'A delightful book, full of amusing and charming stories' THE TIMES
'Daphne du Maurier has no equal' SUNDAY TELEGRAPH
'An intimate view of a creative personality . . . as richly evocative as any of ……続きを見る
著者:Richard Hertz
出版社: Hol Art Books
発売日: 2012年06月11日
Jack Goldstein and the CalArts Mafia is the compelling story of artist Jack Goldstein and some of his classmates at CalArts, who in the early 1970s went to New York and led the transition from conce……続きを見る
著者:Kenneth Silverman
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年04月07日
In this brilliantly conceived and written biography, Pulitzer Prize–winning Kenneth Silverman gives us the long and amazing life of the man eulogized by the New York Herald in 1872 as “perhaps the m……続きを見る
著者:Susan Wagg
出版社: McGill-Queen's University Press
発売日: 2013年04月01日
By the year 1900, architect Andrew Taylor had designed Bank of Montreal branches across the continent and much of McGill University, helped found the McGill School of Architecture, and played a crit……続きを見る
In Bad Boy, renowned American artist Eric Fischl has written a penetrating, often searing exploration of his coming of age as an artist, and his search for a fresh narrative style in the highly char……続きを見る
Culled from previously unpublished material, this collection of writing and photography by John Howard Griffin was taken from the period during which he was writing and revising what would be his mo……続きを見る
Two parents, unfit to raise gerbils, abandon two-year-old Georgie in the loving arms of his Nana, only to snatch him away when he's nine, when Japan bombs Pearl Harbor, everything is rationed, his m……続きを見る
From the black and white pages of a Belgian Catholic newspaper in the late 1920s to the virtual world of a 3D CGI Hollywood movie in 2011, the young adventurous reporter Tintin has come a long way.
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Gomez is so much more than just a pretty face who just happened to get lucky. It goes so much deeper than that. She has and continues to work incredibly hard, coming from less than perfect situation……続きを見る
著者:Jules Feiffer
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2010年03月16日
The award-winning cartoonist, playwright, and author delivers a witty, illustrated rendition of his life, from his childhood as a wimpy kid in the Bronx to his legendary career in the arts.
A gifted……続きを見る
Imagine being an artist. What it would be like to NOT be labeled a "starving" artist, to be viewed as successful instead. Imagine being able to read a book that does not rob you of your creative ene……続きを見る
One of the truly great minds of all time, the 15th-century Italian artist Leonardo da Vinci was uncannily ahead of his time, giving the world not only the Mona Lisa and his other extraordinary works……続きを見る
著者:Edward Ball
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2013年01月22日
From the National Book Award-winning author of Slaves in the Family, a riveting true life/true crime narrative of the partnership between the murderer who invented the movies and the robber baron wh……続きを見る
著者:Tom Kupsh
出版社: Chicago Review Press
発売日: 2008年06月01日
In addition to hundreds of whimsical welded sculptures, Tom Every poured most of his effort into the Forevertron, the world's largest sculpture built by a single person, and in the process, he disco……続きを見る
著者:Harvey Rachlin
出版社: Penguin Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年03月27日
The secret histories of the world’s most famous masterpieces
Caravaggios, Rembrandts, Monetsーthe works of immortal artists such as these are indelibly imprinted in the public mind; they are pricele……続きを見る
This book profiles five fascinating visionaries who exemplify outstanding leadership, a passion for their work, cutting-edge ideas, and a commitment to quality. All winners of the prestigious J. C. ……続きを見る
著者:Friderike Zweig
出版社: Plunkett Lake Press
発売日: 2012年12月06日
Married to Stefan Zweig by Friderike Zweig (translated from the German by Erna McArthur, with an introduction by Helen Epstein, a chronology of Stefan Zweig's life and a bibliography of works by and……続きを見る
Harold Mortimer-Lamb’s name is in the index of almost every book written on the history of Canadian art, yet his place in that world has never been clear. Photographer, writer, painter, promoterーhe……続きを見る
著者:Fritjof Capra
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年10月30日
Leonardo da Vinci's scientific explorations were virtually unknown during his lifetime, despite their extraordinarily wide range. He studied the flight patterns of birds to create some of the first ……続きを見る
著者:Andrew Potok
出版社: Random House Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年12月18日
Andrew Potok is an intense, vigorous, sensual man--and a gifted painter. Then, passing forty, he rapidly begins to go blind from an inherited eye disease, retinitis pigmentosa. Depressed and angry, ……続きを見る
著者:Helen Epstein
出版社: Plunkett Lake Press
発売日: 2012年12月06日
Meyer Schapiro: Portrait of an Art Historian by Helen Epstein (19,700 words)
This is the only profile available of art historian Meyer Schapiro (1904-1996). A polymath, revered for his extraordinary……続きを見る
著者:Marcy Italiano
出版社: P.I.C. Publishing
発売日: 2012年11月12日
THE BEST POSSIBLE PLACE
THE WORST POSSIBLE TIME
On August 27, 2005, a Carnival cruise ship docked at the harbor of New Orleans. Amongst the arrivals were Canadian writer Marcy Italiano and her husba……続きを見る
著者:Franklin Toker
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年12月18日
Fallingwater Rising is a biography not of a person but of the most famous house of the twentieth century. Scholars and the public have long extolled the house that Frank Lloyd Wright perched over a ……続きを見る
The Roaring Twenties in New York was a time of exuberant ambition, free-flowing optimism, an explosion of artistic expression in the age of Prohibition. New York was the city that embodied the spiri……続きを見る
A charming memoir from one of America’s best-loved novelists, William Wharton, author of war-time classic ‘Birdy’.
Before even penning his first novel, William Wharton had left his home in Los Angel……続きを見る
Everyone says Leonardo Da Vinci is one of the greatest artist whoever lived…but why? What makes him so great? At a single glance, the Mona Lisa just looks like a normal painting of a woman. Why is h……続きを見る
Arthur Boyd's legacy is a collection of masterpieces that define the history of Australian art in the last century. But the man himself - enigmatic, inarticulate, modest - has remained in the shadow……続きを見る
Life with a filmmaker, artist and musician. Cliff Guest won Madonna's highly touted video contest"Make My Video Contest" in the 1980's. Cliff Guest and Angel Gracia won the contest and were whisked ……続きを見る
著者:John McGahern
出版社: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
発売日: 2007年12月18日
From award-winning author John McGahern, a memoir of his childhood in the Irish countryside and the beginnings of his life as a writer.
McGahern describes his early years as one of seven children gr……続きを見る