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Alfred Stieglitz. Camera Work by Alfred Stieglitz
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.61Photographer, writer, publisher, and curator Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was a visionary far ahead of his time. Around the turn of the 20th century, he founded the Photo-Secession, a progressive... -
Mailer/Stern, Monroe by Norman Mailer 9783836592611
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $124.99"This book is really two books. It is a biography, and it is also a pictorial retrospective of an actress whose greatest love affair was conceivably with the camera," wrote Norman Mailer in his 1973... -
100 All-Time Favorite Movies of the 20th Century by Jurgen Muller 9783836556187
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $33.29Take a journey through the makers and shapers of celluloid history. From horror to romance, noir to slapstick, adventure to tragedy, Western to new wave, this selection gathers the greats of... -
Niemeyer Philip Jodidio 9783836536226
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $25.39Until his death at age 104, Oscar Niemeyer (1907-2012) was something of an unstoppable architectural force. Over seven decades of work, he designed approximately 600 buildings, transforming skylines... -
The Dog in Photography 1839-Today by Raymond Merritt 9783836567473
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.61In celebration of the world's favorite animal, we bring you over 400 photographs of or about dogs. With pictures from the 19th century to today, the collection includes works by Man Ray, Eric Fischl,... -
The History of Graphic Design. 40th Ed. by TASCHEN
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.33Through the turbulent passage of time, graphic design-with its vivid, neat synthesis of image and idea-has distilled the spirit of each age. Surrounding us every minute of every day, from minimalist... -
Issey Miyake. 45th Ed. Taschen 9783754402863
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $43.58In 1983, Japanese designer Issey Miyake told The New Yorker that he aspired "to forge ahead, to break the mold." With the boundary-defying fashion lines that followed, he not only broke molds, but... -
Ai Weiwei. Updated Edition Taschen 9783754404270
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $165.29Ai Weiwei is famous for much more than his art. As a champion for the right to free expression and against arbitrary state power, his actions reach far beyond the art world. His work is infused with... -
75 Years of Atlantic Records Taschen 9783836592055
RRP: $315.00Booksplease Price: $248.87In 1947, when Ahmet Ertegun and two fellow music fans started Atlantic Records in New York City, they never could have known that their passion for discovering artists and making records would shape... -
David Hockney. 220 for 2020 Taschen 9783836599115
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $165.71From a small, picturesque farmhouse in the rich fields and meadows of Normandy, David Hockney followed the changing seasons across 2020 and into the new year. He used his iPad to spontaneously depict... -
All-American Ads of the 30s Taschen 9783836588669
RRP: $73.50Booksplease Price: $59.89Illustrations dominated advertising to lower-income shoppers, while the end of Prohibition boosted alcohol sales. Despite the Great Depression, commerce thrived with clever copywriting and visuals... -
1000 Pin-Up Girls by TASCHEN 9783836520508
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $36.14"Girls, Gags & Giggles," ran publisher Robert Harrison's recipe for dishing up pin-up to the American male. Men loved his tasty dishes, a mixture of strippers and starlets dressed in outfits so... -
Friedrich Norbert Wolf 9783836560719
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $24.76The beauty of nature and man's loneliness are dominant themes in the work of Caspar David Friedrich (1774-1840). The artist often places a small human figure in a broad landscape, as in his famous... -
Turner by Michael Bockemuhl
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $25.39In the work of Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) lies an impact akin to a sudden acquisition of sight. His landscapes and seascapes scorch the eye with such ravishing light and color, with... -
Arts & Architecture 1950-54 Taschen 9783754400500
RRP: $126.00Booksplease Price: $97.10From the end of World War II until the mid-1960s, exciting things were happening in American architecture. Emerging talents were focusing on innovative projects that integrated at once modern... -
David Bailey. 1980s Fashion Taschen 9783754400111
RRP: $210.00Booksplease Price: $144.80In the 1980s, fashion wanted to make a statement and found in legendary British fashion photographer David Bailey its perfect chronicler. After Bailey shaped the style of the Swinging Sixties,... -
Package Design Book 8 Taschen 9783754403235
RRP: $168.00Booksplease Price: $117.77Packaging is no longer just for containing goods-it's a statement, a revolution, a glimpse of the future. The Package Design Book 8 captures this evolution, with the most boundary-pushing designs... -
Hiroshige Adele Schlombs 9783836519632
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $25.20Utagawa Hiroshige (1797-1858) was one of the last great artists in the ukiyo-e tradition. Literally meaning "pictures of the floating world," ukiyo-e was a particular woodblock print genre of art... -
Harry Benson. Paul by Reuel Golden
