Art - Conceptual

Hybride Rauminszenierungen Ruth Schnells Werk zeichnet sich durch eine konsequente Auseinandersetzung mit historischen Realit舩skonzepten aus, die durch die apparative Wahrnehmung infrage gestellt werden. Im Kontext der Medienkunst leistete Schnell einen wesentlichen Beitrag zum Verst舅dnis dieser radikalen Transformation: In ihrer Kunst ging sie ?er das...

A collection of contemporary artworks inspired by the image that remains on the retina after its passageThis publication is a visual meditation on memory and metamorphosis, featuring works by 26 international artists organized around the theme of the coexistence of permanence and transience. The...

These are first-class sudoku puzzles for brain charging. KaKuro is a logical numerical puzzle, the mathematical equivalent of a crossword puzzle. In the cells it is necessary to place the numbers from 1 to 9, there are inactive cells (marked in black). In cells...

Using conceptual methods popularized in music composition by John Cage, cartoonist/musician Todd Webb creates the experimental comic strip series Chance Operations, one of the first truly "indeterminate" comics. Chance Operations is an exercise in allowing formal constraints to decide the content and design of...

Counterweight is a collection of images, observations, and concepts by artist/creator Rick O'Brien. For the last eight years, Rick has been a one-man art department in Hollywood, designing, constructing and painting sets and props for such clients as Victorias Secret, Luxor Las Vegas, Nikon,...

This book documents the f irst life-cycle of the Post-Media Lab (2011-2014). Taking up F lix Guattari's challenge, the Lab aimed to combine social and media practices into collective assemblages of enunciation in order to confront social monoformity. Here we draw together some key...

St. Pete Blue was originally developed in 2005 from "intersecting" materials collected or developed in 1969 in St. Petersburg, Florida while I was a student at Eckerd College ("FPC"). One set of ephemera is from 1968-1969 when I was part of a project team,...

In the bitter cold, black, predawn of Christmas Eve 1972, the commercial fishing vessel LADY-FAME was struck and capsized by a forty-foot rogue wave while crossing the Humboldt Bay bar.Contemporary artist Peter Santino, her first mate, wrote fifty thousand words during the months immediately...

In the 1970s, from his base in Los Angeles, artist Robert Cumming (born 1943) made functional-looking but ultimately useless constructions, created primarily to be photographed with his 8 x 10 camera. Playing with props, proportions, unusual angles, light and mirrors, Cumming invited viewers to...

""Naturalistic Photography For Students Of The Art"" is a book written by Peter H. Emerson and originally published in 1889. The book serves as a guide for photographers who are interested in capturing naturalistic images that accurately depict the world around them. Emerson was...

A Color Notation is a comprehensive guidebook on color theory and the relationships between different hues, values, and chromas. Written by A. H. Munsell, a renowned American artist and inventor, the book presents a unique system for defining and communicating color using precise measurements...

Start Your Engines compiles works from Scott Robertson's vast archives of ground vehicle drawings and renderings. Inside this book is a fantastic selection of both both futuristic and retrospective sketches and renderings of surface vehicles completed by Scott Robertson over the last ten years....

The book ""Ted Kautzky: Master Of Pencil And Watercolor"" by Charles Ross Kinghan is a comprehensive exploration of the life and work of Ted Kautzky, a renowned artist known for his mastery of pencil and watercolor techniques. The book is a tribute to Kautzky's...

Project Collage is packed with great ideas for creating eyecatching collages, with 50 step-by-step projects to inspire you Cut it, stick it, twist it! Collage is the art of reinvention. This magical and tactile process invites you to collect, experiment, combine and transform. These...

In Structura 2, Nicolas "Sparth" Bouvier delights us with what he has been imagining for the last three years since the release of his first best selling book, Structura. This visually stunning book includes images from HALO, over seventeen new gorgeous books covers (for...

In its first installment of their own Intellectual Property, Steambot Studios, a collective of six digital artists working in the world of visual Entertainment, takes us aboard an epic science fiction journey. In ""Exodyssey"" - created in parallel with a series of educational DVDs...

