History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
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Modern Art. a History from Impressionism to Today
$25.00 Add to cartMost art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose brush
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Holzwarth, Hans Werner
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: January 15 2016
- ISBN10: 3836555395
- Language: English
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1898: Visual Culture and U.S. Imperialism in the Caribbean and the Pacific
$49.95 Add to cartA revealing look at U.S. imperialism through the lens of visual culture and portraiture
In 1898, the United States seized territories overseas, ushering in an era of expansion that was at odds with th- Author: Caragol, Taína
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: December 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691246203
- Language: English
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Jo Van Gogh-Bonger: The Woman Who Made Vincent Famous
$40.00 Add to cartIt is so good, after so many years of public indifference, even hostility towards Vincent and his work, to feel towards the end of my life that the battle is won.’
JO VAN GOGH-BONGER TO GUSTAVE COQUIO- Author: Luijten, Hans
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1350299588
- Language: English
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Klimt
$20.00 Add to cartThe unfading popularity of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) attests not only to the particular appeal of his luxuriant painting but also to the universal themes with which he worked: love, feminine beauty, ag
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Néret, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 15, 2015
- ISBN10: 3836558076
- Language: English
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Why Surrealism Matters
$26.00 Add to cartAn elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonate
“Mr. Polizzotti carefully balances the movement’s aspirations and attainments against its fl- Series: Why X Matters
- Author: Polizzotti, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0300257090
- Language: English
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Magic Eye: A New Way of Looking at the World: Volume 1
$19.99 Add to cartFamily and friends will enjoy hours of entertainment while viewing the amazing 3D illustrations found in this #1 New York Times bestseller.
Embedded within each image of Magic Eye: A New Way of Lookin- Series: Magic Eye #1
- Author: Smith, Cheri
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: October 05 1993
- ISBN10: 0836270061
- Language: English
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Monet. the Triumph of Impressionism
$60.00 Add to cartNo other artist, apart from J. M. W. Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet (1840-1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists, it was the man C?anne called “only an eye, but my G
- Author: Wildenstein, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 588
- Publish Date: June 30 2022
- ISBN10: 3836590832
- Language: English
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Gustav Klimt. the Complete Paintings
$25.00 Read moreFall under the spell of Gustav Klimt. Over a century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentat
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Natter, Tobias G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 30 2018
- ISBN10: 3836562901
- Language: English
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Vertigo of Color: Matisse, Derain, and the Origins of Fauvism
$50.00 Read moreIn the summer of 1905, the French painters Henri Matisse and Andr? Derain changed the course of art history with their radical color experiments
During the summer of 1905, Henri Matisse and Andr? Der- Author: Amory, Dita
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1588397653
- Language: English
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Van Gogh. the Complete Paintings
$25.00 Add to cartVincent van Gogh‘s story is one of the most tragic in art history. Today, he is celebrated the world over as one of the most important painters of all time, recognized with sell-out shows, feted museu
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Walther, Ingo F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 744
- Publish Date: May 15 2015
- ISBN10: 3836557150
- Language: English
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Monet. the Triumph of Impressionism
$25.00 Add to cartNo other artist, apart from J. M. W. Turner, tried as hard as Claude Monet (1840-1926) to capture light itself on canvas. Of all the Impressionists, it was the man C?anne called “only an eye, but my G
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Wildenstein, Daniel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: March 15 2014
- ISBN10: 3836551012
- Language: English
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Manet/Degas
$65.00 Add to cartThe first publication on the personal and professional relationship between Manet and Degas, two giants of nineteenth-century French art
Friends, rivals, and at times antagonists, ﾉdouard Manet and- Author: Wolohojian, Stephan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 316
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 1588397637
- Language: English
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Kahlo
$20.00 Read moreThe arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907-54) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and chil
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Kettenmann, Andrea
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 15 2015
- ISBN10: 383650085X
- Language: English
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DalÃ
$20.00 Add to cartPainter, sculptor, writer, filmmaker, and all-round showman Salvador Dal? (1904-1989) was one of the 20th century’s greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics. One of the first artists to apply the insigh
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Néret, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 15 2015
- ISBN10: 3836560003
- Language: English
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Picasso’s War: How Modern Art Came to America
$22.00 Add to cartA riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world–and Picasso the most famous artist alive–in the shadow of World War II
“[Eakin] has m- Author: Eakin, Hugh
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 0451498496
- Language: English
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Woven Histories: Textiles and Modern Abstraction
$65.00 Add to cartRichly illustrated volume exploring the inseparable histories of modernist abstraction and twentieth-century textiles.
Published on the occasion of an exhibition curated by Lynne Cooke, Woven Histori- Author: Cooke, Lynne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 292
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0226827291
- Language: English
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Hopper
$20.00 Read moreEdward Hopper (1882-1967) is something of an American success story, if only his success had come swifter. At the age of 40, he was a failing artist who struggled to sell a single painting. As he appr
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Renner, Rolf G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 23 2015
- ISBN10: 3836500337
- Language: English
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Falling Rocket: James Whistler, John Ruskin, and the Battle for Modern Art
$32.00 Add to cartA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
The untold story of the artistic battle between James Abbot MacNeill Whistler and John Ruskin over Whistler’s controversial, ground-breaking Nocturne in B- Author: Murphy, Paul Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 05, 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364919
- Language: English
