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The Art Museum in Modern Times
Author: Charles Saumarez SmithFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 770g, 272 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021The National Portrait Gallery, the National Gallery and the Royal Academy all saw...
Costume and Fashion
Author: James LaverFormat: Paperback, 150mm x 210mm, 670g, 320 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2020From the momentus invention of the needle some 40,000 years ago to the development...
Hundertwasser (German edition): Furdie Zukunft
Author: Pierre RestanyFormat: Paperback, 200gPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2020The paintings and architecture by the artist Friedensreich Hundertwasser are nothing less than revolutionary with respect to nature and individual creativity. His...
Re-Thinking Kirchner
Author: Martina NommsenFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 280mm, 1580g, 240 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2021A major conference was heldin 2018 in Davos, Ernst Ludwig Kirchner's elective home, to mark the 80thanniversary...
Georg Baselitz
Author: Carla Schulz-HoffmanFormat: Hardback, 170mm x 225mm, 640g, 144 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2019The Bavarian State Painting Collections hold 31 masterpieces by Georg Baselitz from all the artist's creative phases....
A Well-dressed Gentleman's Pocket Guide
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Paula Modersohn-Becker
Author: Paula Modersohn-BeckerFormat: Hardback, 140mm x 205mm, 280g, 72 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2020When Paula Modersohn-Becker's artistfriends examined her extensive estate afew weeks after her death, they were overwhelmed.They only...
The Lives of the Surrealists
Author: Desmond MorrisFormat: Paperback, 165mm x 240mm, 550g, 272 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021No other art movement in history has contained two artists as different as Magritte...
Hannah Ryggen: Threads of Defiance
Author: Marit PaascheFormat: Hardback, 165mm x 240mm, 940g, 288 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2019The significance of Hannah Ryggen (1894-1970) as one of the most important figures in...
The New York Subway Map Debate: At Cooper Union April 20, 7:30 pm
Author: Gary HustwitFormat: Paperback, 127mm x 229mm, 300g, 140 pagesPublished: Plexi Productions, United States, 2022The New York Subway Map Debate documents a pivotal event in design history: the 1978 debate...
The Magazine
Author: Gwen AllenFormat: Paperback, 148mm x 210mm, 560g, 240 pagesPublished: Whitechapel Gallery, United Kingdom, 2016 Part of the acclaimed 'Documents of Contemporary Art' series of anthologies . Intrinsically collaborative, the...
Raphael
Author: Nicoletta BaldiniFormat: Paperback, 135mm x 168mm, 180g, 96 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2010Skira Mini ARTbooks is a pocket-sized series, conveniently priced, very practical and with lots of images dedicated to...
Daisy Chain
Author: Phillip Bogart DuncanFormat: Paperback, 222mm x 273mm, 940g, 128 pagesPublished: Damiani, Italy, 2023Daisy Chain is the new platform from Phillip Bogart Duncan and Charles Daigrepont Desselle. Published by Damiani,...
Rose Wylie: painting a noun...
Author: Rose WylieFormat: Hardback, 171mm x 241mm, 460g, 76 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2020Celebrated British painter Rose Wylie-whose works are at once tactile, cerebral, and humorous-often draws her influence...
Art for No One (Bilingual edition): 1933-1945
Author: Ilka VoermannFormat: Hardback, 205mm x 270mm, 1180g, 352 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022Between 1933 and 1945, artistic creativity within the German Reich was almost totally under the control of...
Art and Activism at Tougaloo College
Author: Turry M. FluckerFormat: Hardback, 195mm x 248mm, 700g, 128 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022This book spotlights a complex art collection established at the intersection of modern art and social...
The Unfinished Palazzo: Life, Love and Art in Venice
Author: Judith MackrellFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 790g, 408 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2017Commissioned in 1750, the Palazzo Venier was planned as a testimony to the power...
Gianni Arnaudo (Bilingual edition): Anti-design
Author: Gianni ArnaudoFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 280mm, 1740g, 224 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2021An extensive monograph on this architect and designer's oeuvre Gianni Arnaudo is an architect and designer with a...
