Art - Conceptual

The artist's biography as told by Metzger himself, a leader of the Auto-Destructive Art and Art Strike movements This publication is a chronological retelling of the life and work of the visionary artist and radical thinker Gustav Metzger (1926-2017) in his own words. He...

Essays, images and archival materials on the elusive artist whose work was centered on an exploration of mortalityThis volume casts new light on the life and career of the eccentric Italian artist, philosopher and architect Gino De Dominicis (1947-98), a controversial figure in postwar...

In the face of right and wrong by the breed of weak or strong, humanity has placed far too much emphasis on belongings, not belonging. There was a time when ethical behavior had a fixity of purpose: the prevention of corruption, favoritism, undue influence...

Bergé's audio-visual adventure stages a playful dialogue between Charles-Édouard Jeanneret (Le Corbusier) and August Klipstein from their voyage across the South and East of EuropeScan the QR code on the back of this Time Based Editions book to engage with a staged dialogue between...

Best known for her landmark publication, the Situationist Times, de Jong now receives a survey dedicated to her avant-garde practice beyond the printed page Until recently, Dutch artist Jacqueline de Jong (1939-2024) has primarily been recognized for her role as founder and editor of...

Finding solace in visual art during his boot camp training, Miralda's photographs and sketches of army life served as the basis for his critically acclaimed anti-war sculpturesSpanish artist Antoni Miralda (born 1942) found in drawing and photography a refuge from his required military service,...

Inside one of the final works of a Fluxus artist for whom artmaking was part of a permanent, endless process embedded in everyday lifeThis book showcases Eins. Un. One... (1984), one of the last major works of French American artist Robert Filliou (1926-87), which...

A facsimile of one of Kaari Upson's notebooks, offering a moving glimpse into the raw immediacy of her thinking and the layered intensity of her practiceWhen Kaari Upson (1970-2021) died of cancer at the age of 51, she left behind an extensive body of...

Author: Olafur EliassonISBN-10: 8792877664ISBN-13: 9788792877666Publisher: Louisiana Museum of Modern ArtLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/25/2017Pages: 112Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.25lbsSize: 12.70h x 9.70w x 0.70d

Kevin McPherson Eckhoff has persisted in reading what was meant to be illegible, or irrelevant, or what Robert Smithson might have referred to as "language to be looked at" rather than words to be read. Undesigning the cipher of a place-holder, the matrix of...

A subversive take on the catalogue raisonné dedicated to the artist's landmark project in a 19th-century factoryThis artist's book by American conceptual artist Tom Burr (born 1963) documents his three-year occupation of a repurposed 19th-century factory in Torrington, Connecticut. Blurring the boundaries between studio...

Part autobiography, part monograph, part catalogue raisonné the story of Cattelan's 40-year career as told solely by the artist himselfCovering almost 40 years of work from Italian artist and curator Maurizio Cattelan (born 1960), this volume falls somewhere between a catalogue raisonné, a monograph...

A rare window into the practice of Conceptual artist Lee Lozano, absent from the art world by her own designLauded as the foremost female Conceptual artist of her time, Lee Lozano (1930-99) is the focus of the third installment of Hauser & Wirth Publishers'...

On the timely themes in the work of Anicka Yi, including AI, umwelt, scent and taste, the anthropocene, decay and rot, the animal world, and feminism. This is the fifth book in the annual series A Series of Open Questions published by CCA Wattis...

The Facts, Ethics, and Culture of Strip Clubs goes beyond the stereotypes of stripping, skillfully unpacking the intricacies of labor and artistry incorporated in the performances. This book challenges readers to enter the world of strip clubs not for voyeuristic purposes, but instead, in...

Marcel Duchamp was one of the most enigmatic artists of the 20th century. In 1920 he invented an alter ego called Rrose Sélavy, who would become one of the most dazzling characters in modern art. This ground-breaking book is the first to fully explore...

An elegant compendium of Calle's unfinished, abandoned or "failed" works of art "I have a horror of the finished. Death is final. The gunshot is final. The almost finished is life," said Pablo Picasso. "But," replies Sophie Calle, "when everything stops, what will become...

