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Vincent: Art Masters Series

Barbara Stok - SelfMadeHero
Format: Paperback

This graphic biography documents the brief and intense period of creativity Vincent van Gogh 18531890 spent in Arles, Provence, in southern France. Here van Gogh dreams of setting up an artists studioa haven where he and his friends can paint together. But attacks of mental illness leave...
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Mark Rothko: Toward the Light in the Chapel

Annie Cohen-Solal - Yale University Press
Format: Hardcover

Mark Rothko, one of the greatest painters of the twentieth century, was born in the Jewish Pale of Settlement in 1903. He immigrated to the United States at age ten, taking with him his Talmudic education and his memories of pogroms and persecutions in Russia. His integration into American...
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Hold Still: A Memoir with Photographs

Sally Mann - Little, Brown and Company, 2015. ©2015
Format: Print book

NATIONAL BOOK AWARD FINALISTONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEARThe New York Times, Washington Post, The San Francisco Chronicle, Vogue, NPR, Publishers Weekly, BookPage A revealing and beautifully written memoir and family history from acclaimed...
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Young Eliot: From St. Louis to The Waste Land

Robert Crawford - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking new biography of one of the twentieth century's most important poetsOn the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot, the award-winning biographer Robert Crawford presents us with the first volume of a comprehensive account of this poetic genius. Young Eliot...
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Young Eliot: From St. Louis to The Waste Land

Robert Crawford - Farrar, Straus and Giroux; First Edition edition
Format: Hardcover

A groundbreaking new biography of one of the twentieth century's most important poetsOn the fiftieth anniversary of the death of T. S. Eliot, the award-winning biographer Robert Crawford presents us with the first volume of a comprehensive account of this poetic genius. Young Eliot...
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In Montmartre: Picasso, Matisse and the Birth of Modernist Art

Sue Roe - Penguin Press
Format: Hardcover

A lively and deeply researched group biography of the figures who transformed the world of art in bohemian Paris in the first decade of the twentieth century In Montmartre is a colorful history of the birth of Modernist art as it arose from one of the most astonishing collections of artistic...
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It's What I Do: A Photographer's Life of Love and War

Lynsey Addario - The Penguin Press
Format: Print book

"A brutally real and unrelentingly raw memoir."--Kirkus (starred review) War photographer Lynsey Addario's memoir It's What I Do is the story of how the relentless pursuit of truth, in virtually every major theater of war in the twenty-first century, has shaped...
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Listening to Stone: The Art and Life of Isamu Noguchi

Hayden Herrera - Farrar, Straus & Giroux
Format: Hardcover

Throughout the twentieth century, Isamu Noguchi was a vital figure in modern art. From interlocking wooden sculptures to massive steel monuments to the elegant Akari lamps, Noguchi became a master of what he called the "sculpturing of space." But his constant struggle-as both...
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Smash Cut: A Memoir of Howard & Art & the '70s & the '80s

Brad Gooch - Harper
Format: Hardcover

The author of the acclaimed City Poet returns with a searing memoir of life in 1980s New York Citya colorful and atmospheric tale of wild bohemians, glamorous celebrity, and complicated passionswith cameo appearances by Madonna, Robert Mapplethorpe, William Burroughs, and a host of others...
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