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Twentieth-Century Art
All titles (1998 to the present) in Recent Books in the Arts.
American Glamour and the Evolution of Modern Architecture.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2010.
40 color ills.; 125 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300116540)
Clement Greenberg: A Critic’s Collection.
Princeton University Press,
2000.
180 pp.; 220 b/w ills.
Cloth
$49.95
(0691090491)
Einhundertjähriges Jubiläum des Kunsthistorischen Institutes in Florenz 1897-1997.
Firenze:
Edizioni Tassinari,
1998.
183 pp.; 23 color ills.; 36 b/w ills.
Paper
Maillol and Dina.
Marlborough Fine Art,
2000.
63 pp.; some color ills.; some b/w ills.
Paper
Masterworks of American Sculpture: Selections from the Members of the National Scultpure Society, 1875-1999.
Exh. cat.
Scottsdale, AZ:
FFCA Publishing Company in association with Fleischer Museum,
1998.
144 pp.; many b/w ills.
(0961788283)
René Magritte: Der Schlüssel der Träume.
Vienna:
BA-CA Kunstforum in association with Fondation Beyeler,
2004.
204 pp.; 111 color ills.; 24 b/w ills.
Paper
$30.00
Surrealism: Two Private Eyes; The Nesuhi Ertegun and Daniel Filipacchi Collections.
Guggenheim Museum in association with Harry N. Abrams,
1998.
894 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills.
Cloth
(0810969211)
The Picasso Book: Essential Artists.
London:
Tate Publishing,
2010.
Many color ills.
Cloth
$29.95
(97818554378439)
Work Ethic.
Exh. cat.
Baltimore and University Park:
Baltimore Museum of Art in association with Pennsylvania State University Press,
2002.
248 pp.; 114 color ills.
$29.95
(0271023341)
Brand, Victor.
In Numbers: Serial Publications by Artists Since 1955.
Eds. Philip E. Aarons and Andrew Roth.
New York:
JRP Ringier in association with PPP Editions,
2010.
440 pp.; 460 color ills.; 14 b/w ills.
Cloth
$90.00
(9780971548077)
Abbott, Brett, ed.
Edward Weston's Book of Nudes.
Exh. cat.
Los Angeles and Tucson:
The J. Paul Getty Museum in association with Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona,
2007.
96 pp.; 1 color ills.; 70 b/w ills.
Cloth
$39.95
(9780892369034)
Abbott, Brett.
Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography Since the Sixties.
Exh. cat.
Los Angeles:
Getty Publications,
2010.
70 color ills.; 175 b/w ills.
Cloth
$49.95
(9781606060223)
Aberth, Susan L.
Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art.
Lund Humphries,
160 pp.; 95 color ills.; 25 b/w ills.
$60.00
(0853319081)
Abramowicz, Janet.
Giorgio Morandi: The Art of Silence.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2004.
288 pp.; 41 color ills.; 71 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(0300100361)
Abramson, Daniel M.
Skyscraper Rivals: The AIG Building and the Architecture of Wall Street.
Princeton:
Princeton Architectural Press,
2000.
207 pp.; 76 color ills.; 100 b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(1568992445)
Abt, Jeffrey.
A Museum on the Verge: A Socioeconomic History of the Detroit Institute of Arts 1882 to 2000.
Detroit:
Wayne State University Press,
2000.
315 pp.; 0 color ills.; 27 b/w ills.; 0 ills.
Cloth
$29.95
(0814328415)
Acconci, Vito.
Language to Cover a Page: The Early Writings of Vito Acconci.
Ed. Craig Dworkin.
MIT Press,
2005.
411 pp.; 15 b/w ills.
Cloth
$34.95
(0262012243)
Acton, David.
60 Years of North American Prints.
Boston:
Boston Printmakers,
2009.
200 pp.; Many color ills.
Cloth
$42.50
(9780615312361)
Acton, David, David Amram, and David Lehman.
The Stamp of Impulse: Abstract Expressionist Prints.
Hudson Hills Press in association with Worcester Art Museum,
1999.
296 pp.; 109 color ills.; 43 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(1555952135)
Adams, Robert.
Along Some Rivers: Photographs and Conversations.
Aperture Foundation,
2005.
112 pp.; 28 b/w ills.
Cloth
$24.95
(1597110043)
Adams, Henry.
Andrew Wyeth: Master Drawings from the Artist's Collection.
Exh. cat.
Chadds Ford, Pa.:
Brandywine River Museum,
2005.
108 pp.; 52 b/w ills.
$29.95
(0295986158)
Adams, Steven, and Anna Gruetzner Robins.
