Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
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Schindler
$20.00 Add to cartHailing from Vienna, Rudolph Michael Schindler (1887-1953) emigrated to Chicago in 1914, like his lifelong friend and rival Richard Neutra. Eventually hired by Frank Lloyd Wright to work in Los Angele
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Steele, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 16 2019
- ISBN10: 383656436X
- Language: English
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True Colors: The Real Life of the Art World
$17.00 Add to cartThe last quarter century has been an extraordinary and turbulent period in the art world. It was a time of creative intensity during which a handful of artists, like Julian Schnabel, Jeff Koons, Keith
- Author: Haden-Guest, Anthony
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 02 1998
- ISBN10: 0871137259
- Language: English
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Artist-Entrepreneurs: Saint Gaudens, MacMonnies, and Parrish
$22.00 Add to cartIn the late 19th and early 20th century, the most capitalistic era in American history, it was considered normal that the immense popularity of Augustus Saint Gaudens, Frederick MacMonnies and Maxfiel
- Author: Durante, Dianne L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 82
- Publish Date: October 07, 2022
- ISBN10: 0974589985
- Language: English
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Miami Art Deco
$19.99 Read moreA book reviewer once described Arnold Schwartzman as “a trufflehound with a Nikon”, praising his passion and inquisitive eye. In Miami Art Deco, Schwartzman’s sixth photographic book on Art Deco archi
- Author: Schwartzman, Arnold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1786751313
- Language: English
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Domus 1928-1939
$40.00 Read moreOffering an unrivaled record of architecture and design, the “living diary” of domus was founded by Gio Ponti in 1928. Through the years and decades that followed, the journal charted the major themes
- Author: Fiell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 640
- Publish Date: February 06 2023
- ISBN10: 3836594455
- Language: English
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Julius Shulman. Modernism Rediscovered
$40.00 Add to cartThe buildings burned in our memories, which to us represent the spirit of ’50s and ’60s architectural design, were those whose pictures were widely published in magazines and books; but what ab
- Author: Serraino, Pierluigi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: March 03 2023
- ISBN10: 383659255X
- Language: English
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Gustav Klimt
$12.99 Add to cartKlimt, the most controversial artist of his time, enjoys incomparable popularity to date. This book offers a fascinating insight into the extensive work of the remarkable artist Gustav Klimt.
- Series: Artist Monographs
- Author: Nentwig, Janina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: July 01 2019
- ISBN10: 3955881075
- Language: English
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Henry Darger
$50.00 Add to cartThis beautiful book presents the extraordinary work of the iconic American “outsider” artist in a new critical light, locating him as a major figure in the history of contemporary art.
Self-taught and- Author: Biesenbach, Klaua
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 03 2019
- ISBN10: 3791385836
- Language: English
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de Lempicka
$20.00 Read moreTamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) lived art in the fast lane. With an appetite for glamour and fame as much as Left Bank bohemianism, she fled her native Russia after the Bolshevik revolution and set abo
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Néret, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 09 2016
- ISBN10: 3836532271
- Language: English
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Gauguin
$20.00 Add to cartPaul Gauguin (1848-1903) was not cut out for finance. Nor did he last particularly long in the French Navy, or as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen who did not speak Danish. He began painting in his
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Walther, Ingo F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 27 2017
- ISBN10: 3836532239
- Language: English
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Art Deco Tulsa
$21.99 Add to cartTransformed from a cattle depot into the Oil Capital of the World, Tulsa emerged as an iconic Jazz Age metropolis. The Magic City attracted some of the nation’s most talented architects, including Bru… [more below]
- Series: Landmarks
- Author: Wallis, Suzanne Fitzgerald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 07 2018
- ISBN10: 1625859899
- Language: English
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Flatiron
$24.00 Add to cartThe marvelous story of one of New York City’s most unique buildings
Critics hated it. The public feared it would fall over. Passersby were knocked down by the winds. But even before it was completed,- Author: Sparberg Alexiou, Alice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 03 2013
- ISBN10: 1250032040
- Language: English
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Turn-Of-The-Century House Designs: With Floor Plans, Elevations and Interior Details of 24 Residences
$14.95 Read moreThis inexpensive archive of handsome turn-of-the-century designs reprinted directly from a rare late Victorian volume contains plans for a variety of suburban and country homes that are both aesthetic… [more below]
- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Comstock, William T.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 09 1994
- ISBN10: 0486281868
- Language: English
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GaudÃ
$20.00 Read moreFrom the towering Sagrada Fam?lia to the shimmering, textured fa?ade of Casa Batll? and the enchanting landscape of Park G?ell, it’s easy to see why Antoni Gaud? (1852-1926) gained the epithet “God’s
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Crippa, Maria Antonietta
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 15 2015
- ISBN10: 3836560283
- Language: English
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Manet
$20.00 Add to cartLampooned during his lifetime for his style as much as his subject matter, French painter ﾉdouard Manet (1832-1883) is now considered a crucial figure in the history of art, bridging the transition
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Néret, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 26 2016
- ISBN10: 3836535106
- Language: English
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Vincent’s Arles: As It Is and as It Was
$22.50 Read moreA vivid tour of the town of Arles, guided by one of its most famous visitors: Vincent van Gogh.
Once admired as “a little Rome” on the banks of the Rh?e, the town of Arles in the south of France had- Author: Seidel, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0226822192
- Language: English
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Liberty’s Torch: The Great Adventure to Build the Statue of Liberty
$18.00 Add to cartThe Statue of Liberty has become one of the most recognizable monuments in the world: a symbol of freedom and the American Dream. But the story of the creation of the statue has been obscured by myth…. [more below]
- Author: Mitchell, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 14 2015
- ISBN10: 0802123791
- Language: English
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Neutra. Complete Works
$100.00 Add to cartOriginally from Vienna, Richard Neutra came to America early in his career, settling in California. His influence on postwar architecture is undisputed, the sunny climate and rich landscape being part
- Author: Lamprecht, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: August 22 2010
- ISBN10: 3836512440
- Language: English
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Koolhaas/Obrist. Project Japan. Metabolism Talks
$70.00 Add to cart“Once there was a nation that went to war, but after they conquered a continent their own country was destroyed by atom bombs… then the victors imposed democracy on the vanquished. For a group of ap
- Author: Obrist, Hans Ulrich
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: September 15 2011
- ISBN10: 3836525089
- Language: English
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Anni and Josef Albers: Art and Life
$60.00 Read moreThis career-spanning monograph reveals the enormous artistic achievements–both individual and shared–of two of the greatest pioneers of twentieth-century modernism.
Featuring more than two hundred a- Author: Garimorth, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 3791379976
- Language: English
