Artists, Architects, Photographers
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Artists Who Changed History
$40.00 Add to cartThis visual celebration of the world’s most celebrated thinkers tells the fascinating stories of their lives and pioneering ideas.
Artists Who Changed History places well-known artists in their histor- Series: DK History Changers
- Author: Dixon, Andrew Graham
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: May 14 2024
- ISBN10: 0744096960
- Language: English
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Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O’Sullivan, America’s Most Mysterious War Photographer
$32.00 Read moreOne of The New Yorker‘s best books of the year so far A Kirkus Reviews Best Nature Book of 2024
“Singular . . . Virtuosic . . . Double Exposure is the best book I’ve read about America . . . in many, m- Author: Sullivan, Robert
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0374151164
- Language: English
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The Joke’s Over: Bruised Memories: Gonzo, Hunter S. Thompson, and Me
$16.99 Add to cartIn the spring of 1970, artist Ralph Steadman went to America in search of work and found more than he bargained for when he met Hunter S. Thompson at the Kentucky Derby. Their remarkable collaboration
- Author: Steadman, Ralph
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: October 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0156032503
- Language: English
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Double Exposure: Resurveying the West with Timothy O’Sullivan, America’s Most Mysterious War Photographer
$22.00 Add to cartOne of The New Yorker‘s best books of the year so far A Kirkus Reviews Best Nature Book of 2024
“Singular . . . Virtuosic . . . Double Exposure is the best book I’ve read about America . . . in many, m- Author: Sullivan, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: April 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1250371759
- Language: English
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Stan and Gus: Art, Ardor, and the Friendship That Built the Gilded Age
$30.00 Add to cartHow the architect Stanford White and the sculptor Augustus Saint-Gaudens transcended scandal to enrich their times.
Stanford White was a louche man-about-town and a canny cultural entrepreneur–the c- Author: Wiencek, Henry
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: July 22 2025
- ISBN10: 0374162492
- Language: English
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Crumb: A Cartoonist’s Life
$35.00 Add to cartThe first biography of Robert Crumb–one of the most profound and influential artists of the 20th century–whose iconic, radically frank and meticulously rendered cartoons and comics inspired generati… [more below]
- Author: Nadel, Dan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: April 15 2025
- ISBN10: 1982144009
- Language: English
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Surreal: The Extraordinary Life of Gala Dal?
$32.00 Add to cartSurreal, the long-awaited, definitive biography of Gala Dal?, unmasks this famous yet little-known queen of the twentieth-century art world, who graced the canvases, inspired the poetry, and influence
- Author: Klein, Michele Gerber
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 0063220571
- Language: English
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Frida Kahlo. Una Biograf?a (Edici?n Especial) / Frida Kahlo. a Biography
$24.95 Add to cartEdici?n de lujo con material in?dito del fen?meno editorial que dio a conocer a una autora con m?s de 400.000 lectores en 18 idiomas.
Incluye el ap?ndice «Las recetas de Frida
«Pies p… [more below]- Author: Hesse, Mar?a
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 8426430880
- Language: Spanish
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Renoir, My Father
$24.95 Add to cartIn this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game, tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the grea… [more below]
- Series: Nyrb Classics S
- Author: Renoir, Jean
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: September 30 2001
- ISBN10: 0940322773
- Language: English
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The Club: Where American Women Artists Found Refuge in Belle ?poque Paris
$29.99 Add to cart“Through masterful research and sparkling prose, The Club feels like an exclusive invitation to a Parisian enclave during an era of artistic and social transformation.” -Michael Finkel, #1 New York Ti
- Author: Dasal, Jennifer
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 15 2025
- ISBN10: 163973130X
- Language: English
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Everything She Touched: The Life of Ruth Asawa
$24.95 Add to cartNow in paperback! The definitive biography and inspiring story of American sculptor Ruth Asawa.
“A fitting homage to this remarkable woman.” —The Wall Street Journal This is the story of a woman who- Author: Chase, Marilyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 328
- Publish Date: April 01 2025
- ISBN10: 1797232649
- Language: English
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The Yellow House
$19.99 Add to cartFrom October to December of 1888, Paul Gauguin shared a yellow house in the south of France with Vincent van Gogh. They were the odd couple of the art world — one calm, the other volatile — and the
- Author: Gayford, Martin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0618990585
- Language: English
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Turner and Constable: Art, Life, Landscape
$35.00 Add to cartBorn just fourteen months apart, one in London and the other in rural Suffolk, J.M.W. Turner and John Constable went on to change the face of British art.
The two men have routinely been seen as pola- Author: Moorby, Nicola
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: March 11 2025
- ISBN10: 0300266480
- Language: English
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Wild Thing: A Life of Paul Gauguin
$39.99 Add to cartPaul Gauguin’s legend as a transgressive genius arises as much from his biography as his aesthetically daring Polynesian paintings. Gauguin is chiefly known for his pictures that eschewed convention,
- Author: Prideaux, Sue
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: May 13 2025
- ISBN10: 1324020423
- Language: English
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The Maverick’s Museum: Albert Barnes and His American Dream
$35.00 Add to cartA fascinating biography of the philanthropist Albert Barnes, whose pioneering collection of modern art was meant to transform America’s soul
From prominent critic and biographer Blake Gopnik comes a co
- Author: Gopnik, Blake
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: March 18 2025
- ISBN10: 0063284030
- Language: English
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Warhol’s Muses: The Artists, Misfits, and Superstars Destroyed by the Factory Fame Machine
$32.00 Add to cartONE OF “25 BOOKS TO READ IN 2025”–TORONTO STAR
From the New York Times bestselling author of Capote’s Women comes an astonishing
ONE OF “12 NEW NONFICTION BOOKS YOU NEED TO READ IN 2025”–THE OBSERVER- Author: Leamer, Laurence
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 06 2025
- ISBN10: 0593716663
- Language: English
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Plagued by Fire: The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright
$20.00 Read moreFrank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suf… [more below]
- Author: Hendrickson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 624
- Publish Date: September 22 2020
- ISBN10: 0804172889
- Language: English
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Cosmic Scholar: The Life and Times of Harry Smith
$22.00 Read moreNamed one of the Best Books of 2023 by the New Yorker and The New York Times‘ Dwight Garner
“The first comprehensive biography of this hipster magus . . . [John Szwed] allows different sides of Smith’s- Author: Szwed, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: August 20 2024
- ISBN10: 1250338107
- Language: English
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Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up
$55.00 Read moreClaire Wilcox and Circe Henestrosa’s Frida Kahlo: Making Her Self Up presents a unique window into the artist’s life.
Frida Kahlo (1907-1954), as an artist and a woman, has a unique international app- Author: Wilcox, Claire
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: July 24 2018
- ISBN10: 1851779604
- Language: English
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The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
$22.00 Add to cartA literary classic, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh Captures the voice of one of the most beloved and important artists of all time. Though Vincent van Gogh is often thought of as a mad genius, in The… [more below]
- Author: Roskill, Mark
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: November 01 2008
- ISBN10: 1416580867
- Language: English
