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  • Michael Freeman's Photo School: Fundamentals

    The essential guide to photography

    Designed by expert professional Michael Freeman, this complete course will let you take exceptional photos and develop a deeper understanding of what makes a great photo work. Inspired by the structure of a college course and the benefits of collective learning, in-depth lessons are punctuated by shooting challenges, encouraging you to get out and practice your new skills.Start by taking creative ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • Leonardo and the Last Supper

    by Ross King ...
    Early in 1495, Leonardo da Vinci began work in Milan on what would become one of history's most influential and beloved works of art--The Last Supper. After a dozen years at the court of Lodovico Sforza, the Duke of Milan, Leonardo was at a low point personally and professionally: at 43, in an era when he had almost reached the average life expectancy, he had failed, despite a number of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Tell Me Who I Am: The Story Behind the Netflix Documentary

    The story behind the hit Netflix documentary: The bestselling account of the bond between brothers and the shocking legacy of a dangerous mother.Imagine waking up one day to discover that you have forgotten everything about your life. Your only link with the past, your only hope for the future, is your identical twin.Now imagine, years later, discovering that your twin had ... ... Read more

    $3.99 USD $2.99 USD

  • Chasing Bright Medusas

    A Life of Willa Cather

    **“Chasing Bright Medusas should appeal to anyone — novice or expert — ready to explore Cather’s life and work in the company of a critic so alert to the shimmering subtlety of her style and the hard years of effort that went into crystallizing it.” —The Washington PostA tender biography of one of the greatest authors of the twentieth century and an elegant exploration of artistic endurance, as ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $1.99 USD

  • 沒有門檻的幸福

    Happiness Without Thresholds

    by 楊士毅 ...
    Series series MARK
    ✰Apple旗艦店開幕合作剪紙藝術家楊士毅,公布創作背後的幸福心法✰真正的幸福不需追求,而是必須沒有門檻,只要按下「我願意」的開關,就能啟動發生✰指引每個人在面對家人、內心、旅行與流浪、生活與工作,如何找到「我願意」的開關✰解析十個「幸福」的剪紙、裝置藝術個案✰暖心收錄 橫式拉頁《你在身邊,家就開滿了花》關於「如何獲得幸福、快樂的人生」,楊士毅一輩子都在尋找這個問題的答案。少時家庭貧窮與黑暗的陰影,讓他長期畏縮於沒有自信的角落裡,即使他從讀大學開始就在攝影上才華洋溢,但是在巨大的財務和心理壓力之下,有段時間只能持續耽溺於黑暗的創作風格,不知道自己應該被放在這個世界的什麼地方。然而,有一天他終於跨出了黑暗的門戶,發現家庭是老天為每一個人量身訂做的教室,而接受現實,不是無奈,而是與問題正面對決的開始。他發現天堂就在你用心感受的每個地方,幸福是沒有門檻的。楊士毅不論使用的創作媒材是攝影、電影 ... Read more

    $14.99 USD $12.99 USD

  • Learn How to Draw Computer Portraits For the Beginner: Step by Step Guide to Drawing Portraits Using SAI Paint Tool

    Table of ContentsIntroductionWhat do I need to start?How do I acquire SAI Paint Tool?The Drafting ProcessThe Coloring ProcessAuthor BioPublisherIntroductionDigital drawing is a lot easier than how most people presume it would be. Sure, nothing beats drawing the "old school" way but we have to admit, and you will see soon enough, that drawing digitally has its own share of perks as well.This ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Sculpting a Life

    Chana Orloff between Paris and Tel Aviv

    Series series HBI Series on Jewish Women
    The first biography of sculptor Chana Orloff.In Sculpting a Life, the first book-length biography of sculptor Chana Orloff (1888-1968), author Paula Birnbaum tells the story of a fiercely determined and ambitious woman who fled antisemitism in Ukraine, emigrated to Palestine with her family, then travelled to Paris to work in haute couture before becoming an internationally recognized artist. ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • Monet

    The Restless Vision

    **A groundbreaking look at the life and art of one of the most influential, modern painters of the late nineteenth century and founder of the Impressionist movement“Wullschläger emerges with a strikingly different picture of the artist. Passionate, prickly, edgy and unstable, her Monet, the unrecognizable Monet, is a powerful new character in art.” —The Sunday Times (London)**Drawing on thousands ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Bitter Crop

    The Heartache and Triumph of Billie Holiday's Last Year

    **A revelatory look at the tumultuous life of a jazz legend and American cultural icon“A book written as only one artist could view another, with insight and sincere compassion.” —Sandra Cisneros, best-selling author of Woman Without Shame**In the first biography of Billie Holiday in more than two decades, Paul Alexander—author of heralded lives of Sylvia Plath and J. D. Salinger—gives us an ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Walk Through Walls

    A Memoir

    “I had experienced absolute freedom—I had felt that my body was without boundaries, limitless; that pain didn’t matter, that nothing mattered at all—and it intoxicated me.”In 2010, more than 750,000 people stood in line at Marina Abramović’s MoMA retrospective for the chance to sit across from her and communicate with her nonverbally in an unprecedented durational performance that lasted more than ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Astors

    The Astors is a comprehensive biography of one of the most prominent and influential families in American history. The Astors were a wealthy and powerful family who made their fortune in the fur trade and real estate, and went on to become one of the most influential families in New York City and beyond. This book traces the history of the Astor family from its humble beginnings in Germany to its ... Read more

