 Swiss artist Max Bill (1908–94) was a master of many trades during his lifetime: he was at once an architect, graphic designer, painter, industrial designer and typeface designer. A student of greats such as Wassily >>more
Hauser & Wirth Publishers
ISBN 9783906915401
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 736 pgs / 162 color / 74 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/01/2022 In stock
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|  Alfred Comte: A Life for Aviation
Edited with text by Michel Comte. Text by Alfred Comte, Tyler Brûlé. This book is a visual biography of the legendary Swiss aviation pioneer Alfred Comte (1895–1965). Combining historical photos and documents with texts by Comte’s son (also Alfred) and grandson, the photographer Michel Comte, the book >>more
Steidl
ISBN 9783958295766
US $55.00 CAN $77.00 FLAT40
Clth, 9.5 x 11.75 in. / 224 pgs / 50 color / 200 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/12/2021 In stock
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|  Alice Coltrane, Monument Eternal
Edited with text by Erin Christovale. Foreword by Ann Philbin. Text by Franya J. Berkman. Interviews by Ashley Kahn, Erin Christovale. Published with Hammer Museum.
This volume unpacks the cultural legacy of musician, spiritual leader, wife and mother Alice Coltrane. Accompanying the eponymous exhibition at Los Angeles’ Hammer Museum, the book takes its title from Coltrane’s 1977 >>more
DelMonico Books
ISBN 9781636811567
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Hbk, 9.75 x 12.75 in. / 192 pgs / 110 color / 21 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/11/2025 In stock
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 Long out of print, this new edition of David Leeming’s landmark biography of Beauford Delaney (1901–79) features an introduction by Hilton Als. Leeming, also the author of James Baldwin’s acclaimed 1994 biography, delves into the >>more
Karma Books, New York
ISBN 9781949172669
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Hbk, 6.5 x 9 in. / 292 pgs / 23 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/07/2025 In stock
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|  Author of From a High Place: A Life of Arshile Gorky, Matthew Spender presents a new expanded edition of his 2010 publication Arshile Gorky: Goats on the Roof, with never-before-published material, including diary entries and >>more
Hauser & Wirth Publishers
ISBN 9783906915081
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Flexi, 6.25 x 9 in. / 600 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 06/26/2018 In stock
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|  Arthur Cravan: Maintenant?
Edited with text by Emmanuel Guigon. Text by Georges Sebbag, Jean-Paul Morel, Laurence Madeline, Erich Weiss, Aitor Quiney. In the course of his brief life, the adventurer, poet and boxer, Arthur Cravan (1887–1918) galvanized the avant-garde circles of Paris and New York with his pugnacious attitude, handsome looks, his romance with Mina Loy, >>more
Silvana Editoriale/Museu Picasso
ISBN 9788836637379
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Hbk, 6.25 x 8.75 in. / 320 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 02/27/2018 In stock
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 Belle da Costa Greene: A Librarian’s Legacy
Edited with text by Erica Ciallela, Philip S. Palmer. Introduction by Philip S. Palmer. Foreword by Colin B. Bailey. Text by Araceli Bremauntz-Enriquez, Julia S. Charles-Linen, Rhonda Evans, Anne-Marie Eze, Daria Rose Foner, Jiemi Gao, Juliana Amorim Goskes, Gail Levin, Deborah Parker, Deborah Willis. Afterword by Tamar Evangelestia-Dougherty. Published with Morgan Library & Museum.
