History - Contemporary (1945- )
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Inventing the Modern: Untold Stories of the Women Who Shaped the Museum of Modern Art
$45.00 Add to cartProfiles of fourteen women who transformed the country’s foremost modern art museum in its fledgling years
Founded in 1929, the Museum of Modern Art owes much of its early success to a number of remark
- Author: Silver-Kohn, Romy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1633450791
- Language: English
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Vitamin Txt: Words in Contemporary Art
$69.95 Add to cartA ground-breaking global survey of today’s most innovative artists working with text
The inclusion of text in works of art was a revolutionary creative advancement of the twentieth century, with artist
- Author: Phaidon Editors, Phaidon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1838665463
- Language: English
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After the End of Art: Contemporary Art and the Pale of History – Updated Edition
$19.95 Add to cartThe classic and provocative account of how art changed irrevocably with pop art and why traditional aesthetics can’t make sense of contemporary art
A classic of art criticism and philosophy, After the- Series: Princeton Classics
- Author: Danto, Arthur C.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: September 22 2014
- ISBN10: 0691163898
- Language: English
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Queer Art: From Canvas to Club, and the Spaces Between
$35.00 Add to cartWe love and strongly recommend this beautifully curated book. Celebrating the massive and lasting global impact of LGBTQI+ artists, a book like this is long overdue! Russell Tovey & Robert Diament, co… [more below]
- Author: Rolls-Bentley, Gemma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0711282676
- Language: English
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A Year in the Art World: An Insider’s View
$16.95 Read moreOver the last few decades, the contemporary art world has become increasingly globalized and more visible than ever before. And yet, in many ways it remains closed and obscure. What actually happens b
- Author: Israel, Matthew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 19 2023
- ISBN10: 0500297088
- Language: English
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The Art of the Con: The Most Notorious Fakes, Frauds, and Forgeries in the Art World
$21.99 Add to cartArt scams are today so numerous that the specter of a lawsuit arising from a mistaken attribution has scared a number of experts away from the business of authentication and forgery, and with good rea
- Author: Amore, Anthony M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 11 2016
- ISBN10: 1250108608
- Language: English
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Gerhard Richter: New York 2023
$75.00 Read moreThis highly anticipated catalogue, accompanying Gerhard Richter’s first exhibition with David Zwirner, presents Richter’s last paintings along with his recent explorations in drawing, printing, and sc… [more below]
- Author: Richter, Gerhard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1644231131
- Language: English
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The Romare Bearden Reader
$31.95 Add to cartThe Romare Bearden Reader brings together a collection of new essays and canonical writings by novelists, poets, historians, critics, and playwrights. The contributors, who include Toni Morrison, Ralp… [more below]
- Author: O’Meally, Robert G.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: June 14 2019
- ISBN10: 1478000589
- Language: English
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Ellen Gallagher
$69.99 Read moreIn this in-depth look at Ellen Gallagher’s oeuvre, the complexities of her richly layered paintings are unpacked to examine themes such as identity, race, displacement and the ecological environment.
A… [more below]
- Series: Contemporary Painters
- Author: Mac Giolla Léith, Caoimhín
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1848223919
- Language: English
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¡Printing the Revolution!: The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics, 1965 to Now
$63.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking look at how Chicano graphic artists and their collaborators have used their work to imagine and sustain identities and political viewpoints during the past half century
The 1960s witn- Author: Zapata, Claudia E.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 01 2020
- ISBN10: 0691210802
- Language: English
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Appearances
$24.95 Add to cartThe artworks in this book begin with a traditional portrait drawing or painting. Often, years pass before the initial piece is altered. At times, I irrevocably erase or paint out areas. In other insta
- Author: Gabriel, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: September 02 2022
- ISBN10: 1930835280
- Language: English
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Disrupted Realism: Paintings for a Distracted World
$50.00 Add to cartDisrupted Realism takes an in-depth look at the works of contemporary painters who are challenging and reshaping the tradition of Realism, helping art lovers, collectors, and artists approach and unde… [more below]
- Author: Stanek, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 28 2019
- ISBN10: 764358014
- Language: English
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100 Illustrators
$25.00 Add to cartDrawn from TASCHEN’s Illustration Now! series, this go-to catalog brings together 100 of the most successful and important illustrators around the globe. With featured artists including Istvan Banyai,
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Wiedemann, Julius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 680
- Publish Date: January 25 2017
- ISBN10: 3836522225
- Language: English
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About Face: Stonewall, Revolt, and New Queer Art
$65.00 Read moreA unique survey of 350 artworks by a global and diverse array of LGBTQ+ artists – many underrecognized and overlooked – from the last 50 years
Though the Stonewall Riots might now be shorthand for the
- Author: Katz, Jonathan D.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 28 2024
- ISBN10: 1580936288
- Language: English
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Ways of Drawing: Artists’ Perspectives and Practices
$45.00 Read moreDrawing is among the most direct ways of engaging with the world; a way not just of seeing, but of understanding what you see. At once inspirational and instructive, Ways of Drawing collects a rich va
- Author: Royal Drawing School, The
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 0500021902
- Language: English
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Contemporary Art (Art Essentials)
$18.95 Read moreSince the 1960s, contemporary art has overturned the accepted historical categorizations of what constitutes art, who creates it, and how it is represented and validated. This guide brings the subject
- Series: Art Essentials #18
- Author: Rudd, Natalie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 0500296707
- Language: English
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Haring-Isms
$17.95 Add to cartEssential quotations from renowned artist and pop icon Keith Haring
Keith Haring remains one of the most important and celebrated artists of his generation and beyond. Through his signature bold grap- Series: Isms #4
- Author: Haring, Keith
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 29 2020
- ISBN10: 0691209855
- Language: English
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Marina Abramovic: Nomadic Journey and Spirit of Places
$50.00 Read moreNever before published, this self-curated, intensely personal collection of travel notes and sketches by the world’s most revered performance artist offers readers a kind of iconography of Abramovic&#
- Author: Abramovic, Marina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 26, 2023
- ISBN10: 379137995X
- Language: English
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Activism
$27.95 Read moreAn edited collection that addresses the vital intersection of contemporary art and activism in this watershed cultural moment.
Activism is a critical point of contention for institutions and genealogi- Series: Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art
- Author: Dias Ramos, Afonso
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: October 24, 2023
- ISBN10: 0262546566
- Language: English
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Abstract Art
$20.00 Add to cartAbstraction shook Western art to its core. In the early part of the 20th century, it refuted the reign of clear, indisputable forms and confronted audiences instead with vivid visual poems devoid of c
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Elger, Dietmar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 02 2017
- ISBN10: 3836546787
- Language: English
