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Farewell to an Idea: Episodes from a History of Modernism
T. J. Clark, Timothy J. Clark
Yale University Press
Yale University Press
In this intense and far-reaching book, acclaimed art historian T. J. Clark offers a new vision of the art of the past two centuries, focusing on moments when art responded directly, in extreme terms, to the ongoing disaster called "modernity."
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Albers and Moholy-Nagy: From the Bauhaus to the New World
Yale University Press
Yale University Press
This beautifully illustrated book highlights the contrasts and correspondences in the lives and work of two of Modernism’s greatest innovators, Josef Albers (1888–1976) and László Moholy-Nagy (1895–1947). Beginning in the 1930s,...
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Mies Van Der Rohe At Work
Peter Carter
Phaidon Press
Phaidon Press
This paperback reprint of a book initially published in 1974 delves into the ideology behind many of Mies van der Rohe's most famous architectural marvels, including the Seagram Building in New York City and the Lake Shore Drive Apartments in...
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Drawing on America's Past: Folk Art, Modernism, and the Index of American Design
Virginia Tuttle Clayton, Elizabeth Stillinger, Erika Doss, Deborah Chotner
The University of North Carolina Press
The University of North Carolina Press
This book presents watercolor renderings along with a selection of the artifacts in the Index of American Design, a visual archive of decorative, folk, and popular arts made in America from the colonial period to about 1900. Three essays explore the...
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Bauhaus
Jeannine Fiedler
h. f. ullmann
h. f. ullmann
Today, more than 85 years after its inception, the Bauhaus style still emanates vitality. As a school that strove to combine applied art with both the fine arts and technology, the Bauhaus movement has outlasted all other trends in architecture and...
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American Women Modernists: The Legacy of Robert Henri, 1910-1945
Sarah Burns, Erika Doss, Betsy Fahlman, Helen Langa
Rutgers University Press
Rutgers University Press
Early American modernist art has been defined for decades by a narrow range of works by almost entirely male New York-based artists in the circles of Alfred Stieglitz and Walter Arensberg. Typically, Georgia O'Keeffe is the solitary acknowledged...
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