Gendering Landscape Art.
Rutgers University Press,
2000.
272 pp.; 32 b/w ills.
Paper
$28.00
(0813529751)
Adams, Annmarie.
Medicine by Design: The Architect and the Modern Hospital, 1893–1943.
Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press,
2009.
240 pp.; 90 b/w ills.
Paper
$27.50
(9780816651146)
Adams, Bruce.
Rustic Cubism: Anne Dangar and the Art Colony at Moly-Sabata.
University of Chicago Press,
2004.
284 pp.; 24 color ills.; 150 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(0226005321)
Adams, Henry.
Tom and Jack: The Intertwined Lives of Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock.
New York:
Bloomsbury Press,
2009.
416 pp.; many color ills.
Cloth
$35.00
(9781596914209)
Adams, Henry.
Viktor Schreckengost and 20th-Century Design.
Exh. cat.
University of Washington Press in association with The Cleveland Museum of Art,
2000.
192 pp.; 176 color ills.
$40.00
(064071762X)
Adamson, Walter L.
Embattled Avant-Gardes: Modernism's Resistance to Commodity Culture in Europe.
Berkeley and Los Angeles:
University of California Press,
2007.
448 pp.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780520252707)
Adamson, Natalie.
Painting, Politics and the Struggle for the École de Paris, 1944–1964.
Burlington, Vt.:
Ashgate,
2009.
330 pp.; 60 b/w ills.
Cloth
$124.95
(9780754659280)
Addiss, Stephen.
Old Taoist: The Life, Art, and Poetry of Kodojin (1865–1944).
Trans. Jonathan Chaves.
Columbia University Press,
1999.
174 pp.; some b/w ills.
Cloth
$27.50
(023111656X)
Ades, Dawn, ed.
The Dada Reader: A Critical Anthology.
University of Chicago Press and Tate Britain,
2005.
320 pp.; 50 b/w ills.
Paper
$25.00
(0226006980)
Ades, Dawn, ed.
Dalí.
Exh. cat.
Philadelphia:
Rizzoli in association with Philadelphia Museum of Art,
2003.
560 pp.; 500 ills.
(0847826732)
Ades, Dawn.
Dalí’s Optical Illusions.
New Haven:
Yale University Press in association with Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art,
1999.
196 pp.; 109 color ills.; 61 b/w ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(0300081774)
Ades, Dawn, Neil Cox, and David Hopkins.
Marcel Duchamp.
Thames & Hudson,
1998.
224 pp.; 42 color ills.; 122 b/w ills.
Paper
$14.95
(0500203229)
Ades, Dawn, and Simon Baker.
Undercover Surrealism: Georges Bataille and DOCUMENTS.
Exh. cat.
MIT Press,
2005.
272 pp.; 180 color ills.; 20 b/w ills.
$38.00
(0262012308)
Adler, Jeremy, and Birgit Sander, eds.
Marie-Louise von Motesiczky: 1906–1996.
Exh. cat.
New York and Munich:
Prestel,
2007.
264 pp.; 140 color ills.; 25 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9783791336930)
Adler, Kathleen.
Mary Cassatt Prints.
Yale University Press,
2005.
32 pp.; 21 color ills.; 3 b/w ills.
Paper
$12.95
(1857093127)
Adrian, Dennis, Richard A. Born, and Michael Rooks.
See America First: The Prints of H.C. Westermann.
University of Chicago Press,
2000.
200 pp.; 120 color ills.; 20 b/w ills.
Paper
$35.00
(0935573348)
Adriani, Götz.
Renoir: Oil Paintings, 1860-1917.
Yale University Press,
1998.
328 pp.; 117 color ills.; 65 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(0300074875)
Affron, Matthew.
Fernand Léger: Contrasts of Form.
Exh. cat.
Charlottesville:
University of Virginia Art Museum,
2007.
48 pp.; 17 color ills.
Paper
$15.95
(9780970616332)
Agee, William C., and Susan C. Faxon.
Coming of Age: American Art, 1850s to 1950s.
Exh. cat.
American Federation of Arts in association with Yale University Press,
2005.
136 pp.; 78 color ills.; 7 b/w ills.
$50.00
(0300115237)
Agee, William C.
Ralston Crawford (1906-1978).
Salander-O’Reilly Galleries,
2000.
56 pp.; 21 color ills.
Paper
(1588210995)
Aichele, Kathryn Porter.
Paul Klee, Poet/Painter.
Studies in German Literature Linguistics and Culture.
Rochester, N.Y.:
Camden House,
2006.
