Artists/ Architects/ Photographers
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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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Handmade: Creative Focus in the Age of Distraction
$18.95 Add to cart“Gary Rogowski leads us gently but surely upon the path to a type of success we may not have previously considered. (Hint: it involves blisters).” –Nick Offerman
In an era when there are countless co
- Author: Rogowski, Gary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: December 01 2017
- ISBN10: 1610353145
- Language: English
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Cells: Memories for My Mother
$20.00 Read more‘Are you going into town today?’ she says, which annoys me because it’s something she says all the time, having forgotten she said it before, and I say, ‘Jesus, Mum, not this again, ‘ and she says, ‘W
- Author: McCrea, Gavin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 06 2023
- ISBN10: 1957363347
- 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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George Masa’s Wild Vision: A Japanese Immigrant Imagines Western North Carolina
$28.95 Add to cartWinner of the Thomas Wolfe Award
2023 Phillip D. Reed Environmental Writing Award Finalist
George Masa’s Wild Vision recounts the incredible, overlooked life of the photographer George Masa.
Self-taught- Series: Cold Mountain Fund
- Author: Martin, Brent
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1938235932
- 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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The Worlds of Tomie dePaola: The Art and Stories of the Legendary Artist and Author
$29.99 Add to cartBarbara Elleman’s insightful biography on Tomie dePaola captures the essence of the beloved author-illustrator through engaging stories, childhood photos, countless illustrations, and thoughtful analy… [more below]
- Author: Elleman, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: March 09 2021
- ISBN10: 1534412263
- 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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Nonbinary: A Memoir
$19.99 Add to cartA revealing and beautifully open memoir from pioneering industrial music artist, visual artist, and transgender icon Genesis P-Orridge.
In this groundbreaking book spanning decades of artistic risk-t- Author: P-Orridge, Genesis
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1419749773
- 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
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Daydream Believin’
$49.99 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: Hardcover
- Page Count: 410
- Publish Date: May 11 2022
- ISBN10: 1953284817
- Language: English
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Artists: Inspiring Stories of Their Lives and Works
$21.99 Add to cartExtraordinary reference book of over 80 famous painters, their lives, their loves and their iconic paintings.
This art book includes insightful biographies of artists accompanied with remarkable repro- Series: DK Explorers
- Author: DK
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: August 30 2022
- ISBN10: 0744056675
- Language: English
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Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney
$17.99 Add to cart“Johnson emphasizes the rarity of truly visionary artists . . . his approach is unfailingly generous. . . . Genuinely revealing.” —Publishers Weekly
From celebrated journalist and historian Paul Johns
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0060930462
- Language: English
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Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa
$29.95 Read moreEverything She Touched recounts the incredible life of the American sculptor Ruth Asawa.
This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed ev- Author: Chase, Marilyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 1452174407
- Language: English
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Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
$35.00 Add to cartOne of Esquire‘s 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist’s Best Books of 2022 * A New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice * Nominated for The Next Big Idea Club * The Week Magazine B
- Author: Nevala-Lee, Alec
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: August 02 2022
- ISBN10: 0062947222
- Language: English
