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2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Avant-gardes – Délashiné!
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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 – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Al Dante
forthcoming
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Art History – Œuvres en sociétés
forthcoming
Drawing on a material, cultural and social history of art, Hugo Daniel proposes to understand the recognition and redefinition of drawing by the avant-garde in the 1950s and 1960s, between the questioning of artists, the evolution of critics and the projects of gallery owners and curators, to show how drawing is understood as a complex reality, in act.
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.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Bizarre
forthcoming
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
forthcoming
An overview of the early days of video art in Europe, drawing on a network of some fifty researchers.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Cinétisme
forthcoming
An anthology of texts devoted to cinematographic editing (Eisenstein, Tarkovski, Bazin, Godard, Wiseman, van der Keuken, Deleuze, Agamben...), from the beginning of the 20th century to today (new expanded edition).
2026
English edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art – Cinétisme
forthcoming
Collected texts.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
A reflection on the ways in which current artistic and curatorial practices, with their emphasis on cooperation, and pedagogical practices informed by feminist, anti-racist and ecological epistemologies, interact today to create another pedagogical turning point.
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
bilingual edition (English / French)
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
This card game invites artists and/or researchers to use divination arts to practice the methodology known as research-creation, in a horizontal and friendly way.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – esthétique:critique
forthcoming
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Cinema & video art
forthcoming
A critical history of a fundamental video art event: the large-scale study of the entire history of Locarno's VideoArt Festival, the culmination of a four-year research project.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Misceallenous
forthcoming
Aesthetics of breathing: new ways of getting to know the air we breathe and developing a sensitive culture of air qualities.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – Perceptions
forthcoming
An aesthetic and political reflection on contemporary monumental and commemorative art, at a time of critical revision of history.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Criticism, theory & documents – ArTeC
forthcoming
The classic question of “proof by image” rethought in the light of contemporary practices and technological developments, notably the transformation of the way images are captured and circulated in the digital age.
Emma Merabet - Décentrer l\'humain - Écopoétique des scènes contemporaines
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Dance & Performing Arts – Gestes
forthcoming
Emma Merabet explores non-anthropocentric forms of performance, in which humans are no longer the focus of attention, and in which non-human elements (materials, objects, animals, machines, natural phenomena, etc.) become fully-fledged presences and agents.
2026
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.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Architecture / design / graphic design – Bizarre
forthcoming
An analysis of the processes by which certain seemingly innocuous popular forms of modernity are used to serve fascism, through the example of synchronized dancing, which was imbued with the symbolism of Nazi domination.
2026
French edition
Les presses du réel – Philosophy / politics – Second reading
forthcoming
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