Individual Artist category: 1922 books
Where Is My Home?
The Art and Life of the Russian-Jewish Sculptor Mark Antokolskii, 1843-1902
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2010
Where Is My Home?: The Art and Life of the Russian-Jewish Sculptor Mark Antokolskii, 1843–1902 is the first full-length study in English of the art and life of Mark Antokolskii, the widely recognized Russian and European sculptor of the late 19th century. An originator of novel trends in sculpture...
William Woodward
American Impressionist
Language: English
Release Date: July 5, 2011
William Woodward (1859-1939) was a force in New Orleans and the art world, and his legacy endures. In this first compilation of examples of Woodward's work spanning his career, essayists offer unique perspectives on the artist and his art.
Woodward was a graduate of the Rhode Island School...
by Alexander Aleshichev
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: November 2, 2010
Art Lovers or non-art lovers alike will enjoy this great collection of caricatures, paintings and cartoons presented to us by Alexander Aleshichev. This is a labor of his more than 20 years of being an artist. From Paintings made from oil to ones made from bare pencil, to those with color touch-ups,...
by Bill Anthes
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: August 27, 2015
For over three decades, contemporary Native American artist Hock E Aye Vi Edgar Heap of Birds has pursued a disciplined practice in multiple media, having shown his paintings, drawings, prints, and text-based conceptual art throughout numerous national and international galleries and public spaces....
The Guardian of Mercy
How an Extraordinary Painting by Caravaggio Changed an Ordinary Life Today
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2016
A captivating study of Renaissance art imitating the life of the artist in “a rich tapestry that intricately weaves the story of an iconic painter” (San Francisco Chronicle).
Now celebrated as one of the great painters of the Renaissance, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio fled Rome in 1606...
The Forgotten Society
Lives Out of Sight in Nursing Homes, Prisons, and Mental Institutions: A Portfolio of 92 Drawings
Language: English
Release Date: April 17, 2013
A prominent artist ventured behind locked doors to portray three "forgotten" social classes: the elderly, people in mental institutions, and the prison population. Alan E. Cober began his career in the 1960s, when illustration took a turn toward a new expressionism. Influenced by the works...
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 Edgar Degas, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The prominent Impressionist artist Edgar Degas is widely celebrated for his images of Parisian life and sublime depictions of ballet dancers. He was a superb draftsman and masterly in his portrayal of movement, while his portraits are notable for their psychological complexity. Delphi’s Masters...
by Francisco de Goya, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
The romantic painter Francisco de Goya is considered the most important Spanish artist of late eighteenth and early nineteenth centuries. Throughout his long and distinguished career, Goya produced paintings and prints that chronicled the history, folly and beauty of his times. Delphi’s Masters...
by Betram D. Wolfe
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2000
Language: English
Release Date: July 18, 2000
Known for his grand public murals, Diego Rivera (1886-1957) is one of Mexico's most revered artists. His paintings are marked by a unique fusion of European sophistication, revolutionary political turmoil, and the heritage and personality of his native country.
Based on extensive interviews...
by Raphael Sanzio, Delphi Classics
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Celebrated for his clarity of form, ease of composition and the sublime beauty of his ‘Madonnas’, Raphael is the epitome of the High Renaissance genius. In spite of his untimely death, he left behind a large body of work that would have a monumental influence on the course of art in the ensuing...
Frederic Church
The Art and Science of Detail
Language: English
Release Date: October 29, 2015
Frederic Church (1826–1900), the most celebrated painter in the United States during the mid-19th century, created monumental landscapes of North and South America, the Arctic, and the Middle East. These paintings were unsurpassed in their attention to detail, yet the significance of this pictorial...
Sketches In Pen And Ink
A Bloomsbury Notebook
Language: English
Release Date: November 30, 2010
Vanessa Bell, artist, sister of Virginia Woolf, wife of Clive Bell and lover of Duncan Grant, is one of the most fascinating and modern figures of the Bloomsbury set, but unlike most of them she rarely put pen to writing paper. When she did, she was witty and illuminating about their early lives....
Doré's London
All 180 Illustrations from London, A Pilgrimage
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
London in the middle of the 1800s was a subject sketched endlessly by artists, studied by social reformers, and discussed by writers. This comprehensive collection of drawings by Gustave Doré, France's most celebrated graphic artist of the period, presents all 180 drawings from the artist's 1872...