Art - Conceptual

Writing and drawing use similar gestures to create visual fields for the eye to see and the mind to read. Make a mark and add another: this is a basic procedure and I use it here with different colored markers. Seeing precedes reading. Systems...

Mickey Mouse navigates a photocopied novel as the end of the world approaches in this gritty artist's bookIn his dystopian graphic novel, Argentinian artist Adri?n Villar Rojas (born 1980) weaves together his own essay on the apocalypse with a 19th-century futurist novel and scenes...

Slapetová's response to her work with the Yali Mek envisions a contemporary art happening between the tribe and CzechiaIn the second book in the Ultra-Super-Natural series, Barbora Slapetová (born 1973) imagines a multimedia historical dialogue between the Yali Mek and Czechia, based on her...

Marina Abramovic is the creator of pioneering performance art which transcends the form's provocative origins. Her visceral and extreme performances have tested the limits of both body and mind, communicating with audiences worldwide on a personal and political level. Updated and revised throughout, the...

Bawdy and irreverent, the work of Sarah Lucas deliberately misconstrues the semiotics of gender and the bodyIn her often provocative objects, photographs, sculptures and installations, English artist Sarah Lucas (born 1962) cobbles together everyday objects to question social norms and gender stereotypes. Full of...

In 1968, a college junior hates school, thinks he wants to be an artist, and is resigned to being drafted for the Vietnam War once he graduates. That summer, Wayne bicycles alone over 2000 kilometers in France, staying in hostels and campgrounds on a...

Lisa Levy is an established New York visual artist who hosts the popular podcast "Dr. Lisa Gives a Shit" on Apple Podcasts. There are over 100 images of her 'popular' text based artwork that comprise the art book "The Thoughts In My Head". The...

From man's earliest desires, I suspect to fly, like a bird, a plane, or even Superman, was high on the list. The beauty of wings and their genius functional design is one of many in nature. In art history, different wings have often been...

Medicine as material: crossing the threshold between art and natural scienceSince 2018, Austrian artist Monika Kus-Picco (born 1973) has been working exclusively with expired medicines as pigments, rather than traditional paint. This volume provides an overview of these recent works, revealing a startling inner...

Video installations and a tapestry showcase the artist's research into dying Indigenous languages and botanical knowledge One of the winning projects of the 12th edition of the Italian Council, The Extinct Desinence brings together artwork by Lucia Veronesi with writings by Manfredi Bortoluzzi, Marco...

From the art of Cindy Sherman to Anish Kapoor, from Yayoi Kusama to Tracey Emin, MirrorMirror presents an intriguing and gloriously illustrated global survey of "reflective" work by more than 150 artists across media, nationalities, genders, and locations.A fascination with mirrors and reflective surfaces...

The art of Lars Breuer (b. Aachen, 1974; lives and works in Dü sseldorf and Cologne) is set apart by its broad spectrum of systems of reference. In his large-format installations, text-based works in his own typography draw connections to literature and art history....

Rejected portraits by the acclaimed duo reimagining Dutch portraitureSince the early 1980s, the artist duo Clegg & Guttmann have adopted the visual rhetoric of Dutch Golden Age portraiture while also referencing equivalent idioms of the 20th and 21st centuries. This slim monograph compiles portraits...

Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-78) died at only 35 of pancreatic cancer and has since become a cult figure of late 20th-century art. Trained in architecture at Cornell, he went on to question the field's conventions in vivid projects--performance and recycling pieces, space and texture works...

The ongoing influence of Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976) has extended itself to video art, Relational Aesthetics and text art of all kinds. This volume assesses that multifarious influence, in works by Tacita Dean, Olivier Foulon, Andreas Hofer, Henrik Olesen, Kirsten Pieroth, Stephen Prina, Rirkrit Tiravanija,...

Jimmie Durham (born 1940) began working as a sculptor in 1963, having also been politically active in the American civil rights movement. This artist's book assembles photographs of Durham against backdrops or with props featuring the word "Europe"--gas stations, banks, or holding a Europe...

