Art - Conceptual

Eye Am Eye Books presents an astounding collection of asemic works with an Introduction by David Nadeau and Publisher's Foreword by Paul A. Toth. Featuring the works of Francesco Aprile, Ian S. Cross, Christopher Skinner, Cecil B. Lee, Ed Baker, Tatiana Roumelioti, Amanda Earl,...

Poets Stephen Collis and Jordan Scott left copies of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species to decay in five distinct ecosystems in British Columbia. A year later, they photographed what remained, reading poetry into nature's "rewriting" process and documenting the gorgeous detritus in...

This coloring book is inspired by the work of Sol LeWitt. LeWitt was famous for a series of abstract, geometric wall paintings based on his theory of Conceptual Art. Like the composer of a musical piece, Sol LeWitt wrote the instructions for his paintings...

"After Cosmic Motors and his adventures in Hollywood, this is Daniel Simon's next big coup." -- Top Gear magazineThis Timeless Racer Limited Edition comes with a unique cover and a pristine slipcase with metallic foil print. The print run is limited to world-wide 1113...

Edited by Clemens Apprich, Josephine Berry Slater, Anthony Iles and Oliver Lerone Schultz Félix Guattari's visionary term 'post-media', coined in 1990, heralded a break with mass media's production of conformity and the dawn of a new age of media from below. Understanding how digital...

Rejecting the dichotomy of centralism and horizontalism that has deeply marked millennial politics, Rodrigo Nunes' close analysis of network systems demonstrates how organising within contemporary social and political movements exists somewhere between - or beyond - the two. Rather than the party or chaos,...

Reframing image fragments from postcards, John Stezaker's series Crossing Over (2005-13) focuses on the incidental micro-narratives of life that are often overlooked in these everyday objects. Celebrated artist John Stezaker is widely known for his innovative approach to found photographic imagery. Building upon the...

An overview of John Stezaker's film still collages, this book showcases the evolution of the artist's relationship with a specific material. John Stezaker began his ongoing series of film still collages in 1979; the result of a period that marked a crucial change in...

Yates's depictions, characterized by his juxtaposition of archetypal images with subversive political slogans, have made their way into Newsweek, CNN and the New York Times, appearing on the shirts of protestors the world over. In this collection of recent work, Yates perfects semiotic capitulation."John...

LAND ART IN THE U.S.A. A new study of land art in America, featuring all of the well-known land artists from the 'golden age' of land art - the 1960s - to the present day. Fully illustrated, with a bibliography. EXTRACT FROM THE CHAPTER...

Color me chemistry: A Molecular coloring book for adults. An adult science coloring book that combines a love of science with the relaxing art of coloring. Take a deep breath from the stress of the day and color nicotine, energize while coloring caffeine, or...

Acclaimed artist Kenneth Goldsmith's thousand-page homage to New York City Here is a kaleidoscopic assemblage and poetic history of New York: an unparalleled and original homage to the city, composed entirely of quotations. Drawn from a huge array of sources--histories, memoirs, newspaper articles, novels,...

How is emotional meaning found in places? How can creating new urban spaces be a vehicle for less adversarial forms of political coexistence, as well as new customs of social innovation? Places Made After Their Stories shows how the emotional geographies we carry inside...

GIFT IDEAS COLOURING BOOKS COLOR BY NUMBER These relaxing illustrations of this coloring book are sure to bring you calm and peace with every pages. And these pictures are easy to see to make this a stress free coloring experience for colorists of all...

When it comes to photography and creative art few can combine the two better than award winning photographer, Martin Smith. It takes a few seconds for most photographers to take a picture but in Martin's case it can take him hours to compose and...

They Come to Us without a Word documents Joan Jonas' (born 1936) project for the US Pavilion of the 56th Venice Biennale, an installation that incorporates multiple components, including projected videos (with music by Jason Moran), drawings and photographs. Each section of the pavilion...

