Addresses the puzzlement, frustration, irritation and resentment felt about conceptual art. This book uses conceptual art to bring to life and to reformulate some of the main issues and theories in contemporary philosophical aesthetics.

Based in Los Angeles since the 1960s, John Baldessari (b. 1931) is one of the most influential artists of his generation. This book illustrates more than 150 works of the artist in full colour, with a selection of essays by some of the leading international critics, curators and art historians.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

Conceptual art is an art of ideas which can be written, enacted or carried in your head - challenging the notion that a work of art is an object of visual pleasure. This text combines survey essays, plate sections of key words, descriptions and an anthology of key texts.

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.

Contains an installation that features overflowing pressure chamber in which objects, pictures and sounds combine to form a bubbling volcanic current. This volume captures the depth of an artist's work and includes an interview with the artist.

Lawrence Weiner is one of the primary figures associated with the emergence of conceptual art in the 1960s. This publication represents the full range of Weiner's practice, since the early 1960s, from his early paintings to his work in language, including works on paper, films, videos, books, and public commissions.

This text investigates and documents the histories, themes, theories and form of practice of conceptual art. It shows that this art was a broad movement including a range of artistic tendencies and its influences on today's art.

Beyond. The first comprehensive survey of a pioneering artist, encompassing photographs, film and video, architectural models, pavilion installations, conceptual projects for magazine pages, drawings and prints, and writings.

The Evening Redness in the West. Following Shovlins exhibition A Dream Deferred at Haunch of Venison London in 2007, The Evening Redness in the West continues the artists exploration of post-war American history, politics and culture through referencing diverse sources from both the media and popular culture. Taking its title from the sub-title of Cormac McCarthys classic novel, Blood Meridien, ..