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Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life by Linda H. Davis 9781684426898
RRP: £14.99£9.88The 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: £14.99£10.64A 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: £25.00£2.65In 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,... -
Daydream Believin' by Davy Jones
RRP: £34.99£25.87Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781953284808Author Davy JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint Book's MindPublisher Book's MindWeight(grams) 807gDimensions(mm) 254mm * 203mm * 21mm -
A Vision for My Father: The Life and Work of Palestinian-American Artist and Designer Rajie Cook by Rajie Cook 9781566560320
£30.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781566560320Author Rajie CookFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Interlink BooksPublisher Interlink BooksWeight(grams) 2259gDimensions(mm) 292mm * 234mm *... -
Off the Wall: A Portrait of Robert Rauschenberg by Calvin Tomkins
RRP: £31.00£20.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312425852Author Calvin TompkinsFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint St. Martins Press-3PLPublisher St. Martins Press-3PLWeight(grams) 340gDimensions(mm)... -
Calder: The Conquest of Time: The Early Years: 1898-1940 by Jed Perl
RRP: £37.50£33.98The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor. In this beautifully written, deeply researched book Jed Perl shows how Alexander Calder became an avant-garde artist with enduring appeal. One of our most beloved modern artists,... -
Joseph Gandy: An Architectural Visionary in Georgian England by Brian Lukacher
RRP: £40.00£27.75Joseph Gandy (1771-1843) is a classic case of unrecognized genius. His dreams of being a great architect were frustrated, and his fame today rests on the imaginative power of his unrealized projects, on his superbly imagined reconstruction of Greek and... -
Kokoschka by Rudiger Goerner
RRP: £20.00£14.06The Austrian artist Oskar Kokoschka (1886-1980) achieved world fame with his intense expressionistic portraits and landscapes. In this detailed biography, Rudiger Goerner masterfully depicts the multifaceted artist's life and long career. He traces... -
James Ensor: Chronicle of His Life, 1860-1949 by Xavier Tricot
RRP: £30.00£24.85An illustrated biography of the celebrated artist James Ensor The Belgian artist James Ensor (1860-1949) was a major figure in the Belgian avant-garde of the late 19th century and an important precursor to the development of Expressionism in the early... -
Charles Addams: A Cartoonist's Life by Linda H. Davis
RRP: £22.99£15.46The 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... -
Goya: A Portrait of the Artist by Janis Tomlinson 9780691234120
RRP: £20.00£15.89The first major English-language biography of Francisco Goya y Lucientes, who ushered in the modern eraThe life of Francisco Goya (1746-1828) coincided with an age of transformation in Spanish history that brought upheavals in the country's politics and... -
Toymaker: The autobiography of the man whose designs shaped our childhoods by Tom Karen
RRP: £20.00£14.05Step inside his home and you'll see papier-mache birds, a life-sized cardboard tiger, model cars; his work bench a vibrant collage of creativity, from hand-drawn maps and postcards to newly devised toys for his beloved grandchildren. Tom Karen is a... -
Confessions of an Art Addict: A Memoir by Peggy Guggenheim 9780880015769
£11.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780880015769Author Peggy GuggenheimFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint ECCO PressPublisher ECCO PressWeight(grams) 220g -
Half the Perfect World: Writers, Dreamers and Drifters on Hydra: 1955-1964 by Paul Genoni
£41.32Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925523096Author Tanya DalziellFormat HardbackPage Count 456Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing -
Chief Engineer: The Man Who Built the Brooklyn Bridge by Erica Wagner
RRP: £10.99£7.77A New Statesman Book of the Year for 2017 His father conceived of the Brooklyn Bridge, but it was Washington Roebling who built this iconic feat of human engineering after his father's tragic death. It has stood for more than 130 years and is now as... -
Everything She Touched by Marilyn Chase
RRP: £21.99£21.09Everything She Touched recounts the incredible life of the American sculptor Ruth Asawa. This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed everything she touched into art. In this compelling... -
A Reluctant Memoir by Robert Ballagh
RRP: £25.00£18.88A fiercely honest and unvarnished autobiography from Ireland's most successful and controversial living artist. Making his name as a Pop artist in the late 1960s and 70s, Robert Ballagh quickly achieved an international reputation. With little formal... -
Star Turns: Secrets of Stage and Screen Legends by Tim Walker
RRP: £20.00£15.29During a long Fleet Street career Tim Walker met and interviewed many of the world's most famous actors and entertainers but, it isn't just the names of his subjects that glitter - although they are impressive enough - it is the insights, the humour, and... -
Gene Smith's Sink: A Wide-Angle View by Sam Stephenson 9780374537890
RRP: £17.00£11.64In an interview with Philippe Halsman, W. Eugene Smith remarked: "I didn't write the rules-why should I follow them?" Famously unabashed, Smith is photography's most celebrated humanist. During his reign as a photo-essayist at Life magazine in the 1940s... -
Maria Lassnig: The Biography by Natalie Lettner
RRP: £26.00£16.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906915524Author Natalie LettnerFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Hauser & WirthPublisher Hauser & Wirth -
Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life: A Forger's Life by Sarah Kaminsky
