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Twentieth-Century Art
All titles (1998 to the present) in Recent Books in the Arts.
Coddington, Jim, Robert S. Lubar, Jordana Mendelson, Adele Nelson, and Anne Umland.
Joan Miró: Painting and Anti-Painting 1927–1937.
Ed. Anne Umland.
Exh. cat.
New York:
The Museum of Modern Art,
2008.
256 pp.; 200 color ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(978087070734)
Upstone, Robert, ed.
Modern Painters: The Camden Town Group.
Exh. cat.
London:
Tate Publishing,
2008.
160 pp.; 100 color ills.; 20 b/w ills.
Paper
$49.95
(9781854377814)
Usherwood, Paul, Jeremy Beach, and Catherine Morris, eds.
Public Sculpture of North-East England.
Liverpool:
Liverpool University Press,
1999.
368 pp.
Paper
(0853236356)
Utley, Gertje R.
Pablo Picasso: The Communist Years.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
1999.
288 pp.; 40 color ills.; 175 b/w ills.
Cloth
$55.00
(0300082517)
Valette, Rebecca M., and Jean-Paul Valette.
Weaving the Dance: Navajo Yeibichai Textiles (1910-1950).
Albuquerque:
Adobe House in association with University of Washington Press,
1999.
72 pp.; many color ills.; some b/w ills.
Paper
$19.95
(0963371029)
Valkenier, Elizabeth Kridl.
Valentine Serove: Portraits of Russia’s Silver Age.
Evanston, IL:
Northwestern University Press,
2000.
248 pp.; 19 color ills.; 70 b/w ills.
Paper
$29.95
(0810118262)
Valls, Calçada, ed.
Icart: Horitzons/Priorat.
Exh. cat.
Tarragona, Spain:
Arola Editors in association with Museu d'Art Modern de Tarragona,
2005.
77 pp.; 35 color ills.; 17 b/w ills.
(8496639088)
van Raay, Stefan, Joanna Moorhead, and Teresa Arcq.
Surreal Friends : Leonora Carrington, Remedios Varo and Kati Horna.
Surrey, UK:
Lund Humphries,
2010.
70 color ills.; 60 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9781848220591)
van Voolen, Edward.
My Grandparents, My Parents and I: Jewish Art and Culture.
Munich:
Prestel,
2005.
192 pp.; 200 color ills.; 60 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9783791333625)
van Zijl, Ida, and Bertu Mulder.
Rietveld Schroeder House.
Princeton Architectural Press,
48 pp.; 19 color ills.; 17 b/w ills.
Paper
$14.95
(1568982127)
Vandenberg, Maritz.
Farnsworth House.
London:
Phaidon,
2005.
60 pp.; 94 ills.
Paper
$16.95
(9780714845586)
Vann, Philip.
Cyril Power Linocuts: A Complete Catalogue.
London:
Lund Humphries and Osbourne Samuel,
2009.
112 pp.; 82 color ills.; 20 b/w ills.
Paper
£ 25.00
(9781848220188)
Vargas, George.
Contemporary Chican@ Art: Color and Culture for a New America.
Austin:
University of Texas,
2010.
288 pp.; 14 color ills.; 61 b/w ills.
Paper
$27.95
(9780292721173)
Vargish, Thomas, and Delo E. Mook.
Inside Modernism: Relativity Theory, Cubism, Narrative.
Yale University Press,
1998.
185 pp.; 16 color ills.
Cloth
$35.00
(0300076134)
Varnedoe, Kirk.
Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art since Pollock.
Princeton University Press,
2005.
304 pp.; many color ills.; few b/w ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(069112678X)
Vartanian, Ivan, Akihiro Hatanaka, and Yutaka Kambayashi, eds.
Setting Sun: Writings by Japanese Photographers.
Aperture Foundation,
2005.
224 pp.; 20 b/w ills.
Cloth
$29.95
(1931788839)
Vaughan, Mary Kay, and Stephen E. Lewis, eds.
The Eagle and the Virgin: Nation and Cultural Revolution in Mexico, 1920–1940.
Durham, N,.C.:
Duke University Press,
2005.
396 pp.; 20 color ills.; 16 b/w ills.
Paper
$23.95
(0822336685)
Vaughan, Virginia Mason, and Alden T. Vaughan, eds.
Shakespeare in American Life.
Exh. cat.
Washington D.C.:
Folger Shakespeare Library,
2007.
192 pp.; 88 color ills.
Paper
$29.95
(9780295987156)
Vänskä, Annamari.
