Avant-gardes

L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)

 
L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) is a philosophical and literary series dedicated to radical tendencies in the arts as well as in the spheres of society, rejecting the fraudulent separation between aesthetic innovation and social transformation.
 
Series founded by Michel Giroud.
Louis Ucciani - L\'index fouriériste (+ CD-rom)
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
The Fourierist conceptual index: a tool allowing a completely new reading of Charles Fourier's complete writings based on current possibilities of science and technology applied to texts, through a dedicated software interface for content analysis (CD-rom included).
Louis Ucciani - L\'index fouriériste
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Digital version of the Fourierist conceptual index: a tool allowing a completely new reading of Charles Fourier's complete writings based on current possibilities of science and technology applied to texts, through a dedicated software interface for content analysis.
Raoul Hausmann - Hylé - État de rêve en Espagne
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Raoul Hausmann's autobiographical novel.
Xavier Forneret - Ecrits complets - Volume I (1834-1876) – Théâtre, poésie, musique
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
The theatrical, poetical and musical work of Xavier Forneret, French Romantic writer, precursor of the Surrealist movement.
Xavier Forneret - Ecrits complets - Volume II (1836-1880) – Aphorismes, contes et récits, roman, vie quotidienne
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Stories, novels, correspondence and short texts by Xavier Forneret, French Romantic writer, precursor of the Surrealist movement.
Charles Dreyfus Pechkoff - Fluxus - L\'Avant-garde en mouvement
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Essay and interviews.
Émile Bernard - Les lettres d\'un artiste (1884-1941)
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Émile Bernard's correspondence.
Jonathan Beecher - Victor Considerant - Grandeur et décadence du socialisme romantique
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A critical biography.
Augusto de Campos - Poètemoins - Anthologie
2011
bilingual edition (French / Portuguese)
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
The anthology of the founder of the concrete poetry movement in Brazil.
Fabrice Flahutez - Le lettrisme historique était une avant-garde
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Letterism's history and posterity: a new reading of the historical issues of an unknown but influential artistic avant-garde.
Günter Brus - Expositions - Colloque en l\'honneur des 70 ans de l\'artiste (+ CD)
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A symposium-based tribute to Günter Brus by international contributors, philosophers, art critics and historians, curators, artists and musicians (with a CD containing a musical composition by Olga Neuwirth and Burkhard Stangle).
Haroldo de Campos - Une poétique de la radicalité - Essai sur la poésie d\'Oswald de Andrade
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
The militant essay by poet, theoretician, critic and translator Haroldo de Campos on one of the most radical members of the Brazilian avant-gardes of the 1920's: a key contribution to the critical rehabilitation of a work that has strongly influenced Concrete Poetry in Brazil, as well as many poetical adventures of Western modernity.
Carole Boulbès - Picabia avec Nietzsche - Lettres d\'amour à Suzanne Romain (1944-1948)
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
From Picabia's unpublished love letters to a philosophical and aesthetic inquiry on art, through Goethe, Schlegel, Hegel, or Baudelaire.
Bernard Girard - Lettrisme, l\'ultime avant-garde
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
(last copies available!)
An in depth analysis of one of the most inventive (but also the most misunderstood) post-war avant-garde movements.
Ben Vautier - Vérités et points de vue - A à Z
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A panorama of Ben's conflicting ideas and various activities since 1959.
Bernard Desmars - Militants de l\'utopie ? - Les fouriéristes dans la seconde moitié du XIXe siècle
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
An essay on Charles Fourier's legacy through his disciples and "utopian" activists in late XIXth century.
Guillermo de Torre - Ultra-Dada entre deux avant-gardes
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
The work of an underestimated writer, a founder of the Ultraism, initiator of Dada in the 1920s Spain.
Bertrand Clavez - George Maciunas - Une révolution furtive
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Accompanied with Fluxus pamphlets, manifestoes and newspapers of the artist, the unpublished manuscript of the mother of the founder of the avant-garde movement constitutes an invaluable entry to the private world of Maciunas, and the occasion of a revaluation of its artistic and strategic choices.
Marc Décimo - L\'esprit  de la modernité révélé par quelques traits pataphysiques - ou Le Brisset facile
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
An essay on the reception of Jean-Pierre-Brisset's work among his contemporaries and successors, its relationship with futurism, pataphysics, surrealism, dada, etc., its sources and its offspring in the fields of literature, linguistics, psychoanalysis, science, philosophy and art.
Charles Fourier - Théorie des quatre mouvements et des destinées générales
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
currently out of stock
The first, fundamental work in which Fourier declares his objectives for a world government and economy administered by "Passionate Attraction".
Marcel Duchamp & l\'érotisme
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
