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Exploring the significance of metaphor in modern art Where do the roots of art lie? asked Der Sturm founder Herwarth W......more
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Crucial texts, many available in English for the first time, written before and during the Bolshevik Revolution by the r......more
The painter and graphic artist Jeanne Mammen (1890-1976) is one of the most awkward and colorful figures of recent Germa......more
Romanticism, realism, impressionism--today these are the most important stylistic labels for French painting during the ......more
Unquestionably one of Russian modernism s best-known artists, El Lissitzky created artworks--in a staggering variety of ......more
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The writers and artists of the Spanish avant-garde, enthralled with the streamlined, mass-produced commodities of the Ma......more
A New Era reveals an alternative story of modern Scottish art, challenging the accepted view of the dominance of the Sco......more
This book is about encounters between art and industry in nineteenth-century Britain. It looks beyond the oppositions es......more
Notions of civilization and barbarism were intrinsic to Eugène Delacroix’s artistic practice: he wrote regularly about t......more
The tension between social reform photography and photojournalism is examined through this study of the life and work of......more
An insightful study of Joseph Cornell’s fascination with the Cubist painter Juan Gris, shedding new light on the work of......more
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In the late nineteenth century, the urban department store arose as a built artifact and as a social institution in the ......more
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Recognized internationally as one of the twentieth century s great modernist innovators, New Zealand artist Len Lye is m......more
Mary Bonner: Impressions of a Printmaker is the definitive account of the life of an iconic Texas artist known for her d......more
Gauguin began his artistic life as an Impressionist in Paris, but yearning for a wider world view he experimented with d......more
1000-pieces. Shrink-wrapped, sturdy box (size 10 x 10 x 2 ins). High quality jigsaw puzzle. Finished Jigsaw size 29 x 20......more
Depuis quelques ann es, la presse, en installant le salon dans ses colonnes, a l air d accomplir contre-coeur une import......more
August Macke (1887-1914) quickly ascended to notoriety, only to be killed at the tender age of 27 at the start of World ......more
Il convient toujours d appeler d un jugement g n ral rendu l ouverture du Salon. La premi re impression que donne un Sal......more
Accompanying a major exhibition at the Courtauld Gallery that focuses upon one of Chaim Soutine s most important series ......more
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Ernst Ludwig Kirchner (1880-1938) was one of the most important and colorful artistic personalities of the twentieth cen......more
While legend has it that Vincent van Gogh (1853-1890) sold only one work during his lifetime, it was not long after his ......more
This collection provides a transnational, interdisciplinary perspective on artistic responses to war from 1914 to the pr......more
- A vivid account of Bohemian Paris at the birth of Cubism and other movements, with Modigliani as hero among other arti......more
A long forgotten 1934 exhibition by the Australian expatriate J. W. Power at the Abstraction-Creation gallery in Paris p......more
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Bringing the life and works of the great painter to life, Kandinsky explores the extraordinary output of one of Russia s......more
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The effort to go beyond given knowledge in different domains - artistic, scientific, political, metaphysical - is a char......more
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Invented in the late eighteenth century, lithography introduced a new process and new opportunities for the creation and......more
A FLAME TREE NOTEBOOK. Beautiful and luxurious the journals combine high-quality production with magnificent art. Perfec......more
Part of a series of exciting and luxurious Flame Tree Notebooks. Combining high-quality production with magnificent fine......more
Eric Gill (1882-1940) was an English sculptor, stonemason, typographer, and printmaker. He was also a controversial figu......more
The collection, interpretation and display of art from the People’s Republic of China, and particularly the art of the C......more
The collections of museums, galleries and online art organisations are increasingly broadening to include more new media......more
Art Nouveau was a style for a new age, but it was also one that continued to look back to the past. This new study shows......more
In this elegantly written and beautifully illustrated book, Nico Israel reveals how spirals are at the heart of the most......more
On the 100th anniversary of their deaths, Gustav Klimt and Auguste Rodin are celebrated as two pioneers of modernism who......more
