History of art & design styles: from c 1900 - books

26259 books were found.

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 >>

How Photography Became Contemporary Art: Inside an Artistic Revolution from Pop to the Digital Age

How Photography Became Contemporary Art: Inside an Artistic...

Author: Andy Grundberg
ISBN: 9780300276756
Format: Paperback
$51.95

A leading critic’s acclaimed story of “the photo boom” during the crucial decades of the 1970s and ’80s  Read More >>

Munch, Mega Square

Munch, Mega Square

Author: Elisabeth Ingles
ISBN: 9781783105885
Format: Hardback
$20.67

Edvard Munch (1863-1944), a Norwegian painter involved in Expressionism, was so attached to his work that he called...  Read More >>

Millard Meiss, American Art History, and Conservation: From Connoisseurship to Iconology and Kulturgeschichte

Millard Meiss, American Art History, and Conservation:...

Author: Jennifer Cooke (University of Turin)
ISBN: 9780367550080
Format: Paperback
$83.99

A member of the art history generation from the golden age of the 1920s and 30s, Millard Meiss (1904-1975) developed...  Read More >>

A Sourcebook of Performance Labor: Activators, Activists, Archives, All

A Sourcebook of Performance Labor: Activators, Activists,...

Author: Joey Orr
ISBN: 9781032303253
Format: Paperback
$83.99

A Sourcebook of Performance Labor presents the views and experiences of collaborators in other artists’ works.  Read More >>

'Arbeit Macht Frei': Representations and Meanings in Art

'Arbeit Macht Frei': Representations and Meanings in...

Author: Batya Brutin
ISBN: 9783111153117
Format: Hardback
$275.00

Arbeit Macht Frei befasst sich mit den verschiedenen Darstellungen, Bedeutungen und Interpretationen des berüchtigten...  Read More >>

The Sculpture of Alfred Gruber and Jacqueline Stieger: A Shared Language

The Sculpture of Alfred Gruber and Jacqueline Stieger:...

Author: Gerardine Mulcahy-Parker
ISBN: 9781848225855
Format: Hardback
$130.00

For sculptors Alfred Gruber (1931-1972) and Jacqueline Stieger (b.1936), their meeting in 1962 marked the start...  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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Why Surrealism Matters

Why Surrealism Matters

Author: Mark Polizzotti
ISBN: 9780300257090
Format: Hardback
$34.95

An elegant consideration of the Surrealist movement as a global phenomenon and why the movement continues to resonate...  Read More >>

Ancient Art and Ritual

Ancient Art and Ritual

Author: Jane Ellen Harrison
ISBN: 9781835912713
Format: Paperback
$34.29

Harrison vividly describes how Greek theater, deeply embedded in religious practice, served as both an act of worship...  Read More >>

Discovering Degas: Collecting in the Time of William Burrell

Discovering Degas: Collecting in the Time of William...

Author: Frances Fowle (University of Edinburgh, UK) ,  Dr Martin Bellamy
ISBN: 9781781301296
Format: Paperback
$39.99

A colourful illustrated catalogue for Glasgow Life's 2024 'Discovering Degas' Exhibition, highlighting items by...  Read More >>

Interior Garden (Bilingual edition): Hannah Höch, Scott Roben, Johanna Tiedtke

Interior Garden (Bilingual edition): Hannah Höch, Scott...

Author: Leah Pires ,  Alhena Katsof
ISBN: 9783775750905
Format: Paperback
$69.99

In the Magic Garden At the beginning of World War II, Dada artist Hannah Höch (1889-1978) retreated to a secluded...  Read More >>

Gerecht und fair?: Bausteine eines Verfahrens im Sinne der Washingtoner Prinzipien

Gerecht und fair?: Bausteine eines Verfahrens im Sinne...

Author: Antonetta Stephany
ISBN: 9783111375311
Format: Paperback
$232.88

"Im Jahr 1998 unterzeichnen 42 Staaten die Washingtoner Prinzipien. Es werden ""gerechte und faire Lösungen"" gefordert...  Read More >>

Ausgleichsleistungen für Kulturgüterverluste während der Zeit des Nationalsozialismus in Frankreich

Ausgleichsleistungen für Kulturgüterverluste während...

Author: Johannes von Lintig
ISBN: 9783110791235
Format: Paperback
$257.46

In 1998, France was one of the 44 signatory states of the Washington Declaration. This study examines to what extent...  Read More >>

Being and Neonness: Translation and content revised, augmented, and updated for this edition by Luis  de Miranda

Being and Neonness: Translation and content revised,...

Author: Luis De Miranda ,  Michael Wells
ISBN: 9780262551984
Format: Paperback
$44.99

"A cultural and philosophical history of neon, from Paris in the twentieth century to the perpetually switched-on...  Read More >>

Surrealism and Psychoanalysis in Grace Pailthorpe's Life and Work

Surrealism and Psychoanalysis in Grace Pailthorpe's...

Author: Lee Ann Montanaro ,  Alberto Stefana
ISBN: 9781032731643
Format: Hardback
$103.00

This book outlines the life and intellectual thought of the English surrealist artist and psychoanalyst, Dr Grace...  Read More >>

A Socialist Realist History?: Writing Art History in the Post-War Decades

A Socialist Realist History?: Writing Art History in...

Author: Marina Dmitrieva ,  Milena Bartlovà
ISBN: 9783412511616
Format: Hardback
$119.00

How did the Eastern European and Soviet states write their respective histories of art and architecture during 1940sâ...  Read More >>

Design Strategies in Architecture: Collage, from Paper to Digital

Design Strategies in Architecture: Collage, from Paper...

Author: Anna Rosellini ,  Mariabruna Fabrizi
ISBN: 9782889154883
Format: Paperback
$82.95

A groundbreaking and interdisciplinary work on architectural collage.   Design Strategies in Architecture collects...  Read More >>

Architecture of an Existential Threat

Architecture of an Existential Threat

Author: Danielle Spera ,  Adam Reynolds
ISBN: 9783903462076
Format: Hardback
$79.20

"- This is the first book which offers a broad cultural and geographical typology of shelter spaces in Israel -...  Read More >>

Art and Commerce in Late Imperial Russia: The Peredvizhniki, a Partnership of Artists

Art and Commerce in Late Imperial Russia: The Peredvizhniki,...

Author: Dr Andrey Shabanov (Research Fellow and Lecturer, European University at Saint Petersburg, Russia)
ISBN: 9781350435797
Format: Paperback
$59.99

Andrey Shabanov’s seminal reinterpretation of the Peredvizhniki is a comprehensive study that examines in-depth...  Read More >>

Neutra and Brazil

Neutra and Brazil

Author: Fernanda Critelli ,  Abilio Guerra
ISBN: 9781946070401
Format: Paperback
$66.00

"In the preface to the Spanish edition of Survival Through Design, Neutra states that he felt culturally ""familiar...  Read More >>

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