Art - Conceptual

L'image vol e, published for an exhibition curated by Thomas Demand, explores the way we all rely on preexisting models, and how artists have always referred to existing imagery to make their own. Questioning the boundaries between originality, conceptual inventiveness and the culture of...

Polish-born, London-based Goshka Macuga (born 1967) adopts the roles of an artist, curator, collector, researcher and exhibition designer, working across a variety of media to explore how and why we remember both cultural and personal events. She particularly focuses on how we build our...

A comprehensive view of Dennis Oppenheim's radical art practices during this explosive five-year period.Dennis Oppenheim was a pioneer in the fields of earthworks, conceptual art, body art, and performance. This monograph follows the studio practice, public performance works, and gallery and museum shows that...

This catalog collects the most iconic and representative political works of Spanish conceptual artist Santiago Sierra (born 1966) from the 1990s to the present, with documents regarding his many performances enacted around the world.Author: Santiago Sierra, Lutz HenkeISBN-10: 8836636799ISBN-13: 9788836636792Publisher: Silvana EditorialeLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/26/2017Pages:...

Images of Buddhist icons that fit the palm of your hand with soothing words that bring acceptance and relieve suffering. This 96-page handy pocket-sized hardcover book is a collection of passages from Buddhist scripture, Japanese prayers and poetry concerning human affliction and suffering written...

Throughout the 1980s and early '90s, Kim Gordon--widely known as a founding member of the influential band Sonic Youth--produced a series of writings on art and music. Ranging from neo-Conceptual artworks to broader forms of cultural criticism, these rare texts are brought together in...

This abundantly illustrated two-volume publication presents the photographic documentation of Frigate and Houseboat, two pirate-themed works by Paul McCarthy and his son Damon McCarthy, alongside a new text by John C. Welchman analyzing the McCarthys' work. Taking the lawlessness of piracy as a departure...

Although he is regarded as one of the most influential artists of the twentieth century for his artists' books, prints and sculptures often made with found materials, Dieter Roth (1930-1998) always thought of himself mainly as a writer, viewing his artistic work as a...

This stunning and comprehensive book presents acclaimed artist William Forsythe, whose work is at the intersection of performance, sculpture, and installation. Since the 1990s, parallel to his stage productions, Forsythe has developed a body of work he calls "Choreographic Objects". These experimental, interactive works...

This publication presents a broad selection of work by English artist Josephine Pryde (born 1967), from 1990 to 2014. In photography, sculpture and writing, the artist offers incisive and often ironic commentary on the values, hierarchies and economies attending contemporary art.Author: Josephine PrydeISBN-10: 3037644117ISBN-13:...

Humankind has imagined and depicted fantastical creatures since the formation of the first societies. Beasts such as the Chimera, the Golem, the Minotaur and Galatea could be said to be culturally symptomatic. Today, in the twenty-first century, we witness the emergence of a new...

How photography came to thrive in the postwar era, from pop to conceptualismThis volume explores how and why the second half of the 20th century proved such a fruitful moment for the ascendance of photography. It investigates pop art, conceptual art and emerging photo-based...

Creative and critical responses to capitalism in the Middle East, by celebrated conceptualist Hassan Sharif Emirati conceptual artist Hassan Sharif (1951-2016) examined the socioeconomic effects of global capitalism in sculpture, painting, writing, performance and political caricature. This volume documents Sharif's work with archival material...

Charting the glorious decade that spans Halo: Combat Evolved to Halo: Reach, Halo: The Great Journey is a lavish and spectacular review of ten years of groundbreaking game art brought together in one place as never before. Halo: The Great Journey is the ultimate...

Discover your visual representation of the universe! A mandala is a spiritual and ritual symbol in Asian cultures. It can be understood in two different ways: externally as a visual representation of the universe or internally as a guide for several practices, including meditation....

Part art history essay, part experimental fiction, part theoretical manifesto on the politics of equivalence, Helicography examines questions of scale in relation to Robert Smithson's iconic 1970 artwork Spiral Jetty. In an essay and film made to accompany the earthwork, Smithson invites us to...

This portfolio of works produced between 1990 and 2021 is the companion to the book Research Art by Michael Betancourt. It is a full color chronological documentation of movies, statics and social installations. This concise summary reveals a diverse practice addressing how media history,...

On the physical and digital possibilities of public space in a world transformed by COVID-19Featuring the works of nearly 40 artists, designers and writers, this publication surveys the formation of community and perceptions of the public amid COVID-19, exploring new communal digital spaces produced...

Uncover Your Inner Artist with Un-Color-It Activity Books for Adults & TeensAre you tired of traditional coloring books where you have to stay within the lines? Look no further than the "Un-Color-It Activity Books for Adults & Teens(TM)" series by bestselling author Kat Mariaca....

On Baldessari's final painting series, a perfect encapsulation of his lifelong exploration of the chasms between words and thingsThe 30 paintings on canvas by John Baldessari (1931-2020) compiled here explore the gaps in meaning between word and image, foreground and background, photography and painting,...

The first book devoted solely to Bruce Nauman's corridors and other architectural installations, Bruce Nauman: Spatial Encounters deftly explores the significance of these works in the development of his singular art practice, examining them in the context of the period and in relation to...

Sturtevant has been repeating the works of her contemporaries since 1964, using some of the most iconic artworks of her generation as a source and catalyst to explore originality and authorship. Beginning with her versions of works by Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol, Sturtevant...

Duct Tape Crafts: 48 Duct Tape Projects Duct Tape Crafts are certainly one of the newest, trendiest crafts to be made. Unlike most DIY projects, duct tape crafts are very durable, fashionable, and practical. We've created a book of our favorite 48 Duct Tape...

