Artists/ Architects/ Photographers
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The Club: Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle ?poque Paris
$29.99 Add to cart“Through masterful research and sparkling prose, The Club feels like an exclusive invitation to a Parisian enclave during an era of artistic and social transformation.” -Michael Finkel, #1 New York Ti
- Author: Dasal, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 163973130X
- Language: English
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Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa
$24.95 Add to cartNow in paperback! The definitive biography and inspiring story of American sculptor Ruth Asawa.
“A fitting homage to this remarkable woman.” —The Wall Street Journal This is the story of a woman who- Author: Chase, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1797232649
- Language: English
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The Twilight of Bohemia: Westbeth and the Last Artists of New York
$30.00 Add to cartAn intimate history of America’s first publicly funded artists’ housing project and its residents that casts light on the precarious place of art-makers in a changing New York.
Westbeth Artists Housi- Author: Trachtenberg, Peter
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 344
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1574232517
- Language: English
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William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love: Art, Poetry, and the Imagining of a New World
$29.95 Add to cartA revelatory and joyous exploration of how one visionary inspired two-hundred years of art, poetry and protest by the acclaimed author of Albert and the Whale
Weaving between the historical, cultural,- Author: Hoare, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 464
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368477
- Language: English
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The Yellow House
$19.99 Add to cartFrom October to December of 1888, Paul Gauguin shared a yellow house in the south of France with Vincent van Gogh. They were the odd couple of the art world — one calm, the other volatile — and the
- Author: Gayford, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0618990585
- Language: English
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To Ease My Troubled Mind: The Authorized Unauthorized History of Billy Childish
$31.95 Add to cartIn 1977, seventeen-year-old Steven Hamper was a stonemason in the dockyards of Chatham, Kent, in England. His heart, however, beat in sync with the punk rock tremors of the era, seduced by its celebr
- Author: Kessler, Ted
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 07 2025
- ISBN10: 1636142133
- Language: English
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Bau: Artist at War
$18.99 Add to cartNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE STARRING EMILE HIRSCH, IN THEATERS JANUARY 2025
A classic memoir that is both an inspiring true love story and a historical espionage thriller, Bau: Artist at War comes at a
- Author: Bau, Joseph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: January 21 2025
- ISBN10: 9798228017566
- Language: English
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The Promised Party: Kahlo, Basquiat and Me
$18.95 Add to cartAn ultra-vivid, carnivalesque memoir of Jennifer Clement’s early life from 60s Mexico to 80s New York City – the prequel to Widow Basquiat
‘Clement has lived a life like no other, and made of it a shi- Author: Clement, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 20 2025
- ISBN10: 1838859306
- Language: English
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Turner and Constable: Art, Life, Landscape
$35.00 Add to cartBorn just fourteen months apart, one in London and the other in rural Suffolk, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable went on to change the face of British art.
The two men have routinely been seen as pola- Author: Moorby, Nicola
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0300266480
- Language: English
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Sculptor’s Daughter
$19.99 Add to cartTove Jansson s memoirs of her early years, filled with joy, exuberance, and the satisfaction of being with an abundance of photographic illustrations.
The excitement of being alive and savoring the goo
- Author: Jansson, Tove
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 192
- Publish Date: June 08 2020
- ISBN10: 006233462X
- Language: English
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Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
$39.99 Add to cartPaul Gauguin’s legend as a transgressive genius arises as much from his biography as his aesthetically daring Polynesian paintings. Gauguin is chiefly known for his pictures that eschewed convention,
- Author: Prideaux, Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1324020423
- Language: English
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A Fire in His Soul: Van Gogh, Paris, and the Making of an Artist
$39.95 Add to cartThe fascinating story of Vincent van Gogh’s two groundbreaking years in Paris, where he transformed himself from a provincial unknown into one of the world’s great visionary artists.
Vincent Van Gogh- Author: Unger, Miles J.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: March 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1639368450
- Language: English
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The Maverick’s Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream
$35.00 Add to cartA fascinating biography of the philanthropist Albert Barnes, whose pioneering collection of modern art was meant to transform America’s soul
From prominent critic and biographer Blake Gopnik comes a co
- Author: Gopnik, Blake
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0063284030
- Language: English
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Warhol’s Muses: The Artists, Misfits, and Superstars Destroyed by the Factory Fame Machine
$32.00 Add to cartONE OF “25 BOOKS TO READ IN 2025”–TORONTO STAR
From the New York Times bestselling author of Capote’s Women comes an astonishing
ONE OF “12 NEW NONFICTION BOOKS YOU NEED TO READ IN 2025”–THE OBSERVER- Author: Leamer, Laurence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0593716663
- Language: English
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Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright
$20.00 Add to cartFrank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suf… [more below]
- Author: Hendrickson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0804172889
- Language: English
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Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith
$22.00 Read moreNamed one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New Yorker and The New York Times‘ Dwight Garner
“The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . [John Szwed] allows different sides of Smith’s- Author: Szwed, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1250338107
- Language: English
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Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up
$55.00 Add to cartClaire Wilcox and Circe Henestrosa’s Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up presents a unique window into the artist’s life.
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), as an artist and a woman, has a unique international app- Author: Wilcox, Claire
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1851779604
- Language: English
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The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
$22.00 Add to cartA literary classic, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh Captures the voice of one of the most beloved and important artists of all time. Though Vincent van Gogh is often thought of as a mad genius, in The… [more below]
- Author: Roskill, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1416580867
- Language: English
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Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
$24.99 Read moreOne 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: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: August 01 2023
- ISBN10: 0062947230
- Language: English
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Dear Judy: A Love Story Rewritten by Alzheimer’s
$18.95 Add to cartWhen the author’s wife, Judith James, was diagnosed with younger-onset Alzheimer’s disease in her sixty-first year, they’d been a couple for close to four decades and together had constructed an envia
- Author: James, Michael F.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 284
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987628621
- Language: English
