Artists category: 3350 books
by Jennie Ellis Keysor
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2015
The following brief sketches are presented in fear and in hope--in fear lest they prove in no wise adequate for so glorious a subject; in the hope that they may encourage not only the pupil, but the teacher, to study the lives and the works of the great artists and to make every possible effort to have copies of masterpieces ever before them to study and to love.
by Aagaard Lotte
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2015
Music business Pro writes new must-read guide for those ”Aiming4fame” It takes a lot of hard work to make it in the music industry. But if you really want to, you can make it. Talent Manager from TGM Lotte Aagaard, who has 30 years of experience in the business, presents a guide to all...
Morgan Fisher
Off-Screen Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2017
A collection of texts by researchers, artists and critics, exploring Morgan Fisher's filmography in relation to his other artistic practices.
Positioned at the intersection of cinema, painting, installation, architecture, video, drawing and photography, the work of filmmaker Morgan Fisher remains...
Made in British Columbia
Eight Ways of Making Culture
Language: English
Release Date: September 19, 2015
Is there such a thing as British Columbia culture, and if so, is there anything special about it? This is the broad question Dr. Maria Tippett answers in this work with an assured yes!” To prove her point she looks at the careers of eight ground-breaking cultural producers in the fields of painting,...
The Top 5 Greatest Artists
Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Vincent Van Gogh, and Pablo Picasso
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2018
The Top 5 Greatest Artists is a collection of biographies on Leonardo, Michelangelo, Raphael, Vincent Van Gogh, and Pablo Picasso.
Alfred Stieglitz
Taking Pictures, Making Painters
Language: English
Release Date: April 16, 2019
A fascinating biography of a revolutionary American artist ripe for rediscovery as a photographer and champion of other artists
Alfred Stieglitz (1864–1946) was an enormously influential artist and nurturer of artists even though his accomplishments are often overshadowed by his role as Georgia...
A Crisis of Brilliance
Five Young British Artists and the Great War
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2012
Stanley Spencer, Paul Nash, Mark Gertler, Richard Nevinson and Dora Carrington were five of the most exciting, influential and innovative British artists of the twentieth century. From diverse backgrounds, they met in the years before the Great War as students at the Slade School of Art, where they...
The Glamour of Strangeness
Artists and the Last Age of the Exotic
Language: English
Release Date: August 9, 2016
From the early days of steamship travel, artists stifled by the culture of their homelands fled to islands, jungles, and deserts in search of new creative and emotional frontiers. Their flight inspired a unique body of work that doesn't fit squarely within the Western canon, yet may be some of the...
Rowlandson's Human Comedy
A Biography of the Regency Artist
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Thomas Rowlandson was one of the most productive and influential artists of Britain's Regency years. He worked hard and enjoyed the company of friends and fellow artists, and his client base was immense. His caricatures and satires of contemporary society have in many ways defined our iconic images...
The Art Prophets
The Artists, Dealers, and Tastemakers Who Shook the Art World
Language: English
Release Date: October 25, 2011
In The Art Prophets, Richard Polsky introduces us to influential late twentieth-century dealers and tastemakers in the art world. These risk takers opened doors for artists, identified new movements, and resurrected art forms that had fallen into obscurity. In this distinctive tour, Polsky offers...
Alternative Photographic Processes
Crafting Handmade Images
Language: English
Release Date: June 5, 2015
Alternative Photographic Processes teaches techniques, both analog & digital, allowing artists to bring a personal touch through manipulation of a photograph, the negative, and the print. This book stands apart from recent publications on alternative processes by presenting a range of new approaches...
by Dan Richards
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: July 30, 2015
A journey into the headspaces and workplaces of some of Britain’s most unique artists, from the co-author of the critically acclaimed Holloway. Bill Drummond. Richard Lawrence. Stanley Donwood. Jenny Saville. David Nash. Manic Street Preachers. Dame Judi Dench. Cally Callomon. Sheryl Garratt. Vaughan...
Henri Matisse
A Second Life
Language: English
Release Date: March 24, 2014
Henri Matisse by Alastair Sooke - an essential guide to one of the 20th century's greatest artists
'One January morning in 1941, only a fortnight or so after his seventy-first birthday, the bearded and bespectacled French artist Henri Matisse was lying in a hospital bed preparing to die.'
Diagnosed...
Hanging Fred and a Few Others
Painters of the Eastern Townships
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2014
Quebec’s Eastern Townships are home to a higher concentration of artists than anywhere else in Canada. With his starting and finishing point being Frederick Coburn (1871–1960), arguably Canada’s best-known painter at the peak of his career, author Nick Fonda sets out to revisit his work and...