Conceptual category: 130 books

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 its international collaborations with dozens...

Towards a Conceptual Militancy is aimed at the interested art-viewing public, artists, the politically disillusioned, and readers of both European Philosophy, particularly of Speculative Realism/OOP, and Accelerationism. This book calls on the artist to mount a defence of subjective freedom in opposition...

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...

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...

Since the 1970s, the performance and conceptual artist Suzanne Lacy has explored women’s lives and experiences, as well as race, ethnicity, aging, economic disparities, and violence, through her pioneering community-based art. Combining aesthetics and politics, and often collaborating with other...

Conceptual art in the Western world is in crisis. That is the view of many people who are disillusioned with what they regard as its attention-seeking antics, where artists themselves have proudly proclaimed 'the death of art'. Why has art been on this road to destruction, and how did it get there?...

This groundbreaking collection from scholars and artists on the legacy of Beckett in contemporary art provides readers with a unique view of this important writer for page, stage, and screen. The volume argues that Beckett is more than an influence on contemporary art—he is, in fact, a contemporary...

An amazing game of mirrors. […] Original and promising. —LE MONDE 2014 Anton Wachter Prize for Best First Novel Golden Book Owl Reader's Choice Award Opzij Feminist Literature Prize 2014 Lucy B. & C.W. van der Hoogt Prize Nominated for the John Leonard...

Founded in 1909 by the Italian writer Filippo Tommaso Marinetti, Futurism was a radical art and social movement that glorified modernistic concepts of speed, destruction, noise, machines, cities and war. Marinetti's obsession with the future even extended to the abolition of libraries and museums, which...

WHERE THE BEAST IS BURIED is the first English-language book about Joanna Rajkowska and her unique practice of work in public space, in extremely diverse cultures and geographies: from Konya in Anatolia, through Warsaw and Berlin up to Curitiba in Brazil. A collection of stories, essays, interviews and...

Why the avant-garde of art needs to be rehabilitated today Since the decidedly bleak beginning of the twenty-first century, art practice has become increasingly politicized. Yet few have put forward a sustained defence of this development. Revolutionary Time and the Avant-Garde is the first...

The circular photos published in the present Book form a part of a huge project called "The Circle of Wisdom". The art project was designed, projected and executed by artist Conrado Maletá (Cuba, 1979) and Naama Sarid (Israel, 1977). Almost the totality of this works were made in Madrid,...

A cross between a journal and a conceptual art project, 'Dear Monday…' is Kevin J. O'Conner's first book that has nothing to do with poetry. What started out as a Facebook post on a frustrating Monday quickly turned into something of an experiment, in the form of an ongoing series...

Las fotos circulares publicadas en este libro forman parte del proyecto “El Círculo de la Sabiduría”. Dicho proyecto fotográfico fue creado y desarrollado por los artistas Conrado Maletá (Cuba, 1979) y Naama Sarid (Israel, 1977). La práctica totalidad de las obras se ejecutaron en España...