Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus books

2102 books were found.

Beyond Painting

Beyond Painting

Author: Max Ernst
ISBN: 9781840686883
Format: Paperback
$33.51

Alongside Salvador Dali and Andre Breton, Max Ernst (1891-1976) remains one of the most famous names to be associated...  Read More >>

Daniel Crews-Chubb: Out of Chaos

Daniel Crews-Chubb: Out of Chaos

Author: Jennifer Higgie ,  Matthew James Holman
ISBN: 9781910221617
Format: Hardback
$170.00

Daniel Crews-Chubb (b.1984) is a London-based painter whose mixed-media works wrestle with the human condition and...  Read More >>

Naturalism's Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic Nineteenth Century

Naturalism's Imaginary Museum, French Art, and the Eclectic...

Author: Sara Pappas
ISBN: 9781487549008
Format: Hardback
$145.00

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German Expressionism: The Artist Group Brücke and the Dawning of Modernism

German Expressionism: The Artist Group Brücke and the...

Author: Iris Müller-Westermann ,  Meike Hoffmann
ISBN: 9783777443973
Format: Paperback
$85.00

In a time like our own, where a young generation feels a great need to change our way of living, thinking and organizing...  Read More >>

Organic Modernism: From the British Bauhaus to Cybernetics

Organic Modernism: From the British Bauhaus to Cybernetics...

Author: Dr. Charissa N. Terranova (University of Texas at Dallas, USA)
ISBN: 9781350227538
Format: Hardback
$190.00

When artists, scientists, and designers unite they create new ways of thinking and alternative paths to problem...  Read More >>

The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American Art, 1876-1917

The Dance of Life: Figure and Imagination in American...

Author: Mark D. Mitchell ,  Josephine W. Rodgers
ISBN: 9780300256451
Format: Hardback
$103.95

An exploration of the human figure and artistic imagination in public art of the American Renaissance, from the...  Read More >>

Van Gogh: Sunflowers

Van Gogh: Sunflowers

Author: Martin Gayford
ISBN: 9781857097290
Format: Paperback
$26.95

Introducing a masterpiece from the National Gallery’s collection, this compact and beautifully illustrated book...  Read More >>

Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time

Mies van der Rohe: An Architect in His Time

Author: Dietrich Neumann
ISBN: 9780300246230
Format: Hardback
$124.95

A landmark survey, offering a nuanced and deeply researched account of the career and life of the iconic modern...  Read More >>

The Dominion of Flowers: Botanical Art and Global Plant Relations

The Dominion of Flowers: Botanical Art and Global Plant...

Author: Mark Laird
ISBN: 9781913107451
Format: Hardback
$72.95

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Exile on Main Street

Exile on Main Street

Author: Alvaro Velasco Perez
ISBN: 9781919624594
Format: Paperback
$84.48

The discipline of architecture is only starting to revise its understanding of the desert as tabula rasa, opening...  Read More >>

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 >>

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 >>

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 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 >>

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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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 >>

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