Art - Conceptual

Cv/VAR series 146 reviews the work of Damien Hirst (b.Bristol 1965) presented in a retrospective exhibition spanning twenty years, held at Tate Modern, April to September 2012. It explores the development of his art from the controversial animal vitrines and beautiful butterfly composites to...

EXIT is an immersive installation visualizing human migrations, as well as deforestation and the loss of languages around the world. Prompted by an idea from French philosopher and urbanist Paul Virilio, it was created by American artists and architects Diller Scofidio + Renfro, architect-artist...

A major reassessment of photography's pivotal role in 1960s conceptual artWhy do we continue to look to photographs for evidence despite our awareness of photography's potential for duplicity? Documents of Doubt critically reassesses the truth claims surrounding photographs by looking at how conceptual artists...

Ritual and Capital is an expansive volume that collects an interdisciplinary range of voices and genres that reflect on ritual as a form of resistance against capitalism. The poems, essays, and artworks included in this anthology explore habits and practices formed to subvert, subsist,...

This substantial archive offers an ideal point of entry into the work and reception of Los Angeles-based performance artist and writer Andrea Fraser (born 1965). The interview format provides particular insight into Fraser's self-positioning as a central aspect of her practice. By presenting the...

Here, Roni Horn (born 1955) cuts together two drawings, each with one of two sentences pertaining to roses, producing poetical new phrases. There are 48 drawings in the series.Author: Roni HornISBN-10: 3958292712ISBN-13: 9783958292710Publisher: SteidlLanguage: EnglishPublished: 03/28/2017Pages: 80Format: HardcoverWeight: 1.50lbsSize: 12.20h x 11.20w x 0.40d

Suddenly This Overview gathers the popular series of more than 350 hand-sculpted, unfired clay figures begun in 1981 by the Swiss artists Peter Fischli (born 1952) and David Weiss (1946-2012)--a masterpiece executed in an entirely unspectacular material. Fischli and Weiss' little figures are arranged...

This book takes its title from Routine Pleasures (1986), a film by director Jean-Pierre Gorin, who had once collaborated on a series of politically charged cinetracts with Jean Luc-Godard (as the Dziga Vertov Group) before relocating to teach in San Diego, California. The film...

This catalogue documents the most important films, collages and sculptures of Austrian artist Hans Schabus (born 1970), made between 1999 and 2011. The book compiles 1:1 detail photographs (c. 9 x 12 inches) of all of his works, thus constituting a sort of sample...

The art of Roni Horn (born 1955) often revolves around language, poetry and literature. She works with literary texts, by authors such as the French philosopher H駘鈩e Cixous and the Canadian poet Anne Carson. This volume shows a series of drawings, Hack Wit, developed...

Hardly any other contemporary artist has devoted himself to searching for traces left behind by different ways of life in the 19th and 20th centuries as the Canadian Rodney Graham (b. 1949). Since the 1970s, he has been working on a rhizome-like, conceptual oeuvre...

This body of work is a visual investigation of a series of objects, photographs, and memorabilia found in the house of an unknown Milanese chemist. The collection and the biographical notes of Giulia C., the enigmatic figure at the origin of this work, allow...

In 1970, Belgian artist and poet Marcel Broodthaers (1924-76) created several films--including Une Seconde d'Éternité d'après une idée de Charles Baudelaire, or "A Second of Eternity According to an Idea of Charles Baudelaire"--in which he updated the 19th-century poet's ideas of creativity and narcissism...

This publication is the first to focus solely on the photographic work of Welsh sculptor and filmmaker Cerith Wyn Evans (born 1958), revealing a selection of previously unpublished images. Accompanying this is two texts in a separate booklet: a poetic response to the photographs...

Based on a project at Documenta 13, this publication presents new multimedia works by New York artist Seth Price (born 1973) that meditate on today's material (fabric) culture. Folklore U.S. includes paintings on plywood, vacuum-formed rope paintings and cloth sculptures fabricated in NYC's garment...

