Artists/ Architects/ Photographers
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George Valentine Dureau: Life and Art in New Orleans
$50.00 Read moreNew Orleans artist George Valentine Dureau (1930-2014) has always been an enigma. His status as an important artist gained momentum beginning with his first exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Howard Philips
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: March 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1496853830
- Language: English
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Stan and Gus: Art, Ardor, and the Friendship That Built the Gilded Age
$30.00 Add to cartHow the architect Stanford White and the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens transcended scandal to enrich their times.
Stanford White was a louche man-about-town and a canny cultural entrepreneur–the c- Author: Wiencek, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0374162492
- Language: English
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Johannes Vermeer-Provocateur: Risk and Courage in Dissent
$36.99 Add to cartThe 17th century. Delft. Working within the mythic “Dutch Golden Age,” Johannes Vermeer mastered light, color, and intimate settings. Award-winning author Neil Thomas Proto throws off that limiting ma… [more below]
- Author: Proto, Neil Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1038343445
- Language: English
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Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life
$35.00 Add to cartThe first biography of Robert Crumb–one of the most profound and influential artists of the 20th century–whose iconic, radically frank and meticulously rendered cartoons and comics inspired generati… [more below]
- Author: Nadel, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1982144009
- Language: English
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From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey
$27.95 Add to cartOn the envelopes of letters sent to a dear friend, the famed artist and writer Edward Gorey drew dozens of original illustrations–illustrations now collected in this volume along with marvelously pla… [more below]
- Author: Gorey, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1681379058
- Language: English
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Surreal: The Extraordinary Life of Gala Dal?
$32.00 Add to cartSurreal, the long-awaited, definitive biography of Gala Dal?, unmasks this famous yet little-known queen of the twentieth-century art world, who graced the canvases, inspired the poetry, and influence
- Author: Klein, Michele Gerber
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0063220571
- Language: English
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How to Be Avant-Garde: Modern Artists and the Quest to End Art
$32.99 Add to cart“Art has poisoned our life,” proclaimed Dutch artist and De Stijl cofounder Theo van Doesburg. Reacting to the tumultuous crises of the twentieth century, especially the horrors of World War I, avant-
- Author: Falconer, Morgan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324051426
- Language: English
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Frida Kahlo. Una Biograf?a (Edici?n Especial) / Frida Kahlo. a Biography
$24.95 Add to cartEdici?n de lujo con material in?dito del fen?meno editorial que dio a conocer a una autora con m?s de 400.000 lectores en 18 idiomas.
Incluye el ap?ndice «Las recetas de Frida
«Pies p… [more below]- Author: Hesse, Mar?a
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 8426430880
- Language: Spanish
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101 Surrealists
$21.95 Add to cart2024 marks the centennial of surrealism, one of the most influential artistic movements of the modern era. In 1924, Andr? Breton wrote the Surrealist Manifesto, a call to arms that established surreal
- Author: Morris, Desmond
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0500027811
- Language: English
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Hollywood Hustle (Part 1)
$25.99 Add to cartThe Talent Agency Business and Antitrust Price-Fixing: A Historical Record of the Rise and Fall of TV Packaging
HOLLYWOOD HUSTLE {Part1} takes us into the seedy underbelly of Hollywood. It exposes, ste
- Author: Lenhoff, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: October 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1963844378
- Language: English
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George Masa: A Life Reimagined
$28.95 Add to cartFrom Cornell University librarian Janet McCue and documentary filmmaker Paul Bonesteel comes the first comprehensively researched biography of the visionary Japanese photographer whose dedication to a
- Author: McCue, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1737035138
- Language: English
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Footnote to History: From Hungary to America. The Memoir of a Holocaust Survivor
$19.95 Add to cartThe secret lay dormant for 50 years until Andrew Laszlo decided to share his past, the story of how his family perished in the Holocaust and only he survived. From his youth in Papa, Hungary, to his e
- Series: Holocaust Survivor Memoirs WWII
- Author: Laszlo, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 27 2025
- ISBN10: 9493322858
- Language: English
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Renoir, My Father
$24.95 Add to cartIn this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game, tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the grea… [more below]
- Series: Nyrb Classics S
- Author: Renoir, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: September 30 2001
- ISBN10: 0940322773
- Language: English
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Maison Martin Margiela
$120.00 Read moreGraduating from Antwerp’s Royal Academy of Fine Arts in the 1980s, Martin Margiela (and his contemporaries in the Antwerp Six) transformed global fashion with his aggressive restatement of traditional… [more below]
- Author: Margiela, Maison Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: October 27 2009
- ISBN10: 0847831884
- Language: English
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David Lynch: A Retrospective
$39.99 Read moreAt once a pop culture icon, cult figure and film industry outsider, master filmmaker David Lynch and his work defy easy definition. Dredged from his subconscious mind, Lynch’s work is primed to act on
- Author: Nathan, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 07 2023
- ISBN10: 1786751275
- Language: English
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Will Eisner: A Comics Biography
$29.99 Add to cartExplore the life of Will Eisner, one of the most influential artists in the history of comics through the most appropriate medium: a graphic novel! From his immigrant roots and childhood in New York, … [more below]
- Series: Nbm Comics Biographies
- Author: Weiner, Steve
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1681123576
- Language: English
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The Black Family Who Built America: The McKissacks, Two Centuries of Daring Pioneers
$28.99 Add to cartThe riveting story of the McKissack family–the founders of the leading Black design and construction firm in the United States, from its beginnings in the mid-1800s to its thriving status today–in a… [more below]
- Author: McKissack Daniel, Cheryl
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: August 12 2025
- ISBN10: 1668033992
- Language: English
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Caravaggio: The Palette and the Sword: Book 2
$19.99 Add to cartMilo Manara’s Caravaggio: The Palette and the Sword Book 2, the second half of Manara’s epic two-volume biography of the hot-tempered Italian master painter, depicts the tragedy of his years on the ru… [more below]
- Series: The Fantagraphics Milo Manara Signature Edition
- Author: Manara, Milo
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: June 17 2025
- ISBN10: 9.79888E+12
- Language: English
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Art Above Everything: One Woman’s Global Exploration of the Joys and Torments of a Creative Life
$30.00 Add to cartMeet queer, BIPOC, and women artists around the world as they discuss the gifts, costs, and redemptive power of pursuing a creative life
Is the all-encompassing quest to become a self-sustaining artis- Author: Griest, Stephanie Elizondo
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: June 10 2025
- ISBN10: 807020419
- Language: English
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Matisse in Morocco: A Journey of Light and Color
$32.00 Add to cartThe remarkable and little-known story of Henri Matisse and his groundbreaking time in Morocco, a fertile period that transformed his art and cemented his legacy.
In winter of 1912, Henri Matisse–fort- Author: Koehler, Jeff
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: June 03 2025
- ISBN10: 1639369090
- Language: English
