Artists/ Architects/ Photographers
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Rupert Garc?a: The Making of an American Artist, a Testimonio
$34.95 Add to cartThis is the first biography of the renowned American Chicano visual artist and activist Rupert Garc?a, drawing on fifty hours of interviews conducted over thirty years and accompanied by eighty images
- Author: GarcÃa, Mario T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 315
- Publish Date: January 13 2026
- ISBN10: 1978844018
- Language: English
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The Philosophy of Andy Warhol [50th Anniversary Edition]: From A to B and Back Again
$18.99 Add to cart- Author: Warhol, Andy
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 256
- Publish Date: November 04 2025
- ISBN10: 0063418290
- Language: English
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The Wonderful World That Almost Was: A Life of Peter Hujar and Paul Thek
$36.00 Add to cart“As official narratives everywhere strain and crack, Peter and Paul–and Durbin–offer a desperately needed alternative way of seeing and being.” –Benjamin Moser, author of Susan Sontag: Her Life and
- Author: Durbin, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: April 14 2026
- ISBN10: 0374609551
- Language: English
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Old Masters, New World: America’s Raid on Europe’s Great Pictures
$27.00 Add to cartA spellbinding account of the rapacious pursuit of the most exquisite paintings in the world
In the Gilded Age, newly wealthy and culturally ambitious Americans began to compete for Europe’s extraord- Author: Saltzman, Cynthia
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 352
- Publish Date: July 28 2009
- ISBN10: 0143115316
- Language: English
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Vermeer: A Life Lost and Found
$45.00 Add to cartOne spring day in 1683, a notary’s clerk in Delft entered the home of the late Magdalena Pieters van Ruijven and stumbled upon one of the wonders of the seventeenth-century world: twenty paintings by
- Author: Graham-Dixon, Andrew
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 416
- Publish Date: April 07 2026
- ISBN10: 1324124113
- Language: English
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Michelangelo and Titian: A Tale of Rivalry and Genius
$35.00 Add to cartFrom the acclaimed author of Michelangelo, God’s Architect, a dual biography of two towering artists of the Renaissance, whose decades-long rivalry spurred both to greater heights
In 1529, Michelangel- Author: Wallace, William E.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 0691266573
- Language: English
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Kutchinsky’s Egg: A Family’s Story of Obsession, Love, and Loss
$30.00 Add to cartA riveting, heart-stopping family memoir that blends art, obsession, and love as the author searches for the spectacular jeweled egg that consumed her father’s dreams–and spelled her family’s downfal… [more below]
- Author: Kutchinsky, Serena
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: March 31 2026
- ISBN10: 1668079097
- Language: English
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A Shot in the Dark: A Memoir
$34.99 Add to cartA riotous, Fellini-esque memoir from the famous artist and fashion photographer whose work helped define the look of a generation. A Shot in the Dark includes nearly one hundred photos, spanning decad
- Author: D’Orazio, Sante
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: September 23 2025
- ISBN10: 9798874727697
- Language: English
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Lives of the Great Makers
$50.00 Add to cartThis fascinating, richly illustrated anthology of the lives and careers of some of the most accomplished craftspeople represented in the V&A’s collection celebrates the pinnacle of creative accomplish
- Series: V&a Museum
- Author: Knott, Rebecca
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 384
- Publish Date: October 14 2025
- ISBN10: 0500481040
- Language: English
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Everything Is Photograph: A Life of Andr? Kert?sz
$49.99 Add to cartThe first full biography of the innovative “father of modern photography” vividly depicts his life and works, from Hungary to France and America, across the 20th century.
Born in Budapest in 1894, And- Author: Albers, Patricia
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 560
- Publish Date: January 27 2026
- ISBN10: 1590515099
- Language: English
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The Etcher: The Life and Art of Oskar Stoessel
$50.00 Add to cart“A worthy resurrection of a little-known artist.”–Publishers Weekly
This is the remarkable story of Oskar Stoessel, a gifted Austrian portraitist who arrived in America as a penniless refugee–and so- Author: Garner, Bryan A.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 28 2025
- ISBN10: 1567928404
- Language: English
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Holbein: Renaissance Master
$50.00 Add to cartA definitive biography of the artist who, more than any other, has shaped our image of the Tudor court
This landmark scholarly biography of Hans Holbein the Younger (c. 1497-1543), court painter to H- Author: Goldring, Elizabeth
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 424
- Publish Date: January 06 2026
- ISBN10: 1913107507
- Language: English
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To Repel Ghosts: The Remix
$24.00 Add to cartRevamped from its original “double album” version of 350 pages into this unique “remix,” To Repel Ghosts captures the dynamic work and brief life of the artist Jean-Michel Basquiat.
In spare, jazzlike- Author: Young, Kevin
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: September 27 2005
- ISBN10: 037571023X
- Language: English
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Alice Baber: An Artist’s Triumph Over Tragedy
$35.00 Add to cartThe definitive biography of abstract artist Alice Baber, whose luminous and beloved works took the world by storm.
From one of the most acclaimed art biographers writing today comes the surprising lif- Author: Levin, Gail
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 03 2026
- ISBN10: 9798897100408
- Language: English
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Everybody’s Fly: A Life of Art, Music, and Changing the Culture
$32.00 Add to cartAn electrifying memoir from the pioneering cultural icon The New Yorker called “the coolest person in New York,” whose fearless creativity reshaped the worlds of art, music, and style
Fab 5 Freddy doe- Author: Fab 5 Freddy
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: March 10 2026
- ISBN10: 0593834909
- Language: English
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Men at Work: The Empire State Building and the Untold Story of the Craftsmen Who Built It
$35.00 Add to cart
This little-known ch
The author of Three Minutes in Poland and Practicing uncovers the identities of the Empire State Building construction workers, made famous by Lewis W. Hine’s legendary portraits.- Author: Kurtz, Glenn
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 11 2025
- ISBN10: 1644215020
- Language: English
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The Years with Ross
$18.99 Add to cartFrom iconic American humorist James Thurber, a celebrated and poignant memoir about his years at The New Yorker with the magazine’s unforgettable founder and longtime editor, Harold Ross
“Extremely ent
- Series: Perennial Classics #285
- Author: Thurber, James
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: March 30 2020
- ISBN10: 0060959711
- Language: English
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Le Corbusier: Le Grand
$59.95 Add to cartBack in print, the spectacular visual biography of the life and work of Le Corbusier – one of the twentieth century’s most influential architects
‘Le Corbusier arguably had more of an influence on the
- Author: Editors, Phaidon
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 848
- Publish Date: October 22 2025
- ISBN10: 1837291012
- Language: English
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Gaudi: A Biography
$22.99 Add to cart“A soaring biography. . . meticulously researched, elegantly organized, fluidly, lucidly written.” –Chicago Tribune
At the time of his death in 1926, Antonio Gaudi was arguably the most famous archite
- Author: Van Hensbergen, Gijs
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 322
- Publish Date: December 02 2024
- ISBN10: 0060935634
- Language: English
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Basquiat: A Quick Killing in Art
$19.99 Add to cartNew York Times Notable Book
“A smart, crackling chronicle of fast game, the ’80s art market, [and] the attraction of destruction.”– Village Voice
A bold and vivid biography that chronicles the dazzlin
- Author: Hoban, Phoebe
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 528
- Publish Date: November 25 2025
- ISBN10: 0063442183
- Language: English
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