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Archive of Dreams: A Surrealist Impulse
Archive of Dreams: A Surrealist Impulse
Edited by Egidio Marzona, Rudolf Fischer, Przemys?aw Stro?ek. Introduction by Rudolf Fischer. Foreword by Marion Ackermann. Text by Julia Drost, David Wittinghofer, Erin McClenathan, Kristoffer Noheden, et al.

Marking the 100th anniversary of the founding of the Bureau of Surrealist Research in Paris in 1924, Archive of Dreams is dedicated to the Surrealist movement as well as the networks it engendered and the >>more

Spector Books
ISBN 9783959058247
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Flexi, 8.25 x 11 in. / 328 pgs / 326 color.
Pub Date: 12/24/2024 Awaiting stock


Beirut and the Golden Sixties
Beirut and the Golden Sixties
Edited by Sam Bardaouil, Till Fellrath.

This volume chronicles a turbulent chapter in the development of modernism in Beirut, beginning in 1958 and ending with the 1975 outbreak of the Lebanese Civil War. The accompanying exhibition highlights how collisions between art, >>more

Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836652945
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Hbk, 8.75 x 10.25 in. / 272 pgs / 290 color.
Pub Date: 05/30/2023 Out of stock


Collaborations
Collaborations
Edited with text by Heike Eipeldauer, Franz Thalmair. Text by Karola Kraus, Rachel Mader.

Drawing on avant-garde movements of the 1960s and 1970s as well as conceptual and sociological approaches in contemporary art, Collaborations examines diverse strategies of collective authorship in artmaking. The book also investigates how the collaborative >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783753302621
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Flexi, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 248 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 01/10/2023 In stock


From Nothingness to Dreams
From Nothingness to Dreams
Edited by Marco Vallora. Text by Hanneke de Man, Saskia Van Kampen, Valerio Magrelli, Andrea Zucchinali, Pietro Bellasi, Marcello Barison, Giovanni Amelino Camelia, Paolo Fabbri, Antonella Sbrilli, Andrea Cortellessa.

From Nothingness to Dreams offers a vast survey of surrealism and Dada organized around ten brilliantly conceived themes that cut to the conceptual heart of both movements. These include The Dada Zero Degree of Art; >>more

Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836641338
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Pbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 336 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 03/04/2025 Awaiting stock


Glory of the World: Color Field Painting
Glory of the World: Color Field Painting
By Bonnie Clearwater.

"Color Field" became a convenient, albeit imperfect, term to describe paintings in which vast areas of color are the dominant force. It was not an art movement but rather a cohort of like-minded artists. While >>more

SKIRA
ISBN 9788857252216
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 10/22/2024 In stock


Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930
Harmony and Dissonance: Orphism in Paris, 1910–1930
Edited by Vivien Greene. Text by Matthew Affron, Nell Andrew, Tracey Bashkoff, Gurminder K. Bhogal, Masha Chlenova, Riann Coulter, Elizabeth Everton, Megan Fontanella, Caitlin Glosser, David Max Horowitz, Bellara Huang, Joana Cunha Leal, Michael Leja, Anna Liesching, Chitra Ramalingam, Effie Rentzou, Rachel Silveri.

Orphism emerged among a cosmopolitan group of artists active in Paris in the early 1910s, as the innovations of modern life radically altered conceptions of time and space. Engaged with ideas of simultaneity in kaleidoscopic >>more

Guggenheim Museum Publications
ISBN 9780892075645
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Hbk, 9.25 x 11.5 in. / 216 pgs / 132 color / 6 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/10/2024 In stock


Invitation: Archive as Event
Invitation: Archive as Event
Edited by Annette Jael Lehmann, Rudolf Fischer, Anna-Lena Werner, Marcelo Rezende, Helene Romakin.

The Archiv der Avantgarden in Dresden contains approximately 1.5 million items of ephemera from the 20th-century avant-gardes. Much of this material involves internal communications from within the art world, such as invitations to events and >>more

Spector Books
ISBN 9783959054041
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Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 288 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 05/27/2025 Awaiting stock


Light & Space
Light & Space
Text by Michael Auping, Lucy Bradnock, Robin Clark, Elizabeth Gollnick, Bettina Kames & Amira Gad, et al. Interviews with Lita Albuquerque, Larry Bell, Fred Eversley, Helen Pashgian.

This volume pays homage to Southern California’s pioneering Light and Space movement, providing insight into the atmosphere of the 1960s and ‘70s LA art scene, highlighting female protagonists and exploring its interdisciplinary approaches to art >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783753302645
US $49.95 CAN $69.95 FLAT40
Hbk, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 288 pgs / 117 color / 17 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/10/2023 In stock


Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968
Ordinary People: Photorealism and the Work of Art since 1968
Edited with text by Anna Katz. Text by Gabriela Rodriguez-Gomez, Karin G. Oen, Dhyandra Lawson, Cynthia Daignault.

This volume, Ordinary People, recovers the social art history of the long-dismissed genre of photorealism and demonstrates the continued relevance of photorealist strategies for artists working today. Spanning the 1960s to the present, this large-scale >>more

DelMonico Books/The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
ISBN 9781636811000
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 256 pgs / 191 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/05/2024 In stock


Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village
Painted: Our Bodies, Hearts, and Village
Edited with text by Siera Hyte, Juan Lucero, Jill Ahlberg Yohe. Foreword by Jacqueline Terrassa. Text by Kim Suina Melwani, Joseph Suina, et al.

Drawn to the region in pursuit of what they described as uniquely American subjects, the founding members of the Taos Society of Artists (TSA)—a group of Anglo-American painters active in the early 20th century—traveled to >>more

DelMonico Books/Colby College Museum of Art
ISBN 9781636811468
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 256 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 12/24/2024 Awaiting stock


Particles and Waves: Southern California Abstraction and Science
Particles and Waves: Southern California Abstraction and Science
Edited with text by Michael Duncan, Sharrissa Iqbal. Text by Camille Fremontier-Murphy, Roger Malina, W. Patrick McCray, Matthew Simms, Jason Weems.

The synergy between art and science is an age-old tale; artists throughout time, from Leonardo da Vinci to Beeple, have incorporated newly discovered scientific theories and techniques into their practices. The PST ART project Particles >>more

DelMonico Books/Palm Springs Art Museum
ISBN 9781636811383
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Hbk, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 176 pgs / 120 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/03/2024 In stock


Pop/Beat
Pop/Beat
Edited with text by Roberto Floreani. Text by Gaspare Luigi Marcone, Alessandro Manca.

This volume investigates the appropriation of Pop art and the Beat Generation in Italy. The wide-ranging overview takes into consideration all expressive forms, from painting, sculpture and video to photography, music and literature, contextualizing them >>more

Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836657445
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Pbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 165 color.
Pub Date: 10/15/2024 In stock


Rendez-Vous: Picasso, Chagall, Klein and Their Times
Rendez-Vous: Picasso, Chagall, Klein and Their Times
Edited with text by Agnes Husslein-Arco, Véronique Abpurg, Rolf H. Johannsen. Text by Matthias Boeckl, Christiane Kuhlmann, Andreas Narzt, et al.

In the spirit of a rendezvous, the Heidi Horten Collection offers a meet-up with artists in the collection who were shaped by France. The playful pink and blue volume travels from the Parisian artists’ districts >>more

Verlag für moderne Kunst
ISBN 9783991530121
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 256 pgs / 154 color / 46 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/28/2025 Awaiting stock


Resurgent Nahda
Resurgent Nahda
Edited by Nadi Abu Saada.

This book is a tribute to the 1933 and 1934 Arab Exhibitions in Jerusalem, offering an opportunity to understand how Egyptian, Palestinian, Lebanese, Syrian and Iraqi artists affirmed their cultural bond with the rest of >>more

Kaph Books
ISBN 9786148035654
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Pbk, 7 x 10.25 in. / 288 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 01/28/2025 Awaiting stock


Revolutionary Romances?
Revolutionary Romances?
Edited by Mathias Wagner, Hilke Wagner, Kerstin Schankweiler, Kathleen Reinhardt. Text by Marion Ackermann, Katarzyna Wielga-Skolimowska, Kirsten Haß, Carla Cugini, Christian Saehrendt, Elena Shtromberg, et al.

Assessing the extent of the Soviet Union’s “international solidarity,” Revolutionary Romances? looks at East Germany’s relations with its socialist “sister” countries in Asia, Africa and Latin America through concurrent artistic interventions.

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Spector Books
ISBN 9783959057820
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Flexi, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 110 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/27/2025 Awaiting stock


Signals: How Video Transformed the World
Signals: How Video Transformed the World
Edited with text by Michelle Kuo, Stuart Comer. Text by Erika Balsom, Aria Dean, David Joselit, Tiffany Sia, Ravi Sundaram. Plate text by Giampaolo Bianconi, Ina Blom, Erica DiBenedetto, Jason Dubs, Brandon Eng, Ed Halter, Nina Horisaki Christens, Marielle Ingram, Danielle Jackson, Rattanamol Singh Johal, Lina Kavaliunas, Inés Katzenstein, Pamela M. Lee, Glenn Ligon, Oluremi C. Onabanjo, Erica Papernik-Shimizu, Felicity D. Scott, Lilia Rocio Taboada, Wong Binghao, Simon Wu. Annotated timeline by Peter Oleksik.

Video is everywhere. Since its debut as a consumer medium in the 1960s, video has shaped our opinions, our politics and our societies. On our phones and computer screens, walls and streets, it defines new >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633451230
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 184 pgs / 320 color.
Pub Date: 04/18/2023 In stock


Skank Bloc Bologna: Alternative Art Spaces since 1977
Skank Bloc Bologna: Alternative Art Spaces since 1977
Edited with text by Roberto Pinto, Francesco Spampinato. Text by Andrea Lissoni, Lara De Lena, Davide Da Pieve.

One of the winning projects of the 11th Italian Council, Skank Bloc Bologna traces the history of 32 independent artistic spaces that have marked the cultural and political history of Bologna from the 1970s to >>more

Mousse Publishing
ISBN 9788867496242
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Pbk, 6.5 x 8.75 in. / 304 pgs / 144 color / 77 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/13/2024 In stock


Splendor and Misery
Splendor and Misery
Edited with text by Hans-Peter Wipplinger. Text by Daniela Gregori, Rainer Metzger, Aline Marion Steinwender, Thomas Zaunschirm.

The ramifications of World War I called for new visual depictions of German social realities: the hardship on the one hand and the zest for life of the “Golden Twenties” on the other. This dichotomy >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783753306605
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Hbk, 9.25 x 11.25 in. / 336 pgs / 200 color / 75 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/12/2024 Out of stock


The Cold Gaze: Germany in the 1920s
The Cold Gaze: Germany in the 1920s
Edited by Lærke Rydal Jørgensen, Kirsten Degel. Foreword by Kirsten Degel, Poul Erik Tøjner. Text by Anthony Lane, Catherine Wermester, Werner Möller, Herbert Molderings, Patrick Rössler, Angela Lampe, Christopher Isherwood, Alfred Döblin, Irmgard Keun, Bertolt Brecht, Marieluise Fleisser, Vicki Baum, Hans Fallada.

At the center of this volume are the Neue Sachlichkeit (New Objectivity) artists—Otto Dix, George Grosz and Albert Renger-Patzsch—and the groundbreaking photographer August Sander, in particular his famed series People of the 20th Century, which >>more

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 9788793659599
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Hbk, 10.25 x 8.5 in. / 128 pgs / 70 color / 77 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/28/2023 In stock


The Dance of Moon and Sun: Ithell Colquhoun, British Women and Surrealism
The Dance of Moon and Sun: Ithell Colquhoun, British Women and Surrealism
Edited by Judith Noble, Tilly Craig, Victoria Ferentinou. Foreword by Frances Colquhoun. Text by Victoria Ferentinou, Tifaine Bachet, Isabel Seligman, Andrea Kollnitz, Terri Geis, Amy Hale, Tilly Craig, Steve Patterson, Richard Shillitoe, Jesse Bransford.

Straddling the worlds of Surrealism, occultism and modernist literature, Ithell Colquhoun (1906–88) was widely respected in her lifetime, but her transgressive, esoteric and poetic paintings and writings were long neglected until Richard Shillitoe's 2009 book >>more

FULGUR PRESS
ISBN 9781399936484
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Hbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 32 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/13/2023 In stock


                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                              

VISUAL BOOK INDEX | ACTIVE BACKLIST

50 Years after 50 Years of the Bauhaus
50 Years after 50 Years of the Bauhaus
Edited with text by Hans D. Christ, Iris Dressler. Text by Daniel García Andújar, John Barker, Walter Benjamin, Tamar Berger, Max Bill, Yvonne P. Doderer, Walter Gropius, Danny Hayward, Helmut Heissenbüttel, Asger Jorn, et al.

On May 4, 1968, a few hours after student protesters in Paris caused the Sorbonne to be evacuated, the landmark exhibition 50 Years Bauhaus opened at the Württembergischer Kunstverein in Stuttgart. Conceived by Herbert Bayer, >>more

Spector Books
ISBN 9783959056779
US $60.00 CAN $87.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.25 x 13 in. / 686 pgs / 500 color / 700 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/03/2023 In stock


A Century of the Artist's Studio 1920–2020
A Century of the Artist's Studio 1920–2020
Edited by Iwona Blazwick. Text by Dawn Ades. Text by Richard Dyer, Hammad Nasar.

This extensive catalog charts the many forms and incarnations of the artist’s studio through the last century: as a laboratory or stage set; as place of refuge or a public space; as a site of >>more

Whitechapel Gallery
ISBN 9780854883004
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Pbk, 9 x 10.75 in. / 288 pgs / 150 color / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/30/2022 In stock


A New Spirit in Painting, 1981
A New Spirit in Painting, 1981
By Théo de Luca.

The Royal Academy's seminal 1981 exhibition A New Spirit in Painting united key trajectories in 1950s-70s painting. Assessing its impact, this book features an essay and interviews with artists, curators and gallerists linked to the >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960987420
US $29.95 CAN $41.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 6 x 8.5 in. / 214 pgs / 26 color.
Pub Date: 04/14/2020 In stock


A Noir, E Blanc, I Rouge, U Vert, O Bleu
A Noir, E Blanc, I Rouge, U Vert, O Bleu
Edited by Uwe Gellner, Annegret Laabs. Text by Rupprecht Geiger, Yves Klein, Beat Streuli. We associate color with emotion. Color facilitates communication, influences our perception and can be used symbolically. But is that all? The role of color in artistic work is indeed diverse. Yves Klein sought to remove >>more

Kerber
ISBN 9783866780606
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Paperback, 9.5 x 12.75 in. / 168 pgs / 131 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Out of stock


AFRICOBRA: Messages to the People
AFRICOBRA: Messages to the People
Edited by Jeffreen Hayes. Foreword by Chana Sheldon. Text by Leslie Guy.

A Chicago Tribune 2020 holiday gift guide pick

AfriCOBRA (African Commune of Bad Relevant Artists) was founded on the South Side of Chicago in 1968 by a group of five young Black artists. Today, it is >>more

Gregory Miller/Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami
ISBN 9781941366301
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Hbk, 9.25 x 11 in. / 176 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 01/05/2021 In stock


Abstract Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism
Text by David Anfam, Susan Davidson, Jeremy Lewison, Carter Ratcliff.

Now available in paperback, this is the definitive book on abstract expressionism, with superb color plates of major works by the protagonists of the movement as well as lesser-known figures, and essays by key scholars. >>more

ROYAL ACADEMY OF ARTS
ISBN 9781912520398
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Pbk, 10 x 10.75 in. / 320 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 07/23/2019 Out of stock


Accrochage
Accrochage
Text by Caroline Bourgeois.

New discoveries from one of the largest contemporary art collections. Accrochage brings together about seventy works from the Pinault Collection produced by thirty artists since the 1970s. The works –never shown before in the Venetian >>more

Marsilio Editori
ISBN 9788831723817
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Pbk, 9.9 x 7.8 in. / 344 pgs / 178 color / 44 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/13/2016 In stock


Alcove: Intimate Essays on Arab Modernist Artists
Alcove: Intimate Essays on Arab Modernist Artists
By Myrna Ayad.

Compiling testimonies from relatives, friends and students of Arabic modernist artists, and authored by Dubai-based writer Myrna Ayad, this volume celebrates the lives, careers and personalities of some of the region’s pioneering figures. Featuring archival >>more

Kaph Books
ISBN 9786148035555
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Hbk, 6.25 x 9.5 in. / 324 pgs / 240 color / 80 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/21/2024 In stock


American Modern: Hopper to O'Keeffe
American Modern: Hopper to O'Keeffe
Text by Esther Adler, Kathy Curry. American Modern presents a fresh look at The Museum of Modern Art’s holdings of American art made between 1915 and 1950, and considers the cultural preoccupations of a rapidly changing American society in the first >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870708527
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Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 144 pgs / 126 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2013 In stock


Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group
Another World: The Transcendental Painting Group
Edited with text by Michael Duncan. Text by Scott Shields, MaLin Wilson Powell, Catherine Whitney, Ilene Susan Fort, Dane Rudhyar.

Founded in Santa Fe and Taos, New Mexico, in 1938, at a time when social realism reigned in American art, the Transcendental Painting Group (TPG) sought to promote abstract art that pursued enlightenment and spiritual >>more

DelMonico Books/Crocker Art Museum
ISBN 9781942884873
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Hbk, 8.5 x 11.5 in. / 240 pgs / 140 color / 35 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/06/2021 In stock


Art for the Future
Art for the Future
Edited with text by Erina Duganne, Abigail Satinsky. Text by Kency Cornejo, Beatriz Cortez, Lucy R. Lippard, Yansi Pérez, Josh Rios. Interviews with Doug Ashford, Fatima Bercht, Josely Carvalho, Daniel Flores y Ascencio, Kimiko Hahn, Jerry Kearns, Sabra Moore, Juan Sánchez. Artist projects by Beatriz Cortez, Muriel Hasbun, Josh MacPhee, Naeem Mohaiemen, Antonio Serna.

In the early 1980s, a group of artists, writers and activists came together in New York City to form Artists Call Against US Intervention in Central America, a creative campaign that mobilized nationwide in an >>more

Inventory Press/Tufts University Art Galleries
ISBN 9781941753392
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Pbk, 8.5 x 10 in. / 288 pgs / 125 color.
Pub Date: 04/12/2022 In stock


Azimuth
Azimuth
Text by Luca Massimo Barbero.

The story of a seminal experience on the international art scene in the 1960s. In the postwar period characterized by wide-ranging experimentation involving major artists and international exchanges, Azimut/h played a key cultural and expressive >>more

Marsilio Editori
ISBN 9788831719186
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Pbk, 11 x 9 in. / 648 pgs / 960 color.
Pub Date: 03/24/2015 Out of stock


Balla ’12 Dorazio ’60: Dove la luce
Balla ’12 Dorazio ’60: Dove la luce
Foreword by Giancarlo Olgiati, Danna Olgiati. Text by Gabriella Belli, Francesco Tedeschi, Riccardo Passoni, Giulia Arganini, Valentina Sonzogni.

Titled after a collection of poems by Giuseppe Ungaretti, Dove la luce is a visual exploration of the affinity between two great Italian painters of the 20th century: Giacomo Balla (1871–1958), master of Futurism, and >>more

Mousse Publishing
ISBN 9788867495788
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Hbk, 8.25 x 12 in. / 185 pgs / 50 color / 10 duotone / 2 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/19/2024 In stock


Baloise Art
Baloise Art
Edited with text by Martin Schwander. Text by Manuela Ammer, Julika Bosch, David Campany, Marianne Dobner, et al.

