Artists category: 3350 books
Ashley Jackson: The Yorkshire Artist
A Lifetime of Inspiration Captured in Watercolour
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2017
Ashley Jackson – The Yorkshire Artist' contains a collection of paintings that have been personally chosen by the artist to bring together his personal memories and intimate reflections of the emotions and atmosphere that he has captured in each watercolour painting. As he explains, 'All artists...
by Elbert Hubbard
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2011
A charming picture of a famous artist. This short biographical sketch on nineteenth-century French landscape painter Camille Corot was written by Elbert Hubbard as part of his endearing series, Little Journeys to the Homes of Eminent Artists (1902). And a wonderful 'little journey' it is. Only a few...
by Linda Franks
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
What Does the United States Think of Girls' Generation?
With a buoyant efficiency on CBS' "Late Show with David Letterman" and a guest appearance on "LIVE! With Kelly!" earlier this week, K-Pop feeling Girls' Generation have begun barnstorming their following target audience--...
by Heinz Duthel
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2013
Michael Joseph Jackson (August 29, 1958 – June 25, 2009) was an American recording artist, dancer, singer-songwriter, and philanthropist. Referred to as the King of Pop, Jackson is recognized as the most successful entertainer of all time by Guinness World Records. His contribution to music, dance...
Earth Songs, Moon Dreams
Paintings by American Indian Women
Language: English
Release Date: December 10, 2013
Earth Songs, Moon Dreams: Paintings by American Indian Women is a celebration of the contributions of Native American women to America's cultural heritage. Focusing on both traditional and modern art and offering an histroical and stylistic overview, Broder's book includes the work of Native American...
Irene Rice Pereira
Her Paintings and Philosophy
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
Artist Irene Rice Pereira was a significant figure in the New York art world of the 1930s and 1940s, who shared an interest in Jungianism with the better-known Abstract Expressionists and with various women artists and writers seeking "archetypal" imagery. Yet her artistic philosophy and innovative imagery...
by Frannie Hopkirk
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: February 1, 2013
'Brett was the sweetest, funniest, cleverest man I've ever known, my confidant and best friend. He had a rare radiance, an inner certainty which was compelling and hugely attractive.'
Frannie Hopkirk knew Brett Whiteley all his life. He was her brother. Here, for the first time, one of those...
Philistines at the Hedgerow
Passion and Property in the Hamptons
Language: English
Release Date: August 7, 2018
Bestselling author Steven Gaines's "richly entertaining" (People) and juicy social history of the Hamptons.
As one of America's most fabled communities--long a magnet for artists, celebrities, the very rich, and their respective hangers-on--the Hamptons have been a scene of constant...
26 Songs in 30 Days
Woody Guthrie's Columbia River Songs and the Planned Promised Land in the Pacific Northwest
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
In 1941, Woody Guthrie wrote 26 songs in 30 days--including classics like “Roll On Columbia” and “Pastures of Plenty”--when he was hired by the Bonneville Power Administration to promote the benefits of cheap hydroelectric power, irrigation, and the Grand Coulee Dam. Timed to celebrate the...
Who Really Cares
Childhood Poems
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 1969
Who Really Cares, Childhood Poems by Grammy Award-winning singer and songwriter Janis Ian, includes all poetry from earlier, print editions of this early proof of what was to come from one of America’s most talented songwriters. Though Ian is a prolific composer and world-famous for her music and...
by Roger White
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: October 8, 2014
Aerosmith is an American rock band, sometimes referred to as "The Bad Boys from Boston" and "America's Greatest Rock and Roll Band." Their style, which is rooted in blues-based hard rock, has come to also incorporate elements of pop, heavy metal, and rhythm and blues, and has inspired...
The Lonely City
Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Language: English
Release Date: March 1, 2016
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Criticism
#1 Book of the Year from Brain Pickings
Named a best book of the year by NPR, Newsweek, Slate, Pop Sugar, Marie Claire, Elle, Publishers Weekly, and Lit Hub
A dazzling work of biography, memoir, and cultural criticism...
Intimate Companions
A Triography of George Platt Lynes, Paul Cadmus, Lincoln Kirstein, and Their Circle
Language: English
Release Date: November 24, 2015
Photographer George Platt Lynes, painter Paul Cadmus, and critic Lincoln Kirstein played a major role in creating the institutions of the American art world from the late 1920s to the early 1950s. The three created a remarkable world of gay aesthetics and desire in art with the help of their overlapping...
Modigliani
A Life
Language: English
Release Date: August 19, 2014
A biographer explores the artist’s tragic life, and transcendent work, in early twentieth-century Paris—“a vibrant portrait of a deeply unhappy man” (Publishers Weekly).
In 1920, at the age of thirty-five, Amedeo Modigliani died in poverty and neglect in Paris, much like a figure out of...