Artists, Architects, Photographers
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Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris
$30.00 Read moreIn freewheeling 1920s Paris, Kiki de Montparnasse captivated as a nightclub performer, sold out gallery showings of her paintings, starred in Surrealist films, and shared drinks and ideas with the lik
- Author: Braude, Mark
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 09 2022
- ISBN10: 1324006013
- Language: English
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Light on the Prairie: Solomon D. Butcher, Photographer of Nebraska’s Pioneer Days
$21.95 Add to cartOnce President Lincoln signed the Homestead Act of 1862, which granted 160 acres of free land to anyone with the grit to farm it for five years, the rush to the Great Plains was on. Solomon D. Butcher
- Author: Plain, Nancy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: September 01 2012
- ISBN10: 0803235208
- Language: English
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Hell on Color, Sweet on Song: Jacob Wrey Mould and the Artful Beauty of Central Park
$42.95 Add to cartWINNER, VICTORIAN SOCIETY IN AMERICA BOOK AWARD
Reveals new and previously unknown biographical material about an impor
WINNER, 2024 PUBLICATION PRIZE, FRIENDS OF THE UPPER EAST SIDE HISTORIC DISTRICTS- Author: Kowsky, Francis R.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: May 30 2023
- ISBN10: 1531502571
- Language: English
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I Always Knew: A Memoir
$45.00 Add to cartThe extraordinary life story of the celebrated artist and writer, as told through four decades of intimate letters to her beloved mother
Barbara Chase-Riboud has led a remarkable life. After graduatin- Author: Chase-Riboud, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: October 04 2022
- ISBN10: 0691234272
- Language: English
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A Carnival of Losses: Notes Nearing Ninety
$18.00 Add to cartFormer poet laureate of the United States Donald Hall’s final collection of essays, from the vantage point of very old age, once again “alternately lyrical and laugh-out-loud funny.”*
*(New York Time… [more below]- Author: Hall, Donald
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: April 09 2019
- ISBN10: 0358056144
- Language: English
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Joe: A Memoir of Joe Brainard
$19.95 Add to cartRon Padgett remembers the life and times of his friend, the brilliant artist Joe Brainard.
- Author: Padgett, Ron
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 280
- Publish Date: October 01 2004
- ISBN10: 1566891590
- Language: English
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Everyday Matters
$15.99 Add to cartIn the tradition of Persepolis, In the Shadow of No Towers, and Our Cancer Year, an illustrated memoir of remarkable depth, power, and beauty Danny Gregory and his wife, Patti, hadn’t been married lon… [more below]
- Author: Gregory, Danny
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: January 09 2007
- ISBN10: 1401307957
- Language: English
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Melancholy Wedgwood
$34.95 Read moreAn experimental biography of the ceramics entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood that reveals the tenuous relationship of eighteenth-century England to late-capitalist modernity.
Melancholy Wedgwood traces the- Author: Moon, Iris
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: January 23 2024
- ISBN10: 0262546345
- Language: English
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Barbara Kruger: Thinking of You. I Mean Me. I Mean You
$65.00 Add to cartFive decades of iconic and incisive art from Barbara Kruger
Since the mid-1970s, Barbara Kruger (born 1945) has been interrogating the hierarchies of power and control in works that often combine visua
- Author: Kruger, Barbara
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: June 15 2021
- ISBN10: 194288477X
- Language: English
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Making a Life: Working by Hand and Discovering the Life You Are Meant to Live
$40.00 Add to cartA Publishers Weekly Best Book of 2019
Why do we make things by hand? And why do we make them beautiful? Led by the question of why working with our hands remains vital and valuable in the modern world- Author: Falick, Melanie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 1579657443
- Language: English
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Night Studio: A Memoir of Philip Guston
$38.00 Read moreThe classic, intimate memoir of the artist by Guston’s daughter, with a new afterword by Mayer
Philip Guston (1913-80) is one of the outstanding figures in 20th-century American art. Beginning as a mur
- Author: Mayer, Musa
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 372
- Publish Date: May 09 2023
- ISBN10: 3906915751
- Language: English
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Arbitrary Stupid Goal
$18.00 Add to cartIn Arbitrary Stupid Goal, Tamara Shopsin takes the reader on a pointillist time-travel trip to the Greenwich Village of her bohemian 1970s childhood, a funky, tight-knit small town in the big city, lo
- Author: Shopsin, Tamara
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: July 17 2018
- ISBN10: 125018391X
- Language: English
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The Chanel: A Woman of Her Own
$35.00 Add to cartJournalist Axel Madsen, the biographer of such icons as John Jacob Astor, Jacques Cousteau, and John Huston, presents the life and legend of French fashion designer Coco Chanel.
Chanel. The name alone- Author: Madsen, Axel
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: September 15 1991
- ISBN10: 0805016392
- Language: English
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Widow Basquiat: A Love Story
$18.00 Add to cartThe beautifully written, deeply affecting story of Jean-Michel Basquiat’s partner, her past, and their life together
An NPR Best Book of the Year Selection
New York City in the 1980s was a mesmerizing- Author: Clement, Jennifer
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: November 04 2014
- ISBN10: 0553419919
- Language: English
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The Mother Artist: Portraits of Ambition, Limitation, and Creativity
$28.99 Add to cartAre caregiving and creative labor fundamentally at odds? Is it possible for mothers to attend to both?
Few women artists feature prominently in the history of art, and even fewer who are mothers. How
- Author: Ricketts, Catherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 210
- Publish Date: April 16 2024
- ISBN10: 1506488706
- Language: English
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Lee Miller: A Life
$22.00 Add to cartLee Miller’s life embodied all the contradictions and complications of the twentieth century: a model and photographer, muse and reporter, sexual adventurer and domestic goddess, she was also America’… [more below]
- Author: Burke, Carolyn
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 446
- Publish Date: April 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0226080676
- Language: English
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The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han Van Meegeren
$20.99 Add to cartNOW A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE, THE LAST VERMEER, STARRING GUY PEARCE: A revelatory biography of the world’s most famous forger–a talented Mr. Ripley armed with a paintbrush–and a deliciously detailed s
- Author: Lopez, Jonathan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0547247842
- Language: English
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William Henry Jackson’s Lens: How Yellowstone’s Famous Photographer Captured the American West
$31.95 Read moreWilliam Henry Jackson was an explorer, photographer, and artist. He is also one of those most often overlooked figures of the American West. His larger claim to fame involves his repeated forays into
- Author: McNeese, Tim
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 296
- Publish Date: June 15, 2023
- ISBN10: 1493064738
- Language: English
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The Flowering: The Autobiography of Judy Chicago
$24.95 Add to cartJudy Chicago is America’s most dynamic living artist. Her works comprise a dizzying array of media from performance and installation to the glittering table laid for thirty-nine iconic women in The Di
- Author: Chicago, Judy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: June 27 2023
- ISBN10: 0500297312
- Language: English
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What Becomes a Legend Most: A Biography of Richard Avedon
$24.99 Read more“Wise and ebullient.” – Dwight Garner, The New York Times
Now in paperback, the first definitive biography of Richard Avedon, a monumental photographer of the twentieth century, from award-winning phot
- Author: Gefter, Philip
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 688
- Publish Date: September 12 2023
- ISBN10: 0062442740
- Language: English
