This is not an all-inclusive list of resources we have on these artists, but it should get you started!
Benton, Pollock, and the Politics of Modernism by
Doss chronicles an historic cultural change in American art from the dominance of regionalism in the 1930s to abstract expressionism in the 1940s. By situating painting within the evolving sociopolitical and cultural context of the Depression and the Cold War, Doss explains the reasons for this change and casts light on its significance for contemporary culture.
Blake's Poetry and Designs by
The major poetic and prose works of Blake are accompanied by his illuminations and selected criticism.
William Blake's Divine Comedy Illustrations by
Blake's sublime watercolors are not only peerless interpretations of Dante's vision of Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven, they are dramatic expressions of the great artist's integrity and imagination. Some apocalyptic, others angelic, the 102 plates range from completely finished pieces to rough sketches.
Michelangelo Drawings: closer to the master by
This lovely book focuses on more than 250 of his drawings executed in chalk, charcoal, and pen and ink. Distinguished art historian Hugo Chapman examines this array of works and discusses how the act of drawing figured prominently in Michelangelo's work.
Cézanne in Provence by
Beautifully illustrated with some 160 paintings and watercolors, Cezanne in Provence offers fascinating insights into a true genius in the history of art and his beloved native countryside.
Letters on Cézanne by
Rilke was knowledgeable about art and had even published monographs, including a famous study of Rodin that inspired his "New Poems," But Cezanne's impact on him could not be conveyed in a traditional essay. Rilke's sense of kinship with Cezanne provides a powerful and prescient undercurrent in these letters -- passages from them appear verbatim in Rilke's great modernist novel, "The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigge."
Giorgio de Chirico and the Myth of Ariadne by
"In eight essays the authors explore the importance of the Ariadne series in the context of the Paris art world before World War I and in later developments in de Chirico's career. An unpublished text by Max Ernst and an interview with Gerard Tempest, who was tutored by de Chirico in the late 1940s, shed new light on the artist and his working methods."
Modern Antiquity by
Focuses on the reinventions and transformations of antiquity in the work of four culturally and politically diverse artists between 1905 and 1935. In distinctly different ways, classicizing creations such as de Chirico's enigmatic piazzas, Picasso's post-Cubist women, Léger's mechanized nudes, and Picabia's Transparencies reflect what the eyes and minds of these artists found so arresting in the arts of antiquity and how they made those arts modern.
Picasso to Warhol: Fourteen Modern Masters by
This book highlights the work of twelve masters of 20th-century art: Constantin Brancusi, Alexander Calder, Giorgio de Chirico, Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns, Fernand Leger, Henri Matisse, Joan Mira, Piet Mondrian, Pablo Picasso, Jackson Pollock and Andy Warhol.
Chuck Close by
Finch provides an engaging, in-depth analysis of Close's portraits on canvas, from the continuous-tone airbrushed heads of the 1960's and '70's to the painterly "prismatic grids" of the past two decades. The more than 300 illustrations featured in the book survey almost all of Close's paintings and include his most recent work, a selection of his prints and multiples and examples of his photographic oeuvre.
Close Reading: Chuck Close and the art of the self-portrait by
Includes a comprehensive biography of Close that deals with his childhood and college years, his struggles with learning disabilities, the origins and perfecting of his near photographic painting technique, and his sudden illness in 1988, which led to almost complete paralysis, and the degree of recovery that enabled him to continue his painting career.
Dali's Optical Illusions by
This visually gripping book focuses on a central but relatively unexamined aspect of the work of Salvador Dali: his fascination with optical effects and visual perception. The book examines Dali's use of various pictorial techniques, photography, and holograms to further his exploration of visual perception and the ways that optical illusion affects our sense of reality.
Essential Dali by
Discusses the life and works of the Spanish artist Salvador Dali.
The Persistence of Memory by
The author penetrates the artist's self-mythologizing facade to reveal the man behind the outrageous mustache and cryptic canvasses: his Catalan childhood; his relationships with Garcia Lorca, Bunuel, Breton, Picasso, Miro, de Chirico, Man Ray, Ernst, and Eluard; Dalí's fixations, phobias, and Surrealist pranks; and his bizarre marriage to Gala--muse, business manager, nymphomaniac, gold digger, and finally tormentor.
Degas and the Dance by
Among the supreme masterpieces of 19th-century art are Edgar Degas' dramatic, incisive and often brilliantly coloured pictures of the ballet. He has enormous popularity as the foremost artist of the dance - with more than half his vast body of paintings, pastels, drawings and sculptures devoted to the on- and off-stage activities of ballerinas - and this catalogue, accompanying an exhibition, illuminates the theme in its historical context.
M. C. Escher Kaleidocycles by
Combining interesting explanations with 3-dimensional models to cut out and glue together, this book is an exploration of the symmetries of Escher's plane tilings.
Visions of Symmetry by
Visions of symmetry contains Escher's complete set of symmetry drawings reproduced in full colour and two Escher notebooks (which contain his theory of symmetry). In all, there are more than 350 intriguing illustrations (about 80 of which have never been published.)