This survey of Basel-based art collection Baloise—begun in the mid-20th century by the Swiss insurance/financial services company—presents photography and works on paper from the 1960s on, including works by Miriam Cahn, Bruce Nauman and Jeff >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775746724
US $75.00 CAN $108.00 FLAT40
Clth, 9.25 x 12 in. / 240 pgs / 320 color.
Pub Date: 10/27/2020 Out of stock


Bau [spiel] haus
Bau [spiel] haus
Edited by Thomas Hensel, Robert Eikmeyer.

Gathering art and texts by historical and contemporary international authors and artists—from Friedrich Fröbel to Olaf Nicolai—this volume looks at the intersection of play and art, in works by Bruno Taut, Walter Gropius, Hermann Finsterlin, >>more

Verlag für moderne Kunst
ISBN 9783903269873
US $70.00 CAN $92.50 FLAT40
Pbk, 9.75 x 13 in. / 500 pgs.
Pub Date: 11/26/2019 In stock


Bauhaus Journal 1926–1931
Bauhaus Journal 1926–1931
Edited by Lars Müller. Text by Astrid Bähr.

One hundred years after the founding of the Bauhaus, it’s time to revisit Bauhaus, the school’s journal, as a crucial testimony of this iconic moment in the history of modern art.

This gorgeously produced, slipcased, >>more

Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037785881
US $80.00 CAN $110.00 SDNR40
Slip, pbk, 15 vols, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 412 pgs / 702 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/19/2019 In stock


Bauhaus Postcards
Bauhaus Postcards

In 1923, Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius commissioned 20 postcards from artists such as Paul Klee and Wassily Kandinsky to use as promotional flyers for the school’s first exhibition. Issued here for the first time in >>more

Letterform Archive Books
ISBN 9781736863398
US $18.95 CAN $25.95 SDNR50
Boxed, 5 x 7 in. / 60 postcards / 60 color.
Pub Date: 02/15/2022 In stock


Bauhaus Typography at 100
Bauhaus Typography at 100
Foreword by Rob Saunders. Introduction by Ellen Lupton.

The Bauhaus looms large as one of the most influential legacies in 20th-century graphic design. Known for its bold sans-serif typefaces, crisp asymmetrical grids and clean use of negative space, the school emerged as the >>more

Letterform Archive Books
ISBN 9780998318097
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Hbk, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 280 pgs / 450 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/15/2022 In stock


Bauhaus and America
Bauhaus and America
Text by Hermann Arnhold, Kristin Bartels, Torsten Blume, Ulrike Gärtner, Andreas Hapkemeyer, Julie Jones, Gail Kirkpatrick, Márton Orosz, Tanja Pirsig-Marshall, Jeanette Redensek, Eline van Dijk, Peter Weibel.

One hundred years after the founding of the Bauhaus in 1919, Bauhaus and America considers the myriad ways in which the German art, design and architecture school influenced the art and culture of the United >>more

Kerber
ISBN 9783735605115
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 272 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 In stock


Bauhaus and Photography
Bauhaus and Photography
Edited by Corina Gertz, Christoph Schaden, Kris Scholz. Text by Ute Famulla, Kai-Uwe Hemken, Christoph Schaden, Kris Scholz.

In what ways do the Bauhaus’ numerous innovations in photography contribute to the development of the medium’s visual vocabulary today? What role does avant-garde photography play for contemporary artists? Bauhaus and Photography brings together a >>more

Kerber
ISBN 9783735605474
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Hbk, 9 x 12.5 in. / 264 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 04/23/2019 In stock


Bauhaus: The Art of the Students
Bauhaus: The Art of the Students
Text by Oliver Zybok, et al. Despite the famous pedagogical philosophy and teachers of the Bauhaus, the school’s students have never received their due recognition. This historic publication includes works by Theo Balden, Eugen Batz, Max Bill, Marianne Brandt, Werner Drewes, >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775736008
US $55.00 CAN $72.50 FLAT40
Hbk, 8.75 x 11 in. / 192 pgs / 179 color.
Pub Date: 02/28/2014 Out of stock


Before or After, at the Same Time
Before or After, at the Same Time
Edited by Ben Eastham. Text by Giorgio Agamben, Ilaria Bernardi, Barbara Casavecchia, Laura Cherubini & Andrea Villani, Fabio Mauri, Achille & Sebastiano Mauri, Maria Pace Ottieri, Pierre Testard.

This book takes the life of the Italian multimedia artist and writer Fabio Mauri (born 1926) and the history of his family—a publishing dynasty with close connections to radical Italian art, poetry, cinema, philosophy and >>more

Hauser & Wirth Publishers
ISBN 9783906915449
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Pbk, 8 x 10.5 in. / 212 pgs / 40 color / 67 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/05/2019 In stock


Beirut and the Golden Sixties
Beirut and the Golden Sixties
Edited with text by Sam Bardaouil, Till Fellrath. Text by Isabelle Bertolotti, Natasha Gasparian.

This volume revisits a turbulent chapter in Lebanese modernism, from the 1958 crisis to the 1975 outbreak of civil war. Through 230 works by 34 artists and more than 300 archival documents, it shows how >>more

Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836654260
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Hbk, 8.75 x 10.25 in. / 240 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 11/07/2023 In stock


Big Plans! Modern Figures, Visionaries, and Inventors
Big Plans! Modern Figures, Visionaries, and Inventors
Text by Beat Wyss, Patrick Rössler, Kurt Möser, Christiane Keim, Torsten Blume, Janek Müller. Ninety years after the Bauhaus first opened its doors in Dessau, Big Plans! Modern Figures, Visionaries, and Inventors examines for the first time the role of the Bauhaus in the early modernist vision of utopia. >>more

Kerber
ISBN 9783735601858
US $49.95 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Hbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 224 pgs / 140 color.
Pub Date: 09/27/2016 Out of stock


Black Mountain
Black Mountain
Edited by Eugen Blume, Catherine Nichols, Matilda Felix, Gabriele Knapstein. Text by Gabriele Brandstetter, Brenda Danilowitz, Arnold Dreyblatt, Fabienne Eggelhöfer, Matilda Felix, Mary Emma Harris, Gabriele Knapstein, Annette Jael Lehmann, Catherine Nichols, Andi Schoon, Craig Schuftan, Alice Sebrell.

Founded in North Carolina in 1933, Black Mountain College ranks alongside the Bauhaus as one of the most innovative schools of the 20th century. Inspired by the forward-thinking pedagogical ideas of philosopher John Dewey, the >>more

Spector Books/Nationalgalerie, Staatliche Museen zu Berlin
ISBN 9783959052689
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Pbk, 7.25 x 9.5 in. / 464 pgs / 22 color / 450 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/17/2019 Out of stock


Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945
Breaking the Mould: Sculpture by Women since 1945
Text by Natalie Rudd.

This publication focuses on postwar British women sculptors, including Tracey Emin, Mona Hatoum, Barbara Hepworth, Kim Lim, Sarah Lucas, Cornelia Parker and Rachel Whiteread.

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Hayward Gallery Publishing
ISBN 9781853323676
US $19.95 CAN $27.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 112 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 11/02/2021 In stock


Calder, Picasso: Two Masters in Dialogue
Calder, Picasso: Two Masters in Dialogue
Edited by Alexander S.C. Rower, Bernard Ruiz-Picasso, Laurent Le Bon, Claire Garnier, Émilia Philippot. Text by Estrella de Diego, Jordana Mendelson, Chus Martinez, Donatien Grau, Jed Perl.

Published to accompany an exhibition at the Musée national Picasso-Paris produced in partnership with the Calder Foundation and Fundacíon Almine y Bernard Ruiz-Picasso para el Arte, Calder, Picasso explores the uses of negative or empty >>more

Skira Paris
ISBN 9782370741035
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Hbk, 9 x 11.5 in. / 304 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 05/21/2019 In stock


Calder/Kelly
Calder/Kelly
Text by Robert Hopkins, Jed Perl. Poetry by Dan Chiasson, Forrest Gander, Simon Perchik. Chronology by Veronica Roberts.

Accompanying Lévy Gorvy’s exhibition Calder/Kelly, this superbly produced catalog reveals the artists’ friendship and their shared pursuit of abstraction.

A timeline authored by Veronica Roberts traces the history of their relationship with previously unpublished letters between >>more

Lévy Gorvy
ISBN 9781944379261
US $70.00 CAN $92.50 TRADE
Hbk, 11 x 11.5 in. / 208 pgs/ illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 Out of stock


Chagall, Matisse, Miró: Made in Paris
Chagall, Matisse, Miró: Made in Paris
Text by Tobias Burg, Peter Daners, René Grohnert, Hans-Jürgen Lechtreck.

By the end of the 19th century, Paris had become a mecca for the graphic arts. Artists such as Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec, Jules Chéret and Théophile-Alexandre Steinlen were making prints and posters that were enthusiastically >>more

Steidl/Museum Folkwang, Essen
ISBN 9783969992876
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Hbk, 8.75 x 10.5 in. / 368 pgs / 448 color.
Pub Date: 12/26/2023 Out of stock


Close-Up
Close-Up
Edited with text by Theodora Vischer. Text by Tere Arcq, Andreas Beyer, Tamar Garb, Peter Geimer, Anna-Carola Krausse, Sylvie Patry, Uwe M. Schneede, Jennifer Thompson, Hilda Trujillo.

This superbly conceived publication looks at nine women artists whose careers were devoted primarily to portraiture, analyzing both the work they produced and the unique ways in which each artist captured her subjects’ likenesses and >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775747578
US $70.00 CAN $96.00 TRADE
Pbk, 7.5 x 10.25 in. / 344 pgs / 215 color.
Pub Date: 12/07/2021 In stock


Cobra: A History of a European Avant-Garde Movement
Cobra: A History of a European Avant-Garde Movement
Edited by Willemijn Stokvis.

Radical and transnational (the group’s name derives from the main urban centers of the movement--Copenhagen, Brussels and Amsterdam), the postwar artist’s group Cobra caused a revolution in modern art in just three years of active >>more

nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462082663
US $80.00 CAN $107.50 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 400 pgs / 450 color.
Pub Date: 04/25/2017 Out of stock


Color Chart
Color Chart
Text by Ann Temkin, Briony Fer. Melissa Ho, Nora Lawrence. Color Chart addresses the impact of standardized, mass-produced color on the art of the past 60 years. Taking the commercial color chart as its central metaphor, this volume chronicles an important artistic shift that took >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707315
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Clothbound, 9 x 12 in. / 248 pgs / 280 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Out of stock


Composing the Space: Sculptures in the Avant-Garde
Composing the Space: Sculptures in the Avant-Garde
Edited by Malgorzata Jedrzejczyk, Katarzyna Sloboda. Text by Naum Gabo, Barbara Hepworth, Katarzyna Kobro, László Moholy-Nagy, Vladimir Tatlin, Georges Vantongerloo, Yve-Alain Bois, Carola Giedion-Welcker, Rosalind Krauss, Megan Luke, Alex Potts.

Guided in part by the concerns of Polish sculptor Katarzyna Kobro, Composing the Space looks at avant-garde sculpture’s dialogues with various conceptions of space, movement and the human body. Kobro’s artistic experiments are presented in >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960986591
US $49.95 CAN $69.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 8.75 x 10.75 in. / 264 pgs / 42 color / 18 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/21/2020 Out of stock


Constructing the World
Constructing the World
Edited by Ulrike Lorenz, Eckhart Gillen. Text by Helen Adkins, Elmar Altvater, Makeda Best, Daniel Bulatov, Hiltrud Thomas Flierl, Eckhart Gillen, Larne Abse Gogarty, Hans Günther, Karoline Hille, et al.

Constructing the World traces the global convergence of artistic vocabularies—principally realism and the New Objectivity—between 1919 and 1939, also showing how the economic crisis of 1929 affected art. Works by Alexander Deineka, Otto Dix, Edward >>more

Kerber
ISBN 9783735604583
US $75.00 CAN $105.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 400 pgs / 196 color / 310 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/25/2019 Out of stock


Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris
Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris
Edited by Leah Dickerman. Preface by Earl A. Powell. Text by Leah Dickerman, Dorothea Dietrich, Brigid Doherty, Sabine T. Kriebel, Janine Mileaf, Michael R. Taylor, Matthew S. Witkovsky. Now available in paperback, this lavishly illustrated and astonishingly comprehensive volume stands as the definitive study of the influential but deliberately elusive international Dada movement of the early twentieth century. Organized according to the primary >>more

National Gallery of Art, Washington/D.A.P.
ISBN 9780894683138
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Paperback, 8.5 x 12 in. / 536 pgs / 403 color / 217 b&w
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Out of stock


Dalí – Freud: An Obsession
Dalí – Freud: An Obsession
Edited with text by Stella Rollig, Jaime Brihuega Sierra. Text by Stephanie Auer, Juan Manuel Bonet, Ulrike Kadi, Robert S. Lubar, Agustín Sánchez Vidal, Ingrid Schaffner.

On July 19, 1938, Spanish painter Salvador Dalí (1904–89) traveled to the London home of Sigmund Freud, who had just arrived in the UK after escaping Nazi-occupied Vienna. Dalí brought with him a painting, The >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783753301334
US $49.95 CAN $67.95 FLAT40
Hbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 332 pgs / 191 color.
Pub Date: 06/07/2022 Out of stock


Dancing with myself
Dancing with myself
Text by Martin Bethenod, Florian Ebner.

Dancing with Myself is a wild jig through the art of the last fifty years, in which the dancers are the artists themselves. Dancing with Myself investigates the elemental importance of self-representation in art from >>more

Marsilio Editori
ISBN 9788831729048
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Hbk, 9.75 x 8 in. / 360 pgs / 145 color.
Pub Date: 09/04/2018 In stock


Dawn of a Nation
Dawn of a Nation
Edited by Luca Massimo Barbero.

The story of Italy at the height of the economic miracle recounted through art.

An extraordinary journey through art, politics, and society, with works by artists such as Renato Guttuso, Lucio Fontana, Alberto Burri, Mario Schifano, >>more

Marsilio Editori
ISBN 9788831729567
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Pbk, 11.5 x 9.5 in. / 304 pgs / 163 color.
Pub Date: 09/04/2018 Out of stock


Day Dreams, Night Thoughts: Fantasy and Surrealism in the Graphic Arts and Photography
Day Dreams, Night Thoughts: Fantasy and Surrealism in the Graphic Arts and Photography
Edited and with text by Yasmin Doosry. Text by Ulrich Grossmann, Manuel Fontán, Juan José Lahuerta, Rainer Schoch, Christine Kupper, Christine Lauterbach. Across more than 200 drawings, prints, photographs, books and magazines, ranging from the late Middle Ages to the heyday of Surrealism, this book follows the trail of the legendary and controversial show that Alfred H. >>more

La Fábrica/Fundación Juan March
ISBN 9788415691495
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Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 332 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 05/31/2014 Out of stock


Design Rehearsals: Conversations about Bauhaus Lessons
Design Rehearsals: Conversations about Bauhaus Lessons
Edited by Regina Bittner, Katja Klaus. Text by Josef Albers, Sepake Angiama, Mike Anusas, Ludovic Balland, Stefani Bardin, Jan Boelen, Anna Bokov, Otto von Bush, Clare Butcher, Alison J. Clarke, Laura Forlano, Corinne Gisel, Susanne Hauser, Caroline Höfer, Tom Holert, Tim Ingold, Johannes Itten, Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Joachim Krausse, et al.

The student projects from the preliminary course at the Bauhaus Dessau School of Design are unique documents of a unique learning process. As students set to work independently translating the experimental assignments set by Bauhaus >>more

Spector Books
ISBN 9783959052702
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Pbk, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 204 pgs / 230 color.
Pub Date: 09/17/2019 In stock


Dialectical Materialism
Dialectical Materialism
Introduction by Jon Wood. Text by Jonathan Vernon.

Tracing the productive forces of opposition and reaction driving the creation of much British postwar sculpture, Dialectical Materialism appraises the work of William Turnbull, Anthony Caro, Barry Flanagan, Richard Long, Alison Wilding and Rachel Whiteread.

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Ridinghouse
ISBN 9781909932548
US $25.00 CAN $35.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 9 x 10.75 in. / 56 pgs / 22 color.
Pub Date: 02/18/2020 In stock


Echo Room
Echo Room
Edited with text by Anne Gregersen. Text by Karen Benedicte Busk Jepsen, Yannis Hadjinicolaou, Axel Heil, et al.

The sculptor Bertel Thorvaldsen (1770–1844), the symbolist Jens Ferdinand Willumsen (1863–1958) and the artist Asger Jorn (1914–73) were all collectors. This uniquely designed catalog presents the artists' different approaches to collecting.

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Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775743662
US $65.00 CAN $87.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 9.5 x 10.75 in. / 304 pgs / 240 color.
Pub Date: 08/28/2018 Out of stock


Electromagnetic
Electromagnetic
Edited by Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Gladys Fabre, Tone Hansen, Gerd Elise Moerland. Foreword by Tone Hansen, Anu Liivak. Introduction by Tone Hansen, Gerd Elise Moerland. Text by Jan Torsten Ahlstrand, Gladys C. Fabre, Ingvild Krogvig, Dace Lamberga, Viktoras Liutkus, Liis Phalapuu. Since the beginning of the twentieth century, Scandinavian and Baltic artists have participated in numerous important transnational exhibitions and have appeared in countless Central European publications. Works by Viking Eggeling, Henrik Olvi, Thorvald Hellesen, Otto >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775737173
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Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 304 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 02/28/2014 Out of stock


Enchanted Modernities
Enchanted Modernities
Edited with text by Christopher V. Scheer, Sarah Victoria Turner, James G. Mansell. Text by Helena Capkova, Deniz Ertan, Anna Gawboy, Katie J.T. Herrington, Paul Ivey, Katie Lee-Koven, Rachel Middleman, Christine Ödlund, Marco Pasi, Gauri Viswanathan, David Wall.

“It is in America that the transformation will take place, and has already silently commenced.” With these words, written in The Secret Doctrine in 1888, occultist philosopher Helena Blavatsky drew a direct connection between the >>more

FULGUR PRESS
ISBN 9781527228818
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Clth, 9.25 x 12.5 in. / 160 pgs / 61 color / 13 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/17/2019 Out of stock


Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented
Engineer, Agitator, Constructor: The Artist Reinvented
Edited by Jodi Hauptman, Adrian Sudhalter. Text by Jenny Anger, Barbora Bartunkova, Barry Bergdoll, Benjamin Buchloh, Jane Cavalier, Masha Chlenova, Jean-Louis Cohen, Olivia Crough, Lee Ann Daffner, Noam Elcott, Katie Farris, Devin Fore, Maria Gough, Ilya Kaminsky, William Kentridge, Christina Kiaer, Juliet Kinchin, Iva Knobloch, Juliet Koss, Megan Luke, Ellen Lupton, Erika Mosier, Chris McGlinchey, Laura Neufeld, Libby Otto, Kristin Romberg, Jeffrey Schnapp, Martino Stierli, Jenny Tobias, Robert Wiesenberger, Andrés Zervigón.

