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Mondrian by Susanne Deicher
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $25.95A key figure in the international avant-garde, Piet Mondrian (1872-1944) was at once an extraordinary painter and leading art theoretician whose influence resonates to this day. Coining the term... -
Tiki Pop by Sven Kirsten 9783836581547
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $35.70Urban islands and bamboo hideaways set the stage for a pop culture phenomenon like no other. In mid-century America, the imaginative appeal of Tiki penetrated fashion, music, eating, drinking, and... -
Pre-Raphaelites by Heather Birchall 9783836519656
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $22.80Founded in 1848 as a secret society, the Pre-Raphaelites rejected classical ideals and the dominant artistic genre painting of their era for what they saw as a more spiritual, sincere, and... -
Lichtenstein by Janis Hendrickson
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $26.90American painter Roy Lichtenstein (1923-1997) pioneered a new epoch in American art, bursting onto a scene dominated by Abstract Expressionism in late 1950s New York and defining a new art vocabulary... -
Toulouse-Lautrec by Matthias Arnold 9783836534901
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $25.84In our imaginings of Paris, painter and graphic artist Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901) has no small role to play. In his prints, posters, paintings, and drawings, the artist immortalized the... -
Klee by Susanna Partsch 9783836501101
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $26.56With meticulous theories and many thousands of paintings, drawings, and watercolors, Paul Klee (1879-1940) is considered one of the most cerebral and prolific leaders of 20th-century European art... -
Kandinsky by Hajo Duchting 9783836507462
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $26.90Over the course of his artistic career, Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) transformed not only his own style, but the course of art history. From early figurative and landscape painting, he went on to... -
Prisse d'Avennes. Egyptian Art by Salima Ikram
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $33.46A lifelong devotee of ancient Egyptian and Oriental culture, the French author, artist, and scholar Achille-Constant-Theodore-Emile Prisse d'Avennes (1807-1879) is famed as one of the most... -
Gio Ponti by Graziella Roccella
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $24.09Italian architect and designer Gio Ponti (1891-1979) is difficult to pin down. With an extraordinarily prolific output and eclectic style, his oeuvre remains one of the most diverse and... -
Renoir Peter H. Feist 9783836531092
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $24.21One of the leading lights of the Impressionist movement, Pierre-Auguste Renoir (1841-1919) remains a towering figure in art history with enduring public appeal. Sun-kissed, charming, and sensual, his... -
Rothko Jacob Baal-Teshuva 9783836504263
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $25.84Resisting interpretation or classification, Mark Rothko (1903-1970) was a prominent advocate for the artist's consummate freedom of expression. Although identified as a key protagonist of the... -
1000 Lights by Charlotte Fiell 9783836546768
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $31.33Designed to be a companion to our classic title 1000 Chairs, this edition contains an awesome selection of over 1000 lights. Presented chronologically by decade are the 20th century's most... -
Duchamp by Janis Mink 9783836534321
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $26.90When is a urinal no longer a urinal? When Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) declared it to be art. The uproar that greeted the French artist's Fountain (1917), a porcelain urinal installed in a gallery,... -
Gauguin Ingo F. Walther 9783836532235
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $24.21Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) was not cut out for finance. Nor did he last particularly long in the French Navy, or as a tarpaulin salesman in Copenhagen who did not speak Danish. He began painting in his... -
Botticelli by Barbara Deimling
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $25.95With the patronage of the powerful Medici family, a canon of secular and religious work, and contributions to the celebrated Sistine Chapel, Sandro Botticelli (1444/45-1510) was well placed for fame... -
Hokusai by Rhiannon Paget 9783836563376
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $22.80Meet the artist whose majestic breaking wave sent ripples across the world. Hokusai (1760-1849) is not only one of the giants of Japanese art and a legend of the Edo period, but also significantly... -
Cezanne Ulrike Becks-Malorny 9783836530170
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $22.97In the latter half of the 19th century, in the verdant countryside near Aix-en-Provence, Paul Cezanne (1839-1906), busily plied his brush to landscapes and still lifes that would become anchors of... -
Rockwell by Karal Ann Marling
Booksplease Price: $49.86An extraordinarily prolific artist, Norman Rockwell (1894-1978) produced some 4,000 paintings in his lifetime, not including a prodigious quantity of commissioned editorial, commercial, and... -
Piano by Philip Jodidio 9783836536462
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $24.21While some architects have a signature style, Renzo Piano seeks to apply coherent ideas to extraordinarily different projects. His buildings impress as much for their individual impact as for their... -
Klimt by Gilles Neret 9783836558075
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $25.95The unfading popularity of Gustav Klimt (1862-1918) attests not only to the particular appeal of his luxuriant painting but also to the universal themes with which he worked: love, feminine beauty,... -
