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Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles
HardcoverOriginal price $29.99Original price $29.99 - Original price $29.99Original price $29.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /National Bestseller"A landmark and long-overdue cultural history." --VogueThe stylish, wild story of the marriage of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Haywa...
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Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Nomin...
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Everybody Thought We Were Crazy: Dennis Hopper, Brooke Hayward, and 1960s Los Angeles
PaperbackOriginal price $22.99Original price $22.99 - Original price $22.99Original price $22.99Current price $20.99$20.99 - $20.99Current price $20.99| /National Bestseller"A landmark and long-overdue cultural history." --VogueThe stylish, wild story of the marriage of Dennis Hopper and Brooke Haywa...
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William Henry Jackson's Lens: How Yellowstone's Famous Photographer Captured the American West
HardcoverOriginal price $31.95Original price $31.95 - Original price $31.95Original price $31.95Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /William Henry Jackson was an explorer, photographer, and artist. He is also one of those most often overlooked figures of the American West. His la...
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Inventor of the Future: The Visionary Life of Buckminster Fuller
PaperbackOriginal price $24.99Original price $24.99 - Original price $24.99Original price $24.99Current price $22.99$22.99 - $22.99Current price $22.99| /One of Esquire's 50 Best Biographies of All Time * One of The Economist's Best Books of 2022 * A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice * Nomin...
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George Eastman: A Biography
HardcoverOriginal price $39.95 - Original price $39.95Original price $39.95$41.99$41.99 - $41.99Current price $41.99| /Now back in print, this life of George Eastman is the first biography since 1930 of the man who transformed the world of photography. In this revea...
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Picasso the Foreigner: An Artist in France, 1900-1973
HardcoverOriginal price $40.00Original price $40.00 - Original price $40.00Original price $40.00Current price $36.99$36.99 - $36.99Current price $36.99| /A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice"Absorbing [and] astute . . . Cohen-Solal captures a facet of Picasso's character long overlooked." --H...
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Thunderclap: A Memoir of Art and Life and Sudden Death
HardcoverOriginal price $32.50Original price $32.50 - Original price $32.50Original price $32.50Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /Named a Top 100 Must-Read Book of 2023 by Time and a Best Book of 2023 So Far by The New Yorker and the Financial Times New York Times bestselling...
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Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America
PaperbackOriginal price $20.00Original price $20.00 - Original price $20.00Original price $20.00Current price $18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world--and Picasso the most famous artis...
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When Harry Met Pablo: Truman, Picasso, and the Cold War Politics of Modern Art
HardcoverOriginal price $28.99Original price $28.99 - Original price $28.99Original price $28.99Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Truman and Picasso were contemporaries and were both shaped by and shapers of the great events of the twentieth century—the man who painted Guern...
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Sybil & Cyril: Cutting Through Time
PaperbackOriginal price $21.00Original price $21.00 - Original price $21.00Original price $21.00Current price $19.99$19.99 - $19.99Current price $19.99| /From Jenny Uglow, one of our most admired writers, a beautifully illustrated story of a love affair and a dynamic artistic partnership between the ...
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Tosh: Growing Up in Wallace Berman's World
PaperbackOriginal price $17.95 - Original price $17.95Original price $17.95$17.99$17.99 - $17.99Current price $17.99| /The triumphs and tragedies of growing up as the son of a famous Beat artist TOSH is a memoir of growing up as the son of an enigmatic, much-admir...
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Life with Picasso
PaperbackOriginal price $18.95 - Original price $18.95Original price $18.95$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /Françoise Gilot's candid memoir remains the most revealing portrait of Picasso written, and gives fascinating insight into the intense and creati...
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The Shores of Bohemia: A Cape Cod Story, 1910-1960
HardcoverOriginal price $35.00Original price $35.00 - Original price $35.00Original price $35.00Current price $29.99$29.99 - $29.99Current price $29.99| /An intimate portrait of a legendary generation of artists, writers, activists, and dreamers who created a utopia on the shores of Cape Cod during...
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1000 Years of Joys and Sorrows: A Memoir
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /The “intimate and expansive” (Time) memoir of “one of the most important artists working in the world today” (Financial Times), telling a remarka...
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Into The Dragon's Mouth: Stories from an American Architect who changed China
HardcoverOriginal price $26.99 - Original price $26.99Original price $26.99$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /Ben Wood is a larger than life figure, an American architect who re-imagined both the heart of New York and the heart of Shanghai and in this uniqu...
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Into The Dragon's Mouth: Stories from an American Architect who changed China
PaperbackOriginal price $19.99 - Original price $19.99Original price $19.99$25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /Ben Wood is a larger than life figure, an American architect who re-imagined both the heart of New York and the heart of Shanghai and in this uniqu...
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Nothing Ever Just Disappears: Seven Hidden Queer Histories
HardcoverOriginal price $29.95Original price $29.95 - Original price $29.95Original price $29.95Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /An exploration of artistic freedom, survival, and the hidden places of the imagination, including James Baldwin in Provence, Josephine Baker in Par...
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Feast of Ashes: The Life and Art of David Ohannessian
HardcoverOriginal price $30.00Original price $30.00 - Original price $30.00Original price $30.00Current price $25.99$25.99 - $25.99Current price $25.99| /The compelling life story of Armenian ceramicist David Ohannessian, whose work changed the face of Jerusalem--and a granddaughter's search for his ...
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Reconstructing Rural Egypt: Ahmed Hussein and the History of Egyptian Development
HardcoverOriginal price $49.95 - Original price $49.95Original price $49.95$60.99$60.99 - $60.99Current price $60.99| /Johnson's book provides the rich and untold story of the architect behind Egypt's inspired and highly successful social reform policies. The Rura...
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Brummett Echohawk: Pawnee Thunderbird and Artist
HardcoverOriginal price $24.95 - Original price $24.95Original price $24.95$37.99$37.99 - $37.99Current price $37.99| /A true American hero who earned a Purple Heart, a Bronze Star, and a Congressional Gold Medal, Brummett Echohawk was also a Pawnee on the Europe...
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Short Nights Of The Shadow Catcher: The Epic Life and Immortal Photographs of Edward Curtis
PaperbackOriginal price $18.99 - Original price $18.99Original price $18.99$18.99$18.99 - $18.99Current price $18.99| /A New York Times Notable Book A Winner of the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in NonfictionNew York Times bestselling and Pulitzer Prize-winning au...
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Art and Revolution: The Life and Death of Thami Mnyele, South African Artist / Edition 1
PaperbackOriginal price $27.50 - Original price $27.50Original price $27.50$40.99$40.99 - $40.99Current price $40.99| /Thami Mnyele's life spanned the era of apartheid. He was born the same year the National Party won office and came of age in a time (the 1960s) a...
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Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America
HardcoverOriginal price $32.99Original price $32.99 - Original price $32.99Original price $32.99Current price $27.99$27.99 - $27.99Current price $27.99| /A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center of the world--and Picasso the most famous artis...
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