Vikuroivia Vilkaisuja: Ruumis, Sukupuoli, Seksuaalisuus Ja Visuaalisen Kulttuurin Tutkimus.
Helsinki:
Taidehistorian Seura,
2005.
159 pp.; many color ills.; few b/w ills.
Paper
(9525533077)
Vendryes, Margaret Rose.
Barthé: A Life in Sculpture.
Jackson:
University Press of Mississippi,
2009.
256 pp.; 56 color ills.; 85 b/w ills.
Cloth
$40.00
(9781604730920)
Venn, Beth, and Adam D. Weinberg.
Frames of Reference: Looking at American Art, 1900-1950.
Berkeley:
University of California Press in association with Whitney Museum of American Art,
1999.
224 pp.; 105 color ills.; 130 b/w ills.
Cloth
$29.95
(0520218884)
Verwoert, Jan.
Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous.
Afterall Books,
2005.
62 pp.; 6 color ills.; 10 b/w ills.
Paper
$16.00
(1846380022)
Verwoert, Jan.
Bas Jan Ader: In Search of the Miraculous.
Afterall Books,
2006.
62 pp.; 16 ills.
Cloth
(9781846380198)
Vettel-Becker, Patricia.
Shooting from the Hip: Photography, Masculinity, and Postwar America.
University of Minnesota Press,
2004.
272 pp.; 36 b/w ills.
Paper
$19.95
(0816643024)
Viganò, Enrica.
NeoRealismo: La nuova imagine in Italia 1932–1960.
Milan:
Admira,
2010.
352 pp.; 232 ills.
Cloth
€85.00
(9788889163016)
Villanueva, Paulina, and Macia Pinto.
Villanueva.
Princeton Architectural Press,
2000.
180 pp.; 70 color ills.; 120 b/w ills.
Cloth
$40.00
(1568982046)
Volk, Alicia.
In Pursuit of Universalism: Yorozu Tetsugoro and Japanese Modern Art.
Berkeley and Washington, DC:
University of California Press and Phillips Collection,
2010.
328 pp.; 16 color ills.; 99 b/w ills.
Cloth
$49.95
(9780520259522)
Volk, Alicia, and Helen Nagata.
Made in Japan: The Postwar Creative Print Movement.
Exh. cat.
Milwaukee:
Milwaukee Art Museum in association with University of Washington Press,
2004.
124 pp.; 85 color ills.; 15 b/w ills.
Paper
$28.95
(029598502X)
Vrachopoulos, Thalia, and John Angeline.
Hilla Rebay: Art Patroness and Founder of the Guggenheim Museum of Art..
Lewiston, NY:
Edwin Mellen Press,
2005.
107 pp.; 16 b/w ills.
Cloth
$99.95
(0773462554)
Vreeland, Susan.
The Forest Lover.
Penguin,
2003.
464 pp.
Paper
$14.00
(0143034308)
Vries, Gerard de, and D. Barton Johnson.
Nabakov and the Art of Painting.
Amsterdam University Press,
2005.
224 pp.; 32 color ills.; 40 b/w ills.
$0.00
(9053567909)
Waldman, Anne, and Lewis Warsh, eds.
The Angel Hair Anthology.
Granary Books,
2000.
632 pp.; 0 color ills.; 64 b/w ills.
Paper
$28.95
(1887123490)
Waldman, Diane.
Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams.
New York:
Harry N. Abrams,
2006.
152 pp.; 116 ills.
Paper
$27.50
(9780810992528)
Walker, Barry, Jeremy Lewison, Tamar Garb, and Robert Storr.
Alice Neel: Painted Truths.
Exh. cat.
Houston:
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston,
2010.
296 pp.; 120 color ills.; 26 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300163322)
Walker, Stuart.
Sustainable by Design: Explorations in Theory and Practice.
Sterling, Va.:
Earthscan,
2005.
192 pp.; many color ills.
Paper
$45.00
(184407353X)
Wallace, David.
Dream Palaces of Hollywood's Golden Age.
New York:
Harry N. Abrams,
2006.
240 pp.; 200 color ills.; 35 b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9780810955431)
Walls, Nina de Angeli.
Art, Industry, and Women’s Education in Philadelphia.
Westport, CT:
Greenwood Press,
2000.
183 pp.; 17 b/w ills.
Cloth
$62.50
(0897897455)
Walsh, Michael J. K., ed.
London, Modernism, and 1914.
New York:
Cambridge University Press,
2010.
314 pp.; 7 b/w ills.
Cloth
$85.00
(9780521195805)
Walz, Robin.
