Artists, Architects, Photographers

At 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...

With the aid of Leonardo da Vinci's note books, as well as a wide variety of sources, this biography covers the full life of the great Renaissance painter and architect. It is an account of Leonardo, both as an artist and as an individual. The book...

Discover 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...

Ron Garney knows how to tell a story on the comics page. He can draw cinematic blockbuster action with the best of them, as his iconic runs on Captain America, Wolverine, and Weapon X will attest. But he also excels at depicting the quiet moments. There...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

In 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...

John 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...

David 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,...

Apologies 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

This 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,...

Apologies 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 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

With 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 (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...

***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...

In 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...

In 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...

Recalled as the lover and patron of Robert Mapplethorpe, Sam Wagstaff here takes centre stage as a leading American intellectual and cultural visionary. Philip Gefter traces Wagstaff's evolution from society "bachelor" of the 1940s to his emergence as...

Nominated 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...

The 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...

A 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...

Apologies 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

Leah 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies 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

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...

Celebrated 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...

"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...

From 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...

Winner 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...

Architect 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 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...

Apologies 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 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...

The oral autobiography of the controversial Vienna Aktionist, with archival materials and additional writings by Nitsch A pioneer of Vienna’s postwar avant-garde and the most notorious member of the Vienna Aktionist group, Hermann Nitsch (1938–2022)...

Dusk is that brief period of the day before nightfall. But when a rainbow appears after dusk, it is special, almost a divine apparition. The phenomenon, though rare, is not science fiction. Rainbows do appear after dusk. This unusual story is a...

Dusk is that brief period of the day before nightfall. But when a rainbow appears after dusk, it is special, almost a divine apparition. The phenomenon, though rare, is not science fiction. Rainbows do appear after dusk. This unusual story is a...