Artists/ Architects/ Photographers
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Barbara Comyns: A Savage Innocence
$39.95 Add to cartThis biography of Barbara Comyns presents a twentieth-century author whose life was as extraordinary as her novels. Hundreds of unpublished letters reveal an occasionally desperate but resourceful and… [more below]
- Author: Horner, Avril
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1526173743
- Language: English
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Degas & Cassatt: A Solitary Dance
$24.99 Add to cartOne of the founders of the Impressionist movement while also one of its most ruthless critics, too bohemian for the bourgeois and too bourgeois for the artists, Edgar Degas was a man of paradoxes. A l… [more below]
- Author: Rubio, Salva
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: March 12 2024
- ISBN10: 168112324X
- Language: English
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Monet: The Restless Vision
$45.00 Add to cartA groundbreaking look at the life and art of one of the most influential, modern painters of the late nineteenth century and founder of the Impressionist movement
“Wullschläger emerges with a striki- Author: Wullschläger, Jackie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: September 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1101875372
- Language: English
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From the Back of the House: Memoir of a Broadway Theatre Manager
$14.99 Add to cartMy name is Dan Landon, and I was a Broadway theatre manager for 37 years. 1 worked on fifty shows. Over 9000 performances.
This is my love letter to Broadway, and all the stars and luminaries my job al
- Author: Landon, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1956672230
- Language: English
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Stitched & Sewn: The Life-Saving Art of Holocaust Survivor Trudie Strobel
$26.99 Read moreThe richly illustrated story of a woman who, late in life, copes with the buried trauma of her childhood as a Holocaust survivor by becoming a master needlework artist like her mother, who saved both … [more below]
- Author: Savin, Jody
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 9798887980348
- Language: English
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Christopher Isherwood Inside Out
$45.00 Add to cartA stunningly intimate exploration of the writer and gay cultural icon and of his lifelong search for authenticity.
The story of Christopher Isherwood’s life is one of pilgrimage: away from the constra- Author: Bucknell, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0374119368
- Language: English
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Yield: The Journal of an Artist
$20.00 Read moreNamed by the New Yorker as one of the best books of 2022, this posthumously published work serves as the fourth and final volume in Anne Truitt’s remarkable series of journals
“Anne Truitt’s Yield has- Author: Truitt, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 216
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 0300276842
- Language: English
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The Long Run: A Creative Inquiry
$17.00 Add to cartThe author of The Art of Intimacy asks eight legendary artists: What has sustained you in the long run?
How do we keep doing this–making art? Stacey D’Erasmo had been writing for twenty years and had- Author: D’Erasmo, Stacey
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: July 09 2024
- ISBN10: 1644452928
- Language: English
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The Portraitist: Frans Hals and His World
$35.00 Read moreA biography of the great portraitist Frans Hals that takes the reader into the turbulent world of the Dutch Golden Age.
Frans Hals was one of the greatest portrait painters in history, and his styl- Author: Nadler, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 022669836X
- Language: English
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Where They Were Then: Sportscasters
$18.99 Add to cart15 sportscasters who made it to the big leagues. 15 different paths to success. 15 unique, unbelievable, and previously untold stories.
“This is fascinating stuff.” –Bob Costas, Hall of Fame broadcast
- Author: Reiss, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: November 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1737717875
- Language: English
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The Baby on the Fire Escape: Creativity, Motherhood, and the Mind-Baby Problem
$27.95 Read moreWhat does a great artist who is also a mother look like? What does it mean to create, not in “a room of one’s own,” but in a domestic space? In The Baby on the Fire Escape, award-winning biographer Ju
- Author: Phillips, Julie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 0393088596
- Language: English
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Bunnyman: Post-War Kid to Post-Punk Guitarist of Echo and the Bunnymen
$19.95 Add to cartWill Sergeant is a sonic master of the universe. – Courtney Love
This is the true story of one small boy, me, Will Sergeant, navigating the 60’s and 70’s, a woolly-back (hick) spawned one drunken ni
- Author: Sergeant, Will
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1734842288
- Language: English
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Desperately Seeking Basquiat
$19.95 Add to cartJean-Michel Basquiat is one of the few artists who have achieved mythic status. His work is instantly recognizable; like Picasso, Warhol or Frida Kahlo, his look is imprinted on our psyche. But how mu… [more below]
- Author: Castello-Cortes, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 3943330451
- Language: English
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Clear Seeing Place: Studio Visits
$16.95 Add to cartFrom the salt marshes and moss-draped live oaks of the South Carolina Lowcountry to the New York art world, Clear Seeing Place takes the reader behind the studio door to explore the making of a painte
- Author: Rutenberg, Brian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 324
- Publish Date: September 20 2016
- ISBN10: 0997442301
- Language: English
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Groucho and Me
$19.99 Add to cart“An important contribution to the history of show business and to the saga of American comedy and comedians, comics and comicality.”–James Thurber
With impeccable timing, outrageous humor, irreverent- Author: Marx, Groucho
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 376
- Publish Date: August 22 1995
- ISBN10: 0306806665
- Language: English
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Walker Evans: Last Photographs & Life Stories
$45.00 Add to cartIn 1973, Michael Lesy was a young scholar whose first book had just been published. In the soon-legendary Wisconsin Death Trip he combined 1890s photographs and newspaper clippings to evoke a devastat… [more below]
- Author: Lesy, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0922233527
- Language: English
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Shadow Drawing
$20.00 Add to cart“[The Shadow Drawing] reorients our perspective, distills a life and brings it into focus–the very work of revision and refining that its subject loved best.” –Parul Sehgal, The New York Times (Edit
- Author: Fiorani, Francesca
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 394
- Publish Date: May 03 2022
- ISBN10: 1250800218
- Language: English
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Jan Van Eyck Within His Art
$29.00 Read moreA new assessment of the inventive and influential artist Jan van Eyck.
Jan van Eyck (1390-1441) was one of the most inventive and influential artists in the entire European tradition. The realism of- Series: Renaissance Lives
- Author: Acres, Alfred
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: September 11 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147611
- Language: English
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Wondrous Strange: The Life and Art of Glenn Gould
$45.99 Add to cartWhen Mikhail Baryshnikov defected in Toronto in 1974, he admitted that he knew only three things about Canada: It had great hockey teams, a lot of wheatfields, and Glenn Gould.
In Wondrous Strange, Ke… [more below]- Author: Bazzana, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: May 12 2005
- ISBN10: 0195182464
- Language: English
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Woman Pissing
$19.95 Add to cartWhen we think of prototypical artists, we think of, say, Picasso, who made work quickly, easily, effervescently. On the contrary, in Woman Pissing, a literary collage that takes its title from a raunc… [more below]
- Author: Cooperman, Elizabeth
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: September 01 2022
- ISBN10: 1496231449
- Language: English
