Art - Conceptual

This volume assembles fresh perspectives on the seminal work of New York-based Brian O'Doherty (born 1928) and his alter ego Patrick Ireland: his visual art practice, art criticism, institutional leadership and critique, media work and literary writing.The contributing authors (including Alexander Alberro, Hans Belting,...

From the beginning of his career, Fred Sandback (1943-2003) used drawing to formulate his ideas of sculptural volume. In pictures of existing rooms, Sandback explored the possibilities of spaces and planes by drawing his famous horizontal, vertical and diagonal lines in colored pencil. In...

On the Sea features the most recent series by Spanish painter Miquel Barcel (born 1957). The exhibition catalog presents his textural and atmospheric paintings inspired by the seascapes of his native Mallorca, alongside a text by Nobel Prize Laureate Mario Vargas Llosa.Author: Miquel BarcelóISBN-10:...

Part of a generation of artists that emerged in the US in the early 1980s, Larry Johnson (born 1959) is the artist's artist par excellence, but little known outside the art world. This volume addresses the glaring bibliographic gap by offering an accessible overview...

Published to accompany an exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, the result of a collaborative research project that also produced a comprehensive exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and an upcoming show at the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam, ZERO brings...

Essential documentation of Mike Kelley's most important exhibitions99,9998% Remaining compiles essential documentation of the most important exhibitions of Mike Kelley (1954-2012) between 1982 and 2011, with reproductions of seminal works from various periods. It offers numerous stills from legendary videos by and/or with Kelley,...

Collecting documentation of Liam Gillick's (born 1964) artworks, graphics, films and exhibitions since 2008, this substantial volume also features an extensive body of writings by the British-born, New York-based artist, who has also been a prolific theorist of contemporary art. Rising to prominence with...

Ray Johnson (1927-95) was a seminal Pop artist, a proto-conceptualist and a pioneer of mail art.Always one to throw sand in the gears of art-world institutions, he tended to circulate his work either in truly alternative spaces (like sticking up out of the uneven...

This book is not about religion, and David Young is not a christian. This story is the result of three years of perpetual synchronicities and esoteric messages that came to Young through his artwork and evidential channeling, which ultimately guided him toward the hidden...

Land Art emerged in the 1970s when a handful of New York's more adventurous artists departed the gallery scene to make work in the open landscapes of the American West--Robert Smithson, James Turrell and Walter De Maria among them. Today, the genre has been...

PULSE features Harald Belker's vision of the future of racing. There was a time when the fastest means of travel was a jet, but in 2035, private conglomerates have harnessed magnetic levitation (Mag-Lev) to create trains that get people from place to place to...

Miquel Barceló's ecological neoexpressionist paintings echoing Dubuffet, Tàpies and MiróKnown for his experimental approach to painting and sculpture, Spanish artist Miquel Barceló (born 1957)--based in Paris and Mali--uses a range of mediums, from paint to organic material, to explore decomposition, light and natural motifs...

Surveying the work of video art pioneer Nam June Paik, this volume highlights the artist's radical engagement with process. Nam June Paik (1932-2006) broke new ground in late twentieth-century art, working on a global stage to transform video into an art medium. This book...

What is contemporary art? What makes it contemporary? Who is it for? And why is it so expensive?From museums and the art market to biennials and the next big thing, Who's Afraid of Contemporary Art? offers concise and pointed insights into today's art scene,...

Time Passages is a collection created as a New Unique Adult Coloring Books Series. They are intended to provide an interesting relaxing and enjoyable pastime. They have been created to provide you with an opportunity to use your imagination and creativity and to have...

Peter Fischli (born 1952) and David Weiss (1946-2012) collaborate to transform the stuff of ordinary life into a series of quizzical, whimsical, even disquieting encounters. Fascinated with unconventional subject matter and material, Fischli and Weiss toy with the idea of "high art," questioning popular...

Twenty four stories of subterfuge, told through their characters' glovesThe Glovers' Repository, by New York-based artist Paul Etienne Lincoln (born 1959), tells the stories of 24 characters who either practiced deception or were the unwitting victims of subterfuge. From Mary Toft who claimed to...

