Artists/ Architects/ Photographers
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Something Like an Autobiography
$18.00 Add to cartTranslated by Audie E. Bock.
“A first rate book and a joy to read…. It’s doubtful that a complete understanding of the director’s artistry can be obtained without reading this book…. Also indispen- Author: Kurosawa, Akira
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 205
- Publish Date: May 12 1983
- ISBN10: 0394714393
- Language: English
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The Genius in the Design: Bernini, Borromini, and the Rivalry That Transformed Rome
$18.99 Add to cartThe rivalry between the brilliant seventeenth-century Italian architects Gianlorenzo Bernini and Francesco Borromini is the stuff of legend. Enormously talented and ambitious artists, they met as cont
- Author: Morrissey, Jake
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01, 2006
- ISBN10: 0060525347
- Language: English
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Escaping the Delta: Robert Johnson and the Invention of the Blues
$18.99 Add to cartThe life of blues legend Robert Johnson becomes the centerpiece for this innovative look at what many consider to be America’s deepest and most influential music genre. Pivotal are the questions surro
- Author: Wald, Elijah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: December 14 2004
- ISBN10: 0060524278
- Language: English
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Notes and Methods
$49.00 Add to cartAt the turn of the twentieth century, Swedish artist Hilma af Klint (1862-1944) created a body of work that left visible reality behind, exploring the radical possibilities of abstraction years before… [more below]
- Author: Af Klint, Hilma
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: September 25 2018
- ISBN10: 022659193X
- Language: English
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People Behind the Disney Parks: Stories of Those Honored with a Window on Main Street, U.S.A.
$60.00 Read moreMeet the people who created Disney theme parks around the world!
Through rare Disney theme park concept art and photographs, this must-have collector’s book showcases more than 280 biographies and fea- Series: Disney Editions Deluxe
- Author: Snyder, Chuck
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: September 26 2023
- ISBN10: 1484748727
- Language: English
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Contradiction Days: An Artist on the Verge of Motherhood
$26.00 Read moreFor readers of Rachel Cusk and Maggie Nelson, the rapturous memoir of a soon-to-be-mother whose obsession with the reclusive painter Agnes Martin threatens to upend her life
Five months pregnant and s- Author: Novak, Joanna
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 25, 2023
- ISBN10: 1646220765
- Language: English
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Growing Up Aspen: Adventures of the Unsupervised
$33.00 Add to cartGrowing Up Aspen is the inside scoop on Aspen, Colorado in the 70s and 80s as recounted by four friends who grew up there, pre Prada, Gucci, and paparazzi. Back when Aspen was like Mayberry in the mou
- Author: Collen, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 500
- Publish Date: May 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987891308
- Language: English
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The Shores of Bohemia: A Cape Cod Story
$23.00 Add to cartAn intimate portrait of a legendary generation of artists, writers, activists, and dreamers who created a utopia on the shores of Cape Cod during the first half of the twentieth century
Their names ar- Author: Williams, John Taylor
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 16 2023
- ISBN10: 1250867169
- Language: English
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Christopher Nolan: The Iconic Filmmaker and His Work
$36.00 Read moreThis comprehensive and in-depth study delves into the life and works of one of modern films most celebrated, successful and intriguing auteurs, Christopher Nolan.
‘What is the most resilient parasite?- Series: Iconic Filmmakers
- Author: Nathan, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: November 08 2022
- ISBN10: 0711277125
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again
$18.99 Add to cart
In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, the enigmatic, legendary Warhol makes the reader his confidant on love, sex, food, beauty, fame, work, money, success, and much more.Andy Warhol claimed that he love
- Author: Warhol, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: April 06, 1977
- ISBN10: 0156717204
- Language: English
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Confessions of an Art Addict
$18.00 Add to cartA patron of art since the 1930s, Peggy Guggenheim, in a candid self-portrait, provides an insider’s view of the early days of modern art, with revealing accounts of her eccentric wealthy family, her p
- Author: Guggenheim, Peggy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: November 01, 1997
- ISBN10: 0880015764
- Language: English
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Great Women Painters
$69.95 Read moreA sumptuous survey of over 300 women painters and their work spanning almost five centuries
Great Women Painters is a groundbreaking book that reveals a richer and more varied telling of the story of
- Author: Phaidon Editors, Phaidon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 348
- Publish Date: October 06 2022
- ISBN10: 1838663282
- Language: English
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Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris
$18.95 Add to cartIn 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 21, 2023
- ISBN10: 1324065958
- Language: English
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Bruno Schulz: An Artist, a Murder, and the Hijacking of History
$30.00 Add to cartThe twentieth-century artist Bruno Schulz was born an Austrian, lived as a Pole, and died a Jew. First a citizen of the Habsburg monarchy, he would, without moving, become the subject of the West Ukra
- Author: Balint, Benjamin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 11, 2023
- ISBN10: 0393866572
- Language: English
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The Grand Affair: John Singer Sargent in His World
$22.00 Add to cartA Wall Street Journal and Times Literary Supplement Book of the Year Long-listed for the Plutarch Award
A bold new biography of the legendary painter John Singer Sargent, stressing the unruly emotions- Author: Fisher, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 1250872545
- Language: English
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Vogue on Christian Dior
$21.99 Add to cartVogue on Christian Dior tells the story of Dior’s search for the perfect line and how his unique style and vision of women’s ideal silhouette developed.
In 1947, Christian Dior stunned the fashion w- Series: Vogue
- Author: Sinclair, Charlotte
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 160
- Publish Date: February 10 2015
- ISBN10: 1419715887
- Language: English
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Leonardo Da Vinci
$40.00 Add to cartThe #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most importa… [more below]
- Author: Isaacson, Walter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 17 2017
- ISBN10: 1501139150
- Language: English
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Thursday’s Child
$28.73 Read moreThis is the first of three memoirs written by Eartha Kitt. Thursday’s Child was originally published in 1956 and covers Eartha’s childhood and early career. This book is what inspired the name of Davi
- Author: Kitt, Eartha
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 290
- Publish Date: July 12, 2022
- ISBN10: 1958425281
- Language: English
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Camille Pissarro: The Audacity of Impressionism
$29.99 Add to cartA Best Book of 2023 by The New Yorker
From the acclaimed biographer and author of Balzac’s Omelette, an engaging new work on the life of “the father of Impressionism” and the role his Jewish backgroun- Author: Muhlstein, Anka
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 28, 2023
- ISBN10: 1635421705
- Language: English
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The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
$20.00 Add to cartFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
#1 Book of the Year from Brain Pickings Named a best book of the year by NPR, Newsweek, Slate, Pop Sugar, Marie Claire, Elle, Publisher- Author: Laing, Olivia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: June 06, 2017
- ISBN10: 1250118034
- Language: English
