Artists, Architects, Photographers

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...

The 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...

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

Hugh 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...

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...

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

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

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,...

Apologies 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 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...

It 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...

Apologies 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

This 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...

This 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

In 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...

Frederick 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...

[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...

With 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...

An 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 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...

Apologies 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

An 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...