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1) I’m bored
Author
Publisher
Hat & Beard Press
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
Part art book, part comic book compilation, and partly a skeptical but loving take on those Successories motivational posters for the office, this book (designed by the artist and with a foreword by Kate and Laura Mulleavy of Rodarte) features the whimsical, wonderfully whacked-out work of artist and illustrator Jess Rotter.
Author
Publisher
Pegasus Books, Ltd
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Artists are expert lookers: they have learned to pay attention. The rest of us spend most of our time on auto-pilot, rushing from place to place, our overfamiliarity blinding us to the marvellous, life-affirming phenomena of our world. But that doesn't have to be the case. In his inimitable engaging style, Will Gompertz takes us into the minds of artists--from contemporary stars to old masters, the well-known to the lesser-so, and from around the...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
Along with Arthur Rackham and Edmund Dulac, Kay (pronounced "kigh") Nielsen was one of a triumvirate of great artists from the golden age of illustration. Known for his soft yet ornate pastels and a splendid use of various design elements, the Danish-American artist became famous for his memorable illustrations of stories by the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen, as well as the Nordic fables recounted in East o' the Sun and West o' the Moon...
Author
Publisher
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date
1918
Language
English
Description
Gibran Khalil Gibran (1883 — 1931) was a Lebanese-American poet, writer, and artist best known as the author of "The Prophet" (1923), which is one of the best-selling books of all time. Gibran's work covers such themes as justice, religion, science, free will, love, happiness, the soul, the body, and death. He is widely considered to have been one of the most important figures in Arabic poetry and literature during the first half of the twentieth...
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Series
Publisher
University of Pittsburgh Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"American Workman presents a comprehensive, novel reassessment of the life and work of one of America's most influential self-taught artists, John Kane. With a full account of Kane's life as a working man, including his time as a steelworker, coal miner, street paver, and commercial painter in and around Pittsburgh in the early twentieth century, the authors explore how these occupations shaped his development as an artist and his breakthrough success...
8) Claude Monet
Author
Series
Publisher
Wide Eyed Editions
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
Provides an overview of the life, works, and legacy of French artist Claude Monet.
Author
Publisher
Down East
Pub. Date
c2010
Language
English
Description
Dahlov Ipcar is best known for her vibrant collage-style paintings of jungle and farm animals. This clearly evident love of animals is due in part to the summers she spent with her family in Maine. In 1923 the Zorach family (her parents were the famous artists William and Marguerite Zorach) bought a farm at Robinhood Cove in Georgetown, Maine. It was during a Maine summer that Dahlov met her future husband Adolph Ipcar. They married in September 1936...
Author
Language
English
Formats
Description
"This lavishly illustrated book by Lisa Perrin introduces more than 25 infamous women poisoners, exploring the circumstances and skill sets that led them to lives of crime. Learn about popular poisons throughout history and their deadly effects, and explore the common motives that drove these women to commit their dastardly deeds. You might find yourself rooting for some of them-like Sally Bassett, who helped poison her granddaughter's enslavers in...
11) Kandinsky
Author
Publisher
DK Pub
Pub. Date
1999
Language
English
Description
Wassily Kandinsky (1866-1944) was a Russian painter credited as being among the first to truly venture into abstract art. He persisted in expressing his internal world of abstraction despite negative criticism from his peers. He veered away from painting that could be viewed as representational in order to express his emotions, leading to his unique use of colour and form. Although his works received heavy censure at the time, in later years they...
Author
Publisher
Chronicle Books
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
"Everyone needs things to look forward to-big things and small things, on good days and on bad days; things that will buoy our spirits and make us laugh and help us feel alive. In these pages, beloved author and illustrator Sophie Blackall has gathered a collection of joyful things for all of us: things that are always there if we look for them, like the sun coming up; things we can do if the sun is behind a cloud, like baking for other people or...
Author
Publisher
Heni Publishing
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Description
Collating, in a single volume, the major body of interviews conducted by the revered American critic and curator Robert Storr, 'Interviews on Art' includes 62 illustrated discussions with some of the most renowned names in the artworld over the last century. Storr's interviewees include Gerhard Richter, Louise Bourgeois, Jeff Koons, Alex Katz, Chuck Close, Richard Serra, Gabriel Orozco, Elizabeth Murray, Harald Szeemann, and Mike Kelley, whilst each...
Author
Publisher
Down East
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
When artist Tom Curry first moved to Maine, his house overlooked a small, uninhabited island in Eggemoggin Reach. One day, while rowing across to the island, his boyhood fear of water came crashing in on him. So he decided to explore his fear head-on, and began painting the island "as a way to delve into my own darkness and seek a way back to the surface." That series of paintings, capturing the island in all lights, weathers, and moods, forms the...
Author
Publisher
Hayward Publishing
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
This book provides a unique insight into Mark Wallinger's approach to art and life. Illustrated with over 100 plates that bring together historical and contemporary works, that reach from a Roman double portrait of Dionysus and Silenus, through to Durer woodcuts, early photographic pioneering works, a trompe l'oeil sculpture by Vija Celmins, and a video by Aernout Mik; this is an artist's exploration of the frontiers and border zones through which,...
Author
Publisher
Dover Publications
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
One of the most influential (and most prolific) illustrators of children's books during the early twentieth century, Edmund Dulac brought countless fairy tales to life through his distinct artistic style, subtle use of color, and fanciful compositions. This archive of masterworks by the renowned illustrator — all reproduced from rare early editions — contains 55 of his most beguiling images. Included are exquisite illustrations for "The Sleeping...
Author
Language
English
Description
The most celebrated work of a 16th-century woodcut master, these 41 illustrations are a stark reminder of a dramatic motif: "Remember, you will die." A meticulous reprint of the unabridged 1538 edition, this book includes a prefatory letter by Jean de Vauzèle plus various quotations, depictions, and meditations on death.
Author
Publisher
Abrams
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"How to Paint Without a Brush introduces artist Red Hong Yi's creative process-the tools and methods she employs and the motivation behind the artist's work. Organized by artistic medium, including eggshells, matchsticks, flowers, and ink stamps made from vegetables, Red's book shares an array of creative techniques as well as stories from significant moments in her art career. A do-it-yourself section at the back of the book provides several projects...
Author
Publisher
Longmans, Green & co
Pub. Date
1899
Language
English
Description
Classic biography of the great Victorian poet, designer and socialist. Published a few years after Morris' death, it chronicles his childhood, days at Oxford, forays into art and literature, embrace of socialism, involvement with the Arts and Crafts movement, founding of the Kelmscott Press, much more. 22 black-and-white illus.
Author
Publisher
Little, Brown
Pub. Date
[1966]
Language
English
Description
Winslow Homer was the antithesis of the unkempt bohemian artist of the nineteenth century. He not only always maintained the appearance of an English country gentleman, but was also an everyday sort of man, both in his life and his paintings. Yet he is ranked as one of America's greatest painters. The reason is not hard to discover, for Winslow Homer's powerful epic statements spoke for America with a breadth that few other artists have achieved....