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Makis Solomos - Pour une écologie de la musique et du son - Le vivant, le mental et le social dans la musique, les arts sonores et les artivismes d\'aujourd\'hui
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
An exploration of the ecologies of music and sound, from an ecosophical and emancipatory perspective.
Françoise d\'Eaubonne - Histoire de l\'art et lutte des sexes
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
The critical edition of the pioneering work on art history by Françoise d'Eaubonne (1920-2005), inventor of the concept of ecofeminism.
Josef Albers - Transatlantique
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
ER Publishing
Invited by Pierre Mabille, nine artists, from both sides of the Atlantic (Sheila Hicks, Fanette Mellier, Mathieu Mercier, Sarah Morris, Dan Walsh...), share their impressions of one of the 20th century's most influential abstract painters and teachers.
Vilém Flusser - Arts, sciences, technologies - Défis à la recherche-création
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
Research-creation reconsidered from its historical upstream (before, when we spoke of Arts-Sciences), but also from its possible downstream (after, from the point of view of other conceptions and other practices yet to be invented).
Tim Ingold - Architecture educates! - Au contact de l\'art
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
ESAAA (Higher School of Art Annecy)
An education turned around by art: famous English anthropologist Tim Ingold invites us to consider the arts as the very basis of an education in the 21st-century, an education that might begin to address the profound social and ecological crises we face.
Tomás Maldonado - Vers une écologie critique
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
A major milestone in the history of design, this pioneering work by Tomás Maldonado, published in 1970, lays the foundations for a critical and committed reflection, open to an ecological perspective, against the drifts of utopian regressions or exacerbated productivism.
5e Biennale internationale de design graphique
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Signe – National Graphic Design Center - Catalogues
The catalog of the fifth edition of the International Graphic Design Biennial, organized by le Signe, centre national du graphisme in Chaumont, in 2025, on the theme of music.
Ornella Volta - Erik Satie en notes et en mots
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Ornella Volta's definitive posthumous book on Erik Satie, featuring all the composer's writings, largely unpublished documentation and biographical elements, for the first time precisely related to the works.
Emmanuelle Pireyre - La performance narrative - Art, Littérature, Scène
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Figures
A panoramic, cross-border exploration of performative practices in literature, art, dance, theater and more.
Sigfried Giedion - La mécanisation au pouvoir - Une contribution à l\'histoire anonyme
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Medias/Theories
An unclassifiable classic, precursor of the “material turn” and of media theory, finally reissued.
Eyal Weizman - L\'art de la contre-enquête - Esthétiques de l\'investigation – Politiques de vérité
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
A new field of counter-investigation across journalism, human rights, art and law.
Maurice Fréchuret - Aveuglements - Les artistes et la cécité
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A history of the representation of blindness in art, from Brueghel to Louise Bourgeois.
 Associates Architecture - Ordinary Beauty - An Italian Scenario by Associates Architecture – An Open Investigation Through Everyday Architecture
2025
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale
A research project exploring the relationship between the ordinary and architecture, in everyday architecture, featuring the work of sixty-one architectural offices from across Italy, accompanied by reflections of scholars and professionals.
Jana Ndiaye Berankova - L\'Éclat de l\'absolu - Dialogues avec Alain Badiou
2025
French edition
Suture Press
L'Éclat de l'absolu is a crucial work for anyone interested in Alain Badiou's thought. Through interviews conducted by philosopher and editor Jana Ndiaye Berankova, readers are invited to immerse themselves in a rich and nuanced dialogue exploring the major philosophical influences—Plato, Hegel, Sartre, Althusser, Lacan and Deleuze—that have shaped Badiou's thought.
Griselda Pollock - Féminisme et pédagogie au cœur des formations artistiques - 40 ans d\'expérience
2025
French edition
Villa Arson
Two lectures from art historian and curator Griselda Pollock address feminist questions and art education in the 1980s and today.
The Feedback Game
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
A card game designed by Chloé Déchery and Marion Boudier, in collaboration with illustrator Éric Valette, to contribute to the development of a “culture of return” in artistic creation, distribution and teaching.
Jonathan Crary - L\'écorchement du monde - Pour en finir avec l\'ère numérique : vers un monde post-capitaliste
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
Refusing the digital world of late capitalism.
