Category: Biography

Writers on Artists

Price: $10.00

Publisher: North Point Press : January 1988

Seller ID: 193088

ISBN-13: 9780865473393

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Great Nadar: The Man Behind the Camera

By: Begley, Adam

Price: $14.00

Publisher: Tim Duggan Books : July 2017

Seller ID: 193110

ISBN-13: 9781101902608

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A dazzling, stylish biography of a fabled Parisian photographer, adventurer, and pioneer. A recent French biography begins, Who doesn't know Nadar? In France, that's a rhetorical question. Of all of the legendary figures who thrived in mid-19th-century Paris--a cohort that includes Victor Hugo, Baudelaire, Gustave Courbet, and Alexandre Dumas--Nadar was perhaps the most innovative, the most restless, the most modern. The first great portrait photographer, a pioneering balloonist, the first person to take an aerial photograph, and the prime mover behind the first airmail service, Nadar was one ...
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England's Constable: The Life and Letters of John Constable

By: Darracott, Joseph

Price: $12.00

Publisher: Folio Society : January 1985

Seller ID: 189408

ISBN: B0007B5KIY

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Worlds of Lincoln Kirstein

By: Duberman, Martin

Price: $14.99

Publisher: Knopf : April 2007

Seller ID: 6399

ISBN-13: 9781400041329

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A rich and revelatory biography of one of the crucial cultural figures of the twentieth century. Lincoln Kirstein's contributions to the nation's life, as both an intellectual force and advocate of the arts, were unparalleled. While still an undergraduate, he started the innovative literary journal "Hound and Horn, " as well as the modernist Harvard Society for Contemporary Art--forerunner of the Museum of Modern Art. He brought George Balanchine to the United States, and in service to the great choreographer's talent, persisted, against heavy odds, in creating both the New York City Ballet an...
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Picasso: Creator and Destroyer

By: Huffington, Arianna Stassinopoulos

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Simon & Schuster : January 1988

Seller ID: 192474

ISBN-13: 9780671454463

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A Bearer of Tradition: Dwight Stump, Basketmaker

By: Joyce, Rosemary O.

Price: $17.48

Publisher: Univ of Georgia Pr : November 1989

Seller ID: 22973

ISBN-13: 9780820311487

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The Grand Surprise: The Journals of Leo Lerman

By: Lerman, Leo

Price: $15.00

Publisher: Knopf : April 2007

Seller ID: 192948

ISBN-13: 9781400044399

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

A remarkable life and a remarkable voice emerge from the journals, letters, and memoirs of Leo Lerman: writer, critic, editor at Conde Nast, and man about town at the center of New York's artistic and social circles from the 1940s until his death in 1994. Lerman's contributions to the world of the arts were large and varied: he wrote on theater, dance, music, art, books, and movies for publications as diverse as "Mademoiselle" and "The New York Times." He was features editor at "Vogue" and editor in chief of "Vanity Fair." He launched careers and trends, exposing the American public to new tal...
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Bloomsbury Women: Distinct Figures in Life and Art

By: Marsh, Jan

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Henry Holt & Co : January 1996

Seller ID: 194744

ISBN-13: 9780805045505

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Kurelek a Biography

By: Morley, Patricia

Price: $9.99

Publisher: Macmillan of Canada : January 1753

Seller ID: 6990

ISBN-13: 9780771594755

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Jackson Pollock: An American Saga

By: Naifeh, Steven

Price: $50.00

Publisher: Woodward/White, Incorporated : September 1998

Seller ID: 183194

ISBN-13: 9780913391198

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Like New

Leonardo da Vinci (Penguin Lives)

By: Nuland, Sherwin

Price: $9.98

Publisher: Viking Adult : October 2000

Seller ID: 188619

ISBN-13: 9780670893911

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

The life and work of the great Italian Renaissance artist and scientist Leonardo da Vinci (1452-1519) have proved endlessly fascinating for later generations. Da Vinci is perhaps best known for his great works of art and his contribution to art theory. However as modern historians have discovered, the scope of da Vinci's achievement is immense -- his equally impressive contribution to science has been preserved in a vast quantity of notes that became widely known in the 20th century -- and cost even Bill Gates a noticeable part of his fortune when he bought the notebooks in a much publicized a...
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A Hungry Heart: A Memoir

