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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.
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.
Frida: A Biography of Frida Kahlo
Hayden Herrera · 528 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
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.
M: The Man Who Became Caravaggio
Peter Robb · 577 pages
The Strange Case of Edward Gorey
Alexander Theroux · 82 pages
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.
Remedios Varo: Unexpected Journeys
Janet A. Kaplan · 288 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
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.
Leonora Carrington: Surrealism, Alchemy and Art
Susan Aberth · 160 pages
Diego Rivera: His World and Ours
Duncan Tonatiuh · 32 pages
32 pages : color illustrations ; 26 cmAD1040L Lexile
Leonardo Da Vinci: The Flights of the Mind
Charles Nicholl
Frida Kahlo
Andrea Kettenmann · 96 pages
The arresting pictures of Frida Kahlo (1907–54) were in many ways expressions of trauma. Through a near-fatal road accident at the age of 18, failing health, a turbulent marriage, miscarriage and childlessness, she transformed the afflictions into revolutionary art. In literal or metaphorical self-portraiture, Kahlo looks out at the viewer with an audacious glare, rejecting her destiny as a pas
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.