Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960 books

4834 books were found.

We kiss the earth: Danish modern art 1934-1948

We kiss the earth: Danish modern art 1934-1948

Author: Waanders Publishers
ISBN: 9789462624665
Format: Paperback
$90.56

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El Lissitzky on Paper: Print Culture, Architecture, Politics, 1919–1933

El Lissitzky on Paper: Print Culture, Architecture,...

Author: Samuel Johnson
ISBN: 9780226524238
Format: Hardback
$74.95

An examination of the importance of paper in the work of Soviet artist, designer, and architect El Lissitzky. Russian...  Read More >>

The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928–1930

The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design...

Author: Gennifer Weisenfeld
ISBN: 9781736863343
Format: Paperback
$158.40

A revelatory, beautifully produced compendium of the influential Japanese commercial design journal, with posters,...  Read More >>

Wolkenbügel: El Lissitzky as Architect

Wolkenbügel: El Lissitzky as Architect

Author: Richard Anderson
ISBN: 9780262048781
Format: Hardback
$130.00

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Machine à Amuser: The Life and Death of the Beistegui Penthouse Apartment

Machine à Amuser: The Life and Death of the Beistegui...

Author: Wim van den Bergh
ISBN: 9780262048774
Format: Hardback
$130.00

"""A detailed portrait of the Beistegui Penthouse Apartment in Paris, perhaps the most celebrated modernist apartment...  Read More >>

Paula Modersohn-Becker

Paula Modersohn-Becker

Author: Jay A. Clarke ,  Jill Lloyd-Peppiatt
ISBN: 9783791377346
Format: Hardback
$115.00

This exhibition catalog considers the work of a pioneering artist who subverted conventions in her bold depictions...  Read More >>

Walter Kaesbach und die Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

Walter Kaesbach und die Kunstakademie Düsseldorf

Author: Vanessa Sondermann ,  Kunibert Bering
ISBN: 9783422802032
Format: Hardback
$99.62

Walter Kaesbach gehört zu den engagierten Persönlichkeiten des deutschen Kulturlebens der zwanziger und dreißiger...  Read More >>

Discover Degas & Miss La La

Discover Degas & Miss La La

Author: Anne Robbins ,  Chiara Di Stefano
ISBN: 9781857097146
Format: Paperback
$34.95

The extraordinary story behind Degas’s groundbreaking painting of the biracial circus performer Miss La La  Read More >>

Richard Neutra: Encounters with Latin America

Richard Neutra: Encounters with Latin America

Author: Catherine R. Ettinger ,  Raymond Richard Neutra
ISBN: 9781595342775
Format: Paperback
$60.59

A surprising look at the Latin American influences on one of the most significant modern architects of the twentieth...  Read More >>

A Conversation with Luis Barragán

A Conversation with Luis Barragán

Author: Alejandro Ramírez Ugarte
ISBN: 9781595342799
Format: Paperback
$42.11

A rare glimpse into the mind of one of Mexico’s noted modern architects  Read More >>

Minerva Parker Nichols: The Search for a Forgotten Architect

Minerva Parker Nichols: The Search for a Forgotten Architect...

Author: Heather Isbell Schumacher ,  Molly Lester
ISBN: 9780300275179
Format: Hardback
$103.95

The untold story of America’s first independent female architect  Read More >>

The Social Context of James Ensor’s Art Practice: “Vive La Sociale!”

The Social Context of James Ensor’s Art Practice: “Vive...

Author: Prof Susan M. Canning (College of New Rochelle, USA)
ISBN: 9781350469914
Format: Paperback
$49.99

“Vive la Sociale”: This rousing, revolutionary statement, written on a bright red banner across the top of James...  Read More >>

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Concerning the Spiritual in Art

Author: Wassily Kandinsky
ISBN: 9780241384800
Format: Paperback
$24.99

Pioneering work by the great modernist painter, considered by many to be the father of abstract art and a leader...  Read More >>

Materials, Practices, and Politics of Shine in Modern Art and Popular Culture

Materials, Practices, and Politics of Shine in Modern...

Author: Antje Krause-Wahl (Goethe University Frankfurt, Germany) ,  Petra Löffler (Carl von Ossietzky University Oldenburg, Germany)
ISBN: 9781350192935
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Shine allures and awakens desire. As a phenomenon of perception shiny things and materials fascinate and tantalize....  Read More >>

Lead in Modern and Contemporary Art

Lead in Modern and Contemporary Art

Author: Dr. Sharon Hecker (Independent Scholar, Independent Scholar, Italy) ,  Silvia Bottinelli (Tufts University, USA)
ISBN: 9781350436985
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Lead in Modern and Contemporary Art is the first edited volume to critically examine uses of lead as both material...  Read More >>

Jeanne Mammen: Art Between Resistance and Conformity in Modern Germany, 1916–1950

Jeanne Mammen: Art Between Resistance and Conformity...

Author: Camilla Smith (University of Birmingham, UK) ,  Deborah Ascher Barnstone (University of Technology Sydney Australia)
ISBN: 9781350239425
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Jeanne Mammen’s watercolour images of the gender-bending ‘new woman’ and her candid portrayals of Berlin’s thriving...  Read More >>

Nazi Propaganda Through Art and Architecture: Creating the Myth of Hitler’s Third Reich

Nazi Propaganda Through Art and Architecture: Creating...

Author: Norman Ridley
ISBN: 9781036100216
Format: Hardback
$59.99

When the Nazis came to power in January 1933, they began a programme of transforming Germany from a democracy into...  Read More >>

The Wound and the Stitch: A Genealogy of the Female Body from Medieval Iberia to SoCal Chicanx Art

The Wound and the Stitch: A Genealogy of the Female...

Author: Loretta Victoria Ramirez
ISBN: 9780271097282
Format: Paperback
$60.99

Traces a historical genealogy of imagery and language centered on the concept of woundedness and the stitching together...  Read More >>

Munch and Kirchner: Anxiety and Expression

Munch and Kirchner: Anxiety and Expression

Author: Freyda Spira ,  Allison Morehead
ISBN: 9780300275858
Format: Paperback
$61.95

A revealing examination of how mental illness informs and connects the highly charged work of Edvard Munch and Ernst...  Read More >>

Nineteen Reservoirs

Nineteen Reservoirs

Author: Lucy Sante
ISBN: 9781891011726
Format: Paperback
$35.00

"Now in paperback: acclaimed author Lucy Sante's ""eye-opening tale of the greed and corruption but also diplomacy...  Read More >>

Rex Whister: The Artist and His Patrons

Rex Whister: The Artist and His Patrons

Author: Nikki Frater
ISBN: 9781913645618
Format: Hardback
$105.00

Focusing on the British virtuoso Rex Whistler (1905-1944), who was linked to many of the most illustrious figures...  Read More >>

The Art of the Literary Poster

The Art of the Literary Poster

Author: Allison Rudnick ,  Jennifer A. Greenhill
ISBN: 9781588397744
Format: Hardback
$82.95

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