Les presses du réel – editions
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
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Catalogue of the double exhibition devoted to the Pattern & Decoration movement, with numerous previously unpublished archives.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
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The figure(s) of Cindy Sherman as the plot of a personal narrative by Jean-François Bory.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
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A science of sensitive experience prolonged by a theory of atmospheres, at the origins of philosophical aesthetics.
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
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A lexical survey on compositional practice in contemporary dance.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
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Performance art with a “low artistic coefficient of visibility”.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
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A collective reflection on reciprocal relations between design and the ethics of care, in the areas of health, social innovation, objects, or the environmental issue.
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
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Can the modern uses of prehistory shed new light on the modern experience of time and, thus, the art of this period?
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
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Second volume of a special issue devoted to the rediscovery of Charles Fourier's oeuvre by the Surrealists. This volume focuses on André Breton's passionate interest in Fourier, through correspondence (Pierre Naville, Georges Sirot, Jean Gaulmier, Émile Lehouck) and texts by Georges Bataille and Raoul Vaneigem.
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
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The “chairs-poems” conceived by the Quebec sculptor Michel Goulet for the Palais-Royal garden in Paris, with contributions from nearly 70 authors, visual artists, poets, critics, theoreticians, philosophers and thinkers.
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
sold out
The current panoply of private initiatives in the museum world.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
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Catalogue of the first Orleans Biennale of Architecture: introduced by a series of texts on Guy Rottier, Demas Nwoko and Patrick Bouchain, the publication offers an intersecting vision from over forty contemporary architects working on building a shared world. The concluding part presents a mapping of the research in architecture.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Les Hétéroclites
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An introductory examination of asylum art before the theorization of art brut, followed by a new critical edition of French alienist Marcel Réja's study on the “madmen's art”.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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First retrospective catalogue devoted to Dutch painter Peter Schuyff, a prominent member of the Neo-Geo movement, Has Been presents a selection of works produced between 1981 and 1991 in New York. The publication reveals the many paths taken by the artist and exposes the myriad forms which pictorial abstraction can take.
Two critical essays, historical reviews, as well as a text written by Peter Schuyff in 1991, shed light on the artist's work of this period and on the complexity of its referential relationships.
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
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Reference catalogue
that examines the notion of Art Brut in a time of new technologies. The first section of the volume features a selection of essays by specialists; the second and richly illustrated section introduces the works of 28 iconic or emerging artists.
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
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First volume of a special issue devoted to the rediscovery of Charles Fourier's oeuvre by the Surrealists. This volume focuses on the pioneer works of philosopher Simone Debout, including early and recent works, and an unpublished correspondence with André Breton. The issue also features an introduction by Florent Perrier & Gérard Roche, and texts and essays by Charles Fourier, Philippe Audoin, André Breton, Michel Butor, Roger Garaudy, Annie Le Brun, Robert Pagès, Octavio Paz, Raymond Queneau and Alejandra Riera.
2016
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
sold out
The updated chronological compilation of Yona Friedman's plans, sketches, drawings, models, collages, installations, etc., since 1945: a monumental publication which offers a complete overview of the work of one of the greatest artists-architects and urbanist theoreticians today, in its many dimensions (urban, economic, ecological, cultural, social and political).
2016
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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For the past twenty years, Edith Dekyndt has been redefining the interdependence of the artwork and its exhibition context by relocating her work's experiments in a more extended spatiality and temporality—that of the world's ecosystem. This catalog offers a selective approach of her work on the occasion of a joint exhibition at Le Consortium and Wiels.
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Gestes
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Discourses, reflections and documents on performative and choreographic arts today.
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
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This volume, published in parallel to Exhibiting the Moving Image, extends the inquiry into the history, theory and practice of exhibiting artists' cinema, video, installation as well as advertising films, by focusing on the domains of performance and of the “expanded arts.”
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
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Seven buildings conceived by the Rennes architecture firm.
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
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An overview of the experimental sound practices today (contributions by Jean-Yves Bosseur, Pierre-Albert Castanet, Bertrand Denzler, Bastien Gallet, Jean-Luc Guionnet, Fabien Hein, Michel Henritzi, Tom Johnson, Eric La Casa, Lionel Marchetti, and Matthieu Saladin).
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History –
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A comparative history of the ruins from the ancient East to the modern West.
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
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The public art program conceived in the context of the urban development project for the city of Poitiers in France, with commissioned works by Élisabeth Ballet, Pierre Joseph, Didier Marcel, Benoît-Marie Moriceau, and Christian Robert-Tissot.
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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New monograph.
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
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3rd issue of the sound arts and experimental music annual review, devoted to the question of sound space.
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
First monograph.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
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Issue devoted to the phalanstery and its (few) representations: a rigorous as well as singular contribution on the traditional ambiguities passing through the relationship between utopia and its image.
2013
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
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A manual for massive stone construction, by a pionneer in sustainable and ecological architecture.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
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A manual for massive stone construction, by a pionneer in sustainable and ecological architecture (available in English edition).
2013
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
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Artists' book history.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
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The work of Raymond Roussel as a point of departure for an oblique and transversal reading of 20th century art.
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
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2nd issue of the experimental music annual review, around the question of experimentation in music.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
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An analysis of the experience of spatiality in dance, through five works by Xavier Le Roy, Yvonne Rainer, Olga Mesa, Boris Charmatz, and Merce Cunningham.
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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Christopher Wool's stained glass windows for the Prieuré of La Charité sur Loire, France.
2012
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
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Nonprofit collective organizations in the 1960s-1970s.
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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Catalogue / artist's book.
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
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First monograph dedicated to French architect's “avant-garde” vernacular projects with which he develops, since 1980, a sustainable and ecological architecture.
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
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First issue of the experimental music annual review.
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Dedalus
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A collection of texts, most unpublished in French.
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
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A collection of mostly unpublished essays, notes and letters which shed a new light on Warburg's last studies.
2011
bilingual edition (English / Korean)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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An artist's book / catalogue that, rather than focusing on the famous images made by Juergen Teller for fashion and luxury industries, aims to underline the particular aesthetic dimension of his photographic work in general.
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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Reference monograph (available in English edition).
2011
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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Richly documented, this first monograph published in Europe gathers Larry Bell's archives, alongside with new commissioned essays by the artist, Marie de Brugerolle, Annette Leddy and John C. Welchman.
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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Richly documented, this first monograph published in Europe gathers Larry Bell's archives, alongside with new commissioned essays by the artist, Marie de Brugerolle, Annette Leddy and John C. Welchman.
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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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 – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
sold out
The chronological compilation of Yona Friedman's plans, sketches, drawings, models, collages, installations, etc., since 1945: a monumental publication which offers a complete overview of the work of one of the greatest artists-architects and urbanist theoreticians today, in its many dimensions (urban, economic, ecological, cultural, social and political).
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
sold out
The societal efficacy of art.