Art - Conceptual

For six years Maya Stovall staged Liquor Store Theatre, a conceptual art and anthropology video project---included in the Whitney Biennial in 2017---in which she danced near the liquor stores in her Detroit neighborhood as a way to start conversations with her neighbors. In this...

This book documents installations of Haus--a 1:15 scale representation of a modern commercial building--by celebrated Swiss duo Peter Fischli (born 1952) and David Weiss (1946-2012). These include the 2016 recreation of the 1987 Skulptur Projekte M nster for the Guggenheim Museum and its permanent...

Franz Erhard Walther's pioneering Werksatz series of wearable fabric sculpturesIn 1991, as MAMCO Geneva was preparing to open, founder and museum director Christian Bernard asked several artists to think about how they would like to sum up their practice for presentation in the museum....

Returning to revolution's original meaning of 'cycle', Contemporary Revolutionsexplores how 21st-century writers, artists, and performers re-engage the arts of the past to reimagine a present and future encompassing revolutionary commitments to justice and freedom. Dealing with histories of colonialism, slavery, genocide, civil war, and...

Presenting unique and in-depth collaborations and editions with leading international artists, Parkett No. 65 features collaborations with John Currin (United States), Laura Owens (United States) and Michael Raedecker (The Netherlands), three painters who apply their individual marks and styles to the traditions and techniques...

Have you been searching for an adult coloring book with animals pooping? No? Well, here it is anyway This Pooping Animals Coloring Book definitely splits opinion. Some may say this book is weird, some may say it's inappropriate, some may even say it's rude....

The Unreal Real, American artist Liza Ryan's (born 1965) fifth publication, surveys the last two decades of her work. Whether documenting her experience in Antarctica or examining the repercussions of loss, Ryan's work captures a sense of evanescent transience.Author: Liza RyanISBN-10: 3958293514ISBN-13: 9783958293519Publisher: SteidlLanguage:...

This book documents French conceptual installation artist Loris Gr aud's (born 1979) transformation of Max Hetzler's galleries in Paris and Berlin into otherworldly landscapes featuring spores hanging from the ceiling, tree sculptures with flailing limbs and waste collected from locations in Andrei Tarkovsky's 1979...

British artist Peter Liversidge's (born 1973) diverse oeuvre begins with typewritten proposals through which he explores many media. Using a hand held camera, Liversidge takes two images--the initial selected image guides the composition of the second image, taken moments after the first is developed.Author:...

Inspire. Add content. Polish your art.Look beyond your brush and palette to discover the role of a great title in the creation of a painting. Whether the title is a creative spark for your new piece, refines it's direction at the mid-point to move...

These composite landscapes are recreated places from an estranged homeland. Visible and obscured parts of the landscape suggest the interplay of effects between man and nature, as well as the imperfections of memory. The discontinuity induces the viewer to draw on their own experiences...

This monograph tells the story of how three artists - Pablo Picasso, Edward Hopper and Germaine Richier - helped chart the course of modern art. The subtitle is a play on words. It is A Scenic Tour of Modern Art in the sense that...

In 2006, artist Pablo Helguera drove with a portable schoolhouse from Anchorage, Alaska, to Ushuaia, Tierra del Fuego, exploring the historical ideals of Pan-Americanism. Five years after that journey, this bilingual anthology gathers a group of critical essays and documentary materials of this pedagogical...

Sean Hargreaves believes that for artists and designers, images are born from the experiences one observes during the first 10-15 years of their lives. Those images are subconsciously refined over and over in one's life. They may consist of shapes, or places, or films...but...

Working with people from different cultural backgrounds presents practical and theoretical problems for art therapists, as well as the opportunities represented by a medium which crosses linguistic and cultural barriers. In this volume, professionals engaged in art therapy discuss aspects of practice which are...

Conceptual art as a popular phenomenon, known as conceptualism, had a profound impact upon the art world as a whole because it could manifest itself in any material or form. This allowed conceptual artists to approach themes that artists working in traditional materials could...

