Modernist design & Bauhaus
Art and Emergency
By Emilia Terracciano
Investigating the uneasy relationship between aesthetics and political history, this book traces a genealogy of modernism in colonial and postcolonial India.
Saarinen
By Pierluigi Serraino
From the ubiquitous Knoll "Tulip" chairs and tables to the TWA terminal at JFK Airport in New York, Eero Saarinen was one of the 20th century's most prominent space shapers, merging dynamic forms with a modernist sensibility across art and architecture.
Gio Ponti
By Graziella Roccella
Architect, magazine editor, artist, academic: Gio Ponti's multifaceted oeuvre blurred boundaries across creative disciplines and lead the evolution of modern design in Italy. Filled with archival images, a timeline, and map of his Milanese buildings, this dedicated introduction traces Ponti's most celebrated works and provides an extensive...
Guggenheim
By Francesco Dal Co
The captivating tale of the plans and personalities behind one of New York City's most radical and recognizable buildings
Julius Shulman. Modernism Rediscovered
The Master of Modern Discoveries from the Julius Shulman vaults The buildings burned in our memories, which to us represent the spirit of '50s and '60s architectural design, were those whose pictures were widely published in magazines and books; but what about those that got lost in the process, hardly...
John Graham: Maverick Modernist
By Alicia G. Longwell
This monograph explores how John Graham became an influential figure in American painting and discusses the development of his distinctly American approach to art-making.
A New American Sculpture, 1914-1945: Lachaise, Laurent, Nadelman, and Zorach
By Andrew Eschelbacher
Catalog of an exhibition held at Portland Museum of Art, Portland, Maine, May 26-September 8, 2017; Memphis Brooks Museum of Art, Memphis, Tennessee, October 14, 2017-January 7, 2018; and at Amon Carter Museum of American Art, Fort Worth, Texas, February 17-May 13, 2018.
Marsden Hartley`s Maine
By Elizabeth Finch
"This catalogue is published in conjunction with "Marsden Hartley's Maine, on view at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, from March 14 through June 18, 2017, and at Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine, from July 8 through November 12, 2017."
Modernism in Scandinavia
By Charlotte Ashby
Scandinavia is a region associated with modernity: modern design, modern living and a modern welfare state. This new history of modernism in Scandinavia offers a picture of the complex reality that lies behind the label: a modernism made up of many different figures, impulses and visions. It places the individuals...
New Space
By Christopher Long
Scholars have long stressed the problem of ornament and expression when considering Viennese modernism. By the first decade of the 20th century, however, the avant-garde had shifted its focus from the surface to the interior. Adolf Loos 1870-1933, together with Josef Frank 1885-1967 and Oskar Strnad 1879-1935, led this generation...