Les presses du réel – editions
 
Neil McWilliam - L\'esthétique de la réaction - Tradition, foi, identité et l\'art français (1900-1914)
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A study that explores the complex relationship between nationalism, traditionalism and the critique of modern culture in France in the decades preceding the First World War.
Lucia Piccioni - Art et fascisme - Peindre l\'italianité (1922-1943)
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A reconstruction of the vast network of images and texts that give shape to Italian fascist totalitarianism.
Identités du transitoire
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
The dimension of the transitory in the fields of architecture, urbanism and design, as a new horizon of thought and action concerning all aspects of urban life, in its economic and ecological complexity.
Pierre Petit - Pièces contées
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
The main works of the artist in thirty-one short texts, without images.
Cahiers Charles Fourier - Le parti du soleil : Charles Fourier, mille pensées pour l\'écologie
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
Charles Fourier and ecology.
Jean-Paul Fourmentraux - antiDATA – La désobéissance numérique - Art et hacktivisme technocritique
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
An analysis of the technocritical acts and strategies by artists, hackers and activists in the (post-)digital age.
The Drawing Centre Family - Permanent Flood
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – The Drawing Centre
Drawings by artists et alii: previously unpublished works on paper by Matali Crasset, Chris Dercon, Koo Jeong-A, Maurizio Cattelan, Kim Gordon, John Giorno, Ugo Rondinone, Xavier Veilhan, Alexandra Midal, Nathalie Du Pasquier, Amy O'Neill, Arto Lindsay, Yan Pei-Ming, Kamel Mennour, Melvil Poupaud, Sheila Hicks...
Steve DiBenedetto - The Drawing Centre - Chromatic Oblivion – Drawings, 1986-2019
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – The Drawing Centre
Steve DiBenedetto's drawings.
Emmanuel Hocquard - La poésie mode d\'emploi
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
This volume focuses on all of Emmanuel Hocquard's activities, in order to highlight his importance, and to situate him in a history of contemporary poetry in which he was one of the main protagonists.
Julien Blaine - La cinquième feuille - Aux sources de l\'écrire et du dire
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Michèle Métail - Mono-multi-logues - Hors-textes & Publications orales (1973-2019)
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
This book gathers the texts (rare or unpublished) conceived as scores of Michèle Métail's oral publications since 1973.
Michèle Métail - Mono-multi-logues - Hors-textes & Publications orales (1973-2019) – Limited edition
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
This book gathers the texts (rare or unpublished) conceived as scores of Michèle Métail's oral publications since 1973. This limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20, contains a signed collage.
Anne Bénichou - Rejouer le vivant - Les reenactments, des pratiques culturelles et artistiques (in)actuelles
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
Brigitte Gilardet - Paroles de commissaires - Histoires. Institutions. Pratiques
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A survey of the history of temporary exhibitions in France, through a series of interviews with 38 curators.
David Lemaire - Les hauteurs difficiles - La peinture religieuse d\'Eugène Delacroix
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Why does a painter like Delacroix paint so many religious subjects?
Emmanuel Pernoud - Le serviteur inspiré - Portrait de l\'artiste en travailleur de l\'ombre
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An investigation into artistic reproduction and the role of the engravers in the shadows who made prints signed by others, questioning the relationships of domination and subordination in creation.
Alessandro Bosetti - Thèses/Voix
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
A collection of texts by Alessandro Bosetti, between theory, poetry and score, all of which breathe in concert with a series of sound projects and often focus on the voice from different angles and perspectives.
Matali Crasset - The Drawing Centre - Les trognes
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – The Drawing Centre
Matali Crasset's drawings sketchbooks.
 Suspended spaces - Suspended spaces - Fordlândia
2020
bilingual edition (Portuguese / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
An artistic project carried out around Fordlândia—a town built from 1928 onwards by Henry Ford in Amazonia on the banks of the Tapajòs to intensively exploit the rubber tree needed to manufacture tyres, which, following the failure of the project, became a small village in the middle of an industrial heritage of uncertain statu. With twenty international artists and researchers, in collaboration with Fotoativa, a Brazilian collective from Belém.
Olia Lialina - Net Artist
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
This first monograph of the international net art pioneer allows us to (re)discover this always contemporary artistic practice, inviting us to plunge into the specificities of the internet medium (flows, URLs, protocols, etc.), and sketching a media archaeology.
Julien Blaine - Le grand dépotoir
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
In 2020, Julien Blaine, born in 1942, inventories (and offers) what remains in an artist's studio at the end of a lifetime of creation. Le grand dépotoir brings together essays, letters and reflections on his vast poetic enterprise since its beginnings.
Julien Blaine - 2019
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.
Marco Boubille - Ordre aléatoire des images
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Marco Boubille makes speak the images of Photomaton that he picks up in the streets and collects, in a long serial poem.
Dominique Cerf - Il y a quelqu\'un là-dedans
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Drawing book, with an introductory text by Liliane Giraudon and a feminist manifesto by the artist.
Ma Desheng - Handicapé ; Bien ?!?!?! - Épisode 1
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Fragments of the total poetry of the Franco-Chinese poet, performer and artist, an emblematic figure of the Chinese artistic and cultural resistance.