When J.P. Morgan’s personal library opened as a public institution in 1924, the choice for its first director was an obvious one: Belle da Costa Greene (1879–1950). Not only had >>more
DelMonico Books
ISBN 9781636811352
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Hbk, 8 x 10.5 in. / 304 pgs / 141 color / 34 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/12/2024 In stock
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|  In January 1965 the international art world converged on New York to pay homage to a brilliant new star. The glittering opening of The Responsive Eye, a major exhibition of abstract painting at the Museum >>more
Ridinghouse
ISBN 9781909932500
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.75 in. / 272 pgs / 11 color / 19 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/17/2019 In stock
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|  Chanel: Her Life
By Justine Picardie. Drawings by Karl Lagerfeld. This is the long-awaited reprint of Justine Picardie’s acclaimed 2010 illustrated biography of Coco Chanel (1883–1971), one of the 20th century’s most captivating personalities and a defining figure in fashion history. Whoever attempts to understand >>more
Steidl
ISBN 9783958296305
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Clth, 6 x 9.25 in. / 400 pgs / 24 color / 230 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/14/2020 Out of stock
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 Charles Dickens and His Circle
By Lucinda Hawksley. In this new volume, historian and award-winning author Lucinda Hawksley explores the life of her great-great-great-grandfather, Charles Dickens (1812–70)—one of the first people to whom the term “celebrity” in its modern sense was applied, and >>more
National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855145962
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.75 in. / 120 pages / 45 color.
Pub Date: 04/26/2016 In stock
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|  This volume is the official authorized biography of artist, filmmaker and gay rights activist Derek Jarman (1942–94). First published in 2011, this classic biography returns in a new edition featuring contributions by bestselling authors Olivia >>more
Allison & Busby Ltd
ISBN 9780749032906
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Hbk, 6 x 9.25 in. / 640 pgs / 8 color / 16 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/15/2025 In stock
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|  Don't Tell Sybil
By George Melly. Don’t Tell Sybil is a libidinous memoir by a master raconteur. George Melly (1926–2007) was impossible to ignore in London cultural circles between the 1950s and 90s. He first came to attention as a jazz >>more
Atlas Press
ISBN 9781900565653
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Hbk, 7 x 7.75 in. / 176 pgs / 1 color / 31 b&w.
Pub Date: 01/31/2014 In stock
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 Duchamp: A Biography
By Calvin Tomkins. First published to great acclaim in 1996, New Yorker writer and art critic Calvin Tomkins’ biography of the influential artist Marcel Duchamp (1887–1968) has been out of print for many years. Now, The Museum of >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9780870708923
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.75 in. / 540 pgs / 119 b&w.
Pub Date: 07/31/2014 Out of stock
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|  Edgewise: A Picture of Cookie Mueller
By Chloé Griffin. Contributions by John Waters, Mink Stole, Gary Indiana, et al. Cookie Mueller (1949-1989) was a firecracker, a cult figure, a wild child, a writer, a go-go dancer, a mother and a queer icon. A child of suburban 1950s Maryland, she made her name first as >>more
Bbooks Verlag
ISBN 9783942214209
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 336 pgs / 230 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/30/2014 Out of stock
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|  Published to mark the centenary of Eduardo Chillida’s birth, Eduardo Chillida and Pilar Belzunce: Memories of a Daughter is the first English translation of Susana Chillida’s memoir about her parents, Eduardo Chillida and Pilar Belzunce. >>more
Hauser & Wirth Publishers
ISBN 9783906915951
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Pbk, 6 x 9.25 in. / 300 pgs / 30 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/26/2024 In stock
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 Einstein: The Man and His Mind
By Gary S. Berger and Michael DiRuggiero. Foreword by Hanoch Gutfreund. A one-of-a-kind, hard-cover, 4.4 pound book with rarely-seen photos of Albert Einstein as well as of beautifully preserved letters, manuscripts, journals, and even equations written in Einstein's hand. Extraordinary among Einstein biographies, the book presents >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788862087841
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Hbk, 10 x 13 in. / 212 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 11/08/2022 In stock
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|  Authored by the distinguished critic and art historian Lü Peng, Emergence of the Patriarch is a fascinating biography and in-depth exploration of the life and artistic journey of Mao Xuhui (born 1956), a pivotal figure >>more
SKIRA
ISBN 9788857251844
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Hbk, 7.25 x 9.75 in. / 464 pgs / 200 color.
Pub Date: 05/06/2025 In stock
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|  Rosemary Mayer (1943–2014) produced a vast body of work that includes sculptures, outdoor installations, drawings, illustrations, artist’s books, lyrical essays and art criticism. In 1971 she began to focus on the use of fabric as >>more
Soberscove Press
ISBN 9781940190259
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Pbk, 5.75 x 8.25 in. / 164 pgs / 22 color.
