Artists category: 3350 books
by Amy Steedman
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: March 22, 2018
Then came the time which is called 'The Renaissance,' a word which means being born again, or a new awakening, when men began to draw real pictures of real things and fill the world with images of beauty.
Now it is the stories of the men of that time, who put new life into Art, that I am going...
Under Spring
Voices+Art+Los Angeles
Language: English
Release Date: November 11, 2014
Winner of the 2013 California Historical Society Book Award
The winner of the first CHS Book Award reimagines what a history book can be, and it tells a story all California needs to hear in order to understand itself. Beneath Los Angeles’s North Spring Street bridge, a deteriorated concrete...
Rounded Up in Glory
Frank Reaugh, Texas Renaissance Man
Language: English
Release Date: August 15, 2016
Frank Reaugh (1860-1945; pronounced "Ray") was called "the Dean of Texas artists" for good reason. His pastels documented the wide-open spaces of the West as they were vanishing in the late nineteenth century, and his plein air techniques influenced generations of artists. His students include a "Who's...
Summary of The War of Art
by Steven Pressfield | Includes Analysis
Language: English
Release Date: May 12, 2016
Summary of The War of Art by Steven Pressfield | Includes Analysis Preview: Steven Pressfield’s The War of Art: Break Through the Blocks and Win Your Inner Creative Battles is a book dedicated to helping writers and other artists overcome creative barriers and produce valuable and...
by Colin Wilson
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
Language: English
Release Date: September 23, 2014
The classic study of alienation, existentialism, and how great artists have portrayed characters who exist on the margins of society.
Published to immense acclaim in the mid-1950s, The Outsider helped make popular the literary concept of existentialism. Authors like Sartre, Kafka, Hemingway,...
Old In Art School
A Memoir of Starting Over
Language: English
Release Date: June 19, 2018
**One of O: The Oprah Magazine's Top Books of Summer
"Old in Art School is a glorious achievement—bighearted and critical, insightful and entertaining. This book is a cup of courage for everyone who wants to change their lives." —Tayari Jones, author of An American Marriage and...
Red Brick, Black Mountain, White Clay
Reflections on Art, Family, and Survival
Language: English
Release Date: March 15, 2012
**New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2012
"Beautiful, haunted, evocative and so open to where memory takes you. I kept thinking that this is the book that I have waited for: where objects, and poetry intertwine. Just wonderful and completely sui generis." (Edmund de Waal, author...
Some of My Lives
A Scrapbook Memoir
Language: English
Release Date: October 11, 2011
Rosamond Bernier has lived an unusually full life—remarkable for its vividness and diversity of experience—and she has known many (one is tempted to say all) of the greatest artists and composers of the twentieth century.
In Some of My Lives, Bernier has made a kind of literary scrapbook...
Piero's Light
In Search of Piero della Francesca: A Renaissance Painter and the Revolution in Art, Science and Religion
Language: English
Release Date: January 7, 2014
An innovative painter in the early generation of Renaissance artists, Piero dell Francesca was also an expert on religious topics and a mathematician who wanted to use perspective and geometry to make painting a “true science.”
Although only sixteen of Piero’s works survive, few art historians...
by Françoise Gilot, Carlton Lake
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Language: English
Release Date: June 11, 2019
Françoise Gilot's candid memoir remains the most revealing portrait of Picasso written, and gives fascinating insight into the intense and creative life shared by two modern artists.
Françoise Gilot was in her early twenties when she met the sixty-one-year-old Pablo Picasso in 1943. Brought...
The Yellow House
Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles
Language: English
Release Date: October 31, 2009
This chronicle of the two months in 1888 when Paul Gauguin shared a house in France with Vincent Van Gogh describes not only how these two hallowed artists painted and exchanged ideas, but also the texture of their everyday lives. Includes 60 B&W reproductions of the artists' paintings and drawings from the period.
The Indomitable Spirit of Edmonia Lewis
A Narrative Biography
Language: English
Release Date: December 5, 2012
Edmonia Lewis (1844-1907), born to a Chippewa mother and African-American father, was the most controversial sculptor of her day. Her story was told in 28 pages twenty years ago by Romare Bearden and Harry Henderson in A History of African American Artists from 1792 (1993), a "landmark" tome and standard...
by Helen Epstein
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2012
Meyer Schapiro: Portrait of an Art Historian by Helen Epstein (19,700 words)
This is the only profile available of art historian Meyer Schapiro (1904-1996). A polymath, revered for his extraordinary scholarship and teaching, he championed medieval studies, modern masters like Matisse and Picasso...
Bad Boy
My Life On and Off the Canvas
Language: English
Release Date: May 7, 2013
In Bad Boy, renowned American artist Eric Fischl has written a penetrating, often searing exploration of his coming of age as an artist, and his search for a fresh narrative style in the highly charged and competitive New York art world in the 1970s and 1980s. With such notorious and controversial...