Johannes Itten & Thun: Nature in Focus
Author: Helen HirschFormat: Hardback, 1260g, 192 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2020The Bauhaus master Johannes Ittenis one of the prominent protagonists of early Modernism in twentieth-century art. Few people are aware...
Gert & Uwe Tobias: Grisaille
Author: Michael HeringFormat: Hardback, 238mm x 319mm, 1420g, 172 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2017The twins Gert & Uwe Tobias are among the most famous German artists in the field of...
New Bauhaus Chicago: Experiment Photography
Author: Bauhaus-ArchivFormat: Paperback, 230mm x 250mm, 1060g, 208 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2018This lavishly illustrated volume, which comes in four different colours and with an open Japanese binding, looks from...
Royal Book Lodge
Author: John C. WelchmanFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 340mm, 2220g, 348 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2023A study and a guidance device, the first book on the Royal Book Lodge (RBL) is...
John Baldessari: The Stadel Paintings
Author: Martin EnglerFormat: Hardback, 280mm x 280mm, 1510g, 176 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2016John Baldessari is an important American conceptual artists and the last member of the American postwar avant-garde....
Werner Graeff: Ein Bauhauskunstler berichtet / Recollections of a Bauhaus Artist
Author: Eveline BergerFormat: Hardback, 196mm x 250mm, 1180g, 288 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2017Werner Graeff - painter, graphic artist, typographer, photographer and sculptor - is an important Bauhaus artist and...
Adorning Fashion: The History of Costume Jewellery to Modern Times
Author: Deanna Farneti CeraFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 300mm, 2600g, 400 pagesPublished: ACC Art Books, United Kingdom, 2019Costume jewellery is commonly understood to mean fashionable yet affordable adornments made from non-precious...
Endless Enigma: Eight Centuries of Fantastic Art
Author: Nicholas HallFormat: Hardback, 1580g, 248 pagesPublished: David Zwirner, United States, 2019Endless Enigma takes as its point of departure Alfred H. Barr Jr.'s legendary 1936 exhibition at The Museum of...
Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon: Masterworks from the Mr. And Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection at Asia Society
Author: Adriana ProserFormat: Hardback, 1060g, 208 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2020Buddha and Shiva, Lotus and Dragon presents sixty-seven masterpieces collected by John D. Rockefeller the third and his wife Blanchette...
Castaway Modernism: Basel's Acquisitions of "Degenerate" Art
Author: Eva ReifertFormat: Hardback, 220mm x 280mm, 1480g, 344 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Torn Modernism illuminates an important moment in the history of the Kunstmuseum Basel's collection. In 1937 the...
Cosmos Ottinger (Bilingual edition)
Author: Cagla IlkFormat: Hardback, 220mm x 310mm, 1400g, 276 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022As a painter, filmmaker, and photographer, Ulrike Ottinger has created an entire artistic universe, a Cosmos Ottinger....
Arts of the Hellenized East: Precious Metalwork and Gems of the Pre-Islamic Era
Author: Martha L. CarterFormat: Hardback, 219mm x 276mm, 2410g, 424 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2015The al-Sabah Collection, Kuwait, houses one of the world's most spectacular collections of...
Mondrian and Photography: Picturing the Artist and his Work
Author: Wietse CoppesFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 270mm, 2080g, 368 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2023The general public's image of Mondrian is of a serious man in a suit and tie with...
Donald Judd: Complete Writings 1959-1975: Gallery Reviews * Book Reviews * Articles * Letters to the Editor * Reports * Statements * Complaints
Author: Donald JuddFormat: Paperback, 216mm x 279mm, 890g, 240 pagesPublished: Distributed Art Publishers, United States, 2016Originally published in 1975, reprinted in 2005 and out of print for many years, this...
Bauhaus Imaginista: A School in the World
Author: Marion von OstenFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 308mm, 2190g, 312 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2019Bauhaus Imaginista is a major international project marking the centenary of this fascinating...
