Modern - 20th century
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Under the Sign of Saturn: Essays
$20.00 Add to cartThis third essay collection by America’s leading essayist brings together her most important critical writing from 1972 to 1980, in which she explores some of the most influential artists and thinkers
- Author: Sontag, Susan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 09 2002
- ISBN10: 0312420080
- Language: English
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The Complete Poems of Kenneth Rexroth
$24.00 Add to cartThe definitive volume of Rexroth’s poetry now available in paperback.
- Author: Rexroth, Kenneth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 900
- Publish Date: September 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1556592175
- Language: English
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How to See: Looking, Talking, and Thinking about Art
$17.99 Add to cartHow does art work? How does it move us, inform us, challenge us? Internationally renowned painter David Salle’s incisive essay collection illuminates these questions by exploring the work of influenti
- Author: Salle, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 16 2018
- ISBN10: 0393354962
- Language: English
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The Age of Extremes: A History of the World, 1914-1991
$22.00 Add to cartDividing the century into the Age of Catastrophe, 1914-1950, the Golden Age, 1950-1973, and the Landslide, 1973-1991, Hobsbawm marshals a vast array of data into a volume of unparalleled inclusiveness… [more below]
- Series: History of the Modern World
- Author: Hobsbawm, Eric
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: February 13 1996
- ISBN10: 0679730052
- Language: English
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The Waste Land: A Facsimile & Transcript of the Original Drafts Including the Annotations of Ezra Pound
$40.00 Read moreWhen the New York Public Library announced in October 1968 that its Berg Collection had acquired the original manuscript of The Waste Land, one of the most puzzling mysteries of twentieth-century lite
- Author: Eliot, T. S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1324093005
- Language: English
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Palm Springs: A Modernist Paradise
$80.00 Add to cartPaying homage to the seminal mid-century modern architecture of Palm Springs, this luxurious book showcases historic jet-set homes designed by legendary talents such as Richard Neutra, Albert Frey, an… [more below]
- Author: Street-Porter, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0847861872
- Language: English
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Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholarship Made Everything about Race, Gender, and Identity–And Why This Harms Everybody
$27.95 Read moreWall Street Journal, USA Today, and Publishers Weekly Bestseller
Times, Sunday Times, and Financial Times Book-of-the-Year Selection
Have you heard that language is violence and that science is sexi- Author: Pluckrose, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 25 2020
- ISBN10: 1634312023
- Language: English
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T. S. Eliot Selected Poems
$18.99 Add to cartChosen by Eliot himself, the poems in this volume represent the poet’s most important work before Four Quartets. Included here is some of the most celebrated verse in modern literature–“The Love Song… [more below]
- Author: Eliot, T. S.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 127
- Publish Date: October 18 1967
- ISBN10: 156806479
- Language: English
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How to Live Together: Novelistic Simulations of Some Everyday Spaces
$32.95 Add to cartIn The Preparation of the Novel, a collection of lectures delivered at a defining moment in Roland Barthes’s career (and completed just weeks before his death), the critic spoke of his struggle to dis
- Series: European Perspectives: A Social Thought and Cultural Criticism
- Author: Barthes, Roland
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 18 2012
- ISBN10: 023113617X
- Language: English
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One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the Ideology of Advanced Industrial Society
$25.00 Add to cartOriginally published in 1964, One-Dimensional Man quickly became one of the most important texts in the ensuing decade of radical political change. This second edition, newly introduced by Marcuse sch… [more below]
- Author: Marcuse, Herbert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 01 1991
- ISBN10: 0807014176
- Language: English
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Morning in the Burned House: Poems
$21.00 Add to cartThe renowned poet and author of The Handmaid’s Tale “brings a swift, powerful energy” to this “intimate and immediate” poetry collection (Publishers Weekly).
These beautifully crafted poems, by turns
- Author: Atwood, Margaret
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 0395825210
- Language: English
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On Tyranny Graphic Edition: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century
$24.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – A graphic edition of historian Timothy Snyder’s lessons for surviving and resisting America’s arc toward authoritarianism, featuring the visual storytelling talents of reno… [more below]
- Author: Snyder, Timothy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 05 2021
- ISBN10: 1984860399
- Language: English
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Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays
$22.00 Add to cartHere is a dazzling collection from Joan Acocella, one of our most admired cultural critics: thirty-one essays that consider the life and work of some of the most influential artists of our time (and t… [more below]
- Author: Acocella, Joan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: February 12 2008
- ISBN10: 0307275760
- Language: English
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Moma Now: Highlights from the Museum of Modern Art, New York
$75.00 Read morePublished as a large-format hardcover to celebrate the museum’s 90th anniversary and the October 2019 opening of the new MoMA after its historic expansion
In October 2019, the Museum of Modern Art cele
- Author: Lowry, Glenn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1633451003
- Language: English
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50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright
$35.00 Add to cart50 Lessons to Learn from Frank Lloyd Wright begins with a simple question. What lessons can designers today learn from Frank Lloyd Wright?
Unlike recent books focusing on Wright’s tumultuous personal- Author: Betsky, Aaron
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: April 13 2021
- ISBN10: 0847865363
- Language: English
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A New Path to the Waterfall
$16.00 Add to cartRaymond Carver, author of Where I’m Calling From, is widely considered one of the great short story writers of our time. A New Path to the Waterfall was Carver’s last book, and shows a writer telling … [more below]
- Author: Carver, Raymond
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 13 1994
- ISBN10: 0871133741
- Language: English
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Atlas of Brutalist Architecture: Classic Format
$69.95 Add to cartA landmark survey of one of architecture’s most controversial yet popular style
The Brutalist aesthetic is enjoying a renaissance – and this book documents Brutalism as never before. In the most wide-r
- Author: Phaidon Editors, Phaidon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 568
- Publish Date: November 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1838661905
- Language: English
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Story of the World, Vol. 4 Revised Edition: History for the Classical Child: The Modern Age
$21.95 Add to cartDesigned for parents and elementary/middle grade students (grades 4-8) to share together, The Story of the World, Volume 4 Revised Edition: The Modern Age is widely used in charter and private schools… [more below]
- Series: Story of the World #4
- Author: Bauer, Susan Wise
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 524
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1945841907
- Language: English
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A History of the Twentieth Century: The Concise Edition of the Acclaimed World History
$25.99 Add to cartMartin Gilbert, author of the multivolume biography of Winston Churchill and other brilliant works of history, chronicles world events year by year, from the dawn of aviation to the flourishing techno
- Author: Gilbert, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 832
- Publish Date: December 17 2002
- ISBN10: 006050594X
- Language: English
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The World Is Not a Rectangle: A Portrait of Architect Zaha Hadid
$19.99 Add to cartA Washington Post Best Children’s Book of 2017
Get to know Zaha Hadid in this nonfiction picture book about the famed architect’s life and her triumph over adversity from c
Parents’ Choice Recommended- Author: Winter, Jeanette
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: August 22 2017
- ISBN10: 148144669X
- Language: English
