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John Constable
Random House 2012; US$ 21.33Born in 1776 in East Anglia near the river Stour, John Constable was destined for his father's business of milling and grain-shipping. But he was obdurately opposed to this and persuaded his family he should become an artist instead. In the same determined spirit, he wooed Maria Bicknell in the teeth of opposition from her formidable grandfather,... more...
Mr JW Lewin, Painter & Naturalist
University of NSW Press 2012; US$ 31.99Author, illustrator, printmaker and natural historian, John William Lewin created the first illustrated book ever published in Australia Birds of New South Wales, in 1813. Featuring more than 150 exquisite artworks, Mr JW Lewin takes a fascinating look at Lewins life and work, his place in colonial Australian society and the natural history... more...
Jean-Michel Basquiat: A Biography
ABC-CLIO 2010; US$ 35.00This work examines the fascinating life and art of the African American painter Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). more...
Giacometti
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 1997; US$ 7.99The work of one of the towering creative spirits of the century, Alberto Giacometti's visionary sculptures and paintings from a testament to the artist's intriguing life story. From modest beginnings in a Swiss village, Giacometti went on to flourish in the picturesque milieu of prewar Paris and then to achieve international acclaim in the fifties... more...
Seven Years with Banksy
Michael O' Mara Books 2012; US$ 9.99A memoir of Banksy, one of the world's most celebrated graffiti artists, offering an insight into his life and work through the experiences that he and the author shared together during Banksy's formative years. more...
Beirut, I Love You
New York Review Books 2012; US$ 9.99Zena el Khalil, a young Beirut-based female artist, writer, and activist who had an unconventional but worldly upbringing growing up in Lagos, Nigeria and attending art school in New York, returns after 9/11 to her familial home of Beirut and its mountains, beaches, food, music and drugs . Beirut, I Love You, spanning from 1994 to the present day,... more...
Arshile Gorky
Farrar, Straus and Giroux 2005; US$ 27.99From the Author of Frida , the Moving and Heroic Story of One of the Central Painters of the Twentieth Century Born in Turkey around 1900, Vosdanik Adoian escaped the massacres of Armenians in 1915 only to watch his mother die of starvation and his family scatter in their flight from the Turks. Arriving in America in 1920, Adoian invented the... more...
The Van Gogh File
Souvenir Press 2005; US$ 16.95Incorporating recent discoveries about Vincent Van Gogh's life and work, including the only photograph of him as an adult, this updated biography investigates the creativity, successes, and frustrations of one of the world's most famous painters. With evidence accumulated from Van Gogh's European life, from Belgium, the Netherlands, England, and France,... more...
Caravaggio
HarperCollins 2009; Not Available?Matching gorgeous prose to gorgeous artworks, Prose responds to each image as a moment of theatrical revelation, sensual or spiritual, and frequently both.? ? Boston Sunday Globe In Caravaggio, New York Times bestselling author Francine Prose ( Goldengrove, Reading like a Writer ) offers an enthralling account of the life and work of one of... more...
Jubilee City
HarperCollins 2009; Not AvailableJoe Andoe is an internationally exhibited painter. His work, hailed by The New Yorker as "cowboy noir with a fashionista twist," is in the collections of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Whitney Museum of Art in New York, and countless other locations. He is a father. He is a writer. He is sober. That's now. Once upon a time, though, way... more...









