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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 — 14,298 ratings — published 2012
Bluebeard (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 44,818 ratings — published 1987
Dada: Art and Anti-Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 643 ratings — published 1964
Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 589 ratings — published 1985
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 236,024 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 — 3,950 ratings — published 2024
The 20th Century Art Book (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 13,072 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 — 8,658 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 — 878 ratings — published 2012
Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.44 — 434 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 — 6,998 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 — 998 ratings — published 2010
Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.63 — 230 ratings — published 2005
Keeping an Eye Open: Essays on Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,316 ratings — published 2015
The Longest Ride (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 159,035 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 — 1,033 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 3.75 — 2,531 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 3.91 — 488 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 4.21 — 416 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 4.21 — 118 ratings — published 2002
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,442 ratings — published 1988
Abstract Expressionism (Basic Art Series)
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avg rating 3.92 — 167 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 3.96 — 28 ratings — published
Unquiet Landscape: Places and Ideas in Twentieth-Century English Painting (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.31 — 137 ratings — published 1991
So Much Blue (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 4,174 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 4.02 — 1,059 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 — 893 ratings — published 2016
Black Velvet: The Art We Love to Hate (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.56 — 9 ratings — published 1994
“Art is an expression that transcends religion, culture, country, people and time.”
― Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity
― Peace Bliss Beauty and Truth: Living with Positivity
“Modern art which, if you are unclear on that as a concept, is the art that tends to look like your kid could do it, but your kid couldn't do it and your kid didn't do it, so it's probably best if you let go of that cliché and just think about how it makes you feel.”
― Ten Steps to Nanette
― Ten Steps to Nanette
















