Contemporary (1945 -)
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Luna Luna: The Art Amusement Park
$49.95 Add to cartA landmark book documenting the first-ever art amusement park – launched in 1987 in Hamburg, Germany – in anticipation of its global reintroduction
In the late 1980s, more than 30 of the era’s most acc
- Author: Heller, André
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 15 2023
- ISBN10: 183866694X
- Language: English
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Edward Hopper’s New York
$65.00 Add to cartA revealing exploration of Edward Hopper’s inspired relationship to New York City through his paintings, drawings, prints, and never-before-published archival materials
This engaging book delves into- Author: Conaty, Kim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 22 2022
- ISBN10: 030026674X
- Language: English
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Frank Lloyd Wright
$100.00 Add to cartA building by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is at once unmistakably individual, and evocative of an entire era. Notable for their exceptional understanding of an organic environment, as well as for t
- Author: Brooks Pfeiffer, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: April 15 2015
- ISBN10: 3836555980
- Language: English
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Case Study Houses
$20.00 Add to cartThe Case Study House program (1945-1966) was a unique event in the history of American architecture. Sponsored by Arts & Architecture magazine, the program sought to respond to the postwar building bo
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Smith, Elizabeth A. T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 15 2016
- ISBN10: 3836535602
- Language: English
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Warhol After Warhol: Secrets, Lies, & Corruption in the Art World
$29.95 Read moreLong-time art critic Richard Dorment reveals the corruption and lies of the art world and its mystifying authentication process.
Late one afternoon in the winter of 2003, art critic Richard Dorment an- Author: Dorment, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1639364978
- Language: English
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Giger
$20.00 Add to cartSwiss artist HR Giger (1940-2014) is most famous for his creation of the space monster in Ridley Scott’s 1979 horror sci-fi film Alien, which earned him an Oscar. In retrospect, this was just one of t
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Giger, Hr
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 21 2018
- ISBN10: 3836534207
- Language: English
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Ruth Asawa Through Line
$50.00 Read moreA groundbreaking examination of how the act of drawing was a vital component of Ruth Asawa’s multifaceted art
“A revelatory exhibition. . . . [A] fine exhibition catalog.”–Nancy Princenthal, New Yor- Author: Conaty, Kim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0300273282
- Language: English
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Masterpieces of Fantasy Art. 40th Ed.
$30.00 Add to cartFantasy art, that colorful blend of myth, muscle and sexy maidens, took off in 1923 with the launch of Weird Tales magazine, was reinvigorated in the 1960s with The Lord of the Rings, Conan the Barbar
- Author: Hanson, Dian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 19 2023
- ISBN10: 3836593629
- Language: English
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Weaving at Black Mountain College: Anni Albers, Trude Guermonprez, and Their Students
$40.00 Add to cartA detailed study of the role and legacy of weaving at the legendary Black Mountain College
- Author: Beggs, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0300273568
- Language: English
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Basquiat
$20.00 Add to cartAn icon of 1980s New York, Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) first made his name under the graffiti tag “SAMO”, before establishing his studio practice and catapulting to fast fame at the age of 20. A
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Emmerling, Leonhard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 16 2015
- ISBN10: 383655979X
- Language: English
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Remedios Varo: Science Fictions
$40.00 Add to cartAn exploration of the captivating work and mystical outlook of the modern artist Remedios Varo, focusing on her years in Mexico City
This publication offers a definitive look at the artistic practice- Author: Haskell, Caitlin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 0300273215
- Language: English
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Jean-Michel Basquiat. 40th Ed.
$30.00 Add to cartThe legend of Jean-Michel Basquiat is as strong as ever. Synonymous with 1980s New York, the artist first appeared in the late 1970s under the tag SAMO, spraying caustic comments and fragmented poems
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Nairne, Eleanor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 03, 2020
- ISBN10: 3836580926
- Language: English
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The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
$38.99 Add to cartLonglisted for the National Book Award – Shortlisted for the Apollo Book of the Year Award – A New York Times Notable Book of the Year
The never-before-told story of an obscure little street at the low
- Author: Peiffer, Prudence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: August 01, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063097206
- Language: English
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Living in Japan. 40th Ed.
$30.00 Add to cartSo rich and unique is traditional Japanese architecture that it’s nearly impossible to improve upon. Yet contemporary Japanese designers and architects keep finding fresh approaches to refurbish and t
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Kerr, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: August 10, 2021
- ISBN10: 3836588439
- Language: English
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Meet Me by the Fountain: An Inside History of the Mall
$19.99 Read moreLonglisted for the Porchlight Business Book Awards
“A smart and accessible cultural history.”-Los Angeles Times A portrait–by turns celebratory, skeptical, and surprisingly moving–of one of America- Author: Lange, Alexandra
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1639732055
- Language: English
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DalÃ. the Paintings
$25.00 Add to cartPainter, sculptor, writer, and filmmaker, Salvador Dalà (1904-1989) was one of the century’s greatest exhibitionists and eccentrics–and was rewarded with fierce controversy wherever he went. He was o
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Néret, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 780
- Publish Date: March 04, 2013
- ISBN10: 383654492X
- Language: English
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Rothko: The Color Field Paintings (Book for Art Lovers, Books of Paintings, Museum Books)
$45.00 Add to cartA sumptuous collection of fifty large-scale artworks from the American master Mark Rothko’s color field period, with illuminating essays by Rothko’s son and a San Francisco Museum of Modern Art curato… [more below]
- Author: Rothko, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: September 05 2017
- ISBN10: 145215659X
- Language: English
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Tom of Finland XXL
$100.00 Add to cartIn 1998, TASCHEN introduced the world to the masterful art of Touko Laaksonen with The Art of Pleasure. Prior to that, Laaksonen, better known as Tom of Finland, enjoyed an intense cult following in t
- Author: Maupin, Armistead
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 666
- Publish Date: June 08 2016
- ISBN10: 3836527243
- Language: English
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The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans
$45.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking survey of contemporary Indigenous art and its enduring connections to the land
The Land Carries Our Ancestors: Contemporary Art by Native Americans brings together works by many of to- Author: Smith, Jaune Quick-To-See
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: October 17, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691245452
- Language: English
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David Hockney. a Chronology. 40th Ed.
$30.00 Add to cartPop artist, painter of modern life, landscape painter, master of color, explorer of image and perception–for six decades, David Hockney has been known as an artist who always finds new ways of explor
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Hockney, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 24 2020
- ISBN10: 383658249X
- Language: English
