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Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi by Hayden Herrera 9780374535988
RRP: $32.25$23.85Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374535988Author Hayden HerreraFormat PaperbackPage Count 592Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)... -
A New World in the Making: Life and Architecture in Tropical Asia by Tay Kheng Soon 9789813251694
$47.42A memoir and collection of essays on architecture and urbanism from one of the most interesting figures in Singapore’s cultural landscape. According to architect Tay Kheng Soon, the time has come to change and build a new world. The feeling has impelled... -
de la Luz Y de Las Sombras: Goya by Daniel Jose Carrasco De Jaime 9788441439238
RRP: $174.09$73.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788441439238Author Daniel Jose Carrasco De JaimeFormat HardbackPage Count 472Imprint Edaf AntillasPublisher Edaf AntillasWeight(grams) 3402g -
Brakhage's Childhood by Jane Wodening 9781887123839
RRP: $45.15$35.48Brakhage's Childhood recounts the story of visionary American filmmaker Stan Brakhage's (1933-2003) life up to age 12. In 1983 Stan and Jane Brakhage began a series of interviews wherein Stan described his life and Jane took notes. Each session yielded a... -
Magda Nachman: An Artist in Exile by Lina Bernstein 9781644692677
RRP: $28.37$27.14The political and social turmoil of the twentieth century took Magda Nachman from a privileged childhood in St. Petersburg at the close of the nineteenth century, artistic studies with Leon Bakst and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin at the Zvantseva Art Academy, and... -
Emily Carr As I Knew Her by Carol Pearson 9781771511742
RRP: $15.47$13.57An intimate and heartwarming collection of memories that puts one of Canada's most beloved and iconic artists into a whole new light. In 1916, Emily Carr wasn't famous. She was poor, and she taught art classes to children. One of her students was... -
William Blake Vs the World by John Higgs 9781639361533
RRP: $37.35$25.25Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781639361533Author John HiggsFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Pegasus BooksPublisher Pegasus BooksWeight(grams) 152g -
Martin's Scribbles: Sort of a Memoir by Martin Holub 9781635765878
$23.17What do Prague, London, New York and Tehran have in common? Award-winning architect Martin Holub has lived, designed buildings and enriched lives in all these places. Martin's Scribbles is a travel memoir, meets architect biography, meets lifetime... -
An Army of Lovers: A Community History of Will Munro by David Buuck 9781552452776
RRP: $12.89$11.75"Will was pretty much the perfect role model." -- Beth Ditto, The Gossip In the spring of 2010, Toronto lost one of its most important queer civic heroes when local artist, DJ, activist, impresario, promoter, party-thrower, cafe operator,... -
Made in British Columbia: Eight Ways of Making Culture by Maria Tippett 9781550177299
$28.34Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781550177299Author Maria TippettFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Harbour PublishingPublisher Harbour PublishingWeight(grams) 566g -
Louis Sullivan: Prophet of Modern Architecture by Hugh Morrison 9780393321616
RRP: $23.21$22.81Hugh Morrison's biography of Louis Sullivan was the first definitive study of his work. This edition provides the original text and illustrations plus an assessment of Morrison's groundbreaking research and an authoritative revision of the chronological... -
Jackson Pollock: Memories Arrested in Space by Martin Gray 9781891661327
RRP: $14.18$12.76This is a remarkable biographical poem on the life of the dynamic and controversial American painter. The narrative chronicles the reckless, adventurous and often desperate life of this 20th century genius, from his beginnings in the American northwest,... -
A Progressive Traditionalist by Glenn McArthur 9781552452189
$41.60John M. Lyle (1872--1945) was an anomaly among architects: a Beaux-Arts classicist who nevertheless found much inspiration in modernism, allowing his own traditionalist practice to be affected in form and detail by a brave new emphasis on minimalism and... -
David Teniers the Younger: A Biography by Professor Hans Vlieghe 9782503536774
$120.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503536774Author Professor Hans VliegheFormat HardbackPage Count 214Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 907g -
Lee Krasner: A Biography by Gail Levin 9780061845277
RRP: $25.79$18.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061845277Author Gail LevinFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 230mm *... -
Don't Tell Sybil: An Augmented Edition of the Memoir by George Melly by George Melly 9781900565653
$22.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781900565653Author George MellyFormat HardbackPage Count 176Imprint Atlas PressPublisher Atlas PressWeight(grams) 494g -
Richard Meier: The Architect as Designer and Artist: The Architect as Designer and Artist (der Architekt Als Designer und Kunstler) by Volker Fischer 9783932565328
RRP: $49.02$35.55Text in English and German. The distinguished architect and Pritzker laureate Richard Meier has attracted public attention mainly with his museum and cultural buildings including the Atheneum in New Harmony, Indiana, the Museum fur Angewandte Kunst in... -
David Watkins: Artist in Jewellery Anna Beatriz Chadour-Sampson 9783925369964
RRP: $69.66$46.22For years David Watkins has been a primal force to be reckoned with in contemporary jewellery design, a mover and shaker in this new international medium. This book is just what the retrospective aficionados of art jewellery have been waiting for... -
A Light in the Midst of Darkness: The Story of a Bookshop, a Community and True Love by Wallace Baine
RRP: $14.18$12.38On the occasion of the 50th anniversary of Bookshop Santa Cruz, widely seen as one of the most vibrant and community-friendly independent bookstores in the nation, Northern California author Wallace Baine checks in with a passionate, personal story of... -
The Undercurrents: A Story of Berlin by Kirsty Bell
