History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
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The Farm at Black Mountain College
$35.00 Add to cartA record of the rise and fall of the BMC farm that foregrounds the voices of a new cast of characters
Black Mountain College (BMC) was a wellspring of 20th-century creative unorthodoxy. From its found
- Author: Silver, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1954957114
- Language: English
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101 Surrealists
$21.95 Add to cart2024 marks the centennial of surrealism, one of the most influential artistic movements of the modern era. In 1924, Andr? Breton wrote the Surrealist Manifesto, a call to arms that established surreal
- Author: Morris, Desmond
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0500027811
- Language: English
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Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers
$50.00 Add to cartAn original interpretation of the final years of Van Gogh’s career, exploring the people and places in his late paintings
The years prior to Van Gogh’s death in 1890 were pivotal to the painter’s bri- Author: Homburg, Cornelia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1857097017
- Language: English
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What Are You Looking At?: The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art
$24.00 Read moreThe perfect gift for the art lover in your life. In the tradition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Will Gompertz teaches art history with a sense of humor
Every year, millions of museum and gallery visitors- Author: Gompertz, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0142180297
- Language: English
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Expressionism
$24.95 Add to cartExpressionist artists believed in art’s ability to communicate emotion, irrespective of any representational or narrative content. In this comprehensive introduction to one of the most radical artisti
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Rhodes, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0500297754
- Language: English
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Matisse in Morocco: A Journey of Light and Color
$32.00 Add to cartThe remarkable and little-known story of Henri Matisse and his groundbreaking time in Morocco, a fertile period that transformed his art and cemented his legacy.
In winter of 1912, Henri Matisse–fort- Author: Koehler, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1639369090
- Language: English
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Vanessa Bell: The Life and Art of a Bloomsbury Radical
$40.00 Add to cartOne of Britain’s most radical and influential artists working in the first decades of the twentieth century, Vanessa Bell was a pioneer for professional women
Vanessa Bell was a leading figure within- Author: Hitchmough, Wendy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0300269218
- Language: English
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A Fire in His Soul: Van Gogh, Paris, and the Making of an Artist
$39.95 Add to cartThe fascinating story of Vincent van Gogh’s two groundbreaking years in Paris, where he transformed himself from a provincial unknown into one of the world’s great visionary artists.
Vincent Van Gogh- Author: Unger, Miles J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368450
- Language: English
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Expressionists: Kandinsky, Munter and the Blue Rider
$60.00 Add to cartA crucial introduction to the origins of the German Expressionist movement and the influential Blue Rider group, focusing on their relationships and transcultural interests
Founded in Munich in the 1- Author: Sidlina, Natalia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0300278330
- Language: English
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Monet: The Pop-Up Book
$28.00 Add to cartFive of Monet’s most beloved works spring to life in this vivid and brilliantly engineered collection of pop-up scenes.
One of the joys of a Monet painting is the sense of being fully immersed in a be- Author: Carter, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 10
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 3791377477
- Language: English
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The Painted Word
$17.00 Read moreReissued for today’s reader with a redesigned cover by the renowned artist Seymour Chwast, Tom Wolfe trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this “masterpiece” (The Washington Post).
What has become- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1250338328
- Language: English
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Bonnard’s Worlds
$60.00 Read moreA fascinating journey into Pierre Bonnard’s world and the inspiration behind his spatially arresting and intimate paintings
- Author: Shackelford, George T. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0300273274
- Language: English
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Impressionism
$25.00 Add to cartIt was a dappled and daubed harbor scene that gave Impressionism its name. When Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet was exhibited in April 1874, critics seized upon the work’s title and its loose styl
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Walther, Ingo F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: April 08 2016
- ISBN10: 3836557118
- Language: English
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The History of Graphic Design. Vol. 2. 1960-Today
$80.00 Add to cartThrough the turbulent passage of time, graphic design–with its vivid, neat synthesis of image and idea–has distilled the spirit of each age. Surrounding us every minute of every day, from minimalist
- Author: Müller, Jens
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 3836570378
- Language: English
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The Forger’s Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
$16.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“Dolnick brilliantly re-creates the circumstances that made possible one of the most audacious frauds of the 20th century. And in doing so Dolnick plumbs the nature of fraud i
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Dolnick, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0060825421
- Language: English
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Gustav Klimt. the Complete Paintings
$100.00 Read moreOver a century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. This monograph gathers all of Kli
- Author: Natter, Tobias G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 604
- Publish Date: May 26 2017
- ISBN10: 3836566613
- Language: English
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Modigliani: Modern Gazes
$55.00 Read moreA groundbreaking new perspective on the painter’s scandalous nudes.
Among the most celebrated works of Modigliani’s brief but brilliant career are his large-format nudes. Drenched in color and glowing- Author: Staatsgalerie Stuttgart
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 06 2024
- ISBN10: 3791377094
- Language: English
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Expressionism
$20.00 Read moreSharp angles, strange forms, lurid colors, and distorted perspectives are classic hallmarks of Expressionism, the twentieth century movement that prioritized emotion over objective reality. Though par
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Wolf, Norbert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 11 2015
- ISBN10: 3836505282
- Language: English
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Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment
$65.00 Add to cartA wide-ranging exploration of the birth of impressionism centered around the landmark exhibition in Paris in 1874
Discover the origins of impressionism in this revelatory look at the context for the- Author: Patry, Sylvie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0300278489
- Language: English
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Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the “Terrible Year” by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved, and forced into surrender by Germans–then imperiled aga
- Author: Smee, Sebastian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1324006951
- Language: English
