Artists, Architects, Photographers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865344662Author Dorothy BrettFormat PaperbackPage Count 340Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 499gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm *...

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...

The definitive biography of Al Hirschfeld, renowned caricaturist and artist. Al Hirschfeld knew everybody and drew everybody. He occupied the twentieth century, and illustrated it. Hirschfeld: The Biography is the first portrait of the renowned artist's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604867220Author Peter KuperFormat HardbackPage Count 208Imprint PM PressPublisher PM PressWeight(grams) 986g

Identified as "the first designer of what would become known as Swedish Modern" by the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, D.C., Karin Bergoo Larsson (1859-1928) was a mother of eight and wife to Sweden's beloved painter, Carl Larsson...

Isamu Noguchi, born in Los Angeles as the illegitimate son of an American mother and a Japanese poet father, was one of the most prolific yet enigmatic figures in the history of twentieth-century American art. Throughout his life, Noguchi (1904-1988)...

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Selected as a 2020 Michigan Notable Book by the Library of MichiganIn 1906 George Shiras III (1859-1942) published a series of remarkable nighttime photographs in National Geographic. Taken with crude equipment, the black-and-white photographs featured...

A finely wrought coming-of-age memoir about the author's relationship with her beloved grandfather Joe Simon, cartoonist and co-creator of Captain America.In the 1990s, Megan Margulies's Upper West Side neighborhood was marked by addicts shooting up in...

The unbelievable true story of artist Thomas Kinkade, self-described Painter of Light," and the dramatic rise - and fall - of his billion-dollar gallery and licensing business.Book InformationISBN 9781602862449Author Bettina GiloisFormat HardbackPage...

“When someone we love dies, most of us do something to keep them from completely vanishing. We summon up memories of them, we talk about them, we visit their graves, we treasure photographs of them, we dream about them, and we cry, and for those brief...

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

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The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is "a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it...Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and...

A complete biography based on a wide range of previously untapped primary sources, covering Wright's private life, architecture, and role in American society, culture, and politics. Views Wright's buildings as biographical as well as social statements,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781781881545Author Claire MoranFormat PaperbackPage Count 106Imprint Modern Humanities Research AssociationPublisher Modern Humanities Research...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997540116Author Iain McGarvie-MunnFormat PaperbackImprint Munn BooksPublisher Munn BooksWeight(grams) 404g

Since his death in 1942, St Ives has become marinated in the spirit of the naive painter, Alfred Wallis. Naum Gabo, the Russian Constructivist, felt that Wallis's gift as an artist was that he never knew he was one. His unconventional approach and the...

This extensively revised edition of Thurman Wilkins's masterful and engaging biography - well illustrated in color and black-and-white - draws on new information and recent scholarship to place Thomas Moran more securely in the milieu of the Gilded Age...

After Vasari's Lives of the Most Famous Artists,The Life of Titian by the seventeenth-century Venetian artist and writer Carlo Ridolfi is the most important contemporary documentary source for our understanding of the great Renaissance artist. This new...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525558729Author Bill CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781773238388Author Henri PerruchotFormat PaperbackPage Count 364Imprint Must Have BooksPublisher Must Have BooksWeight(grams) 531gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982479650Author Kyra E. HicksFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Black Threads PressPublisher Black Threads PressWeight(grams) 276g

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...

The texture of memory and the ability of art and film to bear witness to traumatic events are delicately approached in this book-length essay by a Mekas cinephile. For years, filmmaker Peter Delpeut has had Jonas Mekas's Movie Journal within easy reach...

Wafaa Bilal's childhood in Iraq was defined by the horrific rule of Saddam Hussein, two wars, a bloody uprising, and time spent interned in chaotic refugee camps in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bilal eventually made it to the United States to become a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.AwardsWinner of Whitbread Book of the Year 1991.Book InformationISBN 9780375711497Author John RichardsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 560Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random...

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Each of these five books is taken from Phaidon's '55' series, which represents photographers in 55 key photographs taken from their life's work, giving a chronological overview of some of their most important compositions.Book InformationISBN...

Colin Colahan was an Australian painter of outstanding ability and reputation who from the 1920s to the 1970s was remarkably productive. Colahan was one of the more brilliant pupils of the painter Max Meldrum. Identification with the unfashionable...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806134956Author John TaliaferroFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 513g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806175737Author Linda M WaggonerFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 156g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578953977Author Loren EllisFormat PaperbackPage Count 326Imprint Loren Elizabeth EllisPublisher Loren Elizabeth EllisWeight(grams) 1048g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780983704508Author Margaret A HarrellFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Saeculum University Press of NCPublisher Saeculum University Press of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780912887500Author Manuel de QueirozFormat PaperbackPage Count 476Imprint Pleasure Boat StudioPublisher Pleasure Boat StudioWeight(grams) 152g

Henry McBride (1867-1962) became a towering figure in art criticism during a long career that began in 1913-the year of the famous Armory Show in New York that opened American eyes to avant-garde developments in European art-and continued until the...

Alberto Giacometti, one of the most important artists of the twentieth century, was also one of the most enigmatic. In this major new interpretation of Giacometti and his work, art historian and psychoanalyst Laurie Wilson demonstrates how the artist's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780996956703Author Ross Alan BachelderFormat HardbackPage Count 500Imprint Artful Endeavors New EnglandPublisher Artful Endeavors New EnglandWeight(grams)...