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Art History

Art History

  • 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
  • Magritte Basic Art Magritte Basic Art

    Magritte Basic Art

    $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
  • Hokuei: Master of Osaka Kabuki Prints Hokuei: Master of Osaka Kabuki Prints

    Hokuei: Master of Osaka Kabuki Prints

    $65.00
    This is the first book about Hokuei - one of the most intriguing artists ever in kabuki-actor prints Lavishly illustrated with over 300 images, it brings the world of kabuki alive in fascinating detail The book includes a fully illustrated and annotated...
    $65.00
  • Women Pioneers of the Arts and Crafts Movement Women Pioneers of the Arts and Crafts Movement

    Women Pioneers of the Arts and Crafts Movement

    $45.00
     A celebration of the work and ambition of the women who were at the heart of the Arts and Crafts Movement. Women Pioneers of the Arts and Crafts Movement is a celebration of the work and ambition of the women who were at the heart of the most...
    $45.00
  • Glorious Qing: Decorative Arts in China, 1644-1911 Glorious Qing: Decorative Arts in China, 1644-1911

    Glorious Qing: Decorative Arts in China, 1644-1911

    $75.00
    With over 250 color illustrations, this companion volume to Claudia Brown's Great Qing: Painting in China, 1644–1911 covers an array of superbly crafted objects of art produced during China's last dynasty. It features ceramics, metalwork, textiles,...
    $75.00
  • Digital Art: 1960s to Now Digital Art: 1960s to Now

    Digital Art: 1960s to Now

    $60.00
    A new history of digital art from the 1960s to the present day, with decade-by-decade essays exploring evolving digital art practices, alongside interviews with artists, gallerists, museum curators, and collectors. This new, image-led history of global...
    $60.00
  • Lucy R. Lippard on Pop Art Lucy R. Lippard on Pop Art

    Lucy R. Lippard on Pop Art

    $16.95
     Explore the dynamic world of 1960s pop art through Lucy Lippard's insightful analysis of this groundbreaking international art movement. Surprising, questioning, challenging, enriching: the Pocket Perspectives series presents timeless works by...
    $16.95
  • Soul of a Nation Art in the Age of Black Power Soul of a Nation Art in the Age of Black Power

    Soul of a Nation Art in the Age of Black Power

    $45.00
    African American art in the era of Malcolm X and the Black Panthers In the period of radical change that was 1963–83, young black artists at the beginning of their careers confronted difficult questions about art, politics and racial identity. How to...
    $45.00
  • Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now

    Latin American Artists: From 1785 to Now

    $69.95
    The essential survey showcasing the work of more than 300 modern and contemporary artists born or based in Latin America Latin American artists have gained increasing international prominence as the art world awakens to the area’s extraordinary art...
    $69.95
  • Great Women Sculptors Great Women Sculptors

    Great Women Sculptors

    $69.95
     A celebration of more than 300 groundbreaking women sculptors that surveys 500 years of creative ingenuity from around the world Presenting a more expansive and inclusive history of sculpture, Great Women Sculptors surveys the work of more than 300...
    $69.95
  • Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism

    Paris in Ruins: Love, War, and the Birth of Impressionism

    $35.00
    The Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic’s gripping account of the “Terrible Year” in Paris and its monumental impact on the rise of Impressionism From the summer of 1870 to the spring of 1871, famously dubbed the “Terrible Year” by Victor Hugo, Paris and...
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  • Paul Klee: Pedagogical Sketchbook BauhausbĂĽcher 2 Paul Klee: Pedagogical Sketchbook BauhausbĂĽcher 2

    Paul Klee: Pedagogical Sketchbook BauhausbĂĽcher 2

    $35.00
    The second installation in the Bauhausbücher facsimile series, presenting Paul Klee’s legendary Pedagogical Sketchbook Active at the Bauhaus between 1920 and 1931, teaching in the bookbinding, stained glass and mural-painting workshops, Paul Klee...
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  • Piet Mondrian: New Design BauhausbĂĽcher 5 Piet Mondrian: New Design BauhausbĂĽcher 5