Gauguin: a retrospective by
This book features hundreds of illustrations, including 125 colorplates. The text comprises writings of the artist's friends and colleagues as well as those of such late-nineteenth- and early-twentieth-century luminaries. The anthology also contains selections from Gauguin's own writings--including the celebrated Noa Noa.
Gauguin and Impressionism by
This handsomely illustrated book reconsiders Gauguin's apprenticeship as an Impressionist and reassesses his contributions to the movement through the extraordinarily subtle and beautiful paintings, sculpture, and ceramic works he created during the years before 1887.
Alberto Giacometti by
Alberto Giacometti, one of the most important artists of the 20th century, was also one of the most enigmatic. In this interpretation of Giacometti and his work, art historian and psychoanalyst Laurie Wilson demonstrates how the artist's secret beliefs and emotional scars are reflected in his evocative sculpture, drawings and paintings.
Goya: images of women by
This groundbreaking book is the first to examine the representations of women within Goya's multifaceted art, and in so doing, it sheds new light on the evolution of his artistic creativity as well as on the roles assumed by women in late eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century Spain.
Goya by
In a work that is at once interpretive biography and cultural epic, Hughes grounds Goya firmly in the context of his time, taking us on a wild romp through Spanish history; from the brutality and easy violence of street life to the fiery terrors of the Holy Inquisition to the grave realities of war, Hughes shows us in vibrant detail the cultural forces that shaped Goya's work.
Goya's Last Works by
Presents fifty-one key works from Goya's late period along with two essays that illuminate his works of that time.
Life and Complete Work of Francisco by
This book traces the evolution of Goya's work throughout his life. Includes reproductions of all his paintings, drawings, and engravings.
Edward Hopper: an intimate biography by
In this intimate biography she reveals the true nature and personality of the man himself--and of the woman who shared his life, the artist Josephine Nivison.
Edward Hopper and the American Imagination by
This volume includes fifty-nine of Hopper's most important works in full color, as well as original works by thirteen renowned fiction writers and poets that pay homage to, or make reference to, the ways in which Hopper pictured our world.
Frida Kahlo by
Features each work on its own spread, facing commentary by Chicago and Borzello. Essays explore Kahlo's many facets: woman, artist, historical figure, and inspiration. Designed to evoke a Mexican retablo, or altarpiece, this volume reframes Frida Kahlo for a contemporary audience.
Frida Kahlo by
Seventy-five of Frida Kahlo's paintings, reproduced here in lavish color, accompany numerous historical photographs and the author's descriptive text, chronicling the significant episodes in Kahlo's life.
The Diary and Letters of Kaethe Kollwitz by
One of the great German Expressionist artists, Kaethe Kollwitz wrote little of herself. But her diary, kept from 1900 to her death in 1945, and her brief essays and letters express, as well as explain, much of the spirit, wisdom, and internal struggle which was eventually transmuted into her art.
Kathe Kollwitz: woman and artist by
Generously illustrated with many striking, seldom-see reproductions from private collections, assembled in one volume for the first time.
Prints and Drawings of Kathe Kollwitz by
Eighty-three moving works from the four great print cycles -- The Weavers, The Peasant War, War, Death -- and more.
Monet by
Examines the works of Monet from a new perspective, and traces the changes in his style as brought about by the changes and problems in his personal life.
Giorgio Morandi: a Retrospective by
This handsome overview beautifully elucidates the artist's humble repertoire of themes, showing (when possible) where they originated, and how they were reprised across the course of his career.
Giorgio Morandi by
An important new addition to scholarship on twentieth-century Italian art history, this book features many rare and previously unpublished images and will fascinate admirers of Morandi and his transcendent work.
Kay Nielsen. East of the Sun and West of the Moon by
This finely crafted reprint restores the stunning detail and artistry of Nielsen's images to their original splendor. Featuring 46 illustrations, including many enlarged details from Nielsen's rare original watercolors, the book is printed in five colors. Three accompanying essays, illustrated with dozens of rare and previously unseen artworks by Nielsen, explore the history of Norwegian folktales, Nielsen's life and work, and how this masterpiece came to be.
Nielsen's Fairy Tale Illustrations in Full Color by
Certain to delight fans of fairy tales, this dazzling collection will also thrill lovers of fine art, as well as Nielsen admirers.
Full Bloom: the art and life of Georgia O'Keeffe by
This large, finely balanced biography offers an astonishingly honest portrayal of a life shrouded in myth.
Georgia O'Keeffe by
This book examines for the first time an overlooked aspect of O'Keefe's work, focusing specifically on her distinctive use of circular forms as an abstract motif. The publication traces O'Keefe's experimentation with circular forms across her entire career and concludes with a selection of rarely seen late paintings in which she literally "circled back" to forms found in her early work.
