Individual Artist category: 1922 books

“A fresh, new take on painting . . . Original deep insights enliven the reader’s experience of what it is to create honest beauty in this world.” —Natalie Goldberg, author of Writing Down the Bones More than a half century after his death, David Park is recognized as one of America’s...

From Kansas to Las Cruces to Taos and beyond, artist and author Carolene Callahan Herbel tells tales in Faraway Times and Places that capture the tenderness, hardship, and challenges of the Greatest Generation, those Americans who, in the words of Franklin Delano Roosevelt, had a “rendezvous with...

Federico Pirani presenta la serie di acquerelli eseguiti durante il suo soggiorno come Artist in residence alla villa di Gamberaia a Settignano (Firenze), reso possibile grazie al mecenatismo della famiglia Zalum, proprietaria della dimora. Per la sua sintesi perfetta tra l'opera dell'uomo e la natura,...

Have you misplaced your MUCH'ness?  Or have you lost your way?  Have you forgotten who you ARE, or what you want to say?  Are you the Great Pretender, pretending that you're fine... while hiding and surviving, being too afraid to shine?  I hear you and I see you!  I GET what you go through. ...

Originally published in 2004. Once the most popular Victorian artist, G. F. Watts was also a complex and elusive figure. Influenced by evolutionary theory, he reinterpreted the tradition of the classical body, while his philanthropic and educational interests informed projects for a more affective...

Innovate #7 features a major focus on South Wales abstract artist Lynnford Jones who talks about his life and work. Our music feature is 'Synth Music Direct' on the music of Joanna Mundy. Children's author Brenda May Williams is our major writer feature, whilst book features include a work of landscape...

Living with Vincent van Gogh provides unique insight into how the people and places of Van Gogh’s life relate to his work, illustrated throughout with artworks, archive imagery and contemporary landscape photography.

Geraldo de Barros (1923-1998) foi um dos maiores representantes do modernismo no Brasil. Assimilou os princípios da Escola Superior de Design de Ulm (Alemanha), trouxe-os para a América do Sul e incentivou muitos de seus colegas se unirem ao movimento da arte concreta. Cultivou contatos com a vanguarda...

Hieronymus Bosch was painting frightening, yet vaguely likable monsters long before computer games were ever invented, often including a touch of humour. His works are assertive statements about the mental illness that befalls any man who abandons the teachings of Christ. With a life that spanned...

The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense. From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman...

A Picture can tell you more than you think. InstaScrapBook: 2012 contains handpicked photographs that I have taken throughout 2012. Images are from my own Instagram feed found here: http://instagram.com/VlogWithSid

Décryptez l'art de Bramante en moins d'une heure!

Sir Anthony van Dyck is most famous for his portraits of Charles I of England and his family and court, painted with a relaxed elegance that was to be the dominant influence on English portrait-painting for the next 150 years. He also painted biblical and mythological subjects, displayed outstanding...

In this posthumous collection of John Updike’s art writings, a companion volume to the acclaimed Just Looking (1989) and Still Looking (2005), readers are again treated to “remarkably elegant essays” (Newsday) in which “the psychological concerns of the novelist drive the eye from work to...