2,045円 In 1791, shortly after the United States won its independence, George Washington personally asked Pierre Charles L’Enfantーa young French artisan turned American revolutionary soldier who gained many friends among the Founding Fathersーto design the new nation's capital. L’Enfant approached this ...

2,358円 A painter and architect in his own right, Giorgio Vasari (1511-74) achieved immortality for this book on the lives of his fellow Renaissance artists, first published in Florence in 1550. Although he based his work on a long tradition of biographical writing, Vasari infused these literary portrait...

2,358円 An unprecedented, intimate, and richly illustrated portrait of Frank Gehry, one of the world’s most influential architects. Drawing on the most candid, revealing, and entertaining conversations she has had with Gehry over the last twenty years, Barbara Isenberg provides new and fascinating insigh...

941円 By 1970, artist Salvador Dali had transcended his own past to reinvent himself as the "Divine Dali" - the living embodiment of Surrealism, a master showman, eccentric world traveller, and accumulator of increasingly vast amounts of wealth. One of Dali's favoured haunts at this time was the Hotel...

943円 The art world has never seemed quite so treacherous, so beguiling- and so much fun What separates a masterpiece from a piece of junk? Thanks to the BBC's Antiques Roadshow and its American spin-off, everyone is searching garage sales and hunting online for hidden gems, wondering whether their att...

218円 Natif de Brignoles, en Provence et parlant parfaitement la langue provencale, Antoine Albalat , un érudit de la chose littéraire, est en superbe position pour nous offrir ce magnifique portrait de la vie, de l'oeuvre et du génie de Mistral, l'auteur de l'immortelle Mireille....

1,681円 Fine Art Photographer, Mark A Paulda, takes the viewer through a photographic journey of the world famous London Underground. Travelling hundreds of miles underground, Paulda takes the reader through the Jubilee Line, Northern Line, Bakerloo Line, Piccadilly Line, District Line, and Victoria Line...

871円 Using Gertrude Stein's THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF ALICE B. TOKLAS as a template, Filip Noterdaeme's THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF DANIEL J. ISENGART tells the true story of two eccentric expats who find love in New York City and carve out a delirious, dadaesque life on the margins of the contemporary art world....

503円 Compact Camera Fundamentals: An Introduction To Photography is an eBook written specifically for the Point-And-Shoot (PAS) photographer.  The book uses a multi-touch interactive approach - including videos, diagrams, graphs, charts, photographs, reference materials, and glossary - to explai...

1,210円 The biggest surprise - and disappointment - that life holds is that it is over so fast. The golden tomorrow, to which most people (usually women) put off their hopes rarely appears. This is the lesson learned by Helen McLean in her memoir. Details from a Larger Canvas is about a woman with the ex...

1,372円 In Ghost Milk, Iain Sinclair, "our greatest guide to London" (The Spectator), chronicles the transformation and disappearance of his beloved East London in the wake of the 2012 Olympics. The Olympics, the story goes, have transformed London into a gleaming, wholly modern city. East LondonーOlympi...

166円 The studio was filled with the rich odour of roses, and when the light summer wind stirred amidst the trees of the garden, there came through the open door the heavy scent of the lilac, or the more delicate perfume of the pink-flowering thorn. From the corner of the divan of Persian saddle-bags o...