Art - Conceptual

The Spiral Remembers is not a guidebook or spiritual how-to. It is a living transmission-a field-encoded text designed to activate memory through tone, breath, and body coherence.Across 44 chapters, the book unweaves myth, religious programming, reincarnation loops, and spiritual distortion, guiding the reader into...

Author: Mark DonatISBN-13: 9798394663499Publisher: Independently PublishedLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/14/2023Pages: 64Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.38lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.13d

Move Along is an instruction manual for open ended games, actions and interventions to untrain the body and recondition space.Author: Ilke GersISBN-10: 9491677845ISBN-13: 9789491677847Publisher: OnomatopeeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/09/2018Pages: 128Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 7.80h x 4.90w x 0.50d

Bent is a graphic collection by Graham Rendoth that includes 97 pen and digital images that explore notions of line, space and mass. The coathanger drawings evolved from long-lost works made from wire coathangers that came from his mother's dry-cleaning shop. His cloud-like popcorns...

When the hummingbird shows up in your life, it's a reminder to embrace life's simple pleasures and take time to enjoy yourself. Coloring has been proven to reduce stress and calm the mind and spirit. Applying color to these sacred patterns inspires feelings of...

When the hummingbird shows up in your life, it's a reminder to embrace life's simple pleasures and take time to enjoy yourself. Coloring has been proven to reduce stress and calm the mind and spirit. Applying color to these sacred patterns inspires feelings of...

When the hummingbird shows up in your life, it's a reminder to embrace life's simple pleasures and take time to enjoy yourself. Coloring has been proven to reduce stress and calm the mind and spirit. Applying color to these sacred patterns inspires feelings of...

When the hummingbird shows up in your life, it's a reminder to embrace life's simple pleasures and take time to enjoy yourself. Coloring has been proven to reduce stress and calm the mind and spirit. Applying color to these sacred patterns inspires feelings of...

A catalog for Wool's landmark 2024 exhibition in New York CityAmerican artist Christopher Wool's (born 1955) celebrated installation See Stop Run took place on the 19th floor of an unoccupied space in Manhattan's Financial District in 2024. Curated by Anne Pontegnie, the exhibition situated...

Discover the man who gave voice to color - Dive into the vibrant world of Wassily Kandinsky, a trailblazing artist whose bold experiments in abstraction forever changed the course of modern art. From his Russian childhood to his final days in Paris, this in-depth...

Exploring the Japanese tradition of hidden (or the secret transmission of) knowledge within a closed and often hereditary group, the author investigates how esoteric practices function, how people make meaning of their practices, and how this form of esotericism survived into the modern age....

This book investigates what happens to criminal evidence after the conclusion of legal proceedings. In its 'afterlife', criminal evidence continues to proliferate in cultural contexts; often arousing the interest of journalists, scholars, curators, writers or artists.Author: Katherine BiberISBN-10: 1138927112ISBN-13: 9781138927117Publisher: RoutledgeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/26/2018Pages: 205Format:...

A study of controversy in the arts, and the extent to which such controversies are socially rather than just aesthetically conditioned. The collection pays special attention to the vested interests and the social dynamics involved, including class, religion, culture, and - above all -...

Zofia Kulik's photographs are a psychic collage of the self. Inspired by eroticism, feminism, and the political and social developments of postwar Poland, her work offers a radical critique of not only what it means to be an artist and a woman, but of...

What color would you paint the four walls of your mind? In this captivating, innovative book, fictional color swatches become the language of the soul, painting a poetic landscape of human experiences.Just as a painter selects shades to convey mood and meaning, each color...

"Like a cuddly Trojan horse, Chueh's work is pretty on the outside, but nice and macabre on the inside" so says Entertainment Weekly of LA-based artist Luke Chueh. Employing minimal color schemes, simple animal characters, and a seemingly endless list of ill-fated situations, Chueh...

The blockchain is widely heralded as the new internet - another dimension in an ever-faster, ever-more-powerful interlocking of ideas, actions and values. Principally the blockchain is a ledger distributed across a large array of machines that enables digital ownership and exchange without a central...

By the end of the 1960s a revolution had taken place in the perception and practice of art in Europe and North America. This book, the first detailed account of developments centered around the conceptual art movement, highlights the main issues underlying visually disparate...

Our world is saturated with images. Overwhelmed by this proliferation of visual stimuli, our gaze becomes increasingly bored and distracted. Do we ever really read and engage with images? Can they ever provide the sense of meaningfulness we crave? French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas confronted...

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