Modern (Late 19th Century to 1945)
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Gustav Klimt: The Interiors
$50.00 Read moreThis unique and utterly fascinating appreciation of Gustav Klimt’s oeuvre reveals some of his most famous works in their original settings and offers valuable historic insight into his artistic vision… [more below]
- Author: Natter, Tobias G.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 140
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 379137978X
- Language: English
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Buffalo Art Deco
$23.99 Read moreSeveral movements helped to define the era known as the Roaring Twenties. Prohibition brought about the speakeasy, moonshine, the flapper, and the arrival of the jazz age, while the elegance and glamo… [more below]
- Series: Images of America
- Author: Charles, Trisha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1467107433
- Language: English
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The Sagrada Familia: The Astonishing Story of GaudÃ’s Unfinished Masterpiece
$28.00 Read moreAn illuminating biography of one of the most famous–and most famously unfinished–buildings in the world, the Sagrada Familia of Barcelona.
The scaffolding-cloaked spires of Antoni Gaud?’s masterpiec- Author: Van Hensbergen, Gijs
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: July 25 2017
- ISBN10: 1632867818
- Language: English
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Nothing Permanent: Modern Architecture in California
$39.95 Read moreA critical look at the competing motivations behind one of modern architecture’s most widely known and misunderstood movements
Although “mid-century modern” has evolved into a highly popular and ubiq
- Author: Cronan, Todd
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: June 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1517915201
- Language: English
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French Riviera and Its Artists: Art, Literature, Love, and Life on the Côte d’Azur
$19.95 Read moreGet swept up in the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera as author and filmmaker John Baxter takes readers on a whirlwind tour through the star-studded cultural history of the C te d’Azur that’s su… [more below]
- Author: Baxter, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: August 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1940842050
- Language: English
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Architects of an American Landscape: Henry Hobson Richardson, Frederick Law Olmsted, and the Reimagining of America’s Public and Private Spaces
$30.00 Read moreA dual portrait of America’s first great architect, Henry Hobson Richardson, and her finest landscape designer, Frederick Law Olmsted–and their immense impact on America
As the nation recovered from a
- Author: Howard, Hugh
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0802159230
- Language: English
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DalÃ
$21.95 Read moreIn this revised and updated edition of art historian Dawn Ades’s seminal study of Salvador DalÃ, based on interviews with the artist, Ades examines what accounts for DalÃ’s popularity, exploring suc
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Ades, Dawn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: June 07 2022
- ISBN10: 0500204764
- Language: English
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Common Ground: Multi-Family Housing in Los Angeles
$50.00 Add to cartAs Los Angeles confronts a growing housing crisis, a city known for its single-family housing will inevitably shift toward a greater emphasis on apartments and other types of multi-family housing. And
- Author: Anderton, Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: October 18 2022
- ISBN10: 1626400911
- Language: English
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The Painted Word
$17.00 Read more“America’s nerviest journalist” (Newsweek) trains his satirical eye on Modern Art in this “masterpiece” (The Washington Post)
Wolfe’s style has never been more dazzling, his wit never more keen. He ad- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: November 01 2008
- ISBN10: 0312427581
- Language: English
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The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt’s Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
$20.00 Add to cartNational Bestseller
The true story that inspired the movie Woman in Gold starring Helen Mirren and Ryan Reynolds.
Contributor to the Washington Post Anne-Marie O’Connor brilliantly regales us with the- Author: O’Connor, Anne-Marie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: March 31 2015
- ISBN10: 1101873124
- Language: English
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Dadaism
$23.33 Add to cartEmerging amid the brutality of World War I, the revolutionary Dada movement took disgust with the establishment as its starting point. From 1916 until the mid-1920s, artists in Zurich, Cologne, Hanove
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Elger, Dietmar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: January 15 2016
- ISBN10: 3836505622
- Language: English
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Magritte: Masters of Art
$14.95 Read moreThis revelatory examination of the Surrealist master updates prevailing theories about Magritte’s life and beliefs, and offers a surprising new assessment of an artist who strived for anonymity rather… [more below]
- Series: Masters of Art
- Author: Adams, Alexander
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 3791387944
- Language: English
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Frida Kahlo: The Painter and Her Work
$50.00 Read moreThis definitive appreciation of Kahlo’s career features gorgeous full-page reproductions and insightful commentary to illuminate connections between the artist’s life and work.
Few painters have been- Author: Prignitz-Poda, Helga
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 3791379607
- Language: English
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The Art Deco Style: Great Designers & Collectors
$95.00 Read more– Richly illustrated history of Art Deco
– Written by art consultant Alastair Duncan
– Designs by Eileen Gray, Jean Dunand and Antoine Bourdelle, among many others
– Featuring legendary Art Deco collecto
- Author: Duncan, Alastair
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 420
- Publish Date: November 27 2023
- ISBN10: 1788842251
- Language: English
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Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time
$21.00 Read moreFrom Jenny Uglow, one of our most admired writers, a beautifully illustrated story of a love affair and a dynamic artistic partnership between the wars.
In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old archite- Author: Uglow, Jenny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872561
- Language: English
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The Heart: Frida Kahlo in Paris
$15.99 Read moreThis intimate account offers a new, unexpected understanding of the artist’s work and of the vibrant 1930s surrealist scene.
In 1938, just as she was leaving Mexico for her first solo exhibition in Ne- Author: Petitjean, Marc
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: September 07 2021
- ISBN10: 163542190X
- Language: English
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A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration
$45.00 Read moreContemporary artists and writers reflect on the Great Migration and the ways that it continues to inform the Black experience in America
The Great Migration (1915-70) saw more than six million Africa- Author: Brown, Jessica Bell
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: October 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0300265735
- Language: English
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John Craxton: A Modern Odyssey
$40.00 Read moreA celebration of the life and work of the artist John Craxton, a rebellious figure in British art history
Spanning a rich variety of works from the 1940s to the 2000s, this book celebrates the life a- Author: Martin, Simon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 27 2024
- ISBN10: 1869827716
- Language: English
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Van Gogh in America
$50.00 Read moreA fascinating exploration of the introduction of Vincent van Gogh’s work to the United States one hundred years later
Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) is one of the most iconic artists in the world, and- Author: Shaw, Jill
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 264
- Publish Date: December 13 2022
- ISBN10: 0300247095
- Language: English
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The Other Modern Movement: Architecture, 1920-1970
$50.00 Read moreA revealing new look at modernist architecture, emphasizing its diversity, complexity, and broad inventiveness
“[Frampton] remains a formidable force in architecture . . . The Other Modern Movement of- Author: Frampton, Kenneth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: January 25 2022
- ISBN10: 0300238894
- Language: English
