Artists/ Architects/ Photographers
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Everyday Matters
$15.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Persepolis, In the Shadow of No Towers, and Our Cancer Year, an illustrated memoir of remarkable depth, power, and beauty Danny Gregory and his wife, Patti, hadn’t been married lon… [more below]
- Author: Gregory, Danny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 1401307957
- Language: English
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A Chance Meeting: American Encounters
$19.95 Add to cartWeaving a tapestry of creativity and circumstance, this lauded chronicle of the many links and serendipitous meetings between giants of American culture–from Henry James to Gertrude Stein to Zora Nea… [more below]
- Author: Cohen, Rachel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 19 2024
- ISBN10: 1681378108
- Language: English
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The Film Sense
$18.99 Add to cartAn exploration of the film as a more expressive and profound medium. Includes an analysis of a sound-film sequence from Alexander Nevsky. “The most instructive discussion of the film art yet put betwe… [more below]
- Series: Harvest Book
- Author: Eisenstein, Sergei
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 17 2010
- ISBN10: 0156309351
- Language: English
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Dior by Dior: The Autobiography of Christian Dior
$14.95 Read moreDior by Dior is a charming and modest autobiography presenting a fascinating and detailed insight into the workings of a great fashion house, while revealing the private man behind the high-profile es… [more below]
- Series: V&a Fashion Perspectives
- Author: Dior, Christian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 1851779787
- Language: English
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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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American Grotesque: The Life and Art of William Mortensen
$0.00 Read moreAmerican Grotesque is a lavish retrospective of grotesque, occult, and erotic images by the forgotten Hollywood photographer William Mortensen (1897-1965), an innovative pictorialist visionary whom An
- Author: Mortensen, William
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: November 25, 2014
- ISBN10: 1936239973
- 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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Beatrix Farrand: Garden Artist, Landscape Architect
$60.00 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of 2022 by the American Society of Landscape Architects
Beatrix Farrand: Private Gardens, Public Landscapes presents the life and work of one of the foremost landscape designers of th
- Author: Tankard, Judith B.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: March 29 2022
- ISBN10: 1580935931
- 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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Louis Wain’s Cats
$60.00 Read more‘Louis Wain invented a cat style, a cat society, a whole cat world’. Broadcast in 1925 by H.G. Wells, these words characteristically foretold the future of the Wain cat which has, once more, become th… [more below]
- Author: Beetles, Chris
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1838854703
- Language: English
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Guillermo del Toro: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work
$39.99 Add to cartGuillermo del Toro is a complete and intimate study of the life and work of one of modern cinema’s most truly unique directors, whose distinct aesthetic and imagination are unmatched in contemporary f… [more below]
- Series: Iconic Filmmakers
- Author: Nathan, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 09 2021
- ISBN10: 0711263280
- Language: English
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Vincent’s Arles: As It Is and as It Was
$22.50 Read moreA vivid tour of the town of Arles, guided by one of its most famous visitors: Vincent van Gogh.
Once admired as “a little Rome” on the banks of the Rh?e, the town of Arles in the south of France had- Author: Seidel, Linda
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: March 09 2023
- ISBN10: 0226822192
- 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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Diary of a Genius: Salvador Dali’ S Autobiography: 1952-1963
$17.95 Add to cartDIARY OF A GENIUS stands as one of the seminal texts of Surrealism, revealing the most astonishing and intimate workings of the mind of Salvador DalÃ, the eccentric polymath genius who became the liv… [more below]
- Author: Dali, Salvador
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: June 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1840686847
- 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
