Les presses du réel – editions
2001
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Reference monograph.
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Coinciding with a travelling show that presented ten specially created environments,
this book assembles the artist's extravagant works of the 60's when she organized performances, happenings and orgies in the streets of New York, as well as the environments of the 80's and 90's that distort reality to propose near-hallucinatory experiences.
2000
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
sold out
Richard Huelsenbeck's En avant dada is his first proclamation of Dada in Berlin.
2000
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
sold out
From “polemical” texts to extensive theoretical essays, passing through Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman or John Baldessari, these writings have proved to be among the most challenging ones.
1999
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
A collection of Dan Graham's articles about rock and experimental music.
1999
trilingual edition (German / French / Italian)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Exhibition catalogue.
1997
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
Artist's writings.
1996
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
A monumental monograph: works (1964-1995), texts (around thirty since 1970), the most important solo and group shows since 1969.
1995
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
How to exhibit the architecture? Two Swiss architects answer this question (a conversation with Rémy Zaugg).
1995
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
In his influential 1986 text, Swiss artist Rémy Zaugg (1943–2005) laid out fundamental ideas on the art museum. For him, the museum is an everyday tool that enables the encounter between viewer and work—raising the question of the kind of architecture appropriate for such a space (available in
English edition)
1994
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
sold out
1994
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
sold out
1994
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
Artist's writings.
1993
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
sold out
A study on Richter's work with illustrations.
1993
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
A conversation between the sociologist and the artist: a sociology of art at the service of a political project.
1993
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
1993
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
sold out
Limited edition signed by Birgit Pelzer and Gerhard Richter.
1993
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
sold out
A study of German Renaissance painters and the social movements of the time.
1992
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
sold out
Drawings and photographs by the artist / text by Lydia Lunch (hand numbered limited edition).
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
sold out
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
forthcoming
This first monograph in French on the Swedish artist Lars Fredrikson, situated at the intersection of art history, sound studies, and media studies, seeks to shed light on the distinctive features of his work by highlighting its dialogue with the history of painting, kinetic and electronic arts, music, and sound practices in art, as well as the epistemologies and material cultures of science and technology.
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Bizarre
forthcoming
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – ArTeC
forthcoming
How can actors and actresses make their presence felt on today's stages? A journey through on-stage experiences to discover unique approaches to theatrical practice in Europe, Canada, and Brazil.
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Bizarre
forthcoming
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Délashiné!
forthcoming
A detailed overview and history of "ero-guro-nansense", an editorial, artistic and literary movement of iconoclastic and subversive magazines in Japan in the 1925-1930s, ancestor and precursor of the post-war Japanese underground.
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
The first French translation of a selection of texts by Bolivian sociologist and intellectual Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui: a way of thinking with and through images that challenges the distinction between scholarly knowledge and political practice, at the intersection of sociology, visual studies, and decolonial thought.
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Bizarre
forthcoming
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
forthcoming
Aesthetics of breathing: new ways of getting to know the air we breathe and developing a sensitive culture of air qualities.
2027
Texts in English and French
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
forthcoming
Eleven years after the publication of the first volume of Feminine Futures in 2011, this sequel explores the dance history of abstraction in the feminine, during the first half of the 20th century and continuations today, unfolding new research perspectives with a new body of rare or unpublished original photographs.
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
forthcoming
A critical history of a fundamental video art event: the large-scale study of the entire history of Locarno's VideoArt Festival, the culmination of a four-year research project.
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
The first French translation of texts by a pioneering American researcher on the concept of media infrastructures in our digital environments, this book introduces readers to the contemporary issues at the heart of a line of thought that touches on every aspect of our connected lives: technical, economic, social, cultural, emotional, ecological, and more.
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
What the imagination of networks does to literature (and vice versa).
2027
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
forthcoming
A much-needed mapping of the Indian art scene.
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
forthcoming
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
forthcoming
Renewing our understanding of Ruscha's art.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
forthcoming
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
forthcoming
Renewing our understanding of Ruscha's art.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
forthcoming
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
forthcoming
A pioneering study of the relation between the fine arts and philosophy in France, from the aftermath of the 1789 revolution to the end of the nineteenth century, when a philosophy of being called "monism"—the concept of a unity of matter and spirit—emerged and became increasingly popular among intellectuals, artists and scientists.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Al Dante
forthcoming
A comprehensive study of the multifaceted practice of Argentine artist Edgardo Antonio Vigo (1928–1997)—sculptor, printmaker, poet, mail artist, performance artist, typographer, designer, etc.—focusing on his publishing activities in the 1960s and 1970s, set against an extremely repressive political backdrop marked by instability, coups d’état, and violence.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
forthcoming
Drawing on a material, cultural and social history of art, Hugo Daniel proposes to understand the recognition and redefinition of drawing by the avant-garde in the 1950s and 1960s, between the questioning of artists, the evolution of critics and the projects of gallery owners and curators, to show how drawing is understood as a complex reality, in act.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Délashiné!
forthcoming
The history of NHK electronic music studio and the making of an international "center" for contemporary music: a wide-ranging, totally unprecedented study of the role and position of a Japanese avant-garde music institution founded in 1955 within international production until the late 1960s, based on first-hand documentation.
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
forthcoming
An overview of the early days of video art in Europe, drawing on a network of some fifty researchers.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Cinétisme
forthcoming
An anthology of texts devoted to cinematographic editing (Eisenstein, Tarkovski, Bazin, Godard, Wiseman, van der Keuken, Deleuze, Agamben...), from the beginning of the 20th century to today (new expanded edition).
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Cinétisme
forthcoming
Collected texts.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics
forthcoming