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The Life of Henry Moore by Roger Berthoud 9781900357227
RRP: $41.98$30.35Henry Moore's rise from Yorkshire miner's son to international acclaim as the twentieth century's greatest sculptor is one of the most remarkable stories in British art. In this revised, updated, expanded and redesigned new edition of The Life of Henry... -
Bergson and the Art of Immanence: Painting, Photography, Film by John Mullarkey
RRP: $60.88$56.51This title takes an immanent turn in art history. Immanence is a theory of divine presence, in which the divine is found in the material world, not outside of it. This new collection brings the major 20th century French philosopher Henri Bergson's work... -
Frida Kahlo at Home by Suzanne Barbezat
RRP: $52.50$41.08Frida Kahlo at Home explores the influence of Mexican culture and tradition, the Blue House and other places Frida travelled to and called home, on her life and work.'In this beautifully illustrated and thoughtful book, Suzane Barbezat, an Oaxaca-based... -
Mies Van Der Rohe: A Critical Biography by Franz Schulze
$65.50Mies van der Rohe: A Critical Biography is a major rewriting and expansion of Franz Schulze's acclaimed 1985 biography, the first full treatment of the master German-American modern architect. Coauthored with architect Edward Windhorst, this revised... -
Van Gogh and the Artists He Loved by Steven Naifeh
RRP: $69.30$47.92Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593356678Author Steven NaifehFormat HardbackPage Count 448Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
You Belong to the Universe: Buckminster Fuller and the Future by Jonathon Keats 9780199338238
RRP: $54.58$39.98A compelling call to apply Buckminster Fuller's creative problem-solving to present-day problems. A self-professed "comprehensive anticipatory design scientist," the inventor Buckminster Fuller (1895-1983) was undoubtedly a visionary. Fuller's... -
Humphry Repton by Laura Mayer
RRP: $16.78$13.13Humphry Repton (1752-1818) ambitiously styled himself Capability Brown's successor: the century's next great improver of landed property. With his rare combination of skills - he was a talented topographical sketcher with a unique ability to judge the... -
What Would Frida Do?: A Guide to Living Boldly by Arianna Davis 9781541600614
RRP: $29.38$20.62NAMED A BEST GIFT BOOK OF THE YEAR BY: Instyle, Oprah Daily, Business Insider, Esquire, Boston Globe, and RedbookRevered as much for her fierce spirit as she is for her art, Frida Kahlo stands today as a feminist symbol of daring creativity. Her... -
Choice of Weapons by Gordon Parks
RRP: $32.55$27.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780873517690Author Gordon ParksFormat PaperbackPage Count 274Imprint Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S.Publisher Minnesota Historical Society Press,U.S... -
The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly: Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011 by Edith Schloss
RRP: $35.68$24.68The Loft Generation: From the de Koonings to Twombly; Portraits and Sketches, 1942-2011 is an invaluable account by an artist at the center of a landmark era in American art. Edith Schloss writes about the painters, poets, and musicians who were part of... -
Nat Tate: American Artist, 1928-1960 by William Boyd 9781901785012
RRP: $25.20$20.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781901785012Author William BoydFormat HardbackPage Count 71Imprint 21 Publishing LtdPublisher 21 Publishing Ltd -
Fierce Poise: Helen Frankenthaler and 1950s New York by Alexander Nemerov
RRP: $37.78$25.49Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525560203Author Alexander NemerovFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Album Picabia by Beverley Calte
RRP: $63.00$54.29Album Picabia is an inspiring, artistic chronicle of Francis Picabia's life (1879-1953) as seen through the eyes of his last wife and creative protegee, Olga Mohler Picabia. Begun in 1936, four years before their marriage, and left unfinished in 1951,... -
The Architecture of Barry Byrne: Taking the Prairie School to Europe by Vincent Michael
