Artists/ Architects/ Photographers
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Clitso Dedman, Navajo Carver: His Art and His World
$39.95 Add to cartRebecca Valette’s Clitso Dedman, Navajo Carver is the first biography of artist Clitso Dedman (1876-1953), one of the most important but overlooked Diné (Navajo) artists of his generation. Dedman was… [more below]
- Author: Valette, Rebecca M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: December 01 2023
- ISBN10: 1496235819
- Language: English
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Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
$17.95 Add to cartA finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, this memoir of one woman’s later in life career change is “a smart, funny and compelling case for going after your heart’s desires, no matter you… [more below]
- Author: Painter, Nell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1640092005
- Language: English
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Caravaggio
$20.00 Add to cartMichelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial, violent in temper, p
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Lambert, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 31 2015
- ISBN10: 3836559935
- Language: English
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The Fairy Tale Girl
$28.95 Add to cartBased on the diaries Susan Branch has kept since she was in her twenties, The Fairy Tale Girl is an illustrated memoir, designed in Susan’s trademark style with original watercolors and personal photo… [more below]
- Author: Branch, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 30 2015
- ISBN10: 0996044019
- Language: English
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Natural Light: The Art of Adam Elsheimer and the Dawn of Modern Science
$39.95 Add to cartSeventeenth-century Europe swirled with conjectures and debates over what was real and what constituted “nature,” currents that would soon gather force to form modern science.
Natural Light deliberate
- Author: Bell, Julian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 13 2023
- ISBN10: 0500024073
- Language: English
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Rembrandt
$20.00 Add to cartRembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) never left his homeland of the Netherlands but in his massive body of painting, drawing, and etching, he changed the course of Western art. His prolific oeuvre encompass
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Bockemühl, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 29 2016
- ISBN10: 3836532131
- Language: English
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Role Models
$19.00 Add to cartRole Models is a personal invitation into one of the most unique, perverse, and hilarious artistic minds of our time.
From the incomparable John Waters, a paean to the power of subversive inspiration t- Author: Waters, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 26 2011
- ISBN10: 0374532869
- Language: English
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The Secret Life of Salvador DalÃ
$24.95 Add to cartPainter, designer, and filmmaker Salvador Dal? (1904-1989) was one of the most colorful and controversial figures in 20th-century art. A pioneer of Surrealism, he was both praised and reviled for the
- Series: Dover Fine Art, History of Art
- Author: Dali, Salvador
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: March 03 1993
- ISBN10: 0486274543
- Language: English
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Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry
$29.99 Add to cartExperience the wonder of child prodigy Akaine Kramarik’s divinely inspired artwork firsthand.
Akiane’s nonreligious parents were bewildered when their four-year-old daughter started sharing her dreams
- Author: Kramarik, Akiane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0718075862
- Language: English
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Limonov: The Outrageous Adventures
$22.00 Add to cartNamed a Best Book of the Year by The New York Times and The Guardian (London)
A thrilling page-turner that also happens to be the biography of one of Russia’s most controversial figures This is how E- Author: Carrère, Emmanuel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: October 06 2015
- ISBN10: 1250074835
- Language: English
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Frida Kahlo: Sus Fotos: Frida Kahlo: Her Photos, Spanish Edition
$45.00 Add to cartCuando Frida Kahlo muere Diego Rivera, marido, ex marido y viudo de Frida, le pide al poeta Carlos Pellicer que convierta la Casa Azul en un museo para que el pueblo de México pueda visitarla y admir
- Author: Monasterio, Pablo Ortiz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 8492480742
- Language: English
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What Would Frida Do?: A Guide to Living Boldly
$26.00 Read moreHaving doubts about your next step? Ask yourself what artist Frida Kahlo would do in this “beautiful volume . . . sure to inspire” (Boston Globe).
NAMED A BEST GIFT BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: Instyle, Oprah- Author: Davis, Arianna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 20 2020
- ISBN10: 1541646320
- Language: English
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Letters to Véra
$25.00 Add to cartNo marriage of a major twentieth-century writer is quite as beguiling as that of Vladimir Nabokov’s to V?ra Slonim. She shared his delight at the enchantment of life’s trifles and literature’s treasur… [more below]
- Series: Vintage International
- Author: Nabokov, Vladimir
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: December 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0307476588
- Language: English
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Born to Be Posthumous: The Eccentric Life and Mysterious Genius of Edward Gorey
$35.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense.
From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey’s wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little bo- Author: Dery, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: November 06 2018
- ISBN10: 0316188549
- Language: English
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The Pier
$14.95 Add to cartTimothy James Bottoms has written a love letter to Santa Barbara. While he may be best known for his award-winning performances in front of the camera, do not be mislead into thinking, for even a mome… [more below]
- Author: Bottoms, Timothy James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 130
- Publish Date: March 10 2023
- ISBN10: 0578271338
- Language: English
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Armed with Madness: The Surreal Leonora Carrington
$24.99 Read moreAward-winning storytellers Mary M. Talbot and Bryan Talbot’s full-color graphic novel Armed with Madness presents a new perspective on the 1930s Paris art scene from neglected artist, feminist icon, a… [more below]
- Author: Talbot, Mary M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: April 25 2023
- ISBN10: 1914224124
- Language: English
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Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
$18.00 Add to cartA “touchstone for aspiring artists and writers” (Megan O’Grady, The New Yorker), Daybook is a classic work about reconciling the call of creative work with the demands of daily life.
Renowned American- Author: Truitt, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1476740984
- Language: English
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Negative Space
$16.95 Add to cartDespite her parents’ struggles with addiction, Lilly Dancyger always thought of her childhood as a happy one. But what happens when a journalist interrogates her own rosy memories to reveal the instab… [more below]
- Series: Sfwp Literary Awards
- Author: Dancyger, Lilly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: May 01 2021
- ISBN10: 195163103X
- Language: English
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Gego: Measuring Infinity
$65.00 Read moreGego infused her art with architecture and engineering to create unique works of delicate suspense
Accompanying the first major museum retrospective exhibition of Gego’s work in the US in more than 15
- Author: Goldschmidt, Gertrud
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: May 02 2023
- ISBN10: 0892075554
- Language: English
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Leonardo’s Brain: Understanding Da Vinci’s Creative Genius
$18.95 Add to cartBest-selling author Leonard Shlain explores the life, art, and mind of Leonardo da Vinci, seeking to explain his singularity by looking at his achievements in art, science, psychology, and military st… [more below]
- Author: Shlain, Leonard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: December 01 2015
- ISBN10: 1493009397
- Language: English