It has been brought to the attention of the proto-civilians of the region of the Tigris-Euphrates that at the event of the 21st Century AD much of our culture's 5000 plus years of future invention & evolution of civilization will be lost, forgotten, erased,...

Foundation: The Art and Making of the Series is the official companion book for Skydance and Apple TV's epic science fiction TV series Foundation, which is based on the novels by Isaac Asimov. Foundation: The Art and Making of Seasons 1 & 2 is...

A site-specific installation juxtaposes found detritus with the opulent backdrop of a Belle Epoque villaSwiss conceptual artist Eric Hattan (born 1955) is known for his installations, performance art and artistic interventions in public spaces. This catalog accompanies his installation at a historic villa in...

A witty, touching and delightful exploration of holes from the author of The VolumeA handsomely designed picture-book for children and adults, The Hole Book explores the many meanings, associations and forms of holes in a delightful narrative of discovery. The book's narrator is an...

Escape into a world of love and cute characters with the Adorable Love coloring book from bestselling publishing brand Damita Victoria. Are you looking for a fun and festive way to celebrate Valentine's Day? Look no further than the Adorable Love coloring book! The...

This poem and art book includes amorous poems on relatable themes written by Antonio Journie, accompanied with gorgeous art works created by an artist named Deon(Stephanie Hayes).This book fascinates readers who inspire to love, and love deep. This collection is the first from an...

Dutch conceptual artist Anouk Kruithof (born 1981) reimagines photography and sculpture to create liberating and disturbing artworks that explore the interactions between people, nature and technology. This is the artist's first comprehensive retrospective, surveying two decades of her multimedia practice.Author: Anouk KruithofISBN-10: 8867495712ISBN-13: 9788867495719Publisher:...

You ll find all sorts of things in Helguera s Manual that aren t in any other book: the difference between an A-level artist and a B-level artist, how to cure the dreaded festivalist syndrome, how to keep your conviction that you re the...

"Come along ... come, a little closer ... ladyboys, rats, Brahmans, incestuous brothers, arrogant scientists, royal jesters, suicidal late-weaned adolescents, Diogenes-style rebels, obsessional mythical creatures, repressed psychoanalysts, overfed baby boys ... Indulge in a journey of contiguity, ambiguity, taboo and uncertainty, liberated perversities, an...

A collection of essays, fictions, and interviews exploring the weird temporalities of finance and catastrophe. Once, financial practitioners plied a hybrid trade as hydrologists, star-gazers, and weather-watchers who sought to discover the natural laws of value and exchange as they did the divine order...

A thesis submitted in partial satisfaction of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts / Master of Fine Arts in History and Theory of Contemporary Art / Sculpture by COLE M. ROBBINS. May 2012.Author: Cole M. RobbinsISBN-10: 0692272526ISBN-13: 9780692272527Publisher: Ruth AskevoldLanguage: EnglishPublished:...

There are as many meanings to drawing and painting as there are cultural contexts for them to exist in. But this is not the end of the story. Drawings and paintings are made, and in their making embody unique meanings that transform our perception...

As children grow up, they can often be met with personal challenges ( such as as self-esteem issues). I wrote this book, with the help of my son Jordan, to help little black kids develop (early-on) a strong sense of authentic self love and...

This book traces the evolution of Bill Beckley's work through a selection of over 100 works, with critical texts and a conversation with the artist. Bill Beckley is an American conceptual artist and one of the first artists to use photography as a means...

A concise introduction to Pierson's photographs, collages, word sculptures and more across four decadesThis volume celebrates and documents the career of pioneering New York-based artist Jack Pierson (born 1960). Published on the occasion of Pierson's tenth solo presentation with Regen Projects, Los Angeles, this...

The Little Book goes into philosophy and the lacunae in archives, fragments of poetry, and other arts, such as painting and music. Daesthetics: a haunted house of language, is in remembrance of the liminal, archival gaps. Daesthetics, a thinking in the open, with the...

A temple of art--individual and yet universal. In 1990 on a journey through South India, the painter Bernd Zimmer was inspired by the pillared porticoes of the Hindu temples and conceived the idea for a hall of art surrounded by nature, supported by 121...