Author: Hailey SpencerISBN-13: 9798989542284Publisher: Thirty West Publishing HouseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/27/2025Pages: 80Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.19lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.19d

From the Introduction: This compilation is an outgrowth of the 'alter/altar II: sigil, soma, score, salve' workshop community facilitated by El (Lynne DeSilva-Johnson). We gathered for 6 weeks at Poets House in New York City in the Fall of 2019, in a space dedicated...

A daring arty litearature piece of lottery literacy litteringAuthor: XXXISBN-10: 1974091066ISBN-13: 9781974091065Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/31/2017Pages: 214Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.70lbsSize: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.49d

Taking its inspiration from the spatial turn in the humanities, this volume examines conceptual art's diverse forms of mapping between the 1960s and the 1990s to critically engage with space and spatiality.Author: Elize MazadiegoISBN-10: 1526190788ISBN-13: 9781526190789Publisher: Manchester University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/03/2025Pages: 296Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.90lbsSize:...

Conceptual Performance explores how the radical visual art that challenged material aesthetics in the 1960s and 1970s tested and extended the limits, character and concept of performance.Author: Nick KayeISBN-10: 1138907650ISBN-13: 9781138907652Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/22/2023Pages: 266Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.87lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.59d

What is a World? And how does one bring it to life? Emissaries Guide to Worlding is both a behind-the-scenes chronicle and a philosophical companion to one of the most ambitious experiments in simulation art of the 21st century. This richly illustrated, full-colour hardback...

A collection of imaginary frogs with elemental powers created, written, and illustrated by 3rd grade scholars from Henry Johnson Charter school.Author: Hjcs ScholarsISBN-10: 1300460571ISBN-13: 9781300460572Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/26/2025Pages: 74Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.34lbsSize: 9.21h x 6.14w x 0.19d

Artist Kennon James set out to draw fish and that is what he did. In a pure artistic exercise turned playful and eye-catching coffee table book, Kennon brings you a wonderful fish-filled book that will surprise and delight readers of all ages.Author: Kennon JamesISBN-10:...

The 'Color African Art' book in the "World Culture Art Coloring Series," extends far beyond a regular coloring book. There are thirty-eight pages filled with images that are both culturally rich and stunning, complete with a brief historical footnote for each image. Pages also...

"Undoing is just as much a democratic right as doing."---Gordon Matta-Clark This revealing book looks at the groundbreaking work of Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978), whose socially conscious practice blurred the boundaries between contemporary art and architecture. After completing a degree in architecture at Cornell University,...

Through visualizing, absence, and erasure, Ken Gonzales-Day reveals the deeply political act of seeing, forcing us to reconsider the histories we inherit. Ken Gonzales-Day's work confronts the role of the visual in conveying history or in history's absences, including bodies and spaces deliberately erased,...

A poignant account of the life and work of conceptual artist Jack Goldstein. A defining figure of the 1970s-80s New York art world, Jack Goldstein's wide-ranging body of work, which included immaculate color films and radiant paintings of appropriated images composed by assistants, is...

Public Trust explores the interactive artwork of the same name by Brooklyn-based artist Paul Ramirez Jonas (born 1965), delving into Ramirez Jonas' interest in public spaces, language as contract and the liminal space between fiction, lies and truth.Author: Paul Ramirez JonasISBN-10: 856674103XISBN-13: 9788566741032Publisher: Apc/Cosac...

Winner of the 2023-24 Poetic Justice Institute Prize, Selected by Srikanth ReddyA poetic exploration that reimagines form and language through celestial patterns Informed by mystery, chaos, order and writing as container, A Winter Triangle explores poetic space and form amid the infinite possibilities of...

In 2012, eteam visits the towns of Mars and Moon Township in Pennsylvania. Their approach is documentary, positioning themselves as cultural anthropologists who view the towns as if they were simulated environments on Earth, a training ground for eventual living on the planet Mars...

"We Shall Sing Our Wednesdays" is a surreal anti-comic combining a poem by J. F. Martel with art by Dominic Bercier. Its phantasmagoria of word and image evokes a dream of prophecy, reckoning, and apocalypse. Author: J. F. MartelISBN-10: 1775313425ISBN-13: 9781775313427Publisher: Mirror Comics StudiosLanguage:...

