Art & Art Instruction

25001 books

Sold Out

What Is Contemporary Art? a Guide for Kids - Hardcover

$22.95

by Jacky Klein (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Suzy Klein (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Contemporary art for kids in lively categories like Games, Outer Space and Bizarre BeastsWhat Is Contemporary Art? opens up the exciting, dynamic and sometimes bewildering world of contemporary art for a young audience, inviting readers to explore, enjoy and question a variety of artworks drawn from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art. Organized thematically by subjects of interest to children--from games...

Sold Out

Sanja Ivekovic: Sweet Violence - Hardcover

$50.00

by Sanja Ivekovic (Artist), Roxana Marcoci (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Terry Eagleton (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Published in conjunction with the first solo museum exhibition of the work of Sanja Ivekovic in the United States, this volume is the most comprehensive survey on the artist available in English. A feminist, activist and video and performance pioneer, Ivekovic came of age in the early 1970s during the period known as the Croatian Spring, when artists broke free from mainstream ins...

Sold Out

Diego Rivera: Murals for the Museum of Modern Art - Hardcover

$35.00

by Diego Rivera (Artist), Leah Dickerman (Editor), Anna Indych-Lopez (Text by (Art/Photo Books))The compelling story of how an art celebrity and icon of the Mexican left came to New York in 1931 to paint eight murals at The Museum of Modern ArtIn 1931, Diego Rivera was the subject of The Museum of Modern Art's second monographic exhibition, which set new attendance records in its five-week run. The Museum brought Rivera to New York six weeks before the show's opening and gave him on-site stud...

Sold Out

What Is a Print?: Selections from the Museum of Modern Art - Hardcover

$35.00

by Sarah Suzuki (Editor)What is a print? This volume aims to answer that question by exploring the four basic printmaking techniques--woodcut, intaglio, lithography and screenprint--that have been used to create some of the most iconic images in modern art, from Paul Gauguin's Noa Noa to Andy Warhol's Marilyn Monroe. Illustrated with works from The Museum of Modern Art's superlative collection of prints, the book is divided into four sections that provide an overview introduction to each tech...

Sold Out

$50.00

by Alighiero Boetti (Artist), Christian Rattemeyer (Editor), Lynne Cooke (Editor)Published to accompany the first large-scale retrospective of Alighiero Boetti's work outside Italy in over a decade, this volume presents the most comprehensive overview of the artist's career to date. Covering all periods of Boetti's broad oeuvre--including early sculptural experiments associated with the Arte Povera movement, conceptual and ephemeral projects of the 1970s and the monumental embroideries and ta...

Sold Out

Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, Jose Clemente Orozco - Paperback

$9.95

by David Alfaro Siqueiros (Artist), José Clemente Orozco (Artist), Diego Rivera (Artist)Ten important works by three muralists at the forefront of Mexico's social revolutionAt the forefront of Mexico's social revolution in the first half of the twentieth century were three artists whose murals resonated throughout the Americas and beyond: José Clemente Orozco, Diego Rivera and David Alfaro Siqueiros. This volume looks at ten important works by these artists from the collection of The Museum o...

Sold Out

The Painted House of Maud Lewis: Conserving a Folk Art Treasure - Paperback

$22.95

by Laurie Hamilton (Author)For many years, Maud Lewis was one of Nova Scotia's best-loved folk painters. In the 1990s she was embraced by the rest of the country when the landmark exhibition of her work The Illuminated Life of Maud Lewis travelled across Canada. By the time the tour was over, half a million people had become acquainted with her delightful work. Between 1938, when she married Everett Lewis, until her death in 1970, Maud Lewis lived in a tiny one-room house near Digby, Nova Sco...

