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Widow Basquiat: A Love Story by Jennifer Clement
RRP: $35.10$19.11Apologies 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: $63.38$59.61Waiting 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
$193.99It 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: $87.75$65.40Apologies 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: $19.48$16.93This 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
$38.38This 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
$35.24Apologies 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: $38.98$22.97Apologies 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 -
Keith Haring Jean-Michel Basquiat: Crossing Lines by Dieter Buchhart
RRP: $87.75$76.75An 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... -
Genius of Place: The Life of Frederick Law Olmsted by Justin Martin 9780306821486
$46.49Frederick 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... -
Man Ray: The Artist and His Shadows by Arthur Lubow
RRP: $37.03$31.55A 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... -
Flower Diary: In Which Mary Hiester Reid Paints, Travels, Marries & Opens a Door by Molly Peacock
RRP: $62.38$40.97Apologies 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 -
Marianne Faithfull: A Life on Record by Marianne Faithfull 9780847843596
RRP: $97.50$90.05A 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... -
The Master of Us All by Mary Blume 9780374534387
RRP: $21.43$20.07When 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... -
Aesthetics: A Memoir by Ivan Brunetti
RRP: $43.88$36.95A 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... -
Ansel Adams' Letters 1916-1984 by Ansel Adams 9780821226827
$49.00In 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... -
Memories of Degas by Walter Sickert 9781843680802
RRP: $19.48$13.26Two 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... -
Sargent's Women: Four Lives Behind the Canvas by Donna M. Lucey 9780393079036
RRP: $46.78$39.21With 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... -
Andy Warhol: A Graphic Biography by Michele Botton 9780711290785
RRP: $29.23$21.96Unofficial 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,... -
Harvey Kurtzman: The Man Who Created Mad and Revolutionized Humor in America by Bill Schelly
RRP: $68.23$45.69Apologies 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 -
The Artist in Time: A Generation of Great British Creatives by Chris Fite-Wassilak 9781789940350
RRP: $33.13$27.90An 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... -
The Consul: Vol II: Contributions to the History of the Situationist International and Its Time by Ralph Rumney 9781859843956
$29.70Throughout 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,... -
About Women: Conversations Between a Writer and a Painter by Lisa Alther
RRP: $43.88$31.90Apologies 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 -
Garth Williams, American Illustrator: A Life by Elizabeth Kowalesi Wallace
RRP: $54.58$33.83Open 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... -
Kahlil Gibran: Beyond Borders by Kahlil G. Gibran
RRP: $48.75$38.77A 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... -
Wagstaff: Before and After Mapplethorpe: A Biography by Philip Gefter 9781631490958
RRP: $31.18$27.73Recalled 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... -
Threads of Awakening: An American Woman's Journey into Tibet's Sacred Textile Art by Leslie Rinchen-Wongmo 9781647420932
RRP: $35.08$27.81What 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... -
Your Vigor for Life Appalls Me: The R. Crumb Letters 1958-1977 by Robert R. Crumb
RRP: $38.98$26.03Apologies 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 -
Street Fighting Men: Spain Vol. 1 by Spain Rodriguez 9781683960294
RRP: $58.48$39.78Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683960294Author Spain RodriguezFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics -
Feast of Ashes: The Life and Art of David Ohannessian by Sato Moughalian
RRP: $46.78$35.63The 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... -
Life of David Hockney: A Novel by Catherine Cusset
RRP: $19.48$13.96"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... -
Steichen: A Biography by Penelope Niven 9781590910269
RRP: $58.40$58.32Apologies 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 *... -
Keith Haring: 31 Subway Drawings by Jeffrey Deitch
RRP: $68.25$58.23A 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... -
The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman by Benita Eisler 9780393066166
$40.97George 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... -
Glory in a Line by Professor Phyllis Birnbaum 9780865479753 [USED COPY]
RRP: $29.23$26.77Apologies 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)... -
Glory in a Line by Professor Phyllis Birnbaum 9780865479753
RRP: $29.23$23.52Apologies 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)... -
Tripping with Jim Morrison and Other Friends: With an Introduction by Timothy Leary by Michael Lawrence 9780993307034
RRP: $21.43$15.41Artist Michael Lawrence and The Doors singer Jim Morrison met at UCLA, California. This coming-of-age memoir stretches from Michael's magical childhood in Fellini's Rome, where visitors to his home included Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn and Laurence... -
Genius, Illustrated: The Life and Art of Alex Toth by Dean Mullaney
RRP: $62.40$43.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684059577Author Dean MullaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Idea & Design WorksPublisher Idea & Design Works -
Paul Cezanne by Jon Kear
$35.31Few artists have exerted such an influence on modern art as Paul Cezanne. Picasso, Braque and Matisse all acknowledged a profound debt to his painting, and many historians regard him as the father of modernism. This new biography reexamines Cezanne's... -
ARTEMISIA by Nathalie Ferlut
RRP: $35.08$25.25The English-language edition of Nathalie Ferlut and Tamia Baudouin's stunning biography of Artemisia Gentileschi, the trailblazing Italian baroque painter, originally published in French. This full-color graphic novel recounts the remarkable story...