Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
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Frank Lloyd Wright’s Wisconsin: How America’s Most Famous Architect Found Inspiration in His Home State
$24.95 Read moreAmerica’s most famous architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, was born in 1867 in the rolling hills of Richland Center, Wisconsin, to a family of Unitarians. Even with world-class commissions like New York Cit
- Author: Hansen, Kristine
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1493069144
- Language: English
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The Rescue Artist: A True Story of Art, Thieves, and the Hunt for a Missing Masterpiece: An Edgar Award Winner
$17.99 Add to cartIn the predawn hours of a gloomy February day in 1994, two thieves entered the National Gallery in Oslo and made off with one of the world’s most famous paintings, Edvard Munch’s Scream. It was a braz
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Dolnick, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 27 2006
- ISBN10: 0060531185
- Language: English
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Notes and Methods
$49.00 Add to cartAt the turn of the twentieth century, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) created a body of work that left visible reality behind, exploring the radical possibilities of abstraction years before… [more below]
- Author: Af Klint, Hilma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 022659193X
- Language: English
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Pop Art
$23.33 Add to cartPeaking in the 1960s, Pop Art began as a revolt against mainstream approaches to art and culture and evolved into a wholesale interrogation of modern society, consumer culture, the role of the artist,
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Honnef, Klaus
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 14 2015
- ISBN10: 383652337X
- Language: English
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Hidden in Plain Sight: Concealing Enslavement in American Visual Culture
$60.00 Add to cartIn the decades leading up to the Civil War, abolitionists crafted a variety of visual messages about the plight of enslaved people, portraying the violence, familial separation, and dehumanization tha… [more below]
- Author: Stephens, Rachel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 340
- Publish Date: September 29 2023
- ISBN10: 1682262332
- Language: English
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Art of Fantasy: A Visual Sourcebook of All That Is Unreal
$30.00 Add to cartThis beautiful, fully illustrated book presents a compendium of artworks throughout history which have been inspired by myth, fantasy and the unreal.
Artists have explored imaginary worlds and fantas- Series: Art in the Margins
- Author: Elizabeth, S.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0711279950
- Language: English
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Pollock
$23.33 Add to cartThe rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape. Channeling ideas from sources as diverse as Picasso a
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Emmerling, Leonhard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: May 23, 2016
- ISBN10: 3836529076
- Language: English
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Modern Art. a History from Impressionism to Today
$29.17 Add to cartMost art historians agree that the modern art adventure first developed in the 1860s in Paris. A circle of painters, whom we now know as Impressionists, began painting pictures with rapid, loose brush
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Holzwarth, Hans Werner
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 696
- Publish Date: January 15 2016
- ISBN10: 3836555395
- Language: English
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Kandinsky
$23.33 Read moreOver the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early figurative and landscape painting, he went on to pio
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Düchting, Hajo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 23 2015
- ISBN10: 3836507463
- Language: English
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Atlas of Mid-Century Modern Houses
$69.95 Add to cartThe most complete in-depth survey of global Mid-Century Modern homes ever published – more than 400 stunning homes from 40 countries, designed by more than 290 of the world’s greatest architects
The lo
- Author: Bradbury, Dominic
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: November 03 2021
- ISBN10: 1838663398
- Language: English
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Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris
$18.95 Add to cartIn freewheeling 1920s Paris, Kiki de Montparnasse captivated as a nightclub performer, sold out gallery showings of her paintings, starred in Surrealist films, and shared drinks and ideas with the lik
- Author: Braude, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324065958
- Language: English
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Van Gogh’s Cypresses
$50.00 Read moreThe first book to study Vincent van Gogh’s fascination with cypresses, the “tall and dark trees” that feature in some of his most iconic pictures
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) immortalized the cypress- Author: Stein, Susan Alyson
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: May 23, 2023
- ISBN10: 1588397599
- Language: English
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Aalto in Detail: A Catalogue of Components
$36.99 Add to cartFor the Aalto Moment in Your Projects
This carefully curated catalog celebrates the rich detail in the work
of Aino, Elissa, and Alvar Aalto. Every support, railing, and handle is
the result of int- Author: Dietziker, Céline
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: July 07 2022
- ISBN10: 3035623325
- Language: English
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1898: Visual Culture and U.S. Imperialism in the Caribbean and the Pacific
$53.00 Add to cartA revealing look at U.S. imperialism through the lens of visual culture and portraiture
In 1898, the United States seized territories overseas, ushering in an era of expansion that was at odds with th- Author: Caragol, Taína
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: December 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691246203
- Language: English
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Van Gogh
$23.33 Add to cartToday, the works of Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) are among the most well known and celebrated in the world. In Sunflowers, The Starry Night, Self-Portrait with Bandaged Ear, and many paintings and dra
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Walther, Ingo F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 29, 2016
- ISBN10: 3836527367
- Language: English
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Jo Van Gogh-Bonger: The Woman Who Made Vincent Famous
$40.00 Read moreIt is so good, after so many years of public indifference, even hostility towards Vincent and his work, to feel towards the end of my life that the battle is won.’
JO VAN GOGH-BONGER TO GUSTAVE COQUIO- Author: Luijten, Hans
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 544
- Publish Date: November 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1350299588
- Language: English
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F.L. Wright
$23.33 Add to cartAcclaimed as the “father of skyscrapers,” the quintessentially American icon Frank Lloyd Wright (1867-1959) was an architect of aspiration. He believed in giving cultivated American life its fitting a
- Series: Basic Architecture
- Author: Brooks Pfeiffer, Bruce
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: September 09 2015
- ISBN10: 3836560496
- Language: English
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Klimt
$23.33 Add to cartThe unfading popularity of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) attests not only to the particular appeal of his luxuriant painting but also to the universal themes with which he worked: love, feminine beauty, ag
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Néret, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 15, 2015
- ISBN10: 3836558076
- Language: English
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Why Surrealism Matters
$26.00 Add to cartAn elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why it continues to resonate
“Mr. Polizzotti carefully balances the movement’s aspirations and attainments against its fl- Series: Why X Matters
- Author: Polizzotti, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: January 09 2024
- ISBN10: 0300257090
- Language: English
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Towards a New Architecture
$19.99 Add to cartFor the Swiss-born architect and city planner Le Corbusier (Charles-?douard Jeanneret, 1887-1965), architecture constituted a noble art, an exalted calling in which the architect combined plastic inve
- Series: Dover Architecture
- Author: Le Corbusier
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 289
- Publish Date: February 01 1985
- ISBN10: 0486250237
- Language: English