Renoir: Rococo Revival
Author: Alexander EilingFormat: Hardback, 230mm x 280mm, 1940g, 328 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022Like hardly any other artist, Pierre-Auguste Renoir has shaped our understanding of the atmospheric figure paintings of...
Gainsborough's Family Album
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Islamic Art: Close-Up
Author: Sheila R. CanbyFormat: Paperback, 215mm x 215mm, 590g, 144 pagesPublished: British Museum Press, United Kingdom, 2015This stunning book offers an introduction to and an exceptional view of an imposing...
Natural Light: The Art of Adam Elsheimer and the Dawn of Modern Science
Author: Julian BellFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 800g, 256 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023A brand-new perspective on early modern art and its relationship with nature as reflected...
Treasures of Ukraine: A Nation's Cultural Heritage
Author: Andrey KurkovFormat: Hardback, 172mm x 216mm, 780g, 256 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2022A celebration of Ukraine's rich cultural heritage, drawing on over 100 of the country's...
Artrage!: The Story of the BritArt Revolution
Author: Elizabeth FullertonFormat: Paperback, 129mm x 198mm, 240g, 224 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2021The Young British Artists (YBAs) stormed on to the contemporary art scene in 1988...
How to Paint Without a Brush: The Art of Red Hong Yi
Author: Red Hong YiFormat: Hardback, 187mm x 235mm, 240 pagesPublished: Abrams, United States, 2023How to Paint Without a Brush introduces artist Red Hong Yi's creative process-the tools and methods she...
Safiuddin Ahmed
Author: Rosa Maria FalvoFormat: Hardback, 250mm x 288mm, 2250g, 288 pagesPublished: Skira, Italy, 2012Beautifully illustrated, this is the first volume in the groundbreaking Great Masters of Bangladesh series of monographs....
Klasse Gesellschaft (German edition): Alltag im Blick niederlandischer Meister mit Lars Eidinger und Stefan Marx
Author: Sandra Pisot for the Hamburger KunsthalleFormat: Hardback, 240mm x 280mm, 2160g, 336 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2022One feature of seventeenth-century Dutch genre painting is its focus on daily life....
Catching the Moment: Contemporary Art from the Ted L. and Maryanne Ellison Simmons Collection
Author: Elizabeth WyckoffFormat: Hardback, 255mm x 290mm, 1280g, 160 pagesPublished: Hirmer Verlag, Germany, 2022The catalogue highlights the diversity and relevance of the exceptional collection acquired from St. Louis collectors Ted...
El Libro de Kells: Guia Oficial
Author: Bernard MeehanFormat: Paperback, 190mm x 248mm, 390g, 96 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018The Book of Kells, dating from about 800, is a brilliantly decorated manuscript of...
Natural Light: The Art of Adam Elsheimer and the Dawn of Modern Science
Author: Julian BellFormat: Hardback, 153mm x 234mm, 800g, 256 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2023A brand-new perspective on early modern art and its relationship with nature as reflected...
Franz Gertsch (Bilingual edition): Die Siebziger / The Seventies
Author: Kathleen BuhlerFormat: Hardback, 238mm x 290mm, 1410g, 208 pagesPublished: Hatje Cantz, Germany, 2020A time of new beginnings In 1969, Franz Gertsch painted Huaa...!-which shows a wildly galloping man on...
The Joining of the Arts: Danish Art and Design 1880-1910
Author: Mirjam Gelfer-JorgenseFormat: Hardback, 245mm x 273mm, 2780g, 532 pagesPublished: Strandberg Publishing, Denmark, 2021When Danish artists from the 1880's onwards started working with all kinds of artistic media and materials,...
The Word is Art
Author: Michael PetryFormat: Hardback, 230mm x 275mm, 1730g, 288 pagesPublished: Thames & Hudson Ltd, United Kingdom, 2018There has been much scaremongering about the 'death of the book', and how, as...