Art - Conceptual

Widely recognized and admired in countercultural communities but overlooked by the mainstream for decades, Anna Banana has been fearlessly challenging convention as Town Fool and Doktor Anna Freud, producing parodic publications, creating and exchanging artist's stamps and other original artworks and staging banana-themed events...

A New Dictionary of Art takes a refreshingly alternative approach to the question 'What is Art?'. Take your pick from over 3,000 definitions compiled from the internet via chat-rooms and discussion forums as well as from the more established authorities, artists and institutions. Passions...

See Yourself X: Human Futures Expanded is the second volume of Madeline Schwartzman's timely series that began with See Yourself Sensing: Redefining Human Perception (2011), a collection of fifty years of futuristic proposals for the body and the senses. See Yourself X focuses on...

Imagine falling into a painting. Such was the case of Yves Tanguy, a French Surrealist painter, who created landscapes from his dreams. Those dreams, recorded in a journal, a leather bound pack of papers, were his notes from the innermost recesses of his mind....

The Fluxus Movement began during the 1960's and strives to combine different mediums and disciplines. The beginning principles of the movement were anti-art and anti-commercial . This volume includes and theses related to the Fluxus Movement. Each entry contains the name of the author,...

Rickey Martins personal 50 year quest to draw the automobile. Armed with a General Motors award at Pratt Institute in the 1970s and 33 years teaching Perspective drawing, the artist opens his the portfolio to you. Allow your child to personally witness the incredible...

Fractal Fusion is a feast for the eyes. In modern culinary terms, fusion means a mixing of cultural foods. This term is used here to represent a mixing of cultural art and literature. A fractal is a modern mathematical subset representing natural elements that...

Cultivate A Creative Mind offers practical ways to nurture your creativity through the use of insightful explanations and dynamic hands on projects. This book will help you find hidden abilities and talents by guiding you back to creative confidence.Author: Simon SilvaISBN-10: 1478727977ISBN-13: 9781478727972Publisher: Outskirts...

The Goddess Coloring book is an introduction to the Goddesses of the Surcadian Oracle and a glimpse into the world of Surcadia. These archetypes from across time and various cultures represent the energies, challenges and gifts that are within us and available to all....

British-born artist Rick Myers' (born 1974) A Bullet for Bu uel has taken many forms--a video work, a multiple, a performative lecture--all of which are represented in this publication. Myers' writing, research, correspondence and photographs are also included in the book, a singular meditation...

Glimpse some behind-the-scenes visual development artwork and a collection of sketches, story beats and a plethora of character drawings that were produced over several years. The art here represents elements that make up the original story entitled "Tiki Trouble." At its inception, "Tiki Trouble"...

Local History brings together rarely seen works from the 1950s through the early 1970s by Enrico Castellani, Donald Judd and Frank Stella, juxtaposing these with later examples that reveal each artist's distinct evolution and the various reverberations of their brief aesthetic collision in the...

"In the tragi-comic-and worse-chaos of our times-suppose our writing began to appear as letters caught in barcodes. Phrases and bits of words breaking off en route to scanners designed for registering information but not the disturbance of meaning. It is, literally, with this provocative...

Farfetched: Mad Science, Fringe Architecture and Visionary Engineering was published in conjunction with an exhibition of the same title curated by Tom Patterson and Roger Manley for the Gregg Museum of Art & Design, January 17 through April 26, 2013. Author: Roger Manley, Tom...

From 1969 to 1973, a series of radical art projects took place at the far eastern edge of Los Angeles County at the Pomona College Museum of Art, in Claremont, California. Here, Hal Glicksman, a pioneering curator in Light and Space art and former...

Order and Disorder looks at the cross-cultural context and collaborative nature of Aligheiero Boetti's iconic artworks. The original, often large-scale works in his series Mappe (Maps), Tutto (Everything), and "squared word" were created in needle and thread by women in Afghanistan and in Pakistani...

