History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)

  • The Art Deco Style: Great Designers & Collectors

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    – Richly illustrated history of Art Deco

    – Written by art consultant Alastair Duncan

    – Designs by Eileen Gray, Jean Dunand and Antoine Bourdelle, among many others

    – Featuring legendary Art Deco collecto

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    • Author: Duncan, Alastair
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 420
    • Publish Date: November 27 2023
    • ISBN10: 1788842251
    • Language: English
  • Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism

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    An exploration of Edgar Degas’s laundress works and their significance within broader debates art, urban life, and women’s work in the nineteenth century

    Edgar Degas’s depictions of Parisian laundres

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    • Author: Salsbury, Britany
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: October 10 2023
    • ISBN10: 0300273223
    • Language: English
  • After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art

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    Through the 1880s the very essence of representation, meaning and process in Western art were profoundly interrogated. Plausible representations of the external world were cast aside in favour of non-… [more below]

    • Author: Stevens, Maryanne
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: May 23 2023
    • ISBN10: 1857096959
    • Language: English
  • Picasso: A Cubist Commission in Brooklyn

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    New scholarship on a little-known decorative commission undertaken by Pablo Picasso offers insight into the artist’s painting process and the evolution of Cubism

    In 1910, Pablo Picasso began a series

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    • Author: Jozefacka, Anna
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: September 26 2023
    • ISBN10: 1588397688
    • Language: English
  • 50 Modern Artists You Should Know

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    Now available in a new edition, this chronologically arranged volume covers a century and a half of masterpieces which beautifully capture the development of art in the modern age.Now available in a n… [more below]

    • Series: 50 You Should Know
    • Author: Weidemann, Christiane
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: May 25 2017
    • ISBN10: 3791383388
    • Language: English
  • Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: Along the Seine

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    An examination of the innovative portrayals of industry and leisure created by five avant-garde artists working at Asni鑽es in the late nineteenth century

    From 1881 to 1890, Vincent van Gogh, George

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    • Author: Gerritse, Bregje
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 208
    • Publish Date: May 30 2023
    • ISBN10: 0300269765
    • Language: English
  • The Art of Ukraine

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    This new volume in the World of Art series provides an overview of Ukrainian art, artists, and art movements from the dawn of modernism and the 1900s to the Soviet period, to post-Soviet times and the

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    • Series: World of Art
    • Author: Lozhkina, Alisa
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: July 16 2024
    • ISBN10: 0500297789
    • Language: English
  • Matisse. Cut-Outs

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    Henri Matisse (1869-1954) was a fighting spirit. Despite a cancer diagnosis in 1941, increasing frailty, and the confines of a wheelchair, the indomitable Frenchman never stopped in his quest to make

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    • Series: Basic Art
    • Author: Néret, Gilles
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: December 09 2016
    • ISBN10: 3836534274
    • Language: English
  • Van Gogh. the Complete Paintings

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    Today, the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In paintings such as Sunflowers, The Starry Night, and Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, we r

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    • Author: Walther, Ingo F.
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 752
    • Publish Date: June 29 2020
    • ISBN10: 3836572931
    • Language: English
  • Hundertwasser

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    Vivid color, organic forms, and a loathing of straight lines were just a few stalwart characteristics in the unique practice of Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000). A non-conformist hero, the arti

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    • Series: Basic Art
    • Author: Restany, Pierre
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: July 19 2018
    • ISBN10: 3836564211
    • Language: English
  • The Dream Collector: Sabrine & Sigmund Freud – Book One

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    “Meek never fails to stun and impress with his evocation of scenes and events, of sights and dialogue, and of peoples’ reactions to them.” – HFC Reviews

    The Dream Collector immerses the reader into the

    • Author: Meek, R. W.
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 556
    • Publish Date: December 19, 2023
    • ISBN10: 1962465144
    • Language: English
  • Picasso and the Art of Drawing

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    In this generously illustrated and lively book, Christopher Lloyd sets out and interprets the lifelong achievement of Picasso (1881-1973) as a draftsman. Although there have been many publications abo… [more below]

    • Author: Lloyd, Christopher
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 230
    • Publish Date: March 20 2018
    • ISBN10: 0300234805
    • Language: English
  • Make It Modern: A History of Art in the 20th Century

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    A fascinating journey through Western art from the 1910s to the 1960s, charting how artists wrestled with the headlong changes of a turbulent and conflict-ridden world

    From the chaos of the First Wor

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    • Author: Taylor, Brandon
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 368
    • Publish Date: November 29 2022
    • ISBN10: 0300253656
    • Language: English
  • The Lives of the Surrealists

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    Surrealism did not begin as an art movement but as a philosophical strategy, a way of life, and a rebellion against the establishment that gave rise to the World War I. In The Lives of the Surrealists

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    • Author: Morris, Desmond
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: February 08 2022
    • ISBN10: 500296375
    • Language: English
  • In Search of Van Gogh: Capturing the Life of the Artist Through Photographs and Paintings

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    Follow in the footsteps of Vincent Van Gogh, from his birthplace in Zundert, Netherlands, to his last days in Auvers-sur-Oise, France, and explore the hidden inspirations behind the world-renowned art

    • Author: Fossi, Gloria
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 240
    • Publish Date: September 21, 2021
    • ISBN10: 0063085178
    • Language: English
  • The Lives of the Surrealists

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    Surrealism did not begin as an art movement but as a philosophical strategy, a way of life, and a rebellion against the establishment that gave rise to the First World War. In Lives of the Surrealists

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    • Author: Morris, Desmond
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 272
    • Publish Date: May 15 2018
    • ISBN10: 0500021368
    • Language: English
  • Winslow Homer in the Adirondacks

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    In this title, David Tatham demonstrates that Winslow Homer’s ‘Adirondack oils and watercolours constitute a highly original examination of the human race’s relationship to the natural world at a time… [more below]

    • Series: New York State
    • Author: Tatham, David
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 158
    • Publish Date: April 01 2004
    • ISBN10: 0815607733
    • Language: English
  • Concepts of Modern Art

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    The main concepts and development of art from about 1900 to the present are analyzed in authoritative essays by some of the most distinguished art historians and critics in Britain and the United Stat

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    • Series: World of Art
    • Author: Stangos, Nikos
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 426
    • Publish Date: June 17 1994
    • ISBN10: 0500202680
    • Language: English
  • Modigliani

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    In endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) traced elongated bodies, almond eyes, and his own name into art history. His languid female subjects are as instantly recognizable as

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    • Series: Basic Art
    • Author: Krystof, Doris
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: November 03 2015
    • ISBN10: 3836503670
    • Language: English
  • Yayoi Kusama: The Journal

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    Featuring the vibrant and dynamic work of Yayoi Kusama, this journal is the perfect canvas for creative thought.

    The Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama’s kaleidoscopic environments have captured the imagina

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    • Series: The Artist Journals
    • Author: Kusama, Yayoi
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: June 06 2023
    • ISBN10: 1644230917
    • Language: English
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