Art - Conceptual

This book presents works from the last 12 years by Belgian artist Hans Op de Beeck (born 1969), most of which are drawn from the Goetz Collection. Op de Beeck produces large installations, sculptures, films, drawings, paintings, photographs and texts that reflect on mortality...

Between 1999 and 2002, Dutch artist Willem de Rooij (born 1969) collected some 500 images cut from daily newspapers, depicting protest marches and moments of collective mourning. An inquiry into the iconography of protest, this artist's book compiles and reorganizes his original series.Author: Willem...

British artist Ceal Floyer (born 1958) plays with conventional patterns of perception in a sophisticated way, piercing through them with a keen sense of irony and the simplest of means. This is the first publication to systematically document 63 works selected by the artist...

The first monograph dedicated to one of today's leading and thought-provoking Indian visual artistsShilpa Gupta is internationally known for her profound and socially engaged multi-faceted practice. Her work is an ongoing exploration of how human actions and interactions are subjected to a range of...

A definitive and timely monograph celebrating the work of ground-breaking conceptual artist Cerith Wyn EvansCerith Wyn Evans is one of today's most respected and acclaimed sculptors. Born in Wales and educated through his first language of Welsgh, his work reflects his fascination with literature,...

This catalogue raisonne of the work of Irish artist Janet Mullarney showcases the diverse, innovative, personal and original nature of her work over the last 40 years. Provocatively, she embraces a marginal position between two countries and between art forms and practices: figurative, when...

On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As ideas move from one context to another, newness is created. This continuous shifting of the line that separates the valuable...

WOOSH is a collection of personal spaceship sketches created by entertainment designer Lorin Wood as he decompressed on his couch after a long day at work. While "analog" in its execution, there's nothing dated about his vision of the future. His detailed ships will...

This concise yet breathtaking book is the first publication of Sarah Charlesworth's (1947-2013) photographic series collectively entitled Stills. Charlesworth made a name for herself as a member of the New York-based Pictures Generation artists when, in 1980, she produced this series of 14 large-scale...

Derek Stenning's last few years have been challenging, particularly from a personal work point of view, and a lot of this time seemed lost to him.A terminal illness in the family put him in the position of a primary caregiver. This, along with too...

The earlier writing of this second book was during a time of development in all ways, processing to attempt to ascend as a human being and as an athlete artist just finishing high school. I enjoyed creative writing as a child, but found during...

The earlier writing of this second book was during a time of development in all ways, processing to attempt to ascend as a human being and as an athlete artist just finishing high school. I enjoyed creative writing as a child, but found during...

The Great War drama by Viennese satirist Karl Kraus, restaged by Sengl in "stunning display" of taxidermied rat-actors, with commentary. When the age died by its own hand, that hand was Karl Kraus'. - Bertolt Brecht PUBLISHERS WEEKLY - TOP 10 IN ART, ARCHITECTURE...

Thought Art Magazine is a luxury print, contemporary juried arts publication showcasing artists from around the world.Author: Thought Art MagazineISBN-10: 1794778713ISBN-13: 9781794778719Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 01/16/2022Pages: 96Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.25d

"The Wetland Project is a beautiful, quietly amazing work of micro-post-geographical art that allows us to be wherever we are and somewhere wonderfully natural and real, simultaneously. It's an experience I wish everyone could have, and I wish there were more experiences like it."...

Have you ever seen a baby pigeon? Neither have I. Ahh good, seems like I have your attention now. Hi, my name is Dennis. This book contains some of my most random thoughts all illustrated for your coloring pleasure. Remember the pigeon thing from...

In 2014, after the release of his debut novel, celebrated writer and visionary publisher Kevin Sampsell switched gears and turned to a new creative obsession: making collage art. Initially influenced by the wild cutup language of William S. Burroughs, Sampsell soon discovered countless modern...