Éliane Radigue - Blank Forms - Alien Roots
2025
English edition
Blank Forms
Blank Forms - Blank Forms Journal
The tenth and final anthology from Blank Forms offers an exceptional insight into the work, working methods and thinking of the French pioneer of musique concrète and electroacoustic composition Éliane Radigue, through key texts, a wealth of archival documents, in-depth interviews and commissioned essays.
Siegfried Kracauer - Culte de la distraction - Miniatures urbaines et critiques de films (1925-1933)
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
A set of insights into the mass culture of the Weimar Republic, and its rituals of distraction, which prefigure our present.
Emmanuel Adely - Trois contes et quelques
2025
French edition
Vroum - Editions
A resolutely contemporary author, Emmanuel Adely revisits the fairy tales of Perrault and Grimm and brings them up to date with his lively, sharp writing.
Jolanthe Kugler - La cuisine - Entre fonctionnalité et plaisir
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
MUDAC (Lausanne's Museum of Contemporary Design and Applied Arts)
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic kitchen objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room.
Marine Schütz - Handmade readymade - Dessin et illustration dans le Pop art américain et britannique (1950-1975)
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An original history of Pop Art from the point of view of drawing, resituating the leading role played by this medium in the development of closer links between art and life.
Le Cyclop - La Monumentale Folie de Jean Tinguely, Niki de Saint Phalle et leurs amis (1969-2024)
2025
French edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
A total environment-cum-woodland utopia created by an all-star team of "mad sculptors" led by Jean Tinguely (also available in English).
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Pauline Picot - Permettez-moi de palpiter
2024
French edition
Vroum - Editions
50 poems by Pauline Picot, autobiographical fragments that also reflect the daily lives of those around her.
Victor Papanek - Design pour un monde réel
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
Critical re-edition in French of an absolutely precursory and fundamental work for the inclusion of social and environmental issues in the design process: the manifesto of a radical reconfiguration of the field of design, of its forms but above all of its mission.
Valentine Schlegel - Je dors, je travaille
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ
Conceived as a "bio-monograph", this catalogue offers a unique insight into the life and work of the French artist, sculptor and ceramist Valentine Schlegel (1925-2021). It features a large iconography, archives, and texts by sculptor and Schlegel specialist Hélène Bertin (new expanded edition with English texts).
Griselda Pollock - Maîtresses d\'autrefois - Femmes, art et idéologie
2024
French edition
JRP|Editions - Lectures Maison Rouge
Parker and Pollock's seminal volume of feminist art history.
Anne-Marie Minella - Les artistes et le textile
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An overview of the use of textile in contemporary visual arts around the world.
Marie Pellaton - Flore des friches urbaines
2022
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A new and expanded edition of the reference flora, the result of 20 years of studies and floristic surveys on a multitude of urban wastelands, allowing, through 600 photographs and 800 original drawings, to recognize and name some 300 silent plants that we come across every day: a methodical herbarium of the wastelands which constitutes a true guide to biodiversity, beautiful and playful, accessible and rigorous..
Jill Johnston - JJ - Tartine-moi et autres textes
2024
French edition
Brook
JJ brings together articles by cultural critic, auto/biographer, and lesbian icon Jill Johnston (1929-2010), translated into French for the first time, as well as texts, poems and drawings by Pauline L. Boulba, Aminata Labor, Nina Kennel and Rosanna Puyol.
Saidiya Hartman - À perte de mère - Sur les routes atlantiques de l\'esclavage
2023
French edition
Brook
currently out of stock
Saidiya Hartman traces the history of the Atlantic slave trade by recounting a journey she took along a slave route in Ghana. Following the trail of captives from the hinterland to the Atlantic coast, she reckons with the blank slate of her own genealogy and vividly dramatizes the effects of slavery on three centuries of African and African American history.
Morgan Labar - La gloire de la bêtise - Régression et superficialités dans les arts depuis la fin des années 1980
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Œuvres en sociétés
A history of stupidity (deliberate and sometimes even claimed), regression and superficiality in the arts.
