Architects Photographers category: 3350 books
J.M.W. Turner
Ackroyd's Brief Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
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. W. Turner.
Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London in 1775. His father was...
Piero's Light
In Search of Piero della Francesca: A Renaissance Painter and the Revolution in Art, Science and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
An innovative painter in the early generation of Renaissance artists, Piero dell Francesca was also an expert on religious topics and a mathematician who wanted to use perspective and geometry to make painting a “true science.”
Although only sixteen of Piero’s works survive, few art historians...
Becoming Superman
My Journey From Poverty to Hollywood
Language: English
Release Date: July 23, 2019
Featuring an introduction by Neil Gaiman!
“J. Michael Straczynski is, without question, one of the greatest science fiction minds of our time.” -- Max Brooks (World War Z)
For four decades, J. Michael Straczynski has been one of the most successful writers in Hollywood, one...
The Philosophy of Andy Warhol
From A to B and Back Again
Language: English
Release Date: December 16, 2014
A loosely formed autobiography by Andy Warhol, told with his trademark blend of irony and detachment
In The Philosophy of Andy Warhol—which, with the subtitle "(From A to B and Back Again)," is less a memoir than a collection of riffs and reflections—he talks about love, sex,...
by Andrew Graham-Dixon
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
**A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice and a Washington Post Notable Book of the Year
"This book resees its subject with rare clarity and power as a painter for the 21st century." —Hilary Spurling, New York Times Book Review**
Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571–1610)...
The Lost Battles
Leonardo, Michelangelo, and the Artistic Duel That Defined the Renaissance
Language: English
Release Date: October 23, 2012
From one of Britain’s most respected and acclaimed art historians, art critic of The Guardian—the galvanizing story of a sixteenth-century clash of titans, the two greatest minds of the Renaissance, working side by side in the same room in a fierce competition: the master Leonardo da Vinci, commissioned...
Against the Grain
Bombthrowing in the Fine American Tradition of Political Cartooning
Language: English
Release Date: June 1, 2018
While political cartoonist Bill Sanders’s book may be a memoir, it is primarily a chronicle of his brushes with history during the era that stretched from the presidency of John Kennedy to that of Barack Obama—and of his good fortune to have had personal contact with some of the major actors on...
Caveat Emptor: The Secret Life of an American Art Forger
The Secret Life of an American Art Forger
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2012
It is said that the greatest con man in the world is the one who has never been caught—and here for the first time is the astonishing story of America’s most accomplished art forger
Ten years ago, an FBI investigation in conjunction with the U.S. Attorney’s Office in the Southern District...
The Pinecone
The Story of Sarah Losh, Forgotten Romantic Heroine--Antiquarian, Architect, and Visionary
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2013
In the village of Wreay, near Carlisle, stands the strangest and most magical Victorian church in England. This vivid, original book tells the story of its builder, Sarah Losh, strong-willed, passionate, and unusual in every way.
Sarah Losh is a lost Romantic genius—an antiquarian, an architect,...
Engineers of Dreams
Great Bridge Builders and the Spanning of America
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2010
Petroski reveals the science and engineering--not to mention the politics, egotism, and sheer magic--behind America's great bridges, particularly those constructed during the great bridge-building era starting in the 1870s and continuing through the 1930s. It is the story of the men and women who...
Super Boys
The Amazing Adventures of Jerry Siegel and Joe Shuster--the Creators of Superman
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2013
In time for the 75th anniversary of the Man of Steel*,* comes the first comprehensive literary biography of Joe Shuster and Jerry Siegel, creators of the DC Comics superhero Superman and the inspiration for Michael Chabon's Kavalier and Clay
Drawing on ten years of research in the trenches...
At the Strangers' Gate
Arrivals in New York
Language: English
Release Date: September 5, 2017
From The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker writer, a memoir that captures the romance of New York City in the 1980s.
When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, first arrived in 1980, New York City was a pilgrimage site for the young, the arty,...
Cartoon County
My Father and His Friends in the Golden Age of Make-Believe
Language: English
Release Date: November 21, 2017
A poignant history of the cartoonists and illustrators from the Connecticut School
For a period of about fifty years, right in the middle of the American Century, many of the the nation’s top comic-strip cartoonists, gag cartoonists, and magazine illustrators lived within a stone’s throw...
Short Nights of the Shadow Catcher
The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
Language: English
Release Date: October 9, 2012
“A vivid exploration of one man's lifelong obsession with an idea . . . Egan’s spirited biography might just bring [Curtis] the recognition that eluded him in life.” — Washington Post
Edward Curtis was charismatic, handsome, a passionate mountaineer, and a famous portrait photographer,...