Art - Conceptual

Author: Richard ShaverISBN-10: 0997645652ISBN-13: 9780997645651Publisher: Christine Burgin/Further ReadingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 04/29/2025Pages: 80Format: Hardcover

Author: Richard PrinceISBN-13: 9798985236842Publisher: Fulton RyderLanguage: EnglishPublished: 02/25/2025Pages: 96Format: HardcoverWeight: 2.15lbsSize: 11.80h x 9.30w x 0.70d

Author: David HammonsISBN-10: 3907493133ISBN-13: 9783907493137Publisher: Hauser & Wirth PublishersLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/20/2025Pages: 404Format: Hardcover

Schlingelhoff interrogates institutional histories through her site-specific, text based installationsThrough drawing, sculpture and typography, German artist Bea Schlingelhoff (born 1971) interrogates the ideology and history of the respective sites of her exhibitions. This monograph surveys 15 years of her work. Each book is bound...

Testing the limits of seeing through historical depictions of images as truthWorking at the intersection of art and science, Italian photographer Luca Spano (born 1982) explores the biological and technological limits of sight. His incorporation of scientific and historical ephemera tracks humanity's relationship with...

Dissolving the boundaries between artwork and its recipients, this collection of contemporary art investigates just how immersive artificial atmospheres can beAccompanying an exhibition that gathers immersive works of contemporary art at the Museum unter Tage and Situation Kunst in Bochum, this catalog examines the...

Harry Borgman's professional career has spanned many fields including graphic design, cartooning and illustration. He was art director on the Chevrolet account at Campbell - Ewald advertising agency and the Chariman of the Advertising Department at the Society of Arts and Crafts ( now...

""How To Distinguish The Saints In Art By Their Costumes, Symbols And Attributes"" is a comprehensive guidebook written by Major Arthur de Bles that provides readers with the tools to identify and understand the various saints depicted in art. The book is divided into...

(English /German edition)Think - speak - listen: A portrait of an artist's work The act of hearing the sound of spoken language forms a fluid, sometimes fractured act of change in time. At the same time, orality and the human voice are situated in...

This book assembles all the talks and media presented at Aliens & Anorexia: A Chris Kraus Symposium, which took place in March 2013 at the Royal College of Art, London. Since her first book, I Love Dick, published in 1997, writer and film-maker Chris...

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...

Two conceptual artists of different generations, united in their subversive multimedia installations and their post-human worldviewsSpanning generations, this exhibition catalog brings together two Austrian artists with complementary conceptual approaches: Ingrid Wiener (born 1942) and Martin Roth (1977-2019). Working across tapestries, installations, film and drawing,...

A retrospective monograph for a key figure of the Polish avant-gardeKnown for her large-scale abstracted bust sculptures, Polish avant-garde artist Wanda Czelkowska (1930-2021) was a member of Grupa Krakowska and played a pivotal role in the development of conceptual art in Poland, though she...

Unlock the power of your imagination and elevate your photography to new heights with "Conceptual Photography: Turn Ideas into Art." This comprehensive guide is your trusted companion in the fascinating world of conceptual photography, offering invaluable insights and practical techniques to help you transform...

Eclectic spatial interventions from a British conceptualist's exhibition during lockdownBritish artist Ryan Gander's (born 1976) interdisciplinary practice spans sculpture, installation, film and performance. His work juxtaposes the esoteric and the everyday, creating a set of hidden clues to be pieced together by the viewer...

Spoken words, writing, and images originate in social and cultural contexts and so are fraught with meanings, are vehicles of values and norms. They inevitably also demarcate boundaries, serving to class people as members of groups or outsiders. This adds to the urgency of...

A collection of essays examining experimental scores and source documents from the postwar avant-gardes, interpreted by experts on art, music, dance, and poetry. Individuals working in and across the fields of visual art, music, poetry, theater, and dance in the mid-twentieth century began to...