“We regarded ourselves as engineers, we maintained that we were building things … we put our works together like fitters.” So declared the artist Hannah Höch, describing a radically new approach to artmaking in the >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633451087
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Clth, 9.5 x 12 in. / 312 pgs / 344 color.
Pub Date: 06/23/2020 In stock


Ensemble Moderne: The Still Life in Modern Art
Ensemble Moderne: The Still Life in Modern Art
Contributions by Gunter Salzmann. >>more

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
ISBN 9783901935039
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Hardcover, 9.75 x 11.75 in. / 190 pgs / 121 color.
Pub Date: 04/02/1999 In stock


Entrare nell’opera
Entrare nell’opera
Edited by Nike Bätzner, Maddalena Disch, Christiane Meyer-Stoll, Valentina Pero. Text by Lara Conte, et al.

From 1959 to 1979, the work of the artists associated with Arte Povera was largely defined by actions. This publication examines works by Giovanni Anselmo, Alighiero e Boetti, Pier Paolo Calzolari, Luciano Fabro, Jannis Kounellis, >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960986768
US $79.95 CAN $111.95 FLAT40
Hbk, 8.25 x 10.75 in. / 540 pgs / 300 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/14/2020 In stock


Exercises in Freedom
Exercises in Freedom
Text by Björn Egging, Pawel Polit.

This catalog accompanies an exhibition of works by Polish conceptual artists from 1968 to 1981—part of a rarely exhibited artistic movement that remains little-known today. Artists include Andrzej Dluzniewski, Stanislaw Drózdz, KwieKulik, Natalia LL, Roman >>more

Kerber
ISBN 9783735604941
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 128 pgs / 77 color / 173 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 Out of stock


Expressionism in Art and Film
Expressionism in Art and Film
Foreword by Wolf Eiermann, Lisa Felicitas Mattheis. Text by Lisa Felicitas Mattheis, Kristina Jaspers, Marek Zydowicz.

As a revolutionary cultural movement, Expressionism endeavored to join art and life and diminish the separation between the arts. The Gesamtkunstwerk—the total artwork—became the ideal for artists. Expressionism in Art and Film traces this crossing >>more

Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836650361
US $50.00 CAN $69.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 240 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 11/15/2022 In stock


Face It!
Face It!
Edited by Ute Stuffer. Text by Michael Stoeber, Kristina Gross, Roland Meyer.

Presenting contemporary artworks in dialogue with works from the 20th century that investigate self-perception and representations of the “other,” Face It! In Monologue with the Other includes works by Marina Abramovic & Ulay, Nan Goldin, >>more

Verlag für moderne Kunst
ISBN 9783903320093
US $39.95 CAN $55.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 8.25 x 11 in. / 136 pgs / 75 color.
Pub Date: 09/15/2020 In stock


Fault Lines; Art In Germany 1945-1955
Fault Lines; Art In Germany 1945-1955
By John Paul Stonard.

Examining the role of artists in the years following the Second World War, Fault Lines reveals the reconstruction of German artistic culture during a period of great upheaval.

This volume offers an important and insightful account >>more

Ridinghouse
ISBN 9781905464029
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Pbk, 5 x 8 in. / 380 pgs / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/03/2007 In stock


From Fauvism to Surrealism
From Fauvism to Surrealism
Text by Hélène Leroy, Geaninne Gutiérrez-Guimarães.

This volume gathers a wide selection of masterpieces from Fauvism, Cubism, Surrealism and the School of Paris. Fauvism followed in the footsteps of Impressionism and Pointillism, blurring forms in bright colors, and its representatives here >>more

La Fábrica
ISBN 9788417769987
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Hbk, 8 x 9.5 in. / 240 pgs / 70 color / 23 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/18/2022 Out of stock


Félix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde
Félix Fénéon: The Anarchist and the Avant-Garde
Edited with text by Starr Figura, Isabelle Cahn, Philippe Peltier. Text by Cécile Bargues, Yaelle Biro, Anna Blaha, Megan Fontanella, Claudine Grammont, Joan U. Halperin, Charlotte Hellman, Béatrice Joyeux-Prunel, Patricia Leighten, Léa Saint-Raymond, Élodie Vaudry, Marnin Young.

A New York Times critics' pick | Best Art Books 2020

“It would not be a commonplace portrait at all, but a carefully composed picture, with very carefully arranged colors and lines. A rhythmic and angular >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633451018
US $65.00 CAN $92.00 TRADE
Clth, 9 x 10.5 in. / 256 pgs / 228 color.
Pub Date: 05/05/2020 In stock


Group Dynamics: Collectives of the Modernist Period
Group Dynamics: Collectives of the Modernist Period
Edtited by Matthias Mühling. Text by Karin Althaus, Sergio Baur, Susanne Böller, Elisabeth Giers, Sarah Louisa Henn, Eva Huttenlauch, Samina Iqbal, Zehra Jumabhoy, Morad Montazami, Noriko Murai, Jaroslaw Suchan, Daniel Muzyczuk, Carol Yinghua Lu, Thiago Gil de Oliveira Virava, Aihe Wang, Stephanie Weber.

Buenos Aires, Casablanca, Beijing, Khartoum, Lahore, Tokyo: over the course of the 20th century, artists formed collectives all over the world. But if the impulse to create such groups was universal, the concerns of their >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775750400
US $80.00 CAN $10.00 TRADE
Pbk, 8 x 10.75 in. / 448 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 06/28/2022 In stock


Hanne Tyrmi
Hanne Tyrmi
Edited by Hanne Tyrmi. Text by Line Ulekleiv, Lotte Konow Lund, Tone Lyngstad Nyaas.

Tyrmi’s new sculptures and installations as well as a number of works realized during the last fifteen years. The Lost Thing uses the house as a metaphor in which the various rooms are images of >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857222615
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 184 pgs / 135 color.
Pub Date: 03/10/2015 In stock


Hinge Pictures
Hinge Pictures
Text by Andrea Andersson, Alex Klein.

In 1960 George Heard Hamilton published the first complete typographic translation of Duchamp’s Green Box in English. This landmark publication translated Duchamp’s notes and conceptual ambitions for his masterwork, The Bride Stripped Bare by Her >>more

Siglio/Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans
ISBN 9781938221224
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Hbk, 6 x 9.25 in. / 124 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 04/23/2019 In stock


Hosen haben Röcke an / Pants Wear Skirts
Hosen haben Röcke an / Pants Wear Skirts
Edited with text by Susanne Altmann, Kata Krasznahorkai, Christin Müller, Franziska Schmidt, Sonia Voss.

Founded in 1984 by Gabriele Stötzer, the Erfurt Women Artists' Group pursued a radically creative lifestyle to counter the rigid strictures of everyday life in the GDR. This volume comprises rare photographs, prints, manifestos and >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775752589
US $49.95 CAN $68.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 7.75 x 10.5 in. / 256 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 05/16/2023 In stock


How Evil Is Pop Art?
How Evil Is Pop Art?
Text by Tobia Bezzola, Vincenzo de Bellis

This richly illustrated catalogue is published on the occasion of the group exhibition How Evil Is Pop Art? New European Realism 1959-1966, which stems from the desire to reread the European Pop phenomenon via an >>more

Mousse Publishing
ISBN 9788867493418
US $33.00 CAN $45.00 TRADE
Pbk, 9 x 12 in. / 144 pgs / 96 color / 22 duotone / 24 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 Out of stock


Image Bank
Image Bank
Edited with text by Krist Gruijthuijsen, Maxine Kopsa, Scott Watson. Text by by AA Bronson, Angie Kiefer, Hadrien Laroche, Michael Morris, Felicity Tayler, Vincent Trasov, Gilbert Zanna.

Image Bank was founded in 1970 in Vancouver, Canada, by artists Michael Morris (born 1942), Vincent Trasov (born 1947) and Gary Lee-Nova (born 1943). A model for a utopian, alternative system of art distribution operating >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775746328
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 320 pgs / 317 color.
Pub Date: 01/21/2020 In stock


Imagination/Idea 1971
Imagination/Idea 1971
Edited by Dóra Hegyi, Eszter Szakács, László Zsuzsa. Texts by László Beke, Eszter Szakács. In 1971, Laszlo Beke--a renowned Hungarian art historian and curator--asked 28 artists to submit their reaction to the concept “WORK = the DOCUMENTATION OF THE IMAGINATION/IDEA” on A4 sheets. Beke arranged and preserved the contributions >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037643181
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Pbk, 9.25 x 12 in. / 300 pgs / 205 color / 125 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/24/2015 In stock


Imagine
Imagine
Text by Luca Massimo Barbero.

A seminal experience on the Italian art scene of the 1960s. At the height of the economic miracle of the 1960s, artistic experiments in Italy kept following one another, mixed and merged with an extraordinary >>more

Marsilio Editori
ISBN 9788831723787
US $43.95 CAN $62.00 TRADE
Pbk, 11.5 x 9.5 in. / 288 pgs / 319 color.
Pub Date: 09/13/2016 Out of stock


In Lieu of Higher Ground
In Lieu of Higher Ground
Text by Lee Kwang-Rae, Yoon Jin Sup.

This richly illustrated publication looks at the oeuvres of three leading Korean artists working in sculpture, painting, textile and printmaking: Park Suk Won (born 1942), Park Jang Nyun (born 1937) and Song Burnsoo (born 1943).

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Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775748711
US $46.00 CAN $62.50 FLAT40
Hbk, 8 x 11 in. / 184 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 09/27/2022 In stock


In Quest Of The Absolute
In Quest Of The Absolute
Text by Erich Franz, Peter Blum. This volume contains full-color plates of important works by Kasimir Malevich, Piet Mondrian, Barnett Newman, Ad Reinhardt, Mark Rothko, Robert Ryman, Brice Marden, Agnes Martin, Helmut Federle and Joseph Marioni. >>more

Peter Blum Edition, New York
ISBN 9780935875140
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Hardcover, 7.25 x 10.25 in. / 90 pgs / 10 color / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/02/1998 Out of stock


In Search of 0,10
In Search of 0,10
Foreword by Sam Keller. Text by Matthew Drutt, et al. This exhibition celebrates that groundbreaking moment in the history of modern art when Kazimir Malevich debuted his new nonobjective paintings—including the “Black Square”—under the banner of Suprematism and Vladimir Tatlin introduced his revolutionary counter-relief sculptures. >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775740333
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Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 271 pgs / 188 color.
Pub Date: 02/23/2016 In stock


In the Cut
In the Cut
Edited with text by Andrea Jahn. Text by Amelia Jones, Richard Meyer, Rachel Middleman.

Sexuality as a central theme in art was, until the 1970s, dominated primarily by the male view of the female body. Feminist artists also concentrated on their own bodies, and even today the (hetero-) erotic >>more

Kerber
ISBN 9783735605146
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Pbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 240 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 08/20/2019 Out of stock


Italia Moderna 1945–1975
Italia Moderna 1945–1975
Edited by Marco Meneguzzo.

Gathering works by Lucio Fontana, Fausto Melotti, Emilio Vedova, Giuseppe Capogrossi, Enrico Castellani, Bruno Munari, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Jannis Kounellis and many others, Italia Moderna reconstructs the complex artistic fabric of Italy during one of the >>more

Marsilio Editori
ISBN 9788829701230
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Pbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 304 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 11/19/2019 In stock


Italian Drawing of the 20th Century
Italian Drawing of the 20th Century
Edited with text by Irina Zucca Alessandrelli. Text by Antonello Negri.

Italian Drawing of the 20th Century brings together works from the Ramo Collection, the only collection in the world exclusively dedicated to drawing in Italy during the 20th century, from the great masters to lesser-known >>more

Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836641178
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Hbk, 10.25 x 10.25 in. / 420 pgs / 500 color.
Pub Date: 10/08/2019 In stock


Italian Futurism, 1909-1944
Italian Futurism, 1909-1944
Edited and with introduction by Vivien Greene. Text by Walter Adamson, Silvia Barisione, Gabriella Belli, Fabio Benzi, Günter Berghaus, Emily Braun, Marta Braun, Esther da Costa Meyer, Enrico Crispolti, Massimo Duranti, Flavio Fergonzi, Matteo Fochessati, Daniela Fonti, Simonetta Fraquelli, Emilio Gentile, Romy Golan, Vivien Greene, Marina Isgro, Giovanni Lista, Adrian Lyttelton, Lisa Panzera, Maria Antonella Pelizzari, Christine Poggi, Lucia Re, Michelangelo Sabatino, Claudia Salaris, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Susan Thompson, Patrizia Veroli. Published to accompany the exhibition Italian Futurism, 1909–1944: Reconstructing the Universe opening at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in 2014, this catalogue considerably advances the scholarship and understanding of an influential yet little-known twentieth- century >>more

Guggenheim Museum Publications
ISBN 9780892074990
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Hbk, 8.5 x 11.5 in. / 352 pgs / 338 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2014 Out of stock


John Bellany & Alan Davie: Cradle of Magic
John Bellany & Alan Davie: Cradle of Magic
Edited by Jason Beard, Amie Corry. Text by Mel Gooding.

Alan Davie (1920–2014) was one of the first British artists to explore abstract expressionist forms and techniques, and his gestural paintings, rich with symbolism, demonstrate an interest in tribal art, as well as Zen Buddhism. >>more

Other Criteria Books
ISBN 9781906967994
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Hbk, 9 x 12.25 in. / 144 pgs / 67 color / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/22/2020 In stock


Juno
Juno
Text by Christine Kondoleon.

If this monumental second-century Roman statue could speak, she would tell of travels from a theater in ancient Rome to the gardens of an Italian prince’s villa—and then across the Atlantic to a suburban garden, >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468775
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 72 pgs / 25 color.
Pub Date: 02/16/2021 In stock


Kandinsky, Marc, and Der Blaue Reiter
Kandinsky, Marc, and Der Blaue Reiter
Edited with text by Ulf Küster. Text by Andreas Beyer, Oskar Bätschmann, Cathrin Klingsöhr-Leroy, Marta Ruiz del Árbol.

For just a few years at the beginning of the 20th century, Munich was the hot spot of Germany‘s artistic avant-garde. Russian painter Wassily Kandinsky and Franz Marc’s initiative as founding editors of the almanac >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775741699
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Hbk, 9.75 x 12 in. / 250 pgs / 180 color.
Pub Date: 10/25/2016 Out of stock


Keith Haring, Muna Tseng and Tseng Kwong Chi: Boundless Minds & Moving Bodies in 80s New York
Keith Haring, Muna Tseng and Tseng Kwong Chi: Boundless Minds & Moving Bodies in 80s New York
Introduction by Fabian de Kloe, Cynthia Jordens. Text by Barry Blinderman, Bill T. Jones, Joshua Chambers-Letson. Interview with Muna Tseng by Carlo McCormick.

In the days of downtown New York in the ’70s and ’80s, three boundary-pushing artists flourished: Keith Haring (1958–90), Muna Tseng (born 1953) and Tseng Kwong Chi (1950–90). Boundless Minds & Moving Bodies presents an >>more

nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462086968
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Pbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 172 pgs / 150 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/21/2022 In stock


Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art
Kinetismus: 100 Years of Electricity in Art
Edited by Peter Weibel, Lívia Nolasco-Rózsás, Christelle Havranek.

Artists have long been fascinated by the creative possibilities of electricity. This catalog gathers works from 1920 to the present, in video, sound, mechanical sculpture and computer-based art by Mary Ellen Bute, William Kentridge, Christina >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775751971
US $62.00 CAN $86.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 9 x 12.5 in. / 272 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 05/17/2022 In stock


Klimt and Schiele: Drawings
Klimt and Schiele: Drawings
Text by Katie Hanson.

Although Gustav Klimt was Egon Schiele’s senior by almost 30 years, he quickly recognized and encouraged the younger artist’s extraordinary talent, and they remained mutually admiring colleagues until the shared year of their deaths, in >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468522
US $49.95 CAN $67.50 TRADE
Clth, 11 x 14 in. / 152 pgs / 70 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock


Landlord Colors
Landlord Colors
By Laura Mott. Text by Taylor Aldridge, Andrew Blauvelt, Tania Bruguera, Germano Celant, Riccardo Dalisi, Eugenio Valdés Figueroa, Lee Ufan, Marsha Miro, Park Seo-Bo, Yorgos Tzirtzilakis, Yongwoo Lee, Abel González Fernández, Rebecca Mazzei, Ian Gabriel Wilson. Interview by Vincenzo de Bellis with Michelangelo Pistoletto.

Published in four differently colored cloth covers, Landlord Colors reconsiders periods of economic and social collapse through the lens of artistic innovations. It examines five art scenes generated during heightened periods of upheaval: America's Detroit >>more

Cranbrook Art Museum
ISBN 9780989186490
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Clth, 7.5 x 10.25 in. / 268 pgs / 98 color / 6 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/22/2019 In stock


Learning by Doing at the Farm
Learning by Doing at the Farm
Edited by Robert J. Kett, Anna Kryczka.

Beginning in 1968, the University of California, Irvine, was host to an experiment in intercultural exchange and artistic and social scientific learning through practice. Located on the edges of William Pereira's California Brutalist campus, the Farm >>more

Soberscove Press
ISBN 9780982409077
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Pbk, 6.5 x 8.5 in. / 124 pgs / 35 color / 54 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2014 In stock


Lewis Baltz / Sol LeWitt
Lewis Baltz / Sol LeWitt
Edited by Thomas Zander. Text by Lewis Baltz, Sol LeWitt, Heinz Liesbrock.

Working from the 1960s on, Lewis Baltz (1945–2014) and Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) developed pared-down visual languages to explore the structures of spatial processes and permutation. Baltz, in photographic series such as The Prototype Works, Tract >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960987635
US $55.00 CAN $76.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 9.25 x 12 in. / 88 pgs / 24 color / 116 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/15/2020 Out of stock


Light, Space, Surface: Art from Southern California
Light, Space, Surface: Art from Southern California
Edited with text by Carol S. Eliel. Text by Kim Conaty, Michael Govan, Lawrence Weschler, Melinda Wortz, Katia Zavistovski. Photographic portfolio by Luisa Lambri.

This volume explores the art of Light and Space and related “finish fetish” pieces with highly polished surfaces. In the 1960s and 1970s, various artists in Southern California began to create works that investigate perceptual >>more

DelMonico Books/Los Angeles County Museum of Art
ISBN 9781942884996
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Hbk, 9.75 x 11 in. / 160 pgs / 115 color.
Pub Date: 11/02/2021 In stock


Lightning Symbol and Snake Dance: Aby Warburg and Pueblo Art
Lightning Symbol and Snake Dance: Aby Warburg and Pueblo Art
Edited with text by Christine Chávez, Uwe Fleckner. Text by Bruce Bernstein, Adam Duran, Lindsey Drury, Rainer Hatoum, Kelley Hays-Gilpin, Lea McChesney, Nancy J. Parezo, Barbara Plankensteiner, Justin Richland, Erhard Schuttpelz, Sascha T. Scott, Bill Sherman, Matthew Vollgraff.

In 1895, the great German art historian and theorist Aby Warburg (1866–1929) came to the US, where he spent the bulk of his time meeting with Indigenous Americans. The encounter produced two famous works: his >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775752022
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Hbk, 9 x 11.75 in. / 400 pgs / 290 color.
Pub Date: 05/17/2022 In stock


Living with Pop
Living with Pop
Edited by Gregor Jansen, Elodie Evers, Magdalena Holzhey. Text by Eckart Gillen, Mark Godfrey, Walter Grasskamp, Susanne Rennert, Dietmar Rübel, Stephan Strzembski. Gerhard Richter, Konrad Lueg, Sigmar Polke and Manfred Kuttner coined the term "Capitalist Realism" in Düsseldorf in 1963. This publication is the first dedicated to the phenomenon. The movement’s principal exhibitions and works are documented >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783863353339
US $45.00 CAN $60.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 314 pgs / 180 color.
Pub Date: 02/28/2014 In stock


Look at the People!
Look at the People!
Edited by Ulrike Groos, Anja Richter. Text by Jan Bürger, Alina Grehl, Anna Katharina Hahn, Christin Hansen, et al.

