma - Ouest-Lumière - La Collection
2008
trilingual edition (English / French / Japanese)
Jannink - Wide Open
More than a catalogue, this artist's book presents a selection among the 12 000 electric objects gathered for an exhibition by Yann Toma (the President for life of the Ouest-Lumière Company) at the Electropolis Museum, Toulouse (France), described with their specification sheets.
Francis Alÿs - Works & Process - Wide details, on the traces of Francis Alÿs (DVD)
2008
original version (subtitles in English, Spanish, Dutch, German, Portuguese)
a.p.r.e.s editions - Works & Process (DVD)
25.00 20.00 €
A film and different documentaries on Francis Alÿs (interviews, video and multimedia projects).
Tadashi Kawamata - Workshop (book / DVD)
2008
bilingual edition (English / French), English / French subtitles
a.p.r.e.s editions - Books-DVDs
An interview and a video documentary around a collective project directed by Kawamata: a construction of short-lived architectures from 5000 wooden crates.
 Périphériques architectes - Les Salons de l\'Ifa
2008
French edition
a.p.r.e.s editions - Les Salons de l'IFA (books/DVDs)
15.00 9.00 €
The reproduction of notes and drawings by architects collective for a show organized at the Cité de l'architecture et du patrimoine, accompanied with a documentary film.
Amy Granat - The Saints (DVD)
2008
Mathieu Copeland editions
6 films by Amy Granat with Fia Backström, Jutta Koether, Amy O'Neill, Mai-Thu Perret, Angel Turner.
Mai-Thu Perret - An Evening of the Book - 3 films by Mai-Thu Perret (DVD)
2008
Mathieu Copeland editions
3 Films inspired by a 1924 agit prop play: a choreography performed by artist friends (Amy Granat, Fia Backström...), on a music composed by Steven Parrino.
Brandon LaBelle - Dirty Ear (CD)
2008
Errant Bodies - Records & DVDs
Dirty field recordings, found sounds, sound effects, archives, and sonorous dramas, composed as a series of micro-narratives each designed to intervene onto imagined settings or spatial locations, as a counter-sonorities.
Soun-Gui Kim - Stock + Garden
2008
bilingual edition (English / Korean)
various
Soun-Gui Kim revisits her interactive installation on the stock movements, “Stock Exchange”, by adding a garden to create an absurd and ironic counterpoint between stock exchange and nature (text and interviews).
Charlemagne Palestine - From Etudes to Cataclysms - For the Doppio Borgato (2 CD)
2008
Sub Rosa
One of Charlemagne Palestine's most important work to date: an impressive composition of more than 140 minutes based on an unique instrument, a double piano on which one keyboard is played by the feet.
agnès b. - Collection agnès b.
2008
English edition
Galerie du jour agnès b. - Catalogues
(last copies available!)
38.00 19.00 €
An unique view into the creative universe and the artistic circle of agnès b. by bringing together major works she has collected and some special contributions.
Palais / - Spring 2008
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
Loris Gréaud – Cellar Door / carte blanche to Pascal Rousseau / Frédéric Migayrou / Erik Davis / Bertrand Méheust / Géraldine Fabre / Gianni Motti / exhibition guide and a selection of books, musics, films and events around Cellar Door...
Palais / - Summer 2008
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Palais
Palais de Tokyo - Palais magazine
Superdome / Naomi Klein / Daniel Firman / Jonathan Monk / Fabien Giraud & Raphaël Siboni / Arcangelo Sassolino / exhibitions guide and a selection of books, music, movies, and events around Superdome...
William Kentridge - Everyone / Their Own / Projector - Minutes of a Slow Hour (Deluxe Edition)
2008
no text
Captures - Deluxe editions
Limited edition of the artist's book by William Kentridge (ink and brush drawings and collages on books pages), with an original lithograph.
Mirtha Dermisache - Libro n° 2 : 1972
2008
French edition
CDLA (Centre des livres d'artistes)
Artist's book.
Yona Friedman - Manuels - Vol. 2
2008
texts in English and French
Cneai
An anthology of drawings by Yona Friedman published from 1975 to 1992 in more than thirty countries and in twenty languages.
Corinne Wasmuht -
2008
English edition
Petzel
27.00 14.00 €
A large catalogue introducing the dreamlike paintings of Corinne Wasmuht: fantastical landscapes layered upon each other, allowing the viewer to enter numerous dimensions at once.
L\'effet papillon - 1989-2007
2008
French edition (texts in English and German)
CEC (Centre d'édition contemporaine)
The story of the Centre d'édition contemporaine in Geneva.
 Quatuor Cassini - Le peuple des falaises (CD)
2008
Le Chant du Moineau / Casta - Records
A musical project recorded in in multi-track in different places of the Vézère valley (France), caves and troglodytic sites.
Laurent Sassi - Humus (CD)
2008
Le Chant du Moineau / Casta - Records
An improvised performance with Benjamin Bondonneau (clarinet), David Chiesa (double bass), Didier Lasserre (drums), Daunik Lazro (baritone saxophone) and Laurent Sassi (sound).
