Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
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La Pausa: The Ideal Mediterranean Villa of Gabrielle Chanel
$160.00 Read moreDiscover Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel’s vacation villa on the French Riviera, where she entertained the leading lights of the French cultural scene in the 1930s and ’40s.
In 1928, Gabrielle Chanel built La- Author: Texidor, Montse Aguer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 346
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 2080454927
- Language: English
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Art for All. Impressionists
$46.67 Add to cartThis inspiring collection covers the work, the lives, and the enduring impact of five key Impressionists, in one volume that’s a primer and a celebration of probably the most popular artistic genre of
- Author: Growe, Bernd
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 504
- Publish Date: August 11 2025
- ISBN10: 3754401416
- Language: English
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Chaim Soutine: Genius, Obsession, and a Dramatic Life in Art
$34.00 Add to cartA revelatory biography of the Jewish expressionist painter that corrects the myths surrounding his work and proves his importance to the contemporary art world
Every major modern art museum in the wo- Author: Marcus, Celeste
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1541703227
- Language: English
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Venice: City of Pictures
$24.95 Add to cartVenice was a major center of art in the Renaissance: the city where the medium of oil on canvas became the norm. The achievements of the Bellini brothers, Carpaccio, Giorgione, Titian, Tintoretto, and
- Author: Gayford, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: July 08 2025
- ISBN10: 0500298750
- Language: English
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Man Ray: When Objects Dream
$65.00 Add to cartThe first in-depth study of Man Ray’s groundbreaking rayographs of the 1920s and their interconnections with his Dada and Surrealist works
This is the first in-depth study of the rayograph (or camer- Author: D’Alessandro, Stephanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 338
- Publish Date: September 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1588398021
- Language: English
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From Forest to Steppe: The Russian Art of Building in Wood
$50.00 Add to cartThroughout Russian history, local craftsmen have shown remarkable skill in fashioning wood into items of daily use, from bridges and street paving to carts and boats to household utensils and combs. R… [more below]
- Author: Brumfield, William Craft
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1478028246
- Language: English
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Sketching the Adirondacks: Letters from the Wilderness
$32.95 Add to cartIn 1851, two aspiring landscape artists, Jervis McEntee and Joseph Tubby, set out for the Adirondacks on a sketching expedition that would test not only their mettle as artists but as outdoorsmen. Hea
- Series: New York State
- Author: Pitts, Edward I.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 254
- Publish Date: May 16 2025
- ISBN10: 0815611765
- Language: English
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Comrades in Art: Artists Against Fascism 1933-1943
$50.00 Add to cartFrom the Great Depression to World War II, the lives and work of British artists intersected with a world in crisis. A compelling group biography, Comrades in Art explores the political forces that sh
- Author: Friend, Andy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 0500027412
- Language: English
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Francis Bacon Retrieved: Lost Words / New Writing
$35.00 Add to cartDavid Sylvester’s Interviews with Francis Bacon remain the most consulted writing on Bacon. For the first time, Bacon’s words appear here in their unredacted form. Other essays throw light on form and
- Series: Francis Bacon Studies
- Author: Harrison, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: July 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0500966273
- Language: English
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Jamestown: Architecture, Landscape, and the Making of a Rhode Island Paradise
$44.95 Add to cartA highly visual and new study of the rustic and whimsical shingled houses of Jamestown, Rhode Island from the colonial era to the development of the town as a picturesque report set in a coastal lands… [more below]
- Author: Tschirch, John R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 16 2025
- ISBN10: 1913875709
- Language: English
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John Singer Sargent: The Charcoal Portraits
$80.00 Add to cartA comprehensive catalogue of Sargent’s charcoal portraits, capturing high society, professions, and the arts in an era of profound transformation
In comparison with his portraits in oil, John Singer- Author: Ormond, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 407
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1913107469
- Language: English
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Vanessa Bell: Modern Living
$21.95 Add to cartThe painter Vanessa Bell initiated a step change in modern British art, bringing the bright palette and bold stylization of the Parisian avant-garde to London. She was a central figure in the Bloomsbu
- Series: V&a Artists in Focus
- Author: McKever, Rosalind
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 0500481059
- Language: English
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Chicago Homes: A Portrait of the City’s Everyday Architecture
$37.00 Add to cartA comprehensive, first-of-its-kind book about Chicago’s residential architecture and the stories that shaped it. This is an entertaining and precisely illustrated story of Chicago homes from the city’
- Author: Bruni, Carla
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1572843578
- Language: English
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Frank Lloyd Wright
$150.00 Add to cartA comprehensive monograph on Frank Lloyd Wright, one of the great masters of modern architecture
This comprehensive monograph on the renowned twentieth-century architect, Frank Lloyd Wright, explores b
- Author: McCarter, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: April 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1838668721
- Language: English
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Modern Taste: Art Deco in Paris 1910-1935
$45.00 Add to cartThe definitive book on Art Deco: an elegant large-format hardcover with hundreds of museum-quality color reproductions featuring exquisite examples of Art Deco jewellery, ceramics, laquer, fashion, te
- Author: Benton, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 540
- Publish Date: July 28 2015
- ISBN10: 847075629X
- Language: English
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John Singer Sargent: His Life and Works in 500 Images: An Illustrated Exploration of the Artist, His Life and Context, with a Gallery of 300 Paintings
$35.00 Read moreAn American who spent most of his life in Europe, a portraitist who painted landscapes, a family man who never married, and an accomplished pianist who often entertained his sitters, John Singer Sarge… [more below]
- Author: Hodge, Susie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: January 07 2020
- ISBN10: 0754832902
- Language: English
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American Modern: Architecture; Community; Columbus, Indiana
$75.00 Add to cartThe definitive book on one of the foremost modernist cities and architecture destinations in the USA: Columbus, Indiana
The midwestern city of Columbus, Indiana, is more than a mecca of modern architec
- Author: Shaw, Matt
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 472
- Publish Date: July 17 2024
- ISBN10: 1580936121
- Language: English
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Futurism: A Very Short Introduction
$12.99 Add to cartVery Short Introductions: Brilliant, Sharp, Inspiring
From the motorcar to the radio, modern technology radically transformed urban life by the first decade of the twentieth century. As one of Western- Series: Very Short Introductions
- Author: Merjian, Ara H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: May 27 2025
- ISBN10: 0192871005
- Language: English
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Ben Shahn, on Nonconformity
$45.00 Add to cartA richly illustrated new exploration of the painting, photography, and illustration of the politically progressive American artist
Ben Shahn, On Nonconformity offers a fresh and wide-ranging account- Author: Katzman, Laura
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 0691273111
- Language: English
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Monet: The Bigger Picture
$40.00 Add to cartMonet’s breathtaking artistry comes fully alive in this luxurious volume that features dozens of exquisite reproductions; forty- eight extra pages on six fold-out spreads; colored edges; and a printed… [more below]
- Author: Sefrioui, Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 3791377825
- Language: English