Ida Soulard - Les abstractions concrètes d\'Anni Albers (1899-1994) - Une histoire textile de la modernité
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
A wide-ranging study of the visual and theoretical practice of Anni Albers, a pivotal figure between two continents and two modernities, as part of a general history of art, design and textile production in the European and American women's avant-gardes.
Claire Tabouret -
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Perrotin
currently out of stock
First monograph, with a wide selection of of Claire Tabouret's works (paintings, drawings, and sculptures), two essays and a set of literary quotes chosen by the artist (new expanded edition).
Arts, écologies, transitions - Un abécédaire
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An "ABC of the arts in transition" examining the ecological turn of the arts, the outcome of long-term collective research into the fundamental elements running through the art world and, more generally, the aesthetic and social universe in the current ecological crisis.
Marie Preston - Inventer l\'école, penser la co-création
2023
French edition
Tombolo Presses
currently out of stock
A publication by artist and teacher-researcher Marie Preston on the alternative pedagogies developed in France during the 1970s-1990s in "open" schools working on the question of the relationship between co-creation and co-education.
L\'Art dans la vie ! - Le constructivisme soviétique dans les textes
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
An anthology of the constructivist movement, bringing together newly translated or previously unpublished writings by artists and theorists, accompanied by numerous illustrations and an extensive critical apparatus: this reference volume sheds new light on the multiplicity and diversity of the approaches of constructivism and productivism in the 1920s-30, and provides a major contribution to the studies of the Soviet avant-garde.
Anni Albers - Du tissage
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art
Written by one of the pioneers of twentieth-century textile art, Anni Albers' 1965 seminal text offers a brilliant meditation on the art of weaving, its history, tools, and techniques, and its implications for modern design (new expanded edition, with three critical texts and color illustrations).
Nicolas Bourriaud - Esthétique relationnelle
1998
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
currently out of stock
Also available in English edition.
Élisée Reclus - Abécédaire Reclus - Les 101 mots d\'Élisée
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A glossary of themes running through the work of Élisée Reclus (1830-1905), reflecting the contemporary relevance and diversity of the anarchist geographer's thought.
Éliane Radigue - Intermediary Spaces
2024
bilingual edition (English / French)
umland / Q-O2
In the long interview that forms the body of this publication, Éliane Radigue talks about her work, her reflections and underlying research, as well as her historical context. The publication also contains a commented list of works and Radigue's programmatic text on The Mysterious Power of the Infinitesimal (new expanded edition).
Gilles Perraudin - Les jours sont ronds
2024
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Essays
The story/manifesto of an architect's life: a re-reading of Gilles Perraudin's career by himself, enabling us to retrace the path of a thought in perpetual motion.
Construire un Matrimoine de la BD - Créations, mobilisations et transmissions des femmes dans le neuvième art, en Europe et en Amérique
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
The first scientific work to trace the history of female comic strip creators, for the (re)valorization of women's heritage.
Bernard Quirot - Simplifions
2022
French edition
Caryatide / Cosa Mentale - Essays
In this writing, French architect Bernard Quirot carries a reflection on his theoretical foundations and evokes, through his architectural journey, a critical vision of the increasing complexity of the world.
Walking from Scores
2022
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
An anthology of text and graphic scores to be used while walking, from Fluxus to the critical works of current artists, through the tradition of experimental music and performance, gathered and presented by Elena Biserna.
Strange Design
2024
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
A history of critical design in four episodes: the Italian radical design of the late 1970s; the Dutch conceptual design of the 1990s; the English critical design of the 2000s, and the contemporary scene (with contributions by Bless, Didier Faustino, Alessandro Mendini, Gianni Pettena…).
Claudia Mareis - Théories du design - Une introduction
2023
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design/Théories
By introducing the main design theories of the twentieth century, Claudia Mareis outlines approaches and models that postulate an expanded notion of design, in connection with the human and technical sciences, as well as with the challenges of a changing society.
José Esteban Muñoz - Cruiser l\'utopie - L\'après et ailleurs de l\'advenir queer
2021
French edition
Brook
First French translation of José Esteban Muñoz's field defining work—an intellectual inspiration for a generation of LGBTQ scholars.
Myr Muratet - Manuel d\'écologie urbaine
2019
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.
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