MAINTENANT 12: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art explores the concept of internal and external "acceptance" with the theme "We Are All A 'Like.'" The MAINTENANT series, established in 2008, gathers the work of renowned and emerging dada artists and writers from...

The spirit of Dada continues to thrive in this stunning annual collection of provocative and disruptive Dada-inspired art and writing culled from a plethora of top international contributors, with 50+ color images. MAINTENANT 11: A JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY DADA WRITING AND ART is the...

In 1962, while living in Paris, Dutch painter, sculptor and editor of The Situationist Times Jacqueline de Jong (born 1939) completed a set of 11 woodcut engravings, a medium in which she rarely worked. Danish painter and writer Asger Jorn (1914-1973) adored the engravings...

Illustrated with 350 superb color reproductions and produced under the editorial direction of the artist's daughter, Marcel Broodthaers is the definitive monograph on the Belgian artist who surmounted the Surrealism of Magritte with pioneering works of Conceptual art.Marcel Broodthaers filled his brief, 12-year artistic...

The goal of a statement of facts is not to put forward an argument, but rather to present factual information in clear understandable way. Many lawyers may make implicit arguments in a statement of facts, to paint someone in a favorable light, or to...

Human colonization of Mars is expected to begin in the coming decades as NASA and independent space ventures partner with private investors to explore the future of life on the red planet. The Interview: Red, Red Future is the culmination of more than three...

Join Chris Ayers and his menagerie as they make their Parisian debut on the walls of Galerie Daniel Maghen. Fifty-eight pieces were created especially for the gallery show in year six of The Daily Zoo and they are all captured in this book in...

"Battle MiLK is 100% unhampered inspiration; images free from art direction, created for the love of creation and the joy of visual storytelling." --Iain McCaigA fantastic addition to the Battle MiLK series, this third installment features four new artists contributing their work to the...

Widely recognized and admired in countercultural communities but overlooked by the mainstream for decades, Anna Banana has been fearlessly challenging convention as Town Fool and Doktor Anna Freud, producing parodic publications, creating and exchanging artist's stamps and other original artworks and staging banana-themed events...

A New Dictionary of Art takes a refreshingly alternative approach to the question 'What is Art?'. Take your pick from over 3,000 definitions compiled from the internet via chat-rooms and discussion forums as well as from the more established authorities, artists and institutions. Passions...

See Yourself X: Human Futures Expanded is the second volume of Madeline Schwartzman's timely series that began with See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception (2011), a collection of fifty years of futuristic proposals for the body and the senses. See Yourself X focuses on...

Imagine falling into a painting. Such was the case of Yves Tanguy, a French Surrealist painter, who created landscapes from his dreams. Those dreams, recorded in a journal, a leather bound pack of papers, were his notes from the innermost recesses of his mind....

The Fluxus Movement began during the 1960's and strives to combine different mediums and disciplines. The beginning principles of the movement were anti-art and anti-commercial . This volume includes and theses related to the Fluxus Movement. Each entry contains the name of the author,...

Rickey Martins personal 50 year quest to draw the automobile. Armed with a General Motors award at Pratt Institute in the 1970s and 33 years teaching Perspective drawing, the artist opens his the portfolio to you. Allow your child to personally witness the incredible...

Fractal Fusion is a feast for the eyes. In modern culinary terms, fusion means a mixing of cultural foods. This term is used here to represent a mixing of cultural art and literature. A fractal is a modern mathematical subset representing natural elements that...

Cultivate A Creative Mind offers practical ways to nurture your creativity through the use of insightful explanations and dynamic hands on projects. This book will help you find hidden abilities and talents by guiding you back to creative confidence.Author: Simon SilvaISBN-10: 1478727977ISBN-13: 9781478727972Publisher: Outskirts...

The Goddess Coloring book is an introduction to the Goddesses of the Surcadian Oracle and a glimpse into the world of Surcadia. These archetypes from across time and various cultures represent the energies, challenges and gifts that are within us and available to all....

