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Reframing Abstract Expressionism: Subjectivity and Painting in the 1940s by Michael Leja Publisher Comments In this original and wide-ranging study, Michael Leja argues that Jackson Pollock, Mark Rothko, Barnett Newman, Willem de Kooning, and other Abstract Expressionist artists were part of a culture-wide initiative to reimagine the self. Leja demonstrates... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $24.00 Used - Hardcover 
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Abstract Expressionism at the Museum of Modern Art: Selections from the Collection by Ann Temkin Publisher Comments More than 60 years have passed since Robert Coates, writing in the New Yorker in 1946, first used the term Abstract Expressionism to describe the richly colored canvases of Hans Hofmann. The name stuck, and over the years it has come to designate the... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Sale - Trade Paper
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In & Out of Amsterdam: Travels in Conceptual Art, 1960-1976 by Christophe Cherix Publisher Comments During the 1960s and 70s, Amsterdam was a nexus of intense art activities, drawing artists from all over the world, including Stanley Brouwn, Gilbert & George, Sol LeWitt, Charlotte Posenenske, Allen Ruppersberg and Lawrence Weiner. Reciprocally, some of... (read more) List Price $55.00 Your price: $36.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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An Audience of Artists: Dada, Neo-Dada, and the Emergence of Abstract Expressionism by Catherine Craft Publisher Comments The term Neo-Dada surfaced in New York in the late 1950s and was used to characterize young artists like Robert Rauschenberg and Jasper Johns whose art appeared at odds with the serious emotional and painterly interests of the then-dominant movement... (read more) Your price: $55.00 New - Hardcover
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New Realisms: 1957--1962: Object Strategies Between Readymade and Spectacle by Julia Robinson Publisher Comments As the 1950s became the 1960s, a new generation of artists around the globe rejected direct painterly expression and returned decisively to the object. Moving away from abstract expressionism and toward the sensibility that would become Pop, these... (read more) List Price $44.95 Your price: $29.95 Sale - Trade Paper
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A Sweeper-Up After Artists: A Memoir by Irving Sandler Publisher Comments For over fifty years Irving Sandler has been at the center of the New York art world. In this memoir, he recounts first hand experiences with great artists and the making of great art.... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $18.50 Used - Hardcover
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Pop Art (Big Series Art) by Tilman Osterwold Publisher Comments "Everything is beautiful," raved Andy Warhol, in raptures at the glamour of modern life, consumer society, the world of the media and its stars. And in so saying, he was expressing the feelings of a generation who felt their age was dawning, an age of... (read more) List Price $20.00 Your price: $7.95 Used - Hardcover
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Light Years: Conceptual Art and the Photograph, 1964-1977 by Matthew S. (edt) Witkovsky Publisher Comments Photography played a critical role in conceptual art of the 1960s and 1970s, as artists turned to photography as both medium and subject matter. Light Years offers the first major survey of the key artists of this period who used photography to new and... (read more) Your price: $60.00 New - Hardcover
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Pop Art: A New Generation of Style (Art Movements) by Richard Leslie Synopsis Throughout history, contemporary artists have inspired one another to higher levels while redefining the standards of their time. The "Art Movement" series takes a look at the cliques that have sprung up at various times -- sometimes loose bands of... (read more) List Price $16.98 Your price: $9.95 Used - Hardcover
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Fluxus by Thomas Kellein Synopsis "Fluxus" was founded in New York in 1961 by George Maciunas, and represented the work of a group of young artists, writers and composers in a range of mixed-media events. This book presents a selection of "Fluxus" memorabilia, and photographs of some of... (read more) Your price: $24.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Fluxus and the Essential Questions of Life by Jacquelynn Baas Publisher Comments Fluxus—from the Latin, meaning “to flow”—was a radical, international network of artists, composers, and designers in the 1960s and 1970s noted for blurring the boundaries between what we term “art” and what... (read more) Your price: $30.00 New - Trade Paper
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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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Pop Art (04 Edition) by Klaus Honnef Publisher Comments An introduction to the style of art which explores the everyday imagery which is part of contemporary consumer culture. Leading pop artists include Robert Rauschenberg, Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein.... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Land Art (07 Edition) by Michael Lailach Synopsis The earth as canvas In the mid-60s, artists in the USA and Europe began planning works for sites outside the narrow boundaries of galleries and museums. It began with ephemeral enhancements or traces left in deserted landscapes, in the deserts of America,... (read more) List Price $9.99 Your price: $6.00 Used - Trade Paper
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Abstract Expressionism: Other Politics by Ann Eden Gibson Publisher Comments The Abstract Expressionist movement has long been bound up in the careers and lifestyles of about twelve white male artists who exhibited in New York in the 1940s. In this book Ann Eden Gibson reconsiders the history of the movement by investigating... (read more) List Price $50.00 Your price: $27.50 Used - Hardcover
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A House Divided: American Art Since 1955 by University Of California Press Publisher Comments In this exhilarating book, Anne Middleton Wagner challenges readers to rethink the work of a range of post-World War II artists--Jasper Johns, Andy Warhol, Maya Lin, Bruce Nauman, and Agnes Martin among them--and thus to re-assess the relationship of art... (read more) Your price: $34.95 New - Trade Paper
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Pop by Mark Francis Publisher Comments From the late 1950s to the late 1960s the word 'Pop' described any example of art, film, photography and architectural design that engaged with the new realities of mass production and the mass media. In addition to key artworks by Andy Warhol, Roy... (read more) Your price: $19.95 New - Trade Paper
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Land and Environmental Art (98 Edition) by Jeffrey (ed.) Kastner Publisher Comments Documents the structures of early Land Art and surveys artists who work with the natural environment up to the present day.... (read more) List Price $45.00 Your price: $22.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The First Pop Age: Painting and Subjectivity in the Art of Hamilton, Lichtenstein, Warhol, Richter, and Ruscha by Hal Foster Publisher Comments "The First Pop Age is a remarkable book: it offers a series of trenchant models for understanding how five key Pop artists remade the modern picture and, in doing so, took on some of the most crucial issues of our time--mass media, consumer culture... (read more) Your price: $29.95 New - Hardcover
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Conceptual Art: A Critical Anthology by Alexander Alberro Publisher Comments Compared to other avant-garde movements that emerged in the 1960s, conceptual art has received relatively little serious attention by art historians and critics of the past twenty-five years--in part because of the difficult, intellectual nature of the... (read more) List Price $42.00 Your price: $14.95 Used - Trade Paper
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