Artists, Architects, Photographers

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780648460466Author Guy James WhitworthFormat PaperbackPage Count 152Imprint Clouds of Magellan Pub.Publisher Clouds of Magellan Pub.Weight(grams) 295g

Remembered today as an early cartographer and prolific religious artist, don Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco (1713-1785) engaged during his lifetime in a surprising array of other pursuits: engineer and militia captain on Indian campaigns, district officer,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782070389445Author Jean-Marie Gustave Le ClezioFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Editions FlammarionPublisher Editions Flammarion

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982225134Author Richard NeutraFormat PaperbackPage Count 398Imprint Atara PressPublisher Atara PressWeight(grams) 504g

Contemporary of Vasari's hero, Michelangelo, and like him a sculptor as much as a painter, Domenico Beccafumi could nonetheless hardly present a more different artistic personality. His calligraphically curved figures--often wispy and strangely...

In a 2019 interview with the webzine DC in the 80s, Jeff Lemire (b. 1976) discusses the comics he read as a child growing up in Essex County, Ontario-his early exposure to reprints of Silver Age DC material, how influential Crisis on Infinite Earths and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780578428307Author Lucelle RaadFormat PaperbackPage Count 308Imprint Escarpment PressPublisher Escarpment PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780878466849Author Deborah SolomonFormat PaperbackPage Count 448Imprint Museum of Fine Arts,BostonPublisher Museum of Fine Arts,BostonWeight(grams) 158g

The rvised and updated biography of the British painter, drawing on the mass of new material which has come to light since Holroyd's first edition in 1974, revealing the complete story of John and his circle, from one of the greatest modern biographers...

This biography follows the remarkable life of Louise-Elisabeth Vigee Le Brun, whose portraits of European royalty and nobility hang in many of the world's most important galleries. As a young woman in the male-dominated society of late 18th century...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781529937015Author Amie McneeFormat HardbackPage Count 256Imprint Ebury PressPublisher Ebury Publishing

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780300266481Author Nicola MoorbyFormat HardbackPage Count 352Imprint Yale University PressPublisher Yale University Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781398850293Author Ann SumnerFormat HardbackPage Count 96Imprint Arcturus Publishing LtdPublisher Arcturus Publishing Ltd

From multi-award-winning writer Helen Ennis comes the first ever biography of the photographer Max Dupain, the most influential Australian photographer of the 20th century and creator of many iconic images that have passed into our national imagination. ...

In the course of a short and violent life, Michelangelo Merisl da Caravaggio (1571-1610) revolutionised painting, producing a style of shockingly immediate realism that swept through Europe. The impact of his art and personality continue to resonate to...

For the first time since his debut 35 years ago, horror master Junji Ito reveals exactly how he creates his unique worlds.Why are we drawn to fear?Horror manga legend Junji Ito has fascinated the world with his beautiful and strange tales, starting with...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780500027479Author Chris HeathFormat HardbackPage Count 560Imprint Thames & Hudson LtdPublisher Thames & Hudson Ltd

From simple beginnings, Amalia Kussner rose to fame as a talented and bold artist and ultimately became one of the most sought-after miniature portrait painters of the Gilded Age. At a time when the use of photography was on the rise, many still loved...

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Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781912475582Author Michael SkafidasFormat PaperbackPage Count 362Imprint ERISPublisher ERIS

The first biography of the Algerian artist Baya Mahieddine, celebrated in mid-twentieth-century Paris, her life shrouded in myth. On a flower farm in colonial Algeria, a servant and field worker named Baya escaped the drudgery of her labor by coloring...

“Feels like reading a love story that doesn't quite know it's a love story yet, and a success story that doesn't know it’s made it.” —Emma Straub, New York Times–bestselling author of This Time TomorrowAward-winning, beloved children's book author and...

You might not know the name Tyrus Wong, but you probably know some of the images he created, including scenes from the beloved Disney classic Bambi. Yet when he came to this country as a child, Tyrus was an illegal immigrant locked up in an offshore...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780822948407Author Elaine RusinkoFormat HardbackPage Count 488Imprint University of Pittsburgh PressPublisher University of Pittsburgh PressWeight(grams)...

Nuremberg, 1946. As the trials of Nazi war criminals begin, some of the world's most famous writers and reporters gather in the ruined German city. Among them are Rebecca West, John Dos Passos, Martha Gellhorn, Erika Mann and Janet Flanner. Crammed...

*Gorgeously illustrated with 70 colour images*You wish to teach me what is within myself: learn first what is within you . . . I believe life has no meaning unless one lives it with a will, at least to the limit of one's will.Paul Gauguin is chiefly...

A young Nepalese man’s globe-spanning relationship with an American surrealist over three decades changes the course of his life, his fortune, and his sense of family and home.In 1973, poet, photographer, collage artist, and sculptor Charles Henri Ford,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781955125055Author Graham Harrison LeeFormat HardbackPage Count 250Imprint Hat & BeardPublisher Hat & Beard

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780141980621Author Jackie WullschlägerFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Penguin Books LtdPublisher Penguin Books Ltd

The untold story of an American hustler who upset the art world and became a pop culture icon, cutting a swath across twentieth-century history and culture. LeRoy Neiman-the cigar-smoking and mustachioed artist famous for his Playboy illustrations,...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781633450790Author Ann TemkinFormat HardbackPage Count 424Imprint Museum of Modern ArtPublisher Museum of Modern Art

A SUNDAY TIMES BOOK OF THE YEAR The ten years leading up to the First World War were the most exciting, frenzied and revolutionary in the history of art. They were the crucible of Modernism, when Fauvism, Expressionism, Cubism, Futurism and Abstract Art...

An exuberant biography of the life of the iconic photographer and naturalist Peter Beard, whose life and work captured the cultural imagination  Peter Beard lived an astonishing life. The artist, wildlife photographer, and bon vivant enthralled and...

The 1976 publication of Peter Hujar’s Portraits in Life and Death, with an introduction by Susan Sontag, “was and remains one of the most somberly beautiful and influential photography collections of its era” (Holland Cotter, senior art critic of The New...

Joe Tucker's Uncle Eric was a beloved yet unconventional figure throughout Joe's life. A shambolically dressed man who lived with his mother for almost eighty years, he had an almost compulsive need to charm strangers with working men's club comedy...

This illustrated and deeply researched biography uncovers the captivating life, groundbreaking work, and enduring legacy of John Willie, the celebrated mid-20th-century fetish artist, publisher, and sexual pioneer. With his iconic art and the...

Jean Giraud (1938–2012) started drawing comics in the late 1950s for a variety of French comics magazines. Under his real name, he found success in 1963 with the western series Blueberry, written by Jean-Michel Charlier and published in Pilote magazine...

Celebrated internationally in the nineteenth century as America's premier architect, Richard Morris Hunt (1827-1895) is best known for his opulent Gilded Age Vanderbilt mansions, including Biltmore, the Breakers, Marble House, and other landmark works...

Jean Giraud (1938–2012) started drawing comics in the late 1950s for a variety of French comics magazines. Under his real name, he found success in 1963 with the western series Blueberry, written by Jean-Michel Charlier and published in Pilote magazine...

The late nineteenth-century Biloxi potter, George Ohr (1857–1918), was considered an eccentric in his time but has emerged as a major figure in American art since the discovery of thousands of examples of his work in the 1960s. Currently, Ohr is...