Artists, Architects, Photographers

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,...

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 9781494321291Author Barbora Holan CowlesFormat PaperbackPage Count 52Imprint Createspace Independent Publishing PlatformPublisher Createspace Independent...

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

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...

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...

A biography of the elusive but celebrated Dada and Surrealist artist and photographer connecting his Jewish background to his life and art Man Ray (1890-1976), a founding father of Dada and a key player in French Surrealism, is one of the central artists...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781770416222Author Molly PeacockFormat HardbackPage Count 356Imprint ECW Press,CanadaPublisher ECW Press,Canada

A tribute to the life and work of one of the great musical icons of the twentieth century, reflected through the lenses of the world's greatest photographers. Published to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the release in 1964 of her...

When Cristobal Balenciaga died in 1972, the news hit the front page of The New York Times. One of the most innovative and admired figures in the history of haute couture, Balenciaga was, as Elsa Schiaparelli said, "the only designer who dares do what he...

A glimpse inside the mind and artistic process of a fascinating contemporary cartoonist Born to working-class parents in a small town in Italy, and reared in Chicago, Ivan Brunetti (b. 1967) was drawn to cartoons and comic strips from an early age...

In his early years in Yosemite, Adams formed the habit of writing letters at every opportunity. His correspondence, therefore, provides virtually the full record of his life. Throughout the years, wherever he went, from Southwest to Maine to Alaska, he...

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...

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...

Unofficial and unauthorisedIn 1962, Andy Warhol displayed 32 canvases of Campbell's soup cans in a New York art gallery. The art world - and what we consider to be art - would never be the same again. Follow Warhol through his upbringing in Pittsburgh,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606997611Author Bill SchellyFormat HardbackPage Count 646Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 1294g

An inspiring and intimate look at the work of a generation of British artists across all disciplines. The Artist in Time brings together twenty creatives from across the UK, with photographs and interviews that disclose their daily working habits and...

Throughout his adventurous life, Raloh Rumney was in constant flight from the wreckage of postwar Europe. Crossing paths every avante-garde of the past fifty years, he was one of the founding members of the Situationist International. Rumney's friends,...

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

Open the pages of so many children's classics-Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, Mister Dog, The Cricket in Times Square, The Rescuers, the Little House books-and you will see page after page of the artistry that brought those stories to life. And behind...

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...

Recalled as the lover and patron of Robert Mapplethorpe, Sam Wagstaff here takes centre stage as a leading American intellectual and cultural visionary. Philip Gefter traces Wagstaff's evolution from society "bachelor" of the 1940s to his emergence as...

What if you set out to travel the world and got sidetracked in a Himalayan sewing workshop? What if that sidetrack turned out to be your life's path-your way home? Part art book, part memoir, part spiritual travelogue, Threads of Awakening is a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606995600Author R. CrumbFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 23mm * 16mm * 2mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683960294Author Spain RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

The compelling life story of Armenian ceramicist David Ohannessian, whose work changed the face of Jerusalem-and a granddaughter's search for his legacy. Along the cobbled streets and golden walls of Jerusalem, brilliantly glazed tiles catch the light...

"Catherine Cusset's book caught a lot of me. I recognised myself" DAVID HOCKNEY"A perfect short expose of Hockney's life as seen through the eyes of an admiring novelist" Kirkus Reviews"Hers is an affirming vision of a restless talent propelled by...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590910269Author Penelope NivenFormat PaperbackPage Count 808Imprint Eastern NationalPublisher Eastern NationalWeight(grams) 1125gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

A fascinating look at Keith Haring's New York City subway artwork from the 1980sCelebrated artist Keith Haring (1958-1990) has been embraced by popular culture for his signature bold graphic line drawings of figures and forms. Like other graffiti artists...

George Catlin has been called the "first artist of the West," as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. After a false start as a painter of miniatures, Catlin found his calling: to fix the image of a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865479753Author Professor Phyllis BirnbaumFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint North Point PressPublisher North Point PressWeight(grams)...