In Weimar Germany, portraits by New Objectivity artists such as Otto Dix, George Grosz, Jeanne Mammen and Hanna Nagel were a testimony to the fascination with “types.” This volume explores their relevance from the 1920s >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775756006
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Hbk, 8.75 x 11.75 in. / 304 pgs / 180 color.
Pub Date: 02/13/2024 In stock


Looking at Dada
Looking at Dada
Essays by Sarah Ganz Blythe and Edward D. Powers. Born in the midst of World War I, Dada posed a fundamental challenge to established social values and artistic norms. The 1910s and early 20s marked the birth of the illustrated press and radio broadcasting, >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707056
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Paperback, 9 x 11 in. / 72 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2006 In stock


Louise Bourgeois & Pablo Picasso: Anatomies of Desire
Louise Bourgeois & Pablo Picasso: Anatomies of Desire
Edited by Marie-Laure Bernadac. Introduction by Jerry Gorovoy. Text by Marie-Laure Bernadac, Émilie Bouvard, Ulf Küster, Gérard Wajcman, Diana Widmaier Picasso.

Coupling the works of Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010) and Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) produces a thought-provoking discourse on the artists' formal and iconographic links. Inspired by archaic and primitive sources, both Bourgeois and Picasso explored and developed >>more

Hauser & Wirth Publishers
ISBN 9783906915371
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Hbk, 9.5 x 12.75 in. / 256 pgs / 175 color / 14 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/20/2019 Out of stock


Lucio Fontana/Antony Gormley
Lucio Fontana/Antony Gormley
Edited by Luca Massimo Barbero.

This publication juxtaposes the work of Lucio Fontana (1899–1968) with that of the contemporary British sculptor Antony Gormley (born 1950), highlighting the relationship between sign and the expressiveness of the materials used by both artists, >>more

Marsilio Arte
ISBN 9791254630440
US $29.95 CAN $41.95 FLAT40
Clth, 6 x 8.25 in. / 152 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 11/01/2022 Out of stock


Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala
Madayin: Eight Decades of Aboriginal Australian Bark Painting from Yirrkala
Edited by Wukun Wanambi, Kade McDonald, Henry Skerritt.

This volume chronicles the rise of a globally significant art movement, as told from the perspective of the Yolngu people of northeastern Australia. It presents more than 90 iconic paintings on eucalyptus bark, many of >>more

DelMonico Books/Kluge-Ruhe
ISBN 9781636810553
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Hbk, 8.75 x 12 in. / 384 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 11/15/2022 Out of stock


Making & Unmaking
Making & Unmaking
Text by Duro Olowu.

From Bauhaus jewellery and West African textiles to contemporary portraiture and sculpture, this unique volume explores the rituals of making that underpin an artist’s work.

Accompanying an exhibition curated by the ground-breaking fashion designer Duro Olowu >>more

Ridinghouse
ISBN 9781909932272
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.13 in. / 112 pgs / 91 color.
Pub Date: 06/01/2016 Out of stock


Making Modernism
Making Modernism
Text by Dorothy Price, Shulamith Behr, Chantal Joffe, Sarah Lea.

Käthe Kollwitz (1867–1945), Paula Modersohn-Becker (1876–1907), Gabriele Münter (1877–1962) and Marianne Werefkin (1860–1938) are among the exceptional artists associated with the emergence of Expressionism in Germany in the early decades of the 20th century. Each >>more

Royal Academy of Arts
ISBN 9781912520909
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Hbk, 9 x 10.75 in. / 144 pgs / 105 color / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/10/2023 Out of stock


Mike Kelley: Memory Ware
Mike Kelley: Memory Ware
Text by Ralph Rugoff, Mike Kelley.

Over the course of his four-decade career, Mike Kelley (1954–2012) critically questioned aesthetic conventions and examined all forms of culture. The approximately 100 Memory Ware and associated works were made during the first decade of >>more

Hauser & Wirth Publishers
ISBN 9783952446140
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Hbk, 9.75 x 12.5 in. / 250 pgs / 144 color.
Pub Date: 04/25/2017 In stock


MoMA Artist Series Boxed Set, Volume Two
MoMA Artist Series Boxed Set, Volume Two
Text by Carolyn Lanchner. Featuring artwork from The Museum of Modern Art’s extraordinary collection, each volume in the MoMA Artist Series guides readers through one artist’s most memorable achievements, explaining their significance and placing them in context among the >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870708237
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Boxed, 6 vols, 6 x 8 in. / 288 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 02/28/2014 In stock


MoMA Highlights
MoMA Highlights
Introduction by Glenn D. Lowry.

This new edition of MoMA Highlights presents 375 works from the Museum of Modern Art's unparalleled collection of modern and contemporary art. Featuring 170 new selections—a greater representation of women, artists of color and artists >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450776
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.5 in. / 408 pgs / 375 color.
Pub Date: 10/21/2019 In stock


Modern Taste: Art Deco in Paris 1910-1935
Modern Taste: Art Deco in Paris 1910-1935
Edited by Tim Benton, Manuel Fontán del Junco, María Zozaya. Text by Tim Benton, José Miguel Marinas, Emmanuel Bréon, Francisco Javier Pérez Roja, Ghislaine Wood, Tag Gronberg, Évelyne Possémé, Hélène Andrieux, Agnès Callu, Carole Aurouet.

Modern Taste: Art Deco in Paris, 1910-1935 offers readers an opportunity to appreciate, examine, assess and enjoy an artistic movement that defies easy definition but which has been described as "the last of the total >>more

Fundación Juan March
ISBN 9788470756290
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 540 pgs / 600 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/28/2015 In stock


Monumental Minimal
Monumental Minimal
Edited by Silvia Davoli, Oona Doyle. Text by Philippe Vergne. Afterword by Jim Jacobs.

Showcasing 21 works by the artists who spearheaded minimalism—Donald Judd, Carl Andre, Dan Flavin, Robert Mangold, Sol LeWitt and Robert Morris—this catalog seeks to explore these artists’ ambivalent relationship to the notion of the monument. >>more

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
ISBN 9782910055790
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Hbk, 9.75 x 12 in. / 122 pgs / 40 color / 13 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/28/2020 In stock


New York: 1962–1964
New York: 1962–1964
Conceived by Germano Celant. Edited with text by Sam Sackeroff. Preface by Claudia Gould. Introduction by Michael Rock. Interviews by Germano Celant with Christo and Jim Dine. Text by Claudia Gould, Michael Rock, Sam Sackeroff, Emily Bauman, Ninotchka D. Bennahum, Jennifer G. Buonocore-Nedrelow, Olivia Casa, Laura Conconi, J. English Cook, Maria Corti, Michaëla de Lacaze Mohrmann, Joshua B. Guild, Liz Hirsch, Hiroko Ikegami, Susan Murray, Kristina Parsons, Benjamin Serby, Jennifer Sichel, Robert Slifkin.

Recipient of the The 2023 Alice Award

The radical cultural transformations that occurred in New York in the three years between January 1962 and December 1964 ramified across the world. In addition to a whole host >>more

SKIRA
ISBN 9788857247687
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Pbk, 10.5 x 14 in. / 344 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 11/08/2022 In stock


Oil: Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age
Oil: Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age
Edited with text by Andreas Beitin, Alexander Klose, Benjamin Steininger. Text by Akintunde Akinleye, Leila Alieva, Dominic Boyer, Jan von Brevern, Heather Davis, et al.

Like no other raw material, oil pervades every area of our life. Oil is how we stay alive and how we get around. Oil: Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age approaches the vast complexity >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783753300962
US $69.95 CAN $94.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 400 pgs / 350 color.
Pub Date: 02/15/2022 In stock


Oskar Schlemmer, László Moholy-Nagy & Farkas Molnár: The Theater of the Bauhaus
Oskar Schlemmer, László Moholy-Nagy & Farkas Molnár: The Theater of the Bauhaus
Edited by Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy.

The Bauhaus revolution left no discipline untouched, and the new conceptions of theater and stage design developed by Oskar Schlemmer, László Moholy-Nagy and their students were especially transformative, unprecedented and influential. Published as the fourth >>more

Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037786284
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Hbk, 7 x 9 in. / 90 pgs / 1 color / 55 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/12/2021 In stock


Painting Forever!
Painting Forever!
Text by Thomas Köhler, Rainer Metzger, Eva Sharrer, Anna-Catharina Gebbers, Raimar Stange, et al. This four-part publication, bound into a single volume with binding screws, catalogues a four-part exhibition at the Berlinische Galerie, Deutsche Bank KunstHalle, KW Institute for Contemporary Art and Neue Nationalgalerie in Berlin. It includes work >>more

Verlag Kettler
ISBN 9783862062850
US $59.00 CAN $79.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 9 x 12 in. / 384 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 03/31/2014 In stock


Painting in New York 1971–83
Painting in New York 1971–83
Text by Hilton Als, Elizabeth Hess, Lucy R. Lippard, Ivy Shapiro. Conversation with Connie Choi, Cynthia Carlson, Cynthia Hawkins, Harriet Korman, Dindga McCannon.

Published to follow the landmark exhibition at Karma Gallery, New York, this catalog unites the works of 30 women painters who were active in New York City during the 1970s. The collection showcases the diverse >>more

Karma Books, New York
ISBN 9781949172980
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Hbk, 10 x 11.75 in. / 268 pgs / 133 color / 49 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/19/2023 In stock


Painting the Stage
Painting the Stage
By Denise Wendel-Poray.

From the 19th century to the present day, the meeting of music and the avant-garde visual arts has produced groundbreaking innovations in both fields. Nowhere is this meeting of the arts as intense as it >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857230061
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Hbk, 7.5 x 10 in. / 444 pgs / 326 color / 39 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/23/2019 In stock


Parallels
Parallels
Text by Guri Skuggen, Jarle Strømodden, Christine Lancestremère, et al.

This catalog examines the career of Norwegian sculptor Gustav Vigeland (1869–1943)—one of Norway’s most celebrated 20th-century sculptors, known for his large-scale figurative works—situating him alongside such contemporaries as Antoine-Louis Barye, Constantin Meunier, Auguste Rodin, Aristide >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857240398
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Pbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 224 pgs / 220 color.
Pub Date: 07/23/2019 In stock


Peggy Guggenheim and Nelly van Doesburg
Peggy Guggenheim and Nelly van Doesburg
By Doris Wintgens.

Peggy Guggenheim (1898–1979) and Nelly van Doesburg (1899–1975) were vital participants in the De Stijl movement, promoting, exhibiting and buying De Stijl at a time when few had interest in the geometric language of forms >>more

nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462084100
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Pbk, 7.5 x 10.25 in. / 192 pgs / 185 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 Out of stock


Performa 13: Surrealism / The Voice / Citizenship
Performa 13: Surrealism / The Voice / Citizenship
Edited by RoseLee Goldberg, Kathleen Madden. Text by Marc Arthur, Charles Aubin, Defne Ayas, Kathy Battista, Mark Beasley, Randi Grov Berger, Antonio Bessa, Johanna Burton and Travis Chamberlain, Mary Ann Caws, Mary Cerruti, David Colman, Nikki Columbus, Michael Connor, Adrianne Edwards, Lia Gangitano, Massimiliano Gioni, Annie Godfrey Larmon, RoseLee Goldberg, Thyrza Goodeve, Summer Guthrey, Anthony Haden-Guest, Greta Hartenstein, Larrissa Harris, Jens Hoffmann, Megan Heuer, Jon Kessler, Paul Laster, Thomas Lax, Emily Liebert, Candice Madey, Laura McLean-Ferris, Hanne Mugaas, Joanna Montoya, Esa Nickle, Johanne Nordby Werno, Jerzy Onuch, Jennifer Piejko, Steve Pulimood, Barry Schwabsky, Mari Spirito, Anne Szefer Karlsen with Aaron Schuster, Van Alen Institute, Hrag Vartanian, Joanna Warsza, Johanne Wernoe, Lana Wilson, Catherine Wood, Jake Yuzna, Joanna Zielinska. The fifth volume in the acclaimed series by performance art historian RoseLee Goldberg, Performa 13 features projects from more than 120 of the leading artists working in performance today, in collaboration with more than 100 >>more

Gregory R. Miller & Co.
ISBN 9781941366066
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Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 384 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 11/24/2015 In stock


Performa: New Visual Art Performance
Performa: New Visual Art Performance
RoseLee Goldberg amazed with PERFORMA 05, billed as the city's first biennial of 'visual art performance.' Working with a tiny staff, a shoestring budget and no institutional affiliation, Ms. Goldberg put together a program that >>more

Performa Publications
ISBN 9781424314980
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Paperback, 7 x 9.5 in. / 272 pgs / 215 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/01/2007 Out of stock


Picasso – El Greco
Picasso – El Greco
Edited by Carmen Giménez, Josef Helfenstein. Text by Gabriel Dette, Carmen Giménez, Olga Osadtschy, Javier Portús, Richard Shiff.

In his youth, Pablo Picasso (1881–1973) frequented the Prado Museum, rejecting a formal education in favor of studying the works of the old masters himself. El Greco (1541–1614) particularly captivated his attention, and his admiration >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775752138
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Hbk, 9 x 11.5 in. / 192 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 08/30/2022 In stock


Piet Mondrian, Barnett Newman, Dan Flavin
Piet Mondrian, Barnett Newman, Dan Flavin
Text by Simon Baier, Bernhard Mendes Bürgi, Gregor Stemmrich. Piet Mondrian (1872–1944), Barnett Newman (1905–1970) and Dan Flavin (1933–1996) belong to very different generations, but they have in common a rigorously ascetic approach to abstraction. Their intellectual, spiritual and social visions also differ significantly, >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775736855
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 152 pgs / 65 color.
Pub Date: 02/28/2014 Out of stock


Please Touch: Marcel Duchamp and the Fetish
Please Touch: Marcel Duchamp and the Fetish
Edited by Oona Doyle. Text by Paul B. Franklin.

Eroticism served as an enduring and potent guiding principle for Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) as he traced his singular path through 20th-century art. Duchamp himself acknowledged that eroticism was “visible or conspicuous, or, at any rate, >>more

Thaddaeus Ropac
ISBN 9782910055820
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Hbk, 8.75 x 11.25 in. / 127 pgs / 92 color.
Pub Date: 05/16/2023 Out of stock


Precarious Solidarities: Artists for Democracy 1974–77
Precarious Solidarities: Artists for Democracy 1974–77
Text by Rasheed Araeen, Guy Brett, Virgil Calaguian, Wing Chan, George Clark and C??ng Minh Bá Ph?m, Hannah Healey, Susan Hiller, Eileen Legaspi-Ramirez, María José Lemaitre and Caroll Yasky, David Medalla and Brandon Taylor, David Morris, Nii Kwate Owoo, Vijay Prashad, Cecilia Vicuña.

This volume takes Artists for Democracy (AFD) as a starting point to explore the entanglement of artistic practices with transnational solidarities shaped by migration and political mobilization. AFD formed in London in 1974 to give >>more

Walther König, Köln/Afterall Books
ISBN 9783753304267
US $29.95 CAN $43.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 272 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 06/18/2024 In stock


Private Eye: The Imagist Impulse in Chicago Art
Private Eye: The Imagist Impulse in Chicago Art
Text by John Corbett, Jim Dempsey, Thea Liberty-Nichols, Dennis Adrian.

This amply illustrated catalog surveys the work of the group of artists known as the Chicago Imagists, who exhibited together in the late 1960s, and whose influence continues to spread 50 years later. Drawing from >>more

Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields
ISBN 9781646570140
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Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 180 color.
Pub Date: 07/06/2021 In stock


Proof: Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Longo
Proof: Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein, Robert Longo
Text by Kate Fowle, Chris Hedges, Nancy Spector, Vadim Zakharov. Interview by Robert Longo, Kate Fowle.

Featuring works by Francisco Goya, Sergei Eisenstein and Robert Longo, Proof offers insight into the singularity of vision through which artists can reflect the social, cultural and political complexities of their times. Spanning eras and >>more

Garage Museum of Contemporary Art
ISBN 9788090671409
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Hbk, 10 x 11.5 in. / 256 pgs / 133 color / 130 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/22/2017 In stock


Rendezvous in Paris
Rendezvous in Paris
Edited with text by Christian Briend. Foreword by Mohamed Khalifa Al Mubarak, Sandra Lagumina, Jean-Luc Martinez, Manuel Rabaté, Serge Lasvignes, Bernard Blistène. Text by Yves Chevrefils-Desbiolles, Anna Hiddleston-Galloni, Sophie Krebs, Anne Lemonnier.

Discover the Paris of the “Roaring Twenties”—a bohemian hub for artists from across Europe, many of whom left their home countries in search of a place where they could more freely express themselves. Inspired by >>more

Kaph Books
ISBN 9786148035333
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 192 pgs / 65 color / 53 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/27/2022 In stock


Robert Rauschenberg’s Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953)
Robert Rauschenberg’s Erased de Kooning Drawing (1953)
Edited with text by Gregor Stemmrich.

In 1953, Robert Rauschenberg erased a drawing by Willem de Kooning, while Jasper Johns created a label for its presentation. Transmuted into something new, this obliterated piece marked a pivotal moment in art history and >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775755030
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Pbk, 6 x 9.5 in. / 1028 pgs / 155 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2024 In stock


Rodin / Arp
Rodin / Arp
Edited with text by Raphaël Bouvier. Text by Astrid von Asten, Catherine Chevillot, Lilien Feledy, Tessa Paneth-Pollak, Jana Teuscher.

In terms of modern sculpture, there are few artists who can claim the same level of influence as Auguste Rodin (1840–1917) and Hans “Jean” Arp (1886–1966). Rodin’s naturalistic rather than decorative approach to sculpture revolutionized >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775748759
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Hbk, 11 x 12 in. / 200 pgs / 125 color.
Pub Date: 02/23/2021 Out of stock


Russian Avant-Garde
Russian Avant-Garde
Text by by Elena Basner, Geurt Imanse, Frank van Lamoen, Michael Meylac, Sergey Sigey et. al. The famous Russian collector and literary scholar Nikolai Khardzhiev (1903–1996) was a close friend and admirer of the modern painters, poets and philosophers of his time. Often buying directly from the artists and their families, >>more

nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462081048
US $75.00 CAN $99.00 TRADE
Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 552 pgs / 900 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2014 In stock


Sarkis
Sarkis
Edited by Ayse Orhun Gültekin. Text by Cem Ileri.

This comprehensive monograph gathers works by the Turkish conceptual artist Sarkis (born 1938). Focusing on exhibitions and projects created and realized in his birth city of Istanbul, the volume traces autobiographical elements in Sarkis’ oeuvre >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775752541
US $75.00 CAN $104.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 8.25 x 10.75 in. / 504 pgs / 220 color.
Pub Date: 02/28/2023 In stock


Senzamargine
Senzamargine
Edited by Bartolomeo Pietromarchi, Stefano Chiodi. Text by Michael Asbury, Mario Bertozzi, Lara Conte, et al.

