Modern - 20th century
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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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Peter Doig
$49.95 Read moreWhether painting a mysterious bearded figure floating on a flat wash of blue or a winter landscape glimpsed through a thick web of branches, Peter Doig harnesses the materiality of his medium to creat
- Series: Phaidon Contemporary Artists
- Author: Scott, Kitty
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0714845043
- Language: English
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Foucault: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartBorn in 1926 in France, Foucault is one of those rare philosophers who has become a cult figure. Over the course of his life he dabbled in drugs, politics, and the Paris SM scene, all whilst striving … [more below]
- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Gutting, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: December 01 2019
- ISBN10: 0198830785
- Language: English
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Into the Woods: Retreats and Dream Houses
$50.00 Read moreFor those who crave the tranquility of nature, fifty houses selected from around the world with the most ecologically sustainable and innovative breakthroughs in architecture and design.
Seeking the p- Author: Jodidio, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: March 24 2020
- ISBN10: 0847866076
- Language: English
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Julia Morgan: The Road to San Simeon, Visionary Architect of the California Renaissance
$75.00 Add to cartJulia Morgan was a pioneering woman architect, best known for Hearst Castle, in the vanguard of Beaux-Arts design and style in the first half of the twentieth century.
Julia Morgan was truly a pioneer- Author: Fuglie, Gordon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 0847869555
- Language: English
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The Penguin Book of Modern Speeches
$20.00 Read moreThis definitive collection gathers the most significant speeches of the modern era, from Theodore Roosevelt and Martin Luther King Jr. to Ronald Reagan and Michelle Obama
Defined by waves of idealism- Author: MacArthur, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: December 03 2019
- ISBN10: 0241982308
- Language: English
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Drawn and Quartered
$19.99 Read moreIn this collection of aphorisms and short essays, E.M. Cioran sets about the task of peeling off the layers of false realities with which society masks the truth. For him, real hope lies in this task,… [more below]
- Author: Cioran, E. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: November 13 2012
- ISBN10: 1611456967
- Language: English
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Destination Architecture: The Essential Guide to 1000 Contemporary Buildings
$29.95 Read moreThe definitive architecture travel guide that lets you visit 1,000 of today’s most must-see contemporary buildings – whether at home or on the road
Featuring 1,000 of today’s most compelling buildings
- Author: Phaidon Editors, Phaidon
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 27 2017
- ISBN10: 071487535X
- Language: English
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Social (In)Justice: Why Many Popular Answers to Important Questions of Race, Gender, and Identity Are Wrong–And How to Know What’s Right:
$18.99 Read moreThis is a book about ideas.
Specifically, this is a book about the evolution of a certain set of ideas, and how these ideas have come to dominate every important discussion about race, gender, and id- Author: Pluckrose, Helen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1634312236
- Language: English
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Only a Voice: Essays
$29.95 Read moreEssays on politics, power, and culture from one of America’s most eminent critics
In Only a Voice, George Scialabba examines the chasm between modernity’s promise of progress and the sobering reality- Author: Scialabba, George
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1804292001
- Language: English
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The Proud Tower: A Portrait of the World Before the War, 1890-1914; Barbara W. Tuchman’s Great War Series
$25.00 Add to cartThe classic account of the lead-up to World War I, told with “a rare combination of impeccable scholarship and literary polish” (The New York Times)–from the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Guns… [more below]
- Author: Tuchman, Barbara W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: August 27 1996
- ISBN10: 0345405013
- Language: English
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Aino + Alvar Aalto: A Life Together
$150.00 Read moreA visual biography of Aino and Alvar Aalto, who designed some of the most iconic objects of the twentieth century
Aino and Alvar Aalto together founded Artek and created some of the most celebrated obj
- Author: Aalto-Alanen, Heikki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1838666079
- Language: English
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No One Saw: Ordinary Things Through the Eyes of an Artist
$10.99 Read moreWith a simple, rhyming text and beautifully reproduced paintings, No One Saw explores modern art. Each painting highlights the way in which the artist looked at the world in his or her own way. One lo
- Series: Bob Raczka’s Art Adventures
- Author: Raczka, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: August 01 2002
- ISBN10: 0761316485
- Language: English
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Story of the World, Vol. 4 Revised Edition: History for the Classical Child: The Modern Age
$29.95 Add to cartDesigned for parents and elementary/middle grade students (grades 4-8) to share together, The Story of the World, Volume 4 Revised Edition: The Modern Age is widely used in charter and private schools… [more below]
- Series: Story of the World #4
- Author: Bauer, Susan Wise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 524
- Publish Date: May 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1945841893
- Language: English
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Pablo Picasso: Breaking All the Rules: Breaking All the Rules
$7.99 Read moreSimon Packard didn’t always want to do his artist report on Pablo Picasso, but after his twin brother Stephen does a report on Monet-Simon’s favorite artist-Simon chooses Picasso by default Throughou… [more below]
- Series: Smart about Art
- Author: Kelley, True
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 32
- Publish Date: December 30 2002
- ISBN10: 0448428628
- Language: English
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20th Century World History for Kids: The Major Events That Shaped the Past and Present
$12.99 Add to cartTake kids ages 8 to 12 on a journey through the events that shaped the 20th century
World history is an amazing teacher when it comes to understanding why the world looks the way it does. This journey
- Series: History by Century
- Author: Cummings, Judy Dodge
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: August 10 2021
- ISBN10: 1648767613
- Language: English
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We Are Artists: Women Who Made Their Mark on the World
$19.95 Add to cartA richly illustrated book, We Are Artists celebrates the life and work of fifteen female artists from around the globe and the distinctive mark they made on art. Presented as a collection of exciting
- Author: Herbert, Kari
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 24 2019
- ISBN10: 0500651965
- Language: English
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Basquiat: The Modena Paintings
$49.95 Add to cartReuniting eight key Basquiat works that mark the graffiti artist’s transition to painterly autonomy
This catalog focuses on eight paintings by Jean-Michel Basquiat made in the summer of 1982, when he t
- Author: Basquiat, Jean-Michel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 126
- Publish Date: September 05 2023
- ISBN10: 3775755098
- 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
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The Harlem Renaissance and Transatlantic Modernism
$65.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking volume resituating the Harlem Renaissance as integral to the development of twentieth-century modernism
Beginning in the 1920s, Upper Manhattan became the center of an explosion of a- Author: Murrell, Denise
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 332
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1588397734
- Language: English
