Individual artists, art monographs

The story behind the hit Netflix documentary: The bestselling account of the bond between brothers and the shocking legacy of a dangerous mother.

The intimate memoirs of one of the most acclaimed and controversial artists of her generation.

Picturing Islam: Art and Ethics in a Muslim Lifeworld explores issues of religion, nationalism, ethnicity, and globalization through the life and work of the prominent contemporary Indonesian artist Abdul Djalil Pirous.

Picturing Islam: Art and Ethics in a Muslim Lifeworld explores issues of religion, nationalism, ethnicity, and globalization through the life and work of the prominent contemporary Indonesian artist Abdul Djalil Pirous.

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Die offizielle Biografie über Deutschlands wichtigsten Hollywood-Export.

This long-awaited study, lavishly illustrated, tells the remarkable story of the work of one of Canada's great artists.

Did he ever play Hamlet?

Charlie James (1867-1937) was a premier carver and painter from the Kwakwaka'wakw First Nation of British Columbia.

Charlie James (1867-1937) was a premier carver and painter from the Kwakwaka'wakw First Nation of British Columbia.

Louise Larocque Serpa often said she was born ';in the wrong place, to the wrong woman, at the wrong time.

For ten years, Calvin and Hobbes was one the world's most beloved comic strips.

For ten years, Calvin and Hobbes was one the world's most beloved comic strips.

Based on interviews with the subject, this visual biography is an intimate portrait of Quentin Blake, the much-loved illustrator and artistic genius of our age.

Quentin Blake is one of the foremost illustrators of the twentieth century.

Whatever you've heard about Leonardo Da Vinci, the truth is even more fascinating!

Thanks to the international bestseller The Da Vinci Code, people are more fascinated with Leonardo Da Vinci than ever.

This memoir chronicles the life of an artist who began his professional career as a Harvard trained lawyer before discovering the artist within.

Writings on human life and the refugee crisis by the most important political artist of our timeAi Weiwei (b.

Unique perspectives from an acclaimed art historian on the relationship between drawing and paintingFrom Drawing to Painting interweaves biographical information about five renowned French artists-Nicolas Poussin, Antoine Watteau, Jean-Honore Fragonard, Jacques-Louis David, and Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres-with a fascinating look at dozens of their drawings and the links that they have to their paintings.

The captivating story of how a band of scientists has redrawn the genetic and behavioral lines that separate humans from our nearest cousins.

Jo Mora (1876-1947) lived the Western life he depicted in his prolific body of visual art, comprising sculpture, paintings, architectural adornments, dioramas, and maps.

Take a culinary journey in Monet's footsteps with this book featuring recipes and photographs from his bucolic Normandy home-forward by Meryl Streep.

The life, work, and inspiration of the acclaimed Native American artist are explored in this beautifully illustrated book.

Artist Mary Whyte has learned many lessons over the years--lessons about art and, perhaps more important to her, lessons about life.

The Art of the Bookstore is romantic, poetic, charismatic, and enduring, and independent booksellers around the world thrive on creating this unique culture and ambiance.

More than 125 gorgeous photographs showcase the beauty of award-winning stonemason Lew French's work in eight different homes, illustrating how rounded fieldstone, gray slate, rough granite, and even curvy driftwood can be incorporated into stunning pieces of functional art.

Can virtuous behavior be explained by nature, and not by human rational choice?

Considered by Graham Greene to be Maugham's best work, Don Fernando is a paean to a golden age of enormous creative energy.

A comprehensive account of the origins, evolution, and behavior of South and Central American primatesNew World Monkeys brings to life the beauty of evolution and biodiversity in action among South and Central American primates, who are now at risk.

The life of the painter and designer Duncan Grant spanned great changes in society and art, from Edwardian Britain to the 1970s, from Alma-Tadema to Gilbert and George.

From 1950 to 1962, John Richardson lived near Picasso in France and was a friend of the artist.

Manet, Monet, Pissarro, C zanne, Renoir, Degas, Sisley, Berthe Morisot and Mary Cassatt.

A must-read for anyone who has ever wondered why people do what they do, from the popular author of The Naked Ape.

The astounding first volume, exploring the fascinating world of the most popular living artist in Britain today.

From the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Guns, Germs and SteelMore than 98 % of human genes are shared with two species of chimpanzee.

Captivatingly fresh and intimate letters from Augustus John's first wife, Ida, reveal the untold story of married life with one of the great artists of the last century.

Georgia O'Keeffe is one of the great American artists of the twentieth century.

It is a story I have been wanting to write for a long time, telling it as it really was before that whole world that I shared with Francis vanishes.

This book is first a dialogue between a daughter and a father about life, physical sensation, mortality.

Claude Monet's water lily paintings are among the most iconic and beloved works of art of the past century.

The hugely acclaimed biography of one of history's greatest directors, Jean-Luc Godard'MacCabe's book is in a league of its own .

The remarkable story of the famous painting by Picasso and its diverse meanings from its conception to the present day'Enthralling .

For more than five centuries The Last Supper has been an artistic, religious and cultural icon.

Mysterious Wisdom is a biography of the painter Samuel Palmer whose world of slumbering shepherds and tumbling blossoms, mystical cornfields and bright sickle moons, has enchanted admirers since the nineteenth century.

Mike Peyton drew his first cartoon in 1942.