Contemporary (1945 -)
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Portrait of the Art Dealer as a Young Man: New York in the Sixties
$35.00 Read moreThis memoir from the influential art dealer and author offers an up close and personal perspective on New York’s vibrant art scene of the sixties and seventies.
One of today’s most respected art deale- Author: Findlay, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 3791377264
- Language: English
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Art’s Properties
$29.95 Add to cartA revisionist reading of modern art that examines how artworks are captured as property to legitimize power
In this provocative new account, David Joselit shows how art from the nineteenth to the twen- Author: Joselit, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: February 14 2023
- ISBN10: 0691236046
- Language: English
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Keith Haring Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines
$55.00 Read moreAn exploration of the personal and artistic connections between two icons of twentieth-century art
Keith Haring (1958-1990) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) changed the art world of the 1980s thr- Author: Buchhart, Dieter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: February 08 2022
- ISBN10: 1925432726
- Language: English
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Black Artists in America: From the Great Depression to Civil Rights
$40.00 Add to cartExploring how artists at midcentury addressed the social issues of their day–from Jacob Lawrence to Elizabeth Catlett, Rose Piper to Charles White
This timely book surveys the varied ways in which B- Author: Lovelle Jenkins, Earnestine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0300260903
- Language: English
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The Japanese House Since 1945
$85.00 Add to cartImagine a rowhouse whose courtyard separates the kitchen from the bedroom. Or a tiny, triangular tower of rooms stacked one above another. Quirky, experimental, and utterly fascinating, the houses pro
- Author: Pollock, Naomi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: November 14 2023
- ISBN10: 050034373X
- Language: English
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Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence
$50.00 Read morePioneering and sometimes problematic Tropical Modernism is an essential subject for fans of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus
Emerging in the death throes of colonial rule, the story of Tropical Modernism is o- Author: Turner, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 1838510559
- Language: English
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Arts & Architecture 1950-1954
$93.33 Add to cartFrom the end of World War II until the mid-1960s, exciting things were happening in American architecture. Emerging talents were focusing on innovative projects that integrated at once modern design a
- Author: Taschen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: December 07 2024
- ISBN10: 3754400509
- Language: English
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Book from the Ground: From Point to Point
$19.95 Add to cartA book without words, recounting a day in the life of an office worker, told completely in the symbols, icons, and logos of modern life.
Twenty years ago I made Book from the Sky, a book of illegible
- Series: Mit Press
- Author: Xu, Bing
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0262536226
- Language: English
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Brutalist Japan: A Photographic Tour of Post-War Japanese Architecture
$50.00 Add to cartFeaturing striking photography by an expert in the field, this exploration of Japanese Brutalist architecture celebrates the surprising beauty and grace of buildings forged in concrete.
Emerging in th- Author: Tulett, Paul
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 3791393103
- Language: English
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A Book about Ray
$54.95 Read moreThe 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
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Korean Feminist Artists: Confront and Deconstruct
$79.95 Read moreExplore the vibrant history and profound cultural resonance of feminist art from Korea and the diaspora
Renowned curator and scholar Dr. Kim Hong-hee’s book is the first to delve into Korean feminist
- Author: Hong-Hee, Kim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1838667059
- Language: English
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Carsten H?ller. Book of Games
$58.33 Add to cartCarsten H?ller invites readers to disrupt their daily lives with 336 mind-expanding diversions. They can be played alone, in pairs or in teams, in the street, in bed, on a train, wherever. No props or
- Author: H?ller, Carsten
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 760
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 3836582236
- Language: English
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Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic
$15.00 Read moreA comprehensive and inspiring collection of essays by Larry Neal, a founder of the seminal Black Arts Movement
“The Black Arts Movement is radically opposed to any concept of the artist that alienates- Series: Ekphrasis
- Author: Neal, Larry
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 1644231204
- Language: English
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Materialized Space: The Architecture of Paul Rudolph
$30.00 Add to cartA reassessment of the career of architect Paul Rudolph, from his modernist Sarasota houses to his controversial Brutalist buildings and later international projects, featuring unpublished drawings, mo… [more below]
- Author: Thomas, Abraham
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 1588397831
- Language: English
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Poor Artists: A Quest Into the Art World
$24.99 Add to cartThis debut book by the popular collaborative team–heralded as one of the first truly new critical voices of the 21st century– blends real-world experience and poignant storytelling into a provocativ… [more below]
- Author: Puente, Gabrielle de la
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 12 2024
- ISBN10: 3791380214
- Language: English
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Joan Mitchell: Paintings: 1979-1985
$60.00 Add to cartDiscover Joan Mitchell’s powerful and dynamic work–spotlighted in this book as never before
“An entry for one of the best shows of 2022. . . . Mitchell, then in her 50s, reaches peak form in gatherin- Author: Mitchell, Joan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 104
- Publish Date: September 03 2024
- ISBN10: 1644231182
- Language: English
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Elizabeth Catlett: A Black Revolutionary Artist and All That It Implies
$65.00 Add to cartA book highlighting the work of pioneering Black printmaker, sculptor, and activist Elizabeth Catlett.
Accomplished printmaker and sculptor, avowed feminist, and lifelong activist Elizabeth Catlett- Author: Scruggs, Dalila
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 04 2024
- ISBN10: 0226836576
- Language: English
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Acts of Resistance: The Power of Art to Create a Better World
$17.99 Add to cartWhat is the purpose of art in a world on fire? In this exhilarating and deeply inspiring work, Amber Massie-Blomfield considers the work of artists, writers, musicians, and filmmakers–such as Gran Fu
- Author: Massie-Blomfield, Amber
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1324078758
- Language: English
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Nicole Eisenman
$59.99 Read moreWith a body of work that explores a broad spectrum of subjects–from lesbianism and feminism to contemporary politics and the natural world–Nicole Eisenman (b.1965) challenges convention and encourag… [more below]
- Series: Contemporary Painters
- Author: Cameron, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: October 07 2021
- ISBN10: 1848224508
- Language: English
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Hirst-Isms
$18.95 Read moreA revealing collection of quotations from world-renowned artist Damien Hirst
Hirst-isms is a collection of quotations–bold, surprising, often humorous, and always insightful–from celebrated artist D- Series: Isms #12
- Author: Hirst, Damien
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0691239851
- Language: English
