Artists, Architects, Photographers

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...

In the course of a short and violent life, Michelangelo Merisl da Caravaggio (1571-1610) revolutionised painting, producing a style of shockingly immediate realism that swept through Europe. The impact of his art and personality continue to resonate to...

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...

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

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 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 9780952883722Author Sian MacKayFormat PaperbackPage Count 276Imprint Sancho PressPublisher Sancho PressWeight(grams) 354g

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...

Nominated for the 2022 Eisner Award - Best Academic/Scholarly Work The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse tells the remarkable story of how a self-described "preacher's kid" from Birmingham, Alabama, became the so-called "Godfather of Gay Comics." This...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385198707Author John TytellFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 559gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375713934Author Richard RhodesFormat PaperbackPage Count 544Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 442gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

Immediately upon his death in 1963 at the age of thirty, Piero Manzoni s reputation as a provocateur and wild child preceded him, with his most subversive work, Artist s Shit, 1961, elevating him to cult status. But what actually came before, and lay...

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 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780714529202Author Stephen KochFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Marion Boyars Publishers LtdPublisher Marion Boyars Publishers LtdWeight(grams) 363g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780620584562Author Lenah MochoeleFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint NlsaPublisher NlsaWeight(grams) 299gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 12mm

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...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854115560Author Jan MorrisFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 576g

Sir Joshua Reynolds could never have anticipated an edition of his letters; he once told Boswell that "If I felt the same reluctance in taking a Pencil in my hand as I do a pen I should be as bad a Painter as I am a correspondent." Yet although his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061768903Author Francine ProseFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780679423720Author Steven WatsonFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Pantheon BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 1150g

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 9781506488707Author Catherine RickettsFormat HardbackPage Count 210Imprint Broadleaf BooksPublisher 1517 MediaWeight(grams) 318g

"How a female artisan became the Arab world’s top jewelry designer"—CNBC on Azza FahmyThe inspiring personal story of an exceptional female artist and entrepreneur who overcame great obstacles to become one of the most recognized jewelers in the Arab...

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

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,...

Headline: A peak behind the Hollywood mask by one of its foremost makeup artists In Hollywood's heyday, almost every major studio had a Westmore heading up the makeup department. Since 1917, there has never been a time when Westmores weren't shaping...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400076222Author Scott W. BergFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Imprint Vintage BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 202mm *...

A witty and revealing memoir of the mid-1990s, when high design became art and there was no more exclusive club for high design than MOSS. For almost twenty years the SoHo design gallery MOSS was the place where design, art, money, and glamour mixed...

"I believe in the absolute necessity of a new art of colour, of drawing and-of the artistic life," Vincent van Gogh wrote to his brother Theo in 1888. "And if we work in that faith, it seems to me that there's a chance that our hopes won't be in vain."...

For ten years before the creation of Mickey Mouse, Walt Disney struggled with, failed at, and eventually mastered the art and business of animation. Most biographies of his career begin in 1928, when Steamboat Willie was released. That first Disney...

The author of the acclaimed City Poet returns with a searing memoir of life in 1980s New York City-a colorful and atmospheric tale of wild bohemians, glamorous celebrity, and complicated passions-with cameo appearances by Madonna, Robert Mapplethorpe,...

Enjoy a fascinating tribute to the queen of comedy with the photos and memorabilia in Lucille Ball Treasures. Lucille Ball came into most people's lives with the beloved classic I Love Lucy, one of the most successful television shows in history. But her...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783906915401Author Max BillFormat PaperbackPage Count 736Imprint Hauser & WirthPublisher Hauser & Wirth

Arthur Jeffress was an art dealer and collector from a Virginian family who bequeathed his "subversive little collection" (Derek Hill) to Tate and Southampton City Art Gallery on his suicide in 1961. That suicide, a result of his expulsion from Venice,...

Headline: A peak behind the Hollywood mask by one of its foremost makeup artists In Hollywood's heyday, almost every major studio had a Westmore heading up the makeup department. Since 1917, there has never been a time when Westmores weren't shaping...

Despite her parents' struggles with addiction, Lilly Dancyger always thought of her childhood as a happy one. But what happens when a journalist interrogates her own rosy memories to reveal the instability around the edges? Dancyger's father, Joe...