Charts the highs and lows of art star Rob Pruitt's career - how he courted controversy as he rose to fame in the early 90s alongside his then-partner Jack Early and later secured his own place in the art world. This monograph examines the full scope of his development extending beyond his conceptual art to include his painting, and drawing.
New Media art often involves appropriation, collaboration, and the free sharing of ideas and expressions, and frequently addresses the political ramifications of technology around issues of identity, commercialization, privacy, and the public domain. This book addresses New Media art as a specific art historical movement.
Sol LeWitt (1928-2007), renowned for his role in establishing Conceptualism and Minimalism as dominant art movements in the postwar era, is perhaps best known for his masterful and brilliantly coloured wall drawings. This title traces the artist's modular works from their simplest manifestation through multiple variations.
Elaborates on the site-specific and conceptual aspects of David Schafer's public sculpture of the same name, commissioned for the Outpatient Pavilion at the Huntington Hospital complex in Pasadena, California. This title examines how the conditions of site, technology, and process inform the finished work.
Reveals the revolution that took place when a whole generation of artists experimented with the idea of art as an idea. Shows how artists such as Robert Morris, Sol Lewitt and Marcel Broodthaers challenged traditional notions of the art object through unprecedented use of language, actions, processes and forms derived from mass media.
Tracing the issues and concerns of the first generation of artists involved in the foundation of the movement, this guide to conceptual art, includes an essay exploring the historical basis of conceptual art, and its relationship to the dominant aesthetics of the 1960s, namely the modernist theory of Clement Greenberg and his disciples.
Investigates California's vital contributions to Conceptual art - in particular, work that emerged in the late 1960s among scattered groups of young artists. This book includes the essays revealing connections between the northern and southern California Conceptual art scenes.
Studio Eliasson is an experimental laboratory located in Berlin and Copenhagen. It functions as an interdisciplinary space, generating dialogues between art and its surroundings. This book aims to facilitate access to the works and research being produced in Studio Eliasson, lead by Danish-Icelandic artist Olafur Eliasson.
Leading philosophers and art theorists engage with the philosophical puzzles raised by conceptual art: What kind of art is conceptual art? What follows from the fact that conceptual art does not aim to have aesthetic value? What knowledge or understanding can we gain from conceptual art? How ought we to appreciate conceptual art?
In a world obsessed with 'reality' programming, the collaborative public art project known as "Learning To Love You More" offers a take on how people think, act and love. The web-based project, begun in 2002, offers more than sixty 'assignments' that can be completed by anyone. This book presents a selection of the most memorable submissions.
Traveling to a remote Tibetan village Adelia Van Helsing discovers that far from being a dwindling threat, dragons are regrouping and are about to unleash monstrous revenge on the human race. Faced with a power even she cannot resist, she summons the dragon's most fearsome opponent, the servants of hell.
Takes the reader on a picaresque voyage through the artists' world - a world of extremes, taking in the beauty of nature and the urban landscape, sex and eroticism, religion and spirituality, drunkenness and degradation, fear and human aggression, raucous humour and poetry.
Beginning in the late 1970s, a number of visual artists in downtown New York City returned to an exploration of the cinematic across mediums. Vera Dika considers their work within a greater cultural context and probes for a deeper understanding of the practice.
A comprehensive history of LucasArts, told through concept art and interviews with its games designers, including artistic treasures from its popular and innovative videogames. It is suitable for videogame players, young and old, as well as the legions of "Star Wars" fans.
Throughout his career, the artist Glenn Ligon (b 1960) has been deeply engaged with the written word: his artworks are full of painted, drawn, sculpted, photographed, and printed text. This title includes the essays and interviews, which demonstrate Ligon's exposition, ironic asides, knowing pop references, literary citations, and more.
This introduction to conceptual art explores the reasons why the new avant-garde chose to produce such work. Conceptual art has set out to undermine two concepts associated with art - the production of objects to look at, and the act of contemplative looking itself.
Eric Cameron is a major contemporary Canadian artist. Born in 1935 in Leicester, England, he arrived in Canada in the 1970s and has taught at the University of Guelph, the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design, and at the University of Calgary. This book explores Cameron's art and philosophy, covering different aspects of Cameron's art.
Christo and Jeanne-Claude shy away from definitions of their work, but when pressed will admit that they make 'temporary large-scale environmental works that incorporate elements of painting, sculpture, architecture and urban planning'. This book presents an overview of the life and work of Christo and Jeanne-Claude.
The pioneering conceptual artist John Baldessari (b 1931) began his career as a painter in the 1950s, but in the subsequent decades he expanded his practice in a new by juxtaposing texts with found photography or appropriated images. This book chronicles this important shift in Baldessari's thinking during these formative years.
The son of Fred Klein and Marie Raymond, both well regarded artists, Yves Klein (1928-1962) took the art world by storm in a brief but intense career that lasted just eight years, from 1954 to 1962. This title presents an overview of the works, writings, and interviews of acclaimed French artist Yves Klein.
Chris Burden is a seminal figure in contemporary art. A monograph on Burden, this book gives an overview of his art, illuminated by searching texts by some of the most important curators and writers on art and supported by a catalogue. Its thematic arrangement reveals the conceptual relationships between works produced in differing mediums.
Brothers Jake and Dinos Chapman enrage some with their art and reduce others to hysterics, but no one is neutral about two of Britain's most outstanding artistic provocateurs. This title presents a study that assesses the work of the Chapman brothers.
Renowned for his straightforward approach to making art and his deft economy of means, Martin Creed has produced sculptures, installations, drawings, films, performances, music and text, each of which has found its inspiration in the objects and activities of everyday life. This title presents a survey of Creed's work and career.
A monograph on the legendary American artist Gordon Matta-Clark, considered one of the most important artists of the second half of the twentieth century. He is most famous for his building-cuts, actions that translate in the cutting-up of facades, walls, and floors of derelict buildings. This book includes interviews, articles, and documents.
In 1995, the sculptor Andy Goldsworthy approached Cumbria County Council with his idea of identifying a significant number of sheepfolds - stone enclosures used for sheltering sheep - and reconstructing them to incorporate artworks.. This volume reflects Goldsworthy's lifelong interest in the land, its history and its inhabitants.
American artist Glenn Ligon (b. 1960) is best known for his landmark body of text-based paintings, made since the late 1980s, which appropriate the writings of African-American authors such as James Baldwin, Ralph Ellison, and Zora Neale Hurston. This title presents his art, including paintings, photography, sculptural installations, and prints.
Alighiero Boetti (1940-1994) was one of the most innovative artists of the twentieth century. This title brings together international critics and curators, examining various aspects of Boetti's achievements, and explaining why he remains both influential and inspiring decades after his death.