Artists, Architects, Photographers
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Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography
$27.00 Add to cartMeryle Secrest’s Frank Lloyd Wright: A Biography focuses on Wright’s family history, personal adventures, and colorful friends and family. Secrest had unprecedented access to an archive of over one hu… [more below]
- Author: Secrest, Meryle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 652
- Publish Date: May 08 1998
- ISBN10: 0226744140
- Language: English
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Eichler: Modernism Rebuilds the American Dream
$60.00 Add to cartAtriums, household conveniences, and sleek styling made Eichler Homes a standard-bearer for bringing the modern home design to middle-class America.
Joseph Eichler was a pioneering developer who defied
- Author: Arbunich, Marty
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 240
- Publish Date: November 01 2002
- ISBN10: 1586851845
- Language: English
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Tove Jansson: Work and Love
$36.99 Read moreTove Jansson (1914-2001) led a long, colorful and productive life, impacting significantly the political, social and cultural history of 20th-century Finland. And while millions of children have grown… [more below]
- Author: Karjalainen, Tuula
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 300
- Publish Date: April 01 2017
- ISBN10: 0141978821
- Language: English
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Georgia O’Keeffe: A Life
$35.00 Read moreOne of the greatest and most admired artists of the twentieth century, Georgia O’Keeffe led a life rich in intense relationships–with family, friends, and especially with fellow artist Alfred Stiegli… [more below]
- Author: Robinson, Roxana
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 679
- Publish Date: October 01 2020
- ISBN10: 1684580323
- Language: English
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Chanel and Her World: Friends, Fashion, and Fame
$75.00 Read moreThe best-selling, most abundantly illustrated biography available of fashion icon Coco Chanel, written by Edmonde Charles-Roux, her close friend and chosen official biographer. “A model pictorial biog… [more below]
- Author: Charles-Roux, Edmonde
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: March 09 2005
- ISBN10: 865651590
- Language: English
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Queer Saint: The Cultured Life of Peter Watson
$17.99 Add to cartFrom the mystery of his obscure family origins to the enigma surrounding his premature death, Queer Saint follows Peter Watson through an odyssey of the twentieth century, from high society to the swe
- Author: Clark, Adrian
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 420
- Publish Date: May 26 2022
- ISBN10: 1839012927
- Language: English
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Charles M. Russell: The Life and Legend of America’s Cowboy Artist
$21.95 Add to cartThis first comprehensive biography of Charles M. Russell examines the colorful life and times of Montana’s famed Cowboy Artist. Born to an affluent St. Louis family in 1864, young Russell read thrilli
- Author: Taliaferro, John
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 318
- Publish Date: November 03 2003
- ISBN10: 080613495X
- Language: English
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Creators: From Chaucer and Durer to Picasso and Disney
$17.99 Add to cart“Johnson emphasizes the rarity of truly visionary artists . . . his approach is unfailingly generous. . . . Genuinely revealing.” —Publishers Weekly
From celebrated journalist and historian Paul Johns
- Series: P.S.
- Author: Johnson, Paul
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: May 01 2007
- ISBN10: 0060930462
- Language: English
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Schulz and Peanuts: A Biography
$19.99 Add to cartCharles M. Schulz, the most widely syndicated and beloved cartoonist of all time, is also one of the least understood figures in American culture. Now, acclaimed biographer David Michaelis gives us th
- Author: Michaelis, David
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 704
- Publish Date: December 13 2013
- ISBN10: 0060937998
- Language: English
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If Walls Could Speak: My Life in Architecture
$32.50 Read moreOne of the world’s greatest and most thoughtful architects recounts his extraordinary career and the iconic structures he has built–from Habitat in Montreal to Marina Bay Sands in Singapore–and offe… [more below]
- Author: Safdie, Moshe
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: September 20 2022
- ISBN10: 0802158323
- Language: English
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Frida Kahlo: An Illustrated Life
$21.95 Read moreOne of the most important artists of the twentieth century and an icon of courageous womanhood, Frida Kahlo lives on in the public imagination, where her popularity shows no signs of waning. She is re
- Author: Hesse, María
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 152
- Publish Date: September 04 2018
- ISBN10: 1477317287
- Language: English
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Old in Art School: A Memoir of Starting Over
$17.95 Add to cartA finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award, this memoir of one woman’s later in life career change is “a smart, funny and compelling case for going after your heart’s desires, no matter you… [more below]
- Author: Painter, Nell
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: August 27 2019
- ISBN10: 1640092005
- Language: English
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Caravaggio
$23.33 Add to cartMichelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) was always a name to be reckoned with. Notorious bad boy of the Italian Baroque, the artist was at once celebrated and controversial, violent in temper, p
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Lambert, Gilles
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 31 2015
- ISBN10: 3836559935
- Language: English
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The Fairy Tale Girl
$28.95 Add to cartBased on the diaries Susan Branch has kept since she was in her twenties, The Fairy Tale Girl is an illustrated memoir, designed in Susan’s trademark style with original watercolors and personal photo… [more below]
- Author: Branch, Susan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 0
- Publish Date: October 30 2015
- ISBN10: 0996044019
- Language: English
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Rembrandt
$23.33 Add to cartRembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) never left his homeland of the Netherlands but in his massive body of painting, drawing, and etching, he changed the course of Western art. His prolific oeuvre encompass
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Bockemühl, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: July 29 2016
- ISBN10: 3836532131
- Language: English
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Akiane: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry: Her Life, Her Art, Her Poetry
$29.99 Add to cartExperience the wonder of child prodigy Akaine Kramarik’s divinely inspired artwork firsthand.
Akiane’s nonreligious parents were bewildered when their four-year-old daughter started sharing her dreams
- Author: Kramarik, Akiane
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: September 12 2017
- ISBN10: 0718075862
- Language: English
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Frida Kahlo: Sus Fotos: Frida Kahlo: Her Photos, Spanish Edition
$45.00 Add to cartCuando Frida Kahlo muere Diego Rivera, marido, ex marido y viudo de Frida, le pide al poeta Carlos Pellicer que convierta la Casa Azul en un museo para que el pueblo de México pueda visitarla y admir
- Author: Monasterio, Pablo Ortiz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: January 01 2010
- ISBN10: 8492480742
- Language: English
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Daybook: The Journal of an Artist
$19.00 Add to cartA “touchstone for aspiring artists and writers” (Megan O’Grady, The New Yorker), Daybook is a classic work about reconciling the call of creative work with the demands of daily life.
Renowned American- Author: Truitt, Anne
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: October 08 2013
- ISBN10: 1476740984
- Language: English
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Negative Space
$16.95 Add to cartDespite her parents’ struggles with addiction, Lilly Dancyger always thought of her childhood as a happy one. But what happens when a journalist interrogates her own rosy memories to reveal the instab… [more below]
- Series: Sfwp Literary Awards
- Author: Dancyger, Lilly
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 234
- Publish Date: May 01 2021
- ISBN10: 195163103X
- Language: English
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Van Gogh: The Life
$30.00 Add to cartNEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER – “The definitive biography for decades to come.”–Leo Jansen, curator, the Van Gogh Museum, and co-editor of Vincent van Gogh: The Complete Letters
Steven Naifeh and Gregory … [more below]- Author: Naifeh, Steven
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 976
- Publish Date: December 04 2012
- ISBN10: 0375758976
- Language: English
