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Vincent Van Gogh: The Letters: The Complete Illustrated and Annotated Edition
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Include books by the same authorVincent and Theo: The Van Gogh Brothers
Deborah Heiligman · 355 pages
This incredible story about brotherly love and the famous artist who was shaped by it is a meticulously researched account of the Van Gogh brothers' intertwined lives.
M.C. Escher: The Graphic Work
M.C. Escher · 96 pages
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.
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
Hayden Herrera · 528 pages
Van Gogh: The Life
Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith · 953 pages
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
Vincent Van Gogh: The Complete Paintings
Rainer Metzger · 312 pages
The Agony and the Ecstasy
Irving Stone · 710 pages
Mr. Stone gives his signature style and thought to this story of Michelangelo. He points out often in this book that Michelangelo, before beginning a work, asks what it is he is trying to capture in the moment of his painting, sculpture, or poem. So it is with Mr. Stone. He wants to portray, as close as he can find, the moments of the life of this artist. What shaped him, what he loved, what (and
The Iridescence of Birds: A Book About Henri Matisse
Patricia MacLachlan · 40 pages
If you were a boy named Henri Matisse who lived in a dreary town in northern France, what would your life be like? Would it be full of color and art? Full of lines and dancing figures? Find out in this beautiful, unusual picture book about one of the world's most famous and influential artists by acclaimed author and Newbery Medal-winning Patricia MacLachlan and innovative illustrator Hadley Hoope
The art of Eric Carle
Eric Carle · 127 pages
Anatomy for the Artist
Sarah Simblet · 255 pages
By My Hands
Florian Gadsby · 400 pages
Letters on Cézanne
Rainer Maria Rilke · 98 pages
The Story of Painting
Wendy Beckett, Patricia Wright · 736 pages
Containing over 400 masterpieces of Western painting from the very beginnings of art to the present day, Sister Wendy Beckett includes nearly 200 close-ups to allow the reader to share her passion for, and knowledge of, painting.
Salvador Dali: 1904-1989
Gilles Neret · 96 pages
Michelangelo and the Pope's Ceiling
Ross King · 378 pages
"In 1508, despite strong advice to the contrary, the powerful Pope Julius II commissioned Michelangelo Buonarroti to paint the ceiling of the newly restored Sistine Chapel in Rome. Four years earlier, at the age of twenty-nine, Michelangelo had unveiled his masterful statue of David in Florence; however, he had little experience as a painter, even less working in the delicate medium of fresco, and
Vincent
Barbara Stok · 141 pages
"The turbulent life of Vincent van Gogh is a constant source of inspiration and intrigue for artists and art lovers. In this beautiful graphic biography, artist and writer Barbara Stok documents the brief and intense period of creativity Van Gogh spent in Arles, Provence. Away from Paris, Van Gogh falls in love with the landscape and light of the south of France. He dreams of setting up an artists
Gustav Klimt, 1862–1918: The World in Female Form
Gottfried Fliedl · 239 pages
All His Glamorous American Pin-Ups
Gil Elvgren, Charles G. Martignette, Louis K. Meisel
Vincent Van Gogh, 1853-1890: Vision and Reality
Ingo F. Walther · 418 pages
Life with Picasso
Francoise Gilot · 373 pages
Extensive portrait of the artist written by a woman who lived with him for 11 years and was the mother of two of his children.