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Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World by Achi Borchardt Hume Publisher Comments This beautifully illustrated book highlights the contrasts and correspondences in the lives and work of two of Modernism’s greatest innovators, Josef Albers (1888–1976) and László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1947). Beginning in... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $31.98 Sale - Hardcover 
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Cubism (25) by A Gantefuhrer Trier Publisher Comments As you'll find out in this guide to the fundamentals of cubism, there is more to the genre than its most famous proponent. Cubism -- often identified by flattened, geometric shapes, overlapping, simplified forms and fragmented spatial planes -- was quite... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $9.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Cubism (Movements in Modern Art) by David Cottington Publisher Comments Analyzing paintings by Picasso, Braque, Robert and Sonia Delauney, and their associates, David Cottington describes how the artistic avant-garde, and Cubism within it, was formed in France by the turbulent and complex decade before the outbreak of war in... (read more) List Price $21.99 Your price: $3.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Dadaism (Basic Art) by Dietmar Elger Publisher Comments A precursor to surrealism, the Dada movement stressed the absurd and unpredictable, lashing out against traditional standards of aesthetics. Jean Arp, Marcel Duchamp, and Man Ray were among the most famous proponents of Dada, creating works that dared... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $4.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Paris Portraits: Stories of Picasso, Matisse, Gertrude Stein, and Their Circle by Harriet Lane Levy Publisher Comments In 1906, Harriet Levy was talked into moving to Paris by her friend Alice B. Toklas and suddenly found herself immersed in a strange world peopled by artists who spoke a language she could not understand--a colorful world that she could only remotely... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $15.50 Used - Hardcover
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Discoveries: Dada: The Revolt of Art (Discoveries) by Marc Dachy Publisher Comments Well-written, loaded with information, and with a rich assortment of illustrations, each "Discoveries"(r) volume is a look at one facet of art, archaeology, music, history, philosophy, popular culture, science, or nature. These innovatively designed... (read more) List Price $12.95 Your price: $6.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Surrealism (World of Art) by Patrick Waldberg Publisher Comments The character of Surrealism had been crystallizing over the previous five years when, in 1924, Andre Breton's Manifeste du Surrealisme defined the word. As conceived in those early days it was not so much a formal movement as a spiritual orientation... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $5.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Art for Everyone: Contemporary Lithographs Ltd by Ruth Artmonsky Synopsis Reproduces all of the works from the Contemporary Lithographs scheme for the first time.... (read more) Your price: $25.00 New - Trade Paper
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Babylon: Surreal Babies by James Birch Publisher Comments Babies hatch from eggs, bubble from cauldrons, are fished from rivers, emerge in the cabbage patch, sit atop clouds, and ride in zeppelins. They play instruments, drive automobiles, fly in balloons, harvest the fields; an anarchistic world of baby... (read more) List Price $29.00 Your price: $23.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Blue Rider: A Dance in Colours: Watercolours, Drawings and Graphic Arts from the Lenbachhaus Munich by Helmut Friedel Publisher Comments Active in Germany in the years leading up to World War I, the Blue Rider was a collective of artists, cofounded by Wassily Kandinsky, that was a key influence on Expressionism. This volume offers a highly illustrated tour through the large... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $55.00 Used - Hardcover
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Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century (Modern Art--Practices & Debates) by Charles Harrison Synopsis Presents a survey of art from the first two decades of the 20th century. The volume explores the invocation of the primitive at the end of the 19th century, analyzes Cubist works based on semiotic theory, and considers some problems of interpretation and... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price: $12.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Surrealism: Genesis of Revolution (Temporis) by Naahalia Brodskaia Publisher Comments Subtitled, "From Dada To Surrealism". Movements that appeared in the aftermath of the First World War, as escapism was needed desperately.... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $25.00 Used - Hardcover
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Surrealism (25) by Cath Klinsohr Leroy Synopsis With Salvador Dali as its figurehead, Surrealism's mysterious, dream-like imagery made sensational waves in the art world. This work highlights the movement's style and influence on 20th-century culture.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $9.97 Sale - Hardcover
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Expressionism (04 Edition) by Norbert Wolf Publisher Comments An introduction to the work of the Expressionists.... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Surreal People by Alexander Klar Publisher Comments The web of friendships within the Surrealist circle was a key source of inspiration for this close group of artists and writers, and many of their greatest works stem from a collaborative approach to the creative process. "Surreal People" is a... (read more) List Price $25.25 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Another World: Dal!, Magritte, Miro and the Surrealists by Patrick Elliott Synopsis This catalogue, the first of the Gallery's Dada and Surrealist holdings, reproduces and catalogues more than 100 of the best works.... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Constrcutive Spirit: Abstract Art in the South and North Americas, 1920-1950 by Mary Kate Ohare Synopsis In the first half of the twentieth century, South American and US artists turned their hands to the hard-edge lines and geometric shapes of abstract art. This richly illustrated book examines the connections, both conceptual and personal, among abstract... (read more) List Price $39.95 Your price: $26.50 Sale - Hardcover
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A Boatload of Madmen: Surrealism and the American Avant-Garde 1920-1950 by Dickran Tashjian Publisher Comments In 1932, against the troubled background of the Depression, the American art community had its first glimpse of the revolutionary art of the Surrealists. Combining a fascination for Freud's new symbolic language of dreams with a radical utopianism, the... (read more) List Price $27.50 Your price: $13.98 Sale - Trade Paper
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Surreal Objects: Three-Dimensional Works from Dali to Man Ray by Ingrid (edt) Pfeiffer Publisher Comments Beautiful as the chance meeting of a sewing machine and an umbrella on a dissecting table is the most famous formulation of the Surrealist effect, penned by the Comte de Lautreamont in the 1860s and adopted as a rallying cry by Andre Breton at the... (read more) Your price: $60.00 New - Hardcover
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Dadaism (25) by Dietmar Elger Synopsis A precursor to Surrealism, the Dada movement stressed the absurd and unpredictable, the illogical and chaotic, lashing out against traditional aesthetics. This work shows how the movement's participants dared viewers to expand their notions of art.... (read more) Your price: $14.99 New - Hardcover
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