📚 Modern Art

30 works · ordered by editions in print

The period that made art argue about itself: Manet to the 1960s, told through its manifestos and its collectors.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject modern art in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Title	Author	First published	Editions
Picasso	Pablo Picasso	1926	240
Paul Klee	Paul Klee	1930	150
A concise history of modern painting	Herbert Edward Read	1959	51
The Philosophy of Modern Art	Herbert Edward Read	1649	39
Amedeo Modigliani	Amedeo Modigliani	1927	33
Pioneers of modern design from William Morris to Walter Gropius	Nikolaus Pevsner	1949	27
Concerning the spiritual in art	Wassily Kandinsky	1912	24
Klee	Paul Klee	1946	22
Malerei im 20. Jahrhundert	Werner Haftmann	1920	20
Wassily Kandinsky	Wassily Kandinsky	1933	19
The God that failed	R. H. S. Crossman	1949	18
The complete letters of Vincent van Gogh	Vincent van Gogh	1958	17
Mark Tobey	Mark Tobey	1961	16
The challenge of modern art	Allen Leepa	1949	15
Prunella Clough	Prunella Clough	1960	12
Concepts of Modern Art	Nikos Stangos	1974	12
Art nouveau	Robert Schmutzler	1962	11
Impressionists and impressionism	Maria Blunden	1970	11
Pop art	Lucy R. Lippard	1966	10
Art and culture	Clement Greenberg	1961	9
Surrealism	Patrick Waldberg	1962	9
Dada, Kunst und Antikunst	Richter, Hans	1965	9
Arte povera	Germano Celant	1969	9
Art Nouveau	Lara Vinca Masini	1976	9
Cubism	Edward F. Fry	1966	8
Art deco	Victor Arwas	1976	8
The story of modern art	Norbert Lynton	1980	8
Art since 1940	Jonathan David Fineberg	1995	8
Entwicklungsgeschichte der modernen Kunst	Julius Meier-Graefe	1908	7
The history of impressionism	John Rewald	1946	7

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 07 Nov 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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