Art - Conceptual

History and the status of the image have long been animating concerns in the artwork of French artist Christian Boltanski (born 1944). In Boltanski: Souls from Place to Place, the artist reflects on the outcomes of some of the most significant historical events of...

A first look into the 30-year career of Czech conceptual photographer Jir SigutJir Sigut (born 1960) has become a crucial figure in the development of Czech photography. Documenting three critical phases in Sigut's career, this monograph presents early explorations of movement in his extended-exposure...

As we spend our days increasingly glued to our computers and handheld devices, rapidly tapping keywords into Google, cutting and pasting Word docs and texting urgently truncated messages, it is becoming increasingly rare to pen anything by hand. No wonder hand-written fonts are all...

I. Am. Sorry. From Jack Bender, lead director / executive producer of the TV series Lost along with many other acclaimed shows, comes I Am Sorry--an unexpected and wholly unique take on what it means to be human. Through the lens of his original...

Combining a broad overview of Jean-Jacques Lebel's coming-of-age among Surrealists and his rupture with the movement, Laurel Jean Fredrickson focuses on two landmark happenings in this book: the first, "Funeral of the Thing of Tinguely" (1960), and the most scandalous, "120 Minutes dedicated to...

How do we recognise an artist's book when it becomes an expanded practice?Is the same method of sourcing, research and display of materials used in books and collections alike?Can the space where the book is made and exhibited be considered an artist's museum?These were...

Victor 2.0. is the second book in the Victor series. Here is the Prologue to give you a taste. 'Victor sits on his couch, staring at his two-hundred-inch mini-LED TV. He is surfing the web as he hears a knock at the door. Victor's...

Considering the processes of speaking, writing, reading, and remembering, through the lens of post-traumatic language, Over, In, and Under moves between fiction, prose-poem, script, and essay. Freud is psychotically mistranslated; Lacan is refigured as an auto-fictional and hallucinatory framing of 'city'; screenwriting and Twitter...

Perhaps best known for the iconic desert monolith "Cadillac Ranch" and stunts like "Media Burn," the radical architecture and media art group Ant Farm created an abundance of works across disciplines--including video, publications, built environments and performances. Throughout their career (1968-79), Ant Farm conceived...

An artist's inventory of offhand and everyday anti-Asian languageIn this slim artist's book, Utrecht-based artist Seulbin Roh (born 1996), of Asian descent, collects a variety of discriminatory comments and questions she has heard and overheard in the course of daily life--casually racist or sexist...

A kaleidoscopic introduction to five decades of visionary artist Pippa Garner's work including gender hacking, custom cars and deviant proposals to solve everyday problemsPublished in conjunction with Pippa Garner's (born 1942) first institutional exhibition in New York, Pippa Garner: $ELL YOUR $ELF features her...

In Paul Hartal's Lyco Art, the act of creation inexorably interweaves the logic of passion with the passion of logic through the voyage of consciousness.Paul Hartal, the originator of lyco art, or lyrical conceptualism, presents a stimulating and meaningful panorama of a new element...

In Paul Hartal's Lyco Art, the act of creation inexorably interweaves the logic of passion with the passion of logic through the voyage of consciousness.Paul Hartal, the originator of lyco art, or lyrical conceptualism, presents a stimulating and meaningful panorama of a new element...

Create 120 T shirt Design on Paper first, Fun Activity For any person Who Loves to Design, Makes it an all year round gift for any designer, This is 8,5 x 11 Inch size book with 120 templates of you to design, Fun &...

Considering the split between words and images, reading and looking, thinking and experiencing - does anything remain level for long? This book is a visual meditation on split levels by way of pomes. A pome is a dyslectic version of poem - or it...

Celebrate the culture and fanaticism of book lovers with beloved illustrator Grant Snider's I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf, a full-color graphic novel celebrating books, authors, and reading. With a striking package including a die-cut cover, it's the perfect addition to any reader's...