    Piet Mondrian: New Design BauhausbĂĽcher 5

    $49.95
    The fifth installation in the Bauhausbücher facsimile series, revisiting Piet Mondrian’s influential essays on art theory Although Piet Mondrian (1872–1944) was not an active member of the Bauhaus, his name is often mentioned in...
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  • 1920s Paris Basic Art Series 1920s Paris Basic Art Series

    1920s Paris Basic Art Series

    $20.00
     Back to the AnnĂ©es Folles A vivid cultural portrait of 1920s Paris Paris is the City of Light in all its facets. In the 1920s La Ville des lumières gleams especially bright and becomes a magnet for creative people from around the world. This is the...
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  • American Art Union American Art Union

    American Art Union

    $39.95
    For over a decade, the New York–based American Art-Union shaped art creation, display, and patronage nationwide. Boasting as many as 19,000 members from almost every state, its meteoric rise and its sudden and spectacular collapse still raise a crucial...
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  • Latin American Art Since 1900 Latin American Art Since 1900

    Latin American Art Since 1900

    $24.95
    An extraordinary synthesis of more than a century’s worth of art across Central and South America, Latin American Art Since 1900 covers everyone from popular figures such as Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo, to a wide range of other artists who are less...
    $24.95
  • Islamic Art and Architecture (Second Edition) Islamic Art and Architecture (Second Edition)

    Islamic Art and Architecture (Second Edition)

    $24.95
    A bold, readable, and beautifully illustrated introduction to Islamic art and architecture, this renowned book is now available in an updated and revised edition featuring color illustrations throughout. Including over a thousand years of history and...
    $24.95
  • Outsider Art: Art Brut and its Affinities Outsider Art: Art Brut and its Affinities

    Outsider Art: Art Brut and its Affinities

    $24.95
    The updated edition of this comprehensive overview of outsider art, distinguished by its wider international scope and inclusion of global developments since 2000.  Outsider art is the work produced outside the mainstream of modern art by...
    $24.95
  • Art and Climate Change Art and Climate Change

    Art and Climate Change

    $24.95
    An overview of ecologically conscious contemporary art that responds to today’s environmental crisis, from species extinction to climate change. Art and Climate Change collects a wide range of artistic responses to our current ecological emergency...
    $24.95
  • Body Art Body Art

    Body Art

    $21.95
     An illuminating and authoritative survey of body art by a world expert on the subject This informed and accessible book explores the wide-ranging history of body art, from its expression of tribal affinities and cultural identity to its role in...
    $21.95
  • Digital Art Digital Art

    Digital Art

    $24.95
    The fourth edition of the essential introduction to digital art, one of contemporary art’s most exciting and dynamic forms of practice. Digital art, along with the technological developments of its medium, has rapidly evolved from the "digital...
    $24.95
  • Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic Ekphrasis Series Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic Ekphrasis Series

    Any Day Now: Toward a Black Aesthetic Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    Larry Neal, a poet, dramatist, and critic, was a founding figure of the Black Arts Movement in the 1960s and 1970s in New York. Writing as the arts editor for Liberator magazine, a radical journal published in Harlem, Neal called for Black artists to...
    $15.00
  • Mary Cassatt at Work
    Mary Cassatt at Work Mary Cassatt at Work

    Mary Cassatt at Work

    $55.00
    A new study of Mary Cassatt that explores the centrality of work to both her inventive technical practice and her distinctive approach to modern subjects.    In her sensitive depictions of the social, intellectual, and professional lives of...
    $55.00
  • Why the Museum Matters Why the Museum Matters