Pub Date: 05/12/2020 In stock
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 Frida Kahlo: Sus fotos
Edited with text by Pablo Ortiz Monasterio. Text by James Oles, Horacio Fernandez, Masayo Nonaka, Laura González, Mauricio Ortíz, Gerardo Estrada, Rainer Huhle, Gaby Franger. Cuando 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 >>more
RM/Museo Frida Kahlo
ISBN 9788492480746
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Hbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 496 pgs / 401 duotone.
Pub Date: 01/01/2010 In stock
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|  God Made My Face: A Collective Portrait of James Baldwin
Edited with text by Hilton Als. Text by Stephen Best, Daphne A. Brooks, Teju Cole, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Barry Jenkins, Jamaica Kincaid, David Leeming, Darryl Pinckney. When author James Baldwin died in 1987, he left behind an extraordinary body of work: novels, poems, film scripts and, perhaps most indelibly, essays. A friend and supporter of Martin Luther King Jr., Malcolm X >>more
Dancing Foxes Press/Brooklyn Museum
ISBN 9781954947092
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Hbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 176 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 03/19/2024 Out of stock
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|  Acclaimed on first publication, Harriet Vyner’s Groovy Bob is the cult biography of hedonistic gallery owner Robert Fraser and a dazzling evocation of 1960s culture and counter-culture. Taste-maker, heroin addict and promiscuous homosexual, Fraser astonished >>more
Heni Publishing
ISBN 9780993010392
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Pbk, 5 x 8 in. / 384 pgs / 20 color / 30 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/15/2017 In stock
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 Hello We Were Talking about Hudson
Edited with preface by Steve Lafreniere. Introduction by Bob Nickas. Text by Hilton Als, Gary Indiana, Mike McGonigal, Richard Prince, et al. Neither a comprehensive oral history nor a biography, this reader is an intimate collection of anecdotes, reflections and musings that cohere to form a narrative portrait of a complex man and the vehicle through which >>more
Soberscove Press
ISBN 9781940190341
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Pbk, 5 x 7.5 in. / 216 pgs / 16 color / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/30/2024 In stock
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|  Jonas Mekas’ I Seem to Live picks up in the 1950s, where his extraordinary and popular memoir I Had Nowhere to Go left off. These were crucial years for the artist: Jonas Mekas and his >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959052887
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Hbk, 6.25 x 8.25 in. / 824 pgs / 350 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/11/2020 In stock
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|  “Can one wreak vengeance against oneself?” This anguished question hangs over Gene Oishi’s powerful memoir about his lifelong struggle to claim both his Japanese and American identities in the aftermath of World War II, when >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030825
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Pbk, 5 x 7 in. / 192 pgs.
Pub Date: 03/12/2024 In stock
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 The unmarried younger daughter of a country vicar, she published her novels anonymously. When she died, aged only 41—having earned less than £700 from her writing—her name was still almost unknown to the world at >>more
National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855147010
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.75 in. / 120 pgs / 52 color.
Pub Date: 09/26/2017 In stock
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|  Joan Didion: What She Means
Edited by Hilton Als, Connie Butler. Introduction by Ann Philbin. Text by Hilton Als, Joan Didion. Published with Hammer Museum.
In Joan Didion: What She Means, the writer and curator Hilton Als creates a mosaic that explores Didion's life and work and the feeling each generates in her admirers, detractors and critics.
Arranged >>more
DelMonico Books
ISBN 9781636810577
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Clth, 9 x 12.5 in. / 128 pgs / 80 color / 32 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/08/2022 In stock
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|  This book celebrates the life and work of the English art gallery director and arts administrator Joanna Drew (1929–2003). Drew began her impressive career at the Arts Council of Great Britain in 1952 and during >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857239521
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 224 pgs / 80 color.
Pub Date: 02/19/2019 In stock
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 Tracing the transformation of German artist Jonathan Meese (born 1970) into a kind of stage character, this biography draws on archival materials and extensive interviews to create an account of an artist who has incorporated >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960982395
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Pbk, 5.25 x 7.5 in. / 520 pgs / 1 color / 277 b&w.
