Artists, Architects, Photographers

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...

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 #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...

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

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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Andy Warhol was queer in more ways than one. A fabulous queen, a fan of prurience and pornography, a great admirer of the male body, he was well known as such to the gay audiences who enjoyed his films, the police who censored them, the gallery owners...

Jackson Pollock's revolutionary 'drip paintings' put American art on the map, representing the first real break with the formal structures of European art. But it was not only his vibrant canvases that made him a celebrity during his life and a legendary...

Constable is one of the best-known and most popular of British painters. His fresh depictions of the English countryside have often been taken as the genuine and most authentic record of his native land. Yet there is far more to Constable than the...

Dannii Minogue first appeared on television aged seven. She signed her first record deal at the age of seventeen and ever since she has been wowing audiences around the world with her charm and her charisma. The daughter of a dancer mother, Dannii found...

Winner of the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for biography, The Last Pre-Raphaelite is Fiona MacCarthy's account of the life of Edward Burne-Jones, the greatest British artist of the second half of the nineteenth century. The angels on our Christmas...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780375410437Author Nicholas Fox WeberFormat HardbackPage Count 848Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. Knopf

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780770435578Author Eric FischlFormat HardbackPage Count 368Imprint Crown BusinessPublisher Random House USA IncWeight(grams) 624g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780893046910Author Peter Thabit JonesFormat PaperbackPage Count 206Imprint Cross-Cultural Communications / The Seventh Quarry PressPublisher Cross-Cultural...

This book is about a shared journey made by John and Myfanwy Piper who early on settled down in a small hamlet on the edge of the Chilterns, whence they proceeded to produce work which placed them centre stage in the cultural landscape of the twentieth...

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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578371955Author Gary LegaultFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Bowker.comPublisher Bowker.comWeight(grams) 227g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780805016390Author Axel MadsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 388Imprint Henry Holt & Company IncPublisher Henry Holt & Company IncWeight(grams) 535g

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...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578135588Author Irving AllenFormat HardbackPage Count 346Imprint Wood Stork PressPublisher Wood Stork PressWeight(grams) 662g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780985237462Author Willie BloessFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Tidalwave ProductionsPublisher Tidalwave ProductionsWeight(grams) 68g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999346327Author Marc AshtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 410Imprint Marc AshtonPublisher Marc AshtonWeight(grams) 708g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998497549Author David T ShoemakerFormat PaperbackPage Count 100Imprint Distinguished AirsPublisher Distinguished AirsWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780992840747Author Sally Jane Hedges GreenwoodFormat PaperbackPage Count 53Imprint Sabstract LtdPublisher Sabstract Ltd

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780956368652Author Justin StaresFormat PaperbackPage Count 172Imprint Revel BarkerPublisher Revel BarkerWeight(grams) 239g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998894942Author Robyn GoodfellowFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Running Man PressPublisher Running Man PressWeight(grams) 417g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780674332768Author Louis Legrand NobleFormat HardbackPage Count 372Imprint Harvard University PressPublisher Harvard University PressWeight(grams) 739g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998286709Author Glaser StephenFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Samzan Music LLCPublisher Samzan Music LLCWeight(grams) 177g