Art - Conceptual

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...

Technical drawings of all the major ships and vehicles from the Alien movies, presented in incredible detail. Includes iconic spacecraft like the Nostromo, the Sulaco and the Covenant. Alien: The Blueprints is a collection of brand new blueprints of all the major vehicles, ships...

The beautiful minds of six extremely successful women artists in the entertainment industry present Lovely: Ladies of Animation. The history of art in animation has had many female heroes; this elite group is continuing the tradition and building upon it. Featuring the first published...

From the intriguing mind behind Codex Seraphinianus comes this beautifully illustrated tribute to the famed Neapolitan character Pulcinella (or "Punch" as he is referred to in English). This short monograph on Pulcinella is conceived as a extension of the Codex Seraphinianus, an encyclopedia filled...

A deep dive into the Guggenheim Museum's vast collection of Minimal art from the visionary Italian collectors Giovanna and Giuseppe Panza di BiumoWinner of the 2022 Robert Motherwell Book Award Based upon the research of the Panza Collection Initiative, an ambitious, 10-year study project,...

Felicity D. Scott revisits the architectural, art, video, and intermedia practices of the experimental collective Ant Farm, self-described ]super-radical activist environmentalists.] Drawing together archival material on their extended fields of practice, Ant Farm features the first full-color publication of the complete Ant Farm Timeline,...

This third book in the background illustration series takes us on a sentimental journey through the scenes of our most cherished memories Do you remember a moment in your life when you wished the time would stop? Artwork in this book captures precious moments...

This book marks the 40th anniversary of Roland Barthes' renowned work Camera Lucida (La Chambre claire) in 2020. Artist Odette England invited more than 200 photography-based artists, writers, critics, curators, and historians from around the world to contribute an image or text that reflects...

The New Concrete is a long-overdue survey of the rise of concrete poetry in the digital age. The accessibility of digital text and image manipulation, modern print techniques and the rise of self-publishing have invigorated a movement that first emerged in an explosion of...

From the creative force who brought us the sci-fi tale Abakan 2288 comes Kallamity Sketchbook: Mech in Ink. Included are the latest collection of drawings from world-renown artist and sculptor Luca Zampriolo. Discover his wondrous mech suits and vehicles and meet many fascinating characters,...

Drawing is experiencing an unparalleled surge in the art world. Pass notions that once defined drawing as being a preparatory stage for painting or sculpture have long since been cast aside. Drawing is now fully recognized as its own art form--in the biennials, art...

The highly anticipated follow up to best seller, Nuthin' But Mech, Nuthin' But Mech 2 delivers outstanding artwork from 40 artist contributors to the Nuthin' but Mech blogspot. Founder of the blogspot, Lorin Wood is so passionate about Mecha design that he created a...

A guide to choosing, completing, and sharing a 100-day creative project. There's a creative person inside every one of us! You don't have to consider yourself an artist to create and share fun or expressive work; sometimes all it takes is commitment. Enter the...

Inkworks is a delightful collection of mech sketches from key video game designer Darren Quach. Created to resemble an artist sketchbook, flipping through the pages will elicit the feeling of looking at private, treasured drawings. A visual journal of mech development, this book will...

Because of his recourse to language, photography and systems of information, On Kawara is often described as a key figure in the history of Conceptual art. Yet his work stands apart in its devotion to painting and its existential reach. On Kawara -- Silence...

"Published to coincide with the 40th anniversary of its original publication, this special edition of the beloved, bestselling cult classic features a new design, new cover illustration, and fifteen never before seen drawings. The book is a visual encyclopedia of an unknown world written...

From My Heart To Yours revisits the five muses: The Abyss, Exoskeleton, Equilibrium, The Unrequited, and The Mending. Each chapter metamorphosizes into a transformative periodical that illustrates the acceptance of growth. The Abyss presents the harboured scars of self-sabotage and emotional betrayal. Exoskeleton refers...

Healing Thru Art - Art Therapy and DBT therapy working together to heal me from a debilitating eating disorder and trauma. Art Therapy and DBT were the tools that helped me break the barriers of my fears and anxieties. Every lesson learned and every...

Over the course of his four-decade career, Mike Kelley (1954-2012) critically questioned aesthetic conventions and examined all forms of culture. The approximately 100 Memory Ware and associated works were made during the first decade of the 21st century; all are reproduced in this catalog....

Originally published in 1977, Four Basic Kinds of Lines & Colour is a classic artist's book by preeminent conceptual artist Sol LeWittOriginally published in 1977, Four Basic Kinds of Lines & Colour is a classic artist's book by preeminent conceptual artist Sol LeWitt (1928-2007)....

Fill your day with hours of relaxing fun. You get 29 high quality original modern retro illustrations with an incredible attention to detail. The masterpieces you create will be stunning. Your family and friends will be amazed by your colorful creations. Great for all...