Pub Date: 06/18/2019 In stock
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|  Kippenberger
By Susanne Kippenberger. Translation by Damion Searls. Over the course of his 20-year career, Martin Kippenberger (1953–1997) cast himself alternately as hard-drinking carouser and confrontational art-world jester, thrusting these personae to the forefront of his prodigious creativity. He was also very much >>more
J&L Books
ISBN 9780982964286
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 592 pgs / 25 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/31/2013 In stock
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|  Leonard Cohen: Everybody Knows
Edited by Julian Cox, Jim Shedden. Introduction by Julian Cox. Text by Alan Light, Joan Angel, Laura Cameron, Jim Shedden. Interview by Julian Cox with Michael Petit. Afterword by Robert Kory. Published with Art Gallery of Ontario.
Leonard Cohen is renowned the world over for his meditations on beauty, death, loss and the human heart. The objects, papers and artifacts from Cohen’s personal archive provide fresh insight >>more
DelMonico Books
ISBN 9781636810911
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Hbk, 9.25 x 9.25 in. / 168 pgs / 378 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2023 In stock
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 Lincoln Kirstein's Modern
Edited with text by Samantha Friedman, Jodi Hauptman. Text by Lynn Garafola, Michelle Greet, Michelle Harvey, Richard Meyer, Kevin Moore. Lincoln Kirstein was a polymathic writer, critic, curator and impresario: a key connector and an indefatigable catalyst whose sweeping contributions to American cultural life in the 1930s and ‘40s shaped artists and institutions. Best known >>more
The Museum of Modern Art, New York
ISBN 9781633450820
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Hbk, 9 x 10.5 in. / 200 pgs / 205 color.
Pub Date: 04/23/2019 In stock
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|  Ludwig Grote and the Bauhaus Idea
Edited by Torsten Blume, Claudia Perren. Text by Peter Bernhard, Hans D. Christ, Iris Dressler, Magdalena Droste, Christian Eger, Susanne Neubauer, Marian Wild, et al. German art historian Ludwig Grote (1893–1974) had an almost unparalleled influence on the conception of the Bauhaus, helping to shape an idea of the school that has extended far beyond its historical existence. Drawing on >>more
Spector Books
ISBN 9783959052801
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Pbk, 6.75 x 9.5 in. / 256 pgs / 90 color.
Pub Date: 07/13/2021 In stock
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|  Printed in an edition of 300 copies, this numbered limited edition includes a foulard. >>more
Damiani
ISBN 9788862087131
US $150.00 CAN $215.00 SDNR40
Special edition, 11 x 14 in. / 192 pgs / 120 color.
Pub Date: 04/07/2020 Out of stock
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 Philip Guston (1913–80) is one of the outstanding figures in 20th-century American art. Beginning as a muralist in the 1930s, Guston embraced the lyrical vocabulary of Abstract Expressionism in his paintings and drawings after his >>more
Hauser & Wirth Publishers
ISBN 9783906915753
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Flexi, 6 x 9 in. / 372 pgs / 62 color / 72 b&w.
Pub Date: 05/09/2023 In stock
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|  In this deeply personal account, author Omar Kholeif takes readers on a journey through the life and work of Nil Yalter (born 1938)—one of the pioneering artists of our time. Born in Cairo and raised >>more
Mousse Publishing
ISBN 9788867496297
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Pbk, 8.75 x 12.25 in. / 128 pgs / 149 color / 120 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/11/2025 In stock
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|  Pepys and His Contemporaries
By Richard Ollard. The Diary of Samuel Pepys is an indisputable treasure of English literature, and one of the most important documentary sources of the English Restoration period. Pepys’ Diary, maintained daily for almost ten years, records his >>more
National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855145856
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 120 pgs / 47 color / 9 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/26/2016 In stock
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 Piet Mondrian: A Life is the first comprehensive biography of Piet Mondrian to be published in English. This remarkable book provides a long-overdue and compelling account of the life of perhaps the most influential abstract >>more
Ridinghouse/Kunstmuseum Den Haag, The Hague
ISBN 9781909932517
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Pbk, 6.25 x 9.25 in. / 464 pgs / 64 color / 60 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/27/2022 Out of stock
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|  Based on original interviews and previously unpublished letters and diaries, Queer St Ives reveals a fascinating, hitherto undocumented history, adding vital new insight into the history of the fabled British art colony. At the center >>more
Ridinghouse
ISBN 9781909932692
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Pbk, 6 x 9 in. / 256 pgs / 40 color / 20 b&w.