Marcel Duchamp & l\'érotisme
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
Curiously enough, although Duchamp considered eroticism as the main topic of his work, no essay had really focused on that matter yet. This book collects the lectures of about twenty international art historians and critics during a symposium organized by Marc Décimo.
Danièle Roussel - L\'Actionnisme viennois et les autrichiens
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Bibliothèque art action pensée
Viennese Actionism was one of the strongest effort of the 1960's to develop contemporary art and a forerunner of what is now widely known as Performance Art. Danièle Roussel interviewed not only the former actionists (Otto Muehl, Hermann Nitsch, Günther Brus, Rudolf Schwarzkogler) but also some journalists, politicians, historians and witnesses of that time.
Horst Bredekamp - Les coraux de Darwin - Premiers modèles de l\'évolution et tradition de l\'histoire naturelle
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Œuvres en sociétés
A major contribution, by German philosoph and art historian Horst Bredekamp, to the current debate on the 'tree of life' in evolutionary biology. The essay deals with the aesthetic and political dimension of the coral, in Darwin's system a model of anarchic evolution which opposes the hierarchical metaphor of the tree.
Cahiers Charles Fourier - Victor Considerant
2008
French edition
Cahiers Charles Fourier
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
Special issue devoted to Victor Considerant (1808-2008).
Susan Hiller - The Provisional Texture of Reality - Selected Talks and Texts (1977-2007)
2008
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
JRP|Editions - Positions (co-edition Les presses du réel)
Between critical writing and visual art practice.
Cécile Bart - Plein jour
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference retrospective monograph conceived by French artist Cécile Bart, with five essays and more than 200 reproductions, from her earliest screens/paintings, playing on the clearance of light in the diaphanous body of a fine film of Tergal cloth, to her most recent works involving threads of coloured cotton and wool.
Christian Robert-Tissot - Update 07
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Monograph dedicated to Swiss artist's words-images, presenting his most recent paintings, wall paintings, and installations, with 20 texts by art critics and artists friends of Robert-Tissot.
Paul Sharits -
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Espace multimedia Gantner
Complete monograph on a master of experimental cinema, with a general introduction, several essays, texts by the artist and interviews (available in English edition).
Benoit Platéus - Open
2008
trilingual edition (English / Dutch / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
A set of incisive, funny and poetic drawings by the Belgian artist, capturing the small events of his everyday life or sudden ideas which could become works.
Samuel Bianchini - Following Follow Spot (DVD)
2008
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
mfc-michèle didier - Import
A video work by Samuel Bianchini created as an extension to a dance solo by Paul-André Fortier, accompanied with a musical creation of Johnathan F. Lee.
Carsten Höller - The Beat (DVD)
2008
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
mfc-michèle didier - Import
(last copies available!)
A documentary conceived by the artist from the starting point of a former exhibition whose lightning system is made to flicker at a frequency of 7.8 hz. A compilation of dark-pop music from the eighties and the nineties emphazises the artist's capture of the flashing apparatus.
Starting with (from) Marseilles – 65 projects of contemporary art - Bureau des Compétences et Désirs (Office for Abilities and Desires)
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
(last copies available!)
23.00 10.00 €
Retrospective catalogue of the French art center.
The Synagogue de Delme
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
(last copies available!)
Retrospective catalogue of the ancient rural synagogue transformed in a major contemporary creation space: installations views, presentation of each exhibition, artists' contributions and essays.
Objets d\'hier et d\'aujourd\'hui - Forde 2004-2006 / 2006-2007
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
12.00 8.00 €
This publication presents the 2004-2006 program of Forde independent contemporary art space (with John Baldessari, Philippe Decrauzat, Scott King, Wade Guyton, Mathieu Mercier, Mai-Thu Perret, Seth Price...).
Ambitions of Art - 30 Years of the Nouveau Musée / Institute for Contemporary Art (boxset)
2008
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
IAC (Institut d'art contemporain)
26.00 18.00 €
The Institute for Contemporary Art in a two volumes boxset: memories, symposiums, conferences, images of the main exhibitions, specific projects.
Paul-Emmanuel Odin - L\'absence de livre - Gary Hill et Maurice Blanchot – Écriture, vidéo
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
An essay on Gary Hill's video work, taking Maurice Blanchot's writing as a starting point, between literature, philosophy, aesthics and psychoanalysis.
Charles de Meaux - Marfa Mystery Lights - A Concert for the UFO\'s – featuring The Secret Machines (DVD)
2008
English edition (French subtitled)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Artists' books & editions
mfc-michèle didier - Import
A performance of The Secret Machines conceived and filmed by Charles de Meaux.
Morton Feldman - Ecrits et paroles
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
New edition of the American compositor's writings, with an essay on his oeuvre and some testimonies by Steve Reich and Joan La Barbara.
 Cocktail Designers -
2008
texts in English and French
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
La Salle de bains
(last copies available!)
Retrospective catalogue of the graphic design studio's works.
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