Art - Conceptual

Dutch conceptual artist Anouk Kruithof (born 1981) reimagines photography and sculpture to create liberating and disturbing artworks that explore the interactions between people, nature and technology. This is the artist's first comprehensive retrospective, surveying two decades of her multimedia practice.Author: Anouk KruithofISBN-10: 8867495712ISBN-13: 9788867495719Publisher:...

You ll find all sorts of things in Helguera s Manual that aren t in any other book: the difference between an A-level artist and a B-level artist, how to cure the dreaded festivalist syndrome, how to keep your conviction that you re the...

"Come along ... come, a little closer ... ladyboys, rats, Brahmans, incestuous brothers, arrogant scientists, royal jesters, suicidal late-weaned adolescents, Diogenes-style rebels, obsessional mythical creatures, repressed psychoanalysts, overfed baby boys ... Indulge in a journey of contiguity, ambiguity, taboo and uncertainty, liberated perversities, an...

A collection of essays, fictions, and interviews exploring the weird temporalities of finance and catastrophe. Once, financial practitioners plied a hybrid trade as hydrologists, star-gazers, and weather-watchers who sought to discover the natural laws of value and exchange as they did the divine order...

There are as many meanings to drawing and painting as there are cultural contexts for them to exist in. But this is not the end of the story. Drawings and paintings are made, and in their making embody unique meanings that transform our perception...

As children grow up, they can often be met with personal challenges ( such as as self-esteem issues). I wrote this book, with the help of my son Jordan, to help little black kids develop (early-on) a strong sense of authentic self love and...

This book traces the evolution of Bill Beckley's work through a selection of over 100 works, with critical texts and a conversation with the artist. Bill Beckley is an American conceptual artist and one of the first artists to use photography as a means...

A concise introduction to Pierson's photographs, collages, word sculptures and more across four decadesThis volume celebrates and documents the career of pioneering New York-based artist Jack Pierson (born 1960). Published on the occasion of Pierson's tenth solo presentation with Regen Projects, Los Angeles, this...

The Little Book goes into philosophy and the lacunae in archives, fragments of poetry, and other arts, such as painting and music. Daesthetics: a haunted house of language, is in remembrance of the liminal, archival gaps. Daesthetics, a thinking in the open, with the...

A temple of art--individual and yet universal. In 1990 on a journey through South India, the painter Bernd Zimmer was inspired by the pillared porticoes of the Hindu temples and conceived the idea for a hall of art surrounded by nature, supported by 121...

Reveals how contemporary art contributes to the culture of remembrance. In 1991, the town of Pulheim initiated the Stommeln Synagogue art project, a permanent process of examining and reexamining this historically significant location, one of the few German synagogues to survive World War II....

Maya Dunietz: Root of Two is a 144-page catalogue that accompanies an exhibition of the same title, on view at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in 2022. Co-published by the Bemis Center and X Artists' Books and designed by Omnivore, this catalogue traverses...

After a 12 year absence from creating his own art, Derek started to focus on his personal work in 2009. His first personal project, Born in Concrete, was undertaken to dispel his biases towards expressive art, overcome his own perceived limitations and to rejuvenate...

An intimate look at American artist Sol LeWitt's masterpiece of conceptual art, drawn on the walls of a medieval tower in Italy. In 1976, Sol LeWitt made a large group of pencil drawings on the internal walls of the Vecchia Torre, a medieval tower...

Author: Walead BeshtyISBN-10: 3037645024ISBN-13: 9783037645024Publisher: Jrp RingierLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/18/2018Pages: 864Format: HardcoverWeight: 4.00lbsSize: 9.80h x 6.90w x 2.30d

Material culture and biopolitics: on Daniel Knorr's multimedia explorations of the politics of thingsRomanian artist Daniel Knorr's (born 1968) eclectic oeuvre includes photography, sculptural installation and performance. The artist, who lives in Berlin and Hong Kong, is known for deploying materials such as cocaine...

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...

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...

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...

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...

(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...

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...

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...

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...

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