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1	Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being more books like this by Jonathan Fineberg This survey looks at art from 1940 to the present as an accumulation of unique contributions by individual artists. These are examined in depth together with chapters which concern the broader context of the past six decades. The book attempts a balanced perspective on art in Europe and America by the inclusion of black, Hispanic and women artists ... see all copies from $32.03! new only from $32.03!
2	Northwest Mythologies: The Interactions of Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, and Guy Anderson more books like this by Sheryl Conkelton, Laura Landau Some of the best-known modern painters in the American Northwest, the artists Mark Tobey, Morris Graves, Kenneth Callahan, and Guy Anderson have been called the leaders of a "Northwest School" since the 1940s. But a detailed investigation of their interactions from 1930 to 1954 shows the perception of these four artists as a cohesive group to be a ... see all copies from $6.72! new only from $10.40! \| first editions \| SVS
3	Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1880-1940: 4th Edition more books like this by George Heard Hamilton Traces the origins and growth of modern art, assessing the intrinsic qualities of individual works and describing the social forces in play. The book covers various areas including works of Impressionism, Cubism, Constructivism and Surrealism. see all copies from $4.53! new only from $32.00! \| first editions
4	Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought more books like this by Louis A Sass The similarities between madness and modernism are striking: defiance of authority, nihilism, extreme relativism, distortions of time, strange transformations of self, and much more. In this book, Louis Sass, a clinical psychologist, offers a new vision of schizophrenia, comparing it with the works of such artists and writers as Kafka, Beckett, ... see all copies from $22.00! new only from $99.00! \| first editions
5	Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the Nineteenth Century more books like this by Professor Francis Frascina, Briony Fer, Charles Harrison This volume is part of a four-volume series about art and its interpretation in the 19th and 20th centuries. The books provide an introduction to modern European and American art and criticism that should be valuable both to students and to the general reader. This first volume focuses on aspects of Realism, Impressionism and Post-Impressionism in ... see all copies from $6.25! new only from $30.91! \| first editions \| SVS
6	Painting Gender, Constructing Theory: The Alfred Stieglitz Circle and American Formalist Aesthetics more books like this by Marcia Brennan After the closing of his first art gallery in 1917, photographer Alfred Stieglitz reemerged in the New York art world in the 1920s. He achieved his comeback in large part through the innovative means he used to promote himself and the artists of his inner circle. Stieglitz and a number of well-established critics drew on period conceptions of ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $1.99! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Modernism and the Decorative Arts in France: Art Nouveau to Le Corbusier more books like this by Nancy J Troy In this book, Nancy J.Troy argues that the decorative arts are vitally important to understanding early 20th century modernism. She examines the effects of industrialization and international competition on the development of decorative arts in France during the period that began with Art Nouveau in 1895 and culminated in the Art Deco exhibition ... see all copies from $17.50! new only from $160.30! \| first editions
8	Modernism in Dispute: Art Since the Forties more books like this by Jonathan Harris, Dr. Charles Harrison, Paul Wood This, the final volume in this series discusses how American art evolved from the social realism prevalent during the 1930s to a predominantly abstract art after the war, relates this change to America's growing economic and political dominance of the post-war world, and constrasts the abstraction of American art with the persistently realistic ... see all copies from $3.76! new only from $10.40!
9	The Cambridge Companion to Modernism more books like this by Michael H. Levenson In The Cambridge Companion to Modernism, ten eminent scholars from Britain and the United States offer timely new appraisals of the revolutionary cultural transformations of the first decades of the twentieth century. Chapters on the major literary genres, intellectual, political and institutional contexts, film and the visual arts, provide both ... see all copies from $12.99! new only from $14.94!
10	Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond more books like this by Professor Peter Gay Peter Gay's most ambitious endeavor since Freud explores the shocking modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music, and film with its assault on traditional forms. Beginning his epic study with Baudelaire, whose lurid poetry scandalized French stalwarts, Gay traces the revolutionary path of modernism from ... see all copies from $19.14! new only from $20.66! \| first editions \| SVS
11 view cover	After the Great Divide: Modernism, Mass Culture, Postmodernism more books like this by Professor Andreas Huyssen Today's challenge to the divide between mass culture and modernism goes by the name of the postmodern. Huyssen argues that postmodernism itself cannot be regarded as a radical break with the past, as its artistic and political strategies are indebted to that other trend within the culture of modernity - the historical avant garde. see all copies from $13.95! new only from $15.27! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Art Since 1940 more books like this by Jonathan Fineberg Widely praised when it first appeared in 1995, Art Since 1940 tells the story of six decades of art in America and Europe through a series of in-depth biographical profiles of individual artists, astutely linked by illuminating discussions of the cultural influences on their work. ARTnews hailed this lively volume as "a fascinating book" by "a ... see all copies from $25.24!
13 view cover	The Picasso Papers more books like this by Rosalind E. Krauss Pablo Picasso turned the ephemera of everyday life into pioneering cubist collage, and reinvented the paintings of old masters for the 20th century. Does this make him an artistic genius? Or was he simply an opportunist, a maverick who mercilessly raided the styles of others? This book presents a view of arguably the greatest artist of the century ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $4.58! \| first editions \| SVS
14 view cover	The American Century: Varieties of Culture in Modern Times more books like this by Norman F Cantor An exhaustive history of modern culture, examining 20th-century developments in art, architecture, politics, religion, film, philosophy,science, and education. Cantor maintains that America has been the premier exporter of ideas and movements during this period, and that, in every contemporary field, American models are inevitably held up as ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $12.58! \| first editions
15 view cover	Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism more books like this by T J Clark In this intense and far-reaching book, acclaimed art historian T. J. Clark offers a new vision of the art of the past two centuries, focusing on moments when art responded directly in extreme terms to the ongoing disaster called "modernity". Modernism, Clark argues, was an extreme answer to an extreme condition - the one Max Weber summed up as ... see all copies from $15.40! new only from $33.84! \| first editions \| SVS
16 view cover	Art in Modern Culture more books like this by Professor Francis Frascina (Editor), Jonathan Harris (Editor) The traditional discipline of art history has been expanded and challenged by new insights and alternative perspectives, resulting in a series of wide-ranging debates on the status of art and its role in culture and history. This reader for the Open University's course, 'Modern Art: Practices and Debates', presents a radical selection of key texts ... see all copies from $4.75! new only from $17.43! \| first editions \| SVS
17 view cover	The Philosophy of Modern Art more books like this by Herbert E Read A sustained view of the place of art in human evolution and art's specific role in contemporary society by Roger Fry's apparent. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.97! \| first editions \| SVS
18 view cover	Modern Art: A Critical Introduction more books like this by Pam Meecham, Julie Sheldon Modern Art: A Critical Introduction relates twentieth century theories of art to the social history and artists of modernism and post-modernism. The authors trace the development of traditional genres such as the female nude, and the emergence of new subjects and concepts in response to the unique social and political contexts of a newly ... see all copies from $14.96! new only from $35.83! \| first editions \| SVS
19 view cover	Postmodernism and Popular Culture: A Cultural History more books like this by John Docker In this provocative and timely book, John Docker takes his readers on an intellectual adventure. The journey includes an introductory guided tour of the history of modernism, consideration of the development of postmodernism, explanation of the difference between structuralism and poststructuralism and discussion of the debates and conflicts ... see all copies from $12.00! new only from $38.87! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	Pre-Modernism: Art-World Change and American Culture from the Civil War to the Armory Show more books like this by J M Mancini Speaking of the emergence of modernism, author Virginia Woolf famously said: 'On or about December 1910, human character changed.' But was the shift to modernism really so revolutionary? J. M. Mancini argues that it was not. She proposes that the origins of the movement can in fact be traced well into the nineteenth century. Several cultural ... see all copies from $19.94! new only from $19.94! \| SVS
21 view cover	Architecture and Design Library: Retro-Modern more books like this by Lisa Skolnik Take a photographic tour of the most popular periods and fashions in interior design and architecture. Each book features the insights of an expert design writer and numerous fine examples of a particular style's architectural elements, period and geographic facets, and distinguishing decorative flourishes. Stunning photography showcases both ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $7.50!
22 view cover	Modernism more books like this by Charles Harrison Modernism is a broad term, used generally to convey a faith in progress and a healthy scepticism for received ideas and traditional values. More specifically, the Modernist tendency has often been associated with the main developments in art over the past 150 years, and with the art's highest achievements. However, those concerned to maintain ... see all copies from $9.93! new only from $9.93! \| SVS
23 view cover	Modernism more books like this by Professor Peter Childs The modernist movement radically transformed the late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century literary establishment, and its effects are still felt today. "Modernism" introduces and analyzes what amounted to nothing less than a literary and cultural revolution. In this fully updated and revised second edition, charting the movement in its global ... see all copies from $5.45! new only from $18.75! \| SVS
24 view cover	British Modern: Graphic Design Between the Wars more books like this by Steven Heller, Chronicle Books, Louise Fili Every aspect of British life in the lively a nd turbulent decades of the 20s and 30s is displayed in this compendium of highly stylised Art Deco design concepts, inc luding artefacts ranging from Underground posters to perfume boxes and theatre tickets ' see all copies from $6.50! new only from $15.00! \| first editions
25 view cover	English Art, 1860-1914: Modern Artists and Identity more books like this by David Peters Corbett (Editor), Lara Perry (Editor) How "modern" is the art made in England between 1860 and 1914? England in this period was a highly modernized society, but the art it produced is not "modernist" in the sense that the word has been used to describe French art of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. This book seeks to break the association of "modern" art in England with French ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $3.00! \| first editions

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