Les presses du réel – editions
 
Esteban Restrepo Restrepo - (anti)Chambres - Les architectures fragiles dans l\'œuvre de Samuel Beckett
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field
A reading of Samuel Beckett's work from its architectures.
James Schuyler - Un nid de nigauds
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Motion Method Memory
The only novel written together by two great American poets associated with the New York School.
Elitza Dulguerova - Usages et utopies - L\'exposition dans l\'avant-garde russe prérévolutionnaire (1900-1916)
2015
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Uses and Utopias – The Exhibition in the Pre-Revolutionary Russian Avant-Garde: an essay on the exhibition practice in Russia in the years 1910-1920, and in particular on the relationship between exhibition and public space in the projects of the historical avant-gardes.
Parachute - The Anthology (vol. 3) – Photography, Film, Video, and New Media
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
Third volume of the anthology (1975-2000), focusing on photography, film, video, and new media.
Museum of the Future
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
currently out of stock
A questionnaire (interviews with international artists, architects, and curators of the contemporary art world, such as John Baldessari, Suzanne Cotter, Bice Curiger, Chris Dercon, Charles Esche, Liam Gillick, Jacques Herzog, Thomas Hirschhorn, Rem Koolhaas, Hans Ulrich Obrist, Thierry Raspail, Beatrix Ruf, etc.).
Hans Ulrich Obrist - The Czech Files
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
Czech artists of the 1960s–1970s.
Cahiers Charles Fourier
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
Two documents and three articles: unpublished texts by Charles Fourier and Eugène Pottier; Georges Orsoni, Denis Andro, and Michel Antony address original perspectives on Fourierism and the spirit of utopia in general.
Roberto Cuoghi - Da iḍā e piṅgalā a iḍā e iḍā o piṅgalā e piṅgalā - Luxury edition
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
currently out of stock
Limited edition (20 copies) of Roberto Cuoghi's artist book, accompanied by an offset printing in colors + selective varnish laminated on Dibond (27 x 40 cm), numbered and signed by the artist.
Roberto Cuoghi - Da iḍā e piṅgalā a iḍā e iḍā o piṅgalā e piṅgalā
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
An adventure exploring drifts in translation (artist's book).
Une traduction d\'une langue en une autre
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
A reflection on translation phenomena in the arts.
Pour un art concret / Konkrete Kunst
2014
bilingual edition (German / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
The illustrated catalog raisonné of works from the collection of the Espace de l'Art Concret (Gottfried Honegger and Sybil Albers donation) in Mouans-Sartoux.
Cahiers Maurice Blanchot
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Cahiers Maurice Blanchot
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe and Jean-Luc Nancy readers of Maurice Blanchot, Blanchot's political trajectory, Emmanuel Levinas' unpublished letter to Maurice Blanchot...
René Berger - L\'art vidéo
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
Video art history.
René Denizot - Cent textes sans images
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
One hundred texts on art by René Denizot.
Loïc Rignol - Les Hiéroglyphes de la Nature - Le socialisme scientifique en France dans le premier XIXe siècle
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
An epistemology of historical socialism (politics, natural sciences, humanities and religion in the early XIXth century).
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe - Ecrits sur l\'art
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
The posthumous collection of texts on art by the French philosopher.
Clémentine Hougue - Le cut-up de William S. Burroughs - Histoire d\'une révolution du langage
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A genealogy of cut-up: the history and development of a radical and pioneering literary technique, in Europe and the US, in the twentieth century (readings from William S. Burroughs).
Veduta / Lyon Biennale 2013 - Meanwhile... Suddently and Then
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
30.00 15.00 €
A retrospective overview of the 12th edition of the Lyon Biennale, curated by Icelandic curator Gunnar B. Kvaran, with a focus on the two parallel programs “Veduta” and “Resonance”, held in the Lyon conurbation and its region.
Femmes, attitudes performatives, aux lisières de la performance et de la danse
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
The place and role of women in performing arts from 1912 to 2012, between performance and dance.
Marc Décimo - Les Jocondes à moustaches
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Les Hétéroclites
Does Mona Lisa deserve her mustache? An erudite review of 180 pre- and post-Duchamp caricatures and misappropriations.
Marc Décimo - Sciences et Pataphysique - Tome II : Comment la linguistique vint à Paris – De Michel Bréal à Ferdinand de Saussure
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Les Hétéroclites
Science and Pataphysics, volume II: the birth of linguistics, as an academic field, in France, and the ideological and political issues that contribute to this implementation.
Marc Décimo - Sciences et Pataphysique - Tome I : Savants reconnus, érudits aberrés, fous littéraires, hétéroclites et celtomanes en quête d\'ancêtres hébreux, troyens, gaulois, francs, atlantes, animaux, végétaux, aryens, extraterrestres et autres ?
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Les Hétéroclites
Science and Pataphysics, volume I: the history of the origin myths—how science is torn from what is now defined as pseudo-science.
W. J. T. Mitchell - Que veulent les images ? - Une critique de la culture visuelle
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
An innovative analysis of our relationship to the image.
 Yan Pei-Ming - Night of Colours
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph.
 Yan Pei-Ming - Night of Colours
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
New monograph (available in English edition).
Drift - Ramifications of a polysemic notion
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
This publication traces two years of a project dedicated to the concept of drift, with theoretical texts, artists' contributions and contributions from educational projects, workshops and exhibitions.
