Artists, Architects, Photographers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988257931Author Joyce Wilcox GraffFormat HardbackImprint Garnet Star PublishingPublisher Garnet Star PublishingWeight(grams) 585g

"The real war," said Walt Whitman, "will never get in the books." During World War II, the truest glimpse most Americans got of the "real war" came through the flashing black lines of twenty-two-year-old infantry sergeant Bill Mauldin. Week after week,...

Robert Kirkman (b. 1978) is probably best known as the creator of The Walking Dead. The comic book and its television adaptation have reinvented the zombie horror story, transforming it from cult curiosity and parody to mainstream popularity and critical...

One of the most distinctive voices in mainstream comics since the 1970s, Howard Chaykin (b. 1950) has earned a reputation as a visionary formal innovator and a compelling storyteller whose comics offer both pulp-adventure thrills and thoughtful...

The story of a Confederate Major who built the first suspension bridge across the Hudson River in 1871Book InformationISBN 9780925168238Author Rosemary Miner PelkeyFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint North Country BooksPublisher North Country...

An iconic figure in American culture, Frank Lloyd Wright is famous throughout the world. Although his achievements in architecture are stunning, it is his importance in cultural history, Jerome Klinkowitz contends, that makes Wright the object of such...

Rural Free, first published in 1961, beautifully conveys the joys of family life on an Indiana farm. Marked by the slow pace and rich variety of seasonal change, Rachel Peden's narrative offers an authentic month-by-month chronicle of her family's daily...

Thomas Nast (1840-1902), the founding father of American political cartooning, is perhaps best known for his cartoons portraying political parties as the Democratic donkey and the Republican elephant. Nast's legacy also includes a trove of other...

Filling a void, this is the first full-length biography of early twentieth century photographer and social reformer, Lewis Hine. Although Hine's name is fairly well known to people who have knowledge of American photography and the Progressive reform...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780984910915Author Ph D L StothersFormat PaperbackPage Count 220Imprint Four Dots PressPublisher Four Dots PressWeight(grams) 299g

Iconic graphic designer and Academy Award--winning filmmaker Saul Bass (1920--1996) defined an innovative era in cinema. His title sequences for films such as Otto Preminger's The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) and Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Alfred...

Jack Kent (1920–1985) had two distinct and successful careers: newspaper cartoonist and author of children’s books. For each of these he drew upon different aspects of his personality and life experiences. From 1950 to 1965 he wrote and drew King Aroo, a...

One of the most distinctive voices in mainstream comics since the 1970s, Howard Chaykin (b. 1950) has earned a reputation as a visionary formal innovator and a compelling storyteller whose comics offer both pulp-adventure thrills and thoughtful...

A legendary figure of underground comix, Robert Williams (b. 1943) is an important social chronicler of American popular culture. The interviews assembled in Robert Williams: Conversations attest to his rhetorical powers, which match the high level of...

A legendary figure of underground comix, Robert Williams (b. 1943) is an important social chronicler of American popular culture. The interviews assembled in Robert Williams: Conversations attest to his rhetorical powers, which match the high level of...

Howard Cruse is the first biography to tell the life story of one of the most important figures in LGBTQ+ comics. A preacher's kid from Alabama who became "the godfather of queer comics," Cruse (1944-2019) was a groundbreaking underground cartoonist, a...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999850107Author Garrett J CreamerFormat PaperbackPage Count 42Imprint Well Red PublishingPublisher Well Red PublishingWeight(grams) 162g

An exciting adventure story with personal drama and high stakes, as well as a glimpse behind the scenes of the highly regarded National Geographic brand Jim and Elaine Larison spent years studying, exploring, and living in wild places, making more than...

North Carolina fiddler and banjo player Jim Scancarelli's extensive career as a string band musician began in the early 1960s. A founding member of the Kilocycle Kowboys, one of Charlotte's longest-lived bluegrass bands, he played banjo with the Mole...

John Jennings (b. 1970) is perhaps best known for his collaboration with Damian Duffy on the New York Times bestseller and Eisner Award-winning graphic novel adaptation of Octavia Butler's Kindred. However, Jennings is also a graphic designer and comic...

The recipient of a 2000 MacArthur fellowship, Ben Katchor (b. 1951) is a beloved comics artist with a career spanning four decades. Published in indie weeklies across the United States, his comics are known for evoking the sensorium of the modern...

Jack Kent (1920–1985) had two distinct and successful careers: newspaper cartoonist and author of children’s books. For each of these he drew upon different aspects of his personality and life experiences. From 1950 to 1965 he wrote and drew King Aroo, a...

Lynwood Krenecks screenprints are recognized throughout the world for their imaginative, often humor-filled content, vivid colors, and always superb technical execution. His print series, such as ""Space Probes"", ""Earths...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865346321Author Barbara Spencer FosterFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint Sunstone PressPublisher Sunstone PressWeight(grams) 318g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692118047Author Franklin GaskinFormat PaperbackPage Count 156Imprint FG PublishingPublisher FG PublishingWeight(grams) 386g

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780988257955Author Joyce Wilcox GraffFormat HardbackImprint Garnet Star PublishingPublisher Garnet Star PublishingWeight(grams) 585g

A widow's riveting yet poignant memoir of her marriage to a prolific creator, the extremely inspired Gulf Coast artist Walter Anderson, whose splendid art was heightened and enriched by his madnessBook InformationISBN 9780878058037Author Agnes Grinstead...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780692998571Author Darnell a Morehand-OlufadeFormat PaperbackPage Count 162Imprint Darnell A. Morehand-OlufadePublisher Darnell A...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780312187460Author George BullFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 739gDimensions(mm) 234mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781088062913Author Robert AnsellFormat PaperbackPage Count 164Imprint IngramSparkPublisher IngramSparkWeight(grams) 304g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781039149236Author Troy 'Stevens' SchaabFormat PaperbackPage Count 174Imprint FriesenPressPublisher FriesenPressWeight(grams) 277g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156785204Author Virginia WoolfFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint Mariner Books ClassicsPublisher Mariner Books Classics

Between the Lives: Partners in Art is a fascinating book about artists who are also intimate partners. It takes nine well-known New Zealand couples and explores many aspects of their lives but particularly how the partnership affects the art they produce...

Claude Monet spent most of his life painting his own spontaneous impressions of nature and the world that was closest to him. His works provoked the description 'Impressionist', the name given to the style of art that he created together with Camille...

"Mike Alewitz's art has given eloquent voice to the aspirations of working people throughout the world." --Martin Sheen The most prolific U.S. labor muralist since the 1940s, Alewitz illuminates the hidden spaces where connections between the U...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780999109823Author Donna EmerichFormat PaperbackPage Count 230Imprint Three Belles PublishingPublisher Three Belles PublishingWeight(grams) 231g

Mary Crovatt Hambidge (1885-1973) was an aspiring actress and a professional whistler on Broadway when she met Canadian-born Jay Hambidge (1867-1924), an artist, illustrator, and scholar. Their relationship would prove to be both a romantic and an...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578327549Author Julie RichardsonFormat HardbackPage Count 292Imprint Golden CountryPublisher Golden CountryWeight(grams) 599g

This is the first full-length examination of Lewis H. Hine (1874-1940), the intellectual and aesthetic father of social documentary photography. Kate Sampsell-Willmann assesses Hine's output through the lens of his photographs, his political and...