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Books

Books

  • Museum Exclusive
    BOOM: Art & Design in the 1940s BOOM: Art & Design in the 1940s

    BOOM: Art & Design in the 1940s

    $25.00
    Tracing the surge in creativity and transformations in culture and the arts during one of history’s most tumultuous decades Boom: Art and Design in the 1940s looks at the complex shifts in technology and the arts, including music, film, and fashion,...
    $25.00
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art Marcel Duchamp: Étant Donnés (paperback) Philadelphia Museum of Art Marcel Duchamp: Étant Donnés (paperback)

    Marcel Duchamp: Étant Donnés (paperback)

    $35.00
    Michael R. Taylor (Author) with essays by Andrew Lins, Melissa S. Meighan, and Beth A. Price, Ken Sutherland, Scott Homolka, and Elena Torok In his early thirties, Marcel Duchamp convinced everyone that he had abandoned making art in favor of playing...
    $35.00
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art The Essential Duchamp Philadelphia Museum of Art The Essential Duchamp

    The Essential Duchamp

    $29.95
    Matthew Affron (Author) With contributions by Cécile Debray, Alexander Kauffman, Michael R. Taylor, and John Vick This book offers an engaging and accessible introduction to one of the twentieth century’s greatest and most enigmatic artists, Marcel...
    $29.95
  • Quilter's Inspiration Deck Quilter's Inspiration Deck

    Quilter's Inspiration Deck

    $22.00
    Explore endless inspiration with this dynamic card deck! Set aside your quilt patterns and find freedom in the creative process with the Quilter’s Inspiration Deck. 100 cards, divided into ten categories, allow you to explore your creativity by...
    $22.00
  • Souvenirs: From a Memoir - Ekphrasis Series Souvenirs: From a Memoir - Ekphrasis Series

    Souvenirs: From a Memoir - Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    A selection from the memoir of Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun, the renowned eighteenth-century French portraitist and one of the most important women painters in art history In her memoir, Elisabeth Louise Vigée Le Brun offers a candid and thoroughly...
    $15.00
  • Hebdomeros : A Novel - Ekphrasis Series Hebdomeros : A Novel - Ekphrasis Series

    Hebdomeros : A Novel - Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    This seminal 1929 surrealist novel by the painter Giorgio de Chirico merges the realms of dream and reality. In the artist’s only novel, de Chirico invites the reader into a world where language, time, space, and meaning are fluid, highlighting...
    $15.00
  • A Queer Little History of Art A Queer Little History of Art

    A Queer Little History of Art

    $21.99
    Alex Pilcher’s A Queer Little History of Art is a beautiful book that illustrates the wide variety of queer art from around the world exploring bodies and identity, love and desire, and prejudice and protest through drawing, painting, photography,...
    $21.99
  • Abstract Expressionism - Basic Art Series Abstract Expressionism - Basic Art Series

    Abstract Expressionism - Basic Art Series

    $20.00
    Mood Marks The painterly gestures of personal feelings Hailed as the first American-born art movement to have a worldwide influence, Abstract Expressionism denotes the non-representational use of paint as a means of personal expression. It emerged in...
    $20.00
  • Bosch - Basic Art Series Bosch - Basic Art Series

    Bosch - Basic Art Series

    $20.00
    Between Heaven and Hell Hieronymus Bosch’s meticulous visions of the grotesque, debauched, and divine As cryptic as they are compelling, the masterpieces of Hieronymus Bosch (c. 1450–1516) remain some of the most enduring enigmas of the art world. Their...
    $20.00
  • Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design 1875 - 1975 Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design 1875 - 1975

    Fracture: Japanese Graphic Design 1875 - 1975

    $38.00
    The need-to-know names of Japanese graphic design from the late 19th century to the pre-digital decade, presented alongside more than 500 color images of vintage ephemera With Fracture, author Ian Lynam presents a survey of Japanese design across a...
    $38.00
  • Insectile Inspiration: Insects in Art and Illustration Insectile Inspiration: Insects in Art and Illustration

