Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
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DalÃ
$21.95 Read moreIn this revised and updated edition of art historian Dawn Ades’s seminal study of Salvador DalÃ, based on interviews with the artist, Ades examines what accounts for DalÃ’s popularity, exploring suc
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Ades, Dawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0500204764
- Language: English
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Common Ground: Multi-Family Housing in Los Angeles
$50.00 Add to cartAs Los Angeles confronts a growing housing crisis, a city known for its single-family housing will inevitably shift toward a greater emphasis on apartments and other types of multi-family housing. And
- Author: Anderton, Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1626400911
- Language: English
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The Painted Word
$17.00 Read more“America’s nerviest journalist” (Newsweek) trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this “masterpiece” (The Washington Post)
Wolfe’s style has never been more dazzling, his wit never more keen. He ad- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0312427581
- Language: English
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The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
$20.00 Add to cartNational Bestseller
The true story that inspired the movie Woman in Gold starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds.
Contributor to the Washington Post Anne-Marie O’Connor brilliantly regales us with the- Author: O’Connor, Anne-Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 31 2015
- ISBN10: 1101873124
- Language: English
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Dadaism
$20.00 Add to cartEmerging amid the brutality of World War I, the revolutionary Dada movement took disgust with the establishment as its starting point. From 1916 until the mid-1920s, artists in Zurich, Cologne, Hanove
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Elger, Dietmar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 15 2016
- ISBN10: 3836505622
- Language: English
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Magritte: Masters of Art
$14.95 Add to cartThis revelatory examination of the Surrealist master updates prevailing theories about Magritte’s life and beliefs, and offers a surprising new assessment of an artist who strived for anonymity rather… [more below]
- Series: Masters of Art
- Author: Adams, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 3791387944
- Language: English
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Frida Kahlo: The Painter and Her Work
$50.00 Read moreThis definitive appreciation of Kahlo’s career features gorgeous full-page reproductions and insightful commentary to illuminate connections between the artist’s life and work.
Few painters have been- Author: Prignitz-Poda, Helga
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 3791379607
- Language: English
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The Art Deco Style: Great Designers & Collectors
$95.00 Read more– Richly illustrated history of Art Deco
– Written by art consultant Alastair Duncan
– Designs by Eileen Gray, Jean Dunand and Antoine Bourdelle, among many others
– Featuring legendary Art Deco collecto
- Author: Duncan, Alastair
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 420
- Publish Date: November 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1788842251
- Language: English
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Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time
$21.00 Read moreFrom Jenny Uglow, one of our most admired writers, a beautifully illustrated story of a love affair and a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars.
In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old archite- Author: Uglow, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872561
- Language: English
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The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris
$15.99 Read moreThis intimate account offers a new, unexpected understanding of the artist’s work and of the vibrant 1930s surrealist scene.
In 1938, just as she was leaving Mexico for her first solo exhibition in Ne- Author: Petitjean, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 163542190X
- Language: English
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A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration
$45.00 Read moreContemporary artists and writers reflect on the Great Migration and the ways that it continues to inform the Black experience in America
The Great Migration (1915-70) saw more than six million Africa- Author: Brown, Jessica Bell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0300265735
- Language: English
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John Craxton: A Modern Odyssey
$40.00 Read moreA celebration of the life and work of the artist John Craxton, a rebellious figure in British art history
Spanning a rich variety of works from the 1940s to the 2000s, this book celebrates the life a- Author: Martin, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1869827716
- Language: English
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Van Gogh in America
$50.00 Read moreA fascinating exploration of the introduction of Vincent van Gogh’s work to the United States one hundred years later
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is one of the most iconic artists in the world, and- Author: Shaw, Jill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0300247095
- Language: English
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The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920-1970
$50.00 Read moreA revealing new look at modernist architecture, emphasizing its diversity, complexity, and broad inventiveness
“[Frampton] remains a formidable force in architecture . . . The Other Modern Movement of- Author: Frampton, Kenneth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0300238894
- Language: English
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Outsider Art
$24.95 Read moreOutsider art is the work produced outside the mainstream of modern art by self-taught, untrained visionaries, spiritualists, recluses, folk artists, psychiatric patients, prisoners, and others beyond
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Rhodes, Colin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0500204861
- Language: English
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Modern Architecture Since 1900
$59.95 Add to cartSince its first publication in 1982, Modern Architecture Since 1900 has become established as a contemporary classic. Worldwide in scope, it combines a clear historical outline with masterly analysis
- Author: Curtis, William J. R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 736
- Publish Date: June 27 1996
- ISBN10: 0714833568
- Language: English
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Degas and the Laundress: Women, Work, and Impressionism
$65.00 Read moreAn exploration of Edgar Degas’s laundress works and their significance within broader debates art, urban life, and women’s work in the nineteenth century
Edgar Degas’s depictions of Parisian laundres- Author: Salsbury, Britany
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0300273223
- Language: English
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Matisse in the 1930s
$50.00 Read moreThe first in-depth examination of Matisse’s work in the 1930s, a key decade of creative innovation and renewal for this celebrated artist
In 1930, as Henri Matisse (1869-1954) embarked on The Dance,- Author: Affron, Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0876332998
- Language: English
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After Impressionism: Inventing Modern Art
$50.00 Read moreThrough the 1880s the very essence of representation, meaning and process in Western art were profoundly interrogated. Plausible representations of the external world were cast aside in favour of non-… [more below]
- Author: Stevens, Maryanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 1857096959
- Language: English
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The Cold Gaze: Germany in the 1920s
$35.00 Read moreA sweeping journey through the roaring art and culture of the Weimar Republic
At the center of this volume are the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) artists–Otto Dix, George Grosz and Albert Renger-
- Author: Jorgensen, Laerke Rydal
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 8793659598
- Language: English