Reveals how contemporary art contributes to the culture of remembrance. In 1991, the town of Pulheim initiated the Stommeln Synagogue art project, a permanent process of examining and reexamining this historically significant location, one of the few German synagogues to survive World War II....

Maya Dunietz: Root of Two is a 144-page catalogue that accompanies an exhibition of the same title, on view at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts in 2022. Co-published by the Bemis Center and X Artists' Books and designed by Omnivore, this catalogue traverses...

After a 12 year absence from creating his own art, Derek started to focus on his personal work in 2009. His first personal project, Born in Concrete, was undertaken to dispel his biases towards expressive art, overcome his own perceived limitations and to rejuvenate...

An intimate look at American artist Sol LeWitt's masterpiece of conceptual art, drawn on the walls of a medieval tower in Italy. In 1976, Sol LeWitt made a large group of pencil drawings on the internal walls of the Vecchia Torre, a medieval tower...

Author: Walead BeshtyISBN-10: 3037645024ISBN-13: 9783037645024Publisher: Jrp RingierLanguage: EnglishPublished: 12/18/2018Pages: 864Format: HardcoverWeight: 4.00lbsSize: 9.80h x 6.90w x 2.30d

This work is a profound and illuminating conversation between two Catholic artists who are also gifted writers. The setting is a house in the woods near Combermere, Canada. The two men are alone, free to explore the wellsprings of Christian art and the suffering...

This is the second extensive monograph dedicated to the internationally acclaimed Russian artist collective: AES+F. Since 1987, AES+F have been working at the intersection of painting, sculpture, photography, video, and new technologies. They achieved worldwide acclaim in the Russian Pavilion at the 52nd Biennale...

Material culture and biopolitics: on Daniel Knorr's multimedia explorations of the politics of thingsRomanian artist Daniel Knorr's (born 1968) eclectic oeuvre includes photography, sculptural installation and performance. The artist, who lives in Berlin and Hong Kong, is known for deploying materials such as cocaine...

This limited-edition facsimile documents On Kawara's (1932-2014) Pure Consciousness series, in which he created a new picture every day from January 1 to 7, 1997. The booklets accompanying their exhibition, with installation photos and texts by the artist, are extremely rare; it is reproduced...

This book presents works from the last 12 years by Belgian artist Hans Op de Beeck (born 1969), most of which are drawn from the Goetz Collection. Op de Beeck produces large installations, sculptures, films, drawings, paintings, photographs and texts that reflect on mortality...

Between 1999 and 2002, Dutch artist Willem de Rooij (born 1969) collected some 500 images cut from daily newspapers, depicting protest marches and moments of collective mourning. An inquiry into the iconography of protest, this artist's book compiles and reorganizes his original series.Author: Willem...

British artist Ceal Floyer (born 1958) plays with conventional patterns of perception in a sophisticated way, piercing through them with a keen sense of irony and the simplest of means. This is the first publication to systematically document 63 works selected by the artist...

The first monograph dedicated to one of today's leading and thought-provoking Indian visual artistsShilpa Gupta is internationally known for her profound and socially engaged multi-faceted practice. Her work is an ongoing exploration of how human actions and interactions are subjected to a range of...

A definitive and timely monograph celebrating the work of ground-breaking conceptual artist Cerith Wyn EvansCerith Wyn Evans is one of today's most respected and acclaimed sculptors. Born in Wales and educated through his first language of Welsgh, his work reflects his fascination with literature,...

This catalogue raisonne of the work of Irish artist Janet Mullarney showcases the diverse, innovative, personal and original nature of her work over the last 40 years. Provocatively, she embraces a marginal position between two countries and between art forms and practices: figurative, when...

On the New looks at the economies of exchange and valuation that drive modern culture's key sites: the intellectual marketplace and the archive. As ideas move from one context to another, newness is created. This continuous shifting of the line that separates the valuable...

WOOSH is a collection of personal spaceship sketches created by entertainment designer Lorin Wood as he decompressed on his couch after a long day at work. While "analog" in its execution, there's nothing dated about his vision of the future. His detailed ships will...