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How to Read a Modern Painting: Lessons from the Modern Masters
by Jon Thompson
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Modern art, filled with complex themes and subtle characteristics, is a wonder to view, but can be intimidating for the casual observer to comprehend. In this accessible, practical guide, author and instructor Jon Thompson explores more than 200 works... ( read more)
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Lives of the Great Modern Artists
by Edward Lucie-smith
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Edward Lucie-Smithis the author of several books, among them Sexuality in Western Art, Symbolist Art, Latin American Art of the Twentieth Century, and The Thames & Hudson Dictionary of Art Terms, all published in the World of Artseries.... ( read more)
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Bauhaus (World of Art)
by Frank Whitford
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The way our environment looks, the appearance of everything from housing developments to newspapers, is partly the result of a school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919 and closed down by the Nazis in 1933. This was the Bauhaus, which has also... ( read more)
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Drawing from the Modern: Volume I: 1880-1940
by Jodi Hauptman
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Many of the key achievements in art of the last 125 years have been worked out on paper. From pictorial investigations that expanded the possibilities of vision to the invention of entirely new kinds of media, drawing has been the perfect laboratory for... ( read more)
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Cubism (Movements in Modern Art)
by David Cottington
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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)
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50 Bauhaus Icons You Should Know
by Josef Strasser
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This new volume in the successful series is an introduction to one of the most influential movements in modern architecture, art and design.... ( read more)
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Bauhaus (Living Art)
by Boris Friedewald
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Discover the tumultuous history of Bauhaus art and design in this new addition to Prestel's Living Art series.... ( read more)
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Cubism Reader: Documents and Criticism, 1906-1914 (08 Edition)
by Mark Antliff
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With radical formal innovations that scandalized the European art world, cubism revolutionized modern art and opened the path toward pure abstraction. Documenting the first heady years of this profoundly influential movement, A Cubism Reader presents the... ( read more)
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Modern Art in the U.S.A.: Issues and Controversies of the 20th Century
by Patricia Hills
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<UL> <LI>Realism as a radical project</LI> <LI>Modernism and American consciousness</LI> <LI>Machine Age modernity</LI> <LI>The "New Negro" and the jazz age</LI> <LI>Photography as art</LI>... ( read more)
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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
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Continuity and change in art, 1880 to now. Highlights from the Museum of Modern Art.... ( read more)
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TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television
by Lynn Spigel
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While critics have long disparaged commercial television as a vast wasteland, TV has surprising links to the urbane world of modern art that stretch back to the 1950s and 60s During that era, the rapid rise of commercial television coincided with dynamic... ( read more)
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Realism (Movements in Modern Art)
by James Malpas
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A study of the typical chracteristics of twentieth-century realism.... ( read more)
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Modern Masters #0016: Isamu Noguchi
by Bruce Altshuler
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With more than 100 illustrations -- approximately 48 in full color -- this innovative series offers a fresh look at the most creative and influential artists of the postwar era. Modern Masters form a perfect reference set for home, school, or library... ( read more)
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de Stijl (World of Art)
by Paul Overy
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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)
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The Girl with the Gallery: Edith Gregor Halpert and the Making of the Modern Art Market
by Lindsay Pollock
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In an era when American artists didn't count and women were expected to stay home, Edith Gregor Halpert burst onto the fledgling New York gallery scene, defying all cultural and societal rules. In 1926, Halpert, just twenty-six years old, opened one of... ( read more)
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The Art of Bloomsbury: Roger Fry, Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant
by Richard Shone
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The word Bloomsbury most often summons the novels of Virginia Woolf and E. M. Forster or images of artists and intellectuals debating the hot parlor topics of 1910s and 1920s London: literary aesthetics, agnosticism, defining truth and goodness, and the... ( read more)
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Wipe That Clock Off Your Face with DVD
by Brian Belott
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Brian Belott's first book is a compendium of all his disparate artistic practices--including collage, drawing, found photography and sound mixing--and it is also his first CD. The original CD/DVD included here offers the acclaimed Found Images, a digital... ( read more)
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Post Modern Art: 1945-2008
by Francesco Poli
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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)
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American Art: Treasures of the Whitney Museum of American Art (Tiny Folios)
by Whitney Museum Of Am
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A Whitney Museum in New York is one of the country's premier showcases for 20th-century American art.<P>This survey, filled with remarkable examples from the Whitney's permanent collection, presents works by the most notable American artists in a... ( read more)
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Modernism
by Richard Weston
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Modernist ideas have pervaded every form of design, from graphics to architecture, as well as being a key influence on art, literature and music. In this comprehensive survey, Richard Weston traces the course of Modernism from its beginnings to its... ( read more)
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