Artists, Architects, Photographers
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Confessions of an Art Addict
$18.00 Add to cartA patron of art since the 1930s, Peggy Guggenheim, in a candid self-portrait, provides an insider’s view of the early days of modern art, with revealing accounts of her eccentric wealthy family, her p
- Author: Guggenheim, Peggy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 01, 1997
- ISBN10: 0880015764
- Language: English
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Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris
$18.95 Add to cartIn freewheeling 1920s Paris, Kiki de Montparnasse captivated as a nightclub performer, sold out gallery showings of her paintings, starred in Surrealist films, and shared drinks and ideas with the lik
- Author: Braude, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324065958
- Language: English
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Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History
$30.00 Add to cartThe twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole, and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, without moving, become the subject of the West Ukra
- Author: Balint, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 0393866572
- Language: English
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The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World
$22.00 Read moreA Wall Street Journal and Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year Long-listed for the Plutarch Award
A bold new biography of the legendary painter John Singer Sargent, stressing the unruly emotions- Author: Fisher, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872545
- Language: English
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Leonardo Da Vinci
$40.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most importa… [more below]
- Author: Isaacson, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1501139150
- Language: English
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Thursday’s Child
$28.73 Read moreThis is the first of three memoirs written by Eartha Kitt. Thursday’s Child was originally published in 1956 and covers Eartha’s childhood and early career. This book is what inspired the name of Davi
- Author: Kitt, Eartha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: July 12, 2022
- ISBN10: 1958425281
- Language: English
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Camille Pissarro: The Audacity of Impressionism
$29.99 Add to cartA Best Book of 2023 by The New Yorker
From the acclaimed biographer and author of Balzac’s Omelette, an engaging new work on the life of “the father of Impressionism” and the role his Jewish backgroun- Author: Muhlstein, Anka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 1635421705
- Language: English
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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
$20.00 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
#1 Book of the Year from Brain Pickings Named a best book of the year by NPR, Newsweek, Slate, Pop Sugar, Marie Claire, Elle, Publisher- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 06, 2017
- ISBN10: 1250118034
- Language: English
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Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times Notable Book
New York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning author Timothy Egan reveals the life story of the man d
A Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction- Author: Egan, Timothy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: August 06, 2013
- ISBN10: 0544102762
- Language: English
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Dwell Time: A Memoir of Art, Exile, and Repair
$27.99 Read moreWhat Kirkus describes as a “masterful revelation about life and art imitating each other in maintenance and repair” in a starred review, Dwell Time is an illuminating debut memoir by one of the few pr… [more below]
- Author: Lowinger, Rosa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1955905274
- Language: English
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Hilma AF Klint: A Biography
$35.00 Add to cartA highly anticipated biography of the enigmatic and popular Swedish painter.
The Swedish painter Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) was forty-four years old when she broke with the academic tradition in whic- Author: Voss, Julia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: October 19 2022
- ISBN10: 022668976X
- Language: English
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Surreal Spaces: The Life and Art of Leonora Carrington
$38.00 Add to cartAn illustrated biography of the pioneering British artist and writer, tracing her life and work through the many places around the world where she lived
The British-born artist and writer Leonora Carr- Author: Moorhead, Joanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: August 22, 2023
- ISBN10: 0691254486
- Language: English
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Ninth Street Women: Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement
$24.99 Add to cartFive women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this “gratifying, generous, and lush” true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York T
- Author: Gabriel, Mary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 944
- Publish Date: September 24, 2019
- ISBN10: 0316226173
- Language: English
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Monet
$23.33 Add to cartHailed the “Prince of the Impressionists”, Claude Monet (1840-1926) transformed expectations for the purpose of paint on canvas. Defying the precedent of centuries, Monet did not seek to render only r
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Heinrich, Christoph
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: August 03 2015
- ISBN10: 3836503999
- Language: English
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The Lives of the Artists
$12.95 Add to cartThese biographies of the great quattrocento artists have long been considered among the most important of contemporary sources on Italian Renaissance art. Vasari, who invented the term “Renaissance,” … [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Vasari, Giorgio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 616
- Publish Date: December 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199537194
- Language: English
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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
$32.50 Add to cartNamed a Top 100 Must-Read Book of the Year by Time and a Best Book of the Year by The New Yorker * Winner of the 2024 Writers’ Prize for Nonfiction * Shortlisted for the Inaugural Women’s Prize for No… [more below]
- Author: Cumming, Laura
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: July 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 1982181745
- Language: English
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Leonardo Da Vinci
$23.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most importa
- Author: Isaacson, Walter
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 02, 2018
- ISBN10: 1501139169
- Language: English
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Michelangelo at Midlife: Chasing the Tomb of Julius II
$28.99 Add to cartA traveler’s quest for Michelangelo’s most troubled work of art–the notorious Tomb of Pope Julius II.
“A delightful combination of art history and light drama.” — Kirkus Reviews
“Like a trip to Italy
- Author: Openshaw, Gene
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: October 10, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798218283537
- Language: English
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Touching the Art
$27.00 Read moreA daringly observant memoir about intergenerational trauma, fine art, and compartmentalization from a returning Soft Skull author and Lambda Literary Award winner
A mixture of memoir, biography, criti- Author: Sycamore, Mattilda Bernstein
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1593767358
- Language: English
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The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
$20.00 Add to cart“If ever there was any doubt that Van Gogh’s letters belong beside those great classics of artistic self-revelation, Cellini’s autobiography and Delacroix’s journal, this excellent edition dispels it.… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Van Gogh, Vincent
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: March 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0140446745
- Language: English
