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Art Nouveau ChecklistArt Nouveau ChecklistArt Nouveau Ironwork of Austria and HungaryArt Nouveau Ironwork of Austria and Hungary
Best Price: $26.88
The streets of Budapest, Hungary, and Vienna, Austria, are rich in masterpieces of Art Nouveau...
Will BarnetWill Barnet
Best Price: $6.36
Annual Bibliography of Modern ArtAnnual Bibliography of Modern Art
Best Price: $325.00
Bruce Nauman (PAJ Books: Art + Performance)Bruce Nauman (PAJ Books: Art + Performance)
Best Price: $13.93
Bruce Nauman is the most amazing artist I have ever seen. I was not much into moder art, until I...


Address Book (Janet Bolton Series)Address Book (Janet Bolton Series)Egon SchieleEgon Schiele
Best Price: $15.38
Reading this book was a great addition to the course I took with Alessandra Comini. She is a...
Decorative FlowersDecorative Flowers
Best Price: $24.95
French designer Maurice Pillard Verneuil (1869-1942) was fascinated by the decorative potential...
The Unknown Modigliani: Drawings from the Collection of Paul AlexandreThe Unknown Modigliani: Drawings from the Collection of Paul Alexandre
Best Price: $85.00
I never really had to draw artistically, but I spent years drafting mechanical objects,...
Malevich (Great Modern Masters)Malevich (Great Modern Masters)
Best Price: $6.93
I've long been a fan of the brilliant Russian painter Kazimir Malevich. He along with Paul...


Art Nouveau ChecklistArt Nouveau ChecklistArt Nouveau Ironwork of Austria and HungaryArt Nouveau Ironwork of Austria and Hungary
Best Price: $26.88
The streets of Budapest, Hungary, and Vienna, Austria, are rich in masterpieces of Art Nouveau...
Will BarnetWill Barnet
Best Price: $6.36
Annual Bibliography of Modern ArtAnnual Bibliography of Modern Art
Best Price: $325.00
Bruce Nauman (PAJ Books: Art + Performance)Bruce Nauman (PAJ Books: Art + Performance)
Best Price: $13.93
Bruce Nauman is the most amazing artist I have ever seen. I was not much into moder art, until I...

Address Book (Janet Bolton Series)Address Book (Janet Bolton Series)Egon SchieleEgon Schiele
Best Price: $15.38
Reading this book was a great addition to the course I took with Alessandra Comini. She is a...
Decorative FlowersDecorative Flowers
Best Price: $24.95
French designer Maurice Pillard Verneuil (1869-1942) was fascinated by the decorative potential...
The Unknown Modigliani: Drawings from the Collection of Paul AlexandreThe Unknown Modigliani: Drawings from the Collection of Paul Alexandre
Best Price: $85.00
I never really had to draw artistically, but I spent years drafting mechanical objects,...
Malevich (Great Modern Masters)Malevich (Great Modern Masters)
Best Price: $6.93
I've long been a fan of the brilliant Russian painter Kazimir Malevich. He along with Paul...

Magritte (Masters of Art)Magritte (Masters of Art)MatisseMatisseArt without Boundaries (World of Art)Art without Boundaries (World of Art)Art Since 1960 (World of Art)Art Since 1960 (World of Art)
Best Price: $11.41
Art today may seem perplexing at first with its divergent styles, forms, practices, media, and ...
Picasso Paints a PortraitPicasso Paints a Portrait
Best Price: $45.00
For the last 17 years of Picasso's life, David Douglas Duncan was a friend of the artist and...

Sonia Delaunay the Life of an ArtistSonia Delaunay the Life of an Artist
Best Price: $387.62
This is the story of a woman who played a significant role in the avant-garde of Paris in the...
Howard HodgkinHoward HodgkinStyles, Schools and Movements: The Essential Encyclopaedic Guide to Modern ArtStyles, Schools and Movements: The Essential Encyclopaedic Guide to Modern Art
Best Price: $15.98
I feel obligated to write the review for this book since it is so good... The great thing about...
Paths to the Absolute (Broadview Literary Texts)Paths to the Absolute (Broadview Literary Texts)
The main reason I wanted to take a trip to Russia was to see the great examples of abstract art...
Gauguin (Dolphin Art Books)Gauguin (Dolphin Art Books)

