Metronome Press
Metronome Press is a not-for-profit collective run by Clémentine Deliss and Thomas Boutoux in Paris. It was founded in 2005 and it has to be considered as an extension of the research of Metronome No.9, based on the international history of avant-garde publishing in Paris and its productive intersection between art and literature.
It started from the brilliant intuition of Maurice Girodias, the founder of The Olympia Press, to highlight the cultural internationalism of Paris and turn it into a centre for global arts distribution. For this resean all the books are published in English.
Metronome Press has published four novels in the shape of a new paperback series, three by living visual artists and one reprint from the 1930s, the cult camp diatribe of Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler, “The Young and Evil”.
By stressing anonymity, false names and short extracts of novels that may or may not be published, it underlines the desire to produce works that enable artists and writers to step out of the norm and to test out different ways of representing their ideas.
Metronome Press is not conceived as a commercial art press, but both artists and the publisher are involved in the production and distribution of the books.
The first collection of paperbacks
- Fat Mountain Scenes by Phyllis Kiehl
- Stunning Lofts by Tom Gidley
- Remainder by Tom McCarthy
- The Young and Evil by Charles Henri Ford and Parker Tyler
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