Pub Date: 09/13/2022 In stock
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|  Henry James credited John Singer Sargent with a "knock-down insolence of talent." Among the painter's many renowned works, few deserve the phrase as much as The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit (1882), one of Sargent's >>more
MFA Publications, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
ISBN 9780878468607
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Pbk, 5.5 x 7.5 in. / 262 pgs / 25 color / 40 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/19/2019 In stock
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 Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
By Charles Nicholl. William Shakespeare and his peers helped create not only a new kind of theatre in the Elizabethan era but also a new form of language. In an age of religious and political upheaval, they gave >>more
National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855145801
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8 in. / 136 pgs / 54 color / 24 b&w.
Pub Date: 04/26/2016 In stock
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|  The Bear in the Mirror is a collection of stories, prose poems, drawings, photos, letters, notes and memories by Simone Forti (born 1935)—a founding figure of postwar American dance for those following in the wake >>more
Walther König, Köln
ISBN 9783960983958
US $39.95 CAN $55.00 FLAT40
Pbk, 6.5 x 9.25 in. / 94 pgs / 2 color / 17 b&w.
Pub Date: 03/19/2019 In stock
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|  Song of Arirang
By Nym Wales, Kim San. Edited with afterword by Dongyoun Hwang. Introduction by Arlif Dirlik. Text by George O. Totten III. First published in 1941 and long unavailable, Song of Arirang tells the true story of Korean revolutionary Kim San (Jang Jirak), who left colonized Korea as a teenager to fight against Japanese imperialism and fought >>more
Kaya Press
ISBN 9781885030566
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Hbk, 5 x 7 in. / 512 pgs / 7 b&w.
Pub Date: 08/06/2024 In stock
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 This book offers a captivating account of the joint life of two prominent figures in the Iraqi art scene between the 1960s and the 1990s: poet and critic May Muzaffar (born 1940) and artist Rafa >>more
Hatje Cantz
ISBN 9783775755450
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Pbk, 5.5 x 8.25 in. / 288 pgs / 50 color.
Pub Date: 09/05/2023 In stock
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|  The Anchored Angel
By Luis Cabalquinto. Edited by Eileen Tabios. Contributions by Nick Carbo, Jonathan Chua, Jose Garcia Villa. >>more
Kaya/Muae
ISBN 9781885030283
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 288 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/02/1999 In stock
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|  The Bloomsbury Group was a union of friends who transformed British culture with their approach to art, design and society. The group aimed to rebel and challenge what they felt were the religious, artistic, social >>more
National Portrait Gallery, London
ISBN 9781855147232
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Hbk, 5.5 x 7.75 in. / 120 pgs / 48 color / 21 b&w.
Pub Date: 11/02/2021 In stock
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 Alice James (1848–92) was the sister of Henry and William James, as literary as her more famous brothers, but—as was typical for a Victorian woman—never formally educated and thus deprived of any opportunity for a >>more
Exact Change
ISBN 9781878972200
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Paperback, 6 x 8 in. / 232 pgs.
Pub Date: 02/02/2004 In stock
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|  In the 1970s, American curator Donna Stein served as an art advisor to Empress Farah Diba Pahlavi, the Shahbanu of Iran. Together, Stein and Pahlavi generated an art market in Iran, as Stein encouraged Pahlavi’s >>more
Skira
ISBN 9788857244341
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Pbk, 6.5 x 9.5 in. / 208 pgs / 75 color.
Pub Date: 03/30/2021 In stock
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|  The first of Luis H. Francia's books of non-fiction to be published in the United States, The Eye of the Fish paints a vivid and detailed portrait of the terror, beauty and insistent humanity of >>more
MUAE Publishing
ISBN 9781885030313
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Paperback, 6 x 9 in. / 392 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/02/2001 In stock
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 A valuable addition to Barjeel Art Foundation’s publications on Arab art, this book sheds new light on Inji Efflatoun’s biography and works. In addition to a number of newly-commissioned essays, the book presents an English >>more
SKIRA
ISBN 9788857253398
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Hbk, 9.5 x 9.75 in. / 384 pgs / 135 color.
