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A Memoir of Vincent Van Gogh by Jo van Gogh-Bonger; Martin Gayford (Introduction by)
Category: Art and Design | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
The general outlines of Vincent van Gogh's life--the early difficulties in Holland and Paris, the revelatory impact of the move to Provence, the attacks of madness and despair that led to his suicide--are almost as familiar as his paintings. Yet neither the paintings nor Van Gogh's story might have surv ...Show more
Andy Warhol - Lives of the Artists series by Robert Shore
Category: Art and Design | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Somewhere within the iconic images, carefully-made personae, star-studded milieu, million-dollar price tags and famous quotes lies the real Andy Warhol. But who was he? Robert Shore unfolds the multi-dimensional Warhol, dissecting his existence as undisputed art-world hotshot, recreating the amazing cir ...Show more
Artemisia Gentileschi - Lives of the Artists series by Jonathan Jones
Category: Art and Design | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Artemisia Gentileschi was the greatest female artist of the Baroque age and one of the most brilliant followers of the great Caravaggio. As a young woman she was raped by her tutor, and then had to endure a seven-month-long trial during which she was brutally examined by the authorities. Gentileschi was ...Show more
David Hockney by James Cahill
Category: Art and Design | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
The latest addition to the 'Lives of the Artists' series: highly readable short biographies of the world's greatest artistsDavid Hockney is the most famous living British artist. And he is arguably one of the more famous American artists as well. Emerging from the north of England in the 1960s, he made ...Show more
Frida Kahlo - Lives of the Artists series by Hettie Judah
Category: Art and Design | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Fridamania has made Frida Kahlo's image ubiquitous: she has been reborn as a Halloween costume, Barbie doll, children's book character, textile print, phone cover, and the inspiration for everything from cocktails to fashion shoots. But it is more difficult to get a clear vision of this bold and brillia ...Show more
Keith Haring by Simon Doonan
Category: Art and Design | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Keith Haring was a revolutionary artist, who transformed the art world during his short but impactful life. Brought to life by Simon Doonan, Creative Director for Barneys New York, this new pocket-sized biography tells his inspirational story. Revolutionary and renegade, Keith Haring was an artist for t ...Show more
Lives Of The Artists (Volume I) by Giorgio Vasari
Category: Classic Fiction | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Beginning with Cimabue and Giotto in the thirteenth century, Vasari traces the development of Italian art across three centuries to the golden epoch of Leonardo and Michelangelo. Great men, and their immortal works, are brought vividly to life, as Vasari depicts the young Giotto scratching his first dra ...Show more
Lives of Caravaggio by GIULIO MANCINI
Category: Art and Design | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
The first biographies of Caravaggio: key documents of one of the greatest revolutions in the history of art. In the course of a short and violent life, Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio (1571-1610) revolutionized painting, producing a style of shockingly immediate realism that swept through Europe. The ...Show more
Lives of Leonardo Da Vinci by Giorgio Vasari; Matteo Bandello; Paolo Giovio; Leonardo da Vinci; Sabba di Castiglione; Francesco Melzi; Isabella d'Este; Fra Pietro da Novellara; Antonio de Beatis
Category: Art and Design | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
A new title in the successful Lives of the Artists series, which offers illuminating, and often intimate, accounts of iconic artists as viewed by their contemporaries.Coinciding with the five hundredth anniversary of the death of Leonardo (1452-1519), Lives of Leonardo da Vinci brings together important ...Show more
Lives of Rembrandt by JOACHIM VON SANDRART
Category: Art and Design | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Never before available complete in English, the three major contemporary sources for the life of Rembrandt. Rembrandt Harmensz. van Rijn (c.1606-1669) was the most talked-about painter of the seventeenth century and quite possibly of the following centuries too. His prodigious talent, extraordinary emot ...Show more
Lives of Veronese by GIORGIO VASARI
Category: Art Literature | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Never was a painter more nobly joyous, never did an artist take a greater delight in life, seeing it all as a kind of breezy festival and feeling it through the medium of perpetual success He was the happiest of painters - Henry James on Veronese, 1909. Collected here for the first time, these fascinati ...Show more
Yayoi Kusama - Lives of the Artists by Robert Shore
Category: Art and Design | Series: Lives of the Artists Ser.
Nonagenarian Japanese artist is simultaneously one of the most famous and most mysterious artists on the planet. A wild child of the 1950s and 1960s, she emerged out of the international Fluxus movement to launch naked happenings in New York and went on to become a doyenne of that city's counter-cultura ...Show more
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