Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
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Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
$39.99 Add to cartPaul Gauguin’s legend as a transgressive genius arises as much from his biography as his aesthetically daring Polynesian paintings. Gauguin is chiefly known for his pictures that eschewed convention,
- Author: Prideaux, Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1324020423
- Language: English
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A Fire in His Soul: Van Gogh, Paris, and the Making of an Artist
$39.95 Add to cartThe fascinating story of Vincent van Gogh’s two groundbreaking years in Paris, where he transformed himself from a provincial unknown into one of the world’s great visionary artists.
Vincent Van Gogh- Author: Unger, Miles J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368450
- Language: English
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The Art Spy: The Extraordinary Untold Tale of WWII Resistance Hero Rose Valland
$29.99 Add to cartA riveting and stylish saga set in Paris during World War II, THE ART SPY uncovers how an unlikely heroine infiltrated the Nazi leadership to save the cultural legacy of the West.
On August 25, 1944, R
- Author: Young, Michelle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 006329589X
- Language: English
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Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line
$60.00 Add to cart- Author: Mucha, Alphonse
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1636813992
- Language: English
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Expressionists: Kandinsky, Munter and the Blue Rider
$60.00 Add to cartA crucial introduction to the origins of the German Expressionist movement and the influential Blue Rider group, focusing on their relationships and transcultural interests
Founded in Munich in the 1- Author: Sidlina, Natalia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: June 11 2024
- ISBN10: 0300278330
- Language: English
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Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright
$20.00 Read moreFrank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suf… [more below]
- Author: Hendrickson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0804172889
- Language: English
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Women Architects at Work: Making American Modernism
$65.00 Add to cartA comprehensive history of the women architects who left their enduring mark on American Modernism
In the decades preceding World War II, professional architecture schools enrolled increasing numbers- Author: Hunting, Mary Anne
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0691206694
- Language: English
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Monet: The Pop-Up Book
$28.00 Add to cartFive of Monet’s most beloved works spring to life in this vivid and brilliantly engineered collection of pop-up scenes.
One of the joys of a Monet painting is the sense of being fully immersed in a be- Author: Carter, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 10
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 3791377477
- Language: English
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Rogues and Scholars: A History of the London Art World: 1945-2000
$35.00 Add to cartA colorful and fast-moving account of how postwar London became the global center of the art market–a story of Impressionist masterpieces, dodgy dealers, and ground-breaking financial transactions.
O- Author: Stourton, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 163936823X
- Language: English
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The Painted Word
$17.00 Read moreReissued for today’s reader with a redesigned cover by the renowned artist Seymour Chwast, Tom Wolfe trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this “masterpiece” (The Washington Post).
What has become- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 05 2024
- ISBN10: 1250338328
- Language: English
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Bonnard’s Worlds
$60.00 Read moreA fascinating journey into Pierre Bonnard’s world and the inspiration behind his spatially arresting and intimate paintings
- Author: Shackelford, George T. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0300273274
- Language: English
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Van Gogh: Masterpieces from the Kröller-Müller Museum
$45.00 Read moreFifty exemplary works spanning the Post-Impressionist’s career, from one of the world’s foremost Van Gogh collections
In this volume, 50 masterpieces by Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) from the prestigious
- Author: Van Gogh, Vincent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 885724959X
- Language: English
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Impressionism
$29.17 Add to cartIt was a dappled and daubed harbor scene that gave Impressionism its name. When Impression, Sunrise by Claude Monet was exhibited in April 1874, critics seized upon the work’s title and its loose styl
- Series: Bibliotheca Universalis
- Author: Walther, Ingo F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 784
- Publish Date: April 08 2016
- ISBN10: 3836557118
- Language: English
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Bauhaus. Updated Edition
$93.33 Add to cartIn a fleeting 14-year period between two world wars, Germany’s Bauhaus School of Art and Design changed the face of modernity. With utopian ideas for the future, the school developed a pioneering fusi
- Author: Droste, Magdalena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 28 2018
- ISBN10: 3836572826
- Language: English
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The History of Graphic Design. Vol. 2. 1960-Today
$93.33 Read moreThrough the turbulent passage of time, graphic design–with its vivid, neat synthesis of image and idea–has distilled the spirit of each age. Surrounding us every minute of every day, from minimalist
- Author: Müller, Jens
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 3836570378
- Language: English
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Black Artists in America: From the Great Depression to Civil Rights
$40.00 Add to cartExploring how artists at midcentury addressed the social issues of their day–from Jacob Lawrence to Elizabeth Catlett, Rose Piper to Charles White
This timely book surveys the varied ways in which B- Author: Lovelle Jenkins, Earnestine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0300260903
- Language: English
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The Forger’s Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century
$16.99 Add to cartNew York Times Bestseller
“Dolnick brilliantly re-creates the circumstances that made possible one of the most audacious frauds of the 20th century. And in doing so Dolnick plumbs the nature of fraud i
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Dolnick, Edward
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: January 15 2020
- ISBN10: 0060825421
- Language: English
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Gustav Klimt. the Complete Paintings
$116.67 Add to cartOver a century after his death, Viennese artist Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) still startles with his unabashed eroticism, dazzling surfaces, and artistic experimentation. This monograph gathers all of Kli
- Author: Natter, Tobias G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 604
- Publish Date: May 26 2017
- ISBN10: 3836566613
- Language: English
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Chagall
$23.33 Add to cartFor Marc Chagall (1887-1985), painting was an intricate tapestry of dreams, tales, and traditions. His instantly recognizable visual language carved out a unique early 20th-century niche, often identi
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Walther, Ingo F.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 29 2016
- ISBN10: 3836527839
- Language: English
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The Empire State Building
$25.95 Add to cartThe Empire State Building is the landmark book on one of the world’s most notable landmarks. Since its publication in 1995, John Tauranac’s book, focused on the inception and construction of the build
- Author: Tauranac, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 408
- Publish Date: March 25 2014
- ISBN10: 0801479398
- Language: English
