Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
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A Chronology of Art: A Timeline of Western Culture from Prehistory to the Present
$24.95 Add to cartMost surveys of the history of art come neatly packaged. They are divided up into historic periods, artistic schools and movements, and the careers of individual painters. They may make the subject ap
- Series: A Chronology Of… #5
- Author: Zaczek, Iain
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0500298173
- Language: English
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How to Be Avant-Garde: Modern Artists and the Quest to End Art
$32.99 Add to cart“Art has poisoned our life,” proclaimed Dutch artist and De Stijl cofounder Theo van Doesburg. Reacting to the tumultuous crises of the twentieth century, especially the horrors of World War I, avant-
- Author: Falconer, Morgan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324051426
- Language: English
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The Farm at Black Mountain College
$35.00 Add to cartA record of the rise and fall of the BMC farm that foregrounds the voices of a new cast of characters
Black Mountain College (BMC) was a wellspring of 20th-century creative unorthodoxy. From its found
- Author: Silver, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1954957114
- Language: English
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101 Surrealists
$21.95 Add to cart2024 marks the centennial of surrealism, one of the most influential artistic movements of the modern era. In 1924, Andr? Breton wrote the Surrealist Manifesto, a call to arms that established surreal
- Author: Morris, Desmond
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0500027811
- Language: English
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Midcentury Houses Today
$60.00 Add to cartTraces the evolution of midcentury houses and demonstrates how they are experienced and lived in today
This expanded and updated edition of the 2014 classic focuses on the concentration of midcentury
- Author: Ross, Cristina A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: April 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1580936105
- Language: English
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Manet: A Model Family
$49.95 Add to cartA groundbreaking and richly illustrated account of the importance of Manet’s family to his art
All families are complicated, but the family of ?douard Manet (1832-1883) was more complicated than most.- Author: Greenwald, Diana Seave
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0691260664
- Language: English
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Surrealism: First and Always
$65.00 Add to cart– The official catalog of the Centre Pompidou’s Surrealism: First and Foremost! exhibition which begins in Paris, 4 September 2024 to 13 January 2025, and moves on to Spain, Germany and the USA
– Featu
- Author: Acc Artbooks
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: December 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1788842820
- Language: English
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Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910-1930
$65.00 Add to cartThe first publication of its kind, connecting a constellation of artists working at the forefront of abstraction in the early 20th century
Orphism emerged among a cosmopolitan group of artists active i
- Author: Greene, Vivien
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: December 10 2024
- ISBN10: 0892075643
- Language: English
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Mary Cassatt at Work
$55.00 Read moreA new study of Mary Cassatt that explores the centrality of work to both her inventive technical practice and her distinctive approach to modern subjects
Mary Cassatt’s (1844-1926) sensitive depicti- Author: Thompson, Jennifer a.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 21 2024
- ISBN10: 0876333048
- Language: English
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Van Gogh: Poets and Lovers
$50.00 Add to cartAn original interpretation of the final years of Van Gogh’s career, exploring the people and places in his late paintings
The years prior to Van Gogh’s death in 1890 were pivotal to the painter’s bri- Author: Homburg, Cornelia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1857097017
- Language: English
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What Are You Looking At?: The Surprising, Shocking, and Sometimes Strange Story of 150 Years of Modern Art
$24.00 Read moreThe perfect gift for the art lover in your life. In the tradition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves, Will Gompertz teaches art history with a sense of humor
Every year, millions of museum and gallery visitors- Author: Gompertz, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: September 24 2013
- ISBN10: 0142180297
- Language: English
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Sophie Calle: The Address Book
$29.95 Add to cartThe Address Book, a key and controversial work in Sophie Calle’s oeuvre, lies at the epicenter of many layers of reality and fiction. Having found a lost address book on the street in Paris, Calle cop… [more below]
- Author: Calle, Sophie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 30 2012
- ISBN10: 0979956293
- Language: English
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The American Vignola: A Guide to the Making of Classical Architecture
$21.95 Read more“Vignola codified the rules of classical architecture for the Italian Renaissance . . . Ware codified Vignola for the American Renaissance.” — John Barrington Bayley, from the Introductory Notes to T… [more below]
- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Ware, William R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: November 14 1994
- ISBN10: 0486283100
- Language: English
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Artists of the Middle East: 1900 to Now
$85.00 Add to cartArtists of the Middle East celebrates a region of breathtaking creativity through the innovative, spectacular, and at times politically resonant work of more than 250 of its leading artists. Spanning
- Author: Eigner, Saeb
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0500026130
- Language: English
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Queer Moderns: Max Ewing’s Jazz Age New York
$49.95 Add to cartA richly illustrated history of the glittering world of queer artistic life in the 1920s and ’30s
In Queer Moderns, Alice Friedman tells the fascinating story of the queer avant-garde of the 1920s and- Author: Friedman, Alice T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 0691267340
- Language: English
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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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The World According to Vincent Van Gogh
$19.95 Add to cart“I believe that at present we must paint nature’s rich and magnificent aspects; we need good cheer and happiness, hope and love.” — Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh’s letters to his brother Theo form
- Series: The World According To… #7
- Author: Bakker, Nienke
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: January 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0500028729
- 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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Matisse in Morocco: A Journey of Light and Color
$32.00 Add to cartThe remarkable and little-known story of Henri Matisse and his groundbreaking time in Morocco, a fertile period that transformed his art and cemented his legacy.
In winter of 1912, Henri Matisse–fort- Author: Koehler, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1639369090
- Language: English
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Art Deco Los Angeles
$50.00 Add to cartArt Deco Los Angles is a stunning photographic tour through one of the most glamourous architectural eras of the City of Angels. From the iconic Hollywood Bowl, where the world’s biggest acts dazzle u
- Author: Landau, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 162640139X
- Language: English
