Art - Conceptual

"Inframince", a term coined by Marcel Duchamp, refers to ephemeral, ultra-thin, and undecidable phenomena - such as the warmth that remains on a chair after a person gets up. In this book, "inframince" is taken to signify forms of transdisciplinarity in contemporary art. Authors...

Documenting arch-conceptualist Mel Bochner's fusion of architecture and quantificationProduced in honor of the 50th anniversary of his first Measurement Room, Mel Bochner: Measurements (1968-1971) revisits this defining period early in the New York-based artist's renowned career. One of the most important conceptual artists of...

"I, too, asked myself if I could not sell something and succeed in life... Finally the idea of inventing something insincere came to me and I got to work immediately." With this statement, penned for his first solo show in April, 1964, Marcel Broodthaers...

Conceptualism played a different role in Latin American art during the 1960s and 1970s than in Europe and the United States, where conceptualist artists predominantly sought to challenge the primacy of the art object and art institutions, as well as the commercialization of art....

The most comprehensive book on the work of Liza Lou, whose popular and critically acclaimed installations made entirely of beads consider the important themes of women, community, and the valorization of labor. Liza Lou first gained attention in 1996 when her room-sized sculpture Kitchen...

In What We Made, Tom Finkelpearl examines the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art. He suggests social cooperation as a meaningful way to think about this work and provides a framework for understanding its emergence and acceptance. In a series...

A collection art and writing by more than 250 contemporary dada creators from 33 countries examining the theme "Humanity: The Reboot."Author: Peter CarlaftesISBN-10: 1953103065ISBN-13: 9781953103062Publisher: Three Rooms PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/13/2021Pages: 275Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.45h x 6.61w x 0.87d

Fictive artworks have multiplied rapidly in the last two decades with a wide range of artists who have worked in this genre and generated its upsurge in popularity. Some of the projects covered in this book have strong cult followings, so it will appeal...

Conceptual Art in a Curatorial Perspective focuses on the curatorial practice of exhibiting conceptual art. The fact that conceptual works are frequently not object-based creates challenges when exhibiting them. This book offers various perspectives on how to handle conceptual art in the context of...

A TLS Book of the Year 2017 In this, the first anthology of Russian contemporary art writing to be published outside Russia, many of the country's most prominent contemporary artists, writers, philosophers, curators and historians come together to examine the region's contemporary art, culture...

This book is for those of us who have failed at being doubt-free but whose passion for God remains steadfast. It's for those who have been confused by the world -- and perhaps even by their own desires -- and still long to connect...

The town and actual island known as Pawleys doesn't have boardwalks or Beachy town trappings. It's slow, private and classy. The people live on island time, a little to the right of bohemian I imagine; relaxed, down to earth, and spiritual. Yes, with the...

A WONDERFUL PRESENT FOR THE COLORING LOVER. As a lover of dolphins Kaye has endeavored to capture the essence of their beauty in this book. A rare opportunity to color in these beautiful creatures. This range of images show dolphins at play underwater, flipping...

Manifesto for a Theory of the 'New Aesthetic' - An irreverent guided tour of the 'New Aesthetic' by Curt Cloninger, The Missing Factory - John Roberts considers why work remains absent from film and culture more generally, Barbara Says - Industry Does it Faster...

This publication introduces a never-before-exhibited series of works by the late British artist John Latham (1921-2006). Accompanying a solo exhibition at Karsten Schubert, London, the group of work features spray painted and twisted canvas on wooden stretchers. The works challenge the conventional relationship between...

The official art book for the animated movie The Addams Family. Based on the famous New Yorker creations of Charles Addams, this animated action-comedy will follow the Addams family - parents Gomez and Morticia, children Wednesday and Pugsley, Uncle Fester, Grandma, Cousin It, faithful...

Discover the alt worlds of The Man in the High Castle in this exclusive collection of art. Packed with concept art, final designs, and artist commentary plus previously unseen storyboards. The Man in the High Castle is the hit Amazon series, inspired by Philip...

A New York Times Book Review 2019 holiday gift guide pickOne of Time Magazine's best photo book of 2019 For more than 50 years, American conceptualist Mel Bochner (born 1940) has been shaping dialogs between art and language through exhibition concepts, paintings and sculptures...

The "Mystical Southwest" is a representation of fine art mixed media paintings created in unison by two internationally recognized artists. All paintings featured in this tour exhibition are collaborated works of art. The Mystical South West embodies through visual dialogues the beauty of this...

No Man's Land is a beguiling collection of sepia-toned natural landscapes pulled from security camera feeds. Marcus DeSieno has sifted through hours of footage from various CCTV cameras to create images that remind us that we are never truly alone.Author: Desieno MarcusISBN-10: 1942084463ISBN-13: 9781942084464Publisher:...

"Renee Gladman has always struck me as being a dreamer--she writes that way and the dreaming seems to construct the architecture of the world unfolding before our reading eyes."--Eileen MylesA book of ink drawings that regards language as an exposed nervous system, uncovering the...

Never before-seen artwork from the award-winning science-fiction and fantasy artist Stephan Martiniere!Following his previous books, Quantum Dreams and Quantumscapes, Velocity is a stunning new visionary collection of sci-fi book cover paintings, commercial and film art, video game designs, and never before-seen artwork from the...

British Conceptual artist John Stezaker (b. 1949) is known for his distinctive, often deceptively simple, collages. He has been making art since the 1970s, but achieved prominence relatively recently. In 2011, he had a retrospective at the Whitechapel Gallery, London, and, in 2012, he...

"Elegantly designed...heady brilliance...perfectly presented." - The Austin ChronicleSeven Drinks isn't like other bar books before it. Instead of focusing on histories, ingredients, chemistry, and drink proportions, this little handbook focusses on the often-overlooked dimension that gives life to a bar and the drinks it...

Go behind the scenes of Altered Carbon in this exclusive collection of art. Packed with concept art, final designs, and artist commentary plus previously unseen storyboards. Awaken into the cyberpunk world of Skydance's Altered Carbon. Stacks - implanted chips that store human consciousness -...

A singularly authoritative--yet also anti-authoritative--gathering of a life's work in art, education and activism.For more than half a century, the artist Luis Camnitzer has been concerned with the same things. The essays gathered in this book outline a radically democratic and frequently provocative vision...

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 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...