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Modern Art: A Global Survey from the Mid-19th Century to the Present is a broad chronological history of painting, sculpture, photography, architecture, and new media from 1850 to today. Each chapter covers particular artistic movements or parts of the...

How the notorious author of The 120 Days of Sodom inspired the surrealists and other avant-garde artists, writers, and filmmakersThe writings of the Marquis de Sade (1740-1814) present a libertine philosophy of sexual excess and human suffering that...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789774168918Author Bahia ShehabFormat PaperbackPage Count 360Imprint The American University in Cairo PressPublisher The American University in Cairo...

This transnational volume examines innovative women artists who were from, or worked in, Denmark, Finland, Greenland, Iceland, Norway, Sapmi, and Sweden from the emergence of modernism until the feminist movement took shape in the 1960s.The book...

Emphasizing the diversity of twentieth-century collage practices, Rona Cran's book explores the role that it played in the work of Joseph Cornell, William Burroughs, Frank O'Hara, and Bob Dylan. For all four, collage was an important creative catalyst,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262047708Author Frederic J. SchwartzFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

This book examines the career of New York-based artist Sherrie Levine, whose 1981 series of photographs "after Walker Evans" - taken not from life but from Evans's famous depression-era documents of rural Alabama - became central examples in theorizing...

Near the end of his life, Giovanni Battista Piranesi (1720-78) created three colossal candelabra mainly from fragments of sculpture excavated near the Villa Hadriana in Tivoli, two of which are now in the Ashmolean Museum, and one in the Louvre. Although...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788857238760Author Valerio TerraroliFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint SkiraPublisher SkiraWeight(grams) 1910g

An illuminating look at how the Pre-Raphaelite movement was embraced by a group of vanguard American artists Bringing together insights from a distinguished group of scholars, this beautiful book analyzes the history and historiography of the American...

This ambitious collection treating the Italian Fascists' appropriation of the past for political purposes focuses on the role of the visual in the aim of fusing the past and the modern world in Mussolini's Italy. With contributions by art historians and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783037642566Author Meg CranstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint JRP RingierPublisher JRP RingierWeight(grams) 413g

Demonstrates the central role of Bergson for modernist art and intellectual history in the UK Brings to light new evidence of British artists' direct engagement with Bergson, opening new avenues of research and interpretation for the artists...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780226706467Author Mariella GuzzoniFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint University of Chicago PressPublisher The University of Chicago PressWeight(grams)...

The Memory Factory introduces an English-speaking public to the significant women artists of Vienna at the turn of the twentieth century, each chosen for her aesthetic innovations and participation in public exhibitions. These women played important...

An exploration of the fascinating parallels and differences between Picasso's Woman with a Book and Ingres's Madame Moitessier This publication examines, in detail, two extraordinary interrelated works: Picasso's Woman with a Book (1932) and Ingres's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262201612Author Nato ThompsonFormat HardbackPage Count 140Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdWeight(grams) 1043gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 254mm * 19mm

Many of the greatest avant-garde artists of the early twentieth century were Ukrainians or came from Ukraine. Whether living in Paris, St. Petersburg or Kyiv, they made major contributions to painting, sculpture, theatre, and film-making. Because their...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262526890Author Peter WeibelFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press Ltd

As artists push further and further beyond their, and our, comfort zones, this book aims to help decipher the bizarre and often intimidating aspects of modern and contemporary art by exploring twenty works of art in terms of seven 'keys'. History,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995745643Author Medardo RossoFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Galerie Thaddaeus RopacPublisher Galerie Thaddaeus RopacWeight(grams) 522g

A fascinating look at how Mapplethorpe and Munch, although separated by many years, shared certain affinities in their lives and artwork This revelatory catalogue delves into the many affinities shared between two widely renowned and discussed artists,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912567188Author Nicky GloverFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint The Harris Meltzer TrustPublisher Karnac BooksWeight(grams) 426gDimensions(mm) 230mm *...

A unique journey with James Ensor through the history of still life in Belgium in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries Still life played an important role within the work of Belgian expressionist and symbolist painter James Ensor (1860-1949). The...

This book argues that Ford Madox Brown's murals in the Great Hall of Manchester Town Hall (1878-93) were the most important public art works of their day. Brown's twelve designs on the history of Manchester, remarkable exercises in the making of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780955816017Author Roger StatonFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Pegasus Press LtdPublisher Pegasus Press LtdWeight(grams) 513g

Arthur Dove (1880-1946) was a major American modernist of the early 20th century. While he is tied to a circle of artists, including John Marin and Georgia O'Keeffe, who were associated with the preeminent photographer and art dealer Alfred Stieglitz,...

In 1970 photography curator Peter C. Bunnell organized an exhibition called Photography into Sculpture for the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The project, which brought together twenty-three photographers and artists from the United States and Canada,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783741924224Author Guillaume MorelFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Koenemann.Com GmbHPublisher Koenemann.Com GmbHWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm) 244mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782080426307Author Cyrille SciamaFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint FlammarionPublisher Editions FlammarionWeight(grams) 1380g

In this stimulating collection of essays, John Roberts draws together a wide range of work on some of the most important artists of the post-war period. Written by leading art historians and artist-writers, the essays take a sharply critical look at the...

In 1916, as World War I raged around them, a group of bohemians gathered at a small cabaret in Zurich, Switzerland. After decorating the walls with art by Picasso and other avant-garde artists, they embarked on a series of extravagant performances. Three...

In the first half of the 20th century, thousands of newcomers-Eastern European emigres, Mexican immigrants, and Southerners both black and white-flocked to Chicago. These new residents included artists who made significant contributions to the vibrant...

By 1918 St Ives had a long tradition as an artists' community. It took as its standard the Royal Academy, which retained great popular appeal, but was neither forward-looking nor progressive. In 1920 it became the permanent home of one of the great...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780262533584Author Joan RothfussFormat PaperbackPage Count 464Imprint MIT PressPublisher MIT Press LtdDimensions(mm) 229mm * 178mm * 25mm

This is an indispensible volume for creators, curators, and conservators of installation art. Installation art is an evolving, often ephemeral medium that defies rigid categorization. It has also radically transformed the concepts of space, time, and the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781909932296Author Nadia ChalbiFormat PaperbackPage Count 600Imprint RidinghousePublisher Ridinghouse

A thought-provoking look at Aesthetic painting and its relationship to the changing technological landscape In the 19th century, the Aesthetic movement exalted taste, the pursuit of beauty, and self-expression over moral expectations and restrictive...

An important new look at Cold War art on both sides of the Atlantic In October 1962, a set of blurred surveillance photographs brought the world to the brink of nuclear apocalypse during the Cuban missile crisis. The pictures themselves demonstrated...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780976475682Author Rudy ErnstFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Qcc Art GalleryPublisher Qcc Art GalleryWeight(grams) 290gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...