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 – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
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.
Jacques Villeglé - Le lacéré anonyme
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
An ironic, historic and personal assessment of the transformations of art in the years 1950-1960 by one member of the New realists: the story of collage, the return of dada, an evocation of Léo Malet, the work with Raymond Hains...
Camille Bryen - Désécritures - Poèmes, essais, inédits, entretiens
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
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)
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.
Patrick Tacussel - L\'imaginaire radical - Les mondes possibles et l\'esprit utopique selon Charles Fourier
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A new essay on Charles Fourier's social utopia.
Lydie Fischer Sarazin-Levassor - A Marriage in Check - The Heart of the Bride Stripped Bare by Her Bachelor, Even (Marcel Duchamp and Lydie Fischer Sarazin-Levassor)
2007
English edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Marcel Duchamp met Lydie Sarazin-Levassor at the end of March 1927. On 7 June, they were married. Francis Picabia acted as a witness and the ceremony was filmed by Man Ray. On 25 January 1928, they divorced. Lydie Sarazin-Levassor tells the story of their marriage.
Hugo Ball - Dada à Zurich - Le mot et l\'image (1915-1916)
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A critical counterpoint to the famous Tzara's cronic published in the Dada Almanach, by the founder of the Cabaret Voltaire.
Dick Higgins - Postface - Un journal critique de l\'avant-garde
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
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.
Joël Hubaut - Re-mix épidemik - Esthétique de la dispersion
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
An exhaustive documentation on the work of the French artist since 1970, fully illustrated.
Jacques Sivan - Mar/cel Duchamp en 2 temps 1 mouvement
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Two studies on the link between language, art and reality in Marcel Duchamp's work.
Pierre Tilman - Robert Filliou - Nationalité poète
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
The first biography of Robert Filliou.
Marc Décimo - Le Duchamp facile
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A new approach of Duchamp's keywords.
Richard Huelsenbeck - Almanach Dada
2005
bilingual edition (German / French)
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Reprint of the first Dada anthology (Berlin, 1920), with Tzara's chronicles, manifests and documents.
Marie Le Masson Le Golft - Balance de la nature
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Miss Marie le Masson Le Golft (1749-1826) is known as the lady who noted Nature.
Richard Martel - Art-Action
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Art as actions : a collection of Martel's essays and articles since the eighties.
Emile Pouget - Le sabotage
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A 19th century political activism classic.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Carnets (1847-1851)
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
An essential work covering the activities of the 19th century French theoretician of anarchy, federalism, perpetual education and the mutual principle.
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)
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.
Marc Décimo - Marcel Duchamp mis à nu - A propos du processus créatif
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Marcel Duchamp “laid bare” by Marc Décimo who talks about the creative process in this essay on the father of conceptual art.
Otto Muehl - Lettres à Erika - Journal de l\'actionnisme
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
The correspondance between Otto Muehl and Erika Stocker forms an intense journal of Viennese actionism, and more particularly of the artist's work.
Otto Muehl - Lettres de prison
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Otto Muehl was condemned to 7 years of prison in 1991. He exchanged letters with his family and friends, he painted.
Lydie Fischer Sarazin-Levassor - Un échec matrimonial - Le cœur de la mariée mis à nu par son célibataire même (Marcel Duchamp et Lydie Fischer Sarazin-Levassor)
2004
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Marcel Duchamp met Lydie Sarazin-Levassor at the end of March 1927. On 7 June, they were married. Francis Picabia acted as a witness and the ceremony was filmed by Man Ray. On 25 January 1928, they divorced. Lydie Sarazin-Levassor tells the story of their marriage, presents us with “her” Marcel, and relates her encounters with Jacques Doucet, Constantin Brancusi, Henri-Pierre Roché, Man Ray and Kiki de Montparnasse, Jean Cocteau, the Ballets Russes, the Duchamp family, Jean Crotti, Mary Rumsey, Katherine Dreier and Robert Desnos, and describes the atmosphere at the Villons' (in Puteaux, just outside Paris), the Picabias' (at Mougins, in the South of France) and the Sarazin-Levassors' (in Étretat, on the Normandy coast).
Raoul Hausmann - Eccentric Sensoriality
2002
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
The last document of the dadasopher of Berlin.
Fluxus Dixit - Une anthologie
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
The Fluxus anthology.
Jean-Pierre Brisset - Œuvres natatoires
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
The funny though serious inventions of the thinker, poet, prophet and annagrammarian.
François Dufrêne - Le Tombeau de Pierre Larousse
2002
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
An unknown, rarely published writer who nevertheless sent shock waves into the 60s and 80s by constructing a text worthy of a great rhetoretician on the game of alliteration.
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