    Why the Museum Matters

    $26.00
    Art museums have played a vital role in our culture, drawing on Enlightenment ideals in shaping ideas, advancing learning, fostering community, and providing spaces of beauty and permanence. In this thoughtful and often personal volume, Daniel H. Weiss...
    $26.00
  • An Indigenous Present An Indigenous Present

    An Indigenous Present

    $75.00
    This landmark volume is a gathering of Native North American  contemporary artists, musicians, filmmakers, choreographers, architects,  writers, photographers, designers and more. Conceived by Jeffrey  Gibson, a renowned artist of...
    $75.00
  • Art Essentials: History of African Art Art Essentials: History of African Art

    Art Essentials: History of African Art

    $18.95
    This indispensable introductory guide explores the art of the African continent from its early origins over 75,000 years ago to the contemporary, set in the context of postcolonial debates, the restitution of cultural objects and artifacts, and the...
    $18.95
  • Rodin Basic Art 2.0 Rodin Basic Art 2.0

    Rodin Basic Art 2.0

    $20.00
    While anchoring his practice in the traditions of antiquity and the Renaissance, Auguste Rodin paved the way for modern sculpture. From a very early stage, he was interested in movement, the expression of the body, chance effects, and the incomplete...
    $20.00
  • Race is Everything: Art and Human Difference Race is Everything: Art and Human Difference

    Race is Everything: Art and Human Difference

    $40.00
     'Race Is Everything’ explores the spurious but influential ideas of so-called racial science in the nineteenth and the first half of the twentieth centuries, and how art was affected by it. David Bindman looks at race in general, but with...
    $40.00
  • Fashion Designers A-Z T40 Fashion Designers A-Z T40

    Fashion Designers A-Z T40

    $30.00
    Celebrating over a century of fashion’s greatest talents, from Azzedine AlaĂŻa and Coco Chanel to Alexander McQueen and Yves Saint Laurent. From Azzedine AlaĂŻa, CristĂłbal Balenciaga, and Coco Chanel to  Alexander McQueen, Yves Saint Laurent, and...
    $30.00
  • Art Essentials: Contemporary Art Art Essentials: Contemporary Art

    Art Essentials: Contemporary Art

    $18.95
    Since the 1960s, contemporary art has overturned the accepted historical categorizations of what constitutes art, who creates it, and how it is represented and validated. This guide brings the subject up to date, exploring the notion of “contemporary”...
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  • Art Essentials: History of Western Art Art Essentials: History of Western Art

    Art Essentials: History of Western Art

    $16.95
    Acknowledging how architecture, painting, sculpture, and the decorative arts reflect the culture and society of their time, this latest addition to the Art Essentials series invites the reader to experience and appreciate the entirety of Western art from...
    $16.95
  • Surrealists in New York Surrealists in New York

    Surrealists in New York

    $34.95
    An absorbing group biography revealing how exiles from war-torn France brought surrealism to America, sparking the movement that became abstract expressionism. In 1957 the American artist Robert Motherwell made an unexpected claim: "I have only known...
    $34.95
  • Cathedral is Dying Cathedral is Dying

    Cathedral is Dying

    $15.00
    In this volume, the writer and Rodin scholar Rachel Corbett selects excerpts from the famous sculptor’s book Cathedrals of France,  first published in 1914, just before the outbreak of World War I.  Cathedrals were central to the way Rodin...
    $15.00
  • Renegade Edo and Paris Renegade Edo and Paris

    Renegade Edo and Paris

    $30.00
    A critical look at the renegade spirit that permeates Japanese prints and the posters of fin-de-siècle Paris. Both the Edo period (1603–1868) in Japan and the late nineteenth century in France witnessed a multitude of challenges to the status quo from...
    $30.00
  • Story of Art Without Men Story of Art Without Men

    Story of Art Without Men

    $45.00
    The story of art as it’s never been told before, from the Renaissance to the present day, with more than 300 works of art. How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what...
    $45.00
  •  Bosch Masters of Art  Bosch Masters of Art