In ART THE LANGUAGE OF THE GODS artist and mystic Herman Rednick (1902-1985) describes his unusual search for the spiritual principle in art.In meditation he traverses time and space to meet with artists of the great civilizations of the past as well as with...

Pairing the video sculptures, paintings, and drawings produced during the last decade of Nam June Paik's life with key works from the artist's oeuvre, this book testifies to Paik's lifelong exploration of the role of technology in culture. Paik is considered the founder of...

Providing a lively snapshot of the state of art and social justice today on a global level, Entry Points accompanies the inaugural Vera List Center Prize for Art and Politics, launched at The New School on the occasion of the center's twentieth anniversary. This...

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...

Interdisciplinary in design and concept, Speculation, Now illuminates unexpected convergences between images, concepts, and language. Artwork is interspersed among essays that approach speculation and progressive change from surprising perspectives. A radical cartographer asks whether "the speculative" can be represented on a map. An ethnographer...

A new approach to writing culture has arrived: multispecies ethnography. Plants, animals, fungi, and microbes appear alongside humans in this singular book about natural and cultural history. Anthropologists have collaborated with artists and biological scientists to illuminate how diverse organisms are entangled in political,...

It takes many different forms and uses many different materials, ranging from natural daylight and scrim to glass, plywood, neon, and fire. It taps into far-ranging ideas and systems of knowledge, including alchemy, Buddhism, aerospace technology, witchcraft, astronomy, physiology, and phenomenology. Written by the...

An impressive list of authors examine how abjection can be discussed in relation to a host of different subjects, including marginality and gender.Author: Rina AryaISBN-10: 0719096294ISBN-13: 9780719096297Publisher: Manchester University PressLanguage: EnglishPublished: 05/04/2016Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.85lbsSize: 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.40d

Published for an exhibition of paintings, photographs, collages and works on paper by Jay DeFeo (1929-89), this catalog features full-color reproductions and an introductory essay highlighting DeFeo's surrealist sensibility in her juxtaposition of forms, mixing of genres and experimentation with chance.Author: Jay DefeoISBN-10: 099863123XISBN-13:...

The World According to Roger Ballen, coauthored with Colin Rhodes, looks at Ballen's career in the wider cultural context beyond photography, including his connections with and interest in art brut. It features photographs selected from across Ballen's career, along with installations created exclusively for...

According to Vasari, the young Michelangelo often borrowed drawings of past masters, which he copied, returning his imitations to the owners and keeping originals. Half a millennium later, Andy Warhol made a game of "forging" the Mona Lisa, questioning the entire concept of originality....

An illuminating study of an overlooked artist from the 1960s whose work has recently returned to the limelight This is the first in-depth study of the idiosyncratic ten-year career of Lee Lozano (1930-1999), assuring this important artist a key place in histories of post-war...

A comprehensive look at works made by Baldessari between the years 1987 and 1993 This handsome volume, the third of the John Baldessari (b. 1931) catalogue raisonné project, compiles 400-plus unique works of art made by the influential conceptual artist from 1987 through 1993....

Bioart -- art that uses either living materials (such as bacteria or transgenic organisms) or more traditional materials to comment on, or even transform, biotechnological practice -- now receives enormous media attention. Yet despite this attention, bioart is frequently misunderstood. Bioart and the Vitality...

Well-known art historians from Europe and the Americas discuss the influence of conceptualism on art since the 1970s.Art After Conceptual Art tracks the various legacies of conceptualist practice over the past three decades. This collection of essays by art historians from Europe and the...

A groundbreaking history of pioneering alternative art venues in New York where artists experimented, exhibited, and performed outside the white cube and the commercial mainstream.This groundbreaking book--part exhibition catalogue, part cultural history--chronicles alternative art spaces in New York City since the 1960s. Developed from...

The 40 unique detailed patterns are printed on large 8.5 x 11 high quality paper. Pages are printed on one side only for easy removal and display. Provides hours and hours of mindful calm, stress relief and creative expression. Author: Tanakorn SuwannawatISBN-10: 1516927958ISBN-13: 9781516927951Publisher:...

