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1	Lincoln by Gore Vidal add to wishlist In Gore Vidal's 1988 LINCOLN, the story of the Civil War president is told mostly from John Hay's point of view. The last in Vidal's tetralogy of US political novels (WASHINGTON DC, BURR, and 1876 are the others), LINCOLN provides a nuanced picture of the president universally considered great. Here, Lincoln is very much a calculating politician, ... see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
2	Same Kind of Different as Me: A Modern-Day Slave, an International Art Dealer, and the Unlikely Woman Who Bound Them Together by Ron Hall, Denver Moore, Lynn Vincent add to wishlist Meet Denver, raised under plantation-style slavery in Louisiana until he escaped "da Man" - in the 1960s - by hopping a train. Then, after another 18 homeless years on the streets of Dallas, God moved...and a godly woman prayed, and listened, and obeyed. And mountains began to move, beginning with her husband, Ron, an international art dealer ... see all copies from $13.87! signed copies \| first editions
3	Maus: A Survivor's Tale by Art Spiegelman add to wishlist A unique and powerful tale of a Holocaust survivor seen through the art and words of his son, America's leading avant-garde cartoonist. see all copies from $11.96! signed copies \| first editions
4	The Forger's Spell: A True Story of Vermeer, Nazis, and the Greatest Art Hoax of the Twentieth Century by Edward Dolnick add to wishlist The Edgar Award-winning author of "The Rescue Artist" is back with the riveting story of the brilliant con man--the world's most famous art forger ("New York Times")--who perpetrated the greatest art hoax of the 20th century. Photos throughout. see all copies from $14.79! first editions
5	Desert Flower: The Extraordinary Journey of a Desert Nomad by Waris Dirie, Cathleen Miller add to wishlist Waris Dirie (the name means desert flower) lives a double life - by day she is a famous model and UN spokeswoman on women's rights in Africa, at night she dreams of her native Somalia. Waris, one of 12 children, was born into a traditional family of desert nomads in East Africa. She remembers her early childhood as carefree- racing camels and ... see all copies from $12.60! first editions
6	The Philosophy of Andy Warhol: From A to B and Back Again by Andy Warhol add to wishlist In this uplifting book, artist Andy Warhol shares his off-the-wall viewpoints of numerous topics, including love, beauty, fame, creating art, and employment. see all copies from $13.46! signed copies \| first editions
7	Women, Art & Society by Whitney Chadwick add to wishlist This groundbreaking book challenges the assumption that great women artists are exceptions to the rule who 'transcended' their sex to produce major works of art. While acknowledging the many women whose contributions to visual culture since the Middle Ages have often been neglected, Chadwick's survey amounts to much more than an alternative canon ... see all copies from $22.46! first editions
8	The lives of the artists by Giorgio Vasari add to wishlist Giorgio Vasari's "The Lives of the Most Excellent Painters, Sculptors and Architects" was first published in Florence in 1550. Vasari, a painter and architect, had traveled throughout Italy sketching the buildings and art works he encountered when he contemplated compiling a record of great Italian artists and their work. The "Lives" was revised ... see all copies from $11.66! first editions
9	The Wall: Growing Up Behind the Iron Curtain by Peter Sis add to wishlist In his most personal work to date, award-winning author Peter Ss offers a brilliant graphic memoir, taking readers on an extraordinary journey as he recalls his youth growing up in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, when his country was on the Communist side of the Iron Curtain. see all copies from $16.20! signed copies \| first editions
10	The Man Who Made Vermeers: Unvarnishing the Legend of Master Forger Han Van Meegeren by Jonathan Lopez add to wishlist It's a story that made Dutch painter Han van Meegeren famous worldwide when it broke at the end of World War II: A lifetime of disappointment drove him to forge Vermeers, one of which he sold to Hermann Goering, making a mockery of the Nazis. And it's a story that's been believed ever since. Too bad it isn't true. Jonathan Lopez has drawn on ... see all copies from $13.83! first editions
11 view cover	Linnea in Monet's Garden by Christina Bjork, Joan Sandin (Translator), Lena Anderson (Illustrator) add to wishlist A young Swedish gardener named Linnea and her friend, Mr. Bloom, travel to Paris, where they visit the home of artist Claude Monet and learn about his famous water lily paintings. Watercolor illustrations accompany the text. see all copies from $1.99! first editions
12 view cover	Making the Mummies Dance: Inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art by Thomas Hoving add to wishlist The former director of the famed New York museum recounts his activities at the art world's pinnacle, from wooing important patrons to battling for acquisitions. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
13 view cover	Michelangelo & the Pope's Ceiling by Ross King add to wishlist An acclaimed British novelist turns to real life in the Renaissance in this account of Michelangelo's frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. In realistic detail, King explains how Michelangelo executed his monumental work, exploring not only the difficult process itself but also the cast of characters surrounding the feat, from the pope ... see all copies from $13.60! signed copies \| first editions
