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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorPortrait of an Artist: A Biography of Georgia O'Keeffe
Laurie Lisle · 447 pages
This chronicle of the life and career of a unique modern artist is based on her correspondence and interviews with friends, relatives, and colleagues.
American Mirror: The Life and Art of Norman Rockwell
Deborah Solomon · 493 pages
The Lives of the Muses: Nine Women & the Artists They Inspired
Francine Prose · 432 pages
"In this new book, Francine Prose explores the complex relationship between the artist and his muse. In so doing, she illuminates with great sensitivity and intelligence the elusive emotional wellsprings of the creative process.". "There is no ideal muse, but rather as many variations on the theme as there are individual women who have had the luck, or misfortune, to find their destiny conjoined
Diego Rivera: His World and Ours
Duncan Tonatiuh · 32 pages
32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cmAD1040L Lexile
Henri's Scissors
Jeanette Winter · 36 pages
"When Henri Matisse was a boy, he drew pictures everywhere. And when he grew up, he became a famous artist whose paintings were beloved around the world. Them late in life, a serious illness confined Henri to just his bed and a wheelchair. But amazingly, from there he created some of his finest works , the enormous and breathtaking paper cut-outs."--Jacket flap.
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.
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.
A Splash of Red: The Life and Art of Horace Pippin
Jennifer Fisher Bryant
Picasso
Gertrude Stein · 65 pages
An intimate and revealing memoir which offers insights into the life and art of the 20th century's greatest painter. Stein's close relationship with Picasso furnishes a unique vantage point in composing this perceptive and provocative reminiscence.
Cloth Lullaby: The Woven Life of Louise Bourgeois
Amy Novesky · 40 pages
Just as spiders spin and repair their webs, Louise s own mother was a weaver of tapestries. Louise spent her childhood in France as an apprentice to her mother before she became a tapestry artist herself. She worked with fabric throughout her career, and this biographical picture book shows how Bourgeois s childhood experiences weaving with her loving, nurturing mother provided the inspiration for
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
Hayden Herrera · 528 pages
Remedios Varo: Unexpected Journeys
Janet A. Kaplan · 288 pages
M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio
Peter Robb · 577 pages
Van Gogh: The Life
Steven Naifeh, Gregory White Smith · 953 pages
The Noisy Paint Box
Barb Rosenstock · 33 pages
1 volume (unpaged) : color illustrations ; 29 cmAD630L Lexile
Rembrandt's Eyes
Simon Schama · 750 pages
"Rembrandt's Eyes, about which Simon Schama has been thinking for more than twenty years, shows that the true biography of Rembrandt is to be discovered in his pictures. Through a succession of descriptions and interpretations of Rembrandt's paintings threaded into this narrative, he allows us to see Rembrandt's life clearly and to think about it afresh."--BOOK JACKET. "Rembrandt's Eyes shows us
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.
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
Mad Enchantment: Claude Monet and the Painting of the Water Lilies
Ross King · 403 pages
The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72
Molly Peacock · 416 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 Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I
Roger Shattuck · 397 pages
The modernism of our times explained through a study of four significant men.
The Lady in Gold: The Extraordinary Tale of Gustav Klimt's Masterpiece, Portrait of Adele Bloch-Bauer
Anne-Marie O'Connor
Contributor to the Washington Post Anne-Marie O'Connor brilliantly regales us with the galvanizing story of Gustav Klimt's 1907 masterpiece -- the breathtaking portrait of a Viennese Jewish socialite, Adele Bloch-Bauer. The celebrated painting, stolen by Nazis during World War II, subsequently became the subject of a decade-long dispute between her heirs and the Austrian government. When the U.S.