Literature

 
 
Marcel Broodthaers - Album - Un coup de dés
2012
French edition
WDPress / Éditions Moon Rainbow
sold out
Facsimile edition of an unpublished artist's book by Marcel Broodthaers from 1968 referring to Stéphane Mallarmé's poem “Un coup de dés jamais n'abolira le hasard.”
Henri Michaux - Die Hölle wird Wolle / L\'enfer devient laine
2012
bilingual edition (German / French)
WDPress / Éditions Moon Rainbow
sold out
Poems by Henri Michaux / images by Rosemarie Trockel, created exclusively for this book.
Oswald de Andrade - Manifeste anthropophage / Anthropophagie zombie
2011
French edition
BlackJack editions - Pile ou face
sold out
A dialogue between two singular appropriations of the concept of cannibalism at two key historical moments: a new translation of Oswald de Andrade's cult poem, advocating the symbolic ingestion of the colonizer and his culture, faced with an analysis by Suely Rolnik of a perverted contemporary cannibalism experience in the context of financial capitalism.
Ben Patterson - Methods & Processes
2011
English edition
Incertain Sens - Artist's books and editions
sold out
The reprint of the publication pioneer in the artistic experimentations of the 1960s, published by the artist in 1962 (leporello).
Art et science-fiction - La Ballard Connection
2011
French edition
MAMCO - Historical essays & contemporary archives
sold out
An anthology of key texts dedicated to the relationship between art and science-fiction.
Edvard Munch - Ecrits
2011
French edition
Les presses du réel – Artists' Writings – Dedalus
sold out
A collection of texts, most unpublished in French.
Aristide Antonas - Ta dyo dwmatia
2011
Greek edition
JRP|Editions - Hapax
sold out
When contemporary fiction meets art.
Alfred Jarry - Haldernablou
2011
no text
United Dead Artists
sold out
A series of drawings illustrating Haldernablou, an homoerotic text by 19-year-old Alfred Jarry and first published in 1894.
Calligrammes & compagnie, etcetera
2010
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
sold out
Dada, Fluxus, futurism, spatialism, lettrism, concrete poetry, cut-up… a 560-page anthology of typographical explosions and poetic experiments by Al Dante.
Christophe Tarkos - Le Baroque
2009
French edition
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
sold out
A posthumous notebook of writings and sketches by poet Christophe Tarkos.
Roee Rosen - Sweet Sweat
2009
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
sold out
Erudite, baroque, a dazzling writer and painter but maniacal and all-encompassing in his approach, Roee Rosen keeps erasing the fine line that separates fiction and truth, imagination and reality, just as Sade and Lautréamont have done before him. But this division doesn't exist anymore. What makes his summa erotica erotic is that, for him as for Georges Bataille, pornography is philosophy.
Henri Chopin - La plaine des respirs (CD)
2009
Tochnit Aleph
sold out
Latest works by legendary French sound-poetry pioneer Henri Chopin.
Anders Olsson - As a Weasel Sucks Eggs - An Essay on Melancholy and Cannibalism
2008
English edition
Sternberg Press - History, Criticism and Theory
sold out
As a Weasel Sucks Eggs examines the enigmatic relation of melancholia to an early kind of cannibalism, which psychoanalysis, in particular, stressed. It contains readings of, amongst others, Franz Kafka, Samuel Beckett, Thomas Bernhard, Sigmund Freud, G. W. F. Hegel, and the Swedish poet Gunnar Ekelöf.
On Kawara - One Million Years (Box set)
2008
various
sold out
Reading of One Million Years (Past and Future 51 – 62) by male and female voices (250 copies limited edition wood boxed set of 24 audio CDs).
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) – Paperback
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.
Christophe Manon - Fiat lux
2007
French edition
Mix
sold out
A poem on war and the oppression of the modern body.
Sophie Coiffier - Le paradoxe de l\'instant
2007
French edition
Mix
sold out
French author Sophie Coiffier on the notion of moment.