"A compilation of leading Dada-influenced artists from around the world." ―TRIBE LA Magazine The 2022 edition of the world's premiere journal of contemporary dada writing and art continues a revolutionary approach to creation, inspired by the Dada movement.These days you hear a lot about...

Beauty is transcendent. When we are involved in our personal experience of beauty-and beauty is a personal choice-all of our senses are engaged, and there is no room for any negative energies from the past that periodically, and sometimes regularly, hang onto us. The...

(English / German Edition)An art book about pictures of pictures Repetition plays a central role in Jari Genser's work; he paints pictures that always show the previous picture in the process of its creation. The result is an endless series: pictures of pictures of...

An artistic research work This monograph by and about the artistic duo Payer Gabriel is an antidisciplinary encyclopedia that literally unfolds its etymological meaning - as a circle of learning in which variable forms of knowledge that mutually inform and reference each other, often...

(Bilingual Edition: English / German)Two series of works by Jeremias AltmannIn his artistic work Jeremias Altmann deals with the themes of machine, man, and development. This elaborately designed monograph presents the artist's series YOUNG PROPHECIES and MACHINES. In the YOUNG PROPHECIES series, Altmann reconstructs...

(English / German Edition)Barbis Ruder: 10 years of performance art The works of the performance and media artist Barbis Ruder focus on the body - it is both the starting point and the main object of investigation in her work. In her performances and...

"Negative Shape - The Defining Attribute" takes what starts out as an artistic concept and expands and explodes its application in a wide area of experiences and relationships. Negative shape explores the BETWEEN. Negative space is quantitative. It tells about how far, how long,...

The 15-year history of the production of a "German scotch" Black Whisky. YKSIHW KCALB recounts the 15-year history of the production of a "German scotch" Black Whisky, made by Dexter Sinister together with Stahlem?le, a distillery set up by ex-publisher Christoph Keller. The story...

This scrapbook is a comprehensive record of the making of Linda Karshan's historical walked drawing masterpiece, Two Feet Walking, which she enacted on Friday, 8 April 2022, at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge, in collaboration with poet/filmmaker Ishmael Annobil. Created for The Women's Art Collection,...

Through a series of focused and interconnected case studies, Out of School explores the long history of information art associated with the Toronto School of Communication. It highlights the perspectives of artists inspired by the speculations of Marshall McLuhan and colleagues as well as...

How many buildings around the world have such distinctive designs that simply their outline, and nothing else, is enough to identify them? Artist Jose D vila has physically cut out, from photographs, 90 of the world's most famous and beloved buildings and structures, from...

Paintings by American contemporary artist Jordan. The book contains paintings, descriptions of the art as well as the otherworldly happenings that inspired much of the surreal paintings.Author: Sandra G. JordanISBN-10: 1533506264ISBN-13: 9781533506269Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/22/2016Pages: 42Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.35lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w...

A fascinating look at artistic experiments with televisual forms. Following the integration of television into the fabric of American life in the 1950s, experimental artists of the 1960s began to appropriate this novel medium toward new aesthetic and political ends. As Erica Levin details...

Unpacking the history of performance art and celebrating the work of contemporary practitioners, a must-read for both art lovers and students alike. Stunningly beautiful, deeply puzzling, powerfully moving, or intensely unsettling--performance art can evoke a wide variety of responses. In this important survey, Catherine...

Bringing together works from the past 20 years, this book introduces readers to multidisciplinary Belgian artist Maarten Vanden Eynde Belgian artist Maarten Vanden Eynde (b. 1977) has established a research-based practice, which spans diverse social, economic, environmental, and anthropological perspectives. His work covers some...

Author: Gretchen AndrewISBN-10: 3954764431ISBN-13: 9783954764433Publisher: DistanzLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/04/2022Pages: 192Format: Hardcover

A compelling study of unofficial postwar Soviet art, The Experimental Group takes as its point of departure a subject of strange fascination: the life and work of renowned professional illustrator and conceptual artist Ilya Kabakov. Kabakov's art--iconoclastic installations, paintings, illustrations, and texts--delicately experiments with...

