Les presses du réel – editions
 
Gotico-Antiqua, Proto-Roman, Hybrid - 15th Century Types between Gothic and Roman
2021
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
sold out
The first comprehensive and thorough scientific study of typographic typefaces created in Germany, Italy and France between 1459 and 1482, which are neither fully gothic nor roman.
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
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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.
Couleur et soin
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
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For the past ten years or so, several hospitals, art and design schools, social science researchers and design agencies have been mobilizing around the notion of care, a concept derived from American féminist philosophy. This publication aims to explore the place of color in this concept of care.
Farah Atassi -
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Reference monograph.
Jean-François Bory - United C. Sherman Company
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
sold out
The figure(s) of Cindy Sherman as the plot of a personal narrative by Jean-François Bory.
Gernot Böhme - Aisthétique - Pour une esthétique de l\'expérience sensible
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
sold out
A science of sensitive experience prolonged by a theory of atmospheres, at the origins of philosophical aesthetics.
Julie Perrin - Composer en danse - Un vocabulaire des opérations et des pratiques
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
sold out
A lexical survey on compositional practice in contemporary dance.
Jean-François Bory - Capitale de la pluie
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
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A disappointing trip to Manaus capital of the Amazon during the rainy season becomes the opportunity for Jean-François Bory to deploy a text in lush color of vegetal letters.
Art performance, manœuvre, coefficients de visibilité
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
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Performance art with a “low artistic coefficient of visibility”.
Design et pensée du care - Pour un design des microluttes et des singularités
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
sold out
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.
Maria Stavrinaki - Saisis par la préhistoire - Enquête sur l\'art et le temps des modernes
2019
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
sold out
Can the modern uses of prehistory shed new light on the modern experience of time and, thus, the art of this period?
Cahiers Charles Fourier - Dans l\'orbe du surréalisme – Charles Fourier redécouvert – II. Si grand avec ses faucons et ses étoiles
2018
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
sold out
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.
François Massut - Les confidents - Les chaises-poèmes du Jardin du Palais-Royal
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.
The Private Museum of the Future
2018
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
sold out
The current panoply of private initiatives in the museum world.
Marcher dans le rêve d\'un autre - Orleans Biennale of Architecture
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.
Marc Décimo - Des fous et des hommes avant l\'art brut - suivi de Marcel Réja : L\'Art chez les fous – Le dessin, la prose, la poésie – 1907 (édition critique et augmentée)
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”.
Peter Schuyff - Has Been
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.
Mari Linnman - À Distances - Œuvrer dans les espaces publics
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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Publication documenting an interactive installation by Samuel Bianchini commissioned by the Maison du geste et de l'image in Paris as part of the “New Patrons” program.
Brut Now - Art Brut in Technological Times
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.
Cahiers Charles Fourier - Dans l\'orbe du surréalisme – Charles Fourier redécouvert – I. Avec Simone Debout-Oleszkiewicz
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.
Maurice Fréchuret - Effacer - Paradoxe d\'un geste artistique
2016
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Dedalus
sold out
A typology of erasure as artistic gesture throughout the twentieth century.
Yona Friedman - Drawings & Models / 手稿与模型 - 1945-2010
2016
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
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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).
Edith Dekyndt - Ombre indigène
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.
Gestes en éclats - Art, danse et performance
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.
Cinema in the Expanded Field
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.”
Exhibiting the Moving Image
2016
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
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The place of films and moving images in the field of contemporary art.
 Anthracite - 1 (2005-2015)
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
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Seven buildings conceived by the Rennes architecture firm.
L\'expérience de l\'expérimentation
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).
Alain Schnapp - Ruines - Essai de perspective comparée
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
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A comparative history of the ruins from the ancient East to the modern West.
Art Public Poitiers
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.
Tacet - From Sound Space
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
sold out
3rd issue of the sound arts and experimental music annual review, devoted to the question of sound space.
Clément Cogitore - Atelier
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
First monograph.
Hans Ulrich Obrist - A Brief History of New Music
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Documents
sold out
An anthology on new musical forms in the 20th century.
Cahiers Charles Fourier - Le phalanstère représenté
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
sold out
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.
Chloé Pirson - Art Orienté Objet - Marion Laval-Jeantet & Benoît Mangin
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
First extensive publication devoted to the French artists duo.
Richard Hawkins - Fragile Flowers
2013
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Eccentricities
sold out
Richard Hawkins' first book of fiction: eight jubilatory and decadent short stories.
Richard Prince - The Magic Castle
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
sold out
A new work based on a series of photographs made by Richard Prince when he was student in France (artist's book): a window into Prince's formative period.
Gilles Perraudin - Constructing in massive stone today
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.
Gilles Perraudin - Construire en pierre de taille aujourd\'hui
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
sold out
A manual for massive stone construction, by a pionneer in sustainable and ecological architecture (available in English edition).
Clive Phillpot - Booktrek - Selected essays on artist\'s books
2013
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
sold out
Artists' book history.
Locus Solus - Impressions de Raymond Roussel
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.
Tacet - Experimentation As Questioning
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
sold out
2nd issue of the experimental music annual review, around the question of experimentation in music.
Julie Perrin - Figures de l\'attention - Cinq essais sur la spatialité en danse
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
sold out
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.
Christopher Wool - Vitraux
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Christopher Wool's stained glass windows for the Prieuré of La Charité sur Loire, France.
Artist-Run Spaces
2012
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
sold out
Nonprofit collective organizations in the 1960s-1970s.
Ryan Gander - Le Dit du Dé
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Catalogue / artist's book.
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