Artists/ Architects/ Photographers
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Art Can Kill
$16.99 Add to cartArt Can Kill offers a window into the lives of celebrity and contemporary art figures, including stories of Larry Gagosian, Larry Flynt, Dr. Armand Hammer, Joan Rivers, Norton
- Author: Cooke, Bryan L.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 382
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 9798986556017
- Language: English
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Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
$19.99 Add to cartCharles M. Schulz, the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, is also one of the least understood figures in American culture. Now, acclaimed biographer David Michaelis gives us th
- Author: Michaelis, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0060937998
- Language: English
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Seeing Like an Artist: What Artists Perceive in the Art of Others
$28.95 Add to cart“Beguiling and informative”–Wall Street Journal
Learn to see art as an artist does. Discover how a painting’s composition or a sculpture’s spatial structure influence the experience of what you’re se- Author: Perry, Lincoln
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 1567926991
- Language: English
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Georgia O’Keeffe and Her Houses: Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu: Ghost Ranch and Abiquiu
$60.00 Add to cartGeorgia O’Keeffe and Her Houses is a unique book that offers remarkable insight into the life and work of one of America’s most celebrated artists with photographs and accompanying text presenting a c… [more below]
- Author: Lynes, Barbara Buhler
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 1419703943
- Language: English
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Josef Albers in Mexico
$55.00 Read moreAlbers in “the promised land of abstract art” the little-known influence of Mexico
“Mexico is truly the promised land of abstract art,” Josef Albers wrote to his former Bauhaus colleague Vasily Kandins
- Author: Albers, Josef
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0892075368
- Language: English
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Secret Historian: The Life and Times of Samuel Steward, Professor, Tattoo Artist, and Sexual Renegade
$34.99 Add to cart2010 National Book Award Finalist for Nonfiction
Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secre- Author: Spring, Justin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: July 19 2011
- ISBN10: 0374533024
- Language: English
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Death in a Prairie House: Frank Lloyd Wright and the Taliesin Murders
$18.95 Add to cartThe most pivotal and yet least understood event of Frank Lloyd Wright’s celebrated life involves the brutal murders in 1914 of seven adults and children dear to the architect and the destruction by fi… [more below]
- Author: Drennan, William R.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: August 21 2008
- ISBN10: 0299222144
- Language: English
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Threads of Awakening: An American Woman’s Journey Into Tibet’s Sacred Textile Art
$24.95 Read moreThreads of Awakening-the first book to explore the Tibetan art of silk thangkas–is the inspiring story of a California woman who found her heart’s home on the other side of the globe, stitching sacre… [more below]
- Author: Rinchen-Wongmo, Leslie
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: August 23 2022
- ISBN10: 1647420938
- Language: English
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Illustrators on Creative Processes
$35.00 Read moreAn insightful and visually rich book about illustration and the origins of creativity featuring the work of 26 illustrators with in-depth interviews where each artist discusses their ideas, inspiratio… [more below]
- Series: How Ideas Are Born
- Author: Pérez Arteaga, Miguel Ángel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 08 2023
- ISBN10: 8419220191
- Language: English
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Everybody Behaves Badly: The True Story Behind Hemingway’s Masterpiece the Sun Also Rises
$21.99 Add to cart“Brimming, addictive . . . In Everybody Behaves Badly, the party has just begun and the taste of fame is still ripe . . . The Lost Generation [is] restored to reckless youth in living black and white.
- Author: Blume, Lesley M. M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 16 2017
- ISBN10: 0544944437
- Language: English
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George Lucas: A Life
$21.99 Add to cartThe essential biography of the influential and beloved filmmaker George Lucas.
On May 25, 1977, a problem-plagued, budget-straining independent science-fiction film opened in a mere thirty-two Americ- Author: Jones, Brian Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: November 21 2017
- ISBN10: 0316257427
- Language: English
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If Walls Could Speak: My Life in Architecture
$32.50 Add to cartOne of the world’s greatest and most thoughtful architects recounts his extraordinary career and the iconic structures he has built–from Habitat in Montreal to Marina Bay Sands in Singapore–and offe… [more below]
- Author: Safdie, Moshe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0802158323
- Language: English
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Paris Letters
$18.99 Add to cartA New York Times bestseller
For readers of Eat Pray Love, Under the Tuscan Sun, and The 4-Hour Workweek, comes a funny, romantic, and inspiring travel memoir about a woman who quits her job, moves to P
- Author: MacLeod, Janice
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 04 2014
- ISBN10: 1402288794
- Language: English
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Black Broadway in Washington, DC
$40.99 Add to cartBefore chain coffeeshops and luxury high-rises, before even the beginning of desegregation and the 1968 riots, Washington’s Greater U Street was known as Black Broadway. From the early 1900s into the … [more below]
- Series: American Heritage
- Author: Thomas, Briana A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: January 04 2021
- ISBN10: 1540245608
- Language: English
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Frida Kahlo: An Illustrated Life
$21.95 Read moreOne of the most important artists of the twentieth century and an icon of courageous womanhood, Frida Kahlo lives on in the public imagination, where her popularity shows no signs of waning. She is re
- Author: Hesse, María
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1477317287
- Language: English
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A Midshipman’s Journey: Plebe to Officer at the United States Naval Academy Through a Graduate’s Eyes and Painter’s Brush
$49.95 Read moreA Midshipman’s Journey: Plebe to Officer at the United States Naval Academy Through a Graduate’s Eyes and Painter’s Brush explores the United States Naval Academy experience through paintings and pros… [more below]
- Author: Cronic, Kristin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 163
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 1955026572
- Language: English
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Diego Rivera (Spanish Edition)
$31.95 Add to cartEsta novela gráfica, bellamente ilustrada, retrata la vida y la época de un artista cuya realidad es indistinguible del mito que lo rodea.
Diego Rivera fue un pintor revolucionario en más de un sen… [more below]- Author: Mora, Francisco de la
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 21 2023
- ISBN10: 6073833016
- Language: English
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The Osamu Tezuka Story: A Life in Manga and Anime
$36.95 Read moreThis graphic-format biography of Osamu Tezuka–Japan’s “God of Manga”–looks at one of the twentieth century’s great creative artists (Astro Boy, Kimba the White Lion, Black Jack). It is also an anecd
- Author: Ban, Toshio
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 928
- Publish Date: July 19 2016
- ISBN10: 1611720257
- Language: English
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Andy Warhol: A Graphic Biography
$19.99 Read moreUnofficial and unauthorized
In 1962, Andy Warhol displayed 32 canvases of Campbell’s soup cans in a New York art gallery. The art world – and what we consider to be art – would never be the same agai- Series: Graphic Icons
- Author: Botton, Michele
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: March 05 2024
- ISBN10: 0711290784
- Language: English
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Letter to the Americans
$13.95 Add to cartIn 1949, Jean Cocteau spent twenty days in New York, and began composing on the plane ride home this essay filled with the vivid impressions of his trip. With his unmistakable prose and graceful wit, … [more below]
- Author: Cocteau, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 21 2022
- ISBN10: 0811231593
- Language: English
