Les presses du réel – editions
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The seventh volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1984-2004): the publication brings together texts that formulate a practice and a criticism of exhibition that goes beyond genres and mediums, using concrete projects in given architectonic situations.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The heighth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1988-1989): a portrait of Jean-Christophe Ammann.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The ninth volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings (1986-2005): a reflection on the artist's projects for public spaces, illustrated with personal statements and sketches.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
The second volume of Rémy Zaugg's complete writings: five texts from the 1970s which highlight the influence of semiology (de Saussure, Barthes, Levi-Strauss…). on Zaugg's theoretical thought and practice.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
(last copies available!)
The book of the 14th edition of the international exhibition, curated by Emma Lavigne, with more than 50 artists.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Analyzing the theoretical and aesthetic thought of the founder of Lettrism in the intellectual context of the post-war and up to 1968.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – ArTeC
A collection of theoretical texts by the German composer: a valuable testimony of his research on the musical link between sound and body.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
The interplay of literature and contemporary art.
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
This reader brings together American and French scholars to discuss the recent paradigmatic shifts from anthropocentric theories toward new models of realism, objectivity, and even metaphysics, occurring in the realm of contemporary art and philosophy—with the school of thought called New Existentialism as a guiding topic.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Artistic practices in New York's alternative art spaces (1969-1985).
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
A biographical essay on the Baroque Brazilian architect and sculptor from the 18th century, Aleijadinho.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
18.00 9.00 €
Art criticism: historical approach and current practices
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Monograph dedicated to the Californian artist, whose work takes the city of Los Angeles as both iconographic source and main subject. This well documented and illustrated publication offers a chronological overview of Israel's heterogeneous projects—paintings, flashmobs, a brand of eyewear and its related advertising, a talk-show, interviews, webseries, sculptures, a movie—each introduced by a short text from the artist.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
This work is the result of a historiographical research work carried out to revive the highlights of the Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève since its creation in 1974 to the present day. Articulated in two sections, the book traces, through nearly 500 richly illustrated pages, the singular history and the moments of grace of the first Kunsthalle of French-speaking Switzerland.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Postmodernism and gift culture: everyday objects in contemporary art since the 1960s.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
This study addresses the scope of the use of found objects and garbage by the Nouveaux Réalistes in the 1960s.
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
A collection of texts by researchers, artists and critics, exploring Morgan Fisher's filmography in relation to his other artistic practices.
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
Drawing on examples from France and the United States, this publication offers a multidisciplinary reflection on a new type of engagement of art in democracy, renewing relationships between creation, culture and society (adaptated from a French publication on the New Patrons's activities, updated with contributions from the Anglo-American intellectual scene).
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A collection of essays exploring the current contemporary art scene through the analysis of the works of ten artistic figures of the present days.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An history of assemblage art in California from 1950 to 1970.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
Reference monograph dedicated to the pioneer of digital poetry in France, including documentation illustrating recent projects as well as all theoretical texts on digital poetry written by Donguy from 1984 to 2015.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
Reference monograph dedicated to the pioneer of digital poetry in France, including documentation illustrating recent projects as well as all theoretical texts on digital poetry written by Donguy from 1984 to 2015.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
New expanded edition of a major text by the American choreographer-dancer.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Edgar Degas and the rediscovery of monotyping in the 19th century.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A story of the Grévin wax museum in Paris from 1881 to 1921.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An essay conceived as an intellectual portrait of the German writer, psychologist and art theorist Karl Philipp Moritz, whose purpose is to investigate the relationships between aesthetics, psychology and anthropology in the second half of the 18th century, and the importance of their simultaneous development for the debates about art after 1800.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Rereading L'Origine du monde and the relationship between Gustave Courbet and James Whistler.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
The first French translation of Yve-Alain Bois' reference study on modernism
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
Common sense: a philosophical investigation (after Alfred North Whitehead).
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
This historical essay assesses the impact of Dadaist ballet Relâches on the French artistic community by restoring the historical context that has transformed the collaboration of Picabia, Satie and Börlin into a unique event in the history of dance and performance.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
The avant-garde of the 1990s.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
Different perspectives (art history, philosophy, photography, film, architecture, history of science...) on the heterogeneous forms the discourse of pictures can take (an anthology).
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
An interdisciplinary reflection on the new figures of subjectivity in the digital age.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Third publication in the framework of the “Transphère” Exhibition cycle, this catalogue documents a work by Rei Naito, a Japanese artist who has built an international reputation with her minimalist and conceptual creations. The installation Émotions de croire (The emotion of belief) is a moving reflection on the atomic bomb, and a place of mourning and hope.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First retrospective monograph dedicated to the “agency” created in 1984 by Jean-François Brun, Dominique Pasqualini and Philippe Thomas: an immersion into the collective's history through numerous press archives and exhibition views. The publication also includes an unpublished interview with Brun and Pasqualini, and a glossary.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Délashiné!
A critical analysis of Hijikata Tatsumi's Butoh dance.
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
A collection of original essays focusing on the specific interaction of dance and drawing during the second half of the 20th century.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
A collection of original essays focusing on the specific interaction of dance and drawing during the second half of the 20th century.
2017
English edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Fama
A biographical essay which explores the origins and influences of Charlemagne Palestine, as well as themes related to his life and artistic practice—spirituality, music, performance, avant-gardism—together with an acute analysis of his main works. The study is followed by an interview with the artist, which provides a clever balance between personal anecdotes and reflection.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Fama
A biographical essay which explores the origins and influences of Charlemagne Palestine, as well as themes related to his life and artistic practice—spirituality, music, performance, avant-gardism—together with an acute analysis of his main works. The study is followed by an interview with the artist, which provides a clever balance between personal anecdotes and reflection.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Délashiné!
First monograph dedicated to guitarist and singer Keiji Haino—the cursed angel of the Japanese underground rock scene, with a previously unpublished CD (Haino solo & Fushitsusha).
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
First monograph.
2017
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
First monograph.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
Luc Ferrari's writings, most of them previously unpublished.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Documentation around 17 commissioned artworks set in middle schools, as part of the Percent for Art Program established in the French Department of Seine-Saint-Denis.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Fama
Three textual pieces on Kafka, Sade, and Lautréamont, inspired by the author's dreams and nocturnal readings.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Fama
24 unpublished letters by Gustave Courbet.
2017
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
A collection of texts by researchers, artists and critics, exploring Morgan Fisher's filmography in relation to his other artistic practices.