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The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse: Taking Risks in the Service of Truth by Andrew J. Kunka
RRP: $58.78$53.19Nominated 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... -
Cindy Lass: A Colourful Pawtrait by Gina Clarke 9781800465664
$33.62After 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... -
Picasso and the Painting That Shocked the World by Miles J. Unger 9781476794228
RRP: $42.00$26.29One 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... -
Makeup Man: From Rocky to Star Trek: The Amazing Creations of Hollywood's Michael Westmore by Michael Westmore
RRP: $39.88$29.42Headline: 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... -
Lives of Adam Elsheimer by Carel van Mander 9781843680130
RRP: $20.98$4.18Although 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... -
More Than Brothers: Peter Clarke and James Matthews at Seventy by Hein Willemse 9780795700958
RRP: $39.80$33.66Apologies 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 -
Piero Manzoni: Life of the Artist by Flaminio Gualdoni
RRP: $52.50$45.70Immediately 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... -
Stargazer: Life, World and Films of Andy Warhol by Stephen Koch 9780714529202
RRP: $20.90$18.73Apologies 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 -
Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles by Francine Prose 9780061768903
RRP: $20.98$20.37Apologies 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 -
TaTa Dada: The Real Life and Celestial Adventures of Tristan Tzara by Marius Hentea
RRP: $71.40$49.54Apologies 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... -
Van Gogh: A Power Seething by Julian Bell
$18.71"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."... -
Jonah Jones: An Artist's Life by Peter Jones 9781854115560
$60.19Apologies 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 -
Empress of Fashion: A Life of Diana Vreeland by Amanda MacKenzie Stuart 9780061691751
RRP: $35.68$25.68Apologies 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)... -
Makeup Man: From Rocky to Star Trek The Amazing Creations of Hollywood's Michael Westmore by Michael Westmore 9781630761905
RRP: $52.50$43.11Headline: 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... -
Winslow Homer: American Passage by William R Cross
RRP: $84.00$67.07In 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... -
Georgia O'Keeffe and Alfred Stieglitz by Peter-Cornell Richter
RRP: $23.08$17.16Few 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... -
Life and Times of Mary Vaux Walcott by Marjorie G. Jones 9780764349720
RRP: $48.28$31.61Known 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... -
Curt Swan A Life in Comics by Eddy Zeno
$32.80The 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... -
Negative Space by Lilly Dancyger 9781951631031
RRP: $31.40$24.89Despite 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... -
Identity Unknown: Rediscovering Seven American Women Artists by Donna Seaman
RRP: $52.50$41.75Apologies 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 -
Please Do Not Touch: And Other Things You Couldn't Do at Moss, the Design Store That Changed Design by Murray Moss 9780847861576
RRP: $83.90$77.64A 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... -
The Letters of Sir Joshua Reynolds by John Ingamells 9780300087338
RRP: $63.00$62.27Sir 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: A Life in Art by Gill Hedley
RRP: $84.00$68.44Arthur 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,... -
Walt before Mickey: Disney's Early Years, 1919-1928 by Timothy S. Susanin 9781628461633
RRP: $62.90$58.40For 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... -
Focus: The Secret, Sexy, Sometimes Sordid World of Fashion Photographers by Michael Gross 9781476763477
RRP: $41.98$28.43Apologies 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 -
American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell by Deborah Solomon 9780374113094
RRP: $46.18$39.98Norman 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,... -
American Journey: My Life in Art by Marco Sassone
RRP: $83.98$53.47Apologies 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... -
Among the Bohemians: Experiments in Living 1900-1939 by Virginia Nicholson 9780060548469
RRP: $33.58$20.20Apologies 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)... -
Factory Made by Steven Watson 9780679423720
RRP: $73.50$63.04Apologies 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 Clearing in the Distance: Frederich Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century by Witold Rybczynski
RRP: $41.98$27.17Apologies 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 &... -
To Laugh That We May Not Weep: The Life And Art Of Art Young by Frank Young 9781606999943
RRP: $104.98$72.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606999943Author Frank YoungFormat HardbackPage Count 320Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher Fantagraphics -
Escape Artist: A Memoir of a Visionary Artist on Death Row by William A. Noguera
RRP: $48.28$31.86Apologies 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. -
Niki De Saint Phalle by Camille Morineau 9788415691983
RRP: $136.50$103.82Apologies 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 -
Alfred Stieglitz: Taking Pictures, Making Painters by Phyllis Rose
RRP: $39.88$38.45From 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... -
The Pollaiuolo: The Art Gallery Series by Aldo Galli
RRP: $20.90$13.46Antonio (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: A Photographer's Life by Milton Meltzer
RRP: $46.10$36.46Dorothea 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... -
Eye of the Sixties: Richard Bellamy and the Transformation of Modern Art by Judith E. Stein 9780374536992
$29.27A 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,... -
Behind the Canvas by Kevin Sinnott 9781854114457
$60.88Apologies 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 -
Michelangelo, God's Architect: The Story of His Final Years and Greatest Masterpiece by William E. Wallace 9780691212753
RRP: $35.68$26.10The 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... -
Drawing Blood by Molly Crabapple 9780062797223
$27.47Apologies 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...