Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960 books

4825 books were found.

German Colonialism in Africa and its Legacies: Architecture, Art, Urbanism, and Visual Culture

German Colonialism in Africa and its Legacies: Architecture,...

Author: Professor Itohan Osayimwese
ISBN: 9781350326200
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Germany developed a large colonial empire over the last thirty years of the 19th century, spanning regions of the...  Read More >>

The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism

The Absence of Myth: Writings on Surrealism

Author: Georges Bataille ,  Michael Richardson
ISBN: 9781804296592
Format: Paperback
$26.99

One of the most provocative and controversial writers of his time, these essays comprise George Bataille's most...  Read More >>

Modern Architecture of Quito: Global, Local, and the In-Between

Modern Architecture of Quito: Global, Local, and the...

Author: Christian Parreno (San Francisco University of Quito, Ecuador)
ISBN: 9781350454897
Format: Hardback
$160.00

Situated at the crossroads of the foreign and the vernacular, Quito—the capital of Ecuador, with its world-famous...  Read More >>

When Modern Became Contemporary Art: The Idea of Australian Art, 1962-1988

When Modern Became Contemporary Art: The Idea of Australian...

Author: Charles Green ,  Heather Barker
ISBN: 9781032759647
Format: Hardback
$284.00

This book is a portrait of the period when modern art became contemporary art. It explores how and why writers and...  Read More >>

Marisa Mori and the Futurists: A Woman Artist in an Age of Fascism

Marisa Mori and the Futurists: A Woman Artist in an...

Author: Jennifer Griffiths (Umbra Institute, Italy) ,  Independent Scholar Sharon Hecker (Independent Scholar Italy)
ISBN: 9781350232679
Format: Paperback
$49.99

This book introduces a compelling new personality to the modernist canon, Marisa Mori (1900-1985), who became the...  Read More >>

Fear and Clothing: Dress in English Detective Fiction between the First and Second World Wars

Fear and Clothing: Dress in English Detective Fiction...

Author: Jane Custance Baker (Independent Scholar, UK)
ISBN: 9781350240315
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Through analyzing dress in detective fiction, Fear and Clothing reveals a cultural history of identity affected...  Read More >>

Kunst der Vereinigten Staaten 1750–2000: Eine kommentierte Quellenanthologie

Kunst der Vereinigten Staaten 1750–2000: Eine kommentierte...

Author: John Davis ,  Michael Leja
ISBN: 9783110612462
Format: Paperback
$117.73

Kunst der Vereinigten Staaten 1750–2000 ist eine wegweisende Anthologie, die drei Jahrhunderte amerikanischer Kunst...  Read More >>

The Forgotten Photographs of Roger Smith, Official Photographer of the World War II African American Homefront

The Forgotten Photographs of Roger Smith, Official Photographer...

Author: Melton a McLaurin
ISBN: 9781662954054
Format: Paperback
$47.49

For less than eighteen months in 1942 and 1943, a young African American photographer named Roger Smith was the...  Read More >>

The Coit Tower Murals: New Deal Art and Political Controversy in San Francisco

The Coit Tower Murals: New Deal Art and Political Controversy...

Author: Robert W. Cherny
ISBN: 9780252088353
Format: Paperback
$50.99

Created in 1934, the Coit Tower murals were sponsored by the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the first of the...  Read More >>

The Aluminaire House

The Aluminaire House

Author: Michael Schwarting ,  Frances Campani
ISBN: 9781423648697
Format: Hardback
$105.60

An exciting review of the history, architecture, and rescue of the Aluminaire House, a midcentury modern experimental...  Read More >>

Nordic Art and Way of Life: Art World, Artists and Themes

Nordic Art and Way of Life: Art World, Artists and Themes...

Author: Susanna Pettersson ,  Anna-Maria von Bonsdorff
ISBN: 9780300276275
Format: Hardback
$124.95

An exploration of the development of the art scene, its socio-political context, and the role of the fine arts in...  Read More >>

The Coit Tower Murals: New Deal Art and Political Controversy in San Francisco

The Coit Tower Murals: New Deal Art and Political Controversy...

Author: Robert W. Cherny
ISBN: 9780252046285
Format: Hardback
$275.00

Created in 1934, the Coit Tower murals were sponsored by the Public Works of Art Project (PWAP), the first of the...  Read More >>

Otto Gutfreund: The Path to Cubism

Otto Gutfreund: The Path to Cubism

Author: Jiří Šetlík
ISBN: 9781785514326
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Otto Gutfreund, the first artist to apply cubism to sculpture, is one of the most important figures in the history...  Read More >>

Land into Landscape: Art, Environment, and the Making of Modern France

Land into Landscape: Art, Environment, and the Making...

Author: Kelly Presutti
ISBN: 9780300273946
Format: Hardback
$103.95

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Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern, 1917–1967

Edgar Miller: Anti-Modern, 1917–1967

Author: Marin R. Sullivan ,  Zac Bleicher
ISBN: 9781737760924
Format: Paperback
$65.95

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Radical!: Women Artists and Modernisms 1910–1950

Radical!: Women Artists and Modernisms 1910–1950

Author: Saskia Bak ,  Stephanie Auer
ISBN: 9783753305424
Format: Paperback
$59.99

A groundbreaking catalogue for the exhibition co-organised by Museum Arnhem, Saarlandmuseum and the Belvedere, Vienna....  Read More >>

Picasso: printmaker

Picasso: printmaker

Author: Catherine Daunt
ISBN: 9780714126999
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Picasso was one of the most creative and experimental talents ever to explore the medium of print. This book charts...  Read More >>

Tamara de Lempicka

Tamara de Lempicka

Author: Gioia Mori ,  Furio Rinaldi
ISBN: 9780300278507
Format: Hardback
$103.95

A landmark retrospective on the Art Deco painter exploring her many different identities  Read More >>

Farm to Table: Art, Food, and Identity in the Age of Impressionism

Farm to Table: Art, Food, and Identity in the Age of...

Author: Andrew Eschelbacher ,  Lloyd DeWitt
ISBN: 9780300273816
Format: Hardback
$82.95

A wide-ranging exploration of art, gastronomy, and national identity in fin-de-siècle France  Read More >>

Resurgent Nahda: Arab Exhibitions in 1930s Jerusalem

Resurgent Nahda: Arab Exhibitions in 1930s Jerusalem...

Author: Nadi Abu Saada ,  Nadi Abu Saada
ISBN: 9786148035654
Format: Paperback
$92.40

The cultural and political legacies of the the 1933 and 1934 Arab Exhibitions in Jerusalem This book is a tribute...  Read More >>

The Sweet Life: Julius LeBlanc Stewart and Painting the Belle Epoque

The Sweet Life: Julius LeBlanc Stewart and Painting...

Author: James W Tottis ,  Michael Crane
ISBN: 9781913875596
Format: Hardback
$110.00

An entirely new exploration of the life and career of the expat American artist Julius LeBlanc Stewart (1855-1919),...  Read More >>

George Bellows: American Life in Print

George Bellows: American Life in Print

Author: Kristin L Spangenberg
ISBN: 9781913875831
Format: Hardback
$125.00

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