Les presses du réel – editions
 
Stéphane Dafflon -
2007
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Monograph dedicated to the abstract artist's graphical paintings and objects, accompanied with a long essay by Jeff Ryan.
9e Biennale d\'art contemporain de Lyon - L\'histoire d\'une décennie qui n\'est pas encore nommée
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
28.00 18.00 €
Catalogue of the Lyon Biennal 2007 (also available in English edition). The publication is thought of as a history, geography, and contemporary art book, resulting of a series of delegations, invitations, and programs of those who conceived the event.
Une galerie dans la ville - Roger Pailhas
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
19.00 15.00 €
A tribute to the foundator of the famous Marseille Gallery, the ARCA and the Art Dealers fair, with contributions by artists Daniel Buren, Dan Graham, Pierre Huyghe, Bernar Venet, Jeff Wall...
Half Square Half Crazy
2007
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
(last copies available!)
This publication explores the reexamination or the redeployment of forms and devices drawn from Minimal art by numerous contemporary artists (Achour, Afif, Armleder, Boyce, Creed, Curlet, Dafflon, Decrauzat, Gastaldon, Guyton, Hempel, Mercier, Monk, Mosset, Nicolai, Parrino, Peinado, Pettibon, Pinaud, Tremblay, van Golden, Walsh...).
A moitié carré à moitié fou
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
This publication explores the reexamination or the redeployment of forms and devices drawn from Minimal art by numerous contemporary artists (Achour, Afif, Armleder, Boyce, Creed, Curlet, Dafflon, Decrauzat, Gastaldon, Guyton, Hempel, Mercier, Monk, Mosset, Nicolai, Parrino, Peinado, Pettibon, Pinaud, Tremblay, van Golden, Walsh...).
The Freak Show
2007
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Catalogue of the exhibition inspired of American "Freak Show", presenting around 50 contortionist, giant, hairy or Siamese works.
Alexandra Baudelot - Jennifer Lacey & Nadia Lauro - Dispositifs chorégraphiques
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
An essay / fully illustrated monograph on choreographer and dancer Jennifer Lacey and artist and scenographer Nadia Lauro.
Diedrich Diederichsen - Argument son - De Britney Spears à Helmut Lachenmann : critique électro-acoustique de la société et autres essais sur la musique
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Documents
A collection of texts about music (from Britney Spears to Helmut Lachenmann, passing through Matthew Herbert, The Melvins, Terre Thaemlitz, Stan Douglas etc.), gathered from the numerous publications of the famous art and music critic and including many previously unpublished texts.
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) – Fundamental
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.
Stéphanie Moisdon - Stéphanie Moisdon
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
A collection of texts and interviews by the art critic and independant curator (John Armleder, Mehdi Belhaj Kacem, Guy Debord, Jean-Luc Godard, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Douglas Gordon, Carsten Höller, Michel Houellebecq, Pierre Huyghe, Jacques Lacan, Jean-François Lyotard, Olivier Mosset, Philippe Parreno, Andy Warhol...).
Amy O\'Neill - Suburban Imagination
2007
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
The sculptures, installations, and drawings by the New York-based artist are presented in this first monograph as a journey through the American suburban imagination.
Kelley Walker -
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
Reference monograph.
CCS Paris - Centre Culturel Suisse – 2003-2005
2007
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
(last copies available!)
25.00 15.00 €
The illustrated catalogue of the Swiss platform in Paris (with Martin Hess, Thomas Hirschhorn, Christoph Büchel and Gianni Motti, Philippe Rahm, etc.).
Documents – Some artistic practices of the digital age - Collection 35 works – Volume 1
2007
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A collection of digital artworks.
Julie Perrin - Projet de la matière – Odile Duboc - Mémoire(s) d\'une œuvre chorégraphique (+ DVD)
2007
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
The story of a choreographic work, from its beginning to its successive appearances. The testimonies of its various actors (choreographer, dancers, artist) lead to make the aesthetic stakes appear and the strengths which underlie the work.
Pierre Tilman - Robert Filliou - Nationalité poète
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
The first biography of Robert Filliou.
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) – Paperback
A critical counterpoint to the famous Tzara's cronic published in the Dada Almanach, by the founder of the Cabaret Voltaire.
Cahiers Charles Fourier
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
The Fourierist Studies Association Review.
David Robbins - The Velvet Grind - Selected Essays (1980-2004)
2006
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
A discussion of art and entertainment and their conflictual relationship (interviews and essays).
Annette Messager - Word for Word
2006
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
60.00 45.00 €
The writings by Annette Messager assembed by Marie-Laure Bernadac appear to be exuberant, poetic, trivial. Lavishly illustrated, this monograph contains a collection of texts and interviews with the artist, many of which are unpublished.
Catherine Sullivan - Film and Theater Works - 2002-2004
2006
texts in English and French
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
40.00 20.00 €
First monograph devoted to the Californian artist.
Delphine Coindet -
2006
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Large monograph on French sculptor Delphine Coindet.
