"In this 'deceptively simple and candidly devious' [The New Republic] autobiography, Luis Buñuel, one of the greatest film directors of all time, the father of surrealist cinema, writes lyrically and passionately about his middle-class boyhood in a provincial Spanish town; his residence as an engineering student in Madrid, where he began to find his way into the surrealist movement of the twenties; his pilgrimage to Paris, home of surrealism; his association with Marx Ernst, Picasso, and André Breton; and his involvement in the Spanish Civil War. ... [details]
Biography of the American painter Philip Guston by his daughter, Musa Mayer. "After his death, his daughter, drawn by a need to understand her father and her memories, began cataloguing his paintings and exploring his life [. ... [details]
First major study of Chimpanzee made art as a lens through which to investigate human made art by Desmond Morris. Includes index. First published in the United Kingdom. [details]
"This collection brings together for the first time all of the poems that hve so far been discovered - more than five hundred - which Frank O'Hara wrote in his lifetime. They reflect his growth as an artist from the earliest dazzling, experimental verse that he began writing in the late 1940s to his last years, when his poems became awesomely individual and reflective. ... [details]
Critical theory by Peter Blake. Includes index. Printed in black-and-white. [details]
Critical theory by Peter Blake. Particular edition features an updated introduction. Includes index. Printed in black-and-white. [details]
"In the splendid tradition of Kenneth Clark's Civilisation and Jacob Bronowski's The Ascent of Man, here is a magnificent account - authoritative, lively, richly and beautifully illustrated - of the hundred-year history of modern art. ... [details]
"Henri Matisse is one of the masters of twentieth-century art and a household word to millions of people who find joy and meaning in his light-filled, coloful iamges - yet, despite all the books devoted to his work, the man himself has remained a mystery. ... [details]
