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Surveys the past one hundred years of art, including works by Matisse, Munch, Schiele, Picasso, Pollock, Oldenburg, and Hockney
By David Britt (editor)

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9780500238417 | Thames & Hudson, January 30, 2008, cover price $29.95
9780821217641 | Bulfinch Pr, November 1, 1991, cover price $19.98 | About this edition: Surveys the past one hundred years of art, including works by Matisse, Munch, Schiele, Picasso, Pollock, Oldenburg, and Hockney

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9780500281260 | Thames & Hudson, September 1, 1999, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: Surveys the past one hundred years of art, including works by Matisse, Munch, Schiele, Picasso, Pollock, Oldenburg, and Hockney

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By Caroline Beamish (trans), David Britt (trans), Jacob Burckhardt and Maurizio Ghelardi (introduced by)

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9780892367368 | J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, January 31, 2005, cover price $55.00

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Product Description: Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869)--court physician to the king of Saxony--was a naturalist, amateur painter, and theoretician of landscape painting whose Nine Letters on Landscape Painting is an important document of early German romanticism and an elegant appeal for the integration of art and science...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By Oskar Batschmann (introduced by), David Britt (trans) and Carl Gustav Carus

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9780892366743 | J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, December 26, 2002, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Carl Gustav Carus (1789-1869)--court physician to the king of Saxony--was a naturalist, amateur painter, and theoretician of landscape painting whose Nine Letters on Landscape Painting is an important document of early German romanticism and an elegant appeal for the integration of art and science.

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Product Description: Published in 1765, Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Osservazioni is an impassioned defense of the superiority of Roman architectural "invention" over the "beautiful and noble simplicity" of ancient Greece. In this three-part polemical masterpiece, the famed engraver and designer not only contends that the Etruscans-not the Greeks-were the artistic mentors of the Romans but also argues for a Roman-inspired exuberance in design that draws freely on all forms and traditions of ancient art...read more

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9780892366361 | J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, November 7, 2002, cover price $35.00 | About this edition: Published in 1765, Giovanni Battista Piranesi's Osservazioni is an impassioned defense of the superiority of Roman architectural "invention" over the "beautiful and noble simplicity" of ancient Greece.

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Product Description: The writings of graphic designer, prolific critic, and avant-garde partisan Karel Teige (1900-1951) represent one of the great forgotten legacies of modern artistic theory. Appearing now for the first time in English as Modern Architecture in Czechoslovakia, Teige's original work is supplemented here by a selection of his other writings on art and architecture...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By David Britt (trans), Jean-Louis Cohen (introduced by), Irena Zantovska Murray (trans) and Karel Teige

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9780892365968 | J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, November 30, 2000, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: The writings of graphic designer, prolific critic, and avant-garde partisan Karel Teige (1900-1951) represent one of the great forgotten legacies of modern artistic theory.

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Product Description: This anthology contains significant writings on the theory of the decorative arts from the mid-18th century to the 1940s. It offers a history of decorative art as it emerged in the west, and reconstructs the debates over how to define this type of art and distinguish it from fine art...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By David Britt (trans) and Isabelle Frank (editor)

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9780300075519 | Bard College Center, December 1, 2000, cover price $50.00 | About this edition: This anthology contains significant writings on the theory of the decorative arts from the mid-18th century to the 1940s.

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9780300088052, titled "The Theory of Decorative Art: An Anthology of European & American Writings, 1750-1940" | Bard College Center, November 10, 2000, cover price $25.00

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Product Description: This is the English version of Otto Pacht's classic text on art history. His approach to art history is shaped by his conviction that visual art, like music, can express ideas in its own medium that no other can. He aims to sharpen the reader's perceptions by recreating the social and cultural context in which an object was made, clarifying unfamiliar notions of space and time or significant gestures and symbols which are no longer recognizable...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By David Britt (trans) and Otto Pacht

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9781872501260 | Harvey Miller Pub, October 1, 1999, cover price $66.00 | About this edition: This is the English version of Otto Pacht's classic text on art history.

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9781872501314 | Harvey Miller Pub, September 1, 1999, cover price $34.00 | About this edition: This is the English version of Otto Pacht's classic text on art history.

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Product Description: One of the most important German artists of the twentieth century, Max Beckmann is known for the depth and sensuous force of his works, but little is known about his personal life. Self-Portrait in Words reveals Beckmann's experience of life from the first years of his career in Berlin and Paris through his final years in the United States...read more

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9780226041353 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 15, 1997, cover price $52.00 | About this edition: One of the most important German artists of the twentieth century, Max Beckmann is known for the depth and sensuous force of his works, but little is known about his personal life.

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Product Description: For more than twenty years Japanese-born photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto has photographed and transformed reality in distinctive, carefully composed series of images. Using a large-format camera, he achieves a wide range of tones and effects in a body of work that reflects his fascination with the paradoxes of time, his great love of detail and his incredible technical mastery...read more
By David Britt (trans), Thomas Kellein and Hiroshi Sugimoto (photographer)

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9780500974278 | Thames & Hudson, June 1, 1995, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: For more than twenty years Japanese-born photographer Hiroshi Sugimoto has photographed and transformed reality in distinctive, carefully composed series of images.

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Product Description: Book by Pacht, Otto

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9781872501819 | Reissue edition (Harvey Miller Pub, April 1, 1995), cover price $98.00 | About this edition: Book by Pacht, Otto

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Product Description: When Friedrich Gilly died in 1800 at age twenty-eight, his architectural career had spanned less than a decade and construction of his major designs was incomplete. Nevertheless, his ideas so strongly influenced Berlin architecture of the next century that he is now widely regarded as the founder of Berlin's distinct architectural tradition...read more

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9780892362806 | J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, July 1, 1994, cover price $39.95 | About this edition: When Friedrich Gilly died in 1800 at age twenty-eight, his architectural career had spanned less than a decade and construction of his major designs was incomplete.

Paperback:

9780892362813, titled "Friedrich Gilly: Essays on Architecture, 1796-1799" | Reissue edition (J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, July 11, 1996), cover price $30.00 | About this edition: When Friedrich Gilly died in 1800 at age twenty-eight, his architectural career had spanned less than a decade and construction of his major designs was incomplete.

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Product Description: This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics.Camus's description of the French hotel argues that architecture should please the senses and the mind.

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9780892362356 | J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, September 1, 1992, cover price $25.00 | About this edition: This series offers a range of heretofore unavailable writings in English translation on the subjects of art, architecture, and aesthetics.

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9781564660244 | Distributed Art Pub Inc, March 1, 1992, cover price $35.00

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Product Description: Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh found inspiration in Japanese art. This is a study of Japonisme, the inspiration of Japanese subject-matter and of Japanese design on Western art. The book also deals with the methods by which the Japanese influence was transmitted.
By Klaus Berger and David Britt (trans)

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9780521373210 | Cambridge Univ Pr, February 1, 1992, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: Degas, Toulouse-Lautrec and Van Gogh found inspiration in Japanese art.

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Product Description: Biography of Joseph Beuys, examining his view that art is life and life is art and telling the story of his political campaign. The author suggests that his revolutionary performances and installations changed our perception of art in the last half of the 20th century.

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9781558591073 | Abbeville Pr, April 1, 1991, cover price $24.95 | About this edition: Biography of Joseph Beuys, examining his view that art is life and life is art and telling the story of his political campaign.

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Product Description: SOFT COVER

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9780896381162 | Compcare Pubns, June 1, 1984, cover price $10.95 | About this edition: SOFT COVER

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