Artists/ Architects/ Photographers
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Encounters with Artists
$34.95 Add to cartIn Encounters with Artists, Richard Cork turns his impeccable skills as a critic and writer to tell the story of his encounters with some of the world’s most influential artists. From a serendipitous
- Author: Cork, Richard
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: December 12 2023
- ISBN10: 050002510X
- Language: English
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Meret Oppenheim: My Exhibition
$45.00 Add to cartHow the celebrated Surrealist traversed the many movements of 20th-century art with a thrilling disregard for categories and constraints
Over the course of her protean career, Meret Oppenheim produced
- Author: Oppenheim, Méret
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: November 30 2021
- ISBN10: 1633451291
- Language: English
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Anni & Josef Albers: Equal and Unequal
$150.00 Read moreA spectacular and unprecedented visual biography of the leading pioneers and protagonists of modern art and design
Josef – painter, designer, and teacher – and Anni Albers – textile artist and printmak
- Author: Fox Weber, Nicholas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 18 2020
- ISBN10: 1838661425
- Language: English
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Scab Vendor: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist
$23.99 Add to cart– Huge Network of Influencers: Born as the son of jazz legend Artie Shaw and Hollywood actress Doris Dowling, author Jonathan Shaw has a rich matrix of connections, from Johnny Depp to Debbie Harry to… [more below]
- Series: Scab Vendor #1
- Author: Shaw, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 1681629151
- Language: English
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A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
$19.99 Add to cartIn a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Now I Sit Me Down, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted’s role as a major cultural figure at the epi… [more below]
- Author: Rybczynski, Witold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0684865750
- Language: English
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My Life and Hard Times
$15.99 Add to cart“Thurber is. . . a landmark in American humor. . . he is the funniest artist who ever lived.” — New Republic
Widely hailed as one of the finest humorist of the twentieth century, James Thurber looks b
- Series: Perennial Classics
- Author: Thurber, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: October 06 1999
- ISBN10: 0060933089
- Language: English
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Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall: Revised and Illustrated Edition
$30.00 Read moreIn this fully revised and richly illustrated edition, author and journalist Will Ellsworth-Jones pieces together a complete picture of the life and work of Banksy, perhaps the most iconic, enigmatic a… [more below]
- Author: Ellsworth-Jones, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0711264325
- Language: English
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Letters from Max: A Poet, a Teacher, a Friendship
$16.00 Read moreA 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1571313753
- Language: English
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Giorgio de Chirico: Life and Paintings
$55.00 Read moreThis is the most comprehensive volume probing the life and work of the modern art icon Giorgio de Chirico.
Giorgio de Chirico was one of the most controversial and consequential artists of the twentie- Author: Benzi, Fabio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 555
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0847872386
- Language: English
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The Gentle Art: Poems
$20.95 Add to cartThe poems in The Gentle Art, a compelling new collection from William Wenthe, move between the life of the painter James McNeill Whistler and a poetic version of the author, who is at once inspired an
- Author: Wenthe, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 90
- Publish Date: August 16 2023
- ISBN10: 0807178713
- Language: English
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Of Cats and Men: Profiles of History’s Great Cat-Loving Artists, Writers, Thinkers, and Statesmen
$16.00 Read moreA stylish, illustrated gift book profiling notable cat-loving men throughout history.
Some of history’s greatest men have been cat lovers, and their cats have contributed to their genius and legacy: t
- Author: Kalda, Sam
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 112
- Publish Date: April 18 2017
- ISBN10: 0399578447
- Language: English
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Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris
$30.00 Read moreIn freewheeling 1920s Paris, Kiki de Montparnasse captivated as a nightclub performer, sold out gallery showings of her paintings, starred in Surrealist films, and shared drinks and ideas with the lik
- Author: Braude, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1324006013
- Language: English
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Light on the Prairie: Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska’s Pioneer Days
$21.95 Add to cartOnce President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862, which granted 160 acres of free land to anyone with the grit to farm it for five years, the rush to the Great Plains was on. Solomon D. Butcher
- Author: Plain, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0803235208
- Language: English
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William Blake
$63.00 Read moreAn authoritative look at William Blake’s life and enduring relevance as a prophetic artist, poet, and printmaker
William Blake (1757-1827) created some of the most iconic images in the history of art.- Author: Myrone, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 0691198314
- Language: English
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R. Crumb: The Complete Record Cover Collection
$27.95 Add to cartRobert Crumb first began drawing record covers in 1968 when Janis Joplin, a fellow Haight Ashbury denizen, asked him to provide a cover for her album Cheap Thrills. It was an invitation the budding ar… [more below]
- Author: Crumb, R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: November 07 2011
- ISBN10: 0393082784
- Language: English
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Hell on Color, Sweet on Song: Jacob Wrey Mould and the Artful Beauty of Central Park
$39.95 Add to cartWINNER, VICTORIAN SOCIETY IN AMERICA BOOK AWARD
Reveals new and previously unknown biographical material about an impor
WINNER, 2024 PUBLICATION PRIZE, FRIENDS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE HISTORIC DISTRICTS- Author: Kowsky, Francis R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1531502571
- Language: English
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I Always Knew: A Memoir
$42.00 Add to cartThe extraordinary life story of the celebrated artist and writer, as told through four decades of intimate letters to her beloved mother
Barbara Chase-Riboud has led a remarkable life. After graduatin- Author: Chase-Riboud, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0691234272
- Language: English
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Chateau Reawakening: One Couple’s Wild and Wonderful Journey to Restore a Crumbling French Masterpiece
$50.00 Read moreChateau Reawakening is the story of the highs and lows of one couple’s journey to save an eighteenth century French chateau.
When former Australian politician Tim Holding and his fiancee Felicity Sel- Author: Holding, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: December 12, 2023
- ISBN10: 1743798865
- Language: English
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A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety
$18.00 Add to cartFormer poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall’s final collection of essays, from the vantage point of very old age, once again “alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny.”*
*(New York Time… [more below]- Author: Hall, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0358056144
- Language: English
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Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard
$19.95 Add to cartRon Padgett remembers the life and times of his friend, the brilliant artist Joe Brainard.
- Author: Padgett, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1566891590
- Language: English
