Artists, Architects, Photographers

"For over fifty years, Barbara T. Smith has been at the forefront of artistic movements in California. Her work across many mediums explores concepts that strike at the core of human nature, including sexuality, physical and spiritual sustenance,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998709826Author Baltasar Fernandez CueFormat PaperbackPage Count 216Imprint Parnassus House LLCPublisher Parnassus House LLCWeight(grams) 513g

The Songs We Know Best, the first comprehensive biography of the early life of John Ashbery - the winner of nearly every major American literary award - reveals the unusual ways he drew on the details of his youth to populate the poems that made him one...

Many people know that Claude Monet (1840-1926) was a founder of French Impressionism, a master of landscape painting whose works include Impression, Sunrise and Water Lilies. What, perhaps, they don't know is that he created the ponds featuring those...

Gilles Verlant's biography of Serge Gainsbourg is the best and most authoritative in any language When Serge Gainsbourg died in 1991, France went into mourning: Francois Mitterand himself proclaimed him "our Baudelaire, our Apollinaire." Gainsbourg...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780829406214Author Cliff EdwardsFormat HardbackPage Count 219Imprint Loyola University Press,U.S.Publisher Loyola University Press,U.S.Weight(grams) 544g

Whereas the life of her husband, the dashing Napoleonic general and diplomat Charles de Flahaut, is well known, Margaret has remained in the shadows. Yet this biographical study, based on unpublished and intimate correspondence in the Archives...

John Rothenstein, son of Sir William Rothenstein, the celebrated portrait painter, was born in 1901, four years after the Tate Gallery had been founded as the national gallery of British art. When Rothenstein took over as its fifth director in 1938, the...

After a nervous breakdown in 1929, Robert Walser spent the remaining twenty-seven years of his life in mental asylums, closed off from the rest of the world in almost complete anonymity. While at the Herisau sanitarium, instead of writing, Walser...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781101902622Author Adam BegleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Crown Publishing Group, Division of Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc

A Wild Life is Michael "Nick" Nichols's story, told with passion and insight by author and photo-editor Melissa Harris. Nichols' story combines a life of adventure, with a conviction about how we can redeem the human race by protecting our wildlife...

The first biography of Robert Frank, one of the world's greatest and most influential photographers, by the author of the acclaimed James Brown biography The One.About the AuthorR.J. Smith has been a senior editor at Los Angeles Magazine, a contributor...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781590519905Author Marc PetitjeanFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

Universally recognized as a brilliant and gifted 18th-century artist, Johan Zoffany (1733-1810) was regarded by Horace Walpole as one of the three greatest painters in England, along with his friends Reynolds and Gainsborough. Yet he has remained without...

Lella and Massimo Vignelli promote a modernist philosophy of designing for a better society: resourceful use of space and materials, clear communication, lasting quality, and logical functionality. Lella and Massimo Vignelli: Two Lives, One Vision is...

One of the greatest and most admired artists of the twentieth century, Georgia O'Keeffe led a life rich in intense relationships-with family, friends, and especially with fellow artist Alfred Stieglitz. Her extraordinary accomplishments, such as the...

Now nearing ninety, Hall delivers a new collection of self-knowing, fierce, and funny essays on aging, the pleasures of solitude, and the sometimes astonishing freedoms arising from both. He intersperses memories of exuberant days - as in Paris, 1951,...

'Makiya was Baghdad and Baghdad was Makiya.' These words sum up the life of one of the Middle East's most famous architects. Mohamed Makiya's career spanned seven decades and included projects in more than ten countries. He was a master of incorporating...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781593767358Author Mattilda Bernstein SycamoreFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Soft Skull PressPublisher Soft Skull Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781501187544Author Nikki SixxFormat PaperbackPage Count 512Imprint Vh1 BooksPublisher Vh1 BooksWeight(grams) 748gDimensions(mm) 201mm * 155mm * 23mm

An elegant, masterful portrait of Andy Warhol's life, character, and lasting influence by an eminent art critic."Danto . . . sums up the Pop master's evolution as both artist and persona. . . . It is, in essence, everything you need to dive deeper into...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635420906Author Marc PetitjeanFormat HardbackPage Count 160Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

How do photojournalists get the pictures that bring us the action from the world's most dangerous places? How do picture editors decide which photos to scrap and which to feature on the front page? Find out in Get the Picture, a personal history of fifty...

How do photojournalists get the pictures that bring us the action from the world's most dangerous places? How do picture editors decide which photos to scrap and which to feature on the front page? Find out in Get the Picture, a personal history of fifty...

Brings together a series of short essays that reveal the full range of Ian McHarg's thoughts on design and nature. It is an ideal reader for undergraduate and graduate students in planning and landscape architecture.About the AuthorThe Essential Ian...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992476908Author Glenda KorporaalFormat PaperbackImprint BookpodPublisher BookpodWeight(grams) 467g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805210170Author Louise KehoeFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Schocken BooksPublisher Schocken BooksWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781527262676Author Lynn Ruth MillerFormat PaperbackPage Count 298Imprint Excentrix PressPublisher Excentrix PressWeight(grams) 140g

A compelling look at Jackson Pollock's vibrant, quintessentially American art and the turbulent life that gave rise to it Jackson Pollock (1912-1956) not only put American art on the map with his famous "drip paintings," he also served as an inspiration...

Among the women artists who came to prominence in the postwar era in New York, painter Nell Blaine had a uniquely hard-won career. In her mid-thirties, her horizons seemed limitless. Her shows received glowing reviews, ARTnews honored her with a lengthy...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781684059478Author Dean MullaneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 328Imprint Idea & Design WorksPublisher Idea & Design Works

"Let us agree," Federico Garcia Lorca wrote, "that one of man's most beautiful postures is that of St. Sebastian." "In my 'Saint Sebastian' I remember you," Salvador Dali replied to Garcia Lorca, referring to the essay on aesthetics that Dali had just...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781800551879Author Samuel EdwardsFormat PaperbackPage Count 264Imprint Sapere BooksPublisher Sapere BooksWeight(grams) 152g

Fox Talbot is universally recognised as the father of modern photography. His 'calotype' or 'Talbotype' process was the first working photographic process to use the now familiar format of negatives and positives. He was an ambitious man but his...

The supermodel did not arrive when Twiggy first donned false eyelashes; the concept began more than 100 years previously, with a young artists' model whose face captivated a generation.Saved from the drudgery of a working-class existence by a young...

In the tradition of Schulz and Peanuts, an epic and revelatory biography of Krazy Kat creator George Herriman that explores the turbulent time and place from which he emerged—and the deep secret he explored through his art.The creator of the greatest...

The Biographic series presents an entirely new way of looking at the lives of the world's greatest thinkers and creatives. It takes the 50 defining facts, dates, thoughts, habits and achievements of each subject, and uses infographics to convey all of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781635421903Author Marc PetitjeanFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint Other Press LLCPublisher Other Press LLC

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420970845Author Giorgio VasariFormat PaperbackPage Count 446Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Reprinted for the first time since 1889, this is the first biography and considered appraisal of one of England's most prodigiously talented painters. Sir John Everett Millais, P. R. A. (1829-1896) was the most precociously talented artist England has...