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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 3.99 — 14,758 ratings — published 2012
Bluebeard (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 45,171 ratings — published 1987
Dada: Art and Anti-Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 647 ratings — published 1964
Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 600 ratings — published 1985
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 236,820 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 — 4,071 ratings — published 2024
The 20th Century Art Book (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 13,085 ratings — published 1996
Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 633 ratings — published 2005
History of Modern Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 8,664 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 — 887 ratings — published 2012
Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.44 — 437 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 — 7,027 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 — 1,011 ratings — published 2010
Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.62 — 235 ratings — published 2005
Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 1,332 ratings — published 2015
The Longest Ride (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 160,088 ratings — published 2012
Pop Surrealism: The Rise of Underground Art (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 1,901 ratings — published 2004
Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 1,037 ratings — published 2004
How to Read a Modern Painting: Lessons from the Modern Masters (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 139 ratings — published 2006
Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 489 ratings — published 2006
Confessions of an Art Addict (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 2,592 ratings — published 1946
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 33,421 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 3.91 — 490 ratings — published 2012
La libertà di Bernini: La sovranità dell'artista e le regole del potere (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 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 4.22 — 425 ratings — published 2018
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: A Memoir of Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 99 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 4.21 — 118 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 — 170 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 3.97 — 29 ratings — published
Unquiet Landscape: Places and Ideas in Twentieth-Century English Painting (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 141 ratings — published 1991
So Much Blue (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 4,297 ratings — published 2017
Paul Cézanne: Drawings and Watercolors (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 24 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 — 1,064 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 4.14 — 902 ratings — published 2016
Black Velvet: The Art We Love to Hate (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.56 — 9 ratings — published 1994
“El estancamiento y la falta de perspectivas del arte moderno corresponden al estancamiento y a la falta de perspectivas de la sociedad de la mercancía que ha agotado todos sus recursos.”
― El absurdo mercado de los hombres sin cualidades: Ensayos sobre el fetichismo de la mercancía
― El absurdo mercado de los hombres sin cualidades: Ensayos sobre el fetichismo de la mercancía
“In your world of classical art pieces are revered for the artist's skill of execution - that is, how deftly he places the brush to canvas or the chisel to stone. In modern art, however, masterpieces are often more about the idea than the execution.”
― Origin
― Origin
