Artists, Architects, Photographers

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

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,...

Album Picabia is an inspiring, artistic chronicle of Francis Picabia's life (1879-1953) as seen through the eyes of his last wife and creative protegee, Olga Mohler Picabia. Begun in 1936, four years before their marriage, and left unfinished in 1951,...

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 *...

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

Wafaa Bilal's childhood in Iraq was defined by the horrific rule of Saddam Hussein, two wars, a bloody uprising, and time spent interned in chaotic refugee camps in Kuwait and Saudi Arabia. Bilal eventually made it to the United States to become a...

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...

Open the pages of so many children's classics-Stuart Little, Charlotte's Web, Mister Dog, The Cricket in Times Square, The Rescuers, the Little House books-and you will see page after page of the artistry that brought those stories to life. And behind...

Albrecht Durer (1471-1528) was hailed in his lifetime as a founder of the Northern Renaissance, and his work revolutionized the art of printmaking. Durer was also the first artist outside Italy to leave behind a large body of writing. Contemporaries and...

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

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 beautifully-illustrated and engrossing biography of the Mexican painter Frida Kahlo reveals a woman of extreme magnetism and originality and an artist whose sensual vibrancy came straight from her own experiences. Born and brought up near Mexico...

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. ...

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, from his debut...

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 known as Baya escaped the drudgery of her labor by...

“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 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,...

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...