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1	Originality of the Avant-Garde & Other more books like this by Rosalind E Krauss add to wishlist In this challenging collection of fifteen essays, most of which originally appeared in October, Rosalind Krauss explores the ways in which the break in style that produced postmodernism has forced a change in our various understandings of twentieth-century art, beginning with the almost mythic idea of the avant-garde. see all copies from $20.00! new only from $22.00! \| SVS
2	Art Since 1940 more books like this by Jonathan Fineberg add to wishlist 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 $36.54! new only from $36.54! \| SVS
3	Art Since 1940: Strategies of Being more books like this by Jonathan Fineberg add to wishlist 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 $35.72! new only from $41.28!
4	The Picasso Papers more books like this by Rosalind E. Krauss add to wishlist An innovative biography of the artist that considers his life and career in the context of modernism, while concentrating on his many changes in style. see all copies from $1.99! new only from $5.00! \| first editions \| SVS
5	Timelines: The Art of Modernism, 1870-2000 more books like this by Sandro Bocola add to wishlist This volume explains the artistic development of modern art from its impressionistic beginnings in the 19th century to the pluralistic art scene of the present, showing this movement as a completed development in art history. "The Art of Modernism", illustrated with more than 950 images, follows the parallel developments in science, philosophy, ... see all copies from $16.00! new only from $18.94! \| first editions
6	Painting and Sculpture in Europe, 1880-1940: 4th Edition more books like this by George Heard Hamilton add to wishlist 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 $8.75! new only from $32.00! \| first editions \| SVS
7	Modernism and Hegemony: A Materialist Critique of Aesthetic Agencies more books like this by Neil Larsen add to wishlist "Modernism and Hegemony " was first published in 1990. Minnesota Archive Editions uses digital technology to make long-unavailable books once again accessible, and are published unaltered from the original University of Minnesota Press editions. In "Modernism and Hegemony," Neil Larsen exposes the underlying political narratives of modernist ... see all copies from $6.50! new only from $68.36! \| first editions
8	Modernism: The Lure of Heresy from Baudelaire to Beckett and Beyond more books like this by Professor Peter Gay add to wishlist Gay's ambitious endeavor looks at the modernist rebellion that, beginning in the 1840s, transformed art, literature, music, and film. Beginning his epic study with Baudelaire, Gay traces the revolutionary path from its Parisian origins to its emergence as the dominant cultural movement. Illustrated. see all copies from $12.50! new only from $15.00! \| first editions \| SVS
9	Modernity and Modernism: French Painting in the Nineteenth Century more books like this by Professor Francis Frascina, Briony Fer, Charles Harrison add to wishlist 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 $8.97! new only from $25.15! \| first editions
10	Art Since 1960 Art Since 1960 more books like this by Michael Archer, Christiane Paul add to wishlist This intelligently argued, critical overview is invaluable for the way in which it reveals and makes coherent sense of the often bewildering diversity of styles, forms, media, techniques and agendas that proliferate in contemporary art. Now revised and expanded, Michael Archer's acclaimed book is brought right up to date with discussions about the ... see all copies from $2.79! new only from $9.18! \| SVS
11	Ornament: A Modern Perspective more books like this by James Trilling add to wishlist Ornament - 'the art we add to art', as James Trilling defines it - makes people happy; it stands for everything that makes life worth living. But ornament was effectively banned from our world almost a century ago, with modernism's doctrine that ornament was a betrayal of the beauty of function. Devotion to modernism stripped away our historical ... see all copies from $1.99! new only from $21.50! \| first editions \| SVS
12 view cover	Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism more books like this by Professor Timothy Clark add to wishlist Clark, the Chancellor's Professor of Modern Art at UC-Berkeley, argues that modernist art and socialist politics have intertwined histories. His history follows painting from the 18th-century work of David to the 20th-century work of Jackson Pollock to show how modernism and socialism ended simultaneously. see all copies from $29.16! new only from $35.69! \| first editions \| SVS
13 view cover	Madness and Modernism: Insanity in the Light of Modern Art, Literature, and Thought more books like this by Louis A Sass add to wishlist 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 $8.08! new only from $59.36! \| first editions
14 view cover	Cezanne and the End of Impressionism: A Study of the Theory, Technique, and Critical Evaluation of Modern Art more books like this by Richard Shiff add to wishlist Drawing on a broad foundation in the history of nineteenth-century French art, Richard Shiff offers an innovative interpretation of Cezanne's painting. He shows how Cezanne's style met the emerging criteria of a "technique of originality" and how it satisfied critics sympathetic to symbolism as well as to impressionism. Expanding his study of the ... see all copies from $14.79! new only from $39.00! \| first editions \| SVS
15 view cover	Modernism and the Decorative Arts in France: Art Nouveau to Le Corbusier more books like this by Nancy J Troy add to wishlist 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 $33.00! new only from $195.39! \| first editions
16 view cover	Making the Modern: Industry, Art, and Design in America more books like this by Terry Smith add to wishlist In this ambitious book, Terry Smith chronicles the modernist revolution in American art and design between the world wars--from its origins in the new industrial age of mass production, automation, and corporate culture to its powerful and transforming effects on the way Americans came to see themselves and their world. From Ford Motor's first ... see all copies from $22.26! new only from $49.00! \| first editions
17 view cover	Introducing Modernism more books like this by Chris Rodriguez, Chris Garratt (Illustrator) add to wishlist What is modernism? When and why did it begin? And has it really been eclipsed by postmodernism? Replies to these questions are often vague or confusing. Introducing Modernism explores the radical aesthetics of Picasso, Joyce, Schoenberg and other avantgardist masters. Art, architecture, music and literature were all transformed in this shock-wave ... see all copies from $3.46! new only from $70.04!
18 view cover	Modernism in Dispute: Art Since the Forties more books like this by Jonathan Harris, Dr. Charles Harrison, Paul Wood add to wishlist 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 $2.99! new only from $18.53!
19 view cover	The Philosophy of Modern Art more books like this by Herbert Read add to wishlist 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 $20.50! \| first editions \| SVS
20 view cover	E. O. Hoppe's Amerika: Modernist Photographs from the 1920's more books like this by Phillip Prodger, E O Hoppe (Photographer) add to wishlist Emil Otto Hoppe was born in Munich in 1878 but lived in London from 1900 until his death in 1972. A renowned portrait and landscape photographer between the two world wars, he was an early and important modernist whose seminal views of the United States in the 1920s rival those of his peers: Paul Strand, Edward Steichen, Alfred Stieglitz and ... see all copies from $7.70! new only from $7.70! \| first editions \| SVS
21 view cover	TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television more books like this by Lynn Spigel add to wishlist While critics have long disparaged commercial television as a vast wasteland, TV has surprising links to the urbane world of modern art that stretch back to the 1950s and '60s. During that era, the rapid rise of commercial television coincided with dynamic new movements in the visual arts - a potent combination that precipitated a major shift in ... see all copies from $19.28! new only from $19.28!
22 view cover	Out Looking in more books like this by Jan Cavanaugh add to wishlist This study locates Polish artists at the core of one of the primary turn-of-the-century modernist movements, the Central European Secession. It addresses issues of national identity and consciousness, revising our understanding of European modernism. see all copies from $19.25! new only from $25.00! \| first editions
23 view cover	Modernism in American Silver: 20th-Century Design more books like this by Jewel Stern, Kevin W Tucker (Editor), Charles L Venable (Editor) add to wishlist From teaspoons to cocktail shakers and unique objects made for New York World's Fairs, this stunning book examines the influence of modernism upon industrially produced silverware made in the United States from 1925 to 2000. Featuring the Dallas Museum of Art's Jewel Stern American Silver Collection - which comprises over four hundred ... see all copies from $14.97! new only from $33.20! \| first editions \| SVS
24 view cover	Art in Modern Culture more books like this by Professor Francis Frascina (Editor), Jonathan Harris (Editor) add to wishlist This reader for the Open University's course on Modern Art: Practices and Debates presents a selection of key texts, including classic works from the 1930s to the 1960s, alongside contemporary writings, that introduce the reader to many issues on which critics and art historians have focused. see all copies from $3.70! new only from $15.69! \| first editions \| SVS
25 view cover	A Critic Writes: Selected Essays by Reyner Banham more books like this by Reyner Banham (Editor), Paul Barker (Editor), Sutherland Lyall (Editor) add to wishlist Rayner Banham's interests ranged from architecture and the culture of pop art to urban and industrial design. This selection of essays includes discussions of Italian Futurism, Adolf Loos, Paul Scheerbart, and the Bauhaus, as well as the contemporary architecture of Gehry, Stirling and Foster. see all copies from $18.00! new only from $35.03! \| first editions \| SVS

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	Short Guide to Writing about Art by Sylvan Barnet see all from $1.99! new only from $8.94!
	Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics by Herschel B Chipp see all from $2.47! new only from $17.10!
	The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers by Timothy J Clark see all from $6.45! new only from $21.76!
	Primitivism, Cubism, Abstraction: The Early Twentieth Century by Charles Harrison, Gill Perry, Professor Francis Frascina see all from $8.50! new only from $36.26!
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	Art on the Edge...and Over by Linda Weintraub, Arthur Coleman Danto (Foreword by) see all from $6.38! new only from $9.58!