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  • Uncanny: The Origins of Fear

    by Junji Ito ...
    Series series Junji Ito
    Why are we drawn to fear?Horror manga legend Junji Ito has fascinated the world with his beautiful and strange tales, starting with his debut story “Tomie,” and followed by Uzumaki, Gyo, and many other famous works.In this memoir/horror manga analysis, he tells all and digs into dark recesses—reflections on influences from his childhood, thoughts on manga, next-level idea generation techniques, ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • Oil and Marble

    A Novel of Leonardo and Michelangelo

    In her brilliant debut, Storey brings early 16th-century Florence alive, entering with extraordinary empathy into the minds and souls of two Renaissance masters, creating a stunning art history thriller. From 1501 to 1505, Leonardo da Vinci and Michelangelo Buonarroti both lived and worked in Florence. Leonardo was a charming, handsome fifty year-old at the peak of his career. Michelangelo was a ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Old In Art School

    A Memoir of Starting Over

    by Nell Painter ...
    A New York Times Book Review Editor’s ChoiceA San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the YearFinalist for the National Book Critics Circle AwardThis memoir of one woman’s late-in-life career change is “a smart, funny and compelling case for going after your heart’s desires, no matter your age” (Essence)Following her retirement from Princeton University, celebrated historian Dr. Nell Ir... ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Self-Exposure

    by Ralph Gibson ...
    Written in candid prose, Gibson takes the reader through his life and career that spans over 50 years. Gibson's story is a fascinating one, from his earliest memories growing up in California to his time in the navy and his continuous love affair with photography. Gibson's memories are time-capsules, filled with rich characters and period details. Often moving, the narratives of his at times ... Read more

    $29.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Inventor and the Tycoon

    A Gilded Age Murder and the Birth of Moving Pictures

    by Edward Ball ...
    From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron who built the railroads.One hundred and thirty years ago Eadweard Muybridge invented stop-motion photography, anticipating and making possible motion pictures. He was the first to capture time and play it ... Read more

    $10.99 USD

  • On Chapel Sands

    The Mystery of My Mother's Disappearance as a Child

    by Laura Cumming ...
    NOMINATED FOR THE 2019 NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR AUTOBIOGRAPHYONE OF NPR'S BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARSHORTLISTED FOR THE BAILLIE GIFFORD PRIZE FOR NONFICTIONSHORTLISTED FOR THE RATHBONES FOLIO PRIZELONGLISTED FOR THE RSL ONDAATJE PRIZEThe acclaimed New York Times bestselling author of The Vanishing Velazquez shares a riveting true story... ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • The British Surrealists

    The lives, loves, and works of key British Surrealists revealed by one of the last surviving members of this movement, best-selling author and artist Desmond Morris.Honored for their idiosyncratic and imaginative works, the surrealists marked a pivotal moment in the history of modern art in Britain— pioneering the Surrealist movement between World War I and II. Many artists banded together to form ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris

    by Mark Braude ...
    **One of The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022One of The New York Time's 100 Notable Books of 2022One of Art News's Art Books They Couldn’t Put Down in 2022A dazzling portrait of Paris’s forgotten artist and cabaret star, whose incandescent life asks us to see the history of modern art in new ways.**In freewheeling 1920s Paris, Kiki de Montparnasse captivated as a nightclub performer, sold out ... Read more

    $13.99 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

  • La Nijinska

    Choreographer of the Modern

    by Lynn Garafola ...
    La Nijinska is the first biography of twentieth-century ballet's premier female choreographer. Overshadowed in life and legend by her brother Vaslav Nijinsky, Bronislava Nijinska had a far longer and more productive career. An architect of twentieth-century neoclassicism, she experienced the transformative power of the Russian Revolution and created her greatest work - Les Noces - under the ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • 1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows

    A Memoir

    by Ai Weiwei ...
    Translated by Allan H. Barr ...
    The “intimate and expansive” (Time) memoir of “one of the most important artists working in the world today” (Financial Times), telling a remarkable history of China over the last hundred years while also illuminating his artistic process“Poignant . . . An illuminating through-line emerges in the many parallels Ai traces between his life and his father’s.”—The New York Times Book Review (Editors’ ... Read more

    $12.99 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

  • Everything/Nothing/Someone

    A Memoir

    MAJOR LITERARY DEBUT: Alice’s writing is mesmerizing, fearless, and thrilling—this is the debut of a genuine literary stylist.PORTRAIT OF MENTAL ILLNESS: Alice writes about her struggles with compulsive self-harming behavior (cutting) in a brutally honest, evocative way that depicts the dislocating effects of a dissociative disorder.STARRED EARLY REVIEWS**:** E/N/S has received rave, starred ... Read more

    $20.99 USD

  • Utopia Parkway

    The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell

    Deborah Solomon’s definitive biography of Joseph Cornell, one of America’s most moving and unusual twentieth-century artists, now reissued twenty years later with updated and extensively revised textFew artists ever led a stranger life than Joseph Cornell, the self-taught American genius prized for his enigmatic shadow boxes, who stands at the intersection of Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • John H. Kampmann, Master Builder

    San Antonio's German Influence in the 19th Century

    Travel back and take a close look at what it meant to be an architect in the 19th century.Although relatively unknown in modern day Texas, John H. Kampmann was the master craftsman of his time. Explore Kampmann's lasting legacy alongside Maggie Valentine as she reveals how one man changed the face of the city. From an adobe Spanish village to a city of stone and mortar, Kampmann used his skills as ... Read more

    $4.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Marilyn & Me

    A Photographer's Memories

    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 of a surgeon, Schiller slices through the façade of Marilyn Monroe in his unflinching memoir. Revealing and readable, it’s a book I couldn’t put down." —Tina BrownWhen he pulled his station ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Michelangelo and the Sistine Chapel

    You cannot stand underneath the masterwork that is the Sistine Chapel without considering the genius and painstaking work that went into its creation. Michelangelo Buonarroti never wanted to paint the Sistine Chapel, though. Appointed by the temperamental Julius II, Michelangelo believed the suspiciously large-scale project to be a plot for failure conspired by his rivals and the "Warrior Pope." ... Read more

    $12.99 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

  • 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

  • I Love Her, That’s Why!

    An Autobiography

    She puts salt in the pepper shaker and pepper in the salt shaker because then if she gets mixed up, she’s right. She shortens the electric cords in the house to save electricity. That’s the character Gracie Allen has played for years. And for all that time people have asked George Burns, “How do you stand it? Why do you put up with it?” And for twenty-eight years George has been answering, “I love ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Grand Affair

    John Singer Sargent in His World

    by Paul Fisher ...
    A Wall Street Journal and Times Literary Supplement B**ook of the Year | Long-listed for the Plutarch Award**A bold new biography of the legendary painter John Singer Sargent, stressing the unruly emotions and furtive desires that drove his innovative work and defined the transatlantic, fin de siècle culture he inhabited.A great American artist, John Singer Sargent is also an abiding enigm... ... Read more

    $19.99 USD $12.99 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

  • Everything She Touched

    Life of Ruth Asawa

    by Marilyn Chase ...
    Everything She Touched recounts the incredible life of the American sculptor Ruth Asawa.This is the story of a woman who wielded imagination and hope in the face of intolerance and who transformed everything she touched into art. In this compelling biography, author Marilyn Chase brings Asawa's story to vivid life. She draws on Asawa's extensive archives and weaves together many voices—family, ... Read more

    $15.99 USD $2.99 USD