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Keiichi Tanaami - Birth and Death Bridge
2015
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United Dead Artists
sold out
With Grotesque female creatures, atomic lightbeams, skulls, Pop monsters and ukiyo-e decoration... These polychromic hallucinations of a Master of Psychedelic art were inspired by a near-death experience.
Yûichi Yokoyama - Ourselves
2014
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Nieves
sold out
A portrait series with distinctive compositions and colors.
 The Play - PLAY - Big Book
2014
trilingual edition (English / French / Japanese)
<o> future <o>
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The reprint of two out-of-print artist's books self-published in the 80's by the Japanese artists collective The Play, with a previously unreleased documentation.
Wataru Kasahara - Haritsuke
2014
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United Dead Artists
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A series of surgical experiments on creatures with genetic disorders resulting from a hypothetical interbreeding between aliens and humans: a crude transhumanist nightmare by Wataru Kasahara.
Masanao Hirayama - Card Game (4999)
2013
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Nieves
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This set of cards features 50 drawings by Masanao Hirayama, each of them printed twice. It can be played as a memory game, or as the Japanese card game Karuta, or simply as a game with your own rules.
Susumu Mukai - Animas Report & Animas Report: Fragments (Supplement)
2013
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Nieves
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The Animas Report series, including a supplement booklet.
Yoshikazu Ebisu - A sens Unique
2013
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United Dead Artists
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Variations on the theme of masculine desire: three short comic stories from Ebisu's off-the-wall universe.
Daisuke Ichiba - Romance mûre
2013
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United Dead Artists
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“Romance” mûre is a dark cartoon influenced by various elements of Japanese folklore (supernatural creatures, samurai), J-Horror and Otaku countercultures, art brut and collage. The strips are invaded by coral and plant forms and depict a world of young schoolgirls struggling with monsters, rotten or decapitated bodies, ghosts...
Nakako Hayashi - Here and There - Ima Koko
2012
bilingual edition (English / Japanese)
Here and There
Nieves
sold out
Contributions by Elein Fleiss, Pascale Gatzen, Susan Cianciolo, Ryoko Aoki, Takehito Koganezawa, Aoi Nagae, Erika Kobayashi, Ryoko Aoki, Kei Takemura, Yukinori Maeda, Gerda Steiner & Jorg Lenzlinger...
Tomoko Sauvage - Ombrophilia (vinyl LP)
2012
Aposiopèse
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Water, porcelain bowls, hydrophones, condenser microphones, metal wire and wood spoons (vinyl re-issue of the CD released by and/OAR in 2009).
Namio Harukawa - Maxi Cula
2012
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United Dead Artists
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150 drawings of callipygian women dominating men: Namio Haruka's second book at United Dead Artists still focuses on his obsession for BDSM scenes.
Keiichi Tanaami - Hop Step Jump
2011
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Nieves
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29 highly surreal works by Keiichi Tanaami.
 Momus - Solution 214-238 - The Book of Japans
2011
English edition
Sternberg Press - Solution
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The rehabilitation of the idea of the “far.”
Nakako Hayashi - Here and There - The Blue Issue
2010
bilingual edition (English / Japanese)
Here and There
Nieves
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10th issue, focusing on the blue hour and color (with Aki Goto, Susan Cianciolo, Bless, Laetitia Benat, Aoi Nagae, Yukinori Maeda, Akira Onozuka, Takashi Homma, Akira Minagawa, Nobuya Hitsuda, Shimabuku, Katsumi Omori, Mark Borthwick, Takehito Koganezawa).
Yukinori Maeda - Cosmic Wonder Free Press – Light Catalog - The Solar Garden
2010
English edition
miscellaneous
Nieves
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The new Cosmic Wonder issue is devoted to an ecological clothing line, photographed by artist Laetitia Benat.
Nakako Hayashi - Here and There - The Loneliness Issue
2009
bilingual edition (English / Japanese)
Here and There
Nieves
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Special "loneliness" issue, with contributions by Takashi Homma, Mike Mills, Bless, Elein Fleiss...
Nakako Hayashi - Here and There - Her Life
2009
bilingual edition (English / Japanese)
Here and There
Nieves
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Six colorful stories told by Elein Fleiss, Laetitia Bena, Yurie Nagashima, Miranda July, Midori Araki and Aiko Yamada.
Yayoi Kusama - Mirrored Years
2009
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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A "picture biography".
Yuka Katagiri - Domicile Conjugal
2009
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Nieves
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Katagiri's skillful pen drawings.
Yukari Miyagi - Akazukin
2009
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Nieves
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A visual interpretation of Charles Perrault's Little Red Riding Hood.
Yukinori Maeda - Cosmic Wonder Free Press – Sunday Edition - Light Source
2009
English edition
miscellaneous
Nieves
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A photo book in which Laetitia Benat, Mark Borthwick, Takashi Homma, and Henry Roy describe four scenes of everyday life.