This lavishly illustrated publication charts the history of Italian art over the last several decades, with a focus on iconic works by artists including Carla Accardi, Jannis Kounellis, Mario Schifano, Luigi Ghirri and Anna Maria >>more

Marsilio Editori
ISBN 9788829709823
US $35.00 CAN $47.00 FLAT40
Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 240 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 04/05/2022 In stock


Shared Cities Atlas
Shared Cities Atlas
Edited by Helena Doudova. Text by David Crowley, Elke Krasny, Peter Mortenbock, Helge Mooshammer.

Reflecting on the “urban commons” concept currently in vogue in architectural discourse, this volume collects research, data and photographs for seven case studies—post-socialist cities in Central Europe—emphasizing the collective action of remaking cities.

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nai010 Publishers
ISBN 9789462085213
US $59.95 CAN $84.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 304 pgs / 200 color / 150 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/18/2020 In stock


Slant Step Book
Slant Step Book
Edited by Phil Weidman, Francesca Wilmott. Preface by Phil Weidman. Introduction by Francesca Wilmott. Foreword by Liv Moe.

For nearly five decades a peculiar wooden object called the “Slant Step” was exchanged between artists from coast to coast, developing a cultlike following and inspiring poetry, art and unlikely collaborations. Artist William T. Wiley >>more

Verge Center for the Arts
ISBN 9780578446929
US $35.00 CAN $39.95 FLAT40
Slip, 2 vols, pbk, 6 x 8.75 in. / 144 pgs / 16 color / 18 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/20/2019 In stock


Some Aesthetic Decisions
Some Aesthetic Decisions
By Bonnie Clearwater.

Some Aesthetic Decisions is an exhibition featuring works by artists that explore issues of beauty, value, and judgment. One hundred years ago, Dada artist Marcel Duchamp forever changed the nature of art by anonymously submitting Fountain >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857234793
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.4 in. / 112 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 10/03/2017 In stock


Source and Stimulus: Polke, Lichtenstein, Laing
Source and Stimulus: Polke, Lichtenstein, Laing
Text by Marco Livingstone, David E. Brauer, Jeanette Joslin Russell.

United in their desire to create images "absolutely of the moment," Polke, Lichtenstein and Laing—three artists on separate but interrelated artistic journeys—turned their attention in the early 1960s toward the Ben-Day dot. Featuring works inspired >>more

Lévy Gorvy
ISBN 9781944379223
US $60.00 CAN $79.00 FLAT40
Hbk, 9.75 x 13.25 in. / 136 pgs / 75 color / 22 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/21/2019 In stock


Speed Limits
Speed Limits
By Jeffrey T. Schnapp.

A stunning exhibition catalogue to mark the centenary of the foundation of the Italian futurist movement, whose 1909 manifesto proclaimed “that the world’s magnificence has been enriched by a new beauty: the beauty of speed.” >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857201757
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.75 in. / 320 pgs / 141 illustrations.
Pub Date: 09/08/2009 In stock


Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau: The Collections
Stiftung Bauhaus Dessau: The Collections
Text by Peter Bernhard, Torsten Blume, Monika Markgraf, Lutz Schöbe, Josipa Spehar, Wolfgang Thöner, Sylvia Ziegner.

This book is focused on the objects and materials in the collection of the Bauhaus Dessau campus from all the phases of the renowned institution, including student works by Marianne Brandt, Josef Albers and Marcel >>more

Kerber
ISBN 9783735605597
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Hbk, 11.75 x 8.25 in. / 500 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 11/19/2019 In stock


Streets and Faces
Streets and Faces
Edited by Annelie Lütgens. Text by Anna Havemann, Clemens Klöckner, Christina Korzen, Isabelle Lindermann, Annelie Lütgens. This catalogue features drawings by artists such as Karl Arnold, Max Beckmann, Paul Busch, Otto Dix, Chas Laborde, Heinrich Ehmsen, Robert Genin, George Grosz, Gertrude Sandmann, Richard Ziegler and more, whose draftsmanship continues to shape >>more

Kerber
ISBN 9783866787865
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Pbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 128 pgs / 80 color / 3 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2013 Out of stock


Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940
Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists since 1940
Edited with text by María Elena Ortiz. Preface by Marla Price. Text by Annette K. Joseph-Gabriel, Negarra A. Kudumu, Ashley Stull Meyers, Lindsey Reynolds.

On the centennial anniversary of André Breton’s first Surrealist Manifesto, Surrealism and Us shines new light on how Surrealism was consumed and transformed in the Caribbean and the United States. It brings together more than >>more

DelMonico Books/Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth
ISBN 9781636811284
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Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 96 color / 9 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/02/2024 In stock


Surrealism in Belgium
Surrealism in Belgium
Foreword by Frank Verpoorten. Text by Xavier Canonne. From the start, the Belgian Surrealists--among them René Magritte, Paul Delvaux, Paul Nougé, E.L.T. Mesens and Marcel Mariën--distinguished themselves from their Parisian counterparts with their dry wit, brilliant conceptualism and knack for combining the fantastical >>more

Marot
ISBN 9782930117430
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Hbk, 10.25 x 12.25 in. / 160 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 10/27/2015 In stock


Taten des Lichts
Taten des Lichts
Edited with introduction by Barbara Steingiesser. Foreword by Christof Wingertszahn. Text by Eckhard Bendin, Gernot Böhme, Hartmut Böhme, Anke Bosse, Christoph Cremer, et al.

This catalog accompanies an exhibition at the Goethe Museum in Düsseldorf that juxtaposes works by Zero group cofounder Heinz Mack (born 1931) with writings by Goethe. Connections are drawn between Mack's light art sculptures and >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775744072
US $75.00 CAN $99.00 FLAT40
Hbk, 10.25 x 12.75 in. / 304 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 12/18/2018 Out of stock


The 8 Brokens
The 8 Brokens
Text by Nancy Berliner.

Developed during the mid-19th century in China, the bapo (or "eight brokens") painting genre combines ingeniously realistic depictions of antique documents, such as calligraphies, rubbings, paintings and pages from old books, sometimes alongside everyday contemporary >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468317
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Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 160 pgs / 75 color.
Pub Date: 11/20/2018 Out of stock


The Apartment
The Apartment
Text by Thierry Davila, Patricia Falguières. Interview with Ghislain Mollet-Viéville by Lionel Bovier, Thierry Davila.

This book documents the scrupulous recreation, inside MAMCO Geneva, of a flat owned between 1975 and 1992 by Parisian collector and self-described agent d’art Ghislain Mollet-Viéville. Mollet-Viéville’s apartment on the rue Beauborg showcased his incredible >>more

MAMCO, Geneva
ISBN 9781942884484
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Pbk, 6.25 x 9 in. / 132 pgs / 35 color / 9 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/07/2020 In stock


The Bauhaus and Czechoslovakia 1919–1938
The Bauhaus and Czechoslovakia 1919–1938
By Markéta Svobodová.

A beautiful new publication featuring rarely seen photographs and documents, The Bauhaus and Czechoslovakia 1919–1938 looks at the Central European context and legacy of Germany’s legendary Bauhaus school. This important center of avant-garde learning, whose >>more

Kant
ISBN 9788074372247
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Flexi, 9.5 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / 202 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 Out of stock


The Blue Rider: Group Dynamics
The Blue Rider: Group Dynamics
Edited with text by Matthias Mühling, Annegret Hoberg, Anna Straetmans. Text by Isabelle Jansen, Vanessa Joan Müller.

“The whole work, called art, knows no borders and peoples, but humanity,” wrote artists Franz Marc and Wassily Kandinsky in the manifesto for their new collective in 1911. Dubbed Der Blaue Reiter (the Blue Rider), >>more

Hatje cantz
ISBN 9783775748414
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Pbk, 7.75 x 10.75 in. / 446 pgs / 605 color.
Pub Date: 09/21/2021 In stock


The Chicago Imagists
The Chicago Imagists
Text by Lynne Warren, Rosie Cooper, Sarah McCrory.

This compact illustrated introduction to the work of the Chicago Imagists celebrates the grotesque surrealism, cartoon energy and vivid color of a group of innovative 1960s artists who thoroughly rejected art-world terms. These artists—who include >>more

Hayward Gallery Publishing
ISBN 9781853323638
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Pbk, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 160 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 05/21/2019 Out of stock


The Enigma of the Hour: 100 Years of Psychoanalytic Thought
The Enigma of the Hour: 100 Years of Psychoanalytic Thought
Edited by Goshka Macuga, Simon Moretti. Text by Jennifer Higgie, Simon Moretti, Michael Newman, Daniel Silver, Adele Tutter, Marina Warner.

Founded by British analyst (and Freud biographer) Ernest Jones with the collaboration of Sigmund Freud in 1920, The International Journal of Psychoanalysis has remained the main international vehicle for psychoanalysis. On the occasion of its >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960986980
US $29.95 CAN $41.95 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 96 pgs / 66 color / 42 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/21/2020 In stock


The Expressionist Figure
The Expressionist Figure
Edited with introduction and text by Joan Rothfuss. Foreword by Mary Ceruti.

The Expressionist Figure documents a collection amassed over more than 60 years and recently gifted to the Walker, which includes some 80 superlative works on paper that focus on the figure. Dating from 1900 to >>more

Walker Art Center
ISBN 9781935963202
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Clth, 10 x 12 in. / 208 pgs / 80 color / 150 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/19/2019 In stock


The Fluxus Newspaper
The Fluxus Newspaper

This volume collects all 11 newspapers published by the Fluxus artists’ collective between January 1964 and March 1979. Although published irregularly, the newspapers promoted Fluxus events and publications—especially the group’s famous multiples and Fluxkits—with advertising >>more

Primary Information
ISBN 9798987624982
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Pbk, 10.5 x 14 in. / 80 pgs / 64 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/09/2024 In stock


The Making of Husbands: Christina Ramberg in Dialogue
The Making of Husbands: Christina Ramberg in Dialogue
Edited with text by Anna Gritz. Text by Dodie Bellamy, Kathrin Bentele, Jen George, Larne Abse Gogarty, Judith Russi Kirshner, Léon Kruijswijk.

American artist Christina Ramberg's (1946–95) formally elegant, erotically sinister paintings make up one of the most intriguing bodies of work to come out of the generation of Chicago Imagists. Her drawings of women in brassieres >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960986966
US $40.00 CAN $56.00 FLAT40
Hbk, 9 x 11.25 in. / 144 pgs / 115 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/21/2020 Out of stock


The Moderns
The Moderns
Edited by Enrique Juncosa, Christina Kennedy. Text by Bruce Arnold, Brian Cass, Theo Dorgan, Aidan Dunne, Luke Gibbons, Enrique Juncosa, Christina Kennedy, David Lloyd, Robert O'Byrne, Ellen Rowley. Irish artists and writers have played a fascinating role in the story of modernism, and The Moderns traces this story by bringing together exceptional examples of painting and sculpture, photography, film, architecture, literature, music and >>more

Irish Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 9781907020490
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Hbk, 12 x 10 in. / 596 pgs / 508 color / 139 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/30/2011 In stock


The New Woman's Survival Catalog
The New Woman's Survival Catalog
Edited by Kirsten Grimstad, Susan Rennie.

Originally published in 1973, The New Woman’s Survival Catalog is a seminal survey of the second-wave feminist effort across the US. Edited by Kirsten Grimstad and Susan Rennie in just five months, The New Woman’s >>more

Primary Information
ISBN 9781732098671
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Pbk, 10.5 x 14.25 in. / 210 pgs / 403 duotone.
Pub Date: 10/22/2019 Out of stock


The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today
The Original Copy: Photography of Sculpture, 1839 to Today
Edited by Roxana Marcoci. Text by Roxana Marcoci, Geoffrey Batchen, Tobia Bezzola. Since its birth in the first half of the nineteenth century, photography has offered extraordinary possibilities of documenting, redefining and disseminating works of art. Through crop, focus, angle of view, degree of close-up and lighting, >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707575
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Hbk, 9.5 x 12 in. / 242 pgs / 120 color / 180 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/30/2010 In stock


The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance
The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance
Edited with text by Vincenzo de Bellis. Foreword by Mary Ceruti. Text by Manuel Cirauqui, Jadine Collingwood, Hendrik Folkerts, Emma Lavigne, Catherine Wood.

Presenting works from the early 20th century to today, The Paradox of Stillness: Art, Object, and Performance examines the notion of stillness as both a performative and visual gesture, featuring practitioners who have constructed static >>more

Walker Art Center
ISBN 9781935963233
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Clth, 8 x 11 in. / 288 pgs / 600 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/19/2020 In stock


The Propaganda Front
The Propaganda Front
Text by Anna Jozefacka, Lynda Klich, Juliana Kreinik, Benjamin Weiss.

A socialist worker raises the red flag. Adoring crowds greet Hitler and Mussolini. Uncle Sam orders Americans to enlist. In the first half of the 20th century, these images and many more circulated by the >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878467631
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Hbk, 8.5 x 9.5 in. / 320 pgs / 380 color.
Pub Date: 12/12/2017 Out of stock


The Snake and the Lightning: Aby Warburg's American Journey
The Snake and the Lightning: Aby Warburg's American Journey
Text by Uwe Fleckner.

When the great German art theorist and historian Aby Warburg (1866–1929) left for the United States in September 1895, few would have guessed that his search for the symbolic strata of art would prove to >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775751605
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Hbk, 7 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 120 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/20/2024 In stock


The Unknown Political Prisoner
Edited with text by Dorothea Schöne. Text by Petra Gördüren, Angela Lammert, Tanja Pirsig Marshall, et al.

In 1952 the ICA London organized an international competition around the theme of “The Unknown Political Prisoner,” to promote abstract art and sculpture as a symbol of democracy. This book revisits the occasion.

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Wasmuth & Zohlen
ISBN 9783803034069
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Pbk, 7 x 11 in. / 304 pgs / 40 color / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/13/2021 In stock


The World on Paper
The World on Paper
Text by Friedhelm Hütte, Elsy Lahner, Lothar Müller, Katherine Stout.

This book gathers works on paper—some of which combine with other mediums such as installation, performance, sculpture or film—by Doug Aitken, Josef Albers, Georg Baselitz, Joseph Beuys, Hanne Darboven, Ellen Gallagher, Eva Hesse, Martin Kippenberger, >>more

Kerber
ISBN 9783735605160
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Pbk, 7.75 x 10.5 in. / 260 pgs / 197 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/18/2019 Out of stock


Theo van Doesburg: Principles of Neo-Plastic Art
Theo van Doesburg: Principles of Neo-Plastic Art
Edited by Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy.

Painter, writer, architect, typographer, art theorist and leader of the De Stijl movement, Theo van Doesburg (1883-1931) was one of the great modernist polymaths, and in this volume of the Bauhausbücher, he attempts to make >>more

Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037786291
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Hbk, 7 x 9 in. / 68 pgs / 1 color / 31 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/12/2021 In stock


Ticket to the Moon
Ticket to the Moon
Edited with text by Florian Steininger, Andreas Hoffer. Text by Dona Jalufka, et al.

An exhibition at Kunsthalle Krems marks the 50th anniversary of the moon landing, featuring artworks and historical material from the 1950s through today. Ticket to the Moon includes works by Robert Indiana, Robert Rauschenburg, Sonja >>more

Verlag für moderne Kunst
ISBN 9783903269866
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Pbk, 8.25 x 8.25 in. / 216 pgs / 216 color.
Pub Date: 09/15/2020 In stock


True Stories: A Show Related to an Era – The Eighties
True Stories: A Show Related to an Era – The Eighties
Edited by Peter Pakesch.

As the Cold War drew toward its tumultuous close, artists in the United States and Germany such as Isa Genzken, Félix González-Torres, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Jeff Koons, Zoe Leonard, Albert Oehlen, Richard Prince, Julian >>more

Holzwarth Publications
ISBN 9783947127115
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 240 pgs / 120 color / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/22/2019 In stock


Tutto
Tutto
Edited with text by Ingvild Goetz, Leo Lencsés, Karsten Löckemann, Letizia Ragaglia. Text by Andreas Hapkemeyer, Marion Piffer Damiani.

This book surveys painters who have expanded concepts of painting and the constraints of the canvas. Artists included range from Carla Accardis, Enrico Castellanis and Agostino Bonalumis to Piero Manzoni. Other focal points are the >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775745222
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Pbk, 9.5 x 12.75 in. / 300 pgs / 180 color.
Pub Date: 07/23/2019 Out of stock


Un Coup de Dés: Writing Turned Image, an Alphabet of Pensive Language
Un Coup de Dés: Writing Turned Image, an Alphabet of Pensive Language
Edited by Sabine Folie. Foreword by Dietrich Karner. Text by Gabriele Mackert, Jacques Rancière, Michael Newman. In her essay “Writing Turned Image: An Alphabet of Pensive Language," Sabine Folie writes, "An idea...explored in Stéphane Mallarmé's Un coup de dés (A roll of the dice) of 1897 has in the twentieth century >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865605436
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Pbk, 8.75 x 11.25 in. / 250 pgs / 250 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Out of stock


Unconcealed: The International Network of Conceptual Artists 1967-77
Unconcealed: The International Network of Conceptual Artists 1967-77
Text by Sophie Richard.

Emerging in the late 1960s, Conceptual art was spurred by a network of artists, dealers, curators and critics. These little-known connections are detailed for the first time in this indispensable volume.

A detailed account of a >>more

Ridinghouse
ISBN 9781905464173
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Pbk, 7.5 x 10 in. / 544 pgs / 32 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/01/2009 In stock


Under Water Above Water
Under Water Above Water
Text by Viola Weigel, Natascha Adamowsky, Stephan E. Hauser. The aquarium was invented in 1850, just as Impresssionism was beginning to gather steam, a curious indoor counterpart to that movement's espousal of “plein air” painting. Under Water is a historical overview of art that >>more

Kerber
ISBN 9783866782747
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Hbk, 10.25 x 7.75 in. / 115 pgs / 113 color / 70 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/30/2010 Out of stock


Venice 1948-1986
Venice 1948-1986
By Luca Massimo Barbero.

Published in association with the Peggy Guggenheim Collection and the Fondazione Cassa di Risparmio di Modena, this catalogue presents unpublished and remarkable photographs that will take readers on an extraordinary journey through the artistic milieu >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788876247446
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Hbk, 9.55 x 11.55 in. / 336 pgs / 900 illustrations.
Pub Date: 09/05/2006 In stock


Venice, the Jews, and Europe
Venice, the Jews, and Europe
Text by Donatella Calabi.

Five hundred years of the Jewish Ghetto of Venice through art.

This book aims to tell the story of the Ghetto of Venice, the first in the world—the way it grew within itself, its architecture, social >>more

Marsilio Editori
ISBN 9788831724944
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Hbk, 12 x 8 in. / 536 pgs / 241 color / 11 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/13/2016 In stock


Vertigo
Vertigo
Text by Luca Massimo Barbero.

A poignant, new artistic enquiry. Vertigo: Au Rendez-Vous des Amis presents the works of three extraordinary contemporary Italian artists, Francesco Candeloro, Riccardo De Marchi, and Arcangelo Sassolino. In this meeting of friends, arising out of >>more

Marsilio Editori
ISBN 9788831726412
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Pbk, 10.6 x 8 in. / 176 pgs / 147 color.
Pub Date: 09/05/2017 Out of stock


Vertigo: Op Art and a History of Deception 1520 to 1970
Vertigo: Op Art and a History of Deception 1520 to 1970
Edited with text by Eva Badura-Triska, Markus Wörgötter. Text by Eva-Marina Froitzheim, Ulrike Groos, Sergius Kodera, Karola Kraus, Charissa N. Terranova.