The fourth and final book in the infamous Ways series of novels as conceptual art--a project by visual artist Rita McBride in collaboration with the Whitney Museum, Printed Matter, Inc., and Arsenal Pulp Press. These books reimagine literary genres by pulling together some of...

The 40 unique detailed patterns are printed on large 8.5 x 11 high quality paper. Pages are printed on one side only for easy removal and display. Provides hours and hours of mindful calm, stress relief and creative expression. Author: Tanakorn SuwannawatISBN-10: 151692794XISBN-13: 9781516927944Publisher:...

Inside Design by Michael Greer is a comprehensive guide to the world of interior design. The book explores the various aspects of design, including color theory, space planning, furniture selection, lighting, and more. It provides practical advice and tips on how to create a...

A chronological illustrated analysis of fifty-eight years of work by the collective Art & Language Art & Language is an artists' collective that was founded in 1965 by a group of British and American artists. The name Art & Language is derived from the...

From the Introduction of The Tao of Towel (or Seeing Bigfoot [and Other Things] in the Zen of Art) by Doug Camp: "This is not another "How to..." book for the struggling artist. There is a glut of those on the market from which...

Why the avant-garde of art needs to be rehabilitated today Since the decidedly bleak beginning of the twenty-first century, art practice has become increasingly politicized. Yet few have put forward a sustained defence of this development. Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde is the first...

Framed Environment Design presents the artwork, wisdom, and philosophies behind designing environments for film, animation, graphic novels, and illustration so that they serve a narrative purpose and become part of the story. With informed methodology and special care for the smallest details, environment design...

This book reflects on the motivations of creative practitioners who have moved out of cities from the mid-1960s onwards to establish creative homesteads. The book focuses on desert exile painter Agnes Martin, radical filmmaker and gardener Derek Jarman, and iconoclastic conceptual artist Chris Burden,...

Explore crazy conceptual creatures designed by 4th grade scholars at the Henry Johnson Charter School! After learning about real-life animal adaptations for survival, these young artists created their own menagerie of fantastic creatures that have their own methods of survival...which one is YOUR favorite?Author:...

"Ancient Art and Ritual" is a book written by Jane Ellen Harrison, a distinguished classical scholar and linguist. The book was first published in 1913 and is considered one of Harrison's significant contributions to the field of classical studies. Jane Ellen Harrison (1850-1928) was...

Fiber artists around the world have embraced crochet as an inventive medium like never before. Expanding on the creative possibilities and using sculpture, immense site-specific installations, performance, and mixed-media objects, they have used crochet techniques to explore feminine craft and heritage, dissect gender codes,...

Windows and Doors is a metaphor for the different ways in which we see the world and make our way through it. A series of insights matched with provoking imagery to stimulate the imagination and lead us to a new path and insights into...

The 'Color Egyptian 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 fifth volume of the John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné compiles the approximately 367 works made by the influential American conceptual artist (b. 1931) from 2005 through 2010. During these years, the artist undertook a number of series, including the shaped erasures of "Blockage"; the...

The fourth volume of the John Baldessari Catalogue Raisonné comprises approximately 370 works that represent the activity of this iconic conceptual artist between 1994 and 2004. Here, John Baldessari (b. 1931) continues to interrogate the possibilities of photographic appropriation, further developing his unique strategies...

This project begins at the subtext of body-a before and after of mutual grammars-or the assumption of what constitutes other. It is a question of how we narrate accumulation: each word bearing a hundred (thousand) behind it. Which is to say consider what lodges...

Showing how the still life has been renewed by recent developments in photography, Obstinacy of Things includes work by Moyra Davey, Tacita Dean, Harun Farocki, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Annette Kelm, Elad Lassry, Zoe Leonard, Laura Letinsky, Sharon Lockhart, Barbara Probst, Lucie Stahl, Andrzej Steinbach, Ingeborg...

Jessica Backhaus embarks on her work with an obvious relish in experimentation. The photo artist draws inspiration from the simplicity of everyday things, from unassuming scenes and silence. The artist's new trilogy brings together three series of approximately 40 works each. The first series,...

