The Best Artists, Architects & Photographers Biographies & Memoirs 2025

1. A Quest Among the Bewildered: The Early Autobiographical Novel by Wulf Zendik [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. "A Quest Among the Bewildered" is Wulf Zendik's first full-length work, written at the artistic height of the Beat Generation. More than 40 years later, this tough, witty, semi-autobiographical take on the madness surging through the veins of modern day culture still hits home like a hammer blow?detailing one man's search for Love and integrity in a sea of lies, loneliness and deceit. Written in riveting free-form prose, this is Art on the edge, a live-wire ride into the psyche of a deeply human, deeply humane genius.

A Quest Among the Bewildered: The Early Autobiographical Novel by Wulf Zendik, Used [Paperback]

2. The Artist's Voice: Talks with Seventeen Modern Artists, Used [Paperback]

To quote Robert Hughes, "All critics concerned with American painting will be Kuh's debtors from now on." Interviewed in the 1960s, the painters and sculptors Katharine Kuh spoke with provide insights into their work that remain illuminating and relevant. The author allows the artists to comment -- in their own words -- on their inspirations, philosophies, and creative processes and to debunk common myths about their work. Sometimes the results are surprising: abstract painter Josef Albers confesses to being a realist, while realist painter Ivan Albright firmly denies the charge. Marcel Duchamp professes surprise over the controversy stirred by his Nude Descending a Staircase, and Edward Hopper insists that his supposed themes of loneliness and nostalgia are entirely unintentional.

The Artist's Voice : Talks with Seventeen Modern Artists, Used [Paperback]

3. Harbinger - Memoirs of Recovery, Used [Mass Market Paperback]

Product Identifiers ISBN-10 0966152506 ISBN-13 9780966152500 Key Details Author Madeleine P. Hopkins Number Of Pages 187 pages Format Trade Paper Publication Date 1997-10-01 Language English Publisher Hopkins, Madeleine Pydych Additional Details Copyright Date 1996 Illustrated Yes Dimensions Width 5.5 In. Length 8.5 In.

Harbinger - Memoirs of Recovery, Used [Mass Market Paperback]

4. Show Me a Story!: Why Picture Books Matter: Conversations with 21 of the World's Most Celebrated Illustrators [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. In compelling interviews by the acclaimed Leonard S. Marcus, twenty-one top authors and illustrators reveal their inside stories on the art of creating picture books. Max and Mickey; Miss Nelson; Pack, Quack, and Mrs. Mallard; Pigeon; Sylvester; John Henry; and a very hungry caterpillar i1/2 these are just a few of the beloved picture book characters discussed in Show Me a Story . Renowned children's literature authority Leonard S. Marcus speaks with their creators and others i1/2 twenty-one of the world's most celebrated authors and illustrators i1/2 and asks about their childhood, their inspiration, their determination, their mentors, their creative choices, and more. Amplifying these richly entertaining and thought-provoking conversations are eighty-eight full-color plates revealing each illustrator's artistic process from sketch to near -final artwork in fascinating, behind-the-scenes detail. Why do children love and need picture books so much? Recasting and greatly expanding on a volume published in 2002 as Ways of Telling , Leonard S. Marcus confirms that picture books matter because they make a difference in our children's lives.

Show Me a Story! : Why Picture Books Matter: Conversations with 21 of the World's Most Celebrated Illustrators, Used [Paperback]

5. Etienne Delessert, Used [Hardcover]

For over 30 years, self-taught artist Etienne Delessert has been translating ideas, passions, fantasies and nightmares into the visual language of illustration, posters, animated films and paintings. This volume contains a sampling from the many areas of his work.

Etienne Delessert, Used [Hardcover]

6. Open Studio, Used [Hardcover]

Open Studio offers a window into the methods and unique culture of an architecture firm that has achieved international success. Curated illustrations of hand sketches, study models, design sessions, and site visits pull back the curtain on the creative collaboration behind the scenes at Robert A.M. Stern Architects. Nearly 100 pages of photographs of finished work, including academic buildings, museums, houses, apartment houses, and office towers, demonstrate the firm's ability to realize modern buildings in a wide variety of stylistic vocabularies through a commitment to fundamental principles of architecture and a respect for context and history. Founded in 1969, the 250-person New York-based Robert A.M. Stern Architects has received numerous awards for design excellence from the American Institute of Architects, the Congress for the New Urbanism, the Urban Land Institute, the Society for College and University Planning, and the Institute of Classical Architecture and Art.

Open Studio, Used [Hardcover]

7. 501 Great Artists [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. A concise yet comprehensive reference guide for art lovers and art students, this illustrated volume profiles major artists from classical antiquity to the modern era. All 501 artists featured in this book receive at least a one-page entry that summarizes their life, their work, and their influence. The most influential artists are discussed in entries of up to four pages. Entries are illustrated with portraits of the artists and reproductions of some of their best-known works. Included here are painters, sculptors, photographers, and performance and video artists. Among them are Renaissance artists Raphael and Michelangelo, northern European artists such as Peter Paul Rubens and Rembrandt van Rijn, English landscape painters Turner and Constable, French impressionists such as Degas and Renoir, Japanese artists Sesshu and Hishikawa Moronobu, American abstract expressionists Jackson Pollock and Willem de Kooning, twentieth-century European giants such as Pablo Picasso and Georges Braque, and modern sculptors Isamu Noguchi, Alexander Calder, Richard Serra, and many others. Important women in the arts are also included, among them, sculptor Louise Nevelson, painters Georgia O'Keeffe and Helen Frankenthaler, American impressionist in France Mary Cassatt, and many others. This informative and entertaining compendium of biographical sketches is supplemented with more than 670 illustrations, most of them in color.

501 Great Artists [Hardcover - Used]

8. America's Great Illustrators [Hardcover - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Represented in 417 illustrations with 186 color plates are the drawings and paintings of illustrators whose images are admired for their artistic merit, as well as for the fads and fashions they inspired and the record of history that is their legacy.

America's Great Illustrators, Used [Hardcover]

9. Tom Sullivan's Adventures in Darkness, Used [Paperback]

A biography of the singer and television entertainer who has been blind from birth.

Tom Sullivan's Adventures in Darkness, Used [Paperback]

10. Alec: After The Snooter [Paperback - Used]

CONDITION - USED - Pages can include limited notes and highlighting, and the copy can include "From the library of" labels or previous owner inscriptions. Accessories such as CD, codes, toys, may not be included. Depicts the terrors of middle age through the eyes of the author, as he describes his daily routines as husband, father, son, friend, and artist, all while battling a mothlike creature called the Snooter.

Alec: After The Snooter [Paperback - Used]