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The Legacy of Edith Kramer: A Multifaceted View by Lani Gerity
RRP: €58.30€51.24The 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... -
Russell Lee: A Photographer's Life and Legacy by Mary Jane Appel
RRP: €38.08€34.27The 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... -
Art Legends Alphabet by Beck Feiner
RRP: €17.84€12.07From 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... -
The Letters of Wyndham Lewis by W. K. Rose
RRP: €103.52€89.89Originally 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... -
Lena Ashwell by Margaret Leask
RRP: €17.84€16.23Skillfully 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... -
Restless Enterprise: The Art and Life of Eliza Pratt Greatorex by Katherine Manthorne
RRP: €35.70€28.19Eliza 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... -
Marsden Hartley: The Biography of an American Artist by Townsend Ludington
RRP: €46.41€40.60"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: Conversations by Terrence R. Wandtke
RRP: €29.69€22.16Robert 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... -
My Art, My Life by John Van Hamersveld
RRP: €22.61€19.92Apologies 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)... -
Ernest L. Blumenschein: The Life of an American Artist by Robert W Larson
€45.04Apologies 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 -
Jacques Villegle and the Streets of Paris by Barnaby Conrad
RRP: €95.20€67.40Apologies 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 -
Marc Chagall and His Times: A Documentary Narrative by Benjamin Harshav
RRP: €98.77€88.67This 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... -
Portraits of Genius Friends by Sandra Hochman
RRP: €22.60€15.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781683367338Author Sandra HochmanFormat HardbackPage Count 104Imprint TurnerPublisher Turner -
Art And Rivalry: The Marriage of Mary and Christopher Pratt by Carol Bishop-Gwyn
RRP: €28.55€18.96Apologies 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 -
Philip Johnson: Life and Work Franz Schulze 9780226740584
RRP: €44.03€43.04In 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... -
The Life and Art of Anne Eisner (1911-1967): An American Artist between Cultures by Christie McDonald
RRP: €32.13€21.41"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... -
Where the North Sea Touches Alabama by Allen Shelton
RRP: €24.99€24.17On 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... -
The Real Leonardo Da Vinci Rose Sgueglia 9781526761057
RRP: €23.79€16.99Leonardo 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... -
Bollywood blonde by Gene Gualdi
RRP: €17.79€14.95Apologies 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 -
Almost French: A Life of Fanfare and Faux Pas Louis Jansen van Vuuren 9781776191178
RRP: €11.89€8.21When 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... -
Anything but a Still Life: The Art and Lives of Molly Lamb and Bruno Bobak by Nathan Greenfield
RRP: €32.12€20.74Molly 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... -
A Sameness Between Us: The Friendship of Charmion von Wiegand and Piet Mondrian in Letters and Memoirs by Martin Brauen
RRP: €49.98€33.78In 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... -
Eighth Day Wonder: Jerry N. Uelsmann Moa Petersen 9783969000984
RRP: €55.93€36.53Apologies 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 -
Loner at the Ball: The Life of Andy Warhol Fred Lawrence Guiles 9781684427918
RRP: €19.03€14.07Andy 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 Olmstead: The Passion of a Public Artist by Melvin Kalfus
RRP: €29.74€26.26Frederick 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... -
The Red Man's Bones: George Catlin, Artist and Showman by Benita Eisler 9780393066166
€25.12George 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... -
Unvarnished: Autobiographical Sketches by Emily Carr by Emily Carr
RRP: €21.36€16.51Culled 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 Lives of the Artists by Giorgio Vasari 9781420970845
RRP: €21.41€18.37Apologies 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 *... -
Life and Times of Mary Vaux Walcott by Marjorie G. Jones 9780764349720
RRP: €27.36€17.91Known 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 Circle by Jan Marsh
RRP: €23.74€16.03The 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... -
Fashion Climbing: A Memoir by Bill Cunningham 9780525558729
RRP: €28.56€20.05Apologies 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 *... -
Arshile Gorky: His Life and Work by Hayden Herrera 9780374529727
RRP: €35.70€28.18Apologies 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)... -
Magda Nachman: An Artist in Exile by Lina Bernstein
RRP: €21.41€16.42The 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... -
Addison Mizner: A Palm Beach Memoir by The Historical Society of Palm Beach County
RRP: €23.79€20.50Apologies 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 &... -
Path of the Illuminate: We are not Alone by L A Watson 9781916421103
RRP: €53.49€42.35Apologies 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 Paris Letters of Thomas Eakins by Thomas Eakins 9780691138084
RRP: €35.70€27.72The 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;... -
Tilmann Riemenschneider: His Life and Work by Justus Bier 9780813151267
€36.54In 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... -
The Brushstrokes of Life: Discovering How God Brings Beauty and Purpose to Your Story by Anne Neilson 9780785292371
RRP: €23.80€20.96Here'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... -
Terrytoons: The Story of Paul Terry and His Classic Cartoon Factory by Gerald Hamonic 9780861967292
RRP: €30.93€26.54Apologies 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 -
The Life of Bernini by Filippo Baldinucci 9780271730769
RRP: €28.50€25.17Initially 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...