Art - Conceptual

An essential and long out-of-print document of formative works by institutional critique progenitor Michael AsherOriginally published in 1983, Writings 1973-1983 on Works 1969-1979, by Los Angeles artist Michael Asher (1943-2012) presents select documentation of 33 works through writings, photographs, architectural floor plans, exhibition announcements...

Have you ever imagined living in a fantasy world? Beautiful castles, islands floating in the air, a ride on an airship or resting with the fairies under a mushroom umbrella? Then this book is for you.Beautiful Scenes from a Fantasy World showcases background artworks...

Designing a captivating creature simply for it to exist against a white background and going no further is a purely academic exercise. Designing a creature that can survive in a world, interact with its own and other species, and go on to make an...

Designing a captivating creature simply for it to exist against a white background and going no further is a purely academic exercise. Designing a creature that can survive in a world, interact with its own and other species, and go on to make an...

What advice would your 80-year-old self give you? That is the question artist Susan O'Malley, who was herself to die far too young, asked more than a hundred ordinary people of every age, from every walk of life. She then transformed their responses into...

The official art book for the new Netflix/Intrepid Pictures horror TV series Midnight Mass, from creator Mike Flanagan. A small town on an island experiences miraculous events - and frightening omens - after the arrival of a charismatic, mysterious young priest. The cast includes...

Asia is now the center of comic illustration. This cutting-edge collection showcases the work of 46 top illustrators from Asia. Many new artists have been emerging recently from Asia, taking their place in the international comic illustration industry through social media. Although their work...

Immerse yourself in the universe of Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy game with this incredible collection of concept art, final designs and artist commentary. Jump on a wild ride across the cosmos in Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy, a story-driven action-adventure with a fresh...

Official art book of the PS5 launch game Marvel's Spider-Man: Miles Morales, featuring concept art created during the development of the game. Be greater, be yourself as Miles Morales swings onto the scene in his own video game for the first time. Learning the...

The official art book for Blade Runner 2049 and a companion volume to The Art and Soul of Blade Runner 2049. Film audiences experienced a bold, breathtaking vision of the future in 1982's ground-breaking Blade Runner. With the critically acclaimed Blade Runner 2049, director...

Costume design is storytelling. And to do it successfully, you need to understand the five functions of a costume: to connect to plot and theme, establish the structure of society, put in a specific time and place, indicate personality, and reveal a passage of...

"I can't imagine a better catalyst for creativity! I would recommend this to anyone!" - Emil Ferris, Author of My Favorite Thing is Monsters, multiple Eisner Award Winner "A bursting pinata of worthy questions and colorful inventions; a gift to the creative and a...

From Charles Vess's personal archive, a breathtaking collection of his illustrations, from sketches to stunning paintings, for the acclaimed masterwork written by Neil Gaiman. Includes an exclusive introduction from Neil Gaiman. An elegant and lavish coffee table book revealing the origins, processes, and brilliant...

Explore the world of all three Total War: WARHAMMER games in this stunning compendium, packed with concept art, final designs, storyboards, and artist commentary. Total War: WARHAMMER is the award-winning PC strategy game trilogy from Creative Assembly. Set in the world of Warhammer Fantasy...

This Swiss composer's conceptual and practical guide to the mind/body overlap in music and martial artsOver the past 20 years, Swiss musician and composer Nik B舐tsch (born 1971) has performed around the world and released a number of albums with ECM Records. During this...

Enjoy a deeper insight into the award-winning science-fiction and fantasy artist Stephan Martiniere with his fourth book Trajectory. Following his previous books, Quantum Dreams, Quantumscapes and Velocity, Trajectory showcases Stephan's phenomenal artistic range and skills in a stunning new visionary collection of sci-fi book...

Take a deep dive into history, economics, art, and culture through fascinating and stunning visuals. We live in a hyper-connected world and are bombarded with news and other information, via our phones, computers, TVs, and radios. People don't have the time or energy to...

