Artists, Architects, Photographers
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The Yellow House
$19.99 Add to cartFrom October to December of 1888, Paul Gauguin shared a yellow house in the south of France with Vincent van Gogh. They were the odd couple of the art world — one calm, the other volatile — and the
- Author: Gayford, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0618990585
- Language: English
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Turner and Constable: Art, Life, Landscape
$35.00 Add to cartBorn just fourteen months apart, one in London and the other in rural Suffolk, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable went on to change the face of British art.
The two men have routinely been seen as pola- Author: Moorby, Nicola
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0300266480
- Language: English
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Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
$39.99 Add to cartPaul Gauguin’s legend as a transgressive genius arises as much from his biography as his aesthetically daring Polynesian paintings. Gauguin is chiefly known for his pictures that eschewed convention,
- Author: Prideaux, Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1324020423
- Language: English
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The Maverick’s Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream
$35.00 Add to cartA fascinating biography of the philanthropist Albert Barnes, whose pioneering collection of modern art was meant to transform America’s soul
From prominent critic and biographer Blake Gopnik comes a co
- Author: Gopnik, Blake
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0063284030
- Language: English
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Warhol’s Muses: The Artists, Misfits, and Superstars Destroyed by the Factory Fame Machine
$32.00 Add to cartONE OF “25 BOOKS TO READ IN 2025”–TORONTO STAR
From the New York Times bestselling author of Capote’s Women comes an astonishing
ONE OF “12 NEW NONFICTION BOOKS YOU NEED TO READ IN 2025”–THE OBSERVER- Author: Leamer, Laurence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0593716663
- Language: English
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Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright
$20.00 Add to cartFrank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suf… [more below]
- Author: Hendrickson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0804172889
- Language: English
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Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith
$22.00 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1250338107
- Language: English
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Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up
$55.00 Add to cartClaire Wilcox and Circe Henestrosa’s Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up presents a unique window into the artist’s life.
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), as an artist and a woman, has a unique international app- Author: Wilcox, Claire
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1851779604
- Language: English
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The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
$22.00 Add to cartA literary classic, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh Captures the voice of one of the most beloved and important artists of all time. Though Vincent van Gogh is often thought of as a mad genius, in The… [more below]
- Author: Roskill, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1416580867
- Language: English
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Dear Judy: A Love Story Rewritten by Alzheimer’s
$18.95 Add to cartWhen the author’s wife, Judith James, was diagnosed with younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease in her sixty-first year, they’d been a couple for close to four decades and together had constructed an envia
- Author: James, Michael F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987628621
- Language: English
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Josef Koudelka: Next: A Visual Biography by Melissa Harris
$50.00 Add to cartThe definitive and only authorized biography of Josef Koudelka–an intimate portrait of the life and work of one of photography’s most renowned and celebrated artists.
Throughout his more than sixty-y- Author: Harris, Melissa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 1597114650
- Language: English
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Andy Warhol’s Mother: The Woman Behind the Artist
$40.00 Add to cartWhile biographers of Andy Warhol have long recognized his mother as a significant influence on his life and art, Julia Warhola’s story has not yet been told. As an American immigrant who was born in a… [more below]
- Series: Russian and East European Studies
- Author: Rusinko, Elaine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: November 19 2024
- ISBN10: 0822948400
- Language: English
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Desperately Seeking Warhol
$19.95 Add to cartFor someone who traveled as much as he did, it is a marvel that Andy Warhol had time to make art. Desperately Seeking Warhol traces the artist’s movements around the globe from international cultural … [more below]
- Series: Desperately Seeking
- Author: Castello-Cortes, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: March 17 2020
- ISBN10: 1584237244
- Language: English
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The Burroughs-Warhol Connection
$28.00 Add to cartThe Burroughs-Warhol Connection revolves around four meetings between William S. Burroughs and Andy Warhol in 1980. Its author, Victor Bockris, was a friend and collaborator of both men and attempted
- Author: Bockris, Victor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: December 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1068698004
- Language: English
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Mondrian: His Life, His Art, His Quest for the Absolute
$40.00 Add to cartThe extraordinary and surprising life of Piet Mondrian, whose unprecedented geometric art revolutionized modern painting, architecture, graphic art, fashion design, and more–from acclaimed cultural h… [more below]
- Author: Weber, Nicholas Fox
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 656
- Publish Date: October 22 2024
- ISBN10: 0307961591
- Language: English
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John Willie: A Bizarre Life
$34.99 Add to cartWith his iconic art and the groundbreaking content of his Bizarre magazine, John Willie is perhaps the person most responsible for introducing fetish style to the mainstream. Illustrated with examples… [more below]
- Author: Garrett, Jane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 28 2024
- ISBN10: 0764368338
- Language: English
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Michelangelo: His Epic Life
$56.99 Add to cartThere was an epic sweep to Michelangelo’s life. At 31 he was considered the finest artist in Italy, perhaps the world; long before he died at almost 90 he was widely believed to be the greatest sculpt
- Author: Gayford, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: October 01 2017
- ISBN10: 024129942X
- Language: English
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Unvarnished: Autobiographical Sketches by Emily Carr
$19.95 Read moreCulled from the hand-written pages in old-fashioned scribblers and almost-forgotten typescripts amid drafts for her published stories, Unvarnished features among the last unpublished and highly person
- Author: Carr, Emily
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 31 2021
- ISBN10: 0772679649
- Language: English
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The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1908
$37.50 Read moreHenri Matisse is one of the masters of twentieth-century art and a household word to millions of people who find joy and meaning in his light-filled, colorful images–yet, despite all the books devote… [more below]
- Author: Spurling, Hilary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 18 2005
- ISBN10: 0375711333
- Language: English
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Between Lives: An Artist and Her World
$29.99 Add to cartFourteen years ago, the artist Dorothea Tanning published Birthday, a collection of reminiscences. Now she has expanded it into a memoir of her journey through the last century as confidant, collabora… [more below]
- Author: Tanning, Dorothea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0393343987
- Language: English