This magnificently illustrated book explores Max Beckmann s idea of the world as a stage while also providing a striking......more
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A milestone in American cultural history, the 1876 Centennial Exhibition in Philadelphia was one of the most broadly sha......more
Part of a series of exciting and luxurious Flame Tree Sketch Books Combining high-quality production with magnificent fi......more
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This is the cathartic masterpiece of Charlotte Salomon. Entrusted to a friend before her deportation to Auschwitz, her g......more
A fascinating exploration of the time Winslow Homer spent in England and how it influenced his art Winslow Homer (1836-1......more
Julie Manet, the daughter of douard Manet and the most famous female Impressionist artist, Berthe Morisot, was born in P......more
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Paul Cezanne, Georges Seurat, Paul Gauguin, Vincent van Gogh, Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec and others began as Impressionis......more
History is a complex business. Fortunes boom and bust, empires wax and wane, and change--whether social, political, or t......more
History is a complex business. Fortunes boom and bust, empires wax and wane, and change--whether social, political, or t......more
Following the press coverage around the acquisition of this painting for the national by National Galleries of Scotland,......more
Great works of art cannot be fully understood in a single encounter. This is perhaps even truer for modern artworks that......more
K the Kollwitz is one of the greatest artists of the 20th century, and arguably the greatest female artist. Her undeniab......more
This is the cathartic masterpiece of Charlotte Salomon. Entrusted to a friend before her deportation to Auschwitz, her g......more
A beautiful celebration of six decades of work by Edgar Degas, published in the centennial year of the artist’s death Ed......more
This book explores the development of modern American art through the works of its signature artists. This collection of......more
Dive into this collection of rarely seen material that takes a new look at one of the great masters of American comics, ......more
A celebration of the work and lives of women artists who shaped the art world of 19th-century Paris In the second half o......more
Here for the first time is the history of art dealers, those extraordinary men and woman who, over centuries (and almost......more
Vincent van Gogh dies at just 37 years old. He is only engaged in painting for the last 10 years of his life. Restless a......more
Fuled by a spirit of solidarity with the world of outcasts, Giacomo Balla learned his trade in Turin and reflected the c......more
Through a selection of over 140 works, this catalog offers a first approach to Paul Signac s color harmonies along with ......more
For the first three decades of the twentieth century, the Marchesa Luisa Casati astounded Europe. She was infamous for h......more
A beautiful overview of fascinating paintings of the classical world and the Holy Land by a beloved American artist Fred......more
The first biography of America s greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an authoritative and revelatory ......more
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This volume examines the relationship between occultism and Surrealism, specifically exploring the reception and appropr......more
In Soviet Salvage, Catherine Walworth explores how artists on the margins of the Constructivist movement of the 1920s re......more
Over the last century, many artists have made works that challenge dominant models of gender and sexuality. The results ......more
Part of a series of exciting and luxurious Flame Tree Sketch Books Combining high-quality production with magnificent fi......more
This is a story about rivalry among artists. Not the kind of rivalry that grows out of hatred and dislike, but rather, r......more
The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood was a group of English painters, poets and critics, founded in 1848 by John Everett Milla......more
Bringing the life and work of a truly unique artist to life, Van Gogh is a comprehensive guide to one of the most unconv......more
Surrealism and the Gothic is the first book-length analysis of the role played by the gothic in both the initial emergen......more
During the early twentieth century, Shanghai was the center of China s new media culture. Described by the modernist wri......more
During the early twentieth century, Shanghai was the center of China s new media culture. Described by the modernist wri......more
Art Deco New Zealand offers a national perspective on New Zealand’s mid-twentieth century Art Deco heritage and explores......more
The before-and-after trope in photography has long paired images to represent change: whether affirmatively, as in the r......more
According to the nineteenth-century teachings of Nikolai Fedorov--librarian, religious philosopher, and progenitor of Ru......more