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by Walter Isaacson
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: October 17, 2017
The #1 New York Times bestseller from Walter Isaacson brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography that is “a study in creativity: how to define it, how to achieve it…Most important, it is a powerful story of an exhilarating mind and life” (The New Yorker).
Based on...
Mad Enchantment
Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
Language: English
Release Date: September 6, 2016
From bestselling author Ross King, a brilliant portrait of the legendary artist and the story of his most memorable achievement.
Claude Monet is perhaps the world's most beloved artist, and among all his creations, the paintings of the water lilies in his garden at Giverny are most famous....
by Daniel Alef
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2009
Thomas Nast has been called the greatest political cartoonist of all time. He was much more than that. Gen. Ulysses S. Grant attributed his presidential victory in the 1868 campaign "to the sword of (Indian-fighting Gen. Phil) Sheridan and the pencil of Nast." Nast could smite the most powerful titans...
Shooting Ghosts
A U.S. Marine, a Combat Photographer, and Their Journey Back from War
Language: English
Release Date: August 22, 2017
**"A majestic book." --Bessel van der Kolk, MD, author of The Body Keeps the Score
A unique joint memoir by a U.S. Marine and a conflict photographer whose unlikely friendship helped both heal their war-wounded bodies and souls
"The dueling-piano spirit of SHOOTING GHOSTS...
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...