232 pp.; 47 b/w ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9781571133434)
Alarcó, Paloma, and Malcolm Warner.
The Mirror and the Mask: Portraiture in the Age of Picasso.
Exh. cat.
New Haven and London and Fort Worth, Tex.:
Yale University Press in association with Kimbell Art Museum,
2007.
352 pp.; 220 color ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780300122510)
Albee, Edward, and Raphael Rubinstein.
Heide Fasnacht: Strange Attractors.
Exh. cat.
Richmond, Va.:
Anderson Gallery, Virginia Commonwealth University,
2004.
48 pp.; 16 color ills.; 4 b/w ills.
Paper
$25.00
(0935519262)
Alberro, Alexander, and Sabeth Buchmann, eds.
Art after Conceptual Art.
Vienna:
Generali Foundation,
2005.
240 pp.; 40 b/w ills.
Paper
$30.00
(0262511959)
Albers, Josef.
Interaction of Color: Revised and Expanded Edition.
Yale University Press,
2005.
160 pp.; 40 color ills.; 16 b/w ills.
Paper
$15.00
(0300115954)
Albers, Josef.
Poems and Drawings.
Exh. cat.
Yale University Press,
2005.
80 pp.; 22 b/w ills.
$19.95
(0300120338)
Albright, Daniel.
Untwisting the Serpent: Modernism in Music, Literature, and Other Arts.
University of Chicago Press,
1999.
395 pp.; 37 b/w ills.
Paper
$25.00
(0226012549)
Lane, Anthony, and Richard Morphet.
Howard Hodgkin: Paintings 1992–2007.
Eds. Julia Marciari Alexander and David Scrase.
New Haven:
Yale Center for British Art and Yale University Press,
2007.
192 pp.; 100 color ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780300123203)
Alinder, Jasmine.
Moving Images: Photography and the Japanese American Incarceration.
Champaign:
University of Illinois Press,
2010.
232 pp.; 43 b/w ills.
Cloth
$40.00
(9780252033988)
Allmer, Patricia, and Hilde Van Gelder, eds.
Collective Inventions: Surrealism in Belgium.
Leuven, Belgium:
Leuven University Press,
2007.
247 pp.; few color ills.; many b/w ills.
Paper
$24.50
(9789058675927)
Alofsin, Anthony, ed.
A Modernist Museum in Perspective: The East Building, National Gallery of Art.
Washington D.C.:
National Gallery of Art, Washington,
2009.
248 pp.; 58 color ills.; 207 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300121599)
Alofsin, Anthony.
When Buildings Speak: Architecture as Language in the Habsburg Empire and Its Aftermath, 1867–1933.
University of Chicago Press,
2005.
300 pp.; 158 color ills.; 52 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(0226015068)
Altshuler, Bruce.
Salon to Biennial: Exhibitions that Made Art History; Volume 1, 1863–1959.
London:
Phaidon,
2009.
410 pp.; 180 color ills.; 322 b/w ills.
Cloth
$90.00
(9780714844053)
Ambrosino, Giancarlo, Chris Kraus, Hedi El Kholti, Justin Cavin, and Sylvère Lotringer, eds.
David Wojnarowicz: A Definitive History of Five or Six Years on the Lower East Side.
Semiotext(e),
2006.
220 pp.
Hardback
(9781584350354)
Ames, Eric.
Carl Hagenbeck's Empire of Entertainments.
Seattle:
University of Washington Press,
2009.
376 pp.; 14 color ills.; 71 b/w ills.
Paper
$35.00
(9780295988337)
Amick, Alison B., Linda Chase, Susan P. Casteras, and Hardy S. George.
Shining Spirit: Westheimer Family Collection.
Oklahoma City:
Oklahoma City Museum of Art,
2008.
140 pp.; 87 color ills.
Paper
$25.00
(9780911919073)
Amidi, Amid.
Cartoon Modern: Style and Design in Fifties Animation.
San Francisco:
Chronicle Books,
2005.
200 pp.; 250 ills.
Cloth
$40.00
(0811847314)
Amory, Dita, ed.
Pierre Bonnard: The Late Still Lifes and Interiors.
Exh. cat.
New York:
Metropolitan Museum of Art,
2009.
208 pp.; 125 color ills.; 16 b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9780300148893)
Anderson, Walter.
Illustrations of Epic and Voyage.
Jackson:
University of Mississippi Press,
2005.
152 pp.; 120 b/w ills.
Cloth
$35.00
(157806855X)
Anderson, Stanford.
Peter Behrens and a New Architecture for the Twentieth Century.