$44.87

by Hendrik Willem Van Loon (Author)The story of painting, sculpture, architecture, and music as well as all the so-called minor arts from the days of the cavemen until the present time. Number of Pages: 772 Dimensions: 1.54 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN Publication Date: November 13, 2008

Sold Out

Alina Szapocznikow: Sculpture Undone, 1955-1972 - Paperback

$45.00

by Alina Szapocznikow (Artist), Elena Filipovic (Editor), Joanna Mytkowska (Editor)A compact but thorough retrospective of the work of Polish sculptor Alina SzapocznikowA sculptor who began working during the postwar period in a classical figurative style, Alina Szapocznikow radically reconceptualized sculpture as an imprint not only of memory but of her own body. Though her career effectively spanned less than two decades (cut short by the artist's premature death in 1973 at age 47), Szapocz...

Sold Out

Print/Out: 20 Years in Print - Paperback

$50.00

by Christophe Cherix (Editor), Christophe Cherix (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Kim Conaty (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Over the past two decades, the art world has broadened its geographic reach and opened itself to new continents, allowing for a significant cross-pollination of post-conceptual strategies and vernacular modes. Printed materials, in both innovative and traditional forms, have played a key role in this exchange of ideas and sources. This catalogue, published in conjunction with an...

Sold Out

Century of the Child: Growing by Design 1900-2000 - Hardcover

$60.00

by Juliet Kinchin (Editor), Tanya Harrod (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Medea Hoch (Text by (Art/Photo Books))From toys, furniture, books and clothing to playgrounds, schools, children's hospitals and nurseries, Century of the Child looks at innovative visions for the material world of childrenIn 1900, Swedish design reformer and social theorist Ellen Key published The Century of the Child, presaging the coming century as a period of intensified focus and progressive thinking around the rights,...

Sold Out

Inventing Abstraction, 1910-1925 - Hardcover

$75.00

by Leah Dickerman (Editor), Matthew Affron (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Yve-Alain Bois (Text by (Art/Photo Books))In 1912, in several European cities, a handful of artists--Vasily Kandinsky, Frantisek Kupka, Francis Picabia and Robert Delaunay--presented the first abstract pictures to the public. Inventing Abstraction, published to accompany an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art, celebrates the centennial of this bold new type of artwork. It traces the development of abstraction as it mov...

Sold Out

Henri Rousseau: The Dream: MoMA One on One Series - Paperback

$14.95

by Henri Rousseau (Artist), Ann Temkin (Text by (Art/Photo Books))A singular figure in the avant garde of the early twentieth century, Henri Rousseau (1844-1910) was a self-taught painter who turned to art after retiring as a customs inspector at the age of 49. Although he never left Paris, Rousseau painted a number of jungle scenes, drawing on images of the exotic as presented to the urban dweller through popular literature, colonial expositions and the Paris zoo. "The Dream" (1910) is the a...

Sold Out

In the Footsteps of the Group of Seven - Paperback

$45.00

by Jim Waddington (Author), Sue Waddington (Author), Tom Smart (Introduction by)Now available in a paper-bound edition Nearly a century ago, a group of artists travelled into northern Ontario and farther afield to capture the raw, terrible beauty that lay just beyond the outskirts of Canada's cities and towns. Armed with sketchbooks, brushes, and paint boxes, they set off into the heart of the wilderness with the singular purpose of interpreting the landscape in a modern mode of artistic expr...

Sold Out

$39.95

by Andrew Hunter (Author)"Andrew Hunter has looked with fresh eyes at Colville's] paintings and made a coherent argument that Colville deserves to be understood far beyond the normal borders of the art world." -- Robert Fulford, The National Post This magnificent, best-selling volume is now available in a deluxe paper-bound edition. The original hardcover edition sold more than 15,000 copies. Colville both honours the legacy of an iconic Canadian artist and explores the contemporary reverber...

Sold Out

Wait, Later This Will Be Nothing: Editions by Dieter Roth - Paperback

$35.00

by Dieter Roth (Artist), Sarah Suzuki (Editor), Brenna Campbell (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Dieter Roth's wildly inventive artistic practice encompassed everything from painting and sculpture to film and video, but it is arguably through his editioned works--books, prints and multiples--that he made his most important and radical contributions. These experiments include literature sausages filled with ground-up books, newspapers or magazines in place of meat; the use of organic materials like ...

