Artists, Architects, Photographers

Barry Byrne (1883-1967) was a radical architect who sought basic principles as fervently as his mentor Frank Lloyd Wright and his inspiration Louis Sullivan, forging an individual style with taut planar skins enveloping modern space plans. In 1922 he...

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...

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 9781620407585Author Donna SeamanFormat HardbackPage Count 480Imprint Bloomsbury Publishing USAPublisher Bloomsbury Publishing USAWeight(grams) 878g

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 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 9781626541504Author Otagaki RengetsuFormat HardbackPage Count 184Imprint Echo Point Books & MediaPublisher Echo Point Books & MediaWeight(grams)...

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...

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 *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781606995600Author R. CrumbFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 1gDimensions(mm) 23mm * 16mm * 2mm

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

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...

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 *...

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.Book InformationISBN 9781532654527Author Joseph SummersFormat PaperbackPage Count 248Imprint Wipf & Stock PublishersPublisher Wipf & Stock PublishersWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988139005Author Elena RoseFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint Biyuti PublishingPublisher Biyuti PublishingWeight(grams) 367gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

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

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...

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...

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

The first biography of sculptor Chana Orloff. In Sculpting a Life, the first book-length biography of sculptor Chana Orloff (1888-1968), author Paula Birnbaum tells the story of a fiercely determined and ambitious woman who fled antisemitism in...

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 9780307278784Author Monir FarmanfarmaianFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 283gDimensions(mm)...

“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 9788415691983Author Camille MorineauFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint La FabricaPublisher La Fabrica

The only book-length biography of this controversial critic, now in paperback for the first time! Love him or hate him, admire him or revile him, there is no doubt that Clement Greenberg was the most influential critic of modern art in the second half of...

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...

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...

The artistic achievements of Romaine Brooks (1874-1970), both as a major expatriate American painter and as a formative innovator in the decorative arts, have long been overshadowed by her fifty-year relationship with writer Natalie Barney and a...

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 9781874041993Author Bob SmithFormat HardbackPage Count 316Imprint Camerapix Publishers InternationalPublisher Camerapix Publishers International

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...

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...

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

Victor Gruen was one of the twentieth century's most influential architects and is regarded as the father of the U.S. shopping mall. In spring 1979, less than a year before his death, he began reconstructing his life story. Now available in English for...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865651593Author Edmonde Charles-RouxFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Vendome PressPublisher Vendome PressWeight(grams) 1814gDimensions(mm) 267mm *...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595008087Author Stanley WeintraubFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 735gDimensions(mm) 288mm * 212mm * 18mm

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...