Art - Conceptual

The 'Color Chinese Art' book in the "World Culture Art Coloring Series," extends far beyond a regular coloring book. There are thirty-eight pages filled with images that are both culturally rich and stunning, complete with a brief historical footnote for each image. Pages also...

The Bitter Sweet Philosophies is a collaboration between the artist Nick Fedaeff, and a collective of writers known as KK Jart. Nick Fedaeff is a Russian artist living and working in New Zealand. His art is exhibited and sold around the world. This particular...

Renowned for disrupting and reconfiguring space in unexpected ways, Austrian artist Hans Schabus, born in 1970, produces site-specific installations that use spatial displacement to debunk cultural symbols. For his first solo museum exhibition in the United States, Schabus made Deserted Conquest, a 15,000-square-foot installation...

Author: Lilt Kids Coloring BooksISBN-10: 1981406514ISBN-13: 9781981406517Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/04/2017Pages: 62Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.37lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.13d

Ink Over Colors: A Reverse Coloring Experience by Arya Lee is a one-of-a-kind coloring book that offers a unique twist on the traditional coloring experience. With pre-printed abstract colors on each page, you are invited to unleash your creativity and let your imagination run...

The story of Christ is one that needs to be available for all to read. When we consider the Words of the Lamb of God, we recognize that Jesus is fully present in our lives today. His sacrifice was one beyond our understanding and...

New York-based Christian Marclay has been a pioneering DJ since the 1970s, when he began to rock turntables and even old gramophones--bending, breaking and mixing records in the creation of a brand new instrument. Since then, in addition to DJing, he has exhibited his...

Combining studio, classroom, library, gallery and stage, The Possible offered a new model of museum exhibition. Rather than presenting existing artworks, artist/curator David Wilson hosted over 100 artists and collectives--with "artist" understood in the broadest sense. The BAM/PFA galleries were transformed into studios that...

Author: Father X,Judith GaitISBN-10: 1910223689ISBN-13: 9781910223680Publisher: Consilience MediaLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/24/2016Pages: 106Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.79lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.28d

A diverse compendium of writing and visual art that addresses pertinent issues found in the work of Hiwa K. What is highly likely but not impossible? is informed by themes found in the work of Hiwa K, such as statehood, war, migration, belonging, the...

This first monograph on British performance artist William Hunt (born in 1977) is designed to unfold to 43 x 33 inches, revealing a performatively produced silk screen of the artist's body. Produced in a limited edition of 500.Author: William HuntISBN-10: 9073362830ISBN-13: 9789073362833Publisher: Witte de...

Spanish photographer Carmela García here presents a symbolic cartography linking identities, geographies and relationships between the female cultural revolutionaries of Paris in the 1920s--including Berenice Abbott, Djuna Barnes, Claude Cahun, Coco Chanel, Colette, Lee Miller, Gertrude Stein and many others.Author: Carmela GarcíaISBN-10: 8475068200ISBN-13: 9788475068206Publisher:...

Ruudt Peters (b. 1950) is a pioneering conceptual jewelry artist who challenges traditional definitions of adornment by pushing the boundaries of context, wearability, material and presentation. On the occasion of his retrospective exhibition he gives a first complete overview of his forty-four-year oeuvre. All...

Multimedia artist Julia Calfee dedicated months living underneath a glacier, at 2,100 meters above sea level in rudimentary conditions to understand and preserve as an archive the images and sounds of the melting glaciers as they disappeared before her eyes. The result of these...

Berlin-based sculptor and installation artist Michael Sailsdorfer, whose work was shown in 2008 at New York's P.S.1, here presents new work: a popcorn machine, a film with its projector, a neon sign, a set of little bus shelters outfitted with amenities for living, a...

Since 1986, in his Originals series, Dag Erik Elgin has devoted himself as a re-creating painter to his own admittedly subjective, but not unusual, canon of modern painting. In the series he repeats the selected works, all of them Modernist or Clas­sical Modernist, but...

During the 1960s, the art world's interest in systems grew quite exponentially, running parallel to the social upheavals and the fundamentally critical view of the system held by thinkers of the era. Rather more consequential, from today's point of view, were the technological advances:...