Sold Out

Le Corbusier: An Atlas of Modern Landscapes - Hardcover

$80.00

by Le Corbusier (Artist), Jean-Louis Cohen (Editor), Mardges Bacon (Text by (Art/Photo Books))A landmark Le Corbusier sourcebookIn June 2013, The Museum of Modern Art presents the largest exhibition ever produced on Le Corbusier's prolific oeuvre, encompassing his work as architect, interior designer, artist, city planner, writer and photographer. Over a six-decade career, this towering figure of modern culture constantly observed and imagined landscapes using all the artistic techniques at h...

Sold Out

American Modern: Hopper to O'Keeffe - Hardcover

$45.00

by Esther Adler (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Kathy Curry (Text by (Art/Photo Books))An authoritative overview of American modernismAmerican Modern presents a fresh look at The Museum of Modern Art's holdings of American art made between 1915 and 1950, and considers the cultural preoccupations of a rapidly changing American society in the first half of the twentieth century. Organized thematically and featuring paintings, drawings, prints, photographs and sculpture, the publication brings toge...

Sold Out

Claes Oldenburg: Writing on the Side 1956-1969 - Paperback

$39.95

by Claes Oldenburg (Artist), Achim Hochdörfer (Editor), Maartje Oldenburg (Editor)Scripts, diaries, texts and notes from the famed Pop artistConsidered a central figure of Pop, installation art, and Happenings, Claes Oldenburg redefined existing notions of art in the 1960s with his landmark environments "The Street" and "The Store," his soft sculptures and his proposals for monuments. Since his arrival in New York in 1956, Oldenburg's prolific production has always been accompanied by a daily...

de Chirico: The Song of Love: MoMA One on One Series - Paperback

$16.15

by Giorgio de Chirico (Artist), Emily Braun (Text by (Art/Photo Books))The unexpected encounter of a rubber glove, a green ball and the head from the classical statue of the Apollo Belvedere gives rise to one of the most compelling paintings in the history of modernist art: Giorgio de Chirico's "The Song of Love" (1914). De Chirico made his career in Paris in the years before World War I, combining his nostalgia for ancient Mediterranean culture with his fascination for the curios found in Pa...

Sold Out

The Berlin School: Films from the Berliner Schule - Hardcover

$24.95

by Rajendra Roy (Editor), Anke Leweke (Editor), Christoph Hochhäusler (Contribution by)Beginning around 15 years ago, a loose affiliation of scholars, writers and filmmakers living in Berlin began presenting films that offered a new, aesthetically driven form of political cinema. Abandoning the post-totalitarian context embraced by most commercially popular German films at the time, these films pursued a stylized realism to explore and address a national crisis of identity and purpose. Films ...

Sold Out

Van Gogh, Dalí, and Beyond: The World Reimagined - Hardcover

$50.00

by Vincent Van Gogh (Artist), Samantha Friedman (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Landscape from Van Gogh to Tacita Dean, still life from Cezanne to Michael Craig Martin, and portraiture from Toulouse-Lautrec to Nicholas NixonVan Gogh, Dalí, and Beyond: The World Reimagined is an exploration of the myriad innovative ways modern artists have reinvented the traditional genres of portrait, still life, and landscape from the 1880s to today. By looking closely at works in a range of media, the catalogue ...

Sold Out

$55.00

by Isaac Julien (Artist), Giuliana Bruno (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Paul Gilroy (Text by (Art/Photo Books))"Isaac played a pivotal role in that significant moment in the black diaspora arts, when gay sexuality, masculinity and race exploded into the same visual frame." -Stuart HallRiot is an intellectual biography of artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien (born 1960), looking at key moments in his career and discussing the influences that shaped them. Julien's trail-blazing career has moved acro...

Sold Out

Soundings: A Contemporary Score - Paperback

$18.95

by Barbara London (Editor), Anne Hilde Neset (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Soundings: A Contemporary Score investigates the ways in which some of the most innovative contemporary artists are working with sound today. These artists approach sound from a variety of disciplines--visual arts, architecture, performance, computer programming and music--yet they share an interest in working with, rather than against or independent of, a given situation or environment. Their responses include architectu...

