Artists, Architects, Photographers

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 9780060545598Author Sue RoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 431gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 150mm...

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

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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

Apologies 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 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...

Apologies 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 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...

An 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...

Apologies 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

What 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...

"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,...

Apologies 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

This 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,...

John 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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 *...

Apologies 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

Text 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...

For 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...

On 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...

Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) lived the darkest and most dangerous life of any of the great painters. This commanding biography explores Caravaggio's staggering artistic achievements, his volatile personal trajectory, and his tragic and...

Apologies 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

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood lent its name to one of the most significant and innovative artistic movements of the Victorian age. Jan Marsh's lively and revealing account of these remarkable men and women explores the individual personalities, the...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

For Canadian impressionist Mary Riter Hamilton, capturing the emotional landscape of battlefields and graveyards in the months after the Great War's armistice became an artistic calling and defined her work. A woman alone after the storm had passed, she...

Apologies 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

Marking 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,...