Contemporary (1945 -)
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Race and Modern Architecture: A Critical History from the Enlightenment to the Present
$45.00 Add to cartAlthough race–a concept of human difference that establishes hierarchies of power and domination–has played a critical role in the development of modern architectural discourse and practice since th… [more below]
- Series: Culture Politics & the Built Environment
- Author: Cheng, Irene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: July 28 2020
- ISBN10: 082296659X
- 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 Beautiful Fall: Fashion, Genius, and Glorious Excess in 1970s Paris
$24.99 Add to cartA comprehensive biography of the late designer, Karl Lagerfeld, and his infamous rivalry with Yves Saint Laurent.
In the 1970s, Paris fashion exploded like a champagne bottle left out in the sun. Ami- Author: Drake, Alicia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: September 09 2010
- ISBN10: 0316001856
- Language: English
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Richard Shiff: Writing After Art: Essays on Modern and Contemporary Artists
$45.00 Read moreA broad and deep anthology of critic and art historian Richard Shiff’s most influential writings, which have shaped our understanding of twentieth- and twenty-first-century art.
“Elegantly designed as- Author: Shiff, Richard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1644230488
- 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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The Illustrator. the Best from Around the World
$25.00 Add to cartFor the last couple of years, Steven Heller and Julius Wiedemann have traced the latest developments in illustration around the globe–and for all those who thought digital heralded the end of an era,
- Author: Wiedemann, Julius
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: April 28 2023
- ISBN10: 3836592568
- Language: English
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Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartContemporary art has never been so popular – but the art world is changing. In a landscape of increasing globalization there is growing interest in questions over the nature of contemporary art today,… [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Stallabrass, Julian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: February 01 2021
- ISBN10: 0198826621
- Language: English
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I Love Chicago Buildings
$29.95 Read moreThe book is not a typical guidebook, nor a generic history tale and not even a disguised autobiography. It is a listing of select pairs of buildings that each articulates a formal and abstract concept… [more below]
- Author: Bjone, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 24 2022
- ISBN10: 1954081693
- 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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Inside the Spiral: The Passions of Robert Smithson
$34.95 Read moreAn expansive and revelatory study of Robert Smithson’s life and the hidden influences on his iconic creations
This first biography of the major American artist Robert Smithson, famous as the creator- Author: Boettger, Suzaan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: April 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1517913543
- 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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Frédéric Chaubin. Cccp. Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed
$70.00 Add to cartElected the architectural book of the year by the International Artbook and Film Festival in Perpignan, France, Fr?d?ric Chaubin’s Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed explores 90 buildings in
- Author: Chaubin, Frédéric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: January 21 2011
- ISBN10: 3836525194
- Language: English
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Domus 1950-1959
$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 style and rigor,
- Author: Fiell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: February 06 2023
- ISBN10: 383659384X
- Language: English
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Island Zombie: Iceland Writings
$29.95 Read moreAn evocative chronicle of the power of solitude in the natural world
I’m often asked, but have no idea why I chose Iceland, why I first started going, why I still go. In truth I believe Iceland chose- Author: Horn, Roni
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691248621
- Language: English
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Piano. Complete Works 1966-Today. 2021 Edition
$100.00 Read moreRenzo Piano rose to international prominence with his co-design of the Pompidou Center in Paris, described by The New York Times as a building that “turned the architecture world upside down.” Since t
- Author: Piano, Renzo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: August 20 2021
- ISBN10: 3836577631
- Language: English
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Saul Leiter
$58.00 Read moreThis major retrospective of American artist Saul Leiter, one of the great pioneers of color photography, features a comprehensive look at his work ranging from early photographs, his fashion photograp
- Author: Woischnik, Brigitte
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: August 21 2012
- ISBN10: 3868282580
- Language: English
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Glitch Theory: Art and Semiotics
$30.00 Add to cartWhat do glitches reveal about the normally invisible processes behind our interpretations?
Glitches and Glitch Art illuminate the unseen assumptions, ideology of dialectical thinking, and role of est
- Author: Betancourt, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0979321557
- 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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The Stahl House: Case Study House #22: The Making of a Modernist Icon
$24.95 Add to cartThe official biography of a midcentury modern architectural gem and the family that made it their home.
The Stahl House–envisioned by owners Buck and Carlotta Stahl and designed by architect Pierre K- Author: Stahl, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 02 2021
- ISBN10: 1797209434
- Language: English
