Les presses du réel – editions
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 This volume focuses on the pioneer works of philosopher Simone Debout, including early and recent works, and an unpublished correspondence with André Breton.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
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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).
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.”
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.
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
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First monograph.
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
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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
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The societal efficacy of art.
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Misceallenous
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First monograph devoted to the visual work of the New York alternative art scene mythical figure, a pioneer of minimalist electronic rock as the co-founder of the cult band Suicide.
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Misceallenous
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First monograph devoted to the visual work of the New York alternative art scene mythical figure.
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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Reference retrospective monograph:
a complete overview of Lynda Benglis' work and life from the late 1960s to the present day, with more than 350 illustrations, about 20 historical or commissioned essays, an interview, famous and unseen archival material, and a complete chronology.
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field
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Criminal news item as current version of the ready-made:
relations between the history of avant-gardes and the aesthetics of murder.
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
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Monograph / artist book by American choreographer: essays, documents, reflexions, discussions, images...
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
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Monograph / artist book (available in English edition).
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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The method and genesis of Pierre Molinier's oeuvre (available in English edition).
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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Shadows of witches, bats and black cats for a street public lighting commissioned work.
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
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Walter Benjamin reader of Charles Fourier.
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
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A set of anonymous texts and bikers images collected by Olivier Mosset.
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
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First publication devoted to the French architecture agency.
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
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An analysis of some major contemporary works that challenge the traditional values of art.
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
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An essay on the concept of utopia today, more relevant than ever at the time of the economic, social, ecological and intellectual crisis.
2009
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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A "picture biography".
2009
texts in English and French
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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The first book bringing together Mike Kelley's autobiographic works since 1995, and offering an overview of the development of Kelley's practice.
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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Reference monograph on the French artist (available in English edition).
2009
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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Luxurious retrospective monograph, conceived in close collaboration with the artist, with three essays, an illustrated and commented chronology, major works since the beginning of the 80s, as well as many documents and exhibition views.