Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
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Jamestown: Architecture, Landscape, and the Making of a Rhode Island Paradise
$44.95 Add to cartA highly visual and new study of the rustic and whimsical shingled houses of Jamestown, Rhode Island from the colonial era to the development of the town as a picturesque report set in a coastal lands… [more below]
- Author: Tschirch, John R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1913875709
- Language: English
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John Singer Sargent: The Charcoal Portraits
$80.00 Add to cartA comprehensive catalogue of Sargent’s charcoal portraits, capturing high society, professions, and the arts in an era of profound transformation
In comparison with his portraits in oil, John Singer- Author: Ormond, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 407
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1913107469
- Language: English
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Vanessa Bell: Modern Living
$21.95 Add to cartThe painter Vanessa Bell initiated a step change in modern British art, bringing the bright palette and bold stylization of the Parisian avant-garde to London. She was a central figure in the Bloomsbu
- Series: V&a Artists in Focus
- Author: McKever, Rosalind
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0500481059
- Language: English
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Chicago Homes: A Portrait of the City’s Everyday Architecture
$37.00 Read moreA comprehensive, first-of-its-kind book about Chicago’s residential architecture and the stories that shaped it. This is an entertaining and precisely illustrated story of Chicago homes from the city’
- Author: Bruni, Carla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1572843578
- Language: English
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Frank Lloyd Wright
$150.00 Read moreA comprehensive monograph on Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the great masters of modern architecture
This comprehensive monograph on the renowned twentieth-century architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, explores b
- Author: McCarter, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: April 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1838668721
- Language: English
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Modern Taste: Art Deco in Paris 1910-1935
$39.95 Read moreThe definitive book on Art Deco: an elegant large-format hardcover with hundreds of museum-quality color reproductions featuring exquisite examples of Art Deco jewellery, ceramics, laquer, fashion, te
- Author: Benton, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 540
- Publish Date: July 28 2015
- ISBN10: 847075629X
- Language: English
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John Singer Sargent: His Life and Works in 500 Images: An Illustrated Exploration of the Artist, His Life and Context, with a Gallery of 300 Paintings
$35.00 Add to cartAn American who spent most of his life in Europe, a portraitist who painted landscapes, a family man who never married, and an accomplished pianist who often entertained his sitters, John Singer Sarge… [more below]
- Author: Hodge, Susie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0754832902
- Language: English
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American Modern: Architecture; Community; Columbus, Indiana
$75.00 Add to cartThe definitive book on one of the foremost modernist cities and architecture destinations in the USA: Columbus, Indiana
The midwestern city of Columbus, Indiana, is more than a mecca of modern architec
- Author: Shaw, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: July 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1580936121
- Language: English
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Futurism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
From the motorcar to the radio, modern technology radically transformed urban life by the first decade of the twentieth century. As one of Western- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Merjian, Ara H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 0192871005
- Language: English
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Ben Shahn, on Nonconformity
$45.00 Add to cartA richly illustrated new exploration of the painting, photography, and illustration of the politically progressive American artist
Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity offers a fresh and wide-ranging account- Author: Katzman, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0691273111
- Language: English
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Monet: The Bigger Picture
$40.00 Add to cartMonet’s breathtaking artistry comes fully alive in this luxurious volume that features dozens of exquisite reproductions; forty- eight extra pages on six fold-out spreads; colored edges; and a printed… [more below]
- Author: Sefrioui, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 3791377825
- Language: English
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Van Gogh: The Bigger Picture
$40.00 Add to cartVan Gogh’s sublime artistry comes alive in this luxuriously packaged volume that features a canvas cover, impeccable reproductions of all the major works, and 48 extra pages on 6 fold-out spreads.
Fro- Author: Sefrioui, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 3791377590
- Language: English
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Tamara de Lempicka
$65.00 Add to cartA landmark retrospective on the Art Deco painter exploring her intersectional identities
Tamara de Lempicka (1894-1980), the “Baroness with a Brush,” is often cast as one of Art Deco’s most celebrate- Author: Mori, Gioia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0300278500
- Language: English
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Frank Lloyd Wright. 45th Ed.
$30.00 Read moreA building by Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) is at once unmistakably individual and evocative of an entire era. Notable for their exceptional harmony with their environment, as well as for their use o
- Author: Brooks Pfeiffer, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 13 2024
- ISBN10: 3836599678
- Language: English
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City of Light, City of Shadows: Paris in the Belle ?poque
$35.00 Add to cartA top historian offers a new history of Paris’s Belle ?poque, the luminous age of the Eiffel Tower and the Sacr?-Coeur Basilica, but also of social unrest and violent clashes over what it meant to be … [more below]
- Author: Rapport, Mike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 1541647491
- Language: English
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Picasso and His Dogs: Amigos Forever
$29.95 Add to cartAn unusual biography of Picasso through his dogs, richly illustrated with reproductions of his works and archive photographs. The first volume in a series about artists and their dogs.
In 1933, Virgin- Series: Amigos Forever
- Author: Andral, Jean-Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 80
- Publish Date: July 18 2024
- ISBN10: 2376660890
- Language: English
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Van Gogh: The Bigger Picture
$24.99 Add to cartFrom the kitchen of a world-renowned chef comes this treasury of authentic Mexican recipes inspired by the painter Frida Kahlo and filled with mouthwatering photography.
A little-known fact about icon- Author: Castellanos, Gabriela
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 3791393200
- Language: English
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Forbidden Territories: 100 Years of Surreal Landscapes
$45.00 Add to cartWhile surrealism’s treatment of the body has been much researched, the role of landscape has rarely been examined. Published one hundred years after Andr? Breton wrote the Surrealist Manifesto, Forbid
- Author: Clayton, Eleanor
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0500028036
- Language: English
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Vanessa Bell: A World of Form and Colour
$35.00 Add to cartThis publication, together with the exhibition it accompanies, presents the largest ever survey of work by Vanessa Bell (1879-1961).
Described in 1923 as ‘the most important woman painter in Europe’,- Author: Birrell, Rebecca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 1781301336
- Language: English
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Those Passions: On Art and Politics
$50.00 Add to cartThose Passions unpicks the nature of capitalist societies since the fifteenth century and the art produced within them. It evaluates the central politics of appearance–the building of “consumerism,”
- Author: Clark, T. J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0500025266
- Language: English