Find hope to heal the relationship between our planet and all of its inhabitants, including humans, animals, and plants. Essays, visual narratives, and interviews explore practices of care and present possibilities for living differently in a fragile age. Artists and culture bearers consider bonds...

Often regarded as an artistic movement of interwar Paris, Surrealism comprised an international community of artists, writers, and intellectuals who have aspired to change the conditions of life itself over the course of the past century. Consisting of a wide range of dedicated case...

Even if you know Doug Hall's work, you don't know "this" Doug Hall: the little boy afraid of bears in Boston who became the love-smitten art student who grew into a fearless Conceptual artist challenging many of our most beloved assumptions. Although lavishly and...

The seventh issue of Viscose explores fashion's enduring bond with scent and perfume. To be sure, fashion smells. Olfactory sensations have leaked from industries of style since its inception: scent, the stuff of ancient history and myth, has been traded as precious commodities alongside...

Time & Place: on the work of Lynn Marie Kirby explores the artist's work through a collection of newly commissioned writing and previously published essays by Etel Adnan, Charlie Hewison, Etienne Kallos, Carolina Magis Weinberg, Barbara McBane, Glenn Phillips, Lynne Sachs, Michael Sicinski, Jeffrey...

An avid supporter of the Vancouver School of conceptual photography, prodigious contemporary art collector Phil Lind (1943-2023) was drawn to artworks that shone a light on social and political histories. Steeped in conceptual art, Phil Lind's collecting impulses drew him to photographs, paintings, and...

About This Book Dan Fuller's concept, the one all of his paintings are based on, is truly unique. Therefore, it follows that each of his works are so different from anything that came before; they grab one's imagination. Inside of this book you will...

A celebration of Pistoletto's decades-long output of groundbreaking, genre-bending conceptual worksThe work of artist Michelangelo Pistoletto (born 1933), a leader of the Arte Povera movement, spans sculpture, paintings, objects and action pieces. This book is conceived of as "a 'collective' exhibition by a single...

Art, climate change, and geopolitics at a time of rapid social and technological change. The Distant Early Warning Line, also known as the DEW Line, was a system of radar stations in the northern Arctic region of Canada, with additional stations along the north...

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...

Artistic explorations of happiness as a form of resistance and compassionThe catalog Happily Ever After, following the show at Malm? Konstmuseum, brings together Scandinavian artists who explore the human psyche in an era of increasing contempt for weakness. Artists such as Iris Smeds and...

Archaeologies of Presence is a brilliant exploration of how the performance of presence can be understood through the relationships between performance theory and archaeological thinking. Drawing together carefully commissioned contributions by leading international scholars and artists, this radical new work poses a number of...

Constant Nieuwenhuys (1920-2005), known as Constant, was a founding member of the Cobra group and the Situationist International, and the artist behind the utopian architectural New Babylon project. This publication examines his practice in the 1950s and his transition from Cobra to New Babylon....

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...

Im Gegensatz zu der von US-amerikanischen K?nstler*innen in den sp?ten 1960er Jahren propagierten Trennung von Konzeption und Ausf?hrung nimmt dieses Buch eine Neubewertung der Konzeptkunst vor, indem sie sie aus der Perspektive des Handwerks betrachtet. Der Fokus wird vom westlichen Kunstsystem auf dessen R?nder...

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...

SuperDesign charts the Italian Radicals' bold experimentation in modern design from its birth through its continued influence on design today. Radical Design was launched by art, architecture, and design students in Italy in the mid-1960s. What started as a youthful rally against the establishment...

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....

An artist duo's meditation on the fascinating legal history of nonhuman defendants The latest project from British-Danish artist duo benandsebastian (born 1981, 1980) is based on eight historic cases in which animals have been put on trial or robots have been at the center...

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...

Originally conceived by the Austin-based Swiss American artist duo Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler (born 1965 and 1962 respectively) for the Swiss Pavilion at the 2017 Venice Biennial, Flora reconstructs the life story of the American artist Flora Mayo, who in the 1920s had...