Ma Desheng - Handicapé ; Bien ?!?!?! - Épisode 2
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
99 photo-poems by the Franco-Chinese poet, performer and artist, an emblematic figure of Chinese artistic and cultural resistance.
Ma Desheng - Handicapé ; Bien ?!?!?! - Limited edition
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Fragments of the total poetry and photo-poems of the Franco-Chinese poet, performer and artist, an emblematic figure of the Chinese artistic and cultural resistance. The limted edition gathers the two volumes (Episode 1 and 2), numbered from 1 to 20, with an original signed artwork inserted in each of them, constituting a dyptic.
Sarah Kéryna - Le reste c\'est la suite
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Maureen Murphy - De l\'imaginaire au musée - Les arts d\'Afrique à Paris et à New York (1931 à nos jours)
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An historical perspective of the representation of non-western art in western museums and imagination / an essay on the relations between African arts and avant-garde.
Déborder la négritude - Arts, politique et société à Dakar
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
A collective analysis of the emergence of the “contemporary” and the transnational and transhistorical logics at work in artistic practices in Dakar in response to questions raised by globalization since the Independances, opening up new territories for sociological, economic, political and aesthetic investigations.
François Huglo - Les intimes - Volume 2
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
The second volume of François Huglo's literary portraits: du Bellay and Borer, Zénon and Valéry, Borges and Beckett, Leibniz, Proust and Redon, Kafka, Barthes and Derrida, Baudelaire and the oenologist Émile Peynaud, Bory and Novalis...
Alain Buffard - Good Boy
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
This reference book devoted to the figure and work of the choreographer Alain Buffard (1960-2013) brings together rich testimonies, extensive iconography and unpublished archival documents.
La vie sociale des choses - Les marchandises dans une perspective culturelle
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Examining how things are sold and exchanged within diverse cultural environments, past and present through a collection of contributions by social anthropologists and historians, this book builds a bridge between social history, cultural anthropology and economics and marks a major step in our understanding of the cultural foundations of economic life and the sociology of culture.
Hans Hartung - Hans Hartung et l\'abstraction - « Réalité autre, mais réalité quand même »
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Misceallenous
Drawing on extensive documentation and unpublished sources, this collective publication proposes an ambitious re-examination of Hans Hartung's prolific work and eventful personal trajectory as an actor in a broader history of abstraction, which also provides a fertile matrix for many other reflections on twentieth-century art.
Arkhè
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
The collection of works by artists related to architecture and architectural projects of the Frac Centre-Val de Loire, as story of the origins: a rereading of the foundations on which architectural experimentation has been built since the beginning of the 1950s.
Puissance du végétal et cinéma animiste - La vitalité révélée par la technique
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
A collective and transdisciplinary study of the representation of plants and their powers to reflect on the question of animation, cinema, photography and, more broadly, image, in the Anthropocene era and in the context of the "vegetal turn" at work in the human sciences as well as in contemporary art.
Paolo Gioli - Impressions sauvages
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Monographs
Retrospective monograph of the photographer and filmmaker Paolo Gioli, an active member of the Italian avant-garde of the 1970s: an overview of his work, with a dozen essays, an interview and the artist's writings.
Jean-François Bory - Retour au Japon
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
Jean-François Bory's travel diary to Japan.
Jean-Pierre Bobillot - Trois poètes de trop - Divagations sur René Ghil, Jean-François Bory, Lucien Suel
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
Divagations about René Ghil, Jean-François Bory, Lucien Suel: three authors who invented and practised the most diverse forms of “experimental poetry” and who have profoundly transformed the very idea of “poetry”.
Minor Cinema - Experimental Film in Switzerland
2020
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
An archeology of Swiss experimental film.
Seloua Luste Boulbina - Le singe de Kafka & autres propos sur la colonie
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Al Dante
The colony as a major philosophical concept in contemporary political thought—a basis for reflection on decolonization (expanded reprint of the book published in 2008).
 Yuya Tsukahara + contact Gonzo - Transphère - Watching you surf on beautiful accidents
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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The catalogue of the first exhibition in France of the Japanese performers' collective contact Gonzo.
Julien Blaine - Introdⓐction à la performance
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Julien Blaine's performance manifesto.
Julien Blaine - Introdⓐction à la performance - Limited edition
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20, with an original artwork signed by the artist.
Isidore Isou - Antonin Artaud torturé par les psychiatres
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Through the detailed analysis of Antonin Artaud's psychiatric history, Lettrist master Isidore Isou delivers a real indictment in this singular text which is both an investigation and a pamphlet.
L\'expérience de l\'expérimentation
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
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).
Tomáš Štrauss - Beyond the Great Divide - Essays on European avant gardes from East to West
2020
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
The first English-language anthology of writings by the Slovak critic Tomáš Štrauss.
Jean-Marc Poinsot - Quand l\'œuvre a lieu - L\'art exposé et ses récits autorisés
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
An essay on art exhibition.
Ulla von Brandenburg -
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Palais de Tokyo (Paris)
New monograph.
Cinquante ans de révolution chorégraphique du Ballet-Théâtre contemporain au CCN - Ballet de Lorraine 1968-2018
2020
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
The history of the CCN (Centre Chorégraphique National) – Ballet de Lorraine, the first National Choreographic Center in France: a look back over fifty years of history for a choreographic revolution, by Agnès Izrine and Laurent Goumarre.
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