What do you get when you combine a frozen chicken and a ballerina, or a cat and a bagpipe, or an insect and a beautiful lady? This book contains something from bizarre carnival creatures to ornate royalty inspired by a deck of cards to...

Italian artist, critic and poet Vincenzo Agnetti (1926-81) rose to international prominence in the late 1960s with conceptual works exploring language and communication in inventive materials like Bakelite and felt. This publication is the most comprehensive resource on the artist's work to date. Author:...

This volume offers a compelling examination of the surprising conceptual and visual correspondences between the works of these two pivotal artists known for their innovative practices. Klein (1928-1962) was a major figure in postwar art who opened up new possibilities for material, conceptual and...

Acid Cats takes a deep dive into what it's really like to be a cat. This book contains 100 pictures of what is really going on in the mind of your furry feline friend. Adorable and Funny, join them today on an adventure of...

This zentangle coloring book for stress relief is a beautiful coloring book of fantastic animal drawings. The book has 30 images that will provide you with hours of stress relief and relaxation. They are perfect for anyone who loves zentangle drawings. The pictures are...

These relaxing illustrations of this coloring book are sure to bring you calm and peace with every page. And these pictures are easy to see to make this a stress free coloring experience for colorists of all ages and skill levels. So sit back,...

Sound Speed Marker focuses on Hubbard / Birchler's recent trilogy of video installations--Grand Paris Texas (2009), Movie Mountain (M li s) (2011) and Giant (2014)--which explore the physical conditions and social character of the cinematic experience, with particular respect to film's relationship to place...

Art criticism in the 1980s was highly influenced by market forces that somewhat changed the face of the art world. A mediocre show purchased by a wealthy investor or collector received disproportionate coverage in the New York press, particularly those glossy, four-color journals that...

The essays in this collection explore the extraordinarily rich networks of international artists and art practices that emerged in and around London during the 1960s and '70s, a period that saw an explosion of new media and fresh attitudes and approaches to making and...

Felix Stalder's extended essay, Digital Solidarity, takes it's point of departure from the waves of new forms of networked political organisation which have met the onset of the global economic crisis of 2008. Following Karl Marx, Stalder lays out how in the current period...

Daytoner: Enslaving Humanity in Style is a complete compilation of the concept art Daniel Hahn created over the past few years under his alias Daytoner, short DTNR.Robots, mechs and character designs are Daniel's big passions and DTNR, is his outlet and home for this...

Performative interventions in everyday lifeThis is the first major monograph for Brazilian conceptual artist Cinthia Marcelle (born 1974), accompanying her solo show at MASP. Through photographs, videos, installations and interventions that make use of everyday elements, Marcelle performs displacements and operations that momentarily destabilize...

Multimedia paintings and drawings from Pendleton's acclaimed Untitled (WE ARE NOT) and Black Dada series and moreThe catalog for Adam Pendleton's (born 1984) 2022 exhibition at the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts, his first solo show in Canada, These Things We've Done Together features...

A radical proposal for how a tiny organism can transform our understanding of human relations Serving as both a guide and companion publication to the conceptual art project of the same name, The Lichen Museum explores how the physiological characteristics of lichens provide a...

In the follow-up to his hugely popular The Book of Trees and Visual Complexity, design thought leader Manuel Lima takes readers on a lively tour through millennia of circular information design through illustrations, infographics, and artwork. The Book of Circles features an eclectic collection...

Running out of pattern / design ideas for your next big project? The Big Boo of Over 500 Patterns and Designs is here to help With high quality pattern / design samples covering Fractal, Geometrical, Asymmetrical, Victorian, Arabesque, Nature, Dots, 3D, Abstract, Floral and...

Ujwal Mantha is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Toronto. His work prioritizes concepts over mediums and revolves around stories. He's also the one writing this bio and feels a bit pretentious for using the third person. So I won't. As I was saying,...

