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Twentieth-Century Art
All titles (1998 to the present) in Recent Books in the Arts.
Hyman, James.
The Battle for Realism: Figurative Art in Britain during the Cold War, 1945-1960.
Yale University Press,
2000.
272 pp.; 50 color ills.; 150 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(0300090897)
Indych-López, Anna.
Muralism without Walls: Rivera, Orozco, and Siqueiros in the United States, 1927–1940.
Pittsburgh:
University of Pittsburgh Press,
2010.
264 pp.; 104 ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780822943846)
Inglot, Joanna.
WARM: A Feminist Art Collective in Minnesota.
Minneapolis:
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum,
2007.
160 pp.; 50 color ills.; 60 b/w ills.
Paper
$34.95
(9780816650831)
Ireson, Nancy.
Interpreting Henri Rousseau.
New York:
Harry N. Abrams,
2006.
80 pp.; 50 color ills.
Paper
$15.95
(9781854376152)
Isenstadt, Sandy.
The Modern American House: Spaciousness and Middle Class Identity.
Cambridge, UK:
Cambridge University Press,
2005.
344 pp.; 99 b/w ills.
Cloth
$96.00
(9780521770132)
Isenstadt, Sandy, and Kishwar Rizvi, eds.
Modernism and the Middle East: Architecture and Politics in the Twentieth Century.
Seattle:
University of Washington Press,
2008.
328 pp.; 76 b/w ills.
Paper
$30.00
(9780295987941)
Ishikawa, Chiyo, ed.
A Community of Collectors: 75th Anniversary Gifts to the Seattle Art Museum.
Seattle:
Seattle Art Museum,
2008.
304 pp.; 200 color ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9780932216601)
Ittmann, John, ed.
Mexico and Modern Printmaking: A Revolution in the Graphic Arts, 1920–1950.
Exh. cat.
Philadelphia and San Antonio:
Philadelphia Museum of Art in association with McNay Art Museum, San Antonio,
2005.
289 pp.; 91 color ills.; 25 b/w ills.
$65.00
(0300120044)
Iversen, Margaret.
Beyond Pleasure: Freud, Lacan, Barthes.
Refiguring Modernism.
University Park:
Pennsylvania State University Press,
2007.
204 pp.; 24 color ills.; 12 b/w ills.
Paper
$40.00
(9780271029719)
Iversen, Margaret.
Chance.
Documents of Contemporary Art. Ed. Iwona Blazwick.
London and Cambridge, Mass.:
Whitechapel Gallery and MIT Press,
2010.
240 pp.
Paper
$24.95
(9780262513920)
Izenberg, Gerald N.
Modernism & Masculinity: Mann, Wedekind, Kandinsky Through World War I.
University of Chicago Press,
1999.
257 pp.
Cloth
(0226388689)
Jachec, Nancy.
The Philosophy and Politics of Abstract Expressionism.
Columbia University Press,
1999.
276 pp.; 29 b/w ills.
Cloth
$55.00
(0521651549)
Jackson, Gregory B., and Yoram Meroz, eds.
The Print Connoisseur: Complete Index, 1920–1932.
San Francisco:
Alan Wofsy Fine Arts,
2005.
120 pp.; 14 color ills.; 42 b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(1556603193)
Jackson, Matthew Jesse.
The Experimental Group: Ilya Kabakov, Moscow Conceptualism, Soviet Avant-Gardes.
Chicago:
University of Chicago Press,
2010.
336 pp.; 54 color ills.; 86 b/w ills.
Cloth
$55.00
(9780226389417)
Jacobs, Robert, ed.
Filling the Hole in the Nuclear Future: Art and Popular Culture Respond to the Bomb.
AsiaWorld. Ed. Mark Selden.
Lanham, MD:
2010.
290 pp.; Few b/w ills.
Paper
$32.95
(9780739135570)
Jakobi, Marianne, and Julien Dieudonné.
Dubuffet.
Paris:
Perrin,
2007.
