Artists, Architects, Photographers

Known for his grand public murals, Diego Rivera (1886-1957) is one of Mexico's most revered artists. His paintings are marked by a unique fusion of European sophistication, revolutionary political turmoil, and the heritage and personality of his native...

This title presents a superbly illustrated and insightful examination of the life and works of Harry Smith, one of America's most significant post-war creative talents. Filmmaker, musicologist, painter, ethnographer, graphic designer, mystic, and...

Like Charles Rennie Mackintosh John Cairney began his career at the age of 15 at the Glasgow School of Art. He tells of the working life of Charles Rennie Mackintosh as well as the beautiful love story which tragically ended with Mackintosh's sudden...

Renowned for his contribution to the development of the motion picture, Eadweard Muybridge was a pioneering photographer. Alongside his remarkable photographic achievements, his personal life was riddled with melodrama, including a near-fatal stagecoach...

The celebrity tattoo artist takes fans on a tour through his life and art, combining captivating vignettes and stories with more than one hundred color photos. Justin Bieber, Katy Perry, Rita Ora, Cara Delevingne, Rihanna, and many more of the hottest...

The triumphs and tragedies of growing up as the son of a famous Beat artistTOSH is a memoir of growing up as the son of an enigmatic, much-admired, hermetic, and ruthlessly bohemian artist during the waning years of the Beat Generation and the heyday of...

A deserted Paris house holds the mystery of a brilliant Viennese modernist who worked alongside Le Corbusier and Adolf Loos before vanishing.Wyeth takes readers on a deeply personal and revelatory journey. This research process, which readers experience...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374298555Author Cullen MurphyFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Farrar Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692069394Author Aubrey MaloneFormat PaperbackPage Count 430Imprint Jc PublicationsPublisher Jc PublicationsWeight(grams) 572gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

Ernest Hemingway has enjoyed a rich legacy as the progenitor of modern fiction, an oversized character in literary lore who wrote some of the most honest and moving accounts of the twentieth century, set against such grand backdrops as the bullrings of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476782973Author Robert BatemanFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint Simon & SchusterPublisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams) 816gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

In 1973, Michael Lesy was a young scholar whose first book had just been published. In the soon-legendary Wisconsin Death Trip he combined 1890s photographs and newspaper clippings to evoke a devastatingly tragic epoch, the real-world antithesis of the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781903071335Author Hormazd NarielwallaFormat HardbackPage Count 240Imprint Bene Factum Publishing LtdPublisher Bene Factum Publishing Ltd

Born to Jewish radical parents in Chicago in 1939, Judy Cohen grew up to be Judy Chicago-one of the most daring and controversial artists of her generation. Her works, once disparaged and misunderstood by the critics, have become icons of the feminist...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945551765Author Jody SavinFormat HardbackPage Count 194Imprint Prospect Park BooksPublisher Prospect Park Books

Among the immortals-Leonardo, Rembrandt, Picasso-Michelangelo stands alone as a master of painting, sculpture, and architecture. He was not only the greatest artist in an age of giants, but a man who reinvented the practice of art itself. Throughout his...

The artist who created the statue for the Lincoln Memorial, John Harvard in Harvard Yard, and The Minute Man in Concord, Massachusetts, Daniel Chester French (1850-1931) is America's best-known sculptor of public monuments. Monument Man is the first...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061560958Author David RobertsFormat PaperbackPage Count 337Imprint William Morrow & CompanyPublisher William Morrow & CompanyWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476762180Author Laura CummingFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 249gDimensions(mm)...

The Greek island sequence montaged by Laszlo Moholy-Nagy into his legendary documentary Architects' Congress can be interpreted, like his provocative photoplastiks, as a "message in a bottle" thrown into the sea that "might take decades for someone to...

A Profound New Look at the Italian Master and His Lasting Legacy Now celebrated as one of the great painters of the Renaissance, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio fled Rome in 1606 to escape retribution for killing a man in a brawl. Three years later...

Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was hailed in his lifetime as a founder of the Northern Renaissance, and his work revolutionized the art of printmaking. Durer was also the first artist outside Italy to leave behind a large body of writing. Contemporaries and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780671016661Author Laurie LisleFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint Washington Square Press Inc.,N.Y.Publisher Simon & SchusterWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906915081Author Matthew SpenderFormat PaperbackPage Count 584Imprint Hauser & WirthPublisher Hauser & Wirth

Ascanio Condivi was a young pupil and assistant of Michelangelo's who gained the trust and confidence of the great artist. His biography of Michelangelo to a large extent is based on the artist's own words, tells the story of his life, his relationship...

In Two Minds is the first comprehensive biography of Jonathan Miller - the story of one of post-war Britain's most intriguing polymaths. Descended from immigrants who fled Tsarist anti-Semitism to become shopkeepers in Ireland and London's East End,...

In Two Minds is the first comprehensive biography of Jonathan Miller - the story of one of post-war Britain's most intriguing polymaths. Descended from immigrants who fled Tsarist anti-Semitism to become shopkeepers in Ireland and London's East End,...

In 1891, Paul Gauguin (1848-1903) arrives on the French Polynesian island of Tahiti. In this lush paradise, he is liberated from the concerns of the city-dwelling European. He is free: to love, to sing, and to create. In Copenhagen, Gauguin's wife...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781611682533Author Larry WithamFormat HardbackPage Count 372Imprint University Press of New EnglandPublisher University Press of New England

From military sportswriter to roving correspondent for the National Observer, from quasi Hell's Angel to counterculture author and gonzo journalist, Hunter S. Thompson led a life of legend. Hunter S. Thompson: The Glory Years tells the remarkable...

Henri Matisse's experiments with form and color revolutionized the twentieth-century art world. In this concise critical biography, Kathryn Brown explores Matisse's long career, beginning with his struggles as a student in Paris and culminating in his...

The first biography of George Rickey, one of the greatest kinetic sculptors of the 20th century. His moving blades, squares, triangles, and circles can be found in museums and public spaces around the world, from bucolic landscapes to the streets of New...

A dazzling dual portrait of Frank Lloyd Wright and early twentieth-century New York, revealing the city's role in establishing the career of America's most famous architect"Traces the transitive relationship of the architect and the city, as well as the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578942223Author Steven MaierFormat PaperbackPage Count 322Imprint Icon Smile CoPublisher Icon Smile CoWeight(grams) 431g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374281465Author Michael BrensonFormat HardbackPage Count 864Imprint Farrar, Straus and GirouxPublisher Farrar, Straus and GirouxWeight(grams)...

The Biographic senes 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...

Frida Kahlo is probably the most idolised artist of her time. At the root of the scholarly speculation and pop-culture paraphernalia lies this text, first published in Mexico in 1983 and now available in an English-language paperback for the first time...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780952883722Author Sian MacKayFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Sancho PressPublisher Sancho PressWeight(grams) 354g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998713489Author Daisy Eris CampbellFormat PaperbackPage Count 130Imprint Hilaritas Press, LLC.Publisher Hilaritas Press, LLC.Weight(grams) 209g

In this book, a series of interviews offers an accessible, revealing, human and intellectual biography of leading Islamic scholar Seyyed Hossein Nasr. Seyyed Hossein Nasr is one of the preeminent philosophers writing today. Sure to be a key resource for...