Contemporary (1945 -)
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Screenprints: A History
$50.00 Add to cartScreenprints: A History, the first title in the V&A’s new series on the history and practice of printmaking, is a celebration of the fine-art applications of this versatile medium, from the commercia
- Series: V&a Museum
- Author: Saunders, Gill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 0500481016
- Language: English
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Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury
$49.95 Add to cartHow a group of artist-mothers in postwar San Francisco refused the centuries-old belief that a woman could not make art while also raising children.
For most of modern history, to be an artist and a m- Author: Troeller, Jordan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 026204949X
- Language: English
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Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction: Expanded Edition
$65.00 Add to cartFeaturing new houses, many additional photographs and a new afterword, Fire Island Modernist offers a fascinating look at the history and culture of this “gay paradise” through the life and work of Ho
- Author: Rawlins, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1881616991
- Language: English
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Mark Rothko: From the Inside Out
$28.00 Read more“The journey to understand the painting is also the journey to understand Rothko, because the work is so thoroughly suffused with the man.”–Christopher Rothko
Mark Rothko (1903-1970), world-renowned- Author: Rothko, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: October 30 2018
- ISBN10: 030023841X
- Language: English
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From Bauhaus to Our House
$17.00 Add to cart“After 1945 our plutocrats, bureaucrats, board chairmen, CEOs, commissioners, and college presidents undergo an inexplicable change. They become diffident and reticent. All at once they are willing
to- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1250352673
- Language: English
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The War of Art: A History of Artists’ Protest in America
$29.95 Add to cartHow artists have changed America through direct action
Artists in America have long battled against injustices, believing that art can in fact “do more.” The War of Art tells this history of artist-le- Author: O’Neill-Butler, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1804296333
- Language: English
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Expressionism
$24.95 Add to cartExpressionist artists believed in art’s ability to communicate emotion, irrespective of any representational or narrative content. In this comprehensive introduction to one of the most radical artisti
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Rhodes, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0500297754
- Language: English
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Vitamin V: Video and the Moving Image in Contemporary Art
$69.95 Add to cartThe most comprehensive survey to date of contemporary video and moving-image art from the last decade
Video has never been more prevalent in contemporary art than it is today. At a time when moving ima
- Author: Editors, Phaidon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: April 03 2025
- ISBN10: 183866873X
- Language: English
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New African Masquerades: Artistic Innovations and Collaborations
$60.00 Add to cartAn exploration of contemporary African masquerade that reveals its cultural contexts, artistic innovations, and intersection with museum collection practices
By placing masquerade at the forefront of- Author: Maples, Amanda M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0300279957
- Language: English
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Blow Up!: The Explosion of Contemporary Art
$24.95 Add to cartHow did a urinal become art? And a can of tomato soup, a tent, a pickled shark. . . . How did what seemed like a prank at the New York Armory Show of 1917 explode to become today’s global multibillion
- Author: Shore, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 500027986
- Language: English
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R. Crumb: Existential Comics: Selected Stories 1979-2004
$45.00 Add to cartThis volume brings together twenty-five of R. Crumb’s most ambitious, acclaimed, and profound comics.
One of the most influential and iconic cartoonists of our time, R. Crumb is celebrated for pushing- Author: Crumb, R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1644231530
- Language: English
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Daniel Johnston
$55.00 Add to cartThe legendary artist and musician as seen through the most comprehensive collection of his drawings ever published.
A significant figure in outsider, lo-fi, and alternative scenes, Daniel Johnston ins- Author: Foster, Lee
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 392
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 084782800X
- Language: English
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Wayne Thiebaud: Art Comes from Art
$65.00 Add to cart“A beautifully produced, authoritative volume.”–Kirkus Reviews
Explores Wayne Thiebaud’s career as a self-described “thief” who appropriated and reinterpreted old and new European and American artwo- Author: Burgard, Timothy Anglin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 520418328
- Language: English
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Architecture in the 20th Century
$100.00 Add to cartFrom Frank Lloyd Wright and Frank O. Gehry to Antoni Gaud?, Shigeru Ban and all the best in between, this essential guide celebrates 100 years of the finest architecture. Large-format photos, drawings… [more below]
- Author: Leuthäuser, Gabriele
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 600
- Publish Date: November 23 2020
- ISBN10: 3836570904
- Language: English
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The Twilight of Bohemia: Westbeth and the Last Artists of New York
$30.00 Add to cartAn intimate history of America’s first publicly funded artists’ housing project and its residents that casts light on the precarious place of art-makers in a changing New York.
Westbeth Artists Housi- Author: Trachtenberg, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1574232517
- Language: English
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The Palm Springs School: Desert Modernism 1934-1975
$65.00 Add to cartPalm Springs is at the center of a unique tradition in architecture marked by invention and a sensitivity to local conditions that has resulted in design that exerts an influence far greater than the … [more below]
- Author: Hess, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 084784255X
- Language: English
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Mirrormirror: The Reflective Surface in Contemporary Art
$65.00 Add to cartFrom the art of Cindy Sherman to Anish Kapoor, from Yayoi Kusama to Tracey Emin, MirrorMirror presents an intriguing and gloriously illustrated global survey of “reflective” work by more than 150 arti
- Author: Petry, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0500026203
- Language: English
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Christina Ramberg: A Retrospective
$50.00 Add to cartA deep look at Christina Ramberg’s life and work, the origins of her influential investigations of form and femininity, and the evolution of her artistic vision
Christina Ramberg (1946-1995) first ga- Author: Nichols, Thea Liberty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: May 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0300275749
- Language: English
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Sick Houses: Haunted Homes and the Architecture of Dread
$16.95 Add to cartExplores the architecture of haunted houses, uncanny domestic spaces, and how the horror genre subverts and corrupts the sanctity of home.
Horror begins at home From family homes in Amityville to Goth- Author: Taylor, Leila
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1915672635
- Language: English
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Outsider Art of Canada: What Else Can Art Be Like?
$50.00 Add to cart“Outsider art” is the name given to the idiosyncratic work of self-taught creators who are driven to use their own invented visual language to bring forth images from their imaginations. It is outside
- Author: Rainaldi, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: February 19 2024
- ISBN10: 9791254600375
- Language: English
