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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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  • Accidental Alchemy: Oliver Simon, Signature Magazine, and the rise of British Neo-Romantic ArtAccidental Alchemy: Oliver Simon, Signature Magazine, and the rise of British Neo-Romantic Art
    Unicorn Press

    Accidental Alchemy: Oliver Simon, Signature Magazine, and the rise of British Neo-Romantic Art

    Neil Wells Hardcover | 19.69 x 2.54 x 24.13 cm | 208 pp Unicorn Press | 2022 | 9781914414343 The significant influence of the periodical Signature on fine art has long been overlooked. While few people nowadays will have read it, no journal has greater...
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  • Group Dynamics: Collectives of the Modernist PeriodGroup Dynamics: Collectives of the Modernist Period
    Hatje Cantz

    Group Dynamics: Collectives of the Modernist Period

    Softcover | 20.32 x 4.19 x 27.31 cm | 448 pp Hatje Cantz | 2022 | 9783775750400 Buenos Aires, Casablanca, Beijing, Khartoum, Lahore, Tokyo: all over the world, artists joined forces in collectives throughout the twentieth century. While the tendency to form groups was...
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  • Nineteenth-Century Women Artists: Sisters of the BrushNineteenth-Century Women Artists: Sisters of the Brush
    Unicorn Press

    Nineteenth-Century Women Artists: Sisters of the Brush

    Caroline Chapman Hardcover | 15.88 x 2.29 x 23.5 cm | 224 pp Unicorn | 2021 | 9781913491413 For much of the nineteenth century, women artists laboured under the same restrictions and taboos they had endured for centuries, and it was assumed that marriage and...
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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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  • Japanese Kite PrintsJapanese Kite Prints
    University of Washington Press

    Japanese Kite Prints

    John Stevenson Hardcover | 26.04 x 1.91 x 31.12 cm | 200 pp University of Washington Press | 2004 | 9780295984544 Colour woodblock prints vibrantly convey the popular urban culture of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century Edo, now called Tokyo. In a book that brings together 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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  • Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of EinsteinDimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein
    MIT Press

    Dimensionism: Modern Art in the Age of Einstein

    Hardcover | 18.42 x 2.95 x 23.65 cm | 328 pp MIT Press | 2018 | 9780262038478 The first book to document how artists of the early twentieth century responded to new scientific conceptions of reality. In the early twentieth century, influenced by advances...
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  • Calder (2-volume set)Calder (2-volume set)
    Knopf

    Calder (2-volume set)

      Jed Perl Hardcover | 1356 pp | 2 volumes Knopf | 2017 | 9780307272720 & 9780451494115 Volume I: The Conquest of Time - The Early Years (1898-1940)  Volume II: The Conquest of Space - The Later Years (1940-1976)  Over 350 illustrations, including little-known works and many archival...
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  • Kazimir Malevich: The Black Square (Story of a Masterpiece)Kazimir Malevich: The Black Square (Story of a Masterpiece)
    Konig

    Kazimir Malevich: The Black Square (Story of a Masterpiece)

    Friedemann Malsch,  Zelfira Tregulova & Irina Vakar. Softcover | 23.11 x 1.02 x 26.42 cm | 64 pp Konig | 2018 | 9783960984375 In 2015, Irina Vakar, senior research scientist at Tretyakov Gallery, re-examined Kazimir Malevich’s Black Square (1915) through X-ray imaging and pigment samples. Reconsidering...
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  • Before Time BeganBefore Time Began
    Five Continents Editions

    Before Time Began

    Softcover | 23.04 x 1.32 x 27.31 cm | 144 pp Five Continents Editions | 2019 | 9788874398768  Before Time Began is the catalogue of the first major Australian Indigenous art exhibition of the Fondation Opale. It largely draws on the Bérengère Primat Collection. As its title...
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  • Cezanne: A-ZCezanne: A-Z
    Hatje Cantz

    Cezanne: A-Z

    James H. Rubin Hardcover | 13 x 19.5 cm | 120 pp Hatje Cantz | 2022 | 9783775749138 The incomparable play of light and colour in Paul Cezanne’s work was the foundation of his reputation as a forerunner of modernism. From the start he went...
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  • The Berlin Masterpieces in America: Paintings, Politics and the Monuments MenThe Berlin Masterpieces in America: Paintings, Politics and the Monuments Men
    D Giles

    The Berlin Masterpieces in America: Paintings, Politics and the Monuments Men

    Peter J Bell & Kristi A Nelson Hardcover | 19.56 x 2.79 x 24.13 cm | 224 pp D Giles | 2020 | 9781911282631 The story of some of the paintings rescued by the the Monuments, Fine Arts and Archives (MFAA) organisation, the so-called "Monuments Men." In December...
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  • Letters of Note: Art (Non-mint)Letters of Note: Art (Non-mint)
    Canongate

    Letters of Note: Art (Non-mint)

    Shaun Usher Softcover | 13.3 x 0.9 x 17.8 cm | 132 pp Penguin | 2021 | 9780143134671 Vincent Van Gogh curses the stare of the blank canvas. Salvador Dali contemplates mailing a piece of his ‘lobster-coloured pyjamas’ to Federico Lorca. Hollis Frampton, to...
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  • Dali's Moustaches: An Act of HomageDali's Moustaches: An Act of Homage
    Prestel

    Dali's Moustaches: An Act of Homage

    Boris Friedewald Hardcover | 14.61 x 1.91 x 19.05 cm | 144 pp Prestel | 2016 | 9783791382555 This original and utterly captivating celebration of Salvador Dali's life and career traces the countless, often outrageous, ways the artist employed his moustache to brilliant effect. Whether...
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  • Madame De Pompadour: Painted PinkMadame De Pompadour: Painted Pink
    Yale University Press

    Madame De Pompadour: Painted Pink

    Cassandra A. Albinson Softcover | 17.81 x 0.86 x 21.74 cm | 96 pp Yale University Press | 2022 | 9780300263817 A fresh take on a beloved masterpiece of portraiture, focusing on the complex significance of the colour pink in eighteenth-century France.François Boucher’s 1750...
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  • Picasso's Demoiselles: The Untold Origins of a Modern MasterpiecePicasso's Demoiselles: The Untold Origins of a Modern Masterpiece
    Duke University Press

    Picasso's Demoiselles: The Untold Origins of a Modern Masterpiece

    Suzanne Preston Blier Softcover | 17.78 x 1.91 x 22.86 cm | 448 pp Duke University Press | 2019 | 9781478000198 In Picasso's Demoiselles, eminent art historian Suzanne Preston Blier uncovers the previously unknown history of Pablo Picasso's Les Demoiselles d’Avignon, one of the twentieth century's most...
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  • Renoir: An Intimate BiographyRenoir: An Intimate Biography
    Thames & Hudson

    Renoir: An Intimate Biography

    Barbara Ehrlich White Hardcover | 17.78 x 4.06 x 24.89 cm | 432 pp Thames & Hudson | 2017 | 9780500239575  The joy that permeates Renoir’s paintings was created by a complicated person. Even close friends and family members were often baffled by the multi-faceted...
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  • The Story of Edvard Munch
    Arcadia Books

    The Story of Edvard Munch

    Ketil Bjørnstad Softcover | 13.02 x 2.86 x 20 cm | 416 pp Arcadia Books | 2005 | 9781900850940 A fascinating literary construction of the life of one of the world's most popular 19th century painters based on Munch's own diaries, notes and letters. His...
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  • Vision and Communism: Viktor Koretsky and Dissident Public Visual CultureVision and Communism: Viktor Koretsky and Dissident Public Visual Culture
    The New Press

    Vision and Communism: Viktor Koretsky and Dissident Public Visual Culture

    Softcover | 13.97 x 1.27 x 20.96 cm | 176 pp The New Press | 2011 | 9781595586254  Viktor Koretsky (1909–1998) was a leading Soviet artist and the acknowledged master of the Soviet photographic poster. With a long and prolific career that spanned the...
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