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Criticism, theory & documents

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François Hers - Lettre à un ami au sujet des Nouveaux commanditaires
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Reflecting upon the necessary conditions for the development of the New Patrons Protocol, the French conceptual artist calls for a better involvement of museums as well as for an art history that would relate creative processes with political conditions.
3 Prix AICA France de la critique d\'art
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
19.00 9.00 €
The AICA France Art Criticism Prize: a retrospective catalogue (2013-2015)
Composing Differences - Imagining New Models for Knowledge Production and Exchange
2015
English edition
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A montage of theoretical and speculative texts, conversations, fictions, and documents exploring different tactics of production and intellectual exchange that operate in the interstices between artistic, educational, and political contexts, and imagine novel institutional forms.
Catherine Perret - Olivier Mosset - Painting, even
2013
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A study of the work of Olivier Mosset in 46 chapters.
Faire art comme on fait société - Les Nouveaux commanditaires (+ 2 DVD)
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A multidisciplinary reflection on a new type of engagement of art in democracy, renewing relationships between creation, culture and society: 47 contributions by international thinkers and actors of the art world (with 9 movies on DVD).
François Hers - Art without Capitalism (The New Patrons)
2013
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A new model of action to invent new modes of art production and exchange by establishing a direct dialogue between the artist, the citizen-commissioner and the cultural mediator, outside the museum and apart from the art market.
Elvan Zabunyan - Theresa Hak Kyung Cha - Berkeley – 1968
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
First monographic book on the unique work of Korean-American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982), at the crossroads of performance, of conceptual art, of video and of poetry.
Jean-Paul Fourmentraux - L\'œuvre commune - Affaire d\'art et de citoyen
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A sociological approach to new practices in public art commissioning.
François Hers - L\'art sans le capitalisme
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A new model of action to invent new modes of art production and exchange by establishing a direct dialogue between the artist, the citizen-commissioner and the cultural mediator, outside the museum and apart from the art market (available in English edition).
David Teboul - Boris Mikhailov - J\'ai déjà été ici un jour
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A portrait of the great Ukrainian photographer based on a film on Boris Mikhailov by David Teboul.
Jean-Louis Boissier - La relation cmme forme - L\'interactivité en art
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
(last copies available!)
25.00 19.00 €
Digital technologies and interactivity in the artistic field, in an historic and experimental perspective (new edition).
Dominique Chateau - L\'art comptant pour un
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An essay / manifesto to reconsider the objectivity of the sensations provided by artworks, and to reconsider contemporary art in itself rather than as a genre, alongside modern and classical art.
Didier Semin - L\'Atlantique à la rame - Humeurs et digressions
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A collection of texts.
Nicolas Bourriaud - Postproduction - La culture comme scénario : comment l\'art reprogramme le monde contemporain
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
The art of postproduction as a response to the proliferating chaos of global culture in the information age (also available in English edition).
Elisabeth Wetterwald - Rue sauvage
2003
French edition
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8.00 5.00 €
A collection of essays on ten contemporary artists (Peinado, Achour, Sala, Cattelan, Huyghe, Scanlan, Trouvé, Bublex).
Christophe Cherix - Prise directe
2003
French edition
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11.00 6.00 €
Collection of interview and essays (Parrino, Morris, Armleder, Veilhan, Walsh, Mosset, Gygi, Miller...).
Prières américaines
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A collection of texts and interviews of artists, musicians and art critics (Kim Gordon, Mike Kelley, Christian Marclay, John Miller, Bob Nickas...) based on the relationship between art, "rock" music and culture in the largest sense of the word.
François Hers - Le protocole
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Relations between society and artists.
Nicolas Thély - Vu à la webcam - (essai sur la web-intimité)
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Those who spread their image over Internet, what do they want? And what do those who view them get out of it? Numerous are those who jumped on the bandwagon of the webcam, pushing its spectrum of video-surveillance and condemning it to voyeurism or exhibitionism. Far beyond the simplistic idea of opposing exhibitionist / voyeur, actor / spectator, active / passive, the webcam serves as a meeting point of exchanges, complicity, views of or relationships with others, what Nicolas Thély terms as "web-intimacy".
Éric Troncy - Le docteur Olive dans la cuisine avec le revolver - Monographies et entretiens 1989-2002
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Texts and interviews by Eric Troncy.
Bob Nickas - Live Free or Die
2000
English edition
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Bob Nickas' writings.
Bob Nickas - Vivre libre ou mourir
2000
French edition
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Bob Nickas' writings (English edition).
Nicolas Bourriaud - Esthétique relationnelle
1998
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Also available in English edition.
Éric Troncy - Le colonel Moutarde dans la bibliothèque avec le chandelier - Textes 1985-1998
1998
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Thirty texts by Eric Troncy.
Art, médiation, société - Médiateurs culturels : Témoignages et investigation en France
1996
French edition
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12.00 7.00 €
Cultural mediation in France.
Out of the Grid - Italian Zine 1978-2006
2024
English edition
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sold out
Out of the Grid presents a critical selection of 100 Italian zines from 1978 to 2006 that display a broad spectrum of social, political, aesthetic, and technological changes in the use of language and communication strategies across the territory of self publishing.
Faire, faire faire, ne pas faire - Entretiens sur la production de l’art contemporain
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
sold out
This book examines the modes of execution in contemporary art from the viewpoint of production, by means of a series of eighteen interviews. It presents a plural and polyphonic thinking, bringing together the words of different participants concerned with the realisation of artworks and several generations of artists.
Michel Gauthier - Les promesses du zéro - Robert Smithson, Carsten Höller, Ed Ruscha, Martin Creed, John M Armleder, Tino Sehgal
2009
French edition
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sold out
An analysis of some major contemporary works that challenge the traditional values of art.
Thierry de Duve - Faire école (ou la refaire ?) - Nouvelle édition revue et augmentée
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
sold out
An activist analysis of new transmission models in art teaching.
Fabian Stech - J\'ai parlé avec Lavier, Annette Messager, Sylvie Fleury, Hirschhorn, Pierre Huyghe, Delvoye, D.G.-F., Hou Hanru, Sophie Calle, Ming, Sans et Bourriaud
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
sold out
A collection of interviews with artists and curators.
Nicolas Bourriaud - Relational Aesthetics
2002
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
sold out
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.
Alain Coulange - Peut-être - Bertrand Lavier et Niele Toroni
1994
French edition
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sold out
Max Reithmann - Joseph Beuys - Si nécessaire nous serons aussi privés de coeur
1994
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
sold out
Brigit Pelzer - Le désir tragique - sur Gerhard Richter
1993
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
sold out
A study on Richter's work with illustrations.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
forthcoming
Aesthetics of breathing: new ways of getting to know the air we breathe and developing a sensitive culture of air qualities.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
forthcoming
What translation does to performance and what performance does to translation: a collective publication exploring the relationship between translation and performance, including the fields of theater, dance, sound and visual poetry, and film.
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