    Bosch Masters of Art

    $14.95
    Explore Hieronymus Bosch's fantastic illustrations of the afterlife and other religious concepts and narratives. Although Bosch's known works amount to no more than two dozen paintings and a handful of drawings, the artist had an enormous impact on...
    $14.95
  •  Schiele Masters of Art  Schiele Masters of Art

    Schiele Masters of Art

    $14.95
    An elegant introduction to Egon Schiele’s career, this book untangles the mysteries and misunderstandings behind his genius. Egon Schiele left an enormous artistic legacy that is all the more powerful for the brevity of his career. Isabel Kuhl’s lively...
    $14.95
  •  Picasso Masters of Art  Picasso Masters of Art

    Picasso Masters of Art

    $14.95
    Discover the motifs, masterpieces, and driving forces behind the artist Pablo Picasso. Picasso was arguably the most influential artist of the 20th century. Over the course of a career that spanned seven decades--and included thousands of paintings,...
    $14.95
  •  Kahlo Masters of Art  Kahlo Masters of Art

    Kahlo Masters of Art

    $14.95
    Discover the life and work of Frida Kahlo in this introduction to the iconic Mexican artist. Although her body of work is relatively small, Frida Kahlo has inspired adoration and admiration that few other artists have attained. This accessible and...
    $14.95
  •  Holbein Masters of Art  Holbein Masters of Art

    Holbein Masters of Art

    $14.95
    This introduction to the work of the 16th-century master portraitist Hans Holbein reveals the impressive and surprising scope of his career. 16th-century Europe was a time of unprecedented economic expansion, cross-cultural trade, religious upheaval,...
    $14.95
  •  Degas Masters of Art  Degas Masters of Art

    Degas Masters of Art

    $14.95
    Get a glimpse into the life and work of painter, sculptor, and printmaker Edgar Degas, who is regarded as one of the founders of Impressionism. Best known for his depictions of young dancers on the stage and in the studio, Degas was an accomplished...
    $14.95
  •  Magritte Masters of Art  Magritte Masters of Art

    Magritte Masters of Art

    $14.95
    This revelatory examination of the Surrealist master updates prevailing theories about Magritte’s life and beliefs, and offers a surprising new assessment of an artist who strived for anonymity rather than fame. Throughout his career, Magritte subverted...
    $14.95
  •  Klimt Masters of Art  Klimt Masters of Art

    Klimt Masters of Art

    $14.95
    The story of Klimt’s astonishing artistic career is told in this beautifully produced collection of reproductions, photographs and drawings with an accompanying text that places the artist in a unique historical moment and reflects his fierce appetite...
    $14.95
  •  The Art of Feminism  The Art of Feminism

    The Art of Feminism

    $45.00
    Featuring a new package and an additional 60 pages of material, this revised edition of The Art of Feminism covers an even more impressive range of artworks, artists, movements, and perspectives. Since the debut of the original volume in 2018, The Art...
    $45.00
  • Psychology of an Art Writer Ekphrasis Series Psychology of an Art Writer Ekphrasis Series

    Psychology of an Art Writer Ekphrasis Series

    $15.00
    Though she was widely known for her supernatural fictions, Lee hasn’t gained the recognition she so clearly deserves for her contributions in the fields of aesthetics, philosophy of empathy, and art criticism. An early follower of Walter Pater, her...
    $15.00
  •  Art Essentials: Abstract Art  Art Essentials: Abstract Art

    Art Essentials: Abstract Art

    $16.95
    While it is considered by many artists to be a pure and simplistic form of expression, abstract art is also often thought of as vague or exceedingly theoretical. This new installment in the Art Essentials  series demystifies the concept and history...
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  •  Art Essentials: Impressionism  Art Essentials: Impressionism

    Art Essentials: Impressionism

    $16.95
    It is often forgotten just how provocative and unsettling impressionist canvases seemed when they were first exhibited in 1874. Critics,  professional artists, and gallery visitors alike were shocked to  encounter the unorthodox paintings on...
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  •  Art Essentials: Pop Art  Art Essentials: Pop Art

