Art & design styles: Modernist design & Bauhaus books

An engaging look at early twentieth-century American printmaking, which frequently focused on the crowded, chaotic,...  Read More >>

Als Berlin zur Groastadt wurde: Vor genau 100 Jahren, im April 1920, beschloss die Preuaische Landesversammlung...  Read More >>

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Pierre-Auguste Renoir was one of the foremost Impressionist artists, known for his en plein air scenes of middle-class...  Read More >>

In this beautifully illustrated book, Ann Sumner explores the life of this prodigious painter and the subjects that...  Read More >>

He did not paint his pictures; it was like he exhaled them in a gasping, boiling breath - Julius Meier-Graef Van...  Read More >>

Gustav Klimt's exotic, sensuous paintings recall the art of ancient civilizations - their patterns and ornamentation...  Read More >>

Gathered from early twentieth-century Italian magazines, manuscripts, correspondence, television recordings, and...  Read More >>

In the words of Matisse and Picasso, Paul Cézanne was the 'father of us all', his approach to color and perspective...  Read More >>

"""Fret-Sawing For Pleasure And Profit (How To Use The Fret-Saw, by An Old Amateur)"",1877 published by Henry T....  Read More >>

By examining the studios and studio-houses used by British artists between 1900 and 1940, this book reveals the...  Read More >>

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Als der Tanz im frühen 20. Jahrhundert zunehmend von modernen und außereuropäischen Einflüssen geprägt wurde, stellte...  Read More >>

In 1919, the state art school in Weimar was re-opened under the direction of Walter Gropius, with a radical new...  Read More >>

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Modern Management Methods asks how the value of a building is produced through instruments of expertise, management...  Read More >>

Kaum ein architekturtheoretisches Werk hat das Ringen um die Gestaltung des Sakralraums im 20. Jahrhundert mehr...  Read More >>

Unabridged value reproduction of Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass. The passionate man labeled as the...  Read More >>

Upon its publication in 1845, Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave, Written by Himself...  Read More >>

The June a+u issue features Adolf Loos with guest editor Prof. Yoshio Sakurai who spent 12 years visiting every...  Read More >>

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English summary: Numerous excellently trained architects shaped the reconstruction of cities destroyed by World...  Read More >>

An original study of Gauguin’s writings, unfolding their central role in his artistic practice and negotiation of...  Read More >>

From her early monumental targets, through canvases studded with real shells and starfish, to her recent neon-appended...  Read More >>