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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Art of The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien
Wayne G. Hammond, Christina Scull · 144 pages
When J.R.R. Tolkien wrote The hobbit, he had become an accomplished amateur artist, and he was keen to contribute visually to the work. The finished book contained eight black and white drawings, five colour plates, two maps and his own jacket design.
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
Ways of Seeing
John Berger · 166 pages
How do we see the world around us? The Penguin on Design series includes the works of creative thinkers whose writings on art, design and the media have changed our vision forever."Seeing comes before words. The child looks and recognizes before it can speak.""But there is also another sense in which seeing comes before words. It is seeing which establishes our place in the surrounding world; we e
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.
The Paper Garden: Mrs. Delany Begins Her Life's Work at 72
Molly Peacock · 416 pages
Portrait 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.
Francis Bacon: The Logic of Sensation
Gilles Deleuze · 209 pages
Diego Rivera: His World and Ours
Duncan Tonatiuh · 32 pages
32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cmAD1040L Lexile
The Lonely City: Adventures in the Art of Being Alone
Olivia Laing · 336 pages
"You can be lonely anywhere, but there is a particular flavor to the loneliness that comes from living in a city, surrounded by thousands of strangers. The Lonely City is a roving cultural history of urban loneliness, centered on the ultimate city: Manhattan, that teeming island of gneiss, concrete, and glass. What does it mean to be lonely? How do we live, if we're not intimately involved with an
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
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.
Confessions of an Art Addict
Peggy Guggenheim · 175 pages
Peggy Guggenheim was born into affluence and a lavish lifestyle. Bored with her seemingly "pedestrian" life in New York, she headed for Europe in 1921, where she would sow the seeds for a future as one of modern art's most important and influential figures. In the midst of Europe's avant-garde circles. she reveled in her love affairs with prominent artists and also became a serious collector. Her
Blue: The History of a Color
Michel Pastoureau · 216 pages
"Blue has had a long and topsy-turvy history in the Western world. Once considered a hot color, it is now icy cool. The ancient Greeks scorned it as ugly and barbaric, but most Americans and Europeans now pick it as their favorite color. In this history, the renowned medievalist Michel Pastoureau traces the changing meanings of blue from its rare appearances in prehistoric art to its international
POPism: The Warhol Sixties
Andy Warhol, Pat Hackett · 402 pages
Moonrise Over Europe
Paul Spencer-Longhurst, Johan Christian Dahl, Barber Institute of Fine Arts · 138 pages
"Accompanies an exhibition at the Barber Institute of Fine Arts, University of Birmingham, 20 January-23 April 2006"--T.p. verso.
Catalogue des tableaux anciens par C. Berchem, B. Breenberg, A.-F. Callet ...
Galerie Georges Petit · 64 pages
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
Joseph Cornell: Master of Dreams
Diane Waldman · 152 pages
"Out of the fantasies that enriched a private, often reclusive life, Joseph Cornell created a "poetic theater of memory." His box constructions and collages feature such characters as a Medici princess, birds, ballerinas, and movie stars. Using the seemingly commonplace materials that he collected in five-and-dime stores and other shops in New York City - cordial glasses, mirrors, marbles, and ma
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.