Art - Conceptual

A boulder is physically massive - and effortless to think about. A deep grief weighs nothing - and can be the heaviest object in a life. Whatever is hard to move in one domain is easy in the other. Physical change works by force;...

A small book. The smallest one in the series. Not a manual, not a memoir. A chapbook of fragments selected from over eleven thousand operational loops - poems, internal archives, the dialogue of a fictional corporation that exists only inside a game, the texture...

"Heavenly Divine- A Spiritual Street on a Poetic Curve" - Come take a journey of self discovery through the poetic styling's of published Antonio B. Bivens, Sr., as he shares some of his life experiences from unsaved to saved.From the Broken Yoke of childhood...

In 1985 the Lumière brothers screened the first film and gave birth to the seventh art. At that time the world was lit by candles and the carriages were drawn by horses. The 20th century came with all its technological and cultural developments and...

From her earliest experiments with painting old-master landscapes as graffiti on the streets of New York, to her recent project The Alien's Guide to the Ruins of Washington, DC (2013) at the Corcoran in Washington, DC, Ellen Harvey (born 1967) has applied her unique...

This is Social Experiment 2.0. In this episode, I invite people to write in 100 words or less their idea or message that they would want to share with the world. I started advertising this opportunity a couple weeks before a TEDx event that...

Oneliners will show you how to use the magic of the line to communicate with the human mind. You will learn how a single unbroken line can create and empower objects, communicate feelings, instill emotions and even tell a story. You even will learn...

The first complete account in English of the evolution of 'pataphysics from its French origins, with explications of key ideas and excerpts from primary sources, presented in reverse chronological order.Of all the French cultural exports over the last 150 years or so, 'pataphysics--the science...

Author: Jean-Paul L. Garnier,Michael Butterworth,James MachellISBN-10: 1968958118ISBN-13: 9781968958114Publisher: Space Cowboy BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2026Pages: 124Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.44lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.34d

Reimagined Eras: Everyday Life Across History explores a simple shift: what happens when modern behaviors are placed into earlier time periods and accepted without question.Across these pages, familiar routines appear far ahead of their time. Remote work exists in the 1940s. Artificial intelligence takes...

The first monograph on an artist whose theatrical sculptures elevate the grit and absurdity of everyday life into monumental, thought-provoking installations. Will Ryman was destined to become an artist--born and raised in New York City into a revered art family (his father is the...

Spanning a hundred years (1910 - 2010) and three geographical locations - Europe, Japan and North America - this unique book examines the capacity of performance to recode reality. It argues for a seamless continuity between philosophy, critical theory and artistic practice. Each chapter...

The Hungarian-born French painter Simon Hantaï (1922-2008) is best known for abstract, large-format works produced using pliage: the painting of a crumpled, gathered, or systematically pleated canvas that the artist then unfolds and stretches for exhibition. In her study of this profoundly influential artist,...

Drawing Degree Zero examines a pivotal moment in the history of drawing, when the medium was disengaged from its connoisseurial associations and positioned at the forefront of contemporary art. From Mel Bochner's seminal exhibition Working Drawings and Other Visible Things on Paper Not Necessarily...

Author: Schirn Kunsthalle FrankfurtISBN-10: 3954768542ISBN-13: 9783954768547Publisher: Distanz Verlag GmbhLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/25/2026Pages: 433Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.00lbs

Existence Is a Love Story is a quiet and extraordinary homecoming. This collection explores the delicate intertwining of all things, and grounds into our embodiment and collective story. Describing the spiral phenomenon of awakening-the inevitability of emergence- these pages offer a playful and naturally...

An eagerly awaited survey of Prince presents a striking collection of his most iconic works alongside rare, never-before-seen pieces from his groundbreaking career. This is a major volume on the influential American artist Richard Prince, tracing more than four decades of his pioneering practice--from...

The gene has become a cultural icon and an increasingly rich source of imagery and ideas for visual artists. Drawing on a wide range of contemporary painting and sculpture, The Molecular Gaze: Art in the Genetic Age explores the moral and bioethical questions these...