 Bernadette Corporation - Eine Pinot Grigio, Bitte
2007
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
sold out
A drama in three acts on the main theme of zombies: a novel by the artists' collective.
Adam Pendleton - So I independent in Georgia in the 90\'s - LAB 01/12/06
2006
English edition
Yvon Lambert - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
First extensive publication of American artist, poet and performer's texts, illustrated with 4 screenprintings.
Antoine Boute - Cavales
2005
French edition
Mix
sold out
One of the first published text by a major figure of Belgian experimental literature.
Isidore Isou - Les Lettristes sont irrécupérables jusqu\'à la société de l\'éternité concrète, paradisiaque
2005
French edition
Jannink - L'art en écrit
sold out
New edition of the Letterist manifesto.
Jenny Holzer - Vingt-deux poèmes
2005
bilingual edition (English / French)
Yvon Lambert - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
A series of poems by Henri Cole used by conceptual artist Jenny Holzer for her monumental “signs” installations.
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.
Keren Cytter - The Man Who Climbed Up the Stairs of Life and Found Out They Were Cinema Seats
2005
English edition
Sternberg Press - Fiction
sold out
Written in seven chapters and seven styles, this book constitutes the first novel by the Israeli artist and filmmaker Keren Cytter.
Gabrielle Wittkop - Nouveaux mémoires de l\'Abbé de Choisy habillé en femme, pour servir de supplément aux modes du Grand Siècle
2002
French edition
Yvon Lambert - Monographs and artists' books
sold out
François-Timoléon de Choisy's writings (1644-1724), presented and illustrated with original collages by Gabrielle Wittkop.
George Brecht - Chance-Imagery
2002
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
sold out
The first critical edition treating a fundamental text by one of the principle actors of Fluxus.
Gerard Malanga - Up from the Archives (CD)
2000
Sub Rosa
sold out
Gerard Malanga's first hand documents from his personal archives, with unpublished music by various personalities.
Richard Huelsenbeck - En avant dada - L\'histoire du dadaïsme
2000
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Paperback
sold out
Richard Huelsenbeck's En avant dada is his first proclamation of Dada in Berlin.
Bernar Venet - Apoétiques - 1967-1998
1999
French edition
MAMCO - Artists' writings
sold out
Venet's writings.
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.
Marcel Broodthaers - En lisant la Lorelei / Autour de la Lorelei
1997
French edition
MAMCO - Artists' books
sold out
Reproduction of the artist's book published in 1975.
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.
Peter Greenaway - The Baby of Mâcon
1994
English edition
Dis Voir - Cinema – Script
sold out
In a time of plague when the community of the cathedral city of Mâcon is struck with infertility, a beautiful, healthy child is born. He is immediately seen as an opportunity for profit, both by his own sister and by the Church. The newborn brings prosperity and is considered to be a saint. Until greed and ambition lead to his tragic demise.
Christian Prigent - Word for Word - Like Painting (Daniel Dezeuze)
1983
bilingual edition (English / French)
Yvon Lambert - Word for Word
sold out
An essay by Christian Prigent.
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.
Antonin Artaud - Watchfiends and Rack Screams - Artaud\'s last unpublished work
2025
English edition
Diaphanes - Misceallenous
forthcoming
Artaud's last unpublished work.
Eduardo Jorge de Oliveira - Invented Skins - Epidermal Readings in Brazilian Art and Literature
2025
English edition
Diaphanes - Think Art
forthcoming
The social, historical and cultural dimensions of the skin in Brazilian art and literature.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
forthcoming
A collective work examining fifty years of poetic activity by Bernard Heidsieck (1928-2014), a central figure in sound poetry and performance poetry, a major poet of the second half of the 20th century, along multiple axes.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
forthcoming
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
forthcoming
2025
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 – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
forthcoming
Florence Pazzottu - Frères numains - Discours aux classes intermédiaires
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Literature – Al Dante
Al Dante - Poetry & Literature
forthcoming
A both poetic and political text which supports the French social movement that began on 31 March 2016.
2025
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – L'écart absolu (Absolute Gap) – Fundamental
forthcoming
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