WOMEN is a powerful visual representation of the journey that women travel. It combines aesthetic beauty, symbols, and visual metaphors to trigger emotions and responses to enduring gender inequalities in all areas of life. This book is an urgent call to action that echoes...

A look into how AI will reflect the biblical text, one verse at a time. My name is Brick, I'm from a small town in Texas where I live with my wonderful Fiance and an ark-full of animals. I've always been captivated by the...

Maureen Alsop, like other goddesses of myth, likes to work at the crossroads, the place where words give shape to image, where images speak back, and our sense of language expands beyond the frontier. The reader is invited to wander among the signs and...

A facsimile of the GALA Committee's mock auction catalog for an artistic intervention into the props and plots of Melrose PlaceOriginally published in a limited run in 1998, Primetime Contemporary Art documented In the Name of the Place, a radical two-year intervention by a...

A look into how AI will reflect the biblical text, one verse at a time. My name is Brick, I'm from a small town in Texas where I live with my wonderful Fiance and an ark-full of animals. I've always been captivated by the...

Ujwal Mantha is an interdisciplinary artist currently based in Toronto. His work prioritizes concepts over mediums and revolves around stories. He's also the one writing this bio and feels a bit pretentious for using the third person. So I won't. As I was saying,...

A witty and ingenious parody of American consumer goods--from a wristband that measures social success to shoes that help you dietPippa Garner's (born 1942) Better Living Catalog, originally published in 1982, takes the form of a mail-order catalog featuring clever, whimsical inventions that parody...

An ingenious and collectible book-as-poster documenting Prince's half-century of image appropriationFor aficionados of Richard Prince (born 1949) and of the possibilities of the book form, this unique exhibition catalog is an exclusive three-in-one kind of publication. Designed in the dimensions of a 12-by-12-inch LP...

When a war ends provisionally, the agreement is called a ceasefire. But when peace ends, there is only war. War and peace are co-dependent. Perhaps it is now time for a "Peacefire." In Maintenant 17: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art, nearly...

Surrealism is widely thought of as an artistic movement that flourished in Europe between the two world wars. However, during the 1960s, '70s, and '80s, diverse radical affinity groups, underground subcultures, and student protest movements proclaimed their connections to surrealism. Radical Dreams argues that...

In Dunwich, a remote village in Massachusetts, lost in the depths of an inhospitable countryside with dark valleys invaded by brambles, the old stories of witches are still alive and strange subterranean noises resound at times under the hills surmounted by mysterious circles of...

Alchemy, Jung, and Remedios Varo offers a depth psychological analysis of the art and life of Remedios Varo, a Spanish surrealist painter. The book uses Varo's paintings in a revolutionary way: to critique the patriarchal underpinnings of Jungian psychology, alchemy, and Surrealism, illuminating how...

A Physical Book Which Compiles Conceptual Books by Various Artists is a collection of artists' books that exist only as verbal statements, descriptions, or provocations. The collection features more than ninety contributors from around the world.Author: Carley GomezISBN-10: 0998071129ISBN-13: 9780998071121Publisher: Partial PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/18/2022Pages:...

What if Marilyn Monroe had made it to the era of roller discos, and the disco dance craze? Royal Blunt's paintings take you there, to the possibility that if Marilyn Monroe had made it there, she would have been right there in the middle...

In this unique artist's book/autobiography, Deller reflects on his 30-year career of politically engaged artWith his playful, political and provocative work borrowing from many forms and produced over many mediums, Turner Prize-winning British artist Jeremy Deller (born 1966) enjoys critical acclaim across the world....

The RGB collection reissue utilizes conceptual sketches, as well as full-color illustrations to provide a glimpse of the future, as it was in the past, through the eyes of one of the greatest visionaries of our lifetime. Studio Image 1 sketch book was the...

Breast Cancer Awareness is known. Breast Cancer education is overlooked. Breast cancer is about a pink ribbon celebration annually with walks and donations and corny reposted messages. What the book I Cry is about is the one, on-the-court experience, the as lived experience of...