In the Swiss Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale, the Swiss American artist duo Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler (born 1965 and 1962 respectively) presented Flora and Bust, exploring the life of the unknown American artist Flora Mayo, with whom Alberto Giacometti had a...

The 50th anniversary edition of MoMA's trendsetting book on conceptual artIn the summer of 1970, the Museum of Modern Art in New York mounted the now legendary exhibition Information, one of the first surveys of conceptual art. Conceived by MoMA's celebrated curator Kynaston McShine...

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...

The Art of the Paperblue is a must have art book for artists, entertainment designers, and anyone who wants to learn to paint creative environment paintings. Paperblue shares his knowledge of creating environment conceptual paintings for movies, games, and other entertainment industry fields. This...

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 NET Thinline Large Print Art Edition begins each Bible book with a commissioned woodcut-inspired image to reflect the underlying themes, followed by an introduction to enrich your reading with details about the historical and theological context.Clear and readable, elegant and accurate, the New...

Outdoor School features recent works of contemporary environmental art and writing by more than twenty-five Canadian and Indigenous artists who propose radical new ways of thinking about and being outdoors together. For more than a decade, the Outdoor School project has provided a framework...

"Everything important that I have done can be put into a little suitcase," Duchamp said in 1952: finally that suitcase is available to allOne of the most important and enigmatic pieces of modernist art, "Bo?e-en-valise" (Box in a Valise) was assembled by Marcel Duchamp...

Adrian Piper has consistently produced groundbreaking work that has profoundly shaped the form and content of conceptual art since the 1960s. Strongly inflected by her longstanding involvement with philosophy and yoga, her pioneering investigations into the political, social, psychological and spiritual potential of conceptual...

What is intuition and where does it come from? How does it interact with making and viewing art and how can it be encouraged? These are questions raised by the Patricia Paxson within the pages of Art and the Un-thought Process, here you'll find...

Delve into the world of Marvel's Avengers in this extraordinary collection of art. Packed with concept art, final designs, storyboards, and artist commentary. Assemble your team of Earth's Mightiest Heroes, embrace your powers, and live your Super Hero dreams. In a future with Super...

This volume brings together essays by leading philosophers of art who consider what can be learned from the meaning of art about society, morality, and life in general. This subject inevitably leads to discussion of other issues. Is art distinct from life? Is a...

The first in-depth study of a group of artists known for their irony, their theoretical impulses, and their market success in the 1980s. Emerging from New York's East Village art scene of the 1980s, the so-called neo-geo artists were a loosely associated group that...

Yoshimasu Gozo's groundbreaking poetry has spanned over half a century since the publication of his first book, Departure, in 1964. Much of his work is highly unorthodox: it challenges the print medium and language itself, and consequently Alice Iris Red Horse is as much...

There is something of the seventeenth century methodology present in The Oyster, as multiple disciplines (philosophy, literature, visual art, biology, architecture) converge within the experiences of thinking, eating, and diagramming. The center stage is given to a humble mollusk, which becomes an object, a...

A half-century of Rebecca Horn's multimedia world-buildingFrom her early body instruments and performances, through her feature films and kinetic sculptures to site-specific installations, drawings and poems, this volume covers the decades-long career of Rebecca Horn (born 1944), whose work constitutes a unified cosmos.Author: Rebecca...

A fun and beautifully designed Mandala coloring journal, perfect for calm relaxing note taking and stress relief to taking notes. Color in or doodle on and around these designs, artfully scattered on each page of the creative journal. Beautiful pages to color or not....

This new interpretation of the structure and meaning of the Happenings produced by Allan Kaprow (1927-2006) and Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) in the late 1950s and 1960s sheds light on the context, theoretical framework, and working practice unique to this groundbreaking artistic form. Drawing...

One of the most influential American conceptual artists of the late 1960s, Dan Graham (born 1942) is particularly celebrated for his pavilions: interactive spaces that walk the line between sculpture and architecture, many of which include the use of two-way mirrors or "looking-glasses." These...

Microgroove continues John Corbett's exploration of diverse musics, with essays, interviews, and musician profiles that focus on jazz, improvised music, contemporary classical, rock, folk, blues, post-punk, and cartoon music. Corbett's approach to writing is as polymorphous as the music, ranging from oral history and...

More than 250 amazing sketches and paintings that have never been published before!Italian artist Alessandro "Talexi" Taini is responsible for designing some of the most memorable and imaginative video-game characters and environments of the last 15 years. While at the acclaimed UK-based game developer...

Fifty-seven artists contribute to this amazing fourth installment of the popular Nuthin' But Mech book series, based on the eponymous blog started by designer Lorin Wood.It all began in 2009, when designer Lorin Wood started the Nuthin' But Mech blog to share artwork by...