An exploration of walking and mapping as both form and content in art projects using old and new technologies, shoe leather and GPS.From Guy Debord in the early 1950s to Richard Long, Janet Cardiff, and Esther Polak more recently, contemporary artists have returned again...

A richly illustrated account of the life and work of the twentieth-century Mexican artist and writer who reimagined what the book could look like, mean, and do Ulises Carri (1941-1989) was one of the most remarkable artists and writers of the second half of...

The ultimate visual storytelling book from one of the best in the industry--pages with no words, only sketches! Follow Iain McCaig's amazingly captivating images to create your own tale, gently guided by his powerful illustrations. What a wondrous glimpse into the brilliantly gifted mind...

Carl Andre (born 1935), is among the foremost exponents of minimalism. Although best known for his grid-based floor sculptures, his output is diverse, encompassing large, outdoor public artworks and small sculptures, poetry and installations. Alistair Rider explores the full range of Andre's ideas and...

Homo Articus, "human as artist," is a concept that embraces the arts as integral to human natureand encapsulates the universal idea of art as 'creative contemplation.' The contemplative artworkby Kajal Dass Beck in this book reveals an "invisible thread" across cultural boundaries andcreatively expresses...

Explore the intersection of tarot, artistic creativity, and technical innovation in The Artist Decoded Tarot, a first-of-its-kind deluxe deck and guidebook set from author of Amenti Oracle Jennifer Sodini and artist Yoshino. Art, myth, and storytelling have guided spiritual exploration throughout history, and the...

Isabel Lewis is an artist interested in creating multisensory experiences, collapsing formal boundaries, and centering collectivity. Widely recognized for having expanded the field of contemporary art, Lewisrefers to many of her works as "occasions" immersive social gatherings that encompass choreography, performance, music, and workshops....

Working in sculpture, installation and video with powerful, often brutal images and materials, French-Algerian conceptual artist Adel Abdessemed (born 1971) has created one of the most energetic political oeuvres of recent times. A "pitiless young festivalist," as the New Yorker described him in 2009,...

"Steven Karl's I HRT the Cult Years critiques and embodies the cult leader at the center of the book who, in turn, critiques and embodies the American society that bred him. The overflowing and excessive ritual and repetition enacted throughout these poems build out...

We share here just a few of the more than 200 food art images that we generated using AI. These images can be a source of inspiration for creating your own AI images, for creating food art using real produce, or for moving the...

Known for installations exploring science, natural phenomena, and contemporary mythologies, French artist Laurent Grasso presents a visual journey of his avant-garde, conceptual work. Drawing on the visual possibilities of electromagnetic energy, radio waves, and natural phenomena, French conceptual artist Laurent Grasso explores their effect...

Stereograms are 2D images that hide a 3D image inside. These images are created using a technique called stereopsis, which is the natural process by which our eyes perceive depth. Each eye sees the world from a slightly different angle, and our brain combines...

Get Ready to Experience a Collection That Takes the Form to New Heights!Hold onto your seats because here comes the poetic whirlwind of 2023!Old Scratch Press proudly unveils the sensational collection by none other than the avant-garde wordsmith and visual artist, Robert Fleming as...

This catalogue accompanies Elmgreen & Dragset's first exhibition in China, the largest in Asia to date. The Scandinavian duo, comprised of Michael Elmgreen (born 1961) and Ingar Dragset (born 1969), created a fictional art fair in UCCA's Great Hall, with rectangular booths featuring works...

A phantasmagorical look at the unknown depths of the underwater worldSwiss artist duo Taiyo Onorato and Nico Krebs (both born 1979) present the second and final installment of their Future series. Using cutting-edge photographic methods, they explore the uncharted realm of the deep-sea world...

This sophisticated artist's book, with custom-cut cover and partially exposed binding, documents John Bock's 2006 action, "Maltreated Frigate"--the height as well as the culmination of this rising German artist's performative work. Here, Bock's vision comes to life in a multitude of color illustrations composed...