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Product Description: A superbly illustrated overview of the major movements in the visual arts from Impressionism to Post-Modernism.Modern Art is an authoritative introduction to every important development in the visual arts from the late nineteenth century to the 1980s...read more
By David Britt (editor)
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9780500238417 | Thames & Hudson, January 30, 2008, cover price $29.95 | About this edition: A superbly illustrated overview of the major movements in the visual arts from Impressionism to Post-Modernism.
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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Product Description: Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) was one of the first great historians of culture and art. In his manuscript on the genres of Italian Renaissance painting-still unpublished in the original German and published here in English for the first time-Burckhardt assayed a transformative approach to the study of art history...read more
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 | About this edition: Jacob Burckhardt (1818-1897) was one of the first great historians of culture and art.

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Product Description: Julien-David Le Roy's Les ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grece, initially issued in 1758, first revealed to European eyes the wonders of Greek classical architecture. Overnight, Greece became the rage, much to the chagrin of Giovanni Battista Piranesi and other defenders of the genius of Rome...read more
By David Britt (trans), Julien-David Le Roy and Robin Middleton (introduced by)
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9780892366699 | J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, January 15, 2004, cover price $60.00 | About this edition: Julien-David Le Roy's Les ruines des plus beaux monuments de la Grece, initially issued in 1758, first revealed to European eyes the wonders of Greek classical architecture.

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Product Description: Germain Boffrand's "Livre d'Architecture" is one of the most original books on architecture ever written in France. Translated for the first time by David Britt, Boffrand's text is here accompanied by an extensive introduction and notes written by Caroline van Eck who explains Boffrand's position within 18th-century debates about architectural aesthetics...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781840146875 | Ashgate Pub Ltd, March 1, 2003, cover price $130.00 | About this edition: Germain Boffrand's "Livre d'Architecture" is one of the most original books on architecture ever written in France.

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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: 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 gathers together the most significant writings on the theory of the decorative arts from the mid-eighteenth century to the 1940s. The volume offers the first history of the theory of decorative art as it emerged in the West and reconstructs the debates over how to define this category of art and distinguish it from the fine arts (music, poetry, architecture, painting, and sculpture)...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 gathers together the most significant writings on the theory of the decorative arts from the mid-eighteenth 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 | 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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Product Description: Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand Durand (1760-1834) regarded the Précis of the Lectures on Architecture (1802-5) and its companion volume, the Graphic Portion (1821), as both a basic course for future civil engineers and a treatise. Focusing the practice of architecture on utilitarian and economic values, he assailed the rationale behind classical architectural training: beauty, proportionality, and symbolism...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
By David Britt (trans), Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand and Antoine Picon (introduced by)
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9780892365807 | J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, October 12, 2000, cover price $55.00 | About this edition: Jean-Nicolas-Louis Durand Durand (1760-1834) regarded the Précis of the Lectures on Architecture (1802-5) and its companion volume, the Graphic Portion (1821), as both a basic course for future civil engineers and a treatise.

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Product Description: The late 14th and early 15th centuries saw a new style of painting emerging in Northern Europe, the proponents of which included the Van Eyck brothers and the Master Flemalle. Otto Pacht presents his thoughts and observations on these artists and their contemporaries, and on the intellectual and artistic climate of the time...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)
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9781872501284 | Harvey Miller Pub, January 1, 2000, cover price $57.00 | About this edition: The late 14th and early 15th centuries saw a new style of painting emerging in Northern Europe, the proponents of which included the Van Eyck brothers and the Master Flemalle.

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Amazon.com Review: German expressionist painter Max Beckmann, whose paintings were influenced by horrific scenes he witnessed as a medical orderly in World War I, was eventually labeled a "degenerate artist" by the Nazis and forced to flee his homeland...read more
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9780226041360 | Univ of Chicago Pr, November 1, 1999, cover price $27.50 | About this edition: Amazon.

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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 $68.00 | 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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Amazon.com Review: German expressionist painter Max Beckmann, whose paintings were influenced by horrific scenes he witnessed as a medical orderly in World War I, was eventually labeled a "degenerate artist" by the Nazis and forced to flee his homeland...read more
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9780226041353 | Univ of Chicago Pr, March 15, 1997, cover price $45.00 | About this edition: Amazon.

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By David Britt (trans), Thomas Kellein and Hiroshi Sugimoto (photographer)
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9780500974278 | Thames & Hudson, June 1, 1995, cover price $45.00

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9781872501819 | Reissue edition (Harvey Miller Pub, April 1, 1995), cover price $98.00

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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.

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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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9780892362356 | J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, September 1, 1992, cover price $25.00

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9780892362349 | J Paul Getty Museum Pubns, September 1, 1992, cover price $29.95

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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: During its brief existence from 1955 to 1968, the HfG Ulm exerted an influence that no one could have predicted from its small size, improbable location, or short lifespan. Originally conceived as a successor to the Bauhaus, the school quickly abandoned that model and set out to explore the uncharted territory of designing for mass production...read more
By David Britt (trans) and Herbert Lindinger (editor)
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9780262121477 | Mit Pr, March 7, 1991, cover price $65.00 | About this edition: During its brief existence from 1955 to 1968, the HfG Ulm exerted an influence that no one could have predicted from its small size, improbable location, or short lifespan.

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

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