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Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
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Ninth Street Women

By Mary Gabriel ,

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The Vichy Syndrome: History and Memory in France Since 1944
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The Vichy Syndrome

By Henry Rousso , Arthur Goldhammer (translator) ,

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The Shock of the New: Art and the Century of Change
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The Shock of the New

By Robert Hughes ,

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The $12 Million Stuffed Shark: The Curious Economics of Contemporary Art
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The $12 Million Stuffed Shark

By Don Thompson ,

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The Story of Art Without Men
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The Story of Art Without Men

By Katy Hessel ,

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How Photography Became Contemporary Art: Inside an Artistic Revolution from Pop to the Digital Age
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How Photography Became Contemporary Art

By Andy Grundberg ,

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Artful Scribbles: The Significance of Children's Drawings
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Artful Scribbles

By Howard Gardner ,

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The Innocent Eye
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The Innocent Eye

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Beyond the Brotherhood: The Pre-Raphaelite Legacy
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Beyond the Brotherhood

By Anne Anderson ,

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Creative Mythology
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Creative Mythology

By Joseph Campbell ,

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Portrait of Dr. Gachet The Story of a van Gogh Masterpiece (Modernism, Money, Politics, Dealers, Taste, Greed and Loss)
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Portrait of Dr. Gachet The Story of a van Gogh Masterpiece (Modernism, Money, Politics, Dealers, Taste, Greed and Loss)

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Holy Terror: Andy Warhol Close Up
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Holy Terror

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Duty Free Art: Art in the Age of Planetary Civil War
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Duty Free Art

By Hito Steyerl ,

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Romanticism
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Romanticism

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The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I
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The Banquet Years

By Roger Shattuck ,

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Flaubert and Madame Bovary: A Double Portrait
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Flaubert and Madame Bovary

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The Drunken Boat: Selected Writings
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The Drunken Boat

By Arthur Rimbaud , Mark Polizzotti (translator) ,

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Distant Early Warning: Marshall McLuhan and the Transformation of the Avant-Garde
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Distant Early Warning

By Alex Kitnick ,

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The Spiritual in Art: Abstract Painting 1890-1985
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The Spiritual in Art

By Maurice Tuchman (editor) ,

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An Art of Our Own: The Spiritual in Twentieth Century Art
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An Art of Our Own

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Exploring the Invisible: Art, Science, and the Spiritual
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Exploring the Invisible

By Lynn Gamwell ,

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Postmodern Heretics: The Catholic Imagination in Contemporary Art
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Postmodern Heretics

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Cosmos: From Romanticism to the Avant-Garde
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Cosmos

By Montreal Museum of Fine Arts , Centre De Cultura Contemporania De Barcelona , Jean Clair (editor)

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Techniques of the Observer: On Vision and Modernity in the 19th Century
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Techniques of the Observer

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Cosmopolitan Canvases: The Globalization of Markets for Contemporary Art
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Cosmopolitan Canvases

By Olav Velthuis (editor) , Stefano Baia Curioni (editor) ,

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Why Your Five-Year-Old Could Not Have Done That: From Slashed Canvas to Unmade Bed, Modern Art Explained
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Why Your Five-Year-Old Could Not Have Done That

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Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900
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Women Artists in Paris, 1850-1900

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If These Apples Should Fall: Cézanne and the Present
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If These Apples Should Fall

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Lumen Naturae: Visions of the Abstract in Art and Mathematics
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Lumen Naturae

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