Artists/ Architects/ Photographers
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Tove Jansson: Life, Art, Words
$29.95 Read moreAn in-depth, perceptive account of the unconventional life of the Moomins’ beloved creator, now available in the United States
Tove Jansson achieved fame as the creator of the Moomins, beloved by gene
- Author: Westin, Boel
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 576
- Publish Date: April 30 2024
- ISBN10: 1517917298
- Language: English
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Men Have Called Her Crazy: A Memoir
$29.99 Read more*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*
“This book is so many things I didn’t know I needed: a testament to the work of healing, a raw howl of anger, and an indictment of misogyny’s insipid, predictable, infuriat- Author: Tendler, Anna Marie
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: August 13 2024
- ISBN10: 1668032341
- Language: English
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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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Becoming Dr. Seuss: Theodor Geisel and the Making of an American Imagination
$32.00 Add to cartThe definitive, fascinating, all-reaching biography of Dr. Seuss.
Dr. Seuss is a classic American icon. Whimsical and wonderful, his work has defined our childhoods and the childhoods of our own child… [more below]- Author: Jones, Brian Jay
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 512
- Publish Date: May 26 2020
- ISBN10: 1524742791
- 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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George Valentine Dureau: Life and Art in New Orleans
$50.00 Read moreNew Orleans artist George Valentine Dureau (1930-2014) has always been an enigma. His status as an important artist gained momentum beginning with his first exhibition at the New Orleans Museum of Art… [more below]
- Author: Smith, Howard Philips
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 520
- Publish Date: March 17 2025
- ISBN10: 1496853830
- 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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Johannes Vermeer-Provocateur: Risk and Courage in Dissent
$36.99 Add to cartThe 17th century. Delft. Working within the mythic “Dutch Golden Age,” Johannes Vermeer mastered light, color, and intimate settings. Award-winning author Neil Thomas Proto throws off that limiting ma… [more below]
- Author: Proto, Neil Thomas
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: April 30 2025
- ISBN10: 1038343445
- 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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From Ted to Tom: The Illustrated Envelopes of Edward Gorey
$27.95 Add to cartOn the envelopes of letters sent to a dear friend, the famed artist and writer Edward Gorey drew dozens of original illustrations–illustrations now collected in this volume along with marvelously pla… [more below]
- Author: Gorey, Edward
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 248
- Publish Date: February 04 2025
- ISBN10: 1681379058
- 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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How to Be Avant-Garde: Modern Artists and the Quest to End Art
$32.99 Add to cart“Art has poisoned our life,” proclaimed Dutch artist and De Stijl cofounder Theo van Doesburg. Reacting to the tumultuous crises of the twentieth century, especially the horrors of World War I, avant-
- Author: Falconer, Morgan
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: February 18 2025
- ISBN10: 1324051426
- 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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101 Surrealists
$21.95 Add to cart2024 marks the centennial of surrealism, one of the most influential artistic movements of the modern era. In 1924, Andr? Breton wrote the Surrealist Manifesto, a call to arms that established surreal
- Author: Morris, Desmond
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: October 29 2024
- ISBN10: 0500027811
- Language: English
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Hollywood Hustle (Part 1)
$25.99 Add to cartThe Talent Agency Business and Antitrust Price-Fixing: A Historical Record of the Rise and Fall of TV Packaging
HOLLYWOOD HUSTLE {Part1} takes us into the seedy underbelly of Hollywood. It exposes, ste
- Author: Lenhoff, Charles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 186
- Publish Date: October 21 2024
- ISBN10: 1963844378
- Language: English
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George Masa: A Life Reimagined
$28.95 Add to cartFrom Cornell University librarian Janet McCue and documentary filmmaker Paul Bonesteel comes the first comprehensively researched biography of the visionary Japanese photographer whose dedication to a
- Author: McCue, Janet
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 262
- Publish Date: September 10 2024
- ISBN10: 1737035138
- Language: English
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Footnote to History: From Hungary to America. The Memoir of a Holocaust Survivor
$19.95 Add to cartThe secret lay dormant for 50 years until Andrew Laszlo decided to share his past, the story of how his family perished in the Holocaust and only he survived. From his youth in Papa, Hungary, to his e
- Series: Holocaust Survivor Memoirs WWII
- Author: Laszlo, Andrew
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: January 27 2025
- ISBN10: 9493322858
- Language: English
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Renoir, My Father
$24.95 Read moreIn 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