Cluck wild! Vanmechelen's museum-wide installation uses the humble chicken as a lesson in creation and coexistenceTaking over Chillida Leku as part of the Euskadi Mugak/International Architecture Biennial, Belgian artist Koen Vanmechelen (born 1965) turned the museum into a veritable henhouse, with multimedia works dedicated...

The twenty-first century has been marked by our almost boundless ability to imagine things at a larger, or smaller, size; at a faster speed; capable of solving complex problems using less energy. Our imagination on the topic of scale has driven technological progress, but...

"Surrogate Structures" is an exhibition catalogue for the British artist's, Sam Stocker, installation at The Container, Tokyo. It is the 14th catalogue in a series published by the gallery to archive and promote artists in Japan and abroad. The catalogue showcases writings by the...

The "Generated Text" series from #Ranger Press is an ongoing journey of discovery, appropriating the controversial AI behemoth, chatGPT as a tool for poetic fun and games. Experience GT, as it chews up and spits out mind-bending blocks of text like a mad man...

From Brueghel to Beuys, Armleder curates an exhibition as unpredictable as his own practiceThe Musée d'art et d'histoire offers carte blanche to artist John M Armleder (born 1948), who places his Fluxus-inspired conceptual works in dialogue with art by Jan Brueghel the Elder, Sol...

Margolles reappropriates the morgue as a mirror of society in her austere, dread-inducing installationsInformed by her training in forensic medicine and her experience working in morgues, Mexican conceptual artist Teresa Margolles (born 1963) incorporates materials such as bodily fluids, fabric scraps and other physical...

Interrogating the capacity of museum infrastructure to meaningfully address climate crisesTo address environmental crises, artists chop through walls, fill them with dirt and bring in plants and animals, while others leave the institution altogether to embrace the specificity of site. This reader asks how...

The famous artist in her own words and at her most revealing: a glimpse into Abramovic's inner world with personal stories and insightful musings paired with original drawings made especially for the book. Although long esteemed within the art world, Abramovic became a global...

This is a Thought Puzzle exploring 'As Above, So Below'.It tells a story, and each poster tells part of it. Most of the story was told by Dr Rudolf Steiner - till page 44 - where Glen Atkinson tells of how chemistry can be...

A three-part artistic research project exploring the oral histories of the Papuan Yeli Mek tribe, in a symbolic "final first contact" between culturesCzech artists Barbora Slapetová and Lukás Rittstein (both born 1973) have created a three-part series based on their work with the Papuan...

For the past 25 years Jennifer Bolande (born 1957) has engaged in an intuitive form of conceptualism, using a variety of media including photography, sculpture, photo-objects, collage, film, installation and dance, to record or create visual anomalies. Photographer Sharon Lockhart describes her works as...

In this book-length conversation between art historian and independent curator Marie-Thérèse Champesme and the Brussels-based conceptualist known for his challenging photography, sculpture and installed works, topics range from Downsbrough's early and ideal future artworks, interracial dating during the civil rights era, building a house...

Carl Fernbach-Flarsheim, the stories, the short poem, and the letter that describes a progression of thoughts and reactions to experiences, and memories, a life trajectory that brought a sense of completion in one artist's life and hopefully opens the door to a new generation...

Texts accompanying 77 works from the humorous and enigmatic Darren BaderThis volume of writings by New York conceptualist Darren Bader (born 1978) features texts for 77 artworks. Writing is at the core of Bader's work: he offers deceptively simple propositions for artworks to be...

Data from an accumulation of fictions (novels and tales) was codified. An extract from [the 96] volumes 279-384 is presented here.Author: Sarah JacobsISBN-10: 0956857531ISBN-13: 9780956857538Publisher: Colebrooke PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/01/2016Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.67lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.25w x 0.27d

Joseph S. Shook has had a compelling interest his entire life in the best expressions of all forms of life present on Earth and the meaning of these expressions which can propel us beyond what the eyes can see. Since he was five years...

Simplicity and compassion is what the world needs again, what we need again. Bring it Back to Simple reflects on my personal thoughts and moments, with poetry, quotes, and art.Author: Blythe Thimsen,Aileen JoyISBN-10: 0578745453ISBN-13: 9780578745459Publisher: AI CandiLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/21/2020Pages: 94Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 8.50h x...

