Artists/ Architects/ Photographers
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A Few Collectors
$24.95 Add to cartFunny and whimsical. There are wonderful asides … It is also poignant.
—The New York TimesAn utterly charming book by beloved Parisian artist Pierre Le-Tan, filled with dazzling illustrations and in
- Author: Le-Tan, Pierre
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 05 2022
- ISBN10: 1954404042
- Language: English
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E. J. Hughes: Life at the Lake
$25.00 Add to cartThe latest instalment in the award-winning series on the life and work of E. J. Hughes brings the reader into this very private artist’s home and studio on Shawnigan Lake.
In the most intimate volume y
- Author: Amos, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 1771514191
- Language: English
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The Bloomsbury Group
$24.95 Read moreAn affordable pocket introduction to the most constructive and creative influence on English taste between the wars
The Bloomsbury Group was a union of friends who transformed British culture with thei
- Author: Spalding, Frances
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 120
- Publish Date: November 02, 2021
- ISBN10: 1855147238
- Language: English
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Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship
$26.00 Add to cartA KIRKUS BEST BOOK OF 2018
In 2012, Sarah Ruhl was a distinguished author and playwright, twice a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize. Max Ritvo, a student in her playwriting class at Yale University, was
- Author: Ruhl, Sarah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 18 2018
- ISBN10: 1571313699
- Language: English
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Daydream Believin’
$34.99 Add to cartLET DAVY MAKE YOU A DAYDREAM BELIEVER!
From a Tony Award nominee, to the teen idol of the Monkees – Davy Jones: Daydream Believin’ is a wonderfully revealing account of Davy’s life and career. Davy sha
- Author: Jones, Davy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: May 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1953284809
- Language: English
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Portrait of a Woman: Art, Rivalry, and Revolution in the Life of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
$29.95 Read moreDiscover the story of Ad?la?de Labille-Guiard–a long-ignored artist and feminist of eighteenth-century France–in this imaginative and illuminating biography from an award-winning writer.
Summer in P- Author: Quinn, Bridget
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1797211870
- Language: English
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Dorothea Lange: A Photographer’s Life
$24.95 Add to cartDorothea Lange’s depression-era photographs became mythic symbols in their time and are exhibited worldwide as standards of classic photography. In this first biography of Lange, Milton Meltzer docume… [more below]
- Author: Meltzer, Milton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0815606222
- Language: English
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Popism: The Warhol Sixties
$16.99 Add to cartAnecdotal, funny, frank, POPism is Warhol’s personal view of the Pop phenomenon in New York in the 1960s.
A cultural storm swept through the 1960s–Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies–… [more below]
- Author: Warhol, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0156031116
- Language: English
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The Last of His Kind: The Life and Adventures of Bradford Washburn, America’s Boldest Mountaineer
$19.99 Add to cart“Stunning and stirring.”
—Boston Globe
In The Last of His Kind, renowned adventure writer David Roberts gives readers a spellbinding history of mountain climbing in the twentieth century as told throu
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 15, 2010
- ISBN10: 0061560952
- Language: English
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The Importance of Not Being Ernest: My Life with the Uninvited Hemingway (a Unique Ernest Hemingway Biography, Gift for Writers)
$24.95 Add to cartIn The Importance of Not Being Ernest, acclaimed journalist and New York Times bestselling author Mark Kurlansky focuses on the sprawling life and work of Ernest Hemingway while drawing parallels to h… [more below]
- Author: Kurlansky, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: May 31 2022
- ISBN10: 1642504637
- Language: English
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The Witch’s Door: Oddities and Tales from the Esoteric to the Extreme
$30.00 Add to cartIn this spellbinding and entertaining memoir, Regina and Ryan Cohn, founders of Oddities Flea Market, take us on a fascinating and specially curated tour of their most macabre and mysterious objects, … [more below]
- Author: Cohn, Ryan Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1797229583
- Language: English
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Steven Spielberg: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work
$36.00 Add to cartThis comprehensive and in-depth study delves into the life and works of the most famous director who has ever lived, Steven Spielberg.
Spielberg is the medium’s defining artist–the embodiment of the- Series: Iconic Filmmakers
- Author: Nathan, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 0711295239
- Language: English
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Walk Through Walls: A Memoir
$18.00 Add to cart“I had experienced absolute freedom–I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn’t matter, that nothing mattered at all–and it intoxicated me.”
In 2010, more than 750,00- Author: Abramovic, Marina
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 06 2018
- ISBN10: 1101905069
- Language: English
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Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger’s Life
$26.95 Add to cartThe gripping true story of a life-long forger working for the French Resistance and clandestine organizations, told to his daughter.
- Author: Kaminsky, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 0997003472
- Language: English
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Garth Williams, American Illustrator: A Life
$26.95 Read moreOpen the pages of so many children’s classics and get a glimpse into the life of Garth Williams, the artist that sparked the imagination of generations.
Stuart Little, Charlotte’s Web, The Rescuers, a- Author: Wallace, Elizabeth K.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 13 2016
- ISBN10: 0825307953
- Language: English
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Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi
$28.00 Add to cartA master of what he called “the sculpturing of space,” Isamu Noguchi was a vital figure for modern public art. Born to an American mother and a Japanese father, Noguchi never felt like he belonged any
- Author: Herrera, Hayden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0374535981
- Language: English
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Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life
$20.99 Add to cartThe Addams Family is creepy and kooky, but wait till you see what their creator had in his apartment.
In Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life, meet the legendary cartoonist behind the altogether ooky A
- Author: Davis, Linda H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1684426898
- Language: English
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The Great Clivette
$53.27 Add to cartMerton Clivette once dominated the 1920s and 1930s art world. He ruled the Orpheum Circuit as a magician, shadowgraphist, mindreader, and acrobat. He performed in the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show. Cliv
- Author: MacBride, Michael David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: June 08 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987939314
- Language: English
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El Pez En El Agua / A Fish in Water: A Memoir
$31.95 Read moreEDICI?N ESPECIAL 30. ANIVERSARIO
El libro m?s autobiogr?fico de Vargas Llosa: la memoria del surgimiento de sus vocaciones literaria y pol?tica.
«La escritura de Mario Vargas Llosa ha dado form… [more below]- Author: Llosa, Mario Vargas
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 680
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 8420475424
- Language: Spanish
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In the Shadow of the American Dream: The Diaries of David Wojnarowicz
$18.00 Add to cartFew artists have captured the emotional, sexual, and political chaos of modern urban life as perceptively as David Wojnarowicz, whom Out magazine has called “an acute observer of the unmapped region s… [more below]
- Author: Scholder, Amy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 03 2000
- ISBN10: 0802136710
- Language: English
