Individual Artist category: 1922 books

As children, our passions came easy. We would doodle for hours and hours and we didn't know what the word 'editing' meant. As we got older, our passions were pushed aside for the busyness of life, for the fear of failure, for poor excuses. Unfinished, is a book for hopeful creative's to reclaim their...

Texas looms large: big skies, vast plains, large cities. The Lone Star State often inspires a heightened sense of place in its citizens that rivals or surpasses that of New Yorkers. This is frequently reflected in the art of Texas—paintings of bluebonnet fields, longhorn cattle, and scenes from...

Ever wondered how Terrence Howard rose to stardom? Terrence childhood has not being rosy. He went through a lot barrier before the masses could relate him as an achiever. He has lot of stigmatization from his peers as a result of diversity in the ethnicity of his parents which make him looks...

A catalogue of Hall Thorpe coloured woodcuts, including a Foreword by Richard King, Introduction (Hall Thorpe: A Consideration of His Work) by Robert and Ingrid Holden, and 'On Colour in the Cottage' by Hall Thorpe, R.B.A., reproduced from The Studio Year-Book of Decorative Art 1919.

Alexander Calder was one of the most original artists of the twentieth century and a major figure in American art. Renowned for his mobiles and stabiles, he also created the beloved Calder Circus, an early performance piece now preserved at the Whitney Museum. He was a contemporary and friend of Marcel...

Angel in Red is a nude art book containig images of a beautiful young Angel posing in front of the steel-gated door, wearing nothing but a sexy lace dress, inviting you to join her. The photos in this book were taken in such way as to stimulate and arouse reader’s mind rather than crossing the line of being just another adult publication.

Vincent Van Gogh, perhaps the greatest and most influential painter of the nineteenth century, committed suicide at the age of thirty-seven. He sold only one painting in his lifetime. Was he motivated by mental illness or despair when he put a revolver to his chest or was his physician partly to blame?...

Charles Sheeler was the stark poet of the machine age. Photographer of the Ford Motor Company and founder of the painting movement Precisionism, he is remembered as a promoter of - and apologist for - the industrialised capitalist ethic. This major new rethink of one of the key figures of American...

**Self Confidence for Artists ** Confidence is important in all aspects of life, but especially in art. The creation process comes from within, and if your self-confidence is weak then you are destined to fail from the start. I often admire the artists that exude their confidence in their...

Marc Chagall nació en el seno de una familia judía sumamente estricta, para la cual la prohibición de la representación de la figura humana tenía la fuerza de un dogma. El no haber pasado el examen de admisión de la escuela Stieglitz no evitó que Chagall se uniera posteriormente a esa famosa...

This is not a book for those who like to fly by the seat of their pants. This book will give you candid practical advice on what you need to do from a business perspective, to the art documents you require to manouevre around the art world, pricing your artwork, who are your cheerleaders, and...

Léon Bakst (1866-1924) was a painter, illustrator, stage and costume designer. He is universally acknowledged for representing a synthesis of creative energy in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Bakst travelled widely throughout Europe and in 1890 joined the World of Art journal circle which...

This collection of articles is for teachers who would like to explore working with artists in their school classrooms. It begins with “23 Questions from Teachers that Artists Can Help Answer,” which addresses intriguing problems teachers are grappling with and matches them with the special skills...

So...what is this book about? At its core, its a poetry and art book. But, in retrospect, its so much more. Growing up in the 80s I was influenced by two thingsart and music. Combine those two things with a personel reflection on the times and what was going on in the world (when I wrote each piece)...