350 pp.; 16 ills.
Paper
€27.00
(9782262020897)
James, David E.
The Most Typical Avant-Garde: History and Geographies of Minor Cinemas in Los Angeles.
Berkeley:
University of California Press,
2004.
562 pp.; 82 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780520242579)
James-Chakraborty, Kathleen, ed.
Bauhaus Culture: From Weimar to the Cold War.
Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press,
2005.
246 pp.; 59 b/w ills.
Paper
$25.00
(9780816646883)
Jang, Min-han.
SeMA 2008: Four Ways to Look at Art.
Seoul:
Seoul Museum of Art,
2007.
204 pp.; 105 color ills.
Paper
$10.00
Jarzombek, Mark.
The Psychologizing of Modernity: Art, Architecture, History.
Cambridge, U.K.:
Cambridge University Press,
1998.
327 pp.; 26 b/w ills.
Cloth
$70.00
(0521582385)
Jaskot, Paul B.
The Architecture of Oppression: The SS, Forced Labor and the Nazi Monumnetal Building Economy.
Routledge,
1999.
207 pp.; 27 b/w ills.
Paper
$29.99
(0415223415)
Jennings, Michael W., Eiland Howard, and Gary Smith, eds.
Walter Benjamin Selected Writings.
Harvard University Press,
1998.
870 pp.; none color ills.; none b/w ills.; 0 ills.
Cloth
$37.50
(0674945867)
Jessup, Lynda, ed.
Antimodernism and Artistic Experience: Policing the Boundaries of Modernity.
University of Toronto Press,
2000.
214 pp.
Paper
$29.95
(0802083544)
Jiménez, Ariel, ed.
Alfredo Boulton and His Contemporaries: Critical Dialogues in Venzuelan Art, 1912–1974.
New York:
Museum of Modern Art,
2009.
376 pp.; 61 color ills.; 25 b/w ills.
Paper
$35.00
(9780870707100)
Jirat-Wasiutyñski, Vojtech.
Modern Art and the Idea of the Mediterranean.
Toronto:
University of Toronto Press,
2007.
480 pp.; 140 b/w ills.
Cloth
$85.00
(9780802091703)
Johns, Barbara.
Anne Gould Hauberg: Fired by Beauty.
University of Washington Press,
2005.
174 pp.; 32 color ills.; 88 b/w ills.
Cloth
$40.00
(0295985690)
Johns, Catherine.
Horses: History, Myth, Art.
Cambridge, Mass.:
Harvard University Press,
2007.
192 pp.; 175 color ills.
Cloth
$35.00
(9780674023239)
Johns, Barbara.
Paul Horiuchi: East and West.
Seattle:
University of Washington Press in association with Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner,
2008.
128 pp.; 44 color ills.; 80 b/w ills.
$29.95
( 9780295987958)
Johnson, J. Stewart.
American Modern 1925-1940: Design for a New Age.
Exh. cat.
Harry N. Abrams,
1999.
192 pp.; 140 color ills.; 30 b/w ills.
$39.95
(0810942089)
Johnson, Heidi.
Angels in the Architecture: A Photographic Elegy to an American Asylum.
Detroit:
Wayne State University Press,
2000.
193 pp.; many b/w ills.
Cloth
(0814329500)
Johnson, Geraldine A., ed.
Sculpture and Photography: Envisioning the Third Dimension.
Cambridge University Press,
1997.
271 pp.; 98 b/w ills.
Cloth
$74.95
(0521621372)
Johnston, William R.
The Reticent Collectors.
Baltimore:
Johns Hopkins University Press,
1998.
334 pp.; 66 b/w ills.
Cloth
$39.95
(0801860407)
Jolivette, Catherine.
Landscape, Art, and Identity in 1950s Britain.
Surrey, UK:
Ashgate Publishing Ltd.,
2009.
190 pp.; 25 b/w ills.
Cloth
$99.95
(9780754663638)
Jon, Dennis Michael, ed.