Gerald Petit - Heroes
2006
French edition (texts in English)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
12.00 6.00 €
Exhibition catalog: the entire transcript of the “hero” from The Viewer, a video realized in New York in 2004.
Robert Barry - Details (DVD)
2006
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
Details shows a succession of scenes filmed in static shots, appearing behind words letters cut on a black screen, giving the word the function of the frame and therefore rephrasing the link between language and image.
Lawrence Weiner - Liberté et contraintes - A structure of Lawrence Weiner (DVD)
2006
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
A video creation by one of the most famous representatives of conceptual art, exploring relations between language, time and space.
Catherine Perret - Non compatibles - Une peinture sans qualités (une exposition de Catherine Perret)
2006
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
13.00 7.00 €
Exhibition catalogue (with Dike Blair, Greg Bogin, Renate Buser, Nicolas Chardon, Marcelline Delbecq, Barbara Gallucci, Imi Knoebel, Vincent Lamouroux, Renée Levi, Olivier Mosset, Emmanuel Pinard, Peter Soriano, Tatiana Trouvé).
Printemps de septembre à Toulouse – Volume 3 - Broken lines
2006
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
15.00 10.00 €
The third and last catalogue of the contemporary art festival in Toulouse, France (with Art & Language, Rodney Graham, Joe Scanlan, Tatiana Trouvé, Lawrence Weiner, Anish Kapoor, Francis Alÿs, Monica Bonvicini, Christoph Büchel...)
Dick Higgins - Postface - Un journal critique de l\'avant-garde
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
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.
Jacques Sivan - Mar/cel Duchamp en 2 temps 1 mouvement
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Two studies on the link between language, art and reality in Marcel Duchamp's work.
Joël Hubaut - Re-mix épidemik - Esthétique de la dispersion
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
An exhaustive documentation on the work of the French artist since 1970, fully illustrated.
Didier Marcel -
2006
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
Reference monograph on the French artist (landscapes, installations, sculptures; architectural models, drawings).
Richard Phillips -
2006
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
Illustrated monograph dedicated to the American hyperrealist artist's drawings. With texts by Kim Gordon, Liam Gillick, Karl Holmqvist...
 Yan Pei-Ming - Execution
2006
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A collection of texts and interviews around the artist's work.
Annette Messager - Mot pour mot
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Lavishly illustrated, this monograph contains a collection of texts and interviews with the artist, many of which are unpublished.
Annette Messager - Mot pour mot - Signed edition with original artwork
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
currently out of stock
A limited and signed edition of the monograph Mot pour mot, with original artwork by the artist.
Jean-Philippe Antoine - Marcel Broodthaers - Moule, Muse, Méduse
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field
Poetry and space for Marcel Broodthaers—a critical essay.
Christophe Huysman - 8 poèmes
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field – Fictions
8 poems, between theater and performance.
Edouard Merino - Avant la neige / Je suis une Mercedes 300SL / Mario
2006
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field – Fictions
A collection of dadaïst and surrealistic texts.
Marie Le Masson Le Golft - Balance de la nature
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Miss Marie le Masson Le Golft (1749-1826) is known as the lady who noted Nature.
Richard Huelsenbeck - Almanach Dada
2005
bilingual edition (German / French)
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
Reprint of the first Dada anthology (Berlin, 1920), with Tzara's chronicles, manifests and documents.
Pierre-Joseph Proudhon - Carnets (1847-1851)
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
An essential work covering the activities of the 19th century French theoretician of anarchy, federalism, perpetual education and the mutual principle.
Emile Pouget - Le sabotage
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
A 19th century political activism classic.
Cahiers Charles Fourier
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
Yayoi Kusama - Manhattan Suicide Addict
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
26.00 15.00 €
First French translation of the Kusama's psychedelic novel, published first in 1978 during the exile of the artist in New York.
Loïc Raguénès - Vie Nouvelle
2005
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Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
Artist's book: a journey through Tyrol landscapes with Bob Dylan.
Printemps de septembre à Toulouse – Volume 2 - Vertiges
2005
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
15.00 5.00 €
Contemporary art French festival catalogue (with Franz Ackermann, Fred Tomaselli, Chloe Piene, David Reed, Siobhan Hapaska, James Rosenquist, Franz West, Jennifer Steinkamp, Jean-Pierre Bertrand, Gerhard Merz, Cindy Sherman, Stephane Calais, Jake & Dinos Chapman, Sigmar Polke, Daniel Schlier, Ger Van Elk, Alice Anderson...).
Annie Claustres - Hans Hartung - Les aléas d\'une réception
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Inflexion
Hans Hartung always gave a lot of attention to the filing of his works. This essay on the abstract painter is linked with a specific web site where one will find a rich iconography and documentation.
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) – Fundamental
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 - Le Duchamp facile
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
A new approach of Duchamp's keywords.
Richard Martel - Art-Action
2005
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
Art as actions : a collection of Martel's essays and articles since the eighties.
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