Pub Date: 10/07/2025 Out of stock
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|  The Physiology of the Employee
By Honoré de Balzac. Introduction and translation by André Naffis-Sahely. Illustrations by Louis Joseph Trimolet. If Honoré de Balzac's Treatise on Elegant Living addressed one crucial pillar of modernity--the "mode" itself, fashion--his Physiology of the Employee examines another equally potent cornerstone to the modern era: bureaucracy, and all of the >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9781939663047
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 160 pgs / 55 b&w.
Pub Date: 10/31/2014 Out of stock
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|  The Young Girl's Handbook of Good Manners for Use in Educational Establishments
By Pierre Louÿs. A bestselling author in his time, Pierre Louÿs (1870–1925) was a friend of, and influence on, André Gide, Paul Valéry, Oscar Wilde and Stephane Mallarmé among others. He achieved instant notoriety with Aphrodite and The >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9780984115518
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 76 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2010 In stock
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 Published with National Portrait Gallery, Smithsonian Institution.
The American writer and activist James Baldwin (1924–87) considered himself a “witness” as he challenged perspectives on America and its history through his work. He was often recognized for >>more
DelMonico Books
ISBN 9781636811321
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Hbk, 9 x 12.5 in. / 112 pgs / 60 color.
Pub Date: 09/17/2024 In stock
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|  Three New York Dadas and The Blind Man
Introduction by Dawn Ades. Translated by Chris Allen. Three New York Dadas and The Blind Man relates the story of the triangular relationship between Marcel Duchamp, Henri-Pierre Roché and Beatrice Wood, told in the words of two of its protagonists; and also reprints >>more
Atlas Press
ISBN 9781900565431
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Hbk, 7 x 9 in. / 160 pgs / illustrated throughout.
Pub Date: 01/31/2014 In stock
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|  Through the Eyes of Franz Kafka
Edited with text by Nicholas Sawicki, Marie Rakušanová. Preface by Zuzana Jürgens. Text by Alexander Klee, Marek Nekula, Miroslav Halák. What did Franz Kafka see and do, whom did he meet and what did he read while roaming the streets of Prague? Through the Eyes of Franz Kafka brings the world of turn-of-the-century Czechoslovakia and >>more
KANT
ISBN 9788074374265
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Flexi, 8.25 x 11.25 in. / 224 pgs / 231 color / 16 tritone.
Pub Date: 05/06/2025 In stock
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 Treatise on Elegant Living
By Honoré de Balzac. Honoré de Balzac's 1830 Treatise on Elegant Living was a keystone text on dandyism, preceding Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly's Anatomy of Dandyism (1845) and Charles Baudelaire's “The Dandy” (in The Painter of Modern Life, 1863), and >>more
Wakefield Press
ISBN 9780984115501
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Pbk, 4.5 x 7 in. / 112 pgs / 1 b&w.
Pub Date: 02/28/2010 Out of stock
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|  Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision
Text by Frances Spalding. Virginia Woolf's many novels--notably Night and Day (1919), Jacob's Room (1922), Mrs Dalloway (1925), To the Lighthouse (1927) and The Waves (1931)--transformed ideas about structure, plot and characterization. Sister of Vanessa Bell, Woolf was a >>more
National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855144811
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Pbk, 7.5 x 9.5 in. / 192 pgs / 100 color.
Pub Date: 08/31/2014 In stock
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|  Writers Revealed
Edited with text by Alexandra Ault, Catharine MacLeod. Telling the stories of the best-loved writers in English literature, Writers Revealed investigates their enduring appeal from the 16th century to today through the collections of the National Portrait Gallery and the British Library. The >>more
National Portrait Gallery
ISBN 9781855145993
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Hbk, 6.25 x 9.5 in. / 288 pgs / 160 color.
Pub Date: 04/15/2025 Out of stock
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