The reader is grateful for the wealth of Diaz's art on offer here. The book includes many paintings as well as sketches which are reproduced beautifully. The essays, particularly Brescia's on religious sensibility in Mexican art (being such a deeply religious culture), are well...

Picturing the Invisible presents different disciplinary approaches to articulating the invisible, that which is not known or that which is not provable. Author: Paul ColdwellISBN-10: 1800081049ISBN-13: 9781800081048Publisher: UCL PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/05/2022Pages: 262Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.15lbsSize: 9.29h x 6.14w x 0.79d

The first survey of the Fluxus cofounder's prolific avant-garde output, from eight-foot-tall books to make-a-salad performancesThe American artist Alison Knowles' (born 1933) groundbreaking experiments--from painting and printmaking to sculpture and installation, sound works, poetry and artist's books--have influenced art and artists for more than...

In 1831 Honor de Balzac wrote a short story, "The Unknown Masterpiece," in which he invented the abstract painting. Almost 200 years later, writer Ingo Niermann tries to follow in his footsteps to imagine a new epoch-making artwork. Together with the artist Erik Niedling...

The story, taking place in 1875 traces the epic journey of Gabriel Duban in an era before space-travel when worlds of mystery, danger and enchantment were still found on Earth. Adventure and horror take on dizzying new dimensions as Duban pursues the truth of...

Kallamity (Luca Zampriolo) creates an imaginary future world dominated by dark undertones where protagonist robots (Hard Doll Machines a.k.a. H.D.M.s) mass-produced from recycled metal are needed in a failing society to secure resources for mankind in order to progress its technology.Kallamity poses the question,...

Art and physics collide in this expansive exploration of how knowledge can be translated across disciplinary communities to activate new aesthetic and scientific perspectives. Leaning Out of Windows shares findings from a six-year collaboration by a group of artists and physicists exploring the connections...

Art and literature historians of the future will be flabbergasted that Yokoyama existed in our time. He is a visionary on the level of William Blake. PLAZA is a parade of invention, set to the beat of turning pages.- Dash Shaw (Cryptozoo, Discipline) Bigger,...

In this activity book your creative kid will join the Creative Director Kids team and help them solve an important creative problem. They will get to practice a lot of the creative skills they already have, and discover a few more along the way....

A handsomely designed overview of Chan's acclaimed Badlands imprint and his latest sculptural series exploring the metaphor of the "breather"This volume surveys Paul Chan's publications and works made between 2010 and 2022 following his return to artmaking. The exhibition takes as its organizing principle...

Question the Wall Itself examines ways that interior spaces and d cor can be fundamental to the understanding of cultural identity. It showcases 23 international artists who explore the political and social dimensions of interior architecture as well as its complicated relationship to history...

Author: Vanessa PlaceISBN-10: 1934254207ISBN-13: 9781934254202Publisher: Insert Blanc PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 06/01/2011Pages: 80Format: HardcoverWeight: 0.53lbsSize: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.31d

The field of design combines the talent of an artist, the intuition and awareness of what the future could be, curiousity, and a drive to create and adapt new technologies.RIDES shares the process and complexity of design development. The young and old alike will...

This book presents, in large-format images, Simon's unique virtually designed racing machines and tells the story of international racer Vic Cooper, who time-travels under the name 'Vic13' and later 'Mean13' to the past and the future to compete in a wide variety of motor...

Sean Hargreaves believes that for artists and designers, images are born from the experiences one observes during the first 10-15 years of their lives. Those images are subconsciously refined over and over in one's life. They may consist of shapes, or places, or films...but...

Welcome to the fascinating world of Entropia.Entropia: A Collection of Unusually Rare Stamps is a uniquely crafted storybook for all ages. Through a full-length narrative accompanied by 60 beautifully illustrated imaginary stamps, readers are taken on an unforgettable journey to a fantastic world."It is...