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1	The Guerilla Art Kit more books like this by Keri Smith add to wishlist We are living in a golden age of self-expression. The explosion of user-created content on blogs and social networking sites moved "Time" magazine to name 'You' their 2006 person of the year. But while we may be spending a lot more time in virtual worlds, we have not lost the urge to make our physical world more meaningful. By leaving art and ... see all copies from $8.00! new only from $13.01! \| SVS
2	Skillful Huntsman: Visual Development of a Grimm Tale at Art Center College of Design more books like this by Khang Le, Mike Yamada, Felix Yoon add to wishlist see all copies from $19.82! new only from $19.82! \| SVS
3	Conceptual Art more books like this by Tony Godfrey add to wishlist Covering the entire 20th century, this text traces the roots of conceptual art to movements such as Dada, explaining its importance in the 1960s and 1970s and showing that it is still alive today. In 1917 Marcel Duchamp signed the name R. Mutt on a urinal and placed it in a gallery. Even the most strident modernists refused to accept this object ... see all copies from $13.81! new only from $15.31! \| first editions \| SVS
4	Art in Bloom more books like this by Victoria Jane Ream, Sjur Fedje (Photographer), Ron Morgan (Foreword by) add to wishlist see all copies from $5.05! signed copies \| first editions
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6	Envelopes: A Puzzling Journey Through the Royal Mail more books like this by Harriet Russell, Lynne Truss (Foreword by) add to wishlist This engaging book of illustrated envelopes that made it through the United Kingdom's postal system against all odds will appeal to puzzlers and punsters of all ages. Full color. see all copies from $13.38! new only from $13.38!
7	Conceptual Art more books like this by Ursula Meyer add to wishlist see all copies from $2.16! first editions
8	Alighiero E Boetti: Mappa more books like this by Luca Cerizza add to wishlist A study of Boetti's 1988 work Mappa, a tapestry map of the pre-postcommunist world made of brightly colored, painstakingly woven national flags; illustrated with many color images. see all copies from $2.95! new only from $9.32! \| SVS
9	Artists' Books: A Critical Anthology & Sourcebook more books like this by Joan Lyons (Editor) add to wishlist see all copies from $9.95! first editions
10	Essays on Art & Language more books like this by Dr. Charles Harrison add to wishlist These essays by art historian and critic Charles Harrison are based on the premise that making art and talking about art are related enterprises. They are written from the point of view of Art and Language, the artistic movement based in England-and briefly in the United States - with which Harrison has been associated for 30 years. Harrison uses ... see all copies from $5.65! new only from $8.08! \| first editions
11	Design Art: Functional Objects from Donald Judd to Rachel Whiteread more books like this by Dr. Barbara Bloemink, Barbara Bolemink, Joseph Cunningham add to wishlist The most comprehensive and authoritative book available on the domestic furniture, lighting and design objects of Minimalist and Post-Minimalist artists from the 1960s to the present, including Donald Judd, Sol LeWitt, Dan Flavin, Robert Rauschenberg, John Baldessari, Rachel Whiteread, Richard Tuttle, Scott Burton and Isamo Noguchi. see all copies from $75.00! new only from $178.98! \| first editions
12	Working Girl more books like this by Cindy Sherman (Photographer) add to wishlist Witty, provocative and searching, this lively catalogue of female roles inspired by the movies crystallizes widespread concerns in our culture, examining the ways we shape our personal identities and the role of the mass media in our lives. see all copies from $17.19! new only from $17.19! \| first editions
13 view cover	Out of the Box: The Reinvention of Art: 1965-1975 more books like this by Carter Ratcliff add to wishlist A study of art during the years 1965 to 1975. It is not limited to any particular art, such as conceptual art or performance art, but seeks to offer an integrated view of all the significant developments in art during this decade. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $2.90! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	Conceptual Art and Painting: Further Essays on Art & Language more books like this by Dr. Charles Harrison add to wishlist In "Conceptual Art and Painting", a companion to his "Essays on Art and Language", Charles Harrison reconsiders Conceptual Art in light of renewed interest in the original movement and of the various forms of "neo-Conceptual" art. He discusses developments in the Art and Language movement since 1991, during which time there have been major ... see all copies from $5.00! new only from $6.03! \| first editions \| SVS
15	Virgil Finlay's Far Beyond more books like this by Virgil Finlay add to wishlist see all copies from $12.50! new only from $34.99! \| first editions
16 view cover	James Coleman more books like this by George Baker (Editor) add to wishlist James Coleman has emerged in recent years as one of the most important artists of visual postmodernism. His work has transformed critical debates about the status of the image in contemporary culture and influenced an entire generation of younger artists in ways that have not yet been fully acknowledged. Until recently, Coleman has enjoyed ... see all copies from $3.40! new only from $4.98!
