Artists category: 3350 books
Joy Cometh in the Morning
The Joy Postle Blackstone Story
Language: English
Release Date: May 18, 2011
Joy Postle Blackstone was best known for her vivid murals, often depicting the jubilant wading birds of Florida. When she died in 1989, the world lost a wonderful artist but Joy was much more than a painter. Joys father died when she was only three; her childhood was spent nurtured by her mother and...
Breakfast with Lucian
The Astounding Life and Outrageous Times of Britain's Great Modern Painter
Language: English
Release Date: October 22, 2013
An insider's account—the first of its kind—of the thoroughly unconventional life of one of the twentieth century's most shockingly original painters
Lucian Freud's paintings are instantly recognizable: often shocking and disturbing, his portraits convey a profound yet compelling sense of...
The Vanishing Velázquez
A 19th Century Bookseller's Obsession with a Lost Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2016
NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Wall Street Journal Top 10 Nonfiction Book of 2016
“As compelling and entertaining as a detective novel” (The Economist), the incredible true story—part art history and part mystery—of a Velázquez portrait that went missing and the obsessed nineteenth-century...
Optic Antics
The Cinema of Ken Jacobs
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2011
Ken Jacobs has been making cinema for more than fifty years. Along with over thirty film and video works, he has created an array of shadow plays, sound pieces, installations, and magic lantern and film performances that have transformed how we look at and think about moving images. He is part of...
by Lucy Lelens
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Language: English
Release Date: April 8, 2011
Are photographers the artists with the camera as they would imagine themselves to be, or are they indeed nothing more than glorified photocopiers?
This question was posed to me recently and I felt it worthy of discussion.
In this age of high tech equipment and equally high tech software, are we photographers merely photocopiers?
It is an interesting question.
Garo Z. Antreasian
Reflections on Life and Art
Language: English
Release Date: January 15, 2016
Garo Z. Antreasian (b. 1922) belongs to the great generation of innovators in mid-twentieth-century American art. While influenced by a variety of European artists in his early years, it was his involvement with Tamarind Lithography Workshop starting in 1960 that transformed his work. As Tamarind’s...
David Hockney
The Biography, 1975-2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
In this fascinating and entertaining second volume, Christopher Simon Sykes explores the life and work of Britain's most popular living artist.
David Hockney is one of the most influential and best-loved artists of the twentieth century. His career has spanned and epitomized the art movements of...
Far from Russia
A Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: March 10, 2000
" … Carlisle’s life emerges as stimulating, self-aware, and culturally rich. Many readers will hope for a sequel." - Kirkus Reviews
Olga Andreyev Carlisle has never lived in Russia, and yet throughout her life Russia has never been far. Far From Russia captures the enduring grip...
Straight To Hell
10 Art Suicides
Language: English
Release Date: January 5, 2010
Straight To Hell examines ten case histories of suicide in the 20th century. These acts of self-annihilation, committed by artists, writers, and philosophers, stand as the final testaments of individuals whose vision would ultimately drive them to oblivion. Contributors including cultural historian...
Phobia
An Art Deco Graphic Masterpiece
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2013
A leader in promoting the Art Deco style in advertising art and book illustration, John Vassos undertook his most personal and ambitious work in this 1931 volume. Its twenty-four gripping images represent visceral depictions of common fears—the dread of heights, open and enclosed spaces, the dark,...
Pagan Light
Dreams of Freedom and Beauty in Capri
Language: English
Release Date: March 19, 2019
A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
"Pagan Light is mesmerizing. Every detail is compelling. I felt I was reading a family history of a family far more interesting than mine." --Edmund White, author of Our Young Man
A rich, intimate embrace of Capri, which was a magnet...
by Alexander Gilchrist
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: May 9, 2017
One of the greatest Victorian-era biographies, Alexander Gilchrist's The Life of William Blake plays a key role in the history of Blake's work and its influence on other writers and artists. The first standard text on Blake and a cornerstone of the extensive scholarship on his life and work, it not...
This Woman in Particular
Contexts for the Biographical Image of Emily Carr
Language: English
Release Date: January 27, 2010
What happens when an individual becomes the subject of many and divergent portraits?
“Biography,” says Stephanie Kirkwood Walker, “is a deceptive genre. Positioned between fact and fiction and elusive in its purposes, biography displays an individual life, an existence patterned by conventions...
by Michael Corris
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2008
Diego Rivera, Dorothea Lange, Adolfo Pérez Esquivel: Art and activism have long been intertwined, and the political fallout has resulted in an artistic canon riddled with historical holes. One of the most glaring omissions from most listings of American art masters is Ad Reinhardt (1913–67). An...