Conceptual

The synthetic proposition examines the impact of Civil Rights, Black Power, the student, feminist and sexual-liberty movements on conceptualism and its legacies in the United States between the late 1960s and the 1990s. It focuses on the turn to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783863353872Author Nicholas AshfordFormat HardbackImprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037641088Author Larys FrogierFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP Ringier

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783948546076Author Nadja QuanteFormat PaperbackPage Count 76Imprint Bierke VerlagPublisher Bierke VerlagWeight(grams) 454g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857249957Author Matylda TaszyckaFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 600g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783775754590Author Christian MosarFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Hatje CantzPublisher Hatje CantzWeight(grams) 760g

Ruudt Peters (b. 1950) is a pioneering conceptual jewellery artist who challenges traditional definitions of adornment by pushing the boundaries of context, wearability, material and presentation. On the occasion of his retrospective exhibition he gives...

The creators of the Apple anthology/artbook series are back with an all-new volume of gorgeous pin-up artwork! Apple Selection Volume 2 features dozens of Korea's top illustrators creating brand-new pin-up work of fun beach scenes, retro pin-ups, cute...

Foundation: The Art and Making of Seasons 1 & 2 is the official companion book for Skydance and Apple'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 the...

Moshe Barasch, an authority on art theory, tackles the complex question of how art works as language. Barasch shows how, once an art work is seen and understood, a new, communicative function is effectively added to the work. In an engaging style Barasch...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977869695Author Paul Etienne LincolnFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Christine Burgin/Donald YoungPublisher Christine Burgin/Donald Young

Post-Traumatic Art in the City comprises an original analysis of the nexus of war, art and urban society in two specific contexts: late 20th-century Beirut and Sarajevo. With an emphasis on conceptions of the 'post-traumatic', De le Court explores how...

New York artist Devorah Sperber combines commonplace materials with simple optical devices to investigate the connections between art, perception and technology. Her works address the complex relationship between the way we think we see and the way that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789493148611Author Amy GowenFormat PaperbackPage Count 142Imprint OnomatopeePublisher OnomatopeeWeight(grams) 121g

Stephen Zeifman, artist and teacher of studio art and art history, and the founder of Mill Road Studio, discusses his unique approach to art. He talks about his life as an artist, what can be termed the ""artist's lifestyle,"" and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940190310Author Anthony RomeroFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Soberscove PressPublisher Soberscove PressWeight(grams) 171g

By the early 1960s, theorists like Levi-Strauss, Lacan, Foucault, and Barthes had created a world ruled by signifying structures and pictured through the grids of language, information, and systems. Artists soon followed, turning to language and its...

Winner, Canadian Museums Association Outstanding Achievement in Publication and Melva J. Dwyer AwardIain Baxter legally changed his name to IAIN BAXTER& in 2005. He appended an ampersand to his name to underscore that art is about connectivity --...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780969989844Author Sean CaulfieldFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint University of Alberta. Department of Art and DesignPublisher University of Alberta...

Sculptural Materiality in the Age of Conceptualism is structured around four distinct but interrelated projects initially realized in Italy between 1966 and 1972: Yayoi Kusama's Narcissus Garden, Michelangelo Pistoletto's Newspaper Sphere (Sfera di...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933492704Author James GurneyFormat PaperbackImprint Design Studio PressPublisher Design Studio PressWeight(grams) 871g

In Art & Language International Robert Bailey reconstructs the history of the conceptual art collective Art & Language, situating it in a geographical context to rethink its implications for the broader histories of contemporary art. Focusing on...

This book investigates what happens to criminal evidence after the conclusion of legal proceedings. During the criminal trial, evidentiary material is tightly regulated; it is formally regarded as part of the court record, and subject to the rules of...

In the summer of 1970, the artist Les Levine arrived at the University of Toronto to take part in the installation of site-specific work on the quadrangle in front of the University's Hart House. The intended piece-construction materials hung from...

Realism has been held up to scorn for its perceived attachment to linguistic transparency - the sense that an image can reveal the full truth of the situation or object it depicts. This skepticism was extended in the late 20th century with the rise of...

David Askevold broke into the art scene when his work was included in the seminal exhibition Information at New York's MOMA 1970, which cemented Conceptualism as a genre. He later became recognized as one of the most important contributors to the...

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,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624650253Author Olivier GamietteFormat HardbackPage Count 128Imprint Design Studio PressPublisher Design Studio Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942884903Author Philippe ThomasFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Mamco GenevaPublisher Mamco GenevaWeight(grams) 159g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781933492025Author Harald BelkerFormat PaperbackImprint Design Studio PressPublisher Design Studio PressWeight(grams) 1202g

Space Becomes You A Mythology is a nearly 300-page art book stuffed with album-cover worthy photography and an out-of-this-world narrative that reads like 2001: A Space Odyssey crossed with a UFO cult. This studio monograph evolves thematically as an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781624650000Author Christian AlzmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 103Imprint Design Studio PressPublisher Design Studio PressWeight(grams) 630g

Traces is a multidisciplinary project that evokes the joys and tragedies of life through a collage of original, historical, and animated imagery. The artist explores the way we construct internal narratives and create meaning from experience. Excerpts...

Even if you know Doug Hall’s work, you don’t know “this” Doug Hall: the little boy afraid of bears in Boston who became the love-smitten art student who grew into a fearless Conceptual artist challenging many of our most beloved assumptions. Although...

Typography broken down into its most basic (and beautiful) forms to reveal the inherent voice within each shape.Inherent is a collection of concrete poems that uses poetic tools to reduce words and letters and characters to their structural components,...