Takako Saito has become internationally known for her objects, artist books, performances, and actions in the context of Fluxus. She has always been interested in the world of things and everyday life, to which she adds her individual artistic gesture through interventions and small...

Key Works / Key TextsInterdisciplinary approach and theoretical foundation in artistic practice have always been part of the work by Swiss artist Rémy Zaugg (1943-2005), yet for him, painting had always remained essential. His artistic ­position therefore still remains quite unique not least ­because...

AR-Artistic Research addresses the legendary scholar and artist György Kepes' advocacy of artistic intervention on a civic scale and in the urban environment. This publication renews Kepes' insistence that artistic research be placed on the same level as scientific research.Author: Ute Meta BauerISBN-10: 3863353870ISBN-13:...

Where does the wind go when it is not blowing? With The Wind Tunnel Model, artist and scientist Florian Dombois proposes new forms of interaction between art and science. Key to this project is Dombois's wind tunnel laboratory at Zurich University of the Arts....

Sarah Tulloch: ObjectImage roots itself in album collections of the artist and others that are linked to the social tradition and history of documenting family. Through collage, Tulloch maintains a thread between past and future with her ability to form new connections within the...

The second volume in Cabinet's 24-Hour Book series, New York-based artist David Scher's Hail, Cretin! features the melancholy peregrinations of a demicenturion missing his upper half. This protagonist--a lonely, postimperial half-man who seems fated to permanent homelessness--experiences the landscape as if for the first...

This book is a psychoarchaeological reconstruction of an art collective, irational.org, who existed in the times of the internet. The material reconstituted here was derived, after irational.org's disappearance, from multiple requests for data from their archived art server. These requests, made by post, were...

Whoa! Those frogs are FREAKY! Join the 3rd grade scholars from Henry Johnson Charter School and explore the fabulous and freaky frog concept designs found in the pages of this book. After learning about real-life adaptations frogs on Earth have developed for survival, these...

this book was made for you and your family to enjoy together. There is not anything better than families having fun playing games together. Thank you for choosing my book and hope you will earn great rewards.Author: Art McGeeISBN-10: 151930045XISBN-13: 9781519300454Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing...

The Moon Goddess Project is a collaborative creative work of ten artists. Collectively, they decided on a theme and each went in their own directions. Not being limited to any particular type of art making, each artist adds their own flair to the overall...

For all the years that I have been a college professor I have annually taught an introductory course in art teaching methods. The mode-of-operation Contemporary Art Curricular Inventions aims-not to show students how to write curriculum-but rather to amass an interminable collection of idea...

Sir John Everett Millais: His Art And Influence is a book written by Alfred Lys Baldry in 1899. The book provides a comprehensive account of the life and works of the famous English painter Sir John Everett Millais. Millais was one of the most...

Part of Errant Bodies' Doormats series, Resounding Roar takes aim at the corruption of the Mexican government."And may the Earth tremble at its core, at the resounding roar of the cannon," so ends the initial verse of the Mexican national anthem. Nowadays that resounding...

Have you wondered what humans or animals would look like as Cyclops? Have you wondered what happens if a cyclop has a poorly eye? Have you ever wondered if little cycloptic creatures live around us? Well wonder no more, this book answers those questions...

This volume juxtaposes for the first time two striking bodies of work by Delhi-based and internationally recognized contemporary artist Vivan Sundaram. Gagawaka, the first project, consists of twenty-seven sculptural garments made from a bizarre assortment of recycled materials including foam cups, surgical masks, tire...

David Askevold broke into the art scene when his work was included in the seminal exhibition Information at New York's MOMA 1970, which cemented Conceptualism as a genre. He later became recognized as one of the most important contributors to the development and pedagogy...

Winner, Canadian Museums Association Outstanding Achievement in Publication Winner, Melva J. Dwyer AwardIain Baxter legally changed his name to IAIN BAXTER& in 2005. He appended an ampersand to his name to underscore that art is about connectivity -- about contingency and collaboration with a...

