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on March 6, 1945, After Hearing Rumors That His Son, John, Was Writing A Book About Their Stormy Past, Frank Lloyd Wright Wrote A Note Asking Him, What Is ...

One of America's greatest living authors probes the soul and explosive early years of the passionate, driven Pablo Picasso, whose genius was celebrated as r...

published Here In Its Entirety, Frida Kahlo's Amazing Illustrated Journal Documents The Last Ten Years Of Her Turbulent Life. This Passionate, Often Surpri...

Jed Johnson: Opulent Restraint is the first book to chronicle the fascinating career, work and times of an interior design superstar whose life was cut sho...

A selection of Bierstadt's paintings are accompanied by biographical text and historical commentaries on his role in the depiction of the American West and ...

Ten-year-old prodigy Akiane Kramarik shares her artwork, poetry, and the fascinating story surrounding her talent. Growing up in a home with an atheistic mo...

Did Patrizia Reggiani murder her ex-husband Maurizio Gucci in 1995 because his spending was wildly out of control? Did she do it because her glamerous ex ...

Gathers Classic Short Stories By Such Authors As Ernest Hemingway, Edgar Allan Poe, O. Henry, Rudyard Kipling, John Steinbeck, Aldous Huxley, And Anton Chek...

Gifted artist Gerald Murphy and his elegant wife, Sara, were icons of the most enchanting period of our time; handsome, talented, and wealthy expatriate A...

Joan Crawford: The Essential Biography Explores The Life And Career Of One Of Hollywood's Great Dames. She Was A Leading Film Personality For More Than Fift...

About the Author\Hugo Vickers is a writer, lecturer and broadcaster, and an acknowledged expert on the British Royal Family. He has written biographies of t...

Andrews McMeel Publishing: Anne Geddes' A Labor of Love: Anne Geddes A Biography reveals the events, emotions, and images that have shaped Anne's life. Her ...

Full Of Never-before-seen Illustrations, Life Sketches Is An Inspiring And Elegant Portrait Of Robert Bateman’s Life As An Artist And Of His Belief That â...

A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world--and Picasso the most famous artist alive--...

By Patrick Regan ; With Mary Engelbreit.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Arts & LiteratureArtists, Architects & Photographers

growing Pains Tells The Story Of Writer And Painter Emily Carr's Life, From A Proper Canadian Girlhood, Through Her Artist's Training In San Francisco And...

Drawn from the secret, never-before-seen diaries, journals, and sexual records of the novelist, poet, and university professor Samuel M. Steward, Secret Hi...

Albert Camus was an enigma to many to his own generation, even some who thought they knew him. He didn't quite fit into the French literary mold; men and w...

In an intimate talk with his protégé, the great sculptor offers candid, wide-ranging comments on a diverse range of topics: the meaning of art; other fame...

Gloria Vanderbilt is many things: an heiress, a painter, a muse, a designer, a model, a writer, an entrepreneur, an actor, a socialite, a survivor, an icon...

The controversial story of Chanel, the twentieth century's foremost fashion icon. Revolutionizing women's dress, Gabrielle "Coco'' Chanel was the twentiet...

By Jimmy Ernst. Includes Index.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Arts & LiteratureArtists, Architects & Photographers

This deeply engaging book introduces the reader to the creative chaos of the tiny Parisian studio of the great sculptor Alberto Giacometti, from the moment ...

The definitive biography of Karl Lagerfeld--the last iconic fashion designer--now in paperback! "It starts with me and it ends with me." --Karl Lagerfeld ...

The definitive biography of a fascinating and paradoxical figure, one of the most influential artists of his--or any--age To this day, mention the name...

Michael Lesy. Text Previously Published As Part Of Visible Light / Michael Lesy. New York : Times Books, 1985.Categories: Biographies & Memoirs Arts &am...

How artists work, how they ritualize their days with the comforting (mundane) details of their lives: their daily routines, fears, dreams, naps, eating habi...

Originally released as a slim paperback 10 years ago (now out of print and fetching collector's prices), this in-depth illustrated monograph on the late, gr...