Artists, Architects, Photographers

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...

After missing out on a role in EastEnders, Cindy Lass was feeling down. "Forget it," comforted her mother. "Paint me a vase of flowers for this wall here instead." Stocked up with new art supplies, the rhythmic strokes of her paintbrush soon transported...

One of The Christian Science Monitor's Best Nonfiction Books of 2018 "An engrossing read...a historically and psychologically rich account of the young Picasso and his coteries in Barcelona and Paris" (The Washington Post) and how he achieved his...

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...

Although Adam Elsheimer (1578-1610) painted on an almost miniature scale and died very young from, it was said, the overwork that resulted from the intensity of his methods, his paintings remain some of the most strangely poetical in the history of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780795700958Author Hein WillemseFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Kwela BooksPublisher Kwela BooksWeight(grams) 765g

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 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 9780061768903Author Francine ProseFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint HarperPerennialPublisher HarperCollins Publishers Inc

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Honorable Mention, 2014 Robert Motherwell Book Award, given by the Dedalus Foundation 2014.Book InformationISBN 9780262027540Author Marius HenteaFormat...

"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."...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780061691751Author Amanda MacKenzie StuartFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

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...

In 1860, at the age of twenty-four, Winslow Homer (1836-1910) sold Harper's Weekly two dozen wood engravings, carved into boxwood blocks and transferred to metal plates to stamp on paper. One was a scene that Homer saw on a visit to Boston, his hometown...

Few creative alliances flourished as productively as that of the artist Georgia O'Keeffe and the photographer Alfred Stieglitz. Author Peter-Cornell Richter examines the lives of these artists to reveal the roads they took together and independently...

Known as the "Audubon of Botany," Philadelphia, Quaker Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (1860-1940) was a gifted artist whose stunning watercolors comprise a catalog of North American wildflowers. Walcott was catapulted to the highest levels of society and...

The artwork of Curt Swan (1920-1996) defined the look of "Superman" for over 30 years. His amazing skills of storytelling, draftsmanship and design brought a realism and sense of wonder to The Man of Steel's adventures, making them the best-selling comic...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781620407585Author Donna SeamanFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 878g

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...

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...

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,...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476763477Author Michael GrossFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 386gDimensions(mm) 206mm * 137mm * 30mm

Norman Rockwell, as much as Walt Disney or Ronald Reagan, provided America with a mirror of its dreams and aspirations. As the star illustrator for The Saturday Evening Post for nearly half a century, Rockwell portrayed a fantasy of civic togetherness,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780935194159Author Marco SassoneFormat HardbackPage Count 360Imprint Arti Grafiche PressPublisher Arti Grafiche PressWeight(grams) 684gDimensions(mm) 235mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780060548469Author Virginia NicholsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint HarperCollins PublishersPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams)...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Christopher Awards (Books for Adults) 2000.Book InformationISBN 9780684865751Author Witold RybczynskiFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Prentice Hall &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606999943Author Frank YoungFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781609807979Author William A. NogueraFormat HardbackPage Count 400Imprint Seven Stories Press,U.S.Publisher Seven Stories Press,U.S.

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9788415691983Author Camille MorineauFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint La FabricaPublisher La Fabrica

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a fascinating biography of a revolutionary American artist ripe for rediscovery as a photographer and champion of other artists Alfred Stieglitz (1864-1946) was an enormously influential artist and nurturer of...

Antonio (1431/1432-1498) and Piero (1441/1442-after 1485) del Pollaiuolo have always enjoyed a certain notoriety and, together with Verrocchio, Botticelli, and Ghirlandaio, occupy a central place in all books about Florentine art at the time of Lorenzo...

Dorothea Lange's depression-era photographs became mythic symbols in their time and are exhibited worldwide as standards of classic photography. In this first biography of Lange, Milton Meltzer documents her development as an artist and provides a moving...

A man with a preternatural ability to find emerging artists, Richard Bellamy was one of the first advocates of pop art, minimalism, and conceptual art. The founder and director of the fabled Green Gallery on Fifty-Seventh Street, this witty,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781854114457Format PaperbackPage Count 158Imprint SerenPublisher Poetry Wales PressWeight(grams) 656g

The untold story of Michelangelo's final decades-and his transformation into the master architect of St. Peter's BasilicaAs he entered his seventies, Michelangelo despaired that his productive years were over. Anguished by the death of friends and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorMolly Crabapple is an artist and writer. She is a contributing editor for Vice and has written for the New York Times, the Paris Review, and the Guardian, among...