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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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  • Why the Romantics Matter
    Yale University Press

    Why the Romantics Matter

    Peter Gay Hardcover | 13.34 x 1.75 x 19.69 cm | 224 pp Yale University Press | 2015 | 9780300144291  Why the Romantics Matter is a renowned scholar’s reflections on the romantic period, its disparate participants, and our unacknowledged debt to them. With his...
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  • From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962
    Duke University Press

    From a Nation Torn: Decolonizing Art and Representation in France, 1945-1962

    Hannah Feldman Softcover | 17.78 x 1.91 x 25.4 cm | 336 pp Duke University Press | 2014 | 9780822353713 From a Nation Torn provides a powerful critique of art history's understanding of French modernism and the historical circumstances that shaped its production and reception. Within...
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  • Peggy Guggenheim And Nelly Van Doesburg: Advocates Of De StijlPeggy Guggenheim And Nelly Van Doesburg: Advocates Of De Stijl
    NAI Publishers

    Peggy Guggenheim And Nelly Van Doesburg: Advocates Of De Stijl

    Doris Wintgens Softcover | 19.56 x 1.52 x 25.91 cm | 192 pp NAI Publishers | 2017 | 9789462084100 Peggy Guggenheim (1898-1979) and Nelly van Doesburg (1899-1975) were vital participants in the De Stijl movement, promoting, exhibiting and buying De Stijl at a time when...
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  • Flowers in a Vase with a Clump of Cyclamen and Precious Stones: A Gem of a Painting by Jan Brueghel I (1568-1625)Flowers in a Vase with a Clump of Cyclamen and Precious Stones: A Gem of a Painting by Jan Brueghel I (1568-1625)
    Hannibal Publishing

    Flowers in a Vase with a Clump of Cyclamen and Precious Stones: A Gem of a Painting by Jan Brueghel I (1568-1625)

    Sven Van Dorst Softcover | 14.76 x 1.02 x 21.16 cm | 77 pp Hannibal Books | 2022 | 9789464366488  Flowers in a Vase with a Clump of Cyclamen and Precious Stones is a masterpiece by one of the most important painters from the late 16th...
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  • Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and RivalryVermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry
    Yale University Press

    Vermeer and the Masters of Genre Painting: Inspiration and Rivalry

    Hardcover | 29.46 x 25.4 x 2.79 cm | 320 pp Yale University Press | 2017 | 9780300222937 The genre painting of the Dutch Golden Age between 1650 and 1675 ranks among the highest pinnacles of Western European art.  The virtuosity of these works,...
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  • Miró Engraver: Catalogue Raisonné Volume III - 1973-1975 (includes 2 woodcuts)Miró Engraver: Catalogue Raisonné Volume III - 1973-1975 (includes 2 woodcuts)
    Lelong Editions

    Miró Engraver: Catalogue Raisonné Volume III - 1973-1975 (includes 2 woodcuts)

    Hardcover in slipcase | 25.8 x 32.6 | 241 pp  Lelong Editions | 1991 | 9782855872006 Linen with dust jacket in cardboard slipcase English language limited edition of 2000 numbered copies Includes two original woodcuts bound into the book and especially executed by Miró for...
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  • Miró Engraver: Catalogue Raisonné Volume IV - 1976-1983 (includes 2 woodcuts)Miró Engraver: Catalogue Raisonné Volume IV - 1976-1983 (includes 2 woodcuts)
    Lelong Editions

    Miró Engraver: Catalogue Raisonné Volume IV - 1976-1983 (includes 2 woodcuts)

    Hardcover in slipcase | 25.8 x 32.6 | 241 pp Lelong Editions | 2021 | 9782868820440 Linen in cardboard slipcase with dust jacket Includes two original woodcuts bound into the book and especially executed by Miró for this book The fourth and final volume of...
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  • The Nazi Perpetrator: Postwar German Art and the Politics of the RightThe Nazi Perpetrator: Postwar German Art and the Politics of the Right
    University of Minnesota Press

    The Nazi Perpetrator: Postwar German Art and the Politics of the Right

    Paul B. Jascot Softcover | 17.78 x 2.29 x 25.4 cm | 288 pp University of Minnesota Press | 2012 | 9780816678259 This book presents a fundamental reevaluation of pivotal developments in postwar German art and architecture against the backdrop of contentious contemporary debates over the Nazi past...
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  • Beyond the Face: New Perspectives on PortraitureBeyond the Face: New Perspectives on Portraiture
    D Giles

    Beyond the Face: New Perspectives on Portraiture

    Wendy Wick Reaves Hardcover | 24.38 x 3.56 x 26.67 cm | 328 pp D Giles | 2018 | 9781911282204 Is there more to portraiture than eyes meeting eyes? Beyond the Face: New Perspectives on Portraiture presents sixteen essays by leading scholars who explore...
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  • The Pop Revolution: How an Unlikely Concatenation of Artists, Aficionados, Businessmen, Critics, Curators, Collectors, Dealers, and Hangers-On Radically Transformed the Art WorldThe Pop Revolution: How an Unlikely Concatenation of Artists, Aficionados, Businessmen, Critics, Curators, Collectors, Dealers, and Hangers-On Radically Transformed the Art World
    Museum Of Fine Arts Boston

    The Pop Revolution: How an Unlikely Concatenation of Artists, Aficionados, Businessmen, Critics, Curators, Collectors, Dealers, and Hangers-On Radically Transformed the Art World

    Alice G. Marquis  Hardcover | 15.75 x 2.29 x 23.37 cm | 232 pp | 16 colour illustrations Museum of Fine Arts Boston | 2010 | 9780878467440 This book is a social history of Pop art, a group portrait of both the artists and the...
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  • Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg: Art, Happenings, and Cultural PoliticsAllan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg: Art, Happenings, and Cultural Politics
    Yale University Press

    Allan Kaprow and Claes Oldenburg: Art, Happenings, and Cultural Politics

    Robert E. Haywood Hardcover | 27.43 x 22.61 x 2.03 cm | 224 pp Yale University Press | 2017 | 9780300222609 This new interpretation of the structure and meaning of the Happenings produced by Allan Kaprow (1927–2006) and Claes Oldenburg (b. 1929) in the late...
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  • El Greco (Carnet d'expo)El Greco (Carnet d'expo)
    Editions Gallimard

    El Greco (Carnet d'expo)

    Charlotte Chastel-Rousseau Hardcover | 12.5 x 17.5 x 1 cm | 64 pp Editions Gallimard | 2019 | 9782072877094 Published in conjunction with the El Greco exhibition at Galeries Nationales du Grand Palais in Paris. For a pocket size book, this really punches above it's...
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  • Has Modernism Failed? (Revised Edition)Has Modernism Failed? (Revised Edition)
    Thames & Hudson

    Has Modernism Failed? (Revised Edition)

    Suzi Gablik Softcover | 15.75 x 1.27 x 23.62 cm | 168 pp Thames & Hudson | 2004 | 9780500284841 In 1984, Suzi Gablik's Has Modernism Failed? was one of the first books to confront the social situation of contemporary art. In describing a world whose central...
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