Pulp Surrealism: Insolent Popular Culture in Early Twentieth-Century Paris.
Berkeley:
University of California Press,
1999.
206 pp.
Cloth
$35.00
(0520216199)
Waplington, Nick.
Truth or Consequences.
Phaidon,
2000.
192 pp.; 135 color ills.
Cloth
$39.95
(0714840548)
Ward, Alex, ed.
Power to the People: Early Soviet Propaganda Posters in the Israel Museum, Jerusalem.
Exh. cat.
London:
Lund Humphries in association with Israel Museum, Jerusalem,
2007.
208 pp.; 600 color ills.
Cloth
$48.00
(9780853319812)
Ward, Janet.
Weimar Surfaces: Urban Visual Culture in 1920s Germany.
Berkeley:
University of California Press,
2000.
357 pp.; 63 b/w ills.
Paper
$19.95
(0520222997)
Wardlaw, Alvia J.
Charles Alston.
Petaluma, Calif.:
Pomegranate Communications, Inc.,
2007.
128 pp.; 70 ills.
Cloth
$35.00
(9780764937668)
Ware, Katherine, and Peter Barberie.
Dreaming in Black and White: Photography at the Julian Levy Gallery.
Philadelphia:
Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with Yale University Press,
2005.
336 pp.; 284 color ills.; 40 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(0300116438)
Warlick, M. E.
Max Ernst and Alchemy: A Magician in Search of Myth.
Austin:
University of Texas Press,
2000.
335 pp.; 73 b/w ills.
Paper
$24.95
(0292791364)
Warr, Tracey.
The Artist's Body.
London:
Phaidon,
2006.
304 pp.
Cloth
$49.95
(9780714898377)
Warr, Tracey.
The Artist's Body.
London:
Phaidon,
2006.
304 pp.
Paperback
$39.95
(9780714847016)
Warren, Lynne, ed.
Alexander Calder and Contemporary Art: Form, Balance, Joy.
Exh. cat.
New York:
Thames and Hudson,
2010.
110 color ills.; 27 b/w ills.
Cloth
£25.95
(9780500515235)
Wasson, Haidee.
Museum Movies: The Museum of Modern Art and the Birth of Art Cinema.
Berkeley:
University of California Press,
2004.
314 pp.; 20 b/w ills.
Paper
$25.95
(0520241312)
Watkin, David.
Morality and Architecture Revisited.
University of Chicago Press,
2000.
191 pp.
Paper
$20.00
(0226874834)
Watson, Anne, ed.
Building a Masterpiece: The Sydney Opera House.
Sydney and Aldershot, UK:
Powerhouse Publishing in association with Lund Humphries,
2005.
192 pp.; 70 color ills.; 137 b/w ills.
Paper
$70.00
(0853319413)
Watson, Steven, and Catherine Morris, eds.
An Eye on the Modern Century: Selected Letters of Henry McBride.
Yale University Press,
372 pp.; 24 b/w ills.
$35.00
(0300083262)
Watson, Oliver.
Studio Pottery: Twentieth Century British Ceramics in the Victoria and Albert Museum Collection.
New York and London:
Phaidon in association with Victoria and Albert Museum,
2008.
288 pp.; 120 color ills.; 480 b/w ills.
Cloth
$49.95
(9780714829487)
Wedd, Kit, Lucy Peltz, and Cathy Ross.
Artists’ London: Holbein to Hirst.
Merrell Publishers,
2000.
160 pp.; 150 color ills.
Cloth
$40.00
(1858941415)
Wegener, Corine, and Karal Ann Marling.
Money in the Bank: The Katherine Kierland Herberger Collection.
Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press,
2005.
224 pp.; many color ills.
Paper
(0816649030)
Weinberg, Jonathan.
Ambition and Love in Modern American Art.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2000.
336 pp.; 164 b/w ills.
Cloth
$35.00
(0300081871)
Weinberg, Adam, and Leroy Searle.
Riding 1st Class on the Titanic! Photographs by Nathan Lyons.
MIT Press,
1999.
233 pp.; 200 b/w ills.
Paper
$20.00
(0262621355)
Weisberg, Gabriel P., ed.
Montmartre and the Making of Mass Culture.
Piscataway, NJ:
Rutgers University Press,
2000.
288 pp.; 111 b/w ills.
Paper
$30.00
(0813530091)
Weisberg, Ruth.
Victor Raphael: Envisioning Space.
Exh. cat.
Malibu:
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum,
1999.
48 pp.; many color ills.
(1882705017)
Welish, Marjorie.
