Artists, Architects, Photographers

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

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...

French symbolist artist Odilon Redon (1840-1916) seemed to thrive at the intersection of literature and art. Known as "the painter-writer", he drew on the works of Poe, Baudelaire, Flaubert, and Mallarme for his subject matter. And yet he concluded that...

The most prolific photographer of the Farm Security Administration (FSA), Russell Lee has never been canonised for his iconic images of mid-century America. With this insightful biography, historian and archivist Mary Jane Appel uncovers Lee's rebellious...

From Andy Warhol to Pablo Picasso, Frida Kahlo to Cindy Sherman, Art Legends Alphabet celebrates an A to Z of icons who have forever changed the face of art. Boldly illustrated and expressively written, Art Legends Alphabet will educate, entertain and...

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...

Skillfully written and complemented with photos, this biography is the first to honor British actress-manager Lena Ashwell. In a rapidly changing world, Ashwell was crucial to the advancement of women in English theater and in the formation of the...

Eliza Pratt Greatorex (1819-1897) was America's most famous woman artist in the mid-nineteenth century, but today she is all but forgotten. Beginning with her Irish roots, this biography brings her art and life back into focus. Breaking conventions for...

"A penetrating biography.... Ludington offers a psychological portrait of an intense, contradictory, scornful, but gentle man who transcended his nineteenth-century roots in Lewiston, Maine, to view Europe as his home and to make a distinctive...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781587315244Author John Van HamersveldFormat PaperbackPage Count 176Imprint St Augustine's PressPublisher St Augustine's PressWeight(grams)...

A definitive biography of an iconic Canadian architect-and a social portrait of the midcentury design world he lived in. Ron Thom came of age in the mid-20th century, just as the modern movement and an impending building boom were about to reshape the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780806143347Author Robert W LarsonFormat HardbackPage Count 349Imprint University of Oklahoma PressPublisher University of Oklahoma PressWeight(grams) 590g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781950301379Author Barnaby ConradFormat HardbackPage Count 276Imprint InksharesPublisher InksharesWeight(grams) 1973gDimensions(mm) 298mm * 258mm * 28mm

This book presents a new and comprehensive biography of one of the most prominent artists of the twentieth century in dialogue with the events and ideologies of his time. It encompasses the 98 years of Chagall's life (1887-1985) in Russia, France, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683367338Author Sandra HochmanFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint TurnerPublisher Turner

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780345808424Author Carol Bishop-GwynFormat HardbackPage Count 272Imprint Knopf CanadaPublisher Random House Canada

In this biography, Franz Schulze probes the private and professional life of one of the most famous architects and architectural critics of the 20th century. The only son of a wealthy Midwestern family, Philip Johnson was a millionaire by the time he...

"In this radiant biography, the painter Anne Eisner springs to life as a figure of formidable originality... Christie McDonald's heroic, feminist work restores Eisner as artist and as a key anthropological observer of her time." - Rosanna Warren, author...

On a warm summer's night in Athens, Georgia, Patrik Keim stuck a pistol into his mouth and pulled the trigger. Keim was an artist, and the room in which he died was an assemblage of the tools of his particular trade: the floor and table were covered with...

Leonardo Da Vinci was left-handed. That's probably why he wrote backwards from right to left to avoid smudging ink on his hand as he made notes on his latest works and visionary discoveries. Words could only be read with the help of a mirror making...

In Rustic Cubism, Bruce Adams tells the complex and fascinating story of Moly-Sabata, an art colony founded in the Rhone Valley during the height of French modernism by Cubist pioneer Albert Gleizes. Following his social and spiritual philosophies of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781920601447Author Gene GualdiFormat PaperbackPage Count 180Imprint MFBooks JoburgPublisher Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd

When he first visited Paris as a young student, artist Louis Jansen van Vuuren could never have imagined that one day he would end up owning a chateau in rural France.Almost French is the entertaining, often hilarious account of his induction over the...

Molly Lamb and Bruno Bobak shot to prominence as war artists during the Second World War. Marrying shortly after the end of the war, they moved first to Vancouver and then, in 1960, to Fredericton, where they settled permanently. Molly's paintings were...

In April 1941 Charmion von Wiegand (1896-1983), an American journalist and artist, met Piet Mondrian for an interview. From this very first meeting, a deep friendship and working relationship developed; she translated Mondrian's texts into English and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783969000984Author Moa PetersenFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Kehrer VerlagPublisher Kehrer Verlag

The first biography of sculptor Chana Orloff. In Sculpting a Life, the first book-length biography of sculptor Chana Orloff (1888-1968), author Paula Birnbaum tells the story of a fiercely determined and ambitious woman who fled antisemitism in...

Now available in trade paper! You have potential, even if it's hidden. You have talent, even if you're afraid to use it. Your dreams just might change the world if you only believe the truth: I'm possible.Internationally known celebrity photographer 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...

Frederick Law Olmsted is famous for his urban landscape designs: Central Park in Manhattan, Prospect Park in Brooklyn, and Franklin Park in Boston. Olmsted devoted much of his later life to this work. What was the source of this creative energy and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250097323Author Edmund de WaalFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint St Martin's PressPublisher St Martin's PressWeight(grams) 318gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Culled from the hand-written pages in old-fashioned scribblers and almost-forgotten typescripts amid drafts for her published stories, Unvarnished features among the last unpublished and highly personal writings of the iconic Canadian author and artist...

The only book-length biography of this controversial critic, now in paperback for the first time! Love him or hate him, admire him or revile him, there is no doubt that Clement Greenberg was the most influential critic of modern art in the second half of...

The political and social turmoil of the twentieth century took Magda Nachman from a privileged childhood in St. Petersburg at the close of the nineteenth century, artistic studies with Leon Bakst and Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin at the Zvantseva Art Academy, and...

In the hauntingly beautiful sculptures of Tilmann Riemenschneider, the Late Gothic art of Germany achieved its highest expression. Now, for the first time in English, the eminent art historian Justus Bier accords Riemenschneider the extended attention he...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780861967292Author Gerald HamonicFormat PaperbackPage Count 422Imprint John Libbey & Co LtdPublisher John Libbey & Co

Initially published by Penn State Press in 1965, Catherine Enggass's translation of Filippo Baldinucci's Life of Bernini was the first English-language edition of this historic biography. Out of print for many years, The Life of Bernini is now available...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997057416Author Xu FangfangFormat PaperbackPage Count 318Imprint Beihong Arts Publishing, LLCPublisher Beihong Arts Publishing, LLCWeight(grams) 426g