Art - Conceptual

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,...

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:...

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...

Triple Time brings you 45 original hand-drawn illustrations to color and bring to life. Illustrations are printed on one side of the page only to enable you to easily remove a page to frame and to prevent any bleed-through from ruining another image. Visit...

This publication documents a little-known temporary artwork. In the winter of 1973/74, Paul Thek (1933-1988) was a guest of the Lehmbruck Museum in Duisburg, where he installed the room-filling environment "Ark, Pyramid - Christmas" ("The Manger")--a development of the legendary "Pyramid" installation realized at...

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...

Ingenious sculptural takes on idiomatic language from a leading Brazilian artistFor his installation at the Brazilian pavilion at the 59th Venice Biennale (2022), Jonathas de Andrade (born 1982) draws on idiomatic expressions using metaphors of the body to develop a series of two- and...

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 2 sketchbook is the second in...

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.This reissue of Studio Image 3 was the...

Here's How To Get the Most Out of Arts and Crafts, Featuring 240 Extremely Effective Tips for Doing Arts and Crafts That Anyone Can Enjoy.If you are interested in arts and crafts than you need to get this book right now as it may...

For six years Maya Stovall staged Liquor Store Theatre, a conceptual art and anthropology video project---included in the Whitney Biennial in 2017---in which she danced near the liquor stores in her Detroit neighborhood as a way to start conversations with her neighbors. In this...

This book documents installations of Haus--a 1:15 scale representation of a modern commercial building--by celebrated Swiss duo Peter Fischli (born 1952) and David Weiss (1946-2012). These include the 2016 recreation of the 1987 Skulptur Projekte M nster for the Guggenheim Museum and its permanent...

Franz Erhard Walther's pioneering Werksatz series of wearable fabric sculpturesIn 1991, as MAMCO Geneva was preparing to open, founder and museum director Christian Bernard asked several artists to think about how they would like to sum up their practice for presentation in the museum....

Returning to revolution's original meaning of 'cycle', Contemporary Revolutionsexplores how 21st-century writers, artists, and performers re-engage the arts of the past to reimagine a present and future encompassing revolutionary commitments to justice and freedom. Dealing with histories of colonialism, slavery, genocide, civil war, and...

Presenting unique and in-depth collaborations and editions with leading international artists, Parkett No. 65 features collaborations with John Currin (United States), Laura Owens (United States) and Michael Raedecker (The Netherlands), three painters who apply their individual marks and styles to the traditions and techniques...

Have you been searching for an adult coloring book with animals pooping? No? Well, here it is anyway This Pooping Animals Coloring Book definitely splits opinion. Some may say this book is weird, some may say it's inappropriate, some may even say it's rude....

The Unreal Real, American artist Liza Ryan's (born 1965) fifth publication, surveys the last two decades of her work. Whether documenting her experience in Antarctica or examining the repercussions of loss, Ryan's work captures a sense of evanescent transience.Author: Liza RyanISBN-10: 3958293514ISBN-13: 9783958293519Publisher: SteidlLanguage:...

Inspire. Add content. Polish your art.Look beyond your brush and palette to discover the role of a great title in the creation of a painting. Whether the title is a creative spark for your new piece, refines it's direction at the mid-point to move...

These composite landscapes are recreated places from an estranged homeland. Visible and obscured parts of the landscape suggest the interplay of effects between man and nature, as well as the imperfections of memory. The discontinuity induces the viewer to draw on their own experiences...

In 2006, artist Pablo Helguera drove with a portable schoolhouse from Anchorage, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, exploring the historical ideals of Pan-Americanism. Five years after that journey, this bilingual anthology gathers a group of critical essays and documentary materials of this pedagogical...

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...

Working with people from different cultural backgrounds presents practical and theoretical problems for art therapists, as well as the opportunities represented by a medium which crosses linguistic and cultural barriers. In this volume, professionals engaged in art therapy discuss aspects of practice which are...

Conceptual art as a popular phenomenon, known as conceptualism, had a profound impact upon the art world as a whole because it could manifest itself in any material or form. This allowed conceptual artists to approach themes that artists working in traditional materials could...

It has been brought to the attention of the proto-civilians of the region of the Tigris-Euphrates that at the event of the 21st Century AD much of our culture's 5000 plus years of future invention & evolution of civilization will be lost, forgotten, erased,...

Foundation: The Art and Making of the Series is the official companion book for Skydance and Apple TV's epic science fiction TV series Foundation, which is based on the novels by Isaac Asimov. Foundation: The Art and Making of Seasons 1 & 2 is...

A site-specific installation juxtaposes found detritus with the opulent backdrop of a Belle Epoque villaSwiss conceptual artist Eric Hattan (born 1955) is known for his installations, performance art and artistic interventions in public spaces. This catalog accompanies his installation at a historic villa in...

A witty, touching and delightful exploration of holes from the author of The VolumeA handsomely designed picture-book for children and adults, The Hole Book explores the many meanings, associations and forms of holes in a delightful narrative of discovery. The book's narrator is an...

Escape into a world of love and cute characters with the Adorable Love coloring book from bestselling publishing brand Damita Victoria. Are you looking for a fun and festive way to celebrate Valentine's Day? Look no further than the Adorable Love coloring book! The...

This poem and art book includes amorous poems on relatable themes written by Antonio Journie, accompanied with gorgeous art works created by an artist named Deon(Stephanie Hayes).This book fascinates readers who inspire to love, and love deep. This collection is the first from an...