RRP: $24.50$15.48Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635423440Author Kirsty BellFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLCWeight(grams) 133g -
Arthur Erickson: An Architect's Life by David Stouck
RRP: $21.92$21.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781771620994Author David StouckFormat PaperbackPage Count 472Imprint Douglas & McIntyrePublisher Douglas & McIntyreWeight(grams) 807g -
Goya: Man Among Kings by Anthony Hull
RRP: $16.76$15.27Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568330006Author Anthony HullFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint Madison BooksPublisher Madison BooksWeight(grams) 349g -
Karl Lagerfeld: A Life in Fashion by Alfons Kaiser
RRP: $23.22$15.35Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419766305Author Alfons KaiserFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint CernunnosPublisher CernunnosWeight(grams) 558gDimensions(mm) 220mm * 140mm * 26mm -
Laszlo Moholy-Nagy: Biographical Writings by Louis Kaplan
RRP: $27.08$23.70Marking the centenary of the birth of Laszlo Moholy-Nagy (1895-1946), this book offers a new approach to the Bauhaus artist and theorist's multifaceted life and work-an approach that redefines the very idea of biographical writing. In Laszlo Moholy-Nagy,... -
Widow Basquiat: A Love Story by Jennifer Clement
RRP: $23.22$13.52Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780553419917Author Jennifer ClementFormat PaperbackPage Count 208Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA... -
Waiting at the Shore: Art, Revolution, War & Exile in the Life of the Spanish Artist Luis Quintanilla by Paul Quintanilla
RRP: $41.93$39.44Waiting at the Shore chronicles the extraordinary life of the Spanish artist Luis Quintanilla, championed by Ernest Hemingway, John Dos Passos, Elliot Paul, and many other American and European writers and artists. In 1912, at the age of 18, he ran off... -
Paul Klee, Poet/Painter by K. Porter Aichele
$128.66It is no coincidence that most of the artists at the vanguard of early 20th-century modernist art were poets as well as painters. Paul Klee (1879-1940) was among them. Known today almost exclusively as a visual artist, he was also a poet who experimented... -
Frida Kahlo: Sus Fotos (Frida Kahlo: Her Photos, Spanish Edition) by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio
RRP: $58.05$43.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788492480746Author Pablo Ortiz MonasterioFormat HardbackPage Count 496Imprint RmPublisher RmWeight(grams) 1542gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 173mm * 41mm -
Frank Lloyd Wright: America's Master Architect by Kathryn Smith
RRP: $12.89$9.03This diminutive survey features all aspects of Wright's art, from lowslung Prairie houses to the dramatic, seminal Fallingwater, to larger projects such as his two homes, Taliesin and Taliesin West, culminating in that icon of modernism, New York's... -
Balthus: A Biography by Nicholas Fox Weber
$25.68This is the first full-scale biography of one of the most elusive and enigmatic painters of our time: the self-proclaimed Count Balthus Klossowski de Rola, whose brilliant, markedly sexualized portraits, especially of young girls, are among the most... -
La Vida Rota. La Biografia Definitiva de Amparo Munoz by Miguel Fernandez
$23.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788418557279Author Miguel FernandezFormat PaperbackPage Count 350Imprint Roca EditorialPublisher Roca Editorial -
Diane Arbus: Portrait of a Photographer by Arthur Lubow 9780062234339
RRP: $25.79$15.20Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062234339Author Arthur LubowFormat PaperbackPage Count 752Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 907g -
You Must Change Your Life: The Story of Rainer Maria Rilke and Auguste Rodin by Rachel Corbett 9780393245059
RRP: $28.37$23.93In Paris in 1902, Auguste Rodin had just completed The Thinker; visiting from Prague was Rainer Maria Rilke, broke and with writer's block. When Rilke was commissioned to write a book about Rodin, everything changed. You Must Change Your Life tells one... -
Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted by Justin Martin 9780306821486
$30.75Frederick Law Olmsted is arguably the most important historical figure that the average American knows the least about. Best remembered for his landscape architecture, from New York's Central Park to Boston's Emerald Necklace to Stanford University's... -
Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger's Life: A Forger's Life by Sarah Kaminsky
RRP: $41.27$30.70[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... -
Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas by Donna M. Lucey 9780393079036
RRP: $30.95$25.94With unprecedented access to newly discovered sources, Donna M. Lucey illuminates the lives of four women painted by the society portraitist John Singer Sargent. With uncanny clairvoyance, Sargent's portraits hint at the mysteries, passions and tragedies... -
Keith Haring Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines by Dieter Buchhart
RRP: $58.05$51.14An exploration of the personal and artistic connections between two icons of twentieth-century art Keith Haring (1958-1990) and Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988) changed the art world of the 1980s through their idiosyncratic imagery, radical ideas, and... -
Gerhard Richter: A Life in Painting by Dietmar Elger
RRP: $51.60$51.02Gerhard 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 Inking Woman: 250 Years of British Women Cartoon and Comic Artists by Nicola Streeten
RRP: $25.79$18.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780995590083Author Nicola StreetenFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Myriad EditionsPublisher Myriad Editions -
The Disney Revolt: The Great Labor War of Animation's Golden Age by Jake S. Friedman 9781641607193
RRP: $34.77$32.08An essential piece of Disney history has been unreported for eighty years. Soon after the birth of Mickey Mouse, one animator raised the Disney Studio far beyond Walt's expectations. That animator also led a union war that almost destroyed it. Art...