Ellen von Unwerth. Fraulein. 40th Ed. by Ingrid Sischy
RRP: $47.50Booksplease Price: $46.13Ellen von Unwerth was a supermodel before the term was invented, so she knows a thing or two about photographing beautiful women. Now one of the world's most original and successful fashion... -
Lewis W. Hine. America at Work by Peter Walther
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $33.46Photographer, teacher, and sociologist Lewis W. Hine (1874-1940) shaped our consciousness of American working life in the early 20th century like no other. Combining his training as an educator with... -
The Package Design Book by Pentawards 9783836555524
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $33.46Packaging is a highly underrated art form. As the first thing a consumer sees when looking at a product, it can make or break a sale. Every year, the Pentawards celebrate the art of the package by... -
Miro by Janis Mink
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $22.80With a career spanning seven decades, Catalan-born Joan Miro (1893-1983) was a polymath giant of modern art, producing masterworks across painting, sculpture, art books, tapestry, and ceramics, and... -
The Gourmand's Egg. A Collection of Stories & Recipes by 9783836585897
RRP: $76.00Booksplease Price: $57.68The Gourmand's Egg Book As Dali's muse, Hitchcock's nightmare, and humble ingredient, the eternal egg weaves a fascinating tale through the history of culture. The first volume in The... -
Neutra by Barbara Lamprecht
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $25.84In the architecture of Richard Neutra (1892-1970), inside and outside find their perfect modernist harmony. As the Californian sun glints off sleek building surfaces, vast glass panel walls allow... -
Koenig by Neil Jackson 9783836544375
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $24.19There are few images of 20th-century architecture more iconic than the nighttime view of Case Study House #22. At its eagle's nest promontory above Los Angeles, the building is a vision of... -
Goya by Rainer & Rose-Marie Hagen
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $24.21From court portraits for the Spanish royals to horrific scenes of conflict and suffering, Francisco Jose de Goya y Lucientes (1746-1828) made a mark as one of Spain's most revered and controversial... -
de Lempicka by Gilles Néret 9783836532273
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $26.33Tamara de Lempicka (1898-1980) lived art in the fast lane. With an appetite for glamour and fame as much as Left Bank bohemianism, she fled her native Russia after the Bolshevik revolution and set... -
Steve McCurry. Animals by Reuel Golden 9783836597036
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $26.52In Animals, we discover a different side to the famed photographer who skillfully explores animals' complex relationship with humans and the environment.Tenderness abounds, particularly in scenes of... -
Magritte by Marcel Paquet 9783836503570
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $26.90From men in bowler hats, floating in the sky, to a painting of a pipe above the caption "this is not a pipe", Rene Magritte (1898-1967) created an echo chamber of object and image, name and thing,... -
Stanley Kubrick Photographs. Through a Different Lens by Luc Sante 9783836595421
RRP: $66.50Booksplease Price: $44.95Before becoming the critically acclaimed filmmaker responsible for such iconic films as Dr. Strangelove and The Shining, Stanley Kubrick spent five years as a photographer for Look magazine. The... -
100 Illustrators Julius Wiedemann 9783836522229
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $35.70Drawn from TASCHEN's Illustration Now! series, this go-to catalog brings together 100 of the most successful and important illustrators around the globe. With featured artists including Istvan... -
Eames by Peter Gossel
Booksplease Price: $51.57The creative duo Charles Eames (1907-1978) and Ray Kaiser Eames (1912-1988) transformed the visual character of America. Though best known for their furniture, the husband and wife team were also... -
Mies van der Rohe by Peter Gossel
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $26.90Famed for his motto "less is more," Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (1886-1969) was one of the founding fathers of modern architecture and a hotly-debated tastemaker of twentieth-century aesthetics and... -
Saarinen by Pierluigi Serraino
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $24.09The creator of the ubiquitous Knoll "Tulip" chairs and tables, Eero Saarinen (1910-1961) was one of the 20th century's most prominent space shapers, merging dynamic forms with a modernist sensibility... -
Louis I. Kahn by Joseph Rosa 9783836543842
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $24.21Louis Isadore Kahn (1901-1974) treated each building like a temple. Across the United States, in India, Bangladesh, Pakistan, and Israel, his designs combined the sleek, utilitarian surfaces of... -
Adolf Loos by August Sarnitz 9783836544672
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $26.90Adolf Loos (1870-1933) was a flamboyant character whose presence in the cultural hotbed of early 1900s Vienna galvanized the country's architectural landscape. An early, impassioned advocate of... -
D&AD. The Copy Book by D&AD
RRP: $38.00Booksplease Price: $35.70In 1995, the D&AD published a book on the art of writing for advertising. The then best-selling book remains an important reference work today-a bible for creative directors. D&AD and TASCHEN have... -
Gaudi Maria Antonietta Crippa 9783836560283
RRP: $28.50Booksplease Price: $24.09From the towering Sagrada Familia to the shimmering, textured facade of Casa Batllo and the enchanting landscape of Park Guell, it's easy to see why Antoni Gaudi (1852-1926) gained the epithet "God's...