Artists, Architects, Photographers
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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
$20.00 Read moreHailed 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 Read moreThese 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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Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith
$35.00 Read moreNamed one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New Yorker and The New York Times‘ Dwight Garner
“The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . [John Szwed] allows different sides of Smith’s- Author: Szwed, John
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 22 2023
- ISBN10: 374282242
- 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
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Twentieth-Century Man: The Wild Life of Peter Beard
$32.99 Read moreAn exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imagination
Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist, wild
- Author: Wallace, Christopher
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: July 04, 2023
- ISBN10: 0063066416
- Language: English
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Matisse
$20.00 Read moreThe work of Henri Matisse (1869-1954) reflects an ongoing belief in the power of brilliant colors and simple forms. Though famed in particular for his paintings, Matisse also worked with drawing, scul
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Essers, Volkmar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 15 2016
- ISBN10: 3836529041
- Language: English
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Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles
$22.99 Add to cartNational Bestseller
“A landmark and long-overdue cultural history.” —Vogue
The stylish, wild story of the marriage of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Hayward–a tale of love, art, Hollywood, and heartbreak
“T
- Author: Rozzo, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: April 18, 2023
- ISBN10: 006293998X
- Language: English
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Radiant: The Life and Line of Keith Haring
$40.00 Add to cart“It’s all here: the grade school Walt Disney and Dr. Seuss; the adolescent acid trips; the fondness for Post-it notes and flying saucers; the long tails of Dubuffet and Burroughs; the encounters with
- Author: Gooch, Brad
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: March 05, 2024
- ISBN10: 0062698265
- Language: English