RRP: £31.99£23.80[An] engrossing literary debut...Writing in Adolfo's voice gives this suspenseful narrative candor and immediacy. - Kirkus Reviews Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life is "worthy of the best spy novels" and tells the story of Sarah Kaminsky's father, "the... -
Mermaid Singing by Charmian Clift
RRP: £13.99£9.20In 1951 the Australian writers Charmian Clift and George Johnston left grey, post-war London for Greece. Settling first on the tiny island of Kalymnos, then Hydra, their plan was to live simply and focus on their writing, away from the noise of the big... -
Warhol: A Life as Art by Blake Gopnik
RRP: £16.99£13.33"Superb...Gopnik persuasively assembles his case over the course of this mesmerising book, which is as much art history and philosophy as it is biography" Kathryn Hughes, The GuardianWhen critics attacked Andy Warhol's Marilyn paintings as shallow, the ... -
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher : The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis by Timothy Egan
RRP: £18.99£11.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Washington State Book Award (Biography/Memoir) 2013.Book InformationISBN 9780544102767Author Timothy EganFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Houghton... -
We Flew over the Bridge: The Memoirs of Faith Ringgold by Faith Ringgold
RRP: £22.99£19.55In We Flew over the Bridge, one of the country's preeminent African American artists-and award-winning children's book authors-shares the fascinating story of her life. Faith Ringgold's artworks-startling "story quilts," politically charged paintings,... -
The Real Herge: The Inspiration Behind Tintin by Sian Lye 9781526763907
RRP: £19.99£15.41Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Graham Sutherland: Life, Work and Ideas by Rosalind Thuillier 9780718893408
£67.55A compelling biographical study of a leading twentieth-century British artist, 'Graham Sutherland: Life, Work and Ideas' offers new insight into how he and his paintings developed. In the culmination of her life's work, Rosalind Thuillier builds on the... -
You Say to Brick: The Life of Louis Kahn by Wendy Lesser
RRP: £12.99£9.70Born to a Jewish family in Estonia in 1901 and brought to America in 1906, the architect Louis Kahn grew up in poverty in Philadelphia; by the time of his death in 1974, he was widely recognised as one of the greatest architects of his era. Yet this... -
Her by Christa Parravani 9781250044396
RRP: £20.00£12.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250044396Author Christa ParravaniFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 408gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 137mm *... -
Gift of Sunlight, A - The Fortune and Quest of the Davies Sisters of Llandinam: The Fortune and Quest of the Davies Sisters of Llandinam by Trevor Fishlock 9781848518117 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00£13.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781848518117Author Trevor FishlockFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint Gomer PressPublisher Gomer Press -
The Secret Life of Salvador Dali by Salvador Dali 9780486274546
RRP: £24.95£16.76Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486274546Author Salvador DaliPage Count 432Imprint Dover Publications Inc.Publisher Dover Publications Inc. -
What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon by Philip Gefter
RRP: £25.00£23.48"Wise and ebullient." - Dwight Garner, The New York TimesThe first definitive biography of Richard Avedon, a monumental photographer of the twentieth century, from award-winning photography critic Philip Gefter.In his acclaimed portraits, Richard Avedon... -
Georgia O'Keeffe by Maria Herreros
RRP: £14.99£10.18Georgia O'Keeffe (1887-1986), the American artist known for her paintings of enlarged flowers, New York skyscrapers, and New Mexico landscapes, was one of the most significant artists of the 20th century. During her lifetime, which spanned almost a... -
Wormwood Star: The Magickal Life of Marjorie Cameron by Spencer Kansa
RRP: £14.99£10.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781906958602Author Spencer KansaFormat PaperbackPage Count 332Imprint Mandrake of OxfordPublisher Mandrake of OxfordWeight(grams) 426g -
Antonin Artaud by David Shafer 9781780235707
RRP: £12.99£9.09Poet. Actor. Matinee idol. Playwright. Theatre theoretician. Artist. Orientalist. Surrealist. Asylum inmate. Drug addict. Electroshock patient. Antonin Artaud. This biography, exploring the life of one of the twentieth century's most enigmatic... -
Julia Margaret Cameron Biography by Colin Ford 9780892367078
RRP: £45.00£39.23British photographer Julia Margaret Cameron (1815-1879) has been described as one of the Finest portraitists of the nineteenth century-in any medium. Raised in a well-connected and creative family, Cameron led an unconventional life for a woman of the... -
Jack Kirby's Dingbat Love by John Morrow
RRP: £35.99£25.25In cooperation with DC Comics, TwoMorrows compiles a tempestuous trio of never-seen 1970s Kirby projects! These are the final complete, unpublished Jack Kirby stories in existence, presented here for the first time! Included are: Two unused Dingbats of... -
Plagued By Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright by Paul Hendrickson
RRP: £20.99£14.94From the award-winning and best-selling author of Hemingway's Boat - a ground-breaking biography that illuminates the life, mind and work of one of the icons of twentieth-century America. Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as both a supreme artist... -
Beyond Columbo: The Life and Times of Peter Falk by William J Birnes 9781521881491
RRP: £24.99£21.69Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781521881491Author William J BirnesFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams)...