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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 — 1,688 ratings — published 1968
What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.98 — 15,273 ratings — published 2012
Bluebeard (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as modern-art)
avg rating 4.07 — 45,816 ratings — published 1987
Women Artists and the Surrealist Movement (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.33 — 612 ratings — published 1985
Wall and Piece (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 238,095 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)
by (shelved 2 times as modern-art)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,274 ratings — published 2024
The 20th Century Art Book (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 13,106 ratings — published 1996
Art Since 1900: Modernism, Antimodernism, Postmodernism (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 634 ratings — published 2005
History of Modern Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 8,676 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 — 898 ratings — published 2012
Contemporary Art: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.45 — 446 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 — 7,073 ratings — published 1975
Modern Art: A Very Short Introduction (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 239 ratings — published 2005
The Longest Ride (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 162,004 ratings — published 2012
Dada: Art and Anti-Art (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.27 — 651 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 — 1,052 ratings — published 2004
How to Read a Modern Painting: Lessons from the Modern Masters (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 138 ratings — published 2006
Pictures of Nothing: Abstract Art Since Pollock (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.27 — 492 ratings — published 2006
Confessions of an Art Addict (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 2,726 ratings — published 1946
The Lives of the Artists (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 33,693 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 — 499 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 — 435 ratings — published 2018
The Sorcerer's Apprentice: A Memoir of Picasso, Provence, and Douglas Cooper (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 100 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 — 121 ratings — published 2002
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 1,449 ratings — published 1988
Abstract Expressionism (Basic Art Series)
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avg rating 3.89 — 177 ratings — published 2005
After Modern Art: 1945-2017 (Oxford History of Art)
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avg rating 3.87 — 30 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 — 31 ratings — published
Unquiet Landscape: Places and Ideas in Twentieth-Century English Painting (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 145 ratings — published 1991
So Much Blue (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 4,501 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 4.02 — 1,072 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 4.15 — 921 ratings — published 2016
Black Velvet: The Art We Love to Hate (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.56 — 9 ratings — published 1994
Mary Cassatt (Getting to Know the World's Greatest Artists)
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avg rating 4.19 — 156 ratings — published 1990
“Modern paintings are like women, you'll never enjoy them if you try to understand them.”
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“Compact trash into a cube. Then slice it into thin layers and BOOM—you’ve got pieces of modern art. Each sliver belongs in a museum, doing what it’s designed to do—launder money.”
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