Modern Art: 1870 - 2000: Impressionism to Today
By: Dietmar Elger
4.26
Format: 693 pages, Hardcover
Modern matters: A blow-by-blow account of groundbreaking modernism. Most art historians agree that …
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1. What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
By: Will Gompertz
4.20
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In the tradition of Eats, Shoots & Leaves, art history with a sense of humorEvery year, millions of… read more
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"It is Duchamp who is to blame for the whole “is it art?"-Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
"Picasso is said to have once mused that it took him four years to learn to paint like Raphael but a lifetime to learn to paint like a child."-Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
"We'll be fine’, Pierre-Auguste Renoir said assertively. ‘We are good artist; we know that. Remember what Baudelaire said before he died: "Nothing can be done except little by little." That is what we…"-Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
"Porque no pienso que la cuestion de fondo resida en juzgar si una obra nueva de arte contemporaneo es buena o mala: el tiempo se encargará de eso. es más importante comrpender de qué modo y por qué e…"-Will Gompertz, What Are You Looking At?: 150 Years of Modern Art in a Nutshell
2. Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918
By: Gilles Néret
4.18
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
Cult of pleasure: Feminine sensuality by the Vienna Secession's greatest proponentGustav Klimt's or… read more
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"Some elements appear in this picture which would be decisive in Klimt's subsequent work: for instance, the use of gold and the transformation of anatomy into ornamentation, of ornamentation into anat…"-Gilles Néret, Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918
"This intensely lyrical vision of the pregant woman in [i]Hope I[i] is set in an ambiguous context peopled with masks, death's heads and allegorical monsters such as Sin, Disease, Poverty and Death, a…"-Gilles Néret, Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918
"Eros and Thanatos were always the source of his inspiration, even though, from this time on, they usually appear in the guise of two simple and fundamental themes: flowers and women. These themes off…"-Gilles Néret, Gustav Klimt: 1862-1918
3. Bauhaus 1919-1933
By: Magdalena Droste
4.01
Format: 205 pages, Hardcover
The Bauhaus Archiv Museum of Design in Berlin holds the most important collection on the Bauhaus to… read more
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4. Rien ne s'oppose à la nuit
By: Delphine de Vigan
4.40
Format: 172 pages, Paperback
La douleur de Lucile, ma mere, a fait partie de notre enfance et plus tard de notre vie d'adulte, l… read more
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5. Galileo
By: Bertolt Brecht , Eric Bentley , Charles Laughton
4.43
Format: None pages, Paperback
Considered by many to be one of Brecht's masterpieces, Galileoexplores the question of a scientist'… read more
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6. Spin (Spin, #1)
By: Robert Charles Wilson
3.66
Format: None pages, Mass Market Paperback
One night in October when he was ten years old, Tyler Dupree stood in his back yard and watched the… read more
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7. Beneath the Wheel
By: Hermann Hesse , None
4.47
Format: 310 pages,
In Hermann Hesse's Beneath the Wheelor The Prodigy, Hans Giebenrath lives among the dull and respec… read more
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8. Axis (Spin, #2)
By: Robert Charles Wilson
3.50
Format: 224 pages,
Wildly praised by readers and critics alike, Robert Charles Wilson's Spinwon science fiction's high… read more
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9. What We Talk About When We Talk About Love
By: Raymond Carver
3.87
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Alternate-cover edition can be found In his second collection, Carver establishes his reputation … read more
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10. Faserland
By: Christian Kracht
4.48
Format: 334 pages,
Einmal durch die Republik, von Nord nach Sud: Christian Krachts namenloser Ich-Erzahler berichtet v… read more
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11. Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
By: Marcel Proust , Simon Vance , Lydia Davis
4.15
Format: 710 pages, Mass Market Paperback
«Et tout d'un coup le souvenir m'est apparu. Ce goût, c'était celui du petit morceau de madeleine q… read more
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"Longtemps, je me suis couché de bonne heure."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"the comfort of reclusion, the poetry of hibernation"-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Now are the woods all black, But still the sky is blue."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
"Fall in love with a dog's bum, And thou'll think it pretty as a plum."-Marcel Proust, Du côté de chez Swann (À la recherche du temps perdu, #1)
12. The Weird and the Eerie
By: Mark Fisher
3.69
Format: 176 pages, Paperback
What exactly are the Weird and the Eerie? In this new essay, Mark Fisher argues that some of the mo… read more
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13. Camera Lucida: Reflections on Photography
By: Roland Barthes , Richard Howard
