Artists, Architects, Photographers

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 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)...

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...

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

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...

George Catlin has been called the "first artist of the West," as none before him lived among and painted the Native American tribes of the Northern Plains. After a false start as a painter of miniatures, Catlin found his calling: to fix the image of a...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420970845Author Giorgio VasariFormat PaperbackPage Count 446Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 562gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm *...

Known as the "Audubon of Botany," Philadelphia, Quaker Mary Morris Vaux Walcott (1860-1940) was a gifted artist whose stunning watercolors comprise a catalog of North American wildflowers. Walcott was catapulted to the highest levels of society and...

The Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood lent its name to one of the most significant and innovative artistic movements of the Victorian age. Jan Marsh's lively and revealing account of these remarkable men and women explores the individual personalities, the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780525558729Author Bill CunninghamFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint Penguin USAPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 244gDimensions(mm) 208mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374529727Author Hayden HerreraFormat PaperbackPage Count 784Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683343608Author The Historical Society of Palm Beach CountyFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Pineapple Press Inc.,U.S.Publisher Rowman &...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781916421103Author L A WatsonFormat PaperbackPage Count 222Imprint Goddess and SwiftPublisher Goddess and SwiftWeight(grams) 417gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

The most revealing and interesting writings of American artist Thomas Eakins are the letters he sent to family and friends while he was a student in Paris between 1866 and 1870. This book presents all these letters in their entirety for the first time;...

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...

Here's a secret: God has deposited a gift inside of you. Acclaimed angel artist Anne Neilson wants to help you find yours as she shares her personal story of passion and purpose and how faith radiates from every canvas of her life. The Brushstrokes of...

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...