Brigitte Gilardet - Réinventer le musée - François Mathey, un précurseur méconnu (1953-1985)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The history and posterity of François Mathey (1917-1993), a singular curator with the destiny of a romantic hero, a major figure in the promotion of contemporary art and a pioneer of artistic heritage.
Alessandro Mendini - Ecrits (architecture, design et projet)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
Mendini's writings 1972-2011.
Des récits ordinaires (box set)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Through the notion of ecology of art, Des récits ordinaires (On ordinary conversations), a project by Grégory Castéra (curator), Yaël Kreplak (linguist) and Franck Leibovici (poet and artist), attempts to vizualise the various modes of existence of artworks.
Matthieu Saladin - Esthétique de l\'improvisation libre - Expérimentation musicale et politique
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
Improvisation as musical and political experimentation (essay).
Clara Schulmann - Les chercheurs d\'or - Films d\'artistes, histoires de l\'art
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Dedalus
A history of film in contemporary art (a witty critical history of artist's films and their inscription into the broader history of art, as well as their impact on their social contexts).
Performance Art - Life of the Archive and Topicality
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
An epistemology of performance.
Education et totalitarisme - L\'éducation dans les pays d\'Europe centrale et orientale
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Miscellaneous
Education and totalitarianism, in Central and Eastern Europe: a multidisciplinary reflection on totalitarianism as a political and anthropological project which, paradoxically, puts the question of education at the center of its concerns.
Frédéric Boyer - Je pleure encore chaque fois que j\'y pense
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Misceallenous
Designed by M/M (Paris), this book-object documents, through photographs and a text by Frédéric Boyer, the drama entitled La Faculté (The Faculty), from a text created by Christophe Honoré, directed by Eric Vigner.
Tacet - From Sound Space
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
3rd issue of the sound arts and experimental music annual review, devoted to the question of sound space.
Léon Rosenthal - Correspondance croisée
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
In about 600 selected letters, this correspondence documents the biography, activities, career and work of the art historian Leo Rosenthal (1870-1932).
Pierre-Luc Abramson - Mondes nouveaux et Nouveau Monde - Les utopies sociales en Amérique latine au XIXe siècle
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
A study of social utopias (of European origin, mainly French) in Latin America in the 19th century: a contribution to the defense of utopia as a driving force of human progress, against all forms of utilitarianism and pragmatism.
Gilbert Titeux - Au temps du brame... - Les représentations de la chasse dans l\'œuvre de Gustave Courbet et dans la peinture allemande du XIXe siècle (1800-1900)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Gustave Courbet, hunting, and its contemporary representations in Germany.
Le Splendide XIXe siècle des Surréalistes
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A collective examination of the relationship between surrealism and the “splendid nineteenth century” (André Breton), and changes that have occurred in the field of political ideas, industrial development, psychiatry, philosophy or morality, between appropriation, misappropriation and rejection.
Michel Giroud - Le Musée des Muses Amusées (MMAM) Imperium Asinum Magnificum (IAM) selon la Poésie Totalement Totale (PTT) (+ CD / DVD)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Construction
A real, potential and fictitious museum by Michel Giroud.
Patrick Berger - Animal ?
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
Also available in English edition.
Judith Benhamou-Huet - Mapplethorpe, vivant - Réponses à des questions
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fama
A “memorial” consisting of testimonies and interviews with friends, models, collaborators, and specialists of Robert Mapplethorpe (Pierre Apraxine, Pierre Bergé, Germano Celant, Lucinda Childs, Marcus Leatherdale, Richard Marshall, Bettina Rheims...).
Dieter Roth - Processing the World
2014
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Dedicated to the complex, proliferative and innovative work of a major figure in the art of the second half of the XXth century, this comprehensive monograph highlights Dieter Roth's creative processes and the way he pushes them to the limit.
Danse - An Anthology
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
An anthology that draws on recent French choreographic creation to offer a reflection on the current international state of affairs of contemporary dance, its dialogue with other art forms, dance's historical position, and its perspectives with respect to contemporary issues affecting society at large.
Xavier Le Roy - Rétrospective
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
Texts and interviews around the work of dancer and choreographer Xavier Le Roy.
Nathan Réra - Rwanda, entre crise morale et malaise esthétique - Les médias, la photographie et le cinéma à l\'épreuve du génocide des Tutsi (1994-2014)
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A historical and theoretical reflection, on the border between aesthetics and politics, on the decisive role of the images and the power and limits of representation, in the context of the last genocide of the twentieth century.
Patrick Berger - Animal?
2014
English edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Architecture
A manifesto for an organic architecture that provides a new reading of Patrick Berger's proposal for the Canopy of Les Halles in Paris, and of the main research and experiments undertaken by the Parisian architect during his career, by comparing architectural and biological structures.
Anne Marquez - Godard, le dos au musée - Histoire d\'une exposition
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Fama
Jean-Luc Godard and art (a return on Godard's controversial project at the Centre Pompidou in 2006).
Cahiers Maurice Blanchot
2014
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Cahiers Maurice Blanchot
A tribute to Monique Antelme (Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Jean-Luc Nancy, Maurice Nadeau; testimonials...); Blanchot and the Jewish issues (Danielle Cohen-Levinas with Jean-Luc Nancy, Edmond Jabès, David Banon, Michael Holland, Ginette Michaud, Jacques Derrida and Maurice Blanchot); studies (Christophe Bident on Blanchot and Leiris, Pascal Gibourg, Francesco Vitale on Derrida); reading notes.
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