The catalog for the Museum of Modern Art's acclaimed Broodthaer's exhibitionMarcel Broodthaers' extraordinary artistic output placed him at the center of international activity during the transformative decades of the 1960s and 1970s. Throughout his career, from early objects variously made of mussel shells, eggshells...

What happens when the body becomes art in the age of biotechnological reproduction? In Chinese Surplus Ari Larissa Heinrich examines transnational Chinese aesthetic production to demonstrate how representations of the medically commodified body can illuminate the effects of biopolitical violence and postcolonialism in contemporary...

In One and Five Ideas eminent critic, historian, and former member of the Art & Language collective Terry Smith explores the artistic, philosophical, political, and geographical dimensions of Conceptual Art and conceptualism. These four essays and a conversation with Mary Kelly-published between 1974 and...

Swear Word Coloring Books: Bitch-Bombs For Bitches. TRENDING NOW ALL NEW BITCHY RELEASE It's payback time for all those bitches. Color Bitch-Bomb swear words entwined in gorgeous art-house designs. Choose bitch words to fit the bitches. Have fun, chill-out, release stress and relax in...

Kevin Weckbach has been painting for over 20 years and is known and collected nationally. Also, he has become one of the most sought after teachers in the nation. Currently he teaches classes in Colorado with student coming in from all-over the US to...

In Six Years Lucy R. Lippard documents the chaotic network of ideas that has been labeled conceptual art. The book is arranged as an annotated chronology into which is woven a rich collection of original documents--including texts by and taped discussions among and with...

In this new volume celebrated artist and curator Michael Petry, addresses media and marketplace concerns about the state of language and the value of books in the digital age.As words find new modes of transmission in contemporary society, text becomes information, and information strives...

Lucy R. Lippard's famous book, itself resembling an exhibition, is now brought full circle in an exhibition (and catalog) resembling her book. "Conceptual art, for me, means work in which the idea is paramount and the material form is secondary, lightweight, ephemeral, cheap, unpretentious...

Thought Art Magazine is a luxury print, 100 page contemporary arts publication showcasing artists from around the world.Author: Thought Art MagazineISBN-10: 110577287XISBN-13: 9781105772870Publisher: Lulu.comLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/16/2021Pages: 100Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.75lbsSize: 11.00h x 8.50w x 0.26d

A conceptually innovative take on Jonas' performances and installationsPublished in conjunction with the first major US museum show of Joan Jonas' art in nearly 15 years, this volume breaks new ground by contextualizing and expanding understandings of Jonas' body of work through three thematic...

An examination of a series of diverse, radical, and experimental international works from the 1950s to the present. What is a literary work? In Literature's Elsewheres, Annette Gilbert tackles this question by deploying an extended concept of literature, examining a series of diverse, radical,...

Hey you! Ever find yourself screaming FRE SHA VACA DO, LOOK AT ALL THOSE CHICKENS or WHAT ARE THOOOSE!?Do you ever find yourself worried about if "the road works ahead"? or if you are going to drop your "croissant"?Then this colouring book is for...

"Federico Federici is one of the master practitioners of this interesting sub-genre. (He is also contributing to my long-held theory of Neo-Concretism.) That contemporary asemic writers and artists should benefit from the triumphs of the "Golden Age" of concrete poetry is, after all, an...

Abstraction haunts medieval art, both withdrawing figuration and suggesting elusive presence. How does it make or destroy meaning in the process? Does it suggest the failure of figuration, the faltering of iconography? Does medieval abstraction function because it is imperfect, incomplete, and uncorrected-and therefore...

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Enjoy simple and easy-to-color mandalas with this coloring book from Ava Belrose.Why You Will Love this Book Relaxing Coloring Pages. Every page you color will pull you into a relaxing world where your responsibilities will seem to fade away... Beautiful Illustrations. We've included 30...

"Trees work in the woods like words do in the poetical text. Exploring a book like this goes beyond the pure reader's control and turns into a practice whose results are unpredictable." - Tim Wallington.The original of this book belongs to the Academy of...

An exploration of the radical artists who transformed the ways art is conceived, exhibited, and collected, through the Dada, Surrealist, and Fluxus collections of Jean and Leonard Brown. Throughout the 1960s, Jean and Leonard Brown used their radical tastes, prescient instincts, and friendships with...