    Insectile Inspiration: Insects in Art and Illustration

    $45.00
    Whether you look at them in awe or in fear, the world of the small but mighty insect is an irreplaceable part of Earth and its ecosystems and is equally strange and wonderful in its own way. Following the incredible success of Botanical Inspiration and...
    $45.00
  • Botanical Inspirations: Nature in Art and Illustration Botanical Inspirations: Nature in Art and Illustration

    Botanical Inspirations: Nature in Art and Illustration

    $45.00
    A world without plants is a world without life, both literally and figuratively. Besides forming the very basis of human survival on Earth, they are also an important source of creative inspiration, ingenuity, and expression. From scientific explorers...
    $45.00
  • Mucha - Basic Art Series Mucha - Basic Art Series

    Mucha - Basic Art Series

    $20.00
      All about the Belle Époque Delicate illustration that defined an era With his instantly recognizable decorative style, Czech artist and Art Nouveau master Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939) defined the look of the fin-de-siècle. In evocative shades of...
    $20.00
  • Diego Rivera's America Diego Rivera's America

    Diego Rivera's America

    $60.00
    Diego Rivera’s America revisits a historical moment when the famed muralist and painter, more than any other artist of his time, helped forge Mexican national identity in visual terms and imagined a shared American future in which unity, rather than...
    $60.00
  • Japan Style Japan Style

    Japan Style

    $49.95
    The authoritative and wide-ranging visual essay on the aesthetics of Japan, a classic volume now back in print with a stunning new cover design ‘Japan style’ is an aesthetic recognizable to everyone: a beautifully displayed flower, an elegant...
    $49.95
  • The Process Book The Process Book

    The Process Book

    $35.00
    No longer a catalog, but an intimate window into how and why Nakashima Woodworkers do what Nakashima Woodworkers do. THe Process Book acts a first step in understanding our foundations and identifying what you hope to achieve in working with us. Defined...
    $35.00
  • Isamu Noguchi Isamu Noguchi

    Isamu Noguchi

    $55.00
     This definitive book explores the multidisciplinary career of one of the most experimental and pioneering artists of the 20th century. Encompassing the entirety of Isamu Noguchi’s work in sculpture, ceramics, photography, architecture,...
    $55.00
  • The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick

    The Crafted World of Wharton Esherick

    $65.00
    Widely celebrated as the father of the Studio Furniture Movement, Wharton Esherick is one of the most important furniture designers of the twentieth century. Presenting his preserved hillside house and studio, this book showcases seven decades of...
    $65.00
  • Lee Krasner: Living Color Lee Krasner: Living Color

    Lee Krasner: Living Color

    $35.00
    A richly illustrated monograph on the life and work of Lee Krasner, one of the twentieth century’s most inspiring women artists and a pioneer of abstract expressionism, now available in paperback. In 1984, Lee Krasner (1908–1984) became one of the few...
    $35.00
  • Sue Fuller: Into the Composition Sue Fuller: Into the Composition

    Sue Fuller: Into the Composition

    $35.00
    The first monograph on the overlooked American modernist whose delicate geometric abstractions made brilliant and innovative use of string Balance, motion, suspension and tension form the guiding principles of the work of Sue Fuller (1914–2006), one of...
    $35.00
  • Focal Points: Ad Reinhardt Focal Points: Ad Reinhardt

    Focal Points: Ad Reinhardt

    $24.95
    A scholarly meditation on Reinhardt’s work, bringing together his abstract painting, comics and slide lecture series The second volume of Focal Points takes as its subject the work of American artist Ad Reinhardt (1913–67). An American abstract painter,...
    $24.95
  • Eames: Beautiful Details Eames: Beautiful Details

    Eames: Beautiful Details

    $70.00
    Renowned designers Charles and Ray Eames are amongst the greatest designers of the 20th century. They are, of course, most well known for their groundbreaking and iconic furniture designs, but they also created important, creative, experimental, and...
    $70.00
  • The Art Front by Rose Valland The Art Front by Rose Valland