17 view cover	Stefan Gec more books like this by Stefan Gec (Illustrator), Andrew Patrizio add to wishlist Stefan Gec is an artist whose work has been gaining critical acclaim with his site-specific installations across North America and Europe. Drawing on his Ukrainain heritage, Gec's work primarily deals with issues of migration and displacement, using the sea as a metaphor to reflect on political concerns and questions. In post Cold War Europe, Ge ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions
18 view cover	Six Years: Dematerialization of the Art Object from 1966-72 more books like this by Lucy R Lippard add to wishlist This work documents the network of ideas that has been labelled conceptual art. Including texts by and taped discussions among and with the artists involved, the book is arranged as an annotated chronology. see all copies from $24.93! new only from $24.93! \| SVS
19 view cover	Global Conceptualism: Points of Origin, 1950s-1980s more books like this by Jane Farver, Claude Gintz, Wan Kyung Sung add to wishlist This book documents the most important exhibition of conceptual art ever undertaken, and surveys with decidedly international scope the development of idea-based art in the works of over 100 artists, from Australia, Asia, Latin America, Africa, Western and Eastern Europe, and North America. Included are scholarly essays which consider on a region ... see all copies from $43.05! new only from $110.00!
20 view cover	New Art in the 60s and 70s: Redefining Reality more books like this by Anne Rorimer add to wishlist By the end of the 1960s a revolution had taken place in the perception and practice of art in Europe and North America. The cultural and political context for this change reflected the desire for social transformation expressed in clashes with authority, such as the protests against the Vietnam War, that signalled a counterculture's defiance of ... see all copies from $17.58! new only from $19.26! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	Scene of the Crime more books like this by Ralph Rugoff (Editor), Anthony Vidler, Peter Wollen add to wishlist Due in large part to the bombing of the Oklahoma City Federal Building, the crash of TWA Flight 800, and the O.J. Simpson trial, the once-arcane field of forensics has taken hold of the popular imagination. This text which accompanies an exhibition of the same name organized by UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum and supported by the Fellows of ... see all copies from $40.00! new only from $219.00!
22 view cover	Erwin Wurm more books like this by Peter Weibel (Text by), Peter Weiermair (Preface by), Christa Steinle (Preface by) add to wishlist Erwin Wurm, one of Austria's most important and internationally famous sculptors, has been preoccupied with expanding the concept of sculpture since the eighties. In his "One Minute Sculptures, for example--temporary, grotesquely comic works--he invites the spectator to become a sculpture, even providing various kinds of accessories for the ... see all copies from $60.58! new only from $81.60!
23 view cover	Art After Philosophy and After: Collected Writings, 1966-1990 more books like this by Joseph Kosuth, Gabriele Guercio (Editor) add to wishlist Joseph Kosuth's writings, like his installations, assert that art begins where mere physicality ends. The articles, statements, and interviews collected here, produced over a period of 24 years, range over philosophy of language, anthropology, Marxism, and linguistics to discover the common principles that inform representation while negotiating ... see all copies from $100.00! first editions
24 view cover	Recording Conceptual Art: Early Interviews with Barry, Huebler, Kaltenbach, LeWitt, Morris, Oppenheim, Siegelaub, Smithson, Weiner more books like this by Alexander Alberro (Editor), Patricia Norvell (Editor) add to wishlist Recording Conceptual Art features a highly provocative series of previously unpublished interviews conducted in early 1969 with some of the most dynamic, daring, and innovative artists of the tumultuous 1960s. The nine individuals - eight artists and one art dealer - are now known as major contributors to Conceptual art. These fascinating ... see all copies from $2.30! new only from $5.50! \| signed copies \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	Childsplay: The Art of Allan Kaprow more books like this by Jeff Kelley, David Antin (Foreword by) add to wishlist Allan Kaprow has been described as an avant-garde revolutionary, a radical sociologist, a Zen(ish) monk, a progressive educator, and an anti-art theorist. But, above all, as this book reminds us, he has been an influential artist. Known for his "Happenings", Kaprow created vanguard performances in the early 1960s in which he collaged various art ... see all copies from $8.50! new only from $20.63! \| SVS

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