Deserted Places is an exploration of forgotten, lost places. The photographies are taken when almost no one is out, sometimes at night. The deserted places all have stories to tell. And when there is no one left to tell, only our imaginations tells us.

The art book "Wake" contains 2 mini illustration collections by Clash of Weapons member, Konaa. Muyuubyou -Konsui-: mini watercolor painting collection (2011) & Moboroshi: best of 2011 - 2012 mixed media illustrations.

The Moon Goddess Project is a collaborative creative work of ten artists. Collectively, they decided on a theme and each went in their own directions. Not being limited to any particular type of art making, each artist adds their own flair to the overall concept and each piece is sure to be unique and leave the viewer craving more.

Introduction The Bitter Sweet Philosophies is a collaboration between the artist Nick Fedaeff, and a collective of writers known as KK Jart. Nick Fedaeff is a Russian artist living and working in New Zealand. His art is exhibited and sold around the world. This particular collection of his work is an exploration of life through a child's eyes. Each painting has, Fedaeff says, "a real life behind it" and is inspired by a childhood memory. The pictures depict the universal emotions of joy, curiosity and fear, which speak to adults and children alike. The art of Nick Fedaeff evokes different responses from different people, depending on their view of life. It is this complexity that has sparked the KK Jart writers to respond to each picture in this fabulous book, bringing their own creativity to the experience of viewing Fedaeff's art. A picture is worth a thousand words - but each Fedaeff painting contains a thousand stories. On any page here you may find a thought that mirrors your own response. Or you may not. Some will make you laugh. Some will move you. Others may be incomprehensible or appear unrelated to the image in question. This does not make them wrong and it does not make them right - which is precisely the point. As Fedaeff says: "I've done my part. My pictures are very obvious. But then you have different takes on each one. The writers have their own independent vision and points of view. It has been a very unusual experience." Hopefully, the result of this collaboration will bring smiles of recognition. Or better still, invite your own response. Because, as we all know, there are far too many Bitter Sweet Philosophies to be contained in one book.

The "One Word" series explores the how the gestalt of reading changes when there is only one word printed on each page. Different demands are made upon the viewer as the intended speed becomes slower and the act becomes more physical. Although the viewer can savor every word, different cognitive processes are in play that prematurely subjugate the sentence and the paragraph to memory. Although readers normally reads a text in phrases and sentences, the writer writes it one word at a time. It is seldom that people take the time to experience a work as the author conceived it; contemplating each word and carefully thinking it through. For the author it is both a secrete act as well as an aesthetic one. This text is laid out with one word on each page in order to provide the reader with the opportunity to contemplate the work a new.

This book is a collection of fish and other animals in boxes with a self-explanatory saying in the art image.These paintings were painted at the boardwalk on Venice Beach, California from 2007 to present.Philosophical, political. cultural, scientific, humorous comments on present day society.

Fractal Fusion is a feast for the eyes. In modern culinary terms, fusion means a mixing of cultural foods. This term is used here to represent a mixing of cultural art and literature. A fractal is a modern mathematical subset representing natural elements that can be plotted in color on a computer, however this is not about the math, it is about art. From there many digital techniques have been employed to tease out the most beautiful representations of the representative fractal. The ancient Japanese Haiga is a form where a Haiku was associated with a wood cut or drawing and more recently a photograph. Here the elements of Haiku or Senryu are incorporated to represent as best it can, modern digital abstract art based on Fractal math. It is at times a difficult task and as in the fractal, one must use their imagination

The town and actual island known as Pawleys doesn't have boardwalks or Beachy town trappings. It's slow, private and classy. The people live on island time, a little to the right of bohemian I imagine; relaxed, down to earth, and spiritual. Yes, with the tides, winds, sand, ocean smells and sounds, the soul is soothed. However, Pawleys Island can be a frightening place to visit because once you spend time here you can't get the romance of the Lowcountry out of your mind. I know this as a fact because it happened to me. After visiting some friends in Pawleys we bought a home and one year later lived here. Some say there are ghosts and spirits among us. Maybe one of these spirits cast a spell and won't let go. After moving here I wanted to know everything there was to know about the Lowcountry. I spent months exploring, learning the lore and falling in love. I took classes in art, and it became a passion. I would like to tell my experiences of Pawleys Island through my paintings.

It started as a personal goal to draw one family-friendly animal per week for an entire year and upload each drawing to the web as a blog post for sharing with friends. Then, the exercise took on a life of its own and became an integral part of the author's everyday life. This book is a compilation of those animal doodles and silly sketches made throughout 2009.

