History - Contemporary (1945- )
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Graffiti Alphabets: Street Fonts from Around the World
$34.95 Add to cartClassic graffiti lettering and experimental typographical forms lie at the heart of street culture and have long inspired designers in many different fields. But graffiti
artists, who tend to paint th- Author: Walde, Claudia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: May 15 2018
- ISBN10: 0500294291
- Language: English
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Miami’s Art Boom: From Local Vision to International Presence
$26.95 Add to cartDiscover how Miami’s local art community transformed the city into a hub of global artistic exchange
Florida Book Awards, Gold Medal for Visual Arts
Step into the vibrant heartbeat of Miami’s art scene
- Author: Turner, Elisa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 342
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 0813081211
- Language: English
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The Art of Kaylene Whiskey: Do You Believe in Love?
$50.00 Add to cartKaylene Whiskey (b. 1976) creates dazzling paintings with brightly colored pop stars rendered in dots and set among her own community in remote Central Australia. She depicts female pop culture icons-
- Author: Whiskey, Kaylene
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 252
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1760765406
- Language: English
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Reframing Blackness: What’s Black about “History of Art”?
$38.99 Add to cart‘Thorough, accessible, essential’ Katy Hessel, author of The Story of Art without Men
‘A sparkling debut. Bold, eloquent, personal and clear-eyed, Alayo Akinkugbe is a major new voice in writing abou- Author: Akinkugbe, Alayo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1529186404
- Language: English
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Hew Locke: Passages
$75.00 Add to cartAn in-depth look at the innovative career of an artist renowned for his multimedia explorations of colonial and postcolonial power
For the past thirty years, Guyanese British artist Hew Locke (b. 1959- Author: Droth, Martina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 0300284683
- Language: English
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Abstract Art: A Global History
$50.00 Add to cartIn his fresh take on abstract art, now available in paperback and expanded to include sixteen new contemporary artists from six continents, noted art historian Pepe Karmel chronicles the movement from
- Author: Karmel, Pepe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0500298386
- Language: English
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Slow Looking: The Art of Nature
$60.00 Add to cartSlow Looking: The Art of Nature is a unique celebration of the relationship between art and nature across millennia. Eschewing a linear narrative of art, this inspirational collection of artworks all
- Author: Meehan, Olivia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 21 2025
- ISBN10: 1760765252
- Language: English
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Ono-Isms
$16.95 Add to cartA powerful collection of quotations from iconic artist and activist Yoko Ono
Ono-isms is a collection of provocative and powerful quotations from influential artist, musician, songwriter, and peace ac- Series: Isms #11
- Author: Ono, Yoko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0691239223
- Language: English
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Sixties Surreal
$50.00 Add to cartA reevaluation of American art of the 1960s that foregrounds the role of surrealism during a period of social and political upheaval
Challenging what we think we know about art of the 1960s, this vol- Author: Nadel, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 403
- Publish Date: September 24 2025
- ISBN10: 0300284500
- Language: English
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The Grand Valley: On Going to Hell, to France, and Back to Childhood
$19.00 Add to cartIn the final, absorbing volume of his Three Paintings Trilogy, philosopher and critic Morgan Meis explores the art of Joan Mitchell and in particular one of her crowning achievements, the Grand Valley
- Series: Three Paintings Trilogy
- Author: Meis, Morgan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 220
- Publish Date: August 26 2025
- ISBN10: 1639821996
- Language: English
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Hidden Portraits: Six Women Who Shaped Picasso’s Life
$35.00 Add to cartFernande Olivier, Olga Khokhlova, Marie-Th?r?se Walter, Dora Maar, Fran?oise Gilot, and Jacqueline Roque. These six extraordinary women loved and inspired Pablo Picasso. They frequently appear as the
- Author: Roe, Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324076402
- Language: English
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Lorna Simpson: Source Notes
$45.00 Add to cartThe first publication on the painting practice of artist Lorna Simpson, whose work combines abstraction and figuration to highlight complexities of memory and representation
This revelatory first loo- Author: Rosati, Lauren
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 212
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 1588398005
- Language: English
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Draw Them In, Paint Them Out: Trenton Doyle Hancock Confronts Philip Guston
$45.00 Add to cartContemporary Black artist Trenton Doyle Hancock responds to the provocative images of twentieth-century Jewish painter Philip Guston
A defining figure of the New York School, Philip Guston (1913-1980- Author: Shaykin, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 0300278209
- Language: English
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Ruth Asawa and the Artist-Mother at Midcentury
$49.95 Add to cartHow a group of artist-mothers in postwar San Francisco refused the centuries-old belief that a woman could not make art while also raising children.
For most of modern history, to be an artist and a m- Author: Troeller, Jordan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 026204949X
- Language: English
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Fire Island Modernist: Horace Gifford and the Architecture of Seduction: Expanded Edition
$65.00 Add to cartFeaturing new houses, many additional photographs and a new afterword, Fire Island Modernist offers a fascinating look at the history and culture of this “gay paradise” through the life and work of Ho
- Author: Rawlins, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 29 2025
- ISBN10: 1881616991
- Language: English
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Blow Up!: The Explosion of Contemporary Art
$24.95 Add to cartHow did a urinal become art? And a can of tomato soup, a tent, a pickled shark. . . . How did what seemed like a prank at the New York Armory Show of 1917 explode to become today’s global multibillion
- Author: Shore, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 500027986
- Language: English
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The Twilight of Bohemia: Westbeth and the Last Artists of New York
$30.00 Add to cartAn intimate history of America’s first publicly funded artists’ housing project and its residents that casts light on the precarious place of art-makers in a changing New York.
Westbeth Artists Housi- Author: Trachtenberg, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1574232517
- Language: English
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Mirrormirror: The Reflective Surface in Contemporary Art
$65.00 Add to cartFrom the art of Cindy Sherman to Anish Kapoor, from Yayoi Kusama to Tracey Emin, MirrorMirror presents an intriguing and gloriously illustrated global survey of “reflective” work by more than 150 arti
- Author: Petry, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0500026203
- Language: English
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Rogues and Scholars: A History of the London Art World: 1945-2000
$35.00 Add to cartA colorful and fast-moving account of how postwar London became the global center of the art market–a story of Impressionist masterpieces, dodgy dealers, and ground-breaking financial transactions.
O- Author: Stourton, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 163936823X
- Language: English
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A Book about Ray
$54.95 Add to cartThe first full-career survey of the idiosyncratic life and work of Ray Johnson, a collagist, performance artist, and pioneer of mail art.
Ray Johnson (1927-1995), a.k.a. “New York’s most famous unknow
- Author: Levy, Ellen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: October 15 2024
- ISBN10: 262048744
- Language: English
