Biographies & Memoirs

Jed Perl Hardcover | 1356 pp | 2 volumes Knopf | 2017 | 9780307272720 & 9780451494115 Volume I: The Conquest of Time - The Early Years (1898-1940)  Volume II: The Conquest of Space - The Later Years (1940-1976)  Over 350 illustrations, including little-known works and many archival photographs...

Ruth Brandon Hardcover | 13.97 x 2.79 x 20.96 cm | 352 pp Pegasus | 2022 | 9781643138619  In 1913 Marcel Duchamp's Nude Descending a Staircase exploded through the American art world.  This is the story of how he followed the painting to New York two...

Hardcover | 20.02 x 1.5 x 23.65 cm | 80pp ACC | 2017 | 9781851498659 On two cold grey days in 1966, LS Lowry was joined by a young photographer on one of his first assignments for Nova Magazine. Clive Arrowsmith had been commissioned to photograph Lowry...

Jenny Uglow Softcover | 12.9 x 2.6 x 19.8 cm | 398 pp Faber & Faber | 2022 | 9780571354160 In 1922, Cyril Power, a fifty-year-old architect, left his family to work with the twenty-four-year-old Sybil Andrews. They would be together for twenty years....

Henrietta Goodden Hardcover | 20.96 x 2.54 x 26.04 cm | 224 pp Unicorn Press | 2020 | 9781916495777  This is the first biographical study of the women who made the Royal College of Art's School of Fashion a household name. Madge Garland, Janey Ironside,...

Christian Boltanski & Catherine Grenier Hardcover | 14.7 x 2.2 x 21 cm | 242 pp MFA Publications | 2009 | 9780878467464 Christian Boltanski's votive installations, archives and objects, revolving around the fragile polarities of memory and amnesia, identity and anonymity, have made him...

Hardcover | 22.6 x 2.2 x 28.6 cm | 176 pp Harper Collins | 2023 | 9780007513215 A lavishly illustrated retrospective in celebration of 100 years since Judith Kerr’s birth, author of The Tiger Who Came to Tea and many other iconic books. Judith...

Hardcover | 16.3 x 3 x 24.4 cm | 336 pp Nine Eight Books | 2023 | 9781788709446 charts the life and career of Sex Pistols legend Glen Matlock through the lens of his most formative songs - from the ones that influenced him...

John Carter Cash  Hardcover | 25 x 3.2 x 32 cm | 384 pp White Rabbit | 2023 | 9781399618786 The life of the Man in Black is revealed through his lyrics and by rare photographs and ephemera, in this beautifully illustrated official hardback edition,...

Hardcover | 17.78 x 2.03 x 21.84 cm | 262 pp Hatje Cantz | 2015 | 9783775740197 Compiling columns of numbers on typewriter paper, Hanne Darboven (1941-2009) catalogued time. Probably the most important German Conceptual artist, Darboven added, cross-totaled, wrote down, recorded. In her...

Karen Tongson Softcover | 12.9 x 1.1 x 19.8 cm | 138 pp Faber & Faber | 2021 | 9780571369003 In the '60s and '70s, America's music scene was marked by raucous excess, reflected in the tragic overdoses of young superstars such as Jimi Hendrix...

Softcover | 13 x 3 x 20 cm | 520 pp Penguin | 2014 | 9780241971956 Waging Heavy Peace is the remarkable memoir of rock icon Neil Young. Neil Young is a singular figure in the history of rock and pop culture, inducted not...

George Roddam & Slawa Harasymowicz Hardcover | 15.88 x 2.06 x 24.13 cm | 80 pp Laurence King | 2014 | 9781780671895 Paul Gauguin created some of the most advanced art in a brilliant generation of artists – all of whom struggled against the stifling conformity of...

Peter Salmon Hardcover | 14.58 x 2.44 x 21.64 cm | 320 pp Verso | 2020 | 9781788732802  Who was Jacques Derrida, and why does he have such a towering, and foreboding reputation across modern philosophy? For some he is the source of the crisis...

Darryl W. Bullock Hardcover | 15.88 x 3.56 x 23.5 cm | 368 pp Omnibus Press | 2023 | 9781913172527  This is the definitive account of the LGBTQ trailblazers of early blues and a fascinating consideration of the intersection between music and LGBTQ history, from...

Jacqueline Riding Softcover | 14 x 3.8 x 20.2 cm | 554 pp Profile Books | 2022 | 9781788163484  On a late spring night in 1732, a boisterous group of friends set out from their local pub. They are beginning a journey, a 'peregrination' that...

Ian Volner Hardcover | 17.46 x 2.86 x 24.77 cm | 304 pp Princeton Architectural Press | 2017 | 9781616895631 One of the most prominent and prolific designers and architects of the late twentieth century, Michael Graves is best known for his popular product...

Ketil Bjørnstad Softcover | 13.02 x 2.86 x 20 cm | 416 pp Arcadia Books | 2005 | 9781900850940 A fascinating literary construction of the life of one of the world's most popular 19th century painters based on Munch's own diaries, notes and letters. His...

Christopher Finch Hardcover | 18.5 x 3.5 x 23.5 cm | 352 pp Prestel | 2010 | 9783791336770  For decades Chick Close's (1940-2021) larger-than-life and unflinchingly honest paintings of friends and family, and self-portraits have won admiration from a wide audience. Having reinvented portraiture...

John T. Spike Hardcover | 15.6 x 1.78 x 22.81 cm | 336 pp Gerald Duckworth & Co | 2011 | 9780715640661  This is a long-awaited and authoritative reinterpretation of the early life and career of arguably the greatest artist in history. Author John T....