Glimpse some behind-the-scenes visual development artwork and a collection of sketches, story beats and a plethora of character drawings that were produced over several years. The art here represents elements that make up the original story entitled "Tiki Trouble." At its inception, "Tiki Trouble"...

Local History brings together rarely seen works from the 1950s through the early 1970s by Enrico Castellani, Donald Judd and Frank Stella, juxtaposing these with later examples that reveal each artist's distinct evolution and the various reverberations of their brief aesthetic collision in the...

"In the tragi-comic-and worse-chaos of our times-suppose our writing began to appear as letters caught in barcodes. Phrases and bits of words breaking off en route to scanners designed for registering information but not the disturbance of meaning. It is, literally, with this provocative...

Farfetched: Mad Science, Fringe Architecture and Visionary Engineering was published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title curated by Tom Patterson and Roger Manley for the Gregg Museum of Art & Design, January 17 through April 26, 2013. Author: Roger Manley, Tom...

From 1969 to 1973, a series of radical art projects took place at the far eastern edge of Los Angeles County at the Pomona College Museum of Art, in Claremont, California. Here, Hal Glicksman, a pioneering curator in Light and Space art and former...

Order and Disorder looks at the cross-cultural context and collaborative nature of Aligheiero Boetti's iconic artworks. The original, often large-scale works in his series Mappe (Maps), Tutto (Everything), and "squared word" were created in needle and thread by women in Afghanistan and in Pakistani...

Pairing the video sculptures, paintings, and drawings produced during the last decade of Nam June Paik's life with key works from the artist's oeuvre, this book testifies to Paik's lifelong exploration of the role of technology in culture. Paik is considered the founder of...

Providing a lively snapshot of the state of art and social justice today on a global level, Entry Points accompanies the inaugural Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics, launched at The New School on the occasion of the center's twentieth anniversary. This...

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...

Interdisciplinary in design and concept, Speculation, Now illuminates unexpected convergences between images, concepts, and language. Artwork is interspersed among essays that approach speculation and progressive change from surprising perspectives. A radical cartographer asks whether "the speculative" can be represented on a map. An ethnographer...

A new approach to writing culture has arrived: multispecies ethnography. Plants, animals, fungi, and microbes appear alongside humans in this singular book about natural and cultural history. Anthropologists have collaborated with artists and biological scientists to illuminate how diverse organisms are entangled in political,...

It takes many different forms and uses many different materials, ranging from natural daylight and scrim to glass, plywood, neon, and fire. It taps into far-ranging ideas and systems of knowledge, including alchemy, Buddhism, aerospace technology, witchcraft, astronomy, physiology, and phenomenology. Written by the...

Published for an exhibition of paintings, photographs, collages and works on paper by Jay DeFeo (1929-89), this catalog features full-color reproductions and an introductory essay highlighting DeFeo's surrealist sensibility in her juxtaposition of forms, mixing of genres and experimentation with chance.Author: Jay DefeoISBN-10: 099863123XISBN-13:...

The World According to Roger Ballen, coauthored with Colin Rhodes, looks at Ballen's career in the wider cultural context beyond photography, including his connections with and interest in art brut. It features photographs selected from across Ballen's career, along with installations created exclusively for...

According to Vasari, the young Michelangelo often borrowed drawings of past masters, which he copied, returning his imitations to the owners and keeping originals. Half a millennium later, Andy Warhol made a game of "forging" the Mona Lisa, questioning the entire concept of originality....

A comprehensive look at works made by Baldessari between the years 1987 and 1993 This handsome volume, the third of the John Baldessari (b. 1931) catalogue raisonné project, compiles 400-plus unique works of art made by the influential conceptual artist from 1987 through 1993....

Bioart -- art that uses either living materials (such as bacteria or transgenic organisms) or more traditional materials to comment on, or even transform, biotechnological practice -- now receives enormous media attention. Yet despite this attention, bioart is frequently misunderstood. Bioart and the Vitality...