RRP: $105.00$93.26Barry Byrne (1883-1967) was a radical architect who sought basic principles as fervently as his mentor Frank Lloyd Wright and his inspiration Louis Sullivan, forging an individual style with taut planar skins enveloping modern space plans. In 1922 he... -
Romaine Brooks: A Life by Cassandra Langer
RRP: $56.60$51.01The artistic achievements of Romaine Brooks (1874-1970), both as a major expatriate American painter and as a formative innovator in the decorative arts, have long been overshadowed by her fifty-year relationship with writer Natalie Barney and a... -
Edgewise - a Picture of Cookie Mueller by John Waters
RRP: $46.20$39.27The story of cult figure Cookie Mueller's life through an oral history composed of more than 80 interviews with those who knew her, with photographs by David Armstrong, Robert Mapplethorpe, Peter Hujar and others Cookie Mueller (1949-1989) was a... -
Gerhard Richter: A Life in Painting by Dietmar Elger
RRP: $84.00$83.06Gerhard Richter is one of the most important and popular artists of the postwar era. For decades he has sought innovative ways to make painting more relevant, often through a multifaceted dialogue with photography. Today Richter is most widely recognized... -
The Mario Lanza Story by Constantine Callinicos 9781958425466 [USED COPY]
RRP: $35.68$31.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958425466Author Constantine CallinicosFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Chosho PublishingPublisher Chosho PublishingWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm)... -
The Mario Lanza Story by Constantine Callinicos 9781958425466
RRP: $35.68$31.73Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781958425466Author Constantine CallinicosFormat PaperbackPage Count 268Imprint Chosho PublishingPublisher Chosho PublishingWeight(grams) 281gDimensions(mm)... -
Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work by Hayden Herrera 9780374529727
RRP: $63.00$48.72Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374529727Author Hayden HerreraFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)... -
Warning: This is Not a Motivational Story by Yousef Erakat
RRP: $31.48$20.50Warning: This book is not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any of your problems.In actuality, this book expresses all of the problems I've encountered in my life since I was a child. Hi, my name is Yousef Saleh Erakat aka Fousey. I am a... -
The Life of Leonardo da Vinci by Vasari Giorgio
RRP: $21.00$14.28Giorgio Vasari's Lives of the Most Famous Painters, Sculptors and Architects (1550 and 1569) is a classic of cultural history. A monumental assembly of artists' lives from Giotto to Michelangelo, it paints a vivid picture of the progress of art in the... -
Whistler: A Life for Art's Sake by Daniel E. Sutherland
RRP: $35.68$32.78A major new biography of James McNeill Whistler, one of most complex, intriguing, and important of America's artists This engaging personal history dispels the popular notion of James McNeill Whistler (1834-1903) as merely a combative, eccentric, and... -
Francis Bacon: Studies for a Portrait by Michael Peppiatt
RRP: $27.28$18.06Francis Bacon was one of most elusive and enigmatic creative geniuses of the twentieth century. However much his avowed aim was to simplify both himself and his art, he remained a deeply complex person. Bacon was keenly aware of this underlying... -
The Collector of Lives: Giorgio Vasari and the Invention of Art by Ingrid Rowland 9780393241310
RRP: $50.38$43.07An accomplished painter, architect and diplomat, Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) is best known for Lives of the Artists, his classic account of the great masters-an extraordinary book that invented the genre of artistic biography, single-handedly established... -
Excelsior by LEE STAN & MAIR GEORGE 9780684873053
RRP: $37.78$24.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780684873053Author LEE STAN & MAIR GEORGEPage Count 256Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & Schuster -
Alannah Coleman: A Life in Art by Simon Pierse 9781922669438
RRP: $42.00$37.00Alannah Coleman was admired as a free spirit and loved by many for her creative energy and physical beauty. She was part of a bohemian enclave in Australia and most significantly in postwar London where as a gallery director and curator she cultivated... -
