Contemporary (1945 -)
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Homes for Our Time. Contemporary Houses Around the World. 40th Ed.
$30.00 Add to cartAcross small cottages and lavish villas, beach houses and forest refuges, discover the world’s finest crop of new homes. This cutting-edge global digest features such talents as Shigeru Ban and Marcio
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Jodidio, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 18 2020
- ISBN10: 3836581914
- Language: English
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Digital Design: A History
$49.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking history of digital design from the nineteenth century to today
Digital design has emerged as perhaps the most dynamic force in society, occupying a fluid, experimental space where pro- Author: Eskilson, Stephen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 069118139X
- Language: English
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Kara Walker: White Shadows in Blackface
$40.00 Add to cartThemes and motifs in the art of Kara Walker, from blackface to abjection, by a leading art historian
In 2002, Kara Walker was selected to represent the United States at the prestigious S? Paulo Art Bie
- Author: Walker, Kara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1949172732
- Language: English
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Yayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now
$65.00 Add to cartYayoi Kusama: 1945 to Now is the most comprehensive survey of the artist’s work to date, profiling an artist who has achieved truly global acclaim in her lifetime. In a wide-ranging career spanning s
- Series: M+ Museum
- Author: Chong, Doryun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: February 07 2023
- ISBN10: 0500025851
- Language: English
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The Haight: Revised and Expanded: Love, Rock, and Revolution
$29.99 Add to cartFeaturing striking images of twentieth-century icons, such as Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan, Jimi Hendrix, Timothy Leary, Allen Ginsburg, Grace Slick, and others, The Haight is an indispensable gallery of l… [more below]
- Series: Legacy
- Author: Selvin, Joel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: June 22 2021
- ISBN10: 1647220521
- Language: English
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Young, Gifted and Black: A New Generation of Artists: The Lumpkin-Boccuzzi Family Collection of Contemporary Art
$49.95 Read moreWhat’s new, now and next from contemporary Black artists
A New York Times 2020 holiday gift guide pick
This book surveys the work of a new generation of Black artists, and also features the voices of a- Author: Sargent, Antwaun
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 1942884591
- Language: English
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Andy Warhol. Seven Illustrated Books 1952-1959
$80.00 Add to cartIn 1950s New York, before he became one of the most famous names of the 20th century, Andy Warhol was already a skilled and successful commercial artist. During this time, as part of his strategy to w
- Author: Schleif, Nina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 07 2023
- ISBN10: 3836592584
- Language: English
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Lichtenstein
$20.00 Read moreAmerican painter Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) pioneered a new epoch in American art, bursting onto a scene dominated by Abstract Expressionism in late 1950s New York and defining a new art vocabulary
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Hendrickson, Janis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 31 2016
- ISBN10: 3836532077
- Language: English
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Aalto
$20.00 Add to cartAlvar Aalto (1898-1976) made a unique modernist mark. Influenced by both the landscape and the political independence of his native Finland, he designed warm, curving, compassionate buildings, wholly
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Lahti, Louna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 09 2015
- ISBN10: 3836560100
- Language: English
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Keiko Hara: Four Decades of Paintings and Prints
$34.00 Read moreKeiko Hara offers a detailed exploration of the prolific artist’s unwavering commitment to painting, and her unique form of Japanese woodblock printmaking. Rich with metaphorical imagery, Hara’s visua
- Author: Tesner, Linda
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: November 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0874224217
- Language: English
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Roar!: A Collection of Mighty Women
$45.00 Read moreOn the heels of Ashley Longshore’s successful I Do Not Cook, I Do Not Clean, I Do Not Fly Commercial comes Roar A Collection of Mighty Women inspirational portraits of the most culturally seminal wom… [more below]
- Author: Longshore, Ashley
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 23 2021
- ISBN10: 0847870782
- Language: English
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Montana Modernists: Shifting Perceptions of Western Art
$32.95 Add to cartFor many, Charles M. Russell’s paintings epitomize life in the West. But in twentieth-century postwar Montana, an avant-garde art movement–Montana Modernism–brewed. Its pioneers–Jessie Wilber, Fran
- Author: Corriel, Michele
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 180
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0874224195
- Language: English
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Alice Neel: People Come First
$50.00 Add to cartPositioning Alice Neel as a champion of civil rights, this book explores how her paintings convey her humanist politics and capture the humanity, strength, and vulnerability of her subjects
“One of th- Author: Baum, Kelly
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 20 2021
- ISBN10: 1588397254
- Language: English
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia, Volume II
$34.95 Add to cartAn essential second installment of the bestselling Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia
Danzig Baldaev’s father was an academic, an ethnologist who found himself imprisoned under Soviet rule as an enem… [more below]
- Author: Baldaev, Danzig
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 30 2011
- ISBN10: 0955006120
- Language: English
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Agnes Pelton: Desert Transcendentalist
$50.00 Add to cartThe first complete survey of an underrecognized American modernist in more than two decades.
Agnes Pelton became famous for her distinctive metaphysical landscape paintings rooted in the imagery of t- Author: Vicario, Gilbert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: August 05 2022
- ISBN10: 3777439746
- Language: English
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Digital Art
$24.95 Read moreDigital art, along with the technological developments of its medium, has rapidly evolved from the “digital revolution” into the social media era and then to the postdigital and post-Internet landscap
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Paul, Christiane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0500204802
- Language: English
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Drawing in the Present Tense
$50.00 Read moreDrawing in the Present Tense explores the variety of ways in which contemporary artists from around the world have come to approach drawing as the primary element of their practice. One which is auto
- Author: Gilman, Claire
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0500294933
- Language: English
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Ando. Complete Works 1975-Today
$30.00 Add to cartDiscover the master of Modernist simplicity, Tadao Ando. Bringing our XXL-sized tribute to a smaller, more convenient format, this collection spans the architect’s entire career–including new project… [more below]
- Author: Jodidio, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 22 2020
- ISBN10: 3836565862
- Language: Multiple Languages
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Leap Before You Look: Black Mountain College 1933-1957
$75.00 Add to cartA dynamic new look at the legendary college that was a major incubator of the arts in midcentury America
In 1933, John Rice founded Black Mountain College in North Carolina as an experiment in making- Author: Molesworth, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 13 2015
- ISBN10: 0300211910
- Language: English
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Surrealists in New York: Atelier 17 and the Birth of Abstract Expressionism
$34.95 Add to cartIn 1957 the American artist Robert Motherwell made an unexpected claim: “I have only known two painting milieus well … the Parisian Surrealists, with whom I began painting seriously in New York in 1
- Author: Darwent, Charles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0500094268
- Language: English