MIT Press,
1999.
429 pp.; 251 b/w ills.
Cloth
$59.95
(026201176X)
Anderson, Alex T.
The Problem of the House: French Domestic Life and the Rise of Modern Architecture.
University of Washington Press,
2006.
240 pp.; 97 ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9780295986326)
Andreae, Christopher.
Winifred Nicholson.
Surrey, UK:
Lund Humphries,
2009.
208 pp.; 190 color ills.; 10 b/w ills.
Cloth
$70.00
(9780853319726)
Angell, Callie.
Andy Warhol Screen Test: The Films of Andy Warhol Catalogue Raisonné, Volume 1.
New York:
Harry N. Abrams in association with Whitney Museum of American Art,
2006.
320 pp.; 15 color ills.; 765 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(0810955393)
Anger, Jenny.
Paul Klee and the Decorative in Modern Art.
New York:
Cambridge University Press,
2003.
342 pp.; 8 color ills.; 75 b/w ills.
Cloth
$85.00
(0521822505)
Anreus, Alejandro.
Orozco in Gringoland: The Years in New York.
Albuquerque:
University of New Mexico Press,
2000.
180 pp.; 52 b/w ills.
Cloth
$32.95
(0826320678)
Anreus, Alejandro, ed.
The Passion of Sacco and Vanzetti.
Exh. cat.
Rutgers University Press in association with The Jersey City Museum,
2000.
160 pp.; 12 color ills.; 32 b/w ills.
$30.00
(0813529441)
Anreus, Alejandro, Diana L. Linden, and Jonathan Weinberg, eds.
The Social and the Real: Political Art of the 1930s in the Western Hemisphere.
University Park:
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2005.
384 pp.; 97 b/w ills.
Paper
$50.00
(027102691X)
Anthes, Bill.
Native Moderns: American Indian Painting, 1940–1960.
Durham, NC:
Duke University Press,
2006.
304 pp.; 28 color ills.; 6 b/w ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780822338505)
Antliff, Mark, and Patricia Leighten, eds.
A Cubism Reader: Documents and Criticism, 1906–1914.
Chicago:
University of Chicago Press,
2008.
608 pp.; 54 b/w ills.
Paper
$25.00
(9780226021102)
Antliff, Allan.
Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde.
University of Chicago Press,
2000.
292 pp.; 4 color ills.; 84 b/w ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(0226021033)
Antliff, Allan.
Anarchist Modernism: Art, Politics, and the First American Avant-Garde.
Chicago:
University of Chicago Press,
2007.
292 pp.; 4 color ills.; 84 b/w ills.
Paper
$40.00
(9780226021041)
Antliff, Mark.
Avante-Garde Fascism: The Mobilization of Myth, Art, and Culture in France, 1909–1939.
Durham, N.C.:
Duke University Press,
2007.
376 pp.; 67 b/w ills.
Paper
$23.95
(9780822340348)
Anton, Saul.
Warhol’s Dream.
Zurich and Dijon:
JRP|Ringier in association with Les presses du réel,
2006.
160 pp.; 1 b/w ills.
Paper
$22.00
(9782840662006)
Apel, Dora, and Shawn Michelle Smith.
Lynching Photographs.
Ed. Anthony W. Lee.
Defining Moments in American Photography.
Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London:
University of California,
2008.
97 pp.; 22 b/w ills.
Paper
$19.95
(9780520253322)
Apel, Dora.
Memory Effects: The Holocaust and the Art of Secondary Witnessing.
Piscataway, NJ:
Rutgers University Press,
2002.
256 pp.; 6 color ills.; 63 b/w ills.
Paper
$28.95
(0813530490)
Arbitman, Kahren Jones, and Susan M. Gallo.
Picturing Florida: From the First Coast to the Space Coast.
Exh. cat.
Albuquerque:
Fresco Fine Art Publications,
2009.
224 pp.; 160 color ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9781934491096)
Archer-Shaw, Petrine.
Negrophilia: Avant-Garde Paris and Black Culture.
Thames & Hudson,
1999.
200 pp.; 124 b/w ills.
Paper
$24.95
(0500281351)
Armstrong, Carol.
A Degas Sketchbook.
Getty Trust Publications,
1999.
120 pp.; 40 color ills.; 18 b/w ills.
Cloth
$39.95
(0892366109)
Armstrong, Richard.
Magritte and Contemporary Art: The Treachery of Images.
Exh. cat.
Ghent, Belgium and Los Angeles:
Ludion and Los Angeles County Museum of Art,
2005.