This eclectic volume presents a deceptive game of the senses, covering a wide spectrum ranging from panel paintings, reliefs and objects to installations and experiential spaces, to film and computer-generated art.

Op art works are by >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960986089
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Hbk, 8 x 11.25 in. / 208 pgs / 170 color.
Pub Date: 01/21/2020 In stock


Vienna 1900
Vienna 1900
Edited with text by Hans-Peter Wipplinger. Text by Andrea Amort, Bazon Brock, Heike Eipeldauer, Verena Gamper, Allan Janik, Stefan Kutzenberger, et al.

This superb volume highlights the artistic achievements of an era shaped by the emergence of the Secessionists and the collapse of the Habsburg monarchy. Vienna 1900 aims to convey a sense of the character of >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960985976
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Hbk, 9.25 x 11.25 in. / 560 pgs / 1300 color.
Pub Date: 08/25/2020 Out of stock


Virginia Dwan and Dwan Gallery
Virginia Dwan and Dwan Gallery
Edited by Germano Celant.

This book on Virginia Dwan and her galleries in Los Angeles and New York tells for the first time the unique story of a fundamental player on the global art scene, who has rarely been >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857222493
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Pbk, 5.25 x 8.25 in. / 404 pgs / 366 illustrations.
Pub Date: 01/10/2017 Out of stock


Vis-à-vision: Conversations with Russian Conceptual Artists, 1978–2013
Vis-à-vision: Conversations with Russian Conceptual Artists, 1978–2013
By Victor Tupitsyn.

These recordings were intended for readers who had no access to this group of artists, whose work ran afoul of the official Soviet conceptions of art and thus was not shown in exhibitions. Like many >>more

Spector Books
ISBN 9783959051439
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Pbk, 5 x 8.5 in. / 356 pgs / 100 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/26/2018 In stock


Visual Music Masters
Visual Music Masters
Edited with text by Adriano Abbado.

What are the connections between sounds and abstract images? What were the first audiovisual instruments? How did music influence Kandinsky’s work? What are the most significant audiovisual installations? What relationship is there between VJs and >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857222233
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Hbk, 8 x 10 in. / 176 pgs / 120 color / 38 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/22/2018 In stock


Walter Gropius: New Works from Bauhaus Workshops
Walter Gropius: New Works from Bauhaus Workshops
Edited by Walter Gropius, László Moholy-Nagy.

The Bauhaus sought to unite life, craftsmanship and art under one coherent ethos and aesthetic. In New Works from Bauhaus Workshops—the seventh of the Bauhaus’ publications—the institute’s founder, Walter Gropius (1888-1969), provides a comprehensive overview >>more

Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037786307
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Hbk, 7 x 9 in. / 124 pgs / 4 color / 108 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/12/2021 In stock


Ways of Seeing Abstraction
Ways of Seeing Abstraction
Text by Anna Herrhausen, Friedhelm Hütte, Jan Kedves, Oliver Koerner von Gustorf.

This impressive catalog contains abstract works in the Deutsche Bank collection made between 1959 and 2021, from 51 countries and by artists such as Günther Förg, Katharina Grosse, Jennie J. Jones, Kapwani Kiwanga, Imi Knoebel, >>more

Kerber
ISBN 9783735607751
US $68.00 CAN $92.50 FLAT40
Pbk, 8.5 x 10.75 in. / 256 pgs / 171 color / 28 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/15/2022 Out of stock


When Forms Come Alive: Sixty Years of Restless Sculpture
When Forms Come Alive: Sixty Years of Restless Sculpture
Foreword by Ralph Rugoff. Text by Ralph Rugoff, Natalie Rudd, James Attlee, Katie Guggenheim, Helen Luckett, Anusha Mistry, Lorena Muñoz-Alonso.

Encompassing over 50 years of contemporary sculpture, When Forms Come Alive highlights the ways in which artists have been inspired by movement, flux and organic growth: from a dancer’s gesture to the breaking of a >>more

Hayward Publishing
ISBN 9781853323775
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 240 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 07/23/2024 Out of stock


Where the Future Came From
Where the Future Came From
Edited with introduction by Meg Duguid. Text by Jeffreen M Hayes, Rana Liu, Kate Sierzputowski.

Collective projects are the lifeblood of Chicago’s art scene. Where the Future Came From expands upon previous research by refocusing the narrative around the work of women and women-identified makers from the late 19th century >>more

Soberscove Press
ISBN 9781940190242
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 240 pgs / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/19/2020 In stock


William J. Glackens and Pierre-Auguste Renoir
William J. Glackens and Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Text by Avis Berman, Bonnie Clearwater, Martha Lucy, Barbara Buhler Lynes.

In 1912, Alfred C. Barnes, later of the Barnes Foundation, sent his friend William J. Glackens (1870–1938) to Paris to purchase the works of Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841–1919). Subsequently, he had access to all of the >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857239507
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Hbk, 8.5 x 11 in. / 166 pgs / 70 color.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 In stock


Women Artists: Annette Messager, Jenny Holzer, Kiki Smith, Katharina Grosse
Women Artists: Annette Messager, Jenny Holzer, Kiki Smith, Katharina Grosse

This DVD documentary introduces women artists who have been trailblazers in genres ranging from traditional mediums such as painting and sculpture to more recent mediums such as photography, video, performance and conceptual art.

Each episode offers >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960985662
US $29.95 CAN $39.95 FLAT40
DVD, 7.5 x 5.5 in.
Pub Date: 10/08/2019 In stock


Writing by Drawing
Writing by Drawing
Edited by Andrea Bellini, Sarah Lombardi.

Looking at the rich tradition of art, from the early 20th century to the present, in which writing sheds its communicative function and pursues the inarticulable, Writing by Drawing explores the fertile tension between the >>more

Skira
ISBN 9788857243504
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Hbk, 8.5 x 12 in. / 288 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 10/06/2020 Out of stock


Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation
Writing the Future: Basquiat and the Hip-Hop Generation
Edited by Liz Munsell, Greg Tate. Text by J. Faith Almiron, Dakota DeVos, Hua Hsu, Carlo McCormick.

In the early 1980s, art and writing labeled as graffiti began to transition from New York City walls and subway trains onto canvas and into art galleries. Young artists who freely sampled from their urban >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468713
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Hbk, 9.5 x 10.75 in. / 200 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 05/05/2020 Out of stock


ZERO
ZERO
Edited by Dirk Pörschmann, Margriet Schavemaker. Text by Antoon Melissen, Johan Pas, Francesca Pola, Thekla Zell, Mattijs Visser, Daniel Birnbaum. Published to accompany an exhibition at the Martin-Gropius-Bau in Berlin, the result of a collaborative research project that also produced a comprehensive exhibition at the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum in New York and an upcoming >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783863356972
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Pbk, 9.75 x 9.75 in. / 560 pgs / 954 color.
Pub Date: 10/27/2015 In stock



                                                                                                                                                                                                         

VISUAL BOOK INDEX | OUT OF PRINT

100 Years Of Vienna Secession
100 Years Of Vienna Secession
Edited by James Shedel. Contributions by Gottfried Fliedl. Text by Otto Kapfinger. The illustrious history of the Vienna Secession is unearthed from it's foundation by Gustav Klimt to it's recent exhibitions of Gilbert & George and Joseph Beuys. >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775707121
US $55.00 CAN $65.00 TRADE
Hardcover, 8.3 x 11.7 in. / 200 pgs / 32 color / 150 b&w
Pub Date: 05/02/1998 Not available


Abstract Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism
Text by David Anfam, Susan Davidson, Jeremy Lewison, Carter Ratcliff. Abstract Expressionism will forever be associated with the energy and vibrancy of 1950s New York. Artists injected a new sense of confidence in painting, experimenting with improvisation, spontaneity and color. This bold publication and the >>more

Royal Academy of Arts
ISBN 9781910350300
US $65.00 CAN $87.00 TRADE
Hbk, 11 x 11.75 in. / 320 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 10/25/2016 Not available


Abstract Expressionism
Abstract Expressionism
Text by David Anfam. Published to accompany the inaugural exhibition at Haunch of Venison New York, Abstract Expressionism: A World Elsewhere presents a unique opportunity to consider Abstract Expressionism's distinctiveness and diversity afresh in the twenty-first century. This beautifully >>more

Haunch of Venison
ISBN 9781905620289
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Clth, 9.75 x 12 in. / 150 pgs / 67 color / 15 b&w.
Pub Date: 12/31/2010 Not available


Abstraction in Italy 1930-1980
Abstraction in Italy 1930-1980
Edited by Matteo Fochessati. Text by Roberta Cremoncini, Marzia Ratti, Francesca Serrati, Eliana Mattiauda. Italian abstraction stemmed from the pioneering experiments of Futurist and Cubo-Futurist artists such as Giacomo Balla and Virginio (Gino) Ghiringhelli. This catalogue presents half a century of Italian abstraction, starting with the Futurist movement and >>more

Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836623686
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Pbk, 8.5 x 10.5 in. / 120 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2013 Not available


Action Painting
Action Painting
Text by Pepe Karmel, Robert Fleck, Jason Kaufman, Gottfried Boehm, Ulf Küster. Jackson Pollock’s pioneering "drip" technique provided the model for what Harold Rosenberg would term "Action Painting"--using the canvas as an arena for the emphatically physical, even balletic application of paint, and as a record of >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775721035
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Hardback, 10.75 x 12.25 in. / 216 pgs / 130 color.
Pub Date: 05/01/2008 Not available


Against Kandinsky
Against Kandinsky
Text by Margartia Tupitsyn. Against Kandinsky examines the schism between Expressionism and Geometric Abstraction--the two canons which have competed for stylistic and theoretical supremacy in Modernist history. Within this historical context, Wassily Kandinsky occupies a unique position as both >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775718967
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Hardcover, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 224 pgs / 135 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Not available


Age Of Modernism - Hb
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Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775706827
US $80.00 CAN $95.00 TRADE
Hardcover
Pub Date: 06/02/1997 Not available


Amazons Of The Avant-Garde
Amazons Of The Avant-Garde
Edited by John E. Bowlt and Matthew Drutt. Some of the most outstanding exhibitions organized by the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum have been those that have presented the art of the Russian avant-garde. In Amazons of the Avant-Garde: Alexandra Exter, Natalia Goncharova, Liubov >>more

Guggenheim Museum Publications
ISBN 9780892072712
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Paperback, 8 x 10 in. / 352 pgs / 89 color.
Pub Date: 01/02/2004 Not available


Amor Psyche Aktion: Vienna
Amor Psyche Aktion: Vienna
Text by Karl Iro Goldblat, Pilar Parcerisas, Reinhard Priessnitz, August Ruhs, Michaela Pöschl, Almuth Spiegler, Andrea Schurian. The protagonists of the Viennese Actionist movement--Hermann Nitsch, Otto Muehl, Günter Brus and Rudolf Schwarzkogler--were all men, but their work grew out of a larger climate of Austrian and German body-related art and performance in >>more

Moderne Kunst Nürnberg
ISBN 9783869843704
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 340 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2013 Not available


An Anthology Of African Art: The Twentieth Century
An Anthology Of African Art: The Twentieth Century
Edited by Jean Loup Pivin and N'Gone Fall. Essays by Francisco d'Almeida, Marie-Helene Boisdur de Toffol, Joelle Busca, Sabine Cornelis, Elsbeth Court, N'Gone Fall, Etienne Feau, Till Forster, Joseph Gazari Seini, Joanna Grabski, Sigrid Horsch-Albert, Bennetta Jules-Rosette, George Kyeyune, Alexandra Loumpet-Galitzine, Marylin Martin, Elikia M'Bokolo, Adriano Mixinge, Simon Njami, Sylvester Ogbechie, Richard Pankhurst, Blaise Patrix, Thierry Payet, John Picton, Jean Loup Pivin, Sunanda K. Sanyal, Konjit Seyoum, Ousmane Sow Huchard, Yvonne Vera, Jean-Luc Vellut, Sue Williamson and Gaving Younge. The term "Modern African Art" is not an abuse of language. The 20th century has seen, but not properly documented, the birth, development, and maturation of contemporary art in sub-Saharan Africa, an art which was >>more

D.A.P./Editions Revue Noire
ISBN 9781891024382
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Hardcover, 9.25 x 12.5 in. / 408 pgs / 500 color / 51 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/02/2002 Not available


Art Bridge
Art Bridge
Edited by Peter Krueger. Forewords by Norbert Burger and Peter Krueger. Texts by Bill Arning, Heinz H. Becker, Iris Bruckgraber, Leo Castelli, et al. Cologne and New York have both been decisive cities for American, European and Asian artists of the past 50 years. If in the 1960s and 70s their art scenes were characterized by a possibility of >>more

Wasmuth
ISBN 9783803033024
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 10.5 in. / 562 pgs / 200 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2002 Not available


Art of the Senses
Art of the Senses
Text by Suzanne Preston Blier, Edmund Gaither, Michael Kan. How the “unique” look of African art captured the imagination of artists such as Picasso and Stieglitz is well known. But how do art aficionados today see African objects? And how does our view compare >>more

MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878466597
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Clothbound, 9 x 11 in. / 224 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 04/02/2004 Not available


Artists of Invention
Artists of Invention
This volume presents a vivid portrait of the Bay Area art scene over the past century. More than 100 color illustrations of work by a wide range of artists are featured, including the renegade plein-air >>more

California College of the Arts
ISBN 9789780975357
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Paperback, 8.25 x 7.25 in. / 166 pgs / 130 color, 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/01/2008 Not available


Bauhaus
Bauhaus
Text by Michael Siebenbrodt, Jeff Wall, Klaus Weber. One of Walter Gropius' guiding principles in founding the Bauhaus was that "design is neither an intellectual nor a material affair, but simply an integral part of the stuff of life, necessary for everyone in >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775724159
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Hbk, 11.75 x 10.5 in. / 376 pgs / 236 color.
Pub Date: 11/30/2009 Not available


Bauhaus 1919-1933
Bauhaus 1919-1933
Text by Barry Bergdoll, Leah Dickerman, Benjamin H.D. Buchloh, Brigid Doherty, Hal Foster, Charles W. Haxthausen, Andreas Huyssen, Michael Jennings, Juliet Kinchin, Ellen Lupton, Christine Mehring, Detlef Mertins, Marco De Michelis, Peter Nisbet, Paul Monty Paret, Alex Potts, Frederic J. Schwarz, T'ai Smith, Adrian Sudhalter, Klaus Weber, Christopher Wilk, Matthew S. Witkovsky. The Bauhaus, the school of art and design founded in Germany in 1919 and shut down by the Nazis in 1933, brought together artists, architects and designers--among them Anni and Josef Albers, Herbert Bayer, Marcel >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870707582
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Clth, 9.5 x 12 in. / 328 pgs / 510 color.
Pub Date: 12/11/2009 Not available


Bauhaus Conflicts 1919-2009
Bauhaus Conflicts 1919-2009
Edited by Philipp Oswalt. Text by Gerda Breuer, Magdalena Droste, Jörn Etzold. From its founding in 1919, the function and identity of the Bauhaus was mobilized by warring factions, as it passed through the guiding hands of its three directors (the apolitical Walter Gropius, the Communist Hannes >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775724883
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 304 pgs / 31 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/31/2010 Not available


Bauhaus: Art to Hear Series
Bauhaus: Art to Hear Series
About 35 major works from the twentieth century's most successful school of design are featured on this original audio and book tour of the show, as part of Hatje Cantz's educational and informative Art to >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775724517
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Hbk, 8.75 x 8.75 in. / 48 pgs / 46 color / Audio CD.
Pub Date: 11/30/2009 Not available


Birth Of The Cool
Birth Of The Cool
Edited by Bice Curiger. Birth of the Cool presents art that developed in subtle deviation from the familiar movements of 20th century American painting through retaining their main characteristics as points of reference. The accentuation of the surface, the >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783893229024
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Hardcover, 10 x 12 in. / 224 pgs / 71 color
Pub Date: 03/02/1997 Not available


Blast To Freeze: British Art In The 20Th Century
Blast To Freeze: British Art In The 20Th Century
Artwork by Bridget Riley, Peter Blake, Allen Jones, R.B. Kitaj, Henri Moore, Francis Bacon, Tony Cragg, Lucian Freud, Antony Gormley, Richard Hamilton, Damien Hirst, Gary Hume, Richard Long, Julian Opie, Ian Hamilton Finlay, Gilbert & George, David HockContributions by Marco Livingstone, David Alan Mellor, Richard Shone. Text by Andrew Causey, Richard Cork, David Curtis, Penelope Curtis, Nick de Ville, Margaret Garlake, Charles Harrison, Robert Hewison, James Hyman, Jeremy Lewison, Tim Marlow, Anne Massey, Christopher Stephens, Andrew Wilson, Norbert Lynton. It was a sensation, indeed, when the young British artists took over the art scene in the 1990s. But what came before them? With works from more than 100 artists, Blast to Freeze traces the >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775712484
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Paperback, 9.75 x 11 in. / 368 pgs / 215 color / 178 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2003 Not available


Blurring The Boundaries
Blurring The Boundaries
Contributions by Lynda Forsha, Ronald Onorato. Text by Hugh Davies. A classic documentation of site-specific and multi-media installation artwork, Blurring the Boundaries surveys twenty-five years of the genre’s finest accomplishments. Included are James Turrell, Vito Acconci, Terry Allen, Bruce Nauman, Tony Oursler, Anish Kapoor, Celia >>more

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
ISBN 9780934418447
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Paperback, 12 x 9 in. / 200 pgs / 231 color / 43 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/1997 Not available


Body
Body
Contributions by Anthony Bond, Edmund Capon. The nude human body has often been a locus for controversy in modern Western art, from the shocking realism of Courbet’s Origin of the World and Manet’s Olympia to more recent radical treatments of the >>more

Schwartz City
ISBN 9780958720601
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Paperback, 11.5 x 7.5 in. / 200 pgs / 125 color.
Pub Date: 03/02/1998 Not available


Body Mecanique
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Wexner Center for the Arts
ISBN 9781881390190
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Paperback
Pub Date: 02/02/1999 Not available


Brücke: The Birth of Expressionism 1905-1913
Brücke: The Birth of Expressionism 1905-1913
Text by Reinhold Heller. “Anyone who directly and genuinely renders what drives him to create is one of us,” proclaimed the manifesto of Die Brücke (The Bridge), a close-knit group of artists who first met in Dresden in 1905. >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775723510
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Hbk, 9.5 x 11.5 in. / 232 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2009 Not available


Chaos and Classicism
Chaos and Classicism
Text by Emily Braun, Kenneth E. Silver, James Herbert, Jeanne Nugent, Helen Hsu. Now available in paperback, Chaos and Classicism explores the classicizing aesthetic that followed the immense destruction of World War I: the poetic dream of antiquity in the Parisian avant garde of Fernand Léger and Pablo >>more

Guggenheim Museum Publications
ISBN 9780892074051
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Pbk, 8 x 10.75 in. / 192 pg / 140 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2011 Not available


Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918-1936
Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918-1936
Text by Kenneth E. Silver, Emily Braun, James Herbert, Jeanne Nugent, Helen Hsu. Chaos and Classicism: Art in France, Italy, and Germany, 1918-1936 explores the classicizing aesthetic that followed the immense destruction of World War I. Accompanying the Guggenheim's exhibition of the same name, it examines the interwar >>more

Guggenheim Museum Publications
ISBN 9780892074044
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Clth, 9 x 11.75 in. / 192 pgs / 140 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2010 Not available


CoBrA: The Colour of Freedom
CoBrA: The Colour of Freedom
Edited by Ludo van Halem and Piet van Dalen. Essays by Marcel Hummelink, Klawa Koppenol, Christel Kordes and Marjan de Visser. The international CoBrA movement of 1948-1951, a European avant-garde embodying post-WWII freedom, has been compared to American Action Painting in both its aesthetic and its effect. CoBrA: The Color of Freedom documents one of the >>more

nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056625146
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 384 pgs / 415 color and 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2006 Not available


Cobra: The Color Of Freedom
Cobra: The Color Of Freedom
Edited by Ludo van Halem. Essays by Piet van Dalen, Marcel Hummelink, Klawa Koppenol, Christel Kordes and Marjan de Visser. In the 1950s, the Stedelijk Museum Schiedam amassed an extensive collection of art by the Dutch members of CoBrA, including early work by Karel Appel, Eugene Brands, Constant Corneille, Jan Nieuwenhuijs, Anton Rooskens and Theo >>more

nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789056622947
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 368 pgs / 400 color.
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Not available


Conceptual Art In The Netherlands And Belgium 1965-1975
Conceptual Art In The Netherlands And Belgium 1965-1975
Edited by Suzanna Heman, Jurrie Poot and Hripsimé Visser. Essays by Carel Blotkamp and Camiel van Winkel. Foreword by Rudi Fuchs. Many of today's artists display an affinity for the techniques and subjects of 1960s and 70s Conceptual art. Conceptual Art In The Netherlands And Belgium 1965-1975 takes a fresh look at the work of Bas >>more

nai010 publishers/Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam
ISBN 9789056622473
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Paperback, 8.75 x 11.25 in. / 188 pgs / 20 color.
Pub Date: 07/02/2002 Not available


Concrete Art In Europe After 1945
Concrete Art In Europe After 1945
Text by Dietmar Gaderian, Serge Lemoine, Hella Nocke-Schrepper, Margit Weinberg-Staber. Over the past three decades, private collectors Peter and Rosemarie Ruppert have amassed an enormous range of works focused on the definition of concrete art as an aesthetic form that stands only for itself, and >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775711913
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Hardcover, 8.25 x 11 in. / 428 pgs / 162 color / 93 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/02/2003 Not available


Critiques Of Pure Abstraction
Critiques Of Pure Abstraction
Artwork by Richard Artschwager, Bruce Nauman. Text by Mark Rosenthal. >>more

Independent Curators International (ICI)
ISBN 9780916365431
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Paperback, 9.75 x 9.75 in. / 72 pgs / 20 color / 10 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/1995 Not available


Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris
Dada: Zurich, Berlin, Hannover, Cologne, New York, Paris
Edited by Leah Dickerman. Essays by Brigid Doherty, Sabine T. Kriebel, Dorothea Dietrich, Michael R. Taylor, Janine Mileaf and Matthew S. Witkovsky. Foreword by Earl A. Powell III. Along with Russian Constructivism and Surrealism, Dada stands as one of the three most significant movements of the historical avant garde. Born in the heart of Europe in the midst of World War I, Dada >>more

National Gallery of Art, Washington/D.A.P.
ISBN 9781933045207
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Hardcover, 8 x 12 in. / 432 pgs / 400 color / 150 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/15/2005 Not available


Debating American Modernism
Debating American Modernism
By Debra Bricker Balken with an essay by Jay Bochner. When Duchamp moved from Paris to New York in 1915, he was disappointed by the predominantly nature-based abstraction he observed, publicly proclaiming that American artists were too dependent on outmoded European traditions and had overlooked >>more

D.A.P./American Federation of Arts
ISBN 9781891024498
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Hardcover, 6.75 x 9 in. / 172 pgs / 86 color
Pub Date: 01/02/2003 Not available


Divisionism/Neo-Impressionism: Arcadia & Anarchy
Divisionism/Neo-Impressionism: Arcadia & Anarchy
Text by Vivien Greene, Giovanna Ginex, Dominique Lobstein, Aurora Tosini. This beautifully designed exhibition catalogue explores the optically vibrant paintings of the late nineteenth-century Italian Divisionists, examining, for the first time, their relationship to Neo-Impressionism. Artists from both movements subscribed to a painting technique rooted >>more

Guggenheim Museum Publications
ISBN 9780892073573
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Clothbound, 9 x 9 in. / 144 pgs / 61 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Not available


Duchamp & Picasso: He Was Wrong
Duchamp & Picasso: He Was Wrong
Edited by Daniel Birnbaum, Annika Gunnarsson. Text by Daniel Birnbaum, Ronald Jones. By many art history accounts, the art of the twentieth century was decided by Pablo Picasso and Marcel Duchamp. In these versions, Picasso stands for prolific production, a fierce expressionism, endless research of the picture >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783863352271
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 140 pgs / 28 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2013 Not available


E.A.T.: Experiments in Arts and Technology
E.A.T.: Experiments in Arts and Technology
Edited by Sabine Breitwieser. Text by Kathy Battista, Simone Forti, Billy Klüver, Michelle Kuo, Catherine Morris, Zabet Patterson, John Tain, Sabine Breit. Based in New York, Experiments in Art and Technology (E.A.T.) was a unique association of engineers and artists that included Robert Rauschenberg, Robert Whitman, Billy Klüver and Fred Waldhauer. The initiative was launched to realize >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783863357832
US $40.00 CAN $52.50 FLAT40
Pbk, 9.5 x 11 in. / 240 pgs / 88 color / 89 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/26/2016 Not available


Encounters with the 30s
Encounters with the 30s
Edited by Jordana Mendelson. Introduction by Manuel J. Borja-Villel. Text by Jordana Mendelson, Jeffrey T. Schnapp, Paul Wood, James Oles, Janine Mileaf, Tyrus Miller, Robert S. Lubar, Jutta Vinzent, Romy Golan, Katarina Schorb, François Gentili, Marie Vacher, Rocío Robles Tardío, Belén García Jiménez, Karen Fiss, Josep Renau, Javier Pérez Segura, Juan José Lahuerta, Robin Adèle Greeley, Olga Alexeeva, Alicia Alted Vigil, et al. Preceded by the heroic modernism of the 1920s and abruptly curtailed by World War II, the heterogeneous art movements of the 1930s have been comparatively neglected as concurrent cultural phenomena. The 30s were much more >>more

La Fábrica/Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía
ISBN 9788415691013
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9 in. / 432 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 04/30/2013 Not available


Expressive!
Expressive!
Essays by Donald Kuspit and Markus Brüderlin. The quality of expressiveness--an outcry of the human soul against the mechanization of life--runs like a red scar through the entire history of modern art and up to the present day. If expressionism is associated >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775713030
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 12 in. / 208 pgs / 153 color
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Not available


Fluxus Scores and Instructions
Fluxus Scores and Instructions
Edited by Jon Hendricks, Marianne Bech, Media Farzin. In 1962, George Maciunas declared Fluxus "anti art, concept art, automatism, Bruitism, brutalism, Dadaism, concretism, Lettrism, nihilism, indeterminacy--theatre, happenings, prose, poetry, philosophy, plastic arts, music, cinema, dance." This thorough, well-designed volume culled from the renowned >>more

Museum of Contemporary Art, Denmark
ISBN 9788790690212
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Pbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 232 pgs / 113 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/30/2009 Not available


Fluxus at 50
Fluxus at 50
Edited by Alexander Klar. Text by Stefan Fricke, Alexander Klar, Sarah Maske. Fifty years ago, in 1962, Lithuanian-born George Maciunas (1931–78) organized the first ever Fluxus festival, The International Fluxus Festival of the Newest Music, at Museum Wiesbaden in Germany. The festival presented musical and performance work >>more

Kerber
ISBN 9783866786998
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Hbk, 8.5 x 11.25 in. / 192 pgs / 111 color / 43 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2013 Not available


Global Conceptualism
Global Conceptualism
This book represents themost thorough survey of conceptual art ever undertaken, and assembles the work of over one hundred artists. Decidedly international in scope, the book explores idea-based art from Africa, Asia, Latin America, Western >>more

Queens Museum of Art
ISBN 9780960451494
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Paperback, 9 x 11.4 in. / 280 pgs / 64 color / 111 b&w
Pub Date: 06/02/1999 Not available


Gutai: Splendid Playground
Gutai: Splendid Playground
Text by Alexandra Munroe, Ming Tiampo, Yoshihara Jiro, Hirai Shoichi, Reiko Tomii, Kato Mizuho, Midori Yoshimoto, Judith Rodenbeck, Pedro Erber, Lyn Hsieh, Nakajima Izumi. The Gutai Art Association was founded by Yoshihara Jiro in 1954 in the cosmopolite town of Ashiya, near Osaka. The group spanned two generations, totaling 59 artists and is one of the most radical movements >>more

Guggenheim Museum Publications
ISBN 9780892074891
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Hbk, 9.75 x 11 in. / 316 pgs / 270 color.
Pub Date: 03/31/2013 Not available


High Times, Hard Times
High Times, Hard Times
Edited by Katy Siegel. Essays by Dawoud Bey, Anna Chave, Robert Pincus-Witten, Katy Siegel and Marcia Tucker. Foreword by Judith Richards. Introduction by David Reed. In the late 1960s, the New York art world was, famously, an exhilarating place to be. New forms, including performance and video art, were making their debuts, and sculpture was developing in startling ways. In >>more

Independent Curators International/D.A.P.
ISBN 9781933045399
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Paperback, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 50 color and 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/15/2006 Not available


In The Beginning Is Merz
In The Beginning Is Merz
Text by Dietmar Elger, Anette Kruszynski, Isabel Ewig, Justin Hoffman, Gerhard Schaub, Julia Schmidt. >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775709514
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Hardcover, 10 x 12 in. / 344 pgs / 300 color / 100 b&w
Pub Date: 10/02/2000 Not available


Landscapes From Brueghel To Kandinsky
Landscapes From Brueghel To Kandinsky
Essays by Wenzel Jacob, Thomas Llorens, Simon Schama. Artists include: Pieter Brueghel, Frederic Edwin Church, John Constable, Wassily Kandinsky, Claude Lorrain, Claude Monet, Jacob Ruisdael, Vincent van Gogh. Landscape paintings are as diverse as the landscapes painters live in. Northern Europe gave rise to both the wide, atmospheric spaces of Brueghel's morality tales and to the moody, dramatic depictions of nature found in >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775711074
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Les Grands Spectacles: 120 Years Of Art And Mass Culture
Les Grands Spectacles: 120 Years Of Art And Mass Culture
Essays by Magrit Brehm, Roberto Ohrt and Klaus Theweleit. The arts have changed since 1885, and Les Grands Spectacles sets out to document this evolution in three phases. Starting with the invention of film and the standardisation of the bourgeois theatre-house in the late >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775716567
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 12 in. / 336 pgs / 150 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Not available


Looking At Matisse And Picasso
Looking At Matisse And Picasso
By Maria del Carmen Gonzlez, Susanna Rubin. Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso have long been seen as the twin giants of modern art. Despite their rivalry, each came to acknowledge the other as his only true equal: Matisse would eventually say, "Picasso >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870700057
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Hardcover, 9 x 11 in. / 72 pgs / 54 color / 19 b&w
Pub Date: 02/02/2003 Not available


Luminous Modernism: Scandinavian Art Comes to America,
Luminous Modernism: Scandinavian Art Comes to America,
Edited and with introduction by Patricia G. Berman. Foreword by Edward P. Gallagher. Text by Charlotte Linvald, Janet S. Rauscher, Colleen Ritzau Leth, Ina Johannesen, Tomas Björk. Published to commemorate the centennial of The American-Scandinavian Foundation, Luminous Modernism accompanies a recent exhibition at Scandinavia House: The Nordic Center in America that sought to reflect on and update the Foundation’s first-ever exhibition, the >>more

The American-Scandinavian Foundation
ISBN 9780971949379
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Pbk, 9.5 x 13 in. / 160 pgs / 61 color / 6 b&w / 1 duotone / 1 tritone.
Pub Date: 03/31/2013 Not available


Marcel Duchamp/Man Ray: 50 Years Of Alchemy
Marcel Duchamp/Man Ray: 50 Years Of Alchemy
Essay by Chrissie Iles. Introduction by Sean Kelly. Drawn from several sources, this catalogue includes works by Marcel Duchamp and Man Ray that address the enduring friendship and shared interests of these two artists. The works included explore five decades of the shared >>more

Sean Kelly Gallery
ISBN 9780966215823
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Hardcover, 6.25 x 8.25 in. / 128 pgs / 32 color.
Pub Date: 02/15/2005 Not available


Matisse Picasso
Matisse Picasso
By Anne Baldassari, Elizabeth Cowling, John Elderfield, John Golding, Isabelle Monod-Fontaine and Kirk Varnedoe. Henri Matisse and Pablo Picasso have long been seen as the twin giants of modern art, as polar opposites but also as complementary figures. Between them they are the originators of many of the most >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870700088
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Pub Date: 07/02/2002 Not available


Max Beckmann: Exile in Amsterdam
Max Beckmann: Exile in Amsterdam
Text by Felix Billeter, Christian Lenz, Marco Pesarese, Beatrice von Bormann, Christiane Zeiller. Between 1937 and 1947, while he was in exile in Amsterdam, the German-born painter Max Beckmann (1884-1950) made approximately a third of the work he would create in his lifetime. When he moved on, it >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775718387
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Hardcover, 9 x 11.5 in. / 416 pgs / 110 color / 160 duotone.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Not available


Memories of Underdevelopment
Memories of Underdevelopment
Foreword by Kathryn Kanjo. Text by Julieta González, Sharon Lerner, Jacopo Crivelli-Visconti, Andrea Giunta.

By the 1960s political oppression and brutal military dictatorships had disabused many of their political and artistic hopes. Artists sought out new ways to connect to the public, with conceptual and performance strategies emerging as >>more

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego
ISBN 9780934418034
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Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 05/22/2018 Not available


Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 1910-1940
Mexico: A Revolution in Art, 1910-1940
Text by Adrian Locke. In the first half of the 20th century Mexico was home to a burgeoning of art. This surge of artistic activity is the subject of this text, which presents the work of Mexican artists from >>more

Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781907533303
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Pub Date: 09/17/2013 Not available


Modern British Sculpture
Modern British Sculpture
Text by Penelope Curtis. From Jacob Epstein to Sarah Lucas, this magnificent book explores sculpture in Britain over the last 130 years. Including works by varied artists such as Frederic Lord Leighton, Alfred Gilbert, Eric Gill, Henri Gaudier-Brzeska, Ben >>more

Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781905711727
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Modern British Sculpture
Modern British Sculpture
Text by Penelope Curtis. >>more

Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781905711734
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Pub Date: 01/17/2011 Not available


Modern Odysseys: Greek American Artists Of The 20Th Century
Contributors include Katerina Koskina, Peter Pappas, Peter Selz, Thalia Selz, William Valerio. >>more

Queens Museum of Art
ISBN 9781929641000
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Paperback, 9 x 11 in. / 108 pgs / 79 color
Pub Date: 02/02/2000 Not available


Monet's Garden
Monet's Garden
Essays by Christophe Becker, Catherine Hug, Monika Leonhardt, and Linda Schâdler. Claude Monet (1840-1926) was one of the first artists to move his studio out into the open air, creating works which continue to fascinate and inspire us today as much as they did his contemporaries. >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775714396
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Clothbound, 9 x 11 in. / 208 pgs / 147 color / 100 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/15/2005 Not available


Museum of Capitalism
Museum of Capitalism
Edited by FICTILIS. Text by Lucy Lippard, Lester K. Spence, T.J. Demos, Chantal Mouffe, McKenzie Wark, et al. Afterword by Kim Stanley Robinson.

This speculative institution views the present and recent past from the implied perspective of a future society in which our economic and political system is memorialized, and subjected to the museological gaze. Sketches and renderings >>more

Inventory Press
ISBN 9781941753156
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Hbk, 7.5 x 9.75 in. / 208 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 09/26/2017 Not available


Objects Of Desire
Objects Of Desire
Essay by Margit Rowell. Foreword by Glenn D. Lowry. An incisive exploration of the still life genre as artists have rediscovered and reshaped it in the 20th century, Objects of Desire proves that despite the century's hostility toward older aesthetic conventions, avant-garde artists of >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870701108
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 11 in. / 232 pgs / 131 color / 16 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/02/2002 Not available


Peggy Guggenheim: A Celebration
Peggy Guggenheim: A Celebration
Edited by Karole Vail. Essay by Thomas M. Messer. This elegant volume celebrates the 100th anniversary of Peggy Guggenheim's birth in 1898. Guggenheim's granddaughter Karole Vail provides an intimate biographical account of the collector's extraordinary life, from her privileged upbringing through her friendships with >>more

Guggenheim Museum Publications
ISBN 9780892072859
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Hardcover, 9 x 11 in. / 160 pgs / 81 color / 44 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Not available


Performa 07: Everywhere and All at Once
Performa 07: Everywhere and All at Once
Edited by RoseLee Goldberg. Text by RoseLee Goldberg. Contributions by Catherine Wood, Jay Sanders, Anthony Huberman, Hans Ulrich Obrist. Assembled by the pioneering scholar of performance art, RoseLee Goldberg, this volume documents new performances by some of the world's most exciting visual artists, focusing on the relationship between contemporary dance and visual art, the >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783037640340
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 340 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 01/31/2010 Not available


Performa 09: Back to Futurism
Performa 09: Back to Futurism
Edited by Roselee Goldberg, Lana Wilson. Introduction by RoseLee Goldberg. Foreword by Hal Foster. Text by RoseLee Goldberg, Defne Ayas, Mark Beasley, Lana Wilson, Tairone Bastien, Esa Nickle, Claire Bishop, Linda Yablonsky, Emily Braun. Written and edited by legendary performance art historian RoseLee Goldberg, Performa 09: Back to Futurism is the definitive document of the unforgettable Performa 2009 biennial. It is the third volume to draw content and inspiration >>more

Performa Publications
ISBN 9780615450667
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Pbk, 7 x 9 in. / 400 pgs / 300 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2011 Not available


Plastic
Plastic
Edited by Christophe Cherix, John Tremblay. Organized by MoMA curator Christophe Cherix and New York artist John Tremblay, this volume presents an overview of the use of vacuum-formed plastic in art of the last 40 years--starting with Claes Oldenburg and Craig >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783905770605
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Paperback, 4.25 x 6.5 in. / 64 pgs / 25 color / 7 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Not available


Pop Art: Us/Uk Connections
Pop Art: Us/Uk Connections
Essays by David E. Brauer, Jim Edwards, Christopher Finch, Walter Hopps. Foreword by Ned Rifkin. Pop Art: US/UK Connections 1956-1966 examines the critical transatlantic cultural exchange that led to the decade-long development of classic Pop Art. This publication explores the impact on British and American artists of post-World War II >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775710237
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Paperback, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 264 pgs / 125 color / 65 b&w
Pub Date: 02/02/2001 Not available


