Artist Lives Books
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The Story of Art without Men : The instant Sunday Times bestseller
By: Katy HesselBinding: HardbackHow many women artists do you know? Who makes art history? Did women even work as artists before the twentieth century? And what is the Baroque anyway?Discover the glittering Sofonisba Anguissola of the Renaissance, the radical work of Harriet Powers in...- £30.00
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The Letters of Vincent Van Gogh
By: Vincent Van Gogh, Ronald de Leeuw, Arnold PomeransBinding: Paperback / softbackA new selection of post-impressionist painter Vincent Van Gough's letters, The Letters of Vincent van Gogh put a human face on one of the most haunting figures in modern Western culture. In this...- £12.99
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This Dark Country : Women Artists, Still Life and Intimacy in the Early Twentieth Century
By: Rebecca BirrellBinding: Paperback / softbackShortlisted for the PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize 2022Longlisted for the William M B Berger Prize for British Art History 2022Guardian Art Book of the Year 2021 A dazzling, boldly original work that tells the powerful and passionate stories of a...- £10.99
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Boy in a China Shop : Life, Clay and Everything
By: Keith Brymer JonesBinding: Paperback / softback'During downtime on the pottery throwdown Keith made my hair curl with some of his tales - he's a great raconteur and recounts his story in this book as he does in real life - with joy, charm...- £10.99
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Places of the Mind (British Museum) : British watercolour landscapes 1850-1950
By: Kim Sloan, Jessica Feather, Anna Gruetzner Robins, Sam Smiles, Frances CareyBinding: HardbackA fresh perspective on British landscape drawing in the Victorian and Modern eras. The attempts by artists of the Victorian and early Modern period to convey not merely the physical properties of...- £30.00
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Ravilious & Co : The Pattern of Friendship
By: Alan PowersBinding: Paperback / softbackThe acclaimed biography detailing the lives of the British inter-war artists and designers centred on Ravilious - an enthralling narrative of creative achievement, joy and tragedy. In recent years Eric Ravilious has become recognized as one of the most...- £20.00
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Van Gogh. The Complete Paintings
By: Rainer Metzger, Ingo F. WaltherBinding: HardbackVincent van Gogh's story is one of the most ironic in art history. Today, he is celebrated the world over as one of the most important painters of all time, recognized with sell-out shows, feted museums, and record...- £20.00
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Looking to Sea : Britain Through the Eyes of its Artists
By Lily Le Brun (Author)Format: Hardback 320 pagesPublisher: Hodder & StoughtonImprint: SceptreISBN: 9781529309218Published: 3 Nov 2022Weight:680gDimensions:165 x 224 x 27 (mm) 'Looking to Sea is a remarkable and compelling book... I loved it.' Edmund de Waal 'In her first, transporting book, Lily Le Brun...- £25.00
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William Blake vs the World
By: John HiggsBinding: Paperback / softback'Fascinating' The Times'Blakeian in its singularity' New Statesman'A wonderful adventure' Irish Times'Rich, complex and original' Tom Holland'A crisp, ambitious and thoroughly contemporary introduction' Times Literary SupplementPoet, artist, visionary and author of the unofficial English national anthem 'Jerusalem', William Blake...- £10.99
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Barbara Hepworth : Art & Life
By: Eleanor Clayton, Ali SmithBinding: HardbackBarbara Hepworth is one of the most important artists of the 20th century, yet she has been the subject of relatively few monographs in comparison to her male counterparts. This biography moves beyond the traditional narratives of modernism, truth...- £25.00
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Frida : The Biography of Frida Kahlo
Format: Paperback / softback 528 pagesPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCImprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLCISBN: 9781526605313Published: 28 Jun 2018Classifications: Art & design styles: c 1900 to c 1960, Biography: arts & entertainmentWeight: 442g Frida is the story of one of the twentieth century's most extraordinary women, the...- £16.99
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The Power of Art
By: Simon, CBE SchamaBinding: Paperback / softback* 'Great art has dreadful manners...' Simon Schama observes at the start of his epic exploration of the power, and whole point, of art. 'The hushed reverence of the gallery can fool you into believing masterpieces are polite...- £30.00
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David Hockney. A Chronology. 40th Ed.
By: David Hockney, Hans Werner HolzwarthBinding: HardbackPop artist, painter of modern life, landscape painter, master of color, explorer of image and perception-for six decades, David Hockney has been known as an artist who always finds new ways of exploring the world and its representational...- £25.00
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Eric Ravilious: Landscapes & Nature
By: Ella RaviliousBinding: HardbackA joyful and celebratory gift book devoted to the work of the much-loved English artist Eric Ravilious (1903-1942) and the influence of natural forms and themes in his work. Eric Ravilious was a designer, painter, printmaker and illustrator best known for...- £14.99
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