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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorVincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890: Vision and Reality
Ingo F. Walther · 418 pages
The Yellow House: Van Gogh, Gauguin, and Nine Turbulent Weeks in Arles
Martin Gayford · 352 pages
From October to December 1888, Paul Gauguin shared a home in Arles with Vincent van Gogh. This was, without doubt, the most celebrated cohabitation in art history: never, before or since have two such towering artistic talents been penned up in so small a space. They were the Odd Couple of art history. Predictably, the results were explosive. The dénouement of their life together has entered into
The Art of Rivalry: Four Friendships, Betrayals, and Breakthroughs in Modern Art
Sebastian Smee · 393 pages
"Picasso & Matisse. Manet & Degas. Pollack & de Kooning. Lucian Freud & Francis Bacon. This is the story of four pairs of artists-- each linked by friendship and a spirit of competitiveness. Taken together, they form an impressive lineage stretching across more than 150 years. But in each case, these relationships had a flashpoint, a damaging psychological event that seemed to mark both an end and
The Power of Art
Simon Schama · 448 pages
Taking eight famous painters and their great masterpieces, this book takes you back to the intense moment in history when these works were conceived and born. In each case the artist is backed into a corner, and given a chance to confound his rivals, enemies and critics.
Rembrandt, 1606-1669: The Mystery of the Revealed Form
Michael Bockemuhl · 96 pages
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
Ross King · 403 pages
M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio
Peter Robb · 577 pages
Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art
Susan Aberth · 160 pages
Remedios Varo: Unexpected Journeys
Janet A. Kaplan · 288 pages
De Kooning: An American Master
Mark Stevens, Annalyn Swan · 732 pages
Traces the career of abstract expressionist Willem De Kooning, discussing his personal life with wife Elaine Fried, and his battle with alcoholism and Alzheimer's disease.
Van Gogh: The Life
Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith · 953 pages
Carl W. Peters
Richard H. Love, Carl William Peters · 962 pages
Throughout his life Peters depicted the ordinary places and people of America. From Rochester to Rockport, Peters made an amazingly coherent group of fascinating, masterful American pictures.
Leonardo da Vinci
Walter Isaacson · 616 pages
The author of the acclaimed bestsellers Steve Jobs, Einstein, and Benjamin Franklin brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography. Based on thousands of pages from Leonardo’s astonishing notebooks and new discoveries about his life and work, Walter Isaacson weaves a narrative that connects his art to his science. He shows how Leonardo’s genius was based on skills we can improv
Gustav Klimt, 1862–1918: The World in Female Form
Gottfried Fliedl · 239 pages
Utopia Parkway: The Life and Work of Joseph Cornell
Deborah Solomon · 560 pages
"Deborah Solomon's definitive biography of Joseph Cornell, one of America's most moving and unusual twentieth-century artists, now reissued ten years later Few artists ever led a stranger life than Joseph Cornell, the self-taught American genius prized for his enigmatic shadow boxes, who stands at the intersection of Surrealism, Abstract Expressionism, and Pop Art. Legends about Cornell abound--th
Jackson Pollock: An American Saga
Gregory White Smith, Steven Naifeh · 934 pages
Based on interviews with more than 850 people, this illustrated biography profiles the troubled life of the enigmatic avant-garde artist whose controversial work changed the definition of modern art.
René Magritte: 1898–1967
Jacques Meuris, Rene Magritte · 176 pages