Artists, Architects, Photographers
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Melancholy Wedgwood
$34.95 Read moreAn experimental biography of the ceramics entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood that reveals the tenuous relationship of eighteenth-century England to late-capitalist modernity.
Melancholy Wedgwood traces the- Author: Moon, Iris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0262546345
- Language: English
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Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You
$65.00 Add to cartFive decades of iconic and incisive art from Barbara Kruger
Since the mid-1970s, Barbara Kruger (born 1945) has been interrogating the hierarchies of power and control in works that often combine visua
- Author: Kruger, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 194288477X
- Language: English
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Making a Life: Working by Hand and Discovering the Life You Are Meant to Live
$40.00 Add to cartA Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019
Why do we make things by hand? And why do we make them beautiful? Led by the question of why working with our hands remains vital and valuable in the modern world- Author: Falick, Melanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1579657443
- Language: English
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Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston
$38.00 Read moreThe classic, intimate memoir of the artist by Guston’s daughter, with a new afterword by Mayer
Philip Guston (1913-80) is one of the outstanding figures in 20th-century American art. Beginning as a mur
- Author: Mayer, Musa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 3906915751
- Language: English
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Arbitrary Stupid Goal
$18.00 Add to cartIn Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara Shopsin takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to the Greenwich Village of her bohemian 1970s childhood, a funky, tight-knit small town in the big city, lo
- Author: Shopsin, Tamara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 125018391X
- Language: English
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The Chanel: A Woman of Her Own
$35.00 Add to cartJournalist Axel Madsen, the biographer of such icons as John Jacob Astor, Jacques Cousteau, and John Huston, presents the life and legend of French fashion designer Coco Chanel.
Chanel. The name alone- Author: Madsen, Axel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 15 1991
- ISBN10: 0805016392
- Language: English
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Widow Basquiat: A Love Story
$18.00 Add to cartThe beautifully written, deeply affecting story of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s partner, her past, and their life together
An NPR Best Book of the Year Selection
New York City in the 1980s was a mesmerizing- Author: Clement, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0553419919
- Language: English
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The Mother Artist: Portraits of Ambition, Limitation, and Creativity
$28.99 Add to cartAre caregiving and creative labor fundamentally at odds? Is it possible for mothers to attend to both?
Few women artists feature prominently in the history of art, and even fewer who are mothers. How
- Author: Ricketts, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1506488706
- Language: English
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Lee Miller: A Life
$22.00 Add to cartLee Miller’s life embodied all the contradictions and complications of the twentieth century: a model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and domestic goddess, she was also America’… [more below]
- Author: Burke, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0226080676
- Language: English
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The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han Van Meegeren
$20.99 Add to cartNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, THE LAST VERMEER, STARRING GUY PEARCE: A revelatory biography of the world’s most famous forger–a talented Mr. Ripley armed with a paintbrush–and a deliciously detailed s
- Author: Lopez, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0547247842
- Language: English
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William Henry Jackson’s Lens: How Yellowstone’s Famous Photographer Captured the American West
$31.95 Read moreWilliam Henry Jackson was an explorer, photographer, and artist. He is also one of those most often overlooked figures of the American West. His larger claim to fame involves his repeated forays into
- Author: McNeese, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1493064738
- Language: English
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The Flowering: The Autobiography of Judy Chicago
$24.95 Read moreJudy Chicago is America’s most dynamic living artist. Her works comprise a dizzying array of media from performance and installation to the glittering table laid for thirty-nine iconic women in The Di
- Author: Chicago, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0500297312
- Language: English
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What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon
$24.99 Add to cart“Wise and ebullient.” – Dwight Garner, The New York Times
Now in paperback, the first definitive biography of Richard Avedon, a monumental photographer of the twentieth century, from award-winning phot
- Author: Gefter, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0062442740
- Language: English
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Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography
$27.00 Add to cartMeryle Secrest’s Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography focuses on Wright’s family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends and family. Secrest had unprecedented access to an archive of over one hu… [more below]
- Author: Secrest, Meryle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 652
- Publish Date: May 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0226744140
- Language: English
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Eichler: Modernism Rebuilds the American Dream
$60.00 Add to cartAtriums, household conveniences, and sleek styling made Eichler Homes a standard-bearer for bringing the modern home design to middle-class America.
Joseph Eichler was a pioneering developer who defied
- Author: Arbunich, Marty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1586851845
- Language: English
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Tove Jansson: Work and Love
$36.99 Read moreTove Jansson (1914-2001) led a long, colorful and productive life, impacting significantly the political, social and cultural history of 20th-century Finland. And while millions of children have grown… [more below]
- Author: Karjalainen, Tuula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0141978821
- Language: English
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Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life
$35.00 Add to cartOne of the greatest and most admired artists of the twentieth century, Georgia O’Keeffe led a life rich in intense relationships–with family, friends, and especially with fellow artist Alfred Stiegli… [more below]
- Author: Robinson, Roxana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 679
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1684580323
- Language: English
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Chanel and Her World: Friends, Fashion, and Fame
$75.00 Read moreThe best-selling, most abundantly illustrated biography available of fashion icon Coco Chanel, written by Edmonde Charles-Roux, her close friend and chosen official biographer. “A model pictorial biog… [more below]
- Author: Charles-Roux, Edmonde
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 09 2005
- ISBN10: 865651590
- Language: English
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Queer Saint: The Cultured Life of Peter Watson
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the mystery of his obscure family origins to the enigma surrounding his premature death, Queer Saint follows Peter Watson through an odyssey of the twentieth century, from high society to the swe
- Author: Clark, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 420
- Publish Date: May 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1839012927
- Language: English
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Charles M. Russell: The Life and Legend of America’s Cowboy Artist
$21.95 Add to cartThis first comprehensive biography of Charles M. Russell examines the colorful life and times of Montana’s famed Cowboy Artist. Born to an affluent St. Louis family in 1864, young Russell read thrilli
- Author: Taliaferro, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: November 03 2003
- ISBN10: 080613495X
- Language: English