Signifying Art: Essays on Art after 1960.
Cambridge University Press,
1998.
321 pp.; 43 b/w ills.
Paper
$27.95
(0521633931)
Wells, Walter.
Silent Theater: The Art of Edward Hopper.
London:
Phaidon,
2007.
264 pp.; 170 color ills.; 50 b/w ills.
Cloth
$69.95
(9780714845418)
Welsh, Caroline M., and Scott R. Ferris.
The View from Asgaard: Rockwell Kent’s Forgotten Legacy.
Exh. cat.
Blue Mountain Lake:
Adirondack Museum,
1999.
96 pp.; many color ills.; some b/w ills.
(0910020469)
Wendorf, Richard.
After Sir Joshua: Essays on British Art and Cultural History.
Studies in British Art.
New Haven and London:
Yale University Press and Paul Mellon Centre for Studies in British Art,
2005.
180 pp.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300107340)
Werckmeister, Otto Karl.
ICONS of the LEFT: Benjamin and Eisenstein, Picasso and Kafka After the Fall of Communism.
University of Chicago Press,
1998.
188 pp.; 5 b/w ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(0226893553)
Wermester, Catherine.
Grosz, L'homme le plus triste d'Europe.
Paris:
Editions Allia,
2008.
75 pp.; few b/w ills.
Paper
€9.00
(9782844852892)
Wertkin, Gerard C.
Self-Taught Artists of the Twentieth Century: An American Anthology.
San Francisco:
Museum of American Folk Art in association with Chronicle Books,
1997.
256 pp.; many color ills.
Paper
$35.00
(0811820998)
Weschler, Lawrence.
Seeing is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Over Thirty Years of Conversation with Robert Irwin, Expanded Edition.
Berkeley:
University of California Press,
2009.
336 pp.; 51 color ills.; 36 b/w ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780520256095)
Weschler, Lawrence.
True to Life: Twenty-Five Years of Conversations with David Hockney.
Berkeley, Los Angeles, and London:
2009.
272 pp.; 60 color ills.; 100 b/w ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780520243750)
West, Shearer.
The Visual Arts in Germany 1890-1937: Utopia and Despair.
Rutgers University Press,
2000.
288 pp.; 60 b/w ills.
Paper
$26.00
(0813529115)
Westerbeck, Colin.
Yasuhiro Ishimoto: A Tale of Two Cities.
The Art Institute of Chicago,
1998.
144 pp.; 4 color ills.; 106 b/w ills.
Paper
$29.95
(0865591709)
Weston, Victoria.
Japanese Painting and National Identity: Okakura Tenshin and His Circle.
Ann Arbor:
Center for Japanese Studies, The University of Michigan,
371 pp.; 27 color ills.; 53 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(1929280173)
Wharton, Annabel Jane.
Building the Cold War: Hilton International Hotels and Modern Architecture.
University of Chicago Press,
2000.
272 pp.; 1 color ills.; 88 b/w ills.
Paper
$45.00
(0226894193)
Whelan, Richard, ed.
Stieglitz on Photography: His Selected Essays and Notes.
Aperture Foundation,
1999.
285 pp.
Cloth
$34.95
(0893818046)
White, Samuel G., Richard J. Boyle, and Avis Berman.
Adam Van Doren.
Burlington, Vt.:
Hudson Hills Press,
2005.
144 pp.; 84 color ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(1555952720)
White, Anthony, ed.
Jackson Pollock’s Blue Poles.
Exh. cat.
Canberra:
National Gallery of Australia,
2001.
120 pp.; 83 color ills.; 44 b/w ills.
$35.00
(0642541604)
Whitfield, Peter.
London: A Life in Maps.
London:
The British Library,
2007.
208 pp.; 200 color ills.
Paper
$23.50
(9780712349192)
Whiting, Cécile.
Pop L.A.: Art and the City in the 1960s.
Berkeley:
University of California Press,
2005.
268 pp.; 20 color ills.; 77 b/w ills.
Cloth
(0520244605)
Whittel, Stephen.
Creative Tension: British Art, 1900–1950.
University of Washington Press,
2005.
128 pp.; 110 color ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(1903470285)
Wichmann, Siegfried.
Japonisme: The Japanese Influence on Western Art since 1858.
Thames & Hudson,
1998.
432 pp.; 243 color ills.; 862 b/w ills.
Paper
$45.00
(0500281637)
Widener, Daniel.
Black Arts West: Culture and Struggle in Postwar Los Angeles.
Durham, NC:
Duke University Press,
2010.
384 pp.; 48 ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780822346791)
Wiggins, Colin, Juliet Wilson-Bareau, and Philip Conisbee.
Leon Kossoff: Drawing from Painting.
London:
National Gallery, London,
2007.
112 pp.; 80 color ills.
Paper
$25.00
(9781857093537)
Wiggins, Colin, and Annemarie de Wildt.
The Hoerengracht: Kienholz at the National Gallery, London.
Exh. cat.
London:
National Gallery Company,
2010.
56 pp.; 40 color ills.
Paper
$15.00
(9781857094534)
Wild, Peter, ed.
True Tales of the Mojave Desert: From Talking Rocks to Yucca Man.
Santa Fe:
Center for American Places at Columbia College Chicago,
2004.
215 pp.; 20 b/w ills.
Paper
$22.50
(1930066201)
Wilke, Christopher, ed.
Modernism: Designing a New World.
New York:
Harry N. Abrams,
2006.
448 pp.; 400 color ills.
Cloth
$85.00
(9781851774746)
Wilkin, Karen.
Color as Field: American Painting 1950–1975.
Exh. cat.
New York:
American Federation of Arts in association with Yale University Press,
2007.
128 pp.; 53 color ills.; 16 b/w ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780300120233)
Williams, Richard.
After Modern Sculpture: Art in the United States and Europe 1965-70.
Manchester, UK:
Manchester University Press,
1999.
180 pp.
Cloth
$74.95
(0719056500)
Williams, Lynn Barstis.
Imprinting the South: Southern Printmakers and Their Images of the Region, 1920–1940s.
Tuscaloosa, AL:
University of Alabama Press,
2007.
232 pp.; 73 ills.
Cloth
$39.95
(9780817315603)
Williams, C.K., Julie Sasse, and Dianne Vanderlip.
James Havard.
Intro. David Lynch.
Burlington, Vt.:
Hudson Hills Press,
2005.
248 pp.; 114 color ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(1555952771)
Williams, Jay, ed.
Pleasant Journeys and Good Eats along the Way: The Paintings of John Baeder.
Augusta, GA:
Morris Museum of Art,
2007.
96 pp.; 100 color ills.
Paper
$30.00
(9781934110225)
Williams, Andrew Gibbon.
William Roberts: An English Cubist.
Burlington, Vt.:
Lund Humphries,
2003.
152 pp.; 60 color ills.; 40 b/w ills.
Cloth
$70.00
(0853318247)
Willsdon, Clare A.P.
Mural Painting in Britain 1840-1940.
Oxford University Press,
2000.
431 pp.; 44 color ills.; 225 b/w ills.
Cloth
$120.00
(0198175159)
Wilmerding, John, Joachim Pissarro, and Robert Pincus-Witten.
Robert Indiana.
Rizzoli,
2005.
304 pp.; 200 color ills.; 20 b/w ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(0847828700)
Wilmerding, John.
Wesselmann.
New York:
Rizzoli,
2008.
304 pp.; 300 color ills.
Cloth
$95.00
(9780847830855)
Wilson, Michael.
If the Paintings Could Talk.
London:
National Gallery Company,
2009.
176 pp.; 168 color ills.
Paper
$25.00
(9781857094251)
Wilson, Kristina.
The Modern Eye: Stieglitz, MoMA, and the Art of the Exhibition, 1925–1934.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2009.
256 pp.; 16 color ills.; 98 b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9780300149166)
Winter, Amy.
Wolfgang Paalen: Artist and Theorist of the Avant-Garde.
Westport, CT:
Praeger,
2002.
320 pp.; some color ills.; some b/w ills.
Cloth
$64.95
(027597524X)
Winther-Tamaki, Bert.
Art in the Encounter of Nations: Japanese and American Artists in the Early Postwar Years.
Honolulu:
University of Hawai'i Press,
2000.
222 pp.; 45 b/w ills.
Paper
$32.95
(0824824008)
Wiseman, Carter.
A Place for the Arts: The MacDowell Colony, 1907–2007.
Peterborough, N.H.:
The MacDowell Colony,
2007.
244 pp.
Cloth
(1584656093)
Witkovsky, Matthew S.
Foto: Modernity in Central Europe, 1918–1945.
Exh. cat.
New York:
Thames & Hudson,
2007.
278 pp.; 192 color ills.; 59 b/w ills.
Cloth
$60.00
(9780500543375)
Wolf, Norbert.
Auguste Rodin: Erotic Sketchbook.
Munich:
Prestel,
2005.
64 pp.; 38 color ills.
Cloth
$25.00
(379133395X)