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A Crisis of Brilliance: Five Young British Artists and the Great War

by David Boyd Boyd Haycock

Stanley Spencer, Paul Nash, Mark Gertler, Richard Nevinson and Dora Carrington were five of the most exciting, influential and innovative British artists of the twentieth century. From diverse backgrounds, they...


Norman Rockwell

by Laura Claridge

Norman Rockwell’s tremendously successful, prolific career as a painter and illustrator has rendered him a twentieth-century American icon. However, the very popularity and accessibility of his idealized,...


Le Corbusier

by Nicholas Fox Weber

From acclaimed biographer and cultural historian, author of Balthus and Patron Saints—the first full-scale life of le Corbusier, one of the most influential, admired, and maligned architects of the twentieth...


Lena Ashwell: Actress, Patriot, Pioneer

by Margaret Leask

Skillfully written and complemented with photos, this biography is the first to honor British actress-manager Lena Ashwell. In a rapidly changing world, Ashwell was crucial to the advancement of women in English...


Marc Chagall

by Jonathan Wilson

Part of the Jewish Encounter series

Novelist and critic Jonathan Wilson clears away the sentimental mists surrounding an artist whose career spanned two world wars, the Russian Revolution, the Holocaust, and...


Whatever Is Contained Must Be Released: My Jewish Orthodox Girlhood, My Life as a Feminist Artist

by Helene Aylon

Up from orthodoxy into the art world’s creative chaos—a feminist artist’s whimsical memoir of heady times.


Ordinary Daylight: Portrait of an Artist Going Blind

by Andrew Potok

Andrew Potok is an intense, vigorous, sensual man--and a gifted painter. Then, passing forty, he rapidly begins to go blind from an inherited eye disease, retinitis pigmentosa. Depressed and angry, he rages...


Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists

by Kay Larson

A “heroic” and “fascinating” biography of John Cage showing how his work, and that of countless American artists, was transformed by Zen Buddhism (The New York Times)

Where the Heart Beats is the story...


Shutterbabe: Adventures in Love and War

by Deborah Copaken Kogan

What if the protagonist in that age-old tale—boy goes to war, comes back a man—were a female? Shutterbabe, Deborah Copaken Kogan's remarkable debut, is just that: the story of a twenty-two-year-old girl...


Master and Madman: The Surprising Rise and Disastrous Fall of the Hon Anthony Lockwood RN

by Peter Thomas & Nicholas Tracy

Despite the coming social reforms undertaken at home, the world of the Georgian British Empire was nothing if not class-conscious and leery of outsiders. But Anthony Lockwood, with no known certain record of...


A Mythic Obsession: The World of Dr. Evermor

by Tom Kupsh

In addition to hundreds of whimsical welded sculptures, Tom Every poured most of his effort into the Forevertron, the world’s largest sculpture built by a single person, and in the process, he discovered his...


Gok Wan: The Biography

by Emily Herbert

Leading British fashion consultant, author, and television host Gok Wan, born in Leicester in 1974 to an English mother and a Chinese father, went from an overweight teenager to a slimmed down leader in the world...


MR JW Lewin, Painter & Naturalist

by Richard Neville

Author, illustrator, printmaker, and natural historian John William Lewin was the first professional artist to arrive in Australia as a free man. Featuring more than 150 exquisite artworks, this record takes...


Stan Lee and the Rise and Fall of the American Comic Book

by Jordan Raphael & Tom Spurgeon

Based on interviews with Stan Lee and dozens of his colleagues and contemporaries, as well as extensive archival research, this book provides a professional history, an appreciation, and a critical exploration...


Available Light: Exile in Mexico

by John Howard Howard Griffin

Culled from previously unpublished material, this collection of writing and photography by John Howard Griffin was taken from the period during which he was writing and revising what would be his most famous...


Chagall

by Jackie Wullschlager

“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...


Marilyn & Me: A Photographer's Memories

by Lawrence Schiller

An intimate memoir recalling a young photographer's relationship with Marilyn Monroe just months before her death, with extraordinary photographs, some of which have never been published.

"With the precision...


Goya

by Robert Hughes

Robert Hughes, who has stunned us with comprehensive works on subjects as sweeping and complex as the history of Australia (The Fatal Shore), the modern art movement (The Shock of the New), the nature of American...


John James Audubon: The Making of an American

by Richard Rhodes

John James Audubon came to America as a dapper eighteen-year-old eager to make his fortune. He had a talent for drawing and an interest in birds, and he would spend the next thirty-five years traveling to the...


J.M.W. Turner: Ackroyd's Brief Lives

by Peter Ackroyd

In this second volume in the Ackroyd’s Brief Lives series, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brings us a man of humble beginnings, crude manners, and prodigious talents, the nineteenth-century painter J. M....