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  • Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative CultureMaking Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture
    MIT Press

    Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture

    W. Patrick McCray Hardcover | 18.42 x 2.9 x 23.5 cm | 344 pp MIT Press | 2020 | 9780262044257 Artwork as opposed to experiment? Engineer versus artist? We often see two different cultural realms separated by impervious walls. But some fifty years ago, the...
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  • The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth CenturyThe World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century
    Thames & Hudson

    The World New Made: Figurative Painting in the Twentieth Century

    Timothy Hyman Hardcover | 20.07 x 2.79 x 26.92 cm | 256 pp Thames & Hudson | 2016 | 9780500239452 In this passionate reappraisal of figurative painting, the distinguished writer and artist Timothy Hyman cuts a new path through the tangle of twentieth century art....
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  • Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern ArtInto the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art
    Prestel

    Into the Night: Cabarets and Clubs in Modern Art

    Florence Ostende & Lotte Johnson Hardcover | 23.98 x 3.33 x 31.45 cm | 320 pp Prestel | 2019 | 9783791358888 These creative spaces were incubators of radical thinking, in which artists could exchange provocative ideas. They were welcoming environments for artists, dancers, designers, writers, and...
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  • 100 Ideas that Changed Art100 Ideas that Changed Art
    Laurence King

    100 Ideas that Changed Art

    Michael Bird Softcover | 17.02 x 1.78 x 21.59 cm | 216 pp Laurence King | 2019 | 9781786273888  From the earliest cave paintings through to the internet and street art, this inspiring book chronicles the 100 most influential ideas that have shaped the world...
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  • Walter Crane (The Illustrators series)Walter Crane (The Illustrators series)
    Thames & Hudson

    Walter Crane (The Illustrators series)

    Jenny Uglow Hardcover | 19.56 x 1.78 x 25.4 cm | 112 pp Thames & Hudson | 2019 | 9780500022627  Jenny Uglow narrates the story of Walter Crane, an intriguing and most prolific figure not only in illustration, but in political culture more broadly. Uglow...
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  • Barnaby Barford: The Apple is EverythingBarnaby Barford: The Apple is Everything
    ACC Art Books

    Barnaby Barford: The Apple is Everything

    Softcover | 17.02 x 2.64 x 23.65 cm | 288 pp ACC Art Books | 2022 | 9781788841641 In The Apple is Everything, sculptor Barnaby Barford offers a celebration of this fruit using over 240 illustrations and photographs of apples, illustrating their place within...
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  • Radical Geometry: Modern Art of South AmericaRadical Geometry: Modern Art of South America
    RA

    Radical Geometry: Modern Art of South America

    Hardcover | 24.13 x 2.54 x 27.94 cm | 176 pp RA | 2014 | 9781907533693 From radical innovations in the use of colour and form to new materials like neon and interactive, kinetic sculpture, this 2014 Royal Academy exhibition presented some of the...
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  • Paolo Veronese: A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance VenicePaolo Veronese: A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice
    Scala

    Paolo Veronese: A Master and His Workshop in Renaissance Venice

    Hardcover | 26.54 x 2.84 x 28.93 cm | 288 pp Scala | 2012 | 9781857597660 Paolo Veronese offers new accessibly-written scholarship from leading scholars in the field. The book features famous works from American collections including the National Gallery of Art, the J. Paul...
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  • El GrecoEl Greco
    Yale University Press

    El Greco

    Xavier Bray Softcover | 21.59 x 1.27 x 27.31 cm | 48 pp Yale University Press | 2004 | 9781857093155 This introduction to El Greco (1541-1614) was published to coincide with the El Greco exhibition at the National Gallery, London (11th February - 23rd May, 2004)....
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  • Baroque Pathways: The National Galleries Barberini Corsini in RomeBaroque Pathways: The National Galleries Barberini Corsini in Rome
    Prestel

