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The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes Publisher Comments A beautifully illustrated hundred-year history of modern art, from cubism to pop and avant-guard. More than 250 color photos.... (read more) List Price $49.95 Your price: $18.95 Used - Trade Paper 
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This Will Have Been: Art, Love & Politics in the 1980s by Helen Molesworth Publisher Comments Art of the 1980s oscillated between radical and conservative, capricious and political, socially engaged and art historically aware. Published in association with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, this fascinating book chronicles canonical as well... (read more) Your price: $50.00 New - Hardcover
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20th Century Art Book Mini Edition by Phaidon Press Publisher Comments Presenting a new and original way of bringing art alive, this mini edition offers a gallery of 500 artists and their works plus a jargon-free Glossary of artistic terms and an international directory of museums and galleries. 500 color illustrations.... (read more) List Price $11.95 Your price: $6.95 Used - Trade Paper
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History of Modern Art (Paper Cover - 6th Edition) by H H Arnason Publisher Comments Long considered the survey of modern art, this engrossing and liberally illustrated text traces the development of trends and influences in painting, sculpture, photography and architecture from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. Retaining... (read more) List Price $136.00 Your price: $80.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Shock of the New by Robert Hughes Staff Pick I know nothing about the visual arts so you can be assured anything I say I've stolen from Hughes's The Shock of the New. A distillation of his eight-part BBC/Time-Life television series, the book details the genesis of modern painting, sculpture, and... (read more) List Price $88.75 Your price: $31.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Mainstreams of Modern Art by John Edwin Canaday Publisher Comments Written by the former art critic for The New York Times, this is a complete study of the painting and sculpture of the 19th century covering its major movements and incorporating its 18th-century precedents and early 20th-century developments.... (read more) List Price $183.75 Your price: $7.50 Used - Trade Paper
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Modern Art: A Crash Course (Crash Course) by Cory Bell Publisher Comments Remember the twentieth century — that weird and lurid dream we all woke up from a short while ago? What was that all about? Strange and baffling paintings (sometimes decorated with elephant dung); video loops; assemblages of steel, glass, plastic... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $6.50 Used - Hardcover
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Realism (Movements in Modern Art) by James Malpas Publisher Comments A study of the typical chracteristics of twentieth-century realism.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $3.50 Used - Trade Paper
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After Modern Art, 1945-2000 (00 Edition) by David Hopkins Publisher Comments Following a clear timeline, the author highlights key movements of modern art, giving careful attention to the artists' political and cultural worlds. Styles include Abstract Expressionism, Pop Art, Minimalism, Conceptualism, Postmodernism, and... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Art of the Twentieth Century: A Reader by Jason Gaiger Publisher Comments This reader, a companion to The Open University's four-volume Art of the Twentieth Century series, offers a variety of writings by art historians and art theorists. The writings were originally published as freestanding essays or chapters in books, and... (read more) List Price $28.95 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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The Invention of the 20th Century: Carl Einstein and the Avant-Gardes by Uwe Fleckner Synopsis The art critic and historian Carl Einstein was one of the most important and multifaceted personalities of the 20th-century artistic avant-garde. His books, articles and essays were fundamental pieces for the critical study of the avant-garde movements... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $42.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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Totalitarian Art: In the Soviet Union, the Third Reich, Fascist Italy and the People's Republicof China by Igor Golomstock Publisher Comments Totalitarian Art achieves nothing less than a thorough and serious comparative study of the official art of Stalin's Russia, Hitler's Germany, Mussolini's Italy, Kim Jong-Il's North Korea, and Saddam Hussein's Iraq. In the Soviet Union, and later in... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $36.00 Used - Hardcover
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Painting Today by Tony Godfrey Synopsis A worldwide survey of painting from the 1970s to the present.... (read more) Your price: $90.00 New - Hardcover
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Traditions of Constructivism PB (Da Capo Paperback) by Stephen Bann Publisher Comments With these words the sculptors Naum Gabo and Antoine Pevsner pronounced the official birth of constructivist art, the most revolutionary, challenging, and enigmatic of twentieth-century artistic movements. Since the time of their "Realistic Manifesto... (read more) List Price $18.00 Your price: $9.50 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art of Modernism: Art, Culture, and Society from Goya to the Present Day by Sandro Bocola Synopsis A fascinating interdisciplinary study, explaining the development of modern art from the 1790s until today.... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $22.00 Used - Hardcover
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Post Modern Art: 1945-2008 by Francesco Poli Publisher Comments Nineteen forty-five marked a historical moment in the figurative arts, with new trends related to changes in the cultural climate caused in large part by the war. This book presents an in-depth overview of the arts from the postwar period in Europe and... (read more) List Price $60.00 Your price: $28.00 Used - Hardcover
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Art: From Impressionism to the Internet (Prestel Sightlines) by Klaus Richter Publisher Comments Includes bibliographical references (p. 165) and index.... (read more) List Price $9.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Modern Art 2 Volume Boxed Set by Hans Werner Holzwarth Publisher Comments The blow-by-blow account of the works that matter most in Modern art The story of modern art begins roughly 150 years ago, when painters left their studios to try and catch nature and the quickly changing light out in plain air, only to find that they... (read more) Your price: $59.99 New - Set Hardcover
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Curious Visions of Modernity: Enchantment, Magic, and the Sacred by David L Martin Publisher Comments Rembrandt's famous painting of an anatomy lesson, the shrunken head of an Australian indigenous leader, an aerial view of Paris from a balloon: all are windows to enchantment, curiosities that illuminate something shadowy and forgotten lurking behind the... (read more) List Price $32.95 Your price: $18.00 Used - Hardcover
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Collage: The Making of Modern Art by Brandon Taylor Publisher Comments This book, the first comprehensive survey of collage, explores in full the theoretical implications and political messages behind the work of the past century, explaining how the process was intimately linked to other revolutions in art practice. It... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Trade Paper
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