Artists category: 3350 books
by Alfred J. Garrotto
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: January 4, 2017
“The Soul of Art" offers a thoughtful, spiritual approach to human creativity, especially as broadly expressed in "the arts." Topics stem from the author's belief that all creative gifts spring from a higher, divine source, whom he calls "Creator-Spirit." Artists of all...
by David Jay Brown, Rebecca Ann Hill
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: November 13, 2018
An exploration of the role that dreaming, psychedelic experiences, and mystical visions play in visionary art
• Includes discussions with 18 well-known female artists, including Josephine Wall, Allyson Grey, Amanda Sage, Martina Hoffmann, Penny Slinger, and Carolyn Mary Kleefeld
•...
New York Studio Conversations
Seventeen Women Talk About Art
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2018
New York Studio Conversations presents a series of sixteen interviews with female artists conducted by the art historian Stephanie Buhmann. Looking for an approach beyond the mainstream media coverage of the art market, Buhmann visited the artists in their studios and gained insights in this intimate...
Iconoclastic Fervor
Sally Hazelet Drummond's Road to Abstraction
Language: English
Release Date: November 19, 2015
Sally Hazelet Drummond is believed to be the first female graduate of the Hite Art Institute with a masters in painting in 1952. It was during her study at the University of Louisville that she further explored Abstract Expressionism, a style that started only a decade earlier in the 1940s. In 1953...
French Riviera and Its Artists
Art, Literature, Love, and Life on the Côte d'Azur
Language: English
Release Date: July 1, 2015
Get swept up in the glitz and glamour of the French Riviera as author and filmmaker John Baxter takes readers on a whirlwind tour through the star-studded cultural history of the Côte d’Azur that’s sure to delight travelers, Francophiles, and culture lovers alike. Readers will discover the dramatic...
The Comics of Joe Sacco
Journalism in a Visual World
Language: English
Release Date: July 29, 2015
Named a Notable Scholarly Publication of 2015 by the Comics Studies Society
Contributions by Georgiana Banita, Lan Dong, Ann D'Orazio, Kevin C. Dunn, Alexander Dunst, Jared Gardner, Edward C. Holland, Isabel Macdonald, Brigid Maher, Ben Owen, Rebecca Scherr, Maureen Shay, Marc Singer, Richard...
by Anton Gill
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: January 30, 2014
This edition does not include illustrations. Please note that due to the level of detail, the family tree is best viewed on a tablet. The wayward life (1898–1979) of the voracious art collector and great female patron of world-famous artists. ‘Mrs Guggenheim, how many husbands have you had?’...
by Auguste Rodin
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2012
The greatest sculptor of the nineteenth century discusses his philosophy of life with a close friend in this fascinating and informative artistic testament. Auguste Rodin spoke candidly to his protégé, Paul Gsell, who recorded the master's thoughts not only about the technical secrets of his craft,...
Leading Artists & Designers
Biographies of Famous and Influential Americans for English Learners, Children(Kids) and Young Adults
Language: English
Release Date: July 2, 2015
Timeless collection of American artists & designers biographies. American Biographies Series provides descriptions and stories of people important in the history of the United States. Including the basic facts like education, work, relationships, and death, the series also presents...
My Love Affair with Modern Art
Behind the Scenes with a Legendary Curator
Language: English
Release Date: December 27, 2011
A memoir of the twentieth-century art world, from the famed Art Institute of Chicago curator, critic, and historian.
Katharine Kuh made it her personal mission to bring modern art to the people of America. In 1935, in the midst of the Great Depression, she opened Chicago’s first commercial...
by Frances Billano
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 12, 2012
This book is part of Hyperink's best little books series. This best little book is nearly 6,500 words of fast, entertaining information on a highly demanded topic. Based on reader feedback (including yours!), we may expand this book in the future. If we do so, we'll send a free copy to all previous...
Wunderkind
Portraits of 50 Contemporary German Artists
Language: English
Release Date: April 18, 2016
What makes an artist? What forces and inklings drive a young man or woman to make their own journey, and where does it begin? In imaginary childhood games? In chance encounters? At the sensitive core of the human heart?To answer these and other questions, award-winning author Rory MacLean met more than...
The Art of Rivalry
Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: August 16, 2016
Pulitzer Prize–winning art critic Sebastian Smee tells the fascinating story of four pairs of artists—Manet and Degas, Picasso and Matisse, Pollock and de Kooning, Freud and Bacon—whose fraught, competitive friendships spurred them to new creative heights.
Rivalry is at the heart of some...
Ninth Street Women
Lee Krasner, Elaine de Kooning, Grace Hartigan, Joan Mitchell, and Helen Frankenthaler: Five Painters and the Movement That Changed Modern Art
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2018
Five women revolutionize the modern art world in postwar America in this "gratifying, generous, and lush" true story from a National Book Award and Pulitzer Prize finalist (Jennifer Szalai, New York Times).
Set amid the most turbulent social and political period of modern times, Ninth...