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For forty years, through music, painting, performance, film, and sculpture, Yoko Ono has engaged fundamental issues such as peace, respect, and the search for self. A founding member of the Fluxus art movement, she continues to have a profound influence on contemporary art. "Touch Me" is a suite of sculptural works that are activated and realized - as their imperative title suggests - by the tactile participation of the viewer. This book documents the debut of these playful interactive works and...

Crazy Art will be a revelation to anyone who thinks that art is more or less limited to painting, sculpture and photography. The title features the work of more than sixty contemporary artists drawn from all over the world, demonstrating that there are absolutely no boundaries to expressing the most inventive and exciting ideas through a vast range of different media and materials. Five chapters pitch well-known artists - such as Carl Warner with his bizarre "foodscapes", or Nathan Swaya, creato...

Plötzlich diese Übersicht by the Swiss artists Peter Fischli (b. 1952) and David Weiss (1946-2012), a loose collection of over 350 hand-sculpted, unfired clay figures, is one of those artworks that is very familiar even to those who are not all that interested in art. The artists have created a masterpiece, using an entirely unspectacular material to form sculptural snapshots that sparkle with cheerful wit : sketched models of everyday situations and objects ; clay reproductions that reveal the...

The title of this Penguin Classic look-alike is taken from a poem that Michael Elmgreen wrote when he was 19 years old. The poem describes, in its own simple, youthful manner, issues of emotional homelessness. Home traditionally alludes to family, local context and nationality--to structures which are pre-set and often disconnected to one's individual desires. For Home is Where the Heart Is, the Norwegian-Danish artist duo asked friends and colleagues to react to their own notions of home--as a...

Vancouver Conceptualist Rodney Graham defies categorization by employing multiple styles and working in diverse media including photography, film, performance, music and text. One of the most gratifying artist's books ever to grace D.A.P.'s list, Wet on Wet: My Late Early Styles presents a new body of work reflecting on the practice of painting. For Wet on Wet Graham adopts the eccentric persona of the "gifted amateur," a recurrent figure in his recent work. He presents 22 oils and one acrylic w...

Over the course of sixteen years, Joseph Beuys received more than a hundred letters from James Lee Byars without ever writing back himself. Byars sent a wealth of elaborately designed letters to very different people, but among them, Joseph Beuys was the only artist Byars' letters enthrall with their immense variety of materials, forms, and ideas -- as they are not written with an eye towards receiving an answer, they constitute a part of his day-to-day artistic routine Proposing a much more int...

"Raum selbst hat keine Form. Doch hat jede seiner Affaren eine.'" (Marc Mer, Kurator) Das Katalogbuch zur Ausstellung Space Affairs- Raumaffaren - Affaires dEspace zeigt ausgewahlte Werke aus der Sammlung der Kulturabteilung der Stadt Wien, die sich auf das Phanomen Raum als relationale Dimension beziehen. Beitrage von 12 AutorInnen und Werke von 51 teilnehmenden KunstlerInnen ermoglichen der Leserschaft einen umfang- und facettenreichen Einblick in die kunstlerische Auseinandersetzung mit dem R...

This catalogue collects the most iconic and representative political works of Spanish conceptual artist Santiago Sierra (born 1966) from the 1990s to the present, with documents regarding his many performances enacted around the world. Text in English and Italian.

A major reassessment of photography’s pivotal role in 1960s conceptual art Why do we continue to look to photographs for evidence despite our awareness of photography’s potential for duplicity? Documents of Doubt critically reassesses the truth claims surrounding photographs by looking at how conceptual artists creatively undermined them. Studying the unique relationship between photography and conceptual art practices in the United States during the social and political instability of the late...

El esperado libro con las maravillosas ilustraciones de Jesús Ortiz ¿Qué pasaría si perdiéramos el miedo a ver las cosas de otra forma? La belleza de las ilusiones es un despertar de la conciencia, una invitación a cuestionar todo lo que vemos. Recorramos este camino como si fuera un juego de niños, eligiendo, de entre todas las ilusiones, las que nos hagan sentir más especiales. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION The long-awaited book that contains Jesús Ortiz’s wonderful illustrations   What would happ...