lives of the artists
Lives of the Artists is a series of all-you-need-to-know artists biographies... and these small books make great gifts! The series takes as its inspiration Giorgio Vasari's five-hundred-year-old masterwork, updating it with modern takes on the lives of key artists past and present. Focusing on the life of the artist rather than examining their work, each book also includes key images illustrating the artist's life.
- 130 x 184mm
- Choose your artist!
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David Hockney is the most famous living British artist. And he is arguably one of the more famous American artists as well. Emerging from the north of England in the 1960s, he made quite a splash in Swinging London as a portraitist, and went on to make a even bigger splash in LA when he moved there in the 1970s. His figurative paintings of the 1970s-1980s captured the zeitgeist of West Coast living, while he also explored new avenues by constructing mosaics out of polaroids. |
'I, Kusama, am the modern Alice in Wonderland' -Yayoi Kusama The nonagenarian Japanese artist is simultaneously one of the most famous and most mysterious artists on the planet. A wild child of the 1950s and 1960s, she emerged out of the international Fluxus movement to launch naked happenings in New York and went on to become a doyenne of that city's counter-cultural scene. |
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Keith Haring was a revolutionary artist, who transformed the art world during his short but impactful life. Brought to life by Simon Doonan, Creative Director for Barneys New York, this new pocket-sized biography tells his inspirational story. |
King of Pop Art Andy Warhol is one of the greatest artists of all time. Rarely venturing into public without his camera and tape recorder, Warhol was a great observer and documentarist of the American social scene. |