Conceptual art as a popular phenomenon, known as conceptualism, had a profound impact upon the art world as a whole because it could manifest itself in any material or form. This allowed conceptual artists to approach themes that artists working in traditional materials could not. The term conceptual art was defined by Sol LeWitt, a pioneer of the movement, to describe diverse forms of written and visual documentation, including textual data, diagrams, drawings, maps, and photographic records. Stressing the use of language and thought process, the movement was the culmination of written information being enacted as art, something begun early in the century. In minimizing the relevance of the permanent visual object, conceptual art also demonstrated a disappointment with the museum and gallery system. It brought forth issues such as art as a commodity, what art could be, and art's role in society. It set out to shock the art community, to change the language of art, and to introduce a new way of perceiving and discussing art. Though it produced few known master works, conceptualism is credited with breaking from conventional art-making and did a great deal to open up the art world.

Images of paintings in oil and acrylic, regarding love, loss, visions, time, injustice, war, and people. (Several relate to experiences with dementia, schizophrenia, and depression.)

a collection of prose and poetry from the real life experiences of Travis White. An emotive exploration into the metaphoric and symbolic existentialist introspection of the darkest, deepest, recesses of the human feeling and experience. Travis White teamed up with David Cartwright to bring visual elements to complement each others works that has brought this collaborative work to print in "the dying of the hay"

In the twenty-first century, we are continually confronted with the existential side of technology-the relationships between identity and the mechanizations that have become extensions of the self. Focusing on one of humanity's most ubiquitous machines, Automotive Prosthetic: Technological Mediation and the Car in Conceptual Art combines critical theory and new media theory to form the first philosophical analysis of the car within works of conceptual art. These works are broadly defined to encompass a wide range of creative expressions, particularly in car-based conceptual art by both older, established artists and younger, emerging artists, including Ed Ruscha, Martha Rosler, Richard Prince, Sylvie Fleury, Yael Bartana, Jeremy Deller, and Jonathan Schipper. At its core, the book offers an alternative formation of conceptual art understood according to technology, the body moving through space, and what art historian, curator, and artist Jack Burnham calls "relations." This thought-provoking study illuminates the ways in which the automobile becomes a naturalized extension of the human body, incarnating new forms of "car art" and spurring a technological reframing of conceptual art. Steeped in a sophisticated take on the image and semiotics of the car, the chapters probe the politics of materialism as well as high/low debates about taste, culture, and art. The result is a highly innovative approach to contemporary intersections of art and technology.

Artist's book project of found narrative poetry from many different sources, father's diary, NYT wedding announcement pages, university alumni material, Clement Greenberg article, and other material.

The one true solution in life is that there are no solutions.

2013 Reprint of 1947 Edition. Exact facsimile of the original edition, not reproduced with Optical Recognition Software. In this title Kandinsky analyzed the geometrical elements which make up every painting-the point and the line. He called the physical support and the material surface on which the artist draws or paints the basic plane, or BP. He did not analyze them objectively, but from the point of view of their inner effect on the observer. A point is a small bit of color put by the artist on the canvas. It is neither a geometric point nor a mathematical abstraction; it is extension, form and color. This form can be a square, a triangle, a circle, a star or something more complex. The point is the most concise form but, according to its placement on the basic plane, it will take a different tonality. It can be isolated or resonate with other points or lines. A line is the product of a force which has been applied in a given direction: the force exerted on the pencil or paintbrush by the artist. The produced linear forms may be of several types: a straight line, which results from a unique force applied in a single direction; an angular line, resulting from the alternation of two forces in different directions, or a curved (or wave-like) line, produced by the effect of two forces acting simultaneously. The book contains many photographic examples and drawings from Kandinsky's works which offer the demonstration of its theoretical observations, and which allow the reader to experience the inner effect of the point and line to plane.

In his new book, the eminent philosopher Andrew Benjamin turns his attention to architecture, design, sculpture, painting and writing. Drawing predominantly on a European tradition of modern philosophical criticism running from the German Romantics through Walter Benjamin and beyond, he offers a sequence of strong meditations on a diverse ensemble of works and themes: on the library and the house, on architectural theory, on Rachel Whiteread, Peter Eisenman, Anselm Kiefer, Peter Nielson, David Hawley, Terri Bird, Elizabeth Presa and others. In Benjamin's hands, criticism is bound up with judgment. Objects of criticism always become more than mere documents. These essays dissolve the prejudices that have determined our relation to aesthetic objects and to thought, releasing in their very care and attentiveness to the 'objects themselves' the unexpected potentialities such objects harbour. In his sensitivity to what he calls 'the particularity of material events', Benjamin's writing comes to exemplify new possibilities for the contemporary practice of criticism itself. These essays are a major contribution to critical thought about art and architecture today, and a genuine work of what Benjamin himself identifies as a 'materialist aesthetics'.

Published by Xexoxial Editions. A collection of graphics from this Russian Zaum artist focussing on the possibilities of the purely visual in which fragments of language, musical scores, and abstracted ink drawings combine to form a visual language.