Artists, Architects, Photographers

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...

This definitive biography and catalog raisonne of Walter Launt Palmer discusses his personal and creative life in great detail. The personal history of this twentieth century painter has been derived from never before used primary sources. Information...

This is a rare look inside the art world and art making by an internationally recognized sculptor. Murray Dewart has built large public sculptures around the world over the course of 50 years. He is also a fine writer. Poignant, literate, spiritual, and...

Andy Warhol was one of the most celebrated figures in New York society for some twenty-five years, and probably second only to Picasso as the world's best-known contemporary artist. His Pop Art paintings of Campbell's Soup Cans and his silkscreen...

This book chronicles Zunar's fight through cartoons from 2009 to 2018. Peppered within the pages of this book are some of Zunar's timeless philosophies on cartooning, which have kept him going despite the odds stacked against him - arrests, court...

Originally published in 1969, this project had Wyndham Lewis’ personal approval and is a comprehensive anthology of his prose writings, especially those which are difficult to access. There are extracts from some of Wyndham Lewis’ remarkable books such...

Originally published in 1963 and edited by an authority on Wyndham Lewis (whom he also knew personally) this volume made available for the first time over 500 letters of Wyndham Lewis, who for half a century was a dynamic force among English artists and...

John Constable (1776-1837), the revolutionary nineteenth-century painter of the landscapes and skies of southern England, is Britain's best-loved but perhaps least understood artist. The major Constable exhibitions held since 2000 in London, Paris, New...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780957592209Author Mistress XenaFormat HardbackPage Count 220Imprint Probe Partners LtdPublisher Probe Partners LtdWeight(grams) 985g

This book enlarges our understanding of Goodhue, neither fully researched nor justly appreciated until now, by examining his residential designs within the framework of his better-known ecclesiastical and secular projects. At the same time it takes a...

Gathie Falk is one of Canada's most heralded visual artists: she has won the Governor General's Award in Visual and Media Arts, the Audain Prize for Lifetime Achievement in the Visual Arts, and the Gershon Iskowitz Prize; she has been honoured with the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781942762638Author M J MooreFormat PaperbackPage Count 252Imprint Heliotrope Books LLCPublisher Heliotrope Books LLCWeight(grams) 372gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Whistler was one of the most original, if also tirelessly self-promoting artists of the later 19th century. After his disastrous run-in with John Ruskin, the greatest critic of the previous generation, Whistler poured his thoughts and feelings about art...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250009043Author Vicky TielFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher St. Martin's GriffinWeight(grams) 322gDimensions(mm) 210mm...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416580867Author Mark RoskillFormat PaperbackPage Count 351Imprint Touchstone BooksPublisher Touchstone BooksWeight(grams) 340g

In this lavishly illustrated biography of silversmith and graphic artist William Spratling (1900-1967), Taylor D. Littleton reintroduces one of the most fascinating American expatriates of the early twentieth century. Best known for his revolutionary...

Caravaggio was the most revolutionary artist of the Italian Baroque. The intensity and drama of his chiaroscuro style is matched only by his life. Outlaw, heretic, murderer and sensualist are some of the charges brought against him by his contemporaries...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781476703527Author Deborah DavisFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Atria BooksPublisher Atria BooksWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 211mm * 140mm * 25mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781941879078Author Yvonne Spear PerretFormat HardbackPage Count 192Imprint Pelican Publishing CompanyPublisher Pelican Publishing CompanyWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781589880634Author John StewartFormat PaperbackPage Count 212Imprint Paul Dry Books, IncPublisher Paul Dry Books, IncWeight(grams) 330g

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...

Artist, columnist, and poet Gertrude McCarty Smith (1923-2007) of Collins, Mississippi, carried herself as a demure and proper southern lady, yet this was deceiving as she was a prolific, creative trailblazer who had collectors and dedicated readers from...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250118035Author Olivia LaingFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Picador USAPublisher Picador USAWeight(grams) 272g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781467146302Author Pat JakobiFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint History PressPublisher History PressWeight(grams) 152g

August Benziger was one of the most sought-after portrait painters of his time. His subjects ranged from Popes to princes, from presidents to businessmen. This biography brings us closer to his subjects who carried history from the 19th to the 20th...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781496228239Author Laura E SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 232Imprint University of Nebraska PressPublisher University of Nebraska Press

ONE OF THE TIMES AND SUNDAY TIMES' BEST BOOKS FOR 2022'Eye-opening and full of surprises . . . A treasure' Sunday Times'A biography as rich with colourful characters as any novel' TelegraphJohn Constable, the revolutionary nineteenth-century painter of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781419757259Author Alfons KaiserFormat HardbackPage Count 384Imprint CernunnosPublisher CernunnosWeight(grams) 612gDimensions(mm) 231mm * 155mm * 36mm

Quebec's Eastern Townships are home to a higher concentration of artists than anywhere else in Canada. With his starting and finishing point being Frederick Coburn (1871--1960), arguably Canada's best-known painter at the peak of his career, author Nick...

Originally published in 1969, this project had Wyndham Lewis' personal approval and is a comprehensive anthology of his prose writings, especially those which are difficult to access. There are extracts from some of Wyndham Lewis' remarkable books such...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781988168555Author Co HoedemanFormat HardbackPage Count 168Imprint At Bay PressPublisher At Bay Press

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...

This is an accessibly written, illustrated biography of Venetian painter Rosalba Carriera (1673-1757), one of the most famous women artists in 18th-century Europe. It presents an overview of her life and work, considering Carriera's miniatures alongside...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781925523928Author Clem GormanFormat PaperbackPage Count 288Imprint Monash University PublishingPublisher Monash University Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781438435718Author Janis LondravilleFormat HardbackPage Count 243Imprint Excelsior EditionsPublisher State University of New York PressWeight(grams) 744g

For nearly 50 years, John Van Alstine has created abstract sculptures forged with stone and steel. At their essence, they explore natural forces and man-made elements, conveying the American experience as the confluence/conflict between wilderness and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781665709491Author Brigitte BrüggemannFormat HardbackPage Count 178Imprint Archway PublishingPublisher Archway PublishingWeight(grams) 658g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781982181741Author Laura CummingFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Scribner Book CompanyPublisher Scribner Book CompanyWeight(grams) 513g