Conceptual category: 130 books

According to Vasari, the young Michelangelo often borrowed drawings of past masters, which he copied, returning his imitations to the owners and keeping originals. Half a millennium later, Andy Warhol made a game of "forging" the Mona Lisa, questioning the entire concept of originality....

Un saggio innovativo e unico sulla pittura come risultato etico. Un’incursione nell’espressione pittorica considerata nell’ambiente culturale del momento ed oltre. La promozione definitiva della "Pittura" ad arte a tutto tondo, al di là dell'estetismo convenzionale.

A collection of poems that endeavors to take you through the journey of life; as it was in the past, as it is in the present, and as it believes it will be, in the future.

What advice would your 80-year-old self give you? That is the question artist Susan O'Malley, who was herself to die far too young, asked more than a hundred ordinary people of every age, from every walk of life. She then transformed their responses into vibrant text-based images. From a prompt to...

D’ARS Magazine è una collana in formato ePub che dal 2014 offre al pubblico una raccolta di articoli tratti da D’ARS - periodico di arti e culture contemporanee in due lingue (italiano e inglese). Diretto da Cristina Trivellin, D’ARS propone un approccio sincretico alle arti e alle culture...

What does an idea look like? And where do they come from? Grant Snider’s illustrations will motivate you to explore these questions, inspire you to come up with your own answers and, like all Gordian knots, prompt even more questions. Whether you are a professional artist or designer, a student...

The Occult Fiction Collection assembles 29 of the greatest occult & supernatural stories ever written. Featuring: THE ABBOT’S GHOST, OR MAURICE TREBERNE’S TEMPTATION, by Louisa May Alcott THE GHOST, by Arnold Bennett THE HAUNTED MAN AND THE GHOST’S BARGAIN, by Charles Dickens THE...

I haven’t changed nationalities. I still travel with my Moroccan passport, which is a work of art in itself. That passport is filled with visas from several countries where I’ve shown my work these last few years. Traveling with a Moroccan passport is an adventure. I’m never sure I’ll get...

In What We Made, Tom Finkelpearl examines the activist, participatory, coauthored aesthetic experiences being created in contemporary art. He suggests social cooperation as a meaningful way to think about this work and provides a framework for understanding its emergence and acceptance. In a series...

Features a strong line-up of the country’s most prominent contemporary artists, writers, philosophers, curators and historians. Featuring: pioneers of the Moscow Conceptualism movement Ilya and Emilia Kabakov; Bart De Baere, Russia’s foremost curator; art critic and theorist Boris Groys;...

Per tutta la sua vita Salvador Dalí non ha fatto altro che specchiarsi. Un’intera opera e l’intera vita di un genio dell’arte al servizio del narcisismo più patetico? Saremmo in errore. Dalí ha saputo specchiarsi come nessuno nella storia dell’arte e della cultura; nessuno più di lui ha...

Human beings are surrounded by surfaces: from our skin to faces, to the walls and streets of our homes and cities, to the images, books, and screens of our cultures and civilizations, to the natural world and what we imagine beyond. In this thought-provoking and richly textured book, Joseph A. Amato...

The third year of Kevin J. O'Conner's love notes to the days of the week, a unique slant on the act of 'journaling'… This volume covers October 2015 to October 2016.

This is an inspirational book about art's power to bring about personal catharsis and spiritual awakening. Alex Grey's reflections combine his extensive knowledge of art history and his own first-hand experiences in creating art on the boundaries of consciousness. Included are practical techniques...