Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris
By: Mark Braude
3.88
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
One of The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022 One of The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2022 On…
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1. The Last Love Song: A Biography of Joan Didion
By: Tracy Daugherty
4.20
Format: 488 pages, Hardcover
In New York Timesbestselling The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty, the critically acclaimed author o… read more
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2. Life with Picasso
By: Françoise Gilot
4.09
Format: 358 pages, Paperback
Francoise Gilot was a young painter in Paris when she first met Picasso - he was sixty-two and she … read more
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"...since I realized that he (Picasso) lived in a self-enclosed world and that his solitude was therefore total, I wanted to explore my own solitude."-Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso
"And you, you’re an angel,’ he said, scornfully, ‘but an angel from a hot place. Since I’m the devil, that makes you one of my subjects. I think I’ll brand you."-Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso
"My grandmother's death had given me a heightened sense of individual solitude, of each one of us walking towards his own death, with no one able to help us or hold us back."-Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso
"As I was growing up, whenever anything frightened me in any degree, it fascinated me at the same time. I felt the need of going too far simply to prove to myself that I was capable of it."-Françoise Gilot, Life with Picasso
3. Bellwether
By: Connie Willis
4.07
Format: None pages, Paperback
Pop culture, chaos theory and matters of the heart collide in this unique novella from the Hugo and… read more
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5. Art as Therapy
By: Alain de Botton , John Armstrong
3.96
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
What is art for? In the engaging, lively, and controversial new book, bestselling philosopher Alain… read more
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6. Syllabus: Notes from an Accidental Professor
By: Lynda Barry
4.09
Format: None pages, Paperback
The award-winning author Lynda Barry is the creative force behind the genre-defying and bestselling… read more
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7. Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
By: Claire Dederer
3.79
Format: 257 pages, Hardcover
From the author of the New York Times best seller Poser and the acclaimed memoir Love and Trouble, … read more
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"Biography used to be something you sought out, yearned for, actively pursued. Now it falls on your head all day long."-Claire Dederer, Monsters: A Fan's Dilemma
8. Working Girl: On Selling Art and Selling Sex
By: Sophia Giovannitti
4.07
Format: 192 pages, Hardcover
An exploration into the very similar work of selling art and selling sex, from a luminous new voice… read more
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9. Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
By: Salman Rushdie
4.10
Format: 209 pages, Hardcover
From internationally renowned writer and Booker Prize winner Salman Rushdie, a searing, deeply pers… read more
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"Waiting is thinking, and to think deeply is, very often, to change one’s mind."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"I don’t usually think of my books as prophecies. I’ve had some trouble with prophets in my life, and I’m not applying for the job."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"To have a room of one’s own, one must have money. (I don’t think Virginia Woolf ever went to India, but her dictum stands, even there, even for men.)"-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
"An intimacy of strangers. That's a phrase I've sometimes used to express the joyful thing that happens in the act of reading, that happy union of the interior lives of author and reader."-Salman Rushdie, Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
10. Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar
By: Cynthia Carr
4.27
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed biographer Cynthia Carr, the first full portrait of the queer icon and Warhol su… read more
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11. Same Bed Different Dreams
By: Ed Park
3.77
Format: 528 pages, Hardcover
A wild, sweeping novel that imagines an alternate secret history of Korea and the traces it leaves … read more
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12. Down and Out in Paradise: The Life of Anthony Bourdain
By: Charles Leerhsen
3.31
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
The bestselling, “unvarnished” ( The New York Times ), “engrossing” ( The Guardian ), “gritty, well… read more
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13. No Judgment: Essays
By: Lauren Oyler
3.30
Format: 288 pages, Kindle Edition
From the national bestselling novelist and essayist, a groundbreaking collection of brand-new piece… read more
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"I’m told I should smoke more weed, which I don’t like, or else “do something nice for yourself,"-Lauren Oyler, No Judgment: Essays
14. My Mama, Cass: A Memoir
By: Owen Elliot-Kugell
3.96
Format: 262 pages, Hardcover
A long-awaited, myth-busting, and deeply affecting memoir by the daughter of legendary rock star “M… read more
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15. Picasso's War: How Modern Art Came to America
By: Hugh Eakin
4.36
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
A riveting story of how dueling ambitions and the power of prodigy made America the cultural center… read more
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16. Hilma af Klint: A Biography
By: Julia Voss
4.29
Format: 424 pages, Hardcover
A highly anticipated biography of the enigmatic and popular Swedish painter. The Swedish painter … read more
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17. The Slip: The New York City Street That Changed American Art Forever
By: Prudence Peiffer
4.11
Format: 432 pages, Hardcover
Longlisted for the National Book Award The never-before-told story of an obscure little street at t… read more
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18. Kingdom of Characters: The Language Revolution That Made China Modern
By: Jing Tsu
3.87
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
What does it take to reinvent a language? After a meteoric rise, China today is one of the world… read more
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19. Kiki Man Ray: Art, Love, and Rivalry in 1920s Paris
By: Mark Braude
3.88
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
One of The New Yorker’s Best Books of 2022 One of The New York Times' 100 Notable Books of 2022 On… read more
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- france
- womens
20. The Mirror and the Palette: Rebellion, Revolution, and Resilience—500 Years of Women's Self-Portraits
By: Jennifer Higgie
4.06
Format: 336 pages, Hardcover
Her story weaves in and out of time and place. She’s Frida Kahlo, Loïs Mailou Jones and Amrita Sher… read more
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21. Disordered Attention: How We Look at Art and Performance Today
By: Claire Bishop
3.95
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
How technology and the attention economy has impacted contemporary art The ways we encounter conte… read more
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