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Enid Yandell: Kentucky's Pioneer Sculptor by Juilee Decker 9780813178639
$42.40Louisville-born and nationally renowned sculptor Enid Yandell (1869--1934) was ahead of her time. She began her career when sculpture was considered too physical, too messy, and too masculine for women. Yandell challenged the gender norms of... -
My Life in Focus: A Photographer's Journey with Elizabeth Taylor and the Hollywood Jet Set by Gianni Bozzacchi 9780813168746
RRP: $56.12$45.82When Gianni Bozzacchi accepted an assignment as a photographer on the set of The Comedians (1967), he didn't know that his life was about to change forever. His ability to capture the beauty of candid moments drew the attention of the film's star,... -
Fanny Kemble: A Performed Life by Deirdre David 9780812240238
RRP: $50.31$44.53A ForeWord magazine Book of the Year for 2007 Charismatic, highly intelligent, and splendidly talented, Fanny Kemble (1809-93) was a Victorian celebrity, known on both sides of the Atlantic as an actress and member of the famous Kemble theatrical... -
The Flowering: The Autobiography of Judy Chicago by Judy Chicago 9780500297315
RRP: $32.19$24.08Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500297315Author Judy ChicagoFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Thames & HudsonPublisher Thames & HudsonWeight(grams) 953gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 160mm... -
Portrait: The Life of Thomas Eakins by William S. McFeely 9780393330687
RRP: $15.47$14.82Thomas Eakins painted two worlds in nineteenth-century America: one sure of its values-statesmen, scientists, and philosophers-and one that offered an uncertain vision of the changing times. From the shadow of his mother's depression to his fraught... -
Painting Below Zero: Notes on a Life in Art by James Rosenquist 9780307263421
RRP: $58.05$41.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307263421Author James RosenquistFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint Alfred A. KnopfPublisher Alfred A. KnopfWeight(grams) 1021gDimensions(mm) 239mm *... -
Covarrubias by Adriana Williams 9780292743526
RRP: $45.15$40.17At the center of an artistic milieu as vital and exciting as the Left Bank of Paris or Greenwich Village, Rosa and Miguel Covarrubias knew almost everyone in the limelight of the 1930s and 1940s-Langston Hughes, Carl Van Vechten, John Huston, Diego... -
L. Ron Hubbard - Writer: The Shaping of Popular Fiction by Dan Sherman 9788764934830
RRP: $45.15$30.17Discover the literary legend that is L. Ron Hubbard-a leading light of popular fiction, a screenwriter in the Golden Age of Hollywood, an influential mentor to up-and-coming writers, and a creative visionary who penned some of the world's most epic... -
Finding a Good Fit: The Life and Work of Architect Rand Iredale by Kathryn Iredale 9781894965903
RRP: $50.30$33.24Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894965903Author Kathryn IredaleFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Simply Read BooksPublisher Simply Read Books -
Bitter Crop: The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year by Paul Alexander 9780593315903
RRP: $34.83$26.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593315903Author Paul AlexanderFormat HardbackPage Count 304Imprint Random House IncPublisher Random House USA Inc -
Stage Set: 50 Years of Style Geoffrey Bradfield 9780998747446
RRP: $83.85$58.68In this extravagantly designed, illustrated autobiography, renowned designer Geoffrey Bradfield explores 50 years of creativity and innovation. In Stage Set, his most personal book to date, he identifies his various stages as a designer and showcases his... -
Shouting in the Dark: My Journey Back To The Light by John Bramblitt
RRP: $24.50$22.06John Bramblitt makes his living as a visual artist. His works have been sold in over twenty different countries, and he's received three Presidential Service awards for the art workshops he teaches. He's painted portraits of skateboarder Tony Hawk and... -
The Way Home by David A. Neel 9780774890410
RRP: $33.53$29.53David Neel was an infant when his father, a traditional Kwakiutl artist, returned to the ancestors, triggering a series of events that would separate David from his homeland and its rich cultural traditions for twenty-five years. Drawing on memories,... -