Georgia O'Keeffe: the poetry of things by
A celebration of Georgia O'Keeffe's contribution to still-life painting. It discusses the formative influence of Arthur Wesley Dow and compares her invention in still life to academic practices and traditional models in Western art. There are full-page reproductions of her paintings.
Georgia O'Keeffe and the Calla Lily in American Art, 1860-1940 by
"This book features fifty-four paintings, photographs, and drawings of the calla lily dating from the 1860s to 1940. It includes nine of O'Keeffe's most renowned paintings of the flower as well as works by Imogen Cunningham, Charles Demuth, Marsden Hartley, John La Farge, Man Ray, Joseph Stella, and Edward Weston."
Ed Paschke by
Pulsing with electric colors, Pop Art works featuring Marilyn, Elvis and social outcasts.
Wondrous Strange by
The art presented in this volume is from three generations of the Wyeth family, as well as turn-of-the-century illustrator, Howard Pyle. The paintings have elements of the Gothic and touch upon the fantastic and the macabre, and each of the 120 selected is an illustration of a classic tale.
Rembrandt's Eyes by
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. Though a succession of superbly incisive descriptions and interpretations of Rembrandt's paintings threaded into his narrative, he allows us to see Rembrandt's life clearly and to think about it afresh.
Diego Rivera, 1886-1957 : a revolutionary spirit in modern art by
This is the first study which, independently of the exhibition circuit, coherently presents the work of this extraordinary artist.
Diego Rivera by
Celebrates the 100th anniversary of the artist's birth. Its 200 color plates and 325 black-and-white photographs illustrate Rivera's life and work from his early years at the Mexican Academy of San Carlos and studies in Spain, his subsequent eleven-year sojourn in Paris and brief involvement with Cubism in the first part of this century, to his efforts to establish a truly Mexican style in the murals for which he is most famous.
Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera by
A new survey of the masterworks of Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, set against the backdrop of Mexican Modernism.
Peter Paul Rubens by
The authors discuss the various functions of Rubens's drawings as preparatory studies for paintings, sculpture, architecture, prints, and book illustrations. The volume also includes a sampling of the artist's early anatomical studies and copies after antique sculpture as well as several sheets by other artists that Rubens retouched, restored, or reworked.
Egon Schiele, 1890-1918 : the midnight soul of the artist by
Egon Schiele (1890-1918) - along with Oskar Kokoschka - is the painter who had the most long-lasting influence on the Vienna art scene after the great era of Klimt came to a close. After a short flirtation with Klimt's style, Schiele soon questioned the aesthetic orientation to the beautiful surface of the Viennese Art Nouveau with his rough and not easily accessible paintings.
Egon Schiele: drawings and watercolors by
Assembles drawings and watercolors from public and private collections and reproduces work from every year of the artist's career, beginning with the juvenilia and early academic studies. The focus means that work that is rarely reproduced is represented extensively, providing a unique opportunity to study the rapid artistic development of Schiele over the course of his brief twelve-year career.
Seurat by
'A lively and most readable account of Seurat's life and artistic development... Mr. Russell contributes some important original insights.'
Henry Ossawa Tanner: modern spirit by
This volume expands our understanding of Tanner's place in art history, showing that his status as a painter was deeply influenced by his race but not decided by it.
Ascending Chaos: the art of Masami Teraoka by
In Teraoka's paintings, the political and the personal collide in a riot of sexually frank tableaux. Populated by geishas and goddesses, priests, and politicians, and prominent contemporary figures, these paintings are the spectacular next phase of a wildly inventive career. With essays by renowned art critics who discuss how Teraoka's work inventively marries east and west, sex and religion, Ascending Chaos is a critical overview of this cultural trickster.
Wayne Thiebaud: a paintings retrospective by
Best-known for his deadpan still-life paintings of cakes, pies, delicatessen counters, and other consumer goods, Thiebaud has also explored such themes as figure studies, the topography of Northern California, and cityscapes exaggerating the vertiginous roadways and geometric high-rises of San Francisco.
Van Gogh's Van Goghs: masterpieces from the Van Gogh Museum, Amsterdam by
This work is published to coincide with an exhibition in the USA of a group of Van Gogh's paintings from the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. The collection is based on works acquired directly from the artist by his brother.
Vincent Van Gogh by
Presents approximately 120 works in charcoal, ink, graphite, watercolor, and diluted oils. The authors explore enduring questions that surround Van Gogh's drawings, including their manufacture, artistic precedents, and contribution to Modernism.
Notebooks by
Through his notebooks we can get an insight into Leonardo's thoughts, and his approach to work and life. This selection offers a cross-section of his writings, organized around coherent themes. Fully updated, this new edition includes some 70 line drawings and a Preface by Martin Kemp, one of the world's leading authorities on Leonardo.
Wondrous Strange by
The art presented in this volume is from three generations of the Wyeth family, as well as turn-of-the-century illustrator, Howard Pyle. The paintings have elements of the Gothic and touch upon the fantastic and the macabre, and each of the 120 selected is an illustration of a classic tale.