Lens-Based Sculpture demonstrates the relationship between sculpture and photography from a historical perspective. With 200 works from more than 70 international artists, the publication argues that the camera, a tool for spatial and structural representation, serves as a sketchbook for modern sculpture.Author: Bogomir EckerISBN-10:...

This groundbreaking collection from scholars and artists on the legacy of Beckett in contemporary art provides readers with a unique view of this important writer for page, stage, and screen. The volume argues that Beckett is more than an influence on contemporary art--he is,...

Volume 1 in the Collector's Choice Artists' Monographs from the Friedrich Christian Flick Collection features the work of Canadian artist Rodney Graham as he strolls, via his works, through Modernism. On Graham's meandering itinerary through photography, literature, music, art, film, psychology, and linguistics, we...

The photographs, objects, paintings, films, texts and compositions of Canadian artist Rodney Graham (born 1949) contain references to philosophy and literature, and to the history of art and culture. This publication provides substantial insight into his extensive artistic work over the last 40 years.Author:...

Over the course of a half-century, Sturtevant (1924-2014) developed what is perhaps the most radical oeuvre of her generation. Concerned more with changing mental attitudes than with the reception of her art, she provoked the art world and the individual spectator by repeating the...

This classic artist's book by Dutch Conceptualist Jan Dibbets (born 1941) documents the artist's researches into the European robin through his readings of books on the subject. The book was originally published by Seth Siegelaub with Walter Koenig in 1970.Author: Jan DibbetsISBN-10: 2915859450ISBN-13: 9782915859454Publisher:...

Dissatisfied with the large works in steel he had hitherto produced, in this volume (first published by TVRT in 1972) Peter Downsbrough (born 1940) set out the groundwork for what would become a minimal vocabulary, in his sculptures as in his books: the tension...

In 1995, Hans Ulrich Obrist curated a unique exhibition at London's Serpentine Gallery that not only gave visitors the opportunity to look at the art on display, but to use it and even take it home. Art was offered as an activity and as...

Description of a large wall painting in St John's Hall Gallery, Barmouth in North Wales. The work has been painted by artist Bernard Barnes. It is composed of 24 canvases painted in oil paint. The painting is a modern cosmology, exploring different ideas about...

Eye Am Eye Books presents an astounding collection of asemic works with an Introduction by David Nadeau and Publisher's Foreword by Paul A. Toth. Featuring the works of Francesco Aprile, Ian S. Cross, Christopher Skinner, Cecil B. Lee, Ed Baker, Tatiana Roumelioti, Amanda Earl,...

Poets Stephen Collis and Jordan Scott left copies of Charles Darwin's On the Origin of Species to decay in five distinct ecosystems in British Columbia. A year later, they photographed what remained, reading poetry into nature's "rewriting" process and documenting the gorgeous detritus in...

This coloring book is inspired by the work of Sol LeWitt. LeWitt was famous for a series of abstract, geometric wall paintings based on his theory of Conceptual Art. Like the composer of a musical piece, Sol LeWitt wrote the instructions for his paintings...

"After Cosmic Motors and his adventures in Hollywood, this is Daniel Simon's next big coup." -- Top Gear magazineThis Timeless Racer Limited Edition comes with a unique cover and a pristine slipcase with metallic foil print. The print run is limited to world-wide 1113...

Edited by Clemens Apprich, Josephine Berry Slater, Anthony Iles and Oliver Lerone Schultz Félix Guattari's visionary term 'post-media', coined in 1990, heralded a break with mass media's production of conformity and the dawn of a new age of media from below. Understanding how digital...

Rejecting the dichotomy of centralism and horizontalism that has deeply marked millennial politics, Rodrigo Nunes' close analysis of network systems demonstrates how organising within contemporary social and political movements exists somewhere between - or beyond - the two. Rather than the party or chaos,...

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...

An overview of John Stezaker's film still collages, this book showcases the evolution of the artist's relationship with a specific material. John Stezaker began his ongoing series of film still collages in 1979; the result of a period that marked a crucial change in...