Embattled Avant-Gardes: Modernism's Resistance to Commodity Culture in EuropeEmbattled Avant-Gardes: Modernism's Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe
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This sweeping work, at once a panoramic overview and an ambitious critical reinterpretation of...
Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings (Second Edition, Revised and Expanded by Kristine Stiles)Theories and Documents of Contemporary Art: A Sourcebook of Artists' Writings (Second Edition, Revised and Expanded by Kristine Stiles)
Best Price: $21.24
First published in 1996, this irreplaceable resource has now been updated, revised, and expanded...
Art History, After Sherrie LevineArt History, After Sherrie Levine
Best Price: $60.77
This book examines the career of New York-based artist Sherrie Levine, whose 1981 series of...
Postmodernism (Movements in Modern Art)Postmodernism (Movements in Modern Art)
Best Price: $49.64
I had to read this book for a communications class. It's about postmodernism. I didn't...
The Making of a New 'Indian' Art: Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal, c.1850-1920 (Cambridge South Asian Studies)The Making of a New 'Indian' Art: Artists, Aesthetics and Nationalism in Bengal, c.1850-1920 (Cambridge South Asian Studies)
Best Price: $46.78
This book offers a path-breaking analysis of the transformations that occurred in the art and...

CezanneCezanneHappy DaysHappy Days
Best Price: $151.45
This work provides a collection of Beryl Cook's colourful, rumbustious art.
Images of Impressionism (Images of)Images of Impressionism (Images of)Barbara Hepworth: A Life of FormsBarbara Hepworth: A Life of Forms
Best Price: $199.95
Barbara Hepworth is an exceptional artist not yet sufficiently appreciated. That is why this...
Infinite Worlds : The Fantastic Visions of Science Fiction ArtInfinite Worlds : The Fantastic Visions of Science Fiction Art
Best Price: $39.00
Infinite Worlds is divided into two lushly illustrated halves. The first half,...

A Bibliography Of William MorrisA Bibliography Of William Morris
Best Price: $49.32
"This work is the first full account in over a hundred years of William Morris's...
Biography of Norman RockwellBiography of Norman RockwellSacred Monsters, Sacred MastersSacred Monsters, Sacred Masters
Known for his award-winning biography of Picasso, who befriended the author in the 1950s, this...
Samuel Palmer 1805-1881: Vision and LandscapeSamuel Palmer 1805-1881: Vision and LandscapeMonetMonet
Best Price: $12.00
Introduction to the life and work of the founder of Impressionism.

Art in the EightiesArt in the Eighties
An analysis of a decade of art, which sees the 1980s as a time when painting, figuration and...
Cézanne: Colour Library (Phaidon Colour Library)Cézanne: Colour Library (Phaidon Colour Library)
Best Price: $8.59
A brief pictography with readable paragraphs on the great artist, Cezanne.
Egon SchieleEgon Schiele
Best Price: $18.84
There is a great balance of reproductions and narrative. Schiele fans will enjoy this book....
Art Deco StyleArt Deco Style
Best Price: $170.00
Art Deco was an applied arts movement of the early 20th Century; it was the natural successor to...
MondrianMondrian
Best Price: $24.85
Mondrian's work is, in my opinion, best appreciated in context. He didn't simply arrive...

Body Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-LoringhovenBody Sweats: The Uncensored Writings of Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven
Best Price: $21.00
As a neurasthenic, kleptomaniac, man-chasing proto-punk poet and artist, the...
Prosthetic Gods (October Books)Prosthetic Gods (October Books)
Best Price: $35.00
How to imagine not only a new art or architecture but a new self or subject equal to them? In ...
Gothic: Transmutations of Horror in Late-Twentieth-Century ArtGothic: Transmutations of Horror in Late-Twentieth-Century Art
Best Price: $66.56
this hardback 219-page book (numbered backwards) is a collector's item. It draws on the last...
Push Comes to Shove: New Images of Aggressive WomenPush Comes to Shove: New Images of Aggressive Women
Best Price: $7.97
Push Comes to Shove is a fantastic book on women and aggression. From "Kill Bill" to...
Dada East: The Romanians of Cabaret VoltaireDada East: The Romanians of Cabaret Voltaire
Best Price: $25.00
Dada -- perhaps the most famous and outrageous of modernism's artistic ...

