Les presses du réel – editions
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A genealogy of the modern artist.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
The classic question of “proof by image” rethought in the light of contemporary practices and technological developments, notably the transformation of the way images are captured and circulated in the digital age.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A collective exploration of the murky area where practices from sound art, visual arts, performance, digital technologies, science, but also poetry and philosophy intersect in a constantly evolving digital environment, drawing on the cross-disciplinary dynamics and experiments initiated by the international festival ]interstice[ in Caen.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
A reflection on our present, through a series of portraits of contemporary artists.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – ArTeC
The choreographic in cinema.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Gestes
Emma Merabet explores non-anthropocentric forms of performance, in which humans are no longer the focus of attention, and in which non-human elements (materials, objects, animals, machines, natural phenomena, etc.) become fully-fledged presences and agents.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
By retracing the history of three colossal candelabras made by Piranesi (1720–78) from fragments of ancient Roman sculptures, Caroline van Eck introduces us to the complicated journey of art objects from their production to their reception, and tests the effectiveness of anthropological methods by isolating what relates to the commodification of art objects and their singularization.
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
currently out of stock
Witches of Design interweaves design with the rebellious and feminist figure of the witch, based on the history of the messianic, socialist, utopian, and egalitarian Shaker sect in the 18th century.
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
Witches of Design interweaves design with the rebellious and feminist figure of the witch, based on the history of the messianic, socialist, utopian, and egalitarian Shaker sect in the 18th century.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
currently out of stock
Witches of Design interweaves design with the rebellious and feminist figure of the witch, based on the history of the messianic, socialist, utopian, and egalitarian Shaker sect in the 18th century.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
Witches of Design interweaves design with the rebellious and feminist figure of the witch, based on the history of the messianic, socialist, utopian, and egalitarian Shaker sect in the 18th century.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Julien Blaine's new collection of poetic, visual and typographic experiments.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Colonial images, educational images. A major study in art history in which Sophie Leclercq, drawing on and analyzing multiple sources, texts, and visual documents, sheds light on a blind spot in French colonialism: how, between 1870 and 1960, children were taught about colonial conquest through edifying imagery, and how their view of colonized populations was shaped?
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic kitchen objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room (new edition).
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic bathroom objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room (new edition).
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic bathroom objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room.
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic kitchen objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic kitchen objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room (new edition)
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic bathroom objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room (new edition).
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic bathroom objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
As part of a wide-ranging reflection on the living environment, addressing design through its various uses and based on concrete cases, curator, urban planner and art historian Jolanthe Kugler explores the historical and societal dimension of emblematic kitchen objects, highlighting the evolution of representations linked to this seemingly banal room
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
The social, political, and anthropological implications of image production by machines, which permeate all spheres of existence and reconfigure the visible.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Cinétisme
A selection of René Berger's lectures and the proceedings of a symposium he had organized around art, technology and communication, offering a closer insight into his thinking on video art and new media.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
A seminal exploration into screens' crucial functions and profound impact on human culture.
2026
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A monograph covering more than thirty years of creative work, MONO ICONO GRAPHIE traces the unique career of Delphine Coindet, an artist at the crossroads of sculpture, image, and text, offering for the first time an unprecedented overview, both critical and visual, of a major body of work.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
An exploration of the intermedial potential of literature, extending beyond the book format (into the fields of visual arts, theater, performance, cinema, and music), developed in and around the catalog of the publishing house P.O.L.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A groundbreaking study on the relationship between Wassily Kandinsky, pioneer of abstract art, and the photographic image.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
The autobiography, translated into French for the first time, of Ré Soupault (1901-1996), trained at the Bauhaus, photographer, filmmaker, stylist, writer and traveler, translator of Dada and Surrealism, major protagonist of European artistic, literary and intellectual life, and companion of the avant-garde throughout the 20th century.
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
Interview with one of the great figures of art photography today, in which Sophie Ristelhueber reflects on her own carrer and practice.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
A cross-disciplinary and critical reflection on the philosophical stakes of so-called "artificial intelligence", from an epistemological, political and cultural point of view, beyond naive fascination and ignorant rejection.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Perceptions
When considered in parallel, Sigmund Freud's study of Michelangelo's Moses and his private collection of antique statuettes reveal elements of visual psychoanalysis that contradict the supposedly iconoclastic nature of this science.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A history of art in France from the women's perspective.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Cinétisme
A deep dive into the experimental film work of Gregory J. Markopoulos, a key figure in New American Cinema.
2025
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A comprehensive overview of the unique work of the Italian artist born in 1931 and "discovered" late on the international scene, with numerous texts and an interview.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
The art and practice of live performance in the works of Charles Fourier and Fourierists past and present.
2025
bilingual edition (English / Chinese)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A dive into the fascinating and enigmatic pictorial universe of the Chinese artist who assembles poultry and Buddhas in hyperrealistic and surrealistic narratives tinged with dark humor.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
The first volume of essays devoted to the work of Liliane Giraudon explores the diversity of her oeuvre, its interdisciplinarity but also its coherence, and enables us to understand what makes its strength and importance in the contemporary literary landscape.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Figures
In a collection of interviews given over a period of almost twenty years, a poet seeks to find out a little more about what he makes by confronting his practice with other arts (plastic, sound, scenic).
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Le Raï de l'homme approximatif, an invitation to an inner journey, an exploration of the meanders of the human soul, takes us on an existential odyssey where joys and sorrows mingle.
2025
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
A retrospective of the striking scenographies designed by Nadia Lauro since the early 2000s, visual environments, fictional landscapes, disorienting architectures, and living sets that have played a pivotal role across the vibrant field of dance and performance in Europe.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Perceptions
The other side of images in cinema, between phenomenology, art history, literature and ecology.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
A collection of texts and interviews, some previously unpublished, covering a period of almost 50 years, with rare illustrations.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
Art and poetry in action as performative power.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Œuvres en sociétés
This tribute book brings together one hundred and one voices from very diverse backgrounds (historians, artists, writers, philosophers, curators, professors, students, close friends and fellow travelers) to draw , through an inventory of friendship, a multidimensional portrait of Laurence Bertrand Dorléac, and bear witness to the community of intellectual friendship that she was able to create.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
Artists' activity examined through the notion of reparation, from the interdisciplinary perspective of the living arts (theater, dance, performance, mediation, multiple practices).
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Drama
A wide-ranging philosophical investigation into the origins and potential of "perspectivism", beyond mere relativism and subjective "interpretation".
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A comprehensive overview of the work of Chantal Montellier, a comic-book pioneer and mentor to younger generations, highlighting the diversity, richness, and artistic qualities of an engaged and visionary body of work.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Vincent Broqua twists translation to vandalize literary classics in a sensual act, and expresses the wish for a gay ethic for our time.
Queer beings are inventing alternative ways of holding their bodies together: Vincent Broqua expresses the wish for a gay ethic for our time.