Artists category: 3350 books
Pauline Boutal
An Artist's Destiny, 1894-1992
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2015
In the first part of the twentieth century few women in western Canada had careers as artists—Pauline Boutal had three: 23 years as a fashion illustrator for the Eaton’s catalogue for the graphic design company, Brigden’s of Winnipeg, 27 years as the Artistic Director at the Cercle Molière...
Kiss of the Art Gods
A twenty-year struggle to find my way as a contemporary figurative sculptor.
Language: English
Release Date: May 2, 2017
Contemporary figurative sculptors rarely support themselves, but in steps Dan Corbin, breaking all the rules on his way to becoming a successful studio artist. Corbin takes two decades to realize his art dream. He makes the usual sacrifices, travels the world, seeks out art education, finds and loses...
Awakening the Eye
Robert Frank's American Cinema
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2015
Until now, celebrated photographer Robert Frank’s daring and unconventional work as a filmmaker has not been awarded the critical notice it deserves. In this timely volume, George Kouvaros surveys Frank’s films and videos and places them in the larger context of experimentation in American art and...
by HARTISKA
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: February 27, 2015
Born and established within the heart of New York City as the definite name for everything in high fashion, HARTISKA covers different artists, well-known people, as well as regular everyday folks who are creating masterpieces that inspire wonder and awe, and to entertain and inform with extensive...
Richard Wagner and his Poetical Work From Rienzi to Parsifal
(English Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
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Will the reader kindly look upon the first pages of this book as a fragment of reminiscences, which I hope some day to publish; not that my life in itself is worth relating, but it has been frequently brought in contact with that of celebrated artists....
Double Vision
The Unerring Eye of Art World Avatars Dominique and John de Menil
Language: English
Release Date: March 27, 2018
The first and definitive biography of the celebrated collectors Dominique and John de Menil, who became one of the greatest cultural forces of the twentieth century through groundbreaking exhibits of art, artistic scholarship, the creation of innovative galleries and museums, and work with civil rights.
Dominique...
by Paul Morand
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 14, 2013
Coco Chanel invited Paul Morand to visit her in St Moritz at the end of the Second World War when he was given the opportunity to write her memoirs; his notes of their conversations were put away in a drawer and only came to light one year after Chanel's death. Through Morand's transcription of their...
by Stan Yarramunua
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: May 28, 2018
I’m a Wathaurong man. I’m an artist who draws on life in this big red and yellow and black country.
Stan “Yarra” Yarramunua: artist, musician, actor, social worker, businessman.
From growing up in poverty in Swan Hill – and sometimes on the road, with his itinerant father –...
by Mary Edna Fraser, Cecelia Dailey
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 18, 2019
Mary Edna Fraser has taken the art of batik to otherworldly heights. An internationally renowned artist, Fraser has had works grace galleries, museums, and public buildings throughout the United States—creating wonder, awe, and an awareness of the environment around us as few artists have had the...
Picking Willows
Daisy and Lilly Baker, Maidu Basket Makers of Lake Almanor
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2011
PICKING WILLOWS, With Daisy and Lilly Baker, Maidu Basket Makers of Lake Almanor earned the iUniverse Editor's Choice recognition and stated that it is a compelling memoir and a valuable anthropological and cultural record.
The seeds of a cross-cultural friendship were first sowed in 1955 when...
by Paul Gauguin
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: November 3, 2015
In 1891, French painter Paul Gauguin sailed to the island of Tahiti, to what he hoped would be an unspoiled paradise.
He kept a journal chronicling his thoughts and impressions of that time.
Noa Noa—the most widely known of Gauguin's writings—is reproduced here from a rare early...
Percy Moore Turner
Connoisseur, Impresario and Art Dealer
Language: English
Release Date: April 12, 2018
Grudgingly acknowledged as the main mentor for the Courtaulds in building their art collections, the London and Paris art dealer, Percy Moore Turner, is now largely forgotten in this country. Yet, in France, he was honoured by the French Government with the award of Officer and then Commander of the...
Becoming
The Photographs of Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden
Language: English
Release Date: August 25, 1999
Clementina, Viscountess Hawarden (1822–1865) produced over eight hundred photographs during her all-too-brief life. Most of these were portraits of her adolescent daughters. By whisking away the furniture and bric-a-brac common in scenes of upper-class homes of the Victorian period, Lady Hawarden...
Behind the Black
A Fearless Venture Into the Darkest Corners of the Creative Mind In Search of Light
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2014
Have you ever wondered what an artist is thinking when they create a work of art? What music whispers through the trees in the background…?
C. Behind the Black is the true story of an artist and her struggle to look deep into the lost chronicles of the human spirit to search for what drives...