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Jean-Pierre Bobillot - Rimbaud, Thiers, Pétain & après
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
currently out of stock
An essay on the political dimension of Rimbaldian poetry.
Michael Marder - La pensée végétale - Une philosophie de la vie des plantes
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
Vegetal life at the forefront of philosophical thought.
Brian Massumi - Ontopouvoir - Guerre, pouvoir, perception
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
An original theory of power based on a dense and insightful inquiry into the consequences of the "Global War on Terror" and the security state, up to the imposition of neoliberal logic and the overflowing of the media made viral.
Abigail Lang - La conversation transatlantique - Les échanges franco-américains en poésie depuis 1968
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
The fertile exchanges between French and American poetry since 1968.
Fabienne Létang - Chambre froide
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
A series of photographic performances by Fabienne Létang, confined to her studio, with texts by Liliane Giraudon, Amandine André and A.C. Hello.
Amandine André - Anatomique comme
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
From Pantin to Paris-North Station, via "somewhere in Latin America": an implosive writing for a mapping of violence. Both a poetic document and a choreographer's notebook.
Alain Frontier - Du mauvais père
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Liliane Giraudon - Sade épouse Sade
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
An essay on the love relationship between Sade and Renée Pélagie, his wife, followed by an anthology of letters from Sade to Renée Pélagie.
Liliane Giraudon - Sade épouse Sade - Limited edition
2021
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
An essay on the love relationship between Sade and Renée Pélagie, his wife, followed by an anthology of letters from Sade to Renée Pélagie. The limited edition, numbered from 1 to 20 and signed, contains an original artwork by Liliane Giraudon (drawing on tracing paper).
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)
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.
Pattern, Crime & Decoration
2020
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
(last copies available!)
Catalogue of the double exhibition devoted to the Pattern & Decoration movement, with numerous previously unpublished archives.
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.
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