Robert Beck (b. 1959) makes drawings, photographs, sculptures, videos and installations investigating sexuality, masculinity and violence; his work has been collected by the Getty, the Whitney and MoMA, among others. Dust documents the eponymous recent installations in materials including graphite, Polaroids, drywall and shower...

Deliciously wicked satires about local and international celebrities, the poems in Portable Altamont evince an irrepressible grasp of the zeitgeist, its machinations and manipulations, its possibilities and puerility. Who other than artist and raconteur Brian Joseph Davis could have imagined Margaret Atwood as a...

Arthur Danto's work has always affirmed a deep relationship between philosophy and art. These essays explore this relationship through a number of concrete cases in which either artists are driven by philosophical agendas or their art is seen as solving philosophical problems in visual...

Pictures to color and poems to read. I grew up in a safe place on the foot hills of Mount Shasta. Family and friends watched out for us, kept us busy. This book is inspired by my home stomping grounds, McCloud, California.Author: W. a....

London Chinatown on a Sunday afternoon in December. Photos of most of the restaurants. An art book with unusual formatting etcAuthor: Jasper JoffeISBN-10: 1541200845ISBN-13: 9781541200845Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/20/2016Pages: 240Format: PaperbackWeight: 1.72lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.62d

Author: MihoyoISBN-10: 000870581XISBN-13: 9780008705817Publisher: ExpanseLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/13/2025Pages: 212Format: Paperback

An extensive look at Robert Ryman's formative work from the early 1960s, as well as his last series of paintings In the 1960s, Robert Ryman began to firmly establish the broad parameters of his radical and inventive practice. While he initially gained recognition for...

The long-anticipated second volume of James Lee Byars' wide-ranging oeuvreThe spiritually inclined work of American artist James Lee Byars (1932-97) ranged from highly refined objects to extremely minimal performance and events, and books, ephemera and correspondence that he distributed widely among friends and colleagues....

Thermostats programmed with AI text read as existential, oracular responses to a dramatically changing environmentIn response to the titular question, American artist Cooper Jacoby (born 1989) programs thermostats inserted into sculptures with continuously evolving text generated by AI. The tone of the narrative changes...

Deserted Places is an exploration of forgotten, lost places. The photographies are taken when almost no one is out, sometimes at night. The deserted places all have stories to tell. And when there is no one left to tell, only our imaginations tells us.Author:...

Phone, Email and Address Book. Small 5" x 8" size makes it easy to carry everywhere. Flexible glossy cover.Author: Lois' Address BooksISBN-10: 1726495442ISBN-13: 9781726495448Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/03/2018Pages: 56Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.14lbsSize: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.12d

Fundamental questions of human existence in an age of crises. Survival is a common practice. We cannot do it alone--we need each other. We need tools and practices that help us to connect, understand, and build in this age of climate crisis, technological upheaval,...

This collection explores what Roland Barthes termed the 'autobiographical turn' in art, literature and critical theory since the mid-1960s. Through a variety of perspectives, it examines the relationship between work and life, notions of the 'self' and what autobiography might mean today.Author: Moran ShelegISBN-10:...

"Art Deco Reverie: Coloring the Opulence of the Roaring 1920s," is an artistic journey that transcends the boundaries of time, transporting you to the lavish and spirited era of the Jazz Age. In this art coloring book, we invite you to step into the...

Bridging Berlin, Germany and Tamale, Ghana, this collaborative program takes a scientific and humanistic approach to the future of coexistenceConceived as an exhibition and discourse program linking Germany and Ghana, Existing Otherwise brings together artists, choreographers, sustainable leadership thinkers and scientists to reflect on...

In the summer of 1970, the artist Les Levine arrived at the University of Toronto to take part in the installation of site-specific work on the quadrangle in front of the University's Hart House. The intended piece--construction materials hung from high-tension rope between campus...

Detailed cardistry / card flourish instructions for two 6 packet cutsA six packet hinge cut and another 6 packet display cut where the packets of cards go through a series of varied displays and packet transitions.Two high amplitude, modern card flourishes, described in the...

