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Catalog & Books

Catalog & Books

BOOM: ART & DESIGN IN THE 1940S

Books

Learn more about the artists and works featured in this exhibition with monographs and informational books.

  • 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
  • How to Cook a Wolf How to Cook a Wolf

    How to Cook a Wolf

    $19.00
    Written to inspire courage in those daunted by wartimes shortages, How to Cook a Wolf continues to rally cooks during times of plenty, reminding them that providing sustenance requires more than putting food on the table. M. F. K. Fisher knew that the...
    $19.00
  • A Boy Named Isamu: A Story of Isamu Noguchi A Boy Named Isamu: A Story of Isamu Noguchi

    A Boy Named Isamu: A Story of Isamu Noguchi

    $18.99
    Awarded an Asian/Pacific American Award for Literature Picture Book Honor, this stunning picture book brings to life the imagination of Japanese American artist, Isamu Noguchi. (Cover image may vary.) If you are Isamu, stones are the most special of...
    $18.99
  • 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
  • DJANGO, Hand on Fire - The Great Django Reinhardt DJANGO, Hand on Fire - The Great Django Reinhardt

    DJANGO, Hand on Fire - The Great Django Reinhardt

    $19.99
    Beautifully painted life story of the legendary gypsy jazz guitarist, Django Reinhardt. But Django -which may have meant "He who wakens"- was twice born. A first time in the snow, during the winter of 1910 in a nomadic gypsy family stationed in...
    $19.99
  • 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
  • Action Jackson by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan Action Jackson by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan

    Action Jackson by Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan

    $8.99
    One late spring morning the American artist Jackson Pollock began work on the canvas that would ultimately come to be known as Number 1, 1950 (Lavender Mist).  Award-winning authors Jan Greenberg and Sandra Jordan use this moment as the departure...
    $8.99
  • Children of the 1940s - A Social History by Mike Hutton Children of the 1940s - A Social History by Mike Hutton

    Children of the 1940s - A Social History by Mike Hutton

    $42.95
    What was it really like growing up in the 1940s? There are tales of being dragged from bombed out homes and of watching dog fights in the skies above. Of evacuation and a clash of cultures between city center kids and their country cousins. All endured...
    $42.95
  • Charlie Parker Played Be Bop by Chris Raschka Charlie Parker Played Be Bop by Chris Raschka

    Charlie Parker Played Be Bop by Chris Raschka

    $7.99
    Ever hear of Charlie Parker? The great jazz saxophone player? If you have or if you haven't, it's okay. Look at this  book and you'll hear Charlie Parker; you'll hear music in your mind. "Be bop. Fisk, fisk. Lollipop. Boomba, boomba." Look. That's...
    $7.99
  • Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

    Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

    $20.99
    Mrs. Mallard was sure that the pond in the Boston Public Gardens would be a perfect place for her and her eight ducklings to live. The problem was how to get them there through the busy streets of Boston. But with a little help from the Boston police,...
    $20.99
  • 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
  • All-American Ads of the 40s All-American Ads of the 40s

    All-American Ads of the 40s

    $40.00
    From Darkness into Light Wartime action and postwar triumph in the advertising of the 1940s At the beginning of the decade, America was at war. Patriotism was an integral part of everyday life, with the sentiment mirrored in advertising. As America...
    $40.00