Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus books

2142 books were found.

Circle! Square! Progress!: Zurich's Concrete Avant-garde. Max Bill, Camille Graeser, Verena Loewensberg, Richard Paul Lohse and Their Times

Circle! Square! Progress!: Zurich's Concrete Avant-garde....

Author: Thomas Haemmerli ,  Brigitte Ulmer
ISBN: 9783039421640
Format: Hardback
$116.44

The first comprehensive survey of the Zurich Concretists, Switzerland’s legendary Modernist art movement.  Read More >>

Charles J. Connick: America’s Visionary Stained Glass Artist

Charles J. Connick: America’s Visionary Stained Glass...

Author: Peter Cormack
ISBN: 9780300272321
Format: Hardback
$124.95

The first comprehensive account of Charles J. Connick, America’s most innovative and influential stained glass artist...  Read More >>

Marcel Duchamp and the Lure of the Copy

Marcel Duchamp and the Lure of the Copy

Author: Marcel Duchamp ,  Paul B Franklin
ISBN: 9791254631386
Format: Paperback
$73.95

Exploring duplicates with Duchamp through the contents of his “museum box” In all his work, French visionary Marcel...  Read More >>

Prior Art: Patents and the Nature of Invention in Architecture

Prior Art: Patents and the Nature of Invention in Architecture...

Author: Peter H. Christensen
ISBN: 9780262048958
Format: Hardback
$110.00

"""Prior Art offers the first ever history of the use of patents in architecture, spanning the period 1830 - 1996""--"...  Read More >>

Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence

Tropical Modernism: Architecture and Independence

Author: Christopher Turner
ISBN: 9781838510558
Format: Paperback
$49.99

Emerging in the death throes of colonial rule, the story of Tropical Modernism is one of politics and power, decolonization...  Read More >>

Mary Cassatt at Work

Mary Cassatt at Work

Author: Jennifer A. Thompson ,  Laurel Garber
ISBN: 9780876333044
Format: Hardback
$93.95

A new study of Mary Cassatt that explores the centrality of work to both her inventive technical practice and her...  Read More >>

Gilbert Spencer: The Life and Work of a Very English Artist

Gilbert Spencer: The Life and Work of a Very English...

Author: Paul Gough ,  Sacha Llewellyn
ISBN: 9780300269819
Format: Hardback
$61.95

The first biography of Gilbert Spencer, recounting the life and career of a long-overlooked twentieth-century British...  Read More >>

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment

Paris 1874: The Impressionist Moment

Author: Sylvie Patry ,  Anne Robbins
ISBN: 9780300278484
Format: Hardback
$103.95

A wide-ranging exploration of the birth of impressionism centered around the landmark exhibition in Paris in 1874...  Read More >>

Architecture against Democracy: Histories of the Nationalist International

Architecture against Democracy: Histories of the Nationalist...

Author: Reinhold Martin ,  Claire Zimmerman
ISBN: 9781517916756
Format: Hardback
$270.00

Examining architecture’s foundational role in the repression of democracy Reinhold Martin and Claire Zimmerman...  Read More >>

Henry Moore: Shadows on the Wall

Henry Moore: Shadows on the Wall

Author: Penelope Curtis ,  Charlotte de Mille
ISBN: 9781913645663
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Henry Spencer Moore (1898–1986) was one of the most influential British artists of the twentieth century. This catalogue...  Read More >>

The Shape of Things: Still Life in Modern British Art

The Shape of Things: Still Life in Modern British Art...

Author: Simon Martin ,  Lydia Miller
ISBN: 9781869827687
Format: Paperback
$77.63

A highly illustrated book with engaging new essays, published to accompany the first major exhibition for many years...  Read More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 >>

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