Hungarian-born French artist Nicolas Schöffer (1912-1992), though relatively unknown today, was during his lifetime a significant presence in the art world. His 1956 piece CYSP 1 is considered the first cybernetic sculpture, making use of motors, microphones, and photo-electric cells to create a work...

Dive into the fascinating video game world of Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 and discover the secrets behind its remarkable creation in this official artbook. An unprecedented critical and commercial success, the video game Clair Obscur: Expedition 33 captivated more than 3 million players just...

There is one, an author, an Italian author (though this is incidental). He has a first and last name: Giulio (R.M.) Maffii (information still to be confirmed). He has not written a book, but one (1) book. This is not the same thing. What...

This is conceptual poetry. This is concrete poetry. This is the primal scream of interpunctuation. This is the autofiction of a book inlay. This is One-Hitting the Wonders. Here you find blueprints of new theme parks and what not. Here you find yourself at...

"A smorgasbord for those who are sick and tired of it." --Seattle Book Review"Three Rooms Press doesn't just preserve Dada--they evolve it . . . In an era dominated by algorithmic taste-making and cautious professionalism, Maintenant stands defiantly outside the gate, throwing ink at...

Die Schnittstellen von Kunst und den Wissenschaftsdisziplinen Biologie, Umweltwissenschaften, Neurowissenschaften und Physik erzeugen transdisziplinäre Fragen, die Forscher inspirieren. Die Autoren vergleichen künstlerische Versuchsanordnungen und legen so neue Wissensebenen frei. Die Fallbeispiele des Artists-in-Labs Programmes illustrieren, wie Künstler Probleme anpacken und auf diese Weise für...

La définition des Mandalas peut varier, néanmoins il y a quelques points communs: circulaires, symboliques, spirituels et axés sur l'unité de soi. Bien que le mandala puisseêtre considéré comme un symbole religieux, il peut être utilisé à diverses finsimportantes, dont l'une est d'encourager la...

Paul Chan's monumental projection Sade for Sade's Sake takes the work of the notorious pornographer and philosopher, the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814), as a departure point for a nearly six-hour-long rhythmic study of bodily ecstasy and bodily repetition. Chan brilliantly renders the foremost quality...

Made across a 32-year span, the works in Tabula Rasa unite the central themes in the art of celebrated British artist John Stezaker, from the capacities of collage to the current flow in an age of mass media. This volume brings silkscreens on canvas...

Artistic Savouries offers a delightful collection of recipes and techniques for creating visually stunning and palate-pleasing appetizers. Written by E. Sheridan, this book explores the intersection of culinary arts and visual design, providing inspiration for transforming simple ingredients into edible works of art.From classic...

In Eugene Ionesco's absurdist play The Chairs, chairs stand in for characters at the brink of the world's end. Artist and curator Andreas Angelidakis pays homage to Ionesco at Swiss Institute with Fin de Siècle, a fantastical and idiosyncratic narrative of design after modernism....

This book explores the form of the ziggurat (a rectangular stepped structure) as a motif in the work of General Idea, the artist collective active between 1967 and 1994. The ziggurat is an emblem of progress and power that can be repeated, coupled and...

A series of illustrated epigrams drawn on post-it notes. With economy and wit, the author touches on matters absurd, philosophical, moral, psychological, and political. His terse, arresting visual aphorisms register, alternately, as micro-essays, a text book of wisecracks or, more broadly, exercises in seeing...

Stretch the limits of your imagination. Do you like drawing? Have you ever drawn a cat? What if I asked you to draw a cat doing yoga? They will ask you what you are drawing. Be bold, show them your talent. Own it. Does...

Swiss artist Eric Hattan (born 1955) engages with the everyday through interventions that may present furniture on the ceiling, displaced street lamps in gallery spaces or videos of the artist turning packaging inside out. This book surveys his complete work with hundreds of installation...

This first major catalogue on the artist duo Das Institut presents both collaborative works and pieces from their individual practices. Kerstin Brätsch uses painting to explore how the body can be expressed psychologically, physically and socially, while Adele Röder creates a nonverbal language utilizing...