Pop Impressions Europe/Usa
Pop Impressions Europe/Usa
Essay by Wendy Weitman. From the early 1960s through the early 70s, Pop art swept the industrialized world. Iconoclastic, rebellious and immediately popular, the new movement found its roots in an unprecedentedly prosperous consumer society. Encouraged by galleries and >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870700774
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Paperback, 8.75 x 10.5 in. / 136 pgs / 60 color / 5 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/02/2002 Not available


Primitivism In 20Th Century Art
Primitivism In 20Th Century Art
By Paul Gauguin. Artwork by Constantin Brancusi, Jacques Lipchitz, Amadeo Modigliani, Henri Moore, Alberto Giacometti, Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso. Edited by William Rubin. Contributions by Kirk Varnedoe. Text by Ezio Bassani, Christian Feest, Sidney Geist, Donald Gordon, Jean Laude, Gail Levin, Jean-Louis Paudrat, Philippe Peltier, Laura Rosenstock, Alan Wilkinson, Evan Maurer, Richard Oldenburg, Jack Flam, Rosalind Krauss. In 1906 tribal sculpture was ìdiscoveredî by 20th century artists; these objects had suddenly become relevant because of changes in the nature of modern art itself. These two volumes comprise the first comprehensive scholarly treatment >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870705182
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Slipcased, 9 x 12 in. / 706 pgs / 378 color 709 b&w
Pub Date: 07/02/2002 Not available


Primitivism In 20Th Century Art
Primitivism In 20Th Century Art
By Paul Gauguin. Artwork by Constantin Brancusi, Jacques Lipchitz, Amadeo Modigliani, Henri Moore, Alberto Giacometti, Paul Klee, Pablo Picasso. Edited by William Rubin. Contributions by Kirk Varnedoe. Text by Ezio Bassani, Christian Feest, Sidney Geist, Donald Gordon, Jean Laude, Gail Levin, Jean-Louis Paudrat, Philippe Peltier, Laura Rosenstock, Alan Wilkinson, Evan Maurer, Richard Oldenburg, Jack Flam, Rosalind Krauss. These two volumes comprise the first comprehensive scholarly treatment in half a century of the crucial influence of the tribal arts--particularly those of Africa and Oceania--on modern painters and sculptors. In this visually stunning and >>more

The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870705342
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Paperback, 8.75 x 12 in. / 706 pgs / 378 color 709 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/02/2002 Not available


Radical Nature
Radical Nature
Foreword by Jonathan Porritt. Preface by Graham Sheffield, Kate Bush. Text by Francesco Manacorda, T.J. Demos. Since the 1960s, the increasingly evident degradation of the planet has brought a new urgency to much new art and architecture. Radical Nature is the first publication to gather together artists from this period and >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865606082
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Flexi, 9.25 x 10.75 in. / 256 pgs / 180 color.
Pub Date: 02/28/2010 Not available


Re Membering The Body
Re Membering The Body
Contributions by Gertrud Koch, Bruce Mau. Text by Aleida Assman, Jan Assman, Gabriele Brandstetter, Friedrich Kittler, Andrª Lepecki, C. Nadia Seremetakis. >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775709057
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Paperback, 7.5x 10in. / 320 pgs / 146 color / 48 b&w
Pub Date: 07/02/2000 Not available


Rendezvous
Rendezvous
Edited by Lisa Dennison and Bernard BlistÀne. Essays by Mark C. Taylor, Yve-Alain Bois, Jean-Louis Cohen and Stanley Cavell. This volume surveys the history of modern art, from the turn of the century to approximately 1970. A unique and unprecedented partnership between the Guggenheim Museum and the Musée national d'art moderne brings together more >>more

Guggenheim Museum Publications
ISBN 9780892072880
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Hardcover, 10 x 12 in. / 709 pgs / 400 color / 75 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Not available


Rodin and America
Rodin and America
Edited by Bernard Barryte. Text by Antoinette LeNormand-Romain, Roberta Tarbell, Ilene Susan Fort. From the end of the nineteenth century until his death in 1917, the French sculptor Auguste Rodin was arguably the most famous artist in the western world. Celebrated in endless exhibitions throughout Europe, he enjoyed >>more

Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836620005
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Hbk, 9 x 11 in. / 384 pgs / 200 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2011 Not available


Sargent & Sorolla
Sargent & Sorolla
Text by Elaine Kilmurray, Felipe Garin, Tomás Facundo, Richard Ormond, Ana de Santa, Blanca Pons-Sorolla, Javier B·ron, Mary Crawford Volk, Marcus Burke, Carlos Reyero, Pilar de Miguel. Joaquín Sorolla y Bastida (1863-1923) studied painting from the age of 15 in his native Valencia, then in Madrid and eventually Rome. On his return to Spain, he became the major portraitist of his time, >>more

Turner Palermo/Fundacion Coleccion Thyssen-Bornemisza
ISBN 9788475067650
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Clothbound, 9.5 x 11 in. / 344 pgs / 345 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Not available


See This Sound
See This Sound
Edited by Cosima Rainer, Stella Rollig, Dieter Daniels, Manuela Ammer. As the status of sound in art and music evolves and redefines itself, so too does sound art find new ways of describing its history. See This Sound compiles a huge number of artists, filmmakers, >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865606839
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Pbk, 9 x 11.5 in. / 320 pgs / 179 color / 147 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2010 Not available


Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts
Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts
By Oliver Botar.

Life in the digital economy of information and images enriches us but often induces a sense of being overwhelmed. Sensing the Future: Moholy-Nagy, Media and the Arts considers the impact of technology by exploring ways >>more

Lars Müller Publishers
ISBN 9783037784334
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Hbk, 8.25 x 11.75 in. / 192 pgs / 415 images.
Pub Date: 11/17/2014 Not available


Sex And The British
Sex And The British
Artwork by Jake Chapman, Dinos Chapman, Tracey Emin, Gary Hume, Sarah Lucas, Gilbert & George, David Hockney. Photographs by Balthasar Burkhard. Contributions by Max Wigram. Text by Norman Rosenthal. Between the notorious obsessions of the British tabloid press and the weird climate of English private schools, the subject of sex in Britain is certainly loaded. Sex and the British surveys the treatment of sexuality >>more

Galerie Thaddaeus Ropac
ISBN 9783901935060
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Paperback, 9 x 12 in. / 50 pgs / 30 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/02/2000 Not available


Sound in Z: Experiments in Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th-century Russia
Sound in Z: Experiments in Sound and Electronic Music in Early 20th-century Russia
Edited by David Rogerson, Matt Price. Foreword by Jeremy Deller. Text by Andrei Smirnov. Sound in Z supplies the astounding and long-lost chapter in the early story of electronic music: the Soviet experiment, a chapter that runs from 1917 to the late 1930s. Its heroes are Arseny Avraamov, inventor >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865607065
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Pbk, 7.25 x 9 in. / 279 pgs / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/30/2013 Not available


Surrealism Usa
Surrealism Usa
Essays by Michael Duncan, Robert Hobbs, Robert S. Lubar and Scott Rothkopf. Introduction by Isabelle Dervaux. While Surrealism became unfashionable in Europe in the 1930s, it enjoyed increasing popularity across the Atlantic at the same time. Surrealism USa, the catalogue to the exhibition of the same name at the National Academy >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775715249
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 192 pgs / 100 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/15/2005 Not available


Surrealism: Two Private Eyes
Surrealism: Two Private Eyes
Edited by Edward Weisberger. Essays by Timothy Baum, José Pierre, Werner Spies, Rosalind E. Krauss and Jean Toulet. Now in Paperback Over the course of almost five decades, famed magazine publisher Daniel Filipacchi and record producer Nesuhi Ertegun assembled the most important grouping of Surrealist art in private hands. This extraordinary two-volume set >>more

Guggenheim Museum Publications
ISBN 9780892072194
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Slipcased, 10 x 12 in. / 896 pgs / 930 color / illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Not available


The Bloomsbury Group
The Bloomsbury Group
Text by Frances Spalding. At the beginning of the twentieth century, the Bloomsbury Group transformed British culture with its innovative approach to art, design and society. In this book, Frances Spalding--the foremost scholar on the group--presents 19 fascinating biographies, >>more

National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855144767
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Pbk, 5.75 x 7.75 in. / 120 pgs / 68 color.
Pub Date: 07/31/2014 Not available


The End Of The Avantgarde
The End Of The Avantgarde
A substantial body of international work has grown up around the idea embodied in the subtitle of this lively and beautifully designed small volume: art as service. Among the other artists are Martin Kippenberger, Thomas >>more

Richter Verlag
ISBN 9783928762335
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Hardcover, 7 x 9 in. / 176 pgs / 37 color / 76 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/1996 Not available


The Endless Enigma
The Endless Enigma
Edited by Jean-Hubert Martin. Essays by Elisabeth Bronfen, Dawn Ades, Stephan Andreae, Claudia Dichter and Karin Rührdanz. Fascinated by optical phenomena and curious to explore the limits of picture making, painters share a long history of creating visual puzzles, composite pictures with shifting perspectives. Ambiguous images whose various levels of meaning depend >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775712835
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 11 in. / 284 pgs / 166 color / 69 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/02/2003 Not available


The Flower As Image
The Flower As Image
Edited by Michael Juul Holm, Poul Erik TØjner and Jonas Bencard. Yes, they're beautiful, but this catalogue for the show The Flower as Image asks a thornier question at its core: Why has the flower motif fascinated all sorts of artists through the ages, from Van >>more

Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
ISBN 9788790029999
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Hardcover, 8.5 x 10 in. / 96 pgs / 112 color / 23 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/15/2005 Not available


The Impact Of Chaim Soutine: De Kooning, Pollock, Dubuffet, Bacon
The Impact Of Chaim Soutine: De Kooning, Pollock, Dubuffet, Bacon
Essays by Esti Dunow and Maurice Tuchman. If the contorted imagery and wild brushwork of French Expressionist Chaim Soutine became key features of French modern art in the 1920s, they also exerted a lasting and meaningful influence on many major post-war painters. >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775791038
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 168 pgs / 83 color / 20 b&w
Pub Date: 02/02/2002 Not available


The Magic Of Trees
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Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775707985
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Pbk, 8.5 x 7.75 in. / 112 pgs / 150 color.
Pub Date: 05/02/1999 Not available


The Medea Insurrection
The Medea Insurrection
Edited by Susanne Altmann, Agata Jakubowska, Katalin Krasznahorkai, Emese Kürti, Katarina Lozo, Ramona Novicov.

This important volume gathers 36 female artists from behind the Iron Curtain between the years 1961 and 1989, attempting a contextualization of nonconformist, female art production in the Eastern Bloc. Exploring how these artists produced >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960985273
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Pbk, 8.75 x 12.75 in. / 256 pgs / 230 color / 28 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/08/2019 Not available


The Message: Art and Occultism
The Message: Art and Occultism
Edited by Michael Krajewski, Susanne Zander. Text by André Breton, Claudia Dichter, Andreas Fischer. Occult practices, séances and magic have traditionally been met with suspicion in the world of high culture, but they are currently getting a fresh look. Turns out, they have long had a quiet influence on >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865603425
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Paperback, 6.50 x 9.75 in. / 184 pgs / 128 color.
Pub Date: 03/01/2008 Not available


The Painter's Garden: Design, Inspiration, Delight
The Painter's Garden: Design, Inspiration, Delight
Edited by Sabine Schulze. Text by Andreas Beyer, Werner Busch, Cornelia Homburg, John House, Hans Walter Lack, Beate Söntgen. Gardens are refuges, ideal and protected places, almost always enclosed, often artificial, occasionally wild. An artist's view of a garden, his own garden, will show it to be a special place, a locus amoenus, as >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775718714
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Hardcover, 9.5 x 11.25 in. / 380 pgs / 110 color / 50 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2007 Not available


The Painting of Modern Life
The Painting of Modern Life
Text by Ralph Rugoff, Kaja Silverman, Barry Schwabsky, Carolyn Christov-Bakargiev, Martin Herbert. Andy Warhol’s silk screens, Gerhard Richter’s blurred images, Vija Celmins’ hyperrealism: some of the most influential developments in the history of contemporary art hinge on the use of photographs as source material. Beginning in the >>more

Hayward Gallery Publishing
ISBN 9781853322631
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Paperback, 9.75 x 11.5 in. / 196 pgs / 162 color.
Pub Date: 02/01/2008 Not available


The Situationist International (1957-1972)
The Situationist International (1957-1972)
Edited by Heinz Stahlhut, Juri Steiner, Stefan Zweifel. Text by Hans Ulrich Obrist, Jean Beaudrillard, Giorgio Agamben, et. al. A precursor to Arte Povera, Fluxus and Punk, the Situationist International has bequeathed a uniquely complex and conflicted legacy to contemporary art-making. Led by Guy Debord and Raoul Vaneigem, it initially favored the production of >>more

JRP | Ringier
ISBN 9783905770148
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11.5 in. / 256 pgs / 100 color / 150 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/01/2007 Not available


The Total Artwork in Expressionism
The Total Artwork in Expressionism
Edited by Claudia Dillmann, Ralf Beil. Text by Wolfgang Pehnt, Thomas Anz, Gottfried Benn. First theorized by composer Richard Wagner, the total artwork, or "gesamtkunstwerk," proposed a synthesis of all arts towards a single, unified spectacle. Wagner's ambitious conception flowered in the early twentieth century throughout numerous avant gardes, >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775727136
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Hbk, 9.75 x 12 in. / 512 pgs / 467 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2011 Not available


The Total Artwork in Expressionism: Art to Hear Series
The Total Artwork in Expressionism: Art to Hear Series
Text by Ralf Beil. Until the publication of The Total Artwork in Expressionism and this new audio companion to the book, art history had preferred to address German Expressionism's many genres as though they were unrelated, tending to exclude >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775727273
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Hbk, 8.75 x 8.75 in. / 58 pgs / 50 color / Audio CD.
Pub Date: 07/31/2011 Not available


To Expose, To Show, To Demonstrate, To Inform, To Offer
To Expose, To Show, To Demonstrate, To Inform, To Offer
Edited by Matthias Michalka. Foreword by Karola Kraus. Text by Sabeth Buchmann, et al. A survey of international art activities from around 1990, this volume features installations, films, projects and publications by more than 50 artists addressing the AIDS crisis, identity and gender, and globalization. >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783863358136
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Pbk, 8.75 x 11 in. / 256 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 01/26/2016 Not available


Uncommon Ground Land Art in Britain 1966-1979
Uncommon Ground Land Art in Britain 1966-1979
Text by Nicholas Alfrey, Caroline Douglas, Joy Sleeman, Ben Tufnell. Uncommon Ground proposes a new reading of British art between the mid-1960s and early 1980s, placing landscape and nature at the heart of the emerging avant-garde movements of the period. During a time of seismic >>more

Hayward Gallery Publishing
ISBN 9781853323140
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Pbk, 6.25 x 9.5 in. / 128 pgs / 65 color.
Pub Date: 09/30/2013 Not available


Unplugged
Unplugged
Dedicated to the blind spots of globalization, to those mental and geographic barriers beyond which access to and participation in global networking--and the cultural and societal models that come with it--are not feasible, not allowed, >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775712071
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Paperback, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 448 pgs / 282 color / 18 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/02/2003 Not available


Utopia 1900-1940
Utopia 1900-1940
Text by Judit Bozsan, Gregor Langfeld, Christina Lodder, Doris Wintgens Hötte. At the beginning of the twentieth century, two avant-garde movements emerged that sought to change the world: Expressionism and Constructivism. Utopia 1900–1940 documents the two schools and the work they produced. The leaders of these >>more

nai010 publishers
ISBN 9789462081024
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Pbk, 8 x 10 in. / 134 pgs / 230 color.
Pub Date: 04/30/2014 Not available


What's Fluxus? What's Not! Why.
What's Fluxus? What's Not! Why.
Artwork by Robert Filliou, Dick Higgins, Kate Millett, Tomas Schimit, Ben Vautier, Robert Watts, La Monte Young, George Brecht, Allan Kaprow, Per Kirkeby, George Maciunas, Yoko Ono, Nam June Paik, Wolf Vostell. Edited by Jon Hendricks, Thomas Kellein, Joan Rothfuss. Text by Tobias Berger, René Block, Ina Blom, Harry Ruhé, Arthur Danto. Born of necessity in 1961, fathered by George Maciunas and mothered by the rejection of high art and commerical values, the anti-art Fluxus movement is here recorded with encyclopedic thoroughness. With historical essays by Fluxus >>more

Centro Cultural/Banco do Brasil
ISBN 9781564661043
US $85.00 CAN $100.00 SDNR30
Hardcover, 12.5 x 10 in. / 272 pgs / 88 color / 49 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/02/2003 Not available


Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?
Who's Afraid of Red, Yellow and Blue?
Text by Sebastian Egenhofer, Karola Grässlin. Taking Barnett Newman’s seminal 1966 painting as its starting point, this exhibition catalogue collects work by 14 monumentally important international artists, including Newman himself, who were responsible for brining Minimalism to the fore. Beginning with >>more

Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783865602954
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Paperback, 8.5 x 11 in. / 168 pgs / 81 color.
Pub Date: 01/15/2008 Not available


Wide White Space: 1966-1976
Wide White Space: 1966-1976
Edited by Yves Aupetitallot. More than 25 years ago, an innovative art space in Antwerp called Wide White Space exhibited many of the key artists who went on to define contemporary art in the decades to come: Marcel Broodthaers, >>more

Richter Verlag
ISBN 9783928762380
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Hardcover, 9 x 11.75 in. / 400 pgs / 45 color / 200 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/1996 Not available


Wild Thing: Epstein, Gaudier-brzeska, Gill
Wild Thing: Epstein, Gaudier-brzeska, Gill
Text by Richard Cork. In a sustained burst of daring creativity before World War I, sculptors Jacob Epstein (1880-1959), Eric Gill (1882-1940), and Henri Gaudier-Brzeska (1891-1915) revolutionized modern British sculpture. In this compelling study, celebrated critic Richard Cork provides >>more

Royal Academy Publications
ISBN 9781905711468
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Cloth, 7.75 x 10.5 / 189 pgs / Illustrated throughout
Pub Date: 10/01/2009 Not available


Yves Tanguy And Surrealism
Edited by Karin von Maur. Contributors include Susan Davidson, Gordon Onslow Ford, Konrad Klapheck, Karin von Maur, Beate Wolf. Ur-Surrealist Yves Tanguy belonged to the inner circle of the 1920s Parisian avant-garde, alongside such figures as Salvador Dal', Max Ernst, and Alberto Giacometti, making essential contributions to Surrealist manifestoes, magazines, and exhibitions. Tanguy's artistic >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775709682
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Hardcover, 8.5 x 11.5 in. / 284 pgs / 140 color / 70 b&w
Pub Date: 06/02/2001 Not available


ZERO: Avantgarde 1965-2013
ZERO: Avantgarde 1965-2013
Edited by Marco Meneguzzo. The ZERO Group formed in 1957, aiming to return to a "zero point" of art, which would take into account an atomic, spatial and dynamic world. At this time, the German media and art world >>more

Silvana Editoriale
ISBN 9788836627509
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Hbk, 8.5 x 8.5 in. / 192 pgs / 250 color.
Pub Date: 10/31/2014 Not available


Zero Germany 1960. And Today.
Zero Germany 1960. And Today.
Edited by Renate Wiehager. >>more

Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775708579
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Paperback, 12 x 12 in. / 264 pgs / 260 b&w
Pub Date: 08/02/2000 Not available