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History of Art and Design

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Books on NYC Art & Design History

Openings: A Memoir from the Women's Art Movement, New York City 1970-1992

Antiquity in Gotham: The Ancient Architecture of New York City

Seeing Symphonically: Avant-Garde Film, Urban Planning, and the Utopian Image of New York

Art History Books

Lions, Dragons, and Other Beasts: Aquamanilia of the Middle Ages

A Queer Little History of Art

Native American Art

Western Art and the Wider World

Disability and Art History

A Companion to Ancient Egyptian Art

Design History

History of Design: Decorative Arts and Material Culture, 1400-2000

A History of Interior Design

Industrial Design A-Z

Women in Graphic Design 1890-2012

Vintage Graphic Design

Soviet Design: From Constructivism to Modernism 1920-1980

Modern & Post-Modern Design History

Postmodernism: Style and Subversion, 1970-1990

African Modernism: The architecture of independence: Ghana, Senegal, Côte d'Ivoire, Kenya, Zambia

History of Modern Art

Mapping Modernisms: Art, Indigeneity, Colonialism

The Complete Commercial Artist: Making Modern Design in Japan, 1928-1930

Fashion at the Edge: Spectacle, Modernity & Deathliness

Photography and Film History

Photography: A Cultural History

Latin American Cinema: A Comparative History

Called to the Camera : Black American studio photographers

The Aesthetics of Shadow: Lighting and Japanese Cinema

Shimmering Images: Trans Cinema, Embodiment, and the Aesthetics of Change

Loving : a photographic history of men in love 1850s-1950s

Movements in Art and Design History

Bauhausmädels. a Tribute to Pioneering Women Artists

Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance

Nature, Ethics and Gender in German Romanticism and Idealism

Armour and Masculinity in the Italian Renaissance

Surrealism, Occultism and Politics

Lesbian Decadence: Representations in Art and Literature of Fin-de-Siècle France

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