    Baroque Pathways: The National Galleries Barberini Corsini in Rome

    Hardcover | 25 x 3 x 31 cm | 264 pp Prestel | 2019 | 9783791368795 Featuring major works from Caravaggio and his circle and the Italian Baroque period, this lavishly illustrated book looks at Rome as the centre of European culture in the...
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  • Origins, Invention, Revision: Studying the History of Art and ArchitectureOrigins, Invention, Revision: Studying the History of Art and Architecture
    Yale University Press

    Origins, Invention, Revision: Studying the History of Art and Architecture

    James S. Ackerman Hardcover | 25.15 x 17.27 x 1.78 cm | 232 pp Yale University Press | 2016 | 9780300218718 One of the most distinguished scholars in the fields of architectural history and theory today, James Sloss Ackerman is best known for his work...
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  • Making Strange: The Modernist Photobook in FranceMaking Strange: The Modernist Photobook in France
    Yale University Press

    Making Strange: The Modernist Photobook in France

    Kim Sichel Hardcover | 22.23 x 2.54 x 28.7 cm | 224 pp Yale University Press | 2020 | 9780300246186 A richly illustrated look at some of the most important photobooks of the 20th century.France experienced a golden age of photobook production from the late...
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  • Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time (Softcover edition)Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time (Softcover edition)
    Faber & Faber

    Sybil & Cyril: Cutting through Time (Softcover edition)

    Jenny Uglow Softcover | 12.9 x 2.6 x 19.8 cm | 398 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571354160 In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years....
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  • Spellbound by Marcel: Duchamp, Love, and ArtSpellbound by Marcel: Duchamp, Love, and Art
    Pegasus

    Spellbound by Marcel: Duchamp, Love, and Art

    Ruth Brandon Hardcover | 13.97 x 2.79 x 20.96 cm | 352 pp Pegasus | 2022 | 9781643138619  In 1913 Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase exploded through the American art world.  This is the story of how he followed the painting to New York two...
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  • The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930sThe Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s
    MFA Publications

    The Brittle Decade: Visualizing Japan in the 1930s

    Hardcover | 23.62 x 2.54 x 24.64 cm | 208 pp MFA Publications | 2012 | 9780878467693  Modernity took many forms in 1930s Japan, but in the tumultuous years before militarism pushed the country toward global aggression, it was most visibly associated with a...
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  • Revelations: Art from the African American SouthRevelations: Art from the African American South
    Prestel

    Revelations: Art from the African American South

    Timothy Anglin Burgard Hardcover | 22.56 x 1.91 x 26.67 cm | 184 pp Prestel | 2018 | 9783791357171 While the self-taught artists featured in this groundbreaking catalogue were born in the Jim Crow period of institutionalised racism, their works embody the promise and attainment...
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  • Matisse as PrintmakerMatisse as Printmaker
    American Federation of Arts

    Matisse as Printmaker

    Jay McKean Fisher & William S. Lieberman Softcover | 17 x 0.9 x 21.5 cm | 90 pp American Federation of Arts | 2009 | 9781885444387 The catalogue of the first comprehensive exhibition on the printmaking of the great French artist Henri Matisse.  The...
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  • Vermeer (Art & Ideas)Vermeer (Art & Ideas)
    Phaidon

    Vermeer (Art & Ideas)

    Wayne Frantis Softcover | 16.19 x 1.91 x 21.91 cm | 352 pp Phaidon | 2015 | 9780714868790 In this monograph, from Phaidon's Art and Ideas series, Wayne Franits examines the work of Vermeer within the framework of his times, one of the most intellectually creative...
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  • Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black PowerMounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power
    Duke University Press

    Mounting Frustration: The Art Museum in the Age of Black Power

    Susan E. Cahan Hardcover | 19.05 x 3.18 x 26.04 cm | 360 pp Duke University Press | 2016 | 9780822358978 In Mounting Frustration Susan E. Cahan investigates the strategies African American artists and museum professionals employed as they wrangled over access to and the direction of...
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  • The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western HemisphereThe Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere
    Pennsylvania State University Press

    The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere

    Softcover | 17.78 x 3.1 x 24.13 cm | 384 pp Pennsylvania State University Press | 2006 | 9780271026916  During the 1930s, American artists such as Ben Shahn developed a mode of representation generally known as Social Realism. This term is given broad new...
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