    The Art Front by Rose Valland

    $55.00
    More than four decades after the passing of Monuments Woman Captain Rose Valland (1898–1980), one of the great heroines of World War II, the Monuments Men and Women Foundation released the first-ever English translation of her 1961 memoir, The Art Front:...
    $55.00
  • Russel and Mary Wright: Dragon Rock at Manitoga Russel and Mary Wright: Dragon Rock at Manitoga

    Russel and Mary Wright: Dragon Rock at Manitoga

    $60.00
    The story of modernist designers Russel and Mary Wright and their collaboration to transform their Hudson Valley estate, Dragon Rock at Manitoga, into an artistic haven. In the mid-century era of TV dinners and suburban conformity, Russel and Mary...
    $60.00
  • Bertoia: The Metalworker Bertoia: The Metalworker

    Bertoia: The Metalworker

    $95.00
    A celebration of the rich and varied work of Italian-born American artist, designer, and master of metal, Harry Bertoia From chapel altarpieces and bronze fountains, to wire chairs and silver brooches, Harry Bertoia's creative output was varied in the...
    $95.00
  • Mid-Century Modern Designers Mid-Century Modern Designers

    Mid-Century Modern Designers

    $89.95
    An homage to the design pioneers who defined the Mid-Century aesthetic through their work in furniture, glassware, ceramics and textiles More than 50 years later, the fascination with mid-century design is stronger than ever before. Explore the popular...
    $89.95
  • Charles and Ray Eames: Objects and Furniture Design Charles and Ray Eames: Objects and Furniture Design

    Charles and Ray Eames: Objects and Furniture Design

    $30.00
    Midcentury masterpieces from the inventors of the Eames chair Best known for their contributions to architecture, furniture design, industrial design, film and photography, Charles and Ray Eames remain among the most renowned American designers of the...
    $30.00
  • Lincoln Kirstein's Modern Lincoln Kirstein's Modern

    Lincoln Kirstein's Modern

    $55.00
    Lincoln Kirstein was a polymathic writer, critic, curator and impresario: a key connector and an indefatigable catalyst whose sweeping contributions to American cultural life in the 1930s and ‘40s shaped artists and institutions. Best known for...
    $55.00
  • domus 1940–1949 domus 1940–1949

    domus 1940–1949

    $40.00
    Forms on the front line Architecture and design in the context of WWII Founded in 1928 as a “living diary” by the great Milanese architect and designer Gio Ponti, domus has been hailed as the world’s most influential architecture and design journal. With...
    $40.00
  • Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line

    Timeless Mucha: The Magic of Line

    $60.00
    A fabulous tribute to the artist whose stylized poster designs defined Art Nouveau's visual language, and whose influence can be seen everywhere from manga to the Grateful Dead This volume reappraises the graphic work of Alphonse Mucha (1860–1939) and...
    $60.00
  • American Letters: 1927-1947 Jackson Pollock & Family American Letters: 1927-1947 Jackson Pollock & Family

    American Letters: 1927-1947 Jackson Pollock & Family

    $19.95
    Jackson Pollock, the towering American artist who was to revolutionize twentieth-century art with his “dripping” painting technique, grew up between the late 1920s and the late 1940s, the youngest of five boys born in the American West. Though often...
    $19.95
  • Noah Davis Noah Davis

    Noah Davis

    $50.00
    This striking exhibition catalog celebrates the late artist whose deeply emotional works intermingled realism with abstraction to address complex themes of identity, race, and community. American artist Noah Davis (1983–2015) believed...
    $50.00
  • Betye Saar: Drifting toward Twilight Betye Saar: Drifting toward Twilight

    Betye Saar: Drifting toward Twilight

    $29.95
    Luminous and tranquil, Saar’s newest installation uses natural objects and materials to take the viewer on a spiritual journey. This volume features the Huntington Library and Museum’s commissioned site-specific installation Drifting toward...
    $29.95
  • Jack, Larger Than Life Jack, Larger Than Life