A collection of dark and fetish art of more than 40 contemporary artists from all over the world such as Zdzislaw Beksiński, Nicoletta Ceccoli, Ray Caesar, James Jean, John Santerineross, Popovy Sisters, and Elizabeth Mcgrath. Gothic taste, decadence, doll-like and Lolita-esque style － the...

Author: Li YongzhengISBN-10: 8891832235ISBN-13: 9788891832238Publisher: Rizzoli International PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 11/30/2021Pages: 256Format: PaperbackWeight: 3.15lbsSize: 11.80h x 9.60w x 1.10d

Modernism ushered in some of the most exciting innovations in art and literature, from Fauvism, Cubism, and Dada, to the novels of James Joyce and Franz Kafka, to such provocative works as Marcel Duchamp's "Fountain." But Modernism also left many people puzzled in its...

Daughter Isotope is a book of "hybrid" poems that speaks to multiple iterations of "daughter" tropes across generations, national borders, and timescales. Central to the question of the Daughter Isotope is: What is a collective archive? within a global, disparate, migrant cultural space. DI...

The year is 2065. The end of Earth and all its habitants is imminent. Using the world's greatest technologies, a new generation of highly advanced, autonomous robotic vehicles is developed to explore new lands for human colonization.Inspired by legendary futurists such as Syd Mead...

This art book showcases depictions of hell in Japanese art from the 12th century to the 19th century. It features a large collection of masterpieces presented with details and enlargements from the works. These images are of aesthetic, thought-provoking, frightening and wickedly funny. The...

An in-depth look at the making of Star Trek: First Contact, featuring rare and previously unseen production art and new and exclusive cast and crew interviews. Twenty-five years ago, Star Trek: First Contact saw Picard, Data, and the Enterprise crew go back in time...

A volume considering questions of conservation that arise with new artistic mediums and practices. Much of the artwork that rose to prominence in the second half of the twentieth century took on novel forms--such as installation, performance, event, video, film, earthwork, and intermedia works...

Radical manifestations of 1960s and '70s conceptualismIn the late 1960s, Lee Lozano (1930-99) conceived of and executed a series of "language pieces," written in the pages of her notebooks, consisting of rules and parameters for the actions that would constitute a piece. From offering...

Spearheaded by Constantine Sekeris, author of MetamorFX, this book is an in-depth look at costume design and illustration. Showcasing an educational process breaking down the problematic areas of costume design for the film, video game and animation industries. From 10 top leading artists in...

"A marvelous slim book that] weaves . . . ideas, facts, images, and histories into a whole about . . . the ecology of the manmade world." --Rebecca Solnit In Undermining, the award-winning author, art historian and social critic Lucy R. Lippard delivers "another...

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...

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,...

⚠ Important update: Listen feedback from the our dear audience, this book quality is decidedly improved with darker color, bold outline lines, and fixed misprints, so you can easy color without mistake. No stress. No thoughts. No extra skills. This process of coloring could...

The highly anticipated follow up to Structura and Structura 2, Structura 3 is the newest collection of images from HALO art director, Sparth, which takes viewers on an amazing journey to imaginary lands. As with his prior best selling books, Structura 3 will not...

This book presents, in large-format images, Simon's unique virtually designed racing machines and tells the story of international racer Vic Cooper, who time-travels under the name 'Vic13' and later 'Mean13' to the past and the future to compete in a wide variety of motor...

Among LeWitt's great contributions to art was the invention of his own economic modelNot to Be Sold For More Than $100 presents a comprehensive overview of conceptualist pioneer Sol LeWitt's numbered R Series drawings, which he created from approximately 1971 to 1979. As early...

The Katurran Odyssey is an epic tale of faith, hope, and selfless heroism of a courageous young lemur named Katook, illuminated by the stunning illustrations of Terryl Whitlatch, one of the world's most celebrated creature designers, and brought to dynamic life by the storytelling...

An updated edition of the definitive monograph on Maurizio Cattelan--provocateur, prankster and tragic poet of our timesThe Guggenheim Museum's sold-out publication Maurizio Cattelan: All is returning to print. Hailed as a provocateur, prankster and tragic poet of our times, Maurizio Cattelan (born 1960) has...