Young Mr. Turner: The First Forty Years, 1775-1815 by Eric Shanes 9780300140651
RRP: $178.50$153.47A definitive new biography, deftly interweaving an account of Turner's early life with profound scholarly and aesthetic appreciation of his work A complex figure, and divisive during his lifetime, Joseph Mallord William Turner (1775-1851) has long been... -
The Blue Touch Paper: A Memoir by David Hare 9780571294336 [USED COPY]
RRP: $42.00$4.81When, in 2000, the National Theatre published its poll of the hundred best plays of the 20th century, David Hare had written five of them. Yet he was born in 1947 into an anonymous suburban street in Hastings. It is a world he believes to be as... -
Frank Lloyd Wright: A Life by Ada Louise Huxtable
RRP: $33.60$19.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143114291Author Ada Louise HuxtableFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 193gDimensions(mm) 177mm *... -
The Club King: My Rise, Reign, and Fall in New York Nightlife by Peter Gatien 9781542015301
$20.81A behind-the-scenes look at the meteoric rise and stunning takedown of a nightclub empire, by the man who held the reins. Limelight, Tunnel, Club USA, and Palladium-the cutting-edge, insanely successful, and notoriously decadent clubs that dominated... -
The Beatles in Posters: A Collection of Concert Artwork by Tony Booth by Tony Booth 9780750983785
RRP: $42.00$33.68Artist Tony Both worked in Liverpool during the early 1960s, just around the corner from The Cavern Club and close to the Beatles' manager Brian Epstein's office in Whitechapel. Tony's work caught Epstein's eye, and he would go on to produce posters,... -
Looking for Calvin and Hobbes: The Unconventional Story of Bill Watterson and His Revolutionary Comic Strip by Nevin Martell
RRP: $33.58$27.64This is an affectionate and revealing book about uncovering the story behind this most uncommon trio - a man, a boy and his tiger. For ten years, "Calvin and Hobbes" was one of the world's most beloved comic strips. And then, on the last day of 1995, the... -
Guston in Time by Ross Feld
RRP: $35.68$24.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781681376615Author Ross FeldFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint NYRB ClassicsPublisher The New York Review of Books, Inc -
Ezra Pound: The Solitary Volcano by John Tytell
RRP: $39.90$32.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385198707Author John TytellFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 559gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm... -
Spellbound by Marcel: Duchamp, Love, and Art by Ruth Brandon
RRP: $42.00$27.01In 1913 Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase exploded through the American art world. This is the story of how he followed the painting to New York two years later, enchanted the Arensberg salon, and-almost incidentally-changed art forever. In... -
Lee and Me: An Intimate Portrait of Lee Krasner by Ruth Appelhof
RRP: $50.40$33.96Angry, outrageous, defiant, and courageous are some of the words that describe the American Abstract Expressionist artist Lee Krasner (1908-1984) - the subject of this very personal memoir inspired by Ruth Appelhof's 1974 summer with her in East Hampton,... -
Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life by Linda H. Davis 9781684426898
RRP: $31.48$20.75The Addams Family is creepy and kooky, but wait till you see what their creator had in his apartment. In Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life, meet the legendary cartoonist behind the altogether ooky Addams Family in this first biography, written with... -
Hokusai: A Graphic Biography by Giuseppe Lantaza
RRP: $31.48$22.34A stunning visual biography of one of Japan's most famous historical artists, this book beautifully illustrates the story of Katsushika Hokusai.Enter the world of Katsushika Hokusai - the enigmatic creator of Japanese art's all-time most iconic image... -
In Two Minds: a Biography of Jonathan Miller - A Biography of Jonathan Miller by Kate Bassett 9781849434515 [USED COPY]
RRP: $52.50$5.57In Two Minds is the first comprehensive biography of Jonathan Miller - the story of one of post-war Britain's most intriguing polymaths. Descended from immigrants who fled Tsarist anti-Semitism to become shopkeepers in Ireland and London's East End,...