How does one tell and show war? Asking those questions is not idle: our contemporary civilisation of the picture is crossed by images of war. To question the forms of its representation is also to question the discourse of the war picture and the conditions in which that discourse is made, built and spread. The volume accompanies the exhibition Topographies de la guerre, shown at LE BAL, and gathers works that look at conflict through its ground, its maps and its rehearsals rather than through its action.