    Jack, Larger Than Life

    $18.99
    From Longhouse Reserver: Jack, Larger Than Life is an homage to the internationally acclaimed textile designer, author, and collector Jack Lenor Larsen (1927–2020) and a record of a public exhibition held at LongHouse Reserve—Larsen’s...
    $18.99
  • Anni and Josef Albers: Equal and Unequal Anni and Josef Albers: Equal and Unequal

    Anni and Josef Albers: Equal and Unequal

    $150.00
    Josef - painter, designer, and teacher - and Anni Albers - textile artist and printmaker - are among the twentieth century's most important abstract artists, and this is the first monograph to celebrate the rich creative output and beguiling relationship...
    $150.00
  • Patented: 1,000 Design Patents Patented: 1,000 Design Patents

    Patented: 1,000 Design Patents

    $49.95
    An unprecedented, substantial, and extraordinary celebration of more than a century of fascinating product and industrial design, as shown through their detailed original patent documents - the ultimate 'flick book' of modern design with hundreds of...
    $49.95
  • Saarinen - Basic Architecture Series Saarinen - Basic Architecture Series

    Saarinen - Basic Architecture Series

    $20.00
    Sculptural Structures Eero Saarinen’s new dimensions The 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...
    $20.00
  • Eames - Basic Architecture Series Eames - Basic Architecture Series

    Eames - Basic Architecture Series

    $20.00
    The creative duo Charles Eames and Ray Kaiser Eames transformed the visual character of America. Though best known for their furniture, the husband and wife team were also forerunners in architecture, textile design, photography, and film.   The...
    $20.00
  • Salon Culture in Japan Making Art, 1750 - 1900 Salon Culture in Japan Making Art, 1750 - 1900

    Salon Culture in Japan Making Art, 1750 - 1900

    $45.00
    In early modern Japan, cultural salons were creative spaces for people of all ages and social levels to pursue painting, poetry, and other artistic endeavors as serious but amateur practitioners. All using a pen- or art-name, individuals were able to...
    $45.00
  • Jackson Pollock: The Early Years: 1934-1947 Jackson Pollock: The Early Years: 1934-1947

    Jackson Pollock: The Early Years: 1934-1947

    $45.00
    Trace the genesis of Jackson Pollock’s work in this intimate portrait of the radical twentieth-century artist through the diverse cultural influences that charted his artistic evolution. Jackson Pollock’s “drip technique” paintings are among the most...
    $45.00
  • Durer - Masters of Art Series Durer - Masters of Art Series

    Durer - Masters of Art Series

    $14.99
    Brimming with stunning reproductions and illuminating texts, this handy and accessible book is the perfect introduction to the famous Renaissance artist Albrecht Dürer. Albrecht Dürer (1471–1521) is considered the most important German painter and...
    $14.99
  • Hokusai's Method Hokusai's Method

    Hokusai's Method

    $45.00
    An omnibus edition collecting fifteen volumes of Hokusai's dedicated drawing manuals, also known as e-tehon. Best known for woodblock prints such as The Great Wave off Kanagawa, the ninteenth-century artist Hokusai was prolific in other media. Of...
    $45.00
  • Great Women Artists Great Women Artists

    Great Women Artists

    $69.95
    Five centuries of fascinating female creativity presented in more than 400 compelling artworks and one comprehensive volume The most extensive fully illustrated book of women artists ever published, Great Women Artists reflects an era where art made by...
    $69.95
  • Monet: The Restless Vision Monet: The Restless Vision

    Monet: The Restless Vision

    $45.00
    Drawing on thousands of never-before-translated letters and unpublished sources, this biography reveals dramatic new information about the life and work of one of the late nineteenth century’s most important painters. Despite being mocked at the...
    $45.00
  • Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary

    Super Normal: Sensations of the Ordinary

    $28.00
    A window into the world of functional everyday design The designers Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa have compiled 204 everyday objects in search of “super normal design”: alongside examples of anonymous design like the Swiss Rex vegetable...
    $28.00
  • Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

    Brown Girl Dreaming by Jacqueline Woodson

    $10.99
    Jacqueline Woodson's National Book Award and Newbery Honor winner is a powerful memoir that tells the moving story of her childhood in mesmerizing verse.  A President Obama "O" Book Club pick. Raised in South Carolina and New York, Woodson always...
    $10.99
  • Art of the Middle Ages - World of Art Series Art of the Middle Ages - World of Art Series

    Art of the Middle Ages - World of Art Series

    $18.95
    A general introduction to the art, and architecture, of medieval Europe from the Early Christian to Late Gothic period. Arranged chronologically and regionally, the text is full of illustrated examples, with particular emphasis on France.  ...
    $18.95
  • Impressionism and the Sea Impressionism and the Sea

    Impressionism and the Sea

    $40.00
    Capturing the natural beauty of coastal landscapes and the delicate play of light on water, this volume celebrates impressionist depictions of nautical and beachside life. The impressionists were forever inspired by the sea, which Claude Monet...
    $40.00
  • French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850-1950 French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850-1950

    French Moderns: Monet to Matisse, 1850-1950

    $55.00
    This newly revised and updated hardback edition is published to coincide with an exhibition touring the USA. In the years between the Revolution of 1848 and the end of World War II, the art world, centered in Paris, witnessed remarkable transformations...
    $55.00
  • Local Author
    Exploring Philly Nature A Guide for All Seasons Exploring Philly Nature A Guide for All Seasons

    Exploring Philly Nature A Guide for All Seasons

    $17.95
    Billy Brown, 2023 winner of the Witmer Stone Award for Best Ornithological Book of the Year from the Delaware Valley Ornithological Club Do snakes and salamanders fascinate you or make you squeamish? Have you ever listened closely to the birds chirping...
    $17.95
  • Morpho: Face, Head, and Neck Anatomy for Artists Morpho: Face, Head, and Neck Anatomy for Artists

    Morpho: Face, Head, and Neck Anatomy for Artists

    $16.95
    The must-have guide for all artists who draw the human figure! This small, portable book presents a unique perspective on the head, face, and neck for artists to study and implement in their drawing work. In this book, artist and teacher Michel...
    $16.95
  • Morpho: Hands and Feet Anatomy for Artists Morpho: Hands and Feet Anatomy for Artists

    Morpho: Hands and Feet Anatomy for Artists

    $16.95
    The must-have guide for all artists who draw the human figure! In Morpho: Hands and Feet, artist and teacher Michel Lauricella presents a unique approach to learning to draw the human body. In this book, Lauricella focuses exclusively on the hands and...
    $16.95
  • Philadelphia A Brief History Philadelphia A Brief History

    Philadelphia A Brief History

    $19.95
    Understanding Philadelphia’s history requires that we understand that nothing is inevitable; history is not made by abstract forces, but by the decisions of real individuals as they conduct their lives. With its insightful analysis and engaging prose ,...
    $19.95
  • Pissing Figures 1280 - 2014 - Ekphrasis Series Pissing Figures 1280 - 2014 - Ekphrasis Series

    Pissing Figures 1280 - 2014 - Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    Jean-Claude Lebensztejn’s history of the urinating figure in art, Pissing Figures 1280–2014, is at once a scholarly inquiry into an important visual motif, and a ribald statement on transgression and limits in works of art in general...
    $15.00
  • Salon of 1846 by Charles Baudelaire - Ekphrasis Series Salon of 1846 by Charles Baudelaire - Ekphrasis Series

