Artists/ Architects/ Photographers
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I Know What I Am: The Life and Times of Artemisia Gentileschi
$34.99 Add to cartMichelangelo, Vel?quez, Rubens, Rembrandt — all larger-than-life Renaissance figures celebrated for their mastery of their art. But often overlooked in this pantheon of Old Masters is Artemisia Genti… [more below]
- Author: Siciliano, Gina
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 232
- Publish Date: September 10 2019
- ISBN10: 1683962117
- Language: English
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What Is Now Known Was Once Only Imagined: An (Auto)Biography of Niki de Saint Phalle
$45.00 Read moreA biography by Nicole Rudick told in Saint Phalle’s own words, assembled from rare and unseen materials
Known best for her exuberant, often large-scale sculptural works that celebrate the abundance and
- Author: De Saint Phalle, Niki
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: February 21 2022
- ISBN10: 1938221311
- Language: English
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John Constable: A Portrait
$32.00 Read moreA fresh and lively biography of the revolutionary landscape painter John Constable.
John Constable, who captured the landscapes and skies of southern England in a way never before seen on canvas, is b- Author: Hamilton, James
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 163936272X
- Language: English
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The Unknown Matisse: A Life of Henri Matisse: The Early Years, 1869-1908
$37.50 Read moreHenri Matisse is one of the masters of twentieth-century art and a household word to millions of people who find joy and meaning in his light-filled, colorful images–yet, despite all the books devote… [more below]
- Author: Spurling, Hilary
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: October 18 2005
- ISBN10: 0375711333
- Language: English
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Between Lives: An Artist and Her World
$29.99 Add to cartFourteen years ago, the artist Dorothea Tanning published Birthday, a collection of reminiscences. Now she has expanded it into a memoir of her journey through the last century as confidant, collabora… [more below]
- Author: Tanning, Dorothea
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: December 28 2011
- ISBN10: 0393343987
- Language: English
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Albrecht D?er: Art and Autobiography
$29.00 Read moreAn exploration of the life and works of German artist Albrecht D?er and his self-obsession.
The Italian Renaissance birthed the modern sense of self, and no artist from the period compares with Albre- Series: Renaissance Lives
- Author: Ekserdjian, David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: October 10 2023
- ISBN10: 1789147646
- Language: English
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One Dirty Tree
$19.95 Read moreWINNER Association for Mormon Letters Awards Best Graphic Novel
EISNER AWARD NOMINEE Best Reality-Based Comic
INDIES Awards Finalist
Noah Van Sciver is haunted by the house at 133 ____ Street, or as h
- Author: Van Sciver, Noah
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 116
- Publish Date: October 16 2018
- ISBN10: 1941250270
- Language: English
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Winslow Homer: American Passage
$50.00 Read moreThe definitive life of the painter who forged American identity visually, in art and illustration, with an impact comparable to that of Walt Whitman and Mark Twain in poetry and prose–yet whose own s
- Author: Cross, William R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: April 12 2022
- ISBN10: 0374603790
- Language: English
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Letters to Gwen John
$29.95 Read moreWith original artworks throughout, an extraordinary fusion of memoir and artistic biography from the acclaimed artist and author of Self-Portrait.
Dearest Gwen, I know this letter to you is an artific- Author: Paul, Celia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: April 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1681376407
- Language: English
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An Indigo Summer
$19.00 Read moreA moving memoir of grieving through art in North Wales from debut author Ellie Evelyn Orrell.
One summer, Ellie Evelyn Orrell reunited with her mother following the death of their respective grandfat- Author: Orrell, Ellie Evelyn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: May 20 2023
- ISBN10: 1915279070
- Language: English
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Correspondence: Georges Bataille and Michel Leiris
$24.50 Read moreIncluding a number of short essays by Bataille and Leiris on aspects of the other’s work as well as excerpts on Bataille from Leiris’ diaries, this collection of correspondence throws new light on two… [more below]
- Series: The Seagull Library of French Literature
- Author: Bataille, Georges
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: February 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1803091916
- Language: English
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Rita Angus: An Artist’s Life
$51.99 Read moreJill Trevelyan won the Non Fiction Award at the Montana New Zealand Book Awards in 2009 for this magnificent biography of one of New Zealand’s leading 20th century artists. Now back in print, this rev… [more below]
- Author: Trevelyan, Jill
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: August 04 2020
- ISBN10: 0995133824
- Language: English
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Sargent’s Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas
$18.95 Read moreIn this seductive, multilayered biography, based on original letters and diaries, Donna M. Lucey illuminates four extraordinary women painted by the iconic high-society portraitist John Singer Sargent
- Author: Lucey, Donna M.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 0393356167
- Language: English
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Lucian Freud
$150.00 Read moreA sumptuous single-volume edition of Phaidon’s acclaimed overview of one of the greatest painters of our time
Larger-than-life British artist Lucian Freud enjoyed a career lasting over seven decades.
- Author: Gayford, Martin
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: October 12 2022
- ISBN10: 1838665692
- Language: English
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Making a Masterpiece: The Stories Behind Iconic Artworks
$32.00 Read moreWhat makes a work of art a masterpiece? Discover the answers in the fascinating stories of how these artworks came to be and the circumstances of their long-lasting impact on the world.
Beginning wit- Author: Mancoff, Debra N.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: November 01 2022
- ISBN10: 0711257078
- Language: English
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Save It for Later: Promises, Parenthood, and the Urgency of Protest
$18.99 Read moreFrom Nate Powell, the National Book Award-winning artist of the March trilogy, a collection of graphic nonfiction essays about living in a new era of necessary protest.
In seven interwoven comics ess- Author: Powell, Nate
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1419749137
- Language: English
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The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience: Five Hundred Years of Women’s Self Portraits
$18.95 Read moreA dazzlingly original and ambitious book on the history of female self-portraiture by one of today’s most well-respected art critics.
Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She’s Frida Kahlo,- Author: Higgie, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: September 13 2022
- ISBN10: 1639362932
- Language: English
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Genius, Isolated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth
$34.99 Read moreThis lavishly illustrated biography documents the life and art of one of the most significant comics and animation artists of all time.
In comic books, Alex Toth was the foremost proponent of modern- Author: Mullaney, Dean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: September 27 2022
- ISBN10: 168405947X
- Language: English
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The Private Journals of Edvard Munch: We Are Flames Which Pour Out of the Earth
$29.95 Read moreScandinavia’s most famous painter, the Norwegian Edvard Munch (1863-1944), is probably best known for his painting The Scream, a universally recognized icon of terror and despair. (A version was stole… [more below]
- Author: Munch, Edvard
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 206
- Publish Date: July 13 2005
- ISBN10: 0299198146
- Language: English
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Pauline Boty: British Pop Art’s Sole Sister
$40.00 Read more‘How wonderful that one of those exciting and innovative women artists of the 60s should be recovered and celebrated in this way.’– JULIE CHRISTIE
‘Brings the British pop artist, Pauline Boty, into vi- Author: Kristal, Marc
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 24 2023
- ISBN10: 0711287546
- Language: English
