Artists category: 3350 books
Diane Arbus
Portrait of a Photographer
Language: English
Release Date: June 7, 2016
The definitive biography of the beguiling Diane Arbus, one of the most influential and important photographers of the twentieth century, a brilliant and absorbing exposition that links the extraordinary arc of her life to her iconic photographs.
Diane Arbus brings to life the full story of...
Group f.64
Edward Weston, Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, and the Community of Artists Who Revolutionized American Photography
Language: English
Release Date: November 4, 2014
Group f.64 is perhaps the most famous movement in the history of photography, counting among its members Ansel Adams, Imogen Cunningham, Dorothea Lange, Willard Van Dyke, and Edward Weston. Revolutionary in their day, Group f.64 was one of the first modern art movements equally defined by women. From...
by Andy Friend
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: July 11, 2017
A dynamic tale of art and friendship, set between the World Wars, against the backdrop of a rapidly changing world
Eric Ravilious is one of the best-known twentieth-century English artists. For many, his watercolors capture the spirit of midcentury England. But while he had a style of his own,...
Van Gogh on Art and Artists
Letters to Emile Bernard
Language: English
Release Date: March 21, 2013
"In a picture I want to say something comforting as music is comforting," Vincent van Gogh confided to his friend and fellow artist, Emile Bernard. "I want to paint men and women with that something of the eternal which the halo used to symbolize and which we seek to give by the actual...
Gustav Klimt
Paintings
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2013
Gustav Klimt was an Austrian symbolist artist which paintings, drawings and murals are marked by eroticism and sensuality. Klimt lived a simple, cloistered life, in which he avoided other artists and café society, but he had many discreet love affairs with women, and fathered at least 14 children....
Secret Lives of Great Artists
What Your Teachers Never Told You about Master Painters and Sculptors
Language: English
Release Date: March 25, 2014
With outraeous anecdotes about everyone from Leonardo (alleged sodomist) to Caraviaggio (convicted murderer) to Edward Hopper (alleged wife beater), Secret Lives of Great Artists recounts the seamy, steamy, and gritty history behind the great masters of international art. You’ll learn that Michelangelo’s...
What's So Great About Picasso?
A Guide to Pablo Picasso Just For Kids!
Language: English
Release Date: December 12, 2013
Many famous artists lived hundreds of years ago. It seems that, in the past hundred and fifty years, only a small handful of artists have ever become remotely popular. Modern art just seems not to be as captivating as older art is. There are plenty of familiar names from hundreds of years ago—Leonardo...
by Dylan Watson
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2014
Radiohead is a British rock band from Oxford. Their current moniker, 'Radiohead', was taken from the song 'Radio Head' by Talking Heads, whose album Remain in Light (1980) is a band favorite and major influence on their Kid A (2000).
The band consists of Thom Yorke (vocals, rhythm guitar and...
by Mike Dayson
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: May 24, 2013
Career Breakthrough
A friend introduced Mars to songwriter Phillip Lawrence, who agreed to help Mars compose product.
They presented a song they had actually composed and recorded to a record label, who liked it however desired one of their own artists to execute it. Mars remembers,...
Calder: The Conquest of Time
The Early Years: 1898-1940
Language: English
Release Date: October 24, 2017
The first biography of America's greatest twentieth-century sculptor, Alexander Calder: an authoritative and revelatory achievement, based on a wealth of letters and papers never before available, and written by one of our most renowned art critics.
Alexander Calder is one of the most beloved...
by James Rosenquist, David Dalton
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: October 27, 2009
From James Rosenquist, one of our most iconic pop artists—along with Andy Warhol, Jim Dine, Claes Oldenburg, and Roy Lichtenstein—comes this candid and fascinating memoir. Unlike these artists, Rosenquist often works in three-dimensional forms, with highly dramatic shifts in scale and a far more...
by Joe Fig
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 6, 2015
What was your earliest childhood artwork that received recognition? When did you first consider yourself a professional artist? How has your studio's location influenced your work? How do you choose titles? Do you have a favorite color?
Joe Fig asked a wide range of celebrated artists these...
Irrational Judgments
Eva Hesse, Sol LeWitt, and 1960s New York
Language: English
Release Date: November 27, 2015
Irrational Judgments examines the close friendship and significant exchange of ideas between Eva Hesse (1936–1970) and Sol LeWitt (1928–2007) in New York City during the 1960s. Taking its title from LeWitt’s statement “Irrational judgments lead to new experience,” this book examines the breakthroughs...
The Contemporaries
Travels in the 21st-Century Art World
Language: English
Release Date: March 3, 2015
It's been nearly a century since Marcel Duchamp exhibited a urinal and called it art. Since then, painting has been declared dead several times over, and contemporary art has now expanded to include just about any object, action, or event: dance routines, slideshows, functional hair salons, seemingly...