Shakespeare built his famous sonnets by a unique sound pattern of rhymes in the final syllable, the tenth column, of each line. What was he doing in the rest of the sonnet?Sweet Forme: Shake-Speare's Perfect Sonnets is part of a broader BardCode project that...

"From Sin to Salvation is a little like a fine meal with several courses. I wanted to read it slowly and make it last The variety of subject matter and the combination of art and poetry touched me in a very special way Literary...

To release your stress from the big day, sometimes you need to swear. Anyway, to swear in the front of people is not look good. This coloring book is the way to solve the problem and help you feel more relax. Words and Fonts...

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...

Welcome to "Neo-Impressionist Art Unleashed: Embracing Meditative Pointillism" - a coloring book that invites you to embark on a journey of mindfulness and creativity through the captivating world of Neo-Impressionism.Step into the enchanting realm of dotting and dappled colors, where each stroke of your...

Tania Love Abramson, MFA, is a conceptually focused visual artist, lecturer, writer and performer. Drawing on her life story, her art delves into the elusive psychological manifestations of trauma, and the potential for resilience in its aftermath. Tania Love Abramson also lectures both internationally...

The first comprehensive monograph on a lost veteran of American conceptualismA pioneering figure in the history of conceptual art, Sacramento-based artist and author Stephen Kaltenbach (born 1940) is long overdue for scholarly treatment; in the past decade and a half there has been a...

British kinetic artist Stephen Cripps (1952-82) built machines and interactive installations and staged radical pyrotechnical performances. Published for an exhibition at Museum Tinguely, Performing Machines surveys his work.Author: Stephen CrippsISBN-10: 3903131911ISBN-13: 9783903131910Publisher: Verlag Fur Moderne KunstLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/25/2017Pages: 192Format: PaperbackWeight: 2.00lbsSize: 11.80h x 8.90w...

An intimate collection of memories from 2014.Author: Freya PowellISBN-10: 1514846756ISBN-13: 9781514846759Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/05/2015Pages: 178Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.72lbsSize: 9.69h x 7.44w x 0.38d

A short documentary on Oldenburg's widely acclaimed exhibitionThis 45-minute documentary by Ralph Goertz follows the widely acclaimed exhibition Claes Oldenburg: The Sixties, which toured internationally and was presented at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and The Museum of Modern Art in New York...

A tour de force wiz-bang of a book by a well-seasoned poet-golfer who struggles between agony and ecstasy while playing a gentleman's game.Golf is the most perplexing sport in the world, a game where questions far outnumber answers. You're decent one day and deplorable...

A groundbreaking work, edited by Germano Celant in collaboration with the artist and her New York studio, which enriches our knowledge of Louise Bourgeois. Over a long career she worked through most of the twentieth century's avant-garde artistic movements from abstraction to realism, yet...

For her ongoing project Last Words, leading Conceptual poet and lawyer Vanessa Place (born 1968) has recorded in her own voice the last statements of all of the inmates executed in Texas as recorded by the state since 1982. This volume comprises a transcription...

History and the status of the image have long been animating concerns in the artwork of French artist Christian Boltanski (born 1944). In Boltanski: Souls from Place to Place, the artist reflects on the outcomes of some of the most significant historical events of...

A first look into the 30-year career of Czech conceptual photographer Jir SigutJir Sigut (born 1960) has become a crucial figure in the development of Czech photography. Documenting three critical phases in Sigut's career, this monograph presents early explorations of movement in his extended-exposure...

As we spend our days increasingly glued to our computers and handheld devices, rapidly tapping keywords into Google, cutting and pasting Word docs and texting urgently truncated messages, it is becoming increasingly rare to pen anything by hand. No wonder hand-written fonts are all...

I. Am. Sorry. From Jack Bender, lead director / executive producer of the TV series Lost along with many other acclaimed shows, comes I Am Sorry--an unexpected and wholly unique take on what it means to be human. Through the lens of his original...