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Modern Art Books
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Theories of Modern Art: A Source Book by Artists and Critics (California Studies in the History of Art)
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avg rating 4.02 — 1,685 ratings — published 1968
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 14,154 ratings — published 2012
Bluebeard (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 44,514 ratings — published 1987
Dada: Art and Anti-Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 640 ratings — published 1964
Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 580 ratings — published 1985
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 235,624 ratings — published 2005
Get the Picture: A Mind-Bending Journey Among the Inspired Artists and Obsessive Art Fiends Who Taught Me How to See (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 3,867 ratings — published 2024
The 20th Century Art Book (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 13,075 ratings — published 1996
Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 632 ratings — published 2005
History of Modern Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 8,651 ratings — published 1968
Why Your Five-Year-Old Could Not Have Done That: From Slashed Canvas to Unmade Bed, Modern Art Explained (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.32 — 873 ratings — published 2012
Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.43 — 430 ratings — published 2006
Art Now (TASCHEN Icons Series)
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avg rating 3.76 — 147 ratings — published 2001
The Painted Word (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 6,993 ratings — published 1975
Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 990 ratings — published 2010
Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 228 ratings — published 2005
Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,301 ratings — published 2015
The Longest Ride (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 158,077 ratings — published 2012
Pop Surrealism: The Rise of Underground Art (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 1,903 ratings — published 2004
Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 1,027 ratings — published 2004
How to Read a Modern Painting: Lessons from the Modern Masters (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 138 ratings — published 2006
Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 488 ratings — published 2006
Confessions of an Art Addict (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 2,486 ratings — published 1946
The Phantasmagoria of Capital: A Short History of the Commodity, the Spectacle and its Discontents (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published
Breakfast with Lucian: The Astounding Life and Outrageous Times of Britain's Great Modern Painter (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 489 ratings — published 2012
La libertà di Bernini: La sovranità dell'artista e le regole del potere (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.50 — 28 ratings — published 2016
Bruce Nauman - The True Artist/Der wahre Künstler (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 2 ratings — published 1996
Modernists and Mavericks: Bacon, Freud, Hockney and the London Painters (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.22 — 411 ratings — published 2018
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: A Memoir of Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 97 ratings — published 1999
Gabriel Orozco: The Samurai Tree Invariants (Paperback)
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avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published 2007
Paintings 1974 - 2014 (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1 rating — published
The Art Of A. Ramachandran (Paperback)
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avg rating 5.00 — 1 rating — published 2000
Styles, Schools And Movements: The Essential Encyclopaedic Guide To Modern Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 117 ratings — published 2002
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,444 ratings — published 1988
Abstract Expressionism (Basic Art Series)
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avg rating 3.91 — 166 ratings — published 2005
After Modern Art: 1945-2017 (Oxford History of Art)
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avg rating 3.90 — 29 ratings — published
Defining Moments in Art: Over a Century of the Greatest Artists, Exhibitions, People, Artworks and Events that Rocked the World (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 22 ratings — published 2008
A Little Art Education (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 27 ratings — published
Unquiet Landscape: Places and Ideas in Twentieth-Century English Painting (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 134 ratings — published 1991
So Much Blue (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 4,055 ratings — published 2017
Paul Cézanne: Drawings and Watercolors (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 23 ratings — published 2015
Abstract Painting (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.25 — 4 ratings — published 1979
After the End of Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,057 ratings — published 1997
Matisse in the Studio (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.53 — 30 ratings — published
Reductionism in Art and Brain Science: Bridging the Two Cultures (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.13 — 882 ratings — published 2016
Black Velvet: The Art We Love to Hate (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.56 — 9 ratings — published 1994
“I think a lot of modern art is complete bullshit. But I admire the creativity. The weird shit people think of! Some of the most interesting things I've ever seen in my life, I've seen in modern art museums. And that's what art is all about. It's supposed to make you think.”
― Bad Choices Make Good Stories - Finding Happiness in Los Angeles
― Bad Choices Make Good Stories - Finding Happiness in Los Angeles
“Modern art has to be what is called ‘intense.’ it is not easy to define being intense; but, roughly speaking, it means saying only one thing at a time, and saying it wrong.”
― Alarms and Discursions
― Alarms and Discursions