By: Parks, Gordon

Price: $8.00

Publisher: Atria : November 2005

Seller ID: 125571

ISBN-13: 9780743269025

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Gordon Parks, acclaimed photographer, filmmaker, composer, and author of fiction and nonfiction, has participated in, been witness to, and documented many of the major events in the twentieth and the twenty-first centuries.Born in Fort Scott, Kansas, on November 30, 1912, he left home at age fifteen when his mother passed away. For the next twelve years, he lived in Minneapolis, Minnesota, working as a piano player, bus boy, Civilian Conservation Corpsman, and professional basketball player before taking up photography in the late 1930s and moving to Chicago. He was awarded the first Julius Ro...
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Caravaggio: Painter of Miracles (Eminent Lives)

By: Prose, Francine

Price: $8.39

Publisher: Harper Perennial : February 2010

Seller ID: 11763

ISBN-13: 9780061768903

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

Caravaggio was a brilliant artist who defied the aesthetic conventions of his time; his realistic portraits of the poor, the aged, criminals, and ordinary people would have a profound effect on generations of painters. Possessed of an equally defiant temperament, Caravaggio was on the run from the law at the time of his mysterious death. In Caravaggio, New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose offers an enthralling account of the life and work of one of the greatest painters of all time. Born in 1571 near Milan, Michelangelo Merisi (da Caravaggio) was a successful artist, protected by ...
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Vanished Act: The Life and Art of Weldon Kees

By: Reidel, James

Price: $17.50

Publisher: University of Nebraska Press : June 2003

Seller ID: 40358

ISBN-13: 9780803239517

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Critic, novelist, filmmaker, jazz musician, painter, and, above all, poet, Weldon Kees performed, practiced, and published with the best of his generation of artists--the so-called middle generation, which included Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Bishop, and John Berryman. His dramatic disappearance (a probable suicide) at the age of forty-one, his movie-star good looks, his role in various movements of the day, and his shifting relationships with key figures in the arts have made him one of the more intriguing--and elusive--artists of the time. In this long-awaited biography, James Reidel presents t...
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Stanley Spencer, the man: Correspondence and reminiscences

By: Rothenstein, John (ed.)

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Elek : January 1979

Seller ID: 160692

ISBN-13: 9780236401130

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Audubon: Life and Art in the American Wilderness

By: Streshinsky, Shirley

Price: $8.98

Publisher: University of Georgia Press : March 1998

Seller ID: 154666

ISBN-13: 9780820320052

Binding: Trade Paperback

Condition: Used - Good

John James Audubon, an 18-year-old West Indies-born Frenchman, arrived in New York City in 1803. This is the story of his life as a naturalist and pioneer. The book examines the artist's journals and letters.
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The Unexpurgated Beaton

By: Vickers, Hugo

Price: $10.00

Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson : January 2002

Seller ID: 192039

ISBN-13: 9780297645993

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

Chagall: A Biography

By: Wullschlager, Jackie

Price: $20.00

Publisher: Knopf : October 2008

Seller ID: 138210

ISBN-13: 9780375414558

Binding: Hardcover

Condition: Used - Good

"When Matisse dies," Pablo Picasso remarked in the 1950s, "Chagall will be the only painter left who understands what color really is." As a pioneer of modernism and one of the greatest figurative artists of the twentieth century, Marc Chagall achieved fame and fortune, and over the course of a long career created some of the best-known and most-loved paintings of our time. Yet behind this triumph lay struggle, heartbreak, bitterness, frustration, lost love, exile--and above all the miracle of survival. Born into near poverty in Russia in 1887, the son of a Jewish herring merchant, Chagall fle...
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Category: Biography