Modern

Established in 1918, as a new state the First Czechoslovak Republic was keen to project a distinct image. Participation in World Fairs offered the perfect opportunity-. In this comprehensive account of Czechoslovak participation in international...

This text offers a comprehensive and tightly focused account of the emergence and flourishing of British modern-life paintings at midcentury. Contemporary subjects were new and risky in the late 1840s and early 1850s; immensely popular and much debated...

This volume features new research on Russia's historic relationship with Asia and the ways it was mediated and represented in the fine, decorative and performing arts and architecture from the mid-eighteenth century to the first two decades of Soviet...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780948462153Author William AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Reaktion BooksPublisher Reaktion Books

When artists, scientists, and designers unite they create new ways of thinking and alternative paths to problem solving. The first book to trace the story of British "organic modernism", this ground-breaking open access study tells the story of a...

This book addresses the unique and profound indeterminacy of “Creole,” a label applied to white, black, and mixed-race persons born in French colonies during the nineteenth century. "Creole” implies that the geography of one’s birth determines identity...

In Politics Unseen, Ellen Macfarlane radically reframes the "pure photographs" of California art photography society Group f.64, known for depicting Western landscapes, fruits and vegetables, flowers, and faces. By foregrounding f.64 members' and their...

A fresh look at the global dimensions of US painting from the 1850s to 1898.Painting US Empire is the first book to offer a synthetic account of art and US imperialism around the globe in the nineteenth century. In this work, art historian Maggie M. Cao...

The first part of Volume 14 of the Yearbook presents ten essays concerned with Futurism in Italy, Russia, Ukraine, Czechoslovakia, Romania and Germany, and two focusing on dance and typography. Among other things, this publication provides analysis of...

Arbeit Macht Frei befasst sich mit den verschiedenen Darstellungen, Bedeutungen und Interpretationen des berüchtigten Satzes in der Kunst. Dessen Ursprung liegt in dem Roman des deutschen Philologen Lorenz Diefenbach (1806-1883) aus dem Jahr 1873 und...

This book maps out a topography of Impressionism, illustrated with paintings by its artists and a rich selection of historical photographs, going back to the places and atmospheres of an extraordinary artistic movement.

This study explores the interplay between money, status, politics and art collecting in the public and private lives of members of the wealthy trading classes in Brighton during the period 1840–1914.Chapters focus on the collecting practices of five rich...

An original interpretation of the final years of Van Gogh's career, exploring the people and places in his late paintings The years prior to Van Gogh's death in 1890 were pivotal to the painter's brief artistic career. He was working in the South of...

From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the "Terrible Year" by Victor Hugo, Paris and its people were besieged, starved, and forced into surrender by Germans-then imperiled again as radical republicans established a breakaway...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915204004Author Jovan DučicFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Globland BooksPublisher Globland BooksWeight(grams) 213g

The livre d’artiste, or “artist’s book,” is among the most prized in rare book collections. Henri Matisse (1869–1954) was one of the greatest artists to work in this genre, and he created his most important during a period of intense personal and...

Picturing Cuba explores the evolution of Cuban visual art and its links to cubania, or Cuban cultural identity. Featuring artwork from the Spanish colonial, republican, and postrevolutionary periods of Cuban history, as well as the contemporary diaspora,...

The radical changes wrought by the rise of the salon system in nineteenth-century Europe provoked an interesting response from painters in the American South. Painterly trends emanating from Barbizon and Giverny emphasized the subtle textures of nature...

Artspace critic Dave Hickey once identified the Fort Worth Circle as ""Texas' first indigenous group of consciously cosmopolitan and irrefutably modern artists."" Their work, he wrote, ""represents the fruit of a special time in the culture of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782906571570Author Bernard NoelFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Dis VoirPublisher Dis Voir

The studies presented here are not prefaces in the sense that they introduce the reader to particular texts or monographs. These are in the nature of lectures on the most important aspects of South Asian art, both ancient and modern. There are more...

In this thought-provoking work, Dorothee Brill examines notions of shock and the senseless in Dada and Fluxus, pairing two distinctly radical art movements that challenged the very notion and purpose of art. Laying out a genealogy of surrealisms, she...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783863356453Author Antonio CalabroFormat HardbackPage Count 248Imprint Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther KonigPublisher Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther Konig

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788836628315Author Veronique SerranoFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint SilvanaPublisher Silvana

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781737183792Author Corey PiperFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Chrysler MuseumPublisher Chrysler Museum

Bringing to light the largely overlooked female participation in domestic and international art worlds, this book offers the first comprehensive study of how women embroiderers, traditionalist calligraphers and painters, including Shen Shou, Wu Xingfen,...

The arts drove a seismic cultural shift in mid-twentieth-century Tunis, as women entered ateliers and workshops previously dominated by men and as collaborations across art schools destabilized the boundary between art and craft. This volume uses the...

In Devastation and Laughter, Annie Gerin explores the use of satire in the visual arts, theatre, cinema, and the circus under Lenin and Stalin. Gerin traces the rise and decline of the genre and argues that the use of satire in official Soviet art and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783959051545Author Stiftung Bauhaus DessauFormat PaperbackPage Count 184Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector Books

Ever since the 1910s Zurich Kunstgewerbemuseum, or Museum of Arts & Crafts - which was founded in 1875 and is known today as the Museum fur Gestaltung Zurich - has been focussing on producing high-quality posters to promote its exhibitions. The posters...

British artist Andy Goldsworthy, known for creating art outdoors and from natural materials, has now built a 2,278-foot stone wall at Storm King Art Center, a sculpture park on the Hudson River in Mountainville, New York. This sensitive and detailed...

This is volume 1: A-D, of a four-volume set. The complete four-volume set presents the careers of 320 women artists working in California, with more than 2,000 images, over the course of a century. Their work encompasses a broad range of styles-from the...

As fin de siglo Spain struggled with perceived decadence and decline, the visual arts reflected the debate and influenced the outcome. This volume argues that the way artists understood and depicted the concepts of degeneration and regeneration is...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783283012151Author Jean-FranCois ChaigneauFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Edition OlmsPublisher Edition OlmsWeight(grams) 1996g

Revealing a vibrant and intertwined artistic scene in the BalkansOn the Very Edge brings together fourteen empirical and comparative essays about the production, perception, and reception of modernity and modernism in the visual arts, architecture, and...

In the interwar period art revealed itself as part of the social and ideological order. The work of art became a point of intersection for the modern, unstable and ambiguous world. Works of art produced in these decades reflect a range of discourses on...

New Zealand-born Frances Hodgkins (1869-1947) arrived in London in 1901 and, by the 1920s, had become a leading British modernist, exhibiting frequently with avant-garde artists such as Ben Nicholson, Barbara Hepworth and Henry Moore. Published to...

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 design, of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783959052092Author Julian IrlingerFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Spector BooksPublisher Spector Books

This collection provides a transnational, interdisciplinary perspective on artistic responses to war from 1914 to the present, analysing a broad selection of the rich, complex body of work which has emerged in response to conflicts since the Great War...