Artists, Architects, Photographers

A man with a preternatural ability to find emerging artists, Richard Bellamy was one of the first advocates of pop art, minimalism, and conceptual art. The founder and director of the fabled Green Gallery on Fifty-Seventh Street, this witty,...

An Oxford student of C.S. Lewis's said he found his new tutor interesting, and was told by J.R.R. Tolkien, 'Interesting? Yes, he's certainly that. You'll never get to the bottom of him.' You can learn a great deal about people by their friends and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385721967Author Agata TuszynskaFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Random House Books for Young ReadersPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams)...

Georgia 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...

Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (c.1606-1669) was the most talked-about painter of the 17th-century - and quite possibly of the following centuries too. His prodigious talent, extraordinary emotional truth, and reckless disregard of artistic convention...

The first book to chart Scott Burton's performance art and sculpture of the 1970s. Scott Burton (1939-89) created performance art and sculpture that drew on queer experience and the sexual cultures that flourished in New York City in the 1970s. David J...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781627310000Author Mike HunchbackFormat HardbackPage Count 198Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 892g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060085896Author Hayden HerreraFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint HarperCollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 640g

Irreverent and iconoclastic, Nigel Coates has been stirring up the architectural scene for over 40 years. In this warm and compelling autobiography, he explores the highs and lows of life at the cutting edge of architecture and design. Coates' work...

A poignant and glorious photographic memoir that pays homage to the lifelong friendship between the legendary Cicely Tyson and acclaimed fashion designer B Michael, who worked with her to make her gorgeous through her last bow. What greater act of...

A comprehensive illustrated biography of Kahlil Gibran, Lebanese-American artist, poet and author of the best-selling inspirational fiction The Prophet. Kahlil Gibran was a Lebanese-born artist, poet, writer and polymath who emigrated to America as a...

A biography of the great portraitist Frans Hals that takes the reader into the turbulent world of the Dutch Golden Age. Frans Hals was one of the greatest portrait painters in history, and his style transformed ideas and expectations about...

Angry, 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,...

George Frederic Watts (1817-1904) was a titanic figure in nineteenth-century British art. The father of British Symbolism and portrait painter of his age, he forged a controversial career that spanned the reign of Queen Victoria. This book, the first...

Apologies 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...

Isabella d'Este, the marchioness of Mantua, was a collector of antiquities, a patron of art, and one of the most vivid personalities of the Italian Renaissance. Her artistic relationship with Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) is charted through the letters...

'Properly analytical ... always entertaining' TIME OUT'Should tempt both those generally familiar with Andy Warhol and, even more, young people who have trouble imagining how popular art can challenge the status quo' L A TIMESPainter, filmmaker,...

Apologies 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

Gauguin's great diary from Tahiti almost never saw the light of day in its original form. The manuscript was sent by the artist from his island refuge to his friend Charles Morice in Paris, and published in 1901 with immediate success, under the two...

Daunted by the prospect of old age? Fearful of becoming a silly old fool? 'No need,' says Christopher Matthew.He has just hit eighty. He plays golf; walks the dog; has all his own hair; doesn't need a hearing aid, and no one ever stands up for him on...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683343400Author Caroline SeebohmFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman & LittlefieldWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385539869Author Lisa AltherFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Nan A TalesePublisher Nan A TaleseWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 212mm * 134mm * 24mm

Apologies 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

Two essays remembering Degas by the most acute observers of the avant-garde art of their time "The one great French painter, perhaps one of the greatest artists the world has ever seen." --Walter Sickert on Degas, 1889" This volume brings...

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a fascinating biography of a revolutionary American artist ripe for rediscovery as a photographer and champion of other artists Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was an enormously influential artist and nurturer of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789354479786Author Reema Desai GehiFormat PaperbackPage Count 214Imprint Speaking Tiger Publishing Private LimitedPublisher Speaking Tiger Publishing...

Born in the South Bronx to Puerto Rican parents, artist and writer George Pérez (1954–2022) cut his teeth in the 1970s as an artist at Marvel who worked on lesser titles like The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu and Creatures on the Loose, and then mainstays like...

Over thirty years after his initial ascent to super stardom, Todd McFarlane (b. 1961) remains one of the most popular and contentious comic artists ever. The interviews compiled in this volume offer a nuanced portrait of McFarlane’s polarizing character...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781364659851Author Fred NashedFormat HardbackPage Count 252Imprint BlurbPublisher BlurbWeight(grams) 490g

Over thirty years after his initial ascent to super stardom, Todd McFarlane (b. 1961) remains one of the most popular and contentious comic artists ever. The interviews compiled in this volume offer a nuanced portrait of McFarlane’s polarizing character...

Manoj Bajpayee is a rarity; he’s one of a small cohort of theatre actors who have gone on from humble beginnings to achieve big heights in Hindi cinema. Bajpayee, famous for iconic movies like Satya and the beloved TV show Family Man, is known not only...

The Life and Times of Moses Jacob Ezekiel: American Sculptor, Arcadian Knight tells the remarkable story of Moses Ezekiel and his rise to international fame as an artist in late nineteenth-century Italy. Sephardic Jew, homosexual, Confederate soldier,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781999664206Author Adolph A OkoroFormat PaperbackPage Count 642Imprint Kingsley Publishers, Kingsleybooks(uk)LtdPublisher Kingsley Publishers,...

The Life and Times of Moses Jacob Ezekiel: American Sculptor, Arcadian Knight tells the remarkable story of Moses Ezekiel and his rise to international fame as an artist in late nineteenth-century Italy. Sephardic Jew, homosexual, Confederate soldier,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781401072315Author Thomas MuhlFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint XlibrisPublisher XlibrisWeight(grams) 467g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781459749764Author A J DiamondFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Dundurn PressPublisher Dundurn PressWeight(grams) 272gDimensions(mm) 213mm * 140mm * 20mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999002995Author Miranda WhitecrowFormat PaperbackPage Count 270Imprint Archer TrentPublisher Archer TrentWeight(grams) 268g

In 1983, Christine Taylor Patten was hired as one of the people who took care of Georgia O'Keeffe, then ninety-six. Also an artist, Patten served as nurse, cook, companion, and friend to the older woman. This intimate account of the year of Patten's...

'As the storm rages, the sea throws up gigantic waves. Paintbrush in hand, she battles, as she harnesses the weather, sky, land and sea.' Joan Eardley was a passionate painter who, in a short career, managed to create some of the most important works of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781553650553Author Emily CarrFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Greystone Books,CanadaPublisher Greystone Books,Canada