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Author
Language
English
Description
"Picasso & Matisse. Manet & Degas. Pollack & de Kooning. Lucian Freud & Francis Bacon. This is the story of four pairs of artists -- each linked by friendship and a spirit of competitiveness. Taken together, they form an impressive lineage stretching across more than 150 years. But in each case, these relationships had a flashpoint, a damaging psychological event that seemed to mark both an end and a new beginning, a break that led onto new creative...
5) An artist
Author
Publisher
Harper & Row
Pub. Date
c1980
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
[32] p. : col. ill. ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Briefly explains how the artist tries to recreate God's world using his paints.
8) In the paint
Author
Publisher
Abbeville Kids
Pub. Date
c1999
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
64 p. : col. ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Describes the materials, techniques, and subjects for getting started in painting.
15) Bachelors
Author
Publisher
MIT Press
Pub. Date
c1999
Physical Desc
222 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Author
Publisher
The Dial Press
Pub. Date
2016.
Physical Desc
306 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Katie Roiphe takes an unexpected and liberating approach to the most unavoidable of subjects: death. She investigates the final days of six great thinkers, writers, and artists": Susan Sontag, Sigmund Freud, John Updike, Dylan Thomas, Maurice Sendak and James Slater.--
Author
Publisher
Ixia Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
Physical Desc
vi, 216 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Are you a painter, writer, actor, dancer, musician, or would-be creative? Are you stuck in the process of creating and sharing your art? [This book] offers lessons, anecdotes, and real-life case studies that will help you unlock your creative powers. Dr. Maisel focuses on the reality of artistic development, explaining that unfinished and disappointing works are not a matter of personal weakness or unfortunate circumstances; they are simply daily...
Author
Publisher
Free Press
Pub. Date
2011
Physical Desc
ix, 272 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
Description
Alternates descriptions of the most cutting-edge brain science with the story of Jon Sarkin, a mild-mannered chiropractor who, after suffering a massive stroke, became a manic, volatile, and brilliant artist.
Author
Publisher
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Pub. Date
2016.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
xii, 364 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
"Exploration of a "rare, emotionally intense way of life" in which artists like Raden Saleh and Walter Spies abandon the cultures that created them and adopt an exotic alternative"--
Author
Publisher
Riverhead Books
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
xiii, 129 pages : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 20 cm
Language
English
Description
"Irreverent and inspiring advice for awakening your creative potential, from the Pulitzer Prize-winning art critic. This beautiful and useful small-format hardcover-teeming with full-color art, sidebars, and contributions from art-world legends and everyday creatives-How to Be an Artist is a book for anyone who's ever yearned to make the arts a part of their life"--
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