Contemporary (1945 -)
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Zao Wou-KI: Watercolors and Ceramics
$44.95 Read moreThis volume, the first to explore this major artist’s experiments in watercolor and his interesting and beautiful forays into ceramic decoration, features a brief note by Fran?ise Marquet-Zao.
Zao Wou-
- Author: Chazal, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 1913875288
- Language: English
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Brutal Outer London
$26.00 Add to cartFrom the photographer behind the bestselling, iconic photo book Brutal London.
London is a large, dispersed megacity, and where Brutal London focused on inner London, this new book from the acclaimed
- Author: Phipps, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1914613163
- Language: English
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No Machos or Pop Stars: When the Leeds Art Experiment Went Punk
$27.95 Add to cartAfter punk’s arrival in 1976, many art students in the northern English city of Leeds traded their paintbrushes for guitars and synthesizers. In bands ranging from Gang of Four, Soft Cell, and Delta 5… [more below]
- Author: Butt, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1478018631
- 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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The World Atlas of Public Art
$50.00 Add to cartEssential reading for anyone interested in art, community, and the built environment
“An around-the-world glimpse into how artists reimagine the places, spaces, landscapes, streets, and skies we shar- Author: Wasserman, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0300272588
- Language: English
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Reckoning: Protest. Defiance. Resilience.
$55.00 Add to cartExplores the powerful ways in which visual art has long provided its own rich outlet for protest, commentary, escape, and perspective for African Americans.
This important book showcases the potent ro- Author: Young, Kevin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 084783669X
- Language: English
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I. M. Pei: Life Is Architecture
$85.00 Add to cartI. M. Pei (1917-2019) was one of the world’s most influential architects. Born and raised in China, Pei trained and worked in the United States, establishing a practice that spanned seven decades and
- Series: M+ Museum
- Author: Surya, Shirley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0500481024
- Language: English
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Christo and Jeanne-Claude. 40th Anniversary Edition
$30.00 Read moreThe works of Christo and Jeanne-Claude are monuments of transience. Gigantic in scale, they are always temporary, created to exist only for a limited time and to leave unique, unrepeatable impressions
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Taschen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 06 2020
- ISBN10: 3836580772
- Language: English
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Reshaping the Field: Arts of the African Diasporas on Display: Exhibition Histories 13
$35.00 Read moreA critical anthology on the mediation of Blackness through pivotal historical art exhibitions
The 13th volume of Afterall Books’ Exhibition Histories series explores Black identity through key historic
- Author: Adusei-Poku, Nana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: April 11 2023
- ISBN10: 3753302384
- 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 Iconic British House: Modern Architectural Masterworks Since 1900
$65.00 Add to cartA comprehensive survey of fifty of Britain’s most architecturally significant houses from 1900 to the present, featuring established names alongside the work of fresh emerging talents in the twenty-fi
- Author: Bradbury, Dominic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0500343748
- Language: English
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Wild Minds: The Artists and Rivalries That Inspired the Golden Age of Animation
$18.00 Read moreThe vivid and untold story of the Golden Age of classic animation and the often larger-than-life artists who created some of the most iconic cartoon characters of the twentieth century
In 1911, famed c
- Author: Mitenbuler, Reid
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: December 07, 2021
- ISBN10: 0802159141
- Language: English
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Creating Connections: Self-Taught Artists in the Rosenthal Collection
$49.95 Read moreA lavishly illustrated publication which explores an exceptionally diverse array of work by self-taught artists with wide-ranging backgrounds and motivations.
Creating Connections features over 70 pain
- Author: Aronson, Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1913875415
- Language: English
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The Office of Good Intentions. Human(s) Work
$60.00 Add to cartImmerse yourself with architects Florian Idenburg and LeeAnn Suen as they journey through a wide-ranging collection of the objects, systems, and buildings that have occupied the American office space
- Author: Idenburg, Florian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: July 30 2022
- ISBN10: 3836574365
- Language: English
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Domus 1960-1969
$40.00 Add to cartFounded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal. With both style and r
- Author: Fiell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: February 06 2023
- ISBN10: 3836593858
- Language: English
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Encounters with Artists
$34.95 Add to cartIn Encounters with Artists, Richard Cork turns his impeccable skills as a critic and writer to tell the story of his encounters with some of the world’s most influential artists. From a serendipitous
- Author: Cork, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 050002510X
- Language: English
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Keith Haring: 31 Subway Drawings
$45.00 Add to cartA fascinating look at Keith Haring’s New York City subway artwork from the 1980s
Celebrated artist Keith Haring (1958-1990) has been embraced by popular culture for his signature bold graphic line dra- Author: Deitch, Jeffrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 069122997X
- Language: English
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Calatrava
$20.00 Add to cartSpanish visionary Santiago Calatrava is renowned around the world as an architect, structural engineer, sculptor, and artist. Famed for bridges as much as buildings, he has made his name with neofutur
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Jodidio, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 02 2016
- ISBN10: 3836535653
- Language: English
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Concrete Jungle: Tropical Architecture and Its Surprising Origins
$90.00 Add to cartCombine concrete’s stoicism with luscious vegetative environments and you get to the language of tropical modernism. In continuity with its founding principles from the mid 20th century, today’s archi… [more below]
- Author: Gestalten
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 3967040895
- 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
