History - Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
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Fidelia Bridges: Nature Into Art
$49.99 Add to cartFidelia Bridges (1834-1923) painted pictures that critics praised for their ability to exude the fragrance of field flowers and glow with the plumage of birds. Raised in Salem and long residing in Con… [more below]
- Series: Northern Lights
- Author: Manthorne, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1848225482
- Language: English
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A Forest of Symbols: Art, Science, and Truth in the Long Nineteenth Century
$41.00 Read moreIn this groundbreaking book, Andrei Pop presents a lucid reassessment of those writers and artists in the late nineteenth century whose work merits the adjective “symbolist.” For Pop, this term denote
- Series: Zone Books
- Author: Pop, Andrei
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 18 2019
- ISBN10: 1935408364
- Language: English
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Gustav Klimt: The Interiors
$50.00 Read moreThis unique and utterly fascinating appreciation of Gustav Klimt’s oeuvre reveals some of his most famous works in their original settings and offers valuable historic insight into his artistic vision… [more below]
- Author: Natter, Tobias G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 379137978X
- Language: English
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The Sagrada Familia: The Astonishing Story of GaudÃ’s Unfinished Masterpiece
$28.00 Read moreAn illuminating biography of one of the most famous–and most famously unfinished–buildings in the world, the Sagrada Familia of Barcelona.
The scaffolding-cloaked spires of Antoni Gaud?’s masterpiec- Author: Van Hensbergen, Gijs
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 1632867818
- 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
$23.33 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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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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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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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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Picasso: A Cubist Commission in Brooklyn
$25.00 Read moreNew scholarship on a little-known decorative commission undertaken by Pablo Picasso offers insight into the artist’s painting process and the evolution of Cubism
In 1910, Pablo Picasso began a series- Author: Jozefacka, Anna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1588397688
- Language: English
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50 Modern Artists You Should Know
$19.95 Add to cartNow available in a new edition, this chronologically arranged volume covers a century and a half of masterpieces which beautifully capture the development of art in the modern age.Now available in a n… [more below]
- Series: 50 You Should Know
- Author: Weidemann, Christiane
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: May 25 2017
- ISBN10: 3791383388
- Language: English
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Van Gogh and the Avant-Garde: Along the Seine
$45.00 Read moreAn examination of the innovative portrayals of industry and leisure created by five avant-garde artists working at Asni鑽es in the late nineteenth century
From 1881 to 1890, Vincent van Gogh, George- Author: Gerritse, Bregje
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 0300269765
- Language: English
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The Art of Ukraine
$24.95 Add to cartThis new volume in the World of Art series provides an overview of Ukrainian art, artists, and art movements from the dawn of modernism and the 1900s to the Soviet period, to post-Soviet times and the
- Series: World of Art
- Author: Lozhkina, Alisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 16 2024
- ISBN10: 0500297789
- Language: English
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Matisse. Cut-Outs
$23.33 Add to cartHenri Matisse (1869-1954) was a fighting spirit. Despite a cancer diagnosis in 1941, increasing frailty, and the confines of a wheelchair, the indomitable Frenchman never stopped in his quest to make
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Néret, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 09 2016
- ISBN10: 3836534274
- Language: English
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Van Gogh. the Complete Paintings
$70.00 Add to cartToday, the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In paintings such as Sunflowers, The Starry Night, and Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, we r
- Author: Walther, Ingo F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: June 29 2020
- ISBN10: 3836572931
- Language: English
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Hundertwasser
$23.33 Add to cartVivid color, organic forms, and a loathing of straight lines were just a few stalwart characteristics in the unique practice of Friedensreich Hundertwasser (1928-2000). A non-conformist hero, the arti
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Restany, Pierre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 19 2018
- ISBN10: 3836564211
- Language: English
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The Dream Collector: Sabrine & Sigmund Freud – Book One
$25.99 Add to cart“Meek never fails to stun and impress with his evocation of scenes and events, of sights and dialogue, and of peoples’ reactions to them.” – HFC Reviews
The Dream Collector immerses the reader into the
- Author: Meek, R. W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 556
- Publish Date: December 19, 2023
- ISBN10: 1962465144
- Language: English
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Picasso and the Art of Drawing
$35.00 Read moreIn this generously illustrated and lively book, Christopher Lloyd sets out and interprets the lifelong achievement of Picasso (1881-1973) as a draftsman. Although there have been many publications abo… [more below]
- Author: Lloyd, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 230
- Publish Date: March 20 2018
- ISBN10: 0300234805
- Language: English
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Make It Modern: A History of Art in the 20th Century
$50.00 Read moreA fascinating journey through Western art from the 1910s to the 1960s, charting how artists wrestled with the headlong changes of a turbulent and conflict-ridden world
From the chaos of the First Wor- Author: Taylor, Brandon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: November 29 2022
- ISBN10: 0300253656
- Language: English