    Salon of 1846 by Charles Baudelaire - Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    Charles Baudelaire, considered a father of modern poetry, wrote some of the most daring and influential prose of the nineteenth century. Prior to publishing the international bestseller Les Fleurs du mal (1857), he was already notable as a forthright...
    $15.00
  • Dix Portraits by Gertrude Stein - Ekphrasis Series Dix Portraits by Gertrude Stein - Ekphrasis Series

    Dix Portraits by Gertrude Stein - Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    Written between 1913 and 1929, revolutionary years in art history, Dix Portraits conveys the deep human engagement between an artist and her subject. The artist book unites Stein’s ten portraits in prose with sketches by five artists: Pablo...
    $15.00
  • Blue by Derek Jarman - Ekphrasis Series Blue by Derek Jarman - Ekphrasis Series

    Blue by Derek Jarman - Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    Derek Jarman's Blue weaves a sensory tapestry that serves as both a political call to action and a meditation on illness, dying, and love.   “For Blue there are no boundaries or solutions.” —Derek Jarman   Originally...
    $15.00
  • Amazing Grace: A Life of Beauford Delaney Amazing Grace: A Life of Beauford Delaney

    Amazing Grace: A Life of Beauford Delaney

    $35.00
    First published in 1998, Leeming’s landmark biography of Beauford Delaney returns to print Long out of print, this new edition of David Leeming’s landmark biography of Beauford Delaney (1901–79) features an introduction by Hilton Als...
    $35.00
  • Japanese Woodblock Prints - Basic Art Series Japanese Woodblock Prints - Basic Art Series

    Japanese Woodblock Prints - Basic Art Series

    $20.00
    The Japanese woodblock print showcased breathtaking landscapes, blush-inducing erotica, ghosts and demons that torment the living, and made sumo wrestlers and kabuki actors into rock stars. This book reveals the most exceptional prints from 1710–1925,...
    $20.00
  • Gothic Modern: From Edvard Munch to Käthe Kollwitz Gothic Modern: From Edvard Munch to Käthe Kollwitz

    Gothic Modern: From Edvard Munch to Käthe Kollwitz

    $52.00
    How medieval Gothic art inspired a generation. Gothic Modern illuminates the pivotal discovery of medieval Gothic art for Edvard Munch, Käthe Kollwitz, and their artist contemporaries. It explores their deep attraction to the Gothic art of...
    $52.00
  • The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence

    The Great Mughals: Art, Architecture and Opulence

    $70.00
    Showcases some of the most stunning treasures from the dynasty that created the Taj Mahal The Great Mughals presents, for the first time, the opulent, internationalist culture of Mughal Hindustan in the age of its greatest emperors: Akbar (r...
    $70.00
  • Helen Frankenthaler: Painting without Rules Helen Frankenthaler: Painting without Rules

    Helen Frankenthaler: Painting without Rules

    $39.95
    A sweeping overview of poetic compositions from the beloved American postwar painter known for her groundbreaking and inventive approach to abstraction. Celebrated among the second generation of postwar American abstract painters, Helen Frankenthaler...
    $39.95
  • Magritte - Basic Art Series Magritte - Basic Art Series

    Magritte - Basic Art Series

    $20.00
    This Is Not a Book Everyday enigma from Belgium's leading Surrealist From men in bowler hats, floating in the sky, to a painting of a pipe above the caption "this is not a pipe", René Magritte (1898–1967) created an echo chamber of object and image, name...
    $20.00
  • Dolls House Bookmark Dolls House Bookmark

    Dolls House Bookmark

    $14.00
    Discover the charm of our dolls house bookmark with a full narrative illustration on both sides. Peek into the terrace house and immerse yourself in the story! Each piece is carefully crafted to create a striking and multifaceted look that is sure to...
    $14.00
  • Calling the Shots: A Queer History of Photography Calling the Shots: A Queer History of Photography

    Calling the Shots: A Queer History of Photography

    $60.00
    An accessible, inspirational, and engaging introductory survey of LGBTQIA+ photography, as told through the collection of the Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Drawing on one of the oldest and largest photography collections in the world, Calling the...
    $60.00