Yukinori Maeda - Cosmic Wonder Free Press
2008
bilingual edition (French / Japanese)
miscellaneous
Nieves
sold out
An open-end art book project that, like a diary, expresses the present state of Cosmic Wonder in printed form, with a fold-out poster and 2 audio CDs.
On Kawara - One Million Years (Box set)
2008
various
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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).
Nakako Hayashi - Here and There - Paris–Tokyo Issue
2007
bilingual edition (English / Japanese)
Here and There
Nieves
sold out
Special "Paris–Tokyo" issue of the graphic magazine by Japanese artist (with Yukinori Maeda, Takashi Homma, Mike Mills, Kim Gordon...).
Anyang Public Art Project 2007
2007
bilingual edition (English / Korean)
various
sold out
The catalogue of the art & architecture festival in Anyang (South Korea).
On Kawara - Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills - Boxset
2007
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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Box gathering the two volumes of the catalogue Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills, published for the world tour of the exhibition by On Kawara.
Yukari Miyagi - Rabbit and Turtle
2007
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Nieves
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The story of Aesop's The Tortoise and the Hare by Japanese graphic designer. Printed in six colors, including fluorescent yellow and pink.
Yukinori Maeda - Cosmic Wonder Free Press
2007
trilingual edition (English / French / Japanese)
miscellaneous
Nieves
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A new unconventional periodical publication by the Japanese artist / designer Yukinori Maeda (b/w, gold and silver printed drawings and photographies).
On Kawara - Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills - Volume 2
2007
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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Catalogue published, as a second volume, after the world tour of an exhibition by On Kawara Consciousness. Meditation. Watcher on the Hills, gathering the complete documentation produced for the exhibitions and presenting the installations views.
Nakako Hayashi - Here and There - Unexpected traveling issue
2006
bilingual edition (English / Japanese)
Here and There
Nieves
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Special "traveling" issue, with Yukinori Maeda, Takashi Homma, Dominique Gonzalez-Foerster, Anne Daems, Susan Cianciolo, Els Beusen, Elein Fleiss, Yoshimi, Yayako Uchida, Takako Minekawa, Yurie Nagashima, Bless.
Yasunao Tone - Noise Media Language (+ CD)
2006
English edition
Errant Bodies - Critical Ear (monographs)
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Reference monograph: an overview of a sound art pionner's career through documentation of seminal projects, including a CD of works ranging from early performance experiments to current digital projects.
On Kawara - The \'90s
2004
bilingual edition (English / French)
JRP|Editions - Monographs
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The 1990s in eleven "Date Paintings" As one of the most important Conceptual artists, On Kawara features in most of the surveys on post-war art. This book, conceived in close collaboration with On Kawara himself, takes a very intimate form in comparison to many monographs published recently. This seems an appropriate manner in which to discover eleven paintings created over a decade, letting the viewer complete their reading with personal associations, historical events, or academic interpretations. “Perhaps,” writes Thierry Davila in his text, “art is simply a particular way of taking time … So the work, the on-going creation is essentially a question of using time … ” Seen from this perspective On Kawara has invented a simple and striking way to make art, by taking time, taking his time. He found a way to use the calendar to make a kind of “non-individual” art work. In his Date Paintings, time itself has become a piece of art. The work is pure realism, the existence of time put in painting, thus rendering it—up to a certain point—viewable and readable.
Yayoi Kusama - Performance & environnement - 1962-2000
2002
English edition
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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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.
Yayoi Kusama - Kusama Orgy - Vol.1 Reprint (1969)
2001
English edition
miscellaneous
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Misceallenous
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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.
Nobuyoshi Araki - Tokyomania
2000
trilingual edition (English / French / Japanese)
Mennour
sold out
Otomo Yoshihide - Re/cycling Rectangle (vinyl 7\
2000
Rectangle
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The Rectange label "recycled" by Otomo Yoshihide.
On Kawara - Whole and Parts - 1964-1995
1996
Les presses du réel – Contemporary art – Monographs
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A monumental monograph: works (1964-1995), texts (around thirty since 1970), the most important solo and group shows since 1969.
On Kawara - Word for Word - The daily images of power: On Kawara from day to day
1979
bilingual edition (English / French)
Yvon Lambert - Word for Word
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Portrait of On Kawara by René Denizot.
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.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Délashiné!
forthcoming
The first major study of the Japanese avant-garde collective emblematic of the post-war artistic revival, bringing together composers, visual artists, musicians, poets, critics and technicians who in the 1950s explored various forms of interdisciplinary collaboration, questioning the classical frameworks of artistic presentation, the relationships between sound and image, time and space.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Music & Sound Arts – Délashiné!
forthcoming
The history of NHK electronic music studio and the making of an international "center" for contemporary music: a wide-ranging, totally unprecedented study of the role and position of a Japanese avant-garde music institution founded in 1955 within international production until the late 1960s, based on first-hand documentation.
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