    Art Essentials: Pop Art

    $16.95
    Pop Art refers to a post-war movement connecting art with  popular culture. Billboard signs, comic books, and movie stars were just  some of the subjects chosen by pop artists, such as Andy Warhol, Roy  Lichtenstein, James Rosenquist, and...
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  •  Art Essentials: Modern Art  Art Essentials: Modern Art

    Art Essentials: Modern Art

    $16.95
    Modern Art guides the reader through individual movements  from Impressionism to Conceptual Art, situated within five broader  chronological eras. Starting with Impressionism in 1860, art historian  Amy Dempsey explains the essentials of...
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  • Art Essentials Surrealism Art Essentials Surrealism

    Art Essentials: Surrealism

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    Surrealism was launched as a literary and artistic movement by French  poet Andre Breton in 1924, and by the time of his death in 1966 it had  become one of the most popular and recognizable art movements of the  twentieth century...
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  • Art Essentials Key Moments In Art Art Essentials Key Moments In Art

    Art Essentials: Key Moments In Art

    $16.95
    Art lovers can list history’s most important art objects, but what many  don’t know are the dramatic, funny, and sometimes bizarre stories behind  these most famous works. Spanning the last 500 years of art history,  this book revisits...
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  • Off The Wall: American Art To Wear Off The Wall: American Art To Wear

    Off The Wall: American Art To Wear

    $45.00
    Edited by Dilys E. Blum with essays by Dilys E. Blum and Mary Schoeser, and a contribution by Julie Schafler Dale This is the first publication to consider art to wear, also known as wearable art, as a discrete American movement that mirrored the...
    $45.00
  • 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...
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  • Cy Twombly: Fifty Days At Iliam Cy Twombly: Fifty Days At Iliam

    Cy Twombly: Fifty Days At Iliam

    $45.00
    Edited by Carlos Basualdo with essays by Carlos Basualdo, Olena Chervonik, Richard Fletcher, Emily Greenwood, and Nicola Del Roscio This revelatory publication provides a comprehensive and multifaceted account of Cy Twombly’s masterpiece Fifty Days at...
    $45.00
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art Marcel Duchamp: Étant DonnĂ©s (paperback) Philadelphia Museum of Art Marcel Duchamp: Étant DonnĂ©s (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...
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  •  Kahlo Basic Art 2.0  Kahlo Basic Art 2.0

    Kahlo Basic Art 2.0

    $20.00
    The arresting paintings of Frida Kahlo were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and childlessness, she transformed the afflictions into revolutionary...
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  • Philadelphia Museum of Art A History Of Photography: From 1839 To The Present Philadelphia Museum of Art A History Of Photography: From 1839 To The Present

    A History Of Photography: From 1839 To The Present

    $25.00
    George Eastman’s career developed in a particularly American way. The founder of Kodak progressed from a delivery boy to one of the most important industrialists in American history, and a crucial innovator in photographic history. Eastman died in 1932,...
    $25.00
  • Philadelphia Museum of Art The Book Of Symbols: Reflections On Archetypal Images Philadelphia Museum of Art The Book Of Symbols: Reflections On Archetypal Images

    The Book Of Symbols: Reflections On Archetypal Images

    $40.00
    Archive for Research in Archetypal Symbolism (ARAS) (Author) Handbook of visual experience: An exploration of symbols and their meanings throughout history The Book of Symbols combines original and incisive essays about particular symbols with...
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  •  Art Essentials: Women Artists  Art Essentials: Women Artists

    Art Essentials: Women Artists

    $16.95
    In 1971, in an essay that has now become one of the touchstones of feminist art history, Linda Nochlin raised the question heard round the world: “Why have there been no great women artists?” Since the 1970s, as a result of this kind of...
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