14 view cover	Renoir, My Father by Jean Renoir add to wishlist In this delightful memoir, Jean Renoir, the director of such masterpieces of the cinema as "Grand Illusion" and "The Rules of the Game," tells the life story of his father, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, the great Impressionist painter. Recounting Pierre-Auguste's extraordinary career, beginning as a painter of fans and porcelain, recording the rules of ... see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
15 view cover	Strapless: John Singer Sargent and the Fall of Madame X by Deborah Davis add to wishlist Davis here reveals the identity of the haunting woman depicted in one of Sargent's most famous paintings, Madame X. STRAPLESS delves deep into the life of this woman, tracing her relationship with the famed painter and showing how this one picture would define her throughout her life. see all copies from $14.36! signed copies \| first editions
16 view cover	The Judgment of Paris: The Revolutionary Decade That Gave the World Impressionism by Ross King add to wishlist The acclaimed author of "Michaelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling" chronicles the decade between two famous exhibitions: the scandalous Salon des Refuss in 1863, and the first Impressionist showing in 1874, set against the dramatic rise and fall of Napoleon III and the Second Empire. see all copies from $14.41! signed copies \| first editions
17 view cover	Ansel Adams: An Autobiography by Ansel Adams add to wishlist The life story of one of America's best-loved artists: six decades of Adams's work as teacher, musician, crusader, photographer, environmentalist. see all copies from $15.29! signed copies \| first editions
18 view cover	Impressionism: Art, Leisure, and Parisian Society by Sir Robert Herbert add to wishlist Exploring the themes of leisure and entertainment that dominated the years of Impressionist painting between 1865 and 1885, the author shows how Impressionism was integrated into the social and cultural life of its times. see all copies from $31.50! first editions
19 view cover	The Visual Arts: A History by Hugh Honour add to wishlist For a one/two-semester undergraduate Art History survey course. Hailed as the most up-to-date and comprehensive contextual text published in a single volume, this enlightening survey presents art history as an essential part of the development of humankind. Encompassing the arts of Asia, Africa, Oceania, Europe, and the Americas, it covers ... see all copies from $166.08! first editions
20 view cover	Madeleine Vionnet by Betty Kirke, Issey Miyake (Foreword by) add to wishlist Madeleine Vionnet (1876-1975) was the greatest dressmaker in the world, considered a genius for her innovations with difficult bias cut designs. Vionnet dressed the movie stars of the 1930s and invented new pattern-making techniques. This definitive study of an astonishing woman and her work contains 38 original patterns for Vionnet dresses. Over ... see all copies from $90.00! first editions
21 view cover	I Bought Andy Warhol by Richard Polsky add to wishlist In 1987 art dealer Richard Polsky set aside $100,000 to purchase for his private collection a painting by famed Pop artist Andy Warhol - a process that took him 12 years. His journey, spanning the art world of the go-go 1980s to the recession of the 1990s, is recounted here. Artists, gallery owners, auction houses and collectors all play a role in ... see all copies from $13.77! signed copies \| first editions
22 view cover	Saints: A Year in Faith and Art by Rosa Giorgi add to wishlist Every Catholic saint, local and liturgical, is honoured on a particular day of the year. In many cases, an order of precedence has been worked out to determine which saints are most important. In "Saints", Rosa Giorgi has chosen up to three saints for every day of the year, along with representations of those saints ranging from world-famous works ... see all copies from $17.96! first editions
23 view cover	Georgia Okeeffe by Roxana Robinson add to wishlist A highly acclaimed biography of Georgia O'Keeffe that emphasizes her ongoing struggle for autonomy. see all copies from $1.99! signed copies \| first editions
24 view cover	Mrs. Jack: A Biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner by Louise Hall Tharp add to wishlist A biography of Isabella Stewart Gardner of Boston in the 19th century. An American charmer and art collector, Isabella Stewart Gardner and her husband Jack kept company with the leading men of the day including Henry James, Henry Adams, John Singer Sargent and Whistler. The Stewart Gardners' Boston home, which was modelled after a Venetian see all copies from $8.10! signed copies \| first editions
25 view cover	Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees: Over Thirty Years of Conversations with Robert Irwin by Lawrence Weschler add to wishlist When this book first appeared in 1982, it introduced readers to Robert Irwin, the Los Angeles artist 'who one day got hooked on his own curiosity and decided to live it'. Now expanded to include six additional chapters and twenty-four pages of color plates, "Seeing Is Forgetting the Name of the Thing One Sees" chronicles three decades of ... see all copies from $22.46!