On the Sea features the most recent series by Spanish painter Miquel Barcel (born 1957). The exhibition catalog presents his textural and atmospheric paintings inspired by the seascapes of his native Mallorca, alongside a text by Nobel Prize Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.Author: Miquel BarcelóISBN-10:...

Published to accompany an exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, the result of a collaborative research project that also produced a comprehensive exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and an upcoming show at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, ZERO brings...

Ray Johnson (1927-95) was a seminal Pop artist, a proto-conceptualist and a pioneer of mail art.Always one to throw sand in the gears of art-world institutions, he tended to circulate his work either in truly alternative spaces (like sticking up out of the uneven...

This book is not about religion, and David Young is not a christian. This story is the result of three years of perpetual synchronicities and esoteric messages that came to Young through his artwork and evidential channeling, which ultimately guided him toward the hidden...

PULSE features Harald Belker's vision of the future of racing. There was a time when the fastest means of travel was a jet, but in 2035, private conglomerates have harnessed magnetic levitation (Mag-Lev) to create trains that get people from place to place to...

Miquel Barceló's ecological neoexpressionist paintings echoing Dubuffet, Tàpies and MiróKnown for his experimental approach to painting and sculpture, Spanish artist Miquel Barceló (born 1957)--based in Paris and Mali--uses a range of mediums, from paint to organic material, to explore decomposition, light and natural motifs...

Surveying the work of video art pioneer Nam June Paik, this volume highlights the artist's radical engagement with process. Nam June Paik (1932-2006) broke new ground in late twentieth-century art, working on a global stage to transform video into an art medium. This book...

What is contemporary art? What makes it contemporary? Who is it for? And why is it so expensive?From museums and the art market to biennials and the next big thing, Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art? offers concise and pointed insights into today's art scene,...

Time Passages is a collection created as a New Unique Adult Coloring Books Series. They are intended to provide an interesting relaxing and enjoyable pastime. They have been created to provide you with an opportunity to use your imagination and creativity and to have...

Peter Fischli (born 1952) and David Weiss (1946-2012) collaborate to transform the stuff of ordinary life into a series of quizzical, whimsical, even disquieting encounters. Fascinated with unconventional subject matter and material, Fischli and Weiss toy with the idea of "high art," questioning popular...

Twenty four stories of subterfuge, told through their characters' glovesThe Glovers' Repository, by New York-based artist Paul Etienne Lincoln (born 1959), tells the stories of 24 characters who either practiced deception or were the unwitting victims of subterfuge. From Mary Toft who claimed to...

The catalog for the Museum of Modern Art's acclaimed Broodthaer's exhibitionMarcel Broodthaers' extraordinary artistic output placed him at the center of international activity during the transformative decades of the 1960s and 1970s. Throughout his career, from early objects variously made of mussel shells, eggshells...

What happens when the body becomes art in the age of biotechnological reproduction? In Chinese Surplus Ari Larissa Heinrich examines transnational Chinese aesthetic production to demonstrate how representations of the medically commodified body can illuminate the effects of biopolitical violence and postcolonialism in contemporary...

In One and Five Ideas eminent critic, historian, and former member of the Art & Language collective Terry Smith explores the artistic, philosophical, political, and geographical dimensions of Conceptual Art and conceptualism. These four essays and a conversation with Mary Kelly-published between 1974 and...

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Kevin Weckbach has been painting for over 20 years and is known and collected nationally. Also, he has become one of the most sought after teachers in the nation. Currently he teaches classes in Colorado with student coming in from all-over the US to...

In Six Years Lucy R. Lippard documents the chaotic network of ideas that has been labeled conceptual art. The book is arranged as an annotated chronology into which is woven a rich collection of original documents--including texts by and taped discussions among and with...

In this new volume celebrated artist and curator Michael Petry, addresses media and marketplace concerns about the state of language and the value of books in the digital age.As words find new modes of transmission in contemporary society, text becomes information, and information strives...

Lucy R. Lippard's famous book, itself resembling an exhibition, is now brought full circle in an exhibition (and catalog) resembling her book. "Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious...

Thought Art Magazine is a luxury print, 100 page contemporary arts publication showcasing artists from around the world.Author: Thought Art MagazineISBN-10: 110577287XISBN-13: 9781105772870Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/16/2021Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.26d

A conceptually innovative take on Jonas' performances and installationsPublished in conjunction with the first major US museum show of Joan Jonas' art in nearly 15 years, this volume breaks new ground by contextualizing and expanding understandings of Jonas' body of work through three thematic...

An examination of a series of diverse, radical, and experimental international works from the 1950s to the present. What is a literary work? In Literature's Elsewheres, Annette Gilbert tackles this question by deploying an extended concept of literature, examining a series of diverse, radical,...

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"Federico Federici is one of the master practitioners of this interesting sub-genre. (He is also contributing to my long-held theory of Neo-Concretism.) That contemporary asemic writers and artists should benefit from the triumphs of the "Golden Age" of concrete poetry is, after all, an...

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"Trees work in the woods like words do in the poetical text. Exploring a book like this goes beyond the pure reader's control and turns into a practice whose results are unpredictable." - Tim Wallington.The original of this book belongs to the Academy of...

An exploration of the radical artists who transformed the ways art is conceived, exhibited, and collected, through the Dada, Surrealist, and Fluxus collections of Jean and Leonard Brown. Throughout the 1960s, Jean and Leonard Brown used their radical tastes, prescient instincts, and friendships with...