Artists, Architects, Photographers
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From the Back of the House: Memoir of a Broadway Theatre Manager
$14.99 Add to cartMy name is Dan Landon, and I was a Broadway theatre manager for 37 years. 1 worked on fifty shows. Over 9000 performances.
This is my love letter to Broadway, and all the stars and luminaries my job al
- Author: Landon, Dan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: June 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1956672230
- Language: English
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Stitched & Sewn: The Life-Saving Art of Holocaust Survivor Trudie Strobel
$26.99 Add to cartThe richly illustrated story of a woman who, late in life, copes with the buried trauma of her childhood as a Holocaust survivor by becoming a master needlework artist like her mother, who saved both … [more below]
- Author: Savin, Jody
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 194
- Publish Date: April 07 2020
- ISBN10: 9798887980348
- Language: English
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Christopher Isherwood Inside Out
$45.00 Add to cartA stunningly intimate exploration of the writer and gay cultural icon and of his lifelong search for authenticity.
The story of Christopher Isherwood’s life is one of pilgrimage: away from the constra- Author: Bucknell, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 864
- Publish Date: August 27 2024
- ISBN10: 0374119368
- Language: English
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The Portraitist: Frans Hals and His World
$35.00 Read moreA biography of the great portraitist Frans Hals that takes the reader into the turbulent world of the Dutch Golden Age.
Frans Hals was one of the greatest portrait painters in history, and his styl- Author: Nadler, Steven
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 360
- Publish Date: October 06, 2022
- ISBN10: 022669836X
- Language: English
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Where They Were Then: Sportscasters
$18.99 Add to cart15 sportscasters who made it to the big leagues. 15 different paths to success. 15 unique, unbelievable, and previously untold stories.
“This is fascinating stuff.” –Bob Costas, Hall of Fame broadcast
- Author: Reiss, Scott
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: November 08 2021
- ISBN10: 1737717875
- Language: English
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Desperately Seeking Basquiat
$19.95 Add to cartJean-Michel Basquiat is one of the few artists who have achieved mythic status. His work is instantly recognizable; like Picasso, Warhol or Frida Kahlo, his look is imprinted on our psyche. But how mu… [more below]
- Author: Castello-Cortes, Ian
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 19 2019
- ISBN10: 3943330451
- Language: English
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Walker Evans: Last Photographs & Life Stories
$45.00 Read moreIn 1973, Michael Lesy was a young scholar whose first book had just been published. In the soon-legendary Wisconsin Death Trip he combined 1890s photographs and newspaper clippings to evoke a devastat… [more below]
- Author: Lesy, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 176
- Publish Date: October 28 2022
- ISBN10: 0922233527
- Language: English
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Portrait of a Woman: Art, Rivalry, and Revolution in the Life of Adélaïde Labille-Guiard
$29.95 Read moreDiscover the story of Ad?la?de Labille-Guiard–a long-ignored artist and feminist of eighteenth-century France–in this imaginative and illuminating biography from an award-winning writer.
Summer in P- Author: Quinn, Bridget
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 184
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1797211870
- Language: English
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Dorothea Lange: A Photographer’s Life
$24.95 Add to cartDorothea Lange’s depression-era photographs became mythic symbols in their time and are exhibited worldwide as standards of classic photography. In this first biography of Lange, Milton Meltzer docume… [more below]
- Author: Meltzer, Milton
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: February 01 2000
- ISBN10: 0815606222
- Language: English
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Popism: The Warhol Sixties
$16.99 Add to cartAnecdotal, funny, frank, POPism is Warhol’s personal view of the Pop phenomenon in New York in the 1960s.
A cultural storm swept through the 1960s–Pop Art, Bob Dylan, psychedelia, underground movies–… [more below]
- Author: Warhol, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: September 05 2006
- ISBN10: 0156031116
- Language: English
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The Last of His Kind: The Life and Adventures of Bradford Washburn, America’s Boldest Mountaineer
$17.99 Add to cart“Stunning and stirring.”
—Boston Globe
In The Last of His Kind, renowned adventure writer David Roberts gives readers a spellbinding history of mountain climbing in the twentieth century as told throu
- Author: Roberts, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 15, 2010
- ISBN10: 0061560952
- Language: English
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The Witch’s Door: Oddities and Tales from the Esoteric to the Extreme
$30.00 Add to cartIn this spellbinding and entertaining memoir, Regina and Ryan Cohn, founders of Oddities Flea Market, take us on a fascinating and specially curated tour of their most macabre and mysterious objects, … [more below]
- Author: Cohn, Ryan Matthew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: October 01 2024
- ISBN10: 1797229583
- Language: English
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Adolfo Kaminsky: A Forger’s Life
$26.95 Add to cartThe gripping true story of a life-long forger working for the French Resistance and clandestine organizations, told to his daughter.
- Author: Kaminsky, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 18 2016
- ISBN10: 0997003472
- Language: English
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Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi
$28.00 Add to cartA master of what he called “the sculpturing of space,” Isamu Noguchi was a vital figure for modern public art. Born to an American mother and a Japanese father, Noguchi never felt like he belonged any
- Author: Herrera, Hayden
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 592
- Publish Date: April 05 2016
- ISBN10: 0374535981
- Language: English
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Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life
$20.99 Add to cartThe Addams Family is creepy and kooky, but wait till you see what their creator had in his apartment.
In Charles Addams: A Cartoonist’s Life, meet the legendary cartoonist behind the altogether ooky A
- Author: Davis, Linda H.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: October 19 2021
- ISBN10: 1684426898
- Language: English
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The Great Clivette
$53.27 Add to cartMerton Clivette once dominated the 1920s and 1930s art world. He ruled the Orpheum Circuit as a magician, shadowgraphist, mindreader, and acrobat. He performed in the Buffalo Bill Wild West Show. Cliv
- Author: MacBride, Michael David
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 170
- Publish Date: June 08 2023
- ISBN10: 9798987939314
- Language: English
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Scab Vendor: Confessions of a Tattoo Artist
$23.99 Add to cart– Huge Network of Influencers: Born as the son of jazz legend Artie Shaw and Hollywood actress Doris Dowling, author Jonathan Shaw has a rich matrix of connections, from Johnny Depp to Debbie Harry to… [more below]
- Series: Scab Vendor #1
- Author: Shaw, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 488
- Publish Date: March 21 2017
- ISBN10: 1681629151
- Language: English
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A Clearing in the Distance: Frederick Law Olmsted and America in the 19th Century
$19.99 Add to cartIn a brilliant collaboration between writer and subject, Witold Rybczynski, the bestselling author of Now I Sit Me Down, illuminates Frederick Law Olmsted’s role as a major cultural figure at the epi… [more below]
- Author: Rybczynski, Witold
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: July 05 2000
- ISBN10: 0684865750
- Language: English
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Banksy: The Man Behind the Wall: Revised and Illustrated Edition
$30.00 Read moreIn this fully revised and richly illustrated edition, author and journalist Will Ellsworth-Jones pieces together a complete picture of the life and work of Banksy, perhaps the most iconic, enigmatic a… [more below]
- Author: Ellsworth-Jones, Will
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: December 07 2021
- ISBN10: 0711264325
- Language: English
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Giorgio de Chirico: Life and Paintings
$55.00 Read moreThis is the most comprehensive volume probing the life and work of the modern art icon Giorgio de Chirico.
Giorgio de Chirico was one of the most controversial and consequential artists of the twentie- Author: Benzi, Fabio
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 555
- Publish Date: March 28 2023
- ISBN10: 0847872386
- Language: English