Using historical records to question what is remembered and what is forgotten, Strachan's culturally engaged practice spotlights the lost stories of the people of the African DiasporaThis monograph focuses on the inventive ways in which the Bahamian artist Tavares Strachan (born 1979) engages with...

Typography broken down into its most basic (and beautiful) forms to reveal the inherent voice within each shape.Inherent is a collection of concrete poems that uses poetic tools to reduce words and letters and characters to their structural components, celebrating the shapes we're used...

A study of controversy in the arts, and the extent to which such controversies are socially rather than just aesthetically conditioned. The collection pays special attention to the vested interests and the social dynamics involved, including class, religion, culture, and - above all -...

A fictional manual to help disrupt today's all-too-real energy and climate emergencies The Energy Emergency Repair Kit (E.E.R.K.) is a collaboratively-authored research-creation inter-vention that explores myriad ecological, cultural, and political resonances of the three concepts named in its title: energy, emergency, and repair. The...

A fresh look at Beuys' environmental work and the social change it continues to inspireGrounded in The Broad's collection of multiples by Joseph Beuys (1921-86), In Defense of Nature centers the German artist's commitment to environmental justice. The project traces Beuys' long history of...

In the ultimate homage to Claes Oldenburg, Alex Da Corte recreates his Mouse Museum project with his own unique twistDesigned as a "mutant facsimile" of the 1979 Rijksmuseum/Museum Ludwig catalog for Claes Oldenburg's Mouse Museum/Ray Gun Wing, Mouse Museum is a codex for the...

Microgroove continues John Corbett's exploration of diverse musics, with essays, interviews, and musician profiles that focus on jazz, improvised music, contemporary classical, rock, folk, blues, post-punk, and cartoon music. Corbett's approach to writing is as polymorphous as the music, ranging from oral history and...

Author: Abdullah Al SaadiISBN-10: 6148035677ISBN-13: 9786148035678Publisher: Kaph BooksLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/24/2024Pages: 360Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.75lbsSize: 9.90h x 7.40w x 1.30d

The unattributed quote,"Writing about music is like dancing about architecture" is a clever and provocative observation. It invites us to think about both the relationships and the marked divisions between distinct artforms, while at the same time conjuring something impossible into existence: who can...

Scott Robertson returns with his much- anticipated third collection of sketches, clocking in at a whopping 451 drawings that are sure to amaze and inspire. After a brief hiatus from publishing, the acclaimed designer and best-selling author of How to Draw and How to...

Our homes contain us, but they are also within us. They can represent places to be ourselves, to recollect childhood memories, or to withdraw into adult spaces of intimacy; they can be sites for developing rituals, family relationships, and acting out cultural expectations. Like...

- In these booklets Marie-Sophie Beinke describe literally 'Things that cannot be put in words'. To be completed by the reader to his/her/their own desire, understanding and reflectionThings That Cannot Be Put Into Words is an artist's book written by Marie-Sophie Beinke and published...

Discover the Timeless Allure of Pin-Up Art Embark on a captivating journey with "The History of Pin-Ups: An Illustrated Guide Through Art, Meaning, Psychology, and Women Liberation," a comprehensive exploration of the enduring charm and cultural significance of pin-up art. This richly illustrated guide...

The work of New York-based artist Don Dudley (born 1930) represents a dialogue between the Minimalist practices of the American East and West Coasts in the 1960s and '70s, while simultaneously speaking to a new generation of artists who are re-examining perfectionist surfaces and...

Calle's seminal 1979 series of people sleeping in her bed: now in EnglishIn one of Sophie Calle's first artistic experiments, she invited friends, acquaintances and strangers to sleep in her bed. Twenty-seven people agreed, among them a baker, a babysitter, an actor, a journalist,...

A career-spanning survey of the adored French artist whose conceptual works explore the tensions between the observed, the reported, the secret and the unsaidThis volume accompanies the eponymous show at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, which is the first exhibition in North America...

Introduction to the Concept of Future Urban Streetwear Fashion: Fashion has always been a reflection of society's evolution. As technology rapidly advances, our vision of the future becomes more intertwined with science fiction and technological innovation. Future urban streetwear fashion represents this fusion, bringing...