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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 — 1,689 ratings — published 1968
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.99 — 15,782 ratings — published 2012
Bluebeard (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 46,133 ratings — published 1987
Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 621 ratings — published 1985
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 240,711 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 — 4,356 ratings — published 2024
The 20th Century Art Book (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 13,128 ratings — published 1996
Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 642 ratings — published 2005
History of Modern Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 8,693 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 3.31 — 911 ratings — published 2012
Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.45 — 448 ratings — published 2006
Art Now (TASCHEN Icons Series)
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avg rating 3.75 — 146 ratings — published 2001
The Painted Word (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 7,103 ratings — published 1975
Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 240 ratings — published 2005
The Longest Ride (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 162,683 ratings — published 2012
Dada: Art and Anti-Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 653 ratings — published 1964
Pop Surrealism: The Rise of Underground Art (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 1,902 ratings — published 2004
Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 1,060 ratings — published 2004
How to Read a Modern Painting: Lessons from the Modern Masters (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 137 ratings — published 2006
Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 495 ratings — published 2006
Confessions of an Art Addict (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 2,784 ratings — published 1946
Through the Window: Views of Marc Chagall's Life and Art (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 343 ratings — published
Matisse's Garden (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 256 ratings — published 2014
Mr. Cornell's Dream Boxes (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.59 — 217 ratings — published 2014
Through Georgia's Eyes (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 246 ratings — published 2006
Georgia's Bones (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 163 ratings — published 2005
Out of This World: The Surreal Art of Leonora Carrington (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 263 ratings — published 2019
My Hands Sing the Blues: Romare Bearden's Childhood Journey (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 186 ratings — published 2011
My Name Is Georgia: A Portrait by Jeanette Winter (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 337 ratings — published 1998
How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 57,937 ratings — published 2019
Just Being Dali: The Story of Artist Salvador Dali (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 190 ratings — published
Jake Makes a World: Jacob Lawrence, A Young Artist in Harlem: A Picture Book (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.84 — 178 ratings — published 2015
A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 5,387 ratings — published 2013
A Line Can Go Anywhere: The Brilliant, Resilient Life of Artist Ruth Asawa (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.24 — 164 ratings — published
A Life Made by Hand: The Story of Ruth Asawa (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 329 ratings — published 2019
Ablaze with Color: A Story of Painter Alma Thomas (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 490 ratings — published 2022
A Bird or Two: A Story About Henri Matisse (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 74 ratings — published 1999
Action Jackson (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 455 ratings — published 2002
An Eye for Color: The Story of Josef Albers (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 210 ratings — published 2009
Sonia Delaunay: A Life of Color (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.80 — 91 ratings — published
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 34,822 ratings — published 1550
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 — 503 ratings — published 2012
La libertà di Bernini: La sovranità dell'artista e le regole del potere (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.56 — 27 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 4.23 — 438 ratings — published 2018
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: A Memoir of Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 102 ratings — published 1999
Gabriel Orozco: The Samurai Tree Invariants (Paperback)
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avg rating 2.00 — 1 rating — published 2007
“Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.”
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“Since it is sure of its ability to control the entire domain of the visible and the audible via the laws governing commercial circulation and democratic communication, Empire no longer censures anything. All art, and all thought, is ruined when we accept this permission to consume, to communicate and to enjoy. We should become the pitiless censors of ourselves.”
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