Leonardo by Robert Payne 9781883283964
RRP: $24.45$15.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781883283964Author Robert PayneFormat PaperbackPage Count 438Imprint Brick Tower PressPublisher Brick Tower PressWeight(grams) 640g -
God's Zoo: Artists, Exiles, Londoners by Marius Kociejowski 9781847772664
$28.29This beautifully illustrated book consists of a series of encounters with writers, artists and musicians living in London, all of whom are exiles or emigres displaced from their cultural and geographical origins.About the AuthorMarius Kociejowski, poet,... -
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies by Ross King 9781632860125
RRP: $45.15$29.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781632860125Author Ross KingFormat HardbackPage Count 416Imprint Bloomsbury USAPublisher Bloomsbury USAWeight(grams) 771gDimensions(mm) 236mm * 165mm * 36mm -
Winslow Homer at Prout's Neck by Philip Beam 9781608933488
RRP: $19.34$14.87Winslow Homer was the antithesis of the unkempt bohemian artist of the nineteenth century. Yet he is ranked as one of America's greatest painters. The reason is not hard to discover, for Winslow Homer's powerful epic statements spoke for America with a... -
Jacob's Ladder: From the Bottom of the Warsaw Ghetto to the Top of New York's Art World by Jacob D. Weintraub 9781568330358
RRP: $32.25$24.43Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781568330358Author Jacob D. WeintraubFormat HardbackPage Count 285Imprint Madison BooksPublisher Madison BooksWeight(grams) 603g -
Of Gifted Voice: The Art and Life of M.S. Subbulakshmi by Keshav Desiraju 9789356994256
$28.50Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789356994256Author Keshav DesirajuFormat PaperbackPage Count 522Imprint HarperCollins IndiaPublisher HarperCollins India -
Art & Legacy of Bernardo Miera Y Pacheco: New Spain's Explorer, Cartographer & Artist by Josef Diaz 9780890135853
RRP: $46.43$39.37With Essays by Thomas E Chavez, Robin Farwell Gavin and Dona Pierce, William Wroth, Charles Carrillo & Dennis Reinhartz.Book InformationISBN 9780890135853Author Josef DiazFormat HardbackPage Count 156Imprint Museum of New Mexico PressPublisher Museum... -
Cady Wells & Southwestern Modernism by Lois Rudnick 9780890135587
RRP: $52.88$44.44Cady Wells (1904-1954) was one of the most innovative modern artists to work within the Santa Fe and Taos colonies in the years between 1932 and 1954, and one of the finest American watercolorists. This full-scale retrospective of his work includes... -
Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love and Rivalry in 1920s Paris by Mark Braude 9781529300499
RRP: $21.92$19.45***One of The New Yorker's Best Books of 2022******One of The New York Time's 100 Notable Books of 2022***'Exuberantly entertaining' NYT Book Review'Mark Braude's writing and subject make this book irresistible, as was Kiki herself.' Jim Jarmusch'A... -
Memoirs Of His Own Life by Tate Wilkinson 9780838637678
$118.56In print for the first time since 1790, this theatrical memoir of England's greatest mimic and one of the foremost actors and managers of the late eighteenth century, includes accounts of some of the great dramatic figures of the day, including David... -
Member of the Crew by Winfrid Kay Thackrey 9780810839403
$99.88In this volume the author recalls her days as a studio stenographer and crewmember during Hollywood's Golden Age. Beginning with her first film as a script stenographer, she describes in vivid detail the atmosphere on the sets, her interaction with... -
The Life and Comics of Howard Cruse: Taking Risks in the Service of Truth by Andrew J. Kunka 9781978818866
RRP: $77.40$70.15Nominated for the 2022 Eisner Award - Best Academic/Scholarly WorkThe 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 study... -
Affairs of the Art: Love, Loss and Power in the Art World by Katrina Strickland 9780522858624
RRP: $48.96$27.89The reputations of artists are curious things, influenced by factors beyond the quality of the work. Affairs of the Art explores the role those left behind play in burnishing an artist's reputation after he or she dies. Through interviews with those... -
Copper into Gold: Prints by John Raphael Smith (1751-1812) Ellen G. DOench 9780300076301