Contemporary artists such as Ghada Amer and Clare Twomey have gained international reputations for work that transforms ordinary craft media and processes into extraordinary conceptual art, from Amer's monumental stitched paintings to Twomey's large, ceramics-based installations. Despite the amount of attention that curators and...

The witty American conceptualist offers a fresh twist on his classic 1960s walking piece"Contrapposto" refers to a pose in which the human subject is turned slightly so that the bust is positioned off-axis from the lower body. American artist Bruce Nauman (born 1941) explores...

In The Art of Living, beloved cartoonist Grant Snider--author of The Shape of Ideas and I Will Judge You by Your Bookshelf--has created a humorous, uplifting look at mindfulness in this collection of one- and two-page comics that map his inner thoughts, poetic observations,...

An instant classic--a lively new introduction to contemporary art that stretches from Andy Warhol's Brillo boxes to Marina Abramovic's performance art to today's biennale circuit and million-dollar auctions. Encountering a work of contemporary art, a viewer might ask, "What does it mean?" "Is it...

Official retrospective companion book to the Paramount film Arrival starring Amy Adams, Jereny Renner and Forest Whitaker, featuring concept art, sketches, behind-the-scenes photography and interviews with key creative and scientific team members. Since its release in 2016, Denis Villeneuve's Arrival, based on the Hugo-nominated...

F駘ix Gonz疝ez-Torres, one of the most influential artists of his generation, lived and worked resolutely according to his own democratic ideology, determined to "make this a better place for everyone." Combining principles of Conceptual Art, minimalism and political activism, Gonz疝ez-Torres' arsenal included public billboards,...

A new publication spotlights Gordon Matta-Clark's only extant architectural pieceIn 1972, Gordon Matta-Clark (1943-78) installed a dumpster on the street between 98 and 112 Greene Street in New York's SoHo neighborhood, an architectural artwork he called Open House. Matta-Clark used discarded, scavenged materials--old pieces...

Utilizing found images from textbooks along with his own geometric patterns, Matthew Craven's collages and illustrations seek to create a new handmade universe, juxtaposing imagery from different cultures and time periods to celebrate commonalities. Photographs of archaeological remains and the natural world are overlaid...

What is art? Is that art? At the end of the twentieth century, these questions continue to provoke and to bedevil discussion. The uncertainty that prompts them can be productive for artists, who may thrive on such a state of tension. Yet uncertainty can...

Early works, regional projects and acclaimed series from Allan McCollum, whose work often blurs boundaries between unique artifacts and mass productionSince the late 1960s, the American artist Allan McCollum (born 1944) has created works that examine the art object's relationship to uniqueness, context and...

Weingart Lieutenant Richard Mertzbow (aka "Mertz") has been stuck on the mysterious Abakan Base in solitude for decades, while war raged on his home planet, Terra, between the ruling Weingart power, which put him on Abakan, and those rebelling against their oppressive rule. One...

Following the success of four titles in the Nuthin' But Mech series, Lorin Wood pivoted skyward to his passion for space travel. Inviting the work of 51 artists, Wood has curated a collection of imaginative inventions sharing one common theme: Traverse. This compilation draws...

Three wordless novels by a master, told in 206 Expressionistic woodcuts: The Sun, a struggle with destiny; The Idea, a concept's triumph over suppression; and Story Without Words, a poignant romance.Author: Frans MasereelISBN-10: 0486471691ISBN-13: 9780486471693Publisher: Dover PublicationsLanguage: EnglishPublished: 07/01/2009Pages: 224Format: PaperbackWeight: 0.84lbsSize: 9.12h x...

An indispensable guide to the colors and combinations of contemporary Japanese design--by one of Japan's leading colorists Color consultant Teruko Sakurai finds inspiration everywhere--in the foods, landscapes and everyday objects of her native land. Flipping through the pages of this book is like taking...