Les presses du réel – editions
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Monograph based on an ambitious project that revisits forty years of Californian post-conceptual artist's work, between symbolism of representation and exploration of the subconscious under hypnosis, with two essays and an interview.
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
Limited edition of the Ida Tursic & Wilfried Mille monograph with an insert of a print signed by the artists.
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A postmodern portrait of French art schools outside Paris, from the example of Mulhouse, which evolved from industrial arts and fine arts to contemporary art and design.
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Motion Method Memory
(last copies available!)
Two talks about John Cage and the concept of structure by American poet, critic, linguist and performance artist.
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Cahiers Maurice Blanchot
Derrida's postcards to Blanchot, essays by Jean-Luc Nancy, Didier Cahen, Kevin Hart, Michel Deguy, lectures at the Collège International de Philosophie (Gisèle Berkman, Danielle Cohen-Levinas, Leslie Hill, Michael Holland), studies (Jérémie Majorel, Daniel Dobbels, Yuji Nishiyama), reading notes...
2011
English edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
English edition of the interviews with French dancer and choreographer Boris Charmatz.
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Bibliothèque art action pensée
A symposium-based tribute to Günter Brus by international contributors, philosophers, art critics and historians, curators, artists and musicians (with a CD containing a musical composition by Olga Neuwirth and Burkhard Stangle).
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A reference book on contemporary church stained glass window: an extensive documentation on a monumental public commission involving five French major artists.
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
Space as the raw material and the underpinning
of the work of art (different approaches looking into the
concept of space in all its ramifications, from the recent history
of sculpture to the latest research in astrophysics).
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Literary field
A text written between 1984 and 1987, with no equivalent in French literature.
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
An anthology of reference texts published in the German magazine "Texte Zur Kunst" between 1990 and 1998.
2011
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph.
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
Limited edition with an original print, hand numbered and signed by the artist (30 copies print run).
2011
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Retrospective monograph dedicated to one of France's major proponents of body art.
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Retrospective monograph dedicated to one of France's major proponents of body art (available in English edition).
2011
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
currently out of stock
First monograph dedicated to the intimate dreamscapes created in Japanese video artist's delicate animations.
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
A unique project, between the artist's book and the book on art history, around Ghislain Mollet-Viéville's personal archives.
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
Forty years of Anglo-American feminist theory in art history (an anthology of reference texts by Laura Cottingham, Gen Doy, Lisa E. Farrington, Lisa Gail Collins, Judith Halberstam, Amelia Jones, Lucy R. Lippard, Linda Nochlin, Rozsika Parker, Griselda Pollock, Abigail Solomon-Godeau).
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
The first artistic perspective on prehistoric art through the rigorous study of its formal conventions and stylistic developments.
2011
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph / catalogue raisonné of 650 both playful and disturbing works, between melancholy, humor and poetry.
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Reference monograph / catalogue raisonné (available in English edition).
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Charles Fourier review
Essays by Patrick Samzun, Louis Ucciani, Tomomi Fukushima, Quentin Detourbet, Denis Andro...
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
A performative and choreographic exploration of social conventions and modern narrative strategies (mainly developed in the media and advertising fields) that shape our representation of reality.
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts –
A performative and choreographic exploration of social conventions and modern narrative strategies (mainly developed in the media and advertising fields) that shape our representation of reality (available in English edition).
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
French translation of Manovich's major book The Language of New Media,
the first systematic and rigorous theory of new media.
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
First monograph: Charline von Heyl's paintings chronologically presented, each vis-à-vis a detail view manipulated by the artist, with four texts that shed light on the evolution of her work and contextualize her practice regarding the question of the renewal of contemporary painting.
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
Interviews with 10 Italian curators.
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Fabula
First translation in French of the study on American beaver by a pioneer of ethology and anthropology in the US, an avant-garde and surprisingly relevant work in an age of global ecological crisis.
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
A study of political and ideological stakes of Beuys' oeuvre and its myth in Germany.
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Ohcetecho (sound arts)
A study of the musical (and political) aspects of one of the most subversive artistic movements of the 60's.
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Design – Misceallenous
Sound installations by the French graphic design studio.
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
The militant essay by poet, theoretician, critic and translator Haroldo de Campos on one of the most radical members of the Brazilian avant-gardes of the 1920's: a key contribution to the critical rehabilitation of a work that has strongly influenced Concrete Poetry in Brazil, as well as many poetical adventures of Western modernity.
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
A critical anthology (texts and interviews on/with Christian Boltanski, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Paul McCarthy, Douglas Gordon, Glenn Ligon, Pipilotti Rist, John Baldessari, Florence Lazar, Bruce Nauman, Bruno Peinado, Michel Kireger, Delphine Reist, Karina Bisch, Guy de Cointet, Larry Bell...).
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
A collection of texts examining issues and practices of documentation in contemporary visual arts.
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
An anthology of texts by philosophers, theoricians and art historians (H. Belting, H. Bredekamp, G. Didi-Huberman, J.-L. Nancy, W.J.T. Mitchell...) around the specific logic of the image and the transformation of the contemporary visual field.
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
The first monographic book of the Belgium interdisciplinary art studio for architecture and urbanism LAb[au].
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
The story of the surrealists' radical anticolonialism: a political, aesthetic and poetic avant-garde.
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History –
An history of illuminated manuscript from its origins, in the early Christian era, until the Renaissance, through the study of the book opening medium.
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
From Picabia's unpublished love letters to a philosophical and aesthetic inquiry on art, through Goethe, Schlegel, Hegel, or Baudelaire.
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Artists' books & editions
(last copies available!)
30 copies limited edition accompanied by a signed color photographic print of Molinier's fetish doll by Philippe Bonan.
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Documents
12 conversations with theoreticians and activists critically engaged in the cultural field, exploring Cultural Studies and raising issues of postcolonialism, globalization, and activism.
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
(last copies available!)
Reference monograph (available in English edition).
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
(last copies available!)
An in depth analysis of one of the most inventive (but also the most misunderstood) post-war avant-garde movements.
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Figures
The collection of texts on contemporary art by Jean-Christophe Ammann.
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Misceallenous
Charles Fourier's theories and archives, his disciples and the concrete becomings of his utopian system, his influences in history, in modern and contemporary art... with about 20 essays and 300 illustrations.
2010
German edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
First comprehensive German edition of legendary texts by Robert Morris.
2010
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
Retrospective monograph: a survey of Véronique Joumard's plays of light since 1985, with two essays and a conversation with the artist.
2010
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
30.00 17.00 €
Catalogue of the second Rennes Biennal, focusing on the theme of the future and the thought surrounding it.
2010
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Catalogues
30.00 17.00 €
Catalogue of the second Rennes Biennal (available in English edition).