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Expressionism (07 Edition) by Elger Publisher Comments Life is life, and art is art. "It is my wish to come very close, strikingly close, to the times in which we live, without submitting to artistic dogma...I need the connection to the world of senses, the courage to portray ugliness, life as it comes.... (read more) List Price $14.99 Your price: $8.00 Used - Hardcover 
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Art of the Twentieth Century #4: Themes in Contemporary Art by Gill Perry Publisher Comments In this fourth volume of the Art of the Twentieth Century series, the contributors address a fascinating variety of themes relating to art from the 1960s to the end of the century--the period of "postmodernism." The first of the book's seven chapters... (read more) List Price $35.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Modernism and the Feminine Voice: O'Keeffe and the Women of the Stieglitz Circle by Kathleen A Pyne Publisher Comments This opulently illustrated book reveals how Alfred Stieglitz's search for a pure, essential "woman in art" led him to several women before his vision found ultimate expression in Georgia O'Keeffe, whom Stieglitz portrayed as the shining, liberated... (read more) List Price $36.95 Your price: $6.25 Sale - Trade Paper
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Sensation: Young British Artists from the Saatchi Collection by Saatchi Collection Publisher Comments Essays analyse the phenomenon of the British art scene from the late 1980s to the present day, assessing the critical reaction of the work and placing it in its historical context. Over 180 colour & b/w illus.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $17.95 Used - Trade Paper
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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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Investigating Modern Art by Liz Dawtrey Synopsis Providing an historical progression through the modern period, this study focuses on figures such as Picasso, Matisse, Pollock and Warhol, and movements such as Cubism, Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism and Minimal Art.... (read more) List Price $29.25 Your price: $9.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Bauhaus by Jeannine Fiedler Synopsis The book provides insight into the historical, cultural, philosophical, political and pedagogical background of the Bauhaus.... (read more) List Price $59.99 Your price: $34.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Picasso to Warhol: Twelve Modern Masters by Jodi Hauptman Publisher Comments Published in conjunction with a presentation of masterworks from The Museum of Modern Art, New York, at the High Museum of Art, Atlanta, this volume highlights the work of 12 masters of twentieth-century art: Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder... (read more) Your price: $50.00 New - Hardcover
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Modernism in Dispute: Art Since the Forties (Modern Art--Practices & Debates) by Paul Wood Synopsis Discusses how American art evolved from the social realism prevalent during the 1930s to a predominantly abstract art after the war. The book relates this change to America's growing economic and political dominance of the post-war world and contrasts it... (read more) List Price $38.00 Your price: $11.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Modern Means: Continuity and Change in Art, 1880 to Now: Highlights from the Museum of Modern Art, New York by Deborah Wye Publisher Comments Continuity and change in art, 1880 to now. Highlights from the Museum of Modern Art.... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $4.25 Sale - Hardcover
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Modern Art: Impressionism to Post-Modernism by David Britt Publisher Comments A superbly illustrated overview of the major movements in the visual arts from Impressionism to Post-Modernism. Modern Art is an authoritative introduction to every important development in the visual arts from the late nineteenth century to the 1980s... (read more) List Price $24.95 Your price: $11.50 Used - Trade Paper
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A Concise History of Modern Painting (World of Art) by Herbert Read Synopsis Presents reproductions and text discussing paintings by famous 20th century artists.... (read more) List Price $21.95 Your price: $2.95 Used - Trade Paper
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Conceptual Revolutions in 20TH Cent. Art (09 Edition) by David W. Galenson Publisher Comments From Picasso 's Cubism and Duchamp 's readymades to Warhol 's silkscreens and Smithson 's earthworks, the art of the twentieth century broke completely with earlier artistic traditions. A basic change in the market for advanced art produced a heightened... (read more) List Price $31.25 Your price: $14.00 Used - Trade Paper
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De Stijl (91 Edition) by Paul Overy Synopsis The ideas that later had such a marked influence on the architecture of Walter Gropius and others of the Bauhaus movement, and subsequently on commercial art and graphic design, were first advocated by the Dutch magazine "De Stijl".... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $8.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Big Archive (08 Edition) by Sven Spieker Publisher Comments The typewriter, the card index, and the filing cabinet: these are technologies and modalities of the archive. To the bureaucrat, archives contain little more than garbage, paperwork no longer needed; to the historian, on the other hand, the archive's... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $14.00 Used - Hardcover
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Get There First, Decide Promptly: The Richard Brown Baker Collection of Postwar Art by Jennifer Farrell Publisher Comments Richard Brown Baker (1912-2002) began collecting works by emerging artists in the 1940s, becoming one of the first collectors to embrace both Abstract Expressionism and Pop Art. He eventually amassed a collection of more than 1,600 works... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $47.50 New - Hardcover
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The Bauhaus Group: Six Masters of Modernism by Nicholas Weber Publisher Comments Nicholas Fox Weber, for thirty-four years head of the Albers Foundation, spent many years with Anni and Josef Albers, the only husband-and-wife artistic pair at the Bauhaus (she was a textile artist; he was a professor and an artist, in glass, metal... (read more) Your price: $27.50 New - Trade Paper
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Art of the Twentieth Century by Ingo F Walther Synopsis This work covers 20th-century art in its widest sense. In one volume it offers a comprehensive evaluation of the subject, addressing everything from painting, photography and sculpture to new media, objects and even personalities.... (read more) List Price $25.00 Your price: $17.50 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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Are You Experienced?: How Psychedelic Consciousness Transformed Modern Art by Ken Johnson Synopsis Looking at art through the lens of psychedelic experience and culture, New York Times critic Ken Johnson reveals an unexpected and illuminating dimension of art since the 1960s.... (read more) Your price: $49.95 New - Hardcover
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