    $2.99 USD

  • The Dream Colony

    A Life in Art

    Art Forum's Best of the Year ListA panoramic look at art in America in the second half of the twentieth century, through the eyes of the visionary curator who helped shape it.An innovative, iconoclastic curator of contemporary art, Walter Hopps founded his first gallery in L.A. at the age of twenty-one. At twenty-four, he opened the Ferus Gallery with then-unknown artist Edward Kienholz, where he ... Read more

    $17.99 USD $14.99 USD

  • Self-Portrait

    by Celia Paul ...
    A rich, penetrating memoir about the author's relationship with a flawed but influential figure—the painter Lucian Freud—and the satisfactions and struggles of a life lived through art.One of Britain's most important contemporary painters, Celia Paul has written a reflective, intimate memoir of her life as an artist. Self-Portrait tells the artist's story in her own words, drawn from early journal ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Linea Nigra

    Translated by Christina MacSweeney ...
    “Eminently worthy of acclaim.” —Vogue (The Best Books of 2022 So Far)An intimate exploration of motherhood, Linea Nigra approaches the worries and joys of childbearing from a diverse range of inspirations and traditions, from Louise Bourgeois to Ursula K. Le Guin to the indigenous Nahua model Luz Jiménez. Part memoir and part manifesto, Barrera’s singular insights, delivered in candid prose, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • John Cassaveter. Claroscuro americano

    Pionero del cine independiente americano, Cassavetes llegó a director de modo casual, porque en realidad lo que le gustaba era inventar, escribir. Sentía la constante necesidad de comunicar, sobre todo sentimientos. Su cine, lejos de retóricas o manierismos técnicos, es esencialmente visceral, a flor de piel. Cada encuadre conserva el mayor grado posible de emoción y sentimiento. La técnica es un ... Read more

    $11.99 USD

  • Mapplethorpe

    A Biography

    With Robert Mapplethorpe's full endorsement and encouragement, Morrisroe interviewed more than three hundred friends, lovers, family members, and critics to form this definitive biography of America's most censored and celebrated photographer.“Eventually I found several hundred people who knew Robert Mapplethorpe in all his various incarnations—Catholic schoolboy; ROTC cadet; hippie; sexual ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Story of Art Without Men

    by Katy Hessel ...
    **Instant New York Times bestsellerOne of Vanity Fair's Favorite Books to Gift • One of PureWow's 42 Books to Gift This Year • One of Kirkus's Best Books of 2023The story of art as it’s never been told before, from the Renaissance to the present day, with more than 300 works of art.**How many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth ... Read more

    $32.99 USD

  • So Much Longing in So Little Space

    The Art of Edvard Munch

    A brilliant and personal examination by sensational and bestselling author Karl Ove Knausgaard of his Norwegian compatriot Edvard Munch, the famed artist best known for his iconic painting The ScreamIn So Much Longing in So Little Space, Karl Ove Knausgaard sets out to understand the enduring and awesome power of Edvard Munch’s work by training his gaze on the landscapes that inspired Munch and ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • The Curse of Beauty

    The Scandalous & Tragic Life of Audrey Munson, America's First Supermodel

    by James Bone ...
    The tumultuous and heartbreaking life of a world-famous model whose riveting story of beauty, fame, passion, murder, and madness in the Gilded Age captivated a nation.As America was stepping into the modern era, one great beauty became the artist’s model of choice. Her perfect form became the emblem of the Gilded Age and appears on the greatest monuments of New York and the nation. Supermodel, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Man with a Blue Scarf: On Sitting for a Portrait by Lucian Freud

    “An extraordinary record of a great artist in his studio, it also describes what it feels like to be transformed into a work of art.” —ARTnewsLucian Freud (1922-2011), widely regarded as the greatest figurative painter of our time, spent seven months painting a portrait of the art critic Martin Gayford. The daily narrative of their encounters takes the reader into that most private place, the ... Read more

    $15.99 USD $13.99 USD

  • Inventor of the Future

    The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller

    One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Nominated for The Next Big Idea Club * The Week Magazine Book of the WeekFrom Alec Nevala-Lee, the author of the Hugo and Locus Award finalist Astounding, comes a revelatory biography of the visionary designer who defined the rules of startup culture and ... Read more

    $17.49 USD

  • Plagued by Fire

    The Dreams and Furies of Frank Lloyd Wright

    Frank Lloyd Wright has long been known as a rank egotist who held in contempt almost everything aside from his own genius. Harder to detect, but no less real, is a Wright who fully understood, and suffered from, the choices he made.This is the Wright whom Paul Hendrickson reveals in this masterful biography: the Wright who was haunted by his father, about whom he told the greatest lie of his life. ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • We Go Pogo

    Walt Kelly, Politics, and American Satire

    Series series Great Comics Artists Series
    Walt Kelly (1913–1973) is one of the most respected and innovative American cartoonists of the twentieth century. His long-running Pogo newspaper strip has been cited by modern comics artists and scholars as one of the best ever. Cartoonists Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes), Jeff Smith (Bone), and Frank Cho (Liberty Meadows) have all cited Kelly as a major influence on their work. Alongside ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • The Circadian Tarot

    A Daily Companion for Divination and Illumination

    This refreshingly contemporary take on Tarot is equal parts gorgeous art piece and thought-provoking spiritual touchstone. All 78 classic Tarot cards are represented, beautifully depicted in ethereal watercolors by Michelle Blade and eloquently explained in text by Jen Altman. The Circadian Tarot invites readers to start each day by reading a section at random (a technique known in the use of ... Read more

    $9.99 USD