Art - Conceptual

Author: Cassie ThorntonISBN-10: 1732066663ISBN-13: 9781732066663Publisher: Thick PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/15/2025Pages: 212Format: Paperback

Flow, one of the most important concepts in positive psychology shows that in a state of intense immersion can lead to a profoundly passionate creation of a work of art. How does the artist, the painter create and recreate? How do colors color the...

Rigorous research yielding sculptural and installation-type interventions and deep insight into an earlier era's sound experimentsThis volume ably documents the Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum exhibition of the same name by acclaimed New York- and Vienna-based Austrian artist Martin Beck (born 1963). This work explores...

Space Becomes You―A Mythology is a nearly 300-page art book stuffed with album-cover worthy photography and an out-of-this-world narrative that reads like 2001: A Space Odyssey crossed with a UFO cult. This studio monograph evolves thematically as an introduction, initiation, and submission to an...

A rare classic of sound art from Brazilian avant-gardist and provocateur Antonio Dias, available in a limited editionIn 1971 Brazilian artist Antonio Dias (1944-2018) self-published Record: The Space Between, a vinyl LP audio project. Side A, titled "The Theory of Counting," features a ticking...

""How To Draw In Pen And Ink"" by Jasper Salwey is a comprehensive guide that teaches readers how to create stunning pen and ink artworks. The book covers a range of topics, from the basics of pen and ink drawing to more advanced techniques...

What is a World? How do I create one? How do I keep it alive? And when should I set it free? There is an unnatural art emerging, ripe for our strange and complex times: Worlding -- the practice of creating dynamic systems that...

Painter Greg Edmondson curates this full-color, soft cover book exhibiting 18 new gouache paintings and includes 18 poems as responses to the artwork by world class poets including: Hélène Baril, John Dorsey, Linzi Garcia, Jonathan Kline, Jim McGowin, RC Patterson, Jeanette Powers, Ruben Quesada,...

""Painters in America After the Revolutionary War"" is a historical book written by Charles H. Caffin that explores the development of American painting in the years following the American Revolution. The book offers an in-depth analysis of the works of some of the most...

Kaltenbach's staggering, psychedelic portrait of his dying father is a transcendent meditation on life, afterlife and symbiosis with the universeFor much of the 1970s, the artist Stephen Kaltenbach (born 1940) developed a monumental painting called Portrait of My Father inside a rented Northern California...

Through sculptural interventions, collages, photography, film and more, Mesmaeker creates a delicate awareness of the existential processes of remembering and forgettingReferencing literary sources and engaging with political and historical contexts, Belgian artist Jacqueline Mesmaeker (1929-2023) created sculptural installations and assemblages that combine poetic sensitivity...

One artist's decades-long reckoning with his traumatic childhood, as told through his therapeutic drawings and writingsAustrian artist Laurent Ziegler's (born 1968) The childhood of my memory is an illustrated autobiographical account of his own childhood abuse. Ziegler's traumatic story unfolds through the pages of...

Brudermann declassifies her own family documents as part of her multimedia conceptual investigation into the causes and effects of World War IAlongside stills from her film of the same name, Austrian artist Nin Brudermann (born 1970) publishes her great-granduncle's correspondence with the Austrian Chief...

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,...