Yates's depictions, characterized by his juxtaposition of archetypal images with subversive political slogans, have made their way into Newsweek, CNN and the New York Times, appearing on the shirts of protestors the world over. In this collection of recent work, Yates perfects semiotic capitulation."John...

LAND ART IN THE U.S.A. A new study of land art in America, featuring all of the well-known land artists from the 'golden age' of land art - the 1960s - to the present day. Fully illustrated, with a bibliography. EXTRACT FROM THE CHAPTER...

Color me chemistry: A Molecular coloring book for adults. An adult science coloring book that combines a love of science with the relaxing art of coloring. Take a deep breath from the stress of the day and color nicotine, energize while coloring caffeine, or...

Acclaimed artist Kenneth Goldsmith's thousand-page homage to New York City Here is a kaleidoscopic assemblage and poetic history of New York: an unparalleled and original homage to the city, composed entirely of quotations. Drawn from a huge array of sources--histories, memoirs, newspaper articles, novels,...

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...

How is emotional meaning found in places? How can creating new urban spaces be a vehicle for less adversarial forms of political coexistence, as well as new customs of social innovation? Places Made After Their Stories shows how the emotional geographies we carry inside...

GIFT IDEAS COLOURING BOOKS COLOR BY NUMBER These relaxing illustrations of this coloring book are sure to bring you calm and peace with every pages. And these pictures are easy to see to make this a stress free coloring experience for colorists of all...

When it comes to photography and creative art few can combine the two better than award winning photographer, Martin Smith. It takes a few seconds for most photographers to take a picture but in Martin's case it can take him hours to compose and...

They Come to Us without a Word documents Joan Jonas' (born 1936) project for the US Pavilion of the 56th Venice Biennale, an installation that incorporates multiple components, including projected videos (with music by Jason Moran), drawings and photographs. Each section of the pavilion...

MAINTENANT 12: A Journal of Contemporary Dada Writing and Art explores the concept of internal and external "acceptance" with the theme "We Are All A 'Like.'" The MAINTENANT series, established in 2008, gathers the work of renowned and emerging dada artists and writers from...

The spirit of Dada continues to thrive in this stunning annual collection of provocative and disruptive Dada-inspired art and writing culled from a plethora of top international contributors, with 50+ color images. MAINTENANT 11: A JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY DADA WRITING AND ART is the...

In 1962, while living in Paris, Dutch painter, sculptor and editor of The Situationist Times Jacqueline de Jong (born 1939) completed a set of 11 woodcut engravings, a medium in which she rarely worked. Danish painter and writer Asger Jorn (1914-1973) adored the engravings...

Illustrated with 350 superb color reproductions and produced under the editorial direction of the artist's daughter, Marcel Broodthaers is the definitive monograph on the Belgian artist who surmounted the Surrealism of Magritte with pioneering works of Conceptual art.Marcel Broodthaers filled his brief, 12-year artistic...

The goal of a statement of facts is not to put forward an argument, but rather to present factual information in clear understandable way. Many lawyers may make implicit arguments in a statement of facts, to paint someone in a favorable light, or to...

Human colonization of Mars is expected to begin in the coming decades as NASA and independent space ventures partner with private investors to explore the future of life on the red planet. The Interview: Red, Red Future is the culmination of more than three...

American independent filmmaker Stan VanDerBeek (1927-1984) was one of the first to extend film projection into multimedia spectacle and to embrace video and computer technology: a supreme instance of what critic Gene Youngblood dubbed "Expanded Cinema."Author: Stan VanDerBeekISBN-10: 1933619333ISBN-13: 9781933619330Publisher: Contemporary Arts Museum HoustonLanguage:...

Join Chris Ayers and his menagerie as they make their Parisian debut on the walls of Galerie Daniel Maghen. Fifty-eight pieces were created especially for the gallery show in year six of The Daily Zoo and they are all captured in this book in...

"Battle MiLK is 100% unhampered inspiration; images free from art direction, created for the love of creation and the joy of visual storytelling." --Iain McCaigA fantastic addition to the Battle MiLK series, this third installment features four new artists contributing their work to the...