A riveting collection of one artist's many approaches to esolangs--esoteric programming languages--showcasing the form's limitless artistic potential. In Forty-Four Esolangs, Daniel Temkin challenges conventional definitions of language, code, and computer, showing the potential of esolangs--or esoteric progamming languages--as pure idea art. The languages in...

Over forty works spanning the career of pioneering painter, filmmaker, writer, and performance/installation artist Carolee Schneemann.Over forty works spanning the career of pioneering painter, filmmaker, writer, and performance/installation artist Carolee Schneemann are featured in this edition of the Dorsky Museum's Hudson Valley Masters exhibition...

A provocative conversation on the erotic, appropriation, power, and sex. In Pervert or Detective?, artists Reba Maybury and Lucy McKenzie dissect power, desire, and subversion in a provocative conversation. Maybury, who integrates her work as a political dominatrix into her artistic practice, manipulates dynamics...

New York-based artist Peggy Preheim is known for her minutely detailed, miniscule graphite drawings on otherwise blank sheets of paper, creating a mood and atmosphere specific to her work. Her drawings are influenced by the small sixteenth century panel paintings of the Low Countries,...

Uncover the hidden stories within the discarded and delve into the captivating world of assemblage art with Assemblage and Appropriation: Found Objects, Recycled Materials, and the Narrative Potential of Installation.This book explores the transformative power of repurposing existing materials, breathing new life into forgotten...

Founded in 2005, Whitehot Magazine has become one of the leading channels for contemporary art criticism. Since its inception, Whitehot has published thousands of reviews covering art from the United States, East Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and South America, with key pieces authored...

Easter hues for the soul: Relax, color, and embrace serenity!Our Easter Coloring Book is designed for Toddlers, Kids, Teens and Adults alike and will provide hours of relaxation & fun during the Easter Season. It includes 80 amazing and beautiful Easter coloring pages featuring...

What is Visible and What is Not. Mischa Kuball (b. 1959, Du¨sseldorf; lives and works in Du¨sseldorf) investigates public and institutional spaces and the social and political discourses that shape them. At the invitation of the Draiflessen Collection and with support from the Nolde...

Unlawful Assembly is a collection of interrelated short stories by the artists Lucy McKenzie and Alan Michael. First published in a limited edition, it was intended as a cheap holiday read to entertain summer visitors to the Mediterranean island of Stromboli, and as a...

The 'Color Cambodian Art' book in the "World Culture Art Coloring Series," extends far beyond a regular coloring book. There are thirty-eight pages filled with images that are both culturally rich and stunning, complete with a brief historical footnote for each image. Pages also...

The 'Color Indian Art' book in the "World Culture Art Coloring Series," extends far beyond a regular coloring book. There are thirty-eight pages filled with images that are both culturally rich and stunning, complete with a brief historical footnote for each image. Pages also...

The 'Color American Indian Art' book in the "World Culture Art Coloring Series," extends far beyond a regular coloring book. There are thirty-eight pages filled with images that are both culturally rich and stunning, complete with a brief historical footnote for each image. Pages...

This child-centered book explores the lives of famous and not so famous scientists, through a collection of portraits by a well-loved retired art teacher and artist, accompanied by child-friendly text. Both portraits and text explain how the scientists' discoveries came from children who were...

Comprehensive monograph on one of Saudi Arabia's most original and daring artistic voicesThis comprehensive monograph offers a critical overview of Saudi artist Muhannad Shono's oeuvre to date. The publication positions him as one of Saudi Arabia's most original and daring artistic voices. It sheds...

How can a drone smell? Is a silicone jellyfish with a rat's heart "alive"? Things that once seemed impossible are now becoming not only possible but mainstream. In the coming years, nearly all realms of our existence, will involve experiments with human and non-human...

A swirling collection of occultic verse and calligraphic art. A grimoire carved in scarlet, Salamander's Wool is the inaugural full-length collection of writing by V Manuscript, amalgamating a vast array of arcane rituals into an ensorcelling poetic corpus. To read Salamander's Wool is to...

A combined work of two original manuscripts translated into English from two seperate works in Italian of the same manuscripts on the arts; yet highly Biblical based that was altered in 18th century from the original work in 15th century.That now has been combined...