256 pp.; 250 color ills.; 50 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9055446211)
Armstrong, Tim.
Modernism: A Cultural History.
Polity,
2004.
186 pp.
Paper
$24.95
(0745629830)
Arnaldo, Javier.
1914: La Vanguardia Y la Gran Guerra.
Exh. cat.
Madrid:
Museo Thyssen-Bornemisza,
2009.
445 pp.; many color ills.
Cloth
(9788496233669)
Arnold, Dana, ed.
The Metropolis and its Image: Constructing Identities for London, c. 1750-1950.
Blackwell,
1998.
176 pp.; 73 b/w ills.
Paper
$24.95
(0631216677)
Artundo, Patricia M., Jorge Schwartz, and Daniel Nelson.
Xul Solar: Visions and Revelations.
Yale University Press,
2005.
268 pp.; 139 color ills.; 5 b/w ills.
Paper
$50.00
(0300117116)
Arvidsson, Kristoffer, and Jeff Werner, eds.
Open the Shades! Art in Gothenburg during the 1960s and 1970s.
Gothenburg, Sweden:
Göteborg Museum of Art,
2009.
384 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills.
Paper
(9789187968655)
Ashman, Stuart, Suzanne Deats, and Robert Ewing.
Abstract Art.
Albuquerque:
Fresco Fine Art Publications,
2003.
254 pp.; 212 color ills.
Paper
$45.00
(0974102318)
Ashton, Dore, and Joan Banach, eds.
The Writings of Robert Motherwell.
Berkeley:
University of California Press,
2007.
397 pp.; 14 b/w ills.
Paper
$29.95
(9780520250482)
Aslet, Clive.
The American County House.
Yale University Press,
2004.
320 pp.; 200 color ills.; 75 b/w ills.
Paper
$35.00
(0300047576)
Aspley, Keith, Elizabeth Cowling, and Peter Sharratt.
From Rodin to Giacometti: Sculpture and Literature in France 1880-1950.
Rodopi,
1998.
Paper
$30.50
(9042004789)
Aulich, James, and John Lynch, eds.
Critical Kitaj.
Rutgers University Press,
1999.
249 pp.; 16 color ills.; 40 b/w ills.
Paper
$26.00
(081352900X)
Aulich, James, and Marta Sylvestrová.
Political Posters in Central and Eastern Europe 1945-95.
St. Martin’s Press,
1999.
228 pp.; many b/w ills.
Cloth
$69.95
(0719054184)
Auping, Michael, ed.
Philip Guston: Retrospective.
Exh. cat.
Fort Worth, Tex.:
Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth in association with Thames & Hudson,
2005.
272 pp.; 158 color ills.; 39 b/w ills.
$29.95
(0500284229)
Ausoni, Alberto.
Music in Art.
Trans. Stephen Sartarelli.
Los Angeles:
J. Paul Getty Museum,
2009.
384 pp.; 400 color ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780892369652)
Auther, Elissa.
String, Felt, Thread: The Hierarchy of Art and Craft in American Art.
Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press,
2010.
280 pp.; 83 color ills.
Paper
$29.95
(9780816656097)
Axsom, Richard H.
Drawn From Nature: The Plant Lithographs of Ellsworth Kelly.
Exh. cat.
Grand Rapids, Mich.:
Grand Rapids Art Museum,
2004.
112 pp.; 64 color ills.; 25 b/w ills.
Cloth
$35.00
(0300103212)
Aynsley, Jeremy.
Graphic Design in Germany 1890-1945.
Berkeley:
University of California Press in association with Thames & Hudson,
1999.
240 pp.
Cloth
(0520227964)
Aynsley, Jeremy, and Charlotte Grant, eds.
Imagined Interiors: Representing the Domestic Interior Since the Renaissance.
New York:
Harry N. Abrams,
2006.
304 pp.; 260 color ills.
Cloth
$85.00
(9781851774920)
Azuela de la Cuerva, Alicia.
Arte y Poder: Renacimiento Artístico y Revolución Social México, 1910–1945.
Zamora, Michoacán and México:
El Colegio de Michoacán and Fondo de Cultura Económica,
2005.
377 pp.; few color ills.; few b/w ills.
Paper
$34.95
(9789681676940)
Çelik, Zeynep.
Empire, Architecture, and the City: French-Ottoman Encounters, 1830–1914.
Seattle:
University of Washington Press,
2008.
368 pp.; 33 color ills.; 190 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9780295987798)
Ôe, Kenzaburo.
On Politics and Literature.
Berkeley:
University of California Press,
1998.
50 pp.
Paper
$5.00
(1881865185)