The sixth and final volume documenting the work of an iconic American artist The sixth and final volume of this exceptional catalogue raisonné project features over 360 works made by John Baldessari (1931-2020) between 2011 and 2019. Here, Baldessari continues his longstanding tradition of...

Writing in Space, 1973-2019 gathers the writings of conceptual artist Lorraine O'Grady, who for over forty years has investigated the complicated relationship between text and image. A firsthand account of O'Grady's wide-ranging practice, this volume contains statements, scripts, and previously unpublished notes charting the...

Play art' or interactive art is becoming a central concept in the contemporary art world, disrupting the traditional role of passive observance usually assumed by audiences, allowing them active participation. The work of 'play' artists - from Carsten Holler's 'Test Site' at the Tate...

A spoof on the format of SkyMall Shopping Magazine or any 1-800 mail-order catalogue, The Gift is a survey catalogue of the works of artist Eduardo Sarabia, (born in 1976) published to accompany his installation contribution to the 2008 Whitney Biennial of the same...

From 1970 to 1978, Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-1978) was in the habit of jotting down notes on index cards that he carried with him throughout his travels, from Lower Manhattan to Santiago de Chile, from Ithaca to Paris and New Jersey. This book compiles these...

Throughout his brief yet influential career, Italian conceptual artist Piero Manzoni (1933-63) maintained strong ties to the Netherlands. This book explores this relationship, drawing connections between Manzoni's avant-garde paintings, sculptures and conceptual works with such groups as the Dutch Nul group and the ZERO...

Frame Your Imagination stimulates your creativity with over 90 drawing challenges. Each page contains a shape or line, some with color, others not. Include the shape or line into a drawing/illustration of anything that comes to mind. You can use the mentioned hashtags merely...

In the second edition of this popular cookbook, self-professed "ex-designer" Mart Guix offers whimsical examples of food design: squaring potatoes, building molecular structures with olives and toothpicks and decorating cakes with images of their contents.Author: Martí GuixéISBN-10: 8875705054ISBN-13: 9788875705053Publisher: Corraini EditoreLanguage: EnglishPublished: 09/27/2016Pages: 224Format:...

This book analyzes the imaginary worlds of Kosovan artist Petrit Halilaj (born 1986), reproducing notes and drawings from 2006-10.Author: Petrit HalilajISBN-10: 8867492411ISBN-13: 9788867492411Publisher: Mousse PublishingLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/22/2017Pages: 160Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.20lbsSize: 9.40h x 6.80w x 0.70d

FAQ is an accordion-fold art publication conceived and edited by Maurizio Cattelan and Myriam Ben Salah and commissioned by Le Dictateur. The first volume is published to coincide with the 10th anniversary edition of Le Dictateur, and will then be published annually. FAQ, or...

In Working through the Past, the first book to focus on Nordic conceptual art, Norwegian art critic Kjetil R ed (born 1973) argues that artworks are entangled in collective histories. In closely examining conceptual artworks, R ed illustrates how works of art can be...

Constantly shifting between figuration and abstraction, H ller's works disassemble their materials--both physically and conceptually--to compose new forms. In his paintings and large-scale etchings, fragmented figures seemingly dance, love, and fight.Author: Volker H?lerISBN-10: 8857232840ISBN-13: 9788857232843Publisher: SkiraLanguage: EnglishPublished: 08/15/2017Pages: 104Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.55lbsSize: 11.30h x 8.40w...

The first monograph dedicated to the work of Cuban artist Yoan Capote. Yoan Capote is a conceptual artist who uses a range of solutions and techniques to examine the impact of sociopolitical conditions on the body and the mind, while looking at the commonalities...

In his early work, Swiss artist Daniel Spoerri (born 1930) explored humanity's fascination with food, as seen as an interface between art and daily life. This volume presents his kinetic multiples, tableaux-pi ges, sculptures and research into the graphics of recipes and menus.Author: Daniel...

Ease your stress and keep your mind calm with the relaxation coloring book, 50 Mandalas, from bestselling publishing brand Damita Victoria.Mandalas Coloring Book is filled with unique and beautiful Mandala ready for you to relax and chill! Every sacred Mandalas circle will help reduce...