Sold Out

$29.95

by Calvin Tomkins (Author)Revised and redesigned, Tomkins' book remains the classic Duchamp biographyFirst published to great acclaim in 1996, New Yorker writer and art critic Calvin Tomkins' biography of the influential artist Marcel Duchamp (1887-1968) has been out of print for many years. Now, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, is publishing a new and revised edition of the landmark biography to commemorate the 100th anniversary of Duchamp's first Readymade, "Bicycle Wheel," a later versi...

Sold Out

Young Frank, Architect: A Picture Book - Hardcover

$16.95

by Frank Viva (Author)Young Frank is an architect. He lives with his grandfather, Old Frank, who is also an architect and his spotted dog, Eddie. Using anything he can get his hands on; macaroni, pillows, toilet paper, shoes, Young Frank likes to build buildings that twist, chairs with zig zag legs and even entire cities. But Old Frank disapproves, saying architects only build buildings. Number of Pages: 40 Dimensions: 0.6 x 11.9 x 9.1 IN Illustrated: Yes Publication Date: September 24, 2013 ...

Sold Out

$60.00

by Paul Gauguin (Artist), Starr Figura (Editor), Elizabeth Childs (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Gauguin: Metamorphoses explores the remarkable relationship between Paul Gauguin's rare and extraordinary prints and transfer drawings, and his better-known paintings and sculptures in wood and ceramic. Created in several discrete bursts of activity from 1889 until his death in 1903, these remarkable works on paper reflect Gauguin's experiments with a range of media, from radically primitive woodcuts ...

Sold Out

$14.95

by Maira Kalman (Illustrator), Daniel Handler (Author), Sarah Hermanson Meister (Afterword by)Girls Standing on Lawns is a unique collaboration between renowned artist and bestselling children's book author Maira Kalman and New York Times bestselling writer Daniel Handler, better known as Lemony Snicket. This clever book contains 40 vintage photographs from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, New York, more than a dozen original paintings by Kalman inspired by the photographs, and bri...

Sold Out

Oasis in the City: The Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden at the Museum of Modern Art - Hardcover

$175.00

by Peter Reed (Editor), Peter Reed (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Romy Silver-Kohn (Editor)The story of MoMA's sculpture gardenThe Abby Aldrich Rockefeller Sculpture Garden at the Museum of Modern Art holds a special place in the hearts of many, whether artists or museumgoers, New Yorkers or visitors from around the world. It is a respite from the crowds and skyscrapers that surround it, as well as a place to commune with major works of modern and contemporary art.Through essays and archival im...

$65.00

by Henri Matisse (Artist), Karl Buchberg (Editor), Nicholas Cullinan (Editor)With their economy of means and chromatic geometries, Matisse's cut-outs are the apex of his construction by means of colorPublished in conjunction with the most comprehensive exhibition ever devoted to Henri Matisse's paper cut-outs, made from the early 1940s until the artist's death in 1954, this publication presents approximately 150 works in a groundbreaking reassessment of Matisse's colorful and innovative final...

Sold Out

Robert Gober: The Heart Is Not a Metaphor - Hardcover

$45.00

by Robert Gober (Artist), Ann Temkin (Introduction by), Hilton Als (Text by (Art/Photo Books))Robert Gober rose to prominence in the mid-1980s and was quickly acknowledged as one of the most significant artists of his generation. Early in his career, he made deceptively simple sculptures of everyday objects--beginning with sinks and moving on to domestic furniture such as playpens, beds and doors. In the 1990s, his practice evolved from single works to theatrical room-sized environments. In a...

Sold Out

$50.00

by Elaine Sturtevant (Artist), Peter Eleey (Text by (Art/Photo Books)), Bruce Hainley (Contribution by)Sturtevant has been repeating the works of her contemporaries since 1964, using some of the most iconic artworks of her generation as a source and catalyst to explore originality and authorship. Beginning with her versions of works by Jasper Johns and Andy Warhol, Sturtevant initially turned the visual logic of Pop art back on itself, probing uncomfortably at the workings of art history in r...