Contemporary art
Monographs, catalogues, artists' books and editions.
Series:
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First monograph, with three essays and an interview.
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First monograph on Stéphanie Cherpin's work, with two essays, an interview, and a complete catalogue of her sculptures.
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
(last copies available!)
30.00 15.00 €
A retrospective overview of the 11th edition of the Lyon Biennale, curated by Argentinean curator Victoria Noorthoorn, with a focus on the two parallel programs “Veduta” and “Resonance”, held in the Lyon conurbation and its region.
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
15.00 8.00 €
The history of art in the context of universal exhibitions since the late nineteenth century to Charles de Meaux's visual and sound installation for Yeosu 2012.
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph.
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
Luxurious box set of three books dedicated to the monumental eponymous body of works.
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
35.00 19.00 €
Works 2007-2011, with a new essay by noted British critic Rebecca Geldard as well as a preface by curator and art historian Daniel Kurjaković.
2012
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph: an overview of the American painter's oeuvre over fifteen years, with two essays and one autobiographical text.
2012
German edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph (available in English edition).
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph (available in English edition).
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Monograph (with an essay by Michel Gauthier and an interview).
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
14.00 7.00 €
Catalogue of a double exhibition dedicated to the contemporary British art scene.
2011
bilingual edition (French / Portuguese)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
Limited edition of the anthology, with an original signed silkscreen.
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First major monograph in French, fully illustrated, devoted to the key figure of Joseph Beuys, revealing the aesthetic ambition and political issues through a genealogy that retraces a whole part of the XXth century.
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Catalogue raisonné / first monograph of a key figure in the art scene since the late 1980s, this luxurious book (designed by M/M), lavishly illustrated, documents the whole Pierre Joseph's oeuvre, from the first group shows to most recent works.
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
32.00 17.00 €
Catalogue of the 11th edition of the international exhibition, conceived by Argentinean curator Victoria Noorthoorn, gathering 78 artists from all over the world.
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
30.00 15.00 €
Retrospective catalogue of the “Veduta” urban art program conceived alongside the 2009 Lyon Biennal, with various local actors and cultural and artistic institutions: an exploration of the diversity of visual cultures, guided by the core ideas of convergence and participation.
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Contemporary art and the French Riviera (a territory for experimentation).
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph.
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Monograph based on an ambitious project that revisits forty years of Californian post-conceptual artist's work, between symbolism of representation and exploration of the subconscious under hypnosis, with two essays and an interview.
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
Limited edition of the Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille monograph with an insert of a print signed by the artists.
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A postmodern portrait of French art schools outside Paris, from the example of Mulhouse, which evolved from industrial arts and fine arts to contemporary art and design.
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A reference book on contemporary church stained glass window: an extensive documentation on a monumental public commission involving five French major artists.
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Space as the raw material and the underpinning
of the work of art (different approaches looking into the
concept of space in all its ramifications, from the recent history
of sculpture to the latest research in astrophysics).
2011
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph.
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
Limited edition with an original print, hand numbered and signed by the artist (30 copies print run).
2011
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Retrospective monograph dedicated to one of France's major proponents of body art.
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Retrospective monograph dedicated to one of France's major proponents of body art (available in English edition).
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
currently out of stock
First monograph dedicated to the intimate dreamscapes created in Japanese video artist's delicate animations.
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A unique project, between the artist's book and the book on art history, around Ghislain Mollet-Viéville's personal archives.
2011
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph / catalogue raisonné of 650 both playful and disturbing works, between melancholy, humor and poetry.
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph / catalogue raisonné (available in English edition).
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First monograph: Charline von Heyl's paintings chronologically presented, each vis-à-vis a detail view manipulated by the artist, with four texts that shed light on the evolution of her work and contextualize her practice regarding the question of the renewal of contemporary painting.
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
The first monographic book of the Belgium interdisciplinary art studio for architecture and urbanism LAb[au].
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
30 copies limited edition accompanied by a signed color photographic print of Molinier's fetish doll by Philippe Bonan.
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
Reference monograph (available in English edition).
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Retrospective monograph: a survey of Véronique Joumard's plays of light since 1985, with two essays and a conversation with the artist.
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
30.00 17.00 €
Catalogue of the second Rennes Biennal, focusing on the theme of the future and the thought surrounding it.
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
30.00 17.00 €
Catalogue of the second Rennes Biennal (available in English edition).
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
22.50 16.00 €
Emblematic videos and recent works by the duo.
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Large format reference monograph with three long essays, more than 300 color illustrations, detailed presentation of Scurti's emblematic works: a complete overview of an oeuvre which, between aesthetic valorization of everyday objects and devaluation of traditional figures of art, simultaneously explores the socio-economic determinism of the individual and the possibilities of an emancipation, to which art participates.
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
Reference retrospective monograph (available in English edition).
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
An “experimental monograph” (conceived by Heimo Zobernig) which offers a sidelong journey through the multi-facetted body of
workmade by the Austrian artist since more than 30 years, which also offers a novel line of thinking about the layout of an artwork, and gathers a selection of “historical” texts and new commissioned essays.
2010
texts in English and French
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
20.00 12.00 €
A facsimile of the sketchbook made by the two artists for their first duo exhibition.
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Over eighty architects and
collectives from a variety of backgrounds who have in
common ways of overstepping the frontiers of their
respective disciplines, brought together under the theme of “the private and the collective”.
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
First monograph: an overview of Lamouroux's wide range of practices (architectural installations, sculptures, works on paper, photos, videos), with two essays and an interview.
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
The method and genesis of Pierre Molinier's oeuvre with more than 800 pictures, mostly unpublished, numerous documents, manuscripts and letters, a complete chronology, a critical biography, and a text by Jean-Luc Mercié.
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
50 copies limited edition accompanied by a signed color photographic print of Molinier's fetish doll by artist photographer Gilles Berquet.
2009
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Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
Signed and numbered print (1-25) from the "Beyrouth, photographs" series (1984).