Inspired by the theories of Murray Bookchin, Cuevas' tongue-in-cheek, pop culture-inspired installations critique capitalism's effect on the environmentBorn in Mexico City, Minerva Cuevas (born 1975) has developed an artistic practice that questions power dynamics between humans and nonhumans. Her conceptual works and public interventions...

Through installations, photographs videos and graphic works, Hiller investigates the subconscious, extrasensory perception and collective beliefsPublished with Museo Helga de Alvear. With a career spanning over five decades, Susan Hiller (1940-2019) was one of the most influential artists of her generation. Dedicated to the...

Critical texts on Fujiwara's autobiographical, political and uncanny conceptual installationsBritish Japanese artist Simon Fujiwara (born 1982) creates immersive, often unsettling conceptual projects inspired by world history and his own personal life. These essays examine the underlying structures of Fujiwara's work, reflecting on the conditions...

The conceptual artist and sculptor Andrea Pichl is awarded this year's Ernst Franz Vogelmann Prize for Sculpture. This renowned award is thus being presented for the first time to an artist who was born in the GDR and grew up in East Berlin. Her...

Experiencing Sound and Environment in the Works of Max Neuhaus offers the first comprehensive study of the life, work, and lasting impact of American sound artist and musician Max Neuhaus (1939-2009). Widely recognized as a pioneer of site-specific auditory works and coining the term...

Dedicated to Tiravanija's ongoing exploration of spatial and architectural reflection, through installations inspired by Le Corbusier, Prouvé, Lewerentz and othersPublished with Pirelli HangarBicocca. Since the 1990s, Thai artist Rirkrit Tiravanija (born 1961) has centered his practice around social engagement. Rooted in a profound exploration...

Sophie Toulouse transports Drago's 36 Chambers series to the Nation of Angela, a fictitious society brought to life through the French artist's fascinating writing and unique iconography. The Nation of Angela is a fantastic, seductive utopia where the values of beauty, purity and innocence...

In 1971, Laszlo Beke--a renowned Hungarian art historian and curator--asked 28 artists to submit their reaction to the concept "WORK = the DOCUMENTATION OF THE IMAGINATION/IDEA" on A4 sheets. Beke arranged and preserved the contributions in folders, which have been available for viewing over...

Explores how contemporary artists use gifts, barter, and other forms of nonmonetary exchange as a means and medium of artistic production.This revised edition of What We Want Is Free examines a twenty-year history of artistic productions that both model and occupy the various forms...

Part of a generation of artists that emerged in the US in the early 1980s, Larry Johnson (born 1959) is the artist's artist par excellence, but little known outside the art world. This volume addresses the glaring bibliographic gap by offering an accessible overview...

Featuring multiple gatefolds, Horn's newest artist book invites a sculptural examination of a singular text that ruminates on the paradox of perseveranceTaking as her starting point comedian Maria Bamford's phrase "I am paralyzed by hope," conceptual artist Roni Horn (born 1955) obsessively drew and...

Devlin's protean work is rooted in a lifelong practice of reading and drawing. From sketches in the margins of texts--be they poetry, drama, song lyrics, opera libretti, climate reports, or endangered species lists--emerge the technically advanced, collectively imagined universes for which she is globally...

An insightful rethinking of political socialization within Latino immigrant households. Conventional wisdom tells us that children are passive recipients of political lessons from their parents, with caregivers being the ones who mold the developing behavior and beliefs of the children under their roof. Roberto...

How Allan Kaprow's happenings fused modernist pedagogy with an emerging college culture. In Happening Pedagogy, art historian Emily Ruth Capper argues that Allan Kaprow's famed invention of the happening brought together experimental traditions of modernist pedagogy with emerging forms of American undergraduate student culture--from...

Better Dwellings For The Workmen Of London: How To Obtain Them is a book written by Pascoe Fenwick and published in 1884. The book is a detailed study of the housing conditions of the working-class population of London during the Victorian era. Fenwick, an...