Les presses du réel – editions
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
A tribute to Gianni Piacentino's art and to his sense of independence with works spanning 1966 to the present.
2013
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
currently out of stock
Limited edition of Kimsooja's monograph, accompanied by a Korean Bottari and a screenprinted bag.
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
A singular digital catalogue, designed in close collaboration with the artist, that allows to understand how Roe Ethridge thinks, edits and organizes his images.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
Sound avant-garde in architecture: a journey through architecture, art and music in the twentieth century.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Les Hétéroclites
Herminie Hanin (a figure of art brut, “fou littéraire”
with a tendency to paranoia, inventor of the plane trap) inaugurates the
series “Les Hétéroclites”
(“Heterogeneous”), created by Marc Décimo to explore
the relations between literature, art, insanity and creation.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Fama
Interpretative destiny of Kant's aesthetics.
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First monograph, with three essays and an interview.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
The two dancers and choreographers share and compare ideas and references that underpin their respective work.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A transdisciplinary set of contributions from art historians, scientists, psychiatrists and psychoanalysts, proposing new interpretations of Gustave Courbet's work from his paintings but also from his life, correspondence and archives relative to his family, for some hitherto unpublished.
2013
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
A new model of action to invent new modes of art production and exchange by establishing a direct dialogue between the artist, the citizen-commissioner and the cultural mediator, outside the museum and apart from the art market.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
First monographic book on the unique work of Korean-American artist Theresa Hak Kyung Cha (1951-1982), at the crossroads of performance, of conceptual art, of video and of poetry.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The frontispiece of Hobbes' Leviathan, Marat at his last breath by David, "Your country needs you", Guernica by Picasso: four essays on political iconography.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History –
A Leibnizian reinterpretation of the traditional opposition between French geometric and English landscape gardens.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History –
Thomas Crow aims to explain what makes Warhol a precursor and a virtual paragon of the contemporary artist.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
The law after the dematerialization of the artwork: a legal perspective on contemporary art.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
An anthology of Fontana's manifestos, texts and interviews.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
An anthology of Fontana's manifestos, texts and interviews.
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First monograph on Stéphanie Cherpin's work, with two essays, an interview, and a complete catalogue of her sculptures.
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
(last copies available!)
30.00 15.00 €
A retrospective overview of the 11th edition of the Lyon Biennale, curated by Argentinean curator Victoria Noorthoorn, with a focus on the two parallel programs “Veduta” and “Resonance”, held in the Lyon conurbation and its region.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Motion Method Memory
At the crossroads of genres and species, Thalia Field expands the art of storytelling.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
An anthology which brings to light the fertile relations between two disciplines: Cultural Studies and art history.
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
2nd issue of the experimental music annual review, around the question of experimentation in music.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
The theatrical, poetical and musical work of Xavier Forneret, French Romantic writer, precursor of the Surrealist movement.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Stories, novels, correspondence and short texts by Xavier Forneret, French Romantic writer, precursor of the Surrealist movement.
2013
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
An anthology (1975-2000).
2013
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
Igor Zabel's writings.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fama
The legendary life of Maurizio Cattelan: a fictional biography of which the artist himself is the biographer.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fama
The legendary life of Maurizio Cattelan: a fictional biography of which the artist himself is the biographer.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field
An analysis of the contemporary crisis of the concept of community, rethought in a philosophical but also poetical perspective, from the work of Maurice Blanchot, Jean-Luc Nancy, Giorgio Agamben, Georges Bataille, René Char, and Henri Michaux.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A study of the production and reception of art in the USSR in the years 1920-1930 through the analysis of the work of the Society of Easel Painters (OST)'s members.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Dedalus
Public garden in art
between the mid-XIXth and early XXth centuries.
2013
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
An overview of American minimalist composer, filmmaker and video artist Phill Niblock's work since the 60's, through about twenty essays and interviews by musicologists, art critics and historians, various documents, scores, and more than 8 hours of videos on DVDs.
2013
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
Digital book.
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
A dialogue between two major contemporary choregraphers.
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
Essay and interviews.
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
An investigation into the uses of “sound document” in music, since the beginning of phonography.
2012
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
The production/reception dialectic.
2012
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Documents
Art and moving images.
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
15.00 8.00 €
The history of art in the context of universal exhibitions since the late nineteenth century to Charles de Meaux's visual and sound installation for Yeosu 2012.
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
An insight into the work of French dancer and choreographer Maguy Marin, with a film on DVD and an audio CD.
2012
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Misceallenous
Reference monograph dedicated to an artist who works with sound as a material.
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fama
A biographical approach to Gerhard Richter's work.
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fama
A biographical approach to Gerhard Richter's work.
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Richter's texts, essays, letters, manifestos, and interviews.
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Miscellaneous
Richter's texts, essays, letters, manifestos, and interviews.
2012
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph.