History of Art & Design Styles: from c1900 -
Subjects
-
AGO Modern and Contemporary
Goose Lane Editions£30.99| /AGO Modern and Contemporary presents over one hundred remarkable works from the AGO’s permanent collection. Featuring recent landmark acquisitions ...
View full details -
Alvarado's Military Pin-Ups
Schiffer£31.99| /The vintage heyday of American pinups is presented here in full view, with a modern flare and that unique Alvarado touch. Military-uniform- and gea...
View full details -
Glass Art
Schiffer£45.99| /Nearly 600 brilliantly detailed photos capture the work of 112 glass artists and show the tremendous diversity, depth, and breadth of how this anci...
View full details -
Gus Wagner
Schiffer£31.99| /A visual history of the life of Augustus "Gus" Wagner and his work as a hand tattoo artist, exploring a relatively unknown area of American art his...
View full details -
Halifax Harbour 1918 / Le port d'Halifax 1918
Goose Lane Editions£26.99| /Two wartime artists, one bustling harbour, and a city ravaged by the Halifax Explosion. Two perspectives on Halifax one year after the Explosion.A ...
View full details -
Hand Wrought Arts & Crafts Metalwork and Jewelry
Schiffer£72.99| /The Arts and Crafts Movement, a fascinating period in American decorative history, led to the unprecedented commercialization of fine crafts and th...
View full details -
He Named Her Amber
Art Gallery of Ontario£26.99| /He Named Her Amber spans the space between fiction and nonfiction and a spatial construct of reality and the unreal. Readers have described their e...
View full details -
IAIN BAXTER&
Goose Lane Editions£34.99| /Winner, Canadian Museums Association Outstanding Achievement in Publication and Melva J. Dwyer AwardIain Baxter legally changed his name to IAIN BA...
View full details -
In the Studio
Edition Olms AG£45.00| /Discover some of the major 20th century artists in intimate settings. Paris Match magazine has followed, photographed and interviewed them exclusiv...
View full details -
Lloyd Kiva New
Sonflower Publishing Company£40.99| /This catalogue commemorates the life of Lloyd Kiva New, artist, fashion designer, and renowned arts educator. Always a trailblazer, from his early ...
View full details -
Mabel Dodge Luhan & Company
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)£45.99| /Mabel Dodge Luhan (18791962) was a political, social, and cultural visionary; salon hostess; and collector of genius in almost every field of mode...
View full details -
Magnificent 19th Century Furniture
Schiffer£113.99| /The Historicism movement in art (1830-1920) was perhaps the most democratic of all. European furniture makers sought to recapture the magic and aff...
View full details -
Manhattan's Hotel des Artistes
Schiffer£59.99| /Over 600 archival colour and black-and-white photos take readers inside the magnificent Hotel des Artistes on Manhattan's West Side. This is the we...
View full details -
Mary Pratt
Goose Lane Editions£21.99| /Mary Pratt’s art has captivated millions of Canadians. Her luminescent paintings capture reality in a way that few artists have been able to achiev...
View full details -
Masterworks from the Beaverbrook Art Gallery
Goose Lane Editions£50.00| /Shortlisted, Best Atlantic Published Book Award and Canadian Regional Design AwardA major publication comprising 240 pages with 75 colour plates an...
View full details -
Miami Beach Postcards
Schiffer£13.99| /Forty colorful postcards detail the architectural Art Deco splendor of Miami Beach. Keep it as a souvenir book, detach and mail them, or show them ...
View full details -
Mum
Interactive Press£19.99| /Join artist Dale Kentwell on her journey of discovery into the heart of Outback Australia where she explores the essentials of artistic expression,...
View full details -
Octavio Ocampo
Edition Olms AG£35.00| /Text in English, German & Spanish. Octavio Ocampo is one of Mexicos most prolific artists. Octavio was born on 28 February 1943 in Celaya, Gua...
View full details -
Pasifika Styles
Otago University Press (NZ)£17.95| /In May 2006 some fifteen artists from New Zealand took over the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology in Cambridge (UK) as part of Pasifika Styles...
View full details -
Paul Wegener
Edition Axel Menges (D)£38.00| /Text in German. The title of Paul Wegener's film Hans Trutz im Schlaraffenland, dating from 1917, alludes to Pieter Bruegel's well-known picture Co...
View full details -
Peripheral Insider
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£28.99| /In Denmark there has been a tendency to view expatriate art not as part of current global developments, but as expressions of ethnic cultures of li...
View full details -
Peter McLeavey
Te Papa Press£49.99| /From Montana award-winning author Jill Trevelyan comes the first biography of Peter McLeavey, the charismatic, pioneering art dealer who since the ...
View full details -
Rethinking Art Between the Wars
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£28.99| /In the interwar period art revealed itself as part of the social and ideological order. The work of art became a point of intersection for the mode...
View full details -
Rhymes of Early Jungle Folk
Schiffer£18.99| /This facsimile edition of a 1922 children’s book features seventy-three dynamic and whimsical woodcut illustrations—the first woodcuts that the fam...
View full details -
Samuel Beckett and Contemporary Art
Ibidem Press/Ibidem-Verlag£34.00| /This groundbreaking collection from scholars and artists on the legacy of Beckett in contemporary art provides readers with a unique view of this i...
View full details -
Scott Fraser
Schiffer£68.99| /Visually stunning, informative, and broad in scope, this comprehensive overview gathers the works of renowned still-life painter Scott Fraser. Beau...
View full details -
Sharing Code
Museum of New Mexico Press (US)£40.99| /This book tells the story of Art1, a computer program developed in 1968 at the University of New Mexico by electrical engineer Richard Williams wit...
View full details -
Silenced
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /When thirty-two women were hired as mounted police officers in 1974, it was a media sensation. After all, these were not the brawny heroes of Canad...
View full details -
Situating Design in Alberta
University of Alberta Press (CA)£30.99| /Situating Design in Alberta makes the case that design has the potential to drive economic growth, improve quality of life, and promote sustainabil...
View full details -
Sonia
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /After Sonia Cornwall's father died in 1939, her mother inherited the Onward Ranch and a huge debt. To make the ranch viable, a twenty-year-old Soni...
View full details -
Spark the Creative Flame
McDonald & Woodward Publishing Co (US)£50.99| /This is a resource that strives to inform, inspire, and motivate all who work in craft and wish to improve the creative expression of their work. W...
View full details -
Spirit of Vitalism
Museum Tusculanum Press (DK)£78.99| /This anthology outlines a strong vitalistic movement in Denmark with considerably broader dimensions than has previously been recognised. The contr...
View full details -
Stories From My Life
Ariadne Press (US)£30.99| /The author was one of the major Expressionist painters of the first half of the 20th century, and also wrote a number of plays, poems, and stories....
View full details -
Surrealism & the Occult
Mandrake of Oxford (UK)£12.99| /Many people associate Surrealism with politics, but it was also permeated by occult ideas, a fact often overlooked by art historians. This occult i...
View full details -
The Chaseâ¢Era
Schiffer£27.99| /The rise and fall of American Art Deco coincide neatly with the brief, but glorious, heyday of the Chase Brass & Copper Co.'s Specialty divisio...
View full details -
The Glasgow Style
Schiffer£63.99| /The Glasgow style of decorative arts evolved in the 1890s at the Glasgow School of Art, from influences begun by the Art Nouveau and Arts and Craft...
View full details -
The Grande Dames of the Cariboo
Caitlin Press (CA)£15.99| /Author Julie Fowler began a quest to find out more about an artist from the Cariboo named Sonia Cornwall (19192006). Through interviews, letters, ...
View full details -
Topography and Literature
V & R Unipress GmbH£52.99| /The contributions of the conference of the same name at the University of the South in Tennessee, USA, examine the relationship between the impact ...
View full details -
Toronto
Art Gallery of Ontario£19.99| /Exploring the experimental energy of an era, Toronto: Tributes + Tributaries, 1971-1989 brings together more than 100 works by 65 artists and colle...
View full details -
Treasures of Winnipeg's Historic Exchange
Heritage Group Distribution Ltd£50.99| /A breathtaking full-colour photography book celebrating the architectural splendour and cultural heritage of Winnipegs famed Exchange District, a ...
View full details -
Wanted
Massey University Press£61.99| /Mervyn Taylor wood engraver, painter, illustrator, sculptor and designer was one of the most celebrated New Zealand artists of the 1930s to 196...
View full details -
Waro Kishi
Edition Axel Menges (D)£49.00| /Waro Kishi first caught the attention of the architectural world with his house in Nipponbashi, en elegant townhouse in an Osaka district full of s...
View full details -
Western Art of the Twenty-First Century
Schiffer£31.99| /The first in a two-volume survey, readers are invited to reexamine the history of the West and its art through a multifaceted modern lens. More tha...
View full details -
Western Art of the Twenty-First Century
Schiffer£27.99| /The first in a two-volume survey, readers are invited to reexamine the history of the West and its art through a multifaceted modern lens. More tha...
View full details -
WPA Buildings
Schiffer£40.99| /In this fully illustrated, well-documented study, a historically underappreciated, uniquely American style gets its due. This survey explores the o...
View full details