Vermillion Editions Limited: A History and Catalogue, 1977–1992.
Intro. Kristin Makholm.
Minneapolis, Minn.:
Minneapolis Institute of Arts,
2006.
352 pp.; 500 color ills.
Cloth
$54.95
(0816649723)
Jones, Amelia, ed.
A Companion to Contemporary Art since 1945.
Blackwell,
2005.
648 pp.; 105 b/w ills.
Paper
$49.95
(1405135425)
Jones, Caroline.
Eyesight Alone: Clement Greenberg’s Modernism and the Bureaucratization of the Senses.
Chicago:
University of Chicago Press,
2005.
544 pp.; 23 color ills.; 127 b/w ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(0226409511)
Jones, Peter Blundell.
Gunnar Asplund.
London:
Phaidon,
2006.
240 pp.; 400 ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780714839769)
Jones, Caroline A.
Machine in the Studio: Constructing the Postwar American Artist.
University of Chicago Press,
1995.
550 pp.; 9 color ills.; 109 b/w ills.
Cloth
$55.00
(0226406482)
Jones, Peter.
Ove Arup: Masterbuilder of the Twentieth Century.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2006.
352 pp.; 14 color ills.; 108 b/w ills.
Cloth
$40.00
(9780300112962)
Jones, Amelia, and Andrew Stephenson.
Performing the Body / Performing the Text.
Routledge,
1998.
352 pp.
Paper
$24.99
(0415190606)
Jonsson, Stefan.
A Brief History of the Masses: Three Revolutions.
Columbia Themes in Philosophy, Social Criticism, and the Arts.
New York:
Columbia University Press,
2008.
248 pp.; 20 b/w ills.
Cloth
$29.50
(9780231145268)
Joos, Erwin.
Antwerp-New York: Eugeen van Mieghem (1875–1930) and the Emigrants of the Red Star Line.
Antwerp:
B.A.I.,
2004.
112 pp.; many color ills.
Paper
$27.50
(9076704996)
Joseph, Branden W.
Beyond the Dream Syndicate: Tony Conrad and the Arts after Cage.
Brooklyn, N.Y.:
Zone Books,
2008.
480 pp.; 93 color ills.
Cloth
$34.95
(9781890951863)
Judovitz, Dalia.
Drawing on Art: Duchamp and Company.
Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press,
2010.
288 pp.; 48 b/w ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780816665303)
Jugie, Sophie, Sophie Barthélémy, and Rémi Cariel.
Passeurs d'art: Hommage à Pierre et Kathleen Granville donateurs du musée des Beaux-Arts de Dijon.
Exh. cat.
Dijon:
Musée des beaux-arts de Dijon,
2008.
79 pp.; Many color ills.; few b/w ills.
Paper
€15.00
(9782915128314)
Julius, Anthony.
Idolizing Pictures: Idolatry, Iconoclasm, and Jewish Art.
Thames & Hudson,
2000.
120 pp.; 66 b/w ills.
Paper
$16.95
(0500282625)
Kachur, Lewis.
Displaying the Marvelous.
MIT Press,
2000.
253 pp.; 110 b/w ills.
Cloth
$34.95
(0262112566)
Kahng, Eik, ed.
The Repeating Image: Multiples in French Painting from David to Matisse.
Baltimore:
The Walters Art Museum,
2007.
200 pp.; 164 color ills.; 36 b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(9780300126693)
Kallestrup, Shona.
Art and Design in Romania, 1866–1927: Local and International Aspects of the Search for National Expression.
Boulder, Colo.:
East European Monographs,
2005.
320 pp.; few color ills.; many b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(0880335823)
Kamien-Kazhdan, Adina.
Surrealism and Beyond.
Exh. cat.
Jerusalem:
Israel Museum,
2009.
288 pp.; Many color ills.; many b/w ills.
Paper
$65.00
(9789652783417)
Kammen, Michael.
Robert Gwathmey: The Life and Art of a Passionate Observer.
Chapel Hill:
University of North Carolina Press,
1998.
240 pp.; 48 color ills.; 68 b/w ills.
Paper
$49.95
(0807847758)
Kaplan, Louis.
American Exposures: Photography and Community in the Twentieth Century.
Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press,
2004.
248 pp.; 11 color ills.; 61 b/w ills.
Paper
$26.00
(0816645701)
Karlholm, Dan.
Art of Illusion: The Representation of Art History in Nineteenth-Century Germany and Beyond.
Peter Lang,
2005.
272 pp.; 24 b/w ills.
Paper
(0820483613)
Kaufmann, Vincent.
Guy Debord: Revolution in the Service of Poetry.
Trans. Robert Bononno.
Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press,
2005.
384 pp.; 17 b/w ills.
Cloth
$29.95
(0816644551)
Kaufmann, David.
Telling Stories: Philip Guston’s Later Works.
Berkeley:
University of California Press,
2010.
128 pp.; 10 color ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780520265769)
Kaye, Nick.
Site-Specific Art: Performance, Place and Documentation.
Routledge,
1999.
238 pp.
Paper
$27.95
(0415185599)
Kees, Weldon.
The Collected Poems of Weldon Kees.
Ed. Donald Justice; intro. David Wojahn.
University of Nebraska Press,
2002.
180 pp.
Cloth
$13.95
(0803278098)
Keleman, Elisabeth, and Pal Keleman.
Kelemen Journals: Incidents of Discovery of Art.
Ed. Judith Sandoval.
El Cajon, Calif.:
Sunbelt Publishing,
2003.
236 pp.; 100 b/w ills.
Cloth
$39.95
(0932653677)
Kellein, Thomas.
The Dream of Fluxus: George Maciunas; An Artist's Biography.
London:
Edition Hansjörg Mayer,
2007.
172 pp.; 100 b/w ills.
Cloth
$45.00
(9780500976654)
Graciela Iturbide: Juchitán.
Intro. Judith Keller.
Exh. cat.
Los Angeles:
J. Paul Getty Museum,
2008.
64 pp.; 50 b/w ills.
Cloth
$29.95
(9780892369058)
Walker Evans: Cuba.
Intro. Judith Keller.
Getty Trust Publications,
2000.
96 pp.; 00 color ills.; 73 b/w ills.
Cloth
$24.95
(0892366176)
Kellner, Bruce, ed.
Letters of Charles Demuth: American Artist, 1883–1935.
Philadelphia:
Temple University Press,
1999.
186 pp.
Paper
$19.95
(1566397812)
Kelly, Catriona, and Stephen Lovell, eds.
Russian Literature, Modernism and the Visual Arts.
Cambridge University Press,
1999.
314 pp.; some b/w ills.
Cloth
$64.95
(0521661919)
Kemp, Martin, and Marina Wallace.
Spectacular Bodies: The Art and Science of the Human Body from Leonardo to Now.
Berkeley:
University of California Press in association with The Hayward Gallery,
1999.
232 pp.; 100 color ills.; 60 b/w ills.
Paper
$35.00
(0520227921)
Kemp, Dominic.
Terry Frost Prints.
Burlington:
Lund Humphries,
2010.
Many color ills.
Cloth
$90.00
(9781848220355)
Kennedy, Brian P., and Emily Shubert Burke, eds.
Modern and Contemporary Art at Dartmouth: Highlights from the Hood Museum of Art.
Exh. cat.
Hanover:
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College,
2009.
240 pp.; many color ills.; many b/w ills.
Paper
$40.00
(9781584657873)
Kennedy, S. B., ed.
Paul Henry.
Yale University Press,
1999.
184 pp.; 71 color ills.; 64 b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(0300081308)
Kennedy, Martha H.
The Plains Indian Photographs of Edward S. Curtis.
Lincoln, NE:
University of Nebraska Press,
2000.
186 pp.; 91 b/w ills.
Cloth
$50.00
(0803215126)
Kennedy, Brian P.
Sean Scully: The Art of the Stripe.
Exh. cat.
Hanover, NH:
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College,
2009.
144 pp.
Cloth
$45.00
(978-0-944722-34-3)
Kennedy, Elizabeth, ed.
The Eight and American Modernisms.
Exh. cat.
Chicago:
Terra Foundation for American Art in association with University of Chicago Press,
2009.
144 pp.; 135 color ills.; 5 b/w ills.
Cloth
$29.95
(9780932171566)
Kennedy, Ian, and Julian Treuherz.
The Railway: Art in the Age of Steam.
Exh. cat.
Kansas City and Minneapolis:
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art and Walker Art Gallery in association with Yale University Press,
2008.
288 pp.; 210 color ills.; 48 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300138788)
Kennedy, Roger G.
When Art Worked: The New Deal, Art, and Democracy.
Ed. David Larkin.
New York:
Rizzoli,
2009.
368 pp.; 450 ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(9780847830893)
Kentgens-Craig, Margret.
The Bauhaus and America: First Contacts, 1919–1936.
MIT Press,
1998.
288 pp.; 51 b/w ills.
Cloth
$40.00
(026211237X)
Kernan, Nathan.
Joseph Goldberg: Jeweled Earth.
Thomas T. Wilson.
Seattle and London:
University of Washington Press,
2007.
104 pp.; 89 color ills.
Cloth
$29.95
(9780295987675)
Kerouac, Jack.
The Dharma Bums.
Penguin,
2005.
224 pp.
Paper
$15.00
(9780143039600)
Khandekar, Narayan, ed.
John Singer Sargent's "Triumph of Religion" at the Boston Public Library: Creation and Restoration.
New Haven and Cambridge, MA:
Yale University Press and The Harvard Art Museum,
2010.
300 color ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300122909)
Kharibian, Leah.
The National Gallery Pocket Collection.
London:
National Gallery, London,
2009.
240 pp.; 200 color ills.
Cloth
$15.00
(9781857094473)
Khoroche, Peter.
Ivon Hitchens.
Aldershot, UK:
Lund Humphries,
2007.
208 pp.; 110 color ills.; 40 b/w ills.
Cloth
$70.00
(9780853319368)
Kimberlin Broach, Barbara, Donald E. Lambert, and Milton Bagby.
Frank Lloyd Wright's Rosenbaum House: The Birth and Rebirth of an American Treasure.
Petaluma:
Pomegranate Communications,
2008.
80 pp.; 32 color ills.; 16 b/w ills.
Cloth
$19.95
(9780764937637)
Kimmerle, Constance.
Elsie Driggs: The Quick and the Classical.
Exh. cat.
Doylestown, Pa. and Philadelphia:
James A. Michener Art Museum and University of Pennsylvania Press,
2008.
160 pp.; 77 color ills.; 40 b/w ills.
Cloth
$39.95
(9780812241044)
King, Richard, ed.
Art in Turmoil: The Chinese Cultural Revolution, 1966–76.
Vancouver:
University of British Columbia Press,
2010.
318 pp.; 62 ills.
Cloth
$85.00
(9780774815420)
King, Emily.
C/ID: Visual Identity and Branding for the Arts.
Ed. Angus Hyland.
Lawrence King Publishing,
2005.
176 pp.; 370 color ills.; 50 b/w ills.
Cloth
$40.00
(1856694089)
King, Elliott H.
Salvador Dalí: The Late Work.
New Haven:
Yale University Press,
2010.
121 color ills.; 30 b/w ills.
Cloth
(9780300168280)
Kinmonth, Claudia.
Irish Rural Interiors in Art.
Yale University Press,
2005.
320 pp.; 75 color ills.; 220 b/w ills.
Cloth
$75.00
(0300107323)
Kinsman, Jane.
Intimate Matisse.
University of Washington Press,
1999.
72 pp.; 5 color ills.; 47 b/w ills.
Paper
$16.95
(0642541221)
Kirkham, Pat, ed.
Women Designers in the USA, 1900-2000: Diversity and Difference.
Yale University Press in association with Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and Culture,
2000.
462 pp.; 300 color ills.; 50 b/w ills.
Cloth
$80.00
(0300087349)
Kirkpatrick, Diane, and Mary Flanagan.
The Art of Sonia Landy Sheridan.
Intro. Katherine Hart.
Exh. cat.
Hanover, NH:
Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College,
2010.
72 pp.; 150 color ills.
Paper
$24.95
(9780944722381)
Kirshenblatt, Mayer, and Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett.
They Called Me Mayer July: Painted Memories of a Jewish Childhood in Poland before the Holocaust.
Exh. cat.
Berkeley:
University of California Press and The Judah L. Magnes Museum,
2007.
424 pp.; 196 color ills.; 11 b/w ills.
Cloth
$39.95
(9780520249615)
Kivy, Peter, ed.
The Blackwell Guide to Aesthetics.
Blackwell,
2003.
368 pp.
Cloth
$34.95
(063122131X)
Klar, Alexander.
Surreal People.
New York:
Harry N. Abrams,
2007.
96 pp.
Cloth
$27.50
(9781851775033)
Kleebatt, Norman L., ed.
Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940–1976.
Exh. cat.
New York and New Haven:
The Jewish Museum and Yale University Press,
2008.
344 pp.; 166 color ills.; 89 b/w ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300122152)
Kleeblatt, Norman L., ed.
Action/Abstraction: Pollock, de Kooning, and American Art, 1940-1976.
New Haven:
Yale University Press in association with The Jewish Museum,
2009.
344 pp.; 175 color ills.; 81 b/w ills.
Paper
$50.00
(9780300139204)
Klein, Sheri.
Art and Laughter.
New York and London:
I.B. Taurus,
2007.
168 pp.; 23 b/w ills.
Paper
$24.50
(1850439311)
Klein, Jacky, ed.
The Bone Beneath the Pulp: Drawings by Wyndham Lewis.
Exh. cat.
Courtauld Gallery in association with Paul Holberton Publishing,
2003.
88 pp.; 60 color ills.
Paper
$25.00
(1903470269)
Kleine, Susanne.
The Imagery of Sean Scully: Constantinople or the Sensual Concealed.
Exh. cat.
New York:
Prestel,
2009.
128 pp.; 75 color ills.
Paper
$34.95
(9783791343105)
Klug, Sabine.
Das Ende des rechten Winkels: Wilhelm Ulrich und die hexagonalen Baukonzepte in der Architektur des 20. Jahrhunderts.
Zurich:
Georg Olms Verlag,
2009.
476 pp.; 26 color ills.; 296 b/w ills.
Cloth
€98.00
(9783487136967)
Knafo, Danielle.
In Her Own Words: Women's Self-Representation in Twentieth-Century Art.
Madison, NJ:
Fairleigh Dickinson University Press,
2010.
201 pp.; 22 color ills.; 48 b/w ills.
Cloth
$62.50
(9780838642108)
Kobialka, Michal.
Further on, Nothing: Tadeusz Kantor's Theatre.
Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press,
2009.
496 pp.; 50 b/w ills.
Paper
$35.00
(9780816654819)
Kochhar-Lindgren, Kanta, Davis Schneiderman, and Tom Delinger, eds.
The Exquisite Corpse: Chance and Collaboration in Surrealism's Parlor Game.
Lincoln:
University of Nebraska Press,
2010.
368 pp.; 28 b/w ills.
Cloth
$55.00
(978080322781)
Koda, Harold, and Andrew Bolton.
Poiret.
Exh. cat.
New York and New Haven and London:
Metropolitan Museum of Art and Yale University Press,
2007.
224 pp.; 195 color ills.
Cloth
$65.00
(9780300120295)