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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Brutality of Fact: Interviews with Francis Bacon
David Sylvester, Francis Bacon · 208 pages
The Accidental Masterpiece: On the Art of Life and Vice Versa
Michael Kimmelman · 256 pages
Georgia O'Keeffe
Georgia O'Keeffe · 134 pages
"Starting in the '20s - when Georgia was recognized as one of the most important protagonists of modernism in America - until his death, the artist and his works have attracted a great interest in the arts community and the American public. Despite the great gained recognition in America and Europe, only a few of his works have been exhibited to the European public. Artist and woman, Georgia O 'Ke
All His Glamorous American Pin-Ups
Gil Elvgren, Charles G. Martignette, Louis K. Meisel
Howl
Camille Flores-Turney · 84 pages
A beautiful tribute to one of the most distinctive artists and sculptors in the contemporary Southwest.
The White Road: Journey into an Obsession
Edmund de Waal · 416 pages
"An intimate narrative history of porcelain, structured around five journeys through landscapes where porcelain was dreamed about, fired, refined, collected, and coveted"--
The Notebooks of Leonardo da Vinci, Complete
Leonardo da Vinci · 100 pages
The Letters of Vincent van Gogh
Vincent van Gogh · 351 pages
Most unusually among major painters, Vincent van Gogh (1853-90) was also an accomplished writer. His letters provide both a unique self-portrait and a vivid picture of the contemporary cultural scene. Van Gogh emerges as a complex but captivating personality, struggling with utter integrity to fulfil his artistic destiny. This major new edition, which is based on an entirely new translation, rein
The Diary of Frida Kahlo: An Intimate Self-Portrait
Frida Kahlo · 295 pages
"Carlos Fuentes writes passionately and brilliantly about Frida Kahlo in the introduction of this book, which reproduces the pages and drawings of Kahlo's personal diary. Sarah M. Lowe, who wrote the commentaries and the essay, provides a more balanced view. Work is a curious gathering of thoughts and feelings, observations and annotations, and indeed makes the reader feel that he/she is entering
Seven Days in the Art World
Sarah Thornton · 274 pages
The art market has been booming. Museum attendance is surging. More people than ever call themselves artists. Contemporary art has become a mass entertainment, a luxury good, a job description, and, for some, a kind of alternative religion. In a series of narratives, Sarah Thornton investigates the drama of a Christie's auction, the workings in Takashi Murakami's studios, the elite at the Basel Ar
The Lost Painting
Jonathan Harr · 279 pages
A decaying palazzo on a hilltop near the Adriatic coast, and in the basement, cobwebbed and dusty, an archive unknown to scholars. Here, a young graduate student from Rome makes a discovery that inspires a search for a painting lost for almost two centuries. The artist was Caravaggio, a revolutionary painter beset by personal demons. Four hundred years ago, he drank and brawled in the taverns and
The Art Spirit: Notes, Articles, Fragments of Letters and Talks to Students, Bearing on the Concept and Technique of Picture Making, the Study of Art
Robert Henri · 275 pages
From 1915 to 1927, Henri was a popular and influential teacher at the Art Students League of New York. He provided for each student not a style so much as an attitude, an approach to art. Henri's philosophical and practical musings were collected by former pupil Margery Ryerson and published as The Art Spirit (1923), a book that remained in print for several decades. Henri's other students inclu
J.R.R. Tolkien: Artist and Illustrator
Wayne G. Hammond, Christina Scull · 207 pages
J.R.R. Tolkien (1892-1973), renowned author of The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, and The Silmarillion, was an artist in pictures as well as in words. Though he often remarked that he had no talent for drawing, his art has charmed his readers and has been exhibited to large and appreciative audiences. In fact, his talent was far more than he admitted, and his sense of design was natural and keen.
Vitamin D: New Perspectives in Drawing
Johanna Burton, Jeanine Herman · 352 pages
Transfigurations
Alex Grey · 176 pages
Ten years of visionary artwork from a rare artist embraced by critics, spiritual leaders, and the general public during his lifetime. Includes essays on Grey's work by the renowned art critic Donald Kuspit and by Stephen Larsen, author of Fire in the Mind: The Authorized Biography of Joseph Campbell. The long-awaited follow-up to Sacred Mirrors, which has sold more than 50,000 copies and has appea
From Bauhaus to Our House
Tom Wolfe · 128 pages
A lamentation on the state of modernist, international style architecture. In this long-form architectural screed in essay form, Wolfe takes aim at celebrated figures in the modernist movement—most notably Mies van der Rohe, Le Corbusier, and Bauhaus founder Walter Gropius—and examines the reasons for their rise and continuing acclaim.