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
A graceful, contemplative volume, Camera Lucidawas first published in 1979. Commenting on artists s… read more
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14. Measuring the World
By: Daniel Kehlmann , Carol Brown Janeway
3.99
Format: None pages, Hardcover
The young Austrian writer Daniel Kehlmann conjures a brilliant and gently comic novel from the live… read more
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15. The Symposium
By: Plato , Christopher Gill
4.09
Format: 90 pages, Paperback
A fascinating discussion on sex, gender, and human instincts, as relevant today as ever. In the … read more
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"The truth about eros is terrifying."-Plato, The Symposium
"At the touch of love everyone becomes a poet"-Plato, The Symposium
"Ali,srecnice moj,mozda sam ja nista,a ti to ne primecujes."-Plato, The Symposium
"καὶ οὗτος ἄρα καὶ ἄλλος πᾶς ὁ ἐπιθυμῶν τοῦ μὴ ἐτοίμου ἐπιθυμεῖ"-Plato, The Symposium
16. La Curée (Les Rougon-Macquart, #2)
By: Émile Zola
3.99
Format: 244 pages, Paperback
A la fin d'une chasse, pendant la curee, les chiens devorent les entrailles de la bete tuee. Pour l… read more
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17. All Souls
By: Javier Marías , Margaret Jull Costa
3.69
Format: 121 pages, Paperback
At High Table in an Oxford college, the pretty young tutor Clare Bayes attracted all eyes, not leas… read more
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18. Rene Magritte, 1898-1967: Thought Rendered Visible
By: None
3.46
Format: None pages, Paperback
The illustrations in this work constitute a comprehensive catalogue of the visible thought of the a… read more
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20. The Identity Trap: A Story of Ideas and Power in Our Time
By: Yascha Mounk
4.08
Format: 414 pages, Kindle Edition
One of our leading public intellectuals traces the origin of a set of ideas about identity and soci… read more
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21. Mañana y tarde
By: Jon Fosse
3.88
Format: 102 pages, Paperback
Un niño que se llamará Johannes llega al mundo. Fallece un anciano llamado Johannes. Entre estos do… read more
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"Ahora tú también estás muerto, Johannes, dice Peter Te moriste esta mañana, dice Y como yo era tu mejor amigo, me enviaron a recogerte, dice Pero ¿por qué hemos pescado cangrejos? dice Johannes Tenía…"-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde
"Vart ska vi fara? säger Johannes Nej nu frågar du som om du fortfarande var vid liv, säger Peter Inte till någon plats? säger Johannes Nej dit vi nu ska, det är inte någon plats, och därför har den h…"-Jon Fosse, Mañana y tarde
22. Stop Overthinking: 23 Techniques to Relieve Stress, Stop Negative Spirals, Declutter Your Mind, and Focus on the Present (The Path to Calm Book 1)
By: Nick Trenton
3.76
Format: 191 pages, Kindle Edition
Overcome negative thought patterns, reduce stress, and live a worry-free life.Overthinking is the b… read more
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23. Drei Kameradinnen
By: Shida Bazyar
4.25
Format: 350 pages, Hardcover
Was Freundschaft bedeutet, wenn die Gegenwart Feuer fängt. Seit ihrer gemeinsamen Jugend in der … read more
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24. Baustellen der Nation: Was wir jetzt in Deutschland ändern müssen | Das lang ersehnte Buch zum Podcast "Lage der Nation" (German Edition)
By: Philip Banse
4.47
Format: 463 pages, Kindle Edition
das Buch zu einem der größten Politik-Podcasts Deutschlands Es bröckelt an den Fundamenten unseres … read more
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25. Sonne und Beton
By: Felix Lobrecht
3.62
Format: 221 pages, Hardcover
»Könn’ wa die Scheiße vielleicht ma leiser machen? Mann ey ...«, motzt ein Typ vor uns im Bus. J… read more
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26. Keith Haring
By: Alexandra Kolossa
4.26
Format: 96 pages, Paperback
By the time of his death from AIDS at the age of 31, Keith Haring (1958-1990) was already a wildly … read more
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27. The Joy of Art: How to Look At, Appreciate, and Talk about Art
By: Carolyn Schlam
4.09
Format: 425 pages, Kindle Edition
An Artist’s Insights on Art Appreciation Written by a practicing artist, this book decodes and maps… read more
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28. See What You're Missing
By: Will Gompertz
4.13
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
'Art can amaze us into changing our minds. This remarkable book teaches us how' En Devlin Artists … read more
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29. On Nationalism
By: Eric J. Hobsbawm
3.67
Format: 364 pages, Hardcover
As the most distinguished left-wing historian of his generation, Eric Hobsbawn did not like nationa… read more
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30. Magus: The Art of Magic from Faustus to Agrippa
By: Anthony Grafton
3.52
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
In literary legend, Faustus is the quintessential occult personality of early modern Europe. The hi… read more
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31. Modern Art: 1870 - 2000: Impressionism to Today
By: Dietmar Elger
4.26
Format: 693 pages, Hardcover
Modern matters: A blow-by-blow account of groundbreaking modernism. Most art historians agree that … read more
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