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Michel Giroud - Paris, laboratoire des avant-gardes - Transformations / transformateurs, 1945-1965
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
sold out
Essays and interviews on 20th century avant-gardes in France (from Dada to sound poetry, avant-garde reviews, happenings and events, Fluxus, Raymond Hains, Jacques Villeglé, Gil J. Wolman, Camille Bryen...).
David Antin - Ce qu\'être d\'avant-garde veut dire
2008
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Motion Method Memory
sold out
First translation in French of the collection of talks by American poet, critic, linguist and performance artist.
Monster Chetwynd -
2007
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
British artist's baroque and surreal performances bringing together multiple image quotations from art history and pop culture with great humour. A real artist book more than a simple exhibition catalogue.
Markus Schinwald -
2007
bilingual edition (English / German)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
Schinwald's encyclopedia.
Jirí Kovanda - Performances and Installations - 1976-2005
2006
English edition
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
This book is the first complete edition of the actions, installations and interventions of Jirí Kovanda : a rediscovery in Conceptual art.
John Duncan -
2006
English edition
Errant Bodies - Critical Ear (monographs)
sold out
Monograph with selected artworks, audio, installations and performances from Duncan's different periods of work, with descriptions of his most significant events, illustrated with photos and drawings, many of which will be published for the first time. Includes many articles, and a CD of Duncan's audio work.
Dora García - sí/yes/oui/no/no/non
2005
trilingual edition (English / Spanish / French)
various
sold out
This monograph (somewhere between an artist's book and an exhibition catalogue) provides a complete overview of the Spanish artist's œuvre and an important documentation on each project.
Lygia Clark - De l\'œuvre à l\'événement - Nous sommes le moule. A vous de donner le souffle
2005
French edition
various
sold out
The most comprehensive publication on the Bresilian artist.
Guy de Cointet - A Few Drawings
2005
Cneai
sold out
Facsimile reissue of the original graphic poetry book self-published in 1975 by Guy de Cointet.
Gianni Motti -
2005
trilingual edition (English / German / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
sold out
First monograph of the activist-artist.
Mike Kelley - Interviews, conversations, and chit-chat (1986-2004)
2005
English edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Positions
JRP|Editions - Positions (co-edition Les presses du réel)
sold out
Mike Kelley's major interviews and critical essays.
Mike Kelley - Memory Ware / Wood Grain / Carpet
2004
bilingual edition (English / Italian)
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
A monograph that imitates a jewelry catalogue, dedicated to Kelley's most recent body of works.
Brandon LaBelle - Site Specific Sound (+ CD)
2004
English edition
Errant Bodies - Critical Ear (monographs)
sold out
Site Specific Sound documents a series of sound installations from 1998 to 2002 by sound-artist and writer Brandon LaBelle, exploring the relationship between sound and space.
Robert Filliou - Catalogue raisonné des éditions et multiples
2003
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
sold out
Filliou's catalogue raisonné.
Julia Scher - Always There
2002
English edition
Sternberg Press - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
Always There offers a comprehensive survey of American artist Julia Scher's work. The artist's installations and performances have always featured a complex relation to techno-social control, demonstrating our complicity in the proliferating technologies used to surveil both our physical and virtual identities.
George Brecht - Chance-Imagery
2002
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
sold out
The first critical edition treating a fundamental text by one of the principle actors of Fluxus.
Yayoi Kusama - Performance & environnement - 1962-2000
2002
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Coinciding with a travelling show that presented ten specially created environments, this book assembles the artist's extravagant works of the 60's when she organized performances, happenings and orgies in the streets of New York, as well as the environments of the 80's and 90's that distort reality to propose near-hallucinatory experiences.
Yayoi Kusama - Performance & environnement - 1962-2000
2002
German edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Coinciding with a travelling show that presented ten specially created environments, this book assembles the artist's extravagant works of the 60's when she organized performances, happenings and orgies in the streets of New York, as well as the environments of the 80's and 90's that distort reality to propose near-hallucinatory experiences.
Nam June Paik - Works 1958-1979 (CD)
2001
Sub Rosa
sold out
The essential compiled by Stephen Vitiello.
Yayoi Kusama - Kusama Orgy - Vol.1 Reprint (1969)
2001
English edition
miscellaneous
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
sold out
Reprint of Kusama's porno-artistic tabloid of 1969.
Yayoi Kusama - Performance & environnement - 1962-2000
2001
French edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
sold out
Coinciding with a travelling show that presented ten specially created environments, this book assembles the artist's extravagant works of the 60's when she organized performances, happenings and orgies in the streets of New York, as well as the environments of the 80's and 90's that distort reality to propose near-hallucinatory experiences.
Pierre Molinier - Une rétrospective
2000
bilingual edition (English / French)
Mennour
sold out
Robert Morris - Telegram - The Rationed Years
1998
English edition
JRP|Editions - Artists' books & editions
sold out
First artist's book by Morris.
Martin Kippenberger - Never give up before it\'s too late
1997
bilingual edition (German / French)
MAMCO - Artists' writings
sold out
The fourth and last poem by Kippenberger, written several days before his succombed to illness. A short letter of adieu, with two portraits of the artist by Elfie Semotan.
Chris Burden -
1996
texts in English and French
Le Consortium - Monographs
sold out
French exhibitions catalogue.
Bas Jan Ader -
1996
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Magasin
sold out
Booklet published on the occasion of a 1996 exhibition commissioned by Paul McCarthy and featuring the work of three European artists exiled in California: Guy de Cointet, Bas Jan Ader and Wolfgang Stoerchle. The publication includes texts by Bas Jan Ader, Paul McCarthy, and Thomas Crow, biographical and bibliographical notes.
Guy de Cointet -
1996
bilingual edition (English / French)
Le Magasin
sold out
Booklet published on the occasion of a 1996 exhibition commissioned by Paul McCarthy and featuring the work of three European artists exiled in California: Guy de Cointet, Bas Jan Ader and Wolfgang Stoerchle. The publication includes texts by McCarthy and Cornelia Butler, biographical and bibliographical notes.
Max Reithmann - Joseph Beuys - Si nécessaire nous serons aussi privés de coeur
1994
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
sold out
Cindy Sherman - Succès du bedac
1982
French edition
miscellaneous
Le Consortium - Bedac series
sold out
Cindy Sherman's first catalogue.
 Gilbert & George - The Ten Commandments for Gilbert & George
bilingual edition (English / French)
Jannink - L'art en écrit
sold out
Unpublished text, signed original screenprint.
Filipka Rutkowska - Gender is Over
2026
English edition
Hela Press
forthcoming
Gender is Over is a story about Warsaw's queer art scene at the turn of the 2010s and 2020s, written from the inside.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Délashiné!
forthcoming
A detailed overview and history of "ero-guro-nansense", an editorial, artistic and literary movement of iconoclastic and subversive magazines in Japan in the 1925-1930s, ancestor and precursor of the post-war Japanese underground.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
forthcoming
What translation does to performance and what performance does to translation: a collective publication exploring the relationship between translation and performance, including the fields of theater, dance, sound and visual poetry, and film.
Feminine Futures 2 - Expression / Abstraction – The Membrane of Dreams – Avant-garde Expressive & Abstract Dance Through Photography & Experimental Film
2025
Texts in English and French
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Miscellaneous
forthcoming
Eleven years after the publication of the first volume of Feminine Futures in 2011, this sequel explores the dance history of abstraction in the feminine, during the first half of the 20th century and continuations today, unfolding new research perspectives with a new body of rare or unpublished original photographs.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap)
forthcoming
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