Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
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Surrealism
$23.33 Read moreWith Salvador Dalà as its figurehead, the great ship of Surrealism traversed the turbulent seas of the early 20th century with sails billowing with dreams and desires. Inspired by the psychoanalytica
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Klingsöhr-Leroy, Cathrin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 14 2015
- ISBN10: 3836506734
- Language: English
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Academia: Collegiate Gothic Architecture in the United States
$49.95 Read moreThe Collegiate Gothic style, which flourished between the Gilded Age and the Jazz Age, was intended to lend an air of dignified history to America’s relatively youthful seats of higher learning. In fa
- Author: Morgan, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 200
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0789214687
- Language: English
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Transfigurations
$49.95 Read moreTen years of visionary artwork from a rare artist embraced by critics, spiritual leaders, and the general public during his lifetime.
* Includes essays on Grey’s work by the renowned art critic Donald- Author: Grey, Alex
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2001
- ISBN10: 0892818514
- Language: English
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Aalto
$23.33 Add to cartAlvar Aalto (1898-1976) made a unique modernist mark. Influenced by both the landscape and the political independence of his native Finland, he designed warm, curving, compassionate buildings, wholly
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Lahti, Louna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 09 2015
- ISBN10: 3836560100
- Language: English
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Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group
$65.00 Read moreAbstract painting meets theosophical spirituality in 1930s New Mexico: the first book on a radical, astonishingly prescient episode in American modernism
Founded in Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico, in 19
- Author: Duncan, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: July 06 2021
- ISBN10: 1942884877
- Language: English
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Rodin
$23.33 Add to cartWhile anchoring his practice in the traditions of antiquity and the Renaissance, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) paved the way for modern sculpture. From a very early stage, he was interested in movement, t
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Blanchetière, François
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 30 2016
- ISBN10: 3836555042
- Language: English
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Rousseau
$23.33 Add to cartHenri Rousseau (1844-1910) was a clerk in the Paris customs service who dreamed of becoming a famous artist. At the age 49, he decided to give it a try. At first, Rousseau’s bright, bold paintings of
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Stabenow, Cornelia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: April 10 2018
- ISBN10: 3836570769
- Language: English
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Moma Now: Highlights from the Museum of Modern Art, New York
$75.00 Add to cartPublished as a large-format hardcover to celebrate the museum’s 90th anniversary and the October 2019 opening of the new MoMA after its historic expansion
In October 2019, the Museum of Modern Art cele
- Author: Lowry, Glenn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 22 2019
- ISBN10: 1633451003
- Language: English
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Niemeyer
$23.33 Read moreUntil his death at age 104, Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) was something of an unstoppable architectural force. Over seven decades of work, he designed approximately 600 buildings, transforming skylines f
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Jodidio, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 29 2016
- ISBN10: 3836536226
- Language: English
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Frida
$39.95 Add to cartA sumptuous feast of a book, Frida allows the reader to enter this revered artist’s world, both literally and metaphorically.
Through a series of consecutive die-cut pages, one is drawn in passing th- Author: Perez, Sebastien
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 76
- Publish Date: August 11 2017
- ISBN10: 1584236647
- Language: English
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I Paint What I Want to See
$19.95 Read moreIlluminating reflections on painting and drawing from one of the most revered artists of the twentieth century
How does a pai
‘Thank God for yellow ochre, cadmium red medium, and permanent green light’- Author: Guston, Philip
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0241525713
- Language: English
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Abstract Expressionism
$23.33 Add to cartHailed as the first American-born art movement to have a worldwide influence, Abstract Expressionism denotes the non-representational use of paint as a means of personal expression. It emerged in Amer
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Hess, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 15 2016
- ISBN10: 3836505177
- Language: English
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Frank Lloyd Wright: The Houses
$95.00 Add to cartFrank Lloyd Wright is not only synonymous with architecture, his name is also synonymous with the American house in the twentieth century. In particular, his residential work has been the subject of c… [more below]
- Author: Weintraub, Alan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 01 2005
- ISBN10: 0847827364
- Language: English
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Picasso the Foreigner: An Artist in France, 1900-1973
$40.00 Read moreA New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice
“Absorbing [and] astute . . . Cohen-Solal captures a facet of Picasso’s character long overlooked.” –Hamilton Cain, The Wall Street Journal
“A beguiling rea- Author: Cohen-Solal, Annie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 608
- Publish Date: March 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 0374231230
- Language: English
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Edward Hopper & Cape Ann: Illuminating an American Landscape
$55.00 Read moreA fresh look at one of America’s best-known and beloved artists at a pivotal but little-known moment in his life that profoundly shaped both his art and career.
Edward Hopper & Cape Ann tells the larg- Author: Bostwick Davis, Elliot
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0847899349
- Language: English
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Impressionism
$23.33 Add to cartDiscover how scenes of daily life and delicate dabs of color shocked the art world establishment. In this TASCHEN Basic Art introduction to Impressionism, we explore the artists, subjects, and techniq
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Grimme, Karin H.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 18 2017
- ISBN10: 3836536978
- Language: English
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Mucha
$23.33 Add to cartWith his instantly recognizable decorative style, Czech artist and Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha (1860-1939) defined the look of the fin-de-si?le. In evocative shades of peach, gold, ochre, and ol
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Sato, Tomoko
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 09 2015
- ISBN10: 3836550091
- Language: English
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Neutra
$23.33 Add to cartIn the architecture of Richard Neutra (1892-1970), inside and outside find their perfect modernist harmony. As the Californian sun glints off sleek building surfaces, vast glass panel walls allow pano
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Lamprecht, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 15 2016
- ISBN10: 3836535963
- Language: English
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Mid-Century Modern Furniture
$75.00 Add to cartFrom armchairs and chaises lounges to cabinets and nightstands, the period between the late 1930s and early 1970s was one of the most productive, inventive, and exciting eras for objects and furniture
- Author: Bradbury, Dominic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0500022224
- Language: English
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Austin Osman Spare, Revised Edition: The Life and Legend of London’s Lost Artist
$24.95 Read moreA revised edition of Phil Baker’s critically lauded biography of artist and occultist, Austin Osman Spare.
London has harbored many curious characters, but few more curious than the artist and visiona- Author: Baker, Phil
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1913689654
- Language: English