RRP: $105.00Booksplease Price: $67.26Harry Benson began photographing Paul McCartney in 1964, when the Beatles took America by storm, toured the world, and made their movie debut with A Hard Day's Night. The legendary photojournalist... -
Rodin by Francois Blanchetiere 9783836555043
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $24.76While anchoring his practice in the traditions of antiquity and the Renaissance, Auguste Rodin (1840-1917) paved the way for modern sculpture. From a very early stage, he was interested in movement,... -
Pollock by Leonhard Emmerling 9783836529075
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $25.20The rebel hero of Abstract Expressionism, Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) careened through his life like a firework across the American art landscape. Channeling ideas from sources as diverse as Picasso... -
Degas Bernd Growe 9783836532716
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $25.39Most commonly associated with the birth of the Impressionist movement in mid-19th-century Paris, Edgar Degas (1834-1917) in fact defied easy categorization and instead developed a unique style,... -
Mondrian by Susanne Deicher
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $25.20A 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... -
Modigliani by Doris Krystof
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $25.39In endless odes to the female form, Amedeo Modigliani (1884-1920) traced elongated bodies, almond eyes, and his own name into art history. His languid female subjects are as instantly recognizable as... -
Lichtenstein by Janis Hendrickson
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $25.39American 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... -
Velázquez by Norbert Wolf
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $25.39Court painter to King Philip IV of Spain, Diego Rodriguez de Silva y Velazquez (June 1599 - August 6, 1660) is not only a leading light of the Spanish Golden Age, but among the most celebrated... -
Raphael by Christof Thoenes 9783836532426
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $22.68In art history, we tend to be on first name terms only with the most revered of masters. The Renaissance painter and architect Raphael Santi (1483-1520) is one such star. The man we call simply... -
Dadaism by Dietmar Elger 9783836505628
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $22.53Emerging amid the brutality of World War I, the revolutionary Dada movement took disgust with the establishment as its starting point. From 1916 until the mid-1920s, artists in Zurich, Cologne,... -
Photographers A-Z by Hans-Michael Koetzle 9783836554367
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.61Arranged alphabetically, this biographical encyclopedia features every major photographer of the 20th century alongside her or his most significant monographs. From the earliest representatives of... -
Vienna 1900 by Rainer Metzger 9783836567053
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $22.53Poets and intellectuals brushed shoulders in bustling coffeehouses, young avant-gardists heralded a new era in social and sexual liberalism, waltzes resounded through the Ringstrasse, the Vienna... -
Klee by Susanna Partsch 9783836501101
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $25.39With 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... -
Expressionism by Dietmar Elger
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $22.53Sharp angles, strange forms, lurid colors, and distorted perspectives are classic hallmarks of Expressionism, the twentieth century movement that prioritized emotion over objective reality. Though... -
Macke by Anna Meseure
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $24.76A style of his own: The colorful work of a truly avant-garde painterIn the course of his short life, German painter August Macke (1887--1914) combined inspirations from extremely different sources... -
O'Keeffe by Britta Benke
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $25.39Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986) was a major figure in modern American art for some seven decades. Importantly, her fame was not associated with shifting art styles and trends, but rather with her own... -
Araki. Tokyo Lucky Hole by Nobuyoshi Araki 9783836556385
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $33.68It started in 1978 with an ordinary coffee shop near Kyoto. Word spread that the waitresses wore no panties under their miniskirts. Similar establishments popped up across the country. Men waited in... -
Erotica Universalis by Gilles Neret 9783836547789
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $33.68From the dawn of time, ever since Adam and Eve, all artists of every age-whether the Egyptian, Greek, or Roman artists of Antiquity, or more recent famous names such as Rembrandt, Courbet, Degas, or... -
Vermeer by Norbert Schneider 9783836504898
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $25.20Though numbering just 35 known works, the oeuvre of Johannes Vermeer (1632-1675) is hailed as one of the most important and inspiring portfolios in art history. His paintings have prompted a New York... -
Bacon by Luigi Ficacci
RRP: $31.50Booksplease Price: $25.20Largely self-taught as an artist, Francis Bacon (1909-1992) developed a unique ability to transform interior and unconscious impulses into figurative forms and intensely claustrophobic compositions. ... -
Tiki Pop by Sven Kirsten 9783836581547
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $33.68Urban 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: $31.50Booksplease Price: $21.90Founded 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...