http://www.lespressesdureel.com/ new releases Tue, 03 Nov 2026 20:12:12 +0100 en Les presses du réel - www.lespressesdureel.com https://www.lespressesdureel.com/images/logo.png https://www.lespressesdureel.com/ 52 250 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13470 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13470 Issue 0 of the annual journal devoted to ceramics and related arts, dedicated to those who create, reflect on, observe, or draw inspiration from ceramics—without ever limiting themselves to it. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=7807 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=7807 A monumental anthology of critical essays devoted to the figure of Umberto Riva, introduced and edited by Maria Bottero, accompanied by a collection of sketches and drawings from the architect’s personal archives (new revised edition). https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=7807 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=7807 A monumental anthology of critical essays devoted to the figure of Umberto Riva, introduced and edited by Maria Bottero, accompanied by a collection of sketches and drawings from the architect’s personal archives (new revised edition). https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13049 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13049 This collection of texts on design by the avant-garde Italian architectural group Superstudio (1966-1982) highlights one of the most powerful and complex moments in the period of Italian architectural neo-avant-garde, revealing a progressive and increasingly radical reflection on the meaning of design, on architecture and design as forms of thought, and finally on life itself as a project. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12911 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12911 A powerful and highly original psychoanalytical, philosophical, and political exploration of the dimensions of sensitivity, the unconscious, and psychedelia in the context of an experience based on medicinal plants (peyote, mushrooms, and ayahuasca) and psychotropic drugs, in the wake of Félix Guattari's thinking. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13357 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13357 Anne-Marie Morice retrace les « dérives urbaines » menées dans la banlieue nord de Paris dans les années 1950 par les membres de l'Internationale Lettriste, puis ceux de l'Internationale situationniste en germe, autour de Guy Debord, et analyse la manière dont ce mode de relation vécue avec l'espace urbain influence leur pratique artistique en même temps que leurs élaborations théoriques. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13257 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13257 Une exploration de la manière dont le design s'est construit avec la culture populaire et matérielle en s'emparant tant de la technologie que de la magie et de l'occulte. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13533 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13533 Une exploration de la manière dont le design s'est construit avec la culture populaire et matérielle en s'emparant tant de la technologie que de la magie et de l'occulte. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13258 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13258 Magical practices (and design) as tools for experiencing the world in a different way. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13427 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13427 Magical practices (and design) as tools for experiencing the world in a different way. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13439 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13439 Issue 1 of the journal of psychoanalysis and interdisciplinary discussions, focusing on the theme of vertigo. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13521 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13521 The second book in the "Brookinette" children's book series (published by Brook), We Look Alike is a book for little ones and older children alike that tells the story—through the drawings of Dutch artist Kinke Kooi—of encounters, friendship, and little mistakes, featuring a cast of snails, flowers, fruits, and ladybugs. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13521 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13521 The second book in the "Brookinette" children's book series (published by Brook), We Look Alike is a book for little ones and older children alike that tells the story—through the drawings of Dutch artist Kinke Kooi—of encounters, friendship, and little mistakes, featuring a cast of snails, flowers, fruits, and ladybugs. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12984 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12984 The first French translation of one of the seminal texts on the decolonization of art. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=11920 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=11920 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 an other pedagogical turning point. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13277 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13277 A collective reflection on the tensions and shifts taking place in design, in light of contemporary and future challenges, combining forward-looking visions with concrete experiments, and bringing together theoretical approaches, manifestos, and analyses of design practices, from a critical perspective that responds to the environmental, social, cultural, technological, and political transformations of our time. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13393 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13393 A collective biography exploring the legacy of Nathalie Magnan (1956–2016), a pioneer of cyberfeminism and media activism. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13321 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13321 Une plongée extraordinaire dans les méandres de l'histoire du chapeau, à travers une iconographie généreuse et indisciplinée où cohabitent formes et époques, des coiffes de travailleurs grecs aux cloches des Années folles, des bonnets phrygiens aux casquettes modernes. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13322 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13322 A book that unfolds around a single word: headwear. An unusual, compound word, this broad title opens the doors to the history of the hat, to its forms and functions, to the importance of a vital accessory. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13543 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13543 How does artificial intelligence affect the way we represent reality? Is it still photography? By contextualising contemporary uses of photography generated or analysed with the help of artificial intelligence, this book offers a critical reflection on the aesthetic, political and theoretical stakes of these technologies. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13605 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13605 A new, collaborative, and educational translation of Plato's Symposium, designed to both encourage a fresh approach to the text and to explore new issues through it. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12651 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12651 Los Angeles-based photographer Danielle Neu's debut monograph. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13518 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13518 The first volume in a series dedicated to the photographic work of Peter Christopherson, co-founder of the highly influential band Coil, documents his work in the working-class neighborhoods of Glasgow in the 1970s. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13593 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13593 A comprehensive retrospective of Gilles Berquet's fetishist photographic work, presented as a tribute to Pierre Molinier. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13123 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13123 The fifth issue of the annual magazine that promotes know-how and technique in design, craft or industry looks at the act of blowing: an issue about breath, wind, lungs, pneumatics, instruments, birds, balloons, crystal, bouncy castles, and all kinds of other things that come to life with air. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12067 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12067 A portrait gallery of creators on the margins of folk art and art brut gardens, houses and environments, of which Francis David has compiled a monumental photographic inventory since the late 1970s. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=4533 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=4533 Fifty verses by New-York musician Moondog (new edition). https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13350 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13350 The first book devoted to the late writer and actress Dorothy Dean (new expanded edition). https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13529 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13529 The first French-language publication by American typographer, illustrator, and puppeteer William A. Dwiggins (1880–1956): a 1934 puppet play with prophetic undertones, featuring intelligent machines endowed with consciousness... https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13409 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13409 A labyrinthine collection of 100 short stories written by Peter Greenaway throughout his career, serving as sources of inspiration, provocations, or ideas for unmade films, paintings, or exhibitions, illustrated by the strange fairy-tale characters of Italian filmmaker and stop-motion animator Stefano Bessoni. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12275 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12275 An aesthetic and political reflection on contemporary monumental and commemorative art, at a time of critical revision of history. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13203 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13203 Dans cet ouvrage novateur, Jonathan Crary démontre que notre manière de regarder ou d'écouter attentivement le monde a de profondes racines historiques, et replace la question de la contemplation esthétique dans le cadre d'une réflexion plus large sur la nature instable de la perception – en psychologie, en philosophie, en neurologie, dans les débuts du cinéma et en photographie. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13114 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13114 The French translation of a seminal work considered to have sparked the "affective turn" in philosophy and cultural theory. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13279 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13279 An original publication bringing together Esther Ferrer's performance scores and a previously unpublished long-form conversation on creation, language, freedom and action. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13501 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13501 Jeanne Hubert explores a place of passage—the shoreline—through her drawings. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13500 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13500 A glimpse into Fantine Isis's unique visual world, between children books, persian paintings, folklores from unknown countries. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13499 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13499 A collection of old photographs of the carved rocks in Brittany by Abbé Fouré (1839-1910), a little-known figure in the Art Brut scene and a contemporary of Facteur Cheval. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13495 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13495 A historical and cultural exploration of tattooed skin, tattoo designs, and the uses of tattooing, from prehistory to the present day. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13492 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13492 Pièce après pièce sont dissimulées mille créatures et anomalies indéchiffrables, dans des images à l'encre au rotring et au feutre à alcool, qui tricotent le ludique et l'obscur. Où est la sortie de secours ? https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13489 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13489 A mind-blowing science fiction serial novel from the 1930s, as seen through its covers. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13482 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13482 The human body as a new territory for comics. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13485 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13485 The fabulous collection of wooden figurines by the self-taught American carpenter and sculptor Levi Fisher Ames (1843-1923). https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13478 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13478 Étienne Pottier presents his ceramic work—a gallery of warlike masks that stare us down with their empty gazes. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13479 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13479 A strange journey through a tiny world, depicted in cut-paper illustrations. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13473 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13473 The mysterious paper cuttings of a famous storyteller. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13472 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13472 A 6-meter-long accordion-folded book: the history of the world in a single image! https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13581 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13581 An investigation into the repertoire of performative gestures emerging from the work of German artist Ulla von Brandenburg and the practice of her troupe of performers. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12923 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12923 A card game designed by Matthieu Raffard and Mathilde Roussel to play, think, and create together, designed to help artists and researchers break through barriers in their research and creative work! https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13527 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13527 A collective reflection on the key role that creative uses (and appropriations) of new technological tools play in the evolution of musical and sound practices and cultures. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13353 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13353 This monograph on French-Caribbean artist Lucas Erin offers the first occasion to encompass an artistic practice rooted in a multicultural exploration of encounters, human interaction and forms of resistance to social normalisation. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13546 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13546 Célébrant le centenaire de Jacques Villeglé, cette publication rétrospective, conçue comme un album / magazine en noir et blanc (avec une planche de stickers en couleurs à coller sur certaines pages !), revient sur près de soixante années de production d'un « flâneur », arracheur d'affiches lacérées par des mains anonymes. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=10169 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=10169 Reissue of a primordial work in the history of the art of the countries of North Africa and West Asia, a major reflection on the artistic currents of the Arab world in the 20th century which responds more than ever, thirty years after its first publication, to the need to decolonize the knowledge. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13542 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13542 Reissue of a primordial work in the history of the art of the countries of North Africa and West Asia, a major reflection on the artistic currents of the Arab world in the 20th century which responds more than ever, thirty years after its first publication, to the need to decolonize the knowledge. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13507 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13507 This book showcases the research work of designer Mathilde Pellé, who explores design through subtraction in a sensitive yet radical way. It brings together a body of documentation and an inventory of prototypes and objects created over the course of a decade. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13290 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13290 A wide-ranging investigation into the architectural legacy of the rural utopian communities that settled in California in the 1970s. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13290 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13290 A wide-ranging investigation into the architectural legacy of the rural utopian communities that settled in California in the 1970s. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13290 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13290 A wide-ranging investigation into the architectural legacy of the rural utopian communities that settled in California in the 1970s. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13375 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13375 A retrospective of 10 years of graphic and typographic research by Coline Sunier & Charles Mazé during their residency at the Brétigny Art Center, presented as an alphabet book comprising 901 collected letters and symbols. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13415 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13415 La Gauchère is an illustrated book that chronicles several years of research on left-handedness. It calls for left-handedness to be viewed as a creative force, beyond the pejorative connotations commonly attributed to the term and to those who are mal à droite (uncomfortable with right-handedness and awkward). https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13335 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13335 This first book by Valentin Fleuret presents his 2025's iconographic research among books destined for pulping at the Rennes 2 University Library. Comprising 30 iconographic plates containing more than 200 images, this book follows in the tradition of appropriation while renewing it through the subject it addresses. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13560 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13560 Chalk, a notebook, a notebook cover, a four-color BIC pen, a STABILO highlighter: what do these objects—so familiar that we no longer even notice them—say about us? Sylvain Wagnon, an education historian, joins forces with photographer Raphaël Wagnon to explore some forty everyday school objects. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13560 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13560 Chalk, a notebook, a notebook cover, a four-color BIC pen, a STABILO highlighter: what do these objects—so familiar that we no longer even notice them—say about us? Sylvain Wagnon, an education historian, joins forces with photographer Raphaël Wagnon to explore some forty everyday school objects. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13522 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13522 Issue 41 of the magazine of the Palais de Tokyo looks at the realities of artistic creation beyond urban areas and interrogates the idea of territory. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13497 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13497 Special issue: 500 pages of interviews between artists. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13441 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13441 A visual travelogue that critically captures the 2025 World Expo on Yumeshima, Japanese for "Island of Dreams," which took place from April to October 2025. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13599 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13599 As part of the 7L's Correspondances program, Katrien de Blauwer explored the collection of books and magazines of Karl Lagerfeld's library at 7L, and reinterpreted it through a new series of photomontages in which the images serve as both a reference and a mirror. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13506 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13506 Consacré à étude et la critique du genre cinématographique WIP (Women in Prison), cet ouvrage met en dialogue un corpus iconographique pop, historiographique, militant et plastique, pour interroger les représentations de l'incarcération féminine https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13059 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13059 Raphaëlle Ricol's offbeat, cruel, or deceptively innocent paintings and drawings. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13437 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13437 Philippe Jaffeux explores each letter of the alphabet through experimental poetry, continuing the tradition of the Lettrist movement. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13578 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13578 The second volume of the journal investigating movement-based listening practices that take the forms of militant inquiry and political education, edited by the international sound art and popular education collective Ultra-red, is dedicated to the "Learning Circles for Palestine." https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13616 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13616 Italian photographer Matteo de Mayda continues his investigation into the consequences of Storm Vaia in a new book that grew out of three workshops with writer Cosimo Bizzarri held in the communities hit by the storm eight years ago. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13609 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13609 Une réflexion écologique sur les changements radicaux que connaît Venise. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13607 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13607 A poetry collection by Venetian anthropologist, filmmaker and writer Elia Romanelli, with drawings by Marzia Migliora. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13607 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13607 A poetry collection by Venetian anthropologist, filmmaker and writer Elia Romanelli, with drawings by Marzia Migliora. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13398 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13398 The first French translation of a selection of twenty writings by Gui Bonsiepe, a leading figure in design. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12964 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12964 The selected texts from Les Bas-bleus (1877) by Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly allow us to gauge the violence of the misogynistic prejudices that 19th-century women writers had to face in their daring quest to carve out a place for themselves in the literary world, while also rediscovering the sharp style—as delightful as it is venomous—of an important and resolutely "anti-modern" writer of his time. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12959 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12959 À l'invitation d'Erik Verhagen, sept artistes, des deux côtés de l'Atlantique, portent ici leurs regards sur l'œuvre de François Morellet, acteur majeur de l'abstraction géométrique de la seconde moitié du XXe siècle et précurseur du minimalisme, et témoignent de la vitalité de son héritage. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13243 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13243 La totalité des 693 images d'une série réalisée sur plusieurs années par Luc Delahaye, figure majeure de la photographie contemporaine, à partir de détails de photographies d'actualité découpées dans les journaux, qui marque un tournant dans l'évolution du travail du photographe, entre pratiques documentaires et artistiques. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13462 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13462 Le septième volume de la collection Un certain désordre éditée par la Fondation Antoine de Galbert, consacré aux créatures étranges de l'artiste français Benoit Huot. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13535 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13535 Stephen Felton's first major monograph traces a decade of painting between spontaneity and reflection. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13544 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13544 Jacques Ponzio recounts in text and images Thelonious Monk's 10-day stay in Paris in the spring of 1954. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13549 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13549 This first monograph devoted to the Italian designer Valentina Cameranesi Sgroi, structured along the lines of an auction catalogue, the volume, edited by Felix Burrichter, explores the inexhaustible ambiguity that defines the artist's creative universe. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13512 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13512 A photographic and conversational study of public sculptures embedded within Jeddah's urban circulation. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13433 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13433 A heterodox and uniquely incisive model of ideology critique, Furio Jesi's work offers us a powerful insight into some of the deeper determinants of Western political rationality and its stigmatizing, inferiorizing, and racializing dynamics. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13432 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13432 The debut-novel of the Lebanese-born and Berlin-based writer Edwin Nasr—a "work of hysterical fiction." https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13557 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13557 This recording (2002) captures the two instruments central to Conrad's practice at the time: his self-built Long String Instrument and his amplified violin. He performed hidden behind a large sheet, and the nature of what unfolded behind it was never disclosed to the audience. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13453 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13453 One of Phill Niblock's final compositions, commissioned by bassist Robert Black, completed in late November 2023, based on recordings of acoustic bass and bass clarinet performed by Neil Leonard and Robert Black under Niblock's direction in 2021. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13580 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13580 A tribute to the French collective Pap' Circus, a post-Dada/Fluxus art troupe founded in 1980. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13612 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13612 For our Autumn 2026 issue, Spike looks at the growing obsession with sound—from algorithmic earworms to immersive exhibitions and music made by machines—and asks: Why is something so elusive becoming our favorite way to set the mood? https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13435 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13435 Led By Donkeys, Kenneth Goldsmith, Annette Gilbert & Andreas Bülhoff, Silvio Lorusso, Jasia Reichardt ephemeral's archive, Active and emancipatory publishing in France: the cases of Déborder Bolloré and WHOISBN, In the Aspyxiating Culture of the Total Library, Transmediale 2026 + Echoes of Tumult exhibition, Screentime/s; The Lure of the Image... https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13464 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13464 A book that builds on the curatorial work developed by Elvan Zabunyan around the archives and correspondence of Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, and Toni Morrison. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13240 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13240 Magnum Chronicles: GenZ is the new edition of Magnum Photos' annual independent publication, dedicated to collective documentary photojournalism. Building on the legacy of the Generation X project launched by Robert Capa in 1951, it brings together photographers from the cooperative around the globe to create a vivid and nuanced portrait of Generation Z—those aged 14 to 29 born between 1997 and 2012. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13504 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13504 L'artiste et réalisateur Andrea De Fusco dépeint au Polaroid les traversées en bateau de Naples aux îles Éoliennes, au fil des saisons et des années. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13502 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13502 A project by Francesco Bertocco dedicated to the cultural legacy of Franco Basaglia, a key figure in the transformation of modern psychiatry and a champion of a radical critique of total institutions. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13536 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13536 Mathilde Roman explores contemporary video installation practices through the lens of theater and the performing arts. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13392 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13392 The third volume in the "EKES (EarthKeeping EarthShaking)" series, this collective work—a forum for dialogue among artists, curators, and experts in the humanities and environmental sciences—sets out to explore "ecological vitality." https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13399 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13399 Research-based art has become one of the defining genres of the century. Taking the collective Forensic Architecture as a case study, Emily Watlington, senior editor at Art in America, argues against what she sees as the dangerous slippage between artistic research and alternative facts. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13553 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13553 The 37th issue of the Cahiers Charles Fourier offers a glimpse into the variety of expressions of Fourierism and the social experiments that have continually drawn inspiration from it. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13531 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13531 This posthumous work is the first monograph devoted to the Franco-Palestinian artist and activist Amal Abdenour (1931–2020). https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13594 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13594 The very first book on the influential American choreographer and dancer Trajal Harrell. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13577 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13577 This book offers the first comprehensive overview of Anna Franceschini's practice. Organized around recurring themes, its associative structure reflects her interest in repetition, transformation, and unstable images. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13523 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13523 Lydia Ourahmane’s first monograph, documenting a project developed through immersion during a several-month residency in Venice, as part of the 61st Venice Biennale. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13465 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13465 A large survey of the practice of artist Oscar Murillo with a concentration on bodies of work produced between 2019 and 2026.  https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13606 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13606 Sol Calero – Cuadernos Pica Pica is the first comprehensive monographic publication dedicated to the work of Venezuelan-born, Berlin-based artist Sol Calero. Conceived as an evolving publication in the form of a serial magazine, it brings together five individual issues (01–05), offering an extensive overview of the artist's practice from 2013 to 2023. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13595 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13595 A great Chinese painter, calligrapher, and poet, Fan Zeng conveys the spirit of literati painting in these studies, which draw on classical texts and his own experience with the painting. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13596 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13596 A painter-poet reflects on Laozi and Zhuangzi "from the heart" in an illustrated volume featuring his ink drawings. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=6093 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=6093 This collection of texts offers a philosophical and textual analysis of the work of butō dance creator, Hijikata Tatsumi. The author, the philosopher and translator Uno Kuniichi, gives a deterritorializing reading of the Japanese dancer and choreographer, linking him to figures like Genet or Artaud, while restoring his own specificity. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=3056 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=3056 The first French translation of the landmark work by media theorist Friedrich Kittler. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12797 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12797 Art as a set of practices which take as their theoretical and practical point of departure the whole of human relations and their social context: the manifesto that has renewed the approach of contemporary art (also available in English edition). https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12628 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12628 A radicant thought extended to modes of cultural production, consumption and use, against the multiculturalist critical model. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13065 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13065 Une généalogie de l'artiste moderne (nouvelle édition au format poche révisée par l'auteur). https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12896 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12896 Un recueil d'essais et de textes fondateurs consacrés aux enregistrements sonores de poésie. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13234 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13234 A series of portraits of Marilyn in the intimacy of an unmade bed, taken by the American photographer in 1961 (leporello). https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13412 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13412 A journey through the musical avant-garde movements of the 20th century, covering 200 seminal albums. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13412 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13412 A journey through the musical avant-garde movements of the 20th century, covering 200 seminal albums. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12879 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12879 Poetry and Revolution brings together three previously untranslated essays by the Czechoslovak avant-garde theorist Karel Teige (1900-1951), accompanied by a polemical introduction by Peter Zusi placing Teige's thinking in the context of debates on "Western" and "Eastern" Marxism. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12877 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12877 What is the relationship between mathematics and philosophy? How does the project of "mathematical ontology" redefine the link between multiplicities and being? M=O? brings together leading scholars exploring and questioning Alain Badiou's thesis that "mathematics is ontology" and its evolution. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13524 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13524 The second volume of the sdvig series, dedicated to translingual avant-garde writing, brings together the writings of the Ukrainian modernist poet Maik Yohansen from the 1920s and 1930s, translated into English. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13390 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13390 A broad exploration of precariousness—whose contours and realities are constantly evolving—examined through the lenses of architecture, the city, and the landscape. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13391 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13391 A renewed and expanded approach to writing the history of architecture and the profession. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13541 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13541 The dangerous liaisons between art and oil: the question of artworks and the postcolonial power dynamics shaped by the oil industry, in the era of global warming and of our civilization burning. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13097 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13097 Monographie exhaustive : une vue d'ensemble de la pratique multidisciplinaire de l'influente artiste franco-marocaine Yto Barrada sur une trentaine d'années. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13187 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13187 The ToiletEllen PapervonUnwerth wall calendar 2027 features photographs conceived by Ellen von Unwerth, Maurizio Cattelan and Pierpaolo Ferrari. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12602 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12602 The origins, scope, and legacy of Duchamp's revolution in the visual arts. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13401 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13401 Le numéro 2 de la revue de cinéma Fidback éditée par le FIDMarseille, avec un retour sur la 36e édition du festival, un regard rétrospectif sur des films qui ont fait l'actualité mondiale du cinéma en 2025, une carte blanche consacrée à une œuvre d'Ali Cherri, et un portrait du duo de cinéastes chiliens Carolina Adriazola & José Luis Sepúlveda. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13450 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13450 « Surface écrite des pratiques sonores expérimentales », n° 149 : entretiens avec Tokio Hasegawa (Taj Mahal Travellers), Ami Yoshida et Mélodie Blaison ; « Écrire le sonore, tentatives de solutions pour un algorithme particulièrement coriace » par Kasper T. Toeplitz ; Jérôme Bouve par Delphine Dora ; les chroniques de livres et de disques... https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13034 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13034 New expanded edition featuring 75 drawings/watercolors by Sigismond de Vajay. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13032 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13032 An artist's book conceived by Jorge Macchi as a return—both literal and conceptual—to the city of Buenos Aires as a field of investigation. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13496 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13496 This catalogue examines how the act of "making" can restore a different sense of time and physical perception within an increasingly accelerated society, through the work of ten Japanese artists with material-driven, craft-based approaches. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13324 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13324 An examination by artists, publishers, and scholars of recent publishing concepts emerging from the experimental literature and art scene (new edition). https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13325 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13325 This array of source material from Peter Wächtler's 2024 show at Simian, Copenhagen, traces a free-spirited voyage towards the outer edges of professional exhibition-making and beyond. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13304 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13304 Departing from a series of concrete projects and international exhibitions, this book considers the conditions of artistic research and related discourse via twenty significant concepts. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12940 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12940 A series of reflections on research and fieldwork that situate the conditions of contemporary exile, refugeehood, migration, and community building at the margins of society. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13394 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13394 A selection of critical writings that blend sociological procedure, technological metaphor, visual and theoretical apparition, indexing the material and linguistic problems of making art. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12733 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12733 A critical and multispecies exploration of how plants shape space, knowledge, and hierarchies across historical, ecological, and epistemic terrains.  https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13100 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13100 Artists, media theorists, scientists, and science-fiction writers explore the reciprocity between ecology, industry, technology and consumption. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12632 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12632 Le Temps vibré documents Laurie Dall'Ava's long-term research into an organic pigment based on chlorophyll and cyanobacteria, tracing the artist's field of investigation over a period of fifteen years. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13538 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13538 Through a dated diary and film photographs, a young woman explores her Algerian and Kabyle roots: a sensitive account of a language that was never passed down, family memory, and personal decolonization. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13431 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13431 Un essai sociologique et illustré sur l'émancipation des femmes par la sexualité. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13414 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13414 The search for identity by Stefan Oberbrünner, a German Jewish lawyer who fled to France in 1934, was interned under the Vichy regime, and was then deported on Convoy No. 51 to Sobibor in 1943. A narrative woven from archival materials, evocative drawings, and reflections on memory. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13414 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13414 The search for identity by Stefan Oberbrünner, a German Jewish lawyer who fled to France in 1934, was interned under the Vichy regime, and was then deported on Convoy No. 51 to Sobibor in 1943. A narrative woven from archival materials, evocative drawings, and reflections on memory. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13351 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13351 This publication presents the full orchestral score of Naked Blue, composed by Devonté Hynes, alongside stills from the eponymous short film by Mati Diop and Manon Lutanie. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13484 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13484 The first major poetry collection by Jesse Feinman, a graphic designer known for his work on numerous books and album covers, founder of the photography publishing house Pomegranate Press, and a remarkable poet. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12840 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12840 La photographe Julie Glassberg documente la culture alternative méconnue du dekotora, autour des camions décorés de peinture extravagante et de néons au Japon. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13410 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13410 The new edition of the cult bestiary by Amsterdam-based artist and graphic designer Rop van Mierlo. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13411 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13411 A series of previously unpublished interior paintings by Karen Kilimnik. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=9821 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=9821 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. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12005 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12005 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. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=7010 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=7010 A reflection on our present, through a series of portraits of contemporary artists. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13307 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13307 Reference monograph on the Anmatyerre Aboriginal artist Emily Kam Kngwarray (c. 1914–1996). https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13306 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13306 Monographie rétrospective, retraçant de manière exhaustive la première décennie de la pratique multidisciplinaire de l'artiste. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13180 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13180 Reference monograph. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13400 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13400 An exploration of the relationship between art and science through a cross-disciplinary journey featuring some 100 works of art and scientific artifacts by approximately 30 artists, from the Renaissance to the present day. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13403 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13403 The fourth volume of a new series of publications by the collective Wages For Wages Against, acting for better work conditions in the visual arts and against all forms of discrimination, on the topics of accessibility in the arts and ableism. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13249 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13249 In the staccato, nervous, vivid and even resonant language of the flea markets that Oriol Vilanova frequents, Le prix des choses discusses economics as a flow—that is, the exchange of goods for monetary value. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13436 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13436 A raw yet tender book of visual poetry that speaks of desire, reinvention, Brussels nights, creatures, wounds, laughter that comes from far away, celebration, the communion of bodies and spirits, friends. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13288 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13288 A meeting of Hervé Zénouda's musical world and Anne Van Der Linden's visual one (set includes a vinyl record, a CD, 10 numbered risograph prints, an 8-page booklet, and a postcard). https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13288 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13288 A meeting of Hervé Zénouda's musical world and Anne Van Der Linden's visual one (set includes a vinyl record, a CD, 10 numbered risograph prints, an 8-page booklet, and a postcard). https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13217 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13217 Jean-Pierre Laffont’s deeply personal photobook on a formative period of American history, when counterculture ignited a series of cultural revolutions that continue to shape our lives today. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13182 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13182 The reprint (new edition) of Robert Capa's famed monograph on the Spanish Civil War, originally published in 1938. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13330 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13330 Based on a new exhibition project in Venice, this monograph traces six decades of the renowned American feminist artist’s career. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13140 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13140 Un abécédaire de termes-clés que le design partage avec d'autres champs et domaines connexes, pour une compréhension élargie des sujets et questionnements propres au design contemporain. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13377 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13377 Museums of Tears extends Francesco Vezzoli's 2024 exhibition at Museo Correr, Venice, combining historical works and new commissions to explore antiquity, emotion and illusion. Conceived as an artist's book rather than a catalogue, it transforms the museum guide into a hybrid archive and portable museum of memory, beauty and mourning. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13278 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13278 The first catalogue raisonné of a Lettrist artist: a comprehensive collection of the 464 works (paintings, objects, multiples, works on paper) produced by Maggy Mauritz (born in 1941)—a pioneering artist in graffiti art and Lettrism—over more than six decades, featuring approximately 600 color illustrations. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13278 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13278 The first catalogue raisonné of a Lettrist artist: a comprehensive collection of the 464 works (paintings, objects, multiples, works on paper) produced by Maggy Mauritz (born in 1941)—a pioneering artist in graffiti art and Lettrism—over more than six decades, featuring approximately 600 color illustrations. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12993 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12993 A further in-depth insight into the paradoxical universe of Beni Bischof. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13297 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13297 A compendium of landmark interviews and seminal essays that illuminates the spirited transcontinental exchange between acclaimed postwar American artist of gestural abstraction Sam Francis and renowned French philosopher and art critic Yves Michaud. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13297 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13297 A compendium of landmark interviews and seminal essays that illuminates the spirited transcontinental exchange between acclaimed postwar American artist of gestural abstraction Sam Francis and renowned French philosopher and art critic Yves Michaud. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13348 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13348 Ni ésotérique ni strictement divinatoire, le Tarot des formes conçu par Les formes associées ne prédit rien. Il explore nos façons de bâtir. Ce qui s'érige, se fissure, se transforme. Une pratique continue, où, entre intuition et méthode, le hasard s'invite. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12878 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12878 Trois essais dans lesquels le philosophe Étienne Balibar questionne la notion de la guerre depuis la pensée de Simone Weil jusqu'à Carl von Clausewitz et Karl Marx ainsi que la situation géopolitique actuelle et la guerre en Ukraine. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=9829 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=9829 Colonial images, educational images. A major study in art history in which Sophie Leclercq, drawing on and analyzing multiple sources, texts, and visual documents, sheds light on a blind spot in French colonialism: how, between 1870 and 1960, children were taught about colonial conquest through edifying imagery, and how their view of colonized populations was shaped? https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13260 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13260 This new monograph offers a fresh and international perspective on the relationship between Journiac's work and the sacred. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12813 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12813 A legendary artist's book finally reissued in an updated and revised version, Enseigner et apprendre, a truly collaborative work, provides a valuable introduction to Robert Filliou's work and his pioneering and innovative ideas on the educational dimension of artistic creation. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13035 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13035 A collective exploration of the murky area where practices from sound art, visual arts, performance, digital technologies, science, but also poetry and philosophy intersect in a constantly evolving digital environment, drawing on the cross-disciplinary dynamics and experiments initiated by the international festival ]interstice[ in Caen. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13092 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13092 A true odyssey of design, featuring pieces from a dozen French heritage institutions, and a narrative structured as a play of mirrors between forms, words, and gestures. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12367 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12367 As part of a series of publications on singular architectural bodies of work, this volume highlights Pierre Lajus' pioneering hedonistic wooden constructions of the 1970s, and gives his work its rightful place in the history of architectural experimentation. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13317 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13317 Conceived and written by members of INA-GRM, drawing on more than fifty years of experience in diffusing and presenting electroacoustic music in concert, the Acousmonium Handbook offers a synthetic exploration of the issues, techniques and methods applicable to acousmatic diffusion and sound spatialisation. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12869 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12869 Comprehensive and previously unpublished documentation on the unproduced magnum opus of American composer Maryanne Amacher (1938–2009). https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=7976 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=7976 A historical and thematic book that aims to tell the adventure of the Casablanca Art School, through a polyphony of stories, experiences and actors. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12011 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12011 The choreographic in cinema. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13060 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13060 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. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12802 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12802 En retraçant l'histoire de trois candélabres colossaux fabriqués par Piranèse (1720-1778) à partir de débris de sculptures romaines antiques, Caroline van Eck nous initie au trajet compliqué des objets d'art depuis leur production jusqu'à leur réception, et expérimente l'efficacité des méthodes anthropologiques en isolant ce qui relève de la marchandisation des objets d'art et de leur singularisation. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13204 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13204 An intimate journey through the Lettrist movement via the collection and library of Hans Naumann (born in 1933 in Germany), one of Maurice Lemaître's most trusted collectors and one of the most important Lettrist bibliophiles, who has assembled a vast collection of rare or unique works and books related to this avant-garde movement founded in 1946 by Isidore Isou and still largely overlooked. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13251 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13251 An immersive road trip in the footsteps of American writer Harry Crews (1935–2012), by Yann Stofer and Julien Perez: a book featuring film photographs, video clips, and audio excerpts, set in "an America unaccustomed to visits from foreign tourists." https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13251 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13251 An immersive road trip in the footsteps of American writer Harry Crews (1935–2012), by Yann Stofer and Julien Perez: a book featuring film photographs, video clips, and audio excerpts, set in "an America unaccustomed to visits from foreign tourists." https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12953 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12953 An intellectual portrait of a major figure in 20th-century architecture. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12991 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12991 More than 150 drawings from the collection of producer and filmmaker Marin Karmitz: a selection of works by historical, modern and contemporary artists that highlights the tension between the life and death drives. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12994 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12994 An essay by Alexandra Midal on visual learning experiences through images, based on two revolutionary projects by major 20th-century designers: Charles & Ray Eames, Georges Nelson and Alexander Girard, and Ken Isaacs. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12587 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12587 Witches of Design interweaves design with the rebellious and feminist figure of the witch, based on the history of the messianic, socialist, utopian, and egalitarian Shaker sect in the 18th century. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12989 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12989 Witches of Design interweaves design with the rebellious and feminist figure of the witch, based on the history of the messianic, socialist, utopian, and egalitarian Shaker sect in the 18th century. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12948 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12948 A comprehensive illustrated compilation of typographic works produced by bachelor and master students at ECAL over the past ten years. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13246 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13246 Eroticism and sexuality in Marina Abramović's work. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13165 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13165 A few months before the death of Edgard Varèse (1883–1965), Gunther Schuller (1925–2015) sat down with the composer for an in-depth conversation: his career and friendships, collaborations, new instruments, and the rare freedom he allowed the sounds they produced... A rare testament published for the first time in English and French. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13165 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13165 A few months before the death of Edgard Varèse (1883–1965), Gunther Schuller (1925–2015) sat down with the composer for an in-depth conversation: his career and friendships, collaborations, new instruments, and the rare freedom he allowed the sounds they produced... A rare testament published for the first time in English and French. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13062 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13062 This monograph traces the dazzling and prolific career of French designer Pauline Deltour (1983–2021) and showcases the richness of her work through images drawn from an extensive archive and contributions from curators, designers, and collaborators. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13017 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13017 Édité à partir d'archives de conférences, AH!MERICA retranscrit l'exploration approfondie entreprise par Allen Ginsberg de l'œuvre de William Blake, qui apparaît comme un véritable guide pour la perception moderne et la conscience sociale. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13138 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=13138 Philippe Weisbecker's series of mirrors. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=2472 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=2472 Artist's book (a tribute to the beauty of the greenhouse). https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12686 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12686 A meditative reflection by the Lebanese artist and writer on language and its loss. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12974 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12974 The author, artist, and curator Olivier Marboeuf takes us on a journey through myths, archives, and fables, where fire symbolizes Caribbean culture, colonial oppression, and ecological disasters, and where the echo of past revolts becomes the spark for future insurrections. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=11919 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=11919 Une exploration pionnière de l'évolution des fonctions fondamentales des écrans dans l'histoire, et de leur impact profond sur la culture humaine, offrant un récit éloquent sur notre réalité médiatisée. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=11919 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=11919 Une exploration pionnière de l'évolution des fonctions fondamentales des écrans dans l'histoire, et de leur impact profond sur la culture humaine, offrant un récit éloquent sur notre réalité médiatisée. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12792 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12792 A groundbreaking study on the relationship between Wassily Kandinsky, pioneer of abstract art, and the photographic image. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12850 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12850 An exploration of the intermedial potential of literature, extending beyond the book format (into the fields of visual arts, theater, performance, cinema, and music), developed in and around the catalog of the publishing house P.O.L. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12316 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12316 A history of art in France from the women's perspective. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12657 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12657 L'autobiographie, inédite en français, de Ré Soupault (1901-1996), élève du Bauhaus, photographe, cinéaste, styliste, écrivaine et voyageuse, traductrice de Dada et du surréalisme, protagoniste majeure de la vie artistique, littéraire et intellectuelle européenne et compagne des avant-gardes de tout le XXe siècle. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=11767 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=11767 Envisagées en parallèle, l'étude de Sigmund Freud sur le Moïse de Michel-Ange et sa collection privée de statuettes antiques révèlent les éléments d'une psychanalyse visuelle venant contredire la nature prétendument iconoclaste de cette science. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12074 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12074 A cross-disciplinary and critical reflection on the philosophical stakes of so-called "artificial intelligence", from an epistemological, political and cultural point of view, beyond naive fascination and ignorant rejection. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12440 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12440 The other side of images in cinema, between phenomenology, art history, literature and ecology. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=8624 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=8624 An autobiographical account and uncompromising meditation on the meaning of design, in the voice of the man who represented the ethical and political conscience of the discipline in the second half of the 20th century. https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12478 https://www.lespressesdureel.com/EN/ouvrage.php?id=12478 A comprehensive overview of the work of Chantal Montellier, a comic-book pioneer and mentor to younger generations, highlighting the diversity, richness, and artistic qualities of an engaged and visionary body of work.