Artists category: 3350 books
by Thierry Rollet
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 30, 2018
Few artists have marked their own eras, as well as those that come later, in the way that Édith Piaf has. People from every generation can identify with her popular songs, which make the absolute most of her virtuosic vocal skill, resonating from such a small person—who also had a very big heart.
This...
The Gibson Girl and Her America
The Best Drawings of Charles Dana Gibson
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2012
At the turn of the twentieth century, Charles Dana Gibson's pen-and-ink drawings of the "American Girl" — now remembered as the Gibson Girl — became the national ideal of femininity. This collection of his images of youthful, dynamic women offers an informative and amusing reflection...
by Salvador Dali
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2013
For many, Salvador Dalí (1904–1989) represents the Surrealist painter par excellence, one whose work explored his own dream life, hallucinations, and fetishes in the process of objectifying the irrational elements of the unconscious. In this rare and important volume, the painter expresses (in...
Rembrandt's House
Exploring the World of the Great Master
Language: English
Release Date: October 15, 2014
No.4 Breestraat, Amsterdam, is an imposing 17th century house, but little different from many big old houses in the city. What makes it exceptional is that for twenty years one of the world's greatest artists lived here - Rembrandt van Rijn, master painter of the time. This is the story of that house,...
Kurt Schwitters
Space, Image, Exile
Language: English
Release Date: February 14, 2014
German artist Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) is best known for his pioneering work in fusing collage and abstraction, the two most transformative innovations of twentieth-century art. Considered the father of installation art, Schwitters was also a theorist, a Dadaist, and a writer whose influence...
Joseph Gray’s Camouflage
A Memoir of Art, Love and Deception
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
A literary biography uncovering the fascinating wartime story of the author’s great-grandfather, but also the stories of the artists who developed the art of camouflage during the Second World War.
A story of love, art, loss and war in the time between the two great wars.
Horlock’s first novel,...
Arthur Dove
Always Connect
Language: English
Release Date: March 16, 2016
Arthur Dove, often credited as America’s first abstract painter, created dynamic and evocative images inspired by his surroundings, from the farmland of upstate New York to the North Shore of Long Island. But his interests were not limited to nature. Challenging earlier accounts that view him as...
Leaving Art
Writings on Performance, Politics, and Publics, 1974–2007
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2010
Since the 1970s, the performance and conceptual artist Suzanne Lacy has explored women’s lives and experiences, as well as race, ethnicity, aging, economic disparities, and violence, through her pioneering community-based art. Combining aesthetics and politics, and often collaborating with other...
by Nick Johnstone
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2010
One of the most consistently controversial and misunderstood artists of recent years, this is Yoko Ono in her own words, discussing performance, art, and her life with John Lennon.
She is the world's most famous widow - the often maligned, largely mysterious Japanese avant-garde artist whose...
Light for a Cold Land
Lawren Harris's Life and Work
Language: English
Release Date: January 10, 1993
Lawren Stewart Harris’ artistic career began in the first decade of our century. Well known for the nationalist-inspired landscapes that he painted between 1908 and 1932, Harris turned resolutely in 1934 to the painting of abstractions. He continued to create works that reflected his own modernist...
The Dinner Party
Restoring Women to History
Language: English
Release Date: July 8, 2014
The official publication celebrating Judy Chicago’s feminist art masterpiece, The Dinner Party installation at the Brooklyn Museum, and an introduction to outstanding women in history.
Judy Chicago’s *The Dinner Party is a defining work of feminist and contemporary art that brought women’s...
We Go Pogo
Walt Kelly, Politics, and American Satire
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2012
Walt Kelly (1913-1973) is one of the most respected and innovative American cartoonists of the twentieth century. His long-running Pogo newspaper strip has been cited by modern comics artists and scholars as one of the best ever. Cartoonists Bill Watterson (Calvin and Hobbes), Jeff Smith (Bone), and...
Herndon Davis
Painting Colorado History, 1901–1962
Language: English
Release Date: February 15, 2016
Herndon Davis, an artist and journalist, dedicated his life to depicting the major landmarks and personalities of Colorado in watercolor, oil, and pen and pencil. Best known for the Face on the Barroom Floor, the portrait of an alluring woman on the floor of the Teller House Hotel barroom in Central...
by David Wojnarowicz
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: June 3, 2014
Four savage and remarkable autobiographical stories from one of the most acclaimed and controversial artists of his generation, each illustrated with powerful ink drawings by the author himself
For most of his life, David Wojnarowicz considered himself the ultimate outsider and a true invisible...