Appropriation (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)Appropriation (Whitechapel: Documents of Contemporary Art)
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Important documents and appraisals of appropriation art from Duchamp's ...
The Power of Display: A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern ArtThe Power of Display: A History of Exhibition Installations at the Museum of Modern Art
Art historians, traditionally, have implicitly accepted the autonomy of the artwork and ignored...
An Eye on the Modern Century: Selected Letters of Henry McBride (Henry McBride Series in Modernism and Mo)An Eye on the Modern Century: Selected Letters of Henry McBride (Henry McBride Series in Modernism and Mo)
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Henry McBride (1867-1962) became a towering figure in art criticism during a long career that...
Modern Life & Modern Subjects: British Art in the Early Twentieth CenturyModern Life & Modern Subjects: British Art in the Early Twentieth Century
Best Price: $54.01
In May 1914 the Whitechapel Art Gallery in London opened its exhibition of...
Mondrian: The Transatlantic PaintingsMondrian: The Transatlantic Paintings
Best Price: $35.07
An excellent exhibition catalog that focuses on a narrow body of works by Mondrian; namely,...

Minimalism (Themes & Movements)Minimalism (Themes & Movements)
Best Price: $139.00
A glorious book combining a multitude of exquisite images of important Minimalist works with an...
MirageMirage
Best Price: $19.95
Sculptor, photographer and painter, Richard Long, interacts with nature and the landscape,...
Yayoi Kusama (Contemporary Artists (Phaidon))Yayoi Kusama (Contemporary Artists (Phaidon))
Best Price: $29.68
This book is absolutely gorgeous. I didn't know many of the artist's works before I...
Cubism A&I (Art and Ideas)Cubism A&I (Art and Ideas)
Best Price: $15.66
This is an introduction to cubism, the movement often seen as the single most important...
Art Deco StyleArt Deco Style
Best Price: $78.14
Bevis Hillier first enlightened the world about the Art Deco movement in his definitive volume...

Picasso: Style and MeaningPicasso: Style and Meaning
Best Price: $50.00
In Picasso: Style And Meaning, author Elizabeth Cowling (lecturer in Art History at the...
The World in Paint: Modern Art and Visuality in England 1848-1914The World in Paint: Modern Art and Visuality in England 1848-1914Delacroix PastelsDelacroix Pastels
Best Price: $70.00
These are 60 colour reproductions of Delacroix pastels. Delacroix, a leader of the French...
Modern Britain 1900-1960: Masterworks from Australian and New Zealand CollectionsModern Britain 1900-1960: Masterworks from Australian and New Zealand Collections
Best Price: $39.92
There is a real sense of rediscovery with this formidable gathering of modern British art that...
John Paul CooperJohn Paul Cooper
John Paul Cooper is a hitherto neglected, but important, figure of the Arts and Crafts Movement....

Russia's Silver Age: Moscow and St Petersburg, 1900-1920. by John E. BowltRussia's Silver Age: Moscow and St Petersburg, 1900-1920. by John E. Bowlt
The history of Russia has seesawed through the centuries between Europe and Asia. In this...
The Kelmscott Press: A History of William Morris's Typographical AdventureThe Kelmscott Press: A History of William Morris's Typographical Adventure
a classic for anyone who loves the history of type and design. a great tribute and history of...
A Critical Study of Philip GustonA Critical Study of Philip Guston
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The Mystery of Philip Guston Dore Ashton wrote this book in 1974 while Guston was still alive...
The Hydrogen Jukebox: Selected Writings of Peter Schjeldahl, 1978-1990 (Lannan)The Hydrogen Jukebox: Selected Writings of Peter Schjeldahl, 1978-1990 (Lannan)
Best Price: $29.92
In his introduction, Rob. Storr describes Schjeldahl as fashion's 'watchful scribe'....
On the Edge of America: California Modernist Art, 1900-1950On the Edge of America: California Modernist Art, 1900-1950
Best Price: $43.95
To many, California's social and cultural identity has set it apart from the rest of the...

Democratic Visions: Art and Theory of the Stieglitz CircleDemocratic Visions: Art and Theory of the Stieglitz Circle
Best Price: $29.75
Academic prose is torture to read. Has 5 color pix and the rest are black and white. I was...
Post-Partum DocumentPost-Partum Document
Best Price: $32.92
Conceived as an installation in six consecutive sections, Mary Kelly's Post-Partum Document...
Weimar Surfaces: Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism)Weimar Surfaces: Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany (Weimar and Now: German Cultural Criticism)
Best Price: $24.48
Very interesting slant ona fascinating period. Book arrived when promised and in good...
Tate Modern: The HandbookTate Modern: The Handbook
Best Price: $11.00
This book celebrates the opening of Tate Modern in London and introduces readers to the...
Mumford on Modern Art in the 1930sMumford on Modern Art in the 1930s
Best Price: $1.98
Although Lewis Mumford is widely acknowledged as the seminal American critic of architecture and...

Alberto Giacometti in Postwar ParisAlberto Giacometti in Postwar Paris
Best Price: $213.42
Alberto Giacometti, one of the foremost artists of the 20th century, created sculptures and...
Visible Deeds of Music: Art and Music from Wagner to CageVisible Deeds of Music: Art and Music from Wagner to Cage
Best Price: $27.93
This book provides an excellent survey and analysis of the relationships between music and...
Picasso Looks at Degas (Clark Art Institute)Picasso Looks at Degas (Clark Art Institute)
Best Price: $38.50
"PIcasso never took much interest in Degas' paintings. He preferred the sculptures and...
Cezanne's Watercolors: Between Drawing and PaintingCezanne's Watercolors: Between Drawing and Painting
Best Price: $39.20
This book focuses on a crucial body of works by Cézanne, seldom seen and therefore...
Cezanne and American Modernism (Baltimore Museum of Art)Cezanne and American Modernism (Baltimore Museum of Art)
Best Price: $50.13
"Your eyes will see the King in His beauty; They will see the land that is very far...

Degas's Dancers at the Barre: Point and Counterpoint (Phillips Collection)Degas's Dancers at the Barre: Point and Counterpoint (Phillips Collection)
Best Price: $28.49
Hilaire-Germain-Edgar Degas (1834?1917) was a passionate devotee of ballet?he knew the...
Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910-1912 (Kimbell Art Museum)Picasso and Braque: The Cubist Experiment, 1910-1912 (Kimbell Art Museum)
Best Price: $19.39
Picasso and Braque offers an intimate look at one of the most pivotal exchanges in the history...
Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)Cosmopolitan Routes: Houston Collects Latin American Art (Museum of Fine Arts, Houston)
Best Price: $20.75
Cosmopolitan Routes situates 20th-century Latin American art as an evolving discourse of...
Neoclassical SourcebookNeoclassical SourcebookWilliam Morris by Himself: Designs and WritingsWilliam Morris by Himself: Designs and Writings

Toulouse-Lautrec and the Fin-De-SiecleToulouse-Lautrec and the Fin-De-Siecle
Best Price: $58.02
Sweetman's book is the single best piece of media on Lautrec I have consumed, including...
Encounters & Reflections: Art in the Historical PresentEncounters & Reflections: Art in the Historical Present
Best Price: $22.95
In Encounters and Reflections , Danto broadens the debate on painting and sculpture in the late...
Theories of Art: 3. From Impressionism to KandinskyTheories of Art: 3. From Impressionism to Kandinsky
Best Price: $37.37
From Impressionism to Kandinsky , brings this fascinating history well into the twentieth...
The Usborne Introduction To Modern Art-Internet LinkedThe Usborne Introduction To Modern Art-Internet Linked
Best Price: $15.00
Renoir: An Intimate RecordRenoir: An Intimate Record
Best Price: $81.10
Art dealer and publisher Vollard's splendid portrait emerges principally in a long series of...

Dali on Modern Art: The Cuckolds of Antiquated Modern ArtDali on Modern Art: The Cuckolds of Antiquated Modern Art
Best Price: $16.99
That's the only subject that Dali ever seemed to discuss. I know that this short volume is...
Impressionist Paintings: 16 Art Stickers (Dover Fine Art Stickers)Impressionist Paintings: 16 Art Stickers (Dover Fine Art Stickers)
Such Lovely Little Stickers for Such a Lovely Little Price!!! I used them for envelope...
Pirates, Patriots, and Princesses: The Art of Howard Pyle (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)Pirates, Patriots, and Princesses: The Art of Howard Pyle (Dover Fine Art, History of Art)
Best Price: $10.19
This is a nice little colection of Pyle's work. Contrary to another review, every page...
Looking Back at Francis BaconLooking Back at Francis Bacon
Best Price: $36.12
Few artists of the 20th century have engendered as much controversy while having such an...
 
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