Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
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Mondrian
$23.33 Add to cartA key figure in the international avant-garde, Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was at once an extraordinary painter and leading art theoretician whose influence resonates to this day. Coining the term “Neo-
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Deicher, Susanne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 14 2015
- ISBN10: 3836553309
- Language: English
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Morris
$23.33 Add to cartWilliam Morris (1834-1896) was one of the greatest creative figures of the 19th century. As a visionary designer, as well as a manufacturer, writer, artist, and socialist activist, he pioneered the Ar
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Fiell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 19 2017
- ISBN10: 3836561638
- Language: English
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Miró
$23.33 Read moreWith a career spanning seven decades, Catalan-born Joan Mir? (1893-1983) was a polymath giant of modern art, producing masterworks across painting, sculpture, art books, tapestry, and ceramics, and em
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Mink, Janis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 26 2016
- ISBN10: 3836529238
- Language: English
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Restoring Your Historic House: The Comprehensive Guide for Homeowners
$49.95 Add to cartAlthough there are other books about renovating old houses, this is the first that prioritizes the identification and preservation of the historic, character-defining features of a house as a starting… [more below]
- Author: Hanson, Scott T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 720
- Publish Date: June 15 2023
- ISBN10: 1684751160
- Language: English
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Surrealism Beyond Borders
$65.00 Add to cartA completely new way of looking at and understanding Surrealism, with a focus on the worldwide sweep of the movement
“The variety of discoveries, detailed with exceptional scholarship in a ravishing k- Author: D’Alessandro, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 1588397270
- Language: English
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Le Corbusier
$23.33 Add to cartBorn Charles-?douard Jeanneret, Le Corbusier (1887-1965) is widely acclaimed as the most influential architect of the 20th century. From private villas to mass social housing projects, his radical ide
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Cohen, Jean-Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 23 2015
- ISBN10: 3836560356
- Language: English
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Monet: The Essential Paintings
$39.95 Add to cartThis magnificent boxed-set features stunning, accordion-fold, color reproductions of Monet’s essential works, accompanied by a separate booklet with background and descriptions of each painting.
Fans- Author: Sefrioui, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 07 2023
- ISBN10: 3791379682
- Language: English
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Amaza Lee Meredith Imagines Herself Modern: Architecture and the Black American Middle Class
$39.95 Add to cartThe extraordinary life and work of architect Amaza Lee Meredith, and the role modernism and material culture played in the aspiring Black American middle class of the early twentieth century.
Amaza Le- Author: Taylor, Jacqueline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0262048345
- Language: English
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Alphonse Mucha: Masterworks
$35.00 Add to cartThough very much an individual and spiritual artist, Alphonse Mucha was a defining figure of the Art Nouveau era and is loved for his distinctive lush style and images of beautiful women in arabesque … [more below]
- Series: Masterworks
- Author: Ormiston, Rosalind
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: March 01 2007
- ISBN10: 1844517306
- Language: English
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Prouvé
$23.33 Add to cartFrench-born Jean Prouvé (1901-1984) was the 20th century’s leading construction designer, a self-declared constructeur and member of the jury who oversaw the design of the Centre Pompidou in Paris. A
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Peters, Nils
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: June 22 2017
- ISBN10: 3836543818
- Language: English
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Mina Loy: Strangeness Is Inevitable
$53.00 Read moreA richly illustrated exploration of Mina Loy’s art and writings
Mina Loy (1882-1966) was one of the most iconoclastic figures in modernism. A groundbreaking poet, she also left an indelible mark in pa- Author: Gross, Jennifer R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: May 23 2023
- ISBN10: 0691239843
- Language: English
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Yellow: The History of a Color
$39.95 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Blue, a beautifully illustrated history of yellow from antiquity to the present
In this richly illustrated book, Michel Pastoureau–a renowned authority on the history of- Author: Pastoureau, Michel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 26 2019
- ISBN10: 069119825X
- Language: English
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Composition: Understanding Line, Notan and Color
$19.95 Read moreAt the turn of the twentieth century, Arthur Wesley Dow literally “wrote the book” on composition–and this is it! Dow’s Composition exercised an enormous influence on emerging modern artists of a cen… [more below]
- Series: Dover Art Instruction
- Author: Dow, Arthur Wesley
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 31 2007
- ISBN10: 048646007X
- Language: English
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Munch
$23.33 Add to cartA hairless, ghostly figure on a bridge. The sky orange-red above him. His hands raised to his ears, his mouth wide in a haunting wail. In painting The Scream, Edvard Munch (1863-1944) created Mona Lis
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Bischoff, Ulrich
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 31 2016
- ISBN10: 3836528959
- Language: English
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Paris Moderne: 1914-1945
$65.00 Read moreThis broad survey of modernism–the most scintillating creative era in Paris–spans all domains: architecture, art, design, entertainment, fashion, film, literature, photography.
The lives and works o- Author: Cohen, Jean-Louis
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 356
- Publish Date: October 17 2023
- ISBN10: 2080421948
- Language: English
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Modern Architecture A-Z
$116.67 Read moreExplore the A to Z of modern space. From Gio Ponti’s colored geometries to Zaha Hadid’s free-flowing futurism, this comprehensive overview features almost 300 profiles of architects, styles, movements… [more below]
- Author: Taschen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: February 18 2022
- ISBN10: 383658316X
- Language: English
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Abstract Art
$23.33 Add to cartAbstraction shook Western art to its core. In the early part of the 20th century, it refuted the reign of clear, indisputable forms and confronted audiences instead with vivid visual poems devoid of c
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Elger, Dietmar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 02 2017
- ISBN10: 3836546787
- Language: English
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The Triumph of Nature: Art Nouveau from the Chrysler Museum of Art
$59.95 Add to cartThe Triumph of Nature returns us vividly to an entrancing time in European decorative arts, from its beginnings in the Arts and Crafts movement and Japonisme, through to its evolution into Art Deco st
- Author: DeWitt, Lloyd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1913875423
- Language: English
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Matisse. Cut-Outs. 40th Ed.
$35.00 Read moreToward the end of his monumental career as a painter, sculptor, and lithographer, an elderly, sickly Matisse was unable to stand and use a paintbrush for long. In this late phase of his life–he was a
- Series: 40th Edition
- Author: Néret, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 412
- Publish Date: August 15 2022
- ISBN10: 3836589192
- Language: English
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Cézanne
$23.33 Add to cartIn the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul C?zanne (1839-1906), busily plied his brush to landscapes and still lifes that would become anchors of mod
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Becks-Malorny, Ulrike
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 29 2016
- ISBN10: 3836530171
- Language: English
