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Moby-Dick in Pictures: One Drawing for Every Page by Matt Kish Staff Pick In 2009, Matt Kish had an idea, a dream, a plan. Every day he would read a page from Moby-Dick, choose one passage, and then create an image based on the text — for all 552 pages! A year and a half later his epic quest came to an end, and Portland's... (read more) Your price: $39.95 New - Trade Paper 
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The Conference of the Birds by Peter Sis Publisher Comments Celebrated children's book author and illustrator Peter Sís creates his first book for adults, a beautiful and uplifting adaptation of the classic twelfth-century Sufi epic poem, The Conference of the Birds. In The Conference of the Birds... (read more) List Price $27.95 Your price: $19.50 Used - Hardcover
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How Georgia Became O'Keeffe: Lessons on the Art of Living by Karen Karbo Publisher Comments Most people associate Georgia OKeeffe with New Mexico, painted cow skulls, and her flower paintings. She was revered for so long—born in 1887, died at age ninety-eight in 1986—that we forget how young, restless, passionate, searching,... (read more) Your price: $21.95 New - Hardcover
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Mama, Is It Summer Yet? by Nikki McClure Publisher Comments Young children see the passage of time through the seasonal changes to the world around them in this charming book, illustrated with Nikki McClures extraordinary cut-paper art. A little boy who cant wait for summer keeps asking his mama, “Is it... (read more) List Price $17.95 Your price: $8.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Gilbert & George: The Complete Pictures, 1971-2005 by Gilbert & George Synopsis Gilbert & George are among the foremost artists of their generation. A collaborative team, they were early to explore performance as an art form, and early to explore the idea that every aspect of daily life could be classed as such. They were early to... (read more) List Price $89.95 Your price: $29.98 Sale - Hardcover
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M.C. Escher: Life and Work by Escher Publisher Comments Since Escher's death in 1972, at the age of seventy-three, much previously unpublished material has become available to his biographers, who have put it to good use. The story of the artist's life is told here with the help of virtually his entire... (read more) List Price $65.00 Your price: $19.95 Used - Hardcover
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And the Pursuit of Happiness by Maira Kalman Publisher Comments And the Pursuit of Happiness is beloved artist and author Maira Kalman's yearlong investigation of democracy and how it works. Energized and inspired by the 2008 elections, on inauguration day Kalman traveled to Washington, D.C., launching a national... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $21.00 Used - Hardcover
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The Artist's Way: A Spiritual Path to Higher Creativity: A Course in Discovering and Recovering Your Creative Self by Julia Cameron Publisher Comments The Artist’s Way is the seminal book on the subject of creativity. An international bestseller, millions of readers have found it to be an invaluable guide to living the artist’s life. Still as vital today—or perhaps even more so—... (read more) List Price $16.99 Your price: $9.00 Used - Trade Paper
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The Art of Looking Sideways by Alan Fletcher Publisher Comments The Art of Looking Sideways is a primer in visual intelligence, an exploration of the workings of the eye, the hand, the brain and the imagination. It is an inexhaustible mine of anecdotes, quotations, images, curious facts and useless information... (read more) Your price: $49.95 New - Hardcover
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How to Cook the Perfect Day by Nikki McClure Staff Pick Equal parts art book and recipe collection, this darling volume is everything you'd expect from the lovely Nikki McClure. Featuring her iconic paper-cut illustrations along with simple recipes, the artist's rendition of her "perfect food day" will... (read more) List Price $15.95 Your price: $10.95 Used - Hardcover
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Vanessa Beecroft: Photographs, Films, Drawings by Vanessa Beecroft Publisher Comments Vanessa Beecroft's performances have been described as art, fashion, brilliant, terrible, evocative, provocative, disturbing, sexist and empowering. The primary material in her work is the live female figure, which remains ephemeral and separate. These... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $24.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Van Gogh: The Life by Steven Naifeh Publisher Comments NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Steven Naifeh and Gregory White Smith galvanized readers with their astonishing Jackson Pollock: An American Saga, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for biography, a book acclaimed for its miraculous research and overwhelming... (read more) List Price $40.00 Your price: $27.50 Used - Hardcover
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The Principles of Uncertainty by Maira Kalman Publisher Comments Kalman paints her highly personal worldview in an inimitable combination of image and text. The result is a book that is part personal narrative, part documentary, and part travelogue. Her whimsical paintings, ideas, and images address the larger... (read more) List Price $29.95 Your price: $13.98 Sale - Hardcover
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Albertus Seba: Cabinet of Natural Curiosities (25) by Dr Irmgard Msch Publisher Comments A most unusual collection of natural specimens Albertus Seba's Cabinet of Curiosities is one of the 18th century's greatest natural history achievements and remains one of the most prized natural history books of all time. Though scientists of his era... (read more) Your price: $39.99 New - Hardcover
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The Gashlycrumb Tinies: Or, After the Outing by Edward Gorey Publisher Comments A new, small-format edition of one of Goreys “dark masterpieces of surreal morality” (Vanity Fair) - a witty, disquieting journey through the alphabet.... (read more) List Price $10.00 Your price: $5.95 Used - Hardcover
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Anselm Kiefer: Salt of the Earth by Germano Celant Publisher Comments Over the past four decades, Anselm Kiefer has produced a diverse body of work in painting, sculpture, and installation that has made him among the most important artists of his generation. His subject matter includes sources as diverse as Teutonic... (read more) Your price: $80.00 New - Hardcover
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Big Bad City by Slinkachu Publisher Comments My 'Little People Project' started in 2006. It involves the remodelling and painting of miniature model train set characters, which I then place and leave on the street. It is both a street art installation project and a photography project. The street... (read more) Your price: $25.95 New - Trade Paper
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Little People in the City: The Street Art of Slinkachu by Slinkachu Publisher Comments "They're Not Pets, Susan," says a stern father who has just shot a bumblebee, its wings sparkling in the evening sunlight. A lone office worker, less than an inch high, looks out over the river in his lunch break, "Dreaming of Packing it All In." A... (read more) List Price $14.95 Your price: $10.50 Used - Hardcover
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Norman Rockwell's Spirit of America by Susan Homer Publisher Comments Norman Rockwells Spirit of America is an original collection of Rockwell paintings accompanied by classic American poems, stories, and songs that showcase the true spirit of America. In the tradition of the bestselling Norman Rockwells Christmas Book... (read more) Your price: $24.95 New - Hardcover
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The Curse of Lono by Hunter S Thompson Publisher Comments Four-Color Fantasy Super heroes from the Atom to Zatara: 75 years of DC Comics In 1935, DC Comics founder Major Malcolm Wheeler-Nicholson published New Fun No. 1, the first comic book with all-new, original material—at a... (read more) Your price: $59.99 New - Hardcover
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