Contemporary (1945 -)
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Neutra
$20.00 Add to cartIn the architecture of Richard Neutra (1892-1970), inside and outside find their perfect modernist harmony. As the Californian sun glints off sleek building surfaces, vast glass panel walls allow pano
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Lamprecht, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 15 2016
- ISBN10: 3836535963
- Language: English
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Case Study Houses. the Complete CSH Program 1945-1966. 40th Ed.
$30.00 Add to cartThe Case Study House program (1945-1966) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Smith, Elizabeth A. T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: June 16 2021
- ISBN10: 3836587874
- Language: English
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Cape Cod Modern: Midcentury Architecture and Community on the Outer Cape
$45.00 Add to cartFrom the “summer Bauhaus” on, the Cape’s modern designers enjoyed a lifestyle based on communion with nature, solitary creativity and shared festivity
In the summer of 1937, Walter Gropius, founder of
- Author: Frampton, Kenneth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 30 2014
- ISBN10: 1935202162
- Language: English
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Pop Art
$20.00 Add to cartPeaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumer culture, the role of the artist,
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Honnef, Klaus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 14 2015
- ISBN10: 383652337X
- Language: English
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Joan Mitchell
$65.00 Add to cartA sweeping retrospective exploring the oeuvre of an incandescent artist, revealing the ways that Mitchell expanded painting beyond Abstract Expressionism as well as the transatlantic contexts that sha… [more below]
- Author: Roberts, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 05 2021
- ISBN10: 0300247273
- Language: English
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Green Architecture
$25.00 Add to cartThe most exciting new buildings today are almost all environmentally aware, sustainable, and conceived to consume less energy than ever before. Discover the best examples of green projects from the Ar
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Jodidio, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: August 01 2018
- ISBN10: 3836522209
- Language: English
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Frédéric Chaubin. Cccp. Cosmic Communist Constructions Photographed. 40th E
$30.00 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
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Chaubin, Frédéric
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 3836587793
- Language: English
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Banksy
$40.00 Add to cartThe largest presentation of works by Banksy, the world’s most enigmatic yet highly sought-after artist, including iconic works, installation objects, ephemera, and memorabilia all in one volume.
Banks- Author: Antonelli, Stefano
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0847872769
- Language: English
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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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Warhol-Isms
$17.95 Add to cartA unique collection of brilliant quotations from the legendary Pop artist
One of the most influential artists of his time and ours, Andy Warhol is nearly as renowned for what he said as for what he di- Series: Isms #8
- Author: Warhol, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: May 10 2022
- ISBN10: 0691235031
- Language: English
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Lautner
$20.00 Add to cartWith his geometric structures perched upon the hillsides, beaches, and deserts of California, John Lautner (1911-1994) was behind some of the most striking and innovative architectural designs in mid-
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Campbell-Lange, Barbara-Ann
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 29, 2016
- ISBN10: 3836544113
- Language: English
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Rothko
$20.00 Read moreResisting interpretation or classification, Mark Rothko (1903-1970) was a prominent advocate for the artist’s consummate freedom of expression. Although identified as a key protagonist of the Abstract
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Baal-Teshuva, Jacob
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 3, 2015
- ISBN10: 383650426X
- Language: English
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The Notebooks
$39.00 Add to cartA facsimile edition of the artist’s fascinating working notebooks
Brooklyn-born Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-88) was one of the most important artists of the 1980s. A key figure in the New York art scen- Series: Artist Archives #1
- Author: Basquiat, Jean-Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 26 2015
- ISBN10: 0691167893
- Language: English
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America and Other Myths: Photographs by Robert Frank and Todd Webb, 1955
$50.00 Add to cartRobert Frank’s and Todd Webb’s parallel 1955 projects to photograph America are considered in the context of mid-twentieth-century American culture
In 1955 two photographers were awarded grants from- Author: Volpe, Lisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 0300270895
- Language: English
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See What You’re Missing: New Ways of Looking at the World Through Art
$28.95 Read moreTaking us into the minds of artists–from contemporary stars to old masters–See What You’re Missing shows us how to look and experience the world with their heightened awareness.
Artists are expert l- Author: Gompertz, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: April 04 2023
- ISBN10: 1639361731
- Language: English
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Haring
$20.00 Add to cartOne of the key figures in the New York art world of the 1980s, Keith Haring (1958-1990) created a signature style that blended street art, graffiti, a Pop sensibility, and cartoon elements to unique,
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Kolossa, Alexandra
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 23 2016
- ISBN10: 383653049X
- Language: English
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Camille Pissarro: The Audacity of Impressionism
$29.99 Add to cartA Best Book of 2023 by The New Yorker
From the acclaimed biographer and author of Balzac’s Omelette, an engaging new work on the life of “the father of Impressionism” and the role his Jewish backgroun- Author: Muhlstein, Anka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 1635421705
- Language: English
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Multiplicity: Blackness in Contemporary American Collage
$50.00 Add to cartAn engaging introduction to contemporary Black American collage brings together art by fifty artists that reflects the breadth and complexity of Black identity
“A lavish catalog . . . provides not jus- Author: Delmez, Kathryn E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0300272960
- Language: English
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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
$20.00 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
#1 Book of the Year from Brain Pickings Named a best book of the year by NPR, Newsweek, Slate, Pop Sugar, Marie Claire, Elle, Publisher- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 06, 2017
- ISBN10: 1250118034
- Language: English
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Milton Glaser: Pop
$65.00 Read more‘Milton Glaser’s designs changed the way we see the world.’ – Gloria Steinem
An overview of the work of illustrator and designer Milton Glaser during the 1960s and 70s
From 1954, when he co-founded the
- Author: Heller, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 29 2023
- ISBN10: 158093613X
- Language: English