RRP: $51.60$51.02A highly important figure in the late eighteenth-century British art world, John Raphael Smith was the most robust and prolific printmaker of his time. Smith not only produced nearly 400 prints-about 130 of his own design and the others by such noted... -
Citizen Keane: The Big Lies Behind the Big Eyes Adam Parfray 9781936239955
RRP: $23.21$16.22Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781936239955Author Adam ParfrayFormat PaperbackPage Count 186Imprint Feral House,U.S.Publisher Feral House,U.S.Weight(grams) 333g -
Between Tel Aviv and Moscow: A Life of Dissent and Exile in Mandate Palestine and the Soviet Union by Leah Trachtman-Palchan 9781784530808
$70.78Leah Trachtman-Palchan was an ordinary woman who lived an extraordinary life. This was a life of migration, dissent, exile and survival. Born in the final years of Tsarist Russia, her family was forced to leave their small town following the repeated... -
The Comics Journal Library Vol. 4: Drawing the Line Milo George 9781560975977
RRP: $27.08$20.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560975977Author Milo GeorgeFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 974g -
Enigma Of Al Capp Alexander Theroux 9781560973409
RRP: $8.97$6.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781560973409Author Alexander TherouxFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint FantagraphicsPublisher FantagraphicsWeight(grams) 105g -
Shopping Town: Designing the City in Suburban America by Victor Gruen 9781517902094
RRP: $139.32$110.60Victor 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... -
Becoming Andy Warhol Nick Bertozzi 9781419718762
RRP: $18.05$16.27Celebrated during his lifetime as much for his personality as for his paintings, Andy Warhol (1928-1987) is the man who invented Pop Art, the notion of 15 minutes of fame, and the idea that an artist could be as illustrious as the work he creates. With a... -
Escape Home: Rebuilding a Life After the Anschluss by Carrie Paterson 9780997003468
$20.03"Intimate and scholarly...Patient readers will be rewarded. An encyclopedic and epistolary family history, a eulogy for pre-Reich Vienna and an ode to midcentury modernism." -- Kirkus Reviews "This jewel should not be called a book but a... -
Peter McLeavey: The life and times of a New Zealand art dealer Jill Trevelyan 9780987668844
RRP: $64.49$42.78From Montana award-winning author Jill Trevelyan comes the first biography of Peter McLeavey, the charismatic, pioneering art dealer who since the 1960s has shaped - even transformed - New Zealand art. McLeavey's personal story is remarkable, but his... -
A Personal Calligraphy Mary Pratt 9780864923165
RRP: $34.82$21.97Winner of the Newfoundland and Labrador Writers' Association Prize for Non-FictionMary Pratt is famous throughout Canada for her luminous paintings and prints. Her 1995 exhibition, The Art of Mary Pratt: The Substance of Light, drew record-breaking... -
Lilian J. Rice: Master Architect, A Biography by Diane Y. Welch 9780764349584
RRP: $41.27$26.32Architect to some of the nation's wealthiest achievers in the first half of the twentieth century, Lilian Rice was given an unprecedented opportunity in 1923 to oversee the design of Rancho Santa Fe, a master-planned community catering to the rich and... -
Soul Of Ink: Lim Tze Peng At 100 by Tai Ho Woon 9789811237737
RRP: $32.25$28.11Soul of Ink: Lim Tze Peng at 100 pays tribute to the remarkable achievement of artistic renaissance at 100. It traces the lean beginnings of Lim Tze Peng's early years, relives the times of controversy over the artist's innovations in Chinese... -
The Romance Continues: The Art and Gardens of Grant Leier and Nixie Barton by Goody Niosi 9781894898294
RRP: $39.98$25.55Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781894898294Author Goody NiosiFormat HardbackPage Count 144Imprint Heritage House Publishing Co LtdPublisher Heritage House Publishing Co LtdWeight(grams)... -
The Legacy of Edith Kramer: A Multifaceted View by Lani Gerity 9781138681231
RRP: $167.70$145.14The Legacy of Edith Kramer presents a unique exploration into the life and work